my movie years

Chapter 135 The Booming Movie Market

The film "Fatal Prestige" scored 1.13 million box office in the first week, and the media and public opinion overwhelmingly praised it.

Not only the online media, but even the paper media also reported the news about "Fatal Magic" on the headlines of the entertainment section.

Especially when the film's director Zhang Hao, this young director has not yet celebrated his 25th birthday, which adds a touch of legend to the film's box office.

"As the new film of a young director who is about to turn 25, Zhang Hao seems to have not stopped his mythology and continues to bring us shocking performances.

Zhang Hao proved with powerful facts that the power of this young man cannot be ignored, and he looks forward to more works of him in the future. "—"Beijing News"

"My colleagues in the editorial department and I were shocked when we heard that Zhang Hao's third work had a box office of 1.13 million in the first week.

In fact, I also watched "The Prestige", and more than once.

What amazes me is that Zhang Hao's imagination, the imagination of the younger generation of directors, seems to have no boundaries.

He achieved this when he was 25 years old. Think about it, what was I doing when I was 25 years old?

Zhang Hao still has a long way to go in the future, and he still has a long career. We look forward to more and better works from him in the future. "—Film critic Hou Jianchun.

There is only one word difference between Hou Jianchun and Hou Cichun, the director of China Film's distribution department, which makes Zhang Hao think that the two are brothers.

In the end, after asking Hou Cichun, it was discovered that the two had nothing to do with each other. Hou Jianchun was just admiring Zhang Hao.

Not only Zhang Hao, but the two leading actors Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming also received a lot of praise.

The "Beijing Times" commented: "Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming's outstanding performance in the film is enough to prove that mainland movie stars can support a movie alone after leaving Hong Kong Island movie stars.

Deng Chao has performed well, while Huang Xiaoming deserves a best actor award, and "The Prestige" will become a masterpiece of their careers as actors. "

Deng Chao's hometown media "Nanchang Morning Post" thinks: "Deng Chao has taken steps one step at a time, and has always been very solid on the road of being an actor.

Finally, on The Prestige, he reaped the rewards. "

The impact of a hit movie is in all aspects, not only Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming, Xu Qingyu Feihong, but also the leading actors such as Da Meiran are also praised.

Teacher Li Xuejian needless to say, his performance is an art.

Even the two leading actors are at a disadvantage when facing him. Many media believe that Mr. Li Xuejian deserves a best supporting actor award.

Although, Mr. Li Xuejian has already won the trophies of the best actor and Shidi all over the place.

Xu Qing and Yu Feihong cooperated with Zhang Hao for the second time, which brought a significant increase in fame.

Originally, the two had no other works in recent years, but thanks to Zhang Hao's movies, they have always maintained their popularity, and they belong to the first echelon among Mesozoic actresses.

However, the two big sisters seem to be not very interested in commercial activities and fame promotion. They even participated in the road show for the first three days, and have not participated since then.

Later, almost three men, Zhang Hao and Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming, helped to do the road show promotion.

Teacher Li Xuejian was unable to participate in the road show due to physical reasons, and Zhang Hao also expressed his understanding.

The benefits brought by a hit movie are not only the salary, but also the fame.

Deng Chao told Zhang Hao bluntly that after the box office was released in the first week, he received seven or eight more endorsements.

In addition, more than [-] script invitations were sent to him.

Huang Xiaoming is also in a similar situation. In short, the two are very happy with their decision to participate in the "Prestige" movie.

Deng Chao has decided to take over "Four Famous Catch", this film is invested, produced and distributed by Enlight Pictures, and Huayi also participated in the investment.

By the way, Sister Shenxian also took over the film.

It may be because Deng Chao is more popular, so let him take him along to see if he can get rid of the predicament of not doing well at the box office.

Although it is said that the box office of the films starred by the fairy sister is not bad, she cannot be called box office poison.

But this state of not being able to get up or down is also very uncomfortable.

Zhang Hao said earlier that she would be invited to act in a movie.But Sister Shenxian couldn't figure out whether Zhang Hao was joking or meant it for real.

