ghost on paper

Chapter 519 5000 million box office (Earth)

Zeng Yi turned around and saw Chen Ye.

Chen Yeren was dressed like a dog in a suit, but his tie had come loose. He probably wasn't used to it either.

Zeng Yi hurriedly wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes. She didn't want anyone else to see this vulnerability except herself.

"Oh~ I'm still crying." Chen Ye said, "It's not the time to chase me across the country to get back the 5 yuan air ticket money. I heard that you can earn 150 million from a movie now. Can you earn so much money? Why are you crying? It’s pretentious.”

"You know nothing! I've been banned..." Zeng Yi felt inexplicably indulgent. Facing Chen Ye, she realized that she didn't need to be on guard, so her eyes became moist again.

"Okay, okay, just ban it, just ban it. Is there anything worth crying about? I'm crying like a girl!" Chen Ye said impatiently.

Why don't you let people cry when they are banned?Besides, aren’t I just a girl?Zeng Yi was stunned by the scolding.

"Let's go, do me a favor, go to the premiere, and cry later." Chen Ye pulled Zeng Yi quickly towards another screening room in Shanghai Cinema.

"What premiere?" Zeng Yi didn't understand, but she realized that she wanted to see someone, so she took out a small mirror to touch up her makeup as she walked.

"It's the premiere of "The Man on the Road"." Chen Ye said, "You don't even care about my movie. Fortunately, I went to Hong Kong to watch the premiere of your movie."

""The Man on the Road"... huh? That movie was made?!" Zeng Yi was surprised, "I thought you ran away with Mr. Tang's 500 million!"

"Five million is not enough to run away..." Chen Ye had already pulled Zeng Yi outside a screening room. He stood still, took a deep breath, and asked Zeng Yi: "Are you ready?"

"Okay...?" Zeng Yi was still a little confused.

Chen Ye bent his arm, and Zeng Yi took his arm. The two pushed the door and entered the screening hall. There were many people in the hall. Huang Bo, as the host, was interacting with Ang Lee on the stage, and a group of reporters were sitting in the audience. , Zeng Yi had the impression that these reporters were the same ones who interviewed "Lust, Caution" before, and the words "Shanghai Premiere of "On the Road" were displayed on the screen behind the stage.

So, this is the premiere of "Lust, Caution" turned upside down, even the director and reporters are reused?

What else do you do?

Zeng Yi felt that it was an eye-opener.

Seeing Chen Ye coming in with Zeng Yi, Huang Bo smiled and said, "Our director and leading actor are here~"

"Thank you, everyone, thank you everyone~" Chen Ye first arranged Zeng Yi to the audience, then walked onto the stage with his hands folded, took the microphone and naturally started to brag: ""On the Road" is a film produced by Director Li Although the cost is small, the production is absolutely wonderful. For this premiere, Director Li specially arranged the premiere of "Lust, Caution" here, which shows his confidence in this film. Our production team believes that, The box office of this movie will never be less than 1 million yuan!"

The reporters came to such an anonymous movie conference just to see Ang Lee's face. Now when they heard Chen Ye speaking like this on the stage, and Ang Lee had not objected yet, they couldn't help but become interested.

You know, before this year, there were very few films with over 2000 million box office in mainland China, such as "The Promise", "Heroes", "The Golden Armor", "Transformers" and other major domestic and foreign directors' big productions. There has never been an example of a small-budget production with a box office of over [-] million. "Crazy Stone", which is regarded as a masterpiece, only had a box office of more than [-] million.

"Director Li, do you think it is possible for this movie to have a box office of over [-] million?" a reporter asked.

Although Chen Ye stood on the stage, the reporter's question was still directed to Li An, because what Chen Ye said would be insignificant in the media.

Ang Lee glanced at Chen Ye, with a box office of over [-] million... It's definitely not that easy, and it's even delusional. But standing here, he couldn't make a clear refutation. After all, everyone wanted to save face, so he said vaguely: "There is still a possibility."

Reporters were immediately interested. This unknown film produced by an unknown young director would be completely different if it had Ang Lee's platform. Besides the director himself, the two leading actors are also very topical. Since "A World Without Thieves" and "Soldiers", Wang Baoqiang has become the only one in the domestic entertainment industry as a special actor. Although he cannot hold the box office, he is quite popular. The same is true for Huang Bo. Putting it all together, this "People on the Road" seems to be worth looking forward to.

……

Zeng Yi watched Ang Lee being driven on the stage by Chen Ye, and had to agree with those remarks that sounded completely unreliable. He felt funny and somewhat relieved. After all, no matter what, this movie was finally made. .

She used to be so worried that Chen Ye was not doing his job properly and his stance was from top to bottom, but now that she was banned, Chen Ye's movie had already been made. This gap made her happy and sad at the same time.

This feeling is hard to describe, so until everything was over on the stage and Chen Ye sat next to her, she was still in a thoughtful and distracted state.

When Chen Ye saw her like this, he said, "Being banned from the country is nothing. Let's go back to Hollywood and get a movie queen and see what those people's expressions are like."

"Queen, what movie queen? Venice Film Festival or Berlin Film Festival?" Zeng Yi said lazily. She just felt very tired now.

"Oscars, there's nothing interesting about European film festivals, their influence is too bad, and it's not commercially viable at all." Chen Ye said.

"Ha~ I'll lend you some good advice." Of course Zeng Yi didn't believe it, "I'll let you know when I dream about it."

