Chapter 172 The Sorrow of Action Actors
The premiere was attended by stars.
Wang Jinghua, Chang Jihong, Li Xiaowan...
The three major domestic agents all attended with their many celebrities, big and small, making it a star-studded event.
In addition, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Guoli also attended with their wives...
Mr. Wang from Huayi also came, bringing Li Bingbing and several female celebrities, smiling Zhang Chen and Dong Jianqiang to say hello.
"Manager Dong, I wish "Black 2" a great box office success~"
"Thank you Mr. Wang for your kind words~"
Dong Jianqiang warmly greeted the other party to sit down, Mingming They are all from Huayi, but they are not sitting together with Wang Jinghua's group, so they are clearly different from each other.
"Sister Xiaowan..."
Just as Mr. Xiao Wang left, Li Xiaowan appeared again, flanked by his son Lin Shen and Mr. Zhou.
At this time Mr. Zhou is still an artist of Rong Xinda, and the contract will not be terminated until 2006.
Mr. Zhou was Rong Xinda’s biggest drawcard. After she left, Rong Xinda fell into disrepair and became a second-rate company. Li Xiaowan never had any big names under him again.
Most likely, Yang Xiaomi also left with Zeng Jia and founded Jiaxing Media.
Seeing her agent coming, Yang Xiaomi came over to say hello to Li Xiaowan.
When Zhang Chen saw Yang Xiaomi, he originally thought that the other party would be a little unnatural. After all, his role had been changed, and no matter who he replaced him, he would not feel comfortable.
But Yang Xiaomi didn't, as if nothing had happened, she was still 'in front of Director Zhang' and 'in front of Director Zhang'...
Then the appearance of a figure made Zhang Chen a little confused Surprisingly, Liu Tianxian also came.
Seeing Zhang Chen's surprised expression, Liu Tianxian pursed his lips slightly.
“Isn’t it surprising?”
Zhang Chen nodded: "Yes."
Liu Tianxian smiled and said: "I really wanted to attend the premiere, but I waited and waited and didn't get the invitation call. Fortunately, Manager Dong still remembered me~ "
Zhang Chen slapped his forehead: "My fault, my fault, I thought you were busy filming and didn't have time, so I simply didn't dare to invite..."
People Having said that, Zhang Chen could only apologize profusely.
In fact, the real reason is that Zhang Chen knew that Liu Tianxian also had a movie "Love Winner" released at the same time.
It was the one she went to Taiwan to shoot during the filming of "Sword and Sword", which took a total of 10 days.
Ordinarily, the two are considered competitors, and Zhang Chen doesn’t understand why Liu Yifei doesn’t support his “Love Winner” and instead comes to him.
But now is not the time to talk about this.
"You take your seat first, and we'll talk later..."
The people from the company led Liu Tianxian to his seat, and then Zhang Chen looked at Dong Jianqiang: "Did you invite me? ”
Dong Jianqiang shook his head: "It's not me. She called me suddenly last night and said she was coming to the premiere today. She took the initiative to come over to support me, should I push it out?"
Zhang Chen did it I don’t know what kind of medicine the fairy sister is selling in her belly?
Didn’t I say before that it was difficult for Zhang Dabeard to ask for leave? Why did he show up at the premiere again...
Dong Jianqiang next to him thought wrongly: "Is there anything going on between you and her?"
Zhang Chen rolled his eyes. , that means you don’t understand me too well, brother.
"Am I that kind of person?"
Dong Jianqiang said resolutely: "You are."
Zhang Chen felt like he was being stabbed in the back, and said angrily: "Please, how is this possible, filming? At that time, her mother was watching the whole process. Lin Shen, Li Xiaowan’s son, was stared at by Liu Xiaoli like a thief just because he talked a few words to Liu Yifei..."
Dong Jianqiang saw that his expression didn't seem to be fake, so he said with relief: "This is best. You'd better not have anything to do with Liu Yifei. Cooperation is fine, but nothing else..."
"That's not the case. ? Just because of her mother Liu Xiaoli? ”
"It's not Liu Xiaoli, it's her godfather. He's very difficult to offend. If you really touch Liu Yifei, the two sides will quarrel and we can't live without it. There are many beauties in the entertainment industry. You can provoke her at will, but as long as It’s better if it’s not her.”
Dong Jianqiang obviously knew a lot of inside information. Zhang Chen was just trying to find out the other party’s identity when the host informed that the premiere was about to begin.
Most of the celebrities were present, and the media’s flashbulbs never stopped. I don’t know how many films were murdered.
As usual, after the entire film was screened, the main creator came on stage to accept questions.
