It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 676: Bad movies always produce great hits! This meeting directly confused the major domestic film and television production companies
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the festive atmosphere is still strong!
With the box office exceeding 3 million on the first day, "The Martian"'s box office performance on the second day remained above 3 million!
When the data of 3.57 million appeared, Feng Xiaogang was immediately defeated!
The 7 million mark that "Earthquake" and "Personal Tailor" had been trying to break through for a long time was unexpectedly broken by "The Martian" in just two days.

Where the hell is this going to make sense?
At the same time, the other three films, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", "Ex-Files", and "Where Are We Going, Dad?", closed at 6049 million, 371 million, and 6425 million respectively.

By this time, the film market had almost been divided up by a few films released at the beginning of the Spring Festival period.

As time just turned to February, the fantasy costume film "A Chinese Odyssey" starring Sun Li and Zheng Zhongji was released in theaters.

Unfortunately, the first-day box office of 457 million directly sentenced the movie to death.

This kind of movie, which sounds like a bad movie just by looking at the name, will not receive much attention from the industry.

Even though Hu Ge is starring in the film, this is not a movie starring him. At most, he just makes a cameo appearance, which cannot attract a large number of fans to support him.

It's just a pity for La Beikang, because this is a movie invested and produced during Han Sanping's tenure. If there are any problems later, he, as the new chairman, will have to clean up the mess.

Chen Fei paid some attention to it, but when he saw that Guo Degang was also in the film's creative team, he immediately gave the film a pass!

From the movies that Guo Degang has participated in or starred in in the past, we can analyze a fact that any movie with his participation will definitely not escape the title of "bad movie".

Even in Chen Fei's opinion, Guo Degang's box office appeal is not as good as that of his apprentice Yue Yunpeng!
……

Although there are many failed projects, there are also many successful projects in which China Film Group participated in investing.

Just the two movies, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and "The Martian", are enough to multiply China Film's profits several times this year!

At this time, in order to maintain this "booming" enthusiasm, China Film Group announced new group news.

"The film "Beijing Meets Seattle: The Unbreakable Love Letter", co-produced by China Film Group and Feiyue Films, directed by Xue Xiaolu, and starring Jiao Enjun, Wan Qian and others, officially started shooting today."

Although the Spring Festival has not yet passed, for the film and television industry, it actually makes no difference whether there is a Spring Festival or not.

Especially those idol artists, they are even busier during the Spring Festival than on weekdays!

Xue Xiaolu is a person who can't sit still. He went to shoot a movie on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. He is really unique.

However, there seem to be many people who can't sit still like her.

As the filming of "Beijing Meets Seattle: The Unbreakable Love Letter" was announced to have started, on the other side, Pony Gallop also began to "gallop" again.

"The youth romance film "Fleeting Time" produced by Xiao Ma and starring Peng Yuyan, Ni Ni and others officially started shooting today!"

When seeing this group message, five words inexplicably emerged in Chen Fei's mind:

“A bad movie turns out a divine song!”

He watched this movie with a close female friend before his rebirth. He was almost sickened to death by the movie. The plot was so bloody and scary!
However, most people in the industry did not pay attention to the name and plot of the movie, but instead focused on the producer "Pony Ma".

Just a few days ago, Xiao Ma issued an announcement saying that the film and television projects will operate normally.

Unexpectedly, less than a week later, the new film started shooting, which undoubtedly gave many investors a shot in the arm!

However, just when many people in the industry turned their attention to China Film and Xiaoma, just one day later, the great poet Chen could no longer sit still.

"The Republic of China fantasy martial arts film "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain", directed by Chen Kaige and starring Feng Shaofeng, Guo Fucheng, Zhang Zhen, Fan Wei, and Lin Chiling, officially held its opening ceremony this morning."

"By promoting Taoism and challenging martial arts films, Brother Chen Kai has once again expanded the subject matter of his directing films. I look forward to his continued success!"

"It is reported that in addition to New Classics Media and BJ21 Century Shengkai Film and Television Culture Company, Columbia Pictures also participated in the investment of "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain"."

