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

Chapter 784: Unexpected Box Office Hits! Review Rejected? ? ?
"It is reported that the romantic drama film "The Worst Person in the World", exclusively produced by Feiyue Films, produced and starred by Liu Yifei, directed and starred by Chen Fei, with guest appearances by Zhou Xun, Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, Tang Yan, Zhao Liying, Shu Chang and others, has officially wrapped up in the capital..."

"The team of the Hollywood imported blockbuster "Fast and Furious 7" has arrived in the capital and is expected to hold a promotional conference within a week. The film will be released in mainland theaters on the 12th of this month, so stay tuned."

"The Sino-foreign co-production blockbuster "Legend of the White Ghost: The Desperate Escape", jointly produced by several film and television companies, was released in mainland theaters in the early hours of last night, and many theaters have given it a high screening rate."

……

Feiyue Films, Editing Department.

As soon as the film was completed, Chen Fei brought the finished film back to the company and personally led a team to start editing it.

He has already made it clear with all the actors who have participated in the guest appearances that if they encounter a segment where the live sound quality is not particularly good, they can always call someone to come over to re-record it on the spot.

After being busy for the whole morning, on the way to the cafeteria at noon, Chen Fei received a call from Liu Yifei.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Muscle."

"Hey? Miss Jiaorou, what's up? Did you just wake up?"

"Yes, I haven't slept in for a long time. I slept so well today~so well!"

"Haha, you little lazy pig, what are you going to do this afternoon?"

"I'm hungry. I'm going to get up and eat, then go back to sleep. I'm going to sleep until you come back, then continue to sleep for three days and three nights."

"Good fellow, you are going to drain me completely dry..."

After being bored for a while, when Chen Fei arrived at the cafeteria and got his meal, Liu Yifei suddenly changed the subject and mentioned another thing.

"Have you paid attention to the movie 'Legend of the White Ghost: The Desperate Escape' invested by Uncle Chen? My mother just called me and said that Uncle Chen might lose a lot of money this time."

Fade Chen raised his eyebrows slightly and paused: "Hmm? The film reviews and word of mouth are out?"

"Yes, you'll know if you go and see it. It's simply... hard to describe in words."

"Okay, let's talk about it when we get back tonight. I'll go take a look first."

"Yeah, remember to come back early in the evening! I want to eat roast duck, remember to bring some."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei switched directly to the Douban app and read the film reviews of "The Legend of White Ghost: The Desperate Escape".

"I finished watching it in a daze. I don't know if it was because I was too sleepy or the movie was too hypnotic. The overall performance was bland throughout the whole show. Even the actors spoke in the same tone, just like driving at a certain speed on the highway. It was easy to get sleepy."

"There were no exciting scenes, no amazing plots, and no martial arts choreography! The movie ended before I knew it, and I didn't even know what I had watched."

"It's a bad movie that needs no explanation. The so-called integration of Chinese and foreign elements seems to be a joke. The translated language and actors' costumes are very ordinary. The palace scenes are simply crude. The war in the western part is also very hasty. It feels like there is a lack of funds. It's a mess."

"The film editing is a mess. It's hard to understand. Many foreshadowings were not explained in the end. It's just like a game!"

"The emotional development of the male and female protagonists is simply magical... Is the 3D effect just a way to make money? There are so many flaws that I don't know how to evaluate it."

"Yang Ying is still pretty, but her acting is so awkward. Can she find a training institution to learn? Her crying scene is so awkward. Did she use eye drops again?"

Finished!

Wasted!

"Fortunately, we insisted on not letting Liu Yifei play the leading female role, otherwise, the fan base that we have worked so hard to build up would be completely destroyed."

After muttering a few words, Fade Chen stopped paying attention to the movie.

A movie that is destined to be a bad movie is not worth his much attention.

……

The next day, the first-day box office data of "Legend of White Ghost: The Desperate Escape" was released.

The first-day box office data of 569 million directly stunned several investors!
More than 200 million yuan was invested in this project, and it was a Sino-foreign co-production. The director of "Resident Evil" was invited, as well as Hollywood A-list star Nicolas Cage and Yang Ying, one of the four young actresses in mainland China...

With this lineup, it only earned less than 10 million at the box office. Is this a joke?

It would be fine if the box office was bad, but the word of mouth was also terrible. It's so fucked up!
Looking around, there was a lot of ridicule on the Internet:

"Do you really think that Sino-foreign co-productions are that easy? I'll kill you!"

"This movie is so bad! It's really bad!"

"In my opinion, a serious Sino-foreign co-production project should be something like Pacific Rim. As for those produced by other domestic or Hollywood companies, they don't have that flavor at all."

"Let's look forward to The Great Wall. Forget about this movie. After reading the reviews, I'm not interested in going to the cinema anymore."

"You can also look forward to Geostorm, which is produced by Feiyue Films and is much more reliable than China Film and LeTV."

Another new day has arrived. The box office of "Legend of White Ghost: The Desperate Escape" closed at 322 million on the second day, ushering in a new round of plummeting.

Many filmmakers in the industry can see very clearly that this film will not be shown for more than a week, otherwise the screening rate will be cut by the theaters.

