Chapter 914: The King of the Box Office (4100+ Chapters, Ask for Subscription~)
In the Fengge Cinema in Wangfujing, Wu Jianye and Feng Pants were sitting in a corner of the theater watching a movie.
The movie is a martial arts film, a movie that Wu Jianye has never seen before, and it is also because of the butterfly effect caused by Wu Jianye's appearance.
The reason why I watched this movie with Feng Pants is because this movie made Feng Pants' first movie "Never Lose My Love" to a loss.......
Feng Pants's ambitious first film, because of the premiere was quite sensational, was indeed a hit at the box office in the first three days, but it was only three days ago, and then domestic films were like a blowout, and several movies were quickly launched, including studio films and films from folk film companies.
And now this martial arts film was launched at that time, the film director is a person Wu Jianye has never heard of, and the actors are all newcomers, but it is such a movie, in the late June and early July, this schedule, dominates the domestic film market.
This movie has now reached the end of its release, and now there are only a few halls still in theaters, but as of now, the box office of this movie has exceeded 30 million!
This is already a very good achievement for a rookie director and a non-governmental film company!
The release of films by other directors in China cannot be like Wu Jianye, occupying 100% of the film scheduling rate, at the beginning of this movie, the film scheduling rate was not high, but as the box office is getting better and better, the film scheduling rate given by Fengge Cinema is also getting higher and higher.
In the end, it surpassed Feng Pants's "Never Lose My Love"!
And today, Wu Jianye was pulled by Feng's pants to watch this movie!
"You don't complain if you lose, this director called Wang Tao should have studied Hong Kong films and the movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" before, although in terms of storytelling, he is not as good as you, but his story is very attractive, although the structure of the story is not so rigorous, but there are laughs and fights, which can attract ordinary audiences!" Wu Jianye whispered to Feng Pants.
This movie is called "Kendo Fengyun", and the story it tells is actually a bit old-fashioned, the story of the young protagonist being killed, and then learning art to take revenge!
There are some martial arts routines, but now that martial arts are not lonely, this routine is not outdated, plus this director called Wang Tao, a lot of jokes have been added to it, although these jokes are a bit like the routines of Hong Kong films, but at this time, Hong Kong films are popular in China.
So the results of the movie are not too bad!
On the other hand, Feng Pants' movie is a bit hypocritical, and the overall look is a little suffocating, and this movie is a movie that makes people cool from beginning to end.
Feng Pants smiled bitterly, although his movie failed at the box office, he knew that his shooting techniques and storytelling methods were higher than this Wang Tao, but he lost to him at the box office.
"Mr. Wu, this is the difference between commercial films and literary films, right?"
Wu Jianye laughed, and then caused the dissatisfaction of the other audiences in the hall, Wu Jianye hurriedly waved his hand to show embarrassment, and then lowered his voice and said to Feng Pants: "Your "Never Lose My Love" is also a literary movie? At most, it is a pseudo-Wenqing movie!"
Feng Pants' face was a little ugly when he was complained about by Wu Jianye, but he still sighed, the first movie he directed was a failure at the box office, obviously he didn't expect it, if it wasn't for Wu Jianye's trust in him before, it is estimated that Feng Pants's heart would be even more fragile.
"Mr. Wu, how can I see that you are not worried at all, this movie was made by other film companies!" Feng Pants collected his mood and asked with some doubts.
The new film company and the new blockbuster movie, although it will not be a blow to Wu Jianye himself, but it is a big blow to the court culture.
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Although the dominance of Tangting Culture can also drive the domestic film market, it is not always as rapid as a hundred flowers blooming, and I even hope that there will be more such new film companies and new directors!"
For this, Wu Jianye did not lie, he did think so, Wu Jianye has never forgotten his original intention, not his personal success, but the success of the entire Chinese movie, and now the emergence of this martial arts movie just makes Wu Jianye have more confidence.
If even if there is its own appearance, Huaxia movies are still like another time and space, and it is really not interesting to follow the words of those people step by step, only when new film companies come out, new directors, and new actors appear, can Chinese movies really come out.
The original people plus the new people are the real development!
