During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 684 Husband, Stop Playing Teasing on Me
"The Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster Transformers 4 has once again broken the first-week box office record in the Chinese-language film market after its release one week ago."

"Transformers 4 has grossed 10.3 billion yuan in the first week of its release, and the daily revenue is still over million yuan, showing great potential!"

"After one week of release, The Breakup Guru grossed 3.03 million yuan at the box office. New director Deng Chao became famous overnight!"

"For a week in a row, the daily box office of the film market has approached 2 million yuan, and the potential of the summer season has completely exploded."

At the beginning of a new day, several pieces of movie information caused a huge earthquake in the circle.

To be honest, the performance of "The Breakup Master" is already very impressive, but it pales in comparison to the completely unreasonable performance of "Transformers 4"!

In just one week, the box office exceeded 10 billion!
Who would have thought of this in the past? Who would have believed it?

You know, up to now, there are only 10 movies in the entire Chinese-language film industry whose box office has exceeded 9 billion.

Among them, "Passengers" and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" were both achieved with the help of extended keys!
Even the current domestic film box office record holder, "Gravity," took a full 12 days to break the billion mark!

Like "Transformers 4", it achieved a result of 10 billion effortlessly and even with great ease. It is really too exaggerated!

Even though the film's reputation is somewhat controversial and its Impression.com score is not very high, in the eyes of most people, it is only a matter of time before Gravity's box office record is broken.

Countless production colleagues are sighing, perhaps this July, "Transformers 7" will lead the domestic film market into the 4 billion era!
In view of this, all the movies that will be released in July have entered the final frenzy of promotion.

Including the movies released in August, they are all facing a formidable enemy.

Because according to the current policy, "Transformers 4" is very likely to obtain an extension key and then dominate the entire summer season!

It was at this time that Wei Jin finally completed the post-production editing of "The Vanishing Lover" after nearly a month of work.

A very small number of special effects have already been completed. In other words, the film can be submitted for review directly.

Considering that there are many "restricted" shots in this play, Wei Jin decided to go there himself.

In addition, the new Director Zhang has been in office for a long time. Even though he has a very good relationship with Director Tong, Wei Jin still has to pay him a visit.

More than half an hour later, Lao Zhu parked the car steadily in front of the gate of Guangzong, and Wei Jin got out of the car and walked inside.

Several reporters who were waiting here were surprised. "Boss Wei? What is he doing here?"

However, while they were busy with their mouths, the tools in their hands were also not idle. They even took pictures of Wei Jin's profile.

The secretary took Wei Jin and knocked on the door of Director Tong's office, where the latter was concentrating on writing something.

"Oh, what a rare guest. Are you here to urge me to come?" Tong Yi looked up and saw Wei Jin, put down his pen and joked with a smile.

"Hey, Director Tong, you are joking. How could that be? I just came to see you, old man."

Wei Jin joked and took the teacup handed to him by the secretary. He smelled it and found that it was indeed worthy of being used exclusively by leaders. It had a pleasant fragrance.

Then he continued, "As for urging me? I'll give you Yunnan Worm Valley, so there's no problem with that. Why would I need to urge you?"

"I don't even want to say anything to you, kid. You're getting bolder and bolder. Do you really think the audit is easy? You're putting me in a difficult position by doing this."

After hearing this, Wei Jin understood that another meaning of "difficult" is that it can be done, so he immediately flattered him: "Thank you for your hard work, Director Tong. You have worked so hard for the development of the domestic film industry."

"Okay, stop flattering me."

Director Tong was somewhat helpless about Wei Jin's laziness, but the current film industry really needed companies like Shanhe Media, and some rules had to give way to development.

What's more, this kid is quite sensible in his conduct and actions.

"I have assigned your script to the new team. I think the results will be out in the next two days."

"newcomer?"

Wei Jin muttered to himself, and suddenly he understood the meaning.

It seems that the bureau seized the opportunity when those old guys stepped down last year. No wonder old man Lu was so angry. It turned out that he couldn't intervene in the review.

In other words, if this old boss was still in office, "The Breakup Master" might have to be cut a few times!
Director Tong is indeed a man of one thing and another, with a sharp tongue but a soft heart.

Thinking of this, Wei Jin smiled and said, "Thank you, Director Tong."

Director Tong paused and said, "You came here today for another audit?"

"Well, the film "Gone Girl" is out, but there are a few shots that still need your approval."

Wei Jin explained the general situation and placed the digital copy of the movie and the form on Director Tong's desk. The latter didn't have time to look at them and just nodded.

"Okay, just leave it here. I'll deal with it when I have time."