Besides, if there is a suitable movie project, Zhang Hao will probably find his girlfriend, isn't that "Shark Beach"?
The media spent a lot of space in giving high praise to Zhang Hao and "The Prestige".

Almost all the media believe that after three years in the industry, Zhang Hao has reached a pinnacle of his director career.

Because of the inextricable contradictions, Chen Gezi also pays close attention to the box office of Zhang Hao's "Fatal Magic".

Originally Mrs. Chen Gezi suggested that the water army discredit Zhang Hao's movie and his reputation, but Chen Gezi did not do so.

On the contrary, they also arranged a troop to do the opposite, and tried their best to praise Zhang Hao's movie before it was released in order to raise the audience's expectations.

If the quality of the film fails to meet expectations, excessive word-of-mouth publicity will bring backlash.

Chen Gezi believes that Zhang Hao, a young man, suddenly achieves such a high achievement, he will definitely get carried away and let himself go.

But after the film was released, Chen Gezi found out that he was wrong, very wrong.

Not only because of the super high box office of the film, but also because of the super high quality of the film.

Chen Gezi went to see it. Before going, he tried his best to watch this film with an objective and fair attitude, and was convinced by this film.

Don't get me wrong, just be blown away by the film.

Chen Gezi thought to himself, although Zhang Hao is not polite, does not respect his seniors, and is very arrogant, but he is still very good at making movies.

Thinking of this, Chen Gezi instantly admired Zhang Hao a little bit.

When leaving the cinema, Chen Gezi was caught and interviewed by the reporter squatting at the entrance of the cinema despite his disguise.

So the next day, Mr. Chen, an enthusiastic citizen, expressed his impressions on "Fatal Magic".

Out of the self-esteem of a cultural person, Chen Gezi couldn't bear to say that the movie was not made well.So Chen Gezi had no choice but to avoid the important ones, and praised Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming.

"The film is still good, especially the performances of Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming. I think they have reached the best performance level of the two."

The reporter didn't recognize Chen Gezi, and then asked: "Then how do you evaluate Director Zhang Hao and his movie."

Chen Gezi's face darkened, and he hurriedly replied: "He is a good director, and the movie is not bad."

After finishing speaking, Chen Gezi left in a hurry, and the reporter shouted behind him: "Hey, sir, you haven't accepted the little gift for our interview yet!"

Chen Gezi stopped, and then walked faster, like a murderer fleeing a crime scene in a hurry.

The scene of Chen Gezi being interviewed was broadcast on the movie channel of Beijing Satellite TV the next day. Although he was disguised, careful netizens still recognized him.

As a result, the screenshots of the interview with Chen Gezi spread all over the Internet, and the meme of Mr. Chen, an enthusiastic citizen, spread all over the Internet for a while and became one of the hot words on the Internet.

Although the conflict between Chen Gezi and Zhang Hao was not publicized, anyone who paid attention would not know that there was a conflict between the two.

This Chen Gezi was able to let go of his prejudices and watch the movies of his enemies, and inadvertently set himself up with a generous image.

You see, even though Director Chen didn't agree with Director Zhang, he was still able to get rid of his prejudices, went to see Director Zhang's movie regardless of previous suspicions, and then gave a good evaluation.

Who said that Director Chen is a narrow-minded person who oppresses the younger generation, isn't he very broad-minded!

When Zhang Hao heard about this, he was shooting a magazine cover with Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming.

"Come on, look at the camera." The photographer gestured to the three of them to look at the camera.

Zhang Hao sat in the middle, and Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming stood behind Zhang Hao. The three handsome guys in the same frame were very eye-catching. At least a few female staff members had their eyes shining.

"Let's change positions again and do another set."

After changing more than a dozen different poses, the cover was shot.At that time, one will be selected as the cover, and a few more will be selected to be included in the interview article.

This is the cover shot for "Harper's Bazaar Men", the first commercial grade men's magazine in the Mainland, which belongs to Fashion Media Group.

