China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

Chapter 200 The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength

The international movie star's beach news was posted on the Internet for a day, and then disappeared due to a public relations emergency.

The picture disappeared.

But it did not stop the majority of netizens from free promotion and downloading.

Some people even started selling them for profit. They cost two yuan a piece, which was extremely cheap.

The price of the hottest photos of international movie stars is really outrageous.

These eighty-one photos are like the ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships that Sun Wukong passed through, embarrassing the international chapter.

Avnivo, Murdoch’s godfather-level investor, has become popular on the Chinese Internet.

Then, rumors spread that this guy had AIDS.

When the news reached China, the Internet was in an uproar.

Guan Ling couldn't help but smile when he saw the relevant news on the Internet.

Having a love affair that has gone to this level is also a show-off.

He suddenly remembered Yin Zheng's line in "Charlotte's Trouble".

Tonight, perhaps a few people in the entertainment industry need to consider a question.

That is whether you should check it out yourself.

Seeing that the news was getting more and more outrageous, Zhang Ziyi had no choice but to refute the rumors on the Internet, claiming that this man was already his fiancé, and also said that it was Mei, please stop spreading rumors.

The public relations team hired there knows what silence is golden.

In order to suppress this matter and continue to heat up the movie war between Lingyun Media and Huayi, there are news comparing the box office performance of the two movies on the Internet every day.

There are also hot searches comparing Guan Ling and the Wang brothers.

He also pulled Feng Xiaogang out and slipped away.

At this moment, Zhang Ziyi actually called Guan Ling.

"Director Guan, I heard that the new film directed by you and Nolan will have two Chinese characters?"

"Sister Zhang, you have been so worried lately, but you still want to ask this question." Guan Ling teased.

"I was doing something normal with my fiancé, but I didn't expect to be photographed by the paparazzi. Now we have decided to sue the relevant people." Zhang Ziyi's voice sounded unchanged.

"Besides, I don't take this too seriously."

Guan Ling admired Jiu Zhang's mental endurance.

She is indeed the woman who said, "I am Brother Cheng Long's birthday gift," sat on Cheng Long's lap and ate grapes, and wore a red bellyband at the Berlin awards ceremony.

Although he is not very old, his character is a bit high.

However, Guan Ling knew that her real career would be in trouble soon.

At Cannes last year, others didn't know it, but Guan Ling knew it.

This guy raised a lot of money in Cannes.

About half a million dollars.

But until now, this guy has no intention of disclosing the relevant funds.

Guan Ling didn't bother to care or remind him.

This guy's triple door is about to explode completely. Guan Ling will not choose this person to star in his movie.

"I'm definitely happy that Sister Zhang is interested in my movie, but for these two roles, one is a male role and the other is a young girl's role, I already have someone chosen."

"Liu Yifei?"

Zhang Ziyi had no emotion about the word "young" in Guan Ling's words, but the word "girl" suddenly reminded her of Liu Yifei from "Hurricane Rescue".

"Correct."

Guan Ling said, "She is very suitable for this role."

"Can I ask you?" Zhang Ziyi said, "Director Guan, if you praise her so much, is she considered a Guan girl?"

Guan Ling could hear Zhang Ziyi's sour taste.

There is so much jealousy in these words.

The point is, there is something wrong with her.

"Miss Guan? I don't like this here." Guan Ling said, "Director Zhang and Director Zhou like to do this, and they call me Miss Guan. It feels like I am going to lock someone up somewhere. It doesn't sound good."

"The joke you made, Director Guan, is not funny at all. But if you have any new roles in the future, I really hope you can consider me."

After hanging up the phone with Zhang Ziyi, Guan Ling contacted Jiang Wei.

"Director Guan, don't worry, I will definitely complete this TV series with all my heart."

"Latent" is already in the process of filming. Sun Honglei and Yan Danchen have already joined the cast, and Zhang Shi has been given a role. For this reason, Zhang Shi has completely absorbed the treasure island flavor in Mandarin during this period.

This TV series was filmed by the original director, and Guan Ling has a high degree of trust in it.

"I will do a lot of publicity for this drama." Guan Ling said, "I know you don't necessarily like people to visit the team and conduct interviews, because I don't like it either. But if there is an interview, you should cooperate."

Regarding "Latent", Guan Ling knows how awesome this TV series is.

Therefore, he will put more effort into publicity and distribution.

For a TV series that is sure to be popular, it is necessary to make the TV series extremely popular from the beginning of filming.

This way, the price will be better when the time comes.

