billion box office tycoon

When Ye Weilin woke up in the system, he immediately checked the balance, and sure enough, tens of thousands of Jinjiang coins had been added. He clicked on the exchange page immediately. Since the signal distress device seemed to be quite large, in order to avoid being suspected, He exchanged the mobile phone.

"Master... don't you want to watch the plot of the original movie "Survival Island"?" Xiaolu asked suspiciously.

Ye Weilin paused for a moment, and said: "There is no time, I can probably guess it, the only thing I don't understand is that the only source of fresh water on the island has been poisoned, even if I survive, it won't last long."

Without waiting for Xiaolu to answer, he continued thoughtfully: "There are two possibilities, one is that they found a new water source, and the other is... someone is sure to leave?"

Xiaolu shook her head, and replied: "This has nothing to do with the plot of the original movie, maybe it belongs to the dark plot that you haven't triggered, master."

Ye Weilin also shook his head, not wanting to go any further.Now that the goal is achieved, he should return to reality. He has not forgotten that the situation outside is urgent and he must race against time.

"I'm leaving." After explaining to Xiaolu, he closed the system page.

To Ye Weilin's surprise, when he woke up, he was faced with two very anxious faces.

His head was leaning on Yin Lan's arms, and the other party was looking at him from above, with tears in the corners of his eyes.And Fu Qizheng was half-kneeling on the ground, and among those who kept pinching him, Ye Weilin, who had just opened it in pain, couldn't help but make a "hissing" sound.

"You're awake!" the two yelled in unison.

Seeing the excitement on their faces, Ye Weilin couldn't help wondering: "What's wrong? I just slept for a while..."

"What do you mean I slept for a while!" Fu Qi said angrily, "We saw that the rain stopped outside, and we wanted to wake you up, but who knows how to wake you up, it lasted for more than half an hour, patting you and shaking you Hit you, there is no reaction at all, if we didn't touch you, we would have thought you..."

Yin Lan's emotions were expressed more directly. He didn't speak, but hugged Ye Weilin tightly from behind, resting his chin on his shoulder, which was painful.

"You call this hypoglycemia? Isn't it intermittent syncope?" Fu Qi's tone was very suspicious.

It was only then that Ye Weilin knew that if his consciousness sank into the system, his real body would not be able to wake up no matter what. He originally thought that as long as he was stimulated by the outside world, his consciousness in the system would also respond.

The previous few times he entered the system, he chose to sleep in the private space, and each time he took the time to return to reality. He never entered the movie world in the system like this time, and he could not choose to return to reality.

Facing the doubts from the two, he could only laugh dryly twice, and changed the subject: "I just had a dream, and when I woke up, I realized that I had a waterproof mobile phone with me, so call the police now."

Although the rain had stopped, the threat posed by the mudslide was still there. After calling the police with their mobile phones, they did not leave, but stayed where they were and waited for rescue.

Rescuers arrived soon, and when the three got on the car back to the capital, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

After Ye Weilin returned home, he immediately checked whether the camera was damaged. When the scene of the retake was completely displayed on the screen, he finally let go of the uneasy heart that he had been restless all the way.

After cutting the reshoots into the new version with post-production, Ye Weilin sent it back to Wolf Whisper Studio.

After repeated scrutiny and revisions for the last few times, the finished film of "The Phantom of Hometown" was finally completed. He didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately sent the film for review again.

Submitting a finished film for review is not as simple as a script review. After all, the subject matter is sensitive. Although Fu Qi passed the check, it was still withdrawn once. Fortunately, the reason for the withdrawal was not a big problem. After making minor adjustments and subtracting a few scenes, The film has finally passed the review.

After waiting for nearly two months, the result was satisfactory, but the next step stumped Ye Weilin and Fu Qi.

The two ran into many film companies, but none of them had any plans to buy them and invest in theaters. They didn't even take a look at them, they asked the director who was the lead actor, who invested and who, and got the graduates to independently produce the film , when the leading actor is unknown, and the investor is the student director himself, they all shook their heads. If they were polite, they would invite them to drink a cup of tea before leaving. If they were rude, they would shout directly: "Are you here to make trouble on purpose? Yourself Casting a movie and want to go to theaters? Are you kidding me!"

After being severely frustrated, Ye Weilin had no choice but to approach the film company again according to the method suggested by Luo Mao. This time, he planned to sell the film to the film company on the condition of transferring the investment share.Unexpectedly, what he thought was the condition for making a huge sacrifice was even more ridiculed.

"Don't come to the department to look for me again, okay? As I said, our company generally doesn't buy independent films. Didn't you hear clearly when you came last time? It's not about the investment share, we don't need your investment share at all! You can go to any movie theater, and the poster posted at the entrance of the theater will tell you that the whole year's schedule is full, oh no, next year's schedule is full, even if we buy your movie, take What's the use of losing your share of the investment? Anyway, if you give money to the theaters, they won't arrange a screening!"

