Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 118: Nobody
After comforting Da Tiantian, Zhou Mo suddenly remembered another thing.

"By the way, I have arranged another guest appearance for you. Someone will contact you when the time comes."

"What work?"

“Lost in Thailand.”

"The script by Xu Zheng?"

Zhou Mo was stunned: "You know?"

Da Tiantian nodded: "I went to Wanda some time ago, and the person in charge there said that Chun Guang Lan Lan Zhu Bajie approached them and hoped to make a movie, but Wanda did not agree because they felt that it would lose money."

Zhou Mo sighed: "Then they really have to pay for it this time."

Da Tiantian raised her eyebrows.

"You mean Lost in Thailand might be a big hit?"

"Ah."

"Then our company will invest." Da Tiantian stood up and was about to make a phone call.

Under Zhou Mo's influence, Da Tiantian, who has never been short of money, has shown a tendency to become a money-grubber.

Zhou Mo pushed her down on the seat.

"Don't worry, the investment has already been made. Wang Changtian asked me to cooperate. Our company can get a share of the profits then."

Da Tiantian blinked her eyes.

"So what role are you going to let me play?"

"Don't be nervous, it's just a cameo, it's not that difficult. It's just because the filming location of Lost in Thailand is in Thailand, so letting you go there is like traveling."

Da Tiantian breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come to think of it, I've never made a comedy movie before."

"Then you can take this opportunity to get familiar with the atmosphere of comedy film shooting. When our company's business expands in the future, we will definitely shoot comedy films."

Da Tiantian raised her eyebrows and said, "You seem to value comedy movies very much. I remember you said before that comedy movies will definitely occupy an important position in our company in the future."

"Of course."

Zhou Mo explained: "Comedy movies, as an important branch of the film industry, are the easiest to commercialize and the easiest to achieve results, and are particularly suitable for the New Year's Eve and Spring Festival periods.

In the future, as the times change, people will have a faster pace of life and more pressure in life, and the demand for comedy movies will definitely increase. Be prepared in advance so that you will not fall behind when the industry develops greatly in the future."

What Da Tiantian likes most is Zhou Mo analyzing the market situation with her.

Although she didn't quite understand.

But that doesn't stop her from writing it down now, and turning it into her own thing during an interview in the future, and telling it to show off to her fans.

After talking about "Lost in Thailand", Da Tiantian accidentally saw an invitation letter on Zhou Mo's desk.

"What is this for?"

Zhou Mo secretly said, "Oh no!"

"Nothing much, just a party held by Huayi to welcome Korean groups into the mainland market."

"Korean group?"

Da Tiantian casually flipped open the invitation and after reading the content carefully, she realized what a Korean group was.

She didn't really follow Korean groups before. At most, she had heard some news and knew that there was a Korean group member, Han Geng, who had returned from stealing money from the province.

The rest is some information that Zhou Mo learned when he was preparing materials for "New World".

"What was the main purpose of the party?"

After being nervous at first, Zhou Mo is now gradually relaxing.

The reason I went to Huayi's party this time was to discuss future cooperation.

There is something important going on.

What am I panicking about?
After comforting himself in his heart, he explained, "It's just a group of men and women who are stealing the money to dance, and then they will discuss it and see if they can reach some follow-up cooperation in the future. Do you want to go?"

Da Tiantian thought about it.

"It's not impossible. Just go there and watch the show."

……

In the afternoon, Zhou Mo met Ning Hao again.

This time, the two were neither discussing "Lost in Thailand" nor Korean groups.

Instead, they were discussing the promotion of "The Great Gold Robbery".

Lei Jiayin also came and watched the two directors discuss the publicity silently.

His head seemed to be a lot bigger than it was two years ago.

From a distance, Lei Jiayin heard the two directors discussing the box office.

"Based on my script, the box office will be at least 200 million?" Ning Hao was very confident.

Zhou Mo shook his head: "Two hundred million... probably difficult."

He was not optimistic about Ning Hao's prediction.

Ning Hao raised his eyebrows: "Why, don't you think "The Heist" will not perform well?"

“You can’t say it’s bad.”

Zhou Mo organized his words.

