Chapter 942: "Detective Chinatown 2" Breaks the Record! "Lost in Hong Kong" Completes Casting!

In the blink of an eye, two days flew by.

On the morning of the 23rd, the film and television industry became lively again, and it could even be said to be a sensation!

"The comedy-themed movie "Detective Chinatown 2", produced by Feiyue Films and directed by Wang Shiliang, starring Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Ruoyun, and Xiao Yang, has been in theaters for 25 days and has grossed a total of 3.456 billion yuan at the box office."

"Warm congratulations to "Detective Chinatown 2" for successfully surpassing the 3.412 billion box office performance of "The Mermaid" previously released during the Spring Festival, and ranking No. 1 in this year's box office rankings!"

"The Film Bureau issued an announcement: The application for key extension of the Chinese film "Detective Chinatown 2" has been approved, and the film's release time will be extended to 12:00 a.m. on September 29."

Looking around, the entire film and television industry is in a state of turmoil!

Although many people have had a premonition for a long time, "Detective Chinatown 2" is likely to break the box office success of "Mermaid".

But everyone really didn't expect that the box office record set by "Mermaid" in 60 days was actually broken by "Detective Chinatown 2" in 25 days!

And in the future, the film will be released for up to 35 days.

Even if the box office is only a few million in a day, over time, it should not be a problem to exceed 3.5 billion.

Even if we work hard, maybe we can catch up with the 3.658 billion box office of "Operation Mekong"!

And what is even more enviable is that "Detective Chinatown" is a sequel movie, and the signal of the third movie is already given at the end of the second movie.

If the third part is released next year or the year after that, and with the skyrocketing market, wouldn't it be possible to reach a box office of 4 billion?

When I think of this, many people’s eyes almost turn red with envy!

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Bona, in Yudong's office.

After the cooperation plan was initially determined, this is the third time Song Ge, Wu Ershan, Yu Dong and Jiang Zhiruo have sat together for a meeting.

The previous second meeting was held after "Legend of the Gods" was forcibly removed from the shelves.

At that time, Yu Dong wanted to withdraw from the investment because of concerns about the theme of "Apotheosis of the Gods", but in the end he was persuaded by Song Ge to stay.

However, in order to prevent further falling into the pit, Yu Dong forcibly reduced his quota from 25% to 15%.

Although Song Ge was a little disappointed, he still accepted his choice.

As for the extra 10%, he already has a suitable candidate here. Now he is just waiting to find a suitable opportunity to invite the other party to join the party.

"As the first movie to break the 3 billion box office mark, "The Martian" received 3.269 billion, followed by "Operation Mekong" with 3.658 billion, followed by "Mermaid" with 3.412 billion, and now "Detective Chinatown 2" with 3.456 billion 100 million……

According to this rule, if nothing unexpected happens, the first movie with a box office of over 4 billion should be born soon.

This means that the market size of the film and television industry is constantly expanding, and it is already enough to accommodate movies with a box office of 4 billion! "

Song Ge first swore to analyze it, and then expressed his thoughts and plans: "At the end of this month, I will arrange for someone to send the three scripts of the "Feng Shen" series to the film bureau.

After the script is reviewed, we will start building momentum as soon as possible, such as promoting a huge investment of 1 billion, as well as global character auditions, and the joining of professional special effects teams from Hollywood...

In my plan, the 4 billion box office mark may be broken by others, but 5 billion must belong to the "Feng Shen" trilogy, and it can only belong to the "Feng Shen" trilogy! "

Looking at the majestic Song Ge, Yu Dong couldn't help but sigh: "Mr. Song is quite confident."

"Haha, I have confidence in the quality of the script. Yu Dongda can rest assured that the box office tragedy similar to "Legend of the Gods" will never happen to these three movies."

"Mr. Song!" Yu Dong was a little angry.

"Oh, look at my mouth, why can't I open the pot? I apologize to Yu Dong. I'm hosting a banquet tonight, so you guys must give me, Mr. Song, some face."

