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Chapter 785: Sweeping the National Day Files, "Operation Red Sea"

The last day of September.

The Golden Horse Awards organizing committee announced this year's shortlist.

Films produced by Jiangdong Entertainment, including "Detective Chinatown" and "Knife of the Assassin 2", received a total of 11 nominations.

However, this year Jiangdong Entertainment is not the only one that stands out.

"Bon Voyage" and "Soulmate" also received seven nominations each, and Xiao Huangya and Ma Siyou were both nominated for Best Actress.

Xiao Gangpao's "I Am Not Madame Bovary" and Du Qifeng's "Trees Attract the Wind" followed closely behind, with five nominations each.

“It’s been nine years, and I’m surprised and delighted to be nominated for the Golden Horse Awards again.

Being nominated for the Golden Horse Best Actress Award is the best gift for me..."

Teacher Fan is still in Paris watching the show and even posted a special post on Weibo.

In 2007, she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collaboration with Leon Lai in the movie "The Devil in My Heart".

Now that it has made a comeback, its momentum is no longer comparable to the past.

……

The crew of "Operation Mekong" also held a premiere in Yunnan Province.

Police officers from Yunnan Province were invited to watch the film, which received rave reviews.

The relationships with all major cinema chains have already been arranged.

Not only Jiangdong's own artists, such as Hu Ge, Huang Xiaoming and his wife, etc., paid for the show to give back to their fans.

There are also many celebrities who help promote the campaign on social media platforms.

With full publicity and promotion resources and the support of the official coal platform, there has been overwhelming publicity since the beginning of the month.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the release.

LeTV's "Jade Dynasty" has also invested a lot in publicity and promotion.

"It will be the first full-length real-life CG fantasy movie in Asia, and it will create the pinnacle of domestic real-life CG movies!"

Zhou Yutang almost couldn't hold back when he saw the promotional positioning of his rival.

No matter how the movie is made, Guo Xiaosi is indeed good at hyping it up.

What is a live-action CG movie?

That is, the film itself is dominated by real-life performances.

However, all the visual products produced in the entire movie, including scenes, objects, special effects, etc., are all composed of computer-generated CG animations or pictures.

Guo Xiaosi and LeTV had been making a fuss for a while, and now they are joining hands to promote the movie.

In the early morning of the 30th, "Operation Mekong" officially hit the big screen.

Having done sufficient preparation, Zhou Yutang was very confident about the film, but Li Dagou was a little nervous.

This project was initially initiated by Li Dagou, who almost ended up in the ICU at that time. It is also the most important project of Xiaoma Pentium in the past few years.

At noon, Brother Dagou called Zhou Yutang who was going to continue morning exercise with Da Meiyuan.

"Yu Tang, the box office has reached 78 million..."

Big Dog's excited voice could be heard through the phone. Da Meiyu went to the bathroom to clean up the battlefield, and Zhou Yutang glanced at the peephole.

"The screening schedule is 46%, and the attendance rate is not bad... Let's wait and see, the afternoon is the prime time."

Zhou Yutang paid attention to Deng Chao’s film “Passing By Your World”.

In order to get ahead of the National Day holiday, the cinemas scheduled 7830 screenings yesterday and the box office closed at million.

So far on the second day, it seems to be just over 30 million.

Although the genres are different, in terms of attendance, word of mouth and other data, they are not as good as "Operation Mekong".

As for Guo Xiaosi's "Jade Dynasty", it was just over 20 million.

It is destined to not make any waves.

……

"Ahhh, Zhang Ruolan, I love you!"

"Honey, you're so handsome!"

"Brother Long, Brother Long, look here!"

In the afternoon, Zhou Yutang took Zhang Ruolan, Zhu Yilong and Gao Ye to Sina to visit the building.

This was a trip that was planned in advance.

During the National Day holiday, Mango TV's Diamond Theater will be updated every day.

There were many fans at the event who had received the news in advance, including some Sina staff.

This drama apart from the main CP of Zhou Yutang and Zhang Ruolan.

The daily bickering and love-hate relationship between him and Zhu Yilong also contributed to many famous scenes.

Long Ge and Gao Ye are also an official couple, and their popularity as a pair is quite high.

Zhou Yutang had already gotten used to the thunderous screams and shouts at the scene, and being surrounded by countless cameras.

On the contrary, Zhang Ruolan, who had just gone from being a pretty new star to suddenly becoming an instant hit.

It also requires a process of changing your mindset.

Zhou Shufang usually arranges an experienced assistant to guide her, so she can handle herself well when appearing on various variety shows.

Today was her first time to go door-to-door with Zhou Yutang, and she witnessed the terrifying popularity of the Grand Commander of Jiangdong.

