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Chapter 877 The New Movie "Eternal Night"

October 1994, 1!
Wu Jianye's new movie "Forever Night" officially launched in Hengdian!
On this day, many film crews who had filming tasks in Hengdian Film and Television City came to the opening scene of "Eternal Night".

Prior to this, Wu Jianye's new film has always been a huge mystery in China. Everyone only knows that the investment in this film has created a record for domestic film investment. With an investment of 1.3 million, it ranks first in the domestic film investment record !
Director Wu Jianye has always claimed that this is a fairy tale drama that has never appeared in China.

Everyone knows that Xianxia dramas have not appeared before, but Wu Jianye said so now, everyone is still very curious!
Secondly, this movie can be said to have brought together three generations of domestic actors, old, middle-aged and young, as well as actor Gu Principal from Xiangjiang. Such a cast is extremely rare in domestic movies!
Actors of the older generation, Chen Wei, You Benchang, Ma Jingwu, one is an actor who has been famous all over the country when he was in the model opera, and the other is a pillar of the National Repertory Theater. The upsurge of domestic viewing, the last one is Ma Jingwu, who has cooperated with Wu Jianye and is a teacher of the Acting Department of Yanjing Film Academy.

And the cast of the Mesozoic Era is even more eye-catching.

First of all, relying on the role of Puyi in the TV series version of "The Last Emperor", Chen Daoxuan, who won both the Golden Eagle Award and the Feitian Award, is definitely a big name in the domestic TV drama industry. After "The Last Emperor", With "Fortress Besieged", he won the 11rd Academy Award of China Film and Performing Arts Society, the Best Actor Award in the [-]nd Excellent TV Series Selection by National Studios, and the Best Actor Award in the No. [-] "Flying Awards".

Tang Yuqiang, the first generation of youth idol in China, although Wu Jianye snatched Tang Yuqiang's role in "The Peacock Princess", but Tang Yuqiang's halo is still countless.

"Little Flower", "Tonight's Stars Are Brilliant", "The Road Is Long", "The Garland Under the Mountain", etc. A series of movies and TV series have always made Tang Yuqiang a top-line actress in China.

There is also Fang Shu who once starred in Wu Jianye's debut film "Raise the Red Lantern".

There are also Zhang Guoli and Wang Gang who caused a huge sensation in China last year with "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo".

In the movie "Farewell My Concubine", although she played a relatively short time, Jiang Wenli was well received.

"The Gold Rush King", "Jigong Living Buddha", Zang Jinsheng who performed well in "The Great Sabbath".

Although Zhang Hanyu and Liu Yijun who have also cooperated with Wu Jianye are not so well-known, they can be regarded as big names in the domestic film and television circle.

There is also Ni Dahong, who is less famous. Even if he is not as good as the previous ones, he has collaborated with Tang Yuqiang in "The Garland Under the Mountain" and Pan Changjiang in "I Am a Hillbilly".

Among these Mesozoic actors, the least famous one is the white and fat Fu Biao standing next to Ni Dahong.

The reporters who came to the scene, although they didn't know why Wu Jianye would find such an unknown actor to play with these outstanding actors, but if he could be picked by Wu Jianye, then there must be something special about him up!

At the same time, there were four new-generation actors on the scene, He Yan, Jiang Yu, Yu Feihong, and Principal Gu.

During this period of time, the domestic media has not established contact with Xiangjiang's media, so they don't know the details of Principal Gu.

But He Yan, Jiang Yu, and Yu Feihong, they still made a clear investigation. Among them, Yu Feihong is the most familiar because of his debut as a child star.

Jiang Yu benefited from the fact that his brother is Jiang Yun, and everyone knows Jiang Yun.

If you want to talk about the biggest news in the domestic movie circle during this period, apart from Wu Jianye's new movie starting, then Jiang Yun's new movie "Sunny Day" is shutting down!

Jiang Yun is now one of the most well-known movie actors in China. Although his new movie has not yet been released, it still attracts the attention of many people. Now there are even some newspapers and media who have not seen this movie. , has already placed Jiang Yun in Wu Jianye's second place.

In fact, in the profession of being an actor, Jiang Yun's achievements are higher than Wu Jianye's.