In desperation, Ye Weilin had no choice but to ask the school's teachers to help him make a recommendation. This time, finally, the director of distribution of the film company watched the entire movie of "The Phantom of Hometown", but their answer was still hesitant and tended to be negative. .

The reason is also obvious. It is one thing to buy a movie, but it is another thing to get the theaters to schedule. In the past two years, the Chinese film industry has been booming. It has already bid farewell to the home video era. The blowout swept across the major theaters, pushing the box office to record highs repeatedly. Even the so-called "off-season" is full of films waiting to be released. Why would theaters squeeze their profit margins just to bet that an independent film will be big? Sell?

Ye Weilin once again walked out of the commercial building rented by People Pictures. In the busy street, he didn't care about his image, and sat on the steps exhausted like several interview students.

Seeing that Ye Weilin was well-dressed and his temperament was different from that of ordinary college graduates, a girl wearing glasses next door looked strange and couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "Are you also here for the interview?"

Peoples Films is one of the major film companies in China. It integrates investment, shooting and distribution, and enjoys a high reputation in the industry. A few years ago, Ye Jiming followed Li Qun'an, a famous director from Hong Kong Island, to the mainland to shoot scenes for movies. The largest investor was Peoples. It is said that The film eventually earned [-] million at the box office, making it the highest-grossing film of the year.

"No." Faced with the girl's curiosity, Ye Weilin could only politely shake his head.

"Actually, I've seen you the last time you came here." The girl flipped her hair, and looked under the lens with curiosity. "I saw you outside the distribution department and thought you were my competitor." , then if you are not here to apply for a job, you are looking for the distribution department to discuss business, right?"

The girl was articulate, her tone was proactive but not annoying, Ye Weilin smiled and said, "Well, I'm an independent filmmaker."

"Wow, that's amazing!" The girl seemed to be surprised, and her tone became very excited: "Then are you asking Wanzhong to release it?"

Ye Weilin shook his head with a wry smile: "It was rejected."

"Oh..." The girl looked sympathetic, and then she sighed and said, "The threshold for thousands of people is too high. I passed the written test last week, but I seem to have made a small mistake in the interview this week. There should be no hope."

"Come on." For this, he only had the comfort of meeting by chance.

The girl took a deep breath and stood up suddenly: "Yes, I can't be depressed!" She took out a notebook from her bag and handed it to him together with the pen in her hand: "Please sign it for me. When your movie is on the big screen, I'll earn it!"

Ye Weilin was overjoyed. He took the notebook and signed it with two swipes.

"Ye Weilin..." The girl murmured this strange name silently in her heart, and searched her mind, but found no relevant information. It seemed that the other party was really just a little-known young director.

After the girl left, Ye Weilin continued to sit in a daze for a long time. Finally, he dialed a number he hadn't contacted for a long time, and decided to put the faint thought in his heart into action.

The head office of Xingyu Century in the mainland is located in Shanghai, but there is also a branch in the capital. It just so happens that Ye Weisheng has been on a business trip in the mainland for half a month, and he will come to the capital branch for inspection in a few days. What to say, directly made an appointment for the time and place.

As long as there is a way, Ye Weilin doesn't want to find Xingyu Century, but with the hard work of his friends and himself, and running around helplessly for several days, this ridiculous self-esteem has long been nothing.

If he was really a 20-year-old young man, maybe he would still be stubborn, but he is not.

When I saw Ye Weisheng again, the other party was obviously much more mature and stable than the previous few years. Ye Weilin remembered that when he first wore it, the other party always looked easily irritated, but now he has a calm face and a calm tone. Xu, making it difficult to fathom his thoughts.

After Ye Weilin finished speaking, he seemed to think for a while before he said, "I don't have much money, and the director has taken a fancy to several Hong Kong and Mainland cooperation comedies, and plans to spend the money at the end of the year." Invest in everything, and as for the project you mentioned about investing in film producers to support emerging directors, every investment has to go through the board of directors, and I have no right to make decisions."

Ye Weilin didn't expect the other party to be so difficult to talk to. He pressed the center of his eyebrows wearily and said: "The film has gone through all the procedures, including investment, production review, etc., and it will be released in theaters. It doesn't need to cost a lot of money. If you arrange to release it I don’t have enough funds for publicity and movie arranging in theaters, so I can transfer part of the investment share.”

"Think about it for yourself. Horror themes, low-budget independent productions, and new actors found somewhere, how high do you think the box office will be? Even if I am willing to spend money on publicity, let the company's theaters arrange films, go Win back a little box office, but do you think this money can make up for the loss of other movies that bring more profit margins?"

Seeing Ye Weilin's silence, Ye Weisheng showed his first smile when he came in: "William, you have to learn, you are really bad at negotiating."

He loosened his bow tie, his face showed a relaxed expression, and his eyes did not have the initial pickiness and sarcasm, but looked at him: "You have changed a lot in the past few years, and I have seen it in my eyes. I also watched the previous micro-movie "Zhuang Nu Dreaming Butterfly", although I don't really believe that it is something you can make, but it is a good thing that you are self-motivated, as a brother, I should also support it."

