Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 317

Many people don't understand Zhang Yuanjun taking up the TV series.

According to the usual principles, those who can act in movies will never act in TV series. Film actors acting in TV series are called lowering their social status.

Zhang Ziyi would rather go behind the scenes and become a producer than act in a TV series.

Even if Gong Li doesn't start working for three or four years, she won't take on TV dramas.

Zhang Yuanjun really had no reason to act in "Snow Leopard". After being crowned emperor in Cannes, there were at least thirty films looking for him, but he still acted in "Snow Leopard".

Even Liu Yifei, who is my pillow partner, doesn't quite understand the reason.

But if he had to explain it from the bottom of his heart, it would be a very realistic answer: for the sake of the people.

Nationality is different from popularity.

In terms of popularity, Zhang Yuanjun is already enough.

But other countries don’t have enough nationality.

It is difficult to achieve national recognition through movies. To some extent, national recognition must be achieved through TV series.

Why does the little sister have thick blood?
It was because her four characters, Bai Xiuzhu, Wang Yuyan, Xiao Longnu, and Zhao Ling'er, covered the main young people who watched the drama at that time.

When this group of young people grow into the backbone of society, they will naturally praise the young ladies.

No matter how good her movie performance is, the audience will always recognize her as the fairy sister.

By the same token, why does Zhao Yanzi have thick blood?
Because she has Xiaoyanzi and Yiping, two nationally popular characters, to back her up.

This is something you can’t do if you need to pay for a ticket to watch a movie in a theater.

Why does the flowering period of 85 flower actors take so long?

It's because they have at least one hit TV series that has given them something like nationality - the audience just knows her and will go see her, which makes no sense.

It’s not like Zhang Yuanjun doesn’t know that actors acting in TV series will do harm to their film careers - if you shoot too many TV series, the audience will watch you for free, and over time they won’t pay for your tickets.

But he still wants to gain some national status for himself before the advent of Internet capital, or the era of online dramas.

In the era of streaming media online dramas, TV dramas that attract national attention no longer exist.

Because streaming media will not be like a TV station, with two rounds, three rounds, and four rounds, or even sink to county TV stations to continue broadcasting.

In the era of online dramas, a drama will only be popular for a month, and it will be gone after tens of billions of broadcasts.

It can be said that the era of TV dramas producing superstars was ended by the Internet.

In fact, the signs are already obvious now. 3G licenses have been issued and the mobile Internet era is coming.

When the 4G era arrives, the production and broadcasting model of traditional TV stations will face major challenges.

At present, the last two superstars in the Chinese TV drama era are really Zhao Yanzi and Liu Yifei.

Li Yunlong's character has enough national popularity, but his commercial value is far less than that of the previous two.

Zhang Yuanjun is not sure to what extent his nationality can reach, and this is not a quantifiable indicator.

The young lady's various network indicators were beaten by 90 95 Xiaohua, but once the show aired, people praised her.

The film schedule for the Lunar New Year this year is very chaotic. Three movies, "The Storm 2", "The Tomb Raider" and "Three Guns", were released in two days.

Then a week later, an all-star blockbuster "October Siege" was released.

It's obviously the work of China Film.

"October Siege" is China Film's real son at this time.

Director Han obviously wants to replicate the success of "The Founding of a Republic".

After the Lunar New Year festival kicks off, Tang Yan is about to take leave and leave the group. She has a movie called "The Storm 2" to be released, in which she plays Chu Chu.

She, Chu Chu, is said to be the lover of the male protagonist Bu Jingyun - in this way, she is actually the heroine - but in fact she does not have as many roles as Cai Zhuoyan.

"The Storm 2" is a man's drama, and the female characters, no matter how much they play or how little they play, are all embellishments.

Tang Yan is not the main force in publicity either. She is called "newcomer in film and television" and "newcomer Tang Yan" in the film's press release.It can be seen that the film industry does not care about your TV series results at all.

The director of "The Storm 2" claims to have a box office of 10 million in 6 Asian regions.

Zhu Yanping, the director of "The Tomb" said that this year's Lunar New Year film will be "a river of blood, let's see who falls first."

He also admitted that he was most afraid of "Three Guns": "When Zhang Yimou sang RAP, I lost half of it. I was scared to death when he sang."

Despite the strong opponents, he still said: "You can't be afraid in this business, you have to die on stage."

Zhang Weiping still has the arrogance of "If I have a plan in my hand, I own the world": ""Three Guns" will take in 4 million at the box office!"

In the interview after the premiere, Zhang Weiping also talked about Zhang Yimou's new film "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" next year: "The actors are already communicating, and this time we will definitely give everyone a big surprise!"

It doesn't matter if Zhang Yuanjun starts a brutal war during the Lunar New Year holiday.

He is still staying at the Bayi Film and Television Base filming "Snow Leopard".

The crew is making good progress, and an important reason is that the leading actor Zhang Yuanjun rarely asks for leave.

The director has met many actors and is filming two or three movies at the same time. Today he will be filming on the set for a day, and tomorrow he will fly to another set to shoot.

But Zhang Yuanjun would not do this.

Even during his filming, except for his own endorsements, which required him to support the brand, he would not take part in any other external activities, leaving all his time to the crew.

For interviews, reporters come to the crew or the hotel to find him.

Needless to say how popular he was this year. People who invited him to attend events at the end of the year scratched the door of his studio.

This loss is all real money.

"Snow Leopard" has been in production for one month, but nearly 1/3 of the material has been shot, and the progress is very good.

Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei have neither filmed in the Lunar New Year this year. Apart from necessary activities at the end of the year, one is filming in Fengtai, and the other is either rehearsing in the theater or preparing for "Time Traveler". The media basically cannot catch the two of them.

But the Lunar New Year holiday still affected Zhang Yuanjun.

Because China Film's biological son "October Siege" and godson "Chilling" were thrown into the street.

The former had a good reputation, and its lineup of big stars also attracted many audiences to the cinema, but it just couldn't do well at the box office.

In "October Siege", Cheng Desen made a common mistake that all Hong Kong directors make when making historical themes - there is no historical big picture.

He still made "October Siege" into a gangster movie.

The gang boss came to the hall for a meeting, and the gangsters protected the boss from assassination from beginning to end.

Even though the boss is the founding father of the country, Cheng Desen's performance in the movie is still very arrogant, without the weight of history, without the heroism and heroism of the martyrs who died generously for their ideals.

It is commendable that the fighting scenes in "October Siege" are very hard, painful and enjoyable to watch.

Not to mention "Chilling", all the actors, including Chen Daoming, were derailed.

In addition, "Three Guns" was also rejected. In an interview, Zhang Weiping angrily criticized Han San as a "mountain eagle" and denounced China Film's privileges.

Han San Ping was at the forefront of public opinion for a while.

At this time, Han Sanping really relented and agreed to Fu Ruoqing's negotiation with Zhang Yuanjun on the buyout of "Inception" in the name of the group.

Zhang Yuanjun's family is too small and has limited funds. The US$1700 million almost emptied the studio's cash.

Fu Ruoqing brings China Film Group to join, which is really a timely help.

On the last day of 2009, a joint venture company called Maoyan Shadows was quietly established.

The company's four major shareholders are China Film Group, China Weibo Technology Co., Ltd., Dongyun Fund (sister-in-law Li Ying's private equity fund) and Zhang Yuanjun Studio.

Maoyan Pictures will take over Zhang Yuanjun's share of "Inception" and spend an additional $700 million to buy out the Japanese box office from Warner Bros.

The burden that had been on Zhang Yuanjun's shoulders for a long time finally found someone to share it with.

(End of this chapter)