"..."

For a whole day, all major film and television information websites were filled with news about Brother Chen Kai.

The great poet Chen is still quite awesome. Although his career has been on the decline in recent years, his position in the film and television industry is still very solid because he once won the "Palme d'Or".

I just don’t know why, but in the second half of his life, he seemed to have been proving that "Farewell My Concubine" was not his work!

Many people in the industry sent their congratulations, and looking around, there was a lot of praise under Brother Chen Kai’s Weibo.

However, people like Chen Fei, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou did not join in the fun.

It's quite interesting to say that since Chen Kai used the movie "Search" to snatch Feng Xiaogang's "1942" from the opportunity to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the two have not been getting along well in recent months.

And when the Oscar nominations were announced, as expected, "Searching" failed to make the list!
This gave Feng Xiaogang an opportunity.

When the Oscar nominations were announced last month, Feng Xiaogang was full of crickets on Weibo, and he was almost pointing at Chen Kai's nose and saying that he was no good.

The great poet Chen considered himself a superior person, so naturally he would not argue with an inferior person like Feng Xiaogang, but the feud between the two of them was still formed.

Whenever the two met in public, they would just turn around and leave without saying a word.

This scene almost made Chen Fei burst out laughing.

Even though half of his body is buried in the ground, he still can't bend his noble waist!
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Although "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain" has caused a wave of popularity, it is still not as good as "The Martian".

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the North American box office results of "The Martian" came back from abroad and once again topped the hot search headlines of major entertainment websites.

The box office grossed $7963 million on its first day of release and $2.04 million in its first three days of release!
If converted into RMB, this is equivalent to earning more than 12 billion RMB in three days!

If the current domestic box office is added, the film has already earned more than 20 billion yuan in box office revenue worldwide.

When this number was placed in front of everyone, the film industry was once again shocked!

Since when did domestic films achieve such horrific results worldwide?

Many experts in the industry have begun to analyze the situation, and the Film Bureau has even organized several conferences to discuss how to replicate this success and spread it to other domestic films.

But unfortunately, after all the discussion, there was not even half a result in the end!
In desperation, Tong Gang personally called Chen Fei and invited him to give a speech and share his experience.

Chen Fei naturally had to go since the head of the Film Bureau personally invited him.

At the conference, a large number of industry bigwigs, directors, and producers came and stared at him, wanting to learn from his winning experience.

Facing these people's "eagerness for knowledge", Chen Fei said bluntly:
“Chinese-language films are weak, and if they want to truly go abroad, they will need to consume countless resources!
The key to the success of The Martian and Gravity is the influence and popularity of Liu Yifei and I around the world. A large number of fans who like me will naturally pay for the movies I direct, shoot or star in..."

Hearing this, many people in the audience immediately showed disappointed expressions.

For many people, Chen Fei's success cannot be replicated.

Who the hell can be like him, winning numerous awards at the three major European film festivals and Oscars, and also directing many best-selling Hollywood blockbusters!

If this kind of success could be replicated, the Chinese-language film industry would have surpassed Hollywood and dominated the world long ago.

It is no exaggeration to say that his achievement can be said to be "unprecedented and unrivaled".

However, just when everyone was disappointed, Chen Fei suddenly changed the subject: "In fact, the two movies "Gravity" and "The Martian" cannot be used as examples.

Therefore, I will use Ghost Blows Out the Light as an example to explain the key to the film's success in Hollywood."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up and they looked over there intently.

"Ghost Blows Out the Light" is indeed an excellent case. The leading actor has no fame at all abroad, but it still sold well at the box office in the end. This case is so typical!
“First of all, I invested more than 100 million yuan at the beginning of filming and started global marketing preparations.

During this process, I invited American sinologists and translators who studied traditional Chinese culture to systematically translate the original novel of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" into English, and published and put the English version of the novel "Ghost Blows Out the Light" on the shelves abroad.

At the same time, I also acquired a comics company that specialized in drawing "Ghost Blows Out the Light" comics to carry out early promotion, not only the English version, but also the Japanese and Korean versions.

