Chapter 889 Don't Say Anything, Just Do It!

At the celebration banquet, Li Qian met many people and talked a lot.

Of course, the wine did not drink too much.

After the official relocation of the news department of Xunfei Group, Wang Jinglu has been preparing for pregnancy very carefully. So in fact, although Wang Jinglu did not ask Li Qian to change or pay attention to this, Li Qian still consciously put the cigar Stopped and seldom drank alcohol.

Then, when the celebration banquet was coming to an end, Qi Jie handed out three million red envelopes to the cast and crew of "Red Sorghum" one by one.

There was joy!

You know, the total investment of "Red Sorghum" is only 12 million, of which the part spent on the remuneration and wages of the cast and crew is only more than three million less than four million, and Li Qian is free starred in.

Now, the 3 million yuan is sent out, depending on the contribution each person makes to the crew, and the size of the red envelope varies, but for everyone, it is quite a lot of income.

So, everyone is happy.

Before the end of the show, a large group of people were still eating, drinking and laughing. Li Qian had already got up and was about to leave. As for the two children, they had already been carried home by their respective mothers.

Huang Ge came over and chattered for a long time, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn't say anything, and Li Qian just smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and didn't ask anything.

Li Qian is a person who cherishes talents.

It may be a bit nonsense to say this, and it may even make people feel a little hypocritical and contrived, but what I have to admit is that, coming to this time and space with the huge advantages of another time and space, such as music, TV series, movies, etc., he has been Trying hard to present the wonderful works in his mind to the Chinese people in this time and space in a way as perfect as possible. Teacher, wait, all the people who are engaged in these art professions don't have the slightest contempt or competitive mentality, let alone any intention of suppressing them. Under the impact of those excellent works, these Chinese artists in this time and space can come up with better and more exciting works-in his opinion, this should be a good interaction and a good Stimulate each other.

A good atmosphere that can produce great works of art should be like this.

With excellent ones, there will be better ones.

Therefore, in terms of mentality, he should be regarded as the person with the broadest vision and the least concern for momentary gains and losses in all the cultural and art industries in China in this time and space.

For example, Qin Wei, even if the other party repeatedly praised and demoted for a domestic box office competition, causing Qi Jie to be furious, but in fact, as far as Li Qian was concerned, besides sighing, some people in the current situation felt sorry for him. , even if it is a master, it is inevitable that he will be fascinated by many things. In fact, it is really not too much resentment.

Without him, a person's status has changed, their mentality has changed, their vision and realm will naturally change.

He already doesn't bother to care about such a small matter-although, for the absolute classic "Huang Feihong" in his mind, it was actually taken by an obviously immature commercial film like "The Gate of Life and Death", a film that even Qin Wei made in the past. Li Qian would really feel very uncomfortable if those literary films, which were unspeakably half as good as they were, were stepped down. But as far as he is concerned, he is more willing to fight back with his next wonderful work to establish his director status, and he will never stand up and fight with others just because of this matter.

However, Feng Bicheng's matter is different.

For Feng Bicheng's talent, Li Qian really appreciates it, from the bottom of his heart.

As early as when he had just finished filming "Legend of the New White Snake", the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department was first established. Li Qian wanted to bring over Feng Yumin, who was not doing well in China TV. Appreciation of personal ability also has the meaning of repaying favors, but there is another part that has to be mentioned, that is, Li Qian also fully appreciates the director talent of Feng Yumin's son Feng Bicheng.

Therefore, Master Feng refused to come over, Li Qian tried to pull Feng Bicheng over at that time.

But unfortunately, Feng Bicheng was enjoying himself at that time, so Li Qian failed.

Then, Feng Bicheng's new movie hit the street, hit the street to the extent that investors wanted to stab him to death, and Feng Bicheng became a bad name in the movie circle all at once. Master Feng came forward and hoped that Li Qian would take his son in and give him a chance to make a comeback. Li Qian agreed without the slightest hesitation.

On the one hand, it was to repay the favor, on the other hand, it was out of appreciation for his talent - even though his new movie was really ugly at the time, Li Qian believed that his talent was still there.

Then, when he came to Minghu Culture, he only looked at how he usually behaved and did things. He still followed the rules, and he seemed to have a posture of starting over, so Li Qian admired it even more.

From "Once Upon a Time in China" to "Red Sorghum", let him experience two films and feel his foundation, and then Li Qian was relieved quickly, and he turned out the script of "Big Wrist" early on and refined it. The project was handed over to him with great confidence.

result……

All I can say is, sigh.

For such a person, Li Qian is absolutely unwilling to stay in Minghu Culture.

Even if his talent is known everywhere!

Therefore, even if Li Qian, who has an absolute classic in his heart, saw the final work of "Big Wrist" as a comparison, he felt a little surprised, but from the beginning to the end, Li Qian did not even take a look at the director Feng Bicheng. .

So, for the celebration banquet of "Red Sorghum", almost everyone from Minghu Culture, especially the film and television department, was invited, but Feng Bicheng was not.

Li Qian didn't want to see him.

