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Chapter 120 People can't be so shameless!

What Cheng Yu'an is really planning is the priority investment in the sequel of "Kung Fu Panda" and its 30% copyright of the entire series.

It is no exaggeration to say that Cheng Yu'an can rely on this for a lifetime.

Earning millions of dollars a year is not a problem.

"Kung Fu Panda" has been done for more than 4 months now, and the more I work on DreamWorks Animation, the more uncertain I feel.

Coupled with the news of DreamWorks selling itself, the independent animation department has also been affected to some extent.

At this time, what they want most is to quickly find money to complete "Daydreamer" and stabilize the company from top to bottom.

Other copyrights and sequels are not within their consideration.

It's hard to say if there will be a sequel.

If Cheng Yu'an wants it, give it to him.

In fact, the predicament of DreamWorks has been foreshadowed since its establishment.

The three founders were ambitious, and DreamWorks was positioned to develop across the board from the very beginning, including movies, TV shows, animations, records, books, and more.

But if you take a big step, you will always talk about it. In 04, due to strategic issues, the animation department had to be spun off independently, and in 05, it was sold to Viacom.

After the animation department became independent, Katzenberg, one of the three founders, took charge.

Katzenberg is more ambitious and wants to make original animation with a lot of investment.

This kind of project often has a very long preparation and production cycle, and the risk of original animation is also high.

So the predicament of DreamWorks embodies a truth: even if you are Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, you will still be on the street without the support of big money owners.

There is no way to develop into a consortium just by making movies.

By the time Cheng Yu'an returned to China and landed, it was already the 16th.

It has been 14 days since "The Promise" was screened on the 2th.

The state is on fire!
On the 14th, the box office was 800 million, breaking the record of 210 million for "Hero".

The first-day box office on the 15th was 2115 million, breaking the highest first-day box office records of "Titanic" 1800 million and "Kung Fu" 1700 million.

Brother Kaizi is so excited!

He vigorously led the creators to start the national publicity tirelessly.

Cheng Lingfeng blocked Cheng Yu'an and shouted: "Crazy! This is already 3000 million! Today it is estimated to reach 5000 million!"

"Did you go to see it?" Cheng Yu'an asked.

"Last night, the cinema was full of people!" Cheng Lingfeng said.

"How do you feel?" Cheng Yu'an asked with a smile.

"I didn't understand what he was going to say." Cheng Lingfeng thought for a while, and said truthfully, "His narrative lines are too scattered, the lines are not well merged, and the relationship between characters is also very thin. .”

"One more thing. Before the release, a newcomer reporter interviewed the director of Kaige and asked him if he would hurt his self-esteem if the box office didn't meet expectations. He just scolded the little girl." Cheng Lingfeng shook her head. It’s not what a great director like him should do.”

"So you know how much director Chen Kaige attaches importance to "The Promise". From now on, you will not talk about "The Promise" outside." Cheng Yu'an didn't want to recruit him.

More than ten years later, Li Chengru said that he had never watched "The Promise" due to the influence of the comments at the time, but after watching "Farewell My Concubine" seven or eight times, he was always reprimanded by Chen Kaige, saying that he is an old-school person who only knows how to listen to opera and sing. Fighting crickets cannot keep pace with the times.

"The Promise" continued to conquer cities and territories during the Lunar New Year. On the 17th, it broke the record of "Kung Fu" with a single-day box office of over 2500 million.

On the 18th, it broke the first weekend box office record with a score of over 7000 million.

Breaking through 3 million is a foregone conclusion, and the theaters have released bold words. The box office of "The Promise" is expected to exceed [-] million.

Then something happened.

Lu Wei's evaluation of "The Promise" was published verbatim by Huashang Daily:

"The theme of "The Promise" is very illusory and nihilistic, and the plot is scattered. It is a very failed movie."

Lu Wei is the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine" and one of the few great screenwriters in China who can write epics.

His evaluation instantly ignited public opinion.

However, Director Chen was busy with publicity all over the world, so he didn't have time to respond to Lu Wei.

But Cheng Yu'an knew that because of this sentence, Chen Kaige hadn't had any contact with Lu Wei for more than ten years.

But Lu Wei's remarks did not affect the popularity of "The Promise".

The entire Lunar New Year stalls gave way to "The Promise", and Jinan New Century, the best theater in Shandong, gave all 11 halls to "The Promise", but even so, the movie tickets continued to be sold out.

That's why Cheng Yu'an didn't want to put "Clues of Time and Space" in December.

He knew the quality of "The Promise", but he also knew that there was no need to touch "Clues of Time and Space" with how fierce the offensive of "The Promise" was this year.

But as the end of December came, negative comments about "The Promise" also began to appear.

Han Shao posted on his blog: "Director Chen obviously didn't understand the difference between computer stunts and netizen FLASH. One of the scenes where Zhang Dongjian walked from the flowers felt like a calendar was pulled from the back. I don't understand why recent directors love it so much. Use computer special effects. Could it be that what you want to express can no longer be expressed with real lenses?"

Xu Cairen, the queen of blogs, published a blog that looks positive but is actually yin and yang: "It's better than expected, except that the actress is too ugly, the martial arts is a little dizzy, and some scenes are a bit too like cartoons. Sometimes the heart-to-heart dialogue of a few people is a bit like that."

On the 20th, the Berlin Film Festival announced the nomination announcement, and "The Promise" was shortlisted.

"The Promise" did not take the initiative to sign up for Berlin, and this shortlist is Berlin's initiative to show its favor.

Director Chen and Berlin seldom meet each other, and this shortlisting added fuel to the fire of "The Promise".

On the 22nd, "The Promise" broke the record for the fastest time to break 8 million with a box office of 1.03 million in [-] days of release.

Coupled with the news of the nomination for the Golden Globe, "The Promise" has been in the limelight for a while.

28 number.

"It's time to come." Cheng Yu'an sat in front of the computer, looked at the video on the screen, and smiled.

Yes, "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun" was released.

"Hahaha, Yu'an, look at this, it's so fun." Cheng Lingfeng found him with a notebook.

She also watched "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun".

According to Cheng Yu'an's future generations, this 20-minute video is actually very rough. If Cheng Yu'an does it, he can make it more spoof and funny.

But now it's the end of 05, and this spoof video exploded.

Cheng Yu'an couldn't help but laugh: "This author named Hu Ge will suffer. Director Chen will not let him go."

"It can't be." Cheng Lingfeng knew that Dao Chen had a small belly, but he wouldn't have a conflict with an unknown netizen.

After all, he had just been nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Berlin Film Festival, so he was really excited, who would do anything with such a small role.

In fact, after watching "A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun" carefully, Hu Ge's spoofs also exposed the shortcomings of "The Promise".

The relationship between the characters is messy and the logic is not self-consistent, at least it cannot convince the audience to believe in this story.

Sure enough, across the New Year, "Steamed Bun" spread virally all over the Internet, and the number of downloads exceeded that of "The Promise" movie itself.

Chen Kaige finally couldn't sit still, facing the carnival of netizens, he scolded the author Hu Ge: "People can't be so shameless!"

　After disconnecting from the Internet and turning on the hotspot of the mobile phone, it came out.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)