…

There is more than just "Detective Chinatown 2" in the news in the film and television industry today.

After Chen Fei got up in the morning, he saw news of the release of two more imported Hollywood blockbusters on Weibo, and one of them was starring an old acquaintance of his.

"Ice Age 5: Interstellar Collision, an imported animated film with comedy, animation and adventure themes jointly produced by Blue Sky Studio and 20th Century Pictures, officially launched in mainland China today.

On the first day of the film's release, the theater schedule was as high as 31.9%, the overall attendance rate was 18.6%, and the overall ticket price was 30.9 yuan. "

"The Bourne Ultimatum, an action, thriller, and suspense-themed film co-produced by Universal Pictures and Perfect World and starring Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon, officially launches today.

On the first day of the film's release, the theater schedule was as high as 36%, the overall attendance rate was 18.3%, and the overall ticket price was 33.5 yuan. "

Looking at it, these two movies alone took away 67.9% of the movie schedules in theaters throughout the day. This is undoubtedly very bad news for other domestic movies.

"Walker" is still holding up, but "A Little Smile is Alluring" is worse.

On the 23rd, only 2.3% of the latter's film schedule was left, and yesterday's new box office was only 4.35 million.

It is obvious that the box office potential of this movie is about to be exhausted.

And Yang Ying is in a particularly bad mood today!

Of course, this is not because the box office and reputation of the movie she starred in collapsed, but because the TV version of "Love O2O" was launched yesterday.

When she woke up early in the morning, she saw many comments on the Internet that made her extremely angry!

"This may be the best adapted TV series I have ever seen, no doubt about it! The plot is compact, and there is no vulgar plot of ordinary idol dramas. The actors' acting skills are also online throughout the whole process. Zheng Shuang even performed the shy, pure, beautiful and beautiful image of Bei Weiwei in my mind. It's really great! The TV version is really much better than the movie version!"

"After comparing, I found that the TV version is the real story of 'Bei Weiwei' and 'Xiao Nai'. The movie version is simply unbearable to watch, especially Yang Ying's acting skills, which are really bad!"

"Zheng Shuang Jian She is exactly the Bei Weiwei in my mind! Her every frown and smile is vivid and charming, yet pure; there are so many things in the world, but you only need to smile slightly to make me fall in love... Yang Ying, get out of here."

"Fortunately, I didn't watch the movie version, otherwise I would have been pissed off by Yang Ying."

"Everyone, please help vote for Goddess Weiwei, the selection of the four young actresses is in progress, and I want Zheng Shuang to be the first!"

If these fans and netizens just praised the TV version of "Love O2O" as better than the movie version, then Yang Ying would not be too angry.

However, she really couldn't accept the behavior of Zheng Shuang's fans who stepped on the high and praised the low.

She is just a small flower, why should she be compared with a big flower like her?

What's more, based on the high-quality painting style and plot of the TV version of "Love O2O", plus the fact that Zheng Shuang's acting skills beat Yang Ying, the former's votes for the current election of the four young actresses have skyrocketed!

This means that Zheng Shuang's popularity was gained by stepping on Yang Ying.

Thinking of this, Yang Ying could no longer suppress her anger!

She went straight to Huang Xiaoming and made a request: "You must help me with this matter. You must not let that little bitch step on me to get to the top. Why can she get so many good reviews, but I am greeted with all abuse and criticism?"

Listening to Yang Ying's complaints, Huang Xiaoming calmly withdrew his eyes from her bulging belly.

"Don't get angry first. It's not good for the child to always be angry. I will arrange a public relations team to help you deal with this matter. Try to read less of these news on the Internet in the future. Most of them are marketing accounts leading the rhythm, and 80% are fake..."

Although he said so, the leader himself still quite recognized those online comments.

He knew very well what his wife's strength was.

With her acting skills, it was reasonable for her to be beaten by Zheng Shuang? After all, she was a top student of Beijing Film Academy, but what about her?

However, it is okay to think about this in your heart, but you must not say it out loud, otherwise you will be in big trouble!

