Entertainment, I only like to make movies

Chapter 488 The Peak of Life
"Telling dog meat as sheep's tricks, the promised big boat love, this is it!"

"I'm so pissed off, I was once again tricked into going to the movie theater by a marketing account, the 120-minute movie is less than 5 minutes of the boat scene, what the hell are you telling me it's called "The Wheel of Peace", where is my wheel? "

"Damn it, Master Huang is getting more and more greasy, he's been playing handsome from beginning to end, nothing else but handsome!"

"Mother, they are all playing soldiers, not even one-tenth of the soldier roles in "The Wind" have any flavor!"

"The plot of "Taiping Wheel" is boring, I really don't recommend you to spend money to buy tickets!"

"Damn it, I thought it was a cruise ship disaster romance movie, but it turned out to be an extremely trashy war movie. It's better to stay at home and watch an anti-Japanese drama. At least it's fun!"

"Again, there are two movies. The broken ship only appears at the end of the first movie. No, why are you so confident, Wu Baige, that viewers who have watched the first movie are willing to spend money to watch the second movie?"

"Look at the hammer, Wu Baige is not trustworthy!"

"Understood, one movie is made into two parts, just to cheat money!"

"The agreed oriental way of "Titanic", I'm so fucked up, I will never watch Wu Baige's movies again!"

"Refund the ticket and pay back the money!"

"Refund the ticket and pay back the money!"

Only two days after its release, "The Wheel of Peace" was criticized, and its reputation collapsed like a cliff.

On the Internet and on Weibo, LeTV Films spent a lot of money to promote soft articles, which were torn apart by countless viewers.

Real movie reviews, like sharp arrows, stabbed "Taiping Wheel" to the bottom.

The box office was 2600 million on the first day and 1700 million on the next day.

Pounce!

"Taiping Wheel" hits, hits thoroughly, hits earth-shattering!
Directed by an international director, with a total investment of [-] million, six popular stars joined in, and the online and offline releases were fully released, in exchange for such a smashing box office trend.

Many insiders who were optimistic about the movie were all dumbfounded, speechless to the extreme.

That's it!

It's useless!

The major film and television companies obtained the next day's box office data, further confirming the success or failure of "The Wheel of Peace".

The distributor of the movie, LeTV, CEO Zhang Zhaosong frowned and looked at the box office data of the first day and the next day of the movie in his hand, and it took him a long time to come up with a Chinese quintessence.

Wu Baige, I miss your grandma! !

The premiere boasted 16 billion, and 20 billion can be expected, but it was revealed in just two days, you really deserve to be damned!
Zhang Zhao tore up the data sheet in his hand, picked up his mobile phone and dialed Jia Yueting, and said with grief and indignation: "Chairman, we have been fooled by Wu Baige."

""The Wheel of Peace" has rushed!"

LeTV Pictures never expected that "Taiping Wheel" would only get such a small amount of box office under such a hot schedule for the Lunar New Year.

4300 million in two days, breaking 3 million at most in the first week. If the diving continues, the total box office may not reach [-] million.

LeTV Pictures used 8 million to guarantee the bottom line, and the pants will be lost!

No one paid attention to Zhang Zhao's grief and indignation.

The four producers of Galloping Horse, Huayi, China Film, and Wanda Pictures all breathed a sigh of relief, and the secrets are dangerous!

In the headquarters of Huayi, Wang Zhonglei looked at his brother Wang Zhongjun who was smoking, gloated and said: "Brother, LeTV swallowed the poison pill this time, and half a year's profit will be gone.

"More than half a year, at least a year's profit!"

Wang Zhongjun exhaled smoke, raised his brows, and said with a smile: "At the beginning, Zhang called for a guaranteed price of [-] million yuan, and Li Ming, who was galloping like a pony, was unwilling. Sell ​​movie releases!"

"Hey, Li Ming is gone now, and her sister is left alone to support Galloping Pony. If "Taipinglun" does not sell the distribution rights, Galloping Pony will go bankrupt just this time!"

