Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 178 Quadruple Kill, Dominating the Game

It’s been seven days since “Chu and Han” was released.

The movie box office exceeded 400 million.

at the same time.

Star beauty.

Boss Qin has been very tired these two days.

The failure of "The Banquet" dealt him a heavy blow.

He put a lot of effort into this movie.

He also gave Rikutaro nearly two years.

I thought I could get good results.

As a result, Rikutaro made him such a big one.

Fortunately, his Xingmei foundation is pretty solid, so one failure won't be a big blow to him.

“I just hope that the next one, The Guillotines, will achieve good results.”

Boss Qin looked at Chen Kexin and Liu Weiqiang in front of him.

Chen Kexin smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Qin. The Guillotine is a film that Wei Qiang and I worked hard on. It will not only help the company recover its losses, but also make more money."

Boss Qin nodded and felt a little more relaxed.

No matter what, in terms of attitude alone, Chen Kexin is countless times better than Lu Tailang.

He then asked, "Then I wonder what the two directors expect from the box office of "The Guillotine"?"

This expectation must be made clear.

Because it will be one of the promotional topics later.

Chen Kexin smiled.

Stretch out two palms.

"A billion."

When Boss Qin heard this number, he was not excited but a little panicked.

He is now a little ptsd about the number "billion".

"Director Chen, isn't 1 billion a bit too much? In fact, we can set a lower target during the promotion. If the subsequent performance is really good, we can adjust it..."

Chen Kexin waved his hand.

"Mr. Qin, I understand your concerns. After all, that giant baby Lu Chuan has stigmatized the goal of a 'billion' box office. But don't worry. With my and Wei Qiang's fame and ability, the movie 'The Guillotine' will be enough to generate enough expectations among the audience, and these expectations will be the ticket base for 'The Guillotine'."

Although Xiao Gangpao, Zhou Mo and Chen Kexin don't get along with each other.

But the three people's evaluation of Rikutaro was surprisingly consistent.

Giant baby.

All we can say is that what Lu Tailang did was indeed deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Chen Kexin did not emphasize his ability to attract box office revenue. After all, his performance in the past two years has been somewhat disappointing.

Especially "Wuxia", which made him lose a lot of popularity among the public.

Therefore, he specifically mentioned Liu Weiqiang: "Boss Qin, think about it, just based on the reputation of Weiqiang's "Infernal Affairs", I think it is worth at least 300 million, otherwise Zhou Mo would not have been crazy enough to repeatedly borrow the feelings of "Infernal Affairs" when filming "New World".

Otherwise, how could his "New World" with such a shallow script have earned 600 million at the box office?
If you ask me, at least half of the 600 million was contributed by the fans of "Infernal Affairs".

So, since he hyped up Infernal Affairs back then, let’s also hype up Infernal Affairs this time. Not only that, we can even hype up New World.”

After listening to Chen Kexin's analysis, Boss Qin was very excited.

But there was always a trace of hesitation in his heart.

The news of Zhou Mo's previous troubles with Yu Dong has been spread everywhere.

Boss Qin doesn't want to be targeted by Zhou Mo one day.

How good it feels to laugh at other people's jokes.

How unpleasant it feels to be laughed at.

He thought for a moment and said slowly, "Doing this will easily cause disputes."

Chen Kexin also understood that it would be difficult to get Qin to openly form a united front with him and compete with Zhou Mo.

But he never thought it would come to this.

Anyway, he just needs someone to support him.

Now, the conflict between him and Zhou Mo is no longer limited to the time before the release of "Wuxia", when his wife Wu Junru provoked Zhou Mo and Zhou Mo fought back using the "straw hat" incident.

Instead, for the two subsequent works, "The Guillotines" and "The Partners", Zhou Mo directly snatched away his favorite actor Huang Xiaoming and asked him to follow Shanhe Film's promotion throughout the process.

This is a battle for face and status.

There must be a winner.

He said in a resolute voice: "Don't worry, Mr. Qin, you don't need to do anything about this. If you are willing, just leave it to me. Zhou Mo is not the only one in the entertainment industry who can stir up feelings. We can do it too. If you ask me, Zhou Mo has made fun of "The Feast" and Xingmei before. So this time, let's just tie Zhou Mo up and stir up the popularity of "The Guillotine" to the sky."

"it is good!"

Boss Qin was sure that he didn't have to perform in person, so he immediately relaxed: "It's settled, Director Chen, I'll approve another 10 million yuan for publicity, and I'll leave the publicity to you."

Liu Weiqiang watched the two people communicating.

Didn't talk much the whole time.

He didn't want to get involved in the fight between Chen Kexin and Zhou Mo.

Will not participate at all.

In fact, he and Zhou Mo have a pretty good relationship.

When Zhou Mo was filming "New World", he met with him specially and communicated with him.

As a result, this matter was ridiculed by Du Qifeng.

After Chen Kexin left, Lu Tailang ran to Xingmei again.

"Boss Qin, I heard that you approved another round of publicity funds for The Guillotines."

Boss Qin barely suppressed his impatience and explained, "This amount of money was agreed upon long ago and will be used to promote the sentimentality of The Guillotines."

Lu Tailang did not pursue the loopholes in Mr. Qin's words and said directly: "Mr. Qin, "The Banquet of Kings" has not lost yet, and "The Banquet of Kings" can also promote feelings."

When Boss Qin heard this, he could no longer hide the smile on his face.

He looked at Rikutaro without saying a word.

Lu Tailang couldn't resist and explained, "Mr. Qin, I know that the previous performance of "Feast" may not be ideal, but as long as you give me another promotional fund, I can achieve a turnaround in word of mouth."