The favor he owed to Master Feng, he kept and used it on Feng Bicheng, and Li Qian had to admit it. But after the filming of "Big Name", the investment is close to 20 million, regardless of whether the movie is popular or not, as a friendship, Li Qian no longer owes Feng Yumin and Feng Bicheng anything.

Next, I have friendship with you, Master Feng, so let's talk about our friendship.

As for Feng Bicheng...just pretend I don't know him.

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The domestic film market in April was a bit dull.

But in the mediocrity, there are growing expectations.

The trend of "Red Sorghum" is stable, and it has not encountered too many challenges in its fifth week of release. When the weekly box office of "A Fate" was only over 20 million yuan, "Red Sorghum" once again won a weekly box office of 51.23 million in one fell swoop, topping the weekly box office chart for the fifth time!

At the same time, it also successfully pushed its domestic cumulative box office to a high of 453.7 million!

If nothing else, Zhang Zifang's "The Promise" will be released next week. Her films have always been low at the box office, but they are surprisingly stable. That is to say, don't expect her to be a big hit, but neither should you I was worried that she would hit the street, so the release of "The Promise" should have some impact on "Red Sorghum".

Regardless of whether it is more attractive to literary and artistic movie audiences in terms of film arrangement, no one can avoid this kind of impact-in fact, because "Red Sorghum" achieved a grand slam in Berlin, it has already Zhang Zifang, who returned empty-handed from the Berlin Film Festival, took the initiative to avoid it for several weeks.

And now, "The Promise" will still encounter "Red Sorghum" in the first week of its release, but it is just a "Red Sorghum" that is steadily reaping the remaining box office and continuing to sprint to the record.

At this time, "Red Sorghum" can no longer be as fierce as it was a few weeks ago, but for Zhang Zifang, a niche literary film director who has never had a movie box office of over 100 million yuan, and "The Promise", a niche film with warmth As far as the movie is concerned, it is still a giant-level existence.

Therefore, in fact, the meeting next week will be a mutual impact.

As for who has the higher box office in the end, we can only touch and see.

But in fact, whether "Red Sorghum", which has come to the middle of the screening, or even entered the final stage, or "The Promise", which will be released soon, are not the real big players in the domestic film market in April.

Not to mention "Big Name", which will be officially released nationwide on April 20.

Even though the movie has been promoted since the end of March, "Red Sorghum" specially gave it a pre-roll advertisement, and Li Qian even dedicated himself to recommending it in the advertisement, but for a movie of the level of "Big Whistleblower", the director , in terms of actor status, and in terms of heavy investment, it cannot become a blockbuster movie at the box office.

Du Weiyun's martial arts masterpiece "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" is the one.

Since the beginning of April, the promotion of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" has begun to spread in full swing!

Before Li Qian came to this step step by step with the three films, in the Chinese film circle, there was basically no one who was qualified to compare with Qin Wei and compete with Qin Wei.

There is only one Du Weiyun.

Qin Wei has been an art film director for many years. In the past years, when the market itself was not big, the box office of his films was actually not low. In addition, his reputation has always been high, and he was also blessed with the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Naturally, he became the number one name among domestic film directors.

Compared with him, Du Weiyun does not play art films, does not think about life, and rarely criticizes social phenomena. He plays martial arts and history. He is very good at showing specific historical figures under specific historical conditions through magnificent historical pictures. ——especially the historical figures of the end of the hero.

He especially likes to shoot Tang Dynasty.

Yang Guifei, Tang Xuanzong, An Lushan, Yang Guozhong, and Li Linfu, in his three-hour-long "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" that had to be divided into upper and lower parts when it was screened, every character stood up extremely wonderfully!

A "Yu Xuan Ji" has created a talented woman who dares to love and hate!

Of course, this is just a historical aspect, he has made more achievements in martial arts.

He photographed the small bridges and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the wind and sand in the desert beyond the Great Wall. He interpreted the word chivalry, or the chivalrous spirit and temperament in the bones of the Chinese nation.

Guo Yulong filmed three martial arts films in a row under his hands, establishing his status as the number one male martial arts actor in China in one fell swoop.

Moreover, I have to say that Du Weiyun is not afraid of realistic themes and has never won an award. His achievements and accomplishments in photography, scenery, art, performance and other angles are among the top in China.

So much so that the domestic film industry has recognized that, except for the recognition of an international award, Du Weiyun is actually no worse than Qin Wei - he has won the domestic Yangcheng Film Festival and the Tokyo Film Festival, but, It's useless, the quality of these two film festivals is not comparable to the three major European film festivals.

His last work "Assassins of the Qin Dynasty" was released in the summer of 2001. The investment was huge, and the box office also took over 240 million yuan, which was very high at the time. Combined with martial arts, he seems to be playing a bit off-line-the story, art, photography, and performance are still top-notch. There is no doubt about this, but there is one thing, the pace is relatively slow.

At that time, the evaluation of "The Assassin" was generally positive and praised, but there were also a lot of negative reviews.

