nashuaworldcup Chapter 398 International Film Chapter
Chapter 398 International Film Chapter
"There's no problem with blockbuster movies. It already broke 3 billion last year. It wouldn't be surprising if it broke 4 billion or 6 billion in the future. But I still have some doubts about the limited growth in total box office when you said that." Wang Yibing stood up and said.
"Last year, the total box office in the US market exceeded $100 billion, and their population is only over million. However, we have nearly billion people, so our film market can easily break through $ billion, or even $ billion."
Wang Yibing’s words are also the mainstream opinion in the industry.
After all, in 2006, the total box office of the domestic market was only 26 billion, and ten years later, this number increased nearly eighteen times. If it continues for another ten years, or even another five years, the total box office of the domestic market will reach an unpredictable level.
"Mr. Wang, do you think I'm young and don't understand the market?" Chen Jinnian asked with a smile.
"No, that's not what I meant." Wang Yibing smiled gently, "I just think you haven't experienced that era and don't quite understand the potential of the domestic film market."
"But I think Mr. Wang doesn't quite understand the real world. In the past ten years, the average person's salary has only doubled or tripled, while housing prices have increased tenfold, and that's a thirty-year overdraft. Entertainment spending like movies can't continue to grow, and the ceiling for the next ten years is around 700 billion."
After Chen Jinnian finished speaking, he shrugged and continued, "As for whether we can break 87 billion, neither you, nor I, nor even the entire film industry, can say anything. We're not that impressive. We're just keeping up with the pace of national development. In 4700, 'Mom, Love Me Again' attracted nearly million viewers in three months, generating million in distribution revenue. Thirty years later, it seems no other film has come close to that number."
After he finished speaking, Huang Bo and Ning Hao looked at each other. Coincidentally, they had actually seen the movie that Chen Jinnian had just mentioned. At that time, one of them was thirteen years old and the other was ten years old, so they just happened to catch the movie-watching craze of that year.
"That's because there was a lack of entertainment options back then, and there was no other choice except movies." Wang Yibing did not agree with Chen Jinnian's remarks.
"Yeah, there was no choice back then, but now there is a choice, so why should we watch the movie?"
"I..."
Wang Yibing suddenly realized that he had been confused by Chen Jinnian, and no matter how he answered, there seemed to be something wrong.
"Hey, why are you guys chatting about this? No matter how big the market is, it won't affect our meal." Huang Bo tried to smooth things over. After all, everyone was invited to the table. "How about we eat and talk at the same time? We don't know when those people will arrive yet."
At Huang Bo's invitation, several people sat down one after another. However, what Chen Jinnian said just now made Ning Hao and Wang Yibing feel blocked in their chests. Even if they didn't want to admit it, they had to agree that it did make sense.
Anyone with a bit of knowledge knows that the current rapid development of infrastructure projects and the land grabbing by Internet companies are abnormal, but no one dares to think about the consequences of stopping.
Not to mention the nearly 10,000 cinemas, just in the online drama market, if the two video giants backed by Penguin and Baidu stop the annual subsidy sharing of tens of billions of yuan, then half of the sky will collapse in the film and television industry.
Apart from saying those words before the party started, Chen Jinnian did not interrupt during the whole process and did not even drink any wine. He just watched the directors who arrived one after another toasting each other.
The directors who came today are all from the same school as Bad Monkey Ning Hao. If you pick them out individually, they all have their own famous works and have won awards at film festivals.
The Best New Director and Best Debut Awards might become the centerpiece of a dinner table in other places, but here, they are just enough to sit at the table for dinner.
Just count them randomly.
Bucheon International Film Festival, South Korea
China Film Directors Association
China Changchun Film Festival
Beijing University Student Film Festival
Guangzhou University Student Film Festival
The Chinese government has a long history of cooperation
Beijing International Film Festival
Macau International Film Festival
San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain
Russian State University of Cinema International Student Film Festival
……
If these people hadn't gotten drunk and boasted, Chen Jinnian wouldn't have had so many film festivals. At the same time, he lamented the rich resources of the Northwest circle. Apart from anything else, there was no shortage of awards. As long as you wanted, it was easy to get a movie into more than ten or twenty film festivals.
Compared with these people, Chen Jinnian seemed so out of place. At the same time, he now understood why the newcomers were so keen on art films.
This thing can win awards. Just send it abroad after filming, nominate it for a bunch of random film festivals, then export it and sell it domestically, and you can directly be infused with the ninth level of the Nine Yang Divine Art, and the magic skill will be fully mastered.
Money, houses and beauties are all here. As for whether ordinary people can understand the movie, that is irrelevant. There are great scholars who will debate for me.
If I don’t understand it, that will make me look very capable.
Chen Jinnian shook his head. It turned out that directors like him who made movies for box office success were the ones who fell into the lower class. They had been going in the wrong direction from the very beginning and had not kept up with the main force in the literary and art circles.
Before long, Guo Xun was already drunk. The directors sitting here each drank at least a pound of liquor, and each of them could drink a lot. Even though Guo Xun had a good alcohol tolerance, he was still no match for them.
He patted Chen Jinnian on the shoulder and said, "Well, your brothers are all really awesome, right? Why don't you submit all your films? Those of us who have been nominated and won awards can have some say with the organizers. It's hard to say whether you will win an award in the end, but as long as the quality of your film is good, then nominations are a good option."
Guo Xun's intention was not to talk about behind-the-scenes manipulation, but mainly because he felt that with Chen Jinnian's ability, as long as there was no manipulation behind the scenes by others, the nomination would be very easy.
Any film festival with a little influence is not a simple government office, and it is inevitable that there will be some twists and turns. Since their predecessors have already walked the path, they can give him a hand.
Chen Jinnian understood Guo Xun's good intentions. If it was just Guo Xun helping him, it wouldn't matter, as the other party already owed him a lot of favors. But if it involved other people present, Chen Jinnian had some concerns.
He is not so foolish as to think that everyone in the profit-driven entertainment industry is a good person.
"I'm young and don't plan to achieve success so early, so I can't use those awards for the time being." Chen Jinnian politely declined.
After hearing his words, everyone present had the same expression, but they had different thoughts in their hearts.
Some people think that he is too pretentious. It is inevitable that one would enter the entertainment industry for fame and fortune.
Some people find him interesting and want to see when he will be greeted with his boomerang.
Huang Bo, on the other hand, believes that Chen Jinnian might be more accomplished in acting than directing. The saying "Become famous as early as possible" has ruined countless people. Most of those who become famous at a young age do not have a good ending.
This is even more true for actors. Once they become famous, they will quickly become disconnected from real society. If they are still young actors with no life experience, their path will be extremely narrow. Even at the age of 40, they can only play little girls and boys.
When Huang Bo was about to speak up to help Chen Jinnian, there was a knock on the door and someone he didn't expect came in.