Rebirth Begins with a Manga Adaptation

The annual summer holiday is an important time for the Dazhou film industry.

Of course, there are at least a dozen decent schedules like this throughout the year, but the summer schedule is definitely among the top three.

During the same period, there were about seven or eight films produced on a large scale, and there were more than a dozen of those low-budget films released at the same time.

And Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences can barely be regarded as one of the seven or eight film works that have been produced on a large scale.

The investment of more than 50 million yuan is neither high nor low. Among so many movies released in the summer, the total investment ranks ninth.

According to the previous situation, among the more than 20 films released in the same period, 80% were cannon fodder, 10% could keep their capital, and 10% of the works could make a lot of money.

However, although Rurouni Kenshin's Reminiscences has made a few waves of publicity in Yunteng's hit drama Dragon Sakura, in fact, the competitors of Rurouni Kenshin's Reminiscences in the same period are simply dismissive.

Movies are different from TV dramas. As long as you push the content of TV dramas to the audience, they are likely to follow your push to watch.

But movie audiences have to spend real money, so they take the time to watch it!

You can advertise your movies through TV stations, but can you get the audience to leave their homes and go to the cinema to contribute to the box office?

Moreover, Rurouni Kenshin's Reminiscences has a fatal flaw.

In the whole work, there is not a single movie star who can do it.

Jing Yu and Xia Yining are indeed very popular in the TV drama industry, but there is a difference between movies and TV dramas.

In Jingyu’s previous life, Hu Ge was so popular that he couldn’t even make a splash in movies. Yang Mi was the queen of ratings, and his performance in starring movies was average. Liu Tianxian was a top-notch TV series many years ago. Are there any movies that he participated in? Not to mention a certain deer who used to be known as the king of traffic, with tens of millions of online fans, but the magic city cannon directly turned him from a top streamer to a scumbag, and he lost too badly!

Those fans can spar with others on the Internet for three days and three nights for idols, and the network traffic fee will also cost a few dollars, and the mobile phone electricity bill will also cost a kilowatt hour. A salary of 100 yuan, but these people are reluctant to spend 40 yuan to go to the cinema to support idols.

Therefore, the competitors of Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences in the same period did not pay attention to the dramas made by the top actors of several TV dramas.

So many examples of big names in the TV drama industry rushing to the street in the past in Dazhou proved that it may not be easy for TV drama stars to make movies.

Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences, as the first work of Jing Yu, a screenwriter in the TV industry, transformed into the film industry, has a total box office of 100 million. From here, he can receive about 30 million in box office revenue, and then sell overseas copyrights. Kind of like that, the 50 million investment in this movie can be recovered without losing money.

That Jing Yu is amazing, as for this movie wanting to be the protagonist in the summer file?

No one thought that way.

Even Cheng Lie, in fact, the time has come to the middle of June, and he is very panicked. No one can say how many Jing Yu's fans will buy it and are willing to contribute tens of dollars to the movie theater. .

He can't say whether the people of Dazhou will like this swordsman movie with an overhead history like Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscences.

However, he believed that Jing Yu was like Jing Yu in the TV drama industry after all, no one looked down on him, but in the end he was killed by him.

this time.

"The statistics are over." Cheng Lie handed the report to Jing Yu.

Although the filming of Love Letter has not been completed, but Jing Yu has already finished filming the scenes. Now Yu Youqing is basically filming some details of her role in Love Letter, so Jing Yu is not so busy.

"A total of 25 films will be screened at the same time, among which are three special parent-child drama films, aimed at elementary school students and kindergarten students on summer vacation, and among the other 22 films, there are three crime films and five romance films , three literary films, five fantasy films, and three suspense films, just like Rurouni Kenshin's Memories, there are three films with historical elements." Cheng Lie said.

"Among them, the crime film "Original Sin" with the highest investment amount, starring actor Liu Yun and actress Lin Zhi, has a total investment of 270 million. The next is the love movie "Deng Yan", with a total investment of 190 million , followed by the fantasy film "Fish in the Mirror", with a total investment of 140 million. The investment of these three films has exceeded 100 million and all have domestic big-name movie stars to join, and the promotional trailer has also been launched three months in advance. , the investment amount is less than 100 million, and our Rurouni Kenshin Reminiscence Chapter has an investment of more than 50 million, ranking ninth."

"What? A little nervous?" Jing Yu looked at Cheng Lie, and then said.

"Of course I'm nervous!" Cheng Lie said the same to Jing Yu.

"The three of us are alright, all of your wealth is in these two movies, it's weird that you are so relaxed!"

"I'm sorry, I went back to the TV station to work for a few years, what's the point?" After Jing Yu finished speaking, he immediately felt that it was inappropriate and added.

