China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 724 No Blessing to Enjoy
After entering the cinema and watching the entire movie, Mao Yi truly felt that the movie ticket was worth it and the movie did not disappoint him.

Chow Yun Fat played the role of a painter really well, and Aaron Kwok played the role of a coward really well.

Of course, there are some points that he can't help but talk about.

Wu Xiuqing in the movie was played by Da Tiantian, and Ruan Wen was played by Zhang Jingchu.

Li Wen was such an ungrateful guy that he actually had Wu Xiuqing undergo plastic surgery to look like Zhang Jingchu and use her as a substitute for Ruan Wen.

After Mao Yi returned home, he immediately opened the rating app, gave a five-star review, and then started to criticize: "Li Wen, what kind of vision do you have? Does Wu Xiuqing need a face transplant to look like Si Teng? It's okay if she doesn't have to have a face transplant, okay? Also, Li Wen, you are a clever idiot. If you didn't tell Wu Xiuqing the truth, wouldn't you have saved your life?"

Complaints aside, Mao Yi thinks that the ending of Li Wen and Wu Xiuqing blowing themselves up is still a good one.

Because these two people are not good people. If they stay alive and change their faces and identities, they will only bring harm and no benefit to this society.

It would be best if the two of them were completely locked up together, as this would be beneficial to social stability.

Moreover, the character of Wu Xiuqing seemed a bit like a tool before the finale.

In the end, she died with Li Wen because of love turning into hate, which made this person come alive and let people know that she was not a tool, but a living person with independent thoughts and personality.

Like Mao Yi, many people went to the cinema to watch "Wushuang" because of the influence of their friends or people around them, and unexpectedly thought the movie was good.

So after word of mouth spread, the movie's single-day box office increased from over 50 million at the beginning to over 80 million, 100 million, 130 million... and kept rising.

In the first two days after the film was released, director and screenwriter Zhuang Wenqiang was a little nervous, thinking, "Is this really going to be a flop?" A first-day box office of more than 50 million yuan is not ideal.

As the movie's single-day box office reached over 100 million, his mood improved a lot.

This time, he can really hold his head high.

He had already told those Sohai investors and Sohai Film Company in Hong Kong that his "Wushuang" was awesome, so why didn't they want to believe it?

Now that they see that the box office of "Wushuang" has taken off, they must be regretting it, right? It's a pity that it's too late to regret now.

The movie "Wushuang" not only made Zhuang Wenqiang proud in Hong Kong Island, but also made him proud in mainland China.

He can say loudly in the mainland, who the hell said that Hong Kong films will die? As long as I, Zhuang Wenqiang, am alive, Hong Kong films will not die.

Zhuang Wenqiang was able to hold his head high, and the person he was most grateful to was of course Li Yu.

"Director Li, thank you so much. It's been ten years. It's been ten years. Who knows how I have lived these ten years?

I have waited ten years for this opportunity to prove myself, not to prove how great I am, but to prove that they have all been wrong. "

Zhuang Wenqiang looked very energetic when he said this, and he must have felt very happy inside.

Li Yu could understand Zhuang Wenqiang's feelings.

Although he has not experienced this personally, he has seen many people in the circle have similar experiences.

For example, Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen, both of them are doing very badly and were advised by others to quit the entertainment industry and stop being actors.

Finally, they got their reward after all the hard work, and finally got the chance to prove themselves.

"Director Zhuang, don't thank me, you deserve it. I'm a businessman, I don't invest in every project.

The person you should thank the most is yourself. It was you who wrote the script well. The script touched me, and then the following story came into being.

If your script is not well written and you contact me through Wang Jing, I will reject you like other investors." Li Yu said very politely.

Li Yu had his reasons for saying this.

He knew very well that even without him, Yu Dong of Bona would still take a fancy to Zhuang Wenqiang's script and invest money in Zhuang Wenqiang.

It’s just that Zhuang Wenqiang needs to wait in agony for a while longer.

But from Zhuang Wenqiang's perspective, he didn't think so.

He didn't know that even if Li Yu didn't invest in him in the future, Yu Dong would still invest in him.

He only knew that his "Wushuang" had been buried for ten years.

If it weren't for Li Yu, his "Wushuang" would probably have been buried for another ten years.

Zhuang Wenqiang especially wanted to thank Li Yu, this benefactor, so he worked as fast as he could to present Li Yu with another new film project "Integrity Storm".

"Director Li, I have another project here called 'Integrity'. The screenwriter and director are the same person, my old friend Mai Zhaohui. I will be the producer of this film." Zhuang Wenqiang's idea was very simple.

Li Yu helped him to gain fame, so he repaid Li Yu with a profitable movie.

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But Li Yu knew what "Integrity" was like, it was horrible.

If Li Yu remembered correctly, this movie would be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, one of the best release dates of the year.

The film was a huge failure upon its release, with box office in mainland China only reaching 1.13 million yuan, and only around million yuan in Hong Kong.

It is said that the investment in this movie reached 300 million yuan, which means that the box office must be at least 900 million yuan to ensure that there will be no loss.

The combined box office revenue for mainland China and Hong Kong Island is less than 140 million, so all the investors have to go to extremes.

Mai Zhaohui's ability is very strong. He also served as the director of classic works such as "Infernal Affairs" and "Initial D".

However, even the best directors can make mistakes sometimes, such as Mai Zhaohui in the movie "Integrity".

So Li Yu appreciated Zhuang Wenqiang's good intention to help him make money.

If he were really allowed to go, he was afraid that he would not be able to enjoy it.

So he found some reasons to decline Zhuang Wenqiang's kindness: "Next time, the company has invested in too many projects recently. "Mulan", "Thief", "The Golden Age" and so on.

As a boss, I am waiting for the money to come back. A lot of my projects have not been released yet, and I am very poor. Moreover, even if they are released, it will take time to get the money back. "

Li Yu's reasons were fabricated, but he did not completely fool Zhuang Wenqiang. Many projects of Hualiu Company were indeed waiting for repayment.

For dramas like "Sito" that are exclusively broadcast on Station A, the rights for second and third rounds of broadcasting are sold to TV stations. Many TV stations do not pay the full amount in one go, and it is normal to settle the balance half a year or a year later.

So it is true that Hualiu Company is waiting for repayment, but Li Yu is not so poor that he doesn’t even have the money to invest in a movie.

As long as he wants, he can easily get one or two small goals.

Even if he didn't have a penny, it would be easy for him to attract investment thanks to his fame.

"That's a pity. We can only wait until next time. Let's put it this way. If there is a chance next time, we can cooperate again." Zhuang Wenqiang felt really regretful.

(End of this chapter)