Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 149 Word of Mouth Collapse
The preparation of "Animal World" was watched by the studio, and "Buried Alive" also had a professional manager, Zhang Yuanjun was able to get out to build momentum for the new album.

Because he has to face Wang Lihong directly, Zhang Yuanjun can be said to be busy these days with all four feet in the sky. At most, he traveled to five cities in two days and did seven events.

Zhang Yuanjun's work was not in vain, the hard work of the past few days has paid off significantly.

The pre-sale of the new album has exceeded 3 copies, and as more and more people heard about the pre-sale album, the word-of-mouth of "Zhang Yuanjun's album of the same name" began to ferment, and several major distributors of Maitian added more orders.

Song Ke looked at the pre-sale data and laughed from ear to ear.

"Following this growth trend, we will be able to sell at least 24 goods when it goes on sale on the 10th."

A newcomer, the first album sold 10, and the best newcomer is gone.

Zhang Yuanjun was also happy to hear this data, and he has not been busy these few days.

I was so happy that I didn't have time to pay attention to the good results of "The Promise" which raked in 2100 million box office on the first day of its release.

This result broke the first-day box office record of all Chinese and foreign blockbuster films released this year, including "Harry Potter 4".

However, the audience's word-of-mouth after the premiere was mediocre, far less good than the feedback at the premiere.

However, word of mouth on the first day did not have time to ferment.

The first weekend of "The Promise" is here.

On the 17th, Saturday, it received 2500 million yuan, breaking the previous single-day box office record created by "Kung Fu".

On the 18th, Sunday, it broke the record of 8200 million created by "Kung Fu" with 6300 million in the first weekend box office.

Breaking through [-] million is a foregone conclusion.

But with the end of the first weekend, the word-of-mouth of "The Promise" gradually became uncontrollable.

On the 21st, "Competing News" published an article criticizing "The Promise" for earning box office and accompanying word-of-mouth:

"...But the high box office did not bring good reputation to the film. Our reporter conducted a questionnaire survey of 100 audiences in Times Studios in Xidan and New Century Studios in Wangfujing. It was found that 56% of the audience did not like "The Promise", 32% of the audience replied that they didn't feel much after watching the movie, and that the movie was average. Only 12% of the audience liked this movie."

"Among the audience who took this questionnaire, the storyline and lines set by Chen Kaige for "The Promise" made hundreds of viewers collectively dissatisfied. 73% of the audience thought that the story of "The Promise" was mediocre, and they expressed that they could not be moved by the movie."

"94% of the audience thought the lines were 'very bad', and the remaining 6% of the audience only gave them an 'average' evaluation. Some viewers said: 'The lines of "The Promise" are all spoken in a yin and yang tone, which makes people uncomfortable to listen to.'"

As for Chen Kaige's Goldfinger design for Bei Duke Wuhuan, he explained that this weapon represents "thousands of accusations", which is intended to show that Wuhuan betrayed relatives.

But the audience didn't buy his design, and accused the design of being "very funny".

Netizens' free comments are even more poisonous.

"If "The Promise" was a comedy, he was successful."

"The dialogue is actually advertised to be Shakespeare-style. Haha, the cutest line is that after Kunlun led Guangming to catch up with Qingcheng, she said: 'I'm not afraid anymore...' That string. I laughed so hard that I spit out Coke. Don't ask elementary school students to write scripts in the future, okay? It's too childish."

"I also hope that the sea will flow backwards, time will turn back, and snowflakes will flutter in spring... because of my money, it is really wrong to spend it~~~ah~~~"

Zhang Yuanjun is tired of running publicity for the past few days, so he specially finds the poisonous comments of netizens to relieve his boredom.

Netizens are still being merciful now, if you let Sun Bar's abstract brother write a review of "The Promise", the picture will be unimaginable.

These comments are not enough to collapse the word-of-mouth of "The Promise". The bad reviews were completely detonated after the blog queen Xu Jinglei and the young writer Han Han commented on the movie.

