Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 100 Tiantian brings a surprise

Flowers need green leaves to set them off.

The same goes for movies.

If a good movie encounters some peers whose performance is not as good as its own at the same time, then in the minds of the audience, the evaluation of this movie will be raised to a higher level.

This situation is actually not uncommon in the film industry.

This is how many movie data that broke box office records came about.

This is why Zhou Mo is happy right now.

Although the quality of "Dead Money" is indeed not low, the script is also quite good from an artistic point of view.

After all, it is a movie that won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director.

But expecting the audience to pay for tickets is too much.

Even Da Tiantian found it a little strange.

"Isn't 'Overheard' an art film? Why is it competing with the box office?"

She thought for a moment and looked at Zhou Mo with a strange look: "Zhou Mo, I'm afraid you have cast a spell on Du Qifeng."

"What nonsense." Zhou Mo complained.

If he really knew how to cast spells, he would have been rampant in this world, turning on the simple mode and playing the time-stop series every day.

There is no need to fight with an old man like Du Qifeng.

"What's going on with Du Qifeng?"

Zhou Mo thought about it and guessed, "It was probably in August when the success of Overheard in Venice gave him the confidence."

"Makes sense."

Da Tiantian is aware of the degree of recognition of the three major European awards in the domestic film industry.

For all domestic films, as long as they can make a round of the three major European awards and come back, their value will basically skyrocket.

Even though the movie only received one nomination, it did not win any actual awards.

"By the way, you seem to have never been panicked since The Grand Theft Auto participated in Venice in August. Are you so confident that John Wick can compete with The Grand Theft Auto in terms of quality?"

Zhou Mo waved his hand.

"Tiantian, that's not how it works. Movie quality and movie box office are two different things. A high-quality movie may not necessarily win the favor of the audience, especially an art film."

When Zhou Mo said this, the movie he thought of was actually "1942".

As the work that Xiao Gangpao values ​​most, the level of "1942" is undoubtedly not low.

The problem is that this movie was released at a really bad time.

In order to break the record, the little steel cannon scheduled the release time of "1942" in the special time period of December.

But the problem is, who would be willing to watch a movie that is tragic from the beginning to the end in the cinema when they reunite at the end of the year?

Isn't that asking for trouble?

The more people watch "1942", the more they want to find a drama to relax and neutralize the depressed mood caused by watching "1942".

Therefore, "1942" became the cushion for "Lost in Thailand", directly sending Baldy Zheng to the clouds.

"If Du Qifeng had really promoted the script quality, the actors' acting skills, the plot design, or even just promoted the Venice Film Festival, I would have been helpless. After all, although John Wick and Max are both crime films, the categories of the two are quite different and cannot be compared.

But since he himself promoted it to the movie box office, don’t blame me for being rude.”

In his opinion, the current Du Qifeng is somewhat similar to the little cannon who will shoot "1942" next year. Both of them are trying to achieve a very good box office result with a movie that is more like an art film.

Isn't this funny?

There are not many movies in the world that can make an art film with box office similar to that of a commercial film.

"Nineteen Forty-Two" can't do that.

Of course, "Overheard" is even worse.

Not to mention that Du Qifeng still used the old promotional ideas when promoting the film, trying to make the audience believe that this movie will replicate the success of his previous "Black Society".

The audience is not stupid, they will vote with their feet.

When the movie is released in a few days, once the audience finds that "Overheard" does not contain the content they have been looking forward to for a long time, such as guns, gunpowder, and fighting, they will abandon Du Qifeng and turn to "John Wick: Chapter 8".

"Since you are so confident, I will let the company start the promotion." Da Tiantian asked.

"Publicize it. Now, every time someone knows about the fight between Du Qifeng and me, there might be one more ticket for the movie "John Wick" in the future." After talking about the publicity, Zhou Mo asked Da Tiantian, "I remember you said a few days ago that you would stay in Shanghai for two more days after filming. Why are you in such a hurry to come back from Shanghai? Did something happen?"

"I came back in such a hurry just for you." Da Tiantian put her hands on her hips.

"Me? What's wrong with me?" Zhou Mo was puzzled.

"I came back to give you an opportunity."

"Chance? What?"

Da Tiantian took out a contract.

Zhou Mo opened it and stood up suddenly after reading the first page.

"Wanda wants to cooperate with our company to develop the InterContinental Hotel project and replicate the InterContinental Hotel one to one?"

Zhou Mo read the contents of the contract from beginning to end.

The main reason is that Wanda wants to enhance the reputation of its own hotel chain through the "John Wick" series, and has also proposed a bet agreement that if the "John Wick" series of movies can reach a total box office of 2 billion, the two parties can reach a deeper cooperation.

"Yes, is this surprise surprising enough?" Da Tiantian asked with a smile.

"Surprise, such a surprise."

Zhou Mo sighed.

He never thought that at this stage, he would have the opportunity to cooperate with Wanda Group in the real estate industry.

But on second thought, there is also potential for collaboration between movies and real estate.

Apart from anything else, Disney, the super copyright king, is the best example, building amusement parks all over the world.

In addition, the film industry and tourism industry often collaborate.

After the movie "The Myth" was broadcast, the tourism industry in Xianyang increased significantly within a year.

Later, there was the bald guy. This guy, with the movie "Lost in Thailand", even managed to get the President of Thailand to meet him in person and thank him for his contribution to the local tourism industry.

If you think in this way, this cooperation is actually quite appropriate.

At least Wanda is still quite strong at this stage.

And according to Zhou Mo's memory, Sicong's father has always had a dream of building an "Oriental Disneyland".

I have to say that Lao Wang really loves the film industry.

Starting from 06, Lao Wang continued to expand his business until around 18, when he started to scale back his business due to certain problems.

During this period, a lot of real money was poured into it.

Therefore, when cooperating with Wanda at this moment, there is no need to worry about the other party being inconsistent and issuing empty promises.

It is even said that when Lao Wang gets beaten up in the future, there might be a chance to take over some of the InterContinental Hotels' assets from him.

Zhou Mo was very satisfied with the contract in his hand.

"Tiantian, this shouldn't be Wanda's fault, is it you who did something?"

Da Tiantian nodded.

"You said before that it would be nice to have a fixed location for filming John Wick: Chapter 6, so I asked my family and learned that Wanda was building hotels everywhere recently. I tried to contact them and it actually worked out."

Zhou Mo listened to Da Tiantian's description, combined with the calm expression on her face.

Suddenly I wondered if I was too excited just now.

Such a big thing, when spoken by Da Tiantian, is as simple as chewing a popsicle.

"In that case, you can call them later and tell them that I agree to cooperate." Zhou Mo made up his mind.

"no problem!"

"Also, thank you for this matter." Zhou Mo said solemnly.

He was still very clear-headed and knew that it would be impossible to attract a giant like Wanda with just a movie "John Wick" which had not yet been released.

Even if it's myself, it still won't work.

The cooperation with Wanda is ultimately thanks to Da Tiantian. Although this girl says it is very easy, she probably started helping him with this matter a long time ago.

　The fifth update is out.

　　There should be at least four or five updates tomorrow, thank you everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)