It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 784: Unexpected box office success! Review rejected? ? ?

“It is reported that the romantic drama film “The Worst Person in the World”, exclusively produced by Feiyue Films, produced and starred by Liu Yifei, directed and starred by Chen Fei, and guest-starred by Zhou Xun, Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, Tang Yan, Zhao Liying, Shu Chang and others, has officially finished shooting in the capital…”

“The Hollywood imported blockbuster “Fast and Furious 7” team has arrived in the capital and is expected to hold a promotional conference within a week. The film will be released in mainland theaters on the 12th of this month, so stay tuned.”

“The Sino-foreign co-production blockbuster “Legend of the White Ghost: The Desperate Escape”, jointly produced by multiple film and television companies, has been released in mainland theaters in the early hours of last night, and many theaters have given it a high screening rate.”

Feiyue Films, editing department.

As soon as the film was finished, Chen Fei brought the finished film back to the company and personally led a team to start editing.

He has already agreed with all the actors who have participated in the guest appearance that if there are clips where the live sound recording effect is not particularly good, they can always call someone to come over to re-record on the spot.

After a busy morning, Chen Fei received a call from Liu Yifei on his way to the cafeteria at noon.

"Mr. Wei Meng, good afternoon."

"Hey? Miss Jiao Rou, what's up? Did you just wake up?"

"Yes, I haven't slept in for a long time. I slept so well today~ so well!"

"Haha, you little lazy pig, what are you going to do in the afternoon?"

"I'm hungry, I'm going to get up and eat, and then go back to sleep. I'm going to sleep until you come back, and then continue to 'sleep' for three days and three nights in a row."

"Good guy, you are going to drain me completely..."

After a while of being sick of each other, when Chen Fei arrived at the cafeteria and got his meal, Liu Yifei suddenly changed the subject and mentioned another thing.

"Have you paid attention to the movie "Legend of White Ghost: Desperate Escape" invested by Uncle Chen? My mother just called me and said that Uncle Chen might lose a lot of money this time." Chen Fei raised his eyebrows slightly and paused: "Huh? The film reviews and word of mouth are out?" "Yes, you will know if you go and see it. It's really... hard to describe." "Okay, let's talk about it when I get home tonight. I'll go and take a look first." "Yeah, remember to come back early tonight! I want to eat roast duck, remember to bring one." "Okay." After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei switched directly to the Douban app and read the film reviews of "Legend of White Ghost: Desperate Escape". "I finished watching it in a daze. I don't know if I was too sleepy or the movie was too hypnotic. The overall performance was bland throughout the whole movie. Even the actors spoke in the same tone, just like driving at a certain speed on the highway. It was easy to get sleepy."

"There were no exciting scenes, no amazing plots, and no martial arts design! The movie ended unknowingly, and I didn't even know what I was watching."

"It's a bad movie without explanation. The so-called combination of Chinese and foreign cultures is just a joke. The translated language and actor costumes are very ordinary. The palace scenes are simply simple. Western The war on the other side was also rushed, it felt like there was insufficient funding, it was a mess. "

"The film editing was a mess, it was hard to understand, and many foreshadowings were not explained in the end, it was just like playing!"

"The emotional development of the male and female protagonists was simply magical... Is the 3D effect used to make money? There are too many complaints, I don’t know how to evaluate it."

"Yang Ying is still pretty, but her acting is really awkward. Can she find a training institution to learn? The crying scene is too awkward. Did she put eye drops again? "

"It’s over!

"It’s useless!

"Fortunately, I insisted on not letting Liu Yifei play the heroine, otherwise, the fan base that I have accumulated with great difficulty will completely collapse."

"After muttering a few times, Chen Fei stopped paying attention to this movie.

A movie that is destined to be a bad movie is not worth his attention at all.

...

The next day, the first-day box office data of "Legend of White Ghost: Desperate Escape" was freshly released.

The first-day box office data of 5.69 million directly stunned several investors!

More than 200 million yuan was invested, and it was a Sino-foreign co-production project. The director of "Resident Evil" was invited, plus Hollywood A-list star Nicolas Cage and Yang Ying, one of the four young actresses in the mainland...

With this lineup, it only got less than 10 million box office. Is this a joke?

The box office is bad, but the reputation is also a mess. It's too fucked up!

Looking around, there is a lot of ridicule on the Internet:

"Do you really think that Sino-foreign co-production projects are so easy? I will kill you!"

"This movie is really bad! It's really bad!"

"In my opinion, a serious Sino-foreign co-production project should be like "Pacific Rim". As for other domestic or Hollywood companies, they don't have that taste at all."

"Let's look forward to "The Great Wall". Forget about this movie. After reading the film reviews, I have no interest in going to the cinema."

"You can also look forward to "Global Storm". This is a work of Feiyue Film and Television, which is much more reliable than China Film and LeTV."

Another new day has arrived. The box office of "Legend of White Ghost: Desperate Escape" closed at 3.22 million the next day, ushering in a new round of plunges.

Many filmmakers in the industry can see very clearly that this film is estimated to be cut by the theaters in less than a week.

