China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

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Xu Zheng's eyes sometimes raised and sometimes fell.

His eyes were filled with astonishment, as if he had not expected Guan Ling to let him express himself in this way.

But this did not prevent him from pausing and reacting quickly in a very short time, "Director Guan, is this not good?"

"What do you think is wrong?"

Guan Ling smiled and said, "Is it that I said something wrong, or is it that what you said is not good for you?"

How could Xu Zheng dare to refute that Guan Ling was wrong?

"After all, I am a new director who has just achieved some good results. If I say this on CCTV Film Channel, wouldn't it be a bit disrespectful to other directors?"

Xu Zheng pretended to be harmless.

"I think it's all right."

Guan Ling said, "I'm not naming names, I'm just agreeing with my point of view. Is that difficult for you?"

Although Guan Ling still spoke in a calm, seemingly harmless tone.

But at this moment, once this question came out, it was difficult for Xu Zheng to refuse.

He just felt a little regretful. Why did he have to come to Guan Ling to pay his respects and ask such a question?

Guan Ling shrugged his shoulders as if nothing had happened, which made Xu Zheng himself doubt whether Director Guan had done it on purpose.
"Okay, Director Guan, I will say so when the time comes."

With a bleak smile on his face, Xu Zheng still accepted Guan Ling's arrangement.

What he didn't know was that Guan Ling had arranged this on purpose.

Guan Ling had a general understanding of Xu Zheng's character.

A talented person,
But he is also a complex and shrewd person.

In the past, whether it was the iron triangle combination that parted ways due to interests after the success of "Lost in Thailand", which led to Wang Baoqiang's absence from the Lost on Journey series, and re-formed the "Detective Chinatown" series with Chen Sicheng to become the biggest competitor of the Lunar New Year season,
Or maybe because the "Lost in Russia" incident was an indescribable spread of the film, it was sold directly to the streaming platform, bypassing the theaters for distribution, which was regarded as a stab in the back by many theaters. Many theaters jointly boycotted it, and even affected the scheduling of subsequent works.
Or the many issues and events in which he and his wife were involved, and he even had a tough attitude towards controlling public opinion. He was even forced to resign after a Beijing News reporter revealed that they had interfered with the content of an article and were bullied in the workplace.

From all these things, it can be seen that Xu Zheng is a dishonest person.

And very ambitious.

For such people, Guan Ling must put a layer of shackles on them.

There was no way he would allow Xu Zhengneng to leave easily under Lingyun Media.

Unlike Ning Hao and others, Xu Zheng still needs to be protected by Guan Ling.

Even if Xu Zheng leaves, he needs to consider whether the people outside can protect him.

No one has the copyright to the Lost on Journey series, and because of certain remarks, they are seen as Guan Ling's followers. Once there is any backstabbing behavior, Guan Ling will ban him even if he doesn't say anything.

It can also force him to have no food to eat.

Guan Ling must be on guard against the shrewdness and business calculations of the people of Shanghai.

This kind of person is driven by interests and lacks emotional connections.

Guan Ling letting him make a choice was already the greatest gift he could give him.

In life, there are not many opportunities to meet noble people.

Even if Guan Ling did not become Xu Zheng's benefactor, he might be able to fight his way out like he did in his previous life.

But Guan Ling is his benefactor in this life after all.

Of course, there is no problem with what Guan Ling wants to do.

You have to listen.

It has to be done!
When you are asked to do something, don't try to refuse.

And don't even think about starting a new business and stabbing me in the back at some point in the future.

……

The next day, after an interview with CCTV Film Ratings,
As expected, Xu Zhengguo was completely labeled as a member of the Guan Ling faction.

In particular, his statement "There are no bad audiences, only bad movies" triggered a heated discussion in the industry. It not only affected all the movies released at the same time, but also pushed the bad movie theory that Guan Ling has been promoting in the past few months to a climax.

As for the box office, the box office of "Lost in Thailand" continued to rise.

On the third day, the box office continued to exceed 50 million.

On the fourth day, the single-day box office continued to decline and broke 60 million.

The single-day box office exceeded 90 million by the weekend.

Every day, "Lost in Thailand" shocks the hearts of all Chinese audiences.

Ye Ran theaters and many producers were stunned.

In the first weekend of its release, the single-day box office exceeded 3.4 million, which was a complete smash.

Destroy with overwhelming force and explode completely.

The single-day box office of "Chinese Zodiac" soon dropped to only about 40 million.

In terms of box office comparison during the first weekend, "Lost in Thailand" directly surpassed by as much as 1.5 million.

Cheng Long was completely confused.

Originally, in Cheng Long's eyes, these two films might still be difficult to distinguish.

In the eyes of major theaters, it is almost the same.

