superstar director

Chapter 603 Schedule
In May, superstar Rong Shao, who hadn't moved for a long time, suddenly posted a Weibo——

"I'm practicing vocals for recording the theme song of "A Chinese Ghost Story"!"

The first picture is a picture of Rong Shao auditioning in the recording studio. The attention and likes aroused by this picture alone reached hundreds of thousands in 24 hours. After all, Rong Shao has been in hiding since more than ten years ago. After retiring from the music industry, this is the first time he has released photos of the recording studio, and it is the first time he has decided to sing in person!But this Weibo is more about likes and expectations for Rong Shao's return to the music scene!
What sparked more discussions was the second picture on Weibo, which was the high-definition poster of Ning Cheng's new movie "A Chinese Ghost Story"!

Ning Sheng's new movie is coming!
Everyone has known this for a long time, after all, the trailer of the first version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has been released for a long time!Many people have seen it!

But everyone knows too little about this movie, even the poster is just an ink painting on the trailer page!

But this time the high-definition poster clearly portrays several leading actors and the overall atmosphere of the horror film!
Whether it's Lu Han's scholarly attire, Shi Shi's female ghost, or Rong Shao's swordsman, they all have distinct characteristics!
The official Weibo of Xingtong Studio immediately reprinted Rong Shao's Weibo, adding a small flower to the news of Rong Shao's comeback in the music scene, and mobilized the fans' enthusiasm with a sentence ""A Chinese Ghost Story" , Ning Sheng's new work will meet you on July 26!"

That's right, this fantasy horror film has finally announced its finalization!
On July 26th, Ning Sheng's new movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" will be officially released. This is a movie that has been questioned constantly since the filming started. Although everyone is still not optimistic, none of them stood up and blatantly challenged Ning Cheng, shouting "Ning Cheng's genius has fallen!" "Ning Cheng will meet Waterloo!" and other provocative words. The ambiguous and ambiguous phrases can let people see that they don't like Ning Sheng's new film, but they don't have any real accusations and underestimates. It's like a simple analysis and then draw a conclusion!

With the official release of "A Chinese Ghost Story", many works in the summer vacation will soon be unable to choose a date. Today's key project of Hantang Film and Television "Thunderbolt Angel 2" is scheduled to be released on August 20th!It was completely staggered with "A Chinese Ghost Story" by nearly a month!
The new film "The King of Comedy" directed and acted by Zhou Xingxing is scheduled for August [-]th, and the three domestic blockbusters have been regarded as the troika of this summer by the media and fans. Have to wait until the time to see!

"Is Ning Cheng's new movie a hit? I've watched the first version of the trailer countless times, but I can't see what's going on in the movie at all!"

"As a loyal fan of Ning Sheng, I have watched each of Ning Sheng's movies no less than five times, and I have hardcover DVDs at home, so no matter what Ning Sheng is filming, don't need to think about it, don't need to question it, just buy it. You just need a ticket to enter, and when you finish reading it, you will know that he will never let you down!"

"That's right! I'll watch it no matter what the subject matter is."

"Yeah, Ning Cheng never disappoints people. No matter what the subject matter is, even though I don't really like ghost movies, but with Ning Cheng's name on it, I will watch it!"

There are a lot of discussions on the Internet, especially Ning Sheng's fans, who don't care about the media's concerns. This is Ning Sheng's character and reputation accumulated over the years from one film to another!And at this time, a netizen suddenly voiced: "No, July 26th, it seems that this date is released on the same day as the imported American vampire-themed "Van Helsing", right?"

"Hey, it seems to be really—"

"In other words, China's contemporary No. [-] commercial director will have a head-to-head confrontation with the famous American thriller master? Which one should I watch?"

"..."

Just three days after Ning Sheng's "A Chinese Ghost Story" was scheduled for July 26th, Universal's "Van Helsing" in the United States announced that it was scheduled to be released worldwide on the same day!
And in order to cooperate with the publicity offensive of the global release, Huaxia will naturally not change the time!So the schedule hit like this.

Even ordinary netizens are aware of the collision of movie schedules, and the major domestic media are naturally not stupid, and all kinds of related news are freshly released that day.

