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Chapter 143 Interview and Response

There is no concept of running water these days.

But many viewers who have watched "Crazy Stone" did spontaneously promote "Crazy Stone", recommending relatives and friends around them to watch this movie.

The base camp of "Crazy Stone" is in Shancheng. It is said that the owner of Shancheng specially reserved the venue for company employees to watch.

Also on the local news.

Still in the Sichuan-Chongqing area, "Crazy Stone" is the most popular here.

The Pacific Film City under Chuanying directly lined up 27 "Crazy Stone" shows on the first day, and other star-rated theaters had no less than 15 shows per day.

The screening of "Crazy Stone" at the Emei Cinemas in the same city was also full.

Now the official statistics of the movie box office are exclusively disclosed by the "China Film News", which is released every Tuesday and Thursday.

Therefore, Cheng Yu'an didn't know the box office results of "Crazy Stone" in the first three days of the first weekend until Tuesday, July [-]th:
741 million!
I'm angry!

"Crazy Stone" is completely on fire!
The three-day box office of over 700 million in the first weekend means that "Crazy Stone" can break through 3000 million!
You know, the cost of this film is only 300 million, and the cost has been paid back in three days.

In the past two years, apart from Cheng Yu'an, no young director has achieved such a return on investment.

And what's even more exasperating is that Ning Hao is also under Yuanyuan's banner!
It is said that before the filming of "Incense" in 03, Ning Hao was in the remote.

"Crazy Stone" continued to be popular, and all the directors expressed their praise. After watching the film, Chen Kexin said: "I think this film will be written into the history of Chinese film. I didn't expect that the black humor film, which has always been a weakness of Chinese film, can pass The film speaks so well. I had a great time laughing from the beginning to the end."

Huang Jianxin also said: "This is the best young director's work I have seen in recent years." Of course, Cheng Yu'an was not mentioned, why mention him.

Ever since Cheng Yu'an won the best director in Venice, especially after "Clues of Time and Space" scored 1.7 million at the box office and almost overturned "The Promise", he has been excluded from the ranks of young directors by default by the audience and the industry.

Although he is only 24 years old this year.

The popularity of "Crazy Stone" exceeded the expectations of Ning Hao and the other leading actors, and everyone worked harder on the promotion.

In terms of distance, we will continue to increase advertising costs, 300 million production costs, and 200 million publicity costs in the first round.

Ning Hao took people to Beijing for two days, then flew directly to Sichuan Province, and stayed in Sichuan and Chongqing for a full week.

As of the 14th, "Crazy Stone" was released for 15 days and won a box office of 3760 million!
The sword points to 4000 million!
At this point, Ning Hao no longer doubted the box office of "about 5000 million" that Cheng Yu'an said before.

After two weeks of publicity, Ning Hao and his party returned to the capital for a temporary rest.

Also after these two weeks, some bad voices about "Crazy Stone" gradually spread.

"Plagiarism! You really have never seen a movie! Plagiarized from Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels" and "Stealing and Kidnapping!"

When others say hello, someone will always find a strange angle to hack you to show their uniqueness and clear cognition.

As the producer of "Crazy Stone", Cheng Yu'an officially responded to this question in an interview with Xinlang: "Multi-line narrative is not Guy Ritchie's patent, it does not mean that future generations cannot use this technique, imitation is not The crux of the problem, if I know that 300 million can be imitated like this, I will invest countless 300 million."

"And I have always said that the voting rights should be given to the audience. If "Crazy Stone" is a so-called plagiarized work, are our audiences all fools? Buying tickets for a plagiarized movie?"

Reporter Xinlang asked again: "Do you think "Crazy Stone" will bring any changes to this market?"

"There will be no changes to the market." Cheng Yu'an is not optimistic.

"Experts at the seminar said that "Crazy Stone" pointed out a way for filmmakers to make films with a low cost."

"Hmm..." Cheng Yu'an pondered for a while, and then continued, "Actually, this statement makes sense. Hollywood is conquering territories all over the world. Apart from local blockbusters, another effective option to fight against Hollywood is local comedy. If "Crazy Stone" can bring any changes to the market, I hope that more people will pay as much attention to comedy as Ning Hao and Xiaojun, and pay attention to digging out our local jokes."

"Actually, there is another point," Cheng Yu'an added, "There are no big stars in "Crazy Stone", and the salaries of our actors are very low. Guo Tao is the highest in the whole group, 10, and Xu Shanzheng is free. This shows that as long as the script is good , a good show, coupled with active and effective publicity methods, can win the market without the blessing of big stars.

"I hope that Crazy Stone will bring these positive things to the market."

The reporter asked again: "But Professor Huang Shixian criticized "Stone", saying that it is a farce rather than a comedy, and he believes that young directors like Ning Hao should first make art films and then commercial films."

If Huang Shixian wasn't a professor at the Film Academy, Cheng Yu'an would definitely have sprayed it back, so he said: "Ning Hao made two art films before "Crazy Stone", "Incense" and "Green Grass", which are not well-known in China, but These two films have won some awards internationally, and after exploring these two art films, Ning Hao decided to make a commercial film. So I think it is inappropriate for Professor Huang to criticize Ning Hao in this way."

Of course not, Cheng Yuan's first film was a commercial film.

Reporter Xinlang continued to discuss with Cheng Yu'an: "There is a saying on the Internet that the popularity of Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" means that our seventh generation of directors has officially risen. What does Director Cheng think of this?"

Cheng Yu'an asked again: "Am I the seventh generation?"

"Of course, you are now the seventh-generation director No.1."

Cheng Yu'an didn't know that the outside world thought highly of him.

"Actually, I don't think the popularity of "Stone" is enough to represent the entire group of seventh-generation directors.

"Take the seventh generation you mentioned, besides Lu Chuan, Ning Hao and me, how many more can you name?"

The reporter was really stunned by this question.

"Can't tell? The rise of a whole generation of directors can't be judged by a limited number of people, it has to be judged by the general and the advanced. It can only be said that the seventh generation is sprouting, and the rise is far from enough.

"We are currently the best-selling directors in the market, and the most award-winning directors are not the seventh generation, but the fifth generation directors, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

"Although the sixth generation in the middle has fewer films, they have won a lot of awards in the international film industry, so I want to say that the seventh generation of directors can only be said to have truly risen after the age of 40."

After answering the questions of "Crazy Stone", the interview was basically over. At the end, the reporter still didn't give up and asked, "Is Director Cheng really not going to make a new movie this year?"

Cheng Yu'an shook her head: "It won't be filmed this year. Oh, yes, the company's new year's film has been confirmed, and the second part of "Butterfly Effect" will be filmed. The director is the director of "Lotus Lantern" and "Legend of Sword and Fairy". Classmate Huang Ke, please spread the word."

The reporter understands: "Don't worry, Director Cheng." The latter piece of news is Cheng Yu'an's exclusive gift to Xinlang, otherwise why would they advertise you.

(End of this chapter)