Chapter 924: Evergreen Among the Big Stars? Holding the Power of Public Opinion! Who Can Compete with Her?

It is July 22nd. With the attention of countless filmmakers in the industry, the "competition" for the summer vacation season has finally officially kicked off.

At 9 a.m., a notice immediately heated up the cinema market.

"The comedy action film "Skiptrace", jointly produced by Tangde, Huawen, and Daxing Media, directed by Renny Harlin, and starring Chen Long, Fan Bingbing, Zeng Zhiwei and others, closed at 98.2769 million on the first day of its release!"

"The film "Skiptrace" scored 8.9 points on Maoyan, and the film reviews were very good."

"Chen Long was deceived, Bingbin is in danger... Go to the cinema quickly, "Skiptrace" is great!"

Since July 1st, the number of domestic films released in the cinema has been no less than 40, but it is still the first film like "Skiptrace" that has achieved both box office and word-of-mouth success.

For a time, accompanied by a large number of positive reviews online, the popularity and scheduling of "Skiptrace" increased sharply.

You know, this is still a weekday!

If it's the weekend, won't the box office have another surge?

However, the crew of "Skiptrace" is happy, but "Lu Yao Zhi Mali" and "The Quick Gunner" are unlucky.

The latter two have repeatedly reduced their screenings, and the daily new box office has both plummeted to less than 1 million.

However, just as Huayi's stock price fell due to the failure of "Rock Tibetan Mastiff" and "Lu Yao Zhi Mali", the news from the San Sebastian International Film Festival finally came back under the expectation of all Huayi employees!

On the 23rd, Weibo, major portals, forums, entertainment news newspapers and other places were all flooded with the press release of "I Am Not Madame Bovary":

"Yesterday evening, the 64th San Sebastian International Film Festival officially announced the list of finalists for each module of this year's film festival."

"It is reported that the realistic film "I Am Not Madame Bovary", jointly produced by Huayi, Dongyang Mira, and Yaolai Pictures, directed by Feng Xiaogang, written by Liu Zhenyun, and starring Fan Bingbing, Guo Tao, Dong Chengpeng and others, has been successfully shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival!"

"Huayi Group announced this morning that the film "I Am Not Madame Bovary" has been confirmed to participate in the selection of the 53rd Golden Horse Awards this year, and will also apply for the 31st Golden Rooster Awards next year..."

~

When it was noon, when Chen Fei finished his work and prepared to eat, he saw that Feng Xiaogang had posted 10 new Weibo posts in a row.

Looking around, the first five Weibo posts expressed how excited, excited, and difficult to suppress his mood was after the film he directed was shortlisted for the film festival.

In the five Weibo posts that followed, he praised the San Sebastian International Film Festival from beginning to end, saying how high the cultural literacy of the festival was and how valuable the award was...

Anyway, there was only one meaning behind the words, that is: the value of the San Sebastian International Film Festival is comparable to the Cannes International Film Festival!

Seeing this, Chen Fei inexplicably had a clear understanding of the phrase "whoever gives you milk is your mother".

If nothing unexpected happens, Feng Gangpao should be quite confident this time, otherwise he would not have expressed excitement and praised the film festival, as if he had successfully won the award.

At the same time, it also includes the subsequent Golden Horse and Golden Rooster. According to Huayi's nature, if it is not sure enough, it will definitely not come out to market.

In this era, capital has already begun to run rampant.

Except for a few special large international film festivals, other film festivals are full of various interest exchanges!

Most of them look clean on the surface, but they have been eaten away by termites.

In addition to Feng Xiaogang, Fan Bingbing, who was nominated as the "Best Actress", also became popular!

"Skiptrace" is currently in theaters, "Legend of the Gods" is coming soon, "Sky Hunter" is in preparation, and "Win the World" is about to start shooting... In addition, "I Am Not Madame Bovary" was nominated for the main competition unit of the San Sebastian International Film Festival...

Looking around, it seems that since the beginning of June 2016, this big actress has been on the hot search list, just like an evergreen tree!

In comparison, those actresses of the same period as her seem a little behind.

Zhou Xun can barely compete with her for popularity with Operation Red Sea and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, but Li Bingbin, Zhang Ziyi and others have long been left behind by her!

Especially Zhang Ziyi, who is jealous and red-eyed when watching the news.

Although she is an "international Zhang", she is actually in a very weak position in terms of awards, except for entering Hollywood with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Zhou Xun is the first actress in the domestic entertainment industry to win the Golden Rooster, Golden Image and Golden Horse Awards, while Fan Bingbing also has a Tokyo International Film Festival Best Actress Award. As for Liu Yifei's Cannes Best Actress Award, it is an unattainable goal for her!

In this case, her title of "International Zhang" has become a target of attack for many black fans.

Especially with Fan Bingbing being nominated for the Best Actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, her Weibo account suddenly became "lively".

Mockery, ridicule, contempt... can be heard everywhere!

She even wanted to turn off the comment permission on Weibo, but after thinking about it, she decided not to do so.

After all, if it was really closed, wouldn't it mean that she had voluntarily admitted defeat?