Moreover, for this TV series, Guan Ling has the intention to connect it with the video website.

This year, Guan Ling will attack two channels.

One is Sina Weibo.

Now that Weibo's domain name is in Guan Ling's hands, Guan Ling is not panicking.

This domain name is too valuable for Sina Weibo. If the Guan Ling faction fails to negotiate with them, they will directly sell it to Tencent Weibo.

Guan Ling felt that Zhi might be able to kill Sina Weibo completely.

Another one is the video website.

Guan Ling needs to make plans early.

If you don't earn this money yourself, but earn it for others, then Guan Ling is purely doing charity.

Guan Ling didn't want to enter the video website industry in the past two years because these Internet companies have been burning money.

But in the past two years, Guan Ling thought it was time to intervene.

Because the situation will be clearer in the past two years, if we don't take action at this time, the price will be even higher if we want to intervene later.

Guan Ling remembers that the first online drama was "Mao Liar" that was broadcast in 2010, which was only a year ago.

Since entering 2008, the online video industry has undergone two reshuffles during its rapid development.

First, at the beginning of last year, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued a licensing system for the operation of video websites. Subsequently, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television randomly inspected 32 video websites. Many websites, such as Tudou, were warned and punished.

Websites such as Xunlei China and Maopu Video were shut down directly.

At the end of 2008, with the emergence of the financial crisis, video websites were reshuffled again.

In November, more than 6 video websites encountered financing barriers, and it was difficult to survive the new year. Many video websites, such as Ku, Six Rooms, Popcorn, and Youku, were considering reducing expenditures.

Guan Ling remembers that during the period from 2009 to 2010, relevant national-level online video TV stations will also appear.

However, these video websites are not innovative enough and will definitely find it difficult to compete with commercial video websites.

Guan Ling is going to choose one among Youku, Tudou, Qibo and Qiyi.com.

Needless to say, the first three are the first three. Qiyi.com is the iQiyi of later generations, but iQiyi will not be independent and form a brand until 2010.

And iQiyi is backed by Baidu.

Guan Ling planned to take advantage of these people's unclear views on the future development of the video website during this period of time to get some shares.

Guan Ling definitely doesn't understand the specifics. He must find relevant lawyers and professionals to help negotiate. The copyrights of some TV series and movies are provided with certain financial support in exchange for original shares.

Even if it is diluted later, it will not be a loss for Guan Ling.

Worth a try.

In fact, Guan Ling prefers Qiyi.com because the search engine Baidu is there, which is of great use. Moreover, Guan Ling is clear about the subsequent development of iQiyi.

In the future, this will be an online entertainment company that can compete with Goose Factory.

……

"I didn't expect Zhang to be so brave."

When Zhang Songwen came to meet Guan Ling, the two talked about this topic.

Guan Ling specially called Zhang Songwen here because he wanted to give Zhang Songwen a role in the second movie "Di Renjie: Dragon King of the Dragon King". Although it is not the protagonist, the imperial physician Wang Fu, it can still be regarded as a role for Zhang Songwen. Continue to increase exposure in movies.

Furthermore, there was the character of Dr. Rutledge in "Source Code", and Guan Ling felt that Zhang Songwen was more suitable.

But in the Chinese script, the name must have been changed.

That's Dr. Kwan.

Since he wanted to choose Zhang Songwen, Guan Ling had to tell him everything in advance.

Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, Yiwei Yiwei, and Brother Hu can't play this role. Zhang Shi has no chance either.

None of these people have the temperament of a doctorate.

"Embroidered Spring Knife" is currently in the editing process. Lu Yang has finished filming and spends every day in Nortel's editing room.

Guan Ling also thought of Zhang Songwen after thinking about Yiwei Yi, and called Zhang Songwen here today.

When meeting and chatting, it is impossible to ignore the recent hot news about Zhang Ziyi. As a man, talking about this is quite exciting.

"Don't worry about Zhang. Although you are given a supporting role with a small role this time, after all, you are acting with Liu Dehua, Liu Jialing and others. You should be careful then and don't ruin the reputation of your acting school. .”

"Director Guan, what you said is that if I don't perform my best by then, the school will close down."

Zhang Songwen happily accepted the role.

"Actually, I came to see you today. The supporting role in "Detective Detective" is second to none. The main role is a doctor's role in a science fiction film. I'm going to give it to you."

Guan Ling said, "This role is also a supporting role. The main reason is that there are only two protagonists in this movie. You can't get the script yet, but this movie will give you more bonuses than other movies. Think about it. .”

"What are you thinking about? I took it!"

