my movie years

Chapter 127

Although Zhang Hao has no intention of falling into the arms of Wanda Films, the person in charge of Wanda Films is also very happy to get the promise of cooperation.

However, the copyright competition for "Ghost Blowing out the Lantern" cannot be given up. After a tug-of-war, Haotian Studio won the copyright of the first four novels in the series, and Wanda Pictures won the copyright of the last four.

Qidian received a large amount of copyright fees, and was very happy. How to adapt the film after that is a matter between Haotian Studio and Wanda Pictures.

Cai Runping was very dissatisfied with the results this time, thinking of so many novel copyrights on the Qidian Novel website, so she wanted to fight for a few more copyrights.

However, after this copyright negotiation, the senior executives of the starting point realized the potential of their own IP, and did not intend to sell the copyright at will.

Therefore, after Cai Runping contacted Chen Dong, she only got the copyright of "Tomb of the Gods", and the copyright of other novels was frustrated, so she had to give up.

Zhang Hao was very surprised when he heard Cai Runping's work report. He thought that he would earn money if he only got the first four novels in the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series.

Unexpectedly, Cai Runping actually talked about "God's Tomb".

Zhang Hao is not a fan of online literature, but he has heard of the reputation of this novel to some extent.

Maybe this novel is not as good as the other "Shading the Sky" by the later author, but it is also a well-known online novel IP.

It's a pity that "Shading the Sky" only started serialization in October this year, and its author Chen Dong has no intention of selling the film and television adaptation rights of the novel, otherwise it would be quite good to get this one.

To make money, as long as you don't break the law, it's understandable.As I said before, it’s all about earning money anyway, rather than letting others earn it, it’s better to earn it yourself.

Having settled the map of future career development, Zhang Hao cared about another matter.

"Is Chen Gezi's "Orphan of Zhao" going to be released?"

After a hard day of filming, Zhang Hao asked his assistant, Tang Qianqian, after everyone had returned to their rooms after a small meeting at night.

Tang Xiqian replied, "Yes, December [-]th, which happens to be Friday."

"Okay, since it's going to be screened, don't cheer him up or something, I'm sorry for our friendship." Zhang Hao said ironically.

Tang Qianqian naturally understood Zhang Hao's meaning: "Then I will immediately arrange a navy to create momentum for them."

"It must be arranged well..." Zhang Hao showed a meaningful smile.

As the new work of a great director, and it tells such a well-known story, "The Orphan of the Zhao Family" has received a lot of attention.

It doesn't matter even if some audiences don't understand the story, the distributor will let the audience know the story through publicity when it is announced, so as to attract the audience to enter the theater to watch the movie.

Moreover, the lineup of this movie is quite strong. Uncle Ge, Huang Xiaoming, and Fan Binbing are very bluffing.

Huang Xiaoming's injury just happened recently, and not long after he started filming, he and Zhang Hao asked for leave to participate in the road show promotion of "The Orphan of Zhao".

There are conflicts with Chen Gezi, but Zhang Hao didn't get stuck with Huang Xiaoming not to let him participate in the promotion, but it is certain to make trouble secretly.

Therefore, when the publicity of "The Orphan of Zhao" was in full swing, a voice suddenly appeared on the Internet, pointing out that "The Orphan of Zhao" had a small day next door to participate in the investment.

There are small days to participate, and the story is still told by our ancestors themselves, which is not bad.

As a result, driven by the navy, many angry youth netizens were filled with righteous indignation, and began to follow the rhythm everywhere, and the flames of war burned all over the Internet.

In the beginning, I just sprayed a movie about my own history and asked people from small days to invest. This is too much. What if people ask to tamper with history?
Because the film hasn't been released yet, let's put on the label of tampering with history first.

Then it evolved into the fact that whoever goes to the cinema to watch this movie is a capitulator, adulterer, in order to achieve the purpose of discrediting.

When I heard that Xiaotian participated in the investment, this affected the choices of many viewers to a certain extent.

After all, in the mainstream public opinion, if it has something to do with Xiaotian on the other side, it shows that there is a problem with this matter, and it is not small.

