China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 22 The Battle for Settlement

Fantasy World.

In a small-scale high-level meeting, there were only five participants.

But what we have to decide is related to the strategic direction of Huanshi.com's next content creation.

The meeting was hosted by Ren Bowei, senior vice president of Huanshi.com, who was responsible for a series of middle-end businesses such as Fantasy.com's external cooperation, content marketing, production management, promotion and operation.

The conference room was filled with the strong smell of gunpowder.

Fantasy World.com has been dormant for two years and is no longer willing to be an ATM in the film industry. It has a sense of existence when it comes to the opening of the movie. It wants to step into the production and distribution of screen movies again, return to the table and eat with cakes.

Of course, this time Fantasy World.com is no longer as reckless as it was when it was first launched, claiming to create a mythical blockbuster in China. Instead, it wants to try out a few small and medium-cost movies first.

Logically speaking, Zhang Jingyan should be happy. In this way, the next screen movie project of Fantasy and DreamWorks can be said to be a foregone conclusion. Since leading the launch of the online movie "Comet" and achieving unprecedented success, Zhang Jingyan not only proved that she is worthy of Fantasy and the high salary poaching of Fantasy.com, but also has a more stable position in Fantasy. In a sense, she and Chen Jingxing have already had some common interests.

Even though Chen Jingxing did not prepare the script for the next movie, she would try her best to promote another cooperation with DreamWorks. What's more, after reading the script of "Fatal Identity", she had decided to bet on Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks. Just as Chen Jingxing wanted to take off with the help of Fantasy's Internet capital, Zhang Jingyan also wanted to use the rise of Chen Jingxing, a genius director, to achieve the dual improvement of her own value and status in Fantasy.com.

However, the strength of the competitor was somewhat beyond her expectations.

In fact, domestic audiences have always been tolerant of excellent commercial films.

"And the Spring Festival is a form of reunion for all the families and young people through watching movies. The audiences of the Spring Festival this year's Spring Festival are not highly praised. No one on Douban scored six, but the box office is good. This shows that the quality of the movie itself and reputation are only something that a few movie fans care about. More audiences in the film market are actually coming to the theater to watch the excitement. I believe that as long as the final quality of this "Monsters" can reach an average level, you can grab a piece of meat in the Spring Festival."

The meeting is coming to an end in Mr. Dai and his comedy movie The Big Kill Special.

Zhang Jingyan wanted to refute but sadly found that even she agreed with this view. In fact, when she knew that her competitor was a comedy movie, she no longer had much hope for today's debate. She just gave her what she wanted.

"Why should we grab a piece of cake among the great powers? Is it a low-cost movie with police, gangsters, suspense, oh, and science fiction labels? I also read the script. I admit that it is a very creative movie just for the script. There is no precedent in domestic movies. However, during the New Year, do we let the audience go to the cinema to watch a bloody movie with a murder plot? And I think some content in the script is not easy to pass the review. Once it is stuck on the review side, can it be up to the Spring Festival? Mr. Zhang, I sincerely suggest that this movie should be considered whether it is scheduled or not after getting the dragon mark."

What is competing with "Fatal Identity" and "Monsters" is not Fantasy's investment, after all, both are small and medium-sized movies, so Fantasy's not that they can't afford to pay.

Zhang Jingyan and the other party are fighting for issuance and filing.

A movie written and starring famous crosstalk actors.

Dai always is a gentle middle-aged man wearing glasses. When he heard Zhang Jingyan's questioning, he shook his head and retorted: "Teacher Luo has indeed participated in several movies, but most of them are supporting roles and even friendly guest appearances. "Monsters" is the first time that Teacher Luo has starred in. Many of the roles will be played by other crosstalk actors from Qiwenshe. This movie is equivalent to Qiwenshe's film debut. The communication effect it can trigger in public opinion is predictable. I think it can mobilize the audience of Qiwenshe."

"Teacher Luo and the Qiwenshe he founded have created a crosstalk craze across the country. Their casting level has even exceeded several classic dramas in the May Day Theater. The single-player revenue easily exceeds 2 million. These fixed fans are the basic base of our movie. We have roughly estimated that based on the basic base of Qiwenshe alone, there is at least 40 million box office. In addition, Teacher Luo himself has a high national popularity, and with the blessing of the Spring Festival, I can't think of the possibility of the box office failure of this movie. Mr. Zhang, "The Comet" is a successful online movie, which is correct, but online movies and screen movies are different."