……

If the end of the Spring Festival period is the end of a climax, then the announcements released by so many film and television companies in April are undoubtedly the prelude to the next climax.

On April 4, Guangguang announced that it would participate in the investment of the latest comedy film directed by Deng Chao, and officially announced the main cast.

When the couple lineup of Deng Chao + Sun Li was announced, it immediately attracted a lot of people's expectations and attention.

On April 4, the "Happy Twist" team, which had just won the Spring Festival box office championship, announced that it would invest in "A Thought in Heaven", a new script written by Fan Wei.

At the same time, the film also announced its cast, which was the combination of Shen Teng and Ma Li.

On April 4, Yinghuang and Feiyue Films announced that they will continue to develop the "Ip Man" series and will officially launch "Ip Man 7" next year.

In the subsequent official announcement of the main creative lineup of the crew, Zhao Wenzhuo was prominently listed, with three big bright words marked behind him.

Zhao Wenchao(played by Ip Man).

On April 4, China Film Group issued a notice and officially announced:
"The superhero blockbuster "Avengers: Age of Ultron", produced exclusively by Marvel and directed by Chen Fei, starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and others, will be released on May 2."

For a while, there was wailing in the industry!
Especially those domestic films released in May, they are like losing one’s parents!

How can you beat an opponent who's just standing there?

On April 4, "Dangal", which won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 9th Academy Awards, officially landed in domestic theaters.

On the first day of its release, the movie earned 3251 million at the box office, blinding a lot of people!

Even Chen Fei did not expect that this movie would unexpectedly gain the love and recognition of many audiences and has an excellent reputation!
"For a girl who has never seen her father since she was born, watching this movie alone, especially at a night show, has too many tearful moments, but I still endured it and watched it to the end, feeling deeply moved.

Thank you, father, for giving me life. Thank you, father, for bringing me into this world. Although we have never met, I have survived. Thank you for giving me life. Although you are absent from my world, I will take it as a perfect flaw and continue to live on. "

"It's so good! It's super good! Although I had to go to a late-night show, it was worth staying up all night. It's so good. It's true that Khan has no bad movies!"

“When I first watched it, I thought the father was too much! He forced his dreams on his daughter and was full of patriarchal ideas. But later, when I saw his daughter start to achieve success and successfully enter the sports school, I suddenly realized that it was all worth it!
She was unable to win glory for her country when she was young, but she unexpectedly discovered that her daughter was so talented. In the end, regardless of the world's gaze and suspicion, she worked hard to train her daughter to become a world champion, and called for women to have other options besides taking care of their husbands and children. This inspirational story is amazing!
"It's really good! The wrestling scenes are thrilling, yet so real. It's worth watching! I highly recommend it." "The story is touching, the acting is sincere, and the content is profound. The whole wrestling match scene is very exciting. The actors' acting skills are like cheat codes. Even the actors who played the two daughters when they were young are superb. They are cute and smart. They are so good!"

"Although Aamir Khan, the Indian Liu Dehua, looks bloated in this drama, it does not affect his performance as the best actor at all. By the way, the opening ceremony at the end was awesome! What a big deal! The investors are very capable!"

"After watching this movie, I suddenly had a new understanding of director Chen Fei's screenwriting skills. He is really amazing, and this story is so well written!"

At first, because Walton Pictures was not very optimistic about the film's performance in China, it did not invest too many promotional resources in it.

But no one expected that the film’s high reputation would lead to a continuous increase in subsequent box office!

After the first day's box office revenue reached 3251 million, the second and third day's box office revenue reached 3846 million and 4463 million respectively.

In the first three days of the weekend, the box office totaled 1.15 million, which really opened the eyes of the mainland film industry!

Looking back, the first Indian movie that was a big hit at the domestic box office seemed to be "Slumdog Millionaire", which helped Chen Fei win his first Oscar for Best Director.

After so many years, I didn’t expect that another Indian movie would have a huge box office explosion in China!

Chen Fei immediately called Natasha and Rajkumar Hirani and asked them to continue to increase their efforts in promoting the film.

Natasha said there was no problem and immediately dispatched a professional publicity and promotion team to the mainland to cooperate in publicity and promotion.

After receiving the call from Chen Fei, Rajkumar Hirani immediately contacted Aamir Khan and others and prepared to travel to the mainland to hold a promotional roadshow.

After finishing the call with the two people, Chen Fei paid attention to several other latest reports on the Weibo hot search list.

"On the first day of its release in China, the Hollywood blockbuster Fast & Furious 7, exclusively produced by Universal Pictures, had a 60% share of the screenings and a strong box office of 3.06 million yuan, accounting for 86% of the daily box office!"

"After The Martian earned 3.63 million yuan on its first day, Furious 7 made 3.06 million yuan in a single day, successfully entering the 3 million yuan single-day box office record list."

"According to the data analysis of the cinema chain, the audience and fans are eager to watch "Fast and Furious 7", which may become the second film in the domestic market to break the 30 billion box office."

