"The rest is up to you."
Fang Yan walked to the door of Shaw Brothers Pictures, glanced at Gong Jie and said, "She may not be able to join the team until a few days later."
< br>"Understand, understand, the movie "Once Upon a Time" will be released soon Well."
Wang Jing waved his hand, "Don't worry, leave the preliminary preparations for the crew to me and Sir Du."
"If you are free that day, you are welcome to participate. Premiere.”
Gong Jie smiled and waved goodbye, and returned to his apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui with Fang Yan.
Just after returning home, Fang Yan took off his suit jacket and said, "I've been busy for a long time and I'm a little hungry. Let's order something to eat."
"Okay."< br>
Gong Qie quickly came to the living room, Take out the takeout order from the drawer of the coffee table, "What do you want to eat? Roasted pork, braised meat, abalone, shark's fin..."
"First, a bowl of fish pond to rinse your mouth, and then a pound of five beautiful Jipin abalones. Satisfy your craving, and then..."
Fang Yan joked jokingly.
“Seriously!”
Gong Qian rolled his eyes and picked up the phone, “I’ll just order a double portion of roasted pork rice, what about you?”
"Is there any pig's trotter rice? If so, have one. If not, just do the same as you."
Fang Yan sat on the sofa, picked up the newspaper and crossed his legs.
Gong Zhen nodded, and then ordered takeout neatly. The moment he hung up the phone, a slight laughter came to his ears.
"What's the matter?"
"You are worthy of being a reporter from Xiangjiang. Just your ability to hold fire with one hand makes people feel ashamed."
Dialect tutted in praise. .
Gong Zhen was curious and followed his gaze, and saw the news title clearly written——
"Once Upon a Time in the Mainland vs. Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong".
In addition, the huge page also included photos of Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, and those who didn't know it thought they were meeting for a ring competition.
In fact, both Cheng Long’s “The Powerful Detective” and Jet Li’s “Once Upon a Time in China” were released in July!
The face suddenly changed, and there was dissatisfaction in his tone, "These media are just watching the excitement and don't mind it, how can they report it like this!"
"This is nothing, there is something even more extreme. .”
Fang Yan flipped through several other newspapers, "For example, this one, "'Shaolin Boy' Challenges 'Master Long'"."
Gong Cie asked doubtfully: "Master Long?"
"Cheng Long The name of a movie I acted in before was called 'Master Long'"
Fang Yan was delighted, "This is stirring up trouble. The degree of ignition is relatively light. You are looking at these, the dispute between traditional martial arts films and new martial arts films, the battle between mainland martial arts and Hong Kong martial arts, and the new art city calling for foreign aid to fight Jiahe. Ha, I finally found someone with my name. News!”
“How can these newspapers do this?”
Gong Qian frowned slightly, quite unhappy.
“Create hot spots through opposition.”
Dialect said that this is an old trick of the news media. As long as the topic can create opposition, it will be easier to become popular.
Region, gender, and even games, literature, and movies, when two opposing parties start to curse each other, won’t discussion and sales increase?
Whether it is to be notorious or to be famous, in short, if you can win attention and gain benefits, it doesn't matter what the flood is.
"Isn't it too irresponsible to do this?!"
Gong Qian frowned.
“This is just for journalism, there’s nothing strange about it.” Fang Yan shrugged.
Gong Zhen asked: "What are you going to do?"
Fang Yan disagreed, "Isn't it good for others to help you hype up the popularity and increase your exposure for free."
Gong Yan said worriedly: "But aren't you cooperating with Jiahe now? If there is any suspicion or misunderstanding because of this news..."
"This can only be explained with a phone call."< br>
Fang Yan smiled: "But I think Boss Zou and Nan Sheng might be like me. I'm happy to see it happen."
Gong Zhen wondered: "Isn't it true? We are already so antagonistic, can we really just watch and ignore it?"
"Of course. Let's not talk about "Once Upon a Time", let's talk about "The Great and Powerful", you have never seen how badly it was shot."
