superstar director

Chapter 499
The time seems to be August, and another year of summer vacation is coming.

Compared with last year's somewhat shabby summer vacation, this year is much more lively.There are not only the Hollywood blockbuster "Hacksaw Ridge" and the new gambling film "Macao Wind and Cloud" directed by Wang Jing, but also the Hong Kong ghost film "Tuodi Exorcist", which has not been seen for many years, and finally a list of martial arts stars. "Slaying the Wolf 2", it can be said that all audiences have been looking forward to it long before the start of the summer vacation.

Therefore, in August, with the release of "Slaying the Wolf 2" and "Tuodi Exorcist", plus some other cartoons, new Japanese and Korean movies, the entire summer film of Huaxia Film and Television followed a series of releases. Every day the box office soared and became popular.

However, Ning Sheng didn't pay much attention to this. After he sent "Thunderbolt Angel" to be reviewed, he returned home and accompanied Emma to do yoga and exercise, while playing with Xinxin and giving her Tell stories and become a good husband and father!

Of course, under Emma's strong supervision, he has also started to prepare the script for Emma's action movie next year.

And the more famous scripts selected in Ning Cheng's mind include "Kill Bill" and "Underworld", but Ning Cheng thinks that it is okay to choose one of several male action movies, such as "Rage Rescue" It can be changed to Emma to play the bodyguard who beats all the bad guys and produces the little girl. Of course, considering Emma's height and age, as well as the difference between women and men, if the logic makes sense, then Ning Sheng has to give Emma Ma arranges a suitable background.

Of course, it’s still too early to say these things now. Ning Cheng is just constantly screening out some scripts, and then slowly pondering the matching to see which one is the most suitable for Emma, ​​or Ning Sheng will use these scripts as the core to adapt the A book more suitable for Emma.

When Ning Chengwo was staying at home with his family, Ning Tong, Shi Shi, and Ying Bao finally returned to Huaxia after their vacation, and they were immediately called by Sister Lin to arrange announcements for them, as well as the following Half-year work plan.

With the start of school in September, the battle for the summer file has come to an end.Director Wang Jing's "Macao Wind and Cloud" relied on the appeal of stars such as actor Fa Ge, Xiaosheng Nicholas Tse, and everyone's feelings for "God of Gamblers" back then. It swept the box office of 26 billion in the summer file, but the word of mouth was not very good. Many people complained on the Internet, which led to the failure of the final box office to exceed 30 billion.However, the film's performance in other Asian countries is also very good. The final global box office is expected to be around 35 billion, which is definitely a big hit!

However, due to the unfavorable word-of-mouth of the film, Wang Jing has already made a deep review in an interview, and said that the script of the second part will be more carefully polished, and will never let the audience down again!

In addition to this "Macao Wind and Cloud", the total box office of other films "Slaying the Wolf 2" was 16 billion, which satisfied the investors, while "Tuodi Exorcist" ended up with less than one billion at the box office due to the type of film. But considering his cost, he has already made a lot of money.

Finally, "Blood Battle Hacksaw Ridge", with a box office of more than 20 billion, once again harvested a large sum from the Huaxia box office, and went home happily. As for some movies in Japan, South Korea and other countries, some made small profits, and some lost money. Yes, but not much attention.

The summer file ended in such a lively manner, and many viewers felt unfinished. They always felt that this year’s summer file still did not have a phenomenon-level work that made people crazy, just like the previous "Invincible in the East", "The True Colors of Heroes" ", but thinking of the news that various new dramas have been finalized recently, everyone is looking forward to this year's Lunar New Year file even more.

In particular, when Ning Sheng's new movie "Angel of the Thunderbolt" was officially announced to be released on December 12th, this year's Lunar New Year, countless movie fans couldn't wait to call Ning Sheng on the Internet to release the trailer first.

However, before Ning Sheng could cut out the trailer, an unexpected phone call came over.

"Xiao Sheng, our movie schedules have collided!" Brother Cheng Long said in a joking tone in his hearty voice.

Ning Cheng said helplessly, "This is also the schedule we just confirmed yesterday, so we bumped into you without thinking. If we knew about it earlier, we would have asked first."

Cheng Long also smiled and said, "Yeah, I would have asked about your schedule if I knew it earlier, now it's all right, our schedules collide, and those media will put us together again for comparison! If I lose , how can you make my big brother feel so embarrassed!"

