Chapter 662: How to Be a High-Level Mistress? The Premiere of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" Is in Progress

Chapter 662 Discussion: How to be a high-level mistress? During the premiere of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom"...

The competition for the Lunar New Year stalls has officially begun.

In fact, if we really start counting the time, the movies released on the 29th of last month can also be regarded as part of the Lunar New Year movies.

It's just that, five movies were released at the same time on one day, and none of them had a box office of over 10 million on the first day.

When such results were revealed, the producers were even embarrassed to say that they were Lunar New Year movies!

Therefore, it is generally accepted in the industry that the release date of "The Big Four 2" is the moment when the Lunar New Year season really starts.

Because he had already seen the finished film at the premiere, Chen Fei did not go to the cinema on the day of its release.

When he got up early in the morning, he went to the company, opened his email, and checked the information coming from all directions.

First up is that "Godzilla" movie.

After more than a month of release, the film's domestic box office gross reached 720 million yuan, successfully leading the entire month of November.

In the North American box office, the total box office is currently US$220 million, while in Little Days it has reached US$50 million.

Summarizing the global box office results, it just exceeded 500 million US dollars.

Compared with the investment of 120 million US dollars, this box office result is obviously very qualified. If we add various offline income and other online broadcast platform on-demand income in the future, the income can at least double!

Youku also successfully received a wave of dividends and successfully won the online broadcast rights of the movie.

At the same time, the literary film "Nowhere", which was officially released in North America, also officially ushered in its release day.

Chen Fei originally didn't have much hope for its box office. After all, this is a literary drama film adapted from a documentary literary work with a small audience.

What surprised him was that the film's box office results were extremely good, with a box office revenue of US$7.86 million on the first day and US$45.63 million in the first three days of the weekend.

At this point, all the early investment in the film has been repaid!

Of course, no one in the company really cares about this return-on-cost model, because everyone pays more attention to its performance at the Oscars.

Walton Pictures has used a lot of public relations resources, and now that the movie has been released, it’s time to wait for the results.

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At midnight, Chen Fei suddenly saw a piece of news on the Internet.

"It is reported that the new film project "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain" directed by Chen Kaige has completed all casting work. The cast list has been officially announced and is expected to be officially launched after the beginning of spring..."

Chen Fei clicked on the news and checked it with interest.

Feng Shaofeng, Aaron Kwok, Zhang Zhen, Lin Chiling, Fan Wei, Yuan Hua, Wu Jianhao, Chen Yankun, Fang Zuming, Dong Qi...

Looking around, artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan account for more than two-thirds.

Comparatively speaking, Chen Kaige may be the one who loves Hong Kong and Taiwan artists the most among many major mainland directors.

Turning to the bottom of the report, Chen Fei suddenly saw that many people were discussing the actress named Dong Qi.

According to Chen Hong, this is a new actress specially chosen by Chen Kaige just to play for Feng Shaofeng. The two will have a sex scene in the play...

But according to netizens' in-depth research, this does not seem to be a "new actress".

In 2009, she played the heroine in the TV series "The Adventures of Zhao Ganlu in the Elevator". The following year, she starred in the big screen work "Heartstruck", followed by "Bao Qingtian: The Unexpected Case of Kaifeng" and "The Golden Triangle: The Indestructible". "Sorrow", "The True Story of Hot Mom" ​​and a series of works.

If such people can be called "newcomers", then how high must the "newcomer benchmark" in the entertainment industry be?

Looking at the questions under the relevant news, Chen Fei wanted to laugh inexplicably. Almost every time Poet Chen wanted to start a new movie, he would do all kinds of sexy tricks. I don't know if he deliberately wanted to increase the popularity or what. .

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Compared with the first part, "Four Famous Catchers 2" has made some progress.

The box office on the first day was 3,048, and the next day was 3,569... After three days of the first weekend, the box office successfully exceeded 90 million.

It's just that, compared to the box office results, the film's reputation is much inferior, and even in the eyes of many people it is not as good as the first film!

Chen Fei saw that many people on the Internet said that they could not understand what the movie was about. It felt like it was in the clouds, as if it was foreshadowing something, and it seemed to be talking about something.

At this stage, the shortcomings of traditional martial arts movies can no longer be contained.

There are often a thousand martial arts in the hearts of a thousand people, and everyone has their own understanding. It is not easy to meet the requirements of so many people.

At the same time, the feedback shown by "Famous Catchers 2" also caused the production industry to once again boycott traditional martial arts movies.

In the eyes of many people, traditional martial arts is obviously hopeless.

Chen Fei also had the same idea.

