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The two are inseparable.

Wei Jun was invited to attend the premiere of "The Mermaid".

After watching it, he felt somewhat guilty towards Zhang Yuqi and Deng Chao.

He was certain that "The Mermaid" would not be able to create the box office miracle of the previous life.

In its previous life, "The Mermaid" created a new box office record for Chinese-language films during the 2016 Spring Festival with its unprecedented marketing - owing Stephen Chow a movie ticket. The box office directly reached over 30 billion yuan.

That is a miracle that is hard to replicate.

Even Stephen Chow himself failed to break this box office record later.

But to be honest, the quality of "The Mermaid" is really not at the level of breaking the box office record of Chinese-language films.

The reason why the box office reached more than 3 billion was mainly due to the good marketing.

The power of emotion is infinite.

Especially Stephen Chow’s feelings.

After all, many of today's moviegoers really grew up watching Stephen Chow's movies.

They believe this statement: they owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket.

However, in this life, Director Wei had used this trick before.

When filming a movie with Jackie Chan, Director Wei used this big trick in advance - he owed Jackie Chan a movie ticket.

When it comes to sentiment, Jackie Chan is no less sentimental than Stephen Chow.

So when this big move was released, the impact on the box office was immediate.

With this marketing method, the first person to try it can achieve unprecedented results.

If the second person uses it, the effect will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, it is difficult for the marketing of "The Mermaid" to stand out in this life.

It can only rely on the quality of the film itself and the Spring Festival period, the biggest period of the year.

But in this life, there is another rival in the 2016 Spring Festival period, "Detective Chinatown".

Moreover, the heroine of "The Mermaid", the latest star girl Fei Xia, performed poorly again on the show "I Am an Actor".

So when Director Wei attended the premiere of "The Mermaid" and chatted privately with Zhang Yuqi, he felt really embarrassed.

"I estimate that the box office of 'The Mermaid' might reach 20 billion yuan, which is its peak."

Director Wei sighed.

It might be difficult to even reach 20 billion.

If it can't play on nostalgia, and Stephen Chow isn't starring in the film himself, "The Mermaid" doesn't have that much box office potential.

Because of its own butterfly effect, the box office of "The Mermaid" may be reduced by half.

Director Wei was of course a little embarrassed about this.

But Zhang Yuqi was stunned.

"Two billion isn't enough? Director Wei, your demands are too high."

Zhang Yuqi said in surprise: "If the box office of "The Mermaid" can exceed 20 billion, I will wake up laughing in my dreams."

Director Wei: ...That’s right.

Not everyone is like him.

Who knew that the box office of "The Mermaid" in its previous life could exceed 30 billion?

It's like Wolf Warrior 2.

If there were some butterfly effect again, the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" would only be more than 20 billion. Wei Jun said to Wu Jing with regret that Wu Jing must think that Director Wei was a lunatic.

After all, he must be very satisfied with the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" of over 20 billion yuan. The same goes for "The Mermaid".

It's not some special effects movie with explosive effects.

The investment is not high.

20 billion is already a huge profit.

Stephen Chow would be satisfied.

After figuring this out, Director Wei stopped worrying about it.

"That's right. After all, you're the second female lead. If you can add another 20 billion box office movie to your resume, your future will be much easier."

Wei Jun nodded.

Zhang Yuqi smiled proudly and said, "Now the crew is promoting me based on my status as the female lead."

Wei Jun said calmly: "Shouldn't you thank me?

It’s really that Fei Xia’s performance in "I Am an Actor" was too poor and the competition among actresses was very fierce, and the competition among movies in the same period was even more intense.

Wei Jun paid a little attention and found that Fei Xia's negative articles were flying all over the place.

Obviously, she was set up to be sniped.

It is likely that it was done by other crews during the same period of the Spring Festival.

This is not surprising.

Competition is all about ability.

In addition, Fei Xia’s dark history is indeed quite solid.

So, Zhang Yuqi got a great bargain.

