Chapter 500 Jiang Wen’s Purpose

The premiere of "Zodiac" is still going on.

This movie has received a lot of attention, which can be felt from the cheers of media reporters and fans at the scene.

For many movie fans, Jackie Chan does have this appeal, not to mention the "fighting scenes" with Liu Yifei as the heroine.

In addition to their respective fans and moviegoers, there are also quite a number of people who hope that "The Chinese Zodiac" can have the quality of Jackie Chan's previous films so that everyone can feast their eyes.

Because the Chinese-language film market is flooded with bad movies, there are very few works that can be called conscientious.

When you think about it, there are not many movies worth watching in the whole year. Although "Lost in Thailand" is very good, comedy only needs to be watched once. If you watch it more than once, the jokes and gags will not be funny anymore.

When Gu Wei and Song Ge walked into the venue, there were many guests and greetings came one after another along the way.

Apart from the celebrities in the circle, people now look at Gu Wei no longer simply as a director, but stare at him as if he were the God of Wealth.

According to media statistics, since Gu Wei entered the industry, no film, whether in Hollywood or in China, whether he directed it himself or handled it, has ever lost money.

This is so exaggerated that many companies that have cooperated with Gu Wei now reveal their projects to Gu Wei in advance, hoping to get his "guidance".

But after entering the premiere venue, looking around, it was star-studded, with almost half of the entire entertainment industry present.

Cheng Long is indeed very influential. In addition to the big names in the mainland entertainment industry, there are also many foreigners. This is the result of decades of hard work in the film industry.

"Director Gu, President Song, congratulations on the huge success of Lost in Thailand."

Fan Binbin was holding a wine glass, her clothes showing her figure slightly, and she walked over gracefully.

"Thank you."

Soon after, Zhang Ziyi, Li Binbin and others came to say hello one after another.

These people have a good tacit understanding and will not meet each other by chance.

It turns out that there are no easy people to deal with in the entertainment industry, and everyone greets each other just right.

Seeing Gu Wei arrive, Liu Yifei came up to him with a smile, and the two of them chatted and laughed as if no one was around. People with good sense would not come up to disturb them.

"what happened?"

"It's quite annoying. Many people I don't know come up to say hello and talk about future cooperation."

Liu Yifei is also the object of wooing and flattery by people in the circle, but she obviously doesn't like the feeling of being surrounded by people.

At 6:18, the host came on stage and announced that the global premiere celebration of "The Chinese Zodiac" had officially begun!
The organizers had prepared a program, starting with a symphony followed by several performances.

After that, the main creators came on stage. The first people to be invited were naturally the director and leading actor Cheng Long, and the leading actress Liu Yifei.

Cheng Long came on stage with a microphone in his hand. Hundreds of celebrities and dozens of media reporters in the audience all looked at the two people on the stage.

During the Lunar New Year in 2012, no one dares to neglect taking the usual path.

Even Cheng Long was working hard for "The Chinese Zodiac" and was "fighting hard" with the reporters in the audience!

When answering questions from reporters, he talked a lot about risking his life and striving for publicity.

"Everyone is really scared. After all, Lost in Thailand is so important and they put a lot of effort into promoting it."

Jiang Wen sat down next to Gu Wei without knowing when, and suddenly spoke, which scared him.

But Jiang Wen didn't care about Gu Wei's reaction at all. Instead, he looked at Cheng Long and Liu Yifei on the stage with interest.

"Old Gu, what do you predict will be the box office of this movie?" After watching for a while, Jiang Wen turned around and asked Gu Wei.

Hearing this, Gu Wei really didn't want to pay any attention to this guy. Who was he calling Old Gu? He was already old.

"It's hard to say, but it's definitely better than The King's Feast!"

As soon as the words fell, the two of them looked at each other tacitly.

"I don't know if it's strong or not, but even if the box office is bad, Cheng Long, the film director, will definitely not ask anyone to come forward and make trouble."

Jiang Wen said faintly.

When this matter was mentioned, Gu Wei became furious.

Lu Chuan was ranting online, and Gu Wei responded with “Go to hell”.

Originally everyone in the circle thought that the matter was over, but unexpectedly, Lu Chuan’s biological father, senior screenwriter Lu Tianming, stood up and spoke out.

He said a bunch of nonsense, and it was obvious that he wanted to take advantage of Gu Wei by relying on his age and seniority.

After being persuaded by Han Sanping and others, Gu Wei did not take it seriously.

But what no one expected was that the association jumped out again.

The Film Association issued a statement expressing understanding and sympathy for Lu Chuan's hiring of internet trolls.

