There is a spoiler in this year's National Day release - Jackie Chan's "Baby Project".

It can be said that Jackie Chan's appeal at this time is truly unique.

It was released across Asia on September 8. The first week of Hong Kong Island was 1.79 million. After the National Day holiday, the mainland received 50 million, firmly ranking first in the National Day season.

"Night Banquet" 0 million follows.

Therefore, "Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots" was released after the holidays and attracted very limited attention.

But thanks to Uncle Zhao's high popularity among the audience, the premiere was not left out in the cold.

"This story originated from a news report last year. I thought it was very interesting, so I started adapting it." Cheng Yu'an answered the reporter, "I am not the protagonist today, Teacher Hou and "Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots" are. If you have any questions, you can ask Hou more teacher."

The story of "The Return of Fallen Leaves" is very good and has many stars, but from a commercial point of view, it is really impossible for this film to be a big hit.

Because "Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots" is not very entertaining, it is not as colorful and interesting as the later "Heart Blossoms".

The motive of the story of "Beautiful Heart" is that in order to help Geng Hao get out of the shadow of divorce, Hao Yi specially takes him on the road to pick up girls. The starting point is very down-to-earth.

But "Falling Leaves Returns to Its Roots" is not the case. The starting point of its story is a solemn promise between friends, and carrying a corpse thousands of miles away is not as palatable as picking up a girl thousands of miles away.

Hou Keming took this film not entirely for the box office.

If you can get the best box office, if you can't achieve high box office, of course you can get back your money.

Hou Kerming said the same thing at the premiere.

Cheng Yu'an sat at the scene for a while and then left. This press conference did not require him to stand on stage.

Uncle Zhao and Hou Kenming's connections in the industry for decades are not false. Cheng Yu'an has never been able to invite so many people.

"Road movies are still a niche genre in China. I thought that Director Hou would be unfamiliar with filmmaking for a long time, but this film gave me a big surprise."

"Ke Ming has never made a comedy before, and I didn't expect that his cooperation with Zhao Benshan, Guo Degang and ** Dan would be so harmonious. Choosing to interpret such a profound theme in a comedy way cannot but be said to be the boldness of Master Hou and Cheng. and innovation.”

"This film brings together domestic celebrities, Zhao Benshan, Guo Degang, Hu Jun, Song Dandan, Xia Yu, Liao Fan, Guo Tao. It is reported that except for Zhao Benshan, the rest of the actors are helping for free."

Actually, you can't say that. No pay was required, but Cheng Yu'an still gave everyone a red envelope afterward.

"Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots" focuses on niche highway themes, and the industry is very optimistic about Hou Keming's attempt.

In addition, the finished film is indeed good, so after the screening, various media and experts praised it.

However, this film was destined to be a hit but not a box office hit. The box office on the first day was only an ordinary 750,000.

The next day, Cheng Yuan went to meet Li Gongda, deputy director of the Literary Department of CCTV TV Drama Production Center.

Since "Lotus Lantern", Yuan Yuan has become much closer to him.

This time Li Gongda has a new book to collaborate with remotely.

I heard from people in the company that it is a weird urban fantasy TV series.

The name sounded awkward, urban magic, and Cheng Yu'an came to Li Gongda's Tianxing with doubts.

"Teacher Li, Director Yu." Cheng Yu'an met the golden pair of Li Gongda and Yu Mingsheng at Tianxingxing.

According to the original direction of time and space, "Baolian Lantern" was originally a project of Tianxingxing, but now it has been remotely cut off.

So Cheng Yu'an was really a little embarrassed to see the two of them.

Li Gongda got straight to the point: "We have a new script and hope to cooperate with Yuan Yuan."

Li Gongda is a gold medal producer of CCTV. He has no shortage of funds or people. He is willing to cooperate remotely when there are new projects. He just wants to make good friends with director Cheng Yuan.

Cheng Yu'an didn't agree immediately and said he wanted to read the script first.

Yu Mingsheng handed over the script. When Cheng Yuan saw it, his eyelids jumped:

"Magic Phone".

Can this film fall on me?

Cheng Yu'an read the synopsis of the story and the scripts of the previous episodes and said, "Wouldn't it be a good idea to talk about Journey to the West in this way?"

Bad guy!

He doesn't have any psychological burden, he just wants to lower the price.

"Is this joke too big?" Cheng Yu'an expressed his "worry".

Li Gongdae said: "When we first started working on this script, we also had this worry, fearing that the audience would not accept the story. But then I thought, "Journey to the West" can be screened, so why can't we be screened."

"The Second Story of Journey to the West" can be called an S-level script, which completely deconstructs the mythological system of Journey to the West.

If it weren't for the limited funds and the helplessness of inserting so many ghosts and beasts to delay the running time, this film would be a god.

"The deconstruction of "Magic Phone" is really nothing compared to "The Legend of Journey to the West"."

Cheng Yu'an continued to criticize: "But there is suspicion of plagiarism in your script. Look, Zhu Bajie is wearing a leather jacket and riding a Harley motorcycle. This is obviously "The Terminator"; and Sun Wukong dodges bullets. Anyone with a discerning eye will know that it is Keanu Reeves.

.I am afraid that I will be scolded when I come out."

This irritation left the two of them speechless, and finally they forcefully explained: "This is a comedy, and we do it for comedy effect. It cannot be said to be plagiarism. Director Cheng can regard it as a kind of ridicule of classic movies."

Cheng Yu'an decided to invest in this TV series after receiving the script. The purpose of criticizing was to get more investment: "This drama can be tried remotely. I don't know what the budget of the two of them is."

Yu Mingsheng took over: "We have roughly calculated the cost of this drama. The special effects are relatively expensive. The total cost should be around 15 million. We can transfer up to 4 million of the investment to Yuan Yuan."

It was not because of the 4 million that Cheng Yu'an had been picking for so long: "Four million is too little." Cheng Yu'an shook his head.

"In this way, we will provide the crew remotely, we will also find the actors, and we will share the investment amount of 8 million, how about it?" Cheng Yu'an opened his mouth and asked for half of the share.

Li and Yu decisively refused. This idea was theirs. They couldn't find any actors or crews on CCTV. Cheng Yu'an asked for 8 million. What a fuss!

However, the two of them thought about it and said, "8 million is fine for long-distance, but we have a condition."

"Teacher Li, please tell me."

"If Director Cheng insists on asking for 8 million, that's fine, but "Magic Phone" has to be directed by you yourself." Li Gongda is more greedy than Cheng Yu'an.

Get the best director in Venice and the annual box office runner-up to make a TV series for him!

To put it bluntly, if Cheng Yu'an really wants to take on foreign roles now, his director's salary will be more than 8 million.

Cheng Yuan resolutely refused and did not sell himself at such a low price.

It's almost enough if you add a 1 in front.

In the end, both parties took a step back and were responsible for the selection of actors remotely. Cheng Yuan took on the name of producer and won an investment share of 7 million remotely.

In fact, Cheng Yuan's previous worries were not unreasonable. When this drama premiered on CCTV in 2008, Douban opened with a score of .6.

There was a lot of criticism and it was directly labeled as a "thunder drama".

But 14 years later, when the children who watched the show grew up, and with the support of their peers, the show actually soared to an 8.

The success of this drama also pushed Shu Chang to another peak in her career.

The first peak was in the past two years. After "Baolian Lantern" became popular, Shu Chang's popularity was only second to Liu Yifei.

The three briefly discussed the details of the cooperation. Cheng Yu'an did not change roles drastically and tried to keep the original team members.
Chapter completed!