Chapter 778: Intrigues

The time soon came to Monday, and the box office statistics for the new week were released.

In this week, "One Person's Lights" is still strong, achieving a box office of 103 million, with a total of 237 million, and won the first place on the Lunar New Year weekly list with a great advantage, while "October Siege" has a good reputation among the audience due to its many stars, and the media also scored high marks in one word, and the box office performed well, ranking second with a box office of 84.56 million.

The third and fourth movies are "Thorn Tomb" and "Fengyun 2", and the two movies are chess opponents. The box office of "Thorn Tomb" fell by 51% from the first week, with a revenue of 16.5 million, and the cumulative box office exceeded 50 million, and the box office of "Fengyun 2" fell by 50% from the first week, with a revenue of 15 million and a cumulative box office of 45 million.

Zhang Yimou's "Love" won a series of awards in the United States this week and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, earning a box office of 6.43 million, with a total of 43.21 million, ranking fifth.

After the box office data came out, fans of Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, as well as supporters of "One Man's Lights", fell into a carnival, and fans could be seen cheering everywhere on the entire network.

I don't know which fan said: "Yu Dong is really stupid, I forgot that the boss used to have a nickname called Director Xiangjiang's killer, and he dared to let Director Xiangjiang's film be released with the boss's movie, it's just looking for death!"

It was originally a joke, but I didn't expect netizens to think it made sense, and they forwarded this sentence one after another, sending "Xiangjiang Director Killer" to Weibo's hot search list.

"That's right, the boss is a famous Xiangjiang director killer, Chen Kexin is really tired of being alive, and he dares to run to die!"

"Not only Chen Kexin, but the director of "Fengyun 2" is also from Xiangjiang. This time, our boss is to punish "Fengyun" first, and then destroy "October", only I "Zhang Deng", and call him king for the New Year!"

"Haha, isn't this the slogan of Mingjiao in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", I like it!"

"The boss is not a Xiangjiang director killer, he is a director killer, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and other mainland directors have also been killed by him!"

"Let's keep a low profile, don't say anything that can't be destroyed, don't hate the boss!"

"What does it mean to pull hatred? This is a fact, the boss just hasn't lost at the box office!"

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Many insiders feel incredible after seeing the box office, the reputation of the audience and the media of "One Person's Lights" is obviously not very good, and it is still facing the impact of "October Siege", and the decline is only 23%, how is this possible?

Chen Kexin was stunned after seeing the box office data, "The Siege of October" was of excellent quality, the publicity was powerful, and it was still facing the bad reviews of "One Man Putting on the Lights", but "The Siege of October" actually lost, and it lost very badly.

If this trend is followed, it will be very difficult for "October Siege" to recover its roots, and the first shot of everyone's movie is afraid that it will be a dumb fire!

In February this year, Chen Kexin, Huang Jianxin's "We Make Film Studio" and Bona jointly established the "Renren Film Company". At that time, he made a bold promise to make 15 movies in three years. The division of labor in Renren's film is as follows: Chen Kexin is the director and creator, Huang Jianxin is also a director, but he is better at production and management, and Yu Dong is the most familiar with the mainland market and can find investment, so the combination of these three people is regarded as a golden partner in the industry.

"October Siege" is the first movie of Renren Films, and it is a pioneering work, Chen Kexin and Yu Dong naturally want to get off to a good start. In order to ensure the promotion of the movie, Yu Dong used Poly's connections to bring in five major radio and television groups, including Modu Wenguang and Xiangnan Tianyu.

Renren Film has formed an alliance with five groups, and the five radio and television groups have advertising platforms, and when the movie is released, they will automatically advertise the movie. The media resources and hard advertisements in each place will support "October Siege", as the representative of Mango TV said, the resources in their hands can influence 700 million viewers.

In fact, at the beginning, the five major radio and television groups did not plan to start a war with Century Peak, after all, they had good cooperation with Century Summit before, but after the Oriental Hollywood project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and determined to settle in Lin'an, they immediately changed their attitude, especially Mango Satellite TV, which reacted the most violently.

The pinnacle of the century has powerful film and television resources in its hands, and if all these resources are smashed in Zhijiang Province, then Zhijiang Satellite TV will inevitably benefit from it. Think about it, if Zhijiang Satellite TV's guest today is Andy Lau, tomorrow it will be Zhen Zidan, the day after tomorrow will be Zhou Xingchi, and even two Hollywood superstars will come from time to time, then Zhijiang Satellite TV will become such a terrifying existence!

The five major TV stations decided to beat the pinnacle of the century and told them that the benefits cannot be enjoyed exclusively by Zhijiang Satellite TV, and we want to, so that the five companies joined forces to besiege "One Man Puts on the Lights".

I thought it was a game of chess that would win the game, but I didn't expect it to be a loss!

Chen Kexin was a little broken, looked at Yu Dong and asked, "Mr. Yu, how can this be, how can we lose?"

Yu Dong leaned back on the sofa and said expressionlessly: "In order to resist our impact, "One Person's Lights" lowered the minimum ticket price by five yuan, and conceded a five-percentage point account sharing ratio to theaters and theaters, theaters take two points, and movie theaters take three points, so after our movies were released, their film schedule basically did not decrease, and it is not surprising that the box office can suppress us!"

Chen Kexin suddenly understood that the cost of "One Person's Lanterns" is low, and they have already paid back in the first week, with a profit of five points, and they will still make money, but they will earn less;

It's just that in this way, the pressure of "October Siege" is great!

