You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 673 ① Killing like crazy ② Unprofessional stewardess ③ Director Huang Bo ④ Wang Quan's new film ⑤ Xixi's comeback

"I don't want to guess, I just want to know who is next to you, shouting so loudly."

"Sugar."

"Be gentle when you hit her. I do, even if you don't feel sorry for her." Yang Mi warned.

"No, she is happy."

In order to prove that it didn't matter to her, Tang Yan also asked: "So who did Hua Mulan choose in the end?"

Wang Quan smiled evilly and told them: "I'm sure none of you would have guessed it was Li Yuchun!"

"Ah!" Tang Yan.

"Ah?" Yang Mi.

Yang Mi asked again: "Is this true? I didn't see any news about Li Yuchun's audition online, but I did see that Da Tiantian flew to Los Angeles."

Wang Quan: "It should be correct. Dorothy found out from inquiries."

This time Yang Mi couldn't stand it anymore, "No, why should she do that?"

Tang Yan agreed with Yang Mi: "That's right, I haven't acted in many dramas, I can't even be considered an actor."

Wang Quan: "But she is the top star in the nation, the first generation of idols selected by the people of the country, the darling of the fashion circle, and the center of every evening party."

Although Wang Quan doesn’t quite understand why Chun Ge has such a high status, he is indeed the C position every time, and even Hong Kong and Taiwan superstars have to stand aside. He is ridiculously strong.

Yang Mi snorted, "Tsk!" That was because I wasn't at the party. If I was there, she would definitely stand aside.

Later, Yang Mi told Liu Yifei the news and complained to her that Disney was blind and said, "You can't use not looking like a woman as the only criterion for casting!"

Liu Yifei had just coaxed her daughter to sleep and responded with a smile, "Yes, yes, it's better to choose Zeng Yike than Li Yuchun."

"Hmm?" Yang Mi asked suspiciously, "Are you familiar with her?"

Liu Yifei: "I'm not familiar with him, but don't you think Brother Zeng looks a bit like you?"

Yang Mi was silent for a moment, and finally said, "Fuck you!"

After hanging up the phone, Yang Mi continued to exercise. Although she was mainly responsible for logistics and technical support in "The Climbers", she also had some scenes of climbing snow-capped mountains. She had to train her body quickly, otherwise she was afraid that she would die in the Himalayas.

Wu Jing is so ruthless that he actually wants to shoot on location. The crew is now training in the Himalayas.

He also decided to shoot the real-life outdoor scenes first, and then the studio scenes after that. This way, if someone had an accident during the filming, they could be replaced in time to minimize the loss.

Listen, is this human language? You have to worry about your life safety while filming.

Yang Mi felt a little sympathy for Bai Yu, Zhang Ruoyun and the others. They and Wu Jing really wanted to challenge Mount Everest.

Although there will be the best Sherpas leading the team, Tibetan medical staff will always be with them, and helicopters will be deployed in advance, which will make it safer than real climbers, it is still a huge risk for the actors, and many young actors do not have the courage to take on this role.

Fortunately, Wu Jing has a record in "Wolf Warrior 2", so even if there are risks, Bai Yu and Zhang Ruoyun are willing to give it a try.

Especially Zhang Ruoyun, he first filmed the super hit "Time 1997" with Sister Mi, and has been deeply involved in the field of TV dramas in recent years, but his performance in movies is very poor. Although he tried his best this time, it is also an opportunity.

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At this time, the mainland film market was still dominated by "Ne Zha". Even Japan's One Punch Man Saitama and "Your Name" began to interact with "Ne Zha" and carry out cross-dimensional publicity.

After "Ne Zha", "The Lost Tomb 3" has also stabilized the situation and it is likely to break billion.

Outside of the mainland, there are two other Chinese-related films that have achieved huge success, but they are still not seen in the mainland.

One is the new movie "Crazy Rich Asians" with an all-Asian cast that has become a big hit in North America. It is the first work of Xiao Wei's wife Li Xian as a producer, and the starring actors include Asian stars such as Constance Wu, Yang Ziqiong, and Gemma Chan.

This movie has triggered a viewing trend in North America similar to "Black Panther".

However, the number of black people is far greater than that of Asians, so the box office of "Crazy Rich Asians" in North America was only about 200 million US dollars, which is already a huge breakthrough for the Asian community.

This movie will not be released in mainland China until the end of September.

Another movie that was a huge hit around the mainland will probably never be released in the mainland film market.

