This top guy is crazy!

Chapter 387: Friends Starts Filming

“So explosive!”

“Hahahahahahahahaha How did Frog convince Director Dao to shoot this video?”

"Bonds"

"Rediscover the bond."

"I'm really going to die laughing!"

"He's really crazy!"

"Is this okay to say?"

“Hahahahahahaha, there is actually a time and a place. Don’t be so strict where it’s not necessary!”

“2023年9月13日和9月14日那两天发生了什么？为什么你们连续泡了两天澡？”

"Fuhai City Tianxiang Bathhouse, Dijing Huifu Bath Center, Shandong Province Haojiao Bath Shop, and Dijing Diwangtang Private Health Club are suspected to be the biggest winners."

"Okay, I believe you, you're really big."

"They even released a clarification video which really made me laugh to death."

"Clarification video×

Show off video√"

"If I hadn't seen this video, I wouldn't have known about this!"

“He really cares!”

"I'm sorry to get to know you in such a private way, hahahaha!"

"Private Malou, I literally rolled around on the bed laughing so hard!"

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Sai State, Xinxiang.

"Friends" has officially started filming, and today we are filming the first episode and the first scene.

The six main actors have already finished their makeup.

Cheng Cheng sat behind the monitor and shouted:

"Action!"

As soon as he finished speaking, various departments including photography, lighting, recording, and stage management responded quickly.

The scene was tense but orderly.

In front of the camera, the leading actors quickly got into their roles. Olly Carson, who played Monica, spoke her first line: "There's nothing to say. He's just my colleague."

At this point, this TV series, which is destined to go down in history, has begun where its dream began.

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In the next few days, Cheng Cheng continued to film "Friends" in Serbia. Although there were demonstrators coming to disrupt the film every day, it did not hinder the progress of "Friends". To be honest, these people were not a concern.

Moreover, they stopped coming after a few days of demonstration because there were too many things happening in Serbia, such as the train derailment, the shooting at an elementary school that killed 21 people, the child who called the police but received no rescue for an hour, the soldier who set himself on fire, etc. They were quickly distracted.

Under Cheng Cheng's coordination, the filming of Friends was very fast, almost progressing at the rate of one episode every two days.

The first season of "Friends" has a total of 24 episodes, and it is estimated that it can be completed in one and a half months.

While Cheng Cheng was filming "Friends" abroad, "The Whistleblower" also started its promotion in China. "The Whistleblower" is scheduled to be released on April 4, just in time for the Qingming Festival holiday.

Don’t think that Qingming Festival is unlucky. In fact, many movies are released during Qingming Festival because it is more or less a holiday with potential for movie watching, which is somewhat better than Saturday and weekend.

This film has attracted much attention since the project stage.

Because "The Sound of Wind" is the second film in which Yan Gou'er and Wen Lian collaborated since "A Little Thing Called First Love".

Moreover, since "A Little Thing Called First Love", Wen Lian won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and Yan Gou'er played Ye Wenjie in "The Three-Body Problem". Their acting skills have improved greatly, and the audience is very eager to see the two of them perform together.

Not to mention that this is a movie with two female protagonists.

The publicity and promotion are also moving in this direction.

For a time, the Internet was flooded with marketing information about "The Sound of Wind".

Weibo is also full of entries about the two, such as #Yan Gou'er and Wen Lian double A blockbuster#, #The Sound of Wind new bestie literature#, #Wen Lian and Yan Gou'er's journey together#, #Wen Lian and Yan Gou'er's acting in a cool movie#, #Yan Gou'er calls Wen Lian sister#, etc.

In fact, "The Whistleblower" is very suitable for the current gender-antagonistic marketing method and feeds on feminism.

For example, there was a female-themed movie with two female protagonists in the previous life.

The marketing term almost touches on the issue of gender confrontation.

For example, #Movie XXX rectify menstrual shame#, #Movie XXX, matriarchal society#, #XXX, a new female narrative#, #XXX ceiling of female relationships#, #XXX, not special for women#, #XXX, women are born with the ability to love#, #XXX director wishes that all express trains in the world will not stink#, #XXX, a female-centered movie#, #XXX new women, new topics#, #XXX, confident boys will not be broken when watching it#, #XXX male competition drama#.

Let's talk, what does a movie have to do with menstrual shame or whether fast cars smell bad?

Just for a little bit of box office revenue, people are jumping up and down.

But Cheng Cheng doesn't need to do that. He has a huge base, he himself is the biggest signboard, and he has also successfully reduced his influence as an actor.

Why couldn’t Happy Twist be successful in the previous life?
It’s because among the entire Happy Twist team, only Shen Teng and Ma Li have box office appeal, no one else can.

Therefore, the term "Teng content" came into being. Even in "Shameful Iron Fist" starring Ma Li and Allen, Shen Teng had to make an appearance. If you didn't watch the full film, you would think Shen Teng was the protagonist.

But now, after "To Live", "The Three-Body Problem" and "I'm Not Cool", Cheng Cheng has enough appeal even if he does not act in the dramas, but only as a screenwriter.

His scripts are a guarantee of box office success.

At the same time, the upcoming release of "The Whistleblower" has also attracted the attention of industry insiders.

At first, no one paid attention to the cold winter of the film industry. It was just a movie of decent quality that received a lower-than-expected box office, a cinema chain closed down, an investor withdrew its investment, a director retired, and a film and television company went bankrupt. Until this disaster became closely related to every practitioner...

Since the second half of last year, the film industry has been getting colder and colder. First, the box office in the same period was 85% of last year, then 70%, and then 60%. This year, the box office in the same period is not even 50% of last year!

It has been three months since the beginning of this year, and there has not been a single movie that has grossed over 20 billion yuan.

Although Cheng Cheng's "Resident Evil" has a high global box office, exceeding 81 billion yuan in total, that is also the international box office. In fact, the domestic box office is only 32 billion, which is not as high as "A Little Thing Called First Love".

You know, how much did "A Little Thing Called First Love" cost?
Of course, this is mainly due to the domestic release date of "Resident Evil". In order to be released during the holiday period in Serbia, "Resident Evil" chose a date that was far away in China.

However, it cannot be said that this has nothing to do with the entire film market.

This cool breeze made every practitioner feel chilled.

Therefore, industry practitioners, capital parties, film and television companies, and advertisers all want to use "The Whistleblower" to see how much box office revenue this movie, which was written by Cheng Cheng, produced by Shenhua, and starred by Yan Gou'er and Wen Lian, and is considered a ceiling in every sense, can achieve.

Moreover, "The Sound of Wind" was only released in China and had no foreign influence at all. This can give them a reference to see whether the current film market is really in trouble.

And for Tianxia Movies, is there an upper limit that no one can see?

(End of this chapter)