In-depth records of China's most watched industries, people, and events, with the mainstream direction of shaping the successful taste of Chinese men.

Fashion Media Group owns several fashion magazines, among which the most famous ones are "Bazaar Men" and "Men's Wear".

Compared with "Bazaar Men", "Men's Wear" generally invites beautiful female star models as the cover of the magazine.

Da Mi Mi appeared as a cover character in the May issue of "Men's Wear", and the magazine is also an aspect of star influence.

And "The Prestige", as the hottest Chinese movie in June, has two male stars, Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming, and "Harper's Harper's Bazaar" selected them as the cover characters.

As a result, Deng Chao received the invitation and said to Zhang Hao, "Director, will you come out with us?"

"This is a page for you guys, what's the matter if I go up?" Zhang Hao didn't want to go up.

But Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming disagreed and insisted on bringing Zhang Hao along.

The director of the "Bazaar Men" magazine saw that Zhang Hao's image was so good, it was a pity, so he agreed.

In this way, Zhang Hao shot for the first time in his life for a fashion magazine, and the experience was quite strange.

It's not that Zhang Hao has never shot a magazine cover before, but that was the cover of "Movie Weekly", this time it was a fashion magazine.

As the behind-the-scenes director, Zhang Hao thinks he has no sense of fashion.

As everyone knows, his clear style of dressing has become popular on the Internet, and it has also attracted many people to imitate.

And every time he attends the awards ceremony, he wears the same Armani suit, which makes Armani catch his heat every time.

Armani just didn't think about sending Zhang Hao an endorsement invitation, maybe Armani didn't think Zhang Hao was qualified enough.

While rubbing the heat, while thinking that Zhang Hao is not qualified, this is Armani.

Zhang Hao didn't care about these side details, since his mother bought the clothes.

Da Mi Mi has decided that if there is a next time, she will buy a brand new suit for Zhang Hao.

She is a very good girlfriend, and she is very considerate considering her boyfriend's public image.

After the shooting of the magazine here, the assistant Tang Qianqian came up to her, and told Zhang Hao about Chen Gezi being caught for an interview,

Zhang Hao was taken aback: "Really?"

"Really, it's spread all over the Internet." Tang Qianqian said.

Zhang Hao couldn't help thinking, could this be some kind of signal from Chen Gezi?
But even so, it is impossible for Zhang Hao and Chen Gezi to get back together after doing things beyond the bottom line.

Maybe Chen Gezi just went to see how his movie was doing, and then picked his faults.

But I didn't expect that Zhang Hao's movie was so good that Chen Gezi couldn't find a point to criticize.

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday is over, and "The Prestige" continues to run in theaters in the second week.

However, because the film is too brain-intensive and complicated, it still had a certain impact on the box office.

It won 1.13 million in the first three days, and only won 1.32 million in the second week and seven days. It lost to "Kung Fu Panda 0.05" with a gap of 2 billion, and continued to rank second in the weekly box office.

However, within ten days of its release, the film earned 2.45 million. It seems that it is not a problem to exceed the 2.93 million of Zhang Hao's previous film "Genius Gunner".

The media predicted that the final box office of the film will be around 3.5 million, which is about the same as Zhang Hao expected.

When Chen Gezi heard about the box office results created by "Fatal Magic" in the second week, he almost cut off his pen.

It was unlucky enough to be caught while watching "The Prestige of Prestige" before, but later the comments turned around and gave him a broad-minded image.

But as soon as the box office of "The Magic" came out, Chen Gezi was not calm again.

How much is the box office of "Orphan of Zhao"? 1.03 million, not even as high as the first-week box office of "The Prestige".

Chen Gezi couldn't help but have a question in his heart: "Am I really old?"

No, Chen Gezi didn't believe it, he looked at the item in his hand. "Search" must make achievements.

The production cost of "Fatal Prestige" is 5000 million, and the cost of publicity and distribution is about 500 million. In fact, the goal of profitability has been achieved through the box office film.