So when the first film was released, I had invested about 6 million just in marketing and expanding the impact of the work.

You may think that the first film in the “Ghost Blows Out the Light” series had a high box office, but in fact, compared with the initial investment, the profit can barely break even, and more investment will be needed in the later stage for promotion..."

Chen Fei was talking nonstop on the stage, but the people below just felt their heads go numb!
In order for a movie to be successful at the box office, more than 600 million yuan was invested in publicity and marketing alone, and this was only achieved with the help of many Hollywood companies!

If an ordinary film and television company were to do this, it would probably not be able to achieve this effect even if it spent 1 billion yuan.

Half an hour later, Fade Chen walked down from the stage and returned to his seat.

At this moment, the venue was silent. Everyone's expressions were complicated. In addition to envy and admiration, their hearts were also filled with despair.

This kind of success seems to be traceable, but it is too difficult to replicate!
At this time, Tong Gang suddenly said: "If there are film and television companies in the industry willing to do this, the bureau can provide some help." Although this was very nice, no one responded.

Not to mention 1 billion, even 600 million is a sum of money that many film and television companies would have to save for a long time to come up with.

What if the movie loses money after investing so much money in marketing? Wouldn't all the initial investment be wasted?
Tong Gang's eyes swept across the faces of the bosses of the major film and television production companies present one by one, but what made him depressed was that none of these people dared to look him in the eye.

"Okay, let's end the meeting here."

A sharing session directly ruined many film and television production companies' yearning and pursuit of Hollywood. It's really something unprecedented.

Everyone has a clear idea in their minds that Sino-foreign co-productions can be made, but let's forget about films like "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

I really have no confidence!

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A week has passed in a flash, and several movies released during the Spring Festival have officially marked a watershed.

"The Martian is constantly breaking box office records for domestic films. After breaking 3 million on the first day, the box office soared to 18.6 billion in the first seven days, far ahead of other domestic films!"

"The box office of Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven in its first seven days totaled 3.96 million yuan, and its reputation plummeted, with negative reviews pouring in. The daily box office revenue is falling at a cliff-like rate."

"Where Are We Going, Dad?" grossed 3.5 million yuan in its first seven days, ranking third on the Spring Festival box office chart. Most of the audiences in the theaters were younger."

"'Ex-Files' ranked fourth on the Spring Festival box office chart with a box office of 2693 million yuan. Many fans said that this is a movie that makes people laugh when they go in and cry when they come out."

"The daily new box office of "A Chinese Odyssey" has fallen below 100 million, and it is very close to being taken off the screen..."

The industry is bombarded with numerous news, which is dazzling and overwhelming.

"Come on, drink! Why is there still so much left in the cup? Where are the fish?"

In the box, Han Sanping was holding up a wine glass, urging Wang Changtian to drink the wine in the glass quickly.

"What kind of wine is this? Isn't it too spicy?"

Wang Changtian frowned and forced himself to swallow.

Chen Fei took over the topic: "Hey, my old man brewed it himself. Although it's a bit spicy, it tastes great. And after drinking it, I guarantee you won't have a headache the next day!"

The people sitting in the box now are all investors of "The Martian", which can be regarded as an early celebration party for the movie.

In a few days, Chen Fei will fly to Los Angeles to attend this year's Academy Awards ceremony, and it is not known when he will come back.

Considering that there is a high possibility that he will not be able to make it to the final celebration banquet, he might as well treat his own people to a meal first.

After a glass of wine, Han Sanping suddenly said, "By the way, has the bureau approved the application for the extension key for The Martian? Do you need me to tell them?"

"It's already passed..."

Before Chen Fei finished speaking, Ren Zhonglun cheerfully replied, "I heard that for the two films, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy and The Martian, the bureau asked you to apply for the films. The whole process was a green channel. Even if there were any non-compliant parts, the bureau supplemented them for you."

"Haha, Director Tong is a bit anxious."

Chen Fei did not deny this fact.