Ning Hao, Zeng Li, Yang Xiaomi, Wang Luodan, Cao Bingkun and other main creators stood in a row, with Zhang Chen ranked first.
Although the director of this film is Ning Hao, everyone knows that the soul is Zhang Chen, he gave the script framework, he shot the previous film, and he is also the producer.
Media Q&A session
"Director Zhang, do you think "Dark Invasion 2" has met your expectations?"
The first question was indeed Zhang Chen's.
Zhang Chen took the microphone, organized his words and replied with a smile: "Of course, it's even better than I expected."
After a slight pause, he continued to explain: "Everyone knows that it is generally difficult for a sequel movie to surpass its predecessor, because the narrative mode has been fixed, and the character framework is also inherited from the predecessor, and there are very few places where you can play freely... "
"The same is true for "Dark Invasion 2". A large part of the reason for the success of the previous game was the foreshadowing of the horror atmosphere in the early stage.
But the sequel is different because the audience has been there from the beginning. Knowing what the monster in the cave looks like poses a difficult problem for the screenwriters, how to create new ideas while the audience can guess?
Now it seems that director Ning Hao has done a good job with the story. The logic is complete, the dramatic conflicts are intense, the character relationships are clear, and the atmosphere is well created.
This movie is still in the familiar style, but the action is more intense, the scenes are more thrilling, the rhythm is just right, and the atmosphere is tense and exciting. The previous film maintained the standard of a sequel movie, and that’s enough.”
Zhang Chen did not use any particularly extreme words this time, and focused on seeking truth from facts.
Movie promotion cannot be blindly exaggerated, it must be combined with the quality of the movie itself.
If you praise a movie to the sky and make enough gimmicks, it will indeed attract a lot of eyeballs in the early stage.
But once the movie is released and people find that the quality of the movie cannot match the previous publicity, then the expectations they had before will turn into disappointment and even anger.
At that time, what awaited the movie was overwhelming negative reviews.
The simplest example is the "Notice of Voting".
This film is known as Jet Li's worst work, and it was defeated in the confrontation with "Assembly".
But it’s actually not that bad. Putting aside other aspects, the quality of the film itself is okay.
The theme is "The Horse Stabbing Case", one of the four famous unsolved cases in the late Qing Dynasty. The actors are not bad, including Jet Li, Liu Tianwang and Takeshi Kaneshiro, and the heroine is Xu Jinglei.
But why the crowd was so fierce in the end is because the publicity was too much.
I don't know if Chen Kexin was stimulated by the previous "If Love", and he promoted it like crazy during "The Proposal".
Promoting Jet Li’s 100 million-dollar franchise, anyway, it’s just binding Jet Li for promotion.
At that time, Jet Li still had great box office appeal in the field of kung fu movies. In terms of kung fu movies, he was number one in the entire world, and even Jackie Chan had to step aside.
Seeing that Jet Li is starring, everyone's first reaction was that this must be a kung fu movie, and the fighting must be intense and beautiful.
All investors, theaters, and audiences were full of expectations when they saw that it was Jet Li's film.
The result?
Jet Li's martial arts scene in "The Legend" was not important, it was equivalent to Peter Chan deceiving everyone.
What the hell, I paid for the ticket just to watch Jet Li fight, and you show me this?
That's why the reputation of "The Order" is so bad, because all the previous publicity said that it was a kung fu martial arts film, and the audience's expectations were raised.
Everyone wanted to see a hearty fight of the Kung Fu Emperor, but it didn’t happen.
Some only seduce the second sister-in-law. Haha~
The producers are just kidding!
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
So the whole Internet is criticizing the "Tou Ming Zhan" verbally and verbally, and the scores of "Tou Ming Zhan" are also going crazy.
I don’t know why Chen Kexin did this?
Don’t you understand that water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it?
Well, maybe I really don’t understand, because Chen is Thai.
Actually, publicity aside, this film is still okay.
Jet Li also contributed good acting skills in it.
But it’s useless, people don’t read this.
What we want to see is the fight.
This is also the fate of Kung Fu actors.
You are already established in everyone’s mind.
Speaking of people like Jet Li and Jackie Chan, we don’t want to see anything else, we just want to see you fight.
So their transformed works usually fail.
The same is true for Jet Li's "The Call to Fame", the same is true for Uncle Long's "Glass Bottle", and the same is true for Fatty Hong's "Dragon's Heart".
Speaking of which, Fatty Hong played a very good fool in "Dragon Heart" and really showed off his acting skills.
Unfortunately, the movie was not a hit, and the reason is still the above.
This can be considered the helplessness of action actors.
In fact, the role of a fool seems easy to play, but it is difficult to really perform the role with special characteristics.