With the development of special effects technology, the decline of martial arts movies is obvious. In front of those cool CG pictures, ordinary martial arts actions are simply not enough.

In fact, "Shendu Dragon King" can be regarded as an expansion of traditional martial arts. It combines martial arts with special effects as a selling point, and it can still attract a large number of movie fans.

However, today's actors simply can't bear the hardship of "martial arts training", and they are not willing to work hard to learn even simple physical and martial arts movements.

Under such circumstances, martial arts films will only exit the stage of history at a faster speed, and it is completely wishful thinking to want to rise again.

However, it is definitely impossible for "The Four" to lose money.

Chen Fei heard from Wang Changtian that the second and third parts of the movie were actually shot in tandem, that is, two movies were shot with the money of one.

In this way, the third part will be pure profit in terms of box office except for the large amount of money spent on post-production!

Chen Fei is quite curious about this operation, but he is not prepared to do so, as this operation will damage the quality of the movie.

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As soon as "The Four" is released, it also means that "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is coming.

The premiere of "Storm" was held earlier, probably because they were afraid that all the popularity would be snatched away, but the term "3D police and gangster film" still attracted a lot of attention.

Time came to the 10th in a blink of an eye.

The premiere of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" was still held at the Great Hall of the People. This is also the first movie this year that chose to use the Great Hall for its premiere.

In previous years, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kai often used the Great Hall, and even Feng Xiaogang had used it.

However, after two years, no one except Chen Fei dared to use such a big show, for fear of a big thunder and little rain.

The publicity was so huge, but the box office was a mess, which would be criticized.

Therefore, in recent years, only Chen Fei was bolder and would use the Great Hall from time to time.

"When "The Martian" premieres, I will book the Bird's Nest for you, and we will watch the movie in the whole 3D projection, and we will be there in person..."

On the way to the premiere, Chen Fei was making big promises to Guo Fan, which made him dizzy.

He dared not even think about the scene of holding a premiere at the Bird's Nest!

"When the time comes, you will announce in front of the media that the expected box office of "The Martian" is 2 billion yuan. If you don't reach this result, you will quit the circle..."

"How much?!"

Guo Fan was shocked on the spot!

"2 billion." Chen Fei said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Guo Fan's face was full of tears: "Director Chen, please don't play with me, 2 billion! How is that possible? There are so many movies to be released during the Spring Festival. After everyone divides it, there will not be much left."

"Hey? Can you be a little more confident? We invested more than 700 million in this movie. If there is no 2 billion box office revenue, won't we lose money?"

For the entire film and television industry, the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival periods are undoubtedly a large-scale competitive arena, and many films will enter, be released, and participate in the battle every day.

But in fact, the ending of most films is to become cannon fodder and become a stepping stone for a few movies to go higher.

In Chen Fei's view, whether it is "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" or "The Martian", they are actually within the range of "a few".

Both movies have their own terrifying topics and traffic popularity, and have a very high audience base and box office appeal, which is incomparable to those unknown films of the same period.

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Early in the morning, the red carpet was laid outside the auditorium, and several producers had people watching here.

On this special day today, the film and television industry, whether it is production companies, actors, stars, or directors and producers, except for those who are too busy, basically came to the scene.

Everyone is really curious about the concept of "main melody commercial films", especially the big directors and those big production companies in the industry, who are even more excited.

And because there are so many guests coming to attend the premiere today, even Chen Fei has to line up and wait to walk the red carpet at the right time.

Through the car window, his eyes looked at the red carpet area.

At this moment, there are two women in bright red dresses on the red carpet, striding forward, and the media and reporters on both sides are taking pictures "click, click", and asking some related questions from time to time.

These two people are none other than "good friends in the domestic entertainment industry" Deng Wendi and Li Bingbin.

When seeing Deng Wendi, Chen Fei couldn't hide his admiration.

Being a "mistress" to this extent, she can be regarded as "peak level".

When she divorced the media tycoon in the middle of the year, she did not make a big fuss like ordinary women, but cooperated with the man to divide the property very calmly.

Perhaps it was because of her calmness and non-entanglement that she actually got a huge amount of assets under the condition of a prenuptial property agreement!

According to media reports, in this divorce, she got a courtyard house worth nine figures in the capital, as well as real estate, cash and other items worth hundreds of millions of dollars in North America.

In addition, what shocked people in the circle was that even though she left the media tycoon, she actually started her own "business" with the connections she had accumulated over the years.

She first announced that she would invest in Li Bingbin's company, and then publicized that she could provide all possible help for domestic films and actors to go overseas.

With money and connections.