[Hua Tiancai Ning Sheng vs. American Horror Master Sommers! 】

[Genius directors from the two countries, the same national horror elements, the same fantasy thriller, who will win in the end? 】

[The summer vacation has not yet arrived, and the flames of war are already on the verge of breaking out! 】

[Sommers' new movie "Van Helsing" is a guest interview show in the United States: My "Van Helsing" will be a very innovative series of horror movies! 】

[The contest between Chinese ghost films and American horror films? 】

Every time big-name directors with similar grades collide with each other, it will trigger a similar news effect. This has become the norm in the global entertainment industry. Netizens are also happy to participate in this kind of competition. Even the American media, belatedly, started to report!
However, because the release date of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in North America is one month later in China, Ning Sheng has no intention of promoting it on a large scale, so the popularity there is not high!

There's no way, it's not that Ning Sheng doesn't want to make money from foreigners, but that works like "A Chinese Ghost Story" are bred in Chinese culture. If you don't have a certain understanding of Chinese culture, foreigners can easily understand it!
For example, the ghosts in the movie suck the yang energy of human beings, the female ghost seduces the scholar, and the fight between the tree demon and the Taoist swordsman, Westerners can't understand at all, so, this movie, Ning Sheng never thought of it being released in the West from the very beginning!Later, the film and television company in the west knew that he had a new movie to be released, and they came to propose cooperation and asked for a screening!Ning Sheng thought about it, and he simply took it as showing foreigners what traditional Chinese movies look like, not for the box office, but as promoting Chinese culture!

But after all, the release date is still far away, so the publicity campaign of each movie is still going on, such as the theme song, such as posters, or the promotion of trailers!

May NO.17, "Van Helsing" from the United States released the first international trailer!

Ning Sheng also purposely looked for it on the Internet. This western classic vampire story has been remade more than once, but good film adaptations are rare!And this time in "Van Helsing", two young actors who are well-known all over the world and have many fans are used as the leading actors!

The male lead is Johnny Depp, who has become one of the most popular and expensive actors in the world with "Pirates of the Caribbean", and the female lead is Emma Watson, who has become popular all over the world with the "Harry Potter" series.

This blockbuster movie with a total investment of [-] million US dollars, in the first version of the trailer, introduced the background of the story, and then showed the bravery of the hero, the beauty of the heroine, and the amazing vampire monster. It is a successful trailer that makes people look forward to the movie after watching it!
In particular, the worldwide box office appeal of the two leading actors is very strong!

And after Ning Cheng watched it, he made people release the second version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" trailer!Now that the schedule has been confirmed and a collision is inevitable, the competition between the two films will officially start from the first trailer of the promotion!

Although "A Chinese Ghost Story" is destined to be incomparable in the western market, but in China, within the scope of Chinese culture in Asia, if "A Chinese Ghost Story" loses again, it will be the director Ning Sheng's problem!

It can be said that the two films have their own local elements and their own basic set. With the spread of Western culture, Vampire has a large fan base all over the world. Therefore, based on the audience, "A Chinese Ghost Story" " is at a disadvantage. However, compared to other markets, as long as the Chinese market can fully open up the box office, there is no big problem in crushing other Western film markets!

Therefore, for Ning Sheng, his problem now is how to make "A Chinese Ghost Story" explode in China, the world's largest film market, and fully release its box office potential. As for the others, don't worry about it!

Soon, Huaxia and Asian movie fans saw the second trailer of "A Chinese Ghost Story" on the Internet!

