The bright November sun illuminates every inch of the imperial capital, as if to make a farewell ceremony for the coming smog weather.

Zhang Zhao felt that the world had suddenly become a lot darker, standing in front of his car, his entire brow was almost twisted into a pimple, and his face was full