China Entertainment: I just want to give my child a home

Chapter 46 Shitou passed the review of the outstanding producer Miao Zi
  During last year's Lunar New Year, "Those Years" was like an unstoppable dark horse, taking advantage of "Mobile Phone" to win the annual box office championship.

To be honest, Feng Xiaogang has been holding back a breath of anger in his heart.

But tonight, he finally vented his anger.

Because "Those Years" only won an Outstanding Actor Award, and it was a double-yolked egg.

On the other hand, "Mobile Phone" directly won the three most important awards at the Hundred Flowers Awards: Best Feature Film, Best Actor (Ge You), and Best Actress (Fan Binbin).

As for the Golden Rooster Award, it’s no surprise that it missed out on commercial films like theirs.

But the worst thing is Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers", which was released some time ago and was ridiculed by netizens. It didn't win any awards tonight, and it was completely reduced to a sideshow.

As expected, all the media reporters have probably already drafted the story in their minds.

This is indeed the case. Not long after the awards ceremony ended, relevant news was posted on domestic portal websites one after another.

""House of Flying Daggers" failed to produce any results. Is director Zhang Yimou in danger?"

"Director Feng Xiaogang's "Mobile Phone" once again competes with director Chen's "Those Years." The former lost at the box office last year, but tonight it won the awards."

"Director Chen Dong won the Hundred Flowers Award for Outstanding Actor for his role as Ke Jingteng in "Those Years", but it was just a double-yolked egg. The actor who won this award in the same batch as Director Chen was teacher Li Youbing."

"..."

The next day, he was called to the office by his boss. Just like the time he brought back the trophy from Cannes, he took a lot of photos.

These are all teaching achievements, and this award was obtained by him as an actor, which has a special meaning.

Well, after all, he is in the acting class...

On September 9, the premiere of Cheng Long's movie "New Police Story" was held in the capital. His eldest brother called him personally and Chen Dong asked for leave to attend.

This movie is directed by Chen Musheng, with Cheng Long definitely starring. The main actors include Xie Tingfeng, Yang Caini, Asa, Yanzu...

When "The Tuner" was open for casting, both Xie Tingfeng and Ah Sa went to his company for auditions, so they were considered 'acquaintances' when they met again... at least they didn't need to be introduced.

This "New Police Story" uses a Hong Kong team, and there is no mainland investment, so there are not many celebrities and actors from the mainland entertainment industry. There are quite a few directors and film and television companies, but almost all of them are for the big brother. It comes from face, like Chen Dong.

The unavoidable issue at the film's premiere must be the director's expectations for the box office. At this time, Chen Dong, who was sitting in the audience, was also curious about how much his elder brother would say.

"Haha, then I will make a bold prediction, maybe 100 million, the more the better..."

One hundred million?

Is Cheng Long talking nonsense?

No, with the investment cost and actor reputation of "New Police Story", calling out 100 million is really not high.

I have to mention director Zhang's "House of Flying Daggers" again. A movie that was rated as a bad movie by a large number of netizens, didn't it also win a box office of 1.5 million?
  There were even many people at the scene who felt that Cheng Long's only claim of a box office of 100 million was a bit too conservative.

To be fair, "New Police Story" was actually filmed well, but whether it was the unpopular schedule chosen or the limited audience due to the subject matter, it was determined that this film would not be able to achieve the same success as "House of Flying Daggers" in 2004. box office results, even if the latter's ratings are not high.

Sure enough, the box office on the first day was only 506 million.

This data is like a basin of cold water poured directly on the heads of Cheng Long and others who are running a road show.

Based on this first-day result, even if the movie has a good reputation, if it wants to exceed 100 million in box office before the release of the movie, it will be impossible in all likelihood.

Of course, "Those Years" is an exception. Some media were praising us yesterday, but today they have turned into ridicule. They are a group of people who know what public opinion is.

However, "New Police Story" does have a good reputation online, at least most of them are positive reviews.

It's just that one-third of these good reviews are praising Xie Tingfeng and Wu Yanzu, or their fans are arguing about who is more handsome.

Chen Dong was sitting in the office browsing the news on the Internet, and then he noticed that this September, Xu Jinglei, a talented woman from Beijing, also directed and starred in a movie released.

It's called "Letter from a Strange Woman."

It's a literary film.

The box office results can be described as disastrous.

"Oh, Jiang Wen actually appeared in the show too."

But then he thought that Jiang Wen was also from Beijing, and Chen Dong felt relieved.

……

The script of "Stone" has been reviewed.

Although the first screenwriter of this script was assigned to Chen Dong by Ning Hao and his wife, due to Chen Dong's explanation at the film festival, no film and television company really took this film seriously.

Many people are even waiting to see Chen Dong's jokes, such as the two brothers Wang and Xiao from Huayi.

In fact, it’s no wonder that everyone is negative. After all, at this time, there isn’t much money to be made from making movies, and more movies are destined to be money-losing projects from the moment they are established.

People who don’t understand may have questions, why do you still shoot if you know you’re going to lose money?
  There are many reasons, such as the above tasks, the director's ideals, the needs of the actors, and the coal boss's endless money...

Since the loss of "Incense" last year, Ning Hao has clearly felt that he has been abandoned by domestic investors in the past year.

As a young director who has just graduated and is very motivated, how can he be willing to fail?
  So there was no need for Chen Dong to push him. Ning Hao and his wife were even more anxious than him.

As soon as the script was reviewed, he gathered the crew together and heard that the actors were almost found.

After all, it was the first movie that he invested... fully invested in, so Chen Dong was more concerned about it.

Before the movie was started, he met with the main creative staff. Needless to say, Huang Bo recommended him. What really surprised Chen Dong was meeting Guo Tao, Liu Hua, Xu Zheng, Wang Xun...

But the movie was obviously made two years in advance, so how did Ning Hao put together this "original cast"?
  Chen Dong had to sigh again, fate is really a magical thing!

As an investor, although Chen Dong will not interfere in the filming of the movie, the producer must be someone from Dongcheng Pictures.

Chen Dong just asked Zhong Lifeng to make arrangements, and did not expect her to go into battle in person. But after all, she was the general manager of Dongcheng Pictures. She was busy with daily affairs and did not have so much time to focus on the crew, so she hired a production assistant.

This person's name is Chen Xi. Not only is he related to Chen Dong, he is also an actor from the 00-level acting class of the Chinese Opera next door. He has acted in "Out of the Blue Water River"...

I don’t know how he got noticed by Zhong Lifang and was trained as a producer?
  After seeing him, all Chen Dong's doubts and concerns were dispelled.

Chen Xi is clearly Chen Zhixi, who will be considered a well-known investor in the industry in later generations.

He has successively served as the producer of many films such as "Borderland", "囧", "Pancake Man", "Detective Chinatown", etc.

I have to admit, this woman's vision is really unique.

But she’s only a senior this year, right? Have you already begun to show your talent?
  (End of this chapter)