can serve as the CEO of Guanglu Media for so many years, and after leaving the company, he can immediately seize the opportunity to take advantage of the situation with the financial support of someone Jia, Zhang Zhao should still have two brushes regardless of his personal ability or the ability to look at people.

But even so, after he took charge of Lay's Pictures, he made a series of mistakes one after another.

If he has a relationship with Zhang Yimou, and investing in "Return" can be regarded as a normal operation to start the signboard of Lay's Pictures, then joining forces with Guo Xiaosi to create the "Little Times" series is already a bit of a matter of not paying attention to word-of-mouth for the sake of the box office......

However, from a commercial point of view, the "Little Times" series created by Zhang Zhao and Lay's Pictures is far from a failure, so even if the audience scolds "Little Times" and Guo Xiaosi badly, in the final analysis, these have nothing to do with Lay's Pictures.

But as Lay's Pictures has become one of the few high-quality assets and signboards in the Lay's department, Zhang Zhao's mentality is also changing subtly.

Zhang Zhao longs for the kind of atmosphere that stands in front of the spotlight and is recognized.

He hopes that when others mention him, the first label they mention is the president of Lay's Pictures, a senior executive of Lay's Group, rather than the former CEO of Guanglu Media.

Driven by this thinking, Zhang Zhao made many major decisions during the period from 2014 to 2015.

He got the investment share of "Taiping Wheel" from CTI Media;

He continued to invest in Guo Xiaosi and finished filming the final work of the "Little Times" series;

At last......

He found Lu Chuan as a director and directed "Nine-Story Demon Tower......

The first two behaviors can also be explained by Wu Yusen's aura and Guo Xiaosi's "Little Times", the cost control is reasonable, and the box office of fan movies is guaranteed, but now that "Nine-Story Demon Tower" has failed, Zhang Zhao now also feels that it is indeed not a reliable decision to put such a high investment in "Nine-Story Demon Tower" on Lu Chuan's shoulders.

Because Lu Chuan's own path from the beginning was almost incompatible with commercial films.

Lu Chuan's father is Lu Tianming, a member of the Writers' Association, 'highly respected', and his aunt Lu Xing'er is also a famous writer.

In 1999, the TV series "Black Hole" written by him was a hit, and in 2002, his film debut "Looking for a Gun" written and directed by himself was selected for the competition unit of the Venice Film Festival;

With this kind of qualifications, Lu Chuan can also be called famous at a young age;

Of course, it is not a case of a demon like Li Mo.

It is conceivable that Lu Chuan, who became famous as a teenager and has a family background, naturally positioned himself as a future film master.

Since he is a master, he is naturally proud and noble in his bones.

For Lu Chuan, things with a sense of epic, epoch and ritual are naturally his favorites.

Grand propositions and profound human nature discussions are of course essential!

…… The problem is that when these words are combined with commercial films, the end result must be something like "Gladiator" and "The Lord of the Rings".

Looking at the Chinese and foreign film landscape, the directors who can successfully control this theme are all characters who have left their names in film history.

To put it mildly, let alone Lu Chuan, even if it is Zhang Yimou today, if there is a slight problem in the filming and editing process, such a grand theme is estimated to have a great chance of collapsing.

Not to mention Lu Chuan.

It is conceivable that for a theme like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Lu Chuan is likely not very interested in it from the beginning.

The reason why he accepted the invitation of Lay's Pictures to pick up the guide tube, in addition to wanting to prove himself in the field of commercial films, Lu Chuan is more likely to fall in love with Zhang Zhao's huge directorial remuneration......

As a result, in the process of adapting and filming "Nine-Story Demon Tower", Lu Chuan almost always looked at the original work of Tianxia Ba Sing from a condescending perspective......

It is conceivable what "Ghost Blows the Lamp" will be tossed into when it reaches his hands.

In the original time and space, although "Nine-Story Demon Tower" was still very bad, Zhang Zhao chose a very good schedule for it.

On September 25, it was just in time for the National Day file.

The seven days of the National Day file can be said to be the most suitable stage for a 'domestic blockbuster' with gorgeous special effects and a pale story like "Nine-Story Demon Tower".

And in this time and space, due to Zhang Zhao's decision for a while, "Nine-Story Demon Tower" confronted a wrong opponent in a wrong event, and finally achieved the box office of "Hong Kong" to break 1.5 billion yuan, while also stopping his first weekend box office at 260 million yuan, failing to reach 300 million......

After seeing this data, the major theater chains also tacitly began to reduce the number of films scheduled for "Nine-Story Demon Tower......

And while Wang Changtian put his heart back in his stomach, he was also grateful to Li Mo for his righteousness.

…… After all, Molong Cinemas is the only one among all theaters that has kept the number of films in "Nine-Story Demon Tower" in the first three days of its release, and it is constantly lowering every day.

Wang Changtian owes a lot of favor this time......

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Hengcheng Film and Television Base, Li Mo, who was owed a large amount of personal debt by Wang Changtian, was still continuing his crew life intertwined with pain and happiness at this time.

After having a good chat with Li Mo, Li Zhongzhi finally didn't directly change Fat Di with a long sword as a weapon.

However, for the sake of Li Mo's bruises, Li Zhongzhi still replaced the golden bell rope with a long whip that was relatively easy to control......

Then, after Fat Di threw the whip in his face on the first day of real shooting, Li Zhongzhi silently matched her with three stuntmen actors......

There is no way, if you don't take advantage of this Huo Qingtong to prepare when she is still wearing a veil in the plot, if it really affects the filming because of the heroine's face injury, without Li Mo being furious, Li Zhongzhi himself is estimated to explode directly on the spot.

The unexpected situation can be explained by the unpredictable, but if the director has realized the possibility of a hidden danger and does not deal with it in time, it is a dereliction of duty as an action director.

Li Zhongzhi didn't want his first cooperation with Mo Long and Li Mo to end up with an irresponsible impression.

Besides, Li Zhongzhi is not a newcomer who has just stepped into this circle.

As a senior old fritter, observing words and feelings, and using his own experience to divide the various people in the plot into equal classes, this is already one of Li Zhongzhi's basic skills.

After filming for more than a month, Li Zhongzhi can naturally see that although Li Mo treats almost everyone equally when he is working, after finishing work, the degree of attention received by Fat Di, Tong Liya, and Wu Jing is completely different from others......

Although Li Mo was very hidden, he still couldn't hide it from Li Zhongzhi's eyes.

Therefore, in matters related to these people, Li Zhongzhi will naturally increase the level of attention in his heart.

…… Since Li Mo would rather give up the work schedule and give priority to ensuring the safety of the actors, Li Zhongzhi is naturally willing to obey.

When Li Mo was upset because of the extended filming time of the action scenes, a piece of good news came from the imperial capital.

Lu Yang's "Shura Battlefield" has finally completed all the post-production processes......