superstar director

Chapter 315 Growth
"Two superstars Zhang Guorong and Ti Lung appeared on the set of "Swordsman", Ning Sheng may temporarily change actors because of the lack of acting skills of the leading actor Ding Xuan!" --- China Sun News.

"The latest news is that brother Zhang Guorong may replace Ding Xuan as the leading actor in Ning Sheng's new movie, and the movie "Swordsman" will have to invest more!" --- Huaxia Gossip News.

"The managers of Zhang Guorong and Ti Lung also appeared on the set of "Swordsman" a few days ago, and they had a good chat with Ning Sheng. The possibility of the two superstars joining and collaborating is greatly increased!" --- Oriental Entertainment News.

These reports in the media immediately ignited everyone's enthusiasm, especially fans of martial arts dramas, as well as fans of the two superstars. Everyone is very happy to cooperate with Ning Sheng, a talented director who has filmed "Dragon Inn". Excited, one after another expressed their support on the Internet!

One of the fans named "Favorite Rong Shao" said, "Ning Cheng can invite my brother to participate in "Swordsman", no matter how the filming ends, as a fan of my brother, I must watch it. My brother's first martial arts movie! I'm looking forward to it!"

Another net name "Thirteen Young Masters is the best" commented, "With Ning Sheng's directing skills in martial arts films, plus the wonderful performances of brother and Ti Lung, "Swordsman" will definitely be a new one next year. A masterpiece of martial arts!"

"Brother will be the leading actor, Di Lung will be the supporting actor, and then I will invite Zhang Manyu or sister Lin Qingxia from last year's "Dragon Inn" to be the heroine!" Some netizens expressed their beautiful fantasies.

But in just one morning, netizens all over the country felt that "Swordsman" was going to replace Ding Xuan with his brother as the leading actor. After participating in a talk show, the journalists following the filming found that something was wrong.

However, because Ning Sheng's crew was busy filming his own movie, they were not allowed to be interviewed by the media, so the reporters had no way of getting specific information from the crew. Brother and Ti Lung didn't ask because they didn't catch up, but On the live talk show that night, the host asked everyone the news that everyone is most concerned about and wants to know the most.

The host asked, "Brother Rong, Brother Long, today the media broke out on the Internet that you have joined the crew of "Swordsman" directed by Ning Sheng. It is rumored that Brother Rong will replace Ding Xuan as the leading actor, and Brother Long will play a supporting actor. , or the role of the villain, is that so?"

My brother shook his head with a smile and said, "This news can be said to be half-truth. Brother Long and I did join "Swordsman" temporarily and played a role in it, but our role is only a cameo, and we don't care about it. There is a matter of replacing other actors, the two of us still have our own movie to shoot, how can we have time to join Ning Sheng's movie, it's just the paparazzi media talking nonsense."

Di Lung also said on the side, "Ding Xuan's acting is very good and he is very serious. Don't always look down on him. The movie hasn't been released yet. How do you know that his acting is not good?"

The elder brother also said to the camera, "Although we haven't been on the set for a long time, and we haven't been with Ning Cheng and Ding Xuan for a long time, everyone should know the character of these two people in the circle. Very good, very talented young people, we need to encourage and support more, so that there will be more good works in our circle, shouldn’t we?”

The supporter smiled and echoed, "You two are right. For young people, I should give more support and encouragement. Then what kind of roles do the two guest stars in "Swordsman"? Are they powerful knights? Or is it just the owner of the inn or something?"

Di Long said, "Based on the general martial arts characters, one is the uncle of the righteous sect, and the other is the elder of the evil sect. But the specific relationship between the characters, let's wait for everyone to watch the movie, it will be a spoiler. It's meaningless."

The elder brother also nodded with a smile and said, "Brother Long is right, everyone will know when the time comes when you go to the cinema, hehehe——"

In the program interview, the two seniors not only refuted the rumors of media public opinion, but also called on everyone to support Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan, which made their fans friendly to each other unconsciously, especially at night, when Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan The Weibo account took the initiative to leave a message under the Weibo account of brother and Ti Lung to express their gratitude, which suddenly made their fans feel like they were "friends" sitting at this table, warm and friendly.

