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Chapter 454 I'm Not Optimistic About Everything

Wu Jianye is going to Xiangjiang soon with his new work "New Dragon Inn"!
In fact, before Wu Jianye came to Xiangjiang, the promotion of "New Dragon Inn" had already started. The subway stations, minibuses, and the main billboards in the streets were hung with promotional posters of "New Dragon Inn".

A huge poster, in the desolate desert, there is only a lonely Longmen Inn standing there.

Now that Hong Kong's phenomenon-level movie "God of Gamblers" has not yet been released, this movie has already been known to all Hong Kong citizens.

The office of the chairman of Fengge Entertainment.

Jiang Zhiqiang now had a sad expression on his face.

"Isn't Director Wu exaggerating a bit too much? With such intensive publicity for a martial arts film, this film has already spent 500 million Hong Kong dollars on promotional fees alone!"

Gong Jiapei's expression was also not very good-looking.

The reason why the two have such expressions is not because the promotional cost of this movie has reached 500 million Hong Kong dollars, but because this movie is a martial arts movie!
There is a data that can very well explain how lonely martial arts movies have become in Xiangjiang.

Last year, Xiangjiang Benbu Film Company released a total of 109 movies, and none of the top ten box office movies were martial arts movies. Among the 109 movies in the whole year, there were only six martial arts movies!

Now Wu Jianye not only spent millions of dollars to shoot a martial arts film, but even asked Fengge Entertainment to spend 500 million Hong Kong dollars as the film's promotional expenses when it was released.

In Jiang Zhiqiang's view, Wu Jianye was a suicidal act after the movie "The Last Emperor" achieved box office success.

It's not just Jiang Zhiqiang who thinks this way, but also Gong Jiapei, and the entire Xiangjiang film industry.

As a mainland director, Wu Jianye was not favored by people in the Xiangjiang film industry. Even if "The Last Emperor" was able to succeed before, everyone believed that it was only because of the previous "The Last Emperor" film. When Wu Jianye was tough with the Academy Awards, he gained a box office boost.

At this time, they selectively forgot the excellent production of this film.

Mainland director + martial arts film!
Such a type, court death!

What Wu Jianye really made people in the Xiangjiang film industry scruple was his identity as the boss behind Fengge Entertainment, not his identity as a director.

"Wu Jianye may encounter Waterloo this time!"

Golden Harvest Headquarters, He Guanchang and Zou Wenhuai said.

"After all, they are young people who don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth. The success of a movie does not mean anything. Even Wu Baige had already succeeded in several movies in Xiangjiang before filming "The True Colors of a Hero."

Zou Wenhuai nodded, expressing his agreement with He Guanchang's words.

"What's more, it's a martial arts movie!" He Guanchang continued to laugh.

"This is also related to Wu Jianye's status as a mainland director. He thought that if there was a Li Lianjie in China, he thought that mainland martial arts films would be successful in Hong Kong, but he didn't know that Hong Kong's martial arts films have long been lonely in recent years!"

Zou Wenhuai has a basis for saying this. One is the data listed before, and the other is the loneliness of martial arts films. This has long been recognized by the Xiangjiang film industry.

And most importantly, why did Shaw Brothers fail in the first place? Wasn't it because they were obsessed with making martial arts films?
At that time, Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei of Shaw Brothers could be said to be the two monuments of Hongkong martial arts films. Shoot dead.

With Shaw Brothers as a lesson learned, which film company dares to make martial arts films!
"I heard that his investment in this movie exceeded 300 million US dollars!" He Guanchang continued.

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said: "I know what you mean, this movie will not have any impact on Fengge Entertainment, Fengge Entertainment is not Shaw Brothers, even if Fengge Entertainment does not mention Yaoguang Group , the market value in Xiangjiang has already exceeded 150 billion Hong Kong dollars, such a huge consortium, it is impossible for a movie with an investment of only 300 million dollars to have problems!"

He Guanchang praised: "I really don't know what Wu Jianye thinks, he actually built an entertainment company into a huge consortium with a market value of more than 150 billion Hong Kong dollars!"

Zou Wenhuai smiled wryly: "What else could it be? Of course it's their theaters. The Hong Kong theaters plus the theaters in Southeast Asia have invested 100 billion Hong Kong dollars. In the past two years, the land prices in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia have fallen. It's rising, plus the movies produced by Fengge Entertainment, they are all big-selling movies."

