Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 538 Target Berlin (6k)

The New Year's Day holiday in 2013 started on the 1st, and the premiere of "The Blade of the Assassin" was the day before.

As usual, Chen Linfeng went to show his support.

The movie still has the same flavor, and he paid special attention to the two sections where Ding Xiu "added money" and "was really smooth".

These are all very famous memes in later generations.

After that, when facing interviews from reporters, Chen Linfeng said some nice things as usual.

"In my opinion, this film belongs to the new martial arts genre and is expected to open up a new situation. In the past few years, martial arts films have declined somewhat. The main reason is that the audience has become tired of it. I hope this film can arouse their interest."

"Can you make a prediction about the box office of "The Blade of the Assassin"?"

"Why do you keep asking me to predict the box office? I'd rather not guess. It makes too much noise."

"..."

As the screenwriter and investor of the film, the media paid close attention to Chen Linfeng, and he almost became the main marketing target of the film.

In fact, he was not too averse to this. After all, he was a new director with little fame and did need some support.

This is also what he does as a teacher.

Lu Yang obviously appreciated the support and expressed his gratitude repeatedly after the premiere.

After the premiere, the media sent reports that focused on Chen Linfeng's evaluation of the new film.

Netizens were very curious because he had just praised "Lost in Thailand" before.

Now, 10 days later, the box office of "Lost in Thailand" has reached 6.3 million.

According to the box office curve, the final box office is likely to exceed 10 billion.

Director Chen’s golden words became a hot topic on the Internet.

Now he has praised another movie. I wonder what the quality of this movie is.

Some of Chen Linfeng's fans actually believed this recommendation.

Besides, as a screenwriter, he himself is enough to give people some confidence.

Although rumors say that he only proposed the idea, the specific story filling was all done by the new director.

But these days, anything associated with his name is obviously different.

On New Year’s Day, the first-day box office took in nearly 3000 million.

Everyone was shocked.

Various media outlets treated this as big news and pushed it to the headlines of the entertainment section today.

Don’t look at Chen Linfeng’s past movies, which often earned hundreds of millions in a single day. The box office of less than 30 million yuan from these 20 million yuan seems to be nothing special.

But in fact, a large number of movies are still in the stage of sudden death as soon as they are released.

Take Hong Kong’s famous director Wang Jing for example.

This year's Lunar New Year movie "The Great Shanghai" directed by him was released at the end of last month, on December 12, the same day as "Lost in Thailand".

As a result, even with the support of Chow Yun-fat and Huang Xiaoming, the box office in the first three days of the weekend was only 3 million, which is not as good as the one-day box office here.

Although "Lost in Thailand" squeezed out the screening schedule, at the beginning, the screening schedule of "The Great Shanghai" was not much worse. On the contrary, it was even higher because of the support of a famous star director.

As a result, he was beaten to pieces.

Now that "The Blade Strikes Back" has been released, the screening schedule of "The Great Shanghai" will be further squeezed.

It would be great if the movie can finally make over 100 million.

Under such circumstances, it was not easy for "Knife of the Assassin" to withstand the pressure from "Lost in Thailand" and still get a box office of nearly 3000 million on the first day.

Many media attributed the reason to Lu Yang's identity, and the concept of "Chen Linfeng's disciple" was hyped by the media.

Actually, there is some explanation behind this.

At least with Chen Linfeng as the screenwriter and the rumors that he was optimistic about the film, the theater chain did give it some consideration in scheduling the film.

Maoyan has also made appropriate allocation of promotional resources.

There is no need to say more about this.

As a result, many people in the industry turned their attention to Chen Linfeng's other disciples.

You know, it is rumored that the first generation of students he taught were known as the Four Heavenly Kings.

Now Lu Yang has appeared and performed well. I wonder how the others are doing.

For the other three, this kind of attention is always a good thing.

When Yan Ying learned about the performance of Lu Yang's new movie, she was overjoyed.

It’s not easy, the directing department finally produced a talented person again.

This achievement is not good enough to hang a banner, but a good news has been posted on the bulletin board.

