It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1114 Fan Bingbing: No Reason to Reject

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was December 12th.

At the same time, the popularity of the Lunar New Year period in the domestic film and television circles is also rising steadily!

"As of today, the reality-themed movie "Dying to Survive" directed by Chen Fei has been released for 13 days and has grossed over 30 billion yuan, with a total of 31.64 billion yuan.

Warm congratulations to "Dying to Survive" for breaking through the 30 billion box office mark and successfully entering the 30 billion box office movie club..."

"This morning, the action and fantasy film "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", directed by Yuan Heping, written by Xu Ke, and starring Dapeng, Ni Ni, Li Zhiting, Zhou Dongyu and others, has officially entered the national theater chain and started the public screening plan.

On the first day of the film’s release, the overall screening rate of theaters was 15.6%, which was far from the expectations of the film company.”

"The Hollywood blockbuster Justice League has been officially withdrawn from theaters today as its box office potential has been exhausted. The film has been released for 27 days and the cumulative box office revenue has reached 6.3 million RMB."

Feng Xiaogang was in a very good mood today, mainly because of the poor screening schedule of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia".

What makes him even happier is that with the overwhelming success of the previews of "Youth" during this period, netizens' recognition of this movie is surprisingly high!

There are even many people who think that this movie can also achieve the feat of "art film counterattack against commercial film" like "Dying to Survive"!

You know, in the ever-changing film market, the competition between art films and commercial films has never stopped.

In recent years, there has even been a miraculous phenomenon in which art films have counterattacked commercial films. This transformation has attracted the attention of the entire film industry!

In this trend, Feng Xiaogang is undoubtedly one of the typical examples. After all, he had written this wonderful chapter during the 07 Lunar New Year period.

At that time, the main theme movie "Assembly" directed by him met the martial arts blockbuster "The Warlords" directed by Chen Kexin.

After the two films were released at the same time, "Assembly" won the unanimous love and recognition of the audience with its profound theme, wonderful plot and outstanding performances of the actors, and the final box office reached 2.49 million.

Although "The Warlords" also had a strong cast and exciting fighting scenes, its box office was slightly inferior, earning only 2.01 million yuan.

As time goes by, Feng Xiaogang faces the same situation again in the current Lunar New Year holiday.

His new work "Youth" is about to compete with "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" starring many stars such as Dapeng, Ni Ni, Aarif Lee, Zhou Dongyu, Wu Bai, and Liu Yan for the box office.

Compared with the luxurious star lineup of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", the cast of "Youth" is much more modest. After all, only Huang Xuan is a famous actor, and the others are almost all newcomers.

But judging from the current preview results and market feedback, "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" is obviously not as good as "Youth".

"In fact, this movie has never been in my comparison range. My competitors are "Dying to Survive" and "Legend of the Demon Cat". I don't even take the others seriously..."

In the huge pre-screening mobilization meeting room, everyone was listening to Feng Xiaogang bragging.

Ye Ning originally wanted to advise him not to take it lightly, but after thinking about it, he didn't say anything.

After all, the other party was just showing off right now. If I interrupted him, he might hate me...

Ye Ning waited until he finished pretending to be cool before he spoke: "From the current market feedback, apart from the movies "Dying to Survive", "Legend of the Demon Cat", "Blooding Steel" and "Ready Player One", we can completely stop paying attention to the rest. They will not have any impact on the box office of "Youth"."

Hearing this, everyone nodded to show that they understood.

At this moment, Feng Xiaogang suddenly interrupted and said, "Is there no problem with the cinema scheduling? Will there be another situation similar to the previous "I Am Not Fan Jinlian" being targeted by Wanda?"

Hearing the name of his old employer, Ye Ning was slightly startled.

After a moment, he responded: "No, Wanda will not deliberately target us this time, everything will follow market rules..."

"Hahahahahaha." Wang Zhonglei's laughter suddenly echoed in the conference room.

When everyone's eyes fell on him, he was seen crossing his legs and said confidently: "The investors of Youth include Bayi, Huaying and Emei Film Group, which are all state-owned enterprises.

No matter how powerful Wanda Cinema is, can it suppress movies produced by state-owned enterprises? Even if he has ten times the courage, he would not dare to do so! "

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room smiled knowingly.

