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Chapter 88 New film scheduled for National Day

After Chen Jingxing, Xiao Yang and Chen Sicheng chatted for a while, Guo Fan, Lu Yang and Ning Hao also arrived at the venue one after another.

Among the six people, except for Chen Jingxing, who has just graduated from university, the others are all "seasoned". They have been in the entertainment and film circles for so many years, and they have all achieved great successes. No matter how introverted you are, you have already experienced the world.

No matter what opinions they had towards each other, they were all polite and friendly on the surface. After a while, they were chatting enthusiastically like old classmates they hadn't seen for many years.

"Brother, when will your movie be released?" Chen Jingxing knew that "Heart Blossoms on the Road" directed by Ning Hao would be completed in January.

"It should be a summer release." Ning Hao blurted out. This film was the first film produced by the company he controlled. It had great business ambitions on him, so naturally he had to choose a release that could maximize the box office.

Chen Jingxing seemed to be relieved: "That's good, no need to crash."

Ning Hao became interested: "Have you set the schedule? I heard that your new movie has just been prepared. Is it a low-cost science fiction film? Can it be released within the year?"

If it is a large-scale production, the production cycle will be relatively longer, and you will be more picky about schedules and competitors. It is best to avoid being on the same schedule as other blockbusters. This requires a lot of coordination and negotiation, and it also requires patience.

Wait, it’s not easy to finish filming and release it in the same year, it requires some luck.

"It's considered a medium-budget movie. It's basically been decided that it will be released on National Day."

Lu Yang on the side couldn't help but asked: "You have set the schedule for your movie before it has been shot?" His movie "Xiu Chun Knife" was completed in August last year, but it is still far away from being released. The National Film Festival

Push again and again.

Chen Jingxing looked confused: "Are there any technical difficulties in finalizing the film?" If "Fatal Identity" was still worried about the censorship issue, "The Signal" did not have this worry at all.

Chen Jingxing felt a little relieved. In fact, he was still a little cautious. On this occasion, announcing the schedule of "Signal" was a way to seize the opportunity and exclude competitors from the National Day schedule as much as possible, even if other directors were interested in it.

It would be good to be a little more concerned about the possibility of their own films being released on National Day.

Ning Hao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I can't compete with you. Guoyang and I are still worried about the schedule." Although "Heart Blossoms on the Road" is produced by Ning Hao's company, the distributor is Guoyang. This drama brings together Huang Bo

Xu Zheng, two first-line actors with one of the best box office appeals, both Ning Hao and Guoyin have great box office ambitions for them. They want to replicate or even surpass the miracle of "囧囧". Such high business expectations make schedule selection difficult.

Be extremely cautious.

"Eh? Speaking of which, Xiao Chen's box office is about the same as yours. Lao Ning, Lao Lu, Lao Guo, Ao, Lao Guo, your "My Deskmate" has been scheduled. You two, please be careful. Don't

You're on the same page as Xiao Chen." Chen Sicheng said half-jokingly.

The key is word-of-mouth and audience expectations. With these two, you can grab the biggest box office in the era of box office explosion. This is the case for Xing Ye and Ning Hao. No matter whether there was no box office in the past or how low the box office was, as long as there are works that meet the needs of the situation

Appearing at the right time can create box office miracles. Before the audience's expectations are exhausted, it will be a walking box office bomb. This is why Chen Jingxing took the initiative to ask about the schedule of Ning Hao's new film. He still hopes that the two can keep their own schedules and not interfere with each other.

interference.

Chen Jingxing and Ning Hao were both stunned, as if...it seemed that Ning Hao's box office was really not much higher than his own?

"I have reaped the dividends of the times, but I still can't compare with Brother Ning." Chen Jingxing quickly waved his hand modestly.

The film is still in preparation, and the schedule has been set before the finished film is released. This is such a courageous act. The subtext is that I am the champion and I do not choose my opponent.

You will even encounter the big guys behind the movie making arrangements with each other about the schedule. Who will leave and who will stay, which affects the whole world. The higher the commercial value of a movie and the larger the investment, the harder it is to set a schedule, because there are only a few popular schedules.

If everyone crowds in and squeezes in without caring about the actual situation, you will only hurt others and yourself. If you make a mistake in setting the schedule, you will lose real money. On the contrary, the low-cost movie itself has low box office expectations, so you have much less worries.

There is indeed no technical difficulty in setting the schedule itself, and there is no threshold, but which film production company and distribution company has not considered it carefully and repeatedly? I wish I could ask a mathematician to build a mathematical model and run it for several rounds.

There are few movies in the world that really don't care about their opponents. Although good movies can make a bigger cake and improve the overall market, there are limits. Two movies with both box office potential in the same schedule will probably end up hurting both sides, and neither of them can reach it.

My own upper limit, after all, the "capacity" of the National Day stall is still much lower than that of the Spring Festival stall.

You need to consider the subject matter, the quality of the finished film, what schedule is suitable for it, consider that your own films cannot be bumped into each other, consider what rivals are already in the schedule, which movies may be added to this schedule, and the distance between several movies in the same schedule.

In a few days, what impact will these have on the box office? Which of the distributors and producers behind each film has an advantage in theaters, etc.

Everyone was speechless.

Especially his senior brother Ning Hao's "Heart Blossoms on the Road". Even if you don't look at the director, you can imagine the terrible box office appeal just by looking at the names of the leading actors. There is also Lu Yang's "Xiu Chun Knife" which has not yet been confirmed.

files.

Ning Hao's reputation, status and qualifications are the highest among the six, but in terms of box office, it is not that high. However, in Chen Jingxing's view, this is indeed a problem of the times, so "Fatal Identity" was released 5 years ago

The box office may not be as good as "Racing". If "Stone" and "Racing" are released now, it is very likely to achieve good box office.

After several people complimented each other for a while, the leaders of the film bureau came to the venue one after another, and the film channel also sent out hosts and photographers, and they set up their guns and short guns.

It was somewhat of a symposium. After the host Li Miao finished his opening remarks, the leader of the film bureau also made a speech. Except for some content, the rest was about commercial and industrial films.

The directors except Chen Jingxing were a little surprised. Other directors have more or less participated in similar officially organized meetings. No matter what the topic and agenda are, they still have to show their art to decorate the appearance. No matter the director

Whether they are screenwriters or celebrities, they are all literary and artistic workers in the official world, and the works they produce are also literary and artistic works, with literary and artistic narratives running throughout.

Never before has a film product been placed so nakedly within the narrative framework of industry and commerce. The main theme of the entire article is one sentence: the film bureau has paid a lot of money to organize everyone to go to the "Western Heaven" to obtain "the true scriptures of the film industry."

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