Boss Qin took a deep breath and said, "Director Lu, for your father's sake, I have to advise you that The Banquet is finished and there is no possibility of it being revived. I don't think it's necessary to make some things too clear, otherwise it will not look good on both sides."

Rikutaro was furious.

He has been completely driven crazy recently because of the failure of "Feast" and Zhou Mo's behind-the-scenes instigation.

Netizens gave him bad reviews, but they are just blind.

If the movie reviews are bad, it’s because someone is manipulating it.

The company refused to approve the money for him because Qin was short-sighted.

It's just that I'm living under someone else's roof at this moment, and I have no choice but to "make do". He thought for a long time, and then said in an extremely reluctant tone: "Mr. Qin, you may not understand that although the box office of "Feast" did drop sharply before, it has entered a stable period in the past two days. This shows that after the water army faded, the reputation of the movie has begun to turn around, so..."

When Boss Qin heard this, he couldn't help himself.

Movie box office sales are no longer falling because there is nothing left to fall.

It's only been released for a week and the single-day box office has already dropped below five million.

Of course it's stable.

He said directly: "That's enough, Lu Chuan, I'm telling you straight away, Xingmei will not invest a penny in "The Feast" from now on, just give up on this idea."

Rikutaro left.

With full determination.

Hedong in thirty years and Hexi in thirty years.

Don't bully the youth to be poor.

Lu Tailang felt that this statement was extremely suitable for his situation at this moment.

Even though he is forty years old this year.

Not a teenager at all.

But this matter cannot be left alone.

At this moment, in Lu Tailang's little notebook, the first place changed from Zhou Mo to Boss Qin and Chen Kexin.

He sees the two as obstacles to the resurgence of "The Feast".

Therefore, he must take revenge.

……

That afternoon.

At the premiere of "The Guillotines".

Chen Kexin made a bold statement: "The goal of "The Guillotine" is at least 1 billion, there is no upper limit!"

“One billion is not the exclusive right of one person, but the common dream of all filmmakers. For the development of the film industry, each of us has contributed to it!”

What does this mean?

it goes without saying.

After the premiere.

Just as the media were finding out the content about the "Billion Goals" from the previous premieres and were preparing to slightly change the protagonist and use it directly.

A Weibo post by Lu Tailang went viral in the entire entertainment industry.

The content of the Weibo post was Lu Tailang's complaint against Xingmei for repeatedly interfering with his filming and urging the filming progress, as well as his views on "The Guillotine".

"I have seen "The Guillotines". With all due respect, this movie is completely illogical and lacks substance. It is a work without any meaning at all."

Zhou Mo didn't notice this article until the evening.

He was shocked.

What's going on, Lu Tailang?
Sandwiched between Chen Kexin and Boss Qin?
Hate it so much.

He actually confronted me by name?
But no matter what, Rikutaro's move was an assist for him.

Anyway, he and Chen Kexin have fallen out, and Chen Kexin's speech on "The Guillotine" did not hide his hostility towards him at all.

In this case, if there is any way to cause trouble for Chen Kexin, I will definitely do so.

So, Zhou Mo took a screenshot of Lu Tailang's Weibo and posted it on his own Weibo account.

Added a sentence.

"Based on this one incident alone, his appreciation of movies is still acceptable."

These words pushed the already extremely popular Lu-style Weibo to even higher levels.

Netizens also began to contribute their own comments.

"To eliminate mistakes, 'The Guillotine' is based on the defense."

"Lu Sang finally has some vision for once."

"Lu Sang, congratulations, you are right this time, so I won't scold you today. But because of your "Feast", I will continue to scold you tomorrow. You can take a rest tonight."

"I suddenly feel a little regretful." Zhou Mo looked at the comments of netizens and suddenly said.

Beside him, Da Tiantian looked up: "What?"

Zhou Mo smacked his lips. "Nothing much. If I had known that Lu Tailang would backstab Chen Kexin, I would have dealt with him two days later."

It has to be said that Rikutaro's move did contribute to one of the hot topics at the end of the year.

But Zhou Mo didn’t feel particularly regretful.

Although there are few people in the entertainment industry who can do things like Lu Tailang, they do exist.

Whether it is Guo Xiaowu or the future Director Bi, they are both top-notch comedians in the entertainment industry.

So, let Rikutaro go happily.

Da Tiantian asked: "Then you are not worried that the operation of "The Guillotine" by you and Lu Tailang will bring extra popularity to Chen Kexin. What he said at the press conference today was obviously to stir up the heat. I remember he also implicitly said that he wanted to compete with "Chu Han" at the box office."

This is true.

Chen Kexin did implement the idea of ​​binding Zhou Mo this afternoon.

In a premiere and dozens of minutes of interview, Zhou Mo and "Chu and Han" were mentioned no less than five times.

The most important thing is that this guy quite shamelessly proposed the idea of ​​competing with "Chu and Han" in the box office of the day.

The problem is that "Chu and Han" has been released for a week now.

And it’s only the first day of “The Guillotine”.

Zhou Mo waved his hand calmly.

"Don't worry, it's okay. What Lu Tailang said is true. The Guillotine is a really bad movie."

Da Tiantian was speechless: "Ah? So you weren't just assisting him?"

Zhou Mo shook his head.

"If Xiaoming can call it a bad movie, how good can it be? You don't have to worry about how high the box office of "The Flying Guillotine" will be, but whether the final box office of "The Flying Guillotine" can beat our first-day box office."

"This is too exaggerated."

So...

The next day.

The first day box office figures of "The Guillotines" are out.

Six million one hundred thousand.

The box office of "Chu and Han" was 53 million on that day.

From the moment Shanhe announced the information.

Zhou Mo's fans started partying again.

(End of this chapter)