Chapter 344: Worse?

There are not many people in the circle who have made the transition from being an actor to being a capitalist. Huang Xiaoming is one of them. After leaving Huayi, he came to the company and later invested in movies and TV series, completing a gorgeous transformation.

Now, Li Binbin is one of the most popular female stars in the entertainment industry during this period.

Not only did he invest in the movie "The Revolution of 5" with Jackie Chan and Shanghai Film Group, he has now won a role in the Hollywood "Resident Evil ". Although he is not the protagonist, it is enough.

Look at other celebrity artists in the circle, how many of them can get roles in American movies, let alone become the capital and be able to call the shots on their own.

On the other hand, "Warring States" is completely hopeless. On the fourth day of its release, the box office fell to an average of 8 million per day, which is totally unworthy of a historical blockbuster with an investment of over 100 million.

There were many negative reviews from the outside world, but Lu Zheng didn't care too much about the box office failure.

On the contrary, through the Starry Night, three more movies were arranged, which were of three completely different types, just to serve as training for Jingtian.

He still couldn't believe that his acting skills could get worse with each episode after actual combat training. After all, in Lu Zheng's opinion, learning was not as fast as actual combat.

Lu Zheng didn't care, but several leading actors in the movie couldn't help but care. After all, this movie dealt a heavy blow to their reputation in the circle.

The first person to accept media interviews was Sun Honglei, but he still had some rationality and did not dare to directly blame Jingtian. Instead, he responded in a self-deprecating way.

"First of all, I want to say sorry to my fans who support me. Before the release, I watched the finished film and I had a bad feeling at the time.

Not long after the filming started, I gave the crew some of my own opinions. Now that the film has been released, the role has not been recognized by everyone, and this is not entirely my personal fault. "

"Now that this situation has occurred after the movie was released, if I really have any responsibility, it is the responsibility of the entire project. Maybe the direction was wrong when filming started. Next time I receive a script, I will definitely read it carefully first, and then choose the right role, and try not to let everyone down."

As soon as these words came out, netizens gradually turned their attention to other people. After all, in the eyes of fans, Sun Honglei is also an artist with acting skills.

"This guy was trying to pass on the blame at the premiere, and he's still saying this now. Although he didn't say it explicitly, the media reporters will definitely put the blame on Jing Tian. Who made her perform the worst? He really has no responsibility."

After seeing the news, Ning Hao couldn't help but complain a few words, a grown man who dared to do things but not to take responsibility. He would definitely not cooperate with such people in the future, otherwise if the movie was not well made, he would blame the director.

"Haha, you can't judge a person by his appearance. He was able to get to the top because of someone, but he kicked that person out as soon as he became famous."

Gu Wei heard about this from other directors at the time, but this matter is no secret in the circle. It is a voluntary act between the two parties, so outsiders cannot say anything.

If Sun Honglei did not say it explicitly, then Jiang Wu directly started scolding the crew.

Jiang Wu directly criticized the director and production team of "Warring States" in front of the media.

He said frankly that the director cut out a lot of his scenes, which were all the "essence" parts, and only the shots that were left were insignificant, which was a very stupid act.

The director of "Warring States" was no pushover either. He responded immediately and, crucially, produced evidence and directly announced the signed contract.

The contract showed that it was signed for one month, but Jiang Wu only came for less than a week during the entire filming, and he came in several batches, which disrupted the filming rhythm of many other actors.

Less than a week after the movie was released, the crew and actors started to quarrel with each other, and the incident immediately became a big joke in the circle.

"Hey, what can I say about you? Why don't you just say some things directly? Your reputation in the circle will be ruined and no one will dare to cooperate with you." After seeing the news, Jiang Wen directly taught Jiang Wu a lesson. After all, it was his brother who did something wrong.

To be honest, Jiang Wu was still obviously unconvinced at this moment. "As a new company, we spend money to train our own people. We can't mess up and let us take the blame." He said with disdain. After all, Xingguang Canlan was not too famous in the circle, and compared with some big companies, it was far behind.

"You will be ruined by your mouth sooner or later." Jiang Wen pointed at Jiang Wu and said with some disappointment, but his status in the circle was not low, and he could still protect his family.

There are only a few leading actors in total, and two of them kept passing the buck, so the pressure naturally fell on Jingtian.

Afterwards, Jing Tian accepted the interview in a haggard state, and it seemed that he was seriously affected by the voices on the Internet.

He later told reporters that he would work hard to hone his acting skills and try not to disappoint his fans again.

On the contrary, Hong Kong actor Francis Ng did not say anything to shift the blame. In his words, everyone was responsible for the poor box office of the movie, and there was no need to make things difficult for a little girl. He was quite manly.

...

There is no shortage of news in the entertainment industry, and the "blame-shifting scandal" of "Warring States" has not yet subsided.