Speaking of this, the expression on Zou Wenhuai's face became even more bitter.

Wu Jianye, this is purely another model of showing them the film industry in Xiangjiang with a cheating device.

In the past, the film companies in the Hong Kong film industry, after their establishment, paid more attention to the quality of their own films, and then became the largest film company in Hong Kong with the blessing of the theater, such as their Golden Harvest, their former rival Shaw Brothers, and now The opponent New Art City is the same.

Then rely on its own distribution network in Southeast Asia to make the company bigger and stronger.

These are all step by step.

But what about Fengge Entertainment?
Almost in one step, making high-grossing movies, spending huge sums of money to acquire and build theaters throughout Southeast Asia, this kind of unreasonable play has almost never happened in the global film industry.

That's exactly what Fengge Entertainment did.

This made the bosses of all the companies in the Xiangjiang film industry have no choice but to say: money is really self-willed!
That's why Zou Wenhuai said that even if the $300 million "New Dragon Inn" failed, it didn't matter to Fengge Entertainment.

Who makes people rich!
He Guanchang also said rather helplessly: "Sometimes, I really doubt what Wu Jianye thinks. With such a huge amount of wealth, he is willing to be a director."

If Zhou Tao knew that He Guanchang had such an idea, he would definitely become his confidant.

Zou Wenhuai said with a smile: "There is no doubt about it. It is nothing more than proving yourself in wealth and wanting to prove yourself in other places."

He Guanchang nodded, thinking that what Zou Wenhuai said was reasonable, because apart from this reason, they really couldn't think of any other possibility.

"However, to be honest, I personally admire Wu Jianye's director skills very much. Being able to win the awards of two major European film festivals in a row is not something ordinary directors can do."

Zou Wenhuai said: "So what, a director who can win an award is not necessarily a good director!"

As the boss of a movie company, Zou Wenhuai naturally understood this truth. In fact, not only Zou Wenhuai, but any boss of a movie company whose brain was not squeezed by the door would think so.

Wang Jing at his peak and Sunglasses King at his peak!

I believe that the bosses of all film companies will choose Wang Jing instead of Sunglasses King.

He Guanchang smiled and said: "Actually, I'm still looking forward to Wu Jianye's expression after the film's box office defeat!"

"Haha!" Zou Wenhuai laughed loudly, "I'm looking forward to it too!"

At this time, Fengge Entertainment is a big mountain on the head of all the film companies in Xiangjiang. Even if they have the spirit of Yugong Yishan, they don't necessarily have the help of heaven.

So now they can see Wu Jianye deflated, which is already a happy thing for them.

"It is estimated that Wu Jianye will hold a premiere ceremony this time. When that time comes, shall we?" He Guanchang asked.

Zou Wenhuai stood up, walked to the window, looked at the night view of the Xiangjiang River outside the window, and said, "Can I not go?"

He Guanchang doesn't say anything anymore
Tsui Hark Film Studio!
Tsui Hark is sitting in his seat with a big sword at this time. Although Xu Hark looks a bit wretched, his personal character is still very domineering, otherwise Shi Nansheng would not call him a master.

"Hey, the martial arts movie directed by Wu Jianye is coming to Hong Kong!" Tsui Hark mused with a cigar he just lit in his hand.

Sitting next to him, Shi Nansheng said with a slight smile, "Relying on Wu Jianye's financial resources, he can make any movie he wants!"

There was a hint of envy in Tsui Hark's eyes, how much he wanted to do this, but unfortunately there is no such director in the whole Xiangjiang, but a director from the mainland has achieved this step.

"Hey, Xiangjiang's martial arts movies are already lonely. I'm worried that he will push it later. To be honest, I'm actually very interested in the copyright of the movie "Dragon Inn"!" Tsui Hark said .

However, it can also be seen from the tone that Tsui Hark is not optimistic about Wu Jianye's martial arts movie.

Sure enough, Shi Nansheng, his confidante, knows Tsui Hark best, "I know what you think, but sometimes it's like this. You may not be able to do what you want to do, but some people can easily get it. arrive."

