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Chapter 784 Take the Panxia!
Throughout the history of Chinese film development, there have been six generations of directors.

Few audiences know about the first, second, and third generations. Even famous directors such as Xie Fei, Wu Yigong, and Wu Tianming of the fourth generation, their works are not known to the current mainstream moviegoers.

Even among the fifth-generation directors, the films of Tian Zhuang, Huang Jianxin, Huo Jianqi, etc. are rarely mentioned, that is, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kai still have great fame.

But now among the fifth generation directors, except for Zhang Yimou and Chen Kai, all of them have faded out of the mainstream big screen, and Chen Kai has also been fighting for ten years.

Although Zhang Yimou hasn't had a big-selling movie in the past few years, he hasn't rushed too much, and he is considered the strongest one.

The sixth generation of directors all started with independent production. Like Hollywood independent films, they hover outside the mainstream, and most of their genres are related to rockers, artists, homosexuals, thieves, and prostitutes.

Moreover, one counts as one, and basically all of them have been banned.

Most of the fifth-generation directors have gone to the street, and the sixth-generation directors have never shown their value on the big screen.

The seventh generation. There is no seventh generation. Even if directors from several new centuries are found, they are not representative. They cannot represent an era like the previous generations, and there will be no such similar titles.

Right now, these academies are slowly falling silent in the mainstream commercial film circle, or have never risen at all.

In addition to Zhang Yimou, there was Jiang Wen anyway. The word-of-mouth of "Let the Bullets Fly" made the industry and audience look forward to this movie very much, and they all felt that it would not be difficult to get a billion box office.

However, since the box office plunged on the first working day, the same is true for the next few working days. Apart from the decline, it is not enough to describe it as diving.

The first four days were 3.78 million, and the following working days were only 2400 million, 2100 million, 1600 million, and 1400 million respectively. The trend is very stable, but this trend is going down.

To put it bluntly, in the past ten years, no blockbuster film has broken out of this trend, even Chen Kaige's "Orphan of Zhao", Lu Chuan's "The King's Feast", "Tomb Notes", Feng Xiaogang's "[-]" These movies that failed miserably at the box office are doing better than this.

Undoubtedly, Jiang Wen fell from the altar, and the fifth and sixth generations were wiped out, leaving only Zhang Yimou with half a foot on the shore.

The "mainstream" film circle is gloomy, and there are faults in the directors of the academy. More than half of those who are active on the big screen are half-way monks, or they are not graduates of film academies and Chinese opera schools.

For a while, many old-school filmmakers were filled with emotion, and the media also seized on this point and wrote a lot.

News such as "The future of academic film is actually a "dead end"?", "Where is the future development of Huaguo film!" can often be seen, and it seems that all academic directors are dead.

Some viewers are quite interested in these news. Some viewers who don't like popcorn commercial films criticize the current situation of domestic directors and movies, and some viewers also don't like directors who specialize in making niche literary films.

Ever since, under the incitement of the media, the two groups of audiences with different tastes quarreled again.

You say that these big-selling commercial films are kitsch garbage with no depth, and he said that those directors of niche literary films will only moan without illness, and take pride in making banned films, discrediting the country, and currying favor with the West.

Anyway, the audiences of these two groups have often sprayed each other, not only in movies, but also in industries related to culture and entertainment.

Guo Jinming, Zhao Wei, Deng Chao, Xu Zheng and others, as well as Brother Chen Kai and the sixth-generation directors, were basically mentioned repeatedly and mercilessly criticized by the other audience.

They were also very helpless at this time, why did they suddenly lie down.

They were sober and didn't make a sound, and a few people couldn't help but stand up and criticize the status quo of domestic movies, pointing out that the taste of domestic audiences is getting lower and lower.

As the two representatives of the academic school, Brother Chen Kai and Zhang Yimou didn't make a sound, they didn't get any good results, and it was useless to say anything, but they both held a sigh of relief in their hearts, hoping that their new film could sweep away the decline, otherwise they would talk I have no confidence.

However, the hustle and bustle on the Internet is not important to the major film and television companies in the industry. Apart from being surprised by the failure of "One Step Away", the major companies even gloated a little.