Before Wei Jin could say a few more words of thanks, Director Tong waved at him, and the meaning was obvious: the director was very busy.

After leaving Director Tong's office, Wei Jin came to the Film Bureau. The two units were in the same office location, just on different floors.

Without even needing a secretary to lead the way, Wei Jin walked to the office of the director of the Film Bureau with ease and knocked on the door.

Although his rank cannot be compared with Director Tong, as the head of the Film Bureau, Director Zhang is also very busy.

However, seeing that it was Wei Jin who came, Director Zhang still took ten minutes to chat with him. He praised Shanhe Media a lot and hoped that he would keep up the good work and carry the banner of domestic films.

In response, Wei Jin of course solemnly stated that he would definitely live up to the expectations of his leaders.
Registration for the Golden Horse Awards began at the beginning of the month.

During this period of time, many powerful mainland directors and high-quality films have once again decisively abandoned the latter between the Golden Horse Awards and the Hundred Flowers Awards and announced their registration for the Golden Horse Awards.

No wonder, in recent years, the Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films has become as mysterious as the Golden Rooster Awards, making it a mess.

The award results are either 90% consistent with netizens' predictions, leaving no suspense, or they just copy the winners list of the previous year's Golden Rooster Awards and do a perfunctory job.

In addition, there is one issue that is most criticized: making early appointments.

After several sessions, the Hundred Flowers Awards has completely ruined its reputation and is jokingly called "Huayi's Hundred Flowers Awards" by people in the industry.

What's more, as a popular film award, the Hundred Flowers Awards itself is not valuable enough. Compared with the current Golden Horse Awards, the gap is obviously huge.

Under such circumstances, mainland filmmakers can only vote with their feet and choose the relatively serious, fair and professional Golden Horse Awards.

But Wei Jin didn't expect that when he was with Jing Tian on the weekend, he would hear some unexpected news.

"Tiantian, do you mean Director Zhang is going to take "Coming Home" to participate in this year's Golden Horse Awards?"

The reason why Wei Jin was surprised was that after the release of "Coming Home", Zhang Yimou gave an interview and made it clear that he would not participate in domestic film awards selection.

"Well, Director Zhang originally didn't plan to go and had already declined the invitation from the organizing committee. But later, Director Hou Xiaoxian and Director Li An invited him several times. In addition, there was also Sister Gong Li."

Hearing this, Wei Jin realized instantly that although Lao Mouzi himself might not care about the Golden Horse Awards, Gong Li still needed a Golden Horse Award to achieve the three-gold Grand Slam. Previously, Lao Mouzi had always said that he owed Gong Li a lot, and now it seemed that this was the first step to repaying him.

"Oh, it's such a pity. If it weren't for Zhang Weiping's interference, maybe Zhang Yimou and Gong Li would have been together a long time ago."

Listening to Wei Jin's sigh, Jing Tian snuggled into the man's arms and nodded in agreement, "Well, when we were on the set, I looked at their restrained eyes and always felt so sad. They were clearly in love, but couldn't be together."

I have to say, girls are sentimental. Just a simple sigh can make them sad and heartbroken, and they can hardly hold back the tears in their big eyes.

Seeing this, Wei Jin had to hold the girl tighter in his arms and said a lot of comforting words to help her get out of her depressed mood.

Then Wei Jin remembered something important, "Tiantian, Bad Genius is about to start filming, how are you preparing?"

The performance in this play is quite difficult, especially when it comes to cheating and interrogation. The highly tense environment requires the actors to have precise micro-expressions and body control, which is demanding.

To be honest, it is much more difficult than inspirational films like "The Girl at the Bottom".

But if you can understand and grasp all these emotions and psychological dramas in advance, then the performance will be twice the result with half the effort, or at least there will be fewer NGs.

"Oh, brother, I've already finished the character biography, can you help me take a look?"

Speaking of this, Jing Tian also perked up and reached out to take out a notebook from the bedside table and handed it over.

"Okay, let me take a look at Tiantian's homework."

After Wei Jin took it, he was mesmerized for a moment by the neat and beautiful handwriting.

After a long while, Wei Jin closed his notebook, held up the girl's pretty face, and praised sincerely: "Well, the analysis and profiling are both well done. Great progress."

"really?"

Jing Tian looked surprised. She knew that she was not a talented actor and could only rely on hard work.

And to be able to get the recognition from Wei and Jin is the best reward for the efforts I have made during this period of time.

"of course it's true!"

Wei Jin stated without hesitation, then put down the notebook and lifted the girl's chin, "But Tiantian performed so well, I have to reward you well."

"No, it wasn't just now~~~"

The little girl could no longer speak, because Wei Jin sealed her soft red lips and his big hands also grasped the perfect teardrop shape.