"Haven't you found any suitable resources?"

Seeing the opponent's development getting better and better, Zhang Ziyi really couldn't sit still.

Agents will also have a headache at this time. After all, in most cases, good resources have already been reserved, so where is their turn to fight for and grab them?

But listening to Zhang Ziyi's anxious tone, she had to make some response:

"Director Cheng Er informed me yesterday that he would send "Romantic Demise" to participate in the selection of the 14th Changchun Film Festival..."

"I'm asking you if you have suitable film and television resources. What are you telling me about the film festival?"

The agent suddenly fell silent.

"Alas!" Zhang Ziyi sighed helplessly, took out her mobile phone and found Li Xian's number.

When she first went to Hollywood, it was Li Yin who took her out and praised her as an "International Chapter".

Now if she wants to continue to come back, she can only place her hope on major directors.

If you just look for resources by yourself, you have to find the year of the monkey, the horse and the moon, right?

…

Time comes on the 24th.

As everyone expected, the box office hit a new high on its first Saturday, exceeding RMB 100 million, blinding a lot of people!

Experts in the industry have already concluded: "This movie definitely has the potential to hit a box office of 1 billion, and it is likely to become the No. 1 movie in this year's summer vacation!"

As soon as the news came out, the crew of "Escape" immediately fell into a sea of ​​celebration.

However, as the saying goes, some people are happy and some are sad.

Chen Fei had just signed the authorization letter for increasing his Weibo shares and sent it away. When he picked up his phone, he discovered that a "candid" video had made the headlines on Weibo.

Although the picture in the video is a little shaky and blurry, the recorded sound is quite clear.

You can clearly hear a man with a rough voice shouting angrily while banging the table: "You don't know, the film and television industry is so dirty!

My movie "Rock Tibetan Mastiff" has been in preparation for 6 years! It took 60 million US dollars and countless efforts to successfully build it.

But I never expected that all my hard work would be wasted just because of the theater's schedule. Is this fair? How can this be fair? ! This is a shameless suppression of me..."

Although we don’t know who recorded the video and who exposed it, everyone who watched the video can clearly tell who is shouting in the video.

Unsurprisingly, this is Zheng Jun, the recently popular "rock star"!

Chen Fei listened to Zheng Jun's resentful accusations in the video twice.

At the beginning, he was scolding the theater chain for giving him unfair film schedules, and then he started to tell how hard he worked, how much effort he spent, how many dreams he put into...

Anyway, the meaning is the same: in his opinion, this animated movie should have made a lot of money after it was released.

But the result was that because the theater chain gave him an unfair schedule, the film's box office flopped in a mess, and the factors that caused the box office failure should be attributed to the theater chain, not himself.

Chen Fei was almost happy to hear it.

He seriously suspected that this video was actually directed and acted by Zheng Jun in order to "clarify" himself in front of netizens and peers.

It's hard to say whether Huayi was involved in it, but I guess the two Wang brothers are not that stupid.

After all, theater movies usually only focus on "profit". Who cares about your hard work, dreams, and feelings?

If the box office performance is good, then I will give you more points to schedule films.

If the box office performance is poor, the theater chain will directly force you to download it without waiting for the end of the key period. Why does it care so much about you?

As for the film "A Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix", it is considered a special case. After all, the producer's kneel-down resulted in extremely high popularity!

Moreover, the quality of "Hundred Birds to the Phoenix" itself is also very impressive, so the box office will continue to rise, eventually exceeding the 100 million mark.

As for the "Rock Tibetan Mastiff" that has been forcibly downloaded, it is really a matter of opinion.

Rock animation + niche + PG13... It isolates the audience group of teenagers, but it is made into the theme of a big animated movie. How stupid must you be to come up with such an operation?

Many people in the circle have been secretly mocking him, and even many netizens' words are full of sarcasm and contempt.

"It's Guo Degang's dubbing, or it's an animated movie. I really can't understand what the producer is thinking?"

"If you want to play rock and roll, just play rock and roll. What kind of movie are you doing? Do you really think it's so easy to change careers?"

"Isn't it normal for a super bad movie to have such a low box office? What's there to feel aggrieved about?"

"Haha, you failed to cross the line. You must have been taught a lesson. Do you really think that theater movies are so easy?"

"You also boasted that you would surpass "The Return of the Great Sage". I was amused at the time. What is your identity? Are you worthy of being compared with Feiyue Film and Television?"

"Delete the video as soon as possible. It has already been released in domestic theaters. What else is there to complain about? Since you are so wronged, you can go to Hollywood if you have the ability!"

…

The next morning, a new Monday arrives again.

At this point, "Escape" has been released for 4 days, and its box office performance has soared to 403 million!

However, this morning, the attention of the entire film and television industry was focused on a film filing information notice issued by the Film Bureau.

Major entertainment media arrived as scheduled and reported one after another:

"In the morning, the Film Bureau announced the latest batch of film filing information, and the film "Lost in Hong Kong" invested by Feiyue Film and Television was listed."

