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Chapter 814 Pre-sale Breaks Record

Clara has been busy in January, with three films she stars in released this month.

The ancient costume fantasy action film No. 8 is [The Demons Strike Back in Chang'an], the [Big Red Envelope] No. 22, and the [Master of Empathy] No. 29.

Among them, [Chang'an Fu Yao] and [Big Red Envelope] have female protagonists, and [The Master of Empathy] is the supporting actress.

Of course, all three movies are terrible without exception.

But it doesn't matter. As a Korean female star, it is impossible for Clara to become famous in the domestic entertainment industry. She will be satisfied as long as she can make money by filming movies.

After the broadcast of "The Love Master", she gained a certain degree of fame in the domestic entertainment industry, and the company helped her take on many similar roles.

It turns out that no matter whether it is a good or bad movie, it is always good for her to show her face more.

Moreover, domestic audiences don’t care how she performs as a foreigner, they just come for her face and figure.

With this fame, Clara has made a lot of money in the past two years by performing at various events arranged by the company, far exceeding her income in the Korean entertainment industry.

".I have been busy promoting the movie recently. Although I am a little tired, I am very happy. The audience is very enthusiastic. I didn’t know I have so many fans now.
Especially the male fans, they were so excited to see me.
Can I visit Oppa on set after I’m done with this busy period? I heard from his agent that Oppa is currently filming a very demanding movie.”

After a busy day, Clara returned to the hotel and called her boss.

In the past two years, she has been doing very well in the domestic entertainment industry. Now she is very glad that she left the Korean entertainment industry and came to the Chinese entertainment industry.

Apart from anything else, her current income is more than ten times what she earned in the Korean entertainment industry. Sometimes she regrets why she didn't come to China earlier.

She is also very satisfied with her current agency. Her boss is not only a real power figure in the domestic entertainment industry, but also handsome and in good shape. He is a world apart from those greasy middle-aged men with big bellies in Korean entertainment companies.

If the boss of the Korean agency had Gu Wei's looks and figure, why would she care about the unspoken rules?

After hanging up the phone, Clara walked to the dressing mirror, looked left and right, and stroked her proud bust with both hands.

“I seem to have gained some weight these days, it’s time to exercise.

You must show your best side in front of your boss."

Clara is very smart. She knows very well that her handsome boss is her biggest supporter in the domestic entertainment industry.

Coming from the Korean entertainment industry, she knows that a pretty face and a sexy body are not valuable. Not to mention the natural ones, artificial ones can be mass-produced in Korea.

If she, a foreigner, wants to make money in the Chinese entertainment industry, she must please her boss.

【Changjin Lake】 crew.

Although it was late at night, the shooting location was still brightly lit and crowded.

Gu Wei was wearing a worn military cotton jacket and sitting on a stool in the rest area.

I had just finished shooting a night scene and received a call from Clara during my break.

"You can speak Korean?"

Seeing Gu Wei hang up the phone, Wu Jing asked curiously.

"Of course~"

"Wow, you are really versatile. Even if you are not a star, you will definitely be a good translator."

When they went to Africa to film Wolf Warrior 2 together, Wu Jing knew that Gu Wei's English was also very good.

"Come on, who would give up being a big star to be a translator?"

Having just finished filming a battle scene, Gu Wei and Wu Jing were both in a mess at the moment, with dirty faces and gray and white bodies made of dirt and prop snow.

But none of them dealt with it because it was just a break between filming and they would have to continue filming soon.

"I haven't heard that you have any Korean friends?"

“One of the artists under my company, Clara, is British-Korean.

Have you seen the beautiful model in the movie "Love Saint"?

After Gu Wei finished speaking, Wu Jing also remembered.

“I remember the one with a great figure and who looked particularly sexy in a red dress.

Is she one of your artists?

I just found out.”

Gu Wei smiled and said, "It turns out that she wasn't, but Clara didn't do very well in the Korean entertainment industry. I signed her after filming Love in the Palace, and now her work focus has shifted to China.

Three movies she starred in were released this month. Give me a call to share the joy."

"Three movies in one month, that's amazing~"

“Haha, two of them are considered online movies, and they only have one-day trips to theaters, and only one comedy produced by Guangguang can be considered a serious theater movie.

By the way, I also asked for a role for her in The Wandering Earth 2, one of the attackers of the villain space elevator. Brother Jing and you will have fighting scenes together then."

Wu Jingzhi nodded. He had received the script of The Wandering Earth 2 a long time ago and knew which role Gu Wei was talking about.

"[The Wandering Earth 2] should be able to start filming in the second half of this year, right?"

“Yes, I have talked to Guo Fan before, and the preparatory work has been almost completed. It is expected that the crew will be able to start filming around October.

I think I’ll be able to send you a letter in two months.”

Although Gu Wei will not be starring in "The Wandering Earth 2", "Wei Ming Tian Xia" is still the second largest investor besides China Film Group.

Gu Wei is the producer of the film in which he is listed personally.

