Chapter 537 2013 is here (6K please give me monthly votes)
This year's Spring Festival collection is concentrated with movies made by three major directors. Compared with this, the New Year holiday is relatively weak.
Wang Jing's "Big Shanghai", Liu Weiqiang's "Blood Drops", two Hong Kong Island directors' movies.
In the mainland, Zhao Yanzi saw that the leaders were all competing for the Spring Festival period, so she kept the New Year period.
So "To Our Youth That Will Be Away" was released in January in advance.
A romantic film "101 Marriage Proposal" by Huang Bo and Lin Zhiling also focused on the cake that was released during the New Year's Day and was transferred to the New Year's Day.
The other is that Happy Camp has launched "Happy Home".
If there is only these, then the New Year holiday will basically be a pure disaster.
Fortunately, there is also "Lost in Thailand", which is scheduled to be released on December 21.
The first movie in China that exceeded 1 billion mark in the past life is different now. Chen Linfeng is very curious whether he can achieve more than 1 billion.
In addition, Lu Yang worked hard for more than half a year and finally made "The Embroidered Spring Sword" and was scheduled to be released after New Year's Day.
The casting of this film has some changes in the previous life version.
The male protagonist Zhang Zhen in his previous life may not be attracted by Lu Yang because "The Grandmaster" has not been released yet.
He really wanted to invite Chen Linfeng to play the role of Shen Lian, but unfortunately he couldn't do it. In the end, he chose Chen Kun.
Huang Xiaoming took over Wang Jing's "Big Shanghai" at the same time, so he missed the opportunity.
The third brother Jin Yichuan is starring Shi Xiaolong, while the other actors remain basically the same.
Chen Linfeng gave three scripts at the beginning, and Lu Yang was the fastest move.
He was the first among the four first-generation students to join the crew, and his family also gave him a lot of support. He had been looking for and forming his own team before.
So, as soon as I obtained the story framework of "The Embroidered Spring Sword", I immediately adapted it, and then prepared the scene selection and selected actors to start work.
Investment is ready-made, with Chen Linfeng's ideas, and with the main investment, there are many people who follow the trend, so there is no need to worry about money.
There is no need to mention the other three people. If you want to create a mythical special effects film, you have to start with the TV series.
Guo Fan is also helping Chen Linfeng's crew, and the project will be launched this year.
Shen Ao also started the project after getting the script of "Manslaughter". His actions were obviously much slower than Lu Yang. He just finished filming at the end of the year.
The standards that are sufficient to be released in the later stage are expected to be completed until mid-next year.
On December 21, Chen Linfeng was invited to attend the premiere of "Lost in Thailand".
He was really interested, so he took the time to go to Yanjing to join in the fun with Xixi.
The two of them didn't walk the red carpet either. Time was squeezed out, and they didn't have time to do a look and pick clothes. They went into the cinema through the internal passage in casual clothes.
However, in the cinema, the cameras of the reporters on the scene still hit them from time to time.
It is really rare for these two to participate in public events.
Liu Qianqian and Chen Linfeng sat in the theater chair and whispered, not caring about the media footage.
As the end of the year approaches, the crew's filming has been completed, and both of them feel a sense of relaxation from the bottom of their hearts. "Xiaofeng, today is the legendary end of the world!" Liu Qianqian looked very excited. "Well, then?" "What else is this? Then, the end of the world, no one is gone."
She made a "open" gesture with both hands, and a "bang" sound was made in her mouth.
It seemed as if the world had exploded and disappeared.
Chen Linfeng felt funny, "You really believe in this."
He felt very wonderful. He had experienced similar scenes in 1999.
As a person who has experienced it, he clearly knew that nothing happened in the two apocalypse mentioned by the media.
"No," Liu Qianqian shook her head, "But it's fun. Don't you think it's very suitable to talk about this topic today."
She said strangely, "By the way to "Lost in Thailand" really chose a good day. When it comes to the news of the end of the world, we always bring the news of "Lost in Thailand" release."
