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Chapter 438 Training a New Director

In the Laijin Cultural Park of the Imperial Capital, Xiahua Film and Television Zhou Xia's office is full of sense of technology.

Zhou Xia was looking at some of the latest company reports, first of all, he saw last week's movie releases.

Sure enough, "Thirteen Hairpins" and "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate", which were released on the same day on the 15th of last month, both suffered losses, and no one benefited.

By January 1nd today, the two films will exceed 2 million, especially "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate". As one of the leading actors in this film, he stopped filming from the crew at that time and participated in three days of promotion.

Now it seems that the effect of his participation is still there.

In Zhou Xia's memory, the two films were released at the same time, but the box office of "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" was still suppressed, and the gap in the box office also widened later, and the final gap was 6000 million.

According to the investment of the two films, the cost of "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" is 2.5 million. This box office plus other copyright income, as well as overseas box office, means that it has just made a profit.

According to Zhang Puping, the cost of "Thirteen Hairpins" was [-] million yuan, but after the two pieces fell apart, Nandu Weekly interviewed Lao Mouzi, and he himself responded to this. As the director, he made it very clear The cost of this movie is only [-]-[-] million, [-] million is just publicity.

Now that the movie has been released for almost 20 days, the quality of the movie is already very clear. The conflict between the two has not yet broken out, but it will soon.

When the screening of the movie was over and the box office was divided, Zhang Puping made money from the movie, refused to pay Lao Mouzi's salary, and defaulted on all previous expenses, and the two broke up completely.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xia couldn't help thinking of Zhang Zhao's phone call the other day.

Regarding "Detective Chinatown" being scheduled for January 1th, it still took a lot of trouble. This year's Lunar New Year file, Xin Huamian competed with Bernard, and other films retreated to the Spring Festival file to be released together.

Especially Xinhuamian and Berna, who are acquaintances with Zhou Xia, hope that "Chinatown" will be released later.

On this point, of course Zhou Xia could not agree,

In the future, "The Great Magician", "Sherlock Holmes 2", and "Mission: Impossible 4" will be released at the end of the month. At that time, the competition will be more intense.

Zhou Xia was looking at the company's report in the office. At this time, the assistant brought the specific arrangements for the promotional activities in the past few days.

Zhou Xia glanced carefully. It premiered on January 1, and then it was screened at zero o'clock, and then the movie was released directly at noon.

Due to the reputation of Xia Hua Film and Television and Zhou Xia, he is considered a movie, and the audience has high expectations.

The film also didn't engage in mass-screening promotion like last year.

It's just through the pre-trailer, some online advertisements and ground advertisements, and then the movie is released, and the main creators have a road show to promote it.

Sometimes it is taboo to promote a movie too early. When the popularity rises, the movie has not been released yet, so it is a bit wasteful. Many movies do hot promotion in the early stage, and only use word of mouth to promote vigorously after the movie is released.

This is the plan formulated by "Detective Chinatown".

After all, the two main actors, Zhou Xia and Yaya, were filming before, so they really didn't have time to spare, but now they can't.

Starting today, their main creators will start the early publicity and accept interviews from some media.

"Boss, Mr. Zhang wants to see you."

Zhou Xia had just finished reading the report when an outside assistant called.

"Well, let him in."

Soon Zhang Zhao came in, bringing Teng Huatao, the director of "33 Days of Broken Love", and three new directors from the company, Tian Yusheng, Yan Fei, and Da Mo.

Seeing that there were quite a lot of people, Zhou Xia got up and came to the reception area, asking them to sit down.

"Why did you come here together? What's the matter?" Zhou Xia looked at these people in surprise, and vaguely understood that maybe they all wanted to make a movie after seeing Teng Huatao's great success.

"Hehe." Several people smiled slightly and looked at Zhang Zhao without saying a word.

Zhang Zhao could only smile and said, "It's like this. Last time I mentioned to the boss the adaptation of "You at the Same Table", and you agreed, but there has been no reply about the candidates for the director and actors. The three of them expressed I want to make this movie, so while you are here today, I brought them here to hear what you mean."

"This matter, "You at the Same Table" should be filmed, otherwise the heat will pass, what do you think?"

Zhou Xia nodded and looked at Zhang Zhao.

In fact, after the TV series became popular, someone in the company proposed the idea of ​​making a movie, and even asked him to make this adaptation for the first movie, but Zhou Xia refused.

He felt that it was too close to the end of the TV broadcast, and the audience would feel that it was a money-making movie, and the audience who watched TV was different from the group who watched movies, and their appreciation levels and needs were also different. In addition, he did not want to repeat I didn't make this movie myself, but made "Charlotte Annoyance".

Now that this matter is brought up, it really needs to be stepped up. Anyway, if Xia Hua doesn't make it, other companies will make the same type of youth film.

He supervised, making a youth love movie that everyone likes, ensuring the quality, and making the audience feel moved and worth watching.

"Let's choose the boss." Zhang Zhao didn't express his position at all. If he had the full power, he would make the decision, but the boss obviously has a lot of ideas on this matter, so he shouldn't make his own decisions.

"That's it, let's leave it to Yan Fei. Didn't your "Happy Mahua" adapt "Old Boy" into a stage play? This work is handed over to you, and you make it into a movie."

Zhou Xia smiled and said to Yan Fei and Peng Damo.

Several people present were a little surprised, but then they were all relieved.

They thought that Teng Huatao would have an advantage. After all, he had achieved great success in filming "33 Days of Broken Relationship".

Because of this film, Teng Huatao has become a popular director, but unexpectedly, Zhou Xia still chose two directors from his own company.

"Brother Teng, I'm sorry, both of them have made two movies with me, and it's time to practice. As for you, you have more opportunities now. It's a waste to make such a small-produced movie. I believe there will be many projects. I'll find you next."

Seeing Teng Huatao and Lu Wei's embarrassed expression, Zhou Xia explained to him with a smile.

Director Teng Huatao has been filming TV dramas for so many years. There is no doubt about his professional ability, but it is a pity that the choice of later works is not down-to-earth.

Although I still collaborated with Bao Jingjing, that "Waiting for the Wind" has no breath of life at all, and it is not the focus of ordinary people's attention. A love travel movie with rich second-generation and literary young women moaning without illness really won't attract many people gaze.

He also left the film industry for the time being and didn't make any more movies. In addition, he was not from Xia Hua, so Zhou Xia naturally lost interest in giving him a chance.

After talking with several people for a while, Zhang Zhao took Teng Huatao and left.

Zhou Xia talked with Yan Fei and Da Mo about the movie, mainly about the adaptation of the movie and the choice of the protagonist of the movie.

(End of this chapter)