Chapter 223 Flower of Evil (Please subscribe to support!)
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Nearly 1.7 billion! The producers can get 565 million! Xu Kai holds 20% of the shares.
I can get 113 million! Is that the end? Of course not.
Don’t forget, there is also platform income.
Just based on the fact that "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" is the highest-grossing movie in China, its platform revenue will definitely not be less than 1 billion.
After splitting the profits in half with the platform, the producer can still get 500 million yuan.
If Xu Kai takes another 20%, it will be another 100 million.
In addition, just because "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" is the highest-grossing movie in China, its overseas box office will definitely sell a lot.
All in all, Xu Kai really made a lot of money with "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands", and his hard work during this period was not in vain.
In addition, Xu Kai also owns 20% of the copyright of "Shiliyangchang".
This thing is also money.
And these are not the most critical.
The most important thing is that "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" created a large number of important records in the domestic film market, including the midnight preview box office record, the first day box office record, the single-day box office record, the domestic first weekend box office record, the domestic single-week box office record, the domestic highest box office record and so on.
As for those smaller records like the fastest to reach 100 million, the fastest to reach 200 million, the fastest to reach 300 million... all the way to the fastest to reach 1.6 billion, there is no need to count them.
With this brilliant record, Xu Kai has the halo of a famous director. When he makes movies in the future, he will have a strong box office appeal. He no longer needs to engage in all these conspiracies and calculations, nor does he need to be shameless and act like a rogue.
Shanghai, Shangri-La Hotel.
Xu Kai, who was only wearing a bathrobe, lay on the fair and slender thighs of Chen Ruoxi, who was also only wearing a bathrobe. Chen Ruoxi fed Xu Kai grapes and said admiringly, "Husband, how can you be so powerful? You tied yourself to Zhang Mou by force, and used Zhang Mou's influence to make "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" soar to the sky. You also used the half-price sale on Tuesdays to step down Zhang Mou's "Labyrinth of the Heart" and the Hollywood blockbuster "X-Men". Even at the end, you were able to organize a joint sales of multiple films and beat the Hollywood blockbuster "Star Trek". It's too unfortunate for those who become your opponents."
Xu Kai spat out the grape skins and said, "You are wrong. They didn't lose to me. Well... at least not all of them lost to me."
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Chen Ruoxi was a little confused.
"Zhang actually lost to himself."
Xu Kai explained to Chen Ruoxi: "If Zhang hadn't given up his own strengths and switched to making comedy films, which he is not good at at all, he wouldn't have been beaten to death by me so easily. And if he hadn't been beaten to death by me, with "Blood Labyrinth" competing with us for the box office, we wouldn't have achieved this result. It's not certain who will win or lose between Zhang and me..."
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At Zhang's home.
Zhang, Zhang Ping and Zhao Laogen were drinking together.
Last year's Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Laogen's apprentice Shen Yang became an overnight sensation and a popular star, with various business collaborations coming one after another.
This includes the invitation from producer Zhang Ping.
Zhang Ping felt that Zhao Laogen and his disciples had great commercial value, so he instigated Zhao Laogen's good friend Zhang to invite Zhao Laogen and his disciples to star in "Blood Labyrinth".
Originally, "Blood Labyrinth" was a serious movie, which did not fit in with the comedic style of Zhao Laogen's team. However, Zhang Ping noticed the soaring influence of Shen Yang and others, and persuaded Zhang to use Shen Yang as the male lead.
What was the result of this? Zhang's original plan was disrupted, the entire team was replaced, and they had to rely on Zhao Laogen's disciples.
As the results showed, Xu Chao from Zhao Laogen's team participated in the screenwriting. In terms of the leading roles, in addition to Shen Yang, Zhao Laogen's other two apprentices appeared in the film.
Zhao Laogen actually expressed his concerns about this situation - he felt that his team would find it difficult to fully present the connotation of "Blood Labyrinth". After all, this was not an area their team was good at.
However, Zhao Laogen's worries did not play any substantial role.
As the producer, Zhang Ping went against the majority's opinion and let Shen Yang be the leading actor.
Things have come to this point, Zhao Laogen had no choice but to face up to the challenge and make a "friendly appearance", for free.
Zhao Laogen did this, of course, not because of Zhang Ping, but because of his good friend Zhang.
To be honest, after Shen Yang became popular during the Spring Festival Gala, more than 20 directors approached Zhao Laogen, hoping to work with Shen Yang.
Zhao Laogen didn't agree.
But Zhang spoke personally, and Zhao Laogen not only came, but came in person.
In order to help Zhang shoot "Blood Labyrinth", Zhao Laogen ran from the Northeast to Kyoto, and then from Kyoto to the Northwest.
Zhao Laogen does not have many scenes, with form more important than content, but Zhao Laogen, who is willing to be a "green leaf", creates a lot of laughs, which complement the "red flower" in the film.