Naturally, the producer of "The Orphan of Zhao" can't sit still, it's just a navy, it's no secret now, who wouldn't?

So the producer also arranged for the navy to wash the ground, bringing some positive rhythm to "The Orphan of the Zhao Family".

While praising the quality of the film, he said that someone maliciously smeared it.

Even the producer came forward to say that the film did not come from investors from Little Days at all.But even if there is, the producer dare not admit it at this time.

Although the review was conducted in a timely manner, the public opinion on the Internet has spread, which still affects the senses and choices of many viewers.

Chen Gezi took the crew to various roadshow promotional activities, and naturally heard about this matter. After hearing the direction of the Internet public opinion, Chen Gezi looked worried.

After an event, Chen Gezi and Mrs. Chen returned to the backstage to chat alone.

Mrs. Chen said resentfully: "This must be the work of that kid surnamed Zhang. Last time he went to the navy to scold us, and this time he came to discredit our movie again."

Although Chen Gezi was also angry, he looked at it openly: "This is normal, so you are allowed to target others, but they are not allowed to target you?
This kid Zhang Hao can bear it until now before he takes the initiative to make a move. I underestimate this kid's patience. "

"Then what should we do now?" Mrs. Chen asked.

"What to do, what to do, with the strong appeal of our film, there is no need to worry about such gossip." Chen Gezi looked confident:

"Furthermore, we have recovered costs and even made money through overseas copyright pre-sales, and the mainland box office is a pure profit.

He can target us, can't we target him?When his movie is released, hum..."

Chen Gezi's words enlightened Mrs. Chen, and her eyes lit up: "Yes, maybe we can find someone to create another accident, just like last time."

Chen Gezi's eyes were fixed: "Huh? You know the details of what happened last time?"

"No," Mrs. Chen shook her head repeatedly, "How could I know the details, isn't it an accident?
Although I have conflicts with their family, I really can't do such a thing. "

Chen Gezi looked skeptical, but he still chose to believe and did not ask.

In order to know more about his opponent, Chen Gezi called Huang Xiaoming in; "Xiao Ming, you are filming in the crew directed by Xiao Zhang, tell me what the film he filmed is like."

Of course Huang Xiaoming knew about the entanglement between Chen Gezi and Zhang Hao, although he didn't know what was going on.Neither of them belonged to the same era, so they got into trouble.

But he is smart enough not to choose sides, and Zhang Hao didn't dismiss him because he starred in Chen Gezi's movie, everyone has their own opinions.

Now that Chen Gezi asked this, Huang Xiaoming couldn't evade it, so he tried to use vague and uncertain language to prevaricate: "Well, director, you know that I am an actor, so far I haven't seen the finished film.

But when shooting, I still feel very good, it is a wonderful story. "

"Okay, I see, you go out!"

After Huang Xiaoming went out, Chen Gezi fell into deep thought.

No effective information can be heard in just a few words, and Zhang Hao's script is his own original story, not an adaptation or a historical allusion.

In short, before seeing the whole picture of the film, Chen Gezi couldn't understand what kind of film "The Prestige" is.

But the crux of the problem now is that his film is still in production, and his film will soon see the truth.

Originally, "The Orphan of the Zhao Family" was released on December [-]th, but because there was a problem with one version of the camera, it was temporarily revised and postponed to December [-]th.

On the night of December [-]th, "The Orphan of Zhao" held a grand premiere ceremony in Beijing.

With Chen Gezi's own connections and prestige, many people in the circle attended.But what is strange is that no one from China Film and Bona was present.

Although the two companies are not the investors of "The Orphan of Zhao", but Chen Gezi has such a big face, he should send a representative to show up!

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that the bosses of these two companies are both old men from Beijing Film Studio.

The conflict between Chen Gezi and Zhang Hao is well known to everyone. Although Chen Gezi is old, he is also an old man in the Beijing circle.

But bullying the small with the big, has been holding on to Zhang Hao, which is obviously what the two bosses don't want to see.