However, even those who have given negative reviews have to admit that those who are capable of producing such majestic and exquisitely detailed martial arts masterpieces in China today probably do not want to be second-guessed.

The movies of "Liu Chengzhang" have always had weird ideas, but the evaluation of grandeur and grandeur is irrelevant. Li Qian's "Huang Feihong" himself named himself a "Kung Fu movie". To put it bluntly, it sells individual heroism As for Qin Wei—"The Gate of Life and Death" has not yet been released, everyone complained one after another, begging Qin Wei not to make martial arts in his next movie!

After "The Assassin" came off the assembly line, Du Weiyun quickly disappeared. In fact, after a month's rest, his new film project was already on the agenda. Preparations had already begun in the autumn of that year, and the filming had officially started in the spring of 2002— — It is said that the filming stage of this movie took nine months!

Apparently, the decline in word-of-mouth of the last movie made Du Weiyun very vigilant.

So he came to the new movie. From the perspective of time cost, he should have done it more carefully than the last movie.

And there is no doubt that the great director Du Weiyun has returned after two years, and the new movie is the best martial arts theme. The name "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" has made many of his die-hard fans think it's interesting just by listening to it, so, with The large-scale publicity of this movie before its release was kicked off, and the expectations of domestic movie audiences for this movie were quickly raised to a high level and remained high.

Compared with Du Weiyun's blockbuster "Lonely Smoke in the Desert", Minghu Culture's "Big Whistleblower" has spent a lot of money in it and carried out various planning and publicity, but in terms of overall momentum, it is not as good as "Lonely Smoke in the Desert". "Not in a heavyweight class.

However, the finalization of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" stepped on the tail of "Big Name".

"Big Star" is scheduled for Friday, April 20th. This date was set in mid-March, but when the time came to the end of March, "Great Desert Smoke", which has not given an accurate schedule, suddenly announced that it will be scheduled for 4 It's the 24th of April - the difference between the two is only three days!

In other words, "Big Name" has just been released this Friday, and "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" will be here next Tuesday!

It has to be admitted that the selection of Dongfang Media Group, Du Weiyun and the terrifying aura of "Lonely Smoke in the Desert" have brought great pressure to the propaganda department and distribution department of Minghu Culture.

But the schedule has already been set, and the promotional work of "Big Star" has already started. Temporary adjustment of the schedule will not only lead to a lot of previous publicity expenditures in vain, but also seem to show weakness.

Therefore, the managers of the two departments even went to Qi Jie's office together, hoping that Qi Jie could negotiate with Zong Chengze or Zhou Yanghua from Dongfang Media, and there was no need for everyone to lose out.

The best result, of course, is that the two parties negotiate, each takes a step back, and everyone makes money.

But Qi Jie refused without hesitation.

Because she knew very well why the other party did this.

However, the mall!

With the growing strength and rise of Minghu culture, such a collision with the traditional big powers in the film industry is inevitable-no matter whether you win or lose, you have to touch it to know.

The quality of the last "Once Upon a Time" movie was so excellent, but in the end it lost to "The Gate of Life and Death" which was obviously inferior to my own at the box office.

The reason, of course, can be understood from Qin Wei's huge appeal, and it is absolutely true. But when you think about it from another angle, it’s actually not unreasonable—when "The Gate of Life and Death" was released, among the three major domestic film companies that have been fighting each other in recent years, Zhou Yanghua's Oriental Media Group, and Yuan Ke's Jinghua Films , They all tacitly agreed not to cause trouble for Hu Fei and Qin Wei!

Although at that time, Oriental Cinemas finally chose to support "Once Upon a Time", signed more screening and copy agreements with Minghu Culture, and gave "Once Upon a Time" more film schedules, but for "The Gate of Life and Death", they It's not considered low treatment at all, and the filming given is not low.

Therefore, the victory of "The Gate of Life and Death" and the untimely birth of "Huang Feihong" were stepped on by "The Gate of Life and Death". You have to understand it as a tacit understanding between the original domestic film forces and the rising Minghu culture. In fact, it is not impossible to jointly suppress.

Therefore, Zhou Yanghua, at both ends of the rat, actually pulled his face down and called Qi Jie to ask for a copy. Qi Jie has already despised it more than once in his heart - before that, various domestic theaters tacitly suppressed "Red Sorghum" When arranging the film, Qi Jie immediately felt that something was wrong, and he could guess that someone was doing tricks behind the scenes, and this person was probably one of Zhou Yanghua or Hu Fei! So when Zhou Yanghua's phone call came, she immediately felt that Zhou Yanghua, for the sake of a small profit, would lose his identity and stand at every turn, and it would never be a big deal at all.

Now it's her turn to be embarrassed, of course she doesn't bother to do such things as calling for help.

What are you afraid of!

Now that you're here, rolling up your sleeves means "do"!

It's good to win, so what if you lose!

It's not that the results of a movie are all set!

Minghu culture should be sharpened in such box office battles again and again, so that it can really establish its position and voice in the Chinese film market step by step.

So, don't say anything, just do it!

So, on April 20, 2003, "Big Wrist" was released on time.

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