Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 108 Brothers, send a sniper
The promotion by Huanya and Eagle King injected a boost to the box office of "John Wick: Chapter 8".

Unfortunately, although the effect is good, it does not last long.

After a brief period of sideways movement on the sixth and seventh days, the box office performance of "John Wick" fell into an unstoppable downward trend.

Especially on January 1, after the release of two consecutive movies "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and "The Great Magician", the single-day box office of "John Wick" dropped by several million at one time.

Da Tiantian asked someone to predict the data. According to the current box office trend, the final box office of "Fast and Furious" will fluctuate around 5.6 million.

The achievement of nearly 600 million has already made Zhou Mo very satisfied.

Just when he was about to give a red envelope to the crew members, he suddenly heard a piece of news.

Bona announced that it will work with Du Qifeng to shoot a modern historical drama film.

"Big Shanghai".

When the news came out, the circle was in an uproar.

The combination of Huang Silang + Huang Xiaoming + Big Brother + Wu Zhenyu is enough to make everyone have high expectations for this movie.

Perhaps he found a new backer, Du Qifeng spoke again after half a month.

"Before, there were some minor mistakes in the promotion of "Overheard", which made the box office performance of this movie not satisfactory, but it doesn't matter. A small setback is nothing. This "Big Shanghai" will let fans see a new me."

Obviously, Du Qifeng had learned his lesson this time and no longer mocked Zhou Mo directly. Instead, he accused Zhou Mo secretly, saying that the latter had used shady tactics in his previous publicity.

At the same time, there were many voices against Zhou Mo on the Internet.

"Du Qifeng + Chow Yun Fat are back in action in Ah Lang. Whenever the movie is released, I will definitely go to the cinema to support it."

"Since when does a new director who has never won any awards have the right to comment on the films nominated in Venice?"

"So what if the box office is high? John Wick is just a popcorn movie at best. How many people will still remember this movie in a few years? What can really promote the development of the film industry are excellent works such as Mindhunters."

"I just can't stand Zhou Mo's nouveau riche face. He just made two okay movies, but he's a new director, but he keeps looking down on this and that all day long. He doesn't even take a piss and look in the mirror to see what level he is at."

After Da Tiantian got the news, she angrily found Zhou Mo.

"This old guy is too annoying. I should have just thrown all the dirt on him out and banned him."

"Hey, Tiantian, this is what you did wrong. In a civilized society, we don't need to talk about banning things all the time. It seems too violent and can easily scare children."

Zhou Mo felt a little emotional.

Although Du Qifeng is not young, he is still very resilient.

It's only been a few days, but I've already gotten myself into a good mood and feel like I'm back to normal.

"But isn't it very annoying when he does this? He's like a fly." Da Tiantian showed disgust on her face.

"I think this is a good idea. Market issues should be left to the market to resolve. Since Yu Dong doesn't believe in evil and wants to cooperate with Du Qifeng to continue the glorious combination of Du Qifeng and Huang Silang, then let him do it. When he loses all his money, just don't cry."

Zhou Mo's tone was slightly sarcastic.

He clearly remembered that "Big Shanghai City" was a complete flop in his previous life.

With an investment of over 1.5 million yuan, the final box office revenue did not even reach million yuan.

The pounce was so gorgeous.

In this life, even if the film director was changed from Wang Jing to Du Qifeng, it probably wouldn’t be much better.

Maybe it will be worse.

After all, although Wang Jing made bad movies, he at least knew to give full respect to investors in terms of face, while Du Qifeng often didn't even give face to the producers.

Da Tiantian raised her eyebrows and asked, "Were those messages instigated by Yu Dong?"

Zhou Mo shook his head.

"That's not the case. Yu Dong is cooperating with Du Qifeng, probably because he wants to squeeze out the last bit of commercial value from Du Qifeng. He has no grudge against me, probably because he just wants to do a bundled sale. This is his old trick.

Most of the comments on the Internet were probably posted by Du Qifeng himself. In addition, some of them were posted by Huang Silang's fans. You know how powerful these crazy fans are.

Besides, Yu Dong also called me about this matter. Tiantian, guess what he said? "

"What did you say?"

"I didn't deliberately target anyone. It was all for the development of the film and television industry. There will definitely be opportunities for cooperation in the future..."

"Pah, what you said is like fart."

It was rare that Da Tiantian cursed.

Zhou Mo was happy: "Tiantian, you have learned to swear now."

Da Tiantian slapped him and said, "I'm speaking for you, and you're laughing at me."

"Okay, blame me. I shouldn't have said that." Zhou Mo held her hand. "But Tiantian, there's no need for you to be angry. You don't understand Yu Dong. He and Zhang Weiping have been fighting for such a long time. It's normal for them to have some habits from each other. After all, they look like a couple."

What he said was the biggest news in the entertainment industry during this period, bar none.

At the beginning of this year, the friendship between Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou came to an end.

The conflicts that had accumulated between the two over the past sixteen years finally broke out after the release of "The Flowers of War".

Zhang Weiping felt that Lao Mouzi did not obey the company's orders, and Lao Mouzi hated Zhang Weiping interfering in the filming.