In the past two years, Liying Films broke into the film industry like a big dog, buying and buying everywhere, driving up prices. "Dear" is worth [-] million guarantees, and "One Step Away" directly offered a high price of [-] billion , It stunned Wanda, who was also not short of money.

But now "Dear" has not reached [-] million, and "One Step Away" is even more miserable. I am afraid that it will end up with half of the guaranteed box office.

Wanda felt happy, if Ah Li hadn't taken over, Wanda would have lost this time.

"One Step Away" invested [-] million, [-] million at the box office would definitely lose money, even if there is a distribution share, the box office revenue alone would still lose money, but now it has made a fortune, not to mention how cool it is.

The same goes for other companies. Although it has nothing to do with them, Ahli and them are not on the same side after all. I couldn't be happier to see Ahli's defeat this time.

Even Hua Yi, who is cooperating with Ahli Films, wants to see Ahli Films hit the street more than anyone else.

Ah Liying is backed by Li Baba, and has strong strength. Once it becomes bigger, it will become a super giant like Han and Tang, which is not good for everyone.

Wang Zhongjun even thought that it would be better for the films invested by Ahli to hit the street all the time, so that he could take the main position in the cooperation with Ahli Films, and even make Ahli Films a company that provides marketing and channel services for Huayi. Company, that couldn't be better.

As the person involved, Fan Luyuan is of course in a completely different mood from the major companies at this time.

When he first took office, Fan Luyuan snatched the distribution rights of two films from Guangxian and Wanda at a high price with a wave of his hand, and at the same time told the company's executives to give full play to Ahli's financial advantages.

Now, the advantage of money has come into play, and two movies have been snatched from the hands of the two giants at a high price, but it has not produced good results.

One billion guarantee, the guarantee fee paid more than one year in advance is close to 2.1 million, if there is only 1.5 million box office, only [-] million can be recovered, plus the high publicity and distribution costs, this project will lose at least [-] million.

Fan Luyuan was very upset, Ah Li is rich, but he can't be taken advantage of, not to mention that now all the companies are jokingly saying that Ah Li is a successor.

This failure is irreversible, and word of mouth is severely polarized. The key is that positive reviews are still in the minority.

The big directors failed one after another, and the famous directors were no longer reliable. On the contrary, the actors with their own popularity were more secure.

Fan Luyuan can only focus on "Havoc in Tianzhu", which is Ah Li's most important project in the next two years. Wang Baoqiang, who is popular and has always been very good in the audience's impression, is the biggest guarantee.

Fan Luyuan hates the title Keyboard Man, but now he has indeed accepted Wanda's bad job, and he can only take a breath of relief after "Havoc in Tianzhu" is released.

For those who live in movies, the biggest source of confidence is the movie itself. No matter how many channels and resources Ah Li has, it is still a movie that helps others.

However, Wang Baoqiang is a new director after all, and "Havoc in Tianzhu" will go to India to shoot again. The shooting process will definitely not be so smooth, and it will not be released so soon.

Fan Luyuan also instructed all departments to follow up the films "Unbelievable", "Pancake Man", "Dream Partner", and "The Ferryman", and do a good job in marketing at the same time.

"Unbelievable" has two comedy stars Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Shenyang starring, and Dapeng is also from a comedy background. His online drama is also quite popular, and Fan Luyuan is still looking forward to it.

"The Ferryman" is produced by Wang Jiawei and starred by Liang Chaowei. For so many years, although their combined box office cannot be a big hit, it is not bad. Sunglasses Wang always has a group of fans.

"Dream Partner" can be compared to "Chinese Partner". When it was promoted, it was called the female companion "Chinese Partner". Using Tang An's reputation, it should have some effect.

"Pancake Man" is unreliable to Fan Luyuan, and the title doesn't look like a movie, but more like a spoof clip.

Although Dapeng is famous for "Diaosi Man", it is also a very popular online comedy, but the impression in the hearts of the audience is far less than that of Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo. Maybe he can make a small profit. After all, it is a low-cost comedy, but Fan Luyuan does not What to expect.

(End of this chapter)