"'The Martian' won 'The Thirteen Hairpins' and broke the record of 'Avatar', surpassing Lao Mouzi and becoming the number one director in China. Is there any problem?"
This kind of comparison between two well-known figures has always been a favorite thing for Chinese people to join in the fun. In less than a day, the controversy over which of the two is the best director can be seen everywhere on the Internet.
This is a pinned post on a forum. The title calls out support for Tang An, and below is a series of data. He is probably a loyal fan.
From the box office, reputation, and awards of Tang An's eight films in the past eight years, we analyze them one by one, and compare them with Zhang Yimou's films in the past ten years.
After a thorough argument, Tang An has undoubtedly surpassed Zhang Yimou's achievements.
After saying this, Zhang Yimou's fans stopped, and as soon as the post was posted, there were more than ten replies.
Fans from both sides began to argue. At the beginning, they presented facts and data, which were well-founded.
"How can Tang An compare with the National Master? Just based on the box office? Then Cameron is the number one director in Hollywood?"
"Lao Mouzi's first film "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award. It is famous all over the world. It is not comparable to the small awards like San Sebastian. It is also the first film to win the three international awards.
domestic movies."
"Those who praise Tang An are all children, right? Movies like "Ju Dou", "Raise the Red Lantern", "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", "Alive", "No One Less", "My Father and Mother"
Which one is not a classic among classics, with three Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nominations being eaten up?"
"Haha, you can't win at the box office but you can win at awards? A double standard dog!"
"Those movies are indeed classics, no matter what year they are. How many classic movies has Lao Mouzi made in the past ten years? Several movies have been popular for ten years and ten years. Will they still be mentioned in twenty or thirty years?
thing?"
“Two Golden Lion Awards, one Golden Bear Award, one Cannes Jury Prize, three Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, three Golden Rooster Awards for Best Director, four Golden Rooster Awards for Best Picture, six Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, six
The Cihua Watch Award for Best Film, the American "Time" magazine's top ten most influential people in the world, these names can scare Tang An to death, it's like a hammer!"
"Isn't it funny? The National Master has no box office success? "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers", and "The Golden Armor" broke the Chinese film box office record twice, and you won three annual box office championships, but you won them all?"
"Don't mention it, "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Golden Armor" have both been sprayed with "s". Are you going to watch Tang An's movie because it has a bad reputation?"
"I think the number one director still depends on influence, otherwise awards and box office will become addition and subtraction. After all, Lao Mouzi has been a judge at the Venice Film Festival, directed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and was nominated for the American Time Magazine
"Person of the Year."
"It's shameless to brag about what happened more than ten years ago. Just like Brother Chen Kai, "Farewell My Concubine" has been bragging for almost 20 years. In the past ten years, look at Zhang Yimou's achievements!"
"A comparison is based on awards. Winning an award is more powerful than high box office?
Tang An's eight movies have a total domestic box office of 3.7 billion. The total domestic box office of all Lao Mouzi's movies is only 1.7 billion. Counting overseas, the global box office is only 3.9 billion, which is barely higher than Tang An's domestic box office."
At first, fans from both sides presented their own data, but later on they had nothing to say, because no matter what they said, it was impossible to convince the other party.
The Internet is like this, and it doesn't make sense to reason, unless you can follow the network cable and beat the opponent up, and then you'll be fine.
Basically, they started to spray each other.
But fortunately, the new picture now has no money for public relations except for the promotion of the movie.
With no hope overseas, Zhang Weiping doesn't want to spend any more money now.
The Han and Tang Dynasties did not send out naval forces. Basically, the media and fans of both sides were fighting, and they were relatively restrained.
As a client, Zhang Yimou didn't have the energy to care about this. He could just think about his future cooperation with Zhang Weiping and the company bosses who came to contact him.
Tang An didn't care. He rested at home for two days from New Year's Day from the 1st to the 3rd, and then went back to the company for a meeting on the 4th. After handling some things, it was time to go to the United States.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, more than ten senior executives gathered in the group's large conference room.
We'll save the nonsense for later at the annual meeting. Tang An got straight to the point and got down to business.
He looked at Li Nan, Director of the Distribution Department, "Mr. Li, have you agreed on all the movies that are tentatively scheduled to be distributed by our company next year?"
"It has been confirmed that there are six movies in total: "The Stolen Five Years", "The Listener", "Quick Book: Happy Home", "Those Years", "Chill" and "Little Times""
As for these six movies, they basically do not have the investment background of a few giants, and they are focused on the distribution capabilities of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the past two years.
"Those Years" is scheduled to be released on Valentine's Day, February 14th, and the other releases need to be coordinated by the distribution department.
"Little Times", "The Stolen Five Years", and "Those Years" are exclusively released, and the other three are jointly released with Eucalyptus Music, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Golden Globe, and Dianguang Media respectively.
Once the role is inserted, the people below will be able to communicate on their own.
Then came the company's own projects, and production director Liu Debin also made a report.
Xu Zheng's "The Master of Hypnosis" will be released in two days. It will be directed and starred by the actor himself, and the heroine will be Wan Qian from his own company.
Chen Guofu is preparing for the next movie of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and has almost perfected the script during this time.
"Hong Kong" is also on the schedule. The production department and Xu Zheng are discussing the lead role. Xu Zheng will start "Hong Kong" immediately after filming "Hong Kong".
That's pretty much it for these three movies, plus the other 6 movies to be released, which means there will be a total of 9 movies invested and released by Hantang Media next year.
Basically throughout all periods throughout the year, it is definitely a huge challenge for the company.
This is also the limit, there cannot be more, otherwise one or two of them will have to be strategically abandoned.
Next comes the TV series project. Nowadays, the highest price for a single episode of online TV series rights has exceeded 1.5 million. "Tomb Raiders" can take advantage of the popularity of "The Secret of the Dragon" to start the first season.
The production cost of a single episode is almost 1 million, and the profit per episode is 500,000 to 600,000.
Although it doesn't make much money, once the online drama becomes popular, it will definitely be a boost for Tudou, which is competing with Youku for the industry leader.
There are several other projects, including Qidian, Jinzhang, and Xiaoxiang Academy. The development department has acquired a lot of film and television copyrights in the past six months, and they have all been adapted.
There are a total of 5 TV series, two of which have been launched and will be released to the audience one after another in 2012.
This is not a shoddy TV series. The cost of a single episode fluctuates around one million. Launching five TV series at the same time is definitely not an easy task.
Although everyone had some doubts, Tang An still made the decision.
After the meeting, Tang An returned to the office to look at the financial statements. Not long after, Xu Manyun knocked on the door and came in.
She couldn't ask directly at the meeting, so she couldn't help but ask Tang An what he thought in private.
There are 15 projects a year, and even in addition to those six movies, there are still 9 projects under the control, which is really a bit rushed.