Chapter 682: The Lunar New Year Festival begins
Chen Zhixi came to him mainly to talk about Zhou Xingxing.
Zhou Xingxing has been very creative in the past two years. He finished filming "The Mermaid" and started filming "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demon".
This time he didn't do it himself, but Xu Ke was invited to direct it and he would supervise the production.
Top class Wu signed to join.
"He stopped cooperating with us." It was a pity for Chen Zhixi. Cheng Yu'an didn't have any childhood filter for Zhou Xingxing and only regarded him as a partner. However, other people in the company valued Zhou Xingxing very much. "He went to find him directly."
China Film and Huayi."
"Are you still cooperating with Huayi?" Cheng Yuan sneered while packing his things.
There was such a big fuss over the money issue. After the trial result came out this year, Wang Zhonglei even openly mocked Zhou Xingxing: "The court understands movies better than he does."
If it were another director, he would never be able to swallow this breath, but Zhou Xingxing was able to swallow it.
So Cheng Yu'an regarded him more as a shrewd businessman.
"Ali paid for it." Chen Zhixi said, "Zhou Xingxing is such a talented person. Huayi is now going to movies and overseas investment is booming, so why would they hire Zhou Xingxing? This cooperation was facilitated by Ahli."
"Ma Yun was originally a major shareholder of Huayi. Last year, Ali increased its holdings of Huayi shares. Of course, she must do her best to support it."
"So Zhou Xingxing dumped us?" Cheng Yu'an said.
"Yes, and the confidentiality measures were very good. When we got the news, they signed the contract immediately without giving us any time to respond." Chen Zhixi still regretted that he could not cooperate with Zhou Xingxing for the second time.
"Don't sigh," Cheng Yu'an said, "Zhou Xingxing's energy has been a bit abnormal in recent years, and I feel like nothing good has happened. Forget it if cooperation doesn't work out. Anyway, we have enough films of our own. If we invite such a giant Buddha to come over, it will be difficult for us to serve him.
, it’s hard for him to cope with us. One “Mermaid” is enough.”
It is said that old people are smart and horses are old and slippery, but in Zhou Xingxing's works after his old age, his shrewdness and mellowness as a director have not been seen.
Whether it is the narrative rhythm, the succession and transition of the plot, or the expression of thoughts, there is no more wanton and unconstrained style in his youth.
Zhou Xingxing's previous movies were actually very rough in terms of technique, but his unscrupulousness and wild willfulness throughout, his aura and talent that can be felt through the screen, all produced a fatal temptation for the audience.
Maybe as Fatty Wang said, when a person gets old he can no longer face his former self, and he can no longer make the audience laugh wildly.
To put it bluntly, Zhou Xingxing is overdrawing the credibility of Zhou Xingxing in the hearts of the audience in the past few years and in the next few years.
Especially after "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", the audience no longer believes in Zhou Xingxing. I have already paid back the movie tickets I owe you.
He had to turn out "The King of Comedy" to make money.
In the original time and space, Cheng Yu'an began to have doubts about Zhou Xingxing after "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", doubting his ability to direct independently and doubting his ability to grasp a long story.
"That's it for Zhou Xingxing. Let's stand on the last shift and finish "Mermaid" for him. We'll give him every penny he deserves so that we can have a good time together." Cheng Yu'an left the conference room after saying that.
He took his assistant downstairs and left the company.
Why does Zhang Li, the producer of "The Master", think this film can sell 450 million?
Xu Haofeng was first known because he was the "screenwriter of "The Grandmaster"".
With the great blessing of Wang Moji, people had the opportunity to understand Xu Haofeng, and discovered that he had great energy in writing and wrote many novels.
As a result, there are more dimensions to understand Xu Haofeng, and his collection of film reviews also shows his profound film knowledge and unique interpretation perspectives. Many art school students have gradually become his fans, and many people have also collected and circulated them in large quantities.
Film notes for folk and school.
Regarding his writing, readers found that the frequent occurrence of these golden sentences is really related to Wang Sunjing, but the latter is more reflected in movie lines.
This gave the producer of "Master" confidence. He felt that Xu Haofeng's style was similar to Wang Sunglasses' style, so it would not be difficult for "Master" to sell 450 million yuan.
But the market performance was surprising.
The film is quite popular in the WeChat circle of friends and has a high reputation. It is considered to be a rare martial arts masterpiece. However, the reality is very cruel. This "movie in the circle of friends" was well received but not a hit.
Unexpectedly, it was so hard to find teeth all over the floor.
Movies always have Liao Fan, Jiang Wenli, Xiao Songjia and Jin Shijie joining them, but the movie itself, from form to content, is not of the type that the public is familiar with.
The appearance presented in his films is different from commercial films. It is not the Jianghu that everyone wants to see or is familiar with, nor is it the scene of the Republic of China literary and art film that everyone has in mind. It is a more special kind that belongs to Xu Haofeng personally.
Text form.
"Everyone is acting and talking, creating a sense of distance."
Also, little Song Jia looks really good in a cheongsam!
Very smooth~
As a film school teacher, Xu Haofeng has a wide network of contacts in the industry. Cheng Yu'an also attended the premiere of "Master" and wished the movie a great success.
"Master" just won the Best Action Design Award at the Golden Horse Awards, which may be why Zhang Li is confident.
At the premiere, Cheng Yuan reviewed another video.
The last street fight was very interesting,
The energy was enough, but the problem was that the audience didn't want to eat it.
Cheng Yu'an also tried his best to say nice words at the scene: "This is a very personal film and it is very beautiful."
I won’t say much else.
After the premiere, Cheng Yuan went home.
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This December, the most anticipated movies of the audience are "The Secret of the Dragon" and "Nine-Storey Demon Tower" got off to a bad start. A huge number of fans of the original work and passers-by want to see how Wu Ershan will deal with "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
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Wu Ershan has a very good reputation among the audience. He has never made a bad movie since his debut. This is very important. Both investors and the audience have great trust in Wu Ershan.
The second one is Guan Hu's "Old Paoer". Putting aside Wu Chai and Li Yifeng, who are very popular, the one the audience wants to watch most is Feng Xiaogang!
It's true that Feng Xiaogang likes to act as a star, but the only movie he starred in is "I Am Your Dad".
This time he took on the starring role again, and his performance was extraordinary right from the start, and he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.
The third one is "Villain Angel" by Deng Chao and Sun Li.
Looking back, this film is not all bad. The biggest advantage of this film is that it completely woke up Deng Chao: "You are really not a comedy material! The current audience will not accept your style!"
Later films directed by Deng Chao will usually be wrapped in a serious core and transformed into light comedies, and will no longer engage in silly comedies.
The "Villain Angel" incident is quite a big deal, but we'll talk about it later.
As for "Chinatown", which was released on the last day of 2015?
Chapter completed!