After he finished speaking, he took a stack of documents from the table and handed them to Ye Weilin.

Ye Weilin opened them one by one, only to realize that the other party had already made preparations, such as the film distribution contract, the investment share and profit-to-income ratio contract, etc., he read it carefully, and found that the conditions were not favorable, but they were not harsh either. Not bad for a rookie director.

The share of investment that can be sold is still lower than he expected, accounting for 70.00% of the total. Generally speaking, 40.00% or more of the profitable box office belongs to theaters in various places, and then 50.00% belongs to investors. It is the issuer and the uplink theaters.

He and Fu Qi are the investors and producers of this movie, and they invested more than 200 million in total. Assuming that the box office profit is 1000 million, then they can get about 500 million, which is the complete investment share.

If 70.00% was sold to Ye Weisheng, then he and Fu Qi would only get 500% of the 30.00 million, and they would not even be able to recover the cost.

And Xingyu Century also served as the distributor and upstream theater chain, and almost all the money it earned went into the other party's pocket.

"No!" Ye Weilin frowned and pushed back the contract.

"This is the price of your movie. If you don't accept it, there's nothing I can do about it." Seeing his silence, Ye Weisheng couldn't help but snorted coldly, "You're lucky to be able to recover the cost, don't you expect to make money?" more money?"

"Or, you have lost confidence now, and you feel that you can't even get back, so you want to increase the share?" Ye Weisheng smiled ironically.

Ye Weilin glanced at him, and suddenly smiled: "The provocative method is useless to me. No one can guarantee the market. I can't, and neither do you. As things stand, I still think the investment share is a little low."

Hearing this, Ye Weicheng was a little surprised, he didn't expect that at the age of the other party, he would not be affected by these words at all.

Because Fu Qi is also one of the investors, Ye Weilin called him for advice, and both of them agreed that the share sold was too much, and 50.00% of the given share was not too much.

In fact, Ye Weisheng is not very optimistic about this movie. He just gives some support to see that his younger brother has been changing in a good direction in the past few years. If he really wants to make money, he will not follow the other Instead of competing for this share of investment, they directly refused.

So in the end he gave in.

Unlike a few years ago, Ye Weisheng is now the director and vice president of Xingyu Century Headquarters. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a day-to-day business. After Ye Weilin signed the contract, he left in a hurry and quickly put the matter behind him. , Until the near future, every time he thinks about this day, he feels depressed, regretting why he didn't stick to the original conditions and lost a lot of money in vain.

The person in charge of Xingyu Century's distributor in mainland China is Lin Haiping. Originally, the release of a small movie like "The Phantom of Hometown" could not trouble him, but Ye Weisheng asked him to take care of him by name, so he had no choice but to behave Ask the assistant to directly discuss distribution and publicity matters with Ye Weilin.

After the Internet boom two years ago, Ye Weilin felt that no matter how overwhelming the publicity was in theaters, it was not as fast as online promotion, and Lin Haiping also felt the same way. The theme of "Hometown Phantom" and the particularity of the new director may not necessarily stir up waves even if they spend money to hire sailors.

What's more unfortunate is that recently there have been several big-budget movies that have been highly anticipated before they are even released. Is it even higher?

Sure enough, the method of buying hot search trolls did not work for "The Phantom of Hometown", and it was quickly suppressed by other movies that attracted more attention, without any splash.

Due to poor publicity and limited subject matter, the schedule of "Hometown Phantom" was set in mid-May without any suspense, the early summer vacation, which is the so-called "off-season" in theaters.

There is one and only one theater chain that will arrange schedules, that is, Xingyu Cinemas.

Although the theaters have been launched, in the huge China, it only covers more than [-] cities in six provinces. Although the first- and second-tier cities are covered, the third- and fourth-tier cities that are the main force of the theaters are only one or two. , while many cities with larger markets have no plans.

Even if the venue is sold out, the box office cannot be much better.

What's more... If nothing else happens, all major theaters will schedule the screening of "The Phantom of Hometown" in the middle of the night.

This is not an era when the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. Ye Weilin also has a headache seeing that the release time is getting closer. It is already a remarkable thing to be able to release a movie by myself. In school, this matter has been widely spread, and every day, juniors and younger sisters use various reasons and excuses to "visit" him.

His original intention of making this film was to win a ticket for a new director and gain the attention of the industry. If this film fails to make even a splash, then his next film will still face various problems. Every time I make a movie, I invest in it myself, direct it myself, and even find distribution by myself. This is not what a director should do at all.

Seeing that Ye Weilin didn't think about food and drink these days, and his brows were furrowed, Yin Lan couldn't calm down to study. Since Fu Qi usually didn't shy away from him when talking with Ye Weilin, he also understood the current predicament somewhat.

"Brother, I have an idea..." Yin Lan knocked on the door, and Ye Weilin, who was staring at the computer in a daze, finally recovered.