The latest hot search broke out on the Internet
"Zhang Yuqi admitted on Weibo that she is engaged."

In the report, behind a long paragraph of text, Zhang Yuqi also showed a huge diamond ring, which was naturally given by Wang Quanan.

Zhang Yuqi and Wang Quanan were actively showing off their love for each other.

On the other hand, Yu Nan did not cry or make a fuss, but her heart was broken. She directly chose to have an abortion and even refused Wang Quanan's tens of millions of dollars in breakup fees. After all, she had devoted all her youth and love to this relationship. However, Wang Quanan fell in love with someone else when she was three months pregnant.

You can imagine how much of a blow this relationship was to her.

"Are you okay?" As the heroine of her first movie, Gu Wei still called Yu Nan. She didn't say any words of comfort, but just asked her to take care of herself and get over it as soon as possible.

"It's okay, Director. I'm fine now. I've figured out a lot of things."

Yu Nan's tone was somewhat sad, and although she hid it very deeply, she was unable to hide it from Gu Wei.

"Damn, there are all kinds of people here. I really want to scold him." In the past two days, Ning Hao has turned into a scolding king, complaining non-stop, making Gu Wei a little afraid of him.

"I say, that's enough. That's how it is in the industry. If you don't like it, go and scold Yu Dong first."

Recently, Jin Qiaoqiao has been very successful. She defeated the original wife of Yu Dong, the boss of Bo Na, and successfully got promoted. It can be said that she has provided a reference template for many female stars.

"Ah, I just can't stand it, people pretend to be good people but do nothing behind the scenes."

Hearing Gu Wei's words, Ning Hao instantly lost his temper and spoke with some disinterest.

The happiest one when "Warring States" failed was "Guan Yunchang".

At this moment, the director jumped out and said frankly that the box office target for "Guan Yunchang" was set at 600 million yuan, with an attitude that success was imminent.

After spending a day in the company, Gu Wei returned to the villa. As soon as he entered the house, he received a call from Liu Yifei who was filming in France.

After the two of them chatted for a while, the young lady started talking about business.

It turns out that the Capital International Film Festival is scheduled to be established at the end of April, and Cheng Long and Liu Yifei have been invited to serve as promotional ambassadors for the festival.

According to the young lady, the film festival originally planned to invite Zhang Ziyi to be the ambassador, but because Liu Yifei had just won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actress award and her status in Hollywood skyrocketed, and the young lady renounced her American citizenship, she eventually became the official first choice.

"Then you will have to travel back and forth, won't that be too tiring?" Compared to being a publicity ambassador, Gu Wei is more concerned about the young lady's schedule. After all, the Capital Film Festival is at most an A-class film festival internationally. Its fame will not increase until the establishment of the "Temple of Heaven Award" the year after next.

"No way. I can do it. At worst I can go back a day early, attend the film festival, and then rush back to the French crew."

At this moment, Liu Yifei said with a somewhat excited tone. Hearing this, Gu Wei stopped trying to persuade Liu Yifei. For some reason, he always felt that since the young lady won the Berlin Film Festival, she has attached more importance to honor.

"Okay, I'll pick you up at the airport then."

"Okay."

On the other side, Jiang Xueruo successfully dealt with Zhang Jin. In her words, the other party agreed directly before she even opened her prepared speech.

"Zhang Jin is a good actor. Director Gu can consider him if there is a suitable role in the future."

The reason why Jiang Xueruo recommended Zhang Jin was because Zhang Jin had performed well in the crew of Zhou Yi's previous TV series. He was very motivated and had good acting skills. Unfortunately, he had no resources and could only play supporting roles in the circle.

"Okay." Gu Wei did not refuse Jiang Xueruo's recommendation.

Speaking of acting, Gu Wei thought of the recently promoted film Mr. Tree, a literary film directed by Jia Zhangke.
In Gu Wei's opinion, some of Director Jia's works are quite good, such as "A Touch of Sin" and "Hello Mr. Tree", which vividly reflect the lives of some lower-class people in contemporary China.

Especially the leading actor of the two films, Wang Baoqiang, who is also a strange man.

He won the Golden Horse Newcomer Award for "Blind Shaft" when he debuted. Although "A Touch of Sin" did not bring him any awards, his performance was absolutely breathtaking.

Wang Baoqiang's character is based on a gangster. In the film, he wears a woolen hat, a turtleneck sweater, a leather jacket, a yellow schoolbag, and a motorcycle. He rides on the road and goes home for the New Year.

Suddenly, several gangsters appeared in front of him with axes and shouted, "Stop, lend us some money, hurry up."

Wang Baoqiang remained calm, reached into his arms, and pulled out his gun. Bang, bang, bang, he killed them all.

