Actor: My Entertainment Era

As dismal as the premiere of "Wolf Warrior" was, Wu Jing's road show was as hard as it was.

Wu Jing started running roadshows for the movie on the 16th of last month, basically visiting one city a day and visiting five to six theaters in each city.

Every time he goes to a theater, he must show his fullest and most high-spirited state to face fans and audiences.

Not to mention drinking with the theater manager. If you don’t make people happy by drinking, why should they schedule your film?

Wu Jing ran publicity in this way, and the effect was very significant.

"Wolf Warrior" scored 3900 million on its first day, which was 1200 million higher than "Let's Get Married" which had a higher promotion.

Zhang Yuanjun also specially forwarded the poster of "Wolf Warrior" on the day of the premiere to promote the movie.

On the one hand, it is to help his brothers. On the other hand, Zhang Yuanjun is the biggest boss of the "Wolf Warrior" crew. With a cost of 2700 million, Zhang Yuanjun paid 1600 million to Wu Jing to promote "Wolf Warrior", which is also to make money for himself.

An important reason why Wu Jing ran so hard for road shows is that "Wolf Warrior" did not receive more publicity funds.

Online marketing was too expensive, so he could only resort to the cheap but clumsy and tiring publicity method of road shows.

Among the competitors of "Wolf Warrior", except for "Let's Get Married" which lagged behind but also performed well, "White Ghost Legend: Desperate Escape" and "Crazy Words" both failed to perform well.

The former's first-day revenue was 300 million, which was seriously lower than expected. It's unclear how much of this was contributed by Yang Mi's fans.

The latter had 800 million on the first day, but for Liu Qingyun + Huang Xiaoming, 800 million on the first day was equivalent to a serious failure.

"Wolf Warrior" achieved a good result of 4 million in the first four days in the first weekend, leading the Qingming Festival period.

Compared with the cost of "Wolf Warrior" of 2700 million, the first weekend results have already made Wu Jing a huge profit.

But the industry's response to this achievement remains lukewarm.

From the current point of view, "Wolf Warrior" is undoubtedly a success.

However, the success of "Wolf Warrior" does not mean that the audience loves to watch military action movies. The bosses of the film company are still not optimistic about Wu Jing and the military action genre.

Just like "The Master of Hypnotism" with a cost of 4000 million and a box office of 5 million does not mean that brain-burning suspense has become a hit, after the success of "The Master of Hypnotism", the market did not follow suit and set up projects for brain-burning suspense films.

Film company bosses and producers will not pursue "low-budget" movies like "Wolf Warrior" and "The Master of Hypnotism."

The former requires rigorous movement training. Although the cost is small, the audience can tell at a glance that your performance is unprofessional.

The latter requires an extremely rigorous script.

Both of these are not in line with the purposes of some companies to copy quickly, go to market quickly, and make money quickly.

He spent a year and a half training in the army before filming. crazy! ?

Spend two years writing a brain-burning script. Did you know that a youth movie releases a book every three months?

From a product operations perspective, this is certainly no problem.

But many bosses still don’t understand that movies are not just products.

Zhang Yuanjun expressed his high-profile congratulations on Weibo for "Wolf Warrior" topping the Qingming Festival - it earned 1.8 million during the three-day holiday, with a total box office of 2.58 million.

Regarding the collision with "Wolf Warrior" and his defeat at the hands of "Wolf Warrior", Huang Xiaoming was very generous: "Dr. Huang specializes in treating people who are not sick, and Director Wu specializes in treating all kinds of dissatisfaction. Please take your own approach when it comes to the collision." Required.”

Xiao Ming was hung up and beaten by Liu Qingyun for his acting skills in "Crazy Words", so he could only enjoy himself in this way.

However, the screenwriter of this film has to bear half of the blame, as the audience guessed the murderer halfway through the plot.

Zhang Yuanjun went to Qingdao Oriental Film Capital after the Qingming Festival holiday. At the invitation of the film and television base, he visited Zhang Yimou's new film "The Great Wall".

"The Great Wall" is the first blockbuster film received by Oriental Film Capital. It takes it very seriously and specially built a section of the Great Wall for the film.

Zhang Yuanjun arrived at the set in the afternoon. The venue was very large and there were many people.

Here, Zhang Yuanjun once again met Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe.

Zhang Yimou did not suspend the crew's work just because Zhang Yuanjun came to visit the crew. Zhang Yuanjun could only say a few words to his friends when the crew paused.

Zhang Yuanjun has never made a co-production film. "The Great Wall" was the first co-production film crew he visited, and it was still led by the United States.

He discovered a very serious problem on the set.

Zhang Yimou actually has no power to change the play!
He does not have the power to change the lines, the shots, or even the scenery and props at short notice.

If you want to make changes, you can suspend filming, and the legendary staff stationed on the set will send the modifications back to the United States. The United States will hold a meeting to study and agree to the modifications before the changes can be made. If the United States does not respond, the crew will not be able to start work.

There is a time difference of more than ten hours between the two countries!

By the time the United States holds a meeting to study and make a decision, China will already be in trouble.

Zhang Yimou has a good temper, and another director could have fought with Legend on the set.

But even with this kind of work process, Zhang Yimou is very motivated, and he never seems to be tired.

Zhang Yimou showed Zhang Yuanjun the filmed materials in the director's studio, and also explained his story of "The Great Wall" to Zhang Yuanjun.

While listening to the director's explanation and reading the material, Zhang Yuanjun found that he couldn't understand "The Great Wall" with the help of an actor's intuition.

He was not a director. He didn't know whether a director could make a good film in such a working environment. But as an actor, looking at the script in his hand, he didn't know how to act.

And judging from the filmed material, the performance of several actors was a disaster.

Young Emperor, Wang Junkai just doesn’t know how!

He doesn't even need to speak his lines, and he can't even walk, sit or lie down.

Lu Han also doesn’t know how.

Jing Tian does, but not much.

Zhang Yuanjun really wanted to ask the director what his first feeling was when he got this cast list.

This is definitely not the actor chosen by Zhang Yimou!

Zhang Yuanjun sat on pins and needles next to Zhang Yimou after reading the material: "What are the benefits?" Zhang Yuanjun boasted unconscionably, while the documentary camera on the set was filming.

"Brother, you're here." This is how Jing Tian calls Zhang Yuanjun on the entire set.

Two young actors, Lu Han and Wang Junkai, came in with Jing Tian. They both called Zhang Yuanjun their teacher.

"You have to study hard with the director," said Zhang Yuanjun, who was also familiar with Jing Tian among the others. "I was fucked by the director more than a hundred times in three days, and I learned a lot."

Hearing what Zhang Yuanjun said, several people laughed.

"What kind of movie can make so many NGs?" Zhang Yuanjun NGed more than a hundred times, who would believe it?

"You should be able to see a super long shot this year." Zhang Yuanjun said.

Zhang Yuanjun really had nothing to say to Lu Han and Wang Junkai. They were not in the same circle and did not know each other.

The crew continued working, and Zhang Yuanjun sat in the director's studio watching the monitor with Zhang Yimou.

After the show, Matt Damon also asked him how the preparations for "Manchester by the Sea" were going.

Zhang Yuanjun told him that everything went well: "I will show it to you as soon as possible after filming." Zhang Yuanjun asked him what it was like to film in China for the first time and to work with Chinese directors and Chinese actors.

Be polite, but ask.

Matt Damon responded very freely, he was very happy and novel, and he liked Chinese noodles.

Zhang Yuanjun stayed on the set for two hours before leaving. (End of chapter)