"The King of Gamblers" and "The Supremes" each have their own winners and losers. The former is good enough to be funny and popular, and it was released in two theaters. As a result, the box office is 20 million higher than the latter. But the latter
In terms of reputation among film critics, it's much better. It's almost equal.
But this time, as Xiao Ran expected, "Gambling Movies" appeared one after another all of a sudden, and all kinds of gambling monsters and gambling tyrants appeared in an instant. It is difficult to describe what kind of grand occasion this is, but the box office of these movies
All quite right.
Xiao Ran is quietly looking forward to the first round of gambling film following the trend. He will release the prequel of "God of Gamblers" at the end of 1988. He will wait until everyone is tired of gambling films to release it, and then he can establish a phantom in one fell swoop.
The company's position in the minds of the audience has improved.
Since Xiao Ran is currently only responsible for providing the development direction and strategy of Phantom Company, and is also responsible for film affairs, he is basically having a headache now for the Lunar New Year movie. The reason for the headache is not because there is no suitable choice, but because he chooses some
Much more.
In front of him and Lin Qingxia were three scripts, three quite excellent scripts. Two of them were scriptwriters contracted by Phantom Company, and the other one was not. Xiao Ran frowned, these three stories were
Very good, the choice is really not an easy thing.
However, what made him feel happy was that none of the three screenwriters were anyone in his memory, and he had never seen these three scripts. Lin Qingxia glanced at them briefly and secretly smiled: "These are all
Very good, you see this is about a stupid gangster! I think it is very good."
Xiao Ran shook his head slightly. The book was good, and the plots were good. The problem was that these were not easy to choose. After thinking about it, he thought of a previous market research report from the marketing department. In that report, those who frequently went to movie theaters and those who rarely went
Cinemas, audiences who occasionally go to the cinema and those who never go to the cinema are classified.
Those who never go to the cinema are basically over 50 years old, and those over 30 years old mostly go to the cinema occasionally. Basically, the main audience of a movie is mostly those in their twenties. And if it is a movie with a family
Movies that can be watched together will have a wider audience, because many parents will take their children to the cinema together.
This means that the first-class films under the classification system have the greatest box office potential, while the second-class films are relatively limited to some audiences such as children. As for the third-class films, they are basically for adults.
Xiao Ran also remembered that a professional film book mentioned that the films that make a lot of money in Hollywood every year are basically G-rated films (that is, people of all ages can watch them). Even among the twenty top-grossing films in Hollywood history,
The vast majority of them are G-rated films. Therefore, this first-class film obviously cannot be ignored.
Especially during the Chinese New Year period, this is definitely the best time for families to go to the cinema to watch movies together. Thinking of this, he chose one of the family comedies. This year, Phantom will definitely have a hard time in the Lunar New Year market, and the opponents it faces are extremely strong.
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You must know that except for last year, basically every year's box office champion is born in the Spring Festival. This year, the three giants are even more energetic. New Art City will strive to retain the championship, pushing "A Better Tomorrow 3" to the top
In the Chinese New Year, we are determined to win the box office championship.
Golden Harvest has also postponed the release date of "Police Story Continuation" and placed the star-studded "The Dragon" in the Lunar New Year period, trying to win back the championship with the box office appeal of Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao. And Debao also released this year
The sequel to "Wealth Is More Powerful" is an attempt to get a share of the pie.
Phantom Company, which has gradually become as big as the three giants in terms of company size and market influence, has no advantage in the Lunar New Year market. At first, the three major companies thought that Xiao Ran would film "God of Gamblers 2" as soon as possible to catch up with the Lunar New Year.
Later, seeing that Xiao Ran had no such plan, he gave up his thoughts.
Xiao Ran didn't have this intention because the brand "God of Gamblers" still had a series of potentials that could be tapped, and he didn't want to screw up the brand. Besides, who said that if "God of Gamblers" didn't come out, he wouldn't be able to compete with them. Just kidding, Xiao Ran's brain
There are a lot of good ideas in Li, but the key is that he doesn't want to cultivate inertia, so he doesn't use many of them.
However, for Xiao Ran, it is not a big problem. With a box office of 41 million, "God of Gamblers" has basically secured its position as the annual champion. If the three giants want to push "God of Gamblers" down, unless
Big variables appear.
"Okay, that's it!" Xiao Ran finally chose a family theme, which was somewhat similar to a happy event at home. Lin Qingxia's eyes flickered to the book, and then to Xiao Ran's face: "The box office statistics of the Film Association are about to close.