Two Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Actor and one Golden Eagle Award for Shidi, such honors are not something ordinary actors can get.

It's just that the reporters at the scene also knew through their own news channels that although the filming of "Sunny Day" has ended, there must still be a long way to go before its release. The first is post-production, but the most important thing is The most important thing is because the subject matter of this movie is a bit sensitive, and it is not so easy to release it!
Jiang Yun also asked Wu Jianye about this matter, but Wu Jianye has already reassured Jiang Yun that there is no problem with the movie being released!

Although this movie was invested by Tangting Culture, Wu Jianye had already greeted Ai Bu, and the review process would definitely not be too strict.

In another time and space, the fate of "Sunny Day" is actually the same as that of "Farewell My Concubine". They are both invested by Xiangjiang's film company, and then followed the routine of participating in the European Film Festival first. After winning the award, It is only allowed to be screened in the country.

It was already in 1995 when it was released.

But in this time and space, because of the prelude to "Farewell My Concubine" and the most important thing is that there is such a variable as Wu Jianye, this movie will definitely not have another fate in another time and space!
He Jing is not really unknown. First of all, everyone knows that He Jing is a student who graduated from Chinese opera and is also an actor of the repertory theater troupe. There is still some information about him.

Now just relying on the front and back of this movie alone is enough to cause a huge sensation in the domestic film circle!
But what really surprised these domestic reporters was that there were even reporters from North America on the scene, which made them very surprised by Wu Jianye's influence. They didn't expect Wu Jianye's new movie to attract North American reporters just after it was launched. reporter.

This is the first time in the domestic film industry!

The reporters in North America were naturally sent by Phantom Media. At this time, Phantom Media had already established its own movie magazine. With the resources of Phantom Media, it now has some fame in Hollywood.

This time, Wu Jianye asked the magazine under Phantom Media to send reporters over, naturally to promote the movie "Eternal Night" in North America in advance!

In fact, before the filming started, the promotion of this movie had already started in Europe and America. The promotion team of the movie "Eternal Night" in Europe and America is actually the promotion team of "Jurassic Park".

"Director Wu, we heard that the investment of this movie has exceeded 2000 million US dollars, which is the second highest among the movies you shot in China, and we also know that the investment of this movie all comes from your movies in China The company has a dignified culture, can you guarantee to recover the cost in China for such an investment?"

asked Hill, a reporter from Phantom Magazine.

Wu Jianye's movie shot in China up to now has the most investment in "The Last Emperor" with 2600 million US dollars, but the main investor of this movie is Phantom Media.

Now, the investment in "Eternal Night" is invested by Tangting Culture, and no other capital has been added. When Hill came to China, he also investigated the development of China's film industry and knew that the current domestic film investment Generally, it has just risen to about 500 million RMB, and now Wu Jianye's new movie has directly invested more than 2000 million US dollars. He still knows the gap.

Wu Jianye smiled slightly and said, "This is just the initial investment for this movie. If we add the later publicity, I believe the cost will exceed "The Last Emperor"!"

Hill was taken aback for a moment. As a Hollywood reporter, he naturally knew how the promotional cost of a movie worked, which was at least one-third of the production cost of a movie.

But Wu Jianye's movie is different. The promotional cost of Wu Jianye's movie "The World of Chu Xing" in North America was already as high as 2000 million US dollars, and now Wu Jianye's new movie should not be lower than this amount.

Thinking of this, Hill asked in surprise: "So, the global cost of this movie will exceed 4000 million US dollars?"

Wu Jianye nodded and said, "Almost, it should reach about 4500 million U.S. dollars!"

People who knew English at the scene were more shocked than Hill when they heard Wu Jianye say this number.

At this time, domestic magazine reporters did not have a very clear concept of the film's publicity costs. In their opinion, the investment cost of more than 2000 million US dollars was enough to shock everyone. Now they heard Wu Jianye and North America The reporter learned from the chat that the real investment cost of this film turned out to be 4500 million US dollars!
What is the exchange rate between RMB and US dollar this year?

According to the latest exchange rate between the RMB and the US dollar announced by the central bank, it is 8.6:1, which means that the real investment in the movie "Eternal Night" is actually 3.87 million RMB?