That is "Along with the Gods" directed by Chen Zhengdao, adapted from a Korean comic.

This Taiwanese film, which cost 1.5 million RMB, is the largest local film in Taiwan's history. According to the current exchange rate, it is worth about 7 million New Taiwan dollars.

Although the investment in "Seediq Bale" was also NT$7 million, it was divided into two parts, while "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" is a single film.

Last year, the Korean version of "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" was released and became a hit in Asia. This year, Chen Zhengdao's "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" was released a month before the second Korean version of "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds". It unexpectedly achieved good results and broke many records.

Of course, the film also has a very strong cast. Milk Tea Lun, who has not acted for a long time, comes back to play the second male lead, which is the role played by the Korean version of Cha Tae-hyun.

As for the male lead, it is Zhang Zhen.

In addition, Taiwanese stars such as Lin Zhiling, Li Hongqi, Guo Biting, Li Liqun, Zhang Zhiyao, Qiu Xinzhi, Ming Dao, and Lai Guanlin have joined.

This lineup is very attractive to mainland audiences, and the subject matter is even more attractive. But precisely because the subject matter is about stories about the underworld, and there are not just one or two ghosts but a group of ghosts, the mainland market cannot be counted on.

It is precisely because of this that some movie fans specifically applied for Hong Kong and Macau Passes to go to Hong Kong to watch "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds", thereby pushing up the film's box office in Hong Kong, which is quite similar to the grand occasion when "3DXX" was released.

At the beginning, Chen Zhengdao wanted to return to the place where he was born and raised to absorb some nutrients, and at the same time help Taiwanese filmmakers so that everyone could have food to eat.

This movie cost 1.5 million RMB. Although it surpassed "Cape No. 6000" in the Taiwan market and won the championship in the history of local films, it only made more than million New Taiwan dollars, and can only make back about million RMB.

In addition, the Hong Kong market also broke the best record of Asian films in Hong Kong, surpassing "Train to Busan" and closing with 7500 million Hong Kong dollars, which is probably more than 3000 million RMB.

Royal Power's Chinese-language films cannot sell as well as Hollywood's. Hollywood's "Inception" and "The Force Awakens" have both exceeded 6000 million Hong Kong dollars, but "Cold Front", "Parasite" and "Escape Plan" are all in the million range. Instead, it was a Taiwanese film that made history.

In Hong Kong and Taiwan combined, "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" only recovered less than 100 million of its cost.

In addition, there is the Southeast Asian market, which can also recover 10 or 20 million, but it still cannot cover the cost.

At this time, you can continue to distribute it globally and sell it to Japan, South Korea, North America, and Europe.

But apart from Japan and South Korea, not many people will be interested in this film, and the Korean version has been very successful, so it is also a question whether this Chinese version can be accepted by Korean audiences.

In the end, Chen Zhengdao chose to sell it directly to Netflix, which brought him a good profit. In addition to recovering the cost, he also made more than 10 million.

After working hard for two years after making "The Piano Tuner", he earned more than 1000 million yuan. This outcome made Chen Zhengdao understand more clearly the importance of the mainland market to Hong Kong and Taiwan films.

Even though "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" has such a good reputation and a strong cast, it will be nothing if it loses the mainland market, and will even lose money if luck is bad.

So after sorting out the follow-up profits of "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds", he immediately devoted himself to the preparation of the new film "The Captain".

In addition to the initially confirmed male and female protagonists Liu Ye and Gao Yuanyuan, Zhang Tianai and Meng Ziyi also joined the cast, playing two young flight attendants.

Sister Meng finally got to act in a movie!

And she finally got what she wanted and tasted the sweetness of big beautiful yuan.

In order to learn how to be a good stewardess, she and Zhang Tianai bought stewardess uniforms and went to experience life on Wang Quan's private plane.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yuanyuan also thought so. After the filming of "The Accidental Detective 2" was completed, she rested for a few days and then devoted herself to the preparation work for the new film. At this moment, she is serving Wang Quan under the guidance of a real flight attendant on the plane.

After that, the plane took off and the three novice stewardesses served Wang Quan together. The original four stewardess teachers had also worked in civil aviation and they taught him patiently over and over again.

Wang Quan is going to fly to Qing Island to attend the premiere of Huang Bo's directorial debut "A Good Show".

On the plane, Wang Quan deliberately made things difficult for the three stewardesses and took advantage of them from time to time, which was quite interesting.

