Chapter five hundred and ninety-eight Fatty Wei is fooling again
There was a strange feeling of sadness hanging over the Chinese film industry in early May.
Three Hollywood movies, "The Deep 2", "The World's End", and "Global Disaster" directly dominated the charts. On the day of their premiere, they made an astonishing box office of 50 million, 30 million, and 25 million.
!
Among them, Andorra's "Deep Sea 2" broke the astonishing record of the highest opening box office in the history of Chinese films.
The popularity of the first movie, coupled with the various suspense and climaxes in the movie itself, led to the popularity of this movie. Even after the premiere, all aspects of stills and news bombarded the entire movie.
Film Circle.
A big success in Andorra!
His success is not only at the box office of the movie. Even when he came to China to promote the movie, most of China's first-line stars went to praise Andorra under the arrangement of the company. Countless reporters crowded around and gathered around
The entire entrance of the Yanjing Grand Theater was packed with people at a glance, and it was very lively. Even indirectly, Andorra's promotion in China became one of the hot spots in May that attracted the most attention in the entire Chinese media.
After Andorra saw so many Chinese artists sitting in the audience supporting him, he couldn't help but smile on his face, which looked quite arrogant. At the same time, he felt an inexplicable feeling of disdain deep in his heart.
Of course, he would not show such disdain. Instead, he would take photos with these stars one by one, smile and talk about some arrangements for the new movie and his expectations for the movie's final box office.
Most artists can still remain rational and maintain a relatively equal attitude when chatting, but a few young talents and hosts are so excited that they can't wait to tell all the eighteen generations of their ancestors, and they are flattering.
One wave leads to another, hoping to make Andorra more familiar.
When Andorra faced them, he was smiling, smiling happily.
However, the happier he smiled, the more disdainful he felt, and the more he felt a sense of ridicule that he couldn't even express.
Most of China in May belongs to Andorra.
After the promotion ended, countless young celebrities posted photos with Andorra on Weibo, and they all added a line that seemed to have the opportunity to cooperate with the director of Andorra, something that seemed specious, "
The words "Andorra comes to China" became a trending topic on Weibo within one day...
It was in the limelight for a while.
As for the two movies "The End of the World" and "Global Disaster", they continue to make great progress. Although they are not as good as "The Deep 2", they are still extremely popular. After the two directors came to China, they also received countless awards.
Xia Entertainment Company’s welcome and cooperation invitation, finally came home with a full load, so happy...
In the entertainment industry, I don’t know when there seemed to be a trend of worshiping foreigners.
And the wind blew for several days before it slowly subsided.
Of course, this is understandable.
Basically, most of the Chinese artists never let go of any opportunity to meet major Hollywood directors and become international artists. Most of them want to be featured in international blockbusters, even if they are just appearing as bit parts and saying a few words.
Semi-fluent English is enough.
At least……
Completely different in style.
At least international stars and Chinese stars cannot be described in one sentence in terms of their gimmicks and their worth.
Many things have two sides.
Hollywood movies in May were extremely popular in China, and Hollywood directors in May were extremely popular in China.
But Chinese movies in May have an inexplicable sense of sadness.
Zhang Tong's "Money Making Life" had a box office of 7 million on its opening day.
This data cannot be said to be a hit, but it definitely cannot be said to be explosive. It can only be said that the performance is quite satisfactory, stable and profitable.
Ranked fourth at the box office among movie premieres in May.
Fourth place, compared with the box office of third place...
Indescribable.
This kind of movie looked extremely embarrassed in the box office battle in May, and was simply crushed.
However, Zhang Tong's "Life of Making Money" turned out to be the last Chinese movie in May.
Most of the other movies were basically scrapped...
The film "I Am a Cow" by literary director Li You was even lucky enough to receive an embarrassing figure of 500,000 yuan at the box office in a single day...
Five hundred thousand?
Yes!
You read that right, the total investment for this nationwide movie was 7 million, but only 500,000 was made on the premiere day, when it should have been a hit.
this……
It's just like a joke.
Of course, the movie's reputation is very good. As long as they can watch it in theaters, they are basically die-hard fans of Li You. The reviews of this movie on Tomato Movie Network are even more positive...
After all, fans who can spend money to watch a cow eat grass have a unique artistic concept. Naturally, they can get good reviews and show off a sense of superiority.
This is pretty good.
However, in a sense, it also shows that Chinese movies have once again fallen into an embarrassing situation.
Of course, these completely different comparisons actually make many directors feel very uncomfortable.
These include Fatty Wei, who is currently filming "The Girls We Chased Together" in Taiwan, and Xu Qifeng, the emerging director of "The Extra-Terrestrial".
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The afternoon of May 3rd.
"Ayuan is in Hollywood, and Andorra is in China...it suddenly feels quite ironic." Fatty Wei finished smoking a cigarette silently and squatted by the small river in front of the school, silently watching the river flowing in the distance.
