Chapter 222 The Internet Movie(1/2)
"Are you going to release..."
Everyone was in the company. After receiving a call from Lin Yuan, the two met in the film department.
Facing Lin Yuan with anticipation, Lao Zhou felt a little headache. While pondering, he pondered his words: "Your movie will definitely be released..."
"but?"
Lin Yuan felt that such words would have a turning point.
It was not as Lin Yuan expected.
Lao Zhou indeed coughed: "But our company is busy preparing for the release of "Thunderstorm", and July is the summer season, and the competition in the film market is very fierce..."
Lin Yuan frowned.
Of course he knew the project "Thunderstorm".
The company's first film project, so the above attaches great importance to it.
Different from the earth.
Blue Star’s film industry is undoubtedly more developed, and it is no problem for various special effects technologies to beat the earth’s Hollywood.
This means an exaggerated increase in the speed of such film production.
With such superb film technology support, the completion speed of movies like "Thunderstorm" may not be much slower than some small investment movies.
It is unimaginable on Earth, but it is no problem to do this level on Blue Star.
"So it."
Lao Zhou said helplessly: "There is definitely not too many screenings for "Tang Bohu's Tie of Autumn". After all, there are too many blockbusters in the same period. We have made three rules before the promotion, so there is no extra funding to promote your movie."
"Then I'll change the schedule?"
Of course, Lin Yuan knew the importance of screening.
Old Zhou was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Lin Yuan was still thinking about scheduling the film.
The summer vacation is just Lao Zhou’s excuse.
He really couldn't win too much screening for "Tang Bohu's Love".
For movies with less than 10 million investments, all the actors combined, none of them can bear the box office.
It’s fine if the director has no experience, but the screenwriter is still a composing musician, but the script is also inconspicuous...
You must know.
The screening is not only about the quality of the movie, but also about the production company's instructions.
For example, "Thunderstorm".
As a movie that Xingmang strongly promoted, in order to get higher screenings in the early stage, Lao Zhou and the leaders of the film department gave a lot of benefits to the person in charge of the theater.
Could it be that Lao Zhou still wants to give gifts for "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance"?
How much does it cost?
And it doesn't matter if it's useful.
The key is that even if the movie "Tang Bohu's Delicacy" is useless even if it is scheduled for more films.
The final decision was not the theaters, nor the entertainment companies, but the audience’s men!
Lao Zhou complained: "The schedule can be changed, but no matter how it is changed, it is difficult to get the schedule of your movie. After all, the theaters are also watching the discs. You have no stars, no famous directors, and no investments in this movie..."
No big investment.
No famous director.
There are no big-name actors.
This type of movie is collectively called "three-no movies".
There are examples of three-no movies that have made a big difference, but this kind of example is too rare, so it is impossible for theaters to invest too much emotion in three-no movies.
It wasn't Lao Zhou who deliberately refused.
But even if Lao Zhou wants to help, he can't help much.
He could only arrange some garbage schedules for "Tang Bohu's Flavors" during the depression period, and at least he had an explanation. After all, the movie has been filmed, so it is impossible not to let someone release it, right?
"Then it won't be released."
After thinking a little, Lin Yuan suddenly spoke.
Lao Zhou's face changed.
This kid...is angry?
He looked at Lin Yuan and carefully coaxed him: "This movie has been filmed well. Why not be released? Let's see the performance. If the movie performs well enough, maybe the reputation will increase. If the reputation becomes better, the theaters will also improve the schedule..."
Lin Yuan shook his head.
Lao Zhou is talking about the routine situation.
But Lin Yuan knew that there was not enough screening, and the only screening was also arranged in garbage time, which is likely to cause the movie to fall directly to death.
There are actually quite a lot of movies trying to counterattack.
But there are actually not many who have actually completed the counterattack.
Lin Yuan did not intend to put his hope on an illusory counterattack.
If it were normal, there was really hope for the movie counterattack. After all, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is a very successful Zhou family comedy on earth.
But now...
Hope is slim.
Qin Qi merged, and in the movie market, major companies are fighting and gods are fighting. How many people are eyeing the summer season?
No screening...
There are still many movies that have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the same period. Isn’t there any one that touches the audience? Why can you make a small-cost movie stand out?
The basis for the counterattack is that there are no fierce films in the same period, or the pre-scheduling is not bad.
Take our most classic counterattack case on Earth, "Crazy Stone", as an example.
Everyone is talking about how textbook-based counterattacks of this movie are, but they ignore an important factor:
When this movie was released, there were no other movies in the same period!
You know, the audience can also settle accounts.
Is it cost-effective to spend about the same amount of money to watch a special effects blockbuster and experience a full visual feast, or is it cost-effective to watch a small-cost movie?
The answer is obvious.
So Lin Yuan didn't dare to bet that there were no hot movies in July.
Especially after listening to Lao Zhou's analysis, Lin Yuan became more and more aware of how dangerous this summer vacation is.
He had completely ignored this before.
This is also related to Lin Yuan’s mind is full of book knowledge and no certain practical experience.
Fortunately, after Lao Zhou mentioned the issue of scheduling, Lin Yuan reacted.
Something almost happened.
It's too unwise to compete for box office with those big investments in the summer season.
He thought about it and had a new plan, and proposed his own idea to Lao Zhou: "You can just broadcast it online without going to theaters."
"Don't go to the theater..."
Only then did Old Zhou understand Lin Yuan’s meaning, and his expression was somewhat surprised: “You mean, Netmaster?”
Netmaster means online movies.
Big online movies don’t need to go to theaters, and the review standards are also low. Many small-cost movies make money by relying on big online movies.
Of course, for real big film companies, the money-making model of Internet big is just a small fuss.
If theater movies operate well, the income is in units of billions...
So if you make a big online movie, you will only make tens of millions of dollars.
Lao Zhou thought Lin Yuan was blindly confident, just like every newcomer, who thought he was the best in the world in the movie.
Unexpectedly, Lin Yuan was willing to take a step back and chose to use Internet University as the release channel for "Tang Bohu's Delicacy of Autumn".
If you think about it carefully, this is a good choice!
However, before Lao Zhou agreed, Lin Yuan immediately said: "Since you don't choose theaters, the company won't help me too much."
Lao Zhou smiled awkwardly.
The threshold for Internet size is very low. If the company does not come forward, you can even use "Tang Bohu's Spot Autumn Fragrance".
For theater movies, movies with investments of less than tens of millions have no sense of existence.
To be continued...