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Chapter 970

The super blockbusters in North America, those big productions with a production cost of more than 1 million US dollars, or even 2 million US dollars, are almost all sequels.

Not because of lack of creativity or lack of excellent original scripts, but because of uncontrollable risks.

Compared with sequels, the risk of original scripts has increased countless times. Therefore, large-scale original movies have almost disappeared in recent years.

And why are there so many counterattacks of low-cost movies every year?

Many people have only seen the counterattack of a small-budget movie, and seen the classic case of a small-budget movie, but they forget that the counterattack of a small-budget movie is behind the losses of hundreds of other movies.

Of course, most of the low-budget films are original scripts. On the one hand, because of the low cost, it is impossible to afford the copyright of works suitable for adaptation.

Originality means innovation, and innovation means uncertainty. This uncertainty is divided into two types, one is acceptable to the public, and the other means that it cannot be accepted by the public.

It is impossible for big companies and big productions to gamble, so they choose to adapt, make sequels and so on.

Of course, the magic weapon for any company to survive is to have a series of movies.

In the early days of Hollywood giants, some giants were poorly managed and suffered continuous losses. Whenever they ran out of water, they would always come up with a series of movies to recover their blood.

Of course, there are many kinds of movie series, there are big-budget movie series, and there are also small-budget movie series.

Many series of movies may not be so impressive at the box office after they are released, but they can make a lot of money on other peripheral channels.

The foundation of Legendary Pictures is not weak, but Legendary Pictures does not have its own series of movies, oh, no, now it has, the rescue series of "Taken" is now one, and "Death Comes" is also one.

What?You said, "Kung Fu Panda", "Once Upon a Time" and "Terminator"?
No, no, no, it doesn't belong to Legendary Pictures, and Legendary Pictures can get very little direct benefit from it, because that book belongs to Huaguo's Sanle Entertainment and Ling Xiaoge.

Legendary Pictures is more of a transit point.

Some people may ask, doesn't Lin Xiao have a system?Just take a few big-produced scripts out of the system, isn't it all right?Why invest in those low-budget films?
But in fact, this is very impractical. Why do independent film companies rarely produce blockbusters?
Is it because there is no money?This is not all the case. The reason why the giants dare to invest in big productions is because even if the film loses money, they can recover the cost in a long-term way through peripheral channels, although this period may be a bit long.

But it is a magic weapon to stop losses, but an independent film company often means lack of channels, and the ability to realize other aspects of the film is weak. Once there is a loss, it must be hurt.

The same is true for Legendary Pictures, and Lin Xiao can't guarantee that he can perfectly restore the movies that are sold in another time and space in the system.

And times are different, and some things are not static.

Another one, Legendary Pictures also lacks other monetization channels.

For example, "Kung Fu Panda" and other popular films, in fact, why are those film and television giants willing to offer such a low distribution share contract?Even on the surface they were issued at a loss.

It's because, whether it's Lingxiao Pavilion or Legendary Pictures, there are no monetization channels around the movies, and they have to rely on them to provide channels.

They can earn back exponentially through this aspect.

No one is stupid, right?
But if it's a new original movie, it's different, and if it fails at the box office, they're going to hit you hard and make you lose everything.

Therefore, Legendary Pictures needs to accumulate some wealth, and the low-cost film series is the wealth that Lin Xiao has accumulated for Legendary Pictures.

Why choose a horror film?

In fact, although horror films are considered niche films, this type of film has a very fixed group of loyal fans.

They love this type of film, as long as the film can be shot well, then their spending power is definitely not low.

And it is very stable. Most of the groups who like this type of film have stable economic income and are able to consume this type of hobby.

Omon is one of the members of the screenwriting team recruited by Legendary Pictures, and he is also one of the leaders of the screenwriting team.

Omon himself is a horror fan. He loves horror films. He has written many scripts of this type on his own before, and was even bought to shoot films, but none of them received a good response.

For movies like "Death is Coming", Ou Meng actually doesn't like it that much. He prefers the kind of bloody, bloody, bloody horror movies.

Selina is also a screenwriter recruited by Legendary Films. Selina is only 1.5 meters tall. It can be said that among the generally taller beauties, she is definitely the small and dainty type.

However, Selina also has troubles. She is a real girl with a beautiful face. When she usually wears clothes, she has to put the fierce on the table to reduce her burden.

Selina has a baby face, but her hobbies are very strange. She is also a horror fan, and she especially likes horror movies.

Movies like "Death is Coming" are exactly the genre she likes. It's not that she doesn't like heavy horror movies, but that she prefers those horror movies that are full of novelty and creativity.

However, no matter whether it was Ou Meng or Selina, they were all extremely excited today.

There is no way not to be excited, that’s Lin Xiao, the magical Hua Guolin, Lin Xiao is not famous in North America, on the contrary, Lin Xiao is actually very famous in North America, but people who know him don’t Many, many people just know him by his first name.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that foreigners are basically face-blind to yellow people.

Lin Xiao wanted to make a new script today, so he called the two of them over.

The reason why they came to Legendary Films was not because they couldn't find a job, but because of the legendary nature of Legendary Films and Lin Xiao's legendary experience.

Not everyone can get the guidance of a gold medal screenwriter.

Lin Xiao has many titles, but for them, undoubtedly, the title of Gold Medal Screenwriter is what they value the most.

Is Lin Xiao a big shot?Obviously yes!

"Here we come!" Lin Xiao walked in, seeing Selina and Ou Meng, Lin Xiao naturally looked at Selina a few more times.

I couldn't help being amazed in my heart, I really don't know how she looks like this size, this height.

In fact, Selina is not ugly, and she is a bit beautiful, but these are often ignored by people, because she is really too fierce.

Ou Meng is a handsome guy, but his preferences are definitely heavy-duty.

This is also a representative figure who cannot be recognized by appearance.

(End of this chapter)