"Why are you leaving so soon? Let's stay for a meal."
"No, the company has a lot of things to do recently, so I have to go back first."
"Oh, okay then."
Shen Lianjie is gone.
After hanging up the phone, he still had a stiff smile on his face, he still walked like a gentleman, and he still looked so natural.
only……
His hands were clenched into fists, with traces of sweat stains on their palms. Even the Newbuck suit he was proud of before coming here looked so ugly, so uncoordinated, and so awkward in his eyes. Don't want to wear it.
He has always been proud since he was a child, always standing on a high peak and overlooking the people below him.
But now...
He found that he had fallen from the high ground and then landed on the ground and sunk into the soil full of cow dung.
So disgusting.
This is an unprecedented feeling of powerlessness, as if the whole world is facing him at this moment.
Lu Yuan looked at the direction Shen Lianjie left and shook his head.
He was actually not very happy, and felt a little bit like asking for trouble.
People often have to change, and Lu Yuan is also trying hard to change, trying to make himself an ideal person.
Therefore, his expression was sincere and his voice was sincere. He worked hard with his acting skills to make himself an ideal sincere person. He greeted Shen Lianjie and invited Shen Lianjie to have a meal with him again. It was extremely enthusiastic. .
However, after Shen Lianjie shook his head and refused, he turned around and left without saying a word, as if he didn't want to see himself in a hurry.
Lu Yuan felt like he had been hit.
The ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.
Lu Yuan closed his eyes.
At this moment he felt frustrated.
Then……
It's probably not that he hates me, but that he really has something going on.
Lu Yuan comforted himself.
And do I seem like the annoying kind of person?
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The popularity of the Spring Festival box office war gradually dissipated after ten days.
After the eleventh day, no matter which movie it is, the box office begins to decline.
This is an unavoidable fact.
People can defy heaven, but they cannot defy heaven forever.
Of course, even if the single-day box office of "The Wanderer" dropped, it still made 39 million.
As for "King Kong: Origins", it dropped to 27 million, which is another 12 million box office gap. The box office decline has been very obvious, and "King Kong: Alien" has tragically become the biggest box office hit in the past few years. The first movie to be canceled early due to poor reputation and sluggish box office.
Of course, this actually gives Hollywood movies face.
Didn't you see that the unlucky Shen Lianjie's "Blooming Pinellia" ended its box office battle within ten days?
Compared with "Blooming Pinellia", isn't this "Alien Killer" considered lucky?
At any rate, I survived ten days, which is a great honor.
Regarding other movies, the single-day box office of "The Age of Blood" dropped to 7 million...
The box office of "Blood" dropped to 6 million, officially becoming a new unit of measurement.
This is a very cruel fact.
Whether it was Li Mingrui or Zhang Tong, this matter was really uncomfortable.
They don't even dare to read online comments about this box office battle.
As long as you click on it, you will always see a bunch of trouble-making netizens voting on which movie between "Bloodline" and "Blood Age" will become the unit of measurement for the gap between "King Kong: Origins" and "The Wanderer" …
They could vomit blood from their mouths just by looking at it.
Now they don't have any extravagant expectations of how strong the box office can be or how counterattack they can be. Now they just hope that their box office can be slightly better, at least not to become a unit of measurement for others' differences, right?
How embarrassing would that be?
Do we still need the reputation of a capable director?
Although the netizens did not mean it and were doing it for fun, it was an insult to them.
Even if the two movies didn't hit the streets, and even if they still made a small profit at the box office, when you compare them with "Wanderer", which is also a Chinese movie, everything is different.
And this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that "Wanderer" is completely low-cost, and the total sum is less than 10 million!
This is undoubtedly the most embarrassing.
So can the low-cost and high-investment success of "The Wanderer" be replicated?
Both Zhang Tong and Li Mingrui have considered this issue.
They analyzed "The Wanderer" and even used their own directorships to make the film...
Then, they came to a very speechless conclusion.
That just can't be done!
First of all, the low investment industry will get stuck.
Why is the investment in "The Wanderer" so low?
It's very simple, because Lu Yuan acted with his own money and zero pay, and Wei Wuji, Qian Zhong, a director, and a screenwriter are all extremely unknown existences. This greatly reduced the cost of at least two million, and at the same time, there were guest appearances.
The star Lu Yihong also gets zero pay...
How much is Lu Yihong's acting net worth now?
After the great success of "Buried Alive", Lu Yihong's current net worth has skyrocketed, and he cannot be hired without three million.
Of course, Lu Yihong is actually easy to solve. Even if Lu Yihong's performance is included, the investment in the film will only be over 10 million.
More than 10 million is actually not much for a movie.
So, what about the lead actor Lu Yuan?
Even if Lu Yuan has no acting skills, no matter how new he is, no matter how low-key he is...
But where is his traffic and fame?
You don’t have ten million dollars, how dare you ask? Can he take advantage of you?
They are now on par with first-tier stars, and the starting salary for a first-tier star is tens of millions, and it is also a friendly price, so if you calculate it this way, the investment in "Wanderer" is 20 million...
Okay, even if these are done, what about publicity?
Was there any publicity for "Wanderer"?
The movie "Wanderer" was completely promoted by Lu Yuan alone...
Assuming that "Wanderer" was not filmed by Lu Yuan himself, could he have worked so hard?
Absolutely not, he is not a fool to do such unprofitable things.
So we still have to spend a lot of money on publicity...
If we promote and hold various activities like "Blood Age" and "Blood", then the total investment of "Wanderer" will go straight to 30 million.
