The road to becoming a movie star from the villain

Chapter 402 The Huaxia entertainment circle is about to change?

Not long after the Cannes Film Festival ended, "Chongzhen" officially landed in major theaters.

The box office of documentary films and literary films has never been very high.

Take Parallel World as an example. "The Gathering at Southern Station" directed by Diao Yinan has been well received by film critics and has been shortlisted for the main unit of the Cannes Film Festival, but it is extremely unfriendly to the general audience.

Even with Hu Ge as the leading role, Liao Fan, Wan Qian, Gui Lunmei and others' blessings, the total box office of this movie is only 2.03 million.

This is still supported by Brother Hu's substantial box office.

The public does not welcome such obscure films.

"Chongzhen" is not that difficult to understand, but it is a documentary film after all, and it is definitely not that interesting to talk about history.

Therefore, even with Hong Chen as the lead actor and his impeccable acting skills, after half a month, the box office of this movie has just exceeded 7 million.

This undoubtedly hits the bottom line of black fans.

"National treasure actor with 7 million box office?"

"A lot of people are still bragging about it without thinking, the box office speaks for itself!"

"Haha, Hong Chen is really dead."

"The box office appeal is no match for a second-tier star."

"Is this the pride of Chinese actors you mentioned?"

Of course, there are also many film critics, including many educated professors, who support Hong Chen.

The most popular one was an old professor of history from Huaqing University, who brought all professional people to watch "Chongzhen" privately.

The professor said: "This is a very good movie. It is much more intuitive than me telling you what happened to Ming Dynasty in the end. Especially the person who played the emperor played it very well."

This has been a hot search for a while.

However, among the vast amount of soft articles, this hot search is nothing.

Of course, Hong Chen has been famous for a long time, and some gossip can't shake his status.It's just that the more you listen to it, the more you will feel bored.

Ge Chen also reported to him that there are conservatively five entertainment companies hiring sailors this time, and they joined forces to fuel the flames.

In this regard, Hong Chen's order is to suppress these five entertainment companies from now on.

Although Hongchen Media has not yet reached the point where an entertainment company can go bankrupt directly, it will be very difficult for a large company to attack a small company.

So, next, the resources of these companies were crazily suppressed by Hongchen Media.

Even so, there are still many articles about Hong Chen's lack of appeal at the box office.

Because business is cruel, just like nature, if you want to grab meat from the wolf's mouth, you have to unite and kill the wolf.

A few days later, Hong Chen went to find Yan Chi and participated in the final production of "The Shawshank Redemption".

They re-examined the film.

At first, the film lasted more than three hours, because there was really nothing to cut out, Hong Chen and Freeman's performances were perfect, and Yan Chi couldn't bear to cut it.

This movie is like a cup of fragrant tea, Hong Chen and Gardman's performance in it makes this cup of tea even more attractive.

Everything seems to be natural.

There are no exaggerated special effects and actions, but only the most authentic stories and complex human nature.

In the end, the two of them studied for a few more days, deleted some unnecessary scenes, and set the filming time at two and a half hours.

So far, the film has only been completely edited.

The rest of the work is propaganda work.

There is a saying that "the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys", and publicity is very important.

Hong Chen officially released the film in overseas branches first.

The reason why it is overseas is that as mentioned before, it is not easy to pass the trial in China, and it is even impossible to pass the trial.

Then, they started preparing for the publicity.

The production of promotional videos is relatively fast, and it is nothing more than editing some clips in the movie.

However, this type of movie needs to be watched from the beginning, and the more you watch it, the more you will be attracted.It's just that the effect of splicing out a few clips is not good.

From the perspective of the promotional film, this is a simple jailbreak film.

The film is set in the United States, Hong Chen has already contacted the theater where it will be released, and the time for the film's release has also been set.

At the same time, Hong Chen was pleasantly surprised that although the movie could not be set in China, the review department found that it was a good movie and promoted positive energy, so it passed the review easily.

As a result, the movie was scheduled to be released in China and North America at the same time, one month later.

Today, the "Shawshank Redemption" promotional film was released.

The background of the United States in the 50s, the seemingly backward prison and the prison life without bright spots. It can be said that as soon as the promotional film was released, it instantly became a breakthrough for black fans.

It is worth mentioning here that in the promotional film, it was not announced that the final ending of the movie would be a prison escape, but that Hong Chen was wrongly imprisoned.

Those entertainment companies that were right with Hongchen Media knew that Hong Chen's movie played a very critical role in Hong Chen's future development.

