After the advent of the traffic era, the entertainment industry has seen an endless stream of sky-high film remuneration.
For example, it was rumored that Lu Han, Gulinaza and others in "Choosing Heaven" were paid 120 million yuan, and Angelababy's "Lonely Fang Does Not Appreciate Himself" cut out the picture and also took away 80 million pieces of remuneration.
They let ordinary audiences see the differences in the world, the class gap, but also led to rectification, the chaos of sky-high film remuneration has been alleviated.
But the sky-high film remuneration was slightly controlled, and the yin-yang contract came out again.
Xiao Cui's several drawers tore open this stubborn disease, but what is more pitting than these two is the use of movies as financial products.
Movies are art, finance is products, products whether good or bad, make money on the line, but when the film becomes a financial product, artistry is lost, the quality is bound to be uneven, but mostly bad.
In this way, although there is no sky-high film remuneration, but financial means, this is a more brutal existence than the sky-high film remuneration.
The sky-high price of the film is more, and the people listen to it, but they are angry and angry.
Turning movies into financial products damages the real money and silver of the people, but it is the company behind those movies that is fed.
In "Round Table Pie", Jiang Wen drank a little wine, a little hi, and talked about the relationship between making movies and inviting people to dinner.
Dou Wentao asked incomprehensibly, "And the film is not made to invite the audience to dinner?" Jiang Wen blinked wildly and said: "Yes, in order to go public, in order to exchange stocks." ”
This answer poked at Dou Wentao's blind spot again, "Make a movie, no box office can be listed, can it rise?" Jiang Wen began to answer questions again. You have to ask the professional about this, they all have a way, it's not a matter. ”
How did they use movies to turn one dollar into two dollars? Jiang Wen elaborated in "Let the Bullets Fly".
As soon as he came to Goose City, Master Shi couldn't wait to check the accounts and learned that the people of Goose City were poor and had been received ninety years later, and he was displeased.
Zhang Mazi told him that he never wanted to earn money from mud legs, but who had money to earn whose money, and the master put his arm around Zhang Mazi and conveyed to him the way to make money.
"When the county magistrate took office, he had to set up a clever name to win over the gentry and pay taxes and donations. Only when they paid it could the people pay the money; after they got the money, the gentry's money was returned in full, and the people's money was divided into three or seven. ”
This line, which has to be recited in its entirety, is also used in reality.
For example, the cost of a certain movie is 1 yuan, and the introduction of four companies is 4 yuan.
The film was then spun off and sold to ten companies for 4 bucks, by which time the original company had already recovered the money and made three times as much.
Immediately after the fourteen companies said that the film cost ten yuan.
Let some professional platforms make box office predictions for movies, and engage in dozens of dollars, after all, where the cost of ten dollars is, and dozens of dollars at the box office are not nothing.
Then these companies sell the share of the film to retail investors, promising them that there are big stars, it is a big production, it is a steady profit, the profit rate is a few hundred percent, and it belongs to lying down to make money.
After that, find a group of water troops, detonate word of mouth, attract audiences to enter, let the box office be higher for a round, and then due to the quality of the film, the box office has plummeted and has been forced to be released.
Of course, there is another possibility.
That is, the word of mouth is stable, the box office is falling, and it continues to rise, close to the cost of external statements.
At this time, some more moths are put out to make the box office basically stop here, or help a few more waves, so that the box office is infinitely close, even exceeding the original box office prediction line.
All three of these possibilities are meant to make money, and the first two can be explained by a formula.
Dividends are profits, profits are equal to box office minus costs, cost ten dollars, box office three dollars, profit is negative seven dollars.
Losses, losses, the money of retail investors will naturally be invested in vain, dividends will not be thought of, the second kind of may be the same logic, this is called the gentry's money does not move, the people's money is all taken away.
As for the third possibility, it will give dividends to retail investors.
After all, the box office is higher than the cost, and it is visible to the naked eye that it is earned, and it is impossible to be blind.
However, this dividend cycle is generally more than half a year, retail investors' money will be put in their hands for more than half a year, has already been money generated by money, then dividends to retail investors, there may also be various pulls.
Combined with some films, there are big directors or producers, but the film has failed at the box office, but they will continue to shoot next time.
There are also some movies that invite a lot of big stars, and ordinary audiences will know when they look at these actors that their salaries add up to tens of millions.
However, after the release of the film, the box office is not even enough to pay their film remuneration, not to mention that the box office is divided into theaters, theaters, producers, distributors and so on.
How can that meager profit make money in a circle, which is an obvious loss of money, but why is that capital still flocking to it?
Because the film was not released, they had already taken back the book and got several times the profit, and the lower the box office, the more they made.
In addition, movies can also increase stock prices, continue to turn the tide in the stock market, or promote the listing of a company, or carry out tax evasion and money laundering.
Some time ago, didn't the arrested rice wash rice wash for many years with movie money laundering? And the means are extremely skilled, and the industrial chain behind it is also very complete, one link after another, and finally let the people get locked.
In fact, there have been many movies that have exploded over the years.
For example, "Asura" starring Liang Jiahui, Wu Lei and Liu Jialing, which claims to cost 100 million US dollars, is a Chinese fantasy giant.
It was released on July 13, 2018, and was hastily released on July 15, with a total box office of more than 40 million in three days, which is far from the cost of 100 million US dollars.
There is also the ghost field of "Ip Man 3", box office water injection fraud, serious box office fluctuations, so that the relevant parties of "Ip Man 3" are interviewed, and the crazy game is stopped.
In such an environment, the chaos of sky-high film remuneration has been reduced, but movies are no longer movies.
Does the audience's bad reviews still make sense at this time? Maybe we are desperately trying to give bad reviews, right in their hearts, and they are stealing pleasure in one place.
But things should not be like this, should return to his original appearance, can not wait for bad money to expel good money, we began to heartache and anxiety.
Fortunately, we are all cultured audiences, voting with our own feet to change the direction of the tide, first making the marketing of bad films useless, and then letting the traffic be returned by the film market.
But this is not enough, we should also open our eyes and see the essence through the phenomenon.
Only when we should not be leeks, can the land where the vegetables are grown can be restored to the original appearance of sufficient nutrients.
Chinese movies will get better, you may have very little strength, I may not have enough brains, but as Sauce Burst said, "You blackmail me, I am not afraid, even if you kill one me, there are thousands of me." ”