Chapter 1114 Fan Bingbing: There Is No Reason to Refuse

Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye it is December 14th.

At the same time, the popularity of the Lunar New Year movie season in the domestic film and television industry is also rising!

"As of today, the reality-themed movie "Dying to Survive" directed by Chen Fei has been released for 13 days, and the cumulative box office has exceeded 3 billion yuan, with a total of 3.164 billion.

Warm congratulations, "Dying to Survive" has successfully broken the 3 billion box office mark and successfully entered the 3 billion box office movie club..."

"This morning, the action and fantasy movie "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" directed by Yuan Heping, written by Xu Ke, and starring Dapeng, Ni Ni, Li Zhiting, Zhou Dongyu and others has officially entered the national theater chain and started the public screening plan.

On the first day of the film's release, the comprehensive screening rate of the theater chain was 15.6%, which was far from the expectations of the film company."

"The Hollywood imported blockbuster "Justice League" has been officially taken off the screen today due to the exhaustion of its box office potential. The film has been released for 27 days and the cumulative box office has closed at 630 million yuan."

Feng Xiaogang is quite happy today, mainly because of the poor screening of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia".

What makes him even happier is that with the explosive effect of the preview of "Youth" during this period, netizens' recognition of this movie is surprisingly high!

Many people even think that his movie can also achieve the achievement of "art film counterattack commercial film" like "Dying to Survive"!

You know, in the ever-changing film market, the competition between art films and commercial films has never stopped.

In recent years, there has even been a wonderful phenomenon of art films counterattacking commercial films, and this change has attracted the attention of the entire film industry!

In this trend, Feng Xiaogang is undoubtedly one of the typical ones. After all, he once wrote this wonderful chapter in the Lunar New Year file in 2007.

At that time, the main theme movie "Assembly" directed by him and the martial arts blockbuster "The Warlords" directed by Chen Kexin met on a narrow road.

After the two movies were released at the same time, "Assembly" won the unanimous love and recognition of the audience with its profound theme, wonderful plot and outstanding performances of the actors, and the final box office reached 249 million.

Although "The Warlords" also has a strong cast and wonderful fighting scenes, its box office is slightly inferior, earning only 201 million.

As time goes by, in the current Lunar New Year period, Feng Xiaogang is facing the same situation again.

His new work "Youth" will soon compete with "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" starring many stars such as Dapeng, Ni Ni, Aarif Lee, Zhou Dongyu, Wu Bai, and Liu Yan for the box office.

Compared with the luxurious star lineup of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", the cast of "Youth" is much more shabby. After all, only Huang Xuan is a famous actor, and the others are almost all newcomers.

But judging from the current preview results and market feedback, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is obviously not as good as "Youth".

"In fact, this movie has never been in my comparison range. My opponents are "Dying to Survive" and "Legend of the Demon Cat". I don't take the others seriously at all..."

In the huge pre-screening mobilization meeting room, everyone was listening to Feng Xiaogang bragging.

Ye Ning wanted to persuade him to not take it lightly, but he thought about it and didn't speak.

After all, the other party was just showing off, and if he was interrupted, he might be hated...

After waiting until he finished showing off, Ye Ning said: "From the current market feedback, except for the movies "Dying to Survive", "Legend of the Demon Cat", "Blood of the Machine", and "Ready Player One", we can completely give up paying attention to the rest. They will not have any impact on the box office of "Youth." "

Hearing this, everyone nodded and expressed their understanding.

At this time, Feng Xiaogang suddenly interrupted: "There is no problem with the theater scheduling, right? It won't happen again like "I Am Not Fan Jinlian" was targeted by Wanda, right?"

Hearing the name of his old employer, Ye Ning was slightly startled.

After a moment, he responded: "No, Wanda will not deliberately target it this time, everything will follow the market rules..."

"Hahahaha." Wang Zhonglei's laughter suddenly echoed in the conference room.

When everyone's eyes fell on him, he was seen crossing his legs and said confidently: "Among the investors of "Youth", there are Bayi, Huaying and Emei Film Group, which are all state-owned enterprises.

No matter how powerful Wanda Cinema Line is, can it suppress the movies produced by state-owned enterprises? Even if he is given ten more courage, he dare not do it!"

