Chapter 322: The Ambition of the Musicians
When the news that "League of Legends: Company of Soldiers" won the global box office champion in 2014 came back to China, many media people's first reaction was a little confused. The "Male Soldier Company" actually won the global annual crown like this, it shouldn't be!
Because in the hearts of most domestic filmmakers and media people, when it comes to the global box office of Hollywood movies, the first reaction is 2.788 billion for "Avatar" and 2.187 billion for "Titanic".
Even if it is not as rebellious as these two, it should be the 1.518 billion of "The Avengers". Although the $1.31 billion results of "Company of Heroes" were released early, many people feel that there will be latecomers who will surpass them.
Hollywood has dominated the global film market for so long, how can it be easy for a Chinese-language film to win the global annual box office champion?
Who knows that the North American film market in 2014 is a "small year", and "Transformers 4", which is still being released in some film markets, is less than $1.1 billion at the moment. The rest are all at the level of 700 million US dollars, not even 800 million or 900 million.
As a result, "League of Legends: The Company of Heroes", which was released in the summer, deservedly became the annual box office champion in the global film market.
After the news fermented, the names of "Heroic Company", "League of Legends", and "Lu Lin" all appeared on the hot search, and the media was very eager to interview Lu Lin.
At this time, a tabloid in Xiangjiang published an article saying that Wu Baige was the first person to win the global annual box office championship, and as early as 2000, he won this honor with "Mission Impossible 2", .......
The reaction of mainland netizens was to go to Douban and other websites to scold "Taiping Wheel". If you want to rub the heat of my lin, how can there be such a good thing!
There are even media outlets that directly criticize director Wu Baige: I remember that in the classic Hong Kong film "Erotic Men and Women", the director Er Dongsheng played by Liu Qingyun filmed a film called "A Chariot Without Tires". Director Wu Baige filmed a "Taiping Ferry without a Steamer", and the reality is really much better than the absurdity of the film!
In fact, Wu Baige's reputation as a great director is mainly obtained from the gunfight action films he directed, and feature films like "Taiping Wheel" are not what he is good at. In Hollywood, he messed up a war drama "Wind Whisperer", and "Taiping Wheel Up" once again proved that the failure of "Wind Whisperer" was not accidental......!
The criticism of the media is very unpleasant, and it is said that Director Wu Baige, who was already in a bad mood, was depressed and almost lost his anger when he saw such comments.
And the edict of 800 million guarantees for "Taiping Wheel" is also very unhappy. In the office, looking at the report on the computer about Lu Lin and the global box office crown, Zhang Zhao was in a trance, and his cigarette butts were hot before he suddenly realized.
Get up and pick up the cigarette butts that flew to the ground and put them on the ashtray to crush them. I heard the assistant who entered the door say: "Mr. Zhang, it's already here!"
Zhang Zhao nodded slightly, got up and went to the conference room, pulled a chair and sat down in the main seat after entering the door, and said straight to the point: "It's all here, then I'll say something, the publicity and distribution plan of "Taiping Wheel" is all invalid, no need to get it!"
The person in charge below was stunned for a moment and said, "All of them are invalid......?
Zhang Zhao sneered, "The reputation of "Taiping Wheel" is so bad now, what box office can there be in the next part, as long as you do the publicity plan, the cost of 30 million, what should I do if the box office can't be recovered?"
Everyone saw that Zhang Zhao planned to "naked" "Taiping Wheel", but no one dared to give an opinion. No one dared to stand up and make a military order, and this matter was passed so unanimously.
Zhang Zhao also said: "Next year's focus is on "The Great Wall" directed by director Zhang Yimu, and the preparatory work must not be slackened, and strive to start shooting before the end of March!"
probably felt that the failure of "Taiping Wheel" was too frustrating, and everyone pinned their hopes on "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimu, and said one after another.
"Mr. Zhang, rest assured, the preparation is currently going well, and it will definitely not delay the start of the movie!"
"This is a Sino-US co-production, and if we can go directly to the commercial theaters in North America, we may be able to enter the top ten in North America of the year!"
"If you want me to say that it must be indefinite, when director Zhang Yimu was filming "Hero", Lu Lin was still running tricks around!"
"This time it's a strong team, maybe when it's released, it can break the record of "Nuwa Mending the Sky"!"
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Although Zhang Zhao's confidence in "The Great Wall" is not particularly strong, when he heard his subordinates say this, he also smiled and encouraged morale: "There are only two things that will dominate the Chinese film market in the future, that is, the Internet and special effects blockbusters, we already have the Internet, and special effects blockbusters are about to be made."
He Lu Lin can develop from an unknown action actor and a small studio to the present, our Leshi Pictures has such good conditions, and we will only do better than him, and we must be better than him......!"
Zhang Zhao encouraged the morale of the team and wanted to surpass Lu Lin wholeheartedly. The latter is still filming "Yitian" in Hengdian Film and Television City, and now most of the scenes have been filmed, and it will only be completed in a few days.
After all, it's just a 2D martial arts movie, Wang Fatzi made a "Demon Sect Master" in seven days, as long as Lu Lin doesn't take too little time, it won't cause questions from the outside world for a month or two, and in fact, there is nothing to question.
Outside the Yitian studio, nearly 100 domestic media gathered to interview Lu Lin, what do you think about winning the global annual box office championship!
If Lu Lin just said simply, he didn't feel anything or was very happy, it is estimated that these people would be "crazy".
At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone was allowed to visit the class and interview, but who was in the mood to interview others, they all swarmed around Lu Lin, even if they were squeezed into the outermost circle, knowing that there was no chance, they desperately handed the microphone forward, shouting "Director Lu, Director Lu ......!"
With the help and protection of the crew, Lu Lin said: "Thank you media friends, come from all over the country, just to ask me a few words! Don't worry, listen to me first, because today's shooting is relatively smooth, and the shooting tasks have been completed ahead of schedule, so I can say a few more words today, I dare not say that everyone has the opportunity to ask questions, but the content you can interview should be a lot!"
Many reporters were accustomed to Lu Lin's style of answering only three questions in the past, and when they heard this, they were a little excited, and their mentality began to calm down.
A moment later, the question session began, and the reporter of Penguin Entertainment, who was named by Lu Lin, was full of excitement and said: "Lu Lin said, I see that some media in the United States say that the reason why "League of Legends: Company of Soldiers" can win the global annual box office championship is because of the game's popularity, do you agree with this statement?"
Lu Lin nodded and said, "I still agree with this, if it weren't for the support of gamers all over the world, regardless of race, this movie would definitely not have such good box office results." At the same time, I would like to thank Penguin for selling me the film and television adaptation rights of the game in the form of a buyout, and I really want to thank you here!"
When the reporter of Penguin Entertainment heard this, his face became extremely ugly for a moment.