Once it comes out, the company will really become famous this time!”
Xiao Ran chuckled, with a look of pride. He would only show such a look among a few friends such as Lin Qingxia, Fa Ge and A Dong. Although this year's top ten box office list has not been released yet, it has not been revealed yet.
There can be no more variables.
"The God of Gamblers" is firmly in the first place, while "The God of Gamblers" is in the second place, slightly higher than the following "Eight Star Announcement" by more than 100,000. The fourth place is "Prison Story" and the fifth place
It's "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers", the sixth one is "Plan A Sequel", the seventh one is "Wealth"
"Comfortable", the eighth one is "A Better Tomorrow", all of which have a box office of over 30 million. The ninth one is "Autumn Fairy Tale", and the tenth one is the small-production "Meng" which was released in November.
"Ghost House", both films have over 25 million.
As for "Two Wives in a House", "Ghost Bride", "Oriental Vulture" and "Jiang Hu", which were originally on the box office list, they were all removed from the list. Among the top ten box office lists, works written by Xiao Ran once again accounted for
Half of the films released by Phantom this year have all been on the charts, and they have all occupied a dominant position.
After making the decision, Xiao Ran immediately felt a lot more relaxed. It was now the early stage of the development of Phantom Company, and he did not dare to let go of the right to decide whether a certain film would be released for the time being. However, he still cultivated several producers such as Yu Jiayu.
Filmmaker, I hope they can be of some help in the future.
After finishing this work, Xiao Ran continued to write the script with difficulty. Lin Qingxia poured a glass of clear cold water for Xiao Ran and stared at Xiao Ran's back quietly. What Xiao Ran was writing now was not anything in his memory.
The script, but a secret agent-themed script, has now reached the end.
The agent theme was created by Xiao Ran alone, and it is entirely his own work. The story is about a Chinese CIA agent who defected and returned to China, and gradually found his sense of belonging to the motherland (hehe). In fact, Xiao Ran thinks that it may be better if it is made into a TV series.
, after all, it is not easy to change this thing.
However, he still chose to continue writing. 1989 was almost here, and it was better to show goodwill to the mainland government now. And after writing this script, Xiao Ran also planned to use another script to hint at what happened in Beijing in 1989.
The secret agent theme of this story is actually not a big problem. Xiao Ran originally wanted to write the "Lifetime Career" he saw in his dream on the Qidian Chinese website into a script. Because no matter from any angle, this secret agent theme is undoubtedly better than the previous one.
But Xiao Ran still didn't do this, because he really wanted to write a script that was completely his own. Of course, "The Prequel to A Better Tomorrow" does not count. After all, it was based on the first episode, so it was not difficult to write. The most important thing is
What's strange is that when businessmen promote products, they always launch the inferior ones first, and then take out the good ones and try their best to take advantage of the market. Xiao Ran certainly knows this.
Xiao Ran found time to write this secret agent script named "The Spy" intermittently. He wrote three parts in total, still three parts. However, Xiao Ran was a little hesitant about whether to still make it as a prequel or something like that.
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Nowadays, there are quite a few trilogies. If another trilogy is released, it will easily make the audience tired. Moreover, if the film is still not in order, I am afraid that many viewers will not be able to watch it.
clear.
Thinking of this, he immediately decided to shoot according to the order of development of the script. He wrote down the word "end" in the notebook, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and sat down. Upon seeing this, Lin Qingxia said happily: "Write
Okay? Let me take a look!"
While Xiao Ran was resting, Lin Qingxia took the script, and her face became more solemn as she read it. Especially when she saw one of the agent characters seeking death, she burst into tears. She didn't dare to read any more, and Xiao Ran couldn't hold back her laughter and took the script.
Sitting next to her: "What do you think of the writing?"
"It's great, I will definitely win the prize!" Lin Qingxia wiped away her tears, and Xiao Ran gently took out a tissue to wipe her reddish eyes with gentle and delicate movements. Lin Qingxia felt Xiao Ran's tenderness and consideration,
I felt warm in my heart: "But, wouldn't this be too cruel? The audience may not be able to accept it!"
Xiao Ran shrugged helplessly. This book was originally so cruel. If it wasn't cruel, it would really have no selling point. Next, Xiao Ran lay on Lin Qingxia's bed to conceive of the next work, which was to hint at the scene in 1989.