Truly a superstar among stars.

He is the top emperor and his reputation is well-deserved.

Seeing that Zhang Ruolan's smile was a little stiff, Zhou Yutang walked into the building and said softly:

"Are you nervous?"

"Well, a little bit."

"Just treat them as wooden men."

"Know it."

Zhang Ruolan's voice was low and soft, and she felt inexplicably safe in her heart.

She followed Zhou Yutang closely.

The light shining into the building from the floor-to-ceiling windows cast his tall shadow on the ground, which seemed to just cover her petite shadow.

For a moment, they overlapped, and Zhang Ruolan carefully kept some distance between them.

Try not to make them look intimate.

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"Operation Mekong grossed 1.75 million yuan on its first day, and its main theme gained great popularity and box office success, making it a strong leader in the National Day box office!"

"'Passing By Your World' followed closely behind, earning 1.38 million in two days, firmly ranking second in the National Day box office!"

"Jade Dynasty" was a surprise on its first day, only earning 3940 million, and its first-day box office was not as good as the Tiny Times series!"

The National Day box office battle has finally begun, and all eyes from inside and outside the industry are focused on those few movies.

For "Operation Mekong", the original estimate given by the data department was that it would exceed 100 million on the first day.

The current results have far exceeded expectations.

Brother Li Dagou was so excited that he called Zhou Yutang several times.

With revenue of nearly 200 million in a single day, this is the most explosive project that Pony.com has ever done, bar none.

"Big Dog, Sister Zhong said you didn't sleep for a whole day and night?"

"Where can I sleep?"

"Take care of yourself, this is just the beginning."

Zhou Yutang shook his head and laughed: "Tomorrow is the National Day holiday, and there is hope that the sales will exceed 200 million in a single day."

"Hahaha, if we work together, we'll be invincible!"

Li Dagou's eyes, which had just been about to squint, opened again and he grinned.

Is this considered a collaboration between brothers to sweep the National Day box office?
Hmm...why doesn't it count?
……

On the night of the premiere of "Operation Mekong", official media came out to promote it.

It just adds fuel to the fire, making it burn even more vigorously.

Although the reviews for Guangguang's "Passing by Your World" were extremely polarized, the box office revenue was real.

As one of the leading actors and producers of the film, Deng Chao was full of energy and took the main creators on a frantic roadshow around the country.

"Passing By Your World" and "Operation Mekong" are of different genres.

Even if you can't beat the big brother, you can still get the meat by consolidating your own base.

As for LeTV, it is in a precarious situation.

The good news is that "Jade Dynasty" has a base.

Bad news, the base is limited.

Zhang Zhao had been sitting in the office all night.

I read the box office data reports over and over again.

He doesn't understand.

In today's film industry, the audience is not willing to pay for the package of super hot IP + top stars...

This made him feel confused.

It seems that this trend was started by Zhou Yutang.

Today's audience's viewing habits focus more on the reputation of film and television works.

After all, we have all eaten good food and our tastes have become more sophisticated.

Thanks to the bad deeds done by the "Tiny Times" series, Guo Xiaosi's fans have disappeared. Now many people, when they hear that it is his movie, have a preconceived notion that the movie is a one-star bad movie.

Thanks to "Jade Dynasty", Guo Xiaosi owes the national audience another movie ticket.

The start was not good and it was difficult to advance the publicity work.

Teacher Fan is still in Paris watching a fashion show and did not come to promote the movie.

Yang Mi and several top stars in the film have only been given these two days to promote the film.

According to the current situation, "Jade Dynasty" was easily crushed by the mainstream commercial blockbuster "Operation Mekong", and even "Passing by Your World" was defeated.

It’s only slightly better than Wang Jing’s next door fat guy’s “Ace of Kings” which was quietly released and secretly made 2286 million…

The total cost of production and promotion of "Jade Dynasty" is about 2 million yuan.

In other words.

The box office must reach 6 million to cover the costs.

Zhang Zhao of LeTV took another look at the real-time data, took off his glasses, leaned back in his chair, and sighed softly.

……

During the National Day holiday, the crosstalk master and apprentice did not take a holiday.

Still in high-intensity laning.

The apprentice had been prepared for this and even took out invoices from more than ten years ago.

It also gave netizens a lot of gossip.

The main creators of "Home with Kids" just had a National Day gathering, which made netizens feel that time flies. Liu Mei has been shining on variety shows in recent years and also took her son to the Mushroom House.

Xia Donghai transformed himself into a behind-the-scenes worker in the film and television industry, participated in several projects, and became quite famous.

Xiaoxue and Liu Xing have also made great progress.

After the huge success of "Ode to Joy", Yang Zi reaped the benefits and received numerous business notices.

