Depressive Screenwriter

At the end of September, the movie "Your Name" officially ended its theatrical run, with its final box office takings fixed at 3.212 billion.

When this movie was released in Su Yan's previous life in Japan, it had a total of 18 million viewers. Considering the population of Japan, the ratio of viewers to population was about one to seven, meaning roughly one in seven people went to the cinema to see this movie.

In Xia Country, this ratio was definitely not so exaggerated. After all, the country has a large land area, and development is uneven across different regions. Many people living in rural areas simply don't have cinemas nearby, and these factors all contribute to the final box office.

Therefore, the total number of viewers for this movie in Xia Country only slightly exceeded 100 million, but even so, it was enough for it to win the box office crown in Xia Country's film industry this year.

Although it's only the end of September, those working in Xia Country's film and television industry, and the audience, have a good idea of what's to come.

What heavyweight movies will be released in the three months of October, November, and December?

They're all small fry, and the possibility of them threatening Su Yan is comparable to winning the first prize in the lottery.

So, on the day "Your Name" was taken off the screens, Su Yan gathered the members of the "Your Name" crew who still had availability and officially held a celebration banquet.

Su Yan would definitely be modest to outside reporters, but he was not polite to his own people. The first sentence of his opening remarks was to celebrate "Your Name" for winning the box office champion in Xia Country's film market this year.

Having been in the industry for many years, Su Yan was very familiar with this kind of occasion. He also had a lot of experience in how to tactfully refuse his subordinates' toasts to avoid getting completely drunk and embarrassing himself.

This celebration banquet ended with Su Yan, as the chairman of Dimension Film and Television Company, saying, "Next year, we must continue to work hard and strive to break the records we set this year!"

The summer season ended just like that.

Whether it was the film industry or the television industry, this quarter was strongly dominated by Su Yan's works, and his competitors had no chance to resist.

In fact, after so many years, Su Yan has also roughly understood why the works he took out from his previous life are so popular in Xia Country: the biggest reason is that these works are very novel in Xia Country.

In fact, Su Yan himself feels that some of the plots in the works he takes out are very average and clichéd, but they seem innovative to the Xia Country audience.

Su Yan sometimes also feels that many works in Xia Country are very good, but the people of Xia Country find those works old-fashioned and want to doze off as soon as they see them.

For the audience, only Su Yan can produce these new styles of works in Xia Country. Although some people have been imitating in recent years, they are ultimately just imitating.

With a hint of drunkenness, Su Yan returned to his villa in Tokyo.

The company currently has three works in production or waiting to be broadcast.

FSN and the second Rurouni Kenshin movie in the winter season of January next year.

And the Code Geass TV series, which is scheduled to premiere for two consecutive quarters in April and July.

The filming of FSN and the Rurouni Kenshin movie is basically finished, and they are now in post-production.

By now, the entire Dimension Film and Television Company has formed a kind of inertia.

Hundreds of people in the company, from top to bottom, are either filming, promoting, or developing overseas markets.

And the core of everyone's work is the script of the work that Su Yan takes out.

These employees have stopped thinking about how heaven-defying Su Yan is, being able to continuously produce high-quality works. After all, after so many years in the company, everyone has gone from initial shock to numbness, and now to calmness.

As for Su Yan, he is also used to this way of life.

When he discovers that the works under his company are showing signs of finishing filming, he exchanges for new works at an appropriate time, like tonight.

In terms of TV series, Su Yan has basically reached the top in Xia Country.

Producing one or two works a year, maintaining the basic market, and earning the profits that should be earned is enough.

Su Yan's energy is also limited, and it is impossible for him to really exchange for a TV series script every quarter, so when he immersed himself in the system space tonight, Su Yan did not consider those works suitable for being exchanged into TV series.

He is now paying more attention to movies.

Su Yan's reputation in Xia Country's film industry is basically built on the Makoto Shinkai series and the Rurouni Kenshin series of movies.

There are a total of five Rurouni Kenshin movies, and Su Yan plans to produce one every year or two, and then see how things go in the next few years. Maybe he will exchange the Rurouni Kenshin TV series and film it into a series of TV series.

As for the movie sector, for next year, which is only two or three months away.

Su Yan's first thought was Makoto Shinkai.

Among Makoto Shinkai's works, he would choose to produce only "Weathering with You" and "Suzume."

After thinking for a moment, he didn't hesitate too much and exchanged "Weathering with You."

In fact, among Makoto Shinkai's movies, "Your Name" is the pinnacle, and the subsequent "Weathering with You" and "Suzume" are more or less suspected of relying on his old work.

They are both disaster romance movie models unfolded by fantasy elements.

However, since Xia Country audiences like this style, Su Yan naturally respects the market. He will not get carried away just because the market praises him as a genius in the film and television industry every day. He knows his own situation. He takes respecting the market as the first premise, then uses the achievements of the exchanged works in his previous life as a reference, and then uses his current huge reputation and financial strength in Xia Country as a support.

It can be said that it is the quality of the works themselves plus the external resources that are piled up, forcibly pushing these works into blockbusters in Xia Country.

However, Makoto Shinkai is only famous for those few movies, and Su Yan cannot eat them for a lifetime.

After thinking for a moment, he looked at the remaining emotion points in the system space.

Su Yan took a deep breath and exchanged for Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle."

This work also belongs to the top of the box office charts for Japanese movies in Su Yan's previous life. Among so many of Miyazaki's movies, the comprehensive results and quality of "Howl's Moving Castle" are definitely in the top five, or even the top three.

And it is also a movie with fantasy and love elements coexisting. In terms of genre, it is similar to the works that Su Yan has exchanged in the past two years, and his fans will not feel a big jump in the theme when they go to the cinema to watch it.

It's just the difference in the narrative mode between Makoto Shinkai and Hayao Miyazaki's works.

Su Yan only thought about this problem for a moment and stopped worrying.

No matter how famous Makoto Shinkai is, he is definitely different from Hayao Miyazaki. There is no reason why Xia Country movie fans love Makoto Shinkai's works, but are not enthusiastic about the works of a true master.

In the evening, Su Yan exchanged for two works and did not delay too much, and went straight to sleep.

The next morning, Su Yan got up, first went to the "Code Geass" crew to finish filming his scenes, at noon, he went to discuss various tasks of FSN, Kenshin, and Code Geass with the cooperative special effects company and the company's game production department. In the afternoon, he spent some time looking at the funding allocation plans for each project and signed his name. Finally, he began his script creation for the two movies he exchanged last night.

Su Yan's behavior naturally could not be concealed from Saki Ikumi, who had to hand over work to him every day. She was unable to complain about Su Yan's high output, but just accepted the fact that this kind of freak existed in the world with strange eyes.

Amidst the busy affairs, September ended.

October is coming.