Later, Da Meiyu was the first to invite Wang Quan to the bedroom, and then Sister Meng followed in.

Xiao Ai waited for a while, and just as she was about to go in, the loudspeaker announced that they had arrived at Qingdao.

What a pity! What a pity!

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In addition to the four young actors Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming, there are six less handsome and popular movie stars of similar age, Wu Jing, Shen Teng, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, and Zhang Yi who rose to fame with "Operation Red Sea". They are nicknamed "the six big middle school students" by netizens.

Some people also think that Zhang Yi is not qualified and Huang Xuan should take over. In short, the ten or so of them can be said to be the first-line lineup of domestic film male stars, and any script usually has to be reviewed by them first.

This movie is Huang Bo's signal to catch up with people like Xu Zheng and Wu Jing. The director is the pinnacle of power in the film industry. He does not want to be the one who is chosen. He also wants to stand up and see the scenery below.

Of course, his good friend Baoqiang once told him, "Sometimes being a director is not a good thing."

That year, Baoqiang won a Golden Broom Award for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 3". He went to the scene to receive the award in person. It can be said that this left a trauma on him and he has not dared to touch the director again in recent years.

But the fire in his heart was not extinguished, and he learned a lot from Chen Sicheng when filming the "Detective Chinatown" series.

After arriving at Qing Island, Wang Quan went straight to the hotel, where Sister Zhiling was already waiting for him in his room.

I don’t know if it’s to match Qingdao’s style, but she is now wearing a bikini, showing off her beautiful figure.

Wang Quan waved his hand: "Wait a moment, we'll talk about it in the evening."

Sister Zhiling stood up and said with a smile: "You are not honest on the plane, okay, hug me."

This coquettish voice doesn't sound like that of a 40-year-old.

The two hugged each other for a while, talked for a while, and then went to the premiere.

This is Huang Bo’s hometown, and the film was shot at Wanda’s Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis, so they chose to hold the premiere in Qingdao.

The story of "A Good Show" is a very classic desert island model, and its shadow can be found in the classic literary work "Lord of the Flies".

So the story is quite interesting, but Huang Bo’s ability is average, so the result is just barely better than passing. Maybe this is the reason why he later stopped getting involved in directing.

After the premiere, Huang Bo told Wang Quan, "The crew of Investiture of the Gods Trilogy has also settled in Oriental Movie Metropolis, and I play Jiang Ziya in it."

"Oh, is it turned on already?"

"No, we held an audition and training session before, and just finalized the candidates for young actors. They are now focusing on horseback training. Director, would you like to come over and give some guidance?" Huang Bo invited. He also invested some money in the Fengshen Trilogy and was considered one of the small bosses.

Wang Quan shook his head. Sister Zhiling’s eyes were dripping with tears when she looked at him, so he decided not to get involved.

Today is also the 13th day since the release of "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World". On this day, the film successfully broke through the 30 billion mark, and Maoyan's total box office forecast for the film exceeded 50 billion for the first time!
Netizens called it crazy, crazy!
They are not saying that Maoyan is crazy. They still agree with this prediction. They just think that this world is too crazy.

There is not even a 40 billion yuan movie in China right now. There are only two phenomenal movies of 2 billion yuan level, "Wolf Warrior 50" and "Happy Journey", in the mainland.

Who would have thought that an animated film could have such great power and surpass these two masterpieces.

Compared to Japan, we don't have a very deep anime culture, so it is more difficult and more valuable for animated films to achieve this result than live-action films.

The success of "Ne Zha" has made animation labels such as Light Chaser, Light Chaser, and Fangte all eager to try their luck. If it can make 50 billion, we don’t have high demands, to billion will be enough for us.

Especially Guangzang's Color House, they invested in a company of Communication University of China. The movie this company is currently producing is called "Jiang Ziya", which is about to be completed. Taking advantage of this momentum of becoming a god, they may have great potential!
Coincidentally, Light Chaser also took a fancy to the theme of Investiture of the Gods and is also preparing a story about Nezha. The script has been written and the model has been basically completed.

However, whether it can be launched depends on the performance of "White Snake: Origin" at the end of the year.

If it still fails, there may be no more light to chase in the future.

On August 8, "A Good Show" was officially released, and it earned 10 million yuan on the first day, which was considered a good start. "Ne Zha" was affected by the new film and only earned 1.6 million yuan that day.

However, today's box office champion is not "A Good Show", but a movie adapted from a sitcom that has been popular for several years - "Love Apartment".

