In July, the weather has already begun to enter the height of summer.
With the increase in pollution in recent years, the summer in Jingbei has also begun to become extraordinarily hot.
Especially under the effect of the comfortable air conditioner indoors, the outdoor is also extraordinarily hot.
As soon as Mu Ming got out of the car, she felt a burst of fire from the soles of her feet and the top of her head to her whole body at the same time.
After running a few steps, he rushed into the office building and exhaled a sigh of relief.
It had only been a few steps before he could already feel the sweat on his skin.
"I haven't been out for a few days, why is it so hot outside."
In the office, Mu Ming took the tissue handed over by Du Yang, wiped the sweat on her face, and complained dissatisfied.
"It's not hot yet."
Du Yang looked like "you are rare and weird".
"By the way, you brought the script with you?"
"Brought it."
Mu Ming took out the USB flash drive in her pocket and handed it to Du Yang.
There were too many paper versions, and he was too lazy to take them, so he scanned them all into pictures and copied them to the USB flash drive.
"The tea is in the cabinet, you can soak it yourself, I'll read the script first."
There were only two people in the office, and Du Yang didn't bother to be polite to him.
I took the USB flash drive, connected it to the computer, and started to read the story.
Shen Wanying (Kim Soon-yi), an old man who has passed the age of confusion, moved to the United States at the age of 19 and has been settled for more than 40 years now.
On this day, she suddenly received a notice from the relevant departments in China, it turned out that their family had a villa in Hei Province, and now because the government wants to count the ownership of property, the original owner of the villa has been found, so she was notified to return to China to go through the relevant procedures.
Shen Wanying and her granddaughter returned to their hometown after a 40-year absence, and came to a villa in a country town on the edge of the forest.
Before leaving, the old man's parents had donated money to support the villagers and asked them to take care of the villa on their behalf.
So even though half a century has passed, the villa is still largely unchanged.
When the old man came back this time, he was actually going to sell the villa.
But when I stepped into the villa again, the memories that were almost sealed in dust forty years ago came flooding back......"
At this point in the story, Du Yang suddenly understood that this paragraph was a flashback.
The real content should be the story of this old man named Shen Wanying, who happened in her girlhood forty years ago.
Du Yang couldn't help but recall that Mu Ming told her that this is a fantasy story, and then think about the name of the story I saw at the beginning just now - "Wolf Boy".
Obviously, next, it should be the love story of a young girl and a teenager related to a wolf.
And presumably, it is still a separate ending.
Because it is only the first draft of the script, it is not very long, and Du Yang only read the whole story in ten minutes.
Sure enough, the story in the second half is basically the same as Du Yang's guess, the innocent girl falls in love with a boy raised by a wolf, and after spending a happy time, she reluctantly separates.
It's a classic love fairy tale.
The only novelty is that the boy who was raised by a wolf can really transform into a wolf.
Well, in fact, the setting of this humanoid creature is not new.
"Edward Scissorhands", "Don't Enter the Living", "Twilight", ......
There are too many foreign film and television works that have this element.
However, in domestic works, it seems that it is really rare.
Therefore, although Du Yang feels that the routine of this story is a bit old, as long as the quality of the shooting is in the past, coupled with the appropriate publicity and schedule, it can still be done without losing money.
Don't lose money, this is Du Yang's highest expectation for Mu Ming's movie.
It's not that she underestimated Mu Ming, in fact, from her point of view, this is already a very high expectation.
The numbers speak.
For this movie, Mu Ming's own estimated production cost is 20 million.
Coupled with the publicity costs and the sharing of production, distribution, and theaters, the box office must be at least 80 million to ensure that it does not lose money.
What is the concept of 80 million box office?
Last year (2011), a total of 186 theatrical films were released, and only 41 had a box office of more than 80 million, of which only 20 were Chinese-language films.
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After excluding co-productions, there are only four films left that are purely mainland-made.
And with a production cost of less than 20 million, there are only two left - "33 Days of Broken Love" and "Pleasant Goat".
The first movie shot by a young man who graduated from a non-major class was a small-budget youth romance film.
The box office estimate of 80 million is already the highest value in the industry.
In fact, the box office results of the original "Wolf Boy" in the previous life were similar.
According to the accepted box office calculation method in South Korea, the total number of moviegoers is 2.2 million.
Converted to the box office value we are familiar with, it is about 90 million.
According to common sense, as a reborn person, the box office of the first movie is 120 million yuan, which is just starting, and 500 million is the standard result.
Then I have to break a number of records by the way, the box office record of the rookie director is nothing, and the total box office record in the history of Chinese film is the high-grade.
It seems that a movie with a box office of 90 million is really a bit unable to keep up with the pace of the reborn.
If this question is asked to Mu Ming, Mu Ming will definitely be very aggrieved.
You reborn predecessors have made all the right movies countless times, and everyone doesn't like to watch them, so I can only turn a few fresh ones from foreign movies for everyone to see.
Fortunately, I thought about it for the long term, and when I was filming "33 Days of Broken Love", I went abroad a few times and registered a few suitable scripts that I could think of, but had not yet registered.
Although they are all borrowed from other people's works, at least Mu Ming, who copied foreigners, is still a little more comfortable.
Besides, the results of the movie "Wolf Boy" may not be very bad.
South Korea's market is notoriously small, with a population of 50 million.
And even so, "Wolf Boy" was also the box office champion of love movies that year.
In China, especially with the rapid expansion of China's film market in recent years, the box office performance has increased by five or six percent, which should be no problem.
As the first work of practice, Mu Ming is very satisfied with the box office of one or two hundred million to make some money.
After all, if you want to make money, you can invest in projects, and you don't have to shoot them yourself.
Simply pursuing profits to make a high-grossing movie is inevitably too boring.
Isn't there a saying, it's hard to buy a thousand dollars.
Although the words are a bit vulgar, the reason is still good.
Especially, in the case that this young master already has a daughter.
However, at present, Mizuki has already started preparations for a work "Shanshan is Coming"; After the post-production of "Thai Embarrassment" is completed, the publicity work will also begin; This is followed by "Chinese Partner", which has completed the script, and is about to start the project.
Even if the business operation of Mizuki Studio is maximized, at least until the end of 12 years, there is no energy to prepare another film project.