"Of course, if I get to that point, no matter where I go, I will take the three of you with me." Jing Yu paused.

"However. I don't know how much money Rurouni Kenshin's Remembrance Chapter can make, but it loses money. I haven't thought about it that way."

In the two years since he came to Dazhou, Jing Yu has basically figured out the interests and hobbies of the people in Dazhou, which are basically in line with the people in East Asia in his previous life.

If Jing Yu came to this world, if the industry chain was complete, and he didn't mix in the TV drama industry, but wrote novels on the website, he should be able to make money, or he would not engage in comics and dramas, but would also be able to draw comics and animations.

But it is a pity that the mature industrial chain of Dazhou is film and television dramas. In terms of the animation industry, Huaguo in the previous life is still sprouting under the influence of the neighboring island country, and this world directly does not have this industrial chain. The same is true for novels, there is no mature industry Chain, Jing Yu couldn't take off by building a website by himself, and he starved to death before he could make a profit.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, it doesn't matter how the theme is presented, what matters is the audience of the work.

The repeated popularity of the works produced in the past two years has basically made Jing Yu determine the preferences of the audience in the big week, and it is these two-dimensional style works. Since Rurouni Kenshin is so popular in Jingyu's previous life island country, it doesn't make sense that so many works have failed, but this work will fail.

After the five movies of Rurouni Kenshin were released in the island country of Jingyu's previous life, the total box office of the series of movies was close to 20 billion yen, which was about one billion yen when converted into soft sister coins.

Looking at the total box office alone, it doesn't seem like a big deal. Five movies only cost one billion soft sister coins. But considering that the population of the island country is only 100 million, this achievement is already against the sky.

If you want to measure the box office value of Rurouni Kenshin when it was released in the island country by the movie market in the former Huaguo region, you only need to perform a simple population ratio replacement, and the population of the Japanese island is increased by ten times. , The Rurouni Kenshin series of movies is equivalent to a total box office of more than 10 billion soft sister coins, which is equivalent to a box office of more than 2 billion soft sister coins for each movie.

Hmm. As for Jingyu's previous life in Huaguo, there were only a dozen local movies that broke the box office of two billion soft sister coins.

Of course, it’s hard for Jing Yu to say what will be the result of this work after the big week. The big week is the big week, and the island country is an island country. Although the people’s preferences in film and television dramas are very consistent, it will definitely not be a perfect match. This simple ratio is converted.

Maybe the results of Rurouni Kenshin after its release are not as good as those in the island country in the previous life, and maybe it will be more.

But no matter what, Jing Yu didn't think that his 50 million investment would not be recovered.

"Also, Yunteng's peripheral and copyright sales for Initial D in the past six months have been credited to my account. There are 31 million, plus Long Ying's 13 million screenwriting fee, a total of four Fourteen million. I will devote all of it to the release promotion of Rurouni Kenshin's Memories and Love Letter." Jing Yu said.

"Cheng Lie. The operation of the funds is entrusted to you. How to use the money is the most cost-effective. I'm sure I'm not as good as you. Anyway, I don't need to keep it for me. Spending it all can attract one person to the theater."

Jing Yu looked at Cheng Lie

"It doesn't matter to me to cooperate with the TV station, but I don't want to go back to work for the TV station. I don't want to turn back! I believe you think the same way."

Seeing Cheng Lie's silence, Jing Yu added a word.

"Of course, that's the worst plan. In fact, I'm very confident that these two movies will be popular!"

Hearing this, Cheng Lie took a deep breath

Counting the 44 million publicity fees, Jing Yu and the three of them have invested a total of 150 million in these two films. The results of his works are still so heaven-defying, and he is still so prolific.

Otherwise, the top screenwriters of the six major TV stations, let alone two years, they will never earn this money in their lifetime, and Shan Jingyu's 10% copyright dividend is impossible. The six major TV stations can give those screenwriters 2%. Yes, whether you like to do it or not, this is the attitude of the Sixth Congress.

But Jingyu invested so much, which means that if he wants to make back his money from the box office alone, the total box office of the two films Rurouni Kenshin and Love Letter will be at least over 450 million! A team of newcomers in the film industry set this kind of goal. Generally speaking, it is a bit whimsical, but is Jing Yu an ordinary person?

"Ah, I agree if you don't turn your head back." Cheng Lie said with a smile.

"These two films will definitely become popular."

The two didn't talk too much nonsense, and went back to their posts to do their work.

And in late June, the promotion for the release of Rurouni Kenshin's Reminiscences was officially launched.

7,200 words in three chapters today doesn't seem too much. Last night, it was more than 8,000 words. One chapter is due, and the remaining two chapters are due to be even more stressful.