The institute's publication also reserved the front page for "Xiu Chun Dao" and Lu Yang.

The day after the box office results came out, Wang Rui called Chen Linfeng and highly praised his performance in guiding students.

The college was also under pressure when it gave Chen Linfeng such great preferential treatment, even allowing him not to come to school to teach.

Now, at last, the first batch of flowers are blooming and bearing fruit.

Wang Rui promised excitedly, "Xiao Chen, you did a great job. Don't worry, I will arrange your job title at the highest speed."

"Um, Mr. Wang, I'm not in such a hurry. Just come normally."

"That won't work. If you have made a contribution, you should be rewarded."

Wang Rui said firmly, "Don't worry about this. We will arrange it. You just need to continue to lead the students like this."

"With this success rate, the Chinese drama next door will definitely be surpassed by us!"

Seeing that the head of the department was so excited, Chen Linfeng couldn't refuse any more and just agreed.

"Will I become the youngest professor in the future?" he thought to himself.

Chen Linfeng quickly checked on the Internet.

It turns out that the youngest professor in China is a teacher named Liu Lu. At the age of 22, he was promoted to the youngest full professor because he solved a mathematical conjecture.

As expected, China's top talents have all gone into science, so his is nothing.

Chen Linfeng felt that he still overestimated himself and felt relieved.

During the three-day New Year's Day holiday, the box office of "The Blade Identity" maintained a slight growth trend.

The reputation is very good, even surprisingly good.

The online evaluation of Chen Linfeng's "new style of martial arts" is particularly recognized.

Therefore, it has aroused the interest of many martial arts fans.

In addition to the fans who trust Chen Linfeng's vision and evaluation, Chen Kun, Shi Xiaolong and others also have a large fan base.

After three days, the total box office reached 9400 million, and Maoyan's final box office forecast was 4 million, which is indeed not low for a new director.

Chen Linfeng was particularly surprised because the previous version of "Blade Identity 1" had little popularity and only earned nearly 1 million yuan.

With changes in schedules and actors, and a little more marketing support, the gap can't really be that big.

On January 1, during the Lunar New Year holiday, two films invested by Kylin, Lost in Thailand and Blade of the Assassin, were both following the planned box office curve and should not be far from expectations in the end.

He didn't pay any more attention to it, but focused on the situation of his new film.

"Joker" was almost completed in post-production at the beginning of last month.

At that time, he submitted the film to the Berlin Film Festival Organizing Committee, and now it is time to announce the shortlisted results.

The result was as expected, with Joker listed on the official shortlist of the Berlin Film Festival.

Not long after that, Han Shanping called.

"Xiao Chen, you've been shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival. Are you going to win three awards this year?"

Apparently, he is not the only one who has paid attention to the Berlin Film Festival nominations.

"Well, I want to give it a try."

Han Shanping's tone was not optimistic. "It is extremely difficult for a superhero movie to win an award."

"I know that the movie Joker is quite different from previous superhero movies."

"That's good, do you need any help?"

Chen Linfeng paused, "Not yet. If anything happens, I will definitely let President Han know."

"Okay, let's not wait until then. I'll lead the group to Berlin this year. We can discuss any problems together then."

"Well... okay then, thank you, Mr. Han."

"That's right. We don't need to talk about this in our relationship."

It seems that others care more about Chen Linfeng's pursuit of the triple gold grand slam than he does.

Not long after, the phone rang again, this time it was Leonardo.

"Chen, Happy New Year. You guys are celebrating the New Year there, right? I remember it took many days."

"Um, it's not the Lunar New Year yet. Before that it was New Year's Day, which has already passed."

"Okay, I remembered it wrong."

After the greetings, Leonardo hurriedly asked, "Chen, what do you think of the Berlin Film Festival?"

Chen Linfeng was silent for a moment, "You... also have ideas?"

"No, I was thinking that I could help you with your public relations then."

Leonardo said sincerely, "You know, my goal has always been the Oscar, and you only need the Golden Bear to win the Grand Slam of the three major international film festivals. I think we can help each other."