"Reprinted from the Film Bureau's public document, the filing information of "Lost in Hong Kong" is as follows:

Movie: "Lost in Hong Kong".

Subject: comedy, romance, action.

Producer: Feiyue Film and Television, Ning Hao Studio, Wang Baoqiang Studio.

Director/screenwriter: Wang Baoqiang.

Producer: Chen Fei.

Supervisor: Ning Hao

Starring: Wang Baoqiang.

Other roles: To be determined."

"Feiyue Film and Television issued an announcement stating that the casting of "Lost in Hong Kong" will officially start in the near future, and actors and artists in the industry are welcome to submit resumes and participate in auditions..."

It was not until the Film Bureau's public document was truly exposed to everyone in the industry that everyone finally reacted!

"Wow, Wang Baoqiang has really switched from being an actor to becoming a director?"

"It seems that Chen Fei is very optimistic about this movie? He actually served as the producer himself."

"So, this is one of the projects in the 'commercial film support plan'? Let Wang Baoqiang be the director, this is really a strong 'support'!"

"Come on, let's prepare to let the actors below participate in the audition. After all, this is a project of Feiyue Film and Television, it shouldn't be too bad."

"Sister Ziyi? Should we try this project? After all, it's also a commercial film."

"Hong Kong囧? Isn't the囧series a comedy theme? Forget it, I don't like this kind of theme, and the director is a crossover from an actor. I guess he is just here to practice. Let's find a real big-budget commercial project..."

"Oh, okay."

~

As "Hong Kong囧" was officially approved, Feiyue Film and Television's official Weibo, Chen Fei, Ning Hao, Wang Baoqiang and others all forwarded the film filing information on Weibo.

Even though a lot of doubts emerged from the outside world, none of them responded.

After all, the best way to break doubts is to slap all doubters in the face with real achievements!

Instead of arguing, it is better to work hard silently and make the movie well. This is the real and best response.

"I will not participate in the casting process. When the final list comes out, you can show it to me... There are also pre-production, budget, location selection... As a director, you must do it yourself and make sure you have a clear idea..."

In the office, Chen Fei is arranging work.

But if you listen carefully, you can find that he has been throwing out those messy trivial things.

And the person being "thrown" is Wang Baoqiang!

Ning Hao couldn't listen any more, and complained speechlessly: "So, you are just a producer with a name? You don't do anything else?"

"Don't you still have the producer?"

Chen Fei turned around and threw the responsibility on him, and shamelessly found a suitable excuse for himself: "Since we have decided to support Baoqiang, we naturally have to let him do it himself, so that he can accumulate enough directing experience..."

How could Wang Baoqiang understand this? He immediately said with tears of gratitude: "Director Chen! Don't worry! I will never let you down!"

Ning Hao's mouth twitched when he heard it.

One of them was willing to fight and the other was willing to be beaten, and he couldn't even get a word in, and could only watch Chen Fei being a hands-off boss.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of another thing.

"Huh? That's not right! I have to assist Baoqiang in filming "Lost in Hong Kong", so what about "So Young: Music Dreams" on the other side?"

"Don't worry about that. I'll let Chen Qifu take care of it. It just so happens that he doesn't have any projects on hand recently."

"Oh, that's fine. Don't tire me out. I'm still thinking about traveling to Hong Kong."

"???"

Listening to the conversation between the two, Wang Baoqiang vaguely felt that something seemed to be wrong, but he couldn't react for a while.

...

In a blink of an eye, it was already noon.

Chen Fei had just sent Ning Hao and Wang Baoqiang away when Zhou Shouzi called again.

"Mr. Chen, the matter has been handled. Longxiang Capital has increased its holdings by 5 points this time. The specific contract amount has been signed and the money has been remitted."

"Only 5 points?"

Chen Fei was a little disappointed. He thought he could take advantage of this opportunity to eat up all the 10 points that Alibaba reduced its holdings.

"Five points is actually not a small amount." Zhou Shouzi spoke faster: "Almost all the original shareholders chose to continue to increase their holdings of Weibo shares, and no one gave up.

The shares we have now are actually snatched from the tiger's mouth, and even caused dissatisfaction among many shareholders..."

Hearing this reason, Chen Fei reacted quickly.

Weibo is indeed a hot commodity now. After all, as long as you can become a shareholder, the dividends you get every year are enough to make many people rich.

Not to mention that after mastering more shares, you can also exchange for extremely high public opinion discourse power, which is the top priority!

Under the temptation of these conditions, who would give up continuing to increase their holdings?

"What is our current total share?"

"After absorbing 5%, Longxiang Capital's shareholding ratio in Weibo has reached 27%, second only to Sina Corporation, and has already opened up a large gap with Alibaba!"

"Good!"

At this moment, Chen Fei's face suddenly showed a bright smile.

27% shareholding ratio, this is already the second largest shareholder in the world!

Alibaba, which was previously on par with Longxiang Capital, has greatly reduced its shareholding ratio this time, and it can no longer be arrogant.

From then on, in terms of the right to speak on the Internet, Feiyue Film and Television can be regarded as truly occupying the "commanding heights", and no one is qualified to challenge it!

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