Zhang Yuqi also knew that she really had to thank Director Wei for this, so she smiled and lowered her head. Director Wei watched the second episode of "I Am an Actor" with Guan Xiaotong.

It is already 2016.

Guan Xiaotong is sensible enough to wish her teacher a happy new year.

By the way, I called my parents and told them that I was going out with my best friend tonight and would not be going home.

It just so happened that "I Am an Actor" was broadcast on time tonight, so Director Wei invited Guan to watch it together.

In the first episode of "I Am an Actor", the program team arranged PKs among all the female guests.

In the second episode, the production team arranged a PK between male actors.

And just like the routine in the first episode, the first person to come up is a big shot.

Huang Xiaoming.

His PK opponent is Dr. Zhai.

Later, he became the most hated person by all the students taking the postgraduate entrance examination across the country, no doubt about it.

It can be said that Dr. Zhai has single-handedly increased the difficulty of checking the plagiarism rate of papers across China.

Director Wei also had a girlfriend who was a graduate student in his previous life.

Every time graduation season comes, Dr. Zhai would be pulled out by her to be scolded.

It was a scene of gnashing of teeth.

Of course, Dr. Zhai has not yet revealed his true level of knowledge, and no one knows that he doesn’t even know what CNKI is.

Guan Xiaotong was very excited when she saw Dr. Zhai appear.

"Zhai Tianlin's acting is good, Huang Xiaoming's acting is terrible, I bet Zhai Tianlin will win."

Guan Xiaotong said.

Wei Jun: “You know what, this is really what most of the audience thinks right now.

After all, the emperor? 50-50? Xiao Ming's acting is really too unstable.

At his peak, he was able to surpass Deng Chao to win the Best Actor award.

She is not at all inferior to Zhou Xun and Li Bingbing in her acting opposite roles.

When he's playing badly, you'll feel that Huang Xiaoming's acting skills aren't much better than Angelababy's.

An amazing man.

But this time, Huang Xiaoming defended his dignity. After all, Dr. Zhai's acting skills are not particularly bad.

So Huang Xiaoming was not led into a ditch, but instead showed the level he should have.

When Huang Xiaoming is at his best, his rivals should be top stars of the Mesozoic era such as Deng Chao, Chen Kun and Huang Bo.

Dr. Zhai is not good enough.

Among the four judges, this time it was Zhang Ziyi who gave Dr. Zhai a sympathy vote, while the other three judges voted for Huang Xiaoming.

After watching it, Guan Xiaotong was shocked.

"Is Huang Xiaoming's acting so good? I thought his acting was terrible?" This time, Dr. Zhai's acting skills were actually quite good.

But Huang Xiaoming is indeed better, which surprised Guan Xiaotong.

Wei Jun: “…Xiaotong, be humble. You are not qualified to look down on Huang Xiaoming’s acting skills.

When he debuted, he acted opposite Chen Daoming, and his acting was quite good."

Chen Daoming said the same thing when commenting on Huang Xiaoming.

Huang Xiaoming made his debut in "The Emperor of Han Dynasty". In this film, Huang Xiaoming played Emperor Wu of Han, and Chen Daoming played the second male lead Dongfang Shuo, supporting Huang Xiaoming.

This is really enough face.

That was the peak period of Chen Daoming.

But Huang Xiaoming also accepted the face.

To be honest, Huang Xiaoming’s performance as the young Emperor Wu of Han was really good.

It also has a Douban score of 7.8.

It is hard to say whether those who made it to the top in the millennium relied solely on luck; they had to have some real talent and skills.

Unlike later on, when anyone could make it big.

Guan Xiaotong refreshed her understanding of Huang Xiaoming.

Later, another male actor who refreshed her perception appeared: Pan Yueming.

Before his divorce from Dong Jie, Pan Yueming gave the audience the impression of being an idol.

However, in the variety show "I Am an Actor", Pan Yueming completed a gorgeous turnaround.

She completely defeated a child star like Guan Xiaotong - Zhang Yishan.