At the same time, seeing the strong success of "Youth" and "Dying to Survive", Brother Chen Kai could no longer sit still.

Immediately after visiting the set of "Ever Night", he gathered all the main creators and started following up the last round of publicity roadshow for "Legend of the Demon Cat".

At the same time, Chen Long also moved.

Under his leadership, director Zhang Lijia, actors Luo Zhixiang, Ouyang Nana, Xiahou Yunshan and others began to embark on a nationwide roadshow promotion.

Among so many Lunar New Year movies, only Chen Fei is not very active in the mainland.

There is no way. In his opinion, the mainland film market is still not big enough.

If "Ready Player One" wants to achieve higher profits, it must make some achievements in Hollywood.

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"On its first day of release, the action and fantasy film "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", directed by Yuan Heping, written by Xu Ke, and starring Dapeng, Ni Ni, Aarif Lee, Zhou Dongyu and others, grossed 2673.5 million yuan on its first day of release."

"The drama, love and war film "Youth", directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Huang Xuan, Miao Miao, Zhong Chuxi, Yang Caiyu and others, was officially released at 12: am last night.

On the first day of the film's release, the overall screening rate was as high as 34.2%, far exceeding "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia"! "

"Jointly produced by Syndicate Pictures, Dongshen Pictures, Haomai Culture, iQiyi, and New Film Union Culture, and starring Chen Kun and Ni Ni, the costume drama "The Rise of Phoenixes", adapted from Tianxia Guiyuan's original novel "The Phoenix Power", was officially wrapped up yesterday!"

The domestic Lunar New Year box office seems to be getting more and more lively, and previous hot searches such as "Cyberspace Administration of China bans paparazzi" and "The dark side of the birth of an actor" have been completely suppressed and disappeared.

Chen Fei has been paying close attention to the Lunar New Year holiday season, including the promotional data for several films.

Judging from the current situation, the most popular one is undoubtedly "Dying to Survive", which has broken the 30 billion box office, followed by "Youth" and "Legend of the Demon Cat".

As for "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", when its first-day box office results came out, it meant that the film had withdrawn from the competition early.

With such a booming market, the box office on the first day was only over 2000 million. Just imagine that this movie will definitely not be very good.

And this can be seen from its poor reputation.

At this moment, all the enthusiasm and attention on the Internet are focused on "Youth".

When attention turns to Hollywood, the most popular one is undoubtedly the newly released "Star Wars: The Last Jedi".

This movie is fierce!

On the day of its release, the film grossed $1.04 million, making the executives of Lucasfilm and Walton Pictures happy. As for the much-anticipated Justice League, no one is interested in it now.

After 29 days in release, the North American box office has just exceeded 2 million US dollars. Compared with its production cost of 5 million US dollars, it is a huge loss!
"As of yesterday, the North American box office of Justice League was only $57, and Thor: Ragnarok has been online for 3 days, but it still has $43..."

Natasha chats with Chen Fei about "Justice League" almost every day, which allows him to learn a lot of interesting situations.

After the former DC Films CEO Hamada resigned, Time Warner sent Jeff Jones to take over the position of CEO.

As soon as he took office, he immediately invited Zack Snyder back and began to push for the release of the director's cut of "Justice League".

This action also helped him gain a firm foothold in DC.

Especially those DC fans, who directly called him the "savior" who came specifically to save DC!

At the same time, the "Aquaman" project, which was originally not favored by Hamada, also became the first project for Jeff Johns to work on.

Everything that Hamada had done before was completely denied by this person.

Now the two of them even attack each other on Twitter from time to time, which makes it very lively and attracts a lot of spectators to participate.

"Okay, forget about DC. Our main task now is Ready Player One."

Fade Chen interrupted Natasha's sharing of the funny incident and asked emphatically, "Have you arranged everything for tomorrow's premiere?"

"Yes." Natasha nodded heavily and said, "Everything is ready!"

"it is good."

Fade Chen stood up, took his suit jacket off the hanger, and prepared to attend the recording of the Helen Show that was scheduled for the afternoon.

By the time he finished his work and returned home, it was already dark in North America.

