China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 767 Cats and dogs also come to rub

As July comes, we officially enter the summer vacation season.

After "Jurassic World 2", which was released in China in mid-June, earned 16 billion yuan, the dust has basically settled and it is no longer causing any waves.

Jiang Wen's "Hidden Man" is one of the first batch of movies in the summer vacation, and the industry is very optimistic about the performance of this movie.

As the last part of the Republic of China trilogy, whether it will be the next "Let the Bullets Fly" is something that not only the industry but also the audience are eagerly waiting.

The screening rate on the first day was as high as 44%.

"How's it going? I hope I didn't embarrass you with this schedule."

Li Mu asked with a faint smile. At present, the screening arrangements of major theaters have been announced, and Jiang Wen was given the greatest respect on the first day.

Of course, this is also inseparable from Maoyan’s publicity and promotion.

"One billion. It must be one billion this time."

Jiang Wen made a bold statement.

Li Mu also understood Jiang Wen's feelings. After all, among the major directors, only he and Brother Chen Kai had not yet reached the 1 billion threshold.

But Jiang Wen’s movies must be of high quality to reach an audience of 1 billion, otherwise it will be very difficult.

"Okay, tell the media what you said. I did what I promised you. The rest is up to you."

"Okay, look at mine, brother."

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"Director Jiang still talks in such an incoherent way." Liu Yifei covered her mouth and laughed.

"This guy has been like this all the time. Let's go and eat something delicious." Li Mu picked up the little bun and prepared to go find food.

"Seven is good."

The little bun was very excited in Li Mu's arms.

The two were picked up by Li Mu in the afternoon, just as they had just gone through the arduous filming during this period, and it also gave the crew an afternoon to rest.

It’s good to have the little bun here, but he has to sleep next to me at night.

This made Li Mu quite depressed. After all, the beauty in front of him refused to let him touch her. As soon as he stretched out his hand, Liu Yifei pushed his hand away with a reproachful look, and signaled to the little bun beside her with her eyes.

Even though the little kid was already fast asleep, he would still scratch his face with his little hands from time to time.

"Ok."

Li Mu could only put up with this for the time being.

"Be good, we'll talk again when we get back." Liu Yifei kissed Li Mu gently on the face, then thought for a while and said a few more words in Li Mu's ear with a slightly blushing face.

"That's what you said." Li Mu's eyes lit up. Wow, there turned out to be an unexpected surprise.

It’s worth the trip, little Baozi.

"Oh, sleep, sleep!"

Liu Yifei immediately covered herself with a quilt and even hid her face.

But this was a hard time for the little bun. The good quilt seemed to fly away suddenly, and the cold air conditioner seemed to make the little bun a little conscious immediately.

"Mom." The little boy wiped his hazy eyes, looking a little confused, as if asking me about the quilt.

Li Mu couldn't help but find it funny when he saw Liu Yifei's blushing face, but he still quickly pulled the quilt to cover the little kid.

Jiang Wen always does things in his own way.

As a result, he boldly moved the premiere of his new film "Evil Does Not Suppress Justice" to the "Gubei Water Town" in the suburbs of Beijing.

It takes about two hours to drive here from the city.

After Li Mu learned about this, he couldn't help but complain a few words.

However, he has been to the "Gubei Water Town" in the suburbs of Beijing. The environment surrounded by mountains and water, coupled with traditional courtyard-style buildings, is indeed very similar to the "Beijing City in the Republic of China" in the movie, and it is also a good place for a premiere.

Ning Hao and Huang Bo also went to support the film, and the feedback they sent back was not about how good the film was, but rather: Choi Young-won was there too.
"Director Jiang is planning to openly support Choi Young-won."

Guo Fan was also very excited.

"A premiere doesn't mean anything, but I guess some people will be quite unhappy." Li Mu said with a faint smile.

After all, this is a sensitive period, so there will be some impact.

As expected, as the premiere ended, reports from all sides followed.

"At the premiere of Jiang Wen's film "Evil Never Dies", Choi Young-won was present, and Huang Bo's six words showed his high emotional intelligence!"

"At the premiere of Evil Never Dies, Choi Young-won posted a comment to a netizen saying 'Evil Never Dies is based on my experience'. Has this comment been asked to director Jiang Wen?"

"The new film "Hidden Man" premiered at the Great Wall. Jiang Wen said: I treated women as gods in the film. Ning Hao said frankly that watching the movie was really enjoyable!"

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"Fuck it, is this Choi Young-won ever going to stop?"

At this time, Hua Yi and Wang Zhongjun were cursing angrily.

These days, Huayi is almost suffocating in the industry due to the relentless pressure from Choi Young-won.

Feng Xiaogang's face was also quite gloomy. He really didn't expect the matter to turn out like this.

Apologizing is of no use now, and his bet is likely to fail.

Ye Ning just watched silently in her heart at this moment, and then persuaded, "Boss Wang, let's stop Cell Phone 2."

"Boss Ye, no!"

Before Wang Zhongjun spoke, Feng Xiaogang spoke first, but when he saw that Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei had not yet expressed their opinions, he also fell silent. "I still think we should continue. The problem has not been found yet. If our Huayi is terminated like this, how will the outside world view Huayi?"

Wang Zhonglei still insisted on filming.

After a long silence, Wang Zhongjun sighed and said calmly, "Let's continue filming. In principle, we won't stop, but don't put too much energy into it. Let's see what happens next."

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"It is reported that the crew of Huayi's "Cell Phone 2" has not stopped working."