Fans of Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan enthusiastically expressed their respect and admiration to their elder brother and Di Lung, while fans of their elder brother and Di Lung also expressed their love and appreciation for Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan.

Especially Ning Sheng's status as a talented director made the fans of the two superstars look forward to Ning Sheng making more exciting works for their idols!

Because of the caring for Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan by two important celebrities in the circle, it seems that overnight, the whole trend of public opinion has changed. The Internet is full of people "respecting the old and loving the young" to the four stars. The juniors respected the praises from the seniors, and they didn't even read the negative news about Ning Sheng, Ding Xuan and the crew, or were simply ignored.

Seeing this situation, those media gossips will naturally not ignore the news reports that everyone is not interested in, especially after the two big names in the industry, brother and Ti Lung, talk, they deliberately find faults and report indiscriminately, that is, they can't find it. at ease.

So, since the two big names spoke, the negative reports about Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan in the media suddenly decreased a lot, and in another week, there will be almost none.

While Ning Sheng and Ding Xuan were still busy filming, the Spring Festival box office fight came again. This time, the box office battle, the domestic flag-carrying works are Cheng Long's "Food Truck" and Zhou Xingxing's "Tricky Expert", other domestic films are small and medium-sized works, and apart from these domestic works, this summer file introduced foreign blockbusters for the first time.

In the past, foreign imported films were mostly released in the summer or other times, which reserved a safe period for domestic films, the Spring Festival. However, with the development of the Chinese film market and the rapid progress of domestic films, this last protection period has finally come. was removed.

In this Spring Festival file, the works of Japan and South Korea are the box office champions of their domestic films this year. Japan's animation "Final Fantasy 6" and South Korea's disaster blockbuster "Train to Busan", but for Chinese films It is said that the biggest opponents are not them, but the special effects hero blockbusters "Spider-Man 3" and "The Martian" from Hollywood.

When the time entered the end of November, Cheng Long's "Food Truck" was released first. Under the publicity of the cover tape, the box office broke 1.3 million on the first day, and 4.5 million in the first three days. The results are very good, definitely Cheng Long's people had the best results, and driven by good word of mouth, they won a total of 13 billion in the second week. At the same time, the Hollywood movie "Spiderman 3" and the Korean blockbuster "Train to Busan" were released on Friday and Saturday. In their first three days, the two days scored 6 million and 1.03 million respectively.

After that, in the third week of the release of "Food Truck", Japan's "Final Fantasy 6", Zhou Xingxing's "Tricky Expert", and Hollywood's "The Martian" were released in turn this week.

The fierce battle of blockbusters at home and abroad, while the Chinese movie fans are enjoying themselves, Japanese and Korean movie fans are resentful at the embarrassment of their own films being killed in the Chinese movie market!
Originally, the filmmakers of the two countries were envious of the prosperity of the Chinese film market. They thought that they could take a big bite by rushing in, but in the end they found that their teeth were not as good as they thought, and they broke their teeth directly. A little scent made them more and more greedy, but they just couldn't eat it, because the local Chinese movies and Hollywood blockbusters kicked away Japanese and Korean movies, and they had already eaten up the cake.

"Swordsman" finally wrapped up in the cold evening. After everyone ate the wrap-up banquet, happily disbanded, and went home, the box office competition for the Spring Festival stalls had come to an end.

Cheng Long's "Fast Food Truck" ranked first in the schedule with a score of 27 billion in China and 38 billion in the world, and Zhou Xingxing's "Tricky Expert" ranked second and third with a score of 25 billion in China and 34 billion in the world The most important thing is that "Spiderman 3" won a box office of 15 billion in China, and the fourth place is a big dark horse. The film "Pancake Man" represented by China's Diao Si unexpectedly achieved a score of 13 billion. Winning 15 billion, it can be seen that it is not popular abroad.

Then "The Martian" ranked fifth with 10 billion, China's animation "Door God" ranked sixth with 8.5 million, "Bear Infested" ranked seventh with 7.6 million, "Book of Heaven" ranked eighth with 6.6 million, Japan's "Final Fantasy" 6" and South Korea's "Train to Busan" ranked ninth and tenth with 3.2 million and 1.4 million respectively.