What's more, this is not the end. No one can imagine what the film's final income will be.

The second week is over, "Fatal Magic" ended its road show, Zhang Hao also returned to Haotian Studio in Beijing, and was warmly welcomed by the studio staff.

The reason everyone is so enthusiastic is certainly not because the boss is handsome.But because the movie is a big hit at the box office, everyone will have a generous bonus.

After dealing with the backlog of affairs in the studio, Zhang Hao, who has been busy for a while, rarely has time to rest.

Assistant Tang Xixi reported: "Boss, overseas film companies are actively negotiating copyright with us, and we expect a good result.

In addition, Mr. Yu asked you if you want to hold a celebration banquet. "

Upon hearing this, Zhang Hao immediately said, "Do it, why can't it be held? We don't hold a celebration banquet for our box office hits, wouldn't it make people look down upon us?"

"Okay, then I'll communicate with Mr. Yu's assistant." Tang Xiqian wrote it down in her work log.

Zhang Hao thought about it and said, "Well, please send an invitation to Qin Hao for me, and invite him to the celebration banquet. I have something to talk to him about."

"Okay, I'll talk to his manager." Tang Qianqian wrote down the matter and went out to handle errands.

In terms of overseas copyrights, since Zhang Hao's two consecutive films have achieved good results in Asia, his films have also become popular projects for film studios in other Asian regions.

It is conceivable that copyright income will be a lot of money at that time.

In addition, TV broadcast rights, Internet broadcast rights, DVD and other peripheral income that have not disappeared yet.

Generally speaking, in the early stage, the box office is the most important income of a movie, but it is not the most important.

As time goes by, the proportion of box office revenue will decline, while peripheral copyright revenue will rise sharply.

The already finalized "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is an obvious example.

The box office performance of The Little Wizard has always been good, and it is almost a box office bomb every year, bringing good profits to the producer Warner.

But compared to the peripheral income of the little wizard, that little box office performance is simply not worth mentioning.

Theme parks, peripheral products, including wizard hats, costumes, jewelry, and series spin-offs, games, etc., just one "Harry Potter" has created an industrial chain of more than [-] billion US dollars.

Although Chinese-language movies are far behind Hollywood in terms of peripheral development, they are still a big part of movie revenue.

What's more, Cai Runping, the executive of Haotian Studio, is obviously very ambitious. She submitted a plan to Zhang Hao, which is a variety show called "Magic Show Tonight".

Zhang Hao read the planning case, and based on his experience of watching variety shows in his previous life, he gave Cai Runping some suggestions. After Cai Runping revised it, Zhang Hao agreed to implement it.

Currently, Cai Runping is in contact with several TV stations with a planning proposal. Among them, Dragon TV and Beijing Satellite TV have clearly expressed their interest and are willing to work with Haotian Studio to create this variety show.

It has something to do with magic, so it can be considered peripheral development.

"Tonight's Magic Show" is like this. It plans to invite several famous magicians as judges, including Liu Qian who is now on fire.

Then recruit outstanding magicians from the folk, and compete step by step just like music drafts, to compete for the final championship.

I don't know if such a variety show is interesting, but Zhang Hao wants to give it a try, and also increase some revenue points for the studio.

As for the celebration banquet, after what happened last time, Yu Dong was still worried that Zhang Hao was afraid that such things would happen again, so he refused to hold the celebration banquet.

But Zhang Hao unexpectedly agreed.

Then there is nothing to say, just hold it well!
Just pay special attention this time, the list of the celebration banquet is strictly drawn up, and the entourage must go through security checks to ensure that there are no problems.

Those who come uninvited are not allowed to enter. If you feel that there is a problem and you don't cooperate, then don't participate.

Now it is others who are begging to attend the celebration banquet, not they begging for someone to attend the celebration banquet.

Bona Films is the host, with Huayi and Tang Ren assisting.In contrast, some of Huayi and Tang Ren's artists will be present.

China Film is a national film company, so it's not good to hold a celebration banquet with great fanfare, it's too ostentatious.

