Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 332: Retrial

Now "Partners" is being criticized a lot on the Internet, with people saying that the movie is so rubbish and so ugly, and Jing Tian is also being disliked.

People say that her acting skills are outrageous. She is the only failure in the whole play, and she is treated almost the same as Liu Tianxian.

But her public opinion is relatively small. It is the spontaneous behavior of some viewers. There is no force deliberately trying to manipulate her. They are only targeting the movie itself.

The audience doesn’t care whose daughter Jing Tian is. They can just curse her if they are unhappy. Besides, she leaves a bad impression on the audience to begin with. They naturally think that she has terrible acting skills and is just a resource-rich girl.

Just like Liu Tianxian, the audience inherently perceives her as a poor actor.

This made Jing Tian very depressed!
Due to the efforts of competitors, the box office of "Partners" fell to 4224 million on the second day.

Adding the 5445 million on the first day, the total revenue in two days was 9669 million, which did not break the million mark.

Everyone in the industry thought that this movie would make over 2 million yuan in days. Even Fang Hong and Chen Zhixi themselves thought that they didn't expect it to fail.

If it doesn't break 3 million, the box office will stop and the release of "Iron Man " will be cut in half.

Seeing this performance, the lead actor Zhang Songwen couldn't help but feel frustrated and distressed.

"Don't be so pessimistic. This is already very good. Many movies in the past didn't make over 100 million. It's already amazing if it makes over tens of millions." Wen Muye patted him on the shoulder.

They were together at this time, along with Shen Teng, but he couldn't get a word in and was just a small follower.

Now they just met for the movie "Lost in Thailand" and the filming has not officially started yet.

"You are the director. Don't you feel distressed when you see the situation of the movie?" Zhang Songwen said.

“It’s heartbreaking, but what can I do? The films I made before didn’t even qualify for screening, and yet they still ended up like this,” Wen Muye said.

Directors like them usually shoot a lot of random films to train themselves.

"Ah, the principal has trained me so hard, but I am half-dead and feel very depressed." Zhang Songwen sighed.

The movies he made were sometimes good and sometimes bad. "Big Shot" was pretty good, but "Cold War" was well received but not popular at the box office and didn't make much money.

Moreover, he doesn't seem to be able to carry much box office load, and is always overshadowed by Huang Bo, Xu Guangtou, and Wang Baoqiang. Even Wen Zhang can surpass him and achieve better results than him.

He is also the actor with the most film resources in Yutu, not much less than Liu Tianxian.

Previously, there was "Meeting in Seattle", and now there is "Partners", and "Now You See Me", and next he will be filming "Lost in Thailand".

It can be said that she has never been short of resources and has always been very good. The resources she has obtained are even better than those obtained by Liu Tianxian. Liu Tianxian has only made five films including "Now You See Me", and the first two of them are low-cost romance films.

But I just feel that I haven’t made any money like Liu Tianxian and haven’t created any value for the company.

At this time, Fang Hong suddenly came in: "What are you talking about?"

"Oh, isn't this because Song Wen saw that the box office performance of 'Partners' was not ideal, so I am trying to enlighten him?" Wen Muye stood up.

Zhang Songwen and Shen Teng saw the person coming and hurriedly stood up.

"It's okay. The success or failure of a movie is common. Don't worry too much." Fang Hong patted Zhang Songwen on the shoulder and said, "It's possible that you will win the Best Actor award for this movie."

"What?!" Zhang Songwen was surprised.

"I predict that you will be the candidate for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor."

Fang Hong made a small joke, and then said to Wen Muye: "Muye, when you were filming "Heart Flower Road", let me see your director's script."

"Okay!" Wen Muye agreed.

"Okay, you guys get busy." Fang Hong waved his hand and left.

He wanted to compare the director's script to see if there were any differences from what he had seen in his previous life, so that he could make some suggestions.

Ning Hao's style of absurd comedy and black humor is not so easy to imitate.

During this process, Fang Hong did not talk to Shen Teng.