The two were chatting when a staff member came over.

"Teacher Wu Jing, Teacher Gu Wei, the director is calling, we are about to shoot the next shot"

The two nodded, stood up and walked out of the shed built by the crew.

“It feels like the nights are getting colder”

When he went out, the cold wind blew and Wu Jing shivered and tightened his tattered cotton coat.

"It's probably around -20 degrees Celsius, haha, I feel okay"

Gu Wei rubbed his hands, and the breath from his mouth turned into a puff of white water vapor.

"Ask the staff to put on some more clothes for you. Don't catch a cold if you haven't been injured while filming the action scenes. Brother Jing, you're almost 50.

Later, Sister Nan blamed me for not taking good care of you, but I promised her that I would keep an eye on you during the filming."

Wu Jing was quite dissatisfied after hearing this.

“What’s wrong with 50? I can still fight at 50 and I’m still young.

My firepower is not much less than that of a young man in his early 20s. Don't listen to your sister Nan. Just deal with her with one sentence at the dinner table.

Gu Wei shrugged and didn't try to persuade him any further.

Good things don't work, but bad things do. Wu Jing really caught a cold because of the scene that night.

Specifically, they shot the scene for the entire night, and in the second half of the night, the two of them fell asleep on the set.

When Gu Wei woke up, he was in good health and nothing happened, but Wu Jing started to have a runny nose and sneeze, which were obvious symptoms of a cold.

"I told you to put on more clothes and keep warm, see~"

After Wu Jing caught a cold, Gu Wei mocked him mercilessly.

"Ah, ha!" Wu Jing sneezed and blew his nose with tissue.

"It was an accident, purely an accident. I took some medicine and drank lots of hot water, and it will be fine in two days."

His cold was indeed not serious and did not affect the filming of the crew.

"I have to ask for leave from the group in two days." "Promoting the movie?"

“Yes, the roadshow for Detective Chinatown 3 started a long time ago, but I didn’t participate because I was filming The Battle at Lake Changjin.

Before the film is released, as the director and the leading actor, I have to attend a few screenings.

I have to participate in the Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve, and return to the crew to continue filming on the first day of the new year.”

"Then we'll meet at CCTV in a few days. I'll take your plane back with you on the first day of the new year~
"A-choo!"

Wu Jing also had a program in this year's Spring Festival Gala. He performed the martial arts show "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" with Zhen Zidan and many students from martial arts schools.

"no problem"

The period between New Year's Day and the Spring Festival is also the Lunar New Year period, but there was no movie with excellent box office performance during this period this year.

All three movies in which Clara participated were released during this period. All three were bad movies. The one with the highest box office, "Big Red Envelope", grossed just over 200 million yuan, and the other two were just one-day trips to theaters.

In mid-January, two Taiwanese movies, "The King's Avatar" and "The Soul", were released.

[The Soul] is a suspense and crime film starring Zhang Zhen and Zhang Junning. It has a good reputation and the box office has barely exceeded 100 million yuan.

[The King's Avatar] was much worse. Even with Zhou Jielun's fame, the total box office failed to exceed 10 million.

Zhou Jie Lun was not the leading actor of "The King's Woman", but he was the producer of this film and played a cameo role in it.

It is said that this movie was shot by Jie Lun to fulfill his wife's dream of making a movie, and the heroine is naturally the superstar's wife Kun Ling.

Jie Lun made great efforts to shoot "The King's Avatar". He smashed dozens of racing cars and supercars, wore out thousands of tires, and also called many friends from the music and entertainment circles to come to his aid.

However, the story of the movie is too clichéd, all the plots are predictable, the thrills of several racing scenes are not particularly good, and many plot developments seem like child's play.

The director Zhou Jie Lun found came from a background in commercials and MVs and had limited abilities, which resulted in the visual effects of "The King's Woman" being okay, but the plot being a little too weak.

The whole movie is like Zhou Jie Lun and his friends playing house. Even Jie Lun’s fans would find it difficult to give it a high score.

There is another point that the audience cannot help but complain about. As the heroine, Kun Ling is obviously very ambiguous with the hero in the plot, but at the climax at the end of the movie, the two of them do not have any intimate scenes, not even a kissing scene. At most, there is a slightly awkward hug and pat on the shoulder. It is obvious that Jay Chou cannot bear to see his wife having intimate scenes with other people.

To be honest, if an actor is reluctant to let his wife do even the kissing scenes, why bother creating a love line? It's awkward to act and even more awkward for the audience to watch.

After leaving the crew, Gu Wei flew directly to Shanghai to join the crew of "Detective Chinatown 3" who were on a roadshow for promotion.

【Detective Chinatown 3】In fact, the promotion and marketing activities started in December.

As early as before New Year's Day, the film company released the "Tokyo Bustling" version of the trailer and the "Tokyo Bustling" version of the poster.

In the more than one month from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, the "Everyone Assembles" version trailer, the "Qin Feng Goes to Jail" version plot trailer and the "Who is Q" version trailer were released one after another.

