Chapter 598 Fatty Wei Is Fooling Again

The Chinese film world in early May was enveloped in a strange sense of sadness.

"Deep Sea Shark 2", "The End of the World", and "Global Catastrophe" these three Hollywood movies directly dominate the charts, and they have hit an astonishing box office of 50 million, 30 million, and 25 million on the day of their premiere !

Among them, Andorra's "Deep Sea Shark 2" broke the astonishing record for the highest box office premiere in the history of Chinese movies.

The popularity of the first movie, coupled with the suspense and excitement in the movie itself, caused a sensation in the movie's popularity, and even after the premiere, there were stills and news bombarding the movie. The whole film industry.

Andorra is a big success!

His success is not only in the box office of the movie, even when he came to China to promote the film, most of the first-line stars in China were arranged by the company to go to the stage to praise Andorra, and countless reporters crowded around The entrance of the entire Yanjing Grand Theater was crowded with people at a glance, and it was very lively, even indirectly, Andorra's promotion in China became one of the hot spots in May that attracted the most attention of the entire Chinese media.

After seeing so many Chinese artists sitting in the audience supporting him, Andor couldn't help showing a smile on his face, looking quite arrogant, and at the same time, there was an inexplicable sense of disdain deep in his heart.

Of course, he would not show such a sense of disdain. Instead, he took photos with these stars one by one, smiled and chatted with them one by one about the arrangement of some new movies and his expectations for the movie's final box office.

Most artists are still able to maintain their rationality, and when they chat, they still maintain a relatively equal attitude, but some small fresh meat and hosts are very excited, they can't wait to explain their ancestors for eighteen generations, flatter It is a wave of high to another wave, hoping to make Andorra more familiar.

When Andor faced them, he was laughing, laughing a lot.

However, the happier he smiled, the more disdainful he felt, and the more ironic he felt that he couldn't even express it.

Most of China in May belongs to Andorra.

After the publicity ended, countless little fresh meats posted photos with Andorra on Weibo, and they all added a line that seemed to have a chance to cooperate with the director of Andorra. " Andorra is coming to China" became a trending topic on Weibo within a day...

For a time the limelight was the same.

As for the two films "End of the World" and "Global Disaster", they continue to make great strides. Although they are not as good as "Deep Sea Shark 2", they are also hot explosions.

After the two directors came to Huaxia, they also received countless welcomes and cooperation invitations from Huaxia entertainment companies, and finally returned with a full load...

In the entertainment industry, at some point, there seems to be a wind of xenophiliac.

And this wave of wind blew for several days before it slowly subsided.

Of course, this is also understandable.

Most of the Chinese artists basically don't let go of any opportunity to meet a big Hollywood director and become an international artist. Most of them want to have their own figure in an international blockbuster, even if it's just a show, say a few words A half-baked English is enough.

At least……

The style is completely different.

At least international stars and Chinese stars, in terms of gimmicks and worth, cannot be described in one sentence at all.

Many things have two sides.

The Hollywood movies in May were outrageous in China, and the Hollywood directors in May were outrageous in China.

But the Huaxia movie in May has an inexplicably sad taste.

Zhang Tong's "Life With Money" had a box office of 7 million on its premiere day.

This statistic can’t be said to hit the street, but it definitely can’t be said to be explosive. It can only be said that the performance is quite satisfactory, stable and profitable.

It ranked fourth at the movie premiere box office in May.

The fourth place, compared to the box office of the third place...

indescribable.

Such a movie looked extremely embarrassing in the box office battle in May, and it was almost crushed.

But Zhang Tong's "Life with Money" turned out to be the last card in the Huaxia movie in May.

Most of the other movies basically hit the market...

Li You's movie "I Am a Cow" was even more fortunate to get an embarrassing figure of 500,000 box office in a single day...

half a million?

Yes!

You read that right, the total investment of this nationally released film is 7 million, but only 500,000 was taken on the premiere day when it should be the most popular.

This……

It's almost like a joke.

Of course, the reputation of the movie is very good. As long as you can watch it in theaters, you are basically a diehard fan of Li You. The reviews of this movie on Tomato Movies are even more rave...

After all, fans who can spend money to see a cow grazing have a unique artistic concept, and praise is naturally a no-brainer, and they can also show a sense of superiority.

That's fine.

However, in a sense, it also shows that Huaxia movies have once again fallen into an embarrassing situation.

Of course, these completely different comparisons actually make many directors feel very uncomfortable.

This includes Fatty Wei, who is filming "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" on Taiwan Island, and Xu Qifeng, the cutting-edge director who used to be "Alien".

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In the afternoon of May 3rd.

"Ayuan is in Hollywood, compared to Andorra in Huaxia...It suddenly feels quite ironic." Fatty Wei silently smoked a cigarette and squatted by the small river in front of the school, silently watching the river flowing in the distance.