This also revealed a signal, implicitly expressing the attitude of the two bosses in supporting Zhang Hao, and it was also a silent warning to Chen Gezi.

For the sake of Chen Gezi, he has a reputation and status, and all he wants is face.

The origin of the conflict between the two is no longer important in several confrontations.

But even pinching Zhang Hao like this has nothing to do with him, and it seems that Chen Gezi has lost face severely. The people in the circle are eating melons and eating them, and they are all watching the show!

In the minds of each with their own ghosts, "The Orphan of Zhao" set sail in the theaters.

Uncle Ge’s strong box office appeal is still very strong, and Fan Ye and Huang Xiaoming also have a large number of fans, and a large number of fans flooded in on the first day.

Zhang Hao also became concerned about the box office of "The Orphan of Zhao": "How is the movie's box office?"

"Not bad, 1800 million box office on the first day." Tang Xiqian said.

"What about the quality of the film?" Zhang Hao asked.

Because Zhang Hao didn't have time, Tang Qianqian watched the film on Zhang Hao's behalf.

Tang Xiqian shook her head and said, "I think Uncle Ge's ancient costume is so ugly, and Mr. Fan has nothing but beauty.

The plot is very torn, the mix and match style is serious, the picture is not pleasing, and the entire color layout is very rough. "

"Is this your personal opinion?"

"No, in order to watch this movie without prejudice, I also asked a few good friends to watch it, and their feedback was like this." Tang Xiqian explained.

"That's it," Zhang Hao nodded and said, "Then I understand, let the navy keep watching."

"Okay," Tang Qianqian went to communicate with the leader of the navy.

Just like the feedback sent by Tang Xiqian's good friend, "The Orphan of Zhao" has a bad reputation after its release. In addition, there was a lot of noise about the small life investment before, which cast a shadow over the film's prospects.

After that, "The Orphan of Zhao" scored 2350 million box office on Saturday and 2106 million on Sunday, but its reputation was even worse.

Coupled with the continuous rhythm of the trolls, a large number of smears and attacks on the film caused the film's box office to fall off a cliff after the first weekend.

The film only received 936 million box office on Monday, which has not exceeded [-] million.

This is not over yet. On Tuesday, the film continued to fall, and the single-day box office fell to 687 million.

It can be said that if it weren't for the strong appeal of Uncle Ge and other stars, this film, which is not wonderful at all, might have suffered a tragic defeat in Waterloo under the siege of the navy.

The box office is Waterloo, and the word-of-mouth is not good. After Douban opened its score on Tuesday, countless trolls poured in to score with fans who didn't like the movie.

The score of 4.9 is very dazzling, and it is not even comparable to the 5.4 score of "The Promise".

Frankly speaking, "Orphan of Zhao" is not guilty of this.According to objective reviews, the quality of the film is indeed average, but there are still scores above six.

But everyone has seen the power of the navy's scoring in "Farewell My Concubine", "Genius Gunner", and "Manslaughter".

"Farewell My Concubine" has not recovered to more than nine points, and "Manslaughter" has even dropped, falling to 7.6 points.

As a very important reference tool, many movie fans still care about Douban scores.

Not only the ratings, but even the comment section is very unfavorable to "Orphan of Zhao".

Except for all kinds of comments made by the navy: it's not good, and I slept in the movie theater for two hours.

Other film critics also criticized the film from various angles, almost verbal criticism.

For example, the well-known film critic Hou Jianchun criticized this film in his column; "The core purpose of "The Orphan of Zhao" is to create Cheng Ying, who seriously violates the traditional Chinese patriarchal ethics, abandons his parents and children, and treats others The tragic heroic role of civilians who bring up children.

As far as the intentional expression of this core theme is concerned, the audience can indeed have a certain sense of identity with Cheng Ying's image of a civilian hero.

But when it comes to the overall quality of the film, flaws abound.

The biggest failure lies in the top-heavy plot and inappropriate mix-and-match style.

"The Orphan of Zhao" can also better reflect a major symptom of Chinese-style blockbusters that have evolved for nearly 10 years, that is, the intensified abandonment of the real life in contemporary China.

