You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 637 ① Trailer first release ② Old Wang is furious ③ Poetry and honey confrontation ④ Zhao Lichun ⑤ The fun of stealing
All domestic blockbusters usually have to occupy major schedules. This is just based on experience and needs no further explanation.

Most movie fans understand that "Xiao Yao You" will not be able to make it to this year's summer season, so they all hope that it can be released during next year's Spring Festival.

But Wang Quan said that the movie will be released this year, so everyone assumes that it will be released during the Lunar New Year holiday in December.

As a result, many films that originally wanted to be released during the Lunar New Year holidays tacitly chose the National Day holiday, such as Huayi's "Youth" and Guangguang's "The Convenience Store of Sorrow".

But who could have thought that Wang Quan would actually schedule it for November 11th, he was going to enter the Singles’ Day schedule!
This choice alone gives people the feeling that the film is not aimed at the box office. Of course, more people interpret this as Wang Quan’s confidence.

"I can pick any random date to release the movie and kill you bugs hiding in the big schedule in seconds!"

And there are also a large number of movie fans who are happy to be able to watch "Xiao Yao You" so soon, a month earlier is a better month.

Many industry insiders also believe that choosing this release date is actually a concession made for simultaneous global release.

In the interview, Wang Quan revealed that the film will be released not only in mainland China on November 11, but also globally. It will be released simultaneously in North America, Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions. It is also the largest scale of simultaneous global release of a Chinese-language film.

By then, many companies including Wangdao, Longtouzhi, Jiahe, NEW Company, Longtouzhi Tokyo, and Longtouzhi Europe will work together.

November is a cold period all over the world, so this can avoid direct competition with Hollywood blockbusters and is conducive to harvesting global box office.

However, some self-media soon broke the news that November will not only have the star-studded "Justice League", but also Marvel's "Thor 11", so this November is really not cold at all.

Ouyang Zhanguang: Damn, is November so strong? This is going to be something interesting to watch.

Shao Nian Run Tu: "Justice League", won't that mean we can see Gadot?
Shepherd Shao Minhan: I see, Director Quan is going to challenge "Justice League". What's going on? Did he have a falling out with Gadot?

Spit toilet water on the face: We broke up a long time ago, how could there be a quarrel?

The Little Pony: What do you know? Director Kwon has stayed at Gadot's place every time he went to Los Angeles in recent years. Guess whether they sleep in one bed or two beds~ This may also be the reason why Da Mimi divorced him.

Qingfengwushiranshu: Then why did they fall out? Oh, I see, it must be Gadot who wanted to get back together, but Director Quan didn’t agree.

I want to say something but I can’t, it’s a nice autumn with the cool weather: If I could get back together, I would like to get back together with Sissi.

Zhenliu: You all guessed wrong. The competition between "Escape" and "Justice League" actually shows that Director Quan still has evil intentions towards Gadot. He is showing off his strength to his ex-girlfriend. I, King David, can defeat a group of superheroes by myself. Isn't that awesome! Worship me, woman!

Merchant from another world: Haha, you are pretending that Jiang Wen and Fan Wei don’t exist, and Wang Quan is still alone~
Zhenliu: In North America and even other overseas markets, they are almost non-existent. The biggest selling point of this movie is that after three years, Director Kwon returns to making big-budget commercial films.

Emperor Fuzhou @Zhenliu: That makes sense, but with three blockbusters scheduled for November, I am still more optimistic about Zack Snyder’s “Justice League”.

Shoshi Ueya: That’s right, a piece of rubbish like “Avengers” made over a billion worldwide, and I’m optimistic that “Justice League” will hit 20 billion worldwide!
The Decameron: 20 billion of what? Japanese yen?
Afterwards, the stock god 007 said: How dare you! Of course it’s US dollars, that’s Zack Snyder!

Movie fans have extremely high expectations for "Justice League", but Warner Bros. itself doesn't think so. The film is currently being reshot by Joss Whedon, and the final quality is still uncertain.

They are not worried about North America, as it is not yet the turn for a Chinese-language film to have a hit here, but if the overseas market encounters Wang Quan's "Happy Journey", that would not be a good thing.

Fortunately, they only announced that the North American release date of "Justice League" is November 11, one week later than "Easy Journey". They felt it necessary to postpone the release date of overseas markets as much as possible, away from "Easy Journey", especially the three markets of China, Japan and South Korea, which are the ruling areas of King David.

