Penguin quickly spread the news about its cooperation with Tianmi Film and Television Production Company, causing a heated discussion.
Everyone couldn't help but lament that directors who can make money will never lack people to send money. Those who despise Zhang Hao because of his age will regret it sooner or later.
After reaching cooperation with Penguin, things went much smoother after that.
Enlight Pictures took the initiative to come to the door and said that they had admired Director Zhang for a long time and were willing to cooperate. Tianmi Film and Television Production Company also said that they wanted to cooperate with Enlight Pictures for a long time, so the two parties flirted and flirted with each other.
After Wanda and Huayi withdrew, Penguin and Enlight Pictures joined, and interest groups surrounding Zhang Hao were instantly formed.
People who were originally divided and disintegrated finally saw that Zhang Hao was alone, so they were ready to attack, and then divide the country among themselves. This was their usual method.
But I didn't expect that as soon as the protective film was peeled off, I immediately found a set of soft gold wire armor, which actually had thorns.
Not to mention that it wouldn't hurt anyone, but he was pricked with blood all over his body, which was really unlucky.
After all this, as long as Zhang Hao continues to succeed, there will always be new interests coming out to protect Zhang Hao's cash cow, making it difficult for people to start.
Therefore, there is only one way to let Zhang Hao fail and keep failing, so that the interest groups surrounding him will automatically disperse.
However, how to let a director who has found the secret of success and accumulated a large number of movie fans embark on the road of failure is a problem.
Ever since, someone looked at Chen Gege and thought about it.
After the cooperation case ended, a large number of comments suddenly appeared on the Internet, beginning to advocate Zhang Hao's film art.
At the same time, some big V began to advocate that if Zhang Hao focuses on the field of literary films, he will surely achieve great artistic achievements.
You must know that although Zhang Hao has made literary films such as "The Embalmer", Zhang Hao's foundation is in the field of commercial films, which is also the definition of the so-called seventh-generation director in the industry.
Therefore, if Zhang Hao is fooled into making art films, or even takes root in the field of art films like Lou Ye, then Zhang Hao will lose the foundation for his survival.
Cai Runping promptly reported the situation on the Internet to Zhang Hao and asked Zhang Hao what he meant: "Boss, there are people on the Internet saying that you will turn to the field of literary films."
"Are they saying that Zhang Hao and I are the same person?" Zhang Hao asked rhetorically.
"Uh, of course not." Cai Runping replied.
"Then it's over. What kind of film I want to make is not decided by netizens and trolls," Zhang Hao said.
"It's true," Cai Runping felt relieved, thinking of the words hanging in Zhang Hao's office: Making movies is to make money!
It is said that Zhang Hao asked his grandfather to write this calligraphy and then hung it in his office.
Other directors would talk about so-called artistic and movie dreams, but only Zhang Hao clearly puts the concept of making money on the table.
A boss with such a business philosophy would definitely not go out and make so-called literary films when his head is full of enthusiasm.
Even if it were to be filmed, it would be something like "The Embalmer" that would be well-received and well-received. This is the right direction for literary films.
Speaking of "The Embalmer", "The Embalmer" has been winning awards continuously since last year, and this year it finally reached its final destination.
Because Zhang Haoyuan was abroad and could not come back in time to attend, Da Mi Mi attended the Golden Horse Awards ceremony on his behalf and accepted the award on Zhang Hao's behalf.
Not surprisingly, "The Embalmer" was once again a great success.
Andy has achieved four consecutive Best Actor Awards and reached the highest peak of his acting career. It would not be an exaggeration to call him the number one male star in Chinese films.
Zhang Hao once again won the Best Original Screenplay trophy. More importantly, he finally made a breakthrough at the Golden Horse Awards and won the Best Director trophy.
Together with the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival, Zhang Hao immediately has two very important Best Director trophies in his hands.
When Da Mi Mi accepted the award for Zhang Hao, he said: "Although our Zhang Hao did not come here, he asked me to express his gratitude to the judges, the hard-working crew members and actors on his behalf."
In such an occasion, conventional speeches are enough; the most taboo thing is unconventional speeches.
In addition, Jin Shijie once again won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor. Although he is older, this is his first time participating in a movie project, and he won the Best Supporting Actor. You can imagine his excitement.
And this once again confirms the comments on the Internet advocating Zhang Hao to enter the field of literary and artistic films, and there are even more comments instigating Zhang Hao to enter the field of literary and artistic films.
Other directors have switched from literary films to commercial films, but these people pretended to be Zhang Hao's fans and called on Zhang Hao to enter literary films.
Zhang Hao's real fans couldn't sit still, and the real fans and fake fans started arguing.
When it comes to battles between fans and sunspots, that's the kind of treatment only big stars get, but since Zhang Hao was born, we can often see these scenes with him.
It can be seen that Zhang Hao is indeed very popular and a controversial director.