The marketing of this movie was so strong and the audience was so generous that the box office exceeded 3 million on the first day!
Then the film was criticized by the entire Internet.

"Refund, refund!"

"Fraud, this is a fraud!"

"What kind of love apartment is this? This is basically Grave Robbers' Chronicles!"

"They are really good at hiding it. It turns out the real male lead is Yuan Hong!"

"It's a lie, ugh!"

Although Nanpai Sanshu was unable to adapt The Grave Robbers' Chronicles into a movie, he could use a roundabout tactic and play the role of tomb robber in Love Apartment.

So this "Love Apartment" came out, and the film producers wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value from the Love Apartment IP.

But the audience was not fools. Amid the overwhelming bad reviews, only about three million fools bought tickets to enter the theater the next day, and the online criticism increased even more.

300 million on the first day, only a little over 100 million left on the second day.

In contrast, the mediocre "A Good Show" earned another 1.9 million in a single day, and the billion-dollar box office is already within reach.

Not to be outdone, "Ne Zha" grossed 1.85 million yuan in a single day, ranking first in both attendance and average number of people per show.

By Sunday, the box office of "Love Apartment" was only over 5000 million.

"Ne Zha" regained the first place with 1.81 million, and "A Good Show" temporarily ranked second with 1.78 million!
Netizens exclaimed that Magic Boy is mighty. Faced with such a phenomenal movie, "A Good Show" is ready to be suppressed all the way.

Then in August there were no other blockbusters except for "Ant-Man 2".

The day when "Ant-Man 2" was released was the Ghost Festival, which was also the birthday of Sissi and Xiaoxianmi.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei was not in the capital, and she took little Xianmi, who was spending the summer vacation, to Jiangcheng to visit her grandmother. Little Xianmi should be called great-grandmother.

So Wang Quan had to chase to Jiangcheng. Fortunately, the post-production of "Xiao Yao You 2" had been completed at this time, and Wang Quan would be relatively free until it was released in November.

Jiangcheng, coming here again, Wang Quan immediately thought of the event that changed the whole world next year, and even couldn't help wanting to go to that seafood market to take a look.

"Why don't we accompany grandma to watch an opera?" Liu Yifei suggested.

"What kind of show is this?"

"Jiang Cheng, of course we have to listen to Han Opera. I listened to it with my grandmother when I was a child. I didn't understand much, so I just watched it for fun."

Wang Quan had no objection, so the two of them took the old and the child to a theater in Jiangcheng.

The play we watched today is called "Heaven Official's Blessing", which is also found in Peking Opera.

However, Wang Quan saw the Yue Opera performance repertoire in the theater's tomorrow's preview.

This is not surprising. Chinese opera is in decline now. Han opera, Huangmei opera, Huagu opera, Peking opera and of course Yue opera can all be performed here as long as they can make money.

Coincidentally, the Yue Opera troupe tomorrow is Jiang Xiaobaihua, the protagonists of the performance are also Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao, and the play performed is "Butterfly Lovers".

Because there were so few audience members and everyone was sitting sparsely together, no one else in the audience noticed these two hot topics.

Although there were few people, the actors on the stage performed very hard.

Grandma Xixi is from Northeast China. The family came to Jiangcheng for work reasons. They have lived in Jiangcheng longer than in Heilongjiang.

So even though the grandmother still has a Northeastern accent, she can fully understand the singing in Han Opera, and is also responsible for explaining to her granddaughter Xiaozhong what the story is about.

What Wang Quan is more concerned about is whether the income of these niche opera actors can support their families.

Later, the grandmother told Wang Quan, "Many of these actors have side jobs. They can support themselves by singing, but it is difficult to support their families. However, out of love, they have not given up their skills. Of course, there are more who choose to give up."

Concubine Liu Yi nudged Wang Quan and asked, "What's up? Do you have the inspiration to write a script again?"

The "Xiao Yao You" trilogy has been completed, and the last part will be released in 19. It's time for Wang Quan to prepare a new film for 2020.

Having just completed an industrial film blockbuster, Wang Quan wants to shoot something low-budget next to express himself.

Moreover, the market will certainly not have recovered by then, and it will be difficult to have high box office despite high costs, so this time he plans to make winning awards his main goal.

He curled his lips at Liu Yifei and said, "I do have some inspiration, but it's a pity that someone has retired from the entertainment industry. Even if I write it, no one will take the film."

"Ah, is the role suitable for me? Then I can make a comeback right away!"

(End of this chapter)