This made Shen Teng envious of Zhang Songwen. He didn't know why he was so worried about this treatment. If the principal gave him this treatment, he would wake up laughing in his dreams!
But he was designated as the protagonist by the principal!
“See, the principal and others won’t deny a person just because of one or two movies. You’re just overthinking it. They say you can win the Best Actor award not because you acted badly, but because you acted very well. The poor box office performance has nothing to do with you.” Wen Muye comforted.

To be honest, Zhang Songwen's acting is impeccable. His performance is delicate and emotional, and he fits the role very well.

But it’s hard to say about this, it’s not a crime of war!

This May Day is the day when "Iron Man 3" is released. The publicity campaign in the past two days is so strong that it overshadows "Partners".

As for Disney, it has money and channels, and it is the king of the world!
Many viewers have been waiting to watch this Hollywood blockbuster on May Day, and the first two parts were very enjoyable to watch.

So the expectations for "Partners" have diminished.

"Once Iron Man 3 is released, it will basically mean that Partners is out." Mr. Wang seemed quite proud.

Originally, they wanted to fire a few blank shots at the principal, but seeing the great movie "Iron Man 3", they gave up.

The principal was put on hold for two days so that "Iron Man 3" could take over. Perfect!

"The principal hasn't made any move. Is there any backup plan?" Da Wang was a little worried.

Everything is always calm before the principal takes action, but he will suddenly give you a blow like this. It was like this last time when he fired a blank shot, it was like this when he subsidized tickets, and it was like this when he invited female boxers to fight.

"What else can they do? Tomorrow is the 30th, and the day after tomorrow is May Day. Can they still send Iron Man 3 back for reexamination?"

Xiao Wang always felt that it was impossible, and then said: "It doesn't matter whether we make money in the future or not, anyway, we can't let the principal make money, let's see who can outlast the other."

This is the same strategy as Fang Hong’s original one, but now Huayi has the confidence. Now their market value has soared to more than 150 billion, which is exactly double the previous amount.

They can make money from the stock market, so it doesn't matter whether they make movies or not.

Really, once a company grows to a certain size, it wants to do other things; making movies is a thankless task.

"Stop when Iron Man 3 is released and don't spend more money." Fatty Yu instructed his publicity director, Ms. Sun Chen.

"Okay, Mr. Yu." Sun Chen nodded.

They are not as wealthy as Huayi. After making this deal, they hope to defeat "The Partner" with "Iron Man 3".

Essentially, it follows the rhythm of "Partners", with the participation of Bernard and Yu Pangzi, as well as Guangguang, and other film and television colleagues also participating to varying degrees.

It’s just that these people are relatively low-key. They don’t rush to the front, but choose to follow Huayi to do bad things.

This is normal. The current Yutu Group is producing more and more films. Their films will definitely be available in good schedules. It is inevitable that they will meet their competitors later. And they have never failed. Every film can make money successfully. Who can do this?
Every film and television company has experienced investment failures to a greater or lesser extent, but Yutu is one of them. As a result, people don’t want to compete with Yutu, and it would be best to find ways to weaken it.

And I saw in the news recently that Yutu is going to build a digital film and television production base.

If this is done well, then the production level of other producers will not be much better than theirs, but at least they will not be on the same level.

In addition, every movie must receive subsidies from ticket sales and ground-based publicity and promotion.

If things continue like this, what will happen?
Today, Tupiaopiao is not limited to online promotion, but has already established a ground promotion team that runs to every cinema in the country to promote films.

We post posters and place light box advertisements, and also contact local subways, buses and other mobile advertising platforms to advertise.

The same is true for elevators.

This is to expand various channels in preparation for taking over the publicity and distribution business in an all-round way. Otherwise, if the channels are too small, how can we promote and distribute films in the future?

This is both a promotional video and a promotional software!

Ticket subsidies have always existed and are not limited to a certain movie. Basically every movie has a subsidy. As long as you buy it on Tupiaopiao, you will get a subsidy of five or ten yuan.

If it’s group buying, there will be discounts. Just spend the money like this. Burn all other competitors in the market to death first. Anyway, there are 30 billion yuan, so spend it as you like.

The ticketing market is currently in a state of chaos.

