China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 800 Sure enough, it has to succeed
"It's pretty good. It can be considered hard science fiction with a strong Chinese style. It has certain flaws. But the overall quality can definitely compete with Hollywood's hard science fiction. Li Yu's words are nonsense. I think it's possible for "The Wandering Earth" to make 2 billion or so." As a director, Director Fuji can't lie with his eyes open.

The fact that his movie "Fortress of Devil City" is not as good as "The Wandering Earth" shows that he is not good at it.

If he continues to insist that "The Fortress" is better after watching "The Wandering Earth", it only shows that he is not only inexperienced but also blind, and does not even have the basic appreciation ability of a director.

A director whose level is above the passing line definitely has the ability to appreciate things.

Even though he had expected it, Mr. Wang was still a little surprised after hearing this answer: "Guo Fan is a small director who has never touched a science fiction film before. He really made a serious science fiction film, and it's hard science fiction at that."

He already felt a little regretful in his heart.

It would have been great if Guo Fan had been brought over at the beginning.

Now Huayi’s development is not as good as before.

Ten years ago, Feng Xiaogang had almost never lost money on commercial films, and every one of them was a big hit.

Now Feng Xiaogang has immersed himself in art films and cannot get out. When making a film, he pleases himself first and then the audience, and he puts his own pleasure first.

A director like Director Fuji is not very useful. It's okay to let him shoot some TV series, but it's impossible to expect him to make Huayi take off like Feng Xiaogang did in the past.

Huayi really wants to tie up another powerful director.

According to Director Fuji, the quality of "The Wandering Earth" is not inferior to Hollywood's hard science fiction films, and he hopes to hit a box office of 2 billion.

Two billion, hard science fiction, the first director in China who is capable of handling hard science fiction.

The field of science fiction has always been a weak point for domestic films.

If Guo Fan was from Huayi and "The Wandering Earth" was a film produced by Huayi, Huayi's stock price would soar like a rocket.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

But the most regrettable thing is Li Yu back then.

When Li Yu made his mark in the film industry with "Those Years", they really wanted to bring Li Yu to Huayi.

Unfortunately, Li Yu ignored them.

If Li Yu had been fooled by them back then, Feng Xiaogang would have had to stand aside at Huayi. Their Huayi is the most awesome private film company in China.

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After the premiere of "The Wandering Earth", the film began to warm up for its official release.

It’s different from other movies that have a bunch of stars helping to promote it.

There are very few celebrities who took the initiative to promote "The Wandering Earth", and the famous ones include only Xu Zheng, Chen Kun, Li Chen and a few others.

The main reason is that Guo Fan was not famous enough before.

The success or failure of "The Wandering Earth" is still unknown, and no stars are willing to support it.

This is very realistic. Everyone likes to add icing on the cake but does not like to provide timely assistance.

In the end, Li Yu mobilized his own connections and asked a group of celebrities including Fan Xiaopang, Liu Yifei, Yan Danchen, etc. to help promote the film.

"Director Li, I still have to rely on you. I sent a message to the group, asking everyone to help me promote my new movie when they have time, but only a few paid attention to me. You are really awesome. Your slight contribution is dozens of times more efficient than mine, and it is more effective than me kneeling down and begging for help." Guo Fan was filled with emotion.

Sure enough, we still have to work hard to achieve success!

When a person is successful, the whole world will be full of good people.

But before he succeeded, society was too cruel to people, and he now experienced this firsthand.

"After The Wandering Earth is released, you can be like me. Wherever you go, you will be greeted with smiles by all the good people, except for some investors." Li Yu said earnestly. Sci-fi films are too expensive and risky. If The Wandering Earth is a success, there will definitely be many investors who will greet Guo Fan with smiles.

But it is very likely that Guo Fan will overspend in the future, and the money invested by investors who welcome him with a smile may not be enough to last, and he will have to depend on the attitudes of some investors at that time.

Great directors such as Guo Shi, Chen Kaige, and Jiang Wen are more or less influenced by capital when making movies.

A typical example is "Three Shots Surprise", which has a very divided style, and the ideas of the national master and the ideas of capital are completely different.

What the national master wanted was suspense, while the capital only wanted to take advantage of the Xiao Shen Yang and skits that became popular during the Spring Festival Gala that year.

If there was no influence from capital, and the national director himself was allowed to lead the creative direction of the film, the film would definitely not be so bad.

The worst among these people is Jiang Wen.

None of his movies are bad, but they often lose money, big losses at that.

After losing all his money in "The Sun Also Rises", he kept saying that next time he would make money standing up.

Apart from Yang Shoucheng of Hong Kong Eagle King who admired him and was willing to lose money to go all in with him, other investors ignored him.

In the end, Jiang Wen took great pains to scrape together the money to film Let the Bullets Fly, and he actually made some money.

This is also the reason why Li Yu is determined to become a capital.

No one else invests in his movies, but he invests in them himself, and tries his best to do everything without asking for help from others.

"Director Li, it's easy for you to say that. I'm not you." Guo Fan shook his head.

It is easy to say that you can become famous in one battle, but it is very difficult to actually do it.

"You should have confidence in yourself. The situation you are facing now is just that there are no stars to promote you. The situation I faced back then was much worse than yours. Directors and stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan jointly boycotted me, and there were not many actors from the mainland who were willing to speak out in support of me." Li Yu talked about the past again.

Li Yu was talking about that matter, Guo Fan must know about it.

In this year's May Day period, "The Wandering Earth" has a total of seven opponents.

"Us and Them" directed by Milk Tea Liu, who has transformed into a director.

This movie imitates "Youth" in all aspects, including its story, marketing and release date, and is quite successful commercially.

Movies such as "God of War" starring Chen Weiting, Hu Jun, and Fei Xia, "The Player" starring Xu Zheng, and "Low Pressure Trough: City of Desire" starring Zha Zha Hui are all concentrated in the May Day period.

Apart from "Us and Them", there are basically no strong competitors.

The reason why "Us and Them" was able to earn over a billion yuan at the box office in the previous life was not only due to its marketing, but also because its competitors at the same time were too weak.

The rival films of the same period were all too weak, making "Us and Them" seem not so weak. Audiences who wanted to go to the cinema to watch a movie during the May Day holiday could only choose to watch "Us and Them" after much deliberation.

With "The Wandering Earth" around, "Us and Them" won't be able to make money so easily.

Finally, May 1st has arrived, and eight movies including "The Wandering Earth" will be released at the same time.

"The Wandering Earth" easily takes the top spot among these eight movies.

As the first hard science fiction film in China, this gimmick alone can attract a large number of science fiction fans into the cinema.

However, taking the lead is only a good start, and we still have to see how things develop in the future.

The box office of "Fortress of Devil City" on the first day of its release was also good, deceiving a large number of victims into entering the theaters.

(End of this chapter)