"It's not enough to just do PR. I want the media to market that her acting skills are worse than mine and she is not worthy of being one of the four little beauties..." Yang Ying continued to push forward, not noticing that Huang Xiaoming's face was already very ugly.

However, because she was pregnant, the leader seemed to have been caught.

"I will try my best..."

"And the movie "The Meg"?"

"Don't think about it. I don't have that much ability. The iron must be strong. Unless you can suppress Li Bingbing and Fan Bingbing in all aspects, as well as potential opponents Liu Yifei, Jing Tian, ​​Shu Chang and others, there is absolutely no hope."

"Okay..."

Yang Ying finally regained her sanity. She didn't think she could suppress so many people.

And if she really had that much ability, she felt that she would never marry Huang Xiaoming.

...

The time came to the 24th. Early in the morning, the box office results of two Hollywood imported blockbusters were freshly released.

Although yesterday was the worst Tuesday in the market, Jason Bourne and Ice Age 5: Collision Course still took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the single-day box office rankings with 74.617 million and 55.274 million respectively.

It has to be said that imported blockbusters are awesome!

On the other hand, domestic films are in a worse situation. Four films were directly withdrawn from theaters, and both The Dangerous City and Love O2O fell below 1 million.

The daily new box office of Line Walker barely maintained at 12.56 million.

Although Grave Robbers' Chronicles still has 3.22 million left, it is infinitely close to 1 billion box office. Its investor LeTV Pictures is tirelessly promoting it in order to boost LeTV's stock price.

In addition, as August is coming to an end, many blockbusters that will be released in September have also launched promotional activities.

The most eye-catching movies at the beginning of the month were the Hollywood imported blockbuster "Star Trek 3" and "The River Map" which won the grand prize in Berlin at the beginning of this year.

In the middle of the month, "A Chinese Odyssey Part Three" starring Han Geng, Tang Yan and Wu Jing, and "July and Ansheng" were two Hong Kong-funded Chinese-language films.

In comparison, the end of the month was more lively.

"Passing by Your World", "Jade Dynasty", "Ace of Kings", and the big-budget magical blockbuster "Ghost Blowing the Light of the Night: Kunlun Temple" controlled by Feiyue Film and Television.

Although these movies have not yet been released, they have received extremely high praise from the industry!

Especially "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Kunlun Temple", this is regarded as this year's third masterpiece after "Mermaid" and "Detective Chinatown 2", which is most likely to exceed the 3 billion box office!

At around 9 o'clock in the morning, as soon as Chen Fei arrived at the company, he saw media on Weibo photographing him at the airport. Boss Jia had returned from an inspection trip abroad.

When being interviewed by reporters, he even revealed that his son was born, and said that he would go back to the company to give red envelopes to employees to celebrate!

The market response was swift.

As soon as the stock market opened, LeTV's stock price began to rise, as if it had received "good news."

"Hey? This is really interesting. The boss returns to China and the boss's wife gives birth to a son. These can actually cause stock price fluctuations? How novel!"

However, although the stock price has a faint upward trend, it cannot change the current predicament it is encountering.

Because this news has gone viral in the capital circle, LeTV is not just a simple matter of a broken capital chain.

In addition to financial fraud, Jia Huiji seems to have registered a large number of shell companies abroad, and then used these companies to constantly move funds to create the illusion of skyrocketing sales and profits.

Then, Jia Huiji used these data to start financing, and then enriched himself...

Of course, this information can only be known by the top capital circles, and ordinary people have no way of knowing it. As for the star shareholders, they are all kept in the dark.

Chen Fei talked about this matter with Zhou Shouzi in private, and the two even made a bet.

According to Chen Fei's prediction, the China Securities Regulatory Commission will definitely not let LeTV go, and forced delisting will definitely be its final outcome.

But in Zhou Shouzi's view, if a company as big as LeTV suddenly suspends trading and delists, many people will lose their money! Therefore, the state will definitely take action to protect it.

As for the final result, only time will tell who of the two will win the bet.

Of course, since it is a bet, there cannot be no stakes.

