253 News Weekly Interview

After the release of "The First Drop of Blood", Chen Fei ran around the world for a few days, went to Tokyo, the United States, and Europe.

These places are all important global box office locations, and none of them are indispensable. Even Chen Fei dared not take it lightly. He said, "I don't care about the box office anymore, and I'm not interested in the box office." But in actual actions, he never dared to take it lightly about these tasks, so it's not unreasonable to say that a man's mouth is a lie to others, especially for men in the entertainment industry. Of course, if it's a woman's mouth, it's a little ghost.

It was not until the box office development momentum of "The First Blood" was on track and the reputation effect gradually fermented. Only then did Chen Fei end his journey around the world, return to China, and relax.

However, because National Day is coming soon, he still has a lot of things on hand and has no time to spare. Just this morning, when he arrived at the company, his secretary Xu Yun knocked on the door and reported: "Brother Fei, News Weekly wants to give you a comprehensive interview."

Newsweek?

Chen Fei was stunned.

News Weekly is the largest-selling news magazine in China. It adheres to fairness, seriousness, and has its own thinking, and has always focused on doing news work.

Before the development of online media, it was the largest sales news magazine in the country. It is said that when it was the most brilliant, its sales were once tens of millions.

In recent years, online self-media has developed and mobile phones are booming. Fewer and fewer people like to subscribe to magazines. The sales of news weekly have plummeted, but even so, they still stick to their value bottom line and work hard.

For a while, the editor-in-chief of News Weekly came to Chen Fei specifically to ask for the future traditional media outlets. Chen Fei's advice was to continue to be himself and persist for a while.

After hearing this, the editor-in-chief agreed and became more determined after he went back, so they have been doing their work steadily and solidly for a while.

Their approach is in sharp contrast with the noise and noise of Internet media or self-media. At this point, more and more elite readers have found that it is more appropriate to see some truly valuable things, magazines like News Weekly are more suitable. For the sake of traffic and eye-catching things, there is no bottom line. Many things are okay to be happy, but if you really want to see something, it will not be possible. So now, the sales of News Weekly have gradually recovered. Although it is impossible to return to the peak era of tens of millions of volumes, it is still not difficult to survive.

Chen Fei has also been subscribing to "News Weekly". Many employees in his company, or many people he knows, have also subscribed to this magazine under his influence. At this moment, when Chen Fei heard that the other party was coming to interview him, he agreed without thinking.

"Okay, do you make arrangements?" Chen Fei said to Xu Yun.

"Okay Brother Fei." Xu Yun, who has a baby face but has a young woman's heart, said with a smile.

One afternoon three days later, a reporter from Newsweek came to Yuhe Entertainment, and they interviewed Chen Fei in Chen Fei's office.

In order to welcome this interview, Xu Yun specially asked someone to redecorate Chen Fei's office.

Chen Fei's office has a strong military flavor, simple, neat, but too plain. Xu Yun said that the huge office was empty and had no taste at all, which was completely inconsistent with the identity of Yuhe Entertainment Vice President, a world-renowned film director, and a world-renowned movie star. She strongly requested to redesign, but Chen Fei could not resist her and had to follow.

At this time, the office was completely renovated, with flowers added, green plants arranged, more decorations on the bookcase on the table, and even the lights changed, making them much more colorful. I have to say that women are really very thoughtful in dressing up and decorating.

At this time, Chen Fei was sitting on the small sofa in the office, diagonally opposite him, and a reporter from "News Weekly" was sitting, with a camera placed at another angle.

Everything was ready, and the staff called OK sign language to the reporter of Newsweek. The reporter smiled and looked at Chen Fei: "Brother Fei, then we start?"

"Okay." Chen Fei nodded.

"I heard that Brother Fei just came back from Europe, right?" asked the reporter.

"Yes, I just arrived in the capital the morning before yesterday."

"Brother Fei went to Europe this time to attend a fan meeting held in Paris, right?"

"Yes."

The reporter then asked the first sharp question: "I remember Brother Fei said at a press conference some time ago that you no longer care about the box office and you are not interested in the box office. Then you are not inconsistent now to Paris, Europe to attend the fan meeting. Isn't this inconsistency?"

"If you understand it from a superficial meaning, it seems to be a bit inconsistent, but if you understand what I said in depth, then you should understand that it is actually not a contradiction!" Chen Fei rebeled and generalized Yijun.

The reporter smiled and asked, "But many movie fans and readers don't seem to understand the profound meaning of Fei Ge's words. Can Fei Ge explain it?"

"Actually, what I want to say is that as a filmmaker, don't dive into the box office. The box office is indeed one of the most important things for a filmmaker. But if we only focus on the box office and only think about the box office, the final result is often counterproductive. But if we look at it longer and put our minds a little broader, then the box office will not disappoint us?"

