Disaster Artist

The latest website: The final cumulative box office of "Unfriend 2" unfortunately stopped at 800 million.

Compared with the 2.8 billion "unfriend", it has shrunk by nearly three times, which is almost a huge gap from heaven to hell. It's not as simple as telling a story.

For any sequel film, such a collapse of the results is probably a devastating blow, but Qiyang Media is not the case, they not only have no sadness, but also happily announce the official release of the "Unfriend 3" project project.

the reason is simple.

The investment and promotion of "Unfriending 2" is really saving money. The biggest expenditure of the whole project is the filming rights of the film sequel and Lu Qian's remuneration as a screenwriter. Requires a computer and a room to do it.

Although Qiyang Media has not released specific data, according to the calculations of professionals in the industry, "Unfriending 2" has brought more than 300 million income to Qiyang Media, and the overall rate of return has been equal to that of "Speed ​​Mania 6", after all, the latter The investment cost is high, the publicity cost is high, and the risk is also higher.

Therefore, with the consistent nature of Qiyang Media, the official establishment of the project "Unfriend 3" is completely the expected result, and there may even be a fourth, fifth, and sixth part in the future. As long as it can make money, seven Foreign media will not give up easily.

In addition, there are rumors in the industry that Qiyang Media actually contacted Yu Shao and invited Lu Qian to continue writing the script for "Unfriend 3".

In the eyes of people in the industry, this is really a ridiculous invitation. After all, Lu Qian is now the best director of the Weihai Film Festival, and his worth is different. He is already busy with the projects he is busy with. Why? Maybe there's still time to write a script for a low-budget horror movie like "Unfriend 3"?

Qiyang Media is afraid that it is not dreaming.

However, Lu Qian's response was very interesting.

Yu Shao said that Lu Qian is completely willing to write the script of "Unfriending 3", but he is currently busy with projects, so the schedule may need to be scheduled until the end of the year; in addition, Lu Qian also made an offer for the remuneration of the original script, five Millions, as long as Qiyang Media is willing.

Objectively speaking, at the beginning, Qiyang Media won the filming rights for the sequel of "Unfriending" and Lu Qian's original script for 15 million, but the main cost is the filming rights, of which the cost of the script should be 1 million. about.

At present, the remuneration of Lanchuan movie screenwriters generally hovers between one million and one and a half million. However, top screenwriters are naturally different. Cases can be found in the range of three to seven million, and both original and adaptation are available. have.

Now, Lu Qian has set a price and frankly informed his schedule, which shows that he is very sincere; moreover, the remuneration price is a bit high, but it is not outrageous, and the final decision is all left to Qiyang Media's own judgment.

Wonderful, really wonderful.

It is difficult for even people in the industry to tell whether Lu Qian's attitude is flirting with Qiyang Media or discussing cooperation intentions in a serious manner. Everyone has a different perspective of interpretation; but it is certain that Qiyang Media can't tell the difference. , in the end it is up to you to decide.

The result, not surprisingly—

Qiyang Media gave up. They gave up the plan to invite Lu Qian to continue to be the screenwriter of the series. In the third part, they completely got rid of Lu Qian's influence and started anew.

Netizens ridiculed one after another, "The third part of the series has too low test data for Lu Qian content, is Qiyang Media sure it doesn't matter?"

There is one thing to say, the relationship between "Unfriending 2" and Lu Qian is not big anymore, but because of the relationship between the script and the previous work, people still habitually compare the first and second parts of the series, and finally At the conclusion, they all lamented Lu Qian's talent and talent as a director. Valley

The word "Lu Qian content" can be coined by netizens, which no one expected.

It is precisely because of this that "Quick Pursuit" has received a lot of unexpected attention—

After all, compared to "Unfriending 2", the content of this work is significantly higher, so what about the quality of the finished film?

How does it compare to "raid"? Can "land potential content" really change the quality of a movie? Is the word-of-mouth collapse of "Unfriend 2" really because the "Lu Qian content" ridiculed by netizens is too low? What will happen to the box-office results of "Fast Pursuit"? Can this work replicate the box office miracle of "The Raid"?

and!

Leaving aside "Lu Qian's content", "Fast Pursuit" is the first work in which Lu Qian is a producer alone and does not directly participate in the filming of the film. A work, the quality, performance, reputation and profitability of this work, etc., has a very important reference role for the entire industry to judge the position of Lu Qian and Blue Whale Pictures.

Including the door film industry is no exception.

It is conceivable that once the "fast pursuit" fails, the entire film industry's positioning of Lu Qian and Blue Whale Films may undergo subtle changes, although it will not directly let Blue Whale Shadow fall because of the box office failure of a work. The industry has withdrawn from the competition, but changes in the situation are inevitable.

Taking Damen Pictures as an example, the filming of the "Human Removal Project" has ended, and naturally it will not be affected, but it is very likely that the distribution and promotion plan will be adjusted due to the failure of "Quick Pursuit", and there may also be some cooperation positions between the two parties. Strong and weak adjustment.

Perhaps, the streamer film industry may take advantage of it.

What's more, this year's summer vacation is indeed a once-in-five-year event.

In the past, "Speed ​​Mania" and "Knight League 2" appeared one after another, casting a heavyweight in the dull summer movie market for a long time; later, "Furious Road", which cost 900 million to build by Streamer Films, was placed on high hopes, but In the case of rave reviews and peak praise, it was ignored by the market and the box office was bleak.

Then there is the star-studded "Future Paradise" box-office word of mouth both encountered Waterloo, Magic Pictures directly lost 800 million, and the box-office profits of "Knights League 2" have to be sent out before they are hot in their pockets. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Then "Jurassic Edge" broke the "Knight League 2" with a devastating attitude and just created a series of achievements and became a strong contender for the annual championship; then the film market ushered in two heavyweight superhero movies and an animation. The small explosion of the movie, the applause and the audience's performance is very refreshing.

In the end, "Mission Impossible" did not have any surprises or disappointments, and met expectations in a normal manner; then witnessed the "Fantastic Four" collapsed to the point of shocking ghosts and gods, causing Lion Pictures to face losses of up to 500 million, and superhero movies suffered The first sap since the summer season this year.

One wave, another wave.

One wave, another wave.

By the time "Fast Pursuit" debuted, the summer movie market had already been bombarded for three months before and after, and the market potential had obviously been overdrawn, and there was no need to calculate the August box office, so far three months. The box office data has already exceeded the sum of the box office of last summer's season.

No one knows how much energy is left in the market to explode, and the appearance of "fast pursuit" can be described as a lot of pressure.