So, do you think they can replicate the success of "Nomadland"?
After Zhang Tong and Li Mingrui analyzed it, they came to a conclusion that was quite realistic and quite desperate.
There is absolutely no way to copy this.
Immediately afterwards, both Zhang Tong and Li Mingrui suddenly realized an astonishing fact...
Rather than saying that the success of "Wanderer" cannot be replicated, it is better to say that Lu Yuan's success cannot be replicated.
Half a year!
It's only been half a year.
What did this monster do when it came out of nowhere?
Singer, director, editor, creator, composer...
The densely packed titles instantly make people feel numb and call them monsters.
How the hell do you copy this?
you tell me.
science?
fart!
This person is unscientific!
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Andor, the director of "King Kong: Origins" silently put down his cigar.
Although the box office of "King Kong: Origins" is not much different from Andorra's budget, and it also made a lot of money in China, Andorra's mood is not very beautiful.
He never thought about comparing it with "Planet Age".
Because he knows that "Planet Age" is a science fiction masterpiece, and its hard power, including investment, is very strong.
It's normal that my own "King Kong: Origins" can't compare to it at all.
However, he never thought that he would lose to a Chinese film with a total investment of less than 10 million yuan.
This left him speechless.
In fact, he never thought that Chinese movies would be their rivals in Hollywood movies. He even felt that bad movies like "Alien Killer" in this year's box office rankings were enough to crush other Chinese movies.
But the facts prove that everything is not the same.
This makes Andorra feel a little bit unhappy.
He turned over the director's name...
The director was a complete stranger.
Then he turned over the names of the leading actors.
He was stunned for a moment, feeling a bit familiar.
Lu Yuan...
Lu Yuan?
etc!
Is that the Chinese guy who won four consecutive awards at the Goya Awards in Spain?
When he thought of this, Andal immediately narrowed his eyes.
It seems that this Chinese needs to be vigilant.
Andor has never been a very arrogant person. He will not deny failure and will not hate his opponents.
On the contrary, he likes to study.
He feels that everyone makes progress in learning. If you don't learn, you will be surpassed by others sooner or later.
So Andor specially dug out the movie "The Wanderer" and watched it again. After watching it, he felt a sense of amazement.
From the perspective of a professional director, although Lu Yuan's acting skills cannot be considered to be at the peak of Hollywood, his grasp of details is very deep, and at the same time, he does a good job in rendering the emotions.
This actor is pretty good.
Then after he saw Lu Yuan, Wang Jiaming's character, he inexplicably imagined another character in his next movie.
He suddenly felt that Lu Yuan was surprisingly suitable.
Do you want to get in touch with this Lu Yuan?
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Fatty Wei became famous in one fell swoop.
Although he became famous under the brilliance of Lu Yuan, Fatty Wei obviously feels that no matter where he goes now, everyone looks like Director Wei. Director Wei shouts with great respect. At the same time, there are many single stars in the industry.
She often makes secret glances at him, her watery eyes seeming to hint at something about herself.
Fatty Wei has never been a decent person.
After the sudden huge success and the fact that everything on the Internet was just bragging, Fatty Wei felt that he was as awesome as the sky.
For the first time in the past six months, he called the old man and told him that he was very powerful now and was not far away from being a great director.
On the phone, he said that he had proven that he was better than the old man!
At least my box office performance is already awesome.
It will not be difficult for you to bomb Hollywood and carry the banner of Chinese movies in the future!
On the other end of the phone, Wei Wuji's old man Wei Changjun was silent.
He clearly felt that his son had begun to swell.
This is a feeling of expansion being pushed to the limit.
He hung up the phone before finishing listening to Fatty Wei's bragging.
His mood seemed very complicated.
Everyone has a time when they feel inflated. Fatty Wei is not a saint, he is just a layman.
It will naturally expand.
The success of "Buried Alive" made Fatty Wei full of confidence, but he didn't feel inflated. After all, the director of "Buried Alive" was Lu Yuan.
The huge success of "Wanderer" made Fatty Wei suddenly feel like he was number one in the world.
He thinks he has special talent.
Although he does not look down upon other directors, he feels that he is already one of the Chinese directors.
So, in the next few days, Lu Yuan would see Fatty Wei returning to the company drunk every day and enjoying himself stupidly.
One day, he came to Lu Yuan's office without saying a word and talked to Lu Yuanda about his ambitions, his past, and his blind ex-girlfriend...
He said that he deliberately arranged a chance encounter with his ex-girlfriend and deliberately drove a luxury car past the company where his ex-girlfriend was staying. Then he saw his ex-girlfriend’s annoyed, helpless and pitiful look.
He said that his ex-girlfriend wanted to come back to him and Shen Lianjie was not good to her.
He sneered at his ex-girlfriend and then left.
He felt so much better.
Do you think he is a villain?
He doesn't care at all about the success of the villain!
He just wants to show off and slap him in the face!
He just wants to have fun!
He told Lu Yuan a lot of things.
In his heart, he always regarded Lu Yuan as his closest brother, even a kind of benefactor.
No matter how arrogant he is, no matter how awesome he feels, Lu Yuan is still the kind of person who is more awesome than him in his heart.
Lu Yuan looked at Fatty Wei silently.
He was actually happy for Fatty Wei's success, and he also felt that Fatty Wei should really expand.
But……
He felt that Fatty Wei seemed to have begun to recognize himself a little bit.
It seems that he has become very ambitious and has already begun to plan how to win the Chinese movie box office championship in May.
This is a bad phenomenon.
Immediately afterwards, Luyuan received an invitation call.