What's more, the filming of this new movie, in fact, there are many places that are inseparable from the court culture, such as their costumes and props are customized in the aunt's props, and the shooting location is in Hengdian Film and Television City.
The theater chain that was released was Fengge Cinema.
Even the female number one they use, He Qing, is an actress of court culture!
What's there to worry about?
Feng Pants gave a thumbs up and said, "Atmosphere!"
Wu Jianye smiled, didn't say anything to Feng Pants, but sat there and began to enjoy the movie he had never seen before.
As Wu Jianye said, with the success of this "Kendo Storm", domestic film companies have begun to invest in additional films, but there are still some aspects, such as everyone has now seen the success of this "Kendo Storm", and everyone has begun to shoot martial arts movies!
This is actually a disadvantage of the film industry, and when the film industry in Xiangjiang was developing, there were also such situations, such as the release of "Mr. Zombie" in the early days, so that Xiangjiang's film companies began to swarm to shoot zombie-themed movies, and with the success of "God of Gamblers", they were swarming to shoot gambling movies.
At that time, movies such as gambling kings and gambling bullies were also emerging in endlessly.
These have led to the decline of movies with this theme, after Lin Zhengying, Xiangjiang's zombie-themed movies have completely declined, and only the three IPs of the gambling god of gambling, gambling saint, and gambling man can live.
Wu Jianye didn't want martial arts movies to decline like this, so he told Huang Jianxin in the later stage and asked him to inform domestic film companies that Fengge Cinemas would plan to restrict the release of martial arts movies in Fengge Cinemas.
However, after this rule came out, it also gave Wu Jianye some infamy, such as monopoly of the market.
But he doesn't care about eating Wu Jianye, what he wants is the healthy development of the domestic film industry, not the deformed development.
However, because of Wu Jianye's decision, some other domestic joint theaters saw hope and released some shoddy martial arts movies, resulting in martial arts movies almost becoming historical dust in just over a year, until the release of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", which has been in production for two years, can be regarded as recovering the decline of martial arts movies.......
But that's all for later.
Now Wu Jianye and Feng Pants walked out of the theater after watching this movie.
"Mr. Wu, I'm going to go to Shuo Ye to study and study the script of the new movie again, are you going to go with me?" Feng Pants asked, he hoped that Wu Jianye could go together.
During this time, Feng Pants has been studying the script of the new movie with Wang Shuo, but the identities and status of the two are fundamentally different, Wang Shuo has more whimsical ideas in the script, while Feng Pants hopes that the story can be more complete, the two often have some disputes, but Feng Pants has no way to convince Wang Shuo, and in the end he can only modify the script according to Wang Shuo's intentions.
If Wu Jianye can pass, he believes that Wu Jianye will support him more, after all, in filming movies, Feng Pants thinks that he is more professional than Wang Shuo!
However, Wu Jianye was destined to disappoint him, and said with a smile: "I'll forget it, you guys go and make things up yourself, I have to see someone this afternoon!"
Feng Pants asked with some curiosity: "Who is it, I have to let you see him in person?"
Wu Jianye smiled: "A very interesting actor!"
Feng Pants said helplessly: "Okay then!"
After saying that, the two separated, Feng Pants went to find Wang Shuo, and Wu Jianye returned to the court culture.
In Wu Jianye's office, Tan Yang brought the actors that Wu Jianye wanted to meet!
In fact, it is not enough to call each other an actor, but to call each other a martial arts athlete!
And the other party has only starred in one movie so far, that is, "The Last Emperor" directed by Wu Jianye, in which he played Pu Yi as a teenager!
"Ah Jing, congratulations, you won the championship of the national martial arts competition elite spearmanship and sparring competition. ”
The actor Wu Jianye wants to see today is none other than Wu Yan, who later created a series of movie box office myths.
This year, Wu Yan can be said to have reached the peak of his martial arts career, winning two championships in the elite competition of domestic martial arts competitions, spearmanship and sparring.
And Wu Jian called Wu Yan this time, in fact, he also wanted Wu Yan to follow the old path of his senior brother Li Lianjie and enter the film industry.
