Chapter 872 Brother Baoqiang in Difficulties

Beijing, Baoshan, a high-end residential area.

There lives a special family here, a well-known actor in the entertainment industry, Wang Baoqiang, who is famous in the entertainment industry and has become popular with movies such as "Soldier Assault", "Lost in Thailand", and "Detective Chinatown".

Because of the Black Swan incident, Brother Baoqiang has been resting at home recently, and making up for the lost family affection with his children.

In recent years, it can be said that these are the most difficult years for Brother Baoqiang since he became famous.

In 2016, something happened that shocked the whole country, that is, Brother Baoqiang's wife cheated on her agent.

Originally, it was a very self-esteem-damaging thing to have such a big scandal in his love life and to be discussed in public.

But after all, Baoqiang was the victim in this incident, and Baoqiang was indeed very clean. Even though he was stabbed in the back by his agent and his wife, the couple did not reveal any dirt on him. Even the most common tax evasion in the industry was not involved. Instead, Baoqiang earned enough sympathy and support from the public.

Originally, if Baoqiang continued to develop as an actor, taking advantage of this trend of sympathy and support from the whole nation, his acting career would definitely be able to reach a higher level. Even if he failed in love, he would still be successful in his career.

However, Baoqiang's luck seemed to have started to go wrong from here.

Less than a year after the emotional scandal broke out, Baoqiang's first comedy film "The Journey to the West" as a director failed both in word of mouth and box office.

Netizens who had all kinds of expectations and support for him turned their guns around, as if the previous comments that were optimistic about him and supported him were all jokes.

There are endless black fans and water armies of Baoqiang on the Internet, and there are also many ridicules and cold eyes. It can be said that he is caught in very bad public opinion.

His originally thriving acting career has also suffered a heavy blow.

But if it is not done well, it is not done well, so he did not refute it, and even went to receive the Golden Broom (worst film) award in person to express his apology.

It has to be said that Baoqiang is really impeccable in terms of being a person and doing things. Although his cultural level is not high, his character is much higher than 99% of the artists in the circle.

In the next few years, he did fall into a difficult period in his career. Except for the "Chinatown" series, there is almost no other work.

And he himself has never forgotten to apologize to the audience for a minute, hoping to create a good movie to give back to the audience and prove himself to the audience.

At this time, even if he was resting at home, he did not forget to continue to polish his new movie script.

Still writing and directing the film himself, but having learned from the failure of "Buddha in India", Bao Qiang did not choose to forcefully copy the comedy style of "Lost on Journey", but finally walked out of his own way, choosing to adapt a realistic inspirational film based on the real "Enbo Fighting Incident"!

From 2017 when he was preparing to shoot a movie based on this prototype story to now, Bao Qiang has been working on the script for countless times, and has also changed many screenwriters, but he has not yet polished the script to the most satisfactory level.

But Bao Qiang, who is determined to make this movie, naturally has to prepare for other aspects of the movie.

After all, making a movie is not just about having a good script, it requires cooperation from all aspects.

The most important point is that it requires sufficient funds and distribution resources.

In fact, funding is a small matter. After all, this movie is a realistic film, and Bao Qiang does not plan to find a bunch of big-name actors to act, but to find a group of young people aged 14-20 to act, and he himself will play the leading actor, and then find a few golden supporting roles.

The budget for the entire film can be controlled within 20 million, which is definitely not a big-budget film in this era.

Even if the cost of publicity and promotion is added, the final cost of this film will not exceed 50 million.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although Bao Qiang was once in trouble and did not even have the money to pay taxes when he divorced, and had to borrow money from others, it was because he was in the lawsuit and temporarily froze his property to prevent transfer.

When everything was settled, Bao Qiang reopened Le Kaihua Film and Television Company. He invested here and there, and the connections he had accumulated over the years were also there. It was not a problem to find some partners to invest, and 50 million was still easy to get together.

What really made him feel a little difficult was finding a distributor.

Because "A Chinese Odyssey" failed in both word of mouth and box office, Bao Qiang's reputation as a director has become a bad name in the circle.

If a movie is starred by him, and it is a comedy, there are distributors who are willing to sell tickets for him and strongly support his film publicity and promotion work.

But if it is a new work directed by Brother Baoqiang, and it is not in the field of comedy, and he goes to make a realistic movie, then the distribution company will avoid it.

This is a big pit!

No one has confidence in Brother Baoqiang's directing skills. The precedent of "A Chinese Odyssey" cannot be washed away in five or six years.

Dapeng's "The Pancake Man" was successful at the box office, but the word of mouth was terrible, which led to his subsequent "Sewing Machine Band" being looked down upon. Even though the movie was indeed well-made and the distribution was also very powerful, the box office was completely unworthy of this reputation. The overdrawn reputation from "The Pancake Man" was not enough to be repaid by "The Sewing Machine Band" alone.

And Brother Baoqiang's "A Chinese Odyssey" is much worse than "The Pancake Man".

Can movie fans still trust him?

No distribution company believes it.

Although for distribution companies, they will not lose money no matter what movie they release, the most is the question of how much they make.

But now there are hundreds of movies produced every year in the industry, and everyone has better choices. There is no need to do thankless work for Brother Baoqiang to make new movies!

So, when Brother Baoqiang went to the famous film distribution companies in the industry to test, he did not get any good results.

As long as they heard him talk about his new movie plan, they shook their heads like rattles, and had no intention of cooperating at all.

What?

Brother Baoqiang, your new movie lacks a distributor?

Well, our company's distribution work for the past two years is full, and we may not be able to find a good schedule. In order not to delay your new movie, Brother Baoqiang, it is better to find a company with a suitable schedule.

I heard that the distribution work schedule of XXX next door has not been arranged for next year, and they are short of excellent movies. Why don't you go to the next door to have a look?

Then when he arrived next door, Brother Baoqiang heard almost the same words again.

It is impossible to offend people. Everyone is talking in a nice way, with an attitude that it is definitely a disadvantage for us to distribute your new movie, and we are not suitable for it because of our small size.

Don't hit a smiling person. Faced with such nice words, Brother Baoqiang couldn't say anything, and just felt bitter in his mouth.

But it's not a good thing to drag this matter on. You can't wait until the movie is shot before taking the finished film to the distributor. Now is not the era of 20 years ago when the development of domestic commercial films was immature.

"It's frustrating!" Brother Baoqiang murmured as he looked at the latest version of the script. (End of this chapter)