Marvel's new film "Thor 3", which has lower popularity, cast and cost than "Justice League", also thinks so.

Their North American release date is November 11, one week earlier than "Xiao Yao You".

But we decided to release the overseas market at the end of October, so that there would be a two-week gap between the release of "Xiao Yao You" and the impact on the box office would be minimized.

Wang Quan’s last commercial blockbuster “Cold Front” earned 8.07 million at the global box office, ranking in the top ten of the year. This time, the production scale has been comprehensively upgraded.

After watching the first trailer of "Easy Journey", even giants like Warner and Disney dare not underestimate it. If you take a step back, the sky will be wider and there is no need to fight to the death.

At the beginning of this talk show, Wang Quan announced the global release date of "Xiao Yao You". At the end of the show, a 30-second trailer of "Xiao Yao You" was played.

These 30 seconds are almost the personal show of the male protagonist Jiang Wen, from his going to Beijing to take the imperial examinations at a young age, to being forced to go to sea, several coincidences, as well as sea monsters, strange ships, aliens and other elements.

There are very few scenes of other people, and the male protagonist's temperament is fully exposed.

In addition to the core male protagonist Jiang Wen, there are also ubiquitous oriental aesthetics. Every frame is filled with the flavor of art and money. Compared with the current assembly-line superhero movies, it is refreshing and very clean.

Especially the last shot, the picture of Jiang Wen standing on the bow facing the rising red sun seems to be quite meaningful.

The East is Red, the Sun is Rising...

Not only did the interview receive extremely high clicks on Netflix, the movie trailer was also simultaneously released on YouTube, with over 24 million clicks in 5000 hours, making it into the top 20 in the history of the relevant list.

Although it is not as good as those superhero blockbusters and live-action princess movies, for Wang Quan personally, it is second only to his own "The Force Awakens" and is the strongest performance of Chinese-language films. Including Netflix, more than 100 million people watched this trailer in one day.

It can be seen that global audiences are looking forward to this film. Of course, it is also related to the traffic tilt of YouTube. Although Wang Quan no longer holds shares in YouTube, some of the original founders still stay, and the incense is still there.

In China, this trailer swept across multiple platforms including Douyin, Kuaishou, Weibo, and Toutiao.

There are many up-loaders on Bilibili who can get hundreds of thousands of likes just by posting the video as is.

If you can add some analysis of your own and stretch the half-minute trailer to several minutes, the highest one will get 300 million likes in a short period of time.

Domestic netizens also analyzed the trailer frame by frame, and the fact that it was released in the cold period of November did not affect their enthusiasm for the film.

Merchants from Another World: Although it was only 30 seconds long and the movie only revealed the tip of the iceberg, the picture was so bright and special that it gave me the feeling that the cinematographer of this film was Zhang Yimou.

Price_chang: The director of photography seems to be Gao Hu.

Shanggu Shushi: Damn, is this the Gao Hu I was thinking of? Has he moved behind the scenes?
Zhenliu: Not that Gao Hu, but the photographer Gao Hu. He has many representative works, including "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", "One Step Away" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy".

Qian Qian Qian Zhu: Oh my god, he is indeed a big shot, but the style of “Xiao Yao You” doesn’t seem to match these.

Hong Feima: I heard that there is more than one photographer, including Xie Zhengyu from “The Warlords”.

I love reading: What are we talking about photography? Why is Liu Yifei not in this trailer?
A落花意: I saw a very thin and slender girl’s back, I wonder if it was Liu Yifei.

Pangpang: Stop joking. Liu Yifei is not that thin now.

Tiannan Eighteen: That should be the heroine selected through auditions. She looks a bit like the internet celebrity named Sun Yining.

aaa0lu: The scene of those big ships going to the sea is so spectacular. Could this movie be similar to "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

Butterfly Desire: Jiang Wen is not going to be a bandit this time, but is going to be the Pirate King instead?
Ouyang Zhanguang: We should know what the film is about soon. Director Quan revealed in an interview that for this film, he specially asked someone to write a novel based on the plot, and also asked a cartoonist to adapt it into a comic. These will be sold before the film is released.

Young Runtu: Ah, isn’t that a spoiler?