"Well, yes, it's a pity that we ourselves are not up to par! We have good scripts and good directors, but we rarely make good movies with good reputations. In fact, our Chinese movies are not bad." Xu Qifeng took over from Fatty Wei.
I slowly started smoking the cigarette that was handed to me.
He met Fatty Wei accidentally during a job in Taiwan. At first, the two of them politely complimented each other. At the same time, Xu Qifeng was inevitably a little nervous. After all, Fatty Wei was the best director, and he was now
He didn't have a name, so he was a head shorter than Fatty Wei. However, after the conversation got deeper, Xu Qifeng suddenly felt that Fatty Wei was very enthusiastic towards him and had no airs about him.
So the two of them made an appointment to smoke together and talk about movies whenever they had free time...
Xu Qifeng is an angry young person. Sometimes he will yell and sometimes he will also criticize the management system of Tianyu Company. In fact, he is not satisfied with Tianyu's senior management.
After Fatty Wei saw this scene, he knew in his heart that he would inevitably instill some "remote" benefits into Xu Qifeng.
Anyway...
Xu Qifeng knew that Fatty Wei was trying to poach him, but it would be impossible for him to change jobs for a while.
after all……
He still has a three-year contract with Tianyu!
"It's useless to just talk, this is a very real world... At the same time, it is an era of commercialized movies. If your movie has a good box office, no matter how rubbish you are, you are still awesome. Your movie has a bad box office, no matter how good your reputation is.
It's also rubbish, very realistic." Fatty Wei laughed.
"I think the future will be better... I am preparing to raise investment for my new movie. This time, I plan to make a big splash with Hollywood movies to bring glory to China."
"How much investment?"
"Two hundred million!"
"Where's the script?"
"I'm currently writing the script. It's a big movie about aliens invading the earth and the earth's people resisting."
"A remake of "City Fortress"?"
"No...by the way, Director Wei, what do you think of "City Fortress"?"
"I don't know, the special effects look pretty good from the trailer, but as for the rest... I'm not a god, I really can't predict..." Fatty Wei shook his head.
"I think it will jump. I even think it will become a joke."
"Why?"
"I don't know, that's how I feel." Xu Qifeng stood up after finishing his cigarette, "Director Wei, I have to go. There is a press conference here at the Tianyu branch and I have to show my face."
"Well, okay, by the way...what do you think about what I told you before?" Fatty Wei suddenly looked at Xu Qifeng.
"I...Director Wei, I'm sorry, I still have a three-year contract with Tianyu."
"The contract is dead, but the person is alive. How much liquidated damages do you need?"
"I……"
"We are all a group of people with dreams. I know you also have a dream. Rules and regulations will only constrain you and destroy you. Moreover, how many great directors are there in Tianyu? Even if your movie has some achievements, they will pay attention to it.
You?"
"Director Wei, stop talking..."
"Director Xu, although in the past two years, Chinese movies have shown signs of gradual recovery, they are still in a bleak situation ravaged by Hollywood movies... In the future, I have a hunch that an era is about to be born. Don't you want to be in this
Do you want to do something during this time?”
"I..." Xu Qifeng was stunned.
"Director Xu, I have said everything I need to say. I feel that the future of Chinese films will ultimately be in the hands of young people like us. Although the older generation has rich experience, they stick to the old rules and cannot keep up with the upcoming big movie."
This era, this era, is the era of our young people. We don’t lack anything now. What we lack is only a platform for ourselves to display. You are a smart person, and smart people naturally have their own choices...
Liquidated damages are not a problem."
"I will consider it." Xu Qifeng nodded after a long silence.
"Do you know why Ayuan went to Hollywood?"
"Why?"
"He is paving the way for our future. I can tell you that in the future, this road will be extremely bright."
"What if he fails?"
Xu Qifeng turned his head and looked away.
Fatty Wei's voice is very seductive.
seem……
It touched the deepest things in his soul.
A shining road?
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Lu Yuan didn't know some of the situation in China.
At the moment, he is staying on the set step by step to film the plot of "The Pianist on the Sea". At the same time, whenever he is free, Lu Yuan locks himself in the piano room and practices the piano very hard.
There is a very crazy piano fighting scene in "The Pianist on the Sea". Although Lu Yuan knew that he might not be able to control it even if it took him three months, he was still filled with that thought in his heart.
May 5th.
Just after Lu Yuan finished practicing the piano, his phone rang.
He silently took out his cell phone.
Then...
All I saw was an unfamiliar number.
Lu Yuan was a little strange.
"Hello? Hello?"
"Hello... hello, is this... Mr. Lu Yuan?" A timid voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Um, hello, who are you..." Lu Yuan was very surprised.
"I...my name is Liu Wanqing."
"Um?"
"I...I am a cartoonist. You left this number for me at the book signing...You said that if I have any difficulties, I can come to you. I, I tried to call..."
"You Sunny Little Piggy?" Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment, then was stunned.
"Um...right."
"Are you okay? Why does your voice sound a little crying?"
"I...I...I...I don't know what I should do...I, I feel so uncomfortable..."