Chen Linfeng said, "It's a special day to choose. Marketing is a talent."
This is another different place in this life. "Lost in Thailand" seems to be released earlier in the previous life.
Anyway, in his memory, there is no such thing as a prophecy of the end of the world.
"Director Chen, good afternoon, thank you for attending our premiere."
Chen Linfeng turned his head and found that it was Xu Zheng who came over. It should be the red carpet and publicity activities outside that ended. "Good afternoon, Director Xu, come and sit and chat." Chen Linfeng patted the seat beside him. "Oh, okay." Xu Zheng was very flattered. He said that they were all directors, but if you really compare it, it was far from the same.
"Xiqi and I were still talking just now. The time you chose is a gimmick. It's very interesting to be released on the end of the world."
"Hey, I heard from others that, and it feels like a good time, so I chose this day."
If there is any big-name movie released later, Xu Zheng must try his best to avoid it.
But this year, the big guys are all going to compete for the Spring Festival period, so he doesn’t have to worry about scheduled films.
The two of them talked about filming in Southeast Asia, local policies and conditions, cultural customs and other topics.
Not far away, the media reporter arranged by the producers turned the camera straight at the two of them and took pictures of their chat.
If this passage is released, it is proof that Director Chen is very optimistic about Director Xu Zheng and the two have a happy conversation.
Now, as Chen Linfeng's status is getting higher and higher, the number of appearances in public occasions is also decreasing.
Whoever chats with and takes photos with him seems to have some different flavors, which can be interpreted by the media and the public.
After a while, Shi Xiaolong and Wang Baoqiang came together.
The relationship between these two people is good. When they were young, they met each other on the one hand. "Soldier Assault" further consolidated and carried forward this friendship.
As one of the starring actors of "Lost in Thailand", Wang Baoqiang, the new movie was released, and Shi Xiaolong came to support him in a routine manner.
Chen Linfeng said, "Baoqiang, you have a multi-faceted flower. In the past, you have a local style, and then you will shoot art films. Now you are also able to do comedy films. I am afraid you will not be the mainland 'Liang Jiahui' in the future?"
Wang Baoqiang scratched his head and smiled silly, "Director Chen has too high requirements for me, I am still far from it."
"If you have your own style, you may not be worse than him in the future."
Wang Baoqiang has a distinct style and good acting skills. If you really want to develop without being affected, you can't tell which level it can be.
There was no such incident as a Venetian actor in his previous life.
Along with the changes in experience, he has never known Ma Rong and the pair of bitches named Song at all. The future development will definitely be different from his previous life.
Chen Linfeng is quite looking forward to Wang Baoqiang's changes.
The producer of "Lost in Thailand" next to him, Chen Xi wrote down Director Chen's evaluation of Wang Baoqiang in his heart.
This evaluation is not low and can be used in later marketing.
Now Director Chen praises someone, which can be regarded as a kind of qualification or an official evaluation.
Later, the movie begins.
It's still the same flavor, the funny style of the combination of mindless and unhappy.
Chen Linfeng has seen it in his previous life, and now he looks at it again, and the laughter of some scenes is still good.
But in fact, with his current perspective, if you look at it carefully, there are many plots here, but the arrangement is not good.
But comedy is like this, as long as the actors perform it is funny, it is enough.
It is obvious that Wang Baoqiang and Xu Zheng had a good chemistry.
The actor is right, as long as there are no obvious loopholes in the script, the result will be good.
The biggest difference between today's "Lost in Thailand" and his previous life is that Wang Bao's idol has changed from Fan Binbin to Liu Qianqian.
In the end, Liu Qianqian came on stage to make a cameo appearance in the movie.
Chen Linfeng watched his wife appear on the big screen and joked with a smile, "Idol~" Liu Qianqian glanced at him, "Can I be an idol?"
Xiqian is not funny now.
Chen Linfeng sighed in his heart and then applauded with everyone.
The audience then interviewed and asked about his opinion on the movie.
"It's pretty good, it's a relatively qualified comedy film."