Some old men and women in the company even praised Lu Chuan for his courage in admitting to hiring internet trolls.

As a result, within less than half a day, many big directors in the industry directly refuted the association.

Jiang Wen, Feng Xiaogang and others all posted on Weibo, implicitly criticizing a group of old guys for meddling in other people's business.

Even Zhang Yimou rarely spoke up, saying frankly that if a movie did not do well at the box office, the director should really reflect on himself.

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On the stage, after Cheng Long and Liu Yifei were interviewed for more than ten minutes, the remaining main creative staff came on stage one after another.

Then, the movie officially started showing.

This movie cost 3 million yuan to make, and Cheng Long performed high-speed skating, wall-climbing, forest exploration, high-altitude fighting, volcanic tumbling, and even a 480-degree somersault that was almost impossible to accomplish at his age.

It really made the audience exclaim and excited.

"The box office shouldn't be too bad." Jiang Wen said calmly after reading.

When everyone heard this, they had a rough idea of ​​what to expect.

But everyone is still waiting for Gu Wei to speak, after all, this guy has a really sharp eye.

In Gu Wei's opinion, Cheng Long is an extremely smart person who knows what everyone wants. The movie may not have much substance, but it is good enough to watch.

"It's hard to say exactly, but it looks like the box office should be good now."

Gu Wei gave his evaluation, not to mention the quality of the movie, the box office appeal of Jackie Chan and the young lady alone is worth two or three hundred million yuan in box office revenue.

When it comes to movie plots, whether they are good or bad is not the key, the most important thing is that they should not detract from the plot.

As the saying goes, simplicity is the ultimate truth. When you really summarize the plots of many commercial blockbusters, they are not complicated at all.

For example, the plot of Avengers 1, which opened the Marvel Cinematic Universe, can be simply summarized as follows: Loki steals the Cosmic Cube to subdue Hawkeye, and S.H.I.E.L.D. summons the Avengers to capture Loki. On the way back, Hawkeye arrives to rescue Loki, and the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. unites everyone. It’s an absolute routine, and there’s no depth. Because the main focus of this film is special effects and fighting scenes, the literary part also serves the fighting scenes.

As for Jackie Chan's movie, the plot is simple and it continues his previous style of kung fu and comedy. Although the taste is not very pure, it can be regarded as a "half-step boutique".

After the premiere, there will naturally be a corresponding banquet.

Jiang Wen had no idea what he was thinking. After taking his seat, he sat down next to Gu Wei.

"Director Jiang, what's wrong with you?" Gu Wei turned his head and looked at him. "Hey, after watching this movie by Cheng Long and Yi Fei, I think the movie script is difficult to write.

You see, if it’s too simple, the audience will find it boring; if it’s too complicated, it’s not good either, there’s a high probability that the director won’t be able to film it well and the audience won’t understand it.

A film that can tell a perfect story and contain self-consistent metaphors must be the work of a master. "

To put it bluntly, Gu Wei’s current level is that he is a master in commercial films, but he is still a little bit away from being a master in art films.

After hearing Jiang Wen's words, he instantly realized that the other party might have a new idea and was ready to change the script.

But after a little thought, I didn't continue to talk about this with the other party in public.

"Bring the script with you some other time and we can have a good chat."

"Okay, I've been waiting for you to say this. Now we're settled."

Hearing Gu Wei's words, Jiang Wen instantly smiled. After all, the cost involved was 300 million yuan, and seeing that the works of Lu Chuan and Feng Xiaogang had failed one after another, it was inevitable to feel pressure.

The next day, the headlines in the circle were dominated by "The Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs".

Although many films have been squeezed into the Lunar New Year schedule, only "Zodiac", which was released on December 12, is currently considered to be able to compete with "Lost in Thailand" and show good money-grabbing power.

This typical Jackie Chan comedy action film has broken the 4 million yuan mark in its first weekend box office, and has accumulated a box office of 2.15 million yuan in four days, becoming the second Chinese-language film after "Lost in Thailand" to break million yuan in its first week this year.

As for "The Guillotines" and "The Great Shanghai" which were released at the same time, the industry believes that it will be basically difficult.

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With "Life of Pi" officially offline.

The film grossed $9030 million in the mainland market, bringing its global box office to $2.35 million.

Meanwhile, across the ocean.

The Hollywood Reporter, a famous American entertainment magazine, pointed out that without the strong Chinese market, Life of Pi would never have become one of Li An's most popular films.

The report not only praised Li An's film, but also vaguely mentioned that "Skyfall", which has broken the 10 billion US dollars in global box office, is also preparing to bring a team to China for promotion. The strength of the domestic market has been confirmed once again.