Shepherd Shao Minhan: No, no, no, these are just novels and comics written based on the world view of the story of "Xiao Yao You", and the protagonist is not necessarily Jiang Wen.

Spit a face of toilet water: I see, it is actually to help foreign audiences lower the threshold for watching movies and understand the background of the story in advance.

The Wandering Little Pony: Yes, yes, yes, “Ghost Blows Out the Light” did the same thing before. I heard that in addition to the English version of the novel, “The Three-Body Problem” is also developing an overseas comic version. I guess Wang Dao will also make a movie version of “The Three-Body Problem” in the future.

Qingfengwushi is flipping through the book: Damn, this is a big deal, I hope Director Quan can come and shoot it himself.

I want to say something but I can’t, it’s a nice autumn with the cool weather: Director Quan can shoot the later ones, but for the first one, I think Zhang Yimou is more suitable, and he is more suitable for shooting Buzz Buzz Buzz at his age.

Netizens have been diverted from "Xiaoyaoyou" to "The Three-Body Problem", but the discussion is really high. Previously, some movies scheduled for the December Lunar New Year have been moved to avoid "Xiaoyaoyou", and now some November movies are preparing to change their schedules. When "Xiaoyaoyou" is in the cinema, other movies will become compromises. Who would be willing to compromise for a movie that costs only a few dozen yuan?

When Wang Quan arrived at the set, Chen Duling, who had already put on her makeup, was watching the 30-second trailer of "Xiao Yao You". She had watched it more than a dozen times.

Although she only appeared once with her back, the trailer was so good that she couldn't imagine how good the finished film would be. It was really worth it to be able to participate in such a movie and have a relationship with the director.

As she was looking at it, a pair of hands hugged her from behind. She was about to scream out when she saw Wang Quan in the mirror.

"Director, you're back!"

Wang Quan bit her ear gently, not daring to touch her lips for fear of ruining her makeup.

The two of them stayed together for a while, and then the filming began.

At this time, Xuefu also brought Anya to the set and started to put makeup on her.

This look will take her at least four or five hours to complete, and it will be afternoon by then.

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In Lao Wang's courtyard, after his grandson Wang Teng woke up, he took his eldest grandson and the dog to the company. Today he had to conduct an internal review of a company drama.

Most dramas don’t require his personal involvement, but this drama is a collaboration with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Golden Shield Film and Television Center. It is the company’s top priority this year and a big gift for Xigua Film and Television.

This will be the first new drama exclusively broadcast by LeTV after it was renamed Xigua TV. With the endorsement of the two partners, they can explore new boundaries in terms of scale.

Before LeTV changed its name, it had already co-broadcast a new drama "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" with Youku last week, which received good response.

But since Youku has this drama, netizens are unlikely to come to LeTV to watch it, so they still have to broadcast it exclusively. Even if the cost is higher, they have to increase the membership scale of Xigua Video.

As he watched, Lao Wang suddenly discovered that the yellow-haired man and his girlfriend had a lot of scenes.

Lao Wang knew in his heart that the more useless and trashy characters like these seemed, the more unimaginable role they would play at the last moment.

So even though the yellow-haired guy looked hideous and his girlfriend was coquettish and dissolute, Lao Wang still went to watch with great anticipation.

However, a few days later, Lao Wang, who had watched the entire series, was dumbfounded. "What good is this yellow-haired guy in the end? He is totally useless!"

Director Li Lu said awkwardly: "This is our crew's assistant director."

After hearing this, Lao Wang flew into a rage: "Fuck you! I paid you to film, but you let the assistant director give me extra scenes. I almost became the male lead! And in the end, he said he was the assistant director!"

Producer Li Xuezheng hurried over to persuade Lao Wang, but Wang Qiankun even scolded him: "Do you know the value of this drama? Do you know how important this drama is to Qiankun? You are still messing around like this. You are not a good person! I was blind to trust you so much!"

If the film division didn't have so much going on, Lao Wang wouldn't have been so lax in supervision.

Fortunately, I reviewed the film one last time and discovered such a big problem.

"So he called the editor and re-edited the film, cutting out the annoying yellow-haired guy and his girlfriend."

Of course, not all of it was cut. They were somewhat useful in advancing the plot in the beginning, but in the end they just stole the show and were completely useless, not even a joke.

The final 52 episodes were cut down to 50 episodes.