As for the one that already came?
What a joke, that happened more than ten minutes ago, how can it be confused with a reward?

But girls are born to say one thing and mean another. Jing Tian, ​​who had been unwilling just now, had already started to actively cater to him in less than a minute.

Those tender red lips and soft yet hot body are really fascinating.

Especially the graceful chest and flawless long legs, which were so exquisite that Wei Jin couldn't let go.

As a result, Wei Jin had been playing for too long without realizing it. After the kiss ended, he discovered that Jing Tian's pretty face was already flushed, and it was obvious that they were deeply in love.

This can be seen from the gurgling stream deep inside Fuguihua's beautiful legs.

As Director Tong said, the script of "Yunnan Worm Valley" was approved just after the weekend.

The media reports alone caused an uproar in the film and television industry once again.

"According to the official website of the Film Bureau, the script of "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Yunnan Worm Valley" passed the review today!"

"It is reported that "Yunnan Worm Valley" is a sister film of the popular movie "The Lost Tomb", and is the second film in the "Ghost Blowing Out the Light" series of Shanhe Media. It is adapted from the third volume of the original novel and mainly tells the story of"

"According to the public information, Yunnan Worm Valley will be directed by Zhang Yimou. The reason for the change in director is not yet known."

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in the circle.

Speaking of "Mojin: The Lost Legend", everyone in the industry can't forget the fantasy special effects blockbuster that grossed 10.46 billion yuan during the Lunar New Year holiday three years ago!

It can be said that the emergence of "Mojin: The Lost Tomb" has completely opened up a new track for domestic films!

It was also at that time that many domestic producers realized that domestic films could also be made into such special effects blockbusters!

Also at that time, Wu Ershan, who had made his mark with "Painted Skin 2", faced off against the top director Zhang Yimou, who had already established a golden body.

And with "Mojin: The Lost Tomb", which was much better than "The Flowers of War", he was directly promoted to the ranks of top directors in the industry.

It can be said that Wu Ershan's rise is somewhat at the expense of Zhang Yimou's.

There are people in the circle who speak up for Zhang Yimou and think that Wu Ershan's victory is unfair.

Unfortunately, both of them are contracted directors of Shanhe Media, and the probability of a head-on confrontation is too small.

But who would have thought that the second part of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" would fall into the hands of Zhang Yimou?
For a time, all kinds of speculations emerged on the Internet.

There are conspiracy theorists who suspect that Lao Mouzi relied on his status as a big director to forcibly seize the project;
Some people gloated over the misfortune, thinking that Wu Ershan was dissatisfied with the dividends from "Suspect" and left in anger;
There are also those who are just watching the fun, thinking that even if the two directors cannot face off head-on, they can still prove their strength through the performance of the first and second parts of "Ghost Blows Out the Light";

Some people are even full of expectations and say that Zhang Yimou's joining will bring the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series to a new level!
Compared to the wild imaginations of netizens, both the production companies and celebrity artists in the industry are more concerned about whether they can participate in the project.

As expected, in just half an hour, Wei Jin received calls from La Peikang, Ren Zhonglun, Fiber Optic Lao Wang, Wanda Ye Ning, and even Boss Ying Huangyang.

Without exception, all of them are seeking investment. After all, the profitability of "Mojin: The Lost Tomb" is obvious to all in the circle.

In addition, many acquaintances in the circle are also asking whether there are any new characters in this drama.

Although he cannot join the iron triangle, he is definitely a top resource in the circle even if he is only a supporting role in the sequel to the hit IP "Ghost Blows Out the Light" directed by Zhang Yimou.

After the bombardment of phone calls and messages ended, Wei Jin called Zhong Lifang.

"Is the budget out?"

"Boss Wei, it's out. The total is 2.2 million. Shanhe Shuimo estimated the special effects cost based on the highest level. All the special effects shots will cost at least 1 million to render.

The remaining production costs are mainly actor salaries and actual filming costs. The details are here for you to see.”

While Zhong Lifang was explaining, she handed over a piece of information. Wei Jin took it and looked at it. Wow, it was really detailed.

It not only includes a detailed budget, but also the photos taken by the location scouting team, including Wengding Wa Village, Xishuangbanna, and Jiuxiang Scenic Area
In addition, there are also data photos such as the design drawings of the ancient tombs that need to be built in the play, antique cultural relics, and related monster modeling.

Although this cost is much higher than the first one, considering the increase in prices and film pay, it is basically within Wei Jin's estimation, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then let's prepare to start the project."

"Okay, Mr. Wei."

(End of this chapter)