"Like "The First Blood?"

"Yes."

"Brother Fei, have you counted the global box office of "The First Blood" now? How much is it?"

"A lot of data is still being summarized, but it should be 3.5 billion US dollars."

“Didn’t break Top Gun’s world record?”

"Yes!"

"Does Fei feel regretful?"

"Why do you have to regret? I said that I no longer care about box office now. I am no longer so interested in box office. As long as I don't lose money, we make a movie, not really just for money. If I just for money, then I won't make a movie. Movies are actually not the most profitable ones, the capital market is, right?"

The reporter was speechless when Chen Fei asked. He smiled and changed the subject: "When will the next movie of Brother Fei start filming?"

"I'm already preparing, but I won't start shooting immediately. National Day is coming soon. I can stay there, but my team cannot. They want to go home to visit their parents, and they want to go home to spend time with their children and wives, so it may take some time, after National Day."

"So what is Fei Ge's next movie going to be made? Is it "The First Blood 2"? Or "Wolf Warrior 2"?"

"Keep confidential for the time being." Chen Fei smiled.

The reporter quickly recorded on his laptop. Although there was a recorder on the table in front of the two people and a camera on one side, he was still used to recording with a pen. He recorded and then turned on a new page. Then he raised his head and asked Chen Fei: "Brother Fei, some time ago, a reporter from an entertainment media in the south wrote an article called Chen Fei's 3.0 era in the movie. Has Brother Fei read this article?"

“See it.”

"Does Fei have anything to say?"

"I think some of his views are good, but there are some views I don't agree with. For example, he said that my movie has entered the stage of self-entertainment, and I think this is wrong. What's different from the director of art films is that the first starting point of all my movies is whether the audience likes it, and whether the audience likes it or not?"

"Is the audience God?"

"Yes, the audience is our parents of food and clothing, so making the movie well and making it so that the audience likes is always the most basic pursuit of our filmmakers."

"But, as far as I know, Brother Fei should have his own pursuit in every movie?"

"That's of course. We filmmakers also have ideals and pursuits, and we can't just cater to the audience, right?"

"So can Brother Fei tell me what your movie pursuit is?"

"My pursuit of movies... Actually, it's simple to make domestic audiences like our country and foreign audiences think that our country is not bad!"

"It's that simple?"

"What else do you want me?"

The reporter scratched his head with a smile, then turned on a new page and asked the next question.

Today's interview went smoothly. Although the reporter's questions were a bit tricky and sharp, Chen Fei's response was reasonable and there was no problem.

The reporter's interview was soon published in the latest issue of Newsweek.

The title of the article is "The 3.0 Era of Chen Fei's Movie".

The capital, Jianshe Road, a newspaper booth.

There is also a newspaper booth in this place, which is really surprising, especially here, it is still a CBD.

This place is full of money. Although the newspaper booth is not big, it still occupies a certain area. However, the management department here still withstood all the pressure and preserves this newspaper booth.

Surprisingly, the business of this newspaper booth here is quite good. Every day, people buy magazines and newspapers, and there are even people who travel three or four kilometers to buy magazines here.

Today, the newsstand has launched a new "News Weekly".

Yang Bin habitually shouted to the boss of the newspaper booth: "Boss, come to a news weekly."

"Okay, twelve yuan."

The pedestrian took out his cell phone and scanned the code to pay.

After receiving the News Weekly, Yang Bin was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this Chen Fei?"

Chen Fei is also on News Weekly?

After coming back to his senses, he hurriedly opened the pages about Chen Fei and started reading with relish. After reading for a while, he frowned because some of the things Chen Fei revealed inside him were greatly inspired.

He was just watching it intently, and with a buzzing sound, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.

"Hey, Lao Li, why are you not yet?"

"Just now!" he answered quickly.

After hanging up the phone, he raised his head and asked the owner of the newspaper booth: "Boss, I want all the news weekly magazines you have here!"

"Twenty books, do you want them all?"

"Yes, I want it all?"

"Okay!"

The newspaper booth owner replied with a smile.

Yang Bin quickly entered the company with twenty books "Newsweek".

While taking the elevator, a friend who was a little familiar with him was stunned when he saw him: "Yang Bin, why did you buy so many news weekly magazines?"

"Born for colleagues in the company."

"Why, is there anything good in today's Newsweek?"

"Is there an exclusive interview with Chen Fei?"

"Chen Fei? The one who made the movie?"

"Um."

"He has nothing to do with you. What do you think of his interview?"

Yang Bin smiled but didn't answer.

With a tingling sound, the elevator arrived. Yang Bin entered the elevator, but the guy stayed outside. He thought for a while, turned around and left the building, and went to the newspaper booth: "Boss, give me the latest "News Weekly"."
To be continued...