Knowing that he was joking, Ning Cheng smiled and said nothing, but he didn't have the idea of ​​defeating Cheng Long's new work "Glass Bottle". "Glass Bottle" invested [-] million yuan, starring Cheng Long. It is Cheng Long's first action film after returning to China after "Red Fan District" became popular at home and abroad. According to Cheng Long himself in the interview, this movie was early Before "Red Fan District", there was a rough script. After the experience of "Red Fan District", Cheng Long became more mature. For this pure Chinese work, Cheng Long planned to use the previous script of "Red Fan District" Popularity, promoting this purely Chinese movie to the West, this is a meticulous work, and it must not be underestimated.

beat it?Maybe there are movies that can perform at the box office, but in fact there is no beat or not between good movies.However, "Thunderbolt Angel" and "Glass Bottle" are both released on December 12th, and the media keen to create topics will naturally not miss this good opportunity, especially Ning Sheng and Cheng Long, both of whom have achieved international success in the Chinese film and television industry. superstar.Therefore, the media is very happy to mention the two of them together on Leitai.Even if one is a director and the other is an actor, it doesn't matter to the media. Anyway, in Ning Cheng's movie, Ning Sheng has the final say, but in Cheng Long's movie, even if he is not the director, he still has the say Forget it, so, the media said that Ning Sheng's movie is against Zhan Chenglong's movie, this is no problem!

Of course, this collision was not intentional by Ning Sheng. There were post-production considerations, anticipation of publicity plans, etc., so it was scheduled to be released two weeks before Christmas.

And during the Christmas period, which has now become a global holiday period, you can see a bunch of commercial blockbusters and long-awaited new works of major directors when you look up and down. According to media exposure, the movies that have been scheduled to be released during this Christmas period For example, Jinbei Film and Television invested 1.5 million in the adventure action film "Leap to the Limit", Huayi's 1 million investment in adapting animation love blockbuster "Your Name", Hantang Film and Television's 2.5 million war blockbuster "Champion Hou", and so on. There are some animated movies for families and kids.

This is just a new domestic film. At the same time, Hollywood will naturally not give up such a golden schedule. The horror comedy film produced by Sony Columbia Pictures is adapted from the best-selling phenomenon-level series of novels of the same name by American suspense master RL Stein. Beletman's $5800 million "Goosebumps" and Marvel Studios' sci-fi action movie "Ant-Man" seem to have little fame and investment compared to those superheroes. Big, but in recent years, almost one Marvel work has been released, and no one dares to underestimate it.Finally, there is the second part of the classic animation "Hotel Transylvania" produced by Sony. This animation directed by Gendita Tarkowski and written by Dan Hageman must be the first choice of countless children!Cheng Long said with a smile: "It's really lively now. I'm afraid we will join forces to resist the invasion of Hollywood blockbusters. Director Ning, are you ready?" Ning Sheng just rolled his eyes.After some joking, the two agreed to have a get-together in Kyoto next time, and then hung up the phone.

Although there are still more than three months before December, the current publicity methods are all kinds of strange and varied. Some movies have already started to make publicity plans before they are filmed. Therefore, we should do publicity three months in advance. , nothing at all.

However, the specific publicity plan of "Angels of the Thunderbolt" is in charge of other distribution companies. Ning Cheng just wrote a song for the movie, and then edited some deleted scenes from the movie and the previews to make a song. The MV was released, and this was the first wave of publicity for the movie.

This song is called "Sweet Dream". In the movie, besides the unknown agent, Yingbao's role also has another identity known to everyone, that is, a singer. There are clips of her singing in the movie, so alone Taking it out for publicity can be regarded as useful, and the effect of this song should be amplified as much as possible, so as to avoid the relationship between the lens and time in the movie, there is only a short section, so that the audience cannot enjoy listening to it, so that the song will be released in advance, and when the time comes As soon as the music in the movie is thought of, the audience will automatically fill in the feeling of the whole song, and the viewing experience will be even better!

However, with the release of Ying Bao's new single "Sweet Dreams", the MV mainly contains clips of the three of Ning Tong laughing together, or some interesting scenes, which do not have a logical plot and can only be watched by the audience. After the MV, I feel wow, the three of Ning Tong are so beautiful, and the songs are good to listen to. For the rest, I can only wait for the movie to be released or other new trailers to come out.