Zhang Ping has said more than once that Zhao Laogen's performance in "Blood Labyrinth" is worth 110 points.
Not only did he praise Zhao Laogen's acting skills and humor, but when Zhao Laogen suddenly fell ill and was admitted to the hospital, Zhang Ping also sent someone to visit Zhao Laogen on his and Zhang's behalf.
In an interview with the media, Zhang Ping also said: "I admire Lao Gen's acting talent very much, but I hope Lao Gen can have a strong body. With a good body, there will be more opportunities to bring more laughter to the people across the country."
It seems that Zhang Ping has managed all of this perfectly.
While Zhang Ping gave Zhao Laogen 110 points, the box office forecast was optimistic. He even thought that the transitional work he helped Zhang make could have a domestic box office of more than 1 billion.
However, with the release of "Blood Labyrinth", criticisms poured in. A large number of viewers believed that "Blood Labyrinth" had a bad plot, was a movie that deceived the audience, and was Zhang's "worst" work. Some people even directly called it a "flower of evil."
The media asked: "Did Zhang get kidnapped by a businessman?"
Word of mouth collapsed, the market narrowed, and eventually, the box office of "Blood Labyrinth" stopped at 160 million.
The key point is that Zhang and Zhang Ping and others lost 100 million yuan because of this!
Zhang Ping got angry about this and even wanted to deal with Xu Kai.
But when Zhang Ping found out that Xu Kai was Zhu Bing's man, he became scared. He really didn't have the courage to provoke Zhu Bing's man.
However, Zhang Ping felt very uncomfortable holding back this anger in his heart - he just couldn't understand why the movie he had worked so hard on had such poor results and such a bad reputation?
In the end, Zhang Ping attributed it all to Zhao Laogen and his gang, believing that it was because of their incompetence that he lost money and received bad reviews.
This resulted in that before the filming started, Zhang Ping would praise Zhao Laogen and his gang no matter what, but now he is mocking Zhao Laogen's disciples such as Shen Yang, and is even very rude to Zhao Laogen.
Zhang knew that Zhang Ping and Zhao Laogen had been at odds recently, so he staged this game to help the two of them ease their relationship.
During the banquet, Zhang Ping, who was a little drunk, cursed Xu Kai: "Yu Qingyun is a nobody. He only knows how to scheme and act like a rogue. He has no ability at all. If he hadn't hooked up with Zhu Bing, I would have killed him in a minute!"
Zhao Laogen said: "I have seen "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands", it is a good movie, Yu Qingyun is definitely a very capable director, we underestimated him."
Hearing Zhao Laogen praising Xu Kai, whom he hated so much, Zhang Ping stood up suddenly, and then came to Zhao Laogen, constantly poking Zhao Laogen's head with his fingers: "If you and your disciples were not all useless, we would not have to pay so much money, and you still have the nerve to sit with us and drink?"
Zhao Laogen was not an ordinary person, how could he tolerate Zhang Ping humiliating him like this? He didn't say anything more and just walked away.
Zhang, who was caught in the middle, felt extremely embarrassed and helpless when he saw this!
In the end, Zhang had no choice but to let Zhao Laogen leave first.
But what "criticized" Zhang was what Zhang Ping said next.
Zhang Ping said to Zhang complacently: "Do you know why I want to poke Zhao Laogen's head? Because he has a stent in his head, I want to block his blood vessels again, and then I will poke him to death!"
Although the two Zhangs have worked together for more than ten years and are familiar with each other, Zhang Ping's words sounded like those spoken by a stranger.
Zhang shuddered.
After Zhang Ping left, Zhang immediately called Zhao Laogen to apologize.
Zhao Laogen smiled and said, "I'm not here for him, I won't argue with him."
Zhang said: "The failure of Blood Labyrinth is not your fault. Your greatest ability is comedy. Whether you play a serious drama, tragedy or any other character, it can't erase your comedy talent. It's not Yu Qingyun's fault either. He just wants to climb up the social ladder. It's human nature. It's my fault. I blame myself for talking nonsense and for not sticking to my principles and listening to Zhang Ping's instigation to make a comedy. Different people have different understandings and different classes. It's harder to please everyone with 'laughing' than with 'crying'. So when I decided to make a comedy, I was already in hell..."
Zhao Laogen was very pleased to see that Zhang realized his problem.
The two chatted for a while, and Zhao Laogen hesitated for a while before saying, "Zhang Ping... you should think about it carefully."
After hearing Zhao Laogen's reminder, Zhang was silent for a while and said, "I understand."
The next day.
Zhang donated 100 million to the Red Affairs Association - he did not ask Zhang Ping and other shareholders of the "Blood Labyrinth" production company to help him bear the 50 million. Even if the overseas box office is taken into account, "Blood Labyrinth" did not actually lose money, on the contrary, it made a lot of money.
Zhang Ping and others were secretly delighted by this...
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PS: I had something to do during the day and just got back. That chapter is being written. Please wait a moment. Sorry.
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