If the end of the Spring Festival season is the end of a big climax, then the announcements issued by many film and television companies in April are undoubtedly the prelude to the next big climax.

On April 5, Enlight announced that it would participate in investing in the latest comedy film directed by Deng Chao, and officially announced the protagonist lineup.

When the lineup of the husband-and-wife team Deng Chao + Sun Li was announced, it immediately attracted the expectations and attention of many people.

On April 6, the "Happy Twist" team, which had just won the Spring Festival box office championship, announced that it would invest in the new script "One Thought in Paradise" written by Fan Wei.

At the same time, the cast of this movie was also announced, and it turned out to be the combination of Shen Teng + Ma Li.

On April 7, Yinghuang United Feiyue Pictures announced that it will continue to develop the "Ip Man" series and will officially launch "Ip Man 4" next year.

In the subsequently officially announced main creative lineup of the crew, Zhao Wenzhuo was prominently listed, with three bright characters on the back.

Zhao Wenzhuo (played as: Ip Man).

On April 8, China Film Company announced to the outside world:

"Exclusively produced by Marvel and directed by Chen Fei, starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and others The heroic blockbuster "Avengers: Age of Ultron" will be released on May 12."

For a time, there was another cry in the industry!

Especially those domestic movies released in May are even more like mourning for a heir!

How can we fight such an opponent who is standing there in a daze?

On April 9, "Dangal!" won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 87th Academy Awards. "Dad" officially landed in domestic theaters.

On the first day of its release, the movie earned a box office of 32.51 million yuan, blinding a lot of people!

Even Chen Fei did not expect that this movie unexpectedly gained the love and recognition of many viewers, and it has an excellent reputation!

"For a girl who has never seen her father before she was born, watching this movie alone and at a nightclub brought me too many tears, but I still endured it until I watched it. I just felt that my heart was full of tears. move.

Thank you father for giving me life. Thank you father for letting me come into the world. Although we have never met, I survived strong. Thank you for giving me life. Although you are absent from my world, I will regard you as perfect. continue to live with the shortcomings. "

"It's so good! It's super good! Although I rushed to a nightclub, I didn't stay up all night in vain. It's a good watch. As expected, Brother Khan has no bad movies!"

"When I first watched it, I thought the father was too much! He forced his dreams on his daughter, and his patriarchal thoughts were rampant. But then when I saw my daughter start to achieve success and successfully enter the sports academy, I suddenly realized that it was all worth it!

When I was young, I was unable to win glory for my country, but I unexpectedly discovered that my daughter was so talented. In the end, I ignored the eyes and doubts of the world, and worked hard to train my daughter to become a world champion, and called for women to have other choices besides raising husbands and raising children. This inspirational story The story is great!

"It's really good to watch! The wrestling scenes are exciting, but also very real. It's worth watching! I highly recommend it."

"The story is touching, the acting is sincere, and the content is profound. The entire wrestling match scene is extremely exciting. The actors' acting skills are as if they are cheating. Even the young actors who play the male protagonist's two daughters are full of acting skills, cute and smart. Excellent!”

"Although Aamir Khan, the Indian Andy Lau, has a bloated figure in this drama, it does not affect his performance as an actor at all. The opening ceremony at the end was shot very well! It was a big deal! The management is very capable!"

"After watching this movie, I suddenly had a new understanding of director Chen Fei's screenwriting skills. He is really great, and the story is so well written!"

At first, because the film was not very optimistic about its domestic performance, Walton Pictures did not invest many promotional resources for it.

But I never expected that the film’s high reputation would lead to continued box office growth!

After the box office revenue of 32.51 million on the first day, the box office on the second day and the third day actually achieved results of 38.46 and 44.63 million respectively.

In the three days of the first weekend, the total box office revenue was 115 million, which is really an eye-opener for the mainland film industry!

Looking back, the first Indian film to hit the domestic box office seemed to be "Slumdog Millionaire" which helped Chen Fei win his first Oscar for directing.

After many years, I didn’t expect that another Indian movie would usher in a box office explosion in the country!

Chen Fei immediately called Natasha and Rajkumar Hirani and asked them to continue to increase their efforts to promote the movie.

Natasha said there was no problem and immediately dispatched a professional publicity team to the mainland to cooperate in publicity and distribution.

After receiving the call from Chen Fei, Rajkumar Hirani immediately contacted Aamir Khan and others, preparing to leave for the mainland to hold a promotional road show.

After ending the call with the two of them, Chen Fei paid attention to several other latest reports on the Weibo hot search list.

"The Hollywood imported blockbuster "Fast and Furious 7", exclusively produced by Universal Pictures, accounted for 60% of the film schedule on the first day of its domestic release. It grossed 306 million at the box office and accounted for 86% of the daily box office!"

"Following "The Martian"'s box office of 363 million on its first day, "Fast and Furious 7" has successfully entered the 300 million single-day box office record list with a single-day box office of 306 million."

"According to data analysis from theaters, audiences and fans have a high desire to watch "Fast and Furious 7", and it may become the second film in the domestic market with a box office of over 3 billion."

"The Revenant," an adventure and survival movie directed by Director Chen Fei and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Tom Hardy and others, has been in theaters for 25 days, and the box office has exceeded 800 million yuan! The daily box office has dropped to more than 5 million.”

