I didn't want to be an actor

The cost of "Keep You Safe" is 90 million...

Most of the guest actors are paid at a friendly price, which refers to the production cost + publicity and promotion.

If the box office exceeds 300 million, the investment will be recovered, and a small profit can be made - streaming media, TV copyrights and overseas copyrights are also considered income.

Over 500 million in four days~

The box office of "Keep You Safe" on the first day was 65 million, the next day, October 1, 195 million, the third day was 187 million, and the fourth day was 178 million...

After four days of release, the cumulative box office was 523 million!

It has been suppressing "The Journey Home", which has also performed well. After four days of release, the cumulative box office has also reached 550 million.

There is no problem with recovering the investment.

The cost of "The Journey Home" is 250 million - the cost of raising funds from outside is 350 million...

It has increased by about 25%.

As I said, banks do not provide mortgage loans for this kind of IP, so investors must be attracted at a certain price.

Many of the investment shares were actually second- and third-round betting...

At that time, the industry estimated that the box office of this movie would be over 3 billion, the leader of the National Day.

Maoyan adjusted its expectations: the box office forecast of "The Journey Home" was 1.8 billion...

Based on this result, even peripheral investors can get returns...

Of course, the probability is not very high...

After all, the discussion about "The Journey Home" on the Internet is not high-the industry believes that "The Journey Home" can be the annual champion of 5 billion, but this year, it feels that everyone's mood for watching movies is not high, and conservatively 3 billion...Now it seems that it may be halved...

The most surprising thing is "Ordinary Heroes"-four days after its release, the box office of "Ordinary Heroes" exceeded 70 million. According to the trend evaluation, the final box office will be between 140 million and 1.5 billion.

The cost is 250 million!

The most important thing is that the core competitiveness of "Ordinary Heroes" is not in the cast, but the film is adapted from the real event of "XJ Hetian rescuing the boy with a broken arm".

A similar movie adapted from a "nationally sensational positive energy event" is "The Captain" of the same type, also invested by Bona Film Group. It was released during the National Day holiday in 2019 and grossed 2.903 billion yuan.

With the same investment, the same director, and a similar cast as "Ordinary Heroes", "The Bravest" with "fire heroes" as the protagonists grossed 1.703 billion yuan.

Does it not work this time?

We are all filmmakers, and when discussing the National Day schedule, we will naturally pay attention to "Ordinary Heroes"...

Cao Baoping sighed: "In recent years, the film market has been flooded with a large number of mainstream movies. It seems that mainstream movies are not going to sell well!"

Shen Liang shook his head: "It's not that mainstream movies don't sell well, but mediocre movies don't sell well!"

"...Yes, "The Journey Home" sold quite well..."

"Since "The Captain", Bona has started the close-up + large jib shooting method. This thing is the live broadcast shooting method of the evening party... It has continued for four movies, and the audience has long been tired of it! They also think this is a weapon to attract box office! The main creative team of the film only wants to make money, all kinds of empty and pretentious."

...

"The Beast Clawing at Straws" was filmed in Chongqing, and Shen Liang likes this city very much.

The houses in the center of CQ are tall and dense, full of surprises and freshness everywhere, and turning a corner may be another world.

Also, the place name of this place is too casual.

"Five kilometers have arrived", "Six kilometers have arrived", "Lijiatuo", "Tang Guangtou", "Maoge Laoyatou", "Zhuju Hotpot"...

Some people say Chongqing is a paradise for men...

I can only say that the prejudice is too deep. If you are a goblin, you will be a goblin wherever you go. If you are a prince charming, you will be a prince charming wherever you go!

Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat shit wherever they go.

The biggest difference from BJ is the hot and humid weather!

And it is very humid...

Brother Liang wandered around for a few days. On the first day, he had a bowl of Chongqing noodles. When ordering noodles, the boss asked him in Chongqing dialect, how many liang of noodles do you want to eat?

I was very confused and didn't know how to measure the unit of "liang".

The boss saw his confusion and gave him a normal amount.

He gave me a bowl of normal amount. Then he kept chatting with me.

The noodles tasted okay, salty, spicy, oily, fragrant and cheap.

In the next few days, Shen Liang ate noodles every day.

On the second day, I was strolling with Zhao Liying and met several elderly people walking on the street with baskets on their backs. I shouted and found out that they were selling maltose in their baskets, which was quite sweet...

On the third day, Shen Liang went to Jiefangbei and Chaotianmen...

On the fourth day, we simply took a night cruise...

It was really beautiful.

On the fifth day, the driver took Shen Liang to Ciqikou.

Every city has its own snack street, such as Nanjing Confucius Temple, Wuhan Hubu Alley, Beijing Wangfujing, and of course Chongqing Ciqikou.

It is a gathering place for food, with many snacks and specialties, and a large area, suitable for strolling and eating slowly.

There is one thing, Mandarin is extremely unpopular.

Basically, people communicate in dialects by default.

…

On the evening of October 7, Shen Liang returned to the hotel and opened the live broadcast room:

"I'm in Chongqing...I shoot for half a day every day, and the driver takes me around for the rest of the time..."

"I've never been here before..."

"I can't tell you the specific address. I wear a mask and sunglasses when I go out, and I put on makeup... Few people can recognize me!"

"...Yes, I'm filming "The Beast Clawing at Straws". I guess my part will end at the end of October...You can watch it as "Crazy Money Bags". The role I play is just a plot, and I die miserably..."

"Zhao Liying's character died the most tragically, being torn into pieces..."

"...This movie is quite bloody and niche...Maybe many people don't like it. I can't reveal too much, you'll know when you watch it."

"'Keep You Safe' grossed 1 billion...I saw it...'The Journey Home' also grossed 800 million!"

"I invested in both movies, 'Keep You Safe' was the main investor, and 'The Journey Home' invested 10%...I won't tell you the total cost, just know that both movies didn't lose money! ”

“During the project establishment stage, “The Journey Home” was called “The Interpreter”. Director Rao Xiaozhi did approach me… but I couldn’t play Zong Dawei. This guy has a prototype, and the prototype of Zong Dawei is a middle-aged man… I’m not old enough, so I didn’t take the role…”

“I read the reviews of “Keep You Safe”, and I feel that everyone thinks highly of this movie…”

The most liked comment in the Douban comment section of “Keep You Safe” is ‘How should I put it? If this movie was made in a foreign country, Lei Jiayin was white, and Naza was black, it would have won the Oscar at the time of “Green Book”! ’

“If Han Lu is really a prostitute…it may not be a good commercial film!”

“I have seen many people say that this theme is flattering…a commercial film cannot pass the review if it is not flattering. If it cannot pass the review, then it is all over! Therefore, our victims must be perfect victims!”

“Because imperfections must be explored in depth, and once explored in depth, the film cannot be controlled…”

After chatting for a while, Shen Liang’s phone rang. He looked at it, then turned it over and said to the more than 30 million people in the live broadcast room: “Sister Liying asked me to have supper together…I asked her to wait a little…”

“It’s just a meal together, and it’s not just the two of us eating alone, many actors in the crew are eating together…”