She will be starring in Ode to Joy 2 soon.

This project is still mainly controlled by Noon Sunshine, with Jiangdong participating in the investment.

However, Kong Sheng is currently preparing for "Nirvana in Fire 2", and the director has been changed to Jian Chuanzhi and Zhang Kaizhou, two powerful actors under Noon Sunshine.

As for Zhang Yishi, his status in "Yuzui" rose this year, but he is not as steady as his sister and has done a lot of outrageous things.

"Brother, he was so abstract when he was in school."

Nazha has had a lot of fashion shoot announcements recently.

When I chat with Zhou Yutang daily and mention Zhang Yishi, I am also speechless.

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She is a classmate of Yang Zi and Zhang Yi, and they have a pretty good relationship.

But this monkey has been a little bit arrogant lately.

I was having fun with friends at a bar, and maybe because I drank too much horse urine, I ended up running to the river to pee.

She also kissed her male companion and attacked his second brother.

Gary was photographed by the paparazzi looking very angry.

When he was an unknown figure, no one paid attention to him.

But when he became famous and stood under the spotlight, everyone's eyes were on him.

Zhou Yutang asked her good sister with concern: "Is Fighter of the Destiny going to start filming soon?"

"It seems like we have to wait until the middle of the month. I miss you, brother."

Nazha acts like a spoiled child every day.

"I miss you as well."

"I definitely miss you more than you miss me."

"Then you win."

……

On October 2.02st, "Operation Mekong" grossed million yuan on that day!
Number two, another huge profit of 1.97 million!
The cumulative box office in the first three days of the weekend reached 5.74 million yuan, sweeping the National Day box office with overwhelming momentum.

Entertainment headlines on major portals, hot posts on forums, and hot searches on Weibo...

They were all the shocking cases that brought glory to China abroad.

Taking advantage of the National Day, Huang Xiaoming posted the news of Qin Lan's pregnancy on his Weibo, which also sparked widespread discussion.

Friends in the circle and fans of both of them are blessing this couple to be together.

Zhou Yutang sent him his congratulations. The leader’s first love, Zhao Yanzi, has also been in the limelight recently.

The box office data of "So Young 2", which he directed himself, was very good. He went to Cannes again, and his second film "No Other Love" which he directed himself was also promoted in a high-profile manner.

As an important shareholder of Alibaba Pictures, Zhao Yanzi attended the strategic cooperation press conference with Amblin Pictures together with Zhang Wei, a senior executive in charge of international business.

"We want to build Alibaba Pictures into the world's largest entertainment company, and subsequent projects are already under development!"

Teacher Ma is as high-profile as ever.

The image of him shaking hands with Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg also shocked the entire film and television industry.

Ali's move was a bit big, and Spielberg can be said to be a prominent figure in Hollywood.

What exactly does Teacher Ma want to do with this royal flush?
The industry has been discussing this matter these days. Some people have suffered from Jiangdong for a long time and are shouting that they are finally going to put pressure on Governor Zhou.

Others hold conservative views and denounced Mr. Ma for inviting wolves into the house and stealing everyone's jobs.

"Boss, it seems Amblin Pictures came to us?"

Ni Ni has a good memory and remembers it very clearly.

Among the files I sorted out was an email from Amblin Pictures.

When Zhou Yutang was in Hollywood, someone even came to do public relations for him.

"I'm not one of them."

Zhou Yutang downplayed Ni Ni's problem.

He browsed the news on the tablet, but his focus was on another point.

At Alibaba's global strategic cooperation press conference, Alibaba Pictures CEO Zhang Qiang seemed to be standing a little far away.

Even her speech was very brief, even less than Zhang Wei's.

Originally, Zhang Qiang, a general under Zuoshandiao, was hired by Mr. Ma at a high salary to run Alibaba Pictures and hold great power.

However, since the beginning of the year, Alibaba Group has continuously adjusted the management structure and incentive mechanism of Alibaba Pictures.

In the past six months, Alibaba Pictures has not done many projects.

Two senior vice presidents were unexpectedly parachuted in from the group headquarters.

Zhang Wei, who is in charge of overseas business, and Deng Kangming, who comes from the group’s human resources department.

Others have two decision-makers, but Mr. Ma directly plays with the three giants.

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The seven-day National Day holiday is over.

"Operation Mekong" still topped the list, with a total box office of 10.12 billion.

Chen Duling has been feeling a bit resentful lately. She originally found it novel to reply to messages from her boss on his work phone.

Chatting with business tycoons on behalf of the boss.

Thinking about it makes me a little excited.

After the National Day holiday, Chen Duling, whose hands were almost broken from fatigue, didn’t even feel like watching the League of Legends World Championship…

There are congratulatory messages coming in almost every moment.