"The daily box office of "Legend of White Ghost: Desperate Escape" has dropped sharply to 900,000, and many theaters have cut off all their film schedules."

In the office, Chen Fei looked at the news on the Internet and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

If he remembers correctly, "Fast 7" should have achieved a box office of 2.4 billion in the original timeline, ranking second in the 2015 box office rankings.

However, the prerequisite for high box office success was that one of the starring actors, Paul Walker, passed away in a car accident. Universal Pictures used a lot of emotion when promoting the movie.

But this time, under the influence of Chen Fei, Paul Walker did not leave because of the car accident, but instead followed the crew throughout the whole process for promotion.

Although Universal Pictures is still selling the sentiment of "family man", in comparison, the effect is undoubtedly much worse.

"Mr. Chen." Su Guohai opened the door and walked in, reporting: "According to your instructions, the finished film "The Worst Man in the World" has been sent to the Film Bureau and the Cannes Film Festival."

"Okay." Chen Fei nodded: "Just wait for the news of the review. If there are other situations in the bureau, please remember to notify me as soon as possible."

"Okay, I get it."

Su Guohai responded, turned around and left the office quickly.

Chen Fei crossed his legs and looked at the latest movie information that was refreshed on the Internet, while muttering in a low voice: "There are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me! But have you forgotten that there are also clowns among the unscrupulous people!"

April is not originally a big release date, but what makes many people in the film industry puzzled is that a lot of news about movie schedules has come out this month.

The day after "Fast 7" was released, the official blog of "Monster Hunt" officially released an announcement, announcing that it would be rescheduled to July 16 to compete for the summer vacation.

In the afternoon of that day, Wang Xiaoshuai posted a new Weibo, announcing that the movie "The Intruder" directed by himself will be released on April 30 to compete for the May Day slot.

Just one day later, the movie "Rampage in Hollywood" starring Zhao Yanzi, Huang Xiaoming, and Tong Dawei was officially announced to be released on June 26.

For a time, this summer vacation was highly anticipated.

If you look around, it's either a blockbuster or the work of a big director, or even worse, it's a movie with front-line actors.

When it comes to "queuing up the noodles", the upcoming summer season is no worse than the Spring Festival season that just passed!

At this time, the film bureau and review department.

"Finally sent it! It's this movie, right? "The Worst Man in the World"? What's the name of this? It doesn't sound right at first sight."

"Haha, let's watch it first and see what kind of movie he makes."

"..."

"Hey! This movie! It's really good!"

"Huh? Lao Zhou, don't let other people's prestige destroy your own ambition. You have to know where you stand."

"Don't worry, I understand that I am simply evaluating this movie."

"Teachers, I watched it carefully. There seems to be nothing wrong with this movie! How should we operate it?"

"No problem? How could there be no problem? At first glance, this film is not in line with the national conditions, and there are countless problems in it!"

"But...if you do this, does it meet our review standards?"

"Standards? Hahaha! Little grandson of the Liu family, you are still too young. We don't have the final say on standards? When you have time, go back and ask your grandfather for more advice. He is a veteran in this field."

"So...that's it!"

"Okay, let's do this for today. Just find a few questions, call them back and let him re-cut them."

"Hey! Don't be impatient! Wait a minute. Let's delay it for a few days. We'll call back the day before the Cannes International Film Festival announces the list of main competition units. We'll catch him off guard, haha!"

"Haha, I agree, and let that kid see that it's useless no matter how many awards you win abroad, you still have to pretend to be a grandson when you return to China!"

After receiving a box office of 306 million on the first day, although the next day entered the working day, the new box office of "Fast 7" is still very good!

On the second day, we made 160 million, on the third day, we made 150 million, on the fourth day, we made 120 million, on the fifth day, we made 96 million...

At the end of the first seven days of the week, the total box office revenue was 1.096 billion, directly setting a new box office record for imported films and successfully leading the entire April schedule!

It can be seen that even if the effect of emotional propaganda has dropped a lot, the potential of the film is still very good.

In addition, on the other side, "Dangal!" will be released on the 9th. "Dad", with high reputation and sufficient follow-up publicity resources, the box office has successfully exceeded 500 million!

With the killing spree in these two movies, it can be said that the domestic films in the movie market are littered with corpses and rivers of blood!

Early in the morning, Chen Fei saw several more movie news.

"The Chinese-foreign epic war blockbuster "Legend of White Ghost: The Desperate Escape", jointly produced by Yunnan Film Group, Max Media, Xiangchao Culture, Huayi, LeTV, and Bona, directed by Nick Powell, and starring Nicolas Cage, Yang Ying and others, was forced to be withdrawn by theaters across the country last night, with a total box office of 20.69 million, and the film company suffered a huge loss!"

"The adventure survival film "The Revenant", directed by Chen Fei, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon, Tom Hardy and others, was officially withdrawn, with a total box office of 850 million yuan!"

"The Film Bureau issued a notice that the literary and artistic love film "The Worst Man in the World", directed by Chen Fei, had problems with some of the plots, and the review application had been rejected..."

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