Chapter 538: Sarcastic Taunting

The mainland film market has returned to its bloody state, but it's only the domestic films that are bleeding and becoming cannon fodder.

Although "Love in Seattle" still has more than a week to go before its release, its daily box office has already dropped to around five digits, and there are very few screenings left.

Xingchen Films decisively chose to pull the plug on the film ahead of schedule, just to leave a little more room for survival for other domestic films.

Sina Entertainment: "The movie "Seattle" has exhausted its potential and the film company has withdrawn the film from theaters ahead of schedule. The total box office of the movie closed at 6.56 million yuan, unfortunately stopping just before the 7 million yuan threshold."

Souhu Entertainment: "Jointly produced by Xingchen Films and Xingguang Canlan, and directed by Wu Ershan, "Special Identity" will be released at the end of the month, taking over "Seattle."

The media praised "Seattle" relentlessly, even expressing regret that its box office did not exceed 700 million.

at the same time.

Wuershan is currently taking a group of main creators to appear on TV shows and do roadshows. Ultimately, this movie is still under box office pressure.

At least in Wuershan's opinion, it cannot be lower than "So Young" in the same period. This is a matter of face.

In fact, Song Ge had already made preparations for the box office, and a high proportion of screenings was only one aspect.

The distribution of this movie was done by China Film. Yes, even though Wanda Pictures was the main investor, the distribution of the film was still not given to Wanda Pictures.

For this purpose, Gu Wei explained the matter to Ye Ning in advance, and also promised the other party the distribution of the movie "New Police Story 2013" in advance.

As for Hong Kong Island, Ying Huang is also busy with the distribution work, but the movie was involved in last year's "Zhao Zhen dispute", so Xingchen Films and Starry Sky did not regard Hong Kong Island as the focus.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that even if the film is released in Hong Kong, the box office will not be very good. Even though Emperor Entertainment Group has a considerable influence there, it cannot withstand the joint slander from other companies and Hong Kong media.

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In the film industry, not to mention the several films that are about to be released, even domestic and foreign films scheduled for June and July have begun pre-promotion.

In the field of television dramas, large-scale productions have also begun to flood the market.

To be honest, the cost of TV series nowadays is generally very high. Especially when big-name actors are chosen, the investment in production is even higher than that of movies.

The huge success of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" produced by Xingchen Film and Television Company also started the trend of "high-quality production" of TV dramas.

As for whether there will be pressure to recoup the investment by increasing costs, well, you may have underestimated the audience's purchasing power.

In the outside world, apart from the big stars, other female stars are trying their best to compete for the front-page headlines.

Here, Tangren Film and Television occasionally releases some Reuters photos of Liu Shishi on the set of "Scarlet Heart".

Over there, Ni Ni and Feng Shaofeng showed their love, and the main theme was sweetness.

Tong Liya became the highest-grossing new star thanks to the movie "Seattle" which grossed 6.56 million yuan.

At this time, Yang Ying also posted a high-profile Weibo: "I will join the crew next month. I won't let you down."

Subsequently, the media also reported on it.

"Yang Ying, one of the four new young actresses, will star in Yu Zheng Studio's new drama, "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One"."

But what he got in return was not attention, but ridicule from netizens.

But the most unexpected thing is that Xingchen Film and Television Company announced the project launch time for the sequel series of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Wan Qian, one of the iron triangle, successfully made the front page headlines of entertainment reports for three consecutive days without knowing it.

"After Tong Liya and Zhao Liying, Xingchen Film and Television Company has another actress who is being promoted - Wan Qian. She has been successfully promoted to a top second-tier actress, and is only one movie away from becoming a first-tier actress."

Sina Entertainment gave such a report.

For a while, actresses of the same age could only envy.

I silently lamented that I also wanted to make the front page headlines, but I had no way to do so.

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In the case of Zhou Xingchi, although the handling of Huayi Company was disgusting, at least they were able to get a large sum of money and gained something beneficial.

But looking at the group of filmmakers and film and television companies in Hong Kong, they just came up to smear Zhou Xingchi without any regard for the consequences, causing trouble for him.

The group of Hong Kong people, led by the Xiang family, mocked Zhou Xingchi without any hesitation and used very unpleasant words.

Why only look at money?

In the crew, he is the only one who is a human being, and everyone else is a dog...

As they talked, they also brought up old things from the past.

Even Shu Qi, the heroine of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", said in an interview with the media that he was a difficult person to get along with.

Good guy, a typical ungrateful person.

Especially those old enemies and rivals, they were chasing and scolding one-sidedly, and their words were extremely unbearable to hear.

Zhou Xingchi did not respond to these people's sarcasm, but he rarely talked about his new movie.

When he was interviewed by Hong Kong media, he said frankly that the next movie was already on the agenda.

