Chapter 491 Huayi VS Hong Kong Films
In early November, Huayi’s "Tai Chi 2" was released as scheduled.

Released in the same period as Huayi's "Tai Chi 2" is "Cold War", a Hong Kong movie that is highly anticipated by the people in Hong Kong.

Of course, the star-studded movie "Love Me Again, New Mom" ​​will also be released in the same period as these two movies.

The reason why Lu Zheng scheduled the release date of this film in early November may be because he considered that the competition would not be too fierce during this period.

Speaking of "Tai Chi 2", Wang Zhonglei, together with Feng Delun and others, promoted the film vigorously in front of the media. They were almost patting their chests to say that the movie was very good and begged the audience to go to the cinema to support it.

The promotion of Cold War was also unusual, and different from the low-key Hong Kong films before. Not only was the promotion large-scale, but a large number of mainland filmmakers were also invited to attend the screening.

At the film screening, the producers and director seemed very confident, which made the mainland production companies more or less unhappy.

No matter how good it is, how much box office can it have? After all, the upper limit of Hong Kong films is there, and I thought it was more than ten or twenty years ago.
As for "New Mom, Love Me Again", not to mention netizens, even colleagues in the industry have hardly seen any large-scale, star-studded publicity. It seems that even before the movie was released, Lu Zheng had anticipated the ending of the movie.

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Online, it was first reported that this year's domestic Chinese-language "Olympic bid" film had been released.

Among them, Chen Kaige's "Searching" will represent the mainland, director Johnnie To's "Overheard" will represent Hong Kong Island, and director Zhang Rongji's "Flying Against the Light" will represent Taiwan, competing for the 2013 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

At the same time, a piece of news came back from abroad.

The first Nobel Prize in Literature in China was born.

This is no longer just a matter of the literary world; the film and television industry is even more concerned because he is also a screenwriter.

A large number of filmmakers, directors, screenwriters and actors sent their congratulations, but many more were just following the trend and taking advantage of the popularity.

Even though Gu Wei has been living in seclusion these days, he could not escape the sensation caused by Mo Yan.

After Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it quickly triggered a series of chain reactions.

Of course, what is related to Gu Wei are naturally his film and television works.

Industry insiders say that Mo Yan's novels are a rich mine of film and television themes, with strong storytelling. Compared with the works of other writers, the adaptations of his novels have become blockbuster movies.

Even Mo Yan said that if directors could one day put works such as "Big Breasts and Wide Hips", "Life and Death Fatigue" and "Sandalwood Punishment" on the screen, he would be willing to serve as a screenwriter.

Netizens like to join in the fun and called out major production companies, especially Xingchen Film and Television Company and Gu Wei, who were among the most tagged. Zhang Yimou was also among them. After all, "Red Sorghum" was originally written by Mo Yan.

"Just getting the adaptation of these novels approved is a problem." Seeing the enthusiastic netizens, Gu Wei did not know whether to laugh or cry. Mo Yan's literary works are good, but they are full of a sense of the times and it is difficult to shoot them as commercial films.

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Hollywood, the world's most famous dream factory, shows the sweetness of "hard work pays off" or the myth of "fame and success" every day.

Whether it is a big star or a box office hit movie, they are all on the Hollywood stage, under the spotlight of the world.
When it comes to movies adapted from youth romance novels, the Twilight series is an unavoidable hurdle.

"What? You don't know the Twilight novels?
This is the most popular fantasy novel among American teenagers after Harry Potter.”

“It tells the love story between a cool and handsome vampire and an ordinary girl.

There are currently four books in this series, namely "Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse" and "Dawn".

The movie of the same name adapted from the Twilight series achieved box office results in North America that almost shattered the glasses of all Hollywood insiders. "

In China, the filming of "Tiny Times" has already started and is in full swing. Director Guo Jingming saw the hot Lunar New Year battle on the Internet and naturally came out to take advantage of the popularity. Human hearts are like this, when they see others can do things that they can't, a feeling of jealousy will naturally arise.

"There is no reason why Twilight could be successful and Tiny Times would fail when they are both adapted from youth romance novels. After seeing the box office performance of the Twilight series, I am even more confident about my Tiny Times."

The interview remarks made by "Director Guo" are all nonsense in the eyes of people in the industry. "Twilight" does seem to be a success at the moment, but that is the survivor bias. God knows how many movies adapted from the same type of stories have lost a lot of money once they were released.

For example, two years ago, "Dragon Rider", which was also adapted from a best-selling fantasy novel for teenagers, failed miserably on its first try. The high investment cost almost caused the production company to go bankrupt.

Although there are not many doubts about "Tiny Times" in the film and television circles at present, "Director Guo" knows that these directors now look down on him.

Accepting interviews and deliberately making statements not only attracts attention, but is also a form of self-encouragement.

Because, at this time, "Director Guo" has made up his mind that he will definitely prove that "Tiny Times" can also sweep the mainland box office like the "Twilight" series.

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A three-minute clip of the historical suspense blockbuster "The Banquet" was recently exposed on the Internet.

In the clip, a sharp dialogue started between Lu Pheasant, who had just been rescued from the prison cell by Liu Bang, and Liu Bang, who was in high spirits.

Among them, Liu Bang's lines such as "I am doing great things outside, destroying Qin!" and Empress Lu's "Destroying Qin will not hinder you from finding a woman" are indeed a bit too shocking.

Qi Lingyun: "Why do I feel the flavor of the collaboration between Jing Tian and Sun Honglei in "Warring States"?"

Powerful existence without power perception: "Haha, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it. Now it has brought back my memories. It's so brutal."

Tiger climbing a tree: "Traveled through time. These people must have traveled through time."

Such a result naturally made Lu Chuan very dissatisfied, and he quickly said: "The colloquial lines are actually carefully designed to eliminate the "zhihuzheya"."

But netizens didn't want to listen to his explanation, and some even raised questions: the story is set in the late Qin Dynasty and tells the story of the Hongmen Banquet, but the lines have to be written in vernacular?

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The box office of Huayi's "Tai Chi 2" is much worse than the first one.

The bad reputation of the previous part really had a huge impact on the second part.

Of course, the second one was terrible too.

Sina Entertainment reported: "The first week box office of Tai Chi 2 closed at 3840 million, which is 470 million behind the first week performance of the first film."

Penguin Entertainment reported: "With a box office of 1.1 million yuan in five days, Cold War has become the most dazzling movie in November thanks to its high screening schedule and good reputation."

Souhu Entertainment reported: "The final box office of "Cold War" is expected to exceed 300 million, and a number of mainland films have become foils and background boards."

Online, news media reported the incident in various ways, among which the report by Souhu Entertainment was the most interesting.

Background board? Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that it refers to "Tai Chi 2", which was also released for about a week, but the box office is only about one-third of that of the other film. This is really pitiful.

The first domestic film in November was announced to be a flop just one week after its release.

But facing the box office failure of "Tai Chi 2", Huayi was obviously well prepared. All its publicity resources were now transferred to "" which will be released during the Lunar New Year holiday at the end of the month.

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(End of this chapter)