"Speaking of which, we even saved Galloping Pony once!"

Inside and outside the words, Wang Zhongjun showed a bit of complacency, bragging about his vision and decision-making.

Imperial Capital, a five-star hotel.

Wu Baige's face was livid, the irritability and panic in his heart reached the peak, and he felt an urge to destroy the world.

In the past two days, he has been paying attention to the comments on the Internet, leaving footprints on Weibo, Douban, and major movie forums.

A mess, full of negative news, no surprises,
If the first-day box office on the first day can be attributed to the lack of word-of-mouth, then the second-day box office on the second day will completely end "Taiping Wheel".

Destroy his glass-made fluke!
He couldn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe it.

But the two sets of numbers on the screen of the mobile phone can't be faked, the real ones are in front of him, and there is no room for him not to believe it.

2600 million, 1700 million, the extremely dazzling figures seemed to be mocking him.

"Failed, really failed!"

Wu Baige muttered to himself, sitting in front of the computer in a decadent manner, without any trace of high spirits from the premiere ceremony.

Even when the assistant knocked on the door and came in and called him for lunch, he was indifferent.

The entertainment industry will not be diverted by a blockbuster movie.

The Lunar New Year stalls are still hot.

Another movie that has attracted much attention due to the release of Hengyu Media, "The Return of the Great Sage" has made great efforts one after another.

继三天4.29亿后，第二周口碑爆炸，12月1号、12月2号、12月3号、12月4号。

A total of 3.8 million box office was obtained in four days, and the average box office in a single day was as high as 9500 million, which completely outperformed all films in the same period.

On December 12th, "The Year in a Hurry", which was directed by Galloping Pony and fully released by Galloping Pony, was released.

As soon as it was released, it showed the appearance of a dark horse, and ranked second in the box office list on the 6100th day with a super high first-day box office of 5 million.

Another blockbuster teen movie!

Galloping Horse got into the soul twice, sold the distribution rights of "Taiping Wheel" to recover the cost, and released "The Year in a Hurry" with all its strength, and made two correct decisions to stabilize the galloping horse.

Speaking of it, this is the last gift given to Galloping Pony by Zhong Lifang, the former deputy director and production director of Galloping Pony before leaving the company.

After Li Ming's death, Zhong Lifang hesitated for three months. Before leaving the job, she had a long talk with Miss Li Er, who used to be ambivalent, to ask her not to sell the guaranteed release of "The Year in a Hurry".

Under the circumstances at that time, Galloping Horse was hopeless to go public, and people in the group were fluctuating.

Guangxian, Alibaba Pictures, and Tengxun Pictures offered a guarantee of 5 million yuan for "The Year in a Hurry", and Ms. Li Er wavered from side to side, not knowing how to make a decision.

For Li Ming's sake, Zhong Lifang tried her best to leave "The Year in a Hurry" regardless of the stiff relationship with Miss Li Er.

It has to be said that Zhong Lifang deserves to be one of the best female producers in the industry, and she has confirmed that audiences in the Lunar New Year file will eat youth romance films like "The Year in a Hurry".

The success of "The Year in a Hurry" not only stabilized the precarious pony, but also completely compared Wu Baige's waste materials.

The films produced by the same film and television company have a total investment of 4 million yuan and a total investment of less than 5000 million yuan.

The cast, announcement lineup, and gimmick highlights, "Taiping Wheel" all beat "The Year in a Hurry".

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a fatal blow.

The major film and television companies and filmmakers in the circle lamented that Galloping Horse was hard-pressed, and they also used Wu Baige as a background board, which became everyone's talk after dinner.

Every year, there are dark horse movies that have been ignored, and the outbreak of "The Year in a Hurry" has virtually added a bit of enthusiasm to the Lunar New Year file.

In the past few years, since Fang Ziheng developed the Spring Festival stalls, the Lunar New Year stalls have retreated from the former boss to the second place, keeping pace with the summer vacation stalls.