Chen Fei has made an agreement with Zhou Shouzi. If he wins, Zhou Shouzi will have to help Xiaomi and run it until it is listed.

But if Chen Fei loses, then he will have to donate 1% of ByteDance shares to Zhou Shouzi.

…

All the way to the office, Chen Fei took out his cell phone and made a call as soon as he sat down on the office chair.

Because satellite phone signal transmission takes time, he waited patiently for a while.

Tens of seconds later, the call was connected, and Bruce's loud voice came from the receiver: "Fei! Haha, don't worry, I'm floating on the sea right now. I promise you, the freighter will definitely arrive before noon tomorrow. pier."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news."

"Don't worry! You will never miss Crystal's birthday..."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fei stood up and went straight to the audition area downstairs.

Today was the final casting day for "囧 in Hong Kong", and since Ning Hao had to run a promotional program that was booked in advance in the morning, he could only ask Chen Fei to come over to the audition site.

After all, this is Wang Baoqiang's first time switching from actor to director, and his experience is still a bit lacking, so he must have a professional to help him.

When he stepped out of the elevator, he immediately saw a group of people waiting outside the audition room.

Likewise, those people saw him.

And in the next second, everyone who came for the audition today stood up in unison and nodded in his direction to say hello.

"Director Chen, good morning."

"Director Chen, you are here."

"Director Chen..."

Accompanied by everyone's greetings, Chen Fei walked into the audition room.

Wang Baoqiang has already started auditioning and has already confirmed many roles.

Chen Fei picked up the casting list on the table and took a look at it. The first page was the final casting candidate for the second female lead "Du Juan".

When he saw the name "Tong Liya", he calmly glanced at Wang Baoqiang, who was sitting upright, and felt a little want to laugh.

This guy really doesn't shy away from relatives when it comes to talents, and he designated his girlfriend as the second female lead from the very beginning.

Of course, Tong Liya is quite suitable for the role of "Yang Yi" in terms of temperament and appearance, which both Chen Fei and Ning Hao agree with.

And then the second decision was made for the casting of the female lead "Cai Bo".

When he saw the name "Jiang Qinqin", Chen Fei was slightly stunned, and he was really surprised.

However, he was only surprised for a moment and quickly regained his composure.

There is no doubt about Jiang Qinqin's acting skills, but I never thought that she, who just won the Best Actress at the 7th British Vientiane International Chinese Film Festival for "A Spoon", would act in a comedy.

"Are you short of money? Or are you ready to change your style?"

As he was thinking about it, suddenly, Wang Baoqiang's voice sounded in his ears: "Director Chen, I really can't decide who will play the role of the male protagonist 'Xu Lai'. Could you please give me some reference?"

"sure."

Chen Fei casually put down the list of fixed roles and came to the computer screen.

At this time, the audition replay video just now was playing on the screen.

The first thing that caught my eye was the video playback of Xu Zheng’s performance.

Although Xu Zheng did not participate in the "囧series" and "Crazyseries" in this parallel world due to Chen Fei's influence, he still successfully emerged in the film and television industry with TV series such as "The Third Man", "Brothers" ", "Li Wei as an Official", and "Hypnotist".

Now participating in the audition of "Hong Kong囧" may be the closest time for him to the "囧 series".

After watching his performance, at Chen Fei's suggestion, Wang Baoqiang clicked on the audition playback of the next person.

The second person is Huang Bo, who is an old friend of the "囧 series" and "Crazy series". He also co-starred with Chen Fei in "Lost in Thailand".

After watching the audition playbacks of the two, Chen Fei didn't think too much and said bluntly: "I suggest Huang Bo. After all, he has been following the "囧series" movies. In terms of audience acceptance, he is definitely better than Xu Zhengqiang."

"Okay!"

Wang Baoqiang is not the kind of person who procrastinates. He immediately responded: "Then choose Huang Bo. He and I may have a good chemistry."

"Well, it's up to you guys next."

Chen Fei nodded slightly and began to look forward to it.

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