The high cost, the participation of many stars, and the release date has already been confirmed on the day of filming, causing the main creators to walk on eggshells as if they are facing an abyss, and to avoid the risk of censorship as the top priority. "

Zhou Yang, who is half a film critic, also expressed his opinion on Douban: "As a loyal audience who has watched "Farewell My Concubine", I have always had higher expectations for director Chen Gezi.

Affected by public opinion, I didn't plan to go to the cinema to watch this movie.But thinking of writing a review for this movie, I went to see it.

It may be that the standard of "Farewell My Concubine" is too high. Now the form of the films directed by Chen Gezi is greater than the content. I suggest that director Chen Gezi make another film that reflects Liyuan. "

There are many other similar comments. In short, this "Orphan of Zhao" has received a lot of criticism.

As a cultural director, Chen Gezi still cares about the reputation of his films.

During the road show, he was interviewed by the media and defended himself: "Some people always live in the past era and feel the sunset of the past era.

But I never thought about embracing the rising sun of the new era. "

A cultural director, even the defense is so cultured, full of all kinds of metaphors.

But no matter how Chen Gezi defends, it can't change the ending of "The Orphan of Zhao" at the box office.

Fortunately, the film has already made money through overseas copyright pre-sales, otherwise, Chen Gezi will lose the trust of the investors after a few more visits.

Regardless of whether the film's reputation is good or bad, there is an eternal truth in the film industry: films need to make money.

This truth applies no matter in the mainland, Hong Kong or Taiwan, or in Hollywood, the center of the world film industry.

For movie investors, as long as they make money, a bad movie is a good movie.

But if it doesn't make money, even "The Shawshank Redemption" will be a bad movie in the eyes of investors.

In fact, "The Shawshank Redemption", which is at the forefront of Douban and IMDB movie history, took more than ten years to recover its cost.

It took such a long period of time to recover the cost, which made the film's investors, Stone Castle Pictures and Sony Columbia Pictures, vomit blood.

Since then, there has been no news about the director Frank Darabont who made this classic movie.

Until recently, there was news that the first season of the American drama "The Walking Dead" directed by him will be broadcast soon.

As we all know, American dramas usually have five or six or even seven or eight directors.

Now it’s not like later, directors and actors who can make movies now usually don’t touch TV dramas.

In addition to Tom Hanks returning favors, and Spielberg wants to control the investment, only Woody Allen, who is not normal, and David Fincher, the weirdo, will go to make TV series.

This shows how important it is to make money for a movie.

So even though Chen Gezi's "The Orphan of Zhao" did not perform well at the mainland box office, he still has not lost the trust of investors and can continue his career as a director.

The quality of the film itself is average, but the competition for the Lunar New Year schedule is quite fierce.

Soon, "The Orphan of Zhao" ushered in a heavyweight opponent, Jiang Wen's painstaking work: "Let the Bullets Fly".

How to evaluate this movie, three words: good movie.

Jiang Wen has a good grasp of the balance between business and art, making the whole film a big-screen artwork worthy of repeated savoring.

Jiang Wen's Uncle Ge Fa Ge's show with three big stars also made a lot of movie fans fascinated.

There is no doubt that "Let the Bullets Fly" was a great success, and Jiang Wen, a talented filmmaker, once again entered the audience's field of vision.

The film scored 3018 million box office on the first day of its release, creating a first-day box office second only to "Tangshan Earthquake", ranking second in the first-day box office record of domestic films.

After that, the film continued to make great strides, and it scored 1.7 million box office in the first week, successfully breaking the first-week box office record of "Tangshan Earthquake".

As for "The Orphan of Zhao", it was completely smashed in the second week of its release. Whether the film's mainland box office can break through [-] million is still a question.

Now it's all right, Jiang Wen made a positive teaching material, so Tang Qianqian arranged for the navy to start using Jiang Wen to discredit Chen Gezi.

Chen Gezi also had nothing to say, it is true that his movie was made well.