The three of Ning Tong have been living comfortably recently. Although Sister Lin arranged a lot of announcements for them after returning from vacation, there is still a lot of time for them to relax and rest, especially since they are not what they needed when they first debuted. Running around day and night to make announcements, grabbing exposure, and fearing being forgotten, today's NLZ has long been a name engraved in the history of Chinese music, just like the Chaoyang group, it has become a miracle that countless latecomers look up to!

Speaking of which, since Ning Sheng retired from the music scene, some awards ceremonies are planning to give Ning Sheng a perfect curtain call gift. For example, at the Huaxia Lai Awards in February this year, Ning Sheng was awarded the Music Special Achievement Award!In the past few years, the Chaoyang Group was also awarded the China Music Special Contribution Group Award by the Teana Award!It can be regarded as an affirmation of their achievements in the history of Chinese music!
When NLZ is disbanded, or Ning Tong and the others retire, I believe they will gain their own affirmation just like the Chaoyang group!

Therefore, the three of Ning Tong at this time are already like those top big names in the industry. They don’t need to work hard to expose and maintain their popularity. Stars like them already have a basic popularity, unless there are no new works for many years. , or do some unacceptable behavior of losing fans, otherwise, there is no need to worry about being forgotten.

As for the work arranged by Sister Lin for them, in addition to some contracted endorsements, shooting some commercials, doing some interviews, and occasionally participating in more interesting variety shows, such as Extreme Challenge, Running Man, and a show on Mango Channel "The Goddess is Coming" intends to invite Ning Tong's three-year-old to participate, but seeing that the filming cycle is so long and they have to go with so many actresses, the three of Ning Tong still gave up.

It is said that there are three women in one play, and so many actresses get together, that's not bad. Although it seems nothing is shown on the show, the three of Ning Tong have seen the appearance of actresses together in private. The appearance of intrigue is no easier than in the movie.

Of course, with the current status of the three of Ning Tong, there are not many people who have just started trouble with them, but sometimes, some things are really hard to guard against, and the three of Ning Tong don't like it, so even if Mango TV called out two Ning Tong and the others still refused the sky-high price of [-] million.

But it's impossible for them to hang out like this in the second half of the year. No, in September, just after the China Starlight Awards ended, Sister Lin received an invitation.

"Asian Song Club", this is the name of this program today, but before this year, this program was actually two programs, one called "Huaxia-RB Red and White Song Club" and the other called "China-Korea Song Club", but the previous two programs This program is getting worse and worse, and the ratings are getting lower and lower. Finally, this year, the organizer changed, the two programs were merged into one, and the name was changed, and the participating countries were expanded, including Singapore, India, Annan and other countries. Singers have joined in, and the organizer's ambition is clearly revealed in the name. "Asian Song Club", originally used as a platform for Chinese musicians to communicate with fans from Japan and South Korea, will now become a gathering of fans from all over Asia platform.

In this regard, the organizers received strong support from many people, and some domestic music companies also expressed their support. However, during the preparation process of the first "Asian Song Festival" after the revision, the biggest problem still emerged.

Singers from other countries are easy to handle, because of the live broadcast of China TV, many foreign singers want to participate in order to expand their popularity in China, just like the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in China, but for Chinese singers, the most Those at the top do not lack this opportunity, their own popularity is all over Asia, and those first-line singers at the lower level, although they are willing to appear, but the appearance fee is not cheap, especially for the organizers , The invited singers are top singers from many countries, no matter how abundant their own funds are, it is not enough.

Especially when I heard from the organizer that a voting channel will be opened for this show, allowing fans watching the show from all over Asia to vote, and after the show, the top three most popular winners will be selected and awarded with trophies!And the winner will win the title of Asian Super Popular Idol Champion!
As a result, more first-line singers who cherish their feathers are unwilling to go. It’s okay if they win, but what if they lose?That would be embarrassing, especially in the face of those singers from other countries. Once they lose, under the fanning of the media, a status that has been worked hard for many years by accident will be ruined!
Therefore, the organizer saw that the top domestic superstars could not afford to invite them, the first-line singers were unwilling to come, and the second singer was useless. Faced with such a predicament, singers from other countries had already come over aggressively with air tickets. The organizers thought about it In the end, I could only send an invitation letter to NLZ's agent, and they also included a small note "Guaranteed champion!"

(End of this chapter)