Wu Yan's acting career can be said to be ups and downs, when the earliest director Zhang Xinyan was preparing to shoot "Kung Fu Kid Breaking Love", he went to the martial arts team to pick actors, Wu Bin, who was still the coach of the martial arts team at that time, hid a few good seedlings of Wu Yan, Zhang Xinyan and martial arts instructor Yuan Baye picked a circle and did not pick a suitable one, so they left, but they also knew that Wu Bin must be a good seedling to hide.
So I found Wu Bin here, and invited Wu Bin to eat dumplings, and at the time of a meal, Wu Bin recommended his treasured Wu Yan to Zhang Xinyan and Yuan Baye, Zhang Xinyan also fell in love with Wu Yan at a glance, so later Wu Yan successfully entered the entertainment industry and starred in his first movie "Kung Fu Boy Breaking Love".
Later, he starred in TV series such as "Wipe Blood and Ask the Sword", "Tai Chi Grandmaster", "Xiao Li Flying Knife" and so on.
It can be regarded as the peak of his debut, but later Wu Yan did not find a suitable direction for himself, coupled with the recession of the domestic film industry, Wu Yan had to learn from Li Lianjie to enter the film market in Xiangjiang, but at that time, the film market in Xiangjiang also fell into a downturn, and Wu Yan once became a marginal figure in the film industry.
Later, he starred in the killer in "Slaying the Wolf", although there were not many scenes, but it was amazing enough, and he returned to the audience's sight, and for a while Wu Yan became the representative of the villain of Xiangjiang movies.
During that time, Wu Yan himself also felt a problem, and in the end he had no choice but to direct the movie himself.
Many people think that the first movie directed by Wu Yan is "Wolf Warrior", but in fact, the first movie directed by Wu Yan is "Wolf Teeth", in which the heroine is the heroine in Wu Yan's "Wolf Warrior 2"!
The box office of "Wolf Teeth" was tepid, Wu Yan had to switch to the TV drama circle, and starred in the second part of "I Am a Special Soldier", "Knives Out", which can be regarded as finding the right way to act, and then the well-known "Wolf Warrior" that has been in preparation for three years came out.
At the time of Wu Jianye's rebirth, Wu Yan had become one of the most box office appealing actors in China, but unfortunately he was a little old after all.
"Director Wu, don't make fun of me!" Wu Yan said a little shyly.
Wu Jianye laughed and said, "I didn't mean to make fun of you, if you can win the championship of our country's martial arts competition, you will already be a world champion!"
Wu Yan scratched his head and smiled, not knowing how to answer.
Wu Jianye was also curious at this time: "Ajing, I've always been curious, how powerful are the domestic martial arts and sanda?"
In later generations, the debate about Chinese martial arts and actual fighting has not stopped, and Wu Jianye is also a little curious.
Wu Yan said with a smile: "We practice routines, but in fact, it is no longer a real martial art." ”
Wu Jianye continued to ask, "What is the real martial arts?"
"The real martial arts are actually killing skills, and now our country advocates the practice of martial arts to strengthen the body, and those killing skills have long been stopped from being practiced, but I heard our coach say that in some areas of our country, there are still some martial arts families!" Wu Yan explained.
And Wu Jianye also thought of Dai Zhen, Dai Zhen's father once talked to Wu Jianye about this issue, but when he said it, he was also vague, and he didn't say many things related to the older generation of their family.
Now it seems that there are still some stories!
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Okay, let's not consider this matter, this time I asked your senior brother to call you over, I want to ask you, are you interested in coming to Tangting Culture to be an actor?"
Naturally, calling Wu Yan is not for the difference between routine martial arts and actual fighting, but naturally to call Wu Yan to the film circle!
Wu Yan's eyes lit up after hearing this, after all, his current age is not small for a martial arts athlete, and he should also think about his future, not to mention that the martial arts team has such a precedent as Li Lianjie!
"If Director Wu doesn't dislike it, I definitely have no opinion. After finishing speaking, Wu Yan was a little embarrassed and said, "It's just the martial arts team?"
Wu Jianye smiled: "Don't worry, I'll solve the problem on the martial arts team's side!"