"The adventure and survival film The Revenant, directed by Chen Fei and starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon, Tom Hardy and others, has been released for 25 days and the box office has exceeded 8 million yuan! The daily box office has dropped to more than 500 million."

"The daily box office of The Legend of White Ghost: The Escape has dropped sharply to 90, and many theaters have cut all their screenings."

……

In the office, Fade Chen looked at the news online and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If he remembered correctly, "Fast and Furious 7" should have achieved a box office revenue of 24 billion in the original timeline, ranking second in the 2015 box office rankings.

However, the premise for the high box office was that one of the leading actors, Paul Walker, died in a car accident, and Universal Pictures sold a lot of sentimentality when promoting the movie.

This time, under the influence of Chen Fei, Paul Walker did not leave because of the car accident. Instead, he followed the crew throughout the promotion.

Although Universal Pictures is still selling the sentiment of "family hero", the effect is undoubtedly much worse in comparison.

"Mr. Chen." Su Guohai pushed the door open and walked in, reporting, "According to your instructions, the finished film of The Worst Man in the World has been sent to the Film Bureau and the Cannes Film Festival."

"Okay." Fade Chen nodded. "Then just wait for the news of the review. If there are any other situations at the bureau, remember to inform me as soon as possible."

"Okay, I know."

Su Guohai responded, turned around and quickly left the office.

Chen Fei crossed his legs and looked at the latest movie news online while muttering, "There are always villains who want to harm me! But have you forgotten that there are also turncoats among the villains?"

April is not originally a big schedule, but what puzzles many people working in the film industry is that a large number of movie release date announcements popped up all at once this month.

On the second day after the release of "Furious 7", the official Weibo account of "Monster Hunt" officially released a notice, announcing that it would be rescheduled to July 7 to compete for the summer vacation season.

That afternoon, Wang Xiaoshuai posted a new Weibo post, announcing that the movie "Intruder" directed by himself would be released on April 4th, competing for the May Day schedule.

Just one day later, the movie "Running Man Hollywood" starring Zhao Yanzi, Huang Xiaoming and Tong Dawei was officially announced to be released on June 6.

For a time, this summer vacation was highly anticipated.

Looking around, they are either blockbusters, works by big directors, or at least movies with first-line actors.

In terms of "appearance", the upcoming summer season is no worse than the just-passed Spring Festival season!
At this time, the Film Bureau and the Review Department.

"It's finally here! It's this movie, right? The Worst Person in the World? What kind of name is that? It doesn't sound that good."

"Haha, let's take a look first and see what kind of movie he has made."

"..."

"Hey! This movie! It's really good!"

"Hmm? Lao Zhou, don't let others show off their power and destroy your own ambition. You need to know where you stand."

"Don't worry, I know I'm just reviewing the movie."

"Teachers, I've watched it carefully and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this movie! How do we proceed?"

"No problem? How can there be no problem? This film doesn't fit the national conditions at first glance, and there are countless problems in it!"

"But...if we do this, will it comply with our review standards?"

"Standard? Hahaha! Little grandson of the Liu family, you are still too young. Aren't we the ones who have the final say on the standard? Go back and ask your grandfather for advice when you have time. He is an expert in this area."

"So this is ah!"

"Okay, let's leave it at that for today. Just pick a few questions and call them back to have them re-edit them."

"Hey! Don't be impatient! Wait a little longer, let's put it off for a few days. We can call back the day before the Cannes International Film Festival announces the list of the main competition unit. We'll catch him off guard, haha!"

"Haha, I agree. Let that kid see that even if he wins a lot of awards abroad, it's useless. He still has to act like a grandson when he returns home!"

……

After earning 3.06 million yuan on the first day, even though it was a working day the next day, the additional box office revenue of "Furious 7" was still very generous!

On the second day, it earned 1.6 million, on the third day, it earned 1.5 million, on the fourth day, it earned 1.2 million, and on the fifth day, it earned 9600 million...

At the end of the first week, the box office totaled 10.96 billion, directly setting a new box office record for imported films and successfully leading the entire April schedule!
It can be seen from this that even though the effect of sentimental propaganda has declined a lot, the film's potential is still very good.

In addition, "Dangal", which was released on the 9th, also successfully broke through 5 million at the box office due to its high reputation and full follow-up promotional resources!
With these two movies selling out like crazy, the domestic films in the film market were littered with corpses and rivers of blood!
When he woke up early in the morning, Fade Chen saw several pieces of movie news.

"The epic war movie "Legend of White Ghost: The Desperate Escape", a Sino-foreign co-production jointly produced by Yunnan Film Group, Max Media, Xiangchao Culture, Huayi, LeTV, and Bona, directed by Nick Powell, and starring Nicolas Cage, Yang Ying and others, was forced to be withdrawn by theaters nationwide last night. The total box office closed at 2069 million, and the film company suffered a huge loss!"

"The adventure survival film The Revenant, directed by Chen Fei and starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon, Tom Hardy and others, has officially been released, with a total box office of 8.5 million RMB!"

"The Film Bureau issued a notice that the review application for the literary romance film "The Worst Person in the World" directed by Chen Fei has been rejected due to problems with some of the plots..."

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