This year's Lunar New Year file is particularly intense.

In addition to the hit dark horse "The Year in a Hurry", there are four other films that have attracted continuous attention from the outside world at the beginning of their release.

Part [-]: Of course it is "The Wheel of Peace" that has hit the street!
The second part: "The Return of the Great Sage" controlled by Hengyu Media, the outside world has a tacit understanding, as long as it is a movie controlled by Hengyu, it is better than many movies.

The third part: "One Step Away" directed by Jiang Wen.

The fourth part: "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom" directed by Xu Ke.

Whether the first three films were blockbusters or blockbusters, they have been confirmed over time, and only the latter two films have yet to be verified.

Unlike Wu Baige, people in the industry are falsely optimistic about him, unwilling to refute his reputation as an international director, they are really optimistic about "One Step Away" and "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom".

After all, Jiang Minqian had "Let the Bullets Fly", and Xu Keqian had "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate" and "Di Renjie: The Dragon King".

The two directors are no less famous and appealing than any contracted director of Hengyu Media except Fang Ziheng and Lao Mouzi.

Even Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and Hao Yi, three famous directors who have entered the 10 billion box office club, are not as famous as Jiang Min and Xu Ke.

There has always been an argument from the outside world: film is the art of directors!

In the past [-] years of Chinese-language movies, except for big stars with a strong style like Uncle Long, audiences know the director's name for almost all of the best-selling movies and movies with word of mouth.

The more blockbuster the movie, the more famous the director will be!

When the audience evaluates whether a movie is worth looking forward to, they first look at the director and then the leading actors, and the producers and distributors don't have to consider it at all.

Jiang Min, the four famous directors of the older generation who are as famous as Lao Mouzi, Chen Daren, and Feng Xiaogang.

Xu Ke, a master of martial arts films at the peak of the Hong Kong Island film circle,

Both of them have left a strong mark in the Chinese film industry, and their reputation and appeal have become stronger and stronger with age.

As the time for the release of the two films is approaching, countless audiences are eagerly waiting and looking forward to it.

The major film and television companies have also withdrawn their attention from "Taiping Wheel", split it into two, and put most of their attention on the two films.

At the same time, taking advantage of the fact that the two films have not yet been released, ten well-known companies in the industry, Hengyu, Huayi, Guangxian, Bona, Ali, Tengxun, LeTV Pictures, Wanda Pictures, Huace Film and Hengdian Film and Television, once again A competition was launched for the new films of Huang Bo and Bao Qiang.

It's as if, the release of "Taiping Wheel" made everyone withdraw their troops, and once the movie hit the street, everyone regrouped and regrouped.

World War II broke out!

In the Sanqingshan Film and Television Base, Fang Ziheng paid attention to the undercurrent of the film market while filming.

He had expected it a long time ago, and he knew that the Lunar New Year holiday would not stop everyone's enthusiasm for "A Good Show" and "Havoc in Tianzhu".

At present, there are too few directors on the market that can sell well, and more than half of them are in Hengyu Media.

What the major film and television companies lack the most is a director who can sell well.

This is a rare item, no one wants to miss it!
After Hengyu offered 5.5 million yuan, Ali Pictures took the lead in raising the price and offered a guarantee of 5.7 million yuan for the two films.

Not to be outdone, Tengxun Pictures offered 5.8 million guarantees for "A Good Show" and "Havoc in Tianzhu".

Guangxian, Bona, LeTV, Huace, and Hengdian Film and Television followed closely behind, offering 5.9 million guarantees to the two films.

So far, except Huayi, other companies have reported the second round of prices, pushing the guaranteed box office to 5.9 million in one fell swoop.

Only 1000 million short of 6 million!
The second round of guarantees was released, and the major film and television companies were not idle, sending executives to interview Huang Bo and Baoqiang in person, trying to play the emotional card.

On December 12th, Huayi made a move and took the lead in launching an emotional attack.