Hearing this, everyone in the conference room smiled knowingly.

At the same time, seeing the fierce momentum of "Youth" and "Dying to Survive", Brother Chen Kai could not sit still.

As soon as the crew of "Ever Night" finished visiting, he gathered a group of main creators and began to follow up the last round of publicity roadshows for "Legend of the Demon Cat".

At the same time, Chen Long also started to move.

Under his leadership, director Zhang Lijia, actors Luo Zhixiang, Ouyang Na Na, Xia Hou Yunshan and others began to run national roadshows for publicity.

Among so many Lunar New Year movies, only Chen Fei is not very active in the mainland.

There is no way. In his opinion, the mainland film market is still not big enough.

If "Ready Player One" wants to achieve higher profits, it must make achievements in Hollywood.

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“On the first day of its release, the action and fantasy film "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" directed by Yuan Heping, written by Xu Ke, and starring Dapeng, Ni Ni, Li Zhiting, Zhou Dongyu and others, closed at 26.735 million on the first day of its release.”

“The drama, love, and war film "Youth" directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Huang Xuan, Miao Miao, Zhong Chuxi, Yang Caiyu and others was officially launched at 12:00 am last night.

On the first day of its release, the comprehensive screening rate was as high as 34.2%, far exceeding "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia"!”

“The costume and political drama "The Rise of Phoenixes" co-produced by Syndicate Pictures, Dongshen Pictures, Haomai Culture, iQiyi, and New Film Union Culture, starring Chen Kun and Ni Ni, adapted from the original novel "The Phoenix Power" by Tianxia Guiyuan, was officially completed yesterday!”

The domestic Lunar New Year holiday season has become more and more lively, and the previous hot searches such as "The Cyberspace Administration of China bans paparazzi" and "The shady story of the birth of actors" have been completely suppressed.

Chen Fei has been paying attention to the Lunar New Year box office, including the publicity data of several movies.

From the current situation, the most popular one is undoubtedly "Dying to Survive", which has broken through the 3 billion box office, followed by "Youth" and "Legend of the Demon Cat".

As for "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia", when its first-day box office results appeared, it meant that the movie had withdrawn from the competition in advance.

In such a prosperous market, the first-day box office was only more than 20 million. Just think about it, you will know that this movie will definitely not be very good.

And this can be seen from its poor reputation.

The popularity and attention on the Internet have now focused on "Youth".

When the focus shifted to Hollywood, the most popular one was undoubtedly the newly launched "Star Wars: The Last Jedi".

This movie is very fierce!

On the day of its launch, the first-day box office directly received 104 million US dollars, which made the executives in charge of this project at the producer Lucasfilm and the distributor Walton Films happy.

As for the much-anticipated Justice League, no one is interested in it now.

After 29 days of release, the North American box office has just exceeded $200 million. Compared with its production cost of $500 million, it is a huge loss!

"As of yesterday, the North American box office of Justice League was only $570,000. Even though Thor 3 has been online for 43 days, it still has $780,000..."

Natasha talks to Chen Fei about Justice League almost every day, which also makes him understand a lot of interesting situations.

After the resignation of the former DC Films CEO Hamada, Time Warner sent Jeff Jones to take the position of CEO.

As soon as he took office, he immediately invited Zack Snyder back and began to promote the release of the director's cut of Justice League.

And this behavior also allowed him to gain a firm foothold in DC.

Especially those DC fans, who directly called him the "savior" who came to save DC!

At the same time, the "Aquaman" project, which was not favored by Hamada, also became the first project for Jeff Jones to start work.

Everything Hamada had done before was completely denied by this person.

Now the two of them even blast each other on Twitter from time to time, making it very lively and attracting a lot of people to participate.

"Okay, forget about DC, our main task now is "Ready Player One."

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Chen Fei interrupted Natasha's sharing of the fun incident, and then asked emphatically: "Have you arranged everything for tomorrow's premiere?"

"Yeah." Natasha nodded heavily and said: "All ready!"

"Okay."

Chen Fei stood up, took his suit jacket off the hanger, and prepared to attend the recording of the Helen Show scheduled in the afternoon.

When he finished his work and returned home, it was already dark in North America.

