The film industry is a highly lucrative business. In the current domestic film market, countless film companies are elbowing their way in, while the major and mid-to-small theater chains frantically build cinemas all over the country, naturally hoping to take a larger bite out of this immensely enticing cake.
Over the past decade, there has been no shortage of films with budgets of merely twenty to thirty million that achieved massive success, ultimately pulling in hundreds of millions or even over a billion in astonishing box office revenue—a profit margin high enough to make traditional industries hang their heads in shame.
Yet a careful analysis of these low-budget, high-box-office films reveals their secret: they are either youth idol pictures or comedies, practically without exception.
Chapter 593