Why do some low-budget movies become hot items for film and television investment?

The center of film and television lies in acting, script and editing!

Wolf Warriors 2 is a good example. Only 200 million investment, 5.6 billion return,

As long as you play well, someone will watch, and no one will care how much you invest!

The reason is simple, and the returns are high. If you invest in the right project, you can get ten times, one hundred times or even thousands of times of returns after the film is released, and the rate of return exceeds any financial investment.

Next, let's talk about a few examples of small-budget movies that have earned a lot of money after they became explosions:

10 times income:

Crazy Stone

Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" cost 2.5 million, the box office exceeded 25 million, and the income was 10 times. As the first part of Ning Hao's Crazy Trilogy, Crazy Stone fought its way out in an era when everyone only knew about imported films and blockbusters from Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Xiaogang Feng. It also made individual actors such as Bo Huang, Guo Tao, Xu Zhimo and Wang Xun stand firm on the big screen, and the domestic film market began to smile at sincere works that could tell good stories and pay attention to performance.

It can be said that without crazy stones as pioneers, low-cost explosive movies such as Heart Labyrinth, Donkey Water and Goodbye Mr. Loser are hard to win the favor of investors and the market, and we may be blinded by Tiny Times and Grampy.

100 times income:

see

I just saw James Wan get married. Let's start with him and the saw. The cost is 6.5438+0.2 million USD. They collaborated with their college friend leigh whannell and directed and performed. Warnax is a screenwriter and starring. The final box office was $65.438+0.27 billion, and the income was 654.38+0.000 times.

James Wan became famous in World War I, and a series of thrillers, such as Dead Silence and Evocation, won a lot of praise, which also won him the opportunity to direct Speed and furious 7. Not surprisingly, after winning the best box office series and breaking a series of film history records, he took on the role of Aquaman, saving the reputation and box office of DC movies, and now he has become a first-line director.

And Saw's hero, James Wan's good friend Wernickes, also had a low-cost masterpiece last year, the sci-fi movie Upgrade, which won a global box office of/kloc-0.40 million dollars at a cost of 5 million dollars.

1000 times income:

Don't stop filming

In 20 18, the Japanese film "Don't Stop the Camera" cost 3 million yen, equivalent to 200,000 yuan. In the end, he won 3 billion yen at the box office in Japan, won a bunch of awards in Japan, and brushed his face at major art film festivals abroad. This film is also the debut of director Shinichiro Ueda.

Personally, I watched the premiere at the Japanese film week held in China and was lost for half an hour. What the hell is this? This is also called a movie?

But after 30 minutes, the film began to be all kinds of high-energy and wonderful, and the first 36 minutes of showing it from another angle also became dazzling. Finally, I watched this magical movie with tears in my smile, and fully felt the filmmaker's "artisan spirit of making movies all his life" that the director wanted to express, and the warmth of the family supporting each other in the same career, which was really highly recommended.

However, it should be said that the film made a sequel "Don't stop the camera! Hollywood fight! ",this is very, very general. It's a remake of the first film. You know it's useless for saints to do the same trick twice, and it's the same for fans!

4000 times the income:

Blair witch project.

What is the final box office of a movie costing 60 thousand dollars? The answer is $248.6 million! 4,000 times.

Blair Witch Project is actually a simulated documentary, but it has a magical marketing story. People keep circulating that this is a real documentary, and the urban legend that several photographers have disappeared can be said to be viral marketing. In the end, it won the box office of $654.38+40.5 million in the United States, and the global box office reached 248.6 million. This can't be said to be small and wide, just ants tripping over elephants!

However, the artistic level of the film itself is quite general, but the hand-held shooting lens of 16mm is a bit interesting, which is not recommended by individuals.

Moreover, this "fraudulent marketing method" may work wonders even occasionally, but it is your own credit and word of mouth that is overdrawn. Malik and Sanchez, two directors of Blair Witch Project, became famous by this film, but since then, all their films have been repeated without any bright spots.

By the way, many people think that the highest-grossing movie "People from the Earth" claims to cost $654.38+00,000. In fact, the cost given by major movie information websites is almost $200,000, so the cost of $654.38+00,000 is untenable, and the movie with the highest profit multiple is unlikely to be "The Earth Man" of 350 million.

13,000 times the income: smart: ghosts record.

So which movie has the highest yield?

