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Chapter 216 I am the producer

The next day, Gu Wei returned to the set to continue filming.

At noon, Gu Wei and Bai Baihe chatted while eating box lunch.

"Gu Wei, have you read the news about Chen He?"

Gu Wei took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, not surprised by Bai Baihe's gossip.

"Look at it."

"Tsk tsk~ No one thought that Chen He's incident would become such a big deal!"

Her manager is the famous Wang Jinghua, and her husband Chen Yufan is also from the Beijing circle, so she has more or less connections with Huayi.

Otherwise, Feng Xiaogang wouldn't have asked her to play one of the heroines when he filmed "Private Order".

Chen He's current agency is Hua Yi, and the two of them also know each other.

Seeing his current state of blackmail on the Internet, Bai Baihe felt a little bit embarrassed.

It seems that yesterday's Chen He was still a popular star who was loved by many people because of being a male runner, and he was thrown into hell overnight and became a scumbag that everyone shouted for beating.

"The main reason is that he and his ex-wife showed too much affection before. After 13 years of long-distance love, the lovers finally got married. Now that he has ruined all of this with his own hands, how can he not avoid the backlash."

While talking, Gu Wei looked at Bai Baihe's face and said meaningfully:

"So if you just show your affection in front of the camera for profit, once you get caught, it will be difficult for netizens."

Bai Baihe nodded, she didn't hear the meaning of Gu Wei's words at all, and sighed instead.

"This time it's Zhuo Wei who broke the news again, he really lives up to his name as the number one paparazzi in the entertainment industry!"

Gu Wei looked at her face and didn't answer. He remembered that the person who exposed Bai Baihe's "One Finger Zen" incident seemed to be Zhuowei's Fengxing studio.

"By the way, Gu Wei, do you have a girlfriend?"

After talking about Chen He's cheating, Bai Baihe started to gossip about Gu Wei again.

"No."

Gu Wei said it as a matter of course.

"Really? I don't believe it."

Bai Baihe looked suspicious.

"You are so handsome, and there were so many gossips on the Internet before, can you still have a girlfriend?"

"Sister Baihe, you have already said that it is a scandal, how can you take it seriously?"

Gu Wei looked innocent.

"Then if you don't have a girlfriend, do you need me to introduce you? My sister knows a lot of pretty little girls."

Bai Baihe looked at Gu Wei with a smile on her face.

"Haha, I won't bother you about this, I'm still young and my career is the most important thing.

Sister Baihe, why haven't you seen your husband come to visit the group for so many days? "

Gu Wei laughed and changed the subject.

When mentioning her husband, Bai Baihe's interest immediately dropped, and she said copiously:

"He has his own business to do, and he usually doesn't interfere much when I'm filming."

With the passage of time, the filming of "Monster Hunt" has gradually entered the later stage, and the filming progress of the crew is advancing at a high speed.

On this day, Tang Wei and Yao Chen also joined the team. Their roles were not included in the original script, but due to reshoots, some plots could not be connected, so we had to find them to play two serial roles.

The role of the scene is very simple, Yao Chen's scene doesn't even have a scene with Gu Wei in the same frame.

It was all shot in one day.

Gu Wei met Yao Chen a few times when he participated in the event before, but they didn't meet each other, and everyone was a complete stranger.

It was the first time he met Tang Wei offline. She was very beautiful. Although her facial features were not three-dimensional and her face was round, her manner was elegant and generous, and she had a traditional intellectual charm of oriental women.

Her agency is Jiang Zhiqiang's Anle Film Company, so it's not surprising to find her as a guest star.

"Hi, first time meeting, I'm Tang Wei."

In the crew, Tang Wei who joined the crew shook hands with Gu Wei and introduced himself.

"Hello, Sister Tang Wei, I'm Gu Wei, you are more beautiful in real life than in the movies I watched before."

Tang Wei in 79 was 13 years older than Gu Wei. He looked bright and charming, with the charm of a mature woman.