In his previous life, the box office of "The Golden Robbery" was only 1.5 million yuan, a large part of the reason was that Lei Jiayin, who played the leading role at the time, was not well-known and had poor box office appeal. In this life, Lei Jiayin has "Love Is Not Blind" as a foundation, and in terms of box office ability, I don't know how many times better than in his previous life.

But the problem is that the box office of a movie depends not only on its own ability, but also on the level of other movies of the same period.

"You mean, Titanic 3D might be very popular and sweep the entire April schedule?" Ning Hao was a little unconvinced.

"I don't want to believe it either, but it's the truth."

Zhou Mo pulled up a questionnaire on his computer, which was a survey of movie fans on how much they wanted to watch movies in April.

Among them, "Titanic" firmly occupies the first place with an absolutely overwhelming advantage.

After that, it will be "Avengers 1" which will be released in May.

However, "The Golden Age" didn't even make it into the top ten.

If Zhou Mo hadn't specifically marked it out, Ning Hao wouldn't have noticed at first that "The Great Robbery" was placed so far back.

He didn't quite understand.

"It's ok that 'Titanic' is just old wine in a new bottle, but why can 'Avengers', a superhero movie, get such high support?"

He has never really liked superhero movies, as he feels they lack substance.

"As long as it's exciting and good to watch, it's all good. Just like my movie John Wick, it's all about excitement. Superhero movies have a large fan base, and I heard from my friends there that this movie was very successful commercially, so it's normal to have this expectation."

Ning Hao felt that this was a bit difficult.

“Is this investigation reliable?”

"Isn't the information marked on the back? There's no problem with their age. They are all middle-aged and young people, the main consumer group for movie tickets." Zhou Mo spread his hands.

He asked, "How is it, have you considered changing the schedule?"

Ning Hao thought for a moment and shook his head.

"It's definitely not possible to change the release date. The investment in The Heist wasn't high to begin with, and we've already spent so much on publicity. If the release date is changed, it will all be wasted, so we have to bite the bullet and go for it. And I don't believe that all foreign movies can adapt to the domestic market environment. There will always be a few that can't adapt to the local environment, and then that will be The Heist's chance."

Zhou Mo nodded.

This is true.

There are indeed some foreign movies that have good cash flow, but after being introduced into China, their performance is average.

"In that case, I wish you a successful start."

"Then I'll take your blessing, Director Zhou. Also, I'd like to ask you to take care of the promotion."

"Do not worry."

……

three days later.

Huayi.

Zhou Mo and Wang Jing stood together, watching the young ladies dancing in the audience.

The long legs are so slender and strong.

The audience present screamed continuously.

"Tsk tsk, the two Wangs really know how to have fun. It's winter, and they're wearing so little." Wang Jing stared at the girl group members in the venue.

Looking at that look, it seems like he wants to swallow the person up.

"Brother Jing, please pay attention to your image in public."

"Come on bro, look at those legs, that body, don't tell me you don't like this."

Zhou Mo actually likes it.

But as a gentleman, he must always pay attention to his own image.

Facing Wang Jing's teasing, Zhou Mo said that he would never go along with this fat man.

"Brother Jing, I have to correct you. I came here today with a pair of eyes to appreciate the beauty of art. It has nothing to do with how much those artists wear or how good their figures are."

Wang Jing: …

Why didn’t I realize this guy was so shameless before?

"Okay, don't say so much, brother. It's been more than a month. You have to tell me about your new movie today. You know, I even turned down Bona's "Big Shanghai" for your movie."

"No problem at all."

Zhou Mo came to Huayi today, and he originally planned to talk to Wang Jing about the new movie.

"Let's talk about the name of the movie first. What are you going to call the new movie, brother?"

“Nobody.”

Wang Jing was stunned.

Looking at the girl group dancing in the audience.

"Director Zhou, are you confused? If I remember correctly, the dance that the band below is performing should be called 'Nobody'."

Zhou Mo waved his hand: "Yes, my movie has the same name as their song, both are called 'Nobody', and the Chinese name is 'Little People'."

Wang Jing listened to Zhou Mo's explanation and felt that this guy had actually said something wrong and his brain was working frantically at the moment, trying to cover it up.

　Chapter 8, that should be all for today, a total of 5K.

　　I'm not in good shape today.

　　Thank you for your understanding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)