In addition, there are a series of interest issues, property distribution, artist contracts...

The two of them were having a huge fight.

During this period, Bona, the distribution company of "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate", which competed with "The Flowers of War", took decisive action, fanning the flames between the two and constantly throwing dirty water on the two Zhangs.

Later, Yu Dong openly mocked Zhang Weiping on his media account.

As expected, this move angered Zhang Weiping, who started with a series of scandalous accusations, accusing Yu Dong of being dirty, having intimate photos of him and actresses all over the streets, and not being able to control his own belt... After this incident, many netizens called the two men birds of a feather.

When Da Tiantian heard this, she covered her mouth and chuckled.

"You still have a bad mouth."

After laughing, she said seriously, "But are you sure you want to compete with the Du Zhou combination? The combination of these two people still has a certain influence."

"Of course, it's only fun when they fight as a team. I have no interest in beating them individually."

Zhou Mo smiled.

He really wanted to have another fight with Du Qifeng.

He was originally a little worried that when "Chu and Han" was released in the future, there would be no outstanding actors to perform as the protagonists.

Old Du jumped out decisively.

Such a good tool man can provide Zhou Mo with at least 50 million box office revenue every time he is used.

"You are calm."

Da Tiantian looked at Zhou Mo's confident look, and there seemed to be a gleam in her eyes.

Suddenly I felt that this guy seemed to have become a little more handsome.

She then asked, "So what are you going to do about this public opinion? I've seen some comments that are quite rhythmic, which are much harder to deal with than those mindless star-chasing comments."

What she was talking about was a very conspicuous article that appeared in the past two days as the single-day box office of "John Wick" declined rapidly.

As soon as the article appeared, it quickly gained a lot of support.

The content is probably:
"John Wick" is, after all, just a popcorn movie, and the worst kind at that. The reason it could achieve such good results in the early stages was all thanks to Zhou Mo's bundling sales and crazy marketing. Now that the popularity has died down, it's naturally not doing well. The evidence is the crazy daily decline in the box office of "John Wick".

When Da Tiantian saw this comment for the first time, she was stunned.

If movie box office doesn't fall, does that mean it will rise?

At that time, she arranged publicity to explain it.

It’s a pity that the effect is not good.

The fact that this article has such a large number of readers must have its merits.

The excellence of this article lies in the fact that it does not compare "John Wick" with films directed by other directors, but compares it with Zhou Mo's previous film "New World".

The article points out that by comparing the subsequent trends of the two films "The New World" and "John Wick", it can be concluded that the fundamental reason why the box office of "John Wick" dropped so quickly is that the depth of the film's plot is far inferior to that of "The New World".

From "Bullet", to "Love Is Not Blind", to "New World", Zhou Mo's strength lies in his exploration of characters' emotions. How come in the fourth work, he suddenly started to make popcorn?
From this, we can infer that after director Zhou Mo achieved success, he became arrogant and stopped paying attention to the content, but instead focused solely on the fun of the movie.

In other words, Zhou Mo began to degenerate and started to make money by doing bad things.

Such movies have no future. I hope Zhou Mo will continue to delve deeper into film content instead of indulging in popcorn movies, which would be a waste of his talent.

The power of this article lies in the fact that its author seems to stand in Zhou Mo's perspective throughout, and in a tone almost like a fan, questioning the correctness of Zhou Mo's starting point for filming "John Wick" and advising him not to go astray.

The article is well-structured and the emotions progress layer by layer. Coupled with the author's powerful writing skills, many of Zhou Mo's fans actually believed the content of the article and left messages under Zhou Mo's account, hoping that he would not be dazzled by the glamorous world of the entertainment industry and continue to study the content of the movie.

There are even more outrageous ones, thinking that Zhou Mo is short of money recently and they are willing to raise funds for Zhou Mo.

Not to mention whether the comments about fundraising are real or fake.

When Zhou Mo first saw this article a few days ago, his reaction was quite complicated.

At first, he really thought the article was a profound analysis of him by one of his fans.

It was not until he found out through channels that the author of the article was an employee of a well-known troublemaker in the industry who made money by stirring up trouble that he started to laugh.

Damn, there are so many talented people in the entertainment industry.

If you have this ability, go write online articles.

Isn't it Kuku who is making money?

It would be a waste of talent to set the pace here.

Faced with such an article, Da Tiantian was quite unhappy.

She knew that such articles were rhythmic, but it was difficult to handle.

Not many people listened to the explanation.

Deleting it is a guilty escape.

"What's this?"

Zhou Mo comforted him, "Don't be fooled by the fact that the article seems to be so convincing, but everything in the article is actually based on one foundation, which is that the box office performance of our movie is very fast. As long as this problem is solved, the core of the article will be broken."

Da Tiantian was curious: "Do you have a way to boost the box office?"

"Correct."

Da Tiantian understood, but was a little confused: "But at this time, spending additional publicity money won't have much effect."

"It's not additional advertising expenses." Zhou Mo explained: "A company found me and said they wanted to cooperate with our company."

"Who?"

"penguin."

　First update.

　　Sorry, I'm late today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)