Even after the first day's box office results came out, some theaters were still promoting the rise of Jackie Chan, while Xu Zheng was just a bystander.

This wave directly made my face swollen.

Countless viewers were also shocked.

When Guan Ling called Cheng Long, she could hardly hide the sarcasm in her words.

"Didn't you say you would win once?"

"Where are you in the publicity about being invincible, crushing with ease, and sweeping away everything?"

Cheng Long's mentality was completely ruined.

And it wasn't just Cheng Long that Guan Ling ruined.

Many film and television companies have begun holding closed-door meetings to discuss the film trends of Guan Ling's "Extreme Job" and "Lost in Thailand".

To be honest, it's a bit numb.

Take Bona for example, the distributor of "Great Shanghai" is Bona.

Bona is also the production company of this film.

The investment was close to 80 million.

Basically, it is about half of the investment amount.

The total investment is 1.5 million.

The others are generally sponsored by Hong Kong Film Dynasty Limited. However, since many actors from there are involved in this film, Bona itself is not sure whether their salaries are included in the package, thereby making extra money.

This cost exceeds the total of "Extreme Job" and "Lost in Thailand".

As a result, "Extreme Job" achieved a box office of 11 billion, and "Lost in Thailand" was even more popular. Not only was it reversing the decline every day, it was also continuing to grow.

Because of its down-to-earth and running time, as well as Xu Zheng's comments from the audience's perspective, the audience has a bit of a vengeful rhythm in watching the movie.

11 billion is obviously not enough.

Especially with the New Year's Day holiday, there have been predictions that it will be easy for the single-day box office to exceed 100 million during the holiday period, and 300 million during the three-day holiday.

However, the box office of "Great Shanghai" is good enough to get the total investment, which means it can earn 60 million.

All in all, Bona may suffer a loss of 50 million during this Lunar New Year holiday!

Yu Dong's face turned green!

Damn it!
Losing money is not important.

The important thing is to see Guan Ling making money when you are losing money, and the money he makes seems to be endless!
It is roughly estimated that Lingyun Media can earn more than 300 million from "Extreme Job" alone.

Plus, Guan Ling has more points than other directors.

More than 400 million is also somewhere in between.

This does not even include the added fame of the directors trained there, Liu Yifei, and the potential benefits of making someone like Shu Chang, who has long been unpopular, popular again.

How could Yu Dong not be anxious?
How can his face not be green?
The mentality of Bona’s senior management is a bit broken.

The top management of Star Media was also unhappy.

The cost of "The Guillotine" was as high as 1.02 million yuan, and Star Media invested million yuan.

The basic production cost was 2200 million, and then 3 million was spent on 3D conversion, with additional 3D conversion done in post-production. The film was even heavily promoted during its promotion, and was directly called "the most expensive D conversion in the history of Chinese-language films."

The box office has only taken in over 40 million yuan so far. According to forecasts, if it can take in 70 million yuan by the time it is released, it will be a great success.

According to the profit-sharing rules, Star Media can reap more than 10 million in profit.

A loss of 60 million.

I worked hard to make the official announcement and earned money, but in the end, the more I earned, the more miserable it became.

As a result, when I turned around, Lingyun Media’s face was laughing so hard.

People are not afraid of losing money, they are just afraid that you make money when I lose.

This is the case even between good friends.

What's more, among competitors.

Xingmei has been in the film industry for so many years, but has not been able to get any benefits from Guan Ling, mainly because there is no resource exchange.

In the past, the CEO of Star Media had a paradise on earth to entertain himself.

Later, when Tian Shang Ren Jian disappeared, Lao Tan wanted to treat Guan Ling to a good meal, but they could never meet.

They even have fewer cinemas of their own, not even one twentieth of the number of Dadi Cinemas.

How could Guan Ling look at me differently?
When Yu Dong called Director Guan, he also let it go.

"Director Guan's words are too serious, what else can we do? We have to take it one step at a time, and if it doesn't work out, we can just give up halfway. The movie is just like this, and whether it will be released during the Lunar New Year or not, it's probably not a very critical reason.

The withdrawal of the film is not shameful enough. This time I really admit defeat. There are indeed absolutely bad films in this world. I have already fired the screenwriter of this film. I will never work with Wang Jing again.

People who will work under Director Guan in the future, please lend them to me. I’ll pay for it.”

"You are quite open-minded, Mr. Yu. But you are also right. Instead of improving yourself, it is better to blame others."

Guan Ling joked, and the shabby Yu Dong was speechless.

"Your chicken soup is poisonous."

"How is this poisonous chicken soup?"

Guan Ling quit, "Making a movie requires hard work. Just be true to yourself and leave the rest to karma."

Yu Dong: …

"Director Guan, is this something you can say to someone who is numb? How can your mouth, which is 37 degrees Celsius, be so cold?"

