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Chapter 664: A Lively Opening of the Summer Season

History will remember this year's summer vacation.

From June to August, a total of nearly 6 films participated in the summer competition.Compared with previous years, there are many bright spots in Chinese films, which can be described as the strongest in history.

There are not only great directors like Chen Kaige and Hou Xiaoxian, but also youth, comedy, romance, animation, fantasy and other types of films competing for release.

But among the four mainland directors, only Chen Kaige will be on the stage this summer.

Zhang Yimou is still working on his "The Great Wall" in Qingdao; Cheng Yu'an has not released a new film for two years since "Old Father", and the outside world ridicules him as "obsessed with women" and concentrates on serving his wife at home. "The Wandering Earth" has not even started. ;Feng Xiaogang has not released a new work for two years after "Private Order", but I heard that a new film is also in preparation.

Last summer, it won a box office of 90 billion yuan, and this year it is expected to break through the [-] billion mark, but it is extremely difficult to take a bite of this [-] billion cake.

Chen Kaige took his "Taoist Down the Mountain" to play first.

I've said it ten thousand times, don't let Director Chen touch the script!

Chen Hong, why don't you listen!

The outline is quite good, the little Taoist went down the mountain to practice in the world of mortals, and the flowers are fascinating. If you take a good shot, you can make a good film of the Republic of China.

Director Chen, you just go to the literary genre, what are you doing with commercial films?

Well now, Director Chen abruptly changed a literary story into a kung fu comedy, but the problem is that it's not funny either.

It is also necessary to add humanistic things to the script, which makes the whole story chaotic and hypocritical.

In this way, Director Chen still shouted at the premiere: "The world is big, and everyone wants to see it. Today, "Taoist Down the Mountain" will show you the world."

It's as if Director Chen cites Internet buzzwords to show how close he is to ordinary audiences.

Director, if you were still close to the audience, you would not have made "Day Meteor".

Having said that, but Chen Kaige's signature is really good, and the lineup of "Taoist Down the Mountain" is really bluffing.

The opening result is very good.

The film was released at 2:18 on the 16.98nd and with 4300% of the evening screenings, it contributed 50 million box office, accounting for nearly [-]% of the total national box office that day, setting the highest single-day box office record for a mainland evening screening.

The summer file started, "Taoist Descending the Mountain" accounted for half of the headlines, and the other half was occupied by a cartoon called "Autobots".

As soon as the latter was released on the 3rd, it was accused of plagiarism by both the media and the audience.

The image of the car in the film, and even the movie poster are accused of plagiarizing "Cars", a collaboration between Disney and Pixar.

The word "person" on the main poster is also pretended to be covered to create an illusion for the audience.

As soon as the plagiarism incident came out, some film critics believed that "The Autobots" made Chinese animation a laughing stock of the world:
"If we just lack technology, I firmly believe that with our own efforts, one day we can match or even surpass Hollywood animation. It is the scariest thing. This movie is one of the few movies that I left after the first few minutes, because such a so-called "movie" lacks not only technology, but also soul, such a shoddy production, It will only make Chinese animation a laughing stock of the world."

CNR.com bluntly stated: "The production level of (the movie) itself is hardly satisfactory. Its animation effect is not as good as that produced by flash software. Even if the wheels of the car don't roll, I dare to say that it is a racing movie."

However, the director and production director of the film strongly opposed the criticism on the Internet and defended their work, saying that "there is no plagiarism".

Beating a dog in the water is something that many people love to do.

A lot of movies appeared on major video sites to express their opinions on "whether there is plagiarism in "Autobots"" for a while.

They compared the clips of the two films in detail in the video, and finally came to a consistent conclusion: "The film is indeed suspected of plagiarism."

Some of these authors were created spontaneously, while others were ordered to act.

No reason, because the first feature film "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" by Biantian Animation Company under Yuanyuan will be released next week.

It is a normal operation to step on the shoddy work of the peers to highlight one's own excellence.

