I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 579: "Peak Explosion" Premiere (23)

Shen Liang's personality and popularity mean that he is unlikely to work with some author-type directors.

Author-type directors refer to those directors who show strong personal style and artistic characteristics in their film creation.

Their work is often dedicated to expressing a personal style or vision…

This type of director usually writes and directs his or her own film and is the sole screenwriter of his or her film. Therefore, the script is not affected by external factors and is as faithful to expression as possible.

For them, actors are just props to express themselves!
Although Wen Muye’s works are commercial in nature, he is a very typical author-director…

After all, he learned from director Tian Zhuangzhuang.

Now the labels and marks on Shen Liang are not obvious yet, but once he forms his own unique style, then... no one can suppress him!
Because once there is a clear label, the movies starring Shen Liang are called Shen Liang's works.

"Miracle" is certainly not, it is the work of Wen Muye!
So Shen Liang’s movie doesn’t need a director?

It is still necessary, but what he needs is a director who takes himself as the core of creation. The directors will only try to add some of their own ideas under this premise and will never take the place of the main theme.

If the director is tough...

Then... we can only let him go!
For example, in Jackie Chan's "Crime Squad", Huang Zhiqiang and Jackie Chan had a conflict over the filming concept. Huang Zhiqiang liked to add some violent and sexual elements, but we know that Jackie Chan doesn't like his movies to have elements that are not suitable for children...

Then Huang Zhiqiang left and Chen Zhihua took over.

Unless he meets a director who has similar ideas to him...

……

On September 9th, Shen Liang filmed "Miracle" for the whole morning and flew to BJ in the afternoon.

"Peak Explosion" premiered.

This is the first main-theme production hosted by him after the change of leadership in China Film Group Corporation - in 19 years, La Peikang and Jiang Ping stepped down, and Jiao Hongfen and Fu Ruoqing took over.

"Feng Bao" is the first mainstream work hosted by them.

Oh, the host here refers to the main producer - Tencent Film and Shen Liang Studio are the second and third producers respectively...

"My Hometown and Me", "My Fathers and I", including Shen Liang's "Underground Fire", "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" and "Life Events" are all produced by the company... but they are not the main controllers.

Last year, "The Crowd" and "Rampage" brought China Film Group 6.43 million yuan in revenue.

This year, the three movies "Underground Fire", "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils", and "Life Events" contributed more than 1 billion in revenue...

Therefore, it cannot be overemphasized how much importance we attach to "Peak Explosion"!

I heard that Lao Fu directly said at the meeting, "We will use all the strength of theaters across the country to release "Peak Explosion"!"

Well, it is very much like the style of Han Sanye back then - Sanye said at the premiere of Red Cliff that 'all the theaters across the country will release The Promise...'...

This is not a joke!

Let’s talk about Brother Liang.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Shen Liang joined the crew.

After the usual greetings, Fu Ruoqing asked directly, "Why have you lost so much weight?"

"…The new movie requires me to be thinner…I feel pretty handsome!"

“…Miracle?”

"Um…"

"Don't try so hard..."

"No, I only lost less than 10 pounds. The main reason is that the movie itself is close to a fairy tale. If the characters don't match, it's hard for the audience to believe..."

Jiao Hongfen, who was standing by, said: "You have such a high box office, but you are still so demanding of yourself..."

Shen Liang smiled and said, "Too many people are watching us, so we can't afford to slack off..." As he spoke, he pulled Yang Zi over and said, "Uncles, this is the young actress Yang Zi, a very down-to-earth actress... If there is a suitable opportunity, you must consider her..."

Fu Ruoqing: "If you say so, we have been chatting for more than half an hour!"

"So what are you guys talking about?"

"We just made a bet on the box office of Peaky Blinders!" "How much?"

"They said 15 to 20 billion, I think it's between 20 billion and 25 billion... What do you think?"

"It's hard to say..." Shen Liang scratched his head: "If 5% of the National Day schedule is reserved, I think it should be more than 25 billion. If not... then it will be between 20 billion and 25 billion. Let's take the middle value, 23 billion!"

Fu Ruoqing glanced at Jiao Hongfen, who laughed: "That's it, we all predicted wrong!"

Director Li Jun, who had been silent the whole time, quickly asked, "What do you mean?"

"It's said that Brother Liang predicted the box office, and if we add 10 to 15 billion, that's the final box office, then Peak Explosion will definitely make 30 billion!"

Shen Liang was a little speechless: "...No, this is the September season, the audience is waiting for the National Day...How could there be a movie with a box office of over 30 billion in September?"

The highest box office in September was 2018 billion in 33!
Box office predictions should be based on the market, schedules, etc.

In such a period, can there be a movie with a box office of over 30 billion?

Is your brain going crazy?
Old Fu shook his head: "That's not necessarily true... A movie called "Life Events" with a budget of 6000 million has sold nearly 50 billion. You, Shen Liang, have always been good at creating miracles!"

……

The premiere of "Peak Explosion" did not invite many celebrities except the main creators of the crew...

It's a disaster movie after all...

Well, actually, no one wants to invite celebrities - at this stage, movie premieres rarely hold large-scale red carpet ceremonies!
"Life Events" is a special case.

The premiere of "Peak Explosion" was held at the Party History Museum of China Film International Cinema. The guests invited were basically some media and many audiences who won tickets through lottery, such as Douban movie viewing group, Weibo movie viewing group, Douyin movie viewing group, Xiaohongshu movie viewing group, Zhihu movie viewing group...

Jiang Xue is a fan of Shen Liang, not really a fan, she just pays attention to him occasionally. She got the ticket through the Douyin movie watching group...

Quite exciting.

I came here to queue up at 3pm.

Well, I didn’t queue up all the time. I signed in first, then chatted with the ticket scalper…

I roughly know that scalpers buy it for 800 yuan and sell it for 2000 yuan!

After all... it's like Liang Ge's fan meeting...

Brother Liang has seldom attended commercial activities in recent years. Apart from participating in more formal award ceremonies, most of the time you can only see him in the live broadcast room!
But 2000 yuan...

It’s still quite expensive!
Is anyone buying it?

Well, while she was chatting with the scalper, she saw the scalper sell three tickets...

The buyers are all little girls, and they don’t bargain. 2000 yuan, they give it to me right away!

I can only say that star-chasing girls are really rich!

In addition, it can be seen that China Film Group attaches great importance to "Peak Explosion", and the walls are full of light box advertisements for "Peak Explosion"...

Jiang Xue feels that she is quite normal...

She is a fan of idols, rarely supports them offline, and has never bought peripherals. However, several of Shen Liang’s movies have good reputations, so she bought tickets for all of them...

I saw a group of little girls lining up in an orderly manner, holding selfie sticks, small stools, and posters...

I think these little girls are so naive.

What's the point?

The only interaction between you and your idol is spending money on him!

Then, the elevator door opened, and the staff, guests, directors, other actors, hosts, etc. came out one after another...

Jiang Xue didn't feel anything, then Shen Liang came out, took off his sunglasses, smiled and greeted, bowed...

She felt her heartbeat quicken in an instant, and before she had time to think, tears welled up in her eyes, she was just so excited...

I couldn't help but scream along with the little sister next to me!
(End of this chapter)