Guan Ling said: "When I asked you to shoot a mainstream movie, you agreed to it. Now the movie has not been released yet. Other movies have higher standards. You still blame me for speaking rudely?

Do you want me to give you all my shares when I make a new movie?"

"Really?"

"You think beautiful!"

Guan Ling said, "Just bear with it. There are so many directors in the mainland, but you don't need them. You have to go to Hong Kong to find a director. You found one, and you trust him completely. You deserve it.

You can lose some money, but if you lose it in training mainland directors, I can still look up to you.

In this regard, you are very different from Lao Wang. "

Yu Dong lost his temper completely when he heard this.

After hanging up the phone, Yu Dong’s head was buzzing.

I sat in the office for a long time.

Yu Dong's eyes gradually focused, and then he took out the script of "Lin Hai Xue Yuan" and stared at it for a long time.

...

China Film Group is actually also analyzing these two comedy films.

But word segmentation is more of a subjective inquiry.

"To make the general public happy and to make everyone smile is the basis of both films.

The second point is that the content of the film will never elevate the attitude of third parties.

For example, the police and gangster drama "Extreme Job" does not tarnish the image of the police. Although it is a bit funny, it does not deliberately establish the characters, nor does it deliberately sacrifice the police to increase their value during the filming.

"Lost in Thailand" is completely worthless and is just a pure comedy.

In contrast, the concept of "The Chinese Zodiac" is very pleasing, with a hint of dogmatism in the main theme. For a family movie, it still requires some thinking, and for comedy audiences, there are not enough laughs. It is not pleasing in any way. "

In the end, the major production companies reached a common conclusion.

“Comedy is all about making people laugh, nothing more than that.”

This conclusion left many film and television companies dumbfounded.

Is it so easy to make money?
People always like to complicate things, but they don't realize that things themselves are straightforward.

Is it a bad movie or a blockbuster movie?

Essentially, it is all defined by the audience.

Director Guan is so awesome that he has single-handedly brought comedy movies to a place where they shouldn’t be.

And the competitors in the Lunar New Year box office.

The knife is not sharp and the horse is not lean, what can I use to fight against Director Guan???
Is it the courage given by Fish Leong?
Director Guan didn't even have to do anything, but just relied on two of his new talents to make all the major directors of the Lunar New Year box office tremble.

All major cinema chains follow the highest etiquette.

Major film and television companies held closed-door meetings.

The main goal is nuclear peace!
Director Guan…is so awesome!
The whole body is radiating light.

"This wave has completely crushed all the Lunar New Year films, starting with Ang Lee and Feng Xiaogang.

Later, he defeated a number of Hong Kong directors.

Treat everyone equally.

All of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong were wiped out in one go!"

Netizens were also very happy.

"Director Guan has shown others that the audience has the final say on whether a movie is good or not. The audience spends money on whether the box office is high or not."

"If you don't give the audience good food, the audience will make you eat dirt."

"It's all Guan Ling's fault. If it wasn't Guan Ling, how could she have made these audiences rebellious? I held their heads down before, and let them watch whatever they want during the Lunar New Year holiday."

There are also many netizens who play the opposite role.

Many film and television companies were silent and then cried after watching this.

the following few days.

The box office remains in the same state.

Guan Ling walked around and watched the content of the previous movie.

At the same time, I also went to Beijing Film Academy.

At Beijing Film Academy, Guan Ling and Tian Zhuangzhuang drank tea for a while.

Tian Zhuangzhuang spoke modestly: "When doing something, don't do it in a big way. Some people will lose face if they do it."

Guan Ling said: "Why would you need to have face if you don't have it?"

Tian Zhuangzhuang said: "There are some people from Beijing Film Academy, can you say they are shameless? Do you want to fight among yourselves?"

“It depends on how they go.”

Guan Ling sat in Tian Zhuangzhuang's office.

"By the way, ask Huang Lei to take me to the acting department later so I can see if there are any new talents."

"Can I order Huang Lei around?" Tian Zhuangzhuang said, "You tell him to choose actors, and he'll be very happy."

Guan Ling smiled and said, "That's right."

"Then I'll contact him later."

Tian Zhuangzhuang didn't want to dwell on the topic any further and just patted Guan Ling on the shoulder.

"This is what a good director of Beijing Film Academy should be like. Don't always use actors from the Central Academy of Drama. This unhealthy trend has been going on for too many years. You need to change.

In the entire Nortel, you are the only one who can correct this evil trend."

Guan Ling said, "You are under too much pressure. The actors from the Central Academy of Drama act well. The actors from the Beijing Film Academy are pretty. Selecting actors is not like selecting concubines. I won't promise you anything."

Tian Zhuangzhuang's beard trembled with anger.

"Beijing Film Academy really owes you!"

(End of this chapter)