Complimenting a woman's beauty is always the best way to get closer to her, especially for a handsome guy like Gu Wei, it is more sincere to say it.

"Tang Wei is pretty, but am I not pretty?"

Bai Baihe interrupted and said that she and Tang Wei have known each other for a long time, so they spoke very casually.

"You are also very beautiful, but you are not as good as a goddess like Sister Tang Wei.

It's even more incomparable that our crew turned you so dark again! "

Gu Wei said jokingly.

"Gu Wei!"

Bai Baihe picked up the crew's prop whip, and made a gesture to hit her.

Gu Wei quickly circled behind Tang Wei.

"I'm afraid of you, you are also a big beauty, okay~"

"Hmph~ This is almost the same, I'll let you go."

After all, he showed an expression that counts you as a kid.

After acting in "Monster Hunt" for more than 20 days, the two also brought out some of the way the male and female protagonists get along with each other in the play. It's quite interesting to fight and fight.

Tang Wei watched them play tricks, smiled and said nothing, acting like a goddess.

Since the beginning of January, when Gu Weijin was filming "Monster Hunt", "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" has started pre-release promotional activities under the auspices of two distributors, Enlight Media and Wanda Films.

Although Gu Wei took out 3200 million yuan as publicity funds, and the two publishers really contributed, but in fact the publicity effect of "The Return of the Great Sage" was not very satisfactory.

There is no way, during this period of 15 years, domestic audiences’ impression of domestic animated films is cartoons for children, which are not something adults watch at all.

Especially the previously released animated films like "Pleasant Goat" and "Bear Infested" series have deepened people's impression.

So if you don't bring your children, no adult is willing to watch an animated movie alone.

For more than ten days in a row, the publicity through various channels online and offline has also made "The Return of the Great Sage" famous, at least in the eyes of some viewers, the publicity fee of tens of millions is not in vain of.

But if this inherent impression in the audience's mind cannot be reversed, the early box office of the film may not be too high when it is released.

On January 1, [Bears: Bears in the Snow Ridge] was released. This movie is the first animated movie to be released during the Lunar New Year this year.

With the deep popularity of the "Bear Infested" series of cartoons, "Xueling Xiongfeng" accounted for 18% of the national film schedule on the first day of its release, with a box office of 2772 million on that day.

This box office result ranked second in the national box office that day, and the first was also the new film that was released that day-the variety show movie [Run, Brother].

Since the popular variety show [Where Are We Going, Dad] was made into a movie at the beginning of 14, it has achieved excellent box office results, and the door to this kind of popular variety show in China has been opened.

No matter how passers-by and audiences scold, or how film critics criticize, as long as they make money, this kind of comprehensive reform movie will continue to be made.

[Run, Brother] is indeed the most popular variety show this year, with a box office of 7981 million on the first day of its release, accounting for more than half of the country's total box office that day.

On Saturday, the 31st, "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Year of the Goat" was released. This animated cartoon with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek name has a solid audience base just like "Bear Infested".

However, in terms of quality, it is far from "Bear Infested", it is completely a cartoon shown in a movie theater, not much different from what you see on TV.

The box office on the first day was only 1475 million, less than half of the box office on the first day of [Bears Infested].

[Let's Run] It grossed 8580 million yuan at the box office on Saturday, shocking many filmmakers.

On February 2st, Sunday, [Let’s Run] continued its box office miracle, achieving a score of 1 million that day. From then on, in 6447 days, the box office of the film’s first week reached 3 million, ranking first among all the movies released years ago.

Three days after its release, the movie's Douban score was released, with a measly 3 points. Tens of thousands of people rated the movie on the platform, and the comment section was full of curses.

[In the future, let's just give this kind of movie a genre, don't call it comedy, reality show, it's more appropriate to call it money-making.

If you want to be happy, there are many ways to rely on it. How empty is it that it deserves to be called a movie? 】

[In the past two years in China, I have never used my brain when doing variety shows, and I just import them if I have money and willfulness.

