Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 259 "Stone" is scheduled to be released

Think about the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, it was really full of talented people.

There are several styles of kung fu films alone.

Cheng Long and Sammo Hung's acrobatic kung fu caused a craze as soon as they appeared.

Xu Ke's fast editing and patriotism are another style.

Other directors also learned from Wang Jing and were able to make similar kung fu films. Wang Jing adapted Jin Yong's famous works, and both "The Deer and the Cauldron" and "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" were quite good.

There are a large number of martial arts teams, including Cheng's team, Hong's team, Yuan's team, Liu's team...

Hong Kong is such a small place, but there are four martial arts teams. It really is a flourishing scene.

When you think about Tsui Hark's works, the "Once Upon a Time in China" trilogy is truly a treasure. In terms of concept, it is much better than the later "Ip Man" series.

In fact, the core of the two is the same, but "Huang Feihong" is more sophisticated.

"Ip Man" is very straightforward, using emotional confrontation undisguisedly, and has been pulling at everyone's emotions since the beginning, and the traces are very obvious.

The audience's emotions were suppressed to the extreme by first suppressing them and then praising them. Finally, Master Ye came on stage and defeated the foreigners.

But not in Once Upon a Time in China.

The entire series reveals thoughts about the country and nation, with strong emotions but not pretentious.

This alone is far superior to "Ip Man".

He actually suppresses the audience's emotions, but you can't feel it.

Because the director made the scale of the film itself big enough.

So Xu Ke is indeed a good director.

But this person's subsequent actions are also very confusing.

He was so cool and elegant in "New Dragon Inn", he was simply the pinnacle of martial arts and the master of martial arts. He could point his finger at other people and say that everyone here was garbage.

However, "The Knife" released three years later had a completely opposite style, taking a realistic approach.

All kinds of depression, all kinds of tragedy...

It just doesn't look good.

I just don't understand what he is thinking.

For ordinary people, it will definitely continue the previous style, with special transfers from junior colleges.

But Xu Laoguai doesn’t have that, otherwise he would be called Xu Laoguai.

If you are a current online novel reader, you will definitely think that Xu Zheng has been possessed by another spirit. Damn, the style has changed so drastically that he doesn't seem like the same person at all.

Logically speaking, a director's directing style should not change so drastically.

"When will "Seven Swords" be released?" Zhang Chen asked.

"November 7."

“Isn’t it during the National Film Protection Month?”

The people from China Film Group shrugged and said, "No, this year's domestic protection month is from June 6 to July 7, and there are a lot of movies, the most famous of which is "Initial D."

Zhang Chen understood as soon as he heard it. This year's Domestic Protection Month is not a good time.

Generally speaking, the summer season refers to the two months of July and August, because these two months are the students’ summer vacation.

There is no holiday in June yet, and school starts in September.

Domestic Film Protection Month first appeared in 2004, when the Film Bureau issued a verbal notice, hoping that theaters across the country would support domestic films.

基本上每年6月10日至7月10日(或7月到8月)期间，不鼓励引进海外分账大片。

Of course, the government will definitely not recognize this, otherwise it will leave room for administrative intervention in the market.

Even though it was proposed last year, Zhang Chen is actually not very familiar with it.

Because in his previous life he started out hanging around online movies, and by the time he really got involved in the film industry, Chinese films had already taken off, with box office revenues starting in the billions, and the films that needed to be protected had become imported films.

"So what movies are there in July and August?"

"July 7th is 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith', 8th is 'Madagascar', 15th is 'Seven Swords', and right after that, on August 29th is 'War of the Worlds'. I suggest that 'Stone' be put at the end of August or during the domestic protection month..." China Film staff gave suggestions based on their own experience.

"What's the reason?"

"Mr. & Mrs. Smith has big stars, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, so it will definitely do well at the box office.

"Madagascar" is an animated film, but "Seven Swords" will be released half a month after it, and in August will be "War of the Worlds" by the great director Spielberg. I don't need to introduce Spielberg.

"World War" was released on the 11th, and the momentum will be gone in 10 days. "Stone" will not be affected much if it is released at the end of August. If it is released in June, it will have to compete with "Initial D"..."

"Initial D", a movie starring Brother Lu.

The domestic box office was 6300 million, which is a small number, but it’s actually pretty good.

Brother Lun has no acting skills at all. The manga "Initial D" has little audience in China. The box office result is entirely due to Brother Lun's influence.

To put it bluntly, it's just like the "Far Cry" directed by Yang Xiaomi in later generations, which is to fleece fans.

Zhang Chen is not afraid to compete with it, but he is not prepared to compete because June is still too cold.

He wanted to make "Stone" a phenomenon, and June was definitely not the right release date.

"I think August 8th is okay." Dong Jianqiang looked at everyone.

But it was immediately rejected by Zhang Chen.

"No, August is too late. We can only do it in July, July 8th."

"Why?" No one understood. There were two Hollywood blockbusters in July, and "Seven Swords" at the end of the month. Why did they want to join in the fun?

"Trust me, we have to release it in July. August will be a disaster because of Supergirl."

"Which show on Mango TV?"

"Correct."

"A talent show, as for..."

"Believe me," Dong Jianqiang was interrupted before he finished speaking: "Super Girl is very popular, and nothing can compete with it for media resources."

Just kidding, what is the existence of "Super Girl"? It is the most glorious moment of Mango TV and it reached its peak from the beginning.

At its peak, the ratings even exceeded those of the News Broadcast.

"Just set it for July 7th and avoid Mr. and Mrs. Smith. As for Madagascar, it's an animated film and poses little threat to us."

If possible, he would actually prefer to confront "World War" head-on because he knows that "World War" is a lame movie.

The situation of Spielberg and Xu Ke is similar. They are once very famous, but have begun to decline.

"War of the Worlds" was only amazing at the beginning, but the ending was complete shit.

To say that it starts off strong but ends weakly is an insult to the idiom.

A $2.5 million production, and the result is this quality.

At the end of the movie, there was no climax, and the aliens were not killed by humans. They all died because they could not adapt to the microorganisms on Earth.

This is so fucking annoying that people have been pent up for a long time and have nowhere to vent their emotions.

So, it’s normal to fail.

The matter was settled. Ning Hao was also present at the meeting, but he could not get a word in at all.

After finishing post-production at the end of April, it seemed as if the movie had nothing to do with him anymore.

Obviously "Stone" is his movie, but his opinion was not sought neither in the release date nor in the promotion.

Xingchen Entertainment only has one requirement for him, which is to cooperate when the time comes.

Ning Hao had no objection at all. He even envied Zhang Chen's decisiveness. He said the release date would be set at that time, and neither China Film nor other investors had any objection.

Even if you don’t agree, reserve your opinion.

There is no other reason, Zhang Chen has never lost a battle so far.

(End of this chapter)