Chapter 43: Box Office Predictions

Yuan Hao belongs to the veteran Hong Kong star, one of the members of the Seven Little Blessings, and studied under the Peking Opera performance artist Yu Zhanyuan.

The time when he participated in the movie was in the seventies of the last century, which belonged to the era of Bruce Lee, and "Jingwumen" was the first work he participated in!

He served as a stand-in for Bruce Lee, and by the way, he played some roles.

It is said that Bruce Lee valued him very much and said that he would take him to the United States for development, but unfortunately, before he could fulfill it, he passed away...

After Bruce Lee's death, Han Yingjie didn't want to come out, so Hong Jinbao took the lead in establishing the Hong family class, and recruited a group of dragon and tiger martial artists who followed Bruce Lee in the past to his command.

Yuan Hao has never been mixed up - compared to the original batch of dragon and tiger martial artists.

He looks very fierce and plays most of the villain roles!

The most famous is, of course, the villain Feng San in "Frozen Wonder Man".

After the new century, Yuan Hao gradually changed from a villain to a comic in the movie, and the more well-known ones are the charter man in "Kung Fu" and Mo Youqian in "Detective Chinatown 2" - "What a beautiful girl"...

Of course, there is no "Kung Fu" in this time and space, so Yuan Hao is really cheap now!

Giving him 600,000 is already a price increase!

Under normal circumstances, it is about 200,000!

In fact, the prices of celebrities in Hong Kong have been very low in recent years, and if the bar is generally opened, if Ye Shirong can be contacted, it will be about 80,000 yuan, sing five songs, sing Beyond's classic songs and leave, and even pay for the hotel expenses!

The reason why Zhang Junsheng is looking for Yuan Hao is mainly to make a co-production, and the co-production is just good to be screened in Hong Kong and Taiwan, in addition, his Yuan Zong in "Looking for Qin" is actually quite suitable for Yan Chixia in terms of personality and style!

At the main entrance of the hotel, Yuan Hao noticed a large group of people blocking the door, shouting 'Zhang Junsheng, we will always support you!'

There are also a few people with light signs, and Zhang Junshengyuan, who shouted in their mouths, of course knows that he is the director of "A Chinese Ghost Story"!

He was very curious, how popular a director is?

Didn't he just write a few books, Jin Yong didn't have so many people blocking the door except for writing that Xiaolongnu was defiled...

Well, Zhang Junsheng is a god in the minds of middle school students!

Especially after "The Legend of Wukong", the QQ signatures of a group of people have been changed to 'What's the use of giving birth to me?' can't laugh. What's the use of destroying me?

Or, 'If God is not greedy, why can't he tolerate a little disrespect for Him?' God is not evil, so why does He hold the fate of millions of living beings on earth in His hands?'

This kind of talk has the greatest impact on teenagers under the age of 20!

"A Chinese Ghost Story" is Zhang Junsheng's first theatrical movie, and fans have already inquired about the venue of the launch conference, and of course they will come to support.

Unfortunately, the press conference was held in the lobby on the third floor, and it was only open to the media, so these people couldn't get into the hotel at all...

The door of the hall was open, and Yuan Hao could see that many reporters were already sitting inside, interacting with each other.

The assistant took out the admission voucher from his bag and handed it to the staff, and the staff took the two to another small hall to rest.

Just in time for Zhang Junsheng, who was about to appear, he walked over with enthusiasm on his face: "Brother Hua, I have to rely on you to support the field when the time comes!"

“… I can't hold on, it's up to you!"

Yuan Hao smiled, he now knows where Zhang Junsheng's confidence comes from, there are a group of fans who are so die-hard, as long as they don't rebel, they can succeed in anything!

……

On April 2, World Autism Awareness Day...

Of course, this thing has nothing to do with the entertainment industry, and the Yuehua Charity Foundation has not yet been established, so naturally it is not enough to pay attention to autistic children...

Since the announcement of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in November last year, Zhang Junsheng has not made this matter public, and since last week, he has sprinkled martial arts posts all over the world and invited major media to attend the press conference.