Friends who are close to Zhou Yutang contact him directly through his private number.

The things stored on this work phone are all things I am not very familiar with.

Several Passats were parked quietly in front of the entrance of Jiangdong Building.

Immediately afterwards, several men and women, with bodies as straight as javelins, got out of the car one after another and went straight to the ninth floor.

"Director Zhou, Director Tang... thank you for making this trip."

"Of course, the leader said that we should learn more about advanced film and television production experience from President Zhou."

"I don't dare to study, let's focus on communication..."

Zhou Yutang shook hands and exchanged greetings with Zhou Zhengtian, Tang Jing and other people from the Navy Political Department.

The reception sofa area in the office invites people to sit down.

Two black leather four-person sofas face north and south.

Zhou Zhengtian and Tang Jing, the two directors of the Naval Political Department Television Art Center, sat on two single sofas respectively.

There is a crystal glass coffee table in the middle.

Ni Ni, dressed in a professional suit, picked up the antique stove with her bare hands and poured a few cups of tea for the guests from the Navy.

The fragrance of flowers is everywhere and the tea is leisurely.

The Naval Political Department Television Art Center was originally established based on the Naval Political Department Repertory Theatre.

With the support of the navy, it has a strong foundation.

Later, the main task was to create literary and artistic works that shaped the image of the contemporary navy.

After the conference in 2012, the higher authorities also attached great importance to propaganda for the military.

Several key departments have received tasks.

For example, the Liushenmen headquarters produced "Operation Mekong", and the Air Force's "Sky Hunter" fell into the hands of Da Hei Niu and Huayi.

The same goes for the Navy.

The intention had been conveyed to Jiangdong Entertainment before, but it has remained pending.

It's not just Zhou Yutang who has connections. Da Hei Niu was able to take the lead in Huayi's organization of "Sky Hunter", and the Navy Political Department was also making contingency plans at the same time.

This kind of main theme project assigned by the organization may result in failure if it is not done well, so it is understandable to be cautious.

Now that "Operation Mekong" has taken off in both box office and word of mouth, even the navy's top leaders have been alarmed.

Just give the order directly and it will be time for it to bear fruit.

“As a television art center, we have existed for so many years and have done many TV drama projects, but we lack experience in making movies.”

Zhou Zhengtian's name sounds just one character different from Zhou Zhengping, but in fact they have nothing to do with each other.

He comes from a family of public security officials. He has the unique and stern temperament of a soldier, but also a bit of literary air.

No matter what he says or does, he is very straightforward.

Another director, Tang, has a gentle temperament, speaks elegantly, and speaks at a moderate speed:

"Yesterday I watched President Zhou's Operation Mekong, it was really wonderful and captured the style of our Chinese police..."

"This time, the leader's instructions specifically asked Mr. Zhou to do it. The specific personnel for the project can be decided by Mr. Zhou..."

Both directors of the Navy were present, and it was obvious that they wanted to finalize the cooperation today.

The initial cooperation intention was confirmed. After chatting for nearly an hour, Zhou Yutang personally escorted the two directors out.
"I will lead Jiangdong's screenwriter team to review the materials compiled by Director Zhou and Teacher Feng Ji, and produce the script as soon as possible, and then do cost accounting..."

The Feng Ji that Zhou Yutang was talking about was not the one in Black Myth.

This is the screenwriter teacher at the Navy Television Art Center, and also a well-known veteran screenwriter of military-themed films in the industry.

His representative works include "The Eternal Number", "Blue Blade", "War Thunder", "The Magic Dog", etc.

Last year, the Navy received the task and made a book based on the real incident of the evacuation of Chinese citizens from Yemen.

This is the first version of the script and it will definitely be revised in the future.

TV series have their own narrative rhythm, while movies require stronger commercial attributes, so they will definitely have to be changed.

A senior leader from the Navy has spoken, so the project will definitely get the green light.

This includes officers and soldiers who experienced the evacuation, as well as the person involved, General Xia Ping, and even the Jiaolong Commando Team, who can cooperate in providing materials.

This project is somewhat different from "Wolf Warrior 2".

The theme of "Wolf Warrior 2" is extreme personal heroism, while the Navy's project is bound to highlight the collective group drama.

The Celestial Empire's navy fought bloody battles overseas to protect the lives and safety of the Celestial Empire's people.

Modern warfare scenes are displayed in the process of carrying out national missions.

There are sacrifices, passion, and unchanging faith...

Clear your mind.

Zhou Yutang opened the document on the computer.

Half an hour later, Ni Ni came in to refill Zhou Yutang's tea.

With a quick glance, he saw four large characters on the screen:

"Operation Red Sea!"

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(End of this chapter)