These days, the film schedule of "囧囧" is getting higher and higher, rising from 34% to 45% over the weekend. Other films have been squeezed out of their living space.

The effect of such a high screening rate is very obvious.

In 10 days, the box office reached 6.2 million.

"Lost in Thailand" far surpassed the 12 million yuan in 3 days of "", becoming the most eye-catching movie of the Lunar New Year period so far.

"Looking at the situation, if nothing unexpected happens, it has the potential to become the second movie to break 10 billion..."

Many production companies, while envious, find it difficult to accept.

Everyone worked so hard to make a movie with big investment, big production and big cast, but in the end, is it going to be a low-cost comedy with an investment of 30 million that will take the top spot in this Lunar New Year box office?
But that's the fact. Even though "Chinese Zodiac" grossed over 200 million yuan in its first weekend, people in the industry still felt that it could not surpass "Lost in Thailand" at the box office.

After all, apart from the impressive box office on the first day, the average daily box office of Jackie Chan's movie subsequently declined rapidly, and its reputation also collapsed.

Many netizens think that although this movie is good, Jackie Chan’s fighting scenes are still somewhat disappointing.

In addition, according to statistics from theaters, the number of moviegoers continued to rise over the weekend. On the 22nd, the number of viewers for a single film reached 278 million in a single day, surpassing "Titanic 3D" and "Transformers 3", setting a record for the number of viewers in a single day.

On the same day, the film earned about 9300 million yuan at the box office, breaking the single-day record of 9000 million yuan set by Let the Bullets Fly, becoming the domestic film with the highest single-day box office performance.

More importantly, according to joint data from major cinema chains, "Lost in Thailand" premiered from December 12 to the second day after "Chinese Zodiac" premiered.

During these ten days, the movie "Lost in Thailand" was watched by more than 20 million people, breaking many records in the history of the mainland film market.

With the good box office, director Xu Zheng naturally became a little proud.

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There is really a lot of gossip in the circle.

Gu Wei never expected that the Tang people always had endless gossip to talk about.

Cai Yinong’s “unique” signing method really went wrong.

One of its artists, Lin Gengxin, proposed to terminate the contract with Tangren, but Cai Yinong certainly disagreed. The two sides failed to reach an agreement, and Tangren Film and Television directly swung out a high amount of liquidated damages.

Therefore, the former decisively sued the Tang people.

The news spread throughout the film and television industry.

When signing the contract, Lin Gengxin signed with Tangren because Cai Yinong promised Lin Gengxin that he would give him at least one or two leading roles in TV series and supporting roles in movies every year.

But in the past two years, Cai Yinong only gave him supporting roles, and even had to play supporting roles for latecomers like Jiang Jinfu.

Tangren had offended many people in the circle over the years, and now that something happened, everyone gathered around to watch the fun.

The "Director Pan incident" that had been making a lot of noise some time ago also came to an abrupt end when it was confirmed that the woman had cheated on Wang Dazhi.

After the incident was exposed, even many celebrities in the circle said that the man should forgive the woman and give her a chance.

Poor Pan Yueming was not only cheated on, but was also asked to get pregnant. Sure enough, in the end, the honest man had to bear everything.

Pan Yueming, who was originally in the rising period of his career, almost ruined the good situation.

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For most people in the domestic film and television circles, Hollywood has always been out of reach.

It is the only way to the international stage and the final destination.

It is also the ideal place to gild one's own worth, status, influence, commercial value and other aspects.

Over the years, almost all of China's top film actors have tried to go out and make a breakthrough in Hollywood.

But there are not many who have successfully starred in Hollywood movies. They are still male actors like Jackie Chan and Li Lianjie, and big stars like Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi.

Of course, Liu Yifei is naturally included, and she is second only to Cheng Long and Li Lianjie.

Li Binbin's "Resident Evil 5" was released overseas some time ago, but was refused to be introduced to the mainland this year.

Then news came out that this movie will most likely be released in the domestic market next year.

Everyone still remembers the sensation that occurred in the industry during the initial auditions and casting.

As a result, Li Binbin walked on the red carpet of the Oscars.

As the saying goes, enemies often meet again. Seeing that Li Binbin mentioned the Hollywood blockbuster he starred in all the time, how could Fan Binbin bear it no longer?

After finalizing the contract with Disney, he immediately announced that he would star in the Marvel blockbuster "Iron Man 3" with Wang Xueqi.

Following closely, media reporters also reported the event extensively.

Anyway, the basic situation in the circle now is that no matter what the role is, no matter how many scenes there are, as long as the word "Hollywood" is attached to it.

It can attract a lot of people's attention!

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(End of this chapter)