In fact, he wanted to win the Berlin Film Festival Best Actor award, even though he had already won the award for "How to Get Away with Murder".

But this kind of thing requires trade-offs. Chen is a big director whose status is not inferior to his. Both parties must have the same goals to achieve better results.

We will still need his help at the Oscars next year, and that’s the key point.

Chen Linfeng understood the other party's intention and nodded decisively, "I understand. Next year's Oscars, I will prioritize winning the Best Actor Oscar."

Chen is indeed a genius!

Seeing that the other party understood his idea instantly, Leonardo excitedly said, "When you are in Berlin, if you have any requests, you can just tell me directly. I will definitely try my best to help you win the Golden Bear Award."

The two parties made a rough agreement and set the time to leave for Berlin, then hung up the phone.

Chen Linfeng is answering the phone here.

As for the media, they were originally still hyping up this year's Lunar New Year box office and the competition for the upcoming Spring Festival box office.

After the Berlin organizing committee announced the shortlist, we immediately shifted our focus and concentrated on reporting the news that Chen Linfeng's "Joker" was shortlisted.

"Chen Linfeng and Leonardo DiCaprio were shortlisted for the 2013 Berlin Film Festival with Joker."

"The only thing missing from the Grand Slam is the Berlin Golden Bear. Can Chen Linfeng's Joker make it happen?"

"Director Chen Linfeng, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this year's Berlin Film Festival has a star."

"..."

Originally, over the years, the Berlin Film Festival has been declining, and media coverage has focused more on Venice and Cannes.

Now that Chen Linfeng has been nominated for his movie and there is the gimmick of aiming for the Grand Slam, the popularity has instantly reached its peak.

Everyone knows that Chen Linfeng is aiming for the Golden Bear and wants to become a triple-gold Grand Slam director by the age of 25.

It is quite a coincidence that this year's Berlin Film Festival has Chinese filmmakers serving as important judges of the festival.

Wang Jiawei, as the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit of this year's Berlin Film Festival, instantly became the focus of the media.

Some people in the industry privately wondered if Director Chen was picking the best ones and specifically choosing Chinese people to serve as judges to win awards.

The media also had suspicions in this regard and specifically asked about it during the interview.

"Director Wang, as the chairman of the jury, will you take care of the films of your compatriots?" "Of course not. The organizing committee has placed a lot of trust in me by choosing me as a judge, so I must ensure fairness."

"If Director Chen's film is of good quality, I won't choose it just because he and I are from the same country. If other films are better, I won't show favoritism just because of my relationship with Director Chen."

He said this in a decisive manner, but in fact he had already received several calls privately.

Some of them ask him to trip others up when the time comes, while others ask him to take care of others as much as possible.

Chen Linfeng has been in the industry for many years and has many friends, but there are also many who dislike him.

But Wang Jiawei said that they were overthinking it.

A film festival cannot be decided by a jury chairman alone; to a large extent, it depends on the attitude of the organizing committee.

It depends on whether they want to block Director Chen or just want to show their goodwill and give him a ride.

It's hard to say.

This is all for later, let’s not mention it for now.

While the domestic excitement was going on, foreign media also noticed the news that Chen Linfeng's new work was shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival.

January 1th, the day after Berlin announced the shortlist.

Major foreign mainstream media have reported on the nominations for this year's Berlin Film Festival.

When they report the news, they often mention the duo of Chen Linfeng and Leonardo.

I have to say that these two people really stole the spotlight last year.

"Inception" caused a sensation around the world, and its impact is still felt today.

The Times Square incident was one of the landmark events of 2012.

The media had just reported this when they were reviewing major events in the entertainment industry last year.

Moreover, according to statistics of last year's global movie box office rankings, "Avengers" ranked first with a score of 15.18.

Next on the list is Inception with $12.66 billion.

Then there are "Skyfall" with 007 billion, "The Dark Knight Rises" with 11.08 billion, and "The Hobbit 10.81" with 1 billion.
"Inception" ranks second among all the big IPs and big productions as an original movie.

This truly shocked a number of Hollywood filmmakers and European and American media.