Some time ago, they were still discrediting Hong Chen's box office appeal, but now Hong Chen released a new movie in less than a month.

It can be said that if this movie continues to hit the street, then Hong Chen's popularity and status in the entertainment industry will drop significantly!

It is not so easy to be a national treasure actor. For example, Aamir Khan, who is next to Asan Guo, whose latest movie "Asan Thug" failed at the box office, and was angered by netizens of Asan Kingdom for a long time.

Aamir Khan also took the initiative to apologize to the audience, but the audience still didn't buy it, and his popularity and reputation suffered a lot.

In the previous stage, some of Hong Chen's nominations in Cannes are still spreading. Although the quality of "Chongzhen" is excellent, it is still not enough to stop the mouths of trolls.

The success or failure of this film will determine the future pattern of the Chinese film market.

If Hong Chen wins, then he will continue to be China's ceiling, continue to be a national treasure actor, and maintain the highest popularity.

If he loses, his solid position will be loosened.

"Run to the United States to shoot in prison? What is this for? Prison escape?"

"This prison looks so broken. Scofield will cry when he sees it, and Stallone will be silent when he sees it."

"Is this Hong Chen's new movie? I really don't deserve it."

"Hahaha, has Hong Chen become like this now?"

The black fans found a breakthrough and attacked in various ways.

But what made them helpless was that Hong Chen's popularity was too high, and the pre-sale box office of "The Shawshank Redemption" was still very high.

After all, it was Hong Chen!

So many classic films have been shot, the domestic best actor grand slam, how much can the slander of some black fans be shaken?
There was a lively quarrel on the Internet, and Hong Chen was at home with his baby.

When I am free, I still have to fulfill the responsibility of being a father.

Yan Yileng pays great attention to the maintenance of his body and appearance, and spends about two hours on maintenance every day.

Including skin care, hair care, body care and more.

Hong Chen was also so happy, after all, he was the one who was cheap.

"Why are so many people slandering you online recently?" Yan Yileng asked as he came out of the shower, wrapped in a bath towel, wearing a shower cap, with a white translucent mask on his face.

"It's like this since I came back from Cannes. Now the company is developing very well, and my artists have obtained a lot of good resources. There are several entertainment companies that want to take me down, so as to carve up those artists and resources under them." Hong Chen coaxed child, he said.

"These people are really annoying."

"Don't worry, those people can't make much waves, that's what they are." Hong Chen smiled indifferently, "And this can be regarded as free publicity. Those entertainment companies spend money to buy trolls to create such a big momentum. It saved me a lot of publicity costs.”

Seeing his appearance, Yan Yileng couldn't help feeling a little worried.

There are generally two results when the waves are too big, either you can use this potential to rush further, or you will be beaten to death by the big waves.

In the North American market, the effect of publicity is also mediocre.

Because the theme is really too old, I can't see anything new at all. What kind of stories can be filmed in prisons in the 50s?
To be honest, the promotion of this movie in North America has a certain popularity, or because of the popularity of Morgan Freeman.

There are also many people in North America who are blackmailing this movie.

It can be said that the film got off to a bad start.

The response to the publicity was not good.

But looking at Hong Chen again, he looked very calm, and even said from time to time that he couldn't wait for the movie to be released.

This made Yan Yileng very curious.

Could it be that Cannes Best Actor failed to win the election, and Hong Chen was under too much pressure.

Thinking of this, Yan Yihan put her slender hands on Hong Chen's shoulders, and gently massaged Hong Chen to relax.

In any case, there are many people who are popular.

For various reasons, Hong Chen's new movie has attracted attention from all walks of life.

Just watching the trailer, there are no special highlights.

Many sharp-eyed agents and managers in the entertainment industry thought that Hong Chen might be killed this time.

What situation is Hong Chen facing now?When black powder is rampant.

What you urgently need at this time is to come up with a good work to save the decline and shut up the black fans in one fell swoop.

It turned out to be a good thing now, and I took out a film with such an old theme and such an old background.

Isn't this digging your own grave?

"Hong Chen has always been the most discerning actor in the entertainment circle, why didn't he understand this time?"

Many big figures sighed one after another.

From their point of view, this movie is definitely going to hit the street, and Hong Chen's popularity may drop sharply.

China's entertainment industry is about to change.

As a result, countless pairs of eyes were staring at the release of Hong Chen's new movie.

And it was in such an environment that the premiere of "The Shawshank Redemption" finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)