He also couldn't scold the audience like Feng Dapao, so he had to write poems on Weibo to express his views. The connotation of these rubbish audiences didn't understand and didn't know how to appreciate his movies.

Privately, Chen Gezi was also very angry. After the road show was over, he sued the children of the core courtyard in the Beijing circle with a black complaint.

"I'm talking about Lao Chen, don't worry, you are not from the same era, why do you keep getting along with others?" A student from a big courtyard said loudly, smoking a cigarette and putting his arms around a second-tier actress.

Chen Gezi frowned secretly, this actress was introduced by Mrs. Chen again.

How many times have I told her not to do this kind of thing and she won't listen.

It is plausible that if it weren't for her, Chen Gezi would not be able to maintain his position in the circle.

Although she is very upset about this kind of thing, Mrs. Chen is right, it is this kind of relationship that maintains the relationship with the inner circle.

Of course, there are more other relationships than that.

This kid obviously didn't want to embarrass Zhang Hao. After all, Zhang Hao was also one of his own, even though he had never visited the pier.

Chen Gezi defended himself: "It's not that I rely on the old to sell the old and deliberately bully the younger generation. It's really that he is too much. He doesn't give me any face and deliberately smears my movie and my family."

"Old Chen, it's wrong for you to say that. Didn't I remember that you started it first? You were behind the celebration banquet last time, right?" The child opened his mouth with a heavy cannon, which blasted Chen's pigeons to the point where they were scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. .

Chen Gezi immediately denied it: "How is it possible? Wherever I instigate coal bosses who are worth hundreds of millions, they did it themselves, and then blamed me."

"Hey, you should be lucky, thanks to the hard-talking coal boss, we also made arrangements to prevent him from biting around, which saved your reputation.

Old Chen, if you want to be a cultural person, you must cherish your feathers! "

Chen Gezi's expression turned green and pale, his face changed for a long time, and finally he left in a hurry.

It seems that it is impossible to find a way to get Zhang Hao from the younger generation. He, Chen Gezi, is a member of the circle, isn't Zhang Hao?

There is a saying in the circle that it is better to offend the old than the young.

If Zhang Hao cannot be pressed to death, one day Zhang Hao will make a comeback, then how should the person who helped Chen Gezi press Zhang Hao to death deal with himself?
So the disciples clearly meant that they planned to stand by and stay out of the matter.

Although it is said that Chen Gezi and Mrs. Chen have a lot of complaints from their children, the second-tier actress is the proof.

But this kind of thing is tacitly understood by everyone, and by default, second-tier actresses are also willing.

If she doesn't want to, there is no way to force her. At most, she has no resources, no layout, no fame and no projects.

If you want to be an ordinary person, the big man will not embarrass others.

To put it bluntly, everyone does this kind of thing because of your own will, and it is not a feudal society, and most of the time they will not force good people into prostitution.

So, this kind of thing can't be used.

Moreover, Chen Gezi didn't dare to use this matter to threaten important people to help him with his affairs. He wanted the fish to die and the net to be broken. The fish died, but the net could not be broken.

Seeing that Chen Gezi came here in high spirits, but returned in disappointment, a certain younger brother asked the leading man, "Are we really not going to help Old Chen? He has done a good job in the past few years."

The leading man shook his head and said: "We don't want to get involved in this matter, after all, it won't look good when we end up.

After all, Zhang Hao is also one of us. If we end up dealing with a junior, wouldn't it be a joke for others? "

"That's right, then watch them fight?"

"Fight, fight, keep fighting if you can't figure it out, I think Lao Chen will fall into Zhang Hao's hands sooner or later."

"So confident?"

"Just wait and see!" The big man looked very confident.

There was still a word that the big man didn't say, but Yu Feihong had already spoken, and Zhang Hao covered her.

This beauty is unfathomable, plus Xu Qing, as long as Zhang Hao doesn't die, it is a proper two amulets.

It's all about the background, who doesn't know who?

He didn't want to get involved with the person that his aunt wanted to protect.

Otherwise, if his aunt goes to sue, he will be beaten again...

(End of this chapter)