Up to now, the cumulative box office of "Watergate Bridge" has reached 3.5 billion, if you add the 5.76 billion of the previous work, it is close to 9.3 billion, which is not only a ride in the domestic film industry, but also extremely rare in the history of world cinema.
What is valuable is that "Watergate Bridge" has only been released for more than half a month now, even if you don't get the key, the final freeze of the box office is more than 4 billion, and many industry experts predict that the sum of the box office of the previous sequel has no suspense in breaking through the 10 billion mark.
So, how much money did "Chosin Lake" make for the producer Yu Dong?
In a recent interview, Yu Dong's question to the host can be described as a sentence, he replied with a smile: "It does make a lot of money, but it is not as much as Jia Ling's "Hello, Li Huanying". ”
It is reported that the shooting cost of "Chosin Lake" is far greater than that of "Li Huanying", leaving aside the cost of post-production, the investment in pre-shooting alone has reached more than one billion, deducting various costs, indeed as he said, the profit is not the highest in domestic films.
Audiences who have watched "Hello, Li Huanying" should know that this movie is mainly about family affection, whether it is set or costumed, it is relatively simple, and "Chosin Lake" is the main theme of war, shooting needs to consume a lot of aircraft, tanks and other props, but also to build a large-scale shooting scene, the cost can be imagined.
In addition, the actor's salary is also a key link, "Chosin Lake" in the upper and lower two parts, the use of a large number of film and television stars, as well as many group performances, including a part of the foreign actors, just one piece of film remuneration, the accumulation is high scary. And "Li Huanying" is completely incomparable in the cast, the protagonists in addition to themselves, Shen Teng and Chen He, including Zhang Xiaofei, at most, is a few second- and third-line actors, the film remuneration is not much at all.
It should be known that director Zhang Yimou, who is known for his brilliant special effects, when shooting the movie "The Great Wall", the total investment was only 150 million US dollars, equivalent to up to 1 billion yuan, while the same type of war film "Eight Hundred", the total investment amount was only 550 million, including the construction of a Suzhou River on the outskirts of Suzhou.
I have to say that Yu Dong's boldness and economic strength are very strong, if the investment of 1.3 billion yuan can not recover the cost, then this transaction is really a big loss, put on other filmmakers, it is estimated that no one can afford it, even if 1.3 billion and a good script in front of them, who has the courage to throw it into a movie? Fortunately, "Chosin Lake" lived up to expectations, and finally made Yu Dong earn a lot of money.
So why is "Chosin Lake" so popular? How did war-themed films, which were not optimistic about the industry in the past, become the mainstream of the present?
In fact, this is not caused by unilateral reasons, the success of "Chosin Lake" is inseparable from the careful guidance of the director and the wholehearted devotion of the actors, and it is inseparable from the efforts of the whole group of staff day and night, coupled with the fact that the film has a certain educational significance, which makes it stand out, it can be seen that the mainstream of the film market is not fixed, there is no obvious law to speak of, who is more attentive in production, who can catch the audience's attention, who is the industry's vane.
Yu Dong saw this more thoroughly than anyone else, of course, in addition to vision, courage and ambition are also indispensable.
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