Xu bluntly said that Chen Kaige's filming of the actress was too ugly, and he was dizzy watching the martial arts scene.

Han Ze bluntly said that Chen's film was "too contrived", and the lines and script were "too pretentious", and criticized Director Chen for not understanding special effects.

Some people have accused "The Promise" of tens of millions of special effects for not knowing where it was spent.

In fact, the question of special effects has been answered. The special effects of "The Promise" are in charge of Wan Kuan from Hong Kong Island.

Their special effects staff didn’t want to take the blame, accusing Director Chen of being unclear about his needs: “At first they said the general’s hair should be black, and we made it black. Then they said they wanted red, so we changed it to red. Then they said they wanted yellow, and we changed it to yellow. Finally, they said it’s better to be black.”

In this way, money was spent, time wasted, and the effect did not come out.

However, in the negative reviews such as waves, the crew of "The Promise" also fought back.

On the 20th, news came from far away Berlin that "The Promise" will be shortlisted for next year's Berlin Film Festival.

Of course it is an out-of-competition unit-the main competition unit of the A-category film festival requires the film to be premiered at the festival-but the draft does not say so.

This is the second international awards invitation that the crew of "The Promise" has received after the Golden Globe Awards.

However, within two days, Mr. Lu Wei, Chen Kaige's old comrade-in-arms and the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine", was pushed into the limelight of public opinion because of his remarks.

"The theme of "The Promise" is very illusory, the plot is scattered, and it is a very failed movie."

Public opinion can no longer be controlled.

Zhang Yuanjun is still promoting the release of his new album, he is already so busy that he doesn't even have time to watch the news.

But he knew that the real storm would come on the 28th.

On this day, Zhang Yuanjun was in Shancheng to promote his new album.

Back to the hotel at 11pm.

Xiao Zhao also told him: "Ning Hao is here."

"Huh? Who?"

"Ning Hao with a big head, the director of "Big Diamond"."

"I know, I mean, why is he here? Isn't he working in the late game in the capital?"

"I lost a penny, so I begged us to come." Zhang Yuanjun's studio clearly refused to vote for "Big Diamond" before.

After Ning Hao left, he approached China Film Group and said that only 200 million yuan can complete the post-production and cover the publicity.

But China Film Group was only willing to give 50 yuan. After Ning Hao took the 50 yuan, he used up 1/2 of it in the later stage.

China Film Group will not give money this time.

Han Sanping took a fancy to Zhang Yuanjun's Hollywood play and gave Zhang Yuanjun his quota.

Ning Hao had no choice but to chase after Zhang Yuanjun cheekily to the mountain city.

At this late night, he couldn't be left alone, so Zhang Yuanjun went to see Ning Hao.

Ning Hao lost a lot of weight visible to the naked eye, and his fatigue was evident.

Ning Hao didn't exchange pleasantries, and said directly: "I really can't help it, 180 million, I only want 180 million, and you will take 40% of the "Big Diamond" share."

Zhang Yuanjun knew that Ning Hao was not a person who lived under others for a long time, but he looked really pitiful now, and it seemed that he was really desperate.

Zhang Yuanjun was really moved with compassion: "And Liu Dehua agreed?"

"There's nothing he can do if he doesn't agree, he doesn't want to give money." In terms of business, Andy Lau is very shrewd in this regard.

"It's not that I don't want to vote. I personally like the script of "Big Diamond", but I will only pay if you convince Andy Lau to let go."

Ning Hao saw hope and promised to convince Andy Lau.

In fact, "Big Diamond" has been going on until now, and Andy Lau is still riding a tiger.

He accounts for the bulk of the investment. If "Big Diamond" dies, his 300 million investment will be lost.

But he will not invest in Ning Hao without a bottom line. At this critical moment, he can either grit his teeth and continue to give Ning Hao 200 million, or find external investment to share the risk.

Zhang Yuanjun felt that the latter was very likely, that's why he really asked the studio to assist Ning Hao this time and try to win "Big Diamond".

(End of this chapter)