Guo Jinan, Sammo Hung, Chow Yun-fat, Cheng Kui'an, Liu Qingyun, Jiang Wu, these people have all played fools...
Wait, there seems to be something different mixed in.
Cheng Kui'an, come out~
Other people are stupid when they play a fool, but you are stupid when you play a fool~
...
On February 12, two days ahead of Valentine’s Day, “Dark Invasion 2” was officially released.
Major theater chains have scheduled 52% of the films on the first day.
Zhang Chen is still a little dissatisfied, but Dong Jianqiang thinks it is already quite a lot, and Ning Hao is also quite satisfied.
"Black 2" cannot compare to "Shark Beach".
The film schedule of "Shark Beach" enjoys the treatment of a blockbuster. Because it is an unpopular schedule, and with the strong promotion of China Film Group, theaters are willing to follow suit and try, so it can achieve such a miracle.
But "Black 2" doesn't work.
Not even if it's a sequel to a hit movie.
There are so many movies released on Valentine’s Day.
"Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies", "Beauty Remains", "Lover's Knot", "Polar Express", "Himalaya Star", "Hancheng Strategy", "Peacock", "Dark Invasion 2", "Love in Love" Winner".
There are nine movies in total, all scheduled to be released within two days from the 12th to the 14th.
It’s just a big fight!
What is the ending of the big fight?
There is usually only one lucky person who survives in the end.
In fact, it was all caused by "Kung Fu". Everyone chose the Valentine's Day show in order to avoid "Kung Fu".
There are many works starring big stars like Zhou Gongzi and Zhao Yanzi. Under such circumstances, the theater is willing to give 52% of the film schedule, which is quite interesting.
This is why the quality of "Black 2" at the movie screening is obvious to all. If it is even worse, it will be impossible to get this film.
Although there are many movies being released together, Zhang Chen is actually not worried at all.
Dong Jianqiang once asked him before which movie would be the biggest opponent of "Black 2".
The answer Zhang Chen gave him was that there was no opponent at all in "Black 2".
Among them, "Peacock" is the most famous.
After all, Gu Changwei is Lao Mouzi’s photographer, and he has his own aura.
The publisher of "Peacock" is Bona. Yu Dong's distribution strategy for "Peacock" is very conservative, and only two games are arranged a day.
He seems to be very sure that "Peacock" will win the award. He has been pressing on it in the early stage, which has aroused curiosity and allowed the word-of-mouth to slowly ferment.
In these days, there is a group of literary and artistic films, although not many, but there are indeed them.
And "Peacock" has a really good reputation.
Other than that, there is only one film "Hancheng Strategy" that Zhang Chen is more impressed by.
This is a Hong Kong movie, imitating the style of "007", with a handsome guy and a lot of beauties. The style is the standard Hong Kong movie style, relaxed and humorous, completely different from James Bond. Same.
Zhang Chen happened to have watched it in his previous life, of course, in a DVD player.
The quality is not great.
Zhang Chen has forgotten what the movie is about, but he remembers that Liang Chaowei made a gag among a group of beauties, which was quite strange to watch.
By the way, the director of "Hancheng Strategy" is Ma Chucheng - Hong Kong's top photographer.
"Prison Storm", "Sweet Honey", "Fang Shiyu", and "Red Zone" were all shot by him.
Won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Ma Chucheng is a first-rate photographer, he only wants to shoot and direct, but as a director, he can only be considered second-rate, not even second-rate~
"Don't underestimate it. Just like our "Dark 2", "Korean Strategy" is also a sequel. Its predecessor "Tokyo Strategy" won a box office of 28 million in Hong Kong that year..."
Tung Chien-keung advises not to take it lightly.
As I said before, there are currently more than 6 million people in Hong Kong, and the market is limited. A movie with a box office of over 10 million is considered a hit.
It is indeed impressive that "Tokyo Raiders" can win 28 million at the box office.
No wonder "Hancheng Strategy" is so aggressive.
It probably feels that it is the king of this Valentine’s Day period.
A few days later, the first weekend box office was released.
"Dark Invasion 2" undoubtedly ranks first with 21 million.
After all, it is a sequel to a successful movie, and the audience base is there. Even without much viral marketing, the box office is not bad.
Guess who is second?
Zhang Chen and Dong Jianqiang originally thought it would be "Hancheng Strategy". After all, the star cast is not bad, and it is also a sequel to a successful movie.
But no.
The real second place is "Peacock".
The reason is simple. "Peacock" won the Silver Bear, the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in Europe.
When the news returned to China, it immediately caused a carnival among literary film lovers.
Gu Changwei's first film won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Everyone thought that Gu Changwei was the second Zhang Yimou.
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Sorry, it’s just one chapter today
(End of this chapter)