"Uh, is this review considered good or average?"
"Of course it's good," Chen Linfeng glanced at the reporter strangely, "There are not many qualified comedy films in China."
"Then you can..."
"Stop," Chen Linfeng knew what the other party wanted to ask, and interrupted directly, "I won't give an example, why should I offend people if I have nothing to do."
The reporter changed a question embarrassedly, "Since you are optimistic about the performance of "Lost in Thailand", what kind of achievements do you think this movie can achieve?"
Chen Linfeng pretended to think carefully for a while, and then said, "At present, as long as it is a mature type of film, the box office will not be bad. I think it should be around 1 billion."
"1 billion!?" The reporter confirmed in surprise, feeling that he had heard it wrong.
"Well, at this time in the domestic market, 1 billion movies may appear in batches."
Chen Linfeng made this judgment with evidence.
Although his previous filming of "Your Name" and "Inception" has caused the market to stir up the market.
But the number of good domestic films is still too small, and domestic audiences are in a state of hunger.
Especially this year, domestic films have not yet performed particularly well.
The middle of the year "Inception" is hard to say it is a domestic movie.
Therefore, there may be retaliatory movie viewing during the New Year holiday.
The later generations of "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Nezha" have similar tendencies every time they appear at the box office.
Domestic movies are really easy to make. As long as the quality is a little good, the audience will appreciate them. If the quality is high, the audience will burst out.
But the filmmakers in the industry still cannot receive this wealth.
But in the end "Police 2" and "Inception" slightly relieved the audience's hunger, so he couldn't say whether there would be another crazy outbreak of "Lost in Thailand" in his previous life.
Therefore, he only said it was around 1 billion.
…
After the premiere of "Lost in Thailand", Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian continued to return to the crew to film, hoping to try their best to finish the film before the New Year.
In the media, Chen Linfeng praised Wang Baoyun and the movie "Lost in Thailand" at the premiere, which became news.
The former involves Liang Jiahui, and a reporter interviewed him specifically.
"Director Chen said that Mr. Wang will become 'Mainland Liang Jiahui'? That's really thankful to Director Chen for looking down on me."
"Mr. Wang is the new Venetian actor in the mainland, and I don't have this honor."
" Of course, I believe Director Chen's vision. In this regard, Director Chen has a reputation and no one can compare to him."
"..."
The words seemed to be very acknowledged.
When interviewing Wang Baoqiang, he himself was very modest and repeatedly stated that Liang Jiahui was a senior and a master of acting skills. Director Chen had high expectations for him and continued to work hard to live up to Director Chen's expectations.
When it comes to the evaluation of "Lost in Thailand".
At the beginning, the industry was a little surprised, could such a movie be worth one billion?
It's too exaggerated.
But due to Chen Linfeng's prestige in the industry and his incomprehensible box office results, no one dared to refute it under pressure.
Immediately afterwards, the box office results of "Lost in Thailand" on the first weekend also made the filmmakers in the industry speechless. The first day of Friday was 53 million, the second day on Saturday, the box office suddenly reached 80 million, and the third day was 77 million.
After three days, the box office in the first weekend totaled 210 million yuan, creating the best results besides Chen's movies.
Now, the friendly competitors were really surprised.
No, you really come.
Judging from this momentum, it may really be able to have a box office of 1 billion yuan.
In terms of media reputation, many professional reviews and film critics have not had a good review of "Lost in Thailand".
But what is strange is that the audience has a good sense of the movie and the box office continues to rise.
Netizens highly recognize Chen Linfeng's comments that this is a "qualified and mature comedy type", which has almost become the general public's overall evaluation of "Lost in Thailand". "I have to say that today's film market is very difficult to meet in terms of qualification and maturity."
"Lost in Thailand may not be as exciting as Chen Linfeng's films, but I also enjoyed watching them, but that's enough."