"You, you have long hair and short knowledge." Chen Ye curled his lips.

Ah.Zeng Yi smiled.With Chen Ye here, although she was still in a bad mood, the feeling of loneliness just now disappeared. It was like a dark and cold night, when she was groping alone in the rain and was welcomed into a room with a warm fireplace. In her room, the orange sparks drove away the loneliness and coldness. Although the world was still the same, she at least had someone to rely on.

The movie begins.

As the light and shadow changed, the audience's attention began to be invested in the world shown on the screen. The same was true for Zeng Yi. She was a little curious about what kind of movie Chen Ye could make with 500 million, and how dare he claim to be able to do so. to hundreds of millions in box office.Then she started laughing.

She started laughing when Wang Baoqiang drank a lot of milk at the airport.

Huang Bo, Chen Ye and Wang Baoqiang were driving a tractor that broke down on the mountain road. Chen Ye climbed up a tree to find a mobile phone signal, but a bear rushed out of the woods. The three of them fell to the ground together and pretended to be dead, and then pretended to be dead. Crawling away, she laughed even harder.

While laughing, he hit Chen Ye on the arm, which meant "How could you shoot such a thing?"

It's too sweet.

Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang listened to the laughter and laughter in the entire cinema, feeling happy and excited in their hearts.

Chen Ye has always been confident about this movie. He said that although the cost is small, it is a "three-in-one" masterpiece. What is "three-in-one" is to put the material and jokes that were originally crammed into the three movies. When I came to a movie, Chen Ye said that it only cost 500 million. That was the production cost. In terms of box office, it should be "1+2+3". In theory, it would exceed 30 billion. With a discount, it would be 1 million are left.

Everyone in the crew was baffled by Chen Ye's statement. Not to mention the discount of 30 billion to 1 million, and the fractures were not so severe. They just said that as long as there is a box office of 1 million, everyone in the crew should burn incense and worship Buddha statues. The gold statue still fulfilled his wish, especially Huang Bo, who invested hundreds of thousands of wife's money in the movie.

Now, at the premiere, Chen Ye's confidence was initially verified. After the movie, the restless audience laughed until tears came to their eyes. It had been a long time since there was a movie in the domestic film market that made people laugh so heartily. Already?

Can not remember.

Although the plot is a bit ridiculous and the performances are a bit exaggerated, the joy this movie brings to the audience is real.

……

In early November 2007.

The mainland film market is still in its infancy. According to follow-up statistics, the annual box office was just 33 billion yuan. Apart from domestic major productions, Hollywood blockbusters are the only ones that can earn over [-] million yuan in box office.

In November, "Lust, Caution" is the biggest production. In addition to "Lust, Caution", there are also "Apple" by Fan Bingbing and Tong Dawei, as well as "Blind Mountain", "My Name is Liu Yuejin", "Destiny Call Transfer" and a series of others Low-cost production, of course, among the low-cost productions is "People on the Road".

By November 11, that is, one week after the release of "Lust, Caution" and "Awkward", the two films ranked first and second in the real-time box office rankings with 7 million and 4800 million, respectively. It leaves other movies far behind.

Of these two films, one was directed by Ang Lee and the other was produced by Ang Lee. Throughout November, Director Li was in the spotlight in the mainland film market.

"Lust, Caution", which won the Golden Monkey Award at the Venice Film Festival, can achieve such results in the market, which proves that Director Li's film is both a hit and a box office hit. Artistry and market take both sides, and it is very good.

The fact that a small director I discovered at random could produce such a successful film, "The Road to Misfortune", made the outside world look at Director Li with a glorious aura of money, making him even more sacred.

Some media called November 2007 "Ang Lee's Month", which is not an exaggeration.

……

11 month 10 day.

"420 million!!!"

Huang Bo sent a text message to Chen Ye, and there were 9 similar text messages.

At this time, there was no Weibo or WeChat, and various box office news could only be transmitted back and forth among film-related producers through the airwaves of mobile phone text messages.

As an investor and starring actor, Huang Bo is particularly concerned about the mark of "The Lost Road". In the text message he sent to Chen Ye today, he added three exclamation points after the number, because this number is very shocking and it will be released soon. For 3 days, the single-day box office can still maintain this figure. This proves that just as Chen Ye said, this movie has a chance of breaking through 10 million!

Chen Ye looked at the text messages on his new phone and considered whether to block Huang Bo's name, but thought about it and forgot about it.

Chen Ye disliked mobile phones very much, but when he was broke before, he could do without his mobile phone. Now that he has become a little famous and has a network of connections, if he doesn't use his mobile phone anymore, things will be delayed.

After all, Chen Ye has desires for this world, and he can't always just follow his own whim.

With this in mind, Chen Ye dialed Li An's phone number. The two parties had communicated frequently recently. Chen Ye was counting on Li An's signature, while Li An rarely met people like Chen Ye who were young but... No matter in terms of attitude, spirit or knowledge, he is on an equal footing with me. Although he is a little arrogant, his talent more than makes up for it.

"Director, the box office of "Unfortunately" will be 5000 million soon."

"Yes, I really didn't expect that."

"Is it time for our next cooperation plan to begin? You are a gentleman and you cannot keep your word."

"That's no problem, it's just that I particularly want to know where you plan to raise $1 million in funding for filming."

"Just take a look~"

(End of this chapter)