Moreover, he was already considering the new movie while filming "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". As for the new movie, he would choose between the sequel of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and another film project.

"It won't take too long this time. At most, it will take one and a half to two years of preparation before the project can be approved and launched."

"Director Gu Wei talked to me about the movie before and mentioned whether he had considered filming a sequel to Kung Fu. To be honest, I was very hesitant, but I was also considering it..."

When this news spread from Hong Kong Island to the mainland, the film industry was excited.

Whether it is film and television companies, distribution companies, or the majority of movie fans and audiences, they are all looking forward to it.

Several large companies have publicly expressed their intention to cooperate and issued invitations to cooperate.

At this time, some mainland media went to interview Huayi’s big and small Wang.

Who knew that the other party would actually say that if Zhou Xingchi needed it, Huayi could provide financial and filming support.

It was even said that Huayi Company and director Zhou Xingchi had a basis for cooperation, and the two sides should not completely part ways because of some "small things".

Good guy, really good guy.

Before other filmmakers in the industry could comment, netizens had already made a variety of comments.

"Haha, if a person has no shame, he is invincible. Only a human can say that..."

"What about the CEOs of those companies? They are still listening. Keep on arguing."

Fans and netizens actually guessed it right. As soon as Huayi said this, other film companies started to take action.

"If I were director Zhou Xingchi, I would rather starve to death or die of poverty than take the job twice." Qin Hong spoke first.

"No wonder Guangxian can't become the number one private enterprise in China. It turns out that I'm not thick-skinned enough..." Wang Changtian said sarcastically.

Even Song Ge rarely posted a Weibo post: "I look forward to working with Director Zhou Xingchi. Xingchen Films can provide the necessary financial and technical support."

Ok.

Later, Gu Wei also commented on his Weibo, "All cooperation terms can be signed first, and then the project cooperation can be started!"

"Haha, Director Gu is mocking me right in the face."

"I like it. At least Xingchen Films is rich and powerful, and they won't blackmail Stephen Chow's box office share."

On the other hand, after seeing the Weibo post, the two Wangs' faces turned black.

Wang Changtian didn't know whether they were angry or not, but when he saw Gu Wei and Xingchen Film and Television Company interfering, his hands began to tremble.

After all, compared with Xingchen Film and Television, the lighting has no advantage at all.

"No, let's talk to Gu Wei first, otherwise all our previous efforts will be in vain."

As he spoke, Wang Changtian checked the time and prepared to pick up the phone to call the other party...

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The filming of "Wolf Warrior" continues, and the scenes in Thailand are "burning to the end", with very few literary scenes.

To sum it up, it's explosion, explosion, explosion, and there are countless explosion scenes.

When Gu Wei was helping Wu Jing to write the storyboard, he referred to the shooting techniques of "Operation Red Sea" and attached great importance to the portrayal of weapons. What equipment to use and how to use it were all presented to the audience step by step through the language of the lens.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, light machine guns, rocket launchers, mortars, and tank fire are enough to make your blood boil even if you are not a military fan.

The most important thing is to learn how the "bombing" was handled in "Operation Red Sea", which is rich but not repetitive, and the bombing is very rhythmic.

The way of fighting each time, the courage and determination of the fighters are upgraded time and time again, making the audience more and more excited!
The non-stop fighting scenes can easily cause visual fatigue to the audience.

This is also true when writing online novels. If a battle lasts for more than a dozen chapters, a considerable number of readers will definitely skip it.

Although audiences cannot fast forward the plot in the cinema, it will affect word of mouth.

In fact, for a movie, in addition to the director and actors, the staff behind the scenes are quite important.

Although the film credits were only quickly skipped at the end of the film, the audience saw the glamorous stars, but few people paid attention to the ordinary heroes behind the scenes.

The camera crew may have to push a heavy camera back and forth on a laid shooting track over and over again just to capture a better picture.

The lighting team will constantly test the lighting effects before shooting, and change the headlights in the middle of the night to try to achieve better lighting effects.

The makeup crew must be on standby at the shooting site at all times regardless of heat, cold, wind or snow, in case the actors need to touch up their makeup at any time.

It's not easy for each group, including stage staff, art staff, props and chefs.

In the original time and space, in order to create an imaginary world in the movie "One Step Away", a glittering golden beach, neither real sand nor millet were suitable, and finally six tons of corn grits were transported to achieve the desired effect.

But these are not the most difficult things, because if the results are not good, you can start over.

When shooting military action films, the action team, firearms instructors, and fireworks and explosion staff must be professional. Amateurs can easily cause injuries or even deaths to the actors!
However, "Wolf Warrior" involves a large number of military shooting and explosion scenes, and the importance of the behind-the-scenes part is really incomparable to youth and comedy films.

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(End of this chapter)