"Cell Phone 2 continues filming, seemingly unaffected by the contract controversy!"

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Huayi has also made its attitude clear, but its stubborn attitude is really a joke.

"I haven't seen Fan Binbin for a long time. Isn't Fan Binbin starring in Cell Phone 2?"

"It's already this late, why are you still making a fuss? If we check, there must be something wrong."

"Is Huayi still holding on?"

There are often discussions about it in the crew, but the topic queen Fan Binbin has been out of contact for more than a month, and there has been no movement in the industry.

However, at this time Li Mu specially found a time to meet with the senior management of Maoyan.

“截至2018年6月30日，猫眼总营收为18.95亿元，与去年同期相比增幅高达约104%。

At the same time, Maoyan’s total revenue has soared from approximately 2015 million yuan in 5.97 to 2017 billion yuan in 25.48, more than quadrupling in total.”

Zheng Zhihao proudly reported the data for the first half of this year to everyone.

Just seeing these data, only Li Mu and Wang Changtian showed some expressions on their faces, while the directors of Meituan and Tencent remained silent.

"Dear directors, Maoyan's prospectus has been completed and has been reviewed by the securities firm. It is expected to be officially submitted in September."

When this sentence came out, Li Mu clearly felt the joy from Meituan and Tencent.

They are indeed capitalists, coming here just for the purpose of going public.

Li Mu said secretly in his heart, but this is understandable, after all, everyone is trying to make money.

Also released together with "Hidden Man" is "Asura", a domestic blockbuster that claims to have "the largest investment in Chinese film history". The film even boasted of "aiming for a box office of 30 billion yuan" since its promotion period.

However, "Hidden Man" grossed 1.2 million on the first day, while "Asura" only earned 2000 million.

On the second day, "Hidden Man" still earned 100 million yuan, while "Asura" only earned less than 10 million yuan.

However, at this moment, the producer of "Asura", Zhenjian Pictures, directly withdrew the film from the schedule.

An announcement on the film’s official Weibo account made the movie “Asura”, which was on its third day of release, the focus of the entire audience’s attention.

It is not surprising that a movie is withdrawn from the schedule, but the sudden withdrawal of a big-budget film like "Asura" that has just been released still shocked many industry insiders and the public.

After all, I’ve seen cases of evading the schedule and postponing the release, but I’ve never seen someone regretting not releasing the program after two days?
Before "Asura", three movies that were originally scheduled to be released in this summer were temporarily withdrawn, including the special effects blockbuster "Jade Dynasty 2" directed by Guo Jingming, as well as small-investment genre films such as "New Shaolin Temple" and "Mo Duoduo Mystery Adventure".

The sudden withdrawal of "Asura" is believed to be related to the box office and critical success of "Animal World" and the strong momentum of Jiang Wen's new film "Hidden Man".

After all, as a movie that took six years and cost 6 million yuan to make, "Asura" stars both the popular young actor Wu Lei and veteran actors. Although it cannot be said to be very popular during this period, it is not too bad either.

However, on the 16th, Zhenjian Pictures, the producer of "Asura", stated in an interview with the media that the withdrawal was not due to the film itself, nor was there any such thing as "taking it back for revisions and resuming at a later date". It was more due to the unfair market environment such as Maoyan's ratings.

"Asura suffered a premeditated 'black water attack' on the Maoyan platform, which is 'a shame for the industry.'"

"We condemn the ticketing platform Maoyan as a third-party platform for turning a blind eye to the 'black water issue' and refusing to solve it. This makes us feel chilled."

"Come on, all kinds of monsters and demons, Asura is not afraid!"

“We believe in the audience’s vision!”

This really made Li Mu dumbfounded. His own movie was so bad, but he blamed the platform for it.

It would be fine if only Maoyan was such a bad platform, but the movie's rating on Douban Movies is also outrageous, with a score of only 3.1.

Moreover, among the 11883 reviewers, 65.1% of users only gave one-star ratings, nearly 1% of users rated two stars or less, and only 3.4% of users rated four stars and five stars.

On another platform, Time.com, the film's rating was only 4 points;
On Weibo Movie, only 35% of the big Vs recommended "Asura".

The rating on "Maoyan Movie" also dropped from the initial 8.4 points to 6.4 points.

You should know that on the Maoyan platform, "God of War", which was previously considered the worst movie of the year, scored 6.6 points, and the worst movie in the world "Pure Mind: Chasing Dreams in the Entertainment Industry" only scored 6.8 points.
"Tell them that we are not responsible for this. We blame the platform for our poor performance."

Li Mu said calmly in the group of senior executives, "Everyone has come to take action."

"Okay, Mr. Li."

But before Maoyan even issued an official statement, netizens had already started to criticize it.

"Come on, just two days of this, one day you curse the industry for being a disgrace, the next day you curse the market for being unfair, and you don't even want to see how other people evaluate it."

"It's so bad that I can't bear to watch it. That's what I said. I gave it a low score in Maoyan's ratings. What's the matter? I am a bad person?"

"This story is so boring that it would be too childish to be shown in a children's movie. And the whole time you have to listen to the actors shouting "Merge!" "Strike the sky!" "Asura King merges and strikes the sky!""

"We don't take the blame for this. The quality of the content is up to you to decide. The audience has sharp eyes. Please don't try to take advantage of it next time!"

Maoyan also spoke out, attracting many netizens to like it.

"Agreed, rubbish movie!"

“I suggest that Maoyan don’t give space to this kind of movie next time. It pollutes the eyes!”

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(End of this chapter)