In the days after New Year's Day, the entertainment sections of major media outlets around the world have been discussing this topic heatedly.

Many filmmakers and film critics have given very high praise to "Inception" and have repeatedly praised Chen Linfeng's screenwriting skills.

As a result, the prices of other Chinese films also rose.

Two years ago, a book called "A Century of Classics in Chinese Film History" was released in China, of course, it was the mainland version.

European and American media did not pay much attention to it at first, but starting from the second half of last year, they began to report on it in a serious manner.

The Western media were very surprised to see that Chen Linfeng's "Sunset" was only ranked sixth.

Then the top ten works were highlighted, especially the top five, which have seen a significant increase in popularity.

Of course, the top two should be excluded here.

There is no need to explain the first place. We all know that its historical value is greater than the value of the work itself.

The second place, "The Battle of Shangganling", was rather embarrassing and was also skipped by most American media.

After that, "Spring in a Small Town", "Farewell My Concubine" and "To Live" quickly gained popularity in Emily Ken.

Since then, the rental volume of these movies in the US disc market has increased significantly.

IMDb's top 250 movie rankings, these movies either quickly made the list or rose rapidly in ranking.

This has also led to a further improvement in the domestic evaluation of these films.

This can be considered as some kind of celebrity endorsement...

1 month 15 day.

Today is Monday, and it is also the day for the year-end report.

In the past two years, Longlin and Qilin have grown a lot in size, especially the Qilin system, which has been divided into Maoyan and V Station, and each of them has developed rapidly.

In the past two years, one after another, it has created a huge momentum.

Now they are all well-known companies in the industry.

It would be a bit inappropriate for the general manager to report alone as in previous years.

Therefore, this year, Longlin and Qilin decided to get together to make reports and discuss plans for the coming year.

According to Chen Shantong, he wanted to make it a routine in the future. If nothing else, everyone would at least have some understanding of the business under the same group.

It can be considered as a kind of resource sharing to some extent.

Chen Linfeng thought about it and it made sense. At his level, if he had any requests, both sides could make them happen.

For example, if Song Yi wanted to work hard in the field of mythological special effects films, Chen Linfeng would directly throw him to Long Lin, starting with TV series, and Long Lin decisively accepted it.

When filming a movie, if you think an actor in a certain drama produced by Longlin is good, you can also use him.

But if you want to get to the level of Sister Mei, Xu Wu, and Chen Rui, it is not that easy.

Sister Mei is fine, after all, she was also a member of Longlin, so at least she knows people.

Xu Wu and Chen Rui had never seen Chen Shantong's subordinates before, and they didn't know each other.

They didn't even know what was going on with Long Lin.

For example, Longlin and Qilin each have their own media resources.

But when both parties make TV series or movies, they can often only do their own thing.

As for the entertainment media, there is no such thing as just covering TV dramas or just reporting on movies.

The media under Qilin also helped to publish a report to promote the Longlin drama. In fact, it doesn’t take any effort at all and it’s just a matter of charging a small amount of money.

But often, Longlin has to spend extra money to find the media, and the effect may not be good.

Only a project led by two princes can ensure that both sides put in effort.

This actually results in a waste of resources.

……

The meeting was held at Qilin’s headquarters building.

There were only five or six people in the large conference room on the 23rd floor.

Some people have arrived early.

Longlin's marketing manager Dong Ruohua and the production department's chief producer Liu Yun were talking in a low voice.

Cao Yu pulled Cheng Er aside, and the two of them sat down and started chatting.

"Old Cheng, I didn't see you much last year. How's the filming of Taken going?"

"Fortunately, the filming is finished."

Cao Yu joked, "Director Cheng is getting better and better. Fang Long has even trained him."

"Don't mention it," Cheng Erzhi shook his head, "This kind of boss is too difficult to serve. If it weren't for Director Chen's help, I wouldn't be able to control him at all."

"That's it. I had filmed 'Police 2' before, so I had some basic knowledge."

Cheng Er briefly mentioned a few examples where Fang Long felt that the action scenes were not enough and wanted to increase the length.