Chen Kexin was a little anxious and asked, "Then what should we do now?"

Yu Dong glanced at Chen Kexin and said slowly: "There is no better way! We have a high cost, and it is impossible to fight a price war with them, so we can only increase publicity." Christmas is coming soon, these days are particularly critical, you work a little harder, run more with the leading actors, and get on all the programs that should be on it, especially the high-rated programs like "Happy Camp", you must not miss it!"

Chen Kexin thought about it, and there was only so much to do, so she said, "I know!"

At this moment, Yu Dong's mobile phone rang, he said sorry to Chen Kexin, and connected the phone: "What's wrong? What?" Yu Dong's face was a little ugly, and he said in a hmmed voice: "I know, that's it!"

Hanging up the phone, Yu Dong looked at Chen Kexin and said solemnly: "There is bad news, "Avatar" has been raised!"

Chen Kexin's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he cried out in a lost voice: "What? I mentioned it for a few days, when did you mention it?"

Yu Dong exhaled a breath of turbidity: "I mentioned it for 3 days, and I mentioned January 1st!"

"Avatar" was originally scheduled to be released on January 4, and the New Year's Day file was specially given up, just to leave it for domestic movies. Now that "Avatar" has been raised, it means that the entire New Year's Day file will be lost, and "October Siege" will lose at least 30 million box office.

Chen Kexin's face was like ashes, and he wailed: "Why did Han Sanping do this? "The Siege of October" also has the investment of China Film!"

Yu Dong said coldly: "How many shares does Zhongying only have in "The Siege of October"? In the past two years, the films at the peak of the century have basically been invested, how much money did Han Shanping make with Zhang Ran?

chatted with Yu Dong for a while, Chen Kexin left dejectedly, "October Siege" was originally difficult to return to the original, but now it has lost the New Year's Day file, and the first shot of everyone's movie seems to be a dumb fire!

Yu Dong looked at the back of Chen Kexin leaving, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, revealing a cold smile.

"October Siege" was produced by Chen Kexin, and Bona and other companies were responsible for investment. As a result, halfway through the filming, the money was not enough, and there was a serious overrun. Yu Dong felt strange, this is an investment of 100 million yuan, why did it be spent? So, he checked it and found that Chen Kexin not only opened a high-tech for the Xiangjiang staff, but also took a large amount of money as a producer and director.

At this time, Chen Kexin gave Yu Dong two choices, either continue to invest money or stop filming. Yu Dong smashed tens of millions, if he didn't shoot, tens of millions would be lost, so he had to continue to invest money and be an out-and-out wronged leader.

Through this incident, Yu Dong realized that these Xiangjiang filmmakers were like ancient nomads, and now that the film market in the mainland is rich in water and grass, they came to make quick money, only money in their eyes, and they had no idea of cultivating the market at all.

After understanding this, Yu Dong made up his mind to wait for the release of "October Siege", and then broke up with Chen Kexin, and in the future, he must take the initiative in his own hands when cooperating with director Xiangjiang, keep an eye on all production links throughout the process, and don't let them treat themselves as fools!

At the same time, Yu Dong also realized that what the mainland market urgently needs is to cultivate his own film talents, so that he will not be controlled by others, and the production cost will be greatly reduced. In this regard, he particularly admires Zhang Ran, who is so far-sighted, he established Yaying three years ago to cultivate his own genre film talents.

However, admiring Zhang Ran is admiration, and it does not prevent Yu Dong from attacking him. After all, this is the best time to replace Zhang Er, such an opportunity may only be once in a lifetime, and Yu Dong is unwilling to miss it.

Yu Dong tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop, thinking to himself, Zhang Ran's reaction was a little strange, he wouldn't notice anything, right? I have to make some more movement to distract him.

Two days later, Yu Dong was interviewed by the Yangcheng Evening News to respond to a series of recent events.

In the interview, Yu Dong denied that Bona did it to bribe the water army to give a low score to "One Man Puts on the Lights", and at the same time, he fired at China Film: "It is well known that China Film uses the scheduling of imported blockbusters to squeeze domestic blockbusters, if you don't cooperate with him, he will put imported films to fight with you in this schedule, and let dogs bite you." "October Siege" was not handed over to China Film for distribution this time, so he transferred "Avatar" to squeeze us. This practice is immoral, domestic films are originally out of the growth period, and they are at a disadvantage in competition with American blockbusters, and "Avatar" will definitely divert our audience. Their behavior is a kind of suppression and persecution of domestic films. Our private company has no privileges, and without any protection, it is very difficult to make the film what it is today!"

A reporter from "Yangcheng Evening News" asked: "After these remarks come out, you will definitely be pushed to the forefront of the wave, aren't you afraid?"

Yu Dong said firmly: "Monopoly is a very deformed phenomenon, but no one dares to say it. Pus pockets will have to be broken one day, and it's good to let the pus out. I don't care how I'm affected, and if I did, I wouldn't say it at this time. ”

After the interview of "Yangcheng Evening News" was released, major media reprinted it one after another, and quickly aroused heated discussions.

Many insiders think that Yu Dong is crazy, and the secret battle with the peak of the century is enough for him to drink a pot, but he didn't expect to provoke Zhongying again, it's like death!

After Zhang Ran saw the news, he pondered for a while, and finally dialed the phone: "Do me a favor, help me check the recent movements of Yu Dong, and see who he is in contact with." ”

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