May 30,
The filming of "Benjamin Button" has entered the middle stage. After the rough cuts by the special effects team and the production team, the early scenes were finally delivered to Qin Sheng.
After carefully watching it and confirming that there were no mistakes, Qin Sheng called Wei Shaoyan over.
"Wei Shaoyan, you've rested for a long time. Go, it's your turn to work."
"A theater?"
Although Wei Shaoyan is a novice in the film industry compared to TV dramas and has never had experience in negotiating cooperation with theater chains, he still has basic connections and knowledge, so he understood as soon as Qin Sheng mentioned it.
"Hmm... let's see how many there are. First, make a list of theater chains that are interested in cooperating. After the film is finished, we can discuss the profit sharing."
"Well, fine. If you have anything else to say, just tell me directly, so that I don't have to run around like a headless chicken."
"Of course." Qin Sheng glanced at him and licked his slightly dry lips.
"The rough cut is already out. You can ask the editor to cut a small portion and put it online for promotion, just as a pre-market promotion."
This is the first time that Qin Sheng asked Wei Shaoyan to promote in advance. You know, before the previous three TV series were released, Qin Sheng had always adhered to the principle of "keeping a low profile" and was holding back his big moves, but this time he was going against the norm and wanted to start from the starting line.
This is enough to show how crucial a good publicity is to the box office of a movie.
"Hey, you finally understand operations, that's a good thing!"
Wei Shaoyan smiled with satisfaction and nodded.
"So, which part should we edit? How about the scene where you old man stands up? It's not only shocking, but also quite humorous. It feels good..."
“…”
However, Qin Sheng shook his head helplessly.
You really overestimate my influence, Saoyan~
In fact, no matter how successful he was in the TV drama industry in the early days, the audience is chasing the stars, not the directors!
What's more, he has just switched to the film industry. If he really wants to rely on the publicity from his true fans, it would be better to just buy a lottery ticket.
Therefore, Qin Sheng only thought for a moment and gave a positive answer, "No, my part can be edited normally. It's a preliminary trailer, and the main thing is to edit out the initial plot and suspense of the story.
So far, we have two selling points. One is the anti-aging process that can rejuvenate you. This theme is very novel, and I believe many people will be interested in it..."
"That's right."
Wei Shaoyan nodded in agreement. After all, there has never been such a fairy-tale-like rejuvenation series of movies in the current Chinese film industry or even the international film industry.
Therefore, this is a very eye-catching setting and also an unexpected innovation, so the trailer only needs to give out the suspense and that's enough.
As for what happens next, it all depends on God's will...
"But..." Wei Shaoyan suddenly discovered a blind spot. "Didn't you just mention two selling points? What's the other selling point? Is it that you directed and acted in the film yourself? Or is it your Oscar-winning acting skills?"
Tsk tsk, this little mouth is really sweet——
"Of course it's Ms. Xiao."
Qin Sheng couldn't help but smirk, "But when did you ever think I was acting well? Weren't you worried I'd mess it up at the beginning?"
"How can that be possible!"
Wei Shaoyan also laughed with satisfaction, "I'm not saying this, you know me, I hate Chinese class the most, so I can't think of anything to praise you, but when I saw your performance, I exclaimed "Wow" several times.
real!
That's incredible! I think as long as this movie goes well in the early stages, it won't be a problem for it to break 600 million at the box office!"
"Six hundred million?"
Qin Sheng looked a little surprised.
"You've said too much?"
Suddenly I realized that setting random flags can easily lead to divine punishment.
Wei Shaoyan raised an eyebrow, thought for a moment, leaned forward slightly, squinted his eyes, raised one hand, and left an inch of space between his thumb and index finger. He said guiltily, "How about... 400 million will do? Just a little bit of profit will be fine."
“…”
Qin Sheng stared at him, snorted, grinned and said nothing.
"Fuck..."
Wei Shaoyan's expression froze, "You're not going there just to break even on 300 million, are you?
Even though 300 million is fine for the first film, it's still too conservative. It's like shooting for nothing. And after deducting the film fund and taxes, we'll still lose at least six figures..."
Wei Shaoyan was nervously analyzing the gains and losses of the "300 million box office", but Qin Sheng interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
"No, you misunderstood me."
"You mean the expectations are even lower?"
Wei Shaoyan was horrified and almost couldn't help but grab Qin Sheng's collar and ask loudly, "Are you kidding me?"
This brain...
Qin Sheng shook his head.
"No, I mean—"
"If this movie doesn't gross over 5 billion yuan domestically, it will be considered a failure..."
"That's right, that's worthy of you. If you really expect to break even in the single digits, you might as well go back to filming TV series... Hey, wait, what did you just say??" Wei Shaoyan's face suddenly froze, he felt that he had missed something.
Just at this moment, several migratory birds circled and landed at the corner of the balcony window.
Qin Sheng looked back, his eyes as deep as if he was staring into the abyss.
"Five billion, that's my goal, and not a cent less—"
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