"It's not that I couldn't handle the situation. What the key person said made some sense. The adjustment proposed by Fang Long was indeed that smaller is better, but if it was changed like that, other people's roles would be compressed. In the end, we had to ask Director Chen to solve it."

Cao Yu was shocked. "Didn't we decide that the script cannot be changed? Why is this useless?"

"I didn't change the script. Fang Long is the action director. People said that he just provided a better action plan. How can people say that?"

Cao Yu said, "No wonder, Director Chen left for a while last year. It turned out that he went to mediate for you."

"Yes."

Cheng Er was about to say something else when another person came into the room.

"Director Liu, Director Cheng, you guys are here pretty early."

Xiao Chang brought Lu Yang, Guo Fan, Shen Ao, Song Yi and others in to introduce them to both sides, mainly Liu Yun.

Liu Yun and Cheng Er were both very easy to talk to when facing the big boss's assistant.

Liu Yun smiled and waved his hand, "We all know Mr. Chen's students. Song Yi has done a good job recently. It's time for him to start formally this year."

The latter sentence was directed to Song Yi.

Song Yi nodded, "Well, the screenwriter team has finished writing the script, and I think it's good. I'm going to let Director Chen take a look at it, and then I'll start organizing the filming."

"Very good," Liu Yun nodded, and then looked at Lu Yang, "Director Lu has become very famous this year, and Blade of the Assassin is really an eye-opener for everyone."

Lu Yang said modestly, saying that he had heard too many compliments recently.

However, most of the people present here are big shots, and they won't allow him to get too arrogant.

He wanted to show off in front of Guo Fan, Shen Ao and others, but they all knew each other, so he didn't have any chance at all.

Cheng Er suddenly interrupted and asked Liu Yun, "How was the online drama that Long Lin filmed last year?"

Everyone turned their eyes to Liu Yun.

A few years ago, I really couldn’t imagine filming a TV series and not broadcast it on TV, but broadcast it purely on the Internet.

As the leading TV drama producer in the industry, Longlin suddenly announced that it would shoot a web drama, so everyone was paying close attention to it.

Liu Yun thought for a moment and said, "We'll talk about the web series when we report in the meeting later. I'll keep it a secret for now."

After saying that, he pulled out the chair and sat down.

He could understand the idea of ​​filming a web drama, but he didn't quite support it from the team.

Other departments are not optimistic either.

There were even rumors in the company that Lao Liu had not done something well and was demoted by his superiors.

We can’t say that they are making random suspicions. Just look at the online dramas nowadays, they are basically synonymous with bad movies.

I really don't see much prospect.

Cheng Er smiled helplessly and pulled out a chair and sat down.

Others also took their seats.

At this time, people gradually entered the conference room, and everyone took their own positions and looked for seats according to their ideas.

Generally speaking, creative departments, such as the screenwriter team and the production department, have a slightly higher status thanks to the attention of their boss Chen Linfeng.

The marketing department is also very important. The heads of several overseas countries are all under the management of the marketing department and they all came to attend the meeting this time.

Basically, each department, including marketing, human resources, operations, and finance, sent one person over.

Today is not their home game.

In addition, several directors of Qilin, as well as TV drama directors such as Qian Yanqiu, Kong Sheng, Li Lu and Liu Weiqi, who have worked frequently with Longlin, also arrived one after another.

They are mainly observers, but their status is relatively higher, almost like collaborators.

The noise in the conference room gradually became noisy, and everyone was whispering to each other.

At this time, there was a noise outside the door.

Then they saw Chen Linfeng and Chen Shantong in front, followed by Maoyan Xu Wu, V Station Chen Rui, Qilin Zheng Zhihao, Sun Fengmei, Longlin Wei Jin and others. A large group of people walked in.

The room suddenly became quiet.

Two chairs were placed side by side at the head of the oval table. Chen Linfeng and Chen Shantong sat at the top, and the others sat on both sides.

Chen Linfeng looked around and said, "It seems that everyone is here."

"In that case, let the meeting begin!"

(End of this chapter)