China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 524: The popular Spring Festival movie
Wang Jing is now more and more certain that cooperating with Li Yu and Da Tiantian is one of the most correct choices he has made in recent years.

If "Detective Chinatown 2" really helps him enter the 30 billion club, he will definitely be very popular in Hong Kong Island.

Maybe he will be able to gain the title of Hong Kong's best commercial film director in the future.

However, as the greatest commercial film director, he cannot do without Li Yu.

As soon as he leaves Li Yu, his true colors will be revealed immediately.

The question is, by following Li Yu, not only can he have three meals a day, but he can also make a lot of money, so why did he leave Li Yu?

In addition, "Detective Chinatown 2" is about to meet the audience.

Li Yu’s last recommendation of Lin Chaoxian has paid off.

Lin Chaoxian passed the assessment and successfully got the position of director of "Operation Red Sea".

Lin Chaoxian was deeply moved when he learned that it was Li Yu and the boss of that department who recommended him.

After agreeing to direct "Operation Red Sea", Lin Chaoxian rushed to Hualiu Company without stopping.

He wanted to visit Li Yu in person and thank him in person for his recommendation.

Not every director can take on a mainstream movie like "Operation Red Sea" that has official support.

It must be a very proud thing for the director to receive such a task.

"Director Li, nice to meet you. I've often heard of your name and deeds in Hong Kong before, and today I finally get to meet you in person as I wished."

Lin Chaoxian was very polite.

After a few polite words, Lin Chaoxian got straight to the point and said, "I've heard that you were originally the first choice for the director of Operation Red Sea, and they have talked to you.

But you refused and recommended me to them, which really surprised me.

I didn't expect you would recommend me a director from Hong Kong."

Lin Chaoxian didn't say it too bluntly, but Li Yu could understand what he wanted to express.

"Do you think that I particularly hate you, the people in the Hong Kong Island circle?
In fact, it’s all your misunderstanding and the smear campaign by those unscrupulous media. When did I become prejudiced against directors and artistes from Hong Kong Island?

Cheng Long asked me to cooperate, so I cooperated with him. Wang Jing asked me to cooperate, so I cooperated with him too.

I just don't like some two-faced people who say one thing and do another behind the scenes.

I'm talking about a type of person. You should know better than I do.

You have been in the Hong Kong entertainment industry for many years, and you should know that there are many people like the one I am talking about.

The reason I recommend you is because you have a lot of experience in shooting action and crime films. You can shoot Operation Red Sea well. It's that simple."

Lin Chaoxian coughed twice. As a veteran director in Hong Kong Island, he certainly knew that the group of people that Li Yu was referring to existed a lot in the Hong Kong Island entertainment circle.

Besides, he felt that what Li Yu said was already quite polite.

Li Yu just said that they are not in the minority, but the reality is that they are the majority.

Li Yu and Lin Chaoxian talked a lot about the topic of "Operation Red Sea".

Lin Chaoxian also knew that although Li Yu had turned down the position of director, he was still responsible for the screenwriter's work.

This time he will work with Li Yu in "Operation Red Sea".

"I'm really looking forward to it now. I've heard a lot about the quality of Director Li's screenwriting.

Director Wang has made so many bad movies in recent years, and the "Tang Detective" series he collaborated with Director Li has a very good reputation and excellent box office performance. "

Lin Chaoxian said expectantly.

"Detective Chinatown" is just a pure commercial film, and Wang Jing's ability is not among the best among domestic directors.

Lin Chaoxian had reason to believe that Li Yu did not put his best effort when writing the script for Wang Jing.

Operation Red Sea is different. Li Yu will definitely go all out for such a significant film. The quality of the script will definitely not be inferior to that of Red River and Operation Nujiang River.

What Lin Chaoxian said made Li Yu a little embarrassed.

"Director Lin, you don't have to praise me too much. In fact, the scripts I wrote are not that great.

It’s just that people nowadays like to follow the trend and join in the fun. Once someone said that I am the number one screenwriter in China, a bunch of people followed suit and shouted the same thing.

In fact, there are many screenwriters in China who are better than me, I’m just more famous.”

Li Yu responded modestly.

"Director Li, I don't think so. I don't think everyone is just following the trend and making a fuss.

Whether he is the best screenwriter in China is debatable, but the title of the best screenwriter of Chinese commercial films is definitely well-deserved.

Which domestic screenwriter can achieve the same success as you in writing commercial film scripts? I don’t think there is any.”

Lin Chaoxian said very seriously.

"..."

What else could Li Yu say?
He couldn't just tell Lin Chaoxian that he was really not being modest. Even if he wasn't the screenwriter of "Operation Red Sea", as long as he invited the screenwriters from the original time and space, he would still be able to achieve both good reputation and box office success, right?

Unfortunately, even if he really said that, Lin Chaoxian still wouldn't believe it.

Lin Chaoxian would also think that he was being modest.

So Li Yu simply stopped explaining and said, "Director Lin, I will write the script of Operation Red Sea for you after the New Year.

After the script is out, we will discuss what needs to be changed."

……

The days passed and the first day of the new year arrived.

On this day, movies including "Detective Chinatown 2", "Journey to the West: The Monkey King 2", "Evaporating Pacific", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3: Sword of Destiny", "War against the Nian Beast", and "Kung Fu Panda " were released at the same time.

If Stephen Chow had not retreated without a fight and still released "The Mermaid" during the Spring Festival, this year's Spring Festival would have beaten the brains out of everyone.

Despite the absence of "The Mermaid", it's still pretty cool.

"Journey to the West: The Monkey King 3" and "Kung Fu Panda " both grossed over million yuan on the first day.

The strongest one among them is of course "Detective Chinatown 2".

The Spring Festival period is really suitable for comedy movies like "Detective Chinatown 2".

"Detective Chinatown 2" grossed 3.4 million yuan on the first day, with an attendance rate of 77%, making it a definite hit.

This first-day result surpassed the 2.8 million of "The Mermaid".

You know, the 2.8 million yuan earned by "The Mermaid" was earned by overdrawing Stephen Chow's reputation and audience sentiment, and the side effects are too great.

"Detective Chinatown 2" is different. Li Yu rejected Wang Jing's suggestion of excessive marketing.

The current performance of "Detective Chinatown 2" is brought about by normal marketing and the reputation of its predecessor.

Of course, since "Detective Chinatown 2" abandoned some of the suspenseful detective elements and became more commercialized, many fans of the previous work became dissatisfied.

The reputation of "Detective Chinatown 2" is on the decline. It won at the box office but lost in reputation, but the loss in reputation is far less than that of "The Mermaid".

With the release of "Detective Chinatown 2", Li Yu's status as the number one screenwriter has been questioned.

If the score of "Detective Chinatown 1" can be given 80 points, the score of "Detective Chinatown 2" has dropped below 70 points.

This performance is seriously inconsistent with Li Yu's previous level.

Wang Jing is a man with high emotional intelligence and good at handling things. After he heard such voices, he actually chose to take the responsibility on himself.

(End of this chapter)