No mistakes, one song, one song, one content, one book, one bar, one bar, one bar, one bar! "Yes, all the directors and screenwriters, you don't require you to reach the level of Director Chen. At this level, we will be satisfied with the number of movies being brought in over a year." "What a pity, this is all difficult." "Liu Xixi at the end is quite surprising. Xu Zheng really knows what the audience wants to watch."
"..."
"Lost in Thailand" was a great success, and Xu Zheng was in the limelight for a while.
He became another successful case of an actor-turned director.
This made many people think of Chen Linfeng. Although he was a professional director, he first gave the impression that he was an actor.
Is there any bonus for actors to transfer directors?
Wang Baoqiang also entered everyone's vision. This person who acted in comedy also looked good.
The media also dug up the past of Chen Linfeng's investment in "Lost in Thailand".
Public opinion is also boiling, and why do all good movies seem to be related to Chen Linfeng?
In some of the rumors in the circle, I believe in Chen Linfeng's luck even more firmly.
…
During the filming break, several actors chatted with each other, and the main topic was "Lost in Thailand".
Including Woody Harrison, Toby Maguire and others are there too.
After all, in China, it is difficult not to be affected by Chinese news. They will also ask the translator to read some Chinese entertainment news for them from time to time.
In this way, at least when chatting with Director Chen, there are topics that can be said to be not.
Now, they are all a little surprised.
"Has the mainland market in China reached this point? Movies that often cost hundreds of millions of dollars appeared."
Harrison said, "It's normal. Director Chen had predicted that one day the single market of more than 1 billion dollars would appear in China."
Toby shook his head, "This is amazing, unimaginable. Five years ago, there were not many movies that exceeded 10 million dollars here."
Chen Linfeng said, "So now, Chinese actors will gradually appear in my movies. In the future, China will be a very important vote base. I need to pay attention to the feelings of Chinese audiences."
Peter covered his face, "chen, you don't need to explain, we all understand you."
Even if the Chinese market is not so powerful, I believe you will not give up on this approach.
Liu Qianqian asked curiously, "Is this movie really hopeful that it will exceed 1 billion?"
"It's very likely."
But... the box office seems to be worse than in the previous life.
Chen Linfeng thought in his heart, it seemed that there was indeed a factor in watching movies in his previous life.
Today's audiences are a little calmer when facing movies with quality above the level.
But the market's desire to be vigorous is still there, the movie itself is also OK, and the previous work "Lost in the Road", should be about the same.
Yanjing, Huayi Headquarters.
The Wang brothers were also chatting with Feng Xiaogang and Gu Changwei.
Chen Guofu, who used to be in this office, is no longer here. He has confirmed that he will leave Huayi early next year.
The one who joined in was Gu Changwei.
Zhou Xingxing, who has worked with Huayi recently, has been more cooperative, but this person is always unsociable.
This made Wang Zhonglei very unhappy.
I am so rich now, why does it depend on your expression?
He doesn't even want to see Feng Xiaogang's face now.
The business empire is actually full of hidden worries, but now there is still money as a lubricant, so the parties involved don’t care.
Several people talked about the movie "Lost in Thailand".
Wang Zhonglei lit a cigarette, took a few puffs, and said, "Now it seems that comedy movies have great potential."
"Indeed, Xiao Chen is still able to watch this. I heard that he still has investment in this movie?"
Gu Changwei also lit one, and he and Wang Zhonglei have similar ambitions.
"Yes, Xu Zheng took the initiative to look for him. I heard Xiao Chen talk about this personally." Feng Xiaogang was also breathing mist.
Wang Zhongjun thought, "I'm wondering whether we should work hard on comedy, and it feels that filming comedy is more suitable for us."
Special effects feature films are too expensive. In the past few years, Huayi has been making a lot of trouble, but except for "Tongtian Empire", the results are not good.
Chen Guofu's "The Wind" was not bad before, but once it was exposed to special effects, it was not good.
The box office of the Tai Chi series was really a hit.
Therefore, Huayi can no longer tolerate Chen Guofu.
You should find another way out.
Feng Xiaogang supports Wang Zhongjun's view very much, "Comedy is good, I like this."