So they just sent a deputy chief assistant to take care of the matter, and the third master specifically asked about security issues to protect Zhang Hao.

In today's civilized society, some people actually disregard the law, and it is recognized that they have crossed the bottom line and played tricks without a lower limit.

Obviously the third master is also angry, he wants to protect Zhang Hao, a junior of Beijing Film Studio.

Due to status reasons, the third master could not attend.

But he still sent his daughter Han Jianv to attend the celebration banquet on his behalf, which was enough to give Zhang Hao face.

The reason why Zhang Hao invited Qin Hao to attend the celebration banquet was because of his next project.

As a director, what you pursue is nothing more than commercial achievements and awards.Zhang Hao has already proved himself in terms of business achievements, and will continue to prove himself in the future.

But in terms of awards, he still lacks.

To this day, the most important awards that Zhang Hao has won are the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer Director and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director's Debut.

Although it won a best director trophy at the Beijing College Student Film Festival, this film festival is seriously insufficient in terms of authority, and it is not an internationally recognized A-category film festival.

Therefore, even in order to keep pace with Chen Gezi in terms of honor, Zhang Hao must at least win one of the three major film festivals in Europe.

But there is a problem, Zhang Hao's age is a flaw, and his qualifications are not enough.

It is easy for the judges to despise him because of his age when selecting domestic awards. I don't know that foreign judges will not.

By the way, Zhang Hao also wants to try to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, even if it is nominated.

You know, this is one of the few golden ages.

In a few more years, ZZ will pervade Hollywood, and the Oscars will become less and less popular. Coupled with the increasingly sharp conflicts between the two sides, it will become very, very difficult for Chinese-language films to break through the Oscars.

But no matter what the result is, Zhang Hao wants to give it a try.

This is his capital for promotion, from a first-class commercial director to a top director.

On Qin Hao's side, he had just finished filming "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and planned to take a break, so he received an invitation from Zhang Hao.

"You are the only one who received the invitation, Qin Hao." The manager said excitedly.

"What is director Zhang Hao looking for from me?" Qin Hao asked doubtfully.

"I've known about it before, but I guess I want to talk to you about the project. This is director Zhang Hao's new film. You have to seize the opportunity!" said the manager.

Qin Hao once starred in "Green Red", participated in the Venice International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Actor in the Golden Horse Award for "A Night in the Spring Breeze".

But his current social status is not high, and he is probably not even a second-tier male star.

This is also a common problem of acting in literary and artistic films, and the social status and celebrity status cannot be raised.

As an actor, in addition to acting and artistic pursuits, who would not want to pursue a higher status?But there are very few opportunities to give Qin Hao, because he can hardly be found in commercial masterpieces, and they are all in the pockets of those first-line stars.

What Qin Hao wondered was why a commercial director like Zhang Hao would find him. Could it be that Zhang Hao wants to make a literary film?
Qin Hao's guess was correct. The film Zhang Hao prepared indeed belonged to the category of literary films, to be precise, it was a literary film related to the dead.

Zhang Hao always pays attention to the little life next door, especially the action movies of the little life.

In this process, I noticed such a special film, and this film once won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

In fact, Zhang Hao is not going to remake this film, or he does not need to remake, because in this timeline, he is the original creator.

What he wants to bring to everyone is "The Undertaker", a movie whose title seems to be a horror movie, but is actually very healing.

I have to say that Xiao Day has done quite well in some movie themes, but now these are Zhang Hao's.

And it's a tit for tat, back then we stole our own stuff a lot back then.

It's louder than the guy next door, who made a lot of money with a muffled voice in his childhood,
So much so that when mentioning Monkey King abroad, people think of "Dragon Ball", and when mentioning the Three Kingdoms, people think of the game developed by Guangrong.

Zhang Hao has no ability to take back these things that belong to him, but he can turn their things into his own and exchange them to the limit.

But for some reason, Zhang Hao still felt that he was at a loss!
(End of this chapter)