Chapter 116 November
The bright sunshine in November illuminates every inch of the space in the imperial capital, as if a farewell ceremony is being held for the upcoming smog weather.
However, Zhang Zhao felt that the world suddenly became much darker. Standing in front of his car, his brows were almost twisted into a bump, and his face was filled with depression. Even if the assistant pulled the door, he didn't notice it.
The assistant waited for a long time, but didn't see Zhang Zhao getting into the car. He couldn't help but remind him, "Dr. Zhang..."
Zhang Zhaohui bent down and got into the car, and said to the assistant of the co-pilot: "Call Chen immediately and ask him to see me."
After saying that, he slowly closed his eyes, the calmness on his face gradually disappeared, and his expression became particularly solemn.
The reason for this is related to the movie that just ended.
It is the movie "The Great Wall".
The scene is gorgeous, nonsense, a billion investment, and it is real. Zhang Yimou is also very good at cooking big scenes and can direct the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. This thing is a little bit of a thing to him!
But the plot is not to be talked about. It can be explained in just a few simple sentences, "The story before bedtime, foreigners help Chinese people fight monsters."
Well, that's it.
Major producers are not optimistic about "The Great Wall". The final conclusion is that the box office of this movie is likely to be ruined!
Zhang Zhao was very depressed because if the "Great Wall" was really smashed this time, Leshi Film will be finished!
Leshi Pictures is indeed not the largest investor of "Great Wall", and the largest investor is Legend Pictures.
As of December 31, 2o15, Leshi Film disclosed that the advance payment to "Great Wall" was 120 million yuan, which is almost 10% of the total investment.
However, in the context of "Jade"'s box office failure and even losing money, it is not difficult to understand that Leshi Film relies on "Great Wall"'s box office.
In addition, for Leshi Pictures, "The Great Wall" is not just a box office figure, but also a bold attempt by Leshi Pictures to bind Zhang Yimou to the globalization of film ecology.
According to a previous announcement by Leshi.com, Zhang Yimou served as the artistic director of Leshi Film and served as the director to exclusively collaborate with Leshi Film and shoot no less than 5 movies.
The movie "The Great Wall" originally only wanted Zhang Yimou to be the director, and Leshi invested mainly to get a share of the pie.
That's right, Zhang Yimou was still tied to Fushi. Although Light invested in his "International Market", Happy may be a better choice for Zhang Yimou.
But "The Great Wall" is indeed a bad chess movie!
Although "The Great Wall" is just one of the many movies of Leshi Film, at a sensitive moment when the entire Leshi group is in a tight capital chain and urgently needs to revitalize its financing function, every important link of Leshi cannot be lost.
"Chan, I want to make sure that when the Great Wall is released, there are no opponents!"
"Dr. Zhang, Wanda agreed that when "The Great Wall" is released, the screening of "The Great Wall" will be given priority, and our direct competitor "The Death of Romantic" will not have a large screening volume for the time being..."
Chen is the person in charge of publicity and industry in Leshi Film, and is also Zhang Zhao's right-hand man. When Zhang Zhao first created Leshi Film, the first helper he hired was Chen. This man has great experience in industry and has handled "Du Lala's Promotion", "Love", "Titanic 3D", etc.
"What's wrong?"
The first half of the conversation between the two was still very smooth. After a pause in the middle, Chen hesitated a little.
"…I heard that Chen Lin's "The Golden Captain" is also in December. Will it pose a threat to our movie?"
Zhang Zhao thought about it and responded: "It shouldn't be possible. Isn't "The Golden-Touching Captain" scheduled for November 2o?"
"Is that true? But on November 18, "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" directed by Feng Xiaogang was released. Wouldn't these two people collided?"
"You care so much about others. By the way, how is Zhuo Wei going?"
"There is no news, and I'm still investigating it. Where is Xiao Si? Didn't he find someone to investigate the hotel?"
"Come on, I haven't figured out which hotel it is yet, and even if I find it, what can I do? We have no evidence to prove that the surname Chen is in a relationship with Yang Mi!"
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The mainland box office market in October is still very deserted. Even though "Love Saint" achieved a box office record of nearly 1.7 billion, it was useless.
In the entire October market, except for the National Day holiday, there are rarely more than 100 million.
Stephen Spielberg's new work "The Dream of the Giant" is a typical Disney family-style movie, but the audience just doesn't buy it. The domestic box office is almost over 100 million yuan. The first part of the collaboration between Ali and Stephen Spielberg was a surprise!
However, the reason why Alibaba Pictures is willing to choose Stephen Spielberg is probably because it is also because of its IP influence of the big director himself and its experience in learning Hollywood derivatives.
In fact, since 2015, Alibaba Pictures has continued to invest in "Mission Impossible 5: Mysterious Kingdom", "Teenagement of the Ninja Turtles 2: Breakout", and "Star Trek 3: Over the Stars" have also been no match for the previous work.
Alibaba’s vision in movies is indeed doubtful!
In addition, there are several masterpieces in the mainland box office market in October, "The Mechanic 2", "The Donkey Gets Water" and "Dante's Code" are all frustrating.
"The Donkey Gets Water" has a good reputation, but its box office performance is not comparable to Mahua's previous movie "Charlotte's Troubles".
After all, the themes are different. "Charlotte's Troubles" is a hilarious comedy 2 "Donkey Gets Water" focuses on black humor, which is more literary and artistic. The film crew will decipher it as successful.
By the way, there is also a movie "Shocking" released this month!
He gathered two HK actors, Xie Tingfeng and Liu Qingyun.
"Shocking" is a movie with a relatively low investment, a luxurious lineup and a good appearance. Even if it is not at the level of "Cold War", it should be a commercial suspense action movie that is close to the level of the "Rampage Hero" series. What's the result?
The director seems to have no interest in the audience's expectations, and knows nothing about logic, common sense, and drama theory. It seems that they want to do an experiment through this film. The content of this experiment is a genre film that brings together first-line stars and has medium and high budgets.
They succeeded, and the movie was extremely bad!
Director HK always believes that as long as HK star actors participate, there will definitely be stupid mainland audiences to buy it.
Indeed, the mainland film market is really easy to make money now, and the cumulative box office of "Shocking" has exceeded 100 million!
Da Tiantian is so pitiful. She is ready to welcome "The Great Wall" at home, but the movie "Sedan Po" completely sold her!
Damn, Tong Liya also played the leading female role in it.
Chapter completed!