Fang Yan said with a look of disgust: "Even if we can delete some useless scenes and add exciting martial arts scenes, it will still not help. At most, we will lose less money." He threw the newspaper on the table. "Now it's better. Relying on this momentum of public opinion, Jiahe is prosperous." Maybe you can get more box office and reduce losses. After all, even if you cooperate with a third-rate director in Hollywood, the price won't be much cheaper."
"Isn't this bad?"
Gong Qiao was surprised.
"It's just a loss of reputation and reputation."
Fang Yan said: "But it's all temporary. When "Police Story" and "Die Hard" are released, Cheng Long and Jiahe can make a wonderful comeback and win back all the dignity and face they lost in "The Great and Powerful"."
Gong Qian blinked, "This is what you often call the marketing and operation of commercial movies, right? These are not seen at all in the mainland?"
"That's natural, learn it slowly."
When Fang Yan heard the doorbell, he stood up and said, "This business Our mainland market will have to go through this process sooner or later."
"Let me do it." Gong Jie stopped him, "Hurry up and call Nan Sheng and talk to them about this situation. Let’s talk.”
………………
As expected from Fang Yan, Xinyi City and Jiahe turned a blind eye to this kind of news, and instead became more and more indulgent and created heat.
The release date of "The Power of Magnificent" is scheduled to be at the end of the month, while "Once Upon a Time in China: Top Gun" is scheduled to be released at the beginning of the month.
At this moment, just in front of the cinema where the premiere was held, a large number of reporters and fans appeared one after another, and the crowd was overwhelming.
The premiere press conference is mainly to attract attention, big-name celebrities stand out, and a "strong" aspect must be highlighted in the lineup.
To the surprise of the media and the audience, there were so many guests attending "Once Upon a Time: Top Gun" that it was unimaginable.
Since it is a co-production between New Art City and Shanghai Film Studio, Yindu Agency, a merger of Great Wall, Xinlian, and Phoenix, will be present anyway.
At the same time, for the sake of the two monsters Shi Nansheng and Xu Ke, even though New Art City was on the verge of falling apart, five monsters including Mai Jia, Huang Baiming, and Teddy Robin appeared one after another. They came to support each other and brought their own new teams with them.
For example, Huang Baiming brought Li Lizhen, Luo Mingzhu, Lin Shanshan and others who became famous with "Happy Ghost".
For example, Mai Jia walked on the red carpet leading to the theater with Xu Guanjie, Sylvia Chang, and Gu Jialu.
However, this was just an appetizer. What really surprised and delighted the reporters and fans at the scene was that Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest were also here!
Jiahe's team is led by He Guanchang, who not only dispatches the two pillars Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long, but also brings along artists such as Yuan Biao and Lin Qingxia.
Obviously, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng cannot be invited alone, more or less for the sake of dialect.
Shaw Brothers obviously gave enough face to the dialect. Not only Fang Yihua participated in person, but almost all the artists who were available in Shaw Brothers and TVB appeared, including Chow Yun-fat, Wang Zuxian, Maggie Cheung, the Wireless Four Tigers, etc. , I don’t know, I thought I was participating in TVB’s Taiwan celebration!
Such a scale, comparable to the Academy Awards ceremony, with bright stars, all gathered at the premiere of "Once Upon a Time in China".
“Thank you, thank you very much.”
Fang Yan, like Li Lianjie, Gong Zhen and others, stood on the stage and thanked everyone in the audience with a smile on his face.
Afterwards, Xu Ke took the microphone and made the opening remarks, talking about the original intention of shooting the movie, especially the concept of "new martial arts":
"Actually, I didn't understand anything at the beginning. It was called New Martial Arts, and then Fang Sheng made "Huang Xia" The script of "The Feihong" was given to me. After reading it, I was immediately inspired. This is a kind of traditional martial arts that is completely different from Hong Kong. I was immediately excited and felt that martial arts films had a new direction. "(End of Chapter)