In fact, compared to Ning Cheng's last life, many Japanese and Korean works had no chance of being screened in China, or even if they were released, they would only have a box office of several million or tens of millions. Now this result is already very good.

It's just that people in this world don't know the tragic situation of Ning Sheng's Japanese and Korean movies in China's film market in his last life. Therefore, after they achieved this result, they looked at the huge box office figures, huge profits, and even some of China's professional filmmakers. The animations made for children are better than their high-scoring movies at the box office, which really disappointed the filmmakers and some movie fans in the two countries.

In fact, in order to have a good box office in the Chinese market, they deliberately spent a lot of effort on publicity. As a result, the final box office results are probably just enough to cover their promotional expenses in China.

So under the mood of envy, jealousy and hatred, some people said in media interviews that "Chinese movie fans have immature movie-watching orientation. They only value Hollywood special effects blockbusters or their own country's superstar movies, but they don't care about other countries' high-scoring movies. Interest, this is unreasonable and should not be, I think that Chinese movie fans are not as mature and intelligent as Japanese and Korean movie fans, and they can rationally know what they should watch."

After the impulsive remarks of this Korean filmmaker were exposed by the media, they were immediately ridiculed mercilessly by Chinese movie fans!
A netizen named "God knows who you are" said, "Your Korean movies can't win the annual box office championship in your own country, right? Have you seen what works are in the top ten of your country's historical total box office rankings? Either Chinese movies or Hollywood blockbusters. The highest-grossing movie in your country is only ranked 28th. There are also many high-scoring movies in your country. There are many movies with a score of more than 9. Why are they even in the top [-]? Can’t make it? Are those who contribute to the box office of foreign films but not your domestic films are all foreigners?”

"The Korean students are being naughty again. High-scoring movies are not the same as high-grossing movies. "Avatar" scored less than 9 points, but which movie with more than 9 points can compare with "Avatar" at the box office? Or people say Well, our high-scoring movies are not literary movies, but commercial movies. Unfortunately, no matter what type of movie you are, when the audience chooses to watch it or not, just care whether it is good or not. When your "Travel to Busan" and "Tricky Expert", "Food Trucks," "Spider-Man 3," and those movies lined up, I thought, anyone with a brain knows what to watch, right?"

Not only did movie fans on the Internet ridicule and sarcasm, but when some people in the film and television industry, especially Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing, were surrounded by the media to ask their opinions on what the "Korean filmmaker" said, the two had already approached each other in the film industry. The superstar at the highest position said the same thing, roughly meaning "When several of my films were released in South Korea, they were all the champions of the box office in South Korea at the same time!"

Director Wang Jing, who was present at the event, said bluntly in an interview with the media, "Japanese and Korean movies are not popular at our film and television box office and are not popular with our audience. I am not surprised. Although their cultures are influenced by Chinese culture However, they have been confused by Western culture over the years. In terms of film and television works, although they have sent some works that seem to have high scores, Korean actors have performed too hard, and the storyline that loves to go to extremes is always It will make a movie a bit awkward and unnatural. It is natural that Chinese audiences don't like it. If you want to find food in Huaxia Film Market, you must first find out what Chinese audiences like, otherwise, just follow yours. It’s a reason why works fail in Europe and America, people don’t like to watch them, even if you get full marks for every work, you still don’t have box office!”

The Korean filmmakers finally went back in despair. Only the director said, "Our culture is very similar to Chinese culture. We will continue to make better movies. I hope we can succeed in this great country of China in the future!"

The Japanese filmmakers saw the end of their Korean counterparts, didn't say anything, and went back with their luggage. Anyway, their animations are still very popular in China, aren't they?
Ning Cheng was sitting at home, watching the news on TV and watched the whole scene. A few days later, when the winter vacation came, Ning Tong went home and threw away her schoolbag, and rushed out to meet her two little friends. to play.

Ning Cheng looked at the baby sister who disappeared without saying a word, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "That clingy little girl has finally grown up!", and then took a hard bite. Apple, watched the TV series "Three Kingdoms" with my parents.

(End of this chapter)