The explosive movie Clever: A Ghost in 20 17 cost $654.38 +0.5 million, and the final box office was $654.38+0.93 billion, which was not as good as the Blair Witch Project, but the income was nearly 654.38+0.3000 times, so it should be the movie with the highest yield among the materials I have found so far.

This Blair witch project, which can be said to be in the Internet age, still depicts the horror atmosphere through the method of mockumentary, and relies on the continuous fermentation of online word-of-mouth to obtain the communication effect, and finally becomes an explosion.

The plot is that Mick and Katie, two lovers, move into a new home, and the boy takes pictures of life with a camera. However, there seems to be something unusual in the room, and the camera placed in the corner of the bedroom room is shooting those anomalies every midnight.

For China movie audiences who are used to watching oriental horror, this movie may not be scary at all, but European and American audiences are quite addicted, and the proportion of overseas box office is also quite high.

The quality of Clever: A Ghost's Record is much better than the Blair Witch Project. This is an innovative film, which is worth seeing.

The box office and cost data of this paper come from Cat's Eye Professional Edition, IMDBPro and boxofficemojo websites.

Hello, I'm Dutan, a professional filmmaker. I hope my analysis can satisfy everyone, and those who consult copyright knowledge can pay attention to me.

With the development of the film and television industry, more and more people have entered the film and television industry, and the development of the film and television industry is also booming. Starting with Wolf Warriors 2, we have seen the future of film and television development. In recent years, more and more movies have achieved high box office returns, and in the last two years, we have found that more and more low-cost movies have achieved high box office returns.

Why can small budget movies become a hot item of film and television investment?

The main reason is that low-cost movies can return to their original books quickly, and there is a large room for appreciation and profit. If the cost of a movie is 50 million yuan, then they only need about 65.438+0.5 billion yuan.

High-cost movies need higher box office to return to the original, and the scheduled movies are all full. It is impossible for the audience to watch only one movie, and movies with the same schedule will also get some box office unless the film quality is particularly good and can get a good box office. In contrast, low-cost movies are really favored by the public.

Some friends think that high box office means making money, while low box office means not making money. In fact, it is wrong to have such an idea.

For example, 165438+1October16 released "Nobody", with a box office of 794 million, a box office of 279 million and a production cost of 30 million, but the rate of return was as high as 9.3 times!

This box office is not high, but the income is quite high!

Although the cost of high-quality movies is our first consideration, we should not pursue low cost and ignore other factors:

The first point: having a good script and a good theme is the cornerstone of a film's success.

In the past two years, movies, comedies and military themes, which have won high box office and been loved by the public, account for half of the country.

The second point: first-line actors, here we focus on "actors" rather than "stars"

. Excellent cast and crew make the script characters and plots better displayed, and only excellent actors can ensure the perfect presentation of movie characters, thus gaining the recognition of the audience.

The third point: IP series. Now many movies are building IP. The greater the value of IP, the higher the box office of sequels, just like Wolf Warriors series and Chinatown series. The second movie has a better box office than the first one.

. The best is the Marvel comic series.

The fourth point: the film release schedule is also very important. The more popular schedules are: Spring Festival, Summer Vacation, National Day and New Year's Eve. If there are many foreign blockbusters or good movies at a certain time, then your box office will definitely be affected.

So avoid some popular movies.

As long as the word investment is involved, it is bound to be accompanied by risks. Investment focuses on income, and investors' mentality must be adjusted.

I hope the above answers are helpful to you. Finally, I wish you a happy life and a smooth investment! If you are satisfied with Bian Xiao's answer, then remember to pay attention to me, thank you very much!

In fact, returning to the essence of the film, I think the most important thing is the script, the actor's performance and what lens to use.

In the final analysis, it is still the content.

Like Crazy Stone, it should be regarded as the first project with small cost and big return. There were actors such as Xu zhēng, Bo Huang and Wang Xun, who were not big coffee at that time, but they did have excellent acting skills and good scripts, so they earned more than 23 million returns with more than 3 million investments. In 2006, the film market in China was not yet mature, and it was a surprise for everyone to achieve such a result.

What about the back

People on the road

flourish

Goodbye, Mr. Loser.

Wait, they are all very good movies.

Small-budget movies refer to movies that don't need to invite big stars and have extra expenses in actors, scenes, costumes and effects. The required funds are limited to maintaining normal production and circulation. As far as creative intent is concerned, some films are more diverse than "blockbusters" in order to meet the viewing needs of specific people, some are to express their own life experiences, and some are to try to explore new ways of film expression.