This director only makes bad movies

"Three Thousand Spartans!"

Lin Ziyi couldn't help but feel happy when she saw this name.

"Let me tell you, you've done a great job this time. Even if the audience is mentally prepared, it might be difficult to tell the difference when watching the movie."

Xu Nan smiled and said nothing.

The name is indeed very similar to the original one.

The characters here in the United States are letters. Sometimes one missing letter may have completely different meanings, or even be incomprehensible.

Take "The Hobbit" and "The Age of the Hobbit" as examples. Do you think Xu Nan doesn't want to choose a name like "The Hobbit" or "The Hobbit"?

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't. If he chooses a similar name, the final result will be that the meaning is completely different.

The Chinese side uses hieroglyphics, and the audience mainly looks at the glyphs, but the American side uses letters, and the audience looks at the meaning of the words, so the names cannot be similar, but the meanings must be similar.

But "3000" is different.

The original movie is called "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta". The English word "three hundred" is three hunderd, which means three hundred, and the English word "three thousand" is three thousand, which means three thousand.

The difference between the names of the two movies is only one word. Whether it is the name or the meaning, they are extremely similar. They can almost be compared with "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

These two movies are placed together in a theater, and even if the audience is prepared, it will be difficult to tell them apart. Not to mention that American audiences are very nervous. It is very likely that even if they work hard to choose carefully, they will end up watching the wrong movie. Case.

If this happens, the audience's mood will definitely collapse.

but.

Whether the audience collapses or not is none of his business. The success of a copycat depends on its success. The more similar it is to the original movie, the easier it is to succeed.

Opposite me, Lin Ziyi began to read the script.

"Three Thousand Spartans" also tells the story of Sparta, but many plots in it are relatively nonsensical, but the main line is very clear, that is, a Spartan became the king of Sparta and finally defeated the Persian invasion. story.

With the precedents of "The Age of the Hobbit" and "Atlantic Rim" in front of her, Lin Ziyi is very optimistic about the prospects of this film.

"The movie is okay, when will it be released?" Lin Ziyi asked.

Xu Nan smiled: "I want it to be released on the same day as "300"."

"It will be released on the same day." Lin Ziyi frowned slightly: "Didn't you say last time that copycat movies should be released ten days to one week before the original movie, so that you can maximize the publicity of the original movie and grab the box office? "

Xu Nan said vaguely: "There is a reason this time. I have a good idea for publicity. I need this movie to be released at the same time as the original movie."

Lin Ziyi didn't mean to ask any more questions. She was silent for a while and said, "There may be some trouble in arranging the film. The film arranging was a bit tense that day. There are a lot of movies to be arranged."

An idea flashed in Xu Nan's mind: "Did you agree to give Imperial Cinema a share of "The 300"?"

Lin Ziyi nodded.

Xu Nan frowned, but was not too surprised.

Cinema schedules have a fatal impact on a movie's box office. In the past, because Shenhua Group had just acquired Imperial Cinemas, outsiders were suppressed, so some big-budget movies did not give Imperial Cinemas a share.

In fact, this situation is very abnormal. The theater chain is in the upper reaches of the industry and naturally suppresses the film producers. That is, Lin Ziyi is new to the industry, so she encounters this situation.

Now that Lin Ziyi has established a firm foothold in the United States, she also controls most of the power of the Imperial Cinemas. She can affect the box office of a movie by adjusting the movie schedule.

Under such circumstances, if a big-budget movie still refuses to give the Imperial Cinema a share, then it means that it is really stupid and cannot see the situation clearly, and it deserves to suffer.

But as a result, Xu Nan was in an awkward situation. If he made a copycat movie, how could he compete with big-budget movies?

Maybe the box office of his entire movie is less than 5% of the total box office of other movies. In this case, it is naturally very weak to fight for film scheduling.

Fortunately, the cost of copycats is low, and fortunately there are overseas box office and streaming media rights, otherwise he would really be blinded.

"Don't worry, no matter what, I own 30% of Nanhai Film and Television's shares. Even if it's a squeeze, I will squeeze out a part of the film schedule for you." Lin Ziyi comforted: "In addition, AMC has said that it can release your film The copycats are like porcelain, but you need to make concessions to them in terms of sharing."

"AMC, the AMC of the three major theater chains in the United States?" Xu Nan's eyes lit up.

AMC is one of the three major theater chain companies in the United States. The number of theaters it owns will only be more or less than that of Imperial Cinemas. It is of great benefit to him that such a large theater chain is willing to play his movies.

"Yes." Lin Ziyi nodded: "Recently, copycat films have become popular due to you. Companies in the industry are filming them, and even the companies under the three major theater chains are following suit. AMC Theaters thought it would be better to sit back and enjoy the profits than to film them themselves. That’s why you asked me to contact you.”

Xu Nan was very pleased. The United States was indeed a natural place for knockoffs. As long as an opening was made, a trend would immediately form.

Of course, he also knows that just because AMC approves the release of his movie, it does not mean that it will give him a lot of film schedule.

His copycat movies are at most a supplement to enrich the film library of the theater chain and give the audience more choices. For this, he still needs to pay more shares as a price.

But even this is enough.

Again, when it comes to copycats, as long as the cost is low enough, there is no need to worry about losing money.

Even if it loses money at the box office, it still has overseas box office, streaming rights and video rights.

Making money is for sure, it’s just a matter of making more or less.

"This is good news." Xu Nan nodded: "With the support of two major theater chains in the United States, and the names being so similar, the box office of this movie will definitely not be low."

"It seems that I need to focus more on filming and try to improve the quality."

Lin Ziyi couldn't stand it anymore: "People are just waiting for others to serve. You are waiting for the support of the theater chain to serve. Seeing the support of the two major theater chains, I decided to improve the quality of the movie. I co-wrote the movie you made before." It’s just a matter of coping, right?”

"Yes." Xu Nan nodded matter-of-factly: "How much higher do you want to make a copycat of porcelain? This is not a big production."

"Can you have some professional ethics?" Lin Ziyi asked, "Aren't you worried about the quality of the movie collapsing?"

"Don't worry." Xu Nan shook his head: "Because my movie has no room for decline. If it crashes, maybe it can improve the quality of the movie."

Lin Ziyi was absolutely stunned.

What you said makes sense.