Zhang Songwen hurriedly agreed.

In Guan Ling's science fiction film, let alone playing a supporting role, he would be extremely happy if Zhang Songwen played a tree.

Guan Ling told him a little about the plot, and Zhang Songwen's eyes widened.

Obviously, this kind of science fiction plot is simply fine chaff among current Chinese science fiction movies.

"As the male protagonist, who are you going to choose?" Zhang Songwen asked.

"What, do you have any recommendations?" Guan Ling said with a smile, "I do have an idea in mind, but I haven't decided yet. I will have to join the cast first to film my new movie."

"It's not a recommendation. It's just that after listening to what you said, a person suddenly popped up in my mind." Zhang Songwen said, "I just said it casually and you just listen. This person has no interest in me." relation."

He also explained it.

"Just tell me, it's okay."

After Guan Ling finished speaking, Zhang Songwen said, "When I was teaching acting to students a while ago, I watched the movie "Hold the Call" directed by Chen Musheng. In it, Gu Tianle played an ordinary person, but he was in this movie Inside, a series of battles of wits and courage began with the gangsters.

When I heard you talk about the plot, the first thing that came to my mind was him. "

Guan Ling pondered for a moment about Zhang Songwen's recommendation.

Gu Tianle is indeed a good choice, and he has also photographed the police in Hong Kong. It can be said that the character can be switched at will.

And his character and acting skills are very good.

can be used as an alternative.

Guan Ling actually wanted to try whether Wu Jing could be the protagonist, but at this moment, Zhang Songwen's words made Guan Ling's heart move.

Zhang Songwen was also very happy that Guan Ling listened to his words.

Thank you profusely as you leave.

At the end, Zhang Songwen asked one more question.

"Director Guan, are you talking about joining the cast for the Palme d'Or that is widely rumored on the Internet?"

"Correct."

"Then Director Guan will probably have to compete with Director Lou." Zhang Songwen said, "Last year I filmed a movie with Director Lou's crew. The protagonists were Chen Sicheng and Qin Hao. This movie was also aimed at the Palme d'Or. of."

Guan Ling pondered for a moment and thought of this movie.

"A Night Intoxicated by the Spring Breeze".

For a gay script, the artistic sense is indeed stronger.

Guan Ling and Zhang Songwen chatted for a while and learned that the drama was secretly filmed in Nanjing last year.

But Guan Ling vaguely remembered that although this drama was nominated for the Palme d'Or, it failed to win the final award.

Instead, it was won by Michael Haneke's Austrian film "The White Ribbon."

In fact, the artistic sense of this movie is not very strong. Guan Ling had seen it in his previous life, so he dared to shout out the Palme d'Or slogan at Cannes last year.

In terms of the emotions conveyed by the movie, "Shoplifters" is a completely different style for this movie, and its artistic coverage will be broader.

"Then you have to tell Director Lou later."

Guan Ling smiled and said, "I will definitely be the one to get it then."

……

After the box office of "The King of Kung Fu" was released in North America in its first week, everyone in the industry knew clearly that Huayi was finished.

Compare the two-line success of "Taken" in terms of word-of-mouth and box office.

"The King of Kung Fu" took in $11 million at the box office in its opening weekend in North America.

This data is actually not low.

But compared to the US$70 million investment in the movie, it has already been lost to my grandma’s family.

American film critics did not give the film a high rating, only 68%.

American media said that although the martial arts scenes in the film were "beautiful and shocking", the content was monotonous and pale, even though Jet Li was the martial arts signature.

But compared to Cheng Long in "Hurricane Rescue", there is no absolute advantage.

According to a survey of North American audiences, the most classic scenes in "The King of Kung Fu" are only Chinese pictographic fists such as the Mantis Fist, Tiger Fist and Snake Fist, but the effect is average.

On the contrary, the White-Haired Witch by Chinese actress Li Bingbing, who is new to Hollywood, has become one of the few highlights.

The "hair flip" she used in the final battle has become a classic shot imitated by the audience.

But it was hopeless.

With the gap between the overall reputation and "Rescue", the distance between the two has completely widened.

It was released half a month ago.

In North America, "Taken" has grossed $74 million at the box office.

"The King of Kung Fu" only had $21 million.

In North America, Motian Lingyun continues to expand its publicity, and Huayi has nothing to do about it.

And when Gai Naote asked Guan Ling why he did this.

Gainaote didn't quite understand Guan Ling's answer.

Guan Ling said: A lion fights a rabbit with all his strength.

(End of this chapter)