At the same time, in China, the first day box office results of "Youth" have also been released!
After taking a look at the first-day box office performance of "Youth" which was as high as 8236 million, and then comparing it with the second-day box office data of 2436 million for "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", Chen Fei couldn't help but shook his head.

The collaboration between Xu Ke and Yuan Heping has almost destroyed half of the already shaky foundation of Hong Kong films.

There's no other reason, the market response to this movie is really bad.

The Lunar New Year holiday had such a huge market scale, but it failed to boost the box office performance of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia". What's the point of this?
At the same time, many domestic filmmakers and colleagues in the film and television industry are also amazed at the gap between the two films.

Everyone thought that in the Lunar New Year period when there were many commercial blockbusters and fierce competition, "Youth", which seemed to be aimed at non-mainstream audiences such as those born in the 50s and 60s, would be slightly overshadowed by a number of strong films.

However, the reality was far beyond everyone's expectations!
This movie, directed by Feng Xiaogang, without any cool special effects or luxurious all-star lineup, has quietly entered the hearts of the audience with its sincere emotions and moving story.

On the other hand, the blockbuster "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", which was created by Xu Ke with his unique imagination and bold use of film technology, was unexpectedly a failure!
This contrast undoubtedly made everyone confused.

What is going on in the cinema market?

Special effects blockbusters are not as popular as art films and reality-themed movies?
This is really novel!
Huayi.

In the huge conference room, Feng Xiaogang was so excited that he had already decided to launch a new project.

"After Youth is offline, I will immediately announce the start of preparations for Cell Phone 2."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Zhonglei slammed the table and said "OK" three times!
“Here’s the script.”

Feng Xiaogang handed the script, which had been officially finalized at this time, to Wang Zhonglei.

The latter took it and read it with great interest.

The story of "Cell Phone 2" continues the plot of "Cell Phone 1".

Eighteen years ago, Yan Shouyi was the host of the TV program "Say It Straight" and eighteen years later, he turned to the Internet to do a talk show.

Eighteen years ago, his cell phone contained many unknown secrets, and now the secrets in the cell phone have caused a new storm...

After taking a quick look at the script, Wang Zhonglei put it away and said, "Let Huayi handle the script review."

"it is good."

This is exactly what Feng Xiaogang thinks.

"I'll leave Fan Bingbing's role to you." Feng Xiaogang continued to make arrangements. He planned to continue using the cast of "Cell Phone 2" in "Cell Phone 1".

"No problem, I'll go talk to her."

Wang Zhonglei chuckled, looking quite confident of winning.

Due to the poor box office performance of "Sky Hunter", Venus Pictures, founded by Fan Bingbing, lost a lot of money, and she is short of money at the moment.

As "Cell Phone 2" is a commercial film, the pay will definitely not be low.

Therefore, Wang Zhonglei believed that Fan Bingbing would definitely agree to take on this role.

After chatting for about half an hour, Feng Xiaogang got up and left.

"Youth" is currently in its hot theaters, so he has to lead the main creative team to do more promotion, which will be of great help to the subsequent box office revenue of the film.

At the same time, Wang Zhonglei immediately went to arrange the submission of the script of "Cell Phone 2" for review.

From beginning to end, neither of them paid attention to or even mentioned another person related to this movie - Cui Yongyuan!

Because according to their original idea, Yan Shouyi has become a talk show host this time, so it should have nothing to do with you, Cui Yongyuan, right?
What's more, there is no topic of "genetically modified organisms" in the plot and story. At most, there are some "extramarital affairs".

The latter situation has happened too many times in reality, how could it possibly be applied to you, Cui Yongyuan?

Therefore, whether it was Wang Zhonglei or Feng Xiaogang, or the screenwriter Liu Zhenyun, or even Fan Bingbing who received an invitation to participate in the performance, none of them took Cui Yongyuan seriously.

After receiving Wang Zhonglei's invitation, Fan Bingbing did not think too much and agreed directly.

It was the role of "Wu Yue" in "Cell Phone 1" that helped her win the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress and helped her gain a foothold in the film industry.

Now that "Cell Phone 2" is about to be launched, and Wang Zhonglei has also promised her a sky-high salary, she has no reason to refuse!

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