There is one thing he didn't say. In fact, he didn't even follow up on "Pacific Rim 2" throughout the entire process. All the procedures were handled by China Film Group and the Film Bureau, so he didn't need to worry about it at all.

Just like what Huang Bo once said on a show: "When you get better, all the people around you are good people!"

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With its leading box office performance, "The Martian" has completely established its position as the dominant film in the Spring Festival period.

There is a movie called "Beijing Love Story" on Valentine's Day on February 2th, which is obviously trying to take advantage of the popularity of "Valentine's Day".

However, even though the starring team includes Liang Jiahui and Liu Jialing, the industry does not think that this movie can have an impact on "The Martian".

The only film that Chen Fei takes seriously is the imported film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" which will be released in mainland China on the 21st.

After that, there were no movies worth his attention.

Due to the booming film market in mainland China, the Hong Kong Film Awards, which used to attract much attention, has completely withdrawn from the stage of history this year.

Apart from the slight splash caused by the news that Zhang Ziyi was nominated for Best Actress, there was nothing else worthy of attention.

Chen Fei paid special attention to the other nominated candidates. Looking around, Hong Kong films still occupied half of the nominations.

In particular, there is not a single mainland film among the nominees for Best Picture.

The only one with a relatively big reputation may be Xue Xiaolu, who was nominated for Best Screenwriter.

"Are you really going to mess around in that little nest?"

Chen Fei curled his lips and made up his mind that he would never pay attention to the Academy Awards again.

This broken prize is completely ruined!
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After the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the festive atmosphere almost disappears.

Feiyue Film and Television's operations are back on track.

The film "Dear" was sent to the Film Bureau as soon as possible, and then it successfully passed the review in less than two days.

After communicating with China Film, "Dear" was finally successfully scheduled for March 3th.

There was nothing special about this day, it was just to avoid the impact of "The Martian".

When the news was announced by the Film Bureau and the China Film Group Corporation’s official website, it was immediately reprinted by major media outlets:

"The anti-trafficking film "Dear" produced by Liu Yifei, written by Chen Fei, and starring Huang Bo and Zhou Xun has officially been scheduled for release. See you on March 3!"

"It is reported that all the box office revenue from the movie 'Dear' will be invested in the public welfare cause of fighting human trafficking."

"To reach new heights of charity, watch "Dear"..."

Related news continued to emerge, and a number of film and television production companies in the industry continued to wail.

April is traditionally the off-season for movies, and some low-budget films rely on this time to recoup their costs.

Now that "Dear" has come on stage, it immediately puts them under tremendous pressure!
Even though this is just a feature film with a special theme, both the production team and the actors are all "players" with huge box office appeal in the industry!
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In a blink of an eye, time passed smoothly and the Lantern Festival passed.

At this point, the New Year has officially come to an end, and the familiar "work smell" has successfully descended upon all workers.

Liu Yifei dragged Chen Fei to watch "Beijing Love Story" directed by Chen Sicheng.

This movie is about the love between five couples.

Young and naive first love, a post-80s generation who fell in love at first sight and ended up with an unexpected pregnancy, a man's infidelity and a woman's despair after entering the grave of their marriage, a couple who lived a rich life but lacked passion, and an elderly couple who stayed with each other in love and stayed with their spouse until death.

The director uses 121 minutes to tell the story of five kinds of life and five kinds of love.

From the perspective of the plot, the five stories are a bit long and do not have many connections. They are purely related by the relationships between the characters rather than the content.

Let’s not talk about the plot for now, the acting competition between the best actor and actress is really powerful!
Even though Chen Fei felt that the plot was a bit melodramatic, he could still continue watching it because the actors' acting skills were strong enough.

Miss Liu’s reaction was more exaggerated. Her eyes turned red after watching the whole movie!

If nothing unexpected happens, the box office of this movie should not be too bad. After all, the audience of romance movies has always been very fixed.

Chen Fei did not pay too much attention to the box office performance of this movie because the 64th Berlin International Film Festival was about to come to an end.

After attending the premiere of "The Martian", Chen Guofu went to the film festival. I wonder if he will get a perfect answer?

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