Time passed by, and the popularity of the New Four Xiao Hua Dan continued for a while. The teams behind the selected people worked hard to promote and completely attach this title to their own actors.
In fact, they succeeded. In less than a month, after an intensive publicity campaign, the vast majority of the audience had already accepted the new four young actors and actresses.
It's just that compared to Si Xiaohuadan, Si Xiaosheng's popularity is even lower.
This is also strange in China. Except for those stars of the older generation, the popularity and pay of male stars are far less than that of female stars.
There are not many male stars born in the 1970s who can match the four-day double ice. The only ones who can do it are Wang Xiaoming, Lu Yi, Deng Chao, Chen Kun and Liu Ye.
Not to mention Zhang Ziyi, the salaries of Zhao Wei and Zou Xun have both risen to 6 million, and no Mesozoic actor is close to this figure.
The female stars born in the 1980s are similar, but the male stars of the same age group are far behind. This time, the four young and old students are completely taller among the short ones.
The fact that it has such a huge momentum has a lot to do with the current bleak situation in the film market, where there are basically few decent films.
The mixed success "Nanjing Nanjing" finally took home 160 million box office, surpassing "Journey on the Road" to become the box office champion at the end of the year.
However, this is nothing to brag about. In 5 years, with a cost of 80 million and a box office of 160 million, it is still destined to be unable to sell movies with overseas copyrights.
Even depositing in the bank and earning interest is more cost-effective than this.
Of course, Lu Chuan was also the darling of the media back then, and he was still praised highly.
However, no one mentioned him and Tang An together. Instead, Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, and Wu Ershan were mentioned more often, all of whom were new directors in the Billion Dollar Club in the past year.
It was only after the great success of "Super Body" that Tang An was compared with those great directors.
Before that, "Shark Beach" with a box office of 30 million, "Horror Cruise" with a box office of 8,000, and "Super Body" itself surpassed "House of Flying Daggers" and became the summer box office champion, higher than Feng Xiaogang's "The Night Banquet" More than 20 million...
If Zhang Yimou's "The Golden Armor" hadn't been a hit, he would have been the box office champion that year.
What does Lu Chuan have? "Nanjing Nanjing" only has 160 million. This is 2009, and 100 million box office has long been commonplace. "Painted Skin" also received 200 million, which is still far from being a top director.
It's a pity that Lu Chuan regards Tang An as his lifelong enemy. He was once the leading figure of the new generation of directors in China, but now he has wasted five years and is almost standing still.
Tang An didn't take him seriously, but some media occasionally brought him out to hype him up, and there was always some topic and interest.
On this day, "Nanjing Nanjing" held a celebration banquet, and Tang An also went there. After all, Star America has the largest theater chain in the country, so it still needs to give some face.
Lu Chuan was in high spirits at the press conference, but he was still somewhat disappointed. His original goal was 200 million.
Tang An is discussing with Qin Hong the issue of arranging films for the summer. The film still has its last round of fine editing, dubbing, sound effects and other processes. It is expected that the film will be released by the end of May, and major theaters will be invited to take a look at it.
Although Tang An could still get more than half of the film lineup without holding a preview event, after all, there is still "Transformers 2" in the early stage.
While we were chatting and laughing, Lu Chuan came up to us with all his might.
"Director Tang!"
"Congratulations to Director Lu." Tang An showed a formal smile and raised his glass, but did not drink it.
Lu Chuan was not annoyed and picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
"Director Tang's movie should be released in July. Remember to notify me of the premiere then."
"Of course, I will send someone to deliver the invitation when the time comes."
"I'm really looking forward to Director Tang's movie. I don't know if it will still be exciting."
Lu Chuan changed the topic and said with a smile, "But Director Tang may not be familiar with things in the 1980s. He has never experienced that era personally. It was quite difficult to shoot. It was not easy for Director Tang to finish the filming in more than three months."
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Ha... I was talking in a somewhat educational tone.
"Director Lu didn't experience that incident, so didn't he still shoot it so "wonderfully"?"
Tang An chuckled lightly, and the word "wonderful" emphasized the tone.
"That's natural. I spent three or four years researching information and visiting."
Lu Chuan didn't seem to hear Tang An's sarcasm, and his tone was a bit proud.
Tang An twitched the corner of his mouth and said with a slight smile, "Director Lu must thank Director Qin for supporting Director Lu's film regardless of the cost. This was 80 million 5 years ago. It would be enough to put in the bank in 5 years."
You can earn a lot of interest.”
Qin Hong smiled bitterly. This was the most failed investment he had ever made, with a cost of 80 million and a return of 42 million in a five-year cycle.
If dozens of movie theaters were built, they would already be making profits by now.
Lu Chuan's expression changed, the movie lost money, this is probably the only regret.
I just wanted to argue that I wasn't doing it for the box office, I was just trying to show the real events to the audience.
But before he could say anything, Tang An stopped talking to him, made an appointment with Qin Hong for a trial, and left.
Qin Hong still appreciates Lu Chuan's ability, but this film lost nearly half of the money, and it seems that there is nothing that can be recovered overseas. If he invests in his films in the future, he will probably encounter great resistance within the group.
Lu Chuan's expression turned ugly. From the premiere, to the occasional reporter's words when interviewing Tang An during this period, and to Tang An's attitude now, no matter how stupid he was, he could tell that Tang An didn't take him to heart at all.
Humph! I want to see how your new movie goes!
Lu Chuan drank the red wine in his glass in one gulp and thought bitterly.
They didn't deliberately lower their voices when they spoke, and almost everyone around them could hear them.
"Mr. Tang is still like that. He basically never loses his temper."
"Hehe, people who don't lose their temper are really scary. If you really get angry, you can see if they lose their temper."
"But it's probably the most uncomfortable thing to be ignored."
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Tang An really didn't care about him, let alone care about him, he didn't even care about him, and he didn't even bother to say a few words.
When "Nanjing Nanjing" was released before, he didn't start trolling, which was too disgraceful, and he didn't ask trolls to smear him. It's not worth spending time and money on this kind of person.
There was nothing going on in May, so Tang An stayed in Huayi and continued editing. On the 20th, he completed the final round of editing, which lasted 110 minutes.
This is the longest film directed by Tang An. There are three male protagonists, spanning more than 20 years. Being able to control it within two hours has destroyed many of his brain cells.
Then the photos that Wang Zhongjun asked for from some business leaders were in place, and it took nearly a minute for the editor to go in.
In the last 10 days, Tang An completed all the soundtrack and narration, and successfully edited the film on May 31.
After the finished film came out, it was immediately sent to Optoelectronics for review, and major theaters were agreed to take time to come and preview it and discuss the arrangement of the film.