Mr. Dai has already gone crazy: "I don't think the company will try the costume blockbusters and mythical blockbusters easily at the moment. Moreover, the production cycle of blockbusters is very long and cannot catch up with the Spring Festival. Therefore, if we want to really compete with the five major studios in the Spring Festival next year, we have only one choice, that is comedy."

Zhang Jingyan's heart began to sink.

"The script has been basically completed, but there are some details missing. This is normal. This is a low-cost comedy movie. The comedy movies and the multiple burdens and plots are often produced in the chemical reactions of comedians colliding with each other. I would like to ask everyone here to consider what we are discussing is the Spring Festival period!"

2013 is the year of the rise of the Spring Festival, and it has officially become a large-scale ticket store second only to the summer season. The industry responded extremely quickly to this change. Five major studios have launched their masterpieces to grab the 2014 Spring Festival.

"We are almost certain now that Guoying's "Spring and Autumn Sword Forging", Jingying and United Cinema's "Real and False Monkey King", Jianghe Culture's "Two Dragons: Blood Sword Invincible" and "Casino City Storm II" produced by Tianrun may have been announced to be scheduled for the Spring Festival, or will definitely be available for the Spring Festival. These are all heavyweight opponents, including costume historical wars, martial arts, myths, and comedy."

"Le Poms"

Ren Bowei, senior vice president of Fantasy Network, finally set the tone.

Even the Spring Festival period can make science fiction films and even bloody war films with tragic scenes win the box office championship. However, suspense films have indeed had a ceiling based on years of market performance, and the ceiling is not high. Is this the limitation of the subject itself or the quality of suspense films not strong enough? Chen Jingxing cannot make a judgment. Perhaps there are two reasons, but the saying that comedy films are more likely to be successful. Chen Jingxing cannot refute the saying that Chen Jingxing is unable to refute.

"Mr. Zhang just said that crosstalk is different from movies, and I can only agree with half of this. Crosstalk itself is a form of comedy performance. I think he and comedy movies must have something in common. Qi Wenshe can make the audience laugh on the stage. It makes no sense that they can't do it in movies. Comedy baggage and jokes are often used in many comedy movies. I don't believe that a successful crosstalk actor, and he is also a comedy content creator, and he can't make comedy movies well. He has a sense of humor."

Zhang Jingyan refused to give in: "Mr. Dai, crosstalk and movies are also different things. Luo Wenshun has made movies, but these movies have not caused any splash. Why did Mr. Dai's so-called Qiwenshe basic foundation have not paid for the support of the cinema before?"

Chen Jingxing didn't know the debate that happened on Fantasy World. Objectively speaking, Chen Jingxing was present, and he might not be able to say any powerful rebuttal, even though the plane of the previous life had proved that the audience's taste was tolerant.

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"We have not seen the script of "Monster Dai's words" now. It is less than four months since the 14th Spring Festival. Can the quality of the movie be guaranteed?"

"Then it's decided. The two movies "Monsters" and "Fatal Identity" will be launched as soon as possible. We will wait for other projects first. After "Monsters" is released during the Spring Festival, we will advance the next projects according to our results. We must be patient and not expect to succeed in one go."

"Mr. Dai, please urge Qiwenshe to finish the script as soon as possible. Qiwenshe brings its own traffic, which creates favorable conditions for our promotion and promotion. The company will vigorously promote the scheduled Spring Festival release of "LeMPUS" and I will lead the team in person in charge."

"Mr. Zhang, I hope you can understand the company's decision, and at the same time bring the company's apology to Director Chen of DreamWorks. After all, we are not the five major studios and are a new force in the film industry. It is very difficult to push two movies at a time to enter the Spring Festival period first, and second, it is not worth the loss. Two movies in a company are in the same period. Isn't this internal friction? In the end, it is likely to be a loss."

"If the project "Fatal Identity" has time and can catch up with the New Year's Day, we will work hard to arrange the release of the New Year's Day. If it doesn't catch up, it will not be too late to release it after the Spring Festival."

(End of this chapter)