At the same time, in China, the first-day box office results of "Youth" have also been released!

Chen Fei couldn't help shaking his head after taking a look at the first-day box office performance of "Youth" of 82.36 million, and then comparing it with the second-day box office data of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" of 24.36 million.

The cooperation between Xu Ke and Yuan Heping this time can be regarded as a direct blow to half of the already shaky foundation of Hong Kong films.

There is no other reason, the market feedback of this movie is really too bad.

The market scale of the Lunar New Year period is so large, but it didn't even pull up the box office performance of "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia". What's the point of playing this game?

At the same time, many domestic filmmakers and colleagues in the film and television industry are also surprised by the gap between the two films.

Everyone thought that in the Lunar New Year period where commercial blockbusters gather and the competition is fierce, "Youth", which seems to be aimed at non-mainstream movie-watching groups such as those born in the 1950s and 1960s, will be slightly bleak under the impact of a number of strong films.

However, the reality is far beyond everyone's expectations!

This movie directed by Feng Xiaogang, without the blessing of cool special effects and luxurious all-star lineup, has quietly entered the hearts of the audience with its sincere emotions and moving story.

On the other hand, Xu Ke's blockbuster "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" created with his unique imagination and bold use of film technology was unexpectedly lame!

This comparison undoubtedly made everyone confused.

What is going on in the cinema market?

Special effects blockbusters are not as popular as art films and reality-themed movies?

This is really novel!

Huayi.

In the huge conference room, Feng Xiaogang was excited and had already decided to start a new project.

"After "Youth" is offline, I will immediately announce the start of the preparations for "Cell Phone 2."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Zhonglei slammed the table and said "good" three times!

"Here is the script."

Feng Xiaogang handed the script, which had been officially finalized at this time, to Wang Zhonglei.

After the latter took it, he read it with great interest.

The story of "Cell Phone 2" continues the plot of "Cell Phone 1".

Eighteen years ago, Yan Shouyi was the host of the TV station's "Say It Straight" column, and eighteen years later, he turned to the Internet to do a talk show.

Eighteen years ago, his cell phone contained many unknown secrets, and now the secrets in his cell phone have caused a new storm...

After a brief and rough reading of the script, Wang Zhonglei put it away directly: "Let Huayi handle the script submission."

"Okay."

This is exactly what Feng Xiaogang thought.

"I'll leave Fan Bingbing to you." Feng Xiaogang continued to make arrangements. He planned to continue using the cast of "Cell Phone 1" in "Cell Phone 2".

"No problem, I'll go talk to her."

Wang Zhonglei laughed, with a certain confidence.

Due to the poor box office performance of "Sky Hunter", the Venus Pictures founded by Fan Bingbing lost a lot of money for it, and she is short of money now.

As a commercial film, "Cell Phone 2" will definitely not be less in terms of pay.

Therefore, Wang Zhonglei believes that Fan Bingbing will definitely agree to take on this role.

After chatting for about half an hour, Feng Xiaogang got up and left.

"Youth" is in its hot period at this time, so he has to lead the main creative members to do more publicity, which will be of great help to the subsequent box office revenue of the film.

At the same time, Wang Zhonglei immediately went to arrange the script submission of "Cell Phone 2".

The two never paid attention to or even mentioned another person related to this movie - Cui Yongyuan!

Because according to their original idea, Yan Shouyi has become a talk show host this time, and it should have nothing to do with you, Cui Yongyuan, right?

What's more, there is no topic of "genetically modified" in the plot and story, at most there are some "extramarital affairs".

And the latter situation has happened too many times in reality, how could it be reflected on you, Cui Yongyuan?

Therefore, whether it is Wang Zhonglei or Feng Xiaogang, or screenwriter Liu Zhenyun, or even Fan Bingbing who received the invitation to participate, they did not take Cui Yongyuan seriously.

After receiving Wang Zhonglei's invitation, Fan Bingbing did not think too much and agreed directly.

It was the role of "Wu Yue" in "Cell Phone 1" that helped her win the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress and helped her gain a foothold in the film industry.

Now "Cell Phone 2" is about to be launched, and Wang Zhonglei has promised her a sky-high salary. She has no reason to refuse!

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