This Star Wants To Retire

Treasure Island, in a large flat.

Zheng Jing, the director of "Casino Game", is holding a tablet computer, checking the real-time box office of the Spring Festival movie.

The data given by many apps today are very detailed.

Not only can you check the cumulative total box office of the movie, but you can also check the box office of the film party.

This so-called split account is the money that Luo Mo and others can get.

Generally speaking, it is in the range of 30% to 40%.

Zheng Jing looked all the way down and looked at the various data, feeling very upset.

Especially in the [Predicted Box Office of Media Premiere] column, it is a headache to watch.

The data written here is the final box office performance of the film predicted by the media when the film premiered.

"Casino Central Game", the initial media forecast was 2.5-2.7 billion.

"But judging from the current situation, it will be difficult to break through 2 billion." Zheng Jing thought to himself.

On the other hand, "Dragon Detective", [media premiere forecast box office] is 1.6-1.8 billion, but because it has a much better reputation, and now audiences are more interested in suspense movies, the box office may surpass "Casino in the later period." "Game in Game"!

This kind of counterattack, Zheng Jing is not surprised at all.

As one of the leading directors in Taiwan and one of the representatives of Hong Kong films, he has also made many films and successfully counterattacked.

Moreover, they are all commercial films shot in a month or two with a small cost and in the fast-shooting mode.

From a certain point of view, Zheng Jing's past is a bit like a fat man surnamed Wang on earth.

The output and efficiency are amazing.

It's just that there are obvious differences in the way of life and personality.

"But this "The Return of the Great Sage"..." Zheng Jing really couldn't understand it.

[Media Premiere Predicted Box Office] It's only 260-300 million, but today it has exceeded 100 million in a single day with 14% of the film schedule!

Its cumulative box office, plus those pre-sales, has already broken the 300 million mark!

At the end of the day, seven or eight billion is the bottom line.

This is no longer a small counterattack, it's scary, right?

The most outrageous thing is that a part of the soundtrack in the movie is now called a god-level soundtrack, and it is also labeled as a "Century Classic".

A century-old classic, what is that concept?

Is this a movie made specifically for this soundtrack, or is it just a movie, and a soundtrack that has been handed down from generation to generation?

Zheng Jing felt that his brain was not enough, and he had never encountered such a weird operation.

This is an unreasonable play...

Zheng Jing is a purely commercial director. His first purpose in making films is to make money for everyone.

Make money for yourself, investors make money, theaters make money... Anyway, make money and you're done!

As for whether the word of mouth is good or not, this has never been his biggest pursuit, and it may not even be his pursuit at all.

In his eyes, Luo Mo was a complete alien.

Regardless of cost and risk, spending 150 million yuan in production costs to make an animation movie is already crazy.

There are even more weird operations in the follow-up, which is confusing.

Zheng Jing lit a cigarette, and with his usual urinating nature, he would probably make some remarks, and then go crazy about the popularity of "The Return of the Great Sage".

Treasure Island has always been very good at this.

Whether it's to catch the heat or make a gimmick, it's a great one.

Among other things, let's just say that Blue Star Hong Kong Media uses the format of headlines for news, which is exactly the same as that on Earth.

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Of course, Milk Tea Lun, who has always been in full swing, has not escaped.

In the past, he just bought a new large motorcycle and found a remote place for a test drive. After being photographed, the title was "Jay Chou Riding a New Love in a Dark Alley".

To be honest, it's not just Zheng Jing who wants to do things, most of the films in the Spring Festival file really want to do things about "The Return of the Great Sage".

It's a pity that it was publicly performed by five special media, and it was also on the "News Network".

It's okay for you to fight each other, but... you try to play "The Return of the Great Sage"?

It's not that no one has a bad idea, it's really not daring.

On the contrary, it was once the big brother of the domestic animation film - "Legend of the Red Dragon". In the early morning of the fifth day of the new year, a congratulatory poster titled "Double Dragon Playing Pearl" was released.

In the poster, the red dragon and the little white dragon in "The Return of the Great Sage" are drawn, and a few large characters are written on the beads-congratulations to "The Return of the Great Sage" for breaking the 100 million box office in a single day!

Everyone has long been tired of seeing those nasties, but in fact, it will only increase the disgust of netizens.

Some people play this kind of Seven Injuries Fist, in fact, they just want to drag others into the water.

Something like Legend of the Red Dragon would be nice, wouldn't it?

………

………

Time passed quickly, and in the next few days, "The Return of the Great Sage" was unstoppable.

The number of film schedules will increase a little every day, and the single-day box office performance has always remained stable at more than 100 million!

The entire animation world has been a little numb from the shock.

—— "I'm Numb"!

Finally, the cumulative box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" is infinitely approaching that of "Dragon's Castle".

Many animators have been waiting for this day for two full years.

Two years ago, "Dragon's Castle" was released globally, and it earned more than 600 million box office in China alone.

This result made the Huaxia animation people fall into silence one after another.

At the same time, there has been a lot of cynicism on the Internet.

Many people are thinking, is it possible that one day, a domestic animation movie will break the record of "Dragon Castle"?

But two years have passed, and it is still so high and unattainable.

This floating castle makes all the anime people in China look up at it.

To be honest, "Dragon Castle" was a big success. After it exploded in China, it also inspired the ambitions of many domestic animation artists and changed their mentality.

At the same time, there are also many investors who have set their sights on domestic animation films. Before the release of many films, they have also released titles such as "Comparable to the production of Dragon Castle" and "Determined to Overtake Dragon Castle". slogan.

But the result is... the box office may only be a fraction of others.

Investors lost everything.

The flames in many people's hearts were extinguished.

A large number of investors are no longer staring at this market, and many projects are directly difficult to produce and withdraw their capital midway.

"We are still looking up at it with our necks up." He Yuanguang said this to Luo Mo once.

"Once our ambition was fired and we tried to chase it."

"But the harder you run, the more desperate you become."

"Because when you are exhausted, you will suddenly find that you thought it was very close to you, but in fact it is so far away."

"Wangshan ran to death!"

This is the status quo of the animation industry in the past two years.

The situation is very embarrassing.

Because of "Dragon Castle", investors are more willing to increase the amount of investment than before.

But to die is to add two to three percent.

Who doesn't want to make a big difference with a small one?

If you want to double the investment, it is better to make other types of films, and the risk is even lower.

"No one invested in your project before, but now I have invested money, and you told me that you want to increase the money and play bigger waves, what a joke!"

"What are you doing? Others are showing it globally, but we are only showing it domestically, brother!"

"Do you understand the risks? My money came from the wind?"

It doesn't make any sense to be up or down.

Many Chinese animation people began to deliberately forget this movie.

Including He Yuanguang, when chatting with Luo Mo about the box office status of animation movies, he only talked about "Legend of the Red Dragon" and did not mention "Dragon Castle".

He only took "Legend of the Red Dragon" as an example, and told Luo Mo that investing 150 million yuan was a crazy behavior, and it was a top-level crazy one.

Then, a top crazy batch was born.

--Not crazy, not live!

Give me a fucking life again!

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On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, at 8:24 p.m.

The cumulative box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" exceeded 700 million, ranking first in the history of Chinese animation films.

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