For a time, Wendy Deng became a hot commodity in the eyes of many domestic film and television companies and actors, and Li Bingbin's status also rose with it.

At the premiere of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" today, the two appeared together and immediately became the object of many people's flattery.

Of course, these two people also knew who was the protagonist today, so they were not too "presumptuous" and kept a low profile after entering the venue.

All the contracted actors and directors of Feiyue Film and Television were also present at this time, but they had already entered the venue in advance.

After waiting for almost half an hour, watching Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige, Jia Zhangke, and Gu Changwei all walk on the red carpet and enter the venue, the main creative members finally came on stage.

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The time just arrived at 10:30, and under the attention of the media, reporters, and fans, a group of people came outside the red carpet.

Taking the lead in the front were Chen Fei, Jiang Wen, and Han Sanping, while the rest, Jiang Wu, Liu Yifei, Fan Bingbing, Han Jianu, Zhang Ruoyun, Liu Shishi, and others lagged a little behind, waving to the left and right as they walked.

In the crowd, listening to the cheers from both sides and the reporters' greetings and interviews, Liu Shishi felt extremely complicated.

Once upon a time, what she envied most was this scene, following a group of big shots on the red carpet and enjoying the cheers of fans.

Over the years in Tangren, although she has walked on many red carpets, she has never been to such a big event.

It can be seen that choice is really much more important than hard work!

"Director Han, can you accept an interview?"

There were many reporters outside the stadium shouting Han Sanping's name. Due to too many people shouting, he had to stand in front of the signature wall and briefly accepted interviews from several media.

In the past, when he was in a high position, everyone was a little afraid of him and felt a little restrained when asking questions.

But things are different now. The reporters all watched the excitement without taking it too seriously, and the questions were pointed.

"Director Han, after "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" ends, will you consider playing similar villain roles in the future to challenge your self-image?"

As soon as this question came up, even Chen Fei couldn't hold back his curiosity and turned to look at Han Sanping with interest.

If he dared to respond, then Chen Fei would dare to climb up the pole!

Isn't he a villain? He has a lot here!

Han Sanping obviously didn't expect such a question. After a moment of silence, he replied: "I can't reply to this question for the time being. It mainly depends on what kind of role and script it is, and it also depends on my schedule... …”

The third master finally chose to prevaricate and simply dealt with the problem.

It's obvious that he himself doesn't like playing villains.

If Chen Fei hadn't offered too many chips to this "mountain eagle", he would never have accepted it!

However, just when he was about to enter, Han Jianu suddenly came to Chen Fei and said, "Brother, my dad said it himself when he was drunk that day, playing a villain is much more enjoyable than playing a decent person. If you still There are similar roles that can be recommended to him, but he is a duplicitous person..."

Chen Fei: "???!!!"

When a group of people were trying not to laugh, Han Sanping turned her head sharply, shouted in a low voice, "Han Jianu! Are you very idle?"

The leaky cotton-padded jacket quickly covered her mouth and hid behind Liu Yifei, not daring to stand out anymore.

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Fortunately, the auditorium is spacious enough. If it were a smaller venue, it might be overcrowded!

As soon as he entered the scene, Chen Fei's eyes seemed to be equipped with radars, automatically locked in several relatively large circles.

Big Boss of the Film Bureau, China Film, Bayi Studio...

The period from the entrance to the official start of the premiere is used to socialize with people in the industry, especially the premiere of a movie made by a big director, it is the best place to socialize.

Chen Fei and Han Sanping took the initiative to separate from the rest of the crew and went over to say hello to Tong Gang.

"Thank you to the Children's Bureau for coming to support us in person."

"Haha, what you said is so outrageous. I'm mainly curious about how this main theme is connected with commercial films. It's also an eye-opener for me to come here."

As he said that, Tong Gang turned his attention to Han Sanping again and joked: "I just happened to come here to see what kind of state Han is in when he plays the villain, haha."

Han Sanping continued: "I think it's pretty good, that is, this guy is not willing to participate in domestic award selections, otherwise I will definitely come back with a trophy."

"Hey? Don't brag yourself."

"Just watch it!"

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Half an hour passed by and the movie screening officially kicked off.

Sitting in the first few rows are leaders of various units, big directors, and film and television company bosses. A group of people are looking at the screen with interest, wondering what a "main theme commercial film" is?

However, when Zhang Ruoyun appeared on the screen and appeared in modern attire, everyone was stunned for a moment.

Why did you suddenly switch to Hyundai?

However, this doubt did not last long, because a vast white snowfield appeared on the big screen like splashed ink.

A story full of "blood and tears" officially begins!