This time the trailer finally did not have those annoying producer logos. After the annoying advertisements on the video, it was directly a movie screen from the very beginning!
This time it is no longer Rong Shao, but the leading actor Lu Han, the big boy who is a creamy boy. With the experience of these years, in addition to his handsome appearance, his acting skills and temperament have improved a lot. The role of Lu Han fits him very well, and with Ning Sheng and Young Master Rong teaching him, Lu Han in the trailer has completely lost his identity as an idol singer, and has become like a simple and kind-hearted little scholar in ancient times!
In addition to the male protagonist Lu Han, the female protagonist Liu Shishi also appeared. In the video, the camera changes, Shishi is dressed in white, with an ancient bun on her head, and her long hair flutters silently in the night wind. The dull eyes that were criticized by others finally became vivid. Although they were just watching quietly, people could clearly feel the complex emotions revealed in those eyes!
Then the camera changed again, a woman in a white gauze was bathing in a pool of water, through the moonlight, it seemed that the graceful figure of the woman could be seen, but before the nerds could swallow their saliva, the picture changed again, the guzheng sounded, and the poem Shi is sitting in a small pavilion by the river playing the zither, a figure comes from afar, and the camera pulls over, it is the hero Lu Han!
In the end, the picture changed again, the scholar emerged from a bathtub, and when Xiaoqian saw it, she lowered her head and kissed him. The scholar was pressed back into the water by Xiaoqian's kiss, and a string of water bubbles rose up. Then the next moment, the video screen went dark, and the trailer was over!
This really made many movie fans almost vomit blood, and complained about Ning Sheng's editing under the video!
"Ning Cheng's editing skills, it makes people want to die!"

"Am I confused? Why do I feel like I just watched a classic youth movie?"

"I feel the same way. I don't see any elements of horror. As for the female ghost Xiaoqian, it's not scary at all, okay? If female ghosts are so beautiful, so gentle, I strongly request, please give me a let's hit!"

"In the ghost movies I watched before, even female ghosts were either hideous, cruel, or had eerie evil smiles, but Xiaoqian played by Shishi is so beautiful, I feel like a fairy descending to earth Ah, how could it be a ghost!"

"Didn't anyone see that when Shishi left the window, she went backwards and disappeared floating in the air?"

"When you look at it, you don't take it seriously. The female ghost played by Shishi, when she doesn't smile in the trailer, she is either frowning or silent. If this is in a game novel, it is properly hidden. The task, especially when the male and female protagonists kiss directly in the tub. This occasion, this location, and this posture, it is Xiaoqian, a gentle female ghost, who took the initiative. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t feel right! Hmph, I bet on a popsicle , Ning Cheng must have hidden a lot of things involved in the plot! He deliberately cut out such a trailer, let us guess!"

"So what? The question is, in the two versions of the trailer, the three main characters in the play have appeared, but the ghost film classified as fantasy and thriller, is it wrong to classify it, and it will not become like the American "Ghost Love" Like Unfinished, is it a romance movie dressed in a ghost movie cloak?"

"Hey, what you said above is good. I think it's like this in nine out of ten cases. Aren't many of the female ghost stories in Liaozhai are love stories!"

"As a straight man, I only want to watch special effects blockbusters of Taoist priests fighting ghosts, and I don't have any feelings for romantic movies!"

"Single dog upstairs! Only romance movies can make good ghost movies!"

"Is there love in zombie movies?"

"Uncle Nine's deep love for his apprentices is shown in zombie movies!"

A group of people talked about it, but the schedule conflicts of "Van Helsing" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" released trailers one after another. The media and movie fans naturally compared them again!
Although "A Chinese Ghost Story" is a domestic film, the Chinese media have always been optimistic that "Van Helsing" will win over "A Chinese Ghost Story"!
On the contrary, the media in other Asian countries and regions are more optimistic about "A Chinese Ghost Story"!Because every new type of movie Ning Sheng makes will break the box office record in their own country, so the local media are used to Ning Sheng always winning!

China's Sun News wrote on the headline of the entertainment section, "The latest trailer of "A Chinese Ghost Story" tells all fans who love horror and thriller elements that you have seen the wrong movie. This is a costume version of a love story! And those who want to watch the real Fans of thrillers need not worry, as the contemporary Van Helsing will not disappoint!"

Seoul Film Weekly wrote, "Ning Sheng's new ghost movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" will allow you to enjoy the beauty of romance movies while feeling the charm of ghost movies!"

The Tokyo Film and Television News said, ""Van Helsing", a vampire story that is about to be filmed, I don't know how it will perform this time, but "A Chinese Ghost Story", only relying on the appearance of the three protagonists, I believe , RB fans will definitely come in to watch, right? Come on, Shishi!"

(End of this chapter)