Reporters can guess that it is nothing more than confirming the main creator, start-up time, and introducing the background and investment overview.

Senior entertainment is actually quite annoying to this kind of thing.

said it was a fierce news, a little worse, but I had to report again...

Chicken ribs!

As a result, many entertainment records have the mentality of earning some car and horse fees, or simply let the company's newcomers do it for them.

Of course, this is not the case with "Sanlian", they have inside information and know that Zhang Junsheng played a lot this time.

At the press conference, Zhang Junsheng stood in the middle, Zhou Xing and Xu Yan stood on either side of him, and then Yuan Hao and Teacher Lu Zhong.

This lineup, how to say it, is a bit low, and there is not a single well-known star!

Although Zhou Xing has been popular on the Internet for a while through "Never Expected", the Internet at this stage has not penetrated into the rhythm of ordinary people's lives, so to speak, the click rate of "Wan Wan" exceeded 90 million in September last year, and it has not yet exceeded 100 million!

It can be seen that the number of netizens is really not as many as everyone thinks!

Xu Yan, not to mention, a pure newcomer, although she has the title of 'the most beautiful school girl', has not made her debut after all.

As for Teacher Yuan Hao and Teacher Lu Zhong, although they have the status of the rivers and lakes, they are not popular...

The only traffic faction present was actually director Zhang Junsheng!

"Okay, let's ask Director Zhang Junsheng to say hello to everyone first!"

The host is Liu Zimo, the host signed by Yuehua, and she is responsible for controlling the rhythm of the press conference.

Zhang Junsheng smiled and waved: "Hello everyone, I am Zhang Junsheng, the director of our "A Chinese Ghost Story", thank you very much for attending this press conference, this drama can be regarded as my first film work, a rookie director, so I hope you can support more." ”

After he finished speaking, several other actors also introduced themselves according to his template...

It's time for reporters to ask questions.

Liu Zimo clicked on the first reporter, and he came up and asked: "Is "A Chinese Ghost Story" completely filmed according to the original book?"

Zhang Junsheng replied calmly: "Probably the plot remains the same, but the original work is very short, only more than a thousand words, so, it is inevitable to do some modern, commercial processing, this time I put the theme on the human and ghost feelings, I will show a lot of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian's love for the origin, in fact, when Pu Songling wrote "Nie Xiaoqian", he did not explain why they could love each other, I think this is worth exploring!"

This is also the core reason why Class 87 "A Chinese Ghost Story" is called a classic:

Only this version explains why a beautiful and capable woman like a ghost would look at hundreds of useless cowardly scholars.

The later version of Lao Liu did not mention this at all!

The audience doesn't even think about it.

gives people the feeling that because Pu Songling wrote so, the two of them are going to love each other...

There is one key thing in adapting classic masterpieces, that is, the core content cannot be changed!

Unless you want to make up a fanfiction under the name of a famous book, such as "Journey to the West"...

"I heard that the investment in this play is fifteen million dollars, right?"

“… Pretty much, the main investor of this drama is Universal Pictures in the United States, and they are very optimistic about our monster story. ”

Although this sentence is suspected of bragging, it is also a fact, and the main investor is indeed Universal Pictures, a subsidiary of Comcast.

The reporters in the audience were surprised, fifteen million dollars!

Ma Xiaokang's "Feast" is said to have an investment of only 13 million US dollars, how dare you?

Immediately, someone asked excitedly: "Director Zhang, the first time you directed a movie, you made a big production, are you worried that you won't be able to recover the cost?"

"Probably not, I will create this movie according to the traditional Hollywood narrative technique, and our investment in special effects is as high as 100 million, accounting for most of the cost, the main creative team has made "The Lord of the Rings" and "King Kong", I believe in their level!"

Boot press conference, of course, you have to let go of the blow!

Only when you let go of the blowing, the media will report it, and the audience will be curious!

"And what do you predict the total box office will be?"

“… I don't dare to predict the box office in North America, but I think it should reach 200 million in China, and less than 200 million means that I am a failure!"