Although missing these two episodes would mean a loss of several million in revenue, Lao Wang has already invested 100 million yuan, so why would he care about this?

Just look at the cast he invited. Not to mention the younger generation's Luo Jin (Hou Liangping), Gao Yuanyuan (Zhong Xiaoai), and Ni Ni (Lu Yike), the older generation's Zhang Fengyi, Wu Gang, Zhang Zhijian, Xu Yajun, Ding Haifeng, Li Jianyi, Hou Tianlai, and Hou Yong are basically all acting masters recruited from the National Art Theatre and the China National Theatre. No play has ever brought together so many outstanding acting masters.

Even the hotel manager who only appears in a few shots is played by a once-popular handsome man in ancient costume like Shen Xiaohai.

With this lineup and this story, Lao Wang believes that the value of word of mouth is definitely more than a few million.

While Lao Wang was reviewing the film day and night, Wang Quan finished the first day of filming after returning to China.

When he got his phone, he saw a message from Liu Shishi asking him if he wanted to come to her place in the evening.

Wang Quan declined politely. Anya and Dudu could ignore it for the time being, but it would be wrong to return home without going back. Tonight must belong to Xianmi.

Liu Shishi also expressed her understanding, "Although you are divorced, you are the father of the child after all."

When Wang Quan rushed home, as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw Liu Shishi holding Xiao Xianmi and smiling at him subtly. As she expected, she saw Wang Quan at Mimi's place.

Liu Shishi said calmly: "Mimi wanted to talk to me about work. I was only free at night, so I came to my house to talk. Hello, ex-husband."

Wang Quan took a quick look and saw that Sissi was not there, which was good.

Wang Quan took his daughter from Shishi's arms and said, "Then you two can chat."

Yang Mi asked Wang Quan to stay: "You also listen to the LeEco issue. I want to change the name of LeEco and then resume trading tomorrow."

"Are you in such a hurry?"

"How can I not be anxious? After that incident, the number of LeTV's paid members continued to decline, from more than 300 million at the peak to less than million this month. Most of them are annual members. When the one-year period is up, there will be even fewer, maybe even less than million."

You have to know that the TV series "The Princess Weiyoung" brought LeTV nearly 300 million VIP members. LeTV is now in a pitiful state.

"If users churn, they will go to other platforms. Once they buy a year's VIP membership on other platforms, it will be difficult to win them back. Although we are not ready yet and there are no new films to be exclusively broadcast within a week, at least with the endorsement of Wangdao Qiankun Mishi, LeTV will be revitalized and future competition will be easier!"

"Okay, I can respond to you on Weibo then, and you don't have to worry too much. When In the Name of People is exclusively broadcast on Xigua Video, I believe users will come back, unless they can't stand the current TV sets."

“Oh, are you confident about this play?”

Wang Quan: "I have read the script. For Chinese people who like to talk nonsense about state affairs, this drama is simply too exciting. It is unprecedented in scale."

It is even bigger than the drama in the original time and space. At least Zhao Lichun is no longer just a name and a background board. Lao Wang specially invited Bao Guoan to guest star in this role.

After confirming the LeTV matter, Yang Mi began to chat with Liu Shishi about their business. Now the new website was in urgent need of TV dramas, and she was eager to sign a few more film contracts with Liu Shishi.

However, Liu Shishi only signed for one film. Now her mind is not on filming. The money she has earned is enough.

Although her acting career cannot keep up with Xianmi's pace, her income from endorsements is still very good. The little lions have strong spending power and all major advertisers like her very much.

After Liu Shishi finished chatting with Yang Mi about The Legend of Fuyao, she stood up to say goodbye. Yang Mi had just finished taking a shower and was still wearing a bathrobe. She told Wang Quan: "Please help me see Shishi off."

Wang Quan had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, "Okay, I'll help you loosen her up."

Liu Shishi's ears turned red and she walked awkwardly today. What a bad person.

The car was parked outside the yard. Liu Shishi felt that she was out of Yang Mi's sight, and then she secretly pulled Wang Quan's hand.

Wang Quan patted her buttocks lightly.

In the villa next door, Liu Yifei on the third floor got dressed and prepared to come to Yang Mi's place. She happened to glance next door from the window, and then saw the interaction between Wang Quan and Liu Shishi.

Then Wang Quan got into Liu Shishi’s car…

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(End of this chapter)