On January 1, pre-sales of six films scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival started simultaneously, and the pre-sale box office on the first day exceeded 29 million yuan in 32 hours.

Among them, "Detective Chinatown 3" is undoubtedly the most anticipated by the audience and the one with the fastest pre-sale performance.

After the pre-sale started, the pre-sale box office of "Detective Chinatown 7" exceeded 41 million in 3 hours and 5000 minutes, setting a record for "the fastest pre-sale box office of a domestic film to exceed 5000 million."

"Director~"

"Baoqiang, you have worked hard these days!"

After meeting up with the rest of the crew, Gu Wei first greeted Wang Baoqiang.

In his absence, Baoqiang is the center of publicity for "Detective Chinatown 3".

"Director, you don't have to be so polite. This is what I should do." Wang Baoqiang smiled naively.

By the third part, he also had a partial investment share in the film, so the box office revenue of "Detective Chinatown 3" has the most direct interest to him.

"How's the preparation for that new movie you told me about going?"

"I'm still revising the script. I found several screenwriters, but I'm not satisfied with the final script."

Gu Wei thought for a while.

“Well, when you have nothing to do after a while, you can come to my company, and I will have the screenwriting department arrange a few screenwriters to make targeted revisions according to your requirements until you are satisfied.

You don’t have to doubt their professionalism and ability. Many scripts, including the Tang Detective series, were written by the writers of my company.”

“Great, Director.

I have always believed that the script is the key to a film. If the script is not good, it will be difficult to carry out the subsequent preparations."

Gu Wei smiled and nodded.

"Have you thought of a name for this movie?"

“Because it is based on the real “Enbo Fighting Incident”, I plan to call it [In the Octagon].”

After exchanging a few words with Baoqiang, Gu Wei greeted the other members of the roadshow team.

In fact, the roadshow team for "Detective Chinatown 3" does not have many people.

Because there are many Japanese actors in the movie and it is not convenient for them to come, the remaining domestic actors can be counted.

After spending a day in Shanghai, the crew flew to Yuezhou, then went to Shenzhen, and finally returned to Beijing to prepare for the premiere ceremony.

After several days of roadshow promotion and various online and offline publicity and promotion activities, the pre-sale box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" increased rapidly.

With two days left before the Spring Festival, the pre-sale box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" officially exceeded 7 million yuan.

[Hello, Li Huanying] ranked second with a pre-sale box office of 1.5 million yuan, Lu Yang's [Assassination of Novelist] ranked third with 5912 million yuan, [The Order of the Samurai] ranked fourth with 3841 million yuan, [Boonie Bears: Wild Continent] ranked fifth with 3354 million yuan, and [New Gods: Nezha] ranked sixth with 2671 million yuan.

As of February 2, the total pre-sale box office of all films released during the 10 Spring Festival has exceeded 2021 billion.

The premiere of [Detective Chinatown 3] held in Beijing was called "New Year's Family Dinner", but it was actually a press conference with no purpose of publicity.

On the stage, the four leading actors Gu Wei, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang and Nazha all wore the same style of detective windbreaker, performed activities according to the host's arrangements, and answered questions from reporters on the scene.

"Excuse me, Mr. Gu Wei, what is the biggest problem you faced while filming [Detective Chinatown 3] in Japan this time?"

"It's definitely expensive. Filming in Tokyo is not much cheaper than in New York. Moreover, many scenes in [Detective Chinatown 3] are large-scale. In order to shoot a scene at Shibuya Crossing, we specially rebuilt a Shibuya in nearby Tochigi Prefecture at a 1:1 ratio."

“So did you learn any Japanese while filming in Tokyo?”

Gu Wei smiled and was about to speak when Bao Qiang rushed to answer.

"The director doesn't need to learn, his Japanese is very good, and he can communicate with the Japanese actors without any obstacles. We are very envious watching from the sidelines."

After he finished speaking, there were surprised “Oh” sounds from the audience.

"Teacher Gu Wei, can you show us a few sentences?"

I remember that after asking Gu Wei, I spoke a few normal sentences in Japanese.

Although most people couldn't understand it, everyone knew that Gu Wei really knew Japanese by seeing how comfortable he was with it.

"Actually, I said this on a show before. I have some talent in languages ​​and I know quite a few. Japanese is just one of them," Gu Wei explained with a smile.

"Did Teacher Baoqiang learn a few words?" The reporter's eyes turned to Wang Baoqiang again.

"After filming for such a long time, I have learned a few lines."

After that, Baoqiang also began to show off his Chinese-style Japanese.

"Smi Masai (Excuse me), Moshi Moshi (Telephone greetings), Linen belt (No)"

When he mentioned the "linen belt", there was a burst of laughter.

Wang Baoqiang was a little confused and didn't know what everyone was laughing at.

Gu Wei tried to suppress his laughter: "It's okay, your Japanese accent is too strong, it's normal for everyone to laugh."

(End of this chapter)