Chapter 598 Famous Director

In a mansion in Beijing, Feng Xiaogang, wearing a vest and shorts, sat opposite Liu Zhenyun in front of the tea table.

"This Jiang Heng really has too much money to spend, and he throws it away in large amounts. He is really willing to spend 700 million!"

Liu Zhenyun said: "He is successful at a young age and spends money like water. Compared with him, even Prince Wang is not so prodigal! But then again, Yang Mi is really popular, maybe she can really make back the money, Jiang Heng may not lose this time!"

Feng Xiaogang nodded slightly, still agreeing with Liu Zhenyun's statement.

The reason why he mentioned it just now was purely because he felt uncomfortable and just said a few words.

Just like the Sixth Master he played in "Old Cannon", he always talks hard.

In fact, at the beginning of the year, he also established a film and television production company in Dongyang City. Huayi gave it an 800 million valuation, invested 560 million to acquire 70% of the shares, and signed a gambling agreement with him.

When the contract was just signed, Director Feng was in high spirits. He found his old friend Liu Zhenyun to discuss adapting his novel "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" into a movie.

Now that the script has taken shape, the two often get together to discuss the details.

As a result, one day he heard the news that Yang Mi's newly established "shell" company was valued at 1 billion yuan, and sold part of the equity to get 700 million yuan, which instantly broke his defense.

What he didn't know was that in another time and space, Huayi Company valued his Dongyang Meila at 1.5 billion yuan, signed a gambling agreement, and directly earned 1.05 billion yuan.

However, Jiang Heng in this world has greatly reduced Feng Xiaogang's position in the Chinese-language film market, and his "valuation" has also dropped significantly.

Of course, although he was a little unhappy with Jiang Heng's behavior, he didn't dare to show it in front of others.

Nothing else, it's just that Jiang Heng's influence is too great now. Just the issue of theaters is not something he dares to offend.

If he doesn't schedule the film, he will be dumbfounded.

If you sign a gambling agreement, you will have to pay if the profit is not achieved!

So Director Feng always calls Jiang Heng every once in a while, arranges a meal with him, and keeps in touch with him.

When there are events like premieres, he usually goes to help promote them, so that he can ask Jiang Heng to help him in the future.

"You said, I want him to make a guest appearance, can he come?" Feng Xiaogang suddenly said.

Liu Zhenyun shook his head slightly, "It's hard to say. He has been a guest star in big movies or action movies for so many years!"

"That's right, let's talk about it when we have a chance, but I have to mention it to him later. When our movie is released, we have to schedule more screenings!"

"I guess this problem shouldn't be a big deal. I can still give him this face!"

"Of course, I have helped him a lot over the years!"

"Yes, everyone can see it. Director Jiang is not Stephen Chow. He doesn't care about human relationships at all!"

"Don't mention him, I feel upset!"

...

In another luxury house in Beijing, another big director also felt upset.

"This Jiang Heng is clearly showing off his wealth, telling those female stars nakedly that if you get along with me, you can get money!"

Chen Kaiqiao sat on the sofa, looking upset.

As the leading director in the mainland, Chen Kaiqiao's wealth is naturally extremely rich, but he also envies Yang Mi for being able to cash out 700 million in an instant.

Another thing is that he invested a lot in "Legend of the Demon Cat". Now the film is about to be released and "The Return of the Great Sage" is still in theaters. It would be a lie to say that he is not nervous.

Fortunately, Chen Hong came over and comforted him softly: "Why bother with him? Although he is a first-generation rich, his style of behavior is becoming more and more like a second-generation rich. Such people will not last long!"

Chen Kaiqi felt much more comfortable after hearing this, and immediately laughed, "In fact, he was originally a second-generation rich. In 1997, he had a net worth of tens of millions and started to run!"

Chen Hong was stunned when she heard this, and smiled and said: "For someone like him to be able to shine for 20 years, it is simply a miracle. But after this incident, it is hard to say!"

"What do you mean? ”

“It’s not the lack of wealth that’s worrying, but the inequality. Women are the most likely to be jealous. Yang Mi has so much, how can the others remain indifferent? If they follow suit, there will be chaos over there!”

Hearing this, Chen Kaige felt unhappy for no reason and snorted, “He is so lucky!”

“Why, are you envious?”

“I envy him? All I can think about now is “Legend of the Demon Cat”!”

“Legend of the Demon Cat” was originally scheduled for July 24, but it was soon changed to August 7, a full half month later.

The benefits are obvious, because “Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Nine-story Demon Tower”, which was released on August 1, has been turned into cannon fodder by “The Return of the Great Sage” in seconds, with a box office of 121 million on the first day of release, but because of its poor reputation, the box office results began to plummet the next day.

No mistakes, one song, one release, one content, one look!

According to the current box office trend, let alone the 1 billion shouted at the premiere, it would be good to exceed 500 million.

The release time of "Legend of the Demon Cat" was delayed by half a month, and by then "The Return of the Great Sage" was already a spent force.

The only thing that could affect it was Guo Jinming's "Tiny Times 4".

He totally despised this movie, but the fans liked it.

In addition, the heroine was Yang Mi, and it was such a big news at this time, it was hard for the audience not to pay attention!

As for "The Pancake Man" jointly produced by iQiyi, Youku, Tencent Video, and Sohu, it was not in Chen Kaige's "sight" at all.

The times have really changed. Now anyone can come to be a director. Is the threshold of this industry so low?

On August 7, "Legend of the Demon Cat" was officially released, and the first day box office results were released, which was only 78 million.

Chen Kaige was stunned when he got the news. He couldn't understand why his movie was obviously very good, but it couldn't even compare with "Nine-story Demon Tower", which was criticized and had a Douban score of only 4.

…

In the underground parking lot of the Wukesong store of China Film Red Cinema in Beijing, Zhang Ruolan got on the passenger seat of a luxury car and said, "This movie looks okay, why is the box office not high!"

Jiang Heng laughed and said, "Because the audience was scared by Director Chen's previous operations!"

"Ah!"

"That's the case. Old Chen has a strong desire for self-expression and can't control himself. Jiang Wen often makes this mistake. When filming, he doesn't care whether the audience understands or not. Anyway, I express what I want to express, and I feel happy. This is their logic! But sometimes the audience doesn't understand, so they think they are too cheating!"

"Oh, That's the case, but then again, the movie pictures are really good, Yang Guifei is so beautiful! "

"Director Chen is still something, in fact, Zhang Rongrong is not so beautiful from the perspective of passers-by, but during the filming, the crew used five layers of lights to make Yang Guifei so beautiful! "

"Ah, it's so hard!" Zhang Ruolan said in surprise, "It's not easy to make a good movie! I don't want to help promote it, I just want to post the ticket stub on Weibo, okay!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "What's the matter, just post it casually!"

Zhang Ruolan posted two pictures of the ticket stubs on Weibo, with a text saying that she went to see "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and Yang Guifei is so beautiful! (End of this chapter)