On the third day, the 30th, the box office of "Partners" was 4778 million, a slight increase from the previous day.

None of this matters. Everyone's eyes are on the performance of "Iron Man 3" after it is released on May Day. As long as this movie is released, "Partners" will not be able to make any waves.

The box office level also stopped there.

Just when everyone was looking forward to the release of "Iron Man 3", Jade Rabbit did this.

A piece of news exploded the film and television industry:

“Iron Man 3 has been rescheduled to May 5th!”

This piece of news was like a bomb, destroying all those ill-intentioned calculations.

Surprising, astonishing, and puzzling?

"How is it possible?! How is it possible?!" Xiao Wang was confused.

It was supposed to be on May 1st, why was the schedule suddenly changed?

He couldn't control himself and called Wu Bing, president of DMG Entertainment, one of the co-investors of "Iron Man 3".

The matters concerning "Iron Man 3" were handed over to them, so they know best what is going on.

"Hey, Mr. Wu, what's going on with you? Why did Iron Man 3 change its release date?" Mr. Wang couldn't help but came up and asked.

This made Wu Bing a little unhappy, but he still said, "They said our movie needs to be reviewed."

"Why do we need a retrial?" Mr. Wang couldn't help but slap his own mouth.

He was really right. It really is a retrial. His mouth is really effective.

"It's inconvenient to disclose this." Wu Bing said.

In fact, they were notified of the retrial on the 29th. They mediated for two days, but seeing that there was no effect, they had no choice but to reveal the change of schedule to the media.

The specific reasons are not convenient to disclose, and we can only let the outside world guess.

It’s very simple, the villain is called Mandarin, which hurts national feelings.

Chen Zhixi reported the matter to someone of certain status in the academic community, and they had to take it seriously.

Since the censorship is not so strict now, Sino-US relations are still good, and Marvel’s reputation for double standards at home and abroad is not so bad, so they gave it a break.

But if someone reports it and makes a big deal out of it, it is normal to send the case back for retrial.

In fact, before this movie was released, many people didn’t know the name of the villain in this movie, but Fang Hong knew it, and so did the people who reviewed the movie.

Those who have watched foreign trailers probably know that many people don’t think about it that way.

After hanging up the phone, Da Wang heard their conversation and said, "I think the principal must have some tricks. He won't just sit there and wait for death."

Mr. Wang was angrily silent. People still have to rely on themselves. Relying on others is ultimately unreliable.

Originally, it was planned that "Iron Man 3" would interrupt the box office of "Partners", but now it has failed and all previous efforts have been wasted.

Not only Huayi, but also Bona and Guangxian did not expect this. Fatty Yu also sighed deeply, thinking that all his work was in vain.

If "Iron Man 3" is not released, it will not be able to curb the box office of "Partners". Tomorrow all Chinese people will have a holiday, so we can only choose to stop.

They can't stop people from watching movies on May Day, and now "Partners" has no rivals.

As one of the actors, Fan Xiaopang was also confused, and even said that it would be cool to appear in a Hollywood blockbuster.

In fact, she is not in the overseas version of this movie, and even Wang Xueqi only has one line and a pair of hands.

We added three minutes of their scenes in order to make it a co-production, but we didn't expect the higher-ups to not recognize it at all and still treated it as an imported film.

Yutu learned to make special editions from those double-standard Hollywood film producers.

Take Marvel for example. They are a typical double standard with strong cultural bias. Later, the authorities saw through them, so many of their films were not introduced.

They always blacken you in movies and scold you in front of the whole world. Can you bear it?
Don't say you have a fragile heart or anything like that. Even though "Crazy Alien" made fun of the United States, they still banned it.

Just after this mountain was removed, people had the May Day holiday, and the opponents gave up setting the pace, so the game was over.

In addition, the promotion of "Iron Man 3" has been withdrawn and it cannot be released, so there is no point in promoting it now.

The promotional slogan of "Partners" was no longer suppressed and it suddenly surfaced, allowing more people to know about this movie.

On May Day, the box office broke through the historic mark of 10922 million, which was a huge success.

The total box office exceeded 2.5 million, becoming the box office champion!

(End of this chapter)