What Shi Nansheng was talking about was the copyright of "Dragon Inn". In fact, Tsui Hark mentioned to her the idea of ​​making a martial arts movie as early as when filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", but when Tsui Hark mentioned this to Lei Juekun, At that time, he was directly rejected by Lei Juekun.

Everyone knows that shooting martial arts movies in Xiangjiang is courting death.
The big benefactor behind the scenes did not support him, and Tsui Hark had no choice. Then Wu Jianye proposed to make a martial arts movie, and then borrowed Cheng Xiaodong from him.

"By the way, what does Xiaodong think of Director Wu's movie?" Shi Nansheng asked.

Tsui Hark said a little lonely: "Xiaodong said that this movie was made very well!"

Shi Nansheng asked puzzledly: "Since Xiaodong said it was good, then this movie should be good. If it can really succeed in Xiangjiang, wouldn't it be a good thing for you? After all, martial arts movies Wake up, Lei Juekun will not say anything more!"

Tsui Hark shook his head and said, "You don't understand, Xiaodong is okay as an action director, but what about his vision for watching movies?" High!"

Shi Nansheng shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Didn't his previous "The Last Emperor" also succeed in Xiangjiang?"

Tsui Hark smiled wryly, still disagreed with Wu Jianye's actions in his heart, and said: "It's different, the big scenes presented in the movie "The Last Emperor" are almost unprecedented in the same type of movies in Xiangjiang. Yes, coupled with those things that happened before it was released, that movie was able to get such a high box office."

"Now Wu Jianye has actually shot a martial arts film. A director who is not familiar with Hong Kong's audience has shot a genre film that has already fallen to the bottom in Xiangjiang. The possibility of success is very slim!"

"Xiangjiang's martial arts movies still have to be saved by Xiangjiang's directors. It is too difficult to make a difference in Xiangjiang with a martial arts movie made by a mainland director." Tsui Hark finally said.

Shi Nansheng shook his head and said, "It's too late to say anything now. Wu Jianye controls such a large consortium. It's not easy for him to make some movies he likes!"

Tsui Hark: "But this is a blow to Xiangjiang Films. At the beginning, I said that Cheng Xiaodong should not be lent to him. Maybe without Cheng Xiaodong, he would not be able to make the film."

Before he finished speaking, Tsui Hark also knew that this was impossible. According to Wu Jianye's financial resources, even without Cheng Xiaodong, he could hire other martial arts instructors, not to mention that Cheng Xiaodong is not the top martial arts instructor in Xiangjiang.

Shi Nansheng has a different opinion on this: "When I lent Cheng Xiaodong out, I said that maybe I could use it to get online with Fengge Entertainment, so even if Wu Jianye's martial arts movie hit the street, we might be able to use it in Fengge Entertainment. Song Entertainment received investment."

Tsui Hark's face showed a trace of surprise and a trace of worry, "You mean to say."

Shi Nansheng smiled and said: "That's right, what I mean is, since Wu Jianye made martial arts movies himself, can it be said that Wu Jianye himself likes martial arts movies very much, if he really likes this type of movie, Can we ignore Lei Juekun and contact Fengge Entertainment directly?"

A flattering smile suddenly appeared on Tsui Hark's face: "Then this matter"

Shi Nan gave Tsui Hark a white look, and said with a smile: "Leave this matter to me. I guess this time "New Dragon Inn" will be released in Xiangjiang, and Wu Jianye will also hold a premiere ceremony. At that time, we can talk to him about it." Talk about it."

A smile finally appeared on Tsui Hark's face: "That's right, Ah Sheng, fortunately I have you by my side!"

Shi Nansheng smiled coquettishly: "You only know!"

"Martial arts movie?" Zhang Qiang is an ordinary Xiangjiang citizen in his 30s. He has seen Wu Jianye's "The Last Emperor" before and he likes this movie very much, because he thinks that Wu Jianye made something that Xiangjiang does not have. The movie comes out.

So at that time, he paid close attention to Wu Jianye, a mainland director, but now he couldn't help being disappointed when he saw that Wu Jianye was filming a martial arts film.

"Could it be another story where the whole family was wiped out and then seek revenge?" Zhang Qiang muttered to himself.

I have no desire to see it!Zhang Qiang finally thought helplessly, but in the end Zhang Qiang decided to try it out and see it. If that is the case, he would treat it as a lost money for that movie ticket.
(End of this chapter)