The part of the running man variety show has not been done well yet, the blunt cooperation, the repeated replay of an episode, and the part of tearing up the famous brand can actually be made into a whole episode.

The seven don't cooperate well, and these can be slowly adjusted, but it's your fault for misappropriating money, and you will never watch this kind of movie. 】

[I am not opposed to making variety shows into movies.

In fact, I think that as long as it is shown in a movie theater and there are audiences willing to pay for tickets, no matter whether the content is a variety show or a football match concert, there is no problem at all.

The only requirement is that, since it is to be sold and consumed as a movie, it must be allowed to view it from the perspective of a movie.

From this point of view, its technical content is too low, so the low evaluation is also reasonable. 】

[This is a variety show, not a movie, just another way to make money...]

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I don't know if it was affected by the bad reviews on the Internet, or because the fans had already watched the movie in the first three days. On Monday, the box office of "Let's Run" was cut in half, and the reported revenue was 2986 million.

The box office of [Bears] is not satisfactory on Monday, only 1435 million, and [Pleasant Goat] is only 453 million.

The situation of the two animated films released in the Lunar New Year file is not going to go too far, especially "Pleasant Goat", it is difficult to break through [-] million.

This is the true status quo of domestic animation films.

"Okay, I got it. Tell Wanda's Mr. Zhang to try our best to get more film schedules for our movies. [Bear Infested] has 18% of the film schedules. Our big production with an investment of 1 million yuan can't do it. Can't be worse than [Bear Infested]!
After these two days of filming, I will spread a wave of publicity on the Internet. You get those employees in the fan base ready, and mobilize fans to watch the movie on the first day of its release.

I'm the producer of a movie, so this is my movie. Isn't it normal for fans to support me?

Okay, that's it. I'll talk about the rest after I return to the company in two days. "

During the filming of [Monster Hunt], Gu Wei received a call from his agent, reporting to him the current promotion status of [The Return of the Great Sage].

After explaining some things, Gu Wei hung up the phone.

As he said, now he is the producer of "The Return of the Great Sage", of course it is for publicity.

This is also the idea of ​​Guangguang Media, wanting to use Gu Wei's fame to attract popularity for this animation film.

If he could fool Gu Wei's fans into watching the movie, he would make a lot of money.

Of course, Gu Wei has no objection to this note. Now he has accounted for 60% of the total investment in [The Return of the Great Sage], and is the largest investor. Most of the money he made in the end is in his own pocket. What's the matter with his fame.

Besides, this movie is not a bad movie, but a good movie with high quality, not a leek for cutting off my fans.

This year's Lunar New Year, the domestic film market is in distress. There are no movies that can make people's eyes shine, and the market is particularly sluggish.

At this time in previous years, there will always be one or two films that stand against the box office banner of domestic films, like last year's [Detective Chinatown] [Private Order], the year before last [Thailand], [Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons], all in the box office. The Lunar New Year file has achieved excellent results.

This year, everyone had pinned their hopes on the blockbuster "Taiping Wheel" released last month, but unfortunately, the big ship sank as soon as it was released, and there were no domestic films with outstanding box office in December and January.

Gu Wei felt that this was also an opportunity. The absence of a blockbuster film meant that there would be no competitive pressure. At the very least, [The Return of the Great Sage] would have a great advantage in film scheduling.

Like the original version of "The Return of the Great Sage" which will be released in this summer, director Chen's "Taoist Down the Mountain", Dapeng's "Pancake Man" and Guo Xiaosi's "Little Times 4" will also be released at the same time. The Return of the Great Sage] How can an unknown animated film make money with them?

The current situation is suitable for the performance of "The Return of the Great Sage". Gu Wei believes that as long as the publicity is in place, this film will not only be the pioneering work of high-quality animation films in China, but also carry the box office banner of Chinese New Year films. .

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