"Well, yes, it's a pity that we don't live up to our expectations! There are good scripts and good directors, but we rarely make good movies with word of mouth. In fact, our Chinese movies are not bad." Xu Qifeng took over Fatty Wei. The cigarette handed over was also slowly smoked.

He met Fatty Wei at a job in Taiwan by chance. At first, the two complimented each other politely. At the same time, Xu Qifeng also inevitably felt a little nervous. After all, Fatty Wei is the best director, and he is now He didn't have any name, and he was short of Fatty Wei invisibly, but after talking deeply, Xu Qifeng suddenly felt that Fatty Wei was very enthusiastic about him and at the same time he didn't have any airs.

So whenever the two of them are free, they will come out to smoke together and chat about movies together...

Xu Qifeng is quite an angry young man, sometimes he will yell at him, and sometimes he will scold Tianyu's management system. He is actually a little dissatisfied with Tianyu's senior management.

After Fatty Wei saw this scene, he had a bottom line in his heart, and it was inevitable to instill some "long-distance" benefits in Xu Qifeng.

Anyway...

Xu Qifeng knew that Fatty Wei was trying to dig himself out, but it would be impossible for him to change jobs for a while.

after all……

He still has a three-year contract with Tianyu!

"It's useless to talk about it. This is a very real world... At the same time, it is an era of commercial movies. If your movie box office is good, no matter how rubbish you are, you will be awesome. If your movie box office is not good, no matter how good your reputation is." It's also rubbish, very realistic." Fatty Wei laughed.

"I think the future will be better... My new movie is preparing to attract investment. This time, I plan to have a big fight with Hollywood movies to add credit to China."

"How much to invest?"

"Two hundred million!"

"What about the script?"

"I'm working on the script. It's a big movie about aliens invading the earth and the people on earth rebelling."

"A copy of "City Fortress"?"

"No... By the way, Director Wei, what do you think of "City Fortress"?"

"I don't know. The special effects look pretty good from the trailer. As for the others...I'm not a god, so I can't predict it..." Fatty Wei shook his head.

"I think it's going to pop, I even think it's going to be a joke."

"why?"

"I don't know, that's how it feels." Xu Qifeng stood up after smoking his cigarette. "Director Wei, I have to go. There is still a press conference here at the Tianyu branch, so I have to show my face."

"Well, okay, that's right...how did you think about what I told you before?" Fatty Wei suddenly looked at Xu Qifeng.

"I... Director Wei, I'm sorry, I still have a three-year contract with Tianyu."

"Contracts are dead, but people are alive. How much liquidated damages do you need?"

"I……"

"We are all people with dreams. I know you also have a dream. Rules and regulations will only restrain you and destroy you. Besides, how many great directors does Tianyu have? Even if your film has some achievements, they will pay attention to it. You?"

"Director Wei, stop talking..."

"Director Xu, although Chinese films have shown signs of gradually recovering in the past two years, they are still in a bleak situation being ravaged by Hollywood films... In the future, I have a hunch that an era will be born, don't you want to be in this Do you want to do something in time?"

"I..." Xu Qifeng was taken aback.

"Director Xu, I've said everything I need to say. I think China's future movies will be in the hands of young people like us. Although the older generation has rich experience, they stick to the rules and can't keep up with the upcoming big movie. The era, this era, is the era of our young people. We don’t lack anything now. What we lack is only a platform for ourselves to display. You are a smart person, and smart people naturally have their own choices... Liquidated damages are not a problem."

"I will consider it." After a long silence, Xu Qifeng nodded.

"Do you know why Ah Yuan went to Hollywood?"

"why?"

"He is paving the way for our future. I can tell you that in the future, this road will be extremely bright."

"What about his failure?"

Xu Qifeng turned his head and looked elsewhere.

Fatty Wei's voice was very alluring.

seem……

Touched something at the deepest level of his soul.

Bright road?

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Lu Yuan didn't know anything about Huaxia.

At the moment, he is staying in the crew step by step to film the plot of "Sea Pianist". At the same time, whenever he is free, Lu Yuan will lock himself in the piano room and practice the piano very hard.

"Sea Pianist" has a very crazy piano fighting scene. Although Lu Yuan knew that he might not be able to control it even if it took three months, his mind was still full of that idea.

May 5th.

Just after Lu Yuan finished practicing the piano, his phone rang.

He silently took out his phone.

Then...

I saw it was an unfamiliar number.

Lu Yuan was a little strange.

"Hello?"

"Hello... hello, is this...Mr. Lu Yuan?" A timid voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Uh, hello, may I ask who you are..." Lu Yuan was very strange.

"I...my name is Liu Wanqing."

"Um?"

"I... I'm a cartoonist. You left me this number at the signing meeting... You said, if I have any difficulties, I can call you. Me, I tried calling..."

"You sunny little pig?" Lu Yuan hesitated for a moment, then was taken aback.

"Yep."

"Are you okay? Why is your voice a little crying?"

"I... I... I... I don't know what to do... I, I feel so bad..."

"what?"