Throughout the history of Chinese film development, there have been six generations of directors.

Few audiences know about the distant generation, second generation, and third generation, even the fourth generation of famous directors such as Xie Fei, Wu Yigong, and Wu Tianming, whose works are not known by the current mainstream moviegoers.

Even among the fifth-generation directors, the films of Tian Zhengzhuang, Huang Jianxin, Huo Jianqi and others are rarely mentioned, that is, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige still have huge fame.

However, now the fifth-generation directors have faded out of the mainstream big screen except for Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and Chen Kaige has also been fighting for ten years.

Although Zhang Yimou has not had a blockbuster movie in the past few years, he has not pounced much, and he is the strongest one.

The sixth generation of directors all started as independent producers, and like Hollywood independent films, they wandered outside the mainstream, and most of the genres were related to rockers, artists, gays, thieves, prostitutes, and the like.

Moreover, one counts as one, and it is basically banned.

Most of the fifth-generation directors hit the streets, and the sixth-generation directors have never shown value on the big screen.

The seventh generation... There is no seventh generation, even if you find a director a few years later, it is not representative, and it cannot represent an era like the previous generations, and there will be no such similar titles.

At present, these academics are slowly falling silent in the mainstream commercial film circle, or they have never gotten up at all.

In addition to Zhang Yimou, there was originally a Jiang Wen, and the reputation of "Let the Bullets Fly" made the industry and the audience look forward to this movie very much, and they all felt that it was not difficult to get a billion box office.

However, since the box office plunge on the first working day, the same will be true for the next few working days, and even diving is not enough to describe the decline.

378 million on the first four days, and only 24 million, 21 million, 16 million, and 14 million on the next working days, respectively, the trend is very stable, but this trend is going down.

To put it mildly, in the past ten years, no blockbuster has been able to get out of this trend, even if Chen Kaige's "Zhao's Orphan", Lu Chuan's "The King's Feast", "Notes on Tomb Robbery", Feng Xiaogang's "1942" and other movies that failed miserably at the box office are all better than this.

There is no doubt that Jiang Wen fell off the altar, and the fifth and sixth generations were all wiped out, leaving only one Zhang Yimou with half a foot still on the shore.

The "mainstream" film circle is bleak, there is a fault line among the directors of the academy, and most of the directors who are active on the big screen are halfway monks, or they are not graduates from film schools and Chinese opera.

For a while, many old-school filmmakers were full of emotion, and the media also seized on this point and wrote a big book.

What is the future of "academic cinema" that is a "dead end"? "Where is the future development of Chinese films!" and other news can often be seen, as if the academic directors are all dead.

Some viewers are quite interested in these news, some viewers who can't watch popcorn commercial films are criticizing the current status quo of domestic directors and films, and some viewers don't look down on those directors who specialize in making niche literary films.

As a result, under the fanning of the media, the two groups of audiences with different tastes quarreled again.

You say that these big-selling commercial films are kitsch garbage and have no depth, and he said that those niche literary film directors will only moan without illness, and they are proud of making banned films, smearing the country, and currying favor with the West.

Anyway, the audience of these two groups has sprayed each other, not only movies, but also cultural and entertainment-related industries.

Guo Jinming, Zhao Wei, Deng Chao, Xu Zheng and others, as well as Chen Kaige and the sixth generation of directors, were basically mentioned repeatedly and mercilessly criticized by the audience on the other side.

They were also very helpless at this time, why did they suddenly lie down and shoot.

They were sober and didn't make a sound, so a few people couldn't bear to stand up and criticize the status quo of domestic films, pointing out that the taste of domestic audiences is getting lower and lower.

As the two representatives of the academy, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou did not speak out, they did not get good results, and it was useless to say anything, but they all held their breath in their hearts, hoping that their new film could sweep away the decline, otherwise they would not have the confidence to speak.

However, the hustle and bustle on the Internet is not important to the major film and television companies in the circle, except for being surprised by the failure of "One Step Away", the major companies are even a little gloating.

