Chapter 100 Teacher Huang makes an appointment
"Then I will try to contact Zhang Ziyi's agent in the next two days to see what her attitude is."
Dong Jianqiang saw Zhang Chen hang up the phone , then he said.
Seeing that it is already mid-October, there is only one month left before the release of "Shark Beach", so we must seize the time to prepare for promotion.
The sooner the heroine of "Eden Lake" is finalized, the sooner they can devote their energy to the promotion of "Shark Beach".
"Shark Beach" is a work that Zhang Chen has high hopes for. If he wants to make a film that exceeds 100 million yuan, he must go all out in every aspect.
"Okay, you go and get in touch. Oh, by the way, be careful about his agent."
Zhang Chen doesn't know whether the current agent of International Chapter is her brother or has been replaced by someone else. Ji Lingling.
But no matter which one it is, it's actually pretty bad.
Zhang Ziyi’s brother actually does not have any qualities as a manager at all. He is simply the product of a person achieving enlightenment and a chicken or a dog ascending to heaven.
In Zhang Ziyi's early days, her brother acted as her agent and made a lot of jokes.
Later, she realized this and decided to kill her brother out of righteousness. She removed her brother from his position as agent and replaced him with Ji Lingling, who was said to have returned from Hollywood.
But it’s not much better than the previous one.
The cuteness of splashing ink, the cuteness of fraudulent donations, the cuteness of temptation, combined with the triple door incident, almost ruined Zhang Ziyi's acting career, but Ji Lingling's response when it happened was not clever.
It’s strange to be so clever. He is a Singaporean who doesn’t understand the domestic situation at all. He doesn’t understand why Zhang Ziyi handed over the agency contract to him. She probably thinks that she comes from Hollywood and is more advanced.
"While you were answering the phone just now, China Film Group called us to inform us that they have an appointment with us tomorrow. Enlight and Huayi will study the promotion plan for "Shark Beach" together."
If you want to have a box office of over 100 million, you don't have to Just talk about it, but there is a lot of work to be done behind the scenes.
It is necessary to coordinate the film arrangement of theaters, contact the media for publicity, and curb the spread of piracy.
Over 100 million is not so easy, even with the support of Han Sanping.
I haven’t seen that so far, there is only one Zhang Yimou in the billion-dollar club in China.
"Okay, I just happened to cut out a few versions of the "Shark Beach" trailer, and I will show it to everyone."
Zhang Chen has been busy working on the trailer in the past few days.
In the promotional part before a movie is released, the trailer is a crucial point.
Usually trailers contain some of the essence of the entire movie. They do not reveal too much, but can arouse people's curiosity and attract the audience.
But some unscrupulous projects will cut all the essence of the entire movie into the trailer.
After watching the trailer, the audience felt that the movie would be very exciting, but when they entered the theater, they realized that the best parts of the movie were all in the trailer.
The next day, in an office of China Film Group Corporation, the producers and distributors of "Shark Beach" were all present.
A director of the China Film Distribution Department, whose surname is Lin, is in charge.
Star Entertainment is Zhang Chen and Dong Jianqiang.
The person from Huayi is Mr. Xiao Wang.
The light came from Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao is a talented person specially invited back by Wang Changtian. He is fully responsible for all affairs of Enlight Pictures.
Historically, he is the real founder of Enlight Pictures, and he also proposed and implemented the underground network distribution model.
Such a person is indeed a talent and a flexible person.
Everyone sat down on the sofa one after another. This was the first time Dong Jianqiang met Zhang Zhao after leaving the light, and it was also the first time Zhang Chen saw this awesome man.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhao took the initiative to greet the two of them.
“Hello, Director Zhang, it’s our first time meeting you.”
“Jianqiang, everything in the past was because of different positions. I hope you don’t take it to heart. Now we are a cooperative relationship. Let’s work together to make “Shark Beach” a success.”
Zhang Zhao’s meaning is very clear. There was filth in the past, which was determined by their respective roles. Now that everyone is their own master and the relationship is still cooperative, there is no need to continue.
Dong Jianqiang laughed and held Zhang Zhao's outstretched hand generously: "Of course, we are all adults."
Fortunately, there was no tension as expected.
Director Lin and Mr. Wang were also laughing and laughing.
The group briefly discussed the promotion plan for "Shark Beach".
In fact, serious domestic movie promotion began with "Hero". Before that, there was basically no concept of promotion.
Even now, the method is actually quite simple.
Online publicity, hard advertising, premieres, celebration banquets, and finding some celebrities to say good things to you, this is probably the process.
There are also midnight shows, but the effect is very limited.
In November, in the cold weather, whoever is sick would run out to watch a movie in the middle of the night. Wouldn’t it be nice to clean the gun under the covers during that time?
Not to mention now, even around 10 years ago, midnight shows were not particularly popular, unless they were out of the industry like "Avatar".
Nowadays, publicity mainly relies on the media.
Various newspapers, magazines, entertainment news...
Although there is also the Internet, they are basically a fixed group of people, college students and so on.
Computers were still a high-end gadget at this time. They were expensive and not everyone could afford them.
This company has the resources of several TV stations and can arrange exclusive interviews. That company can help contact some magazines and shoot covers.
In short, the three companies participating in the issuance have all brought out their own special skills.
China Film Group Corporation has spoken out because of Han Sanping, and will devote as much promotional resources to "Shark Beach" as it did to "House of Flying Daggers".
Because the company was in the honeymoon period, and Wang Changtian was afraid that Dong Jianqiang would ruin his affairs if he went there, he was particularly concerned about this release.
It is almost operated as a company's S-level project.
Huayi is even simpler. This is the first time they have cooperated with Zhang Chen. Although they did not get the investment share, they only got the distribution, but they still jointly issued it.
But Huayi will definitely let Zhang Chen see Huayi's energy.
Although Bona and New Picture would definitely disagree with Huayi being the leader in the private film and television industry, Huayi is also confident.
Before entering the film and television industry, the Wang brothers started out in advertising and had abundant resources in print media, which can be transferred to "Shark Beach".
After finalizing the publicity plan, everyone dispersed and went back to prepare.
Zhang Chen's phone rang at an inappropriate time.
Taking out the phone, Zhang Chen thought it was another female celebrity who came to inquire about the role. Unexpectedly, it was not this time. It was Teacher Huang from the acting department.
“Ah, Teacher Huang Lei~”
“Zhang Chen, I saw on the news that you were back, and then I got the call from Teacher Fu. What, are you free in the evening? I want to chat with you.”
Teacher Huang has the same careless manner as always.
"Oh, of course I have time. Teacher Huang, tell me what time you will be there. I will rush over."
Zhang Chen respects his teachers very much. Although Teacher Huang does not teach him, he is still a teacher from Beidian. He has to give him this face even if he is busy.
"It's 5 o'clock now, let's set it at 7 o'clock. How about Lao She Teahouse outside Dongzhimen?"
"Okay, I'll let you arrange it." Zhang Chen agreed, but in fact he was still thinking I was wondering, isn't that just outside Dongzhimen, Guijie Street? Where can I find Lao She Teahouse on Guijie Street?
(End of this chapter)