Tianpower Film and Television officially ignored the comments on the Internet. It is impossible to respond by saying that Zhang Hao disdains turning to the field of literary films, right? This would make it easier to attract criticism.
Although everyone makes movies for fame and fortune, there are still nice things to say about it, such as for art.
Tianmi Film and Television Production Company was not idle, and soon announced the preparation plan for "Gu Jian Qi Tan", and at the same time posted on Weibo from time to time to reveal Zhang Hao's situation in North America.
The Chinese media that have been paying attention to Zhang Hao have also sent back first-hand information about Zhang Hao in North America, including the North American public opinion community's views on Zhang Hao.
Talk show host Aaron Wiseman, well-known black film producer Spike Lee, etc. all publicly mocked Zhang Hao on television media.
Generally speaking, Zhang Hao has a bad reputation in North American public opinion circles, and the situation is not good.
But thanks to these repeated mentions, Zhang Hao and "Batman Begins" have always been in front of the North American public, and it is difficult not to remember them.
In particular, Spike Lee, a Black Lives Matter activist, strongly criticized Warner Pictures, believing that Warner Pictures should find a black director or let a black person play Batman.
A black version of Batman? Thinking about it makes people feel chilly, but Spike Lee’s remarks are supported by black forces in Hollywood.
He also called on the black community to boycott Warner Pictures and Batman movies, as well as Zhang Hao, a Chinese director.
Does Spike Lee really care about the Black Uncles? Not necessarily, everything is linked to profit, it’s just profitable.
Warner Pictures is not a small Hollywood company, but is backed by one of the top ten media groups in the world. Therefore, the media under its parent company Time Warner started a war of words with the black uncles headed by Spike Lee.
Jeff Robinoff also approached Zhang Hao and revealed the details: "There is a high probability that Disney asked Spike Lee to do this."
Zhang Hao was a little surprised: "It's still early before the film is released, why did they do this? Is it too early to start?"
Jeff Robinoff laughed and said: "Zhang, you have to remember that as long as the film enters the production cycle, competition has already started from this moment.
Hollywood is full of competition all the time, and Spielberg and James Cameron all fought their way out of fierce competition."
Zhang Hao nodded to express his understanding.
The competition in Hollywood is indeed fierce, and those who have not competed are drowned. It goes without saying that Spielberg stepped on the corpses of many competitors to reach the top.
For the time being, it is Zhang Hao's turn to compete in the media. His main task now is to make good movies.
Some difficult action and car chase scenes were over, and the team was almost getting used to it. Zhang Hao gradually accumulated experience and became more comfortable with it.
The Chinese team gained a lot while working on the set.
This was the first time that they participated in the front-to-back work of a Hollywood A-level big-budget film in detail, and they saw how Hollywood, a leader in the world's film industry, completes project production quickly and efficiently.
This provided the Chinese team with a lot of experience and grew rapidly.
Zhang Hao is very satisfied with the team's learning results. Just visiting and studying is of no use. Only by participating in person can we understand and learn.
Zhang Haoye and Guo Fan made it clear: "After learning and accumulation, our team has made great progress. The next thing to consider is how to use this experience for our own use."
Guo Fan agreed: "You are right. With this group of teams as the backbone, we can immediately expand our manpower after returning, continue to cultivate talents, and contribute to the Chinese film industry."
Zhang Hao was not so optimistic: "If you want to contribute to Chinese-language films, I'm afraid others won't be willing to use your talent."
"That's just right, I can't bear to give it to you!" Guo Fan said with a smile.
In fact, the most likely possibility is that Zhang Hao's team was poached, and then other companies took advantage of Zhang Hao's popularity when producing the movie: the original movie was created by Zhang Hao's team.
Looking at the production company and director again, they are not Zhang Hao's people, but the audience will not care about this. They only see the four characters Zhang Hao's team.
Therefore, Zhang Hao's reputation may attract a group of viewers to be deceived.
If the movie looks good, it's still good. If the movie doesn't look good and it's a bad movie, Zhang Hao will have to take the blame and watch others count their money.
Not to mention, with the greed of those unscrupulous film production companies, this kind of thing can really be done.
As for the fact that Zhang Hao will pursue and sue for using Zhang Hao's name, people are not worried at all. The lawsuit has dragged on for a year and a half, and the money-making movie has also ended its mission.
At the worst, Zhang Hao will be compensated for some reputational damage, which is nothing compared to the money earned from bad movies.
Why more and more bad movies can still make money, apart from the tolerance of the market and the demand of the audience, is also related to the fact that not many film companies are willing to make movies with their heart.
In this day and age, making movies with heart is considered naive, and large-scale investment in sophisticated production is considered fools. Is it the fault of those directors and actors who are serious about making movies?
We can’t blame the audience for not knowing how to distinguish between good and bad movies. The market demand is there, and if you don’t make it, others will.
Blame the market, blame the audience, blame the environment, blame the scissors, blame those bad film production companies?
No wonder...
In this era, if you can be yourself and stick to your ideals, you are already a winner.