Millennium director

"Brother, the box office of "Painted Skin 2" exceeded 50 million on the first day, and the box office reached 120 million in the first three days of the weekend. The results are even better than "Along with the Gods", it is a big hit!"

Listening to the excited voice on the other end of the phone, Wu Yuan smiled and shook his head.

He knew the opening weekend box office results of "Painted Skin 2" earlier than Liu Yifei, but he still said with a smile: "It's such a high stakes. It seems that choosing director Kege to take over this series is the right choice."

In this life, the box office market for mainland Chinese movies is even better than at the same time in the previous life, and has even doubled.

Take "Let the Bullets Fly" released in 2010 as an example. The film's box office on the first day was 30.18 million, and the box office on the next day exceeded 40 million. The highest single-day box office was 60 million, and the total box office in the first week was about 170.2 million.

"Tangshan Earthquake", released in the same year, had a box office of 36.2 million on the first day, exceeding 160 million in four days, and a box office of 180 million in the first week (seven days).

It's only 2009, and the box office of "Painted Skin 2" on the first day directly exceeded 50 million, and the box office in the three days of the weekend was 120 million. This result is undoubtedly twice as fast as the original time and space.

Of course, the reason for such good box office results is not only the quality of "Painted Skin 2" itself, but more importantly, Wu Yuan's opening up of the mainland film market.

Otherwise, according to normal time and space, when "Painted Skin 2" was released in 2012, the box office on the first day would have been 70 million, which is even more exaggerated.

But does this mean that "Painted Skin 2" is really better than 2010's "Let the Bullets Fly" and "Tangshan Earthquake"?

Not really sure.

The main reason why "Painted Skin 2" achieved such good box office results in 2012 is that the film market has become bigger and more people choose to go to theaters to watch movies, which is why this movie did so well at the box office.

Otherwise, Guo Xiaosi's "Tiny Times" would easily earn hundreds of millions at the box office. Does that mean the movie is a high-quality movie?

How much box office a movie can ultimately earn depends on its quality, but more importantly, it depends on how big the movie market is at the time of release. To put it bluntly, it means that bad money is good.

After Wu Yuan woke up, his greatest contribution to the Chinese film market was not the several major European awards he won, nor the number of blockbusters he made in Hollywood.

His greatest contribution is to accelerate the development of the mainland film market!

After being stimulated by many excellent movies such as "Your Name", "Painted Skin", and "Gravity", many Chinese people who were not originally interested in going to the cinema were brought into the cinema.

The current domestic film market is almost a year or two faster than it was in the original time and space!

Don’t underestimate these two years!

In the original time and space, the total box office of mainland movies in 2009 was only 6.2 billion.

By 2010, this number had become 10.172 billion.

In 2012, it grew to 17 billion!

This is the achievement of the original time and space. After Wu Yuan was born, this year has not yet ended. The total box office of mainland movies has reached 8 billion. In the last month, there will be Lunar New Year movies released on the 12th, 18th, and 28th. Movies, the total box office in mainland China in 2009 is expected to reach 10 billion!

"Along with the Gods" and "Painted Skin 2" are leading the charge!

"The final box office of "Along with the Gods" reached 460 million, ranking first in the box office rankings of mainland movies this year!"

"The number one position is not yet warmed up. "Painted Skin 2" has been released again. "Painted Skin 2" has the popularity of its predecessor. The box office growth data seems to be even greater than that of "Along with the Gods", and it may break 5 Billion box office!"

"Calculating this, in our light and shadow era alone, we may be able to earn 1 billion in box office this year, accounting for one-eighth of the total box office in the mainland!"

"Although the company does not produce many movies every year, we follow the high-quality route. One movie is as good as ten movies from other movie companies!"

On the phone, Wu Yuan spoke proudly to Liu Yifei.

Although the Light and Film Era only produces three to five movies a year, the quality is high. Excluding unprofitable art films like "Ocean Paradise", just two commercial films can earn the company more than 300 million in net profit. !

Coupled with the company's TV drama business, which can earn less than 100 million a year, and the agency business, it has become one of the biggest earners.

Roughly calculated, Light and Shadow Era can earn almost 400 million to 500 million a year, and it can keep 400 million after paying taxes.

Theater brands in the light and shadow era did not make much profit, and most of the profits were reinvested in theater expansion.

The mainland's film market can develop better than the original time and space, and Wu Yuan's Light and Shadow Era Cinemas also played a large part in it.

Otherwise, there won’t be enough cinemas to support it, and even if the audience wants to watch it, they won’t be able to find a place to watch it!

In the past two years, most of the revenue generated by the Cinema Line has been used to continue to expand. Currently, more than 60 cinemas and 16 franchised cinemas have been opened in China, and the pace of expansion is still continuing.

As for Light and Shadow Quickcast, this thing is still a money-losing business, and tens of millions of dollars have to be spent every year to maintain the servers needed for domestic site operations.

After building sites in South Korea, Southeast Asia, and Japan, the money will have to be doubled.

Wu Yuan is already arranging financing for Guangying Kuaibo. Although he has made a lot of money, it is impossible for Guangying Kuaibo to get back the money in the short term, not even if he keeps pouring money into this bottomless pit by himself.

But thinking about Light and Shadow Quickcast, Wu Yuan thought of something the company told him when they called him two days ago.

"Sissi, the post-production of "The Lonely and Brilliant God: Ghost" has been completed, and the company plans to premiere it on New Year's Day, January 1."

"tvN will broadcast it simultaneously with Guangying Kuaibo. It will be broadcast in the form of a Jin Yao drama for the time being. Two episodes will be broadcast every Friday, and it will be broadcast in two months!"

In South Korea, the dramas aired on Mondays and Tuesdays are called Wolhuo dramas, the dramas aired on Wednesdays and Thursdays are called Mizuki dramas, the two-episode dramas broadcast on Fridays are called Jinyao dramas, and the dramas aired on Saturdays and Sundays are called weekend dramas.

Among the above broadcast methods, except for Jin Yao's drama, which is broadcast in two consecutive episodes, the others are one episode per day.

And each episode lasts about an hour, and the length of the series is controlled at around 20 episodes.

In addition, South Korea also has a TV drama broadcast format, which is a daily drama broadcast every day from Monday to Friday, with each episode of 30 minutes. Most of them are indoor sitcoms or emotional dramas.

This kind of daily drama can easily last hundreds of episodes. It is as smelly and long as the old lady's foot wrap.

The broadcasting method and type of TV series in Korea are actually modeled after RB, and even the names are modeled after RB.

When in town, do as the Romans do.

Since "The Lonely and Brilliant God: Ghost" is a drama that wants to enter the Korean market, Wu Yuan must of course arrange the broadcast of this drama in accordance with Korean TV drama broadcasting rules.

"Okay, no problem." Liu Yifei's sweet voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Brother, shall we go to South Korea to promote it?"

"Yes." Wu Yuan sighed.

Originally, he planned to do other things after coming to the United States unless he finished all the post-production of "Interstellar" at once.

However, the broadcast promotion of "Goblin" is very important to the company's next development strategy, and he has to cooperate with the promotion.

"Let's meet up in Seoul then!" (End of chapter)