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Chapter 783 Another famous director has fallen?

"Director Wu, you are also aware of the current situation. Although you got a part of the guarantee fee for your investment, plus overseas copyrights, and some made money, I was the only one who lost, but the movie failed, which has no impact on you. It will be younger than me. I lost part of it this time, and I can make it back in the next movie. What about you, the failure of a blockbuster movie with an investment of [-] million, who will dare to give you such a high investment in the future, everything is for the box office , I hope you can understand."

Wu Yusen was unwilling to die in front of Tang An, Zhang Zhaoqing sincerely advised him here.

No matter what, the next film still needs Wu Yusen's cooperation in publicity. In order to attract audiences and exposure, some hype will be necessary. As the director and the biggest name in the whole film, he will be indispensable.

In order to stop the loss to the maximum extent, Zhang Zhao didn't care about letting Wu Yusen go to "send his death". Anyway, there is no hope for it to be released on a regular schedule next year, so it's better to give it a go, and the difference will not be so bad. , if the effect is good, you can catch a leak and share the soup, maybe you can recover the loss.

Wang Zhongjun and Kang Pei also had no objection. It is reasonable to say that the release date is usually arranged by the publisher, and Zhang Zhao's statement also persuaded them.

The main investors have all made a decision, even if Wu Yusen is reluctant, he has to accept it.

In all these years, he has never been forced like he is today. The great director, facing the three big companies, has no right to speak at all, which makes Wu Yusen feel aggrieved like never before!
Leaving indignantly, Wu Yusen swore secretly.

"When my next movie is successful, I will make you all beg me!"

The Lunar New Year file is still going on as usual. Starting from Saturday afternoon, a considerable part of the reports on "Taiping Wheel" have been quietly replaced by praises for the movie's war scenes.

""Taiping Wheel" is a frontal battlefield for the heroines of the Anti-Japanese War. The scenes are fierce, comparable to any European and American blockbuster!"

""The Wheel of Peace"-an epic war blockbuster, the war scenes far exceed any previous war movie!"

"The milestone of the real domestic film, which perfectly restores the era at that time."

The efficiency is also very fast, news and movie reviews are rushed out one after another.

The sudden change in the style of painting made netizens baffled.

Isn't it a disaster romance movie? When did it become a war movie? Isn't this a movie?
The audience couldn't figure out the situation, so they wanted to figure it out, and there were more news and posts about "Taiping Wheel".

In the afternoon, when Wu Yusen was also being interviewed, he kept saying how difficult it was to make this war film, how to borrow the model of Hollywood blockbusters, restore the real history and so on.

Immediately afterwards, a reporter mentioned that Tang An's new film "Operation Red Sea" was also a war film according to the plan.

"War films are still a blank in domestic commercial films. I am very glad that someone has the courage to shoot this type like me"

"Actually, I'm also quite worried that Director Tang will turn a good war movie into an action movie or an agent movie. That will disappoint me too much. War movies are not so easy to make."

After these words were exaggerated by the media, one by one, and the hype of the trolls, it seemed that there was a debate on the Internet about Wu Yusen's "Taiping Wheel" or the upcoming "Operation Red Sea", which is a better war movie.

Although people with discerning eyes believe Tang An more, a lot of media, self-media, and sailors are praising the war scene of "Taiping Wheel" everywhere, intentionally or unintentionally belittling and doubting Tang An's new film, making Tang An's fans, Lu People can't help but reason with these sailors.

At least the enthusiasm is there and the goal has been achieved.

However, it didn't have much effect on the box office. In the next two days, "Taiping Wheel" got 1700 million and 1400 million respectively, and the total box office in the four days was 8300 million, which was less than [-] million.

The total box office of "Detective Chinatown 2" in the second week reached 5.12 million. Although it was lower than the first week, the total box office has already broken through the billion mark, reaching as high as 11.43 billion!
"Taiping Wheel" hit the street, so that "Detective Chinatown 2" has no opponents, and continues to sweep the Lunar New Year file with an invincible posture.

And "The Year in a Hurry" is also very good at the box office, earning 2.4 million in three days, far exceeding the "Taiping Wheel" released a day earlier, which made Kang Pei, who hadn't taken "The Year in a Hurry" very upset.

The box office of "The Best Life of a Coquettish Woman" also reached 1.7 million, which is not bad for a low-budget film.

Another week later, "Detective Chinatown 2" earned 2.31 million this week, with a total box office of 13.74 billion.

"The Year in a Hurry" earned 2.7 million in the second week, with a total box office of 5.1 million in ten days.

"Taiping Wheel" may be due to the effect of marketing. The navy and the audience quarreled fiercely. Most of the audience who watched the movie thought it was a bad movie.

Whether it's a war movie, a romance movie, or a disaster movie, they can all be described as bad movies.

It was such a bad movie that it was compared with Tang An's new movie, and many viewers couldn't help but complain.

This is what Zhang Zhao wants to see, no matter what, as long as it is popular, at least it can attract some curious audiences to go into the cinema to see what is so good about this war drama that has been praised so well.

The first few days of the second week of "Taiping Wheel" still stopped the decline, but as word of mouth fermented, no matter how hard it was, it couldn't stop it.

It got 5800 million in the second week, and the total box office in the two weeks of its release was only 1.41 million.

The most watched movie this week is the newly released "One Step Away". Jiang Wen's new movie is only enough to attract the audience.

9300 million on the first day, almost failed to break through 3.78 million, and a total of [-] million in the first four days.

Although it's not like those hits that broke [-] million on the first day, but this data is enough to rank in the forefront of the year.

However, the word-of-mouth of the film is polarized. Those who think it is bad scoff at it, declaring that Jiang Wenjiang's talent is exhausted;

Fans are also divided into the Jiangjiang faction and the Jiangjiang faction. The Jiangjiang faction said that this is the status quo of domestic movie fans, and this is the status quo of the wisdom of the domestic society.Ma Zouri will be shot dead by public opinion, but Jiang Wen's film will not die in the noise and saliva of public opinion.

The Jiangjiang faction felt that the movie was very boring. They said that the first third was listening to musicals to watch thighs, the middle third was watching animations to feel the special effects, and the last third was watching stage plays to figure out the ending.

Jiang Wen's movies are niche, like those who like them, and look down on those who don't like them. Not only in the movie circle, but in any cultural circle, there is such a chain of contempt.

However, the poor box office is a reality, and 3.78 million in the first week is not bad, even for a guarantee of one billion, as long as the subsequent trend is good, this figure is acceptable.

However, on the first working day that followed, Baodifang, Li Films, was directly stunned.

2400 million!
There were only 2400 million in a single day, and yesterday, that is, Sunday, there were still 8600 million at the box office.
On the first working day, the drop was as high as 72%, which is rare.

You know, even the drop of "Taiping Wheel" on the first working day was only 60%.

Although the box office of "Taiping Wheel" was also very low at that time, the 72% drop was just there. It can be said that no commercial blockbuster can have such a miserable trend.

If this trend is maintained in the future, don't even think about one billion, seven or eight billion is a big problem.

Netizens were baffled, so were insiders, the investor Wanda was baffled, and Ah Li, who won the movie at the cost of a guarantee of one billion yuan, was even more baffled.

Could it be that after Wu Yusen, a famous director is going to die?
(End of this chapter)