Li Xue, the general manager of Hesong Media, and Bao Qiang, a new partner, appeared together in the Huayi Brothers' office building.

Wang Zhonglei, President of Huayi, greeted him personally, and said with a smile on his face: "Haha, Baoqiang, long time no see, Mr. Li!"

As soon as he came up, Wang Zhongjun put his posture very low, standing in the position of good friends, and gave Li Xue and Baoqiang a big hug.

"Hello, Mr. Wang!"

Li Xue smiled, leaning her Miaoman's body and hugging Wang Zhonglei lightly. When embracing, a trace of disgust flashed in the depths of her eyes.

Baoqiang, on the other hand, was a bit cautious, and his attitude of greeting was very respectful, and he was not used to hugging.

In his heart, Wang Zhonglei has always been the big boss in his memory, when did he become so talkative.

Is it because of "Havoc in Tianzhu"?

Baoqiang has great wisdom, and quickly figured out the key to the problem, grinning happily with two rows of white teeth.

"Let's go, my brother is waiting for you two!"

After exchanging pleasantries, Wang Zhonglei stretched out his hand to lure Baoqiang into the elevator.

With a confident and charming smile on Li Xue's face, she followed the two mainly Baoqiang, looking at the layout of Huayi's office area from time to time, recalling how it was different from a few years ago.

Ten years ago, she and her sister Li Lianhua fought in this office building, and finally they were reborn from the ashes and walked out of the world that belonged to the two sisters.

Returning to Huayi in this way today is enough to be called inspirational.

Baoqiang’s situation is similar. When he walked into the office of Chairman Huayi and heard Wang Zhongjun’s hearty laughter, he felt like he was in a dream.

Unlike Fang Ziheng, Baoqiang already had a good reputation when the filming of "Nobody's Name" started in 2009, and he was still a rookie director.

The relationship between the two, apart from filming on the set, is more of an equal friendship.

Even though Fang Ziheng went all the way to the top of the entertainment industry and became an absolute boss, Bao Qiang didn't feel that he was facing much power.

Psychologically, she has always been somewhat close to Fang Ziheng.

Wang Zhongjun was different. When Baoqiang was performing in the group, the other party was a bigwig in the entertainment industry.

After joining Huayi, when I see each other occasionally, I feel that the distance is too far and I can't reach each other.

Even if Baoqiang later became independent and opened his own studio, he was still very self-aware, knowing that he was not at the same level as Wang Zhongjun.

But when he entered the chairman's office, Wang Zhongjun was like a good friend, and he treated him with the same attitude as his younger brother Wang Zhonglei, which really shocked Baoqiang.

For a moment, his heart was beating extremely fast, filled with great pride, and he really wanted to shout out the refreshing feeling in his heart.

"Cool, so cool!"

A man was born in the heaven and earth, how can he live in the world for a long time!
Being a director and shooting your own movie is really the right way.

Baoqiang roared in his heart, and the excitement in his heart was suppressed for a long time.

He kept in mind Li Xue's advice when he came here.

"Let's go through the motions, let's go through the motions."

"We just came back to pretend to be aggressive, and listen to Xiao Wang's offer by the way."

"Sister Xue is right, eat the sugar coating, and the shells will return."

Baoqiang kept his mind and kept cheering himself up from the bottom of his heart.

.........

Here, Baoqiang encountered the highest courtesy he received in Huayi, and felt that his life had reached the pinnacle.

On the other side, Huang Bo brought his agent to interview Zhang Wei of Ali Pictures, and also saw what a real big dog is.

"One price, 5 million!"

"Director Huang, as long as you sell the distribution rights of "A Good Show" to Ali Pictures, you will immediately receive a director reward of 5000 million soft sister coins."

"This bonus does not record any words, does not sign any contracts, and does not include the investment income from the film in Director Huang's personal studio, nor does it include the remuneration given to you by Hengyu."

"Director Huang, Alibaba Pictures agrees with your creative ideas very much. Chairman Fan really wants to teach your friends, if possible..."

(End of this chapter)