Biantian took advantage of the situation and released the first Chinese trailer of "The Return of the Great Sage".

Cheng Yu'an reposted the trailer and commented: "I heard that this movie forced out five animators. Because the requirements are too high, whoever does it will collapse."

The image of the Great Sage in the trailer has won the love of many viewers.

"The image played by Mr. Six is ​​too popular. In fact, Sun Wukong doesn't look good in the original book, but if it was filmed according to the original book, the screen image would be too scary. This version of Wukong's image is just right, especially wearing the armor and cloak. Awesome!"

At present, animated films are still not mainstream among domestic film types, and they are not valued by the market.

Although Cheng Yu'an is the film platform, according to the data of each platform, there are still not many viewers who "want to watch".

Moreover, the market is unanimously pessimistic about "The Return of the Great Sage", the movie will be released on the 10th, and "Little Times 4" was released the day before.

He Jiong's directorial debut "Gardenia Blossoms" was released on the same day as "The Return of the Great Sage". As the national host, He Jiong's appeal is not ordinary.

Want to grab the box office in the hands of these two films, or an animation, are you okay?

Ordinarily, in the first week of July, only one blockbuster movie "Taoist Descending the Mountain" was released, but it is strange that the theater's schedule for "Taoist Descending the Mountain" is dropping every day.

The film's film schedule reached the highest on the second day, reaching 35.6%. It should have been a hotter weekend, but the film schedule of "Taoist Down the Mountain" was only 34% and 33%, but the problem is that there is no film in the market to compete with him.

But the box office of the film is actually growing at a high speed. The box office of "Taoist Down the Mountain" reached 2.3 million in the first weekend.

"It's normal," Cheng Yu'an told Liu Yifei about the summer vacation situation at home, and it's not convenient for her to go out to watch movies. The department will take another 6% of the film schedule, and the film schedule of "Taoist Down the Mountain" has only dropped by 2 point, which will not affect his performance."

"I saw on the Internet that director Chen wrote the script randomly, have you read it?" Speaking of which, Liu Yifei has never worked with a major domestic director, and this has always been a hurdle in her heart.

Among them, Chen Kaige is her favorite.

She quite liked Chen Kaige's literary and hypocritical tone.

"I don't have time to read it." Cheng Yu'an shook his head, finally sighed, and said inexplicably: "His first novel is "Yellow Earth"."

Cheng Yu'an still clearly remembers his love for "Yellow Earth" the first time he watched it, the kind of talent, aura, and compassion for the land and the people that can be felt through the screen.

At that time, Chen Kaige could also use the camera to narrate, but now Chen Kaige seems so cramped in the language of the camera, and can only rely on his strong artistic ability to find gimmicks for the film.

But Liu Yifei didn't listen to him, and urged him: "Please help me and ask Director Zhang and Director Chen if they can give me a chance in their next play." The young lady has always wanted to attack the director, and she has no interest in Feng Xiaogang.

"Director Kaige's next movie will be in the Tang Dynasty." Xiangyang's Tang City is under construction, and it's no secret that Chen Kaige's next movie will be.

As for Zhang Yimou, "Shadow" will be officially launched next year, and Cheng Yu'an can't say much.

"That's good, you can ask for me."

Cheng Yu'an lost her temper: "No, your husband and I are a director. Are you looking for someone else?"

"You don't shoot me! You don't shoot me in literary films, and you don't shoot me in commercial films. Is this how you treat people as husbands?"

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Cheng Yu'an said dumbly: "Isn't it because I didn't find the script for a while?"

"What about the character Zhou Qian?"

It turned out to be waiting for me here.

"Zhou Qian is a soldier, and you don't have that temperament." Cheng Yu'an explained, "There is another role that no one wants, Liu Peiqiang's deceased wife, if you don't like it, I will give it to you, and I will give you a cameo role."

"You only think of me when no one wants a role!"

"I..." Cheng Yu'an said, "Just say whether you want it or not."

"Why not!"

　How about a strategy for "Legend of the Demon Cat"?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)