To be honest, the scene where Baoqiang kills the robbers with a gun gives the audience a sharp pleasure. It's like Master Lin in the snowy mountain temple, shooting all those who bullied him to death one by one. This set of shots alone is enough to show the skill of Director Jia and Baoqiang's acting skills.

As for "Hello Mr. Tree", it is also the pinnacle of Wang Baoqiang's acting skills. His acting skills are explosive when he shoots art films, and his achievements in commercial films are even greater. He is one of the few actors in the mainland who can be called "box office".

As a non-professional actor who learned martial arts in Shaolin and started out as a supporting actor, it is not easy for Wang Baoqiang to achieve his later success.

...

"Warring States" became the first blockbuster with such a terrible box office after the new century. After all, although "The Promise" and "Three Guns" had similarly terrible reputations, they were directed by great directors and had quite a lot of box office.

It’s not like now. After six days of release, "Warring States" grossed a total of 60 million, and the daily box office dropped directly below 3 million.

This big production, with an investment cost of 1.5 million yuan and a cast spanning three countries and four regions, is unlikely to be released for more than half a month.

The tragic box office situation did not only come from within China. Domestic media also reported the latest news from Hollywood.

"Boss, the box office of 'Warring States' that you asked me to pay attention to in North America is also terrible. It is said that the distributor has directly chosen to abandon the subsequent release plan."

Reid called and told Gu Wei the news.

"How much is it over there?" Gu Wei asked.

"Sixty-eight thousand dollars in just one week, it's unbelievable." Reid said in an exaggerated tone. In his opinion, this box office can't even be called a movie.

"How much?" Gu Wei's voice became louder.

On the other end of the phone, Reid almost laughed out loud, "Boss, you heard it right, it's 6.8 US dollars, this is the latest data."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Wei was speechless. This number was really laughable.

"Warring States" is the only blockbuster film to flop in both China and North America.

Perhaps, "Warring States" even set the record for the lowest box office for exported Chinese-language films.

At the same time, the movie "Guan Yunchang" was released.

Lu Zheng and Jing Tian are always paying attention to the latest news in the Starry Company.

After all, after being mercilessly mocked by the crew of "Guan Yunchang", Lu Zheng naturally had to pay more attention.

"Just hope your box office does better, otherwise you will be embarrassed." Lu Zheng doesn't care about the box office of his own movies, but he cares about the outside world's evaluation.

"Mr. Lu, the first day tickets for Guan Changyun are out." After the assistant answered the phone, he immediately reported to Lu Zheng.

"How much?" At this moment, Lu Zheng was unusually nervous.

“Less than 1500 million.”

"Yeah, haha, got it!" Lu Zheng couldn't hold back his laughter and laughed out loud. How the hell could this guy brag about 6 million? He was risking his life to do that.

"Let the public relations department take action and do a good job of "promoting" for them." At this moment, Lu Zheng was in a very good mood and gave the order directly.

"Okay, Mr. Lu." Upon hearing this, the assistant immediately left the office to handle the matter.

"Less than 150 million, haha." Lu Zheng didn't expect that the other party's prediction would be so outrageous. With a first-day box office of less than 1500 million, he would be lucky if it could exceed 2 million, unless the word of mouth exploded.

Afterwards, Lu Zheng, who was in a good mood, hummed a little tune and went straight to read the comments on the Internet. He was shocked to find that the comments on the Internet were almost all negative. Moreover, because of the previous "Warring States", the audience was even more intolerant this time.

"Fuck, what have I done wrong this year? I watched "Warring States" and now I'm watching "Guan Yunchang"."

"Jiang Wen has done his best to repay the favor, but I really can't take care of this guy."

"Fortunately, I was cautious and waited to see your comments first. Now I have saved a movie ticket." Some netizens expressed their gratitude.

"A movie ticket? Seeing that you don't have a girlfriend, I felt much better after watching "Guan Yunchang". After all, I went to watch it with my partner."

This is really heartbreaking, and the hearts of many single people have suffered a great blow.

"Another historical script that is arbitrarily altered. Hong Kong screenwriters are not capable of doing this kind of work. Sometimes I really want to open the brains of these screenwriters to see what kind of story plots they are writing for two consecutive historical blockbusters."

“Nowadays, movies have reached the point where they are all worse than each other. It is really a bit confusing. Domestic movies have reached this point. If you don’t know how to make movies, you can learn from Xingchen Films and stop fooling the audience with bad movies.” Unconsciously, Xingchen Films gained another wave of fans, which was something Gu Wei had indeed not expected.

Not only Lu Zheng, but other film and television companies in the circle, including filmmakers, are also watching the joke. Just as the majority of netizens criticized "Warring States" in the past, they are now mocking "Guan Yunchang" in the same way.

However, the latter does have an advantage and highlight, that is Jiang Wen’s Cao Cao, who was indeed well acted.

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(End of this chapter)