In the past two years, Ah, Tanuki Pictures broke into the film industry like a big dog, buying and buying everywhere, raising prices, "Dear" is guaranteed 500 million, and "One Step Away" directly offered a high price of 1 billion, which suppressed Wanda, which was also not bad for money.

And now "Dear" has not reached 500 million, and "One Step Away" is even worse, I am afraid that in the end, it will be half of the guaranteed box office.

Wanda is happy, if it weren't for Ah Tanuki taking over, then the loss this time would be Wanda.

"One Step Away" invests 200 million, 500 million box office, it will definitely lose money, even if there is a distribution share, just counting the box office income, it will also lose money, and now it has made a lot of money, not to mention how cool.

It's the same with other companies, although this has nothing to do with them, but Ah Tanuki and them are not all the way after all, and this time I couldn't be happier to see Ah Tanuki fail so badly.

Even Hua Yi, who cooperated with Ahri Pictures, wanted to see Ahri Pictures hit the street more than anyone else.

Ah Tanuki Pictures is backed by Ah Tanuki Baba, with strong strength, once it becomes bigger, it will be a supergiant like Han and Tang Dynasty, which is not good for everyone.

Wang Zhongjun even thought that it would be better for the movies invested by Ahri to keep hitting the streets, so that he could occupy a major position in the cooperation with Ahri Pictures, and even let Ahri Pictures become a company that provides marketing and channel services for Huayi, which would be better.

As a party, Fan Luyuan is of course in a completely different mood from the major companies at this time.

When he first took office, Fan Luyuan waved his hand and snatched the distribution rights of two movies from Guangxian and Wanda at a high price, and at the same time told the company's executives to give full play to Ahri's financial advantages.

Now, the money advantage has been brought into play, snatching two movies from the two giants at a high price, but it has not produced good results.

One billion guarantees, the guarantee fee paid more than a year in advance is close to 300 million, if there is only 500 million box office, only 210 million can be recovered, plus the high publicity and distribution costs, this project will lose at least 150 million.

Fan Luyuan is very unhappy, Ah Tanuki is rich, but he can't be the big boss, not to mention that now various companies are laughing at Ah Tanuki as a pick-up man.

This failure is irretrievable, and word-of-mouth is seriously polarized, and the key is that praise is still in the minority.

The big directors failed one after another, and the famous directors were no longer reliable, but the actors with their own popularity were more secure.

Fan Luyuan can only focus on "Havoc in Tianzhu", this is the most important project of Ahri in the next two years, and Wang Baoqiang, who is popular and has always been very good in the audience's impression, is the biggest guarantee.

Fan Luyuan hates the title of keyboard man, but now he has indeed received Wanda's bad plate, and he can only wait until the release of "Havoc in Tianzhu" to take a breath.

If you live in a movie, the biggest confidence is the movie itself, even if Ah Lifu has more channels and resources, it is a movie that has helped others, and if you don't have a blockbuster film, it won't work after all.

However, Wang Baoqiang is a rookie director after all, and "Havoc in Tianzhu" is going to Yindu to shoot again, and the filming process will definitely not be so smooth, and it will not be released so soon.

Fan Luyuan also told all departments to follow up on the films "Incredible", "Pancake Man", "Dream Partner" and "Ferryman", and at the same time do a good job in marketing.

"Incredible" has two comedy stars, Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Shen Yang, Da Peng is also from a comedy background, and his online drama is also very popular, Fan Luyuan is still looking forward to it.

"The Ferryman" is produced by Wang Jiawei and starring Liang Chaowei, for so many years, although their combined box office cannot be a big hit, it will not be bad, and the king of sunglasses always has a group of fans.

"Dream Partner" can touch "Chinese Partner", and when it is promoted, it is known as the female companion "Chinese Partner", and it should have some effect if it is used by Tang An's fame.

"Pancake Man" is unreliable no matter how Fan Luyuan looks at it, listening to the title, it doesn't look like a movie, but more like a spoof clip.

Although Dapeng is famous for "Dick Silk Man", it is also a very popular online comedy, but his impression in the audience's hearts is far inferior to Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo, and he may be able to make a small profit, after all, it is a low-cost comedy, but Fan Luyuan does not have much expectations.