How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 365 Zhang Yimou and Chen Wuji

When Li Lianlian heard Zhang Nan's words, he relaxed a lot.

Because he himself is somewhat conceited about his current box office appeal.

After all, he has not been around Asia for many years, and this "Huo Yuanjia" is related to whether his acting career can continue. Now that Zhang Nan has the guarantee of a strong distribution channel, Li Lianlian feels really relieved. Take a breath.

After the two chatted for a while, Li Lianjie, who had achieved his goal, found an excuse and slipped away from Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nan didn't pay much attention when he saw this, and continued to focus on the Jin Xi eel next to him.

Jin Xi's eyes, which had been looking straight at him, were a little blurry.

In fact, Jin Xi's blurry eyes were partly caused by Zhang Nan's advice.

On the other hand, it was also because she was accompanying Zhang Nan for a while. Chenglong, Li Lianlian, Asia's little king Zhou Jiegun... etc., who usually seemed to her to be important people, now treated them with respect and came in an endless stream. He stepped forward to express his goodwill, which made her feel a little proud.

However, seeing Jin Xi's condition, Zhang Nan couldn't focus on him anymore. Instead, he turned around and looked for other points worthy of his attention in the screening room.

Sure enough, after just a short inspection, Zhang Nan discovered a place in the screening room with a somewhat complicated atmosphere.

Without it.

The two people standing in that place were Zhang Yimou and Chen Wuji.

These two people can be said to be old classmates and old enemies.

Or to be more precise, Chen Wuji was a little jealous of Zhang Yimou's achievements that far exceeded his own in recent years.

Now, it just so happens that Zhang Yimou is no longer favored by capital in the film and television industry due to the failure of "House of Flying Daggers", while Chen Wuji is currently at his peak with "Wuji", which has an investment of over 3 million from China Film Group.

Therefore, as soon as Chen Wuji entered the screening room and saw Zhang Yimou, he began to think of ways to get closer to Zhang Yimou, and then stood next to Zhang Yimou like a rooster showing off his feathers, shaking them off.

It made Zhang Yimou blush, but he couldn't do anything to Chen Wuji.

Because he is indeed a little depressed now, and Chen Wuji is indeed prosperous relying on [Wuji].

Zhang Yimou, who had always been patient with Chen Wuji, had a keen eye for others. Almost as soon as Zhang Nan looked over, Zhang Yimou noticed it, and then he quickly said to Chen Wuji: "Director Zhang came over, I'll go first." Come over and say hello.”

After saying this, Zhang Yimou raised his feet to shake Chen Wuji away.

But Chen Wuji was stunned when he heard this, and what he was thinking in his heart was: Director Zhang?Now that you've become such a jerk, why are you still called Director Zhang?
But Chen Wuji soon realized that the director Zhang in Zhang Yimou's words was not talking about himself, but the only director Zhang in Asia - Zhang Nan.

Thinking of this, Chen Wuji was a little glad that Zhang's surname was not Chen.

Otherwise, such a good Director Chen would have to be called Director Wuji, which would be a bit downgraded.

Chen Wuji, who had reacted, did not let go of Zhang Yimou. He quickly walked half a step in front of Zhang Yimou and said, "Let's go together. It's annoying to say hello to each other."

After hearing what Chen Wuji said, Zhang Yimou kept thinking in his heart: You know how annoying it is!
But Chen Wuji was like this, and Zhang Yimou couldn't say anything more, so the two of them walked up to Zhang Nan.

In front of Zhang Nan, Chen Wuji didn't dare to show off like he did in front of Zhang Yimou before.

After all, Chen Wuji is quite arrogant and brainless, but his brain is not broken yet.

Although Chen Wuji feels that he has a chance to catch up with or even surpass Zhang Nan in the future.

But he also knew that the current gap between him and Zhang Nan was indeed a bit big, so when he and Zhang Yiyang came to Zhang Nan, they always said hello politely and politely.

"Director Zhang."

"Director Zhang."

Zhang Nan nodded in response, first focusing on Zhang Yimou. After the failure of "House of Flying Daggers", Zhang Yimou, who relied on "Hero" to gain momentum, has basically given Huo Huo the fame brought by directing "Hero".

So far, his new works this year are not able to continue to be commercial blockbusters, but have slightly returned to his previous line of work - art films.

A project like "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" was produced, with an external publicity investment of up to 6000 million yuan.

According to Zhang Weiping's virtue, there will be no shortage of investment here.

But even if the investment amount is real, compared with his previous investment of over 2.8 million yuan in "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" with a production fee of [-] million yuan, the quality is more than one level lower.

And in fact.

After this film [Ride Alone for Thousands of Miles] was released in October.

That is far lower than the 2.5 million yuan box office of "Hero" and the 1.5 million yuan box office of "House of Flying Daggers", and is comparable to the 3000 million yuan box office of movies.

It also demonstrates the box office appeal of Zhang Yimou, a major director in the Mainland, which was completely destroyed by "House of Flying Daggers". It can be said to be devastating.

And if the total investment of RMB 6000 million in [Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles] is true.

So this wave of "Ride a Thousand Miles Alone" has a box office of 3000 million yuan, which is enough to make the entire "Ride a Thousand Miles Alone" project a loss of nearly 5000 million yuan.

If this situation were placed in Hollywood, his career as a director would be over.

Of course, this does not mean that the mainland film and television industry is more tolerant than Hollywood.

In fact, after "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles", the capital of the mainland film and television industry basically blacklisted Zhang Yimou.

But Zhang Yimou, who couldn't stand it, did pull his crotch.

But in the mainland film industry, there are many people who are more outrageous than Zhang Yimou!
For example, Xu Laoguai's "Seven Swordsmen" was released in July.

With an astonishing investment fee of 1.4 million Hong Kong dollars, it has made an astonishing box office of 8345 million yuan in the mainland, and an even more astonishing box office of more than 800 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong.

Even counting the total global box office, "Seven Swordsman: The Mountain" only has a box office of 1572.3 million U.S. dollars, with a total box office of more than 9000 million yuan. Based on one-third of the box office dividend, the box office revenue of "Seven Swordsman: The Mountain", The talent could barely reach 3000 million, with a loss of HK$1.1 million.

Then there is [The Promise] which will be released at the end of the year.

An investment of RMB 3 million resulted in a box office of RMB 1.75 million, resulting in a loss of more than RMB 2 million.

After several comparisons, the general is chosen among the dwarves.

In a dire environment, Zhang Yimou actually stood out among directors with a loss of only 5000 million yuan, and once again won the favor of mainland capital.

Of course, there are not just bad reasons for this.

There is also Zhang Yimou's glorious past and the gilding of his position as the chief director of the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony not long after.

"Director Yi, I heard that your new film [Riding Alone, Thousands of Miles] is in the style of an art film and will be released in October?"

Zhang Nan took the lead in sending words of concern to Zhang Yimou, who was still able to rise in the future.

This is also what Zhang Nan likes to do most. If you show a little care to people when they are at their lowest, the future benefits will be dozens or hundreds of times the rate of return.

Sure enough, seeing Zhang Nan talk to him first, Zhang Yimou was in a daze and thought he heard wrong because he thought Zhang Nan would talk to Chen Wuji first.

After all, the current Chen Wuji is much more prosperous than him. He has a 3 million yuan investment in [Wuji] from Huaying. Now Chen Wuji is said to be the number one director in the mainland entertainment industry, and no one dares to say anything - the mainland entertainment industry They all agreed that Zhang Nan was from Hollywood and was not included in the mainland entertainment industry.

(End of this chapter)