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, no one thought that the investment in a movie could reach such a terrifying figure!

In fact, both Hill and domestic reporters miscalculated the account.

The production cost of the movie "Eternal Night" was actually 1.3 million RMB. They calculated it based on this year's exchange rate. In fact, last year, the official exchange rate between RMB and US dollar was not so high, only 5.7:1.

As for the promotion costs in Europe and the United States, Phantom Pictures will be responsible for the distribution in North America, and Fengge Films will be responsible for the distribution in Europe. These are two different concepts.

As for domestic publicity costs, Wu Jianye set 4000 million RMB, which was caused by the soaring domestic prices in the past two years.

To be honest, in fact, this year's RMB exchange rate definitely has room for manipulation, but Wu Jianye didn't let Zhou Tao and Yan Wen do this.

However, Wu Jianye did not explain this issue to the reporters at the scene. Now that "Eternal Night" has officially entered the stage of filming and publicity, with such a good publicity hotspot, it is naturally impossible for Wu Jianye to give up.

This is just like the fact that in another time-space Lao Mouzi's movie "The Twelve Pans of Jinling" was advertised by his cheating partner that the investment of the whole movie was as high as 10 billion yuan.

But the difference is that "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" was a mess, and now the movie "Eternal Night" has not passed the test of the market.

After Hill's interview ended, other reporters also asked their own questions, but they also changed the direction of their questions in time.

Everyone focused on Wu Jianye's misleading them and the film's investment.

Everyone is wondering if the movie will pay for itself, but subconsciously many people think it's impossible, at least not at the domestic box office!

If calculated according to the current sharing agreement between the producer and the cinema, with an investment cost of 3.87 million yuan, the domestic box office of this film must reach at least 6.45 million yuan to guarantee that it will not lose money.
This is naturally impossible.

In fact, let alone them, even Wu Jianye himself does not think that the movie "Eternal Night" can get this box office. In Wu Jianye's plan, it is "Eternal Night", a two-episode movie. As long as the global box office can recover the real production cost, it will be fine!

The movie "Eternal Night" was originally Wu Jianye's very personal experimental movie, and the responsibility Wu Jianye gave to this movie is to let audiences in Europe and the United States have an understanding of Chinese fairy tales.

Wu Jianye believes that it is extremely difficult to achieve the development of anything overnight, just like writing an online novel. There are very few people who can become gods in one book. The real success is to go through at least two or three years. Only after Ben's high-quality products are deposited, can he become the top wave of people who write online articles.

In fact, there are still a small number of such people, and more importantly, as long as they can guarantee that they have four or five high-quality books, they will be very satisfied!
In Wu Jianye's view, if domestic films want to have a place in the European and American markets, the best breakthrough is actually movies such as martial arts dramas and fairy tale dramas.

This is China's unique culture, and it is also the most recognizable theme in the world.

Maybe through Wu Jianye's personal efforts, some high-quality movies can appear on science fiction themes, but Hollywood has been immersed in science fiction movies for decades, and Huaxia movies want to catch up with them in just a dozen years. On, is a very difficult thing.

Breaking out of the siege is not easy, it is better to find another way!
Wu Jianye didn't know if this would be successful, but at least he was making such an effort!
After all, the Internet articles of later generations have shown Wu Jianye that foreigners are still very welcome to Chinese fairy tales and fantasy themes!
Liu Xiaojiang and Dandan also came to the scene, and Dandan even stood in the ranks of the entire crew. This was the first time Dandan participated in the film's opening ceremony as an actor, and all of this made her feel So fresh and exciting!
At this time, there were also quite a few extras around the start-up scene of the crew, most of them knew Dandan, and now they saw that Dandan was able to stand on the stage as an actor of the crew. There, there is jealousy and envy in my heart
Seeing these gazes, Dandan's sense of vanity immediately exploded!

Wu Jianye also saw the eyes of those extras, and he knew that his plan was slowly developing towards success.

As long as I can successfully operate the actor Dandan, then the Hengdian Myth will appear. At that time, there will be more group performers here, and none of them hope that they can become the second Dandan.

Hengdian Film and Television City will no longer lack group performances!

(End of this chapter)