my movie years

Chapter 109 Premiere of "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven" (subscription required)

"Director Tsui Hark is a director I have always admired and learned from. His films such as "Ghost Horse", "Once Upon a Time in the Sky" and "Top Gun" are fond memories of my childhood.

I believe Director Tsui Hark will tell us a wonderful story in "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven". "

Zhang Hao was caught by reporters at the gate of the premiere theater.In the face of reporters' questions, he answered like this.

Of course, the reporter refused to let him go so easily: "Director Zhang Hao, what's the news about your new film, can you tell us about it?"

"I'm sorry, today I came to watch "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven". I hope everyone will pay more attention to this movie."

After all, Zhang Hao got rid of the media and entered the theater.

Mr. Wang and Mr. Xu stood at the door to greet him. When he saw Zhang Hao coming in, Mr. Wang held Zhang Hao's hand enthusiastically: "Director Zhang, let me introduce you. This is Director Xu Hark, Director Xu. It's Zhang Hao."

Zhang Hao shook hands with Mr. Xu very politely: "Hi, Director Xu, I'm your movie fan. I like the martial arts movies you directed very, very much."

"Haha, please be polite, sit inside." After being flattered by Zhang Hao, Old Monster Xu was very satisfied and invited Zhang Hao to sit inside.

In fact, Zhang Hao told every director that he was his fan, including Chen Gezi.

Anyway, since he is young, he can rely on the small shop.

Huayi has a lot of face, and many of its artists, including Feng Dapao, also attended the premiere.

Zhang Hao also met Liu Tianwang, the male lead of the play. As rumored, Liu Tianwang is a very nice person.Zhang Hao did not despise him like many Hong Kong Island filmmakers because of his young age and being from the Mainland.

"Brother Hua, I finally met you in real life. I am your fan. Can you sign me?" Zhang Hao said, and really took out a small notebook to sign.

Liu Tianwang joked while signing: "Do you say that to everyone you meet?"

"How come?" Zhang Hao shook his head, and then added: "I'm talking about movie fans for the others."

"Hahahaha..." Zhang Hao's humorous answer made Liu Tianwang smile.

"Brother Hua, let's see if we can cooperate sometime. My biggest dream since I was a child is to cooperate with you in a movie." Zhang Hao rubbed his fingers.

"Okay, it's okay." Liu Tianwang agreed very readily.

"Sister Binbing, Brother Chao, you all heard that Brother Hua has already promised me." Zhang Hao said to Li Binbing and Deng Chao who were speaking next to him.

Not to be outdone, Li Binbing said, "Director Zhang, you can't forget me when you work with Hua Tsai!"

"Of course, we all cooperate."

A few people were chatting and laughing here. After the reception, Mr. Wang and Old Freak Xu also came in through the door.

Old Freak Xu joked: "Okay, my movie hasn't been released yet, Director Zhang, you're going to poach my wall, it's too much."

"It's just..." Li Binbing added insult to injury.

"It's not fair, I want to play the role too." Old Freak Xu added.

"Ah?" Zhang Hao was taken aback.

"What? Do you think I'm not good enough? I'm also the one who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, so it's no problem to play a role!" Old Monster Xu laughed.

"Of course, it would be my honor if you are willing to act in my movie." Zhang Hao would definitely not refuse.

"Then it's settled, Hua Tsai and I will act in your next project." Old Freak Xu made the decision.

The king of the group was always smiling, thinking about the next project, Huayi took the lead again, and then tied Zhang Hao to Huayi's chariot step by step.

Among the pleasantries, the film premiere began soon.

Zhang Hao finished watching the whole movie, and frankly speaking, "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven" can be regarded as a qualified theater commercial movie.

This film has a large number of visual effects shots, and the film costs a lot of money. All the visual effects shots are led by Korean special effects companies, supplemented by several special effects companies in Hong Kong Island and the Mainland.

The effect is not bad, but the CG composition of the location of the Tongtian Buddha lacks texture on the big screen. I don’t know if it’s a time or a funding problem, but there are obviously many plot logic and loopholes.

The producer of this film is Chen Guofu, the former president of Sony Columbia Pictures Greater China, and the film also aims at the overseas copyright market.

It is difficult to recover the cost of the film if it relies solely on the box office in the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it is not a big problem to achieve profitability through overseas pre-sale of copyrights.

After the premiere ceremony, Zhang Hao and Deng Chao made an appointment to go to the crew to report, and continued to return to the studio to work.

The next day, Zhang Hao rushed to Shanghai with the crew of "Fatal Magic" and officially started the filming journey.

And "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven", as Zhang Hao expected, the audience's word of mouth is inevitably polarized, and the media is equally divided between criticism and praise.

"Shanghai Daily" stated that "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven" is the first Chinese-language film to be called an epic entertainment giant since "Hero".

Hong Kong Island's "Ming Pao" believes that this film is currently the closest Chinese-language film to Hollywood standards, and also believes that Old Monster Xu has revived the Chinese hero Di Renjie.

On the contrary, many professional film critics criticized the film a lot. Zhou Yang, who has become a loyal fan of Zhang Hao, immediately expressed in his column:

""Di Renjie" is not the martial arts movie that the audience expected, but in the final analysis, it is a suspenseful reasoning movie in ancient costume with a strong atmosphere of political criticism.

Even with the hard work of producer Chen Guofu, the logical clues of the film are still a bit off, which proves once again that the reasoning of Chinese-language films is always imprecise.

It has always been difficult for Mr. Xu's movies to be thorough and smooth at the script level. This is an old problem, not only "Di Renjie" is the most. "

Then Zhou Yang began to brag about Zhang Hao: "Here I would like to mention my favorite director Zhang Hao. Throughout Zhang Hao's two films, there are reasonable narratives and strict logic. The audience can always find clues in his films. details.

The new generation of Chinese-language film directors are showing us their unrestrained imagination and creating incredible stories of miracles. We are looking forward to "Fatal Magic" directed by Zhang. "

There are many similar film reviews. For a while, Zhang Hao's film became a textbook of suspense crime thriller films, and was regarded as a positive teaching material by many film critics and fans.

Such remarks naturally dissatisfied Liu Tianwang, Li Binbing's fans, and Mr. Xu's fans.

They think that Zhang Hao is just a junior with insufficient qualifications and no best director trophy, so why can he be compared with Old Freak Xu.

The two sides insisted on their own words and could not stop arguing.

This kind of debate will never come to fruition. Fortunately, "Di Renjie: Tongtian Empire" has a good box office. After winning 3100 million box office on the first day, it scored 1.02 million box office in the first week.

This data has become Liu Tianwang and Xu Laoguai's best box office results in the mainland, and they continue to break records.

It also proves that with the vigorous development of the Chinese film market, high box office is no longer a fantasy.

Because of the success of the movie, Chen Guofu plans to launch a sequel, telling the story of Di Renjie's prequel.

I vaguely remember that Di Renjie's IP later became the most popular IP series in NetU. Various Di Renjies emerged in endlessly, but few were of good quality.

To a certain extent, this also consumed the value of Di Renjie's IP.

As for Zhang Hao, he is not interested in participating in this IP battle.Finishing his own film honestly is his primary job.

(End of this chapter)