When it comes to comedy, it's Feng Xiaogang.
Wang Zhonglei hurriedly said, "No hurry, Zhou Xingxing's "Journey to the West to Demons" has not been released yet. The company strategy that has been set cannot be changed at will."
He looked around everyone, "Did you forget when Xiao Chen ate meat hard?"
"This..."
Wang Zhongjun didn't say anything.
Indeed, Xiao Chen is so jealous of meat and money in sacks. "If you do it, you still have to play blockbusters, get special effects, fight him to the death!" Wang Zhongjun was jealous and slapped the table hard.
"It depends on this year's Spring Festival. Zhou Xingxing's comedy story and the latest special effects of the Divine Beast Company, I don't believe it..."
"Cough cough~" The coughing in the middle made his passionate speech tug.
He forced himself to say, "I don't believe it. Who can compete with us in this year's Spring Festival?"
Then, Wang Zhongjun, who was choked, waved his hand and waved the smoke in front of him, and saw that the conference room was about to become a fairyland.
"The smell of smoke is too strong, please take it easy."
...
Yindu and Bonna are also using "Lost in Thailand" to discuss the marketing plan of "The Grandmaster" during the Spring Festival.
Yu Dong regretted it a little, "Hey, we should arrange it on the New Year's Day, but in fact the New Year's Day is also good."
Yindu Chairman Song Dai waved his hand, "The Spring Festival has been developed for two years after Xiao Chen's development. Now no one in the industry knows that the upper limit of the Spring Festival is the highest."
"But this upper limit does not mean that we can reach the upper limit."
As a typical businessman, Yu Dong still wants to put his bags in peace.
Wang Jiawei takes too much time to shoot movies. This time, he is very optimistic about "The Grandmaster" and may be able to make some money.
It would be bad if it was delayed due to schedule issues.
But in fact, Song Dai also thought so, just because the cycle is long, so he had to take a gamble.
If you don’t make that little money, it is actually similar to not making it.
"Besides, what we want is not only money, but also status in the circle."
"Now the industry says that if you don't compete for it during the Spring Festival, you are not considered a powerful company."
"You think, can we suffer this grievance?"
Even if you make less money, you have to compete.
Yu Dong nodded after hearing this, "You are right."
...
New picture.
Zhang Weiping watched Zhang Yimou's new film "The Battle of Song Meng" for the last time, and he felt a little excited.
This is the blockbuster he was looking forward to.
For this year's Spring Festival, he looked down on all sides and felt that he had won.
No one can fight.
Xia, Xiao Chen is not here, he is still smart. He actually avoided it, otherwise he would have to be killed by the horse.
…
At the end of December, "The Shocking Demons" was finally completed.
He ended the scenes of several foreign actors early before Christmas.
Otherwise, these people would probably go on strike.
The rest of the days are actually some trivial work in the final part.
When the filming was completed, the cheers from the entire crew were much louder than before.
In the past, there were few shots like this.
Although I know Director Chen’s films, they must be good movies and have a good income.
But I have been so tense for so long that I know I will be idle later, so I feel relaxed naturally.
Chen Linfeng also breathed a sigh of relief. He was a little too busy in the second half of this year and had no time to spare.
By next year...
Uh, by the year after tomorrow, you must not be so busy anymore.
This is his true thought.
At this stage, there is really no need to be like the past, so it is already done.
There are too many movies, and it is easy to cause a failure.
It is not easy for him to accumulate such a good reputation now, so he still has to be more cautious. "From the year after tomorrow, many sequels should be buried slowly." Chen Linfeng thought of the many series he started, and felt a sense of sincere satisfaction in his heart, just like a little hamster saved enough of the fruits of winter.
Returning to Yanjing from Pingshi, he first lay down at home for a day, and then gathered with Liu Qianqian with his parents to meet Liu Xiaoli.
After these customary moves between relatives are over, it will be New Year's Day.
Another year has passed.
Time comes 2013.
(This chapter ends)