As time passed, the storyline slowly unfolded, and the characters led by Yang Zirong, Shao Jianbo, Zuo Shandiao, Qinglian, Bairu, and the Eight Great Vajras made their appearances one by one.

When they first saw it, everyone still had some doubts on their faces.

But with the continuous advancement and development of the plot, when Yang Zirong officially went up the mountain, the high court suddenly came one after another, and the discussion on the scene started one after another!

"A story that adds a main theme to the shooting techniques of commercial films, it turns out this is it!"

"Good guy, this line and this plot are amazing! It's absolutely amazing!"

"Master Jiu is pissed, hahaha, except for the creditor Zuo Shandiao, everyone else is here undercover, right?"

"The one who confronted Jiang Wen was Liu Dehua?"

"The plot, rhythm, acting... everything is there. Is this still a movie with the main theme? How can it still be shot like this?"

Listening to the constant discussions and exclamations at the scene, Chen Fei didn't feel it was noisy, he just felt that these sounds were unusually pleasant and pleasant.

The more compliments there are, the more people recognize the film.

Even those in the industry think it is very good, and I think the experience of movie fans should not be too bad, but I don’t know how high the final box office can soar?

At the end of the 141-minute screening, Chen Fei stood up on his own initiative and led the main creators onto the stage.

As usual, the next step is the interview session.

Not surprisingly, the reporters’ first question came to Chen Fei: “Director Chen, for this relatively special ‘main theme commercial film’, how many billion do you think the box office will be?”

As soon as this question came up, many people in the audience pricked up their ears.

Especially Feng Xiaogang and Wang Zhonglei. After all, the "Private Customization" they collaborated on is destined to collide with "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom."

Adhering to the attitude that only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be victorious in every battle, the two of them still attach great importance to information about their opponents.

On the stage, Chen Fei smiled slightly and responded: "I don't dare to boast that Haikou is too big, so I won't estimate the box office. Let's talk about the bottom line first, just... 1.3 billion as the bottom line."

As soon as these words came out, there were constant exclamations, followed by quite warm applause!

Everyone was very supportive, but they also admired Chen Fei's boldness!

Counting so many directors in China, he is probably the only one who dares to shout the slogan "1.3 billion bottom line".

Several investors had smiles on their faces, obviously very satisfied with the "1.3 billion" figure.

On the other hand, Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang laughed a little stiffly. If "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" really gets such a high box office, it will definitely have an impact on "Private Customization".

The latter is still thinking about breaking the "700 million" curse with this movie, but this time he is sharpening his skills and is waiting to soar into the sky.

"Oh, it's really impressive. Even if it's commercialized, it's still a movie with a main theme, and it still has a base price of 1.3 billion? Isn't this a boast?"

Wang Zhonglei complained secretly in his heart, and at the same time was still planning, how to make "Private Customization" catch up with the popularity of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom"?

However, at this moment, someone suddenly asked a rather sharp question:

"Director Chen, you can tell from the finished movie that the 'mountain eagle' played by Han Sanping has completely lost his image in this movie. I don't know how you persuaded him to willingly play this role. Where’s the ‘Mountain Sculpture’?”

As soon as this question came up, many guests who were originally distracted by the number "1.3 billion" suddenly brightened up and cast curious glances.

To be honest, everyone is really curious and don't know what price Chen Fei paid? It was actually possible for the "mountain eagle" to act as the "mountain eagle".

Could it be that there was a wave of "three visits to the thatched cottage" like Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to come out?

Chen Fei held up the microphone, turned to look at Han Sanping, and asked with a smile: "Director Han, is it convenient for me to speak?"

Han Sanping waved her hand helplessly, indicating that he could say whatever he wanted.

In fact, when he came to the premiere, he had already guessed that there would be such a scene, and he had already been prepared for it.

However, the next second, under Han Sanping's shocked gaze, Chen Fei suddenly came to Han Jia'er's side and said "righteously":

"The reason why I was able to invite a Korean director was actually thanks to the assistant director of "Taking Tiger Mountain", my junior sister at Nortel, Han Jianu.

If it hadn't been for her help, you might not have seen the 'Mountain Eagle' played by Director Han.

Oh, by the way, in addition to being the assistant director of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", Jia Nu is also the assistant director and producer of the "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series, and is also a graduate student in the Nortel Directing Department..."

For three whole minutes, Chen Fei introduced Han Jia Nu to everyone present.

Although Han Sanping on the side had a calm smile on her face, she was very moved in her heart.

For him, the "gift" Chen Fei gave him on the set of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" even far exceeded the script of "One Hundred Regiments" and the huge salary he received after playing the role of the Mountain Eagle. !

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