A work of great importance. Of course, there cannot be any irony in it.
Xiao Ran had a rough story, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't dare to write it. Because it would involve too many things that he didn't dare to touch on, even though he just wanted to lay a foreshadowing in advance for Hong Kong and the whole world to know.
Let’s take a look at how difficult it is for high-level officials to make decisions when the country is in crisis. They can only make decisions based on the overall situation.
In the end, he decided not to do it himself, but to leave it to other screenwriters in the company. Whether he was lazy or didn't want to get involved, in short, he found a suitable reason to avoid the matter.
The next day, Xiao Ran called all the screenwriters from the company to the conference room. It was an amazing lineup. Now there are only nine contracted screenwriters from Phantom Company. The others were terminated from their contracts due to unqualified performance and became free agents.
screenwriter.
Looking at the ten screenwriters in front of him, including Wei Jiahui, Xiao Ran secretly resented it. If Jiahe hadn't been poaching people like crazy, there would definitely be more talents here. This happened some time ago, and since that time Tie Long was poached
After that, Xiao Ran still didn't take it seriously.
But after that time, Xiao Ran discovered that among the many scripts sent to him, once he thought which one was good, Jiahe would definitely be able to take away the screenwriter before him. All the scripts had been taken away intermittently.
Three, Xiao Ran was very depressed by Jiahe's shady hand. But everyone knows this kind of thing, even if the hand is quick and the hand is slow, Xiao Ran has no way to hold him accountable.
Xiao Ran became more cautious after that, and he also remembered that Hollywood would not dare to read other people's scripts as he did, otherwise if any of Phantom's films in the future were similar to a certain plot in this script, he might be sued in court.
Fortunately, that was a Hollywood rule, but in order to prevent trouble before it happened, Xiao Ran still sought the advice of a lawyer and issued a statement that if Phantom's future films were similar to scenes in a certain book, Phantom Company would not bear any legal responsibility.
As expected, there have been a lot less scripts sent since then. However, those who are really capable and confident still appreciate this kind of promotion. Don't underestimate it. Although there are only nine contracted screenwriters of Phantom Company, but through
There were as many as seven other screenwriters promoted in this way, but they just didn't sign contracts.
Apart from artists, there are very few people under the Phantom Company who are eligible to sign contracts. Although many of them have not yet released their works, they are already quite famous in the industry. At least everyone agrees on one thing: being watched by Phantom
Being average means surpassing the capabilities of most peers.
The current nine screenwriters, except for You Naihai, are all newcomers, and one of them is a graduate of the Baptist Church. After lamenting for a while that it was no wonder that there was a lack of good screenwriters in Hong Kong. It turned out that it was because there had never been a chance to get ahead, Xiao Ran made about
After telling the story for a while, he asked: "Which of you wants to write this script?"
After scanning for a week and seeing everyone whispering below, Xiao Ran smiled and said what he wanted to express: "The theme of this story is very simple. It is to express how a government or a nation will act when faced with a crisis.
You have to take the overall situation into consideration before making decisions that harm a small group of people. What I want is understanding, the audience's understanding of the morphological ideology in the film."
This is obviously a huge challenge for every outstanding screenwriter here. No one dared to agree to it. They only said to go back and think about it. Xiao Ran smiled slightly and thought that this is the right thing. If it can be given immediately
The exact answer, then he doesn’t believe that there are such filmmakers in Hong Kong who have a big-picture concept.
After the meeting, Xiao Ran retained Wei Jiahui and another screenwriter named Gan Xingfan. He needed Wei Jiahui to prove the value of the "Spy" script, and Gan Xingfan was used to revise the script. This person is good at logical scripts and creation
Very rigorous.
Xiao Ran first gave the copied script to Gan Xingfan and said seriously: "Afan, you try your best to make certain additions according to your ability, and then check the information to add weapons and other things in the book. I will introduce Pai later."
Monkey goes to assist you, he is a weapons expert."
In fact, what Xiao Ran did was very simple, that is, he wrote the story. Because it was a story about an agent, it must involve quite professional things, so Xiao Ran gave these things to other screenwriters when he didn't have time to look up the information.
Did it.
In fact, this is what Hollywood does. However, they go through countless processes on the script and wear away the sharp plot in the script. After more than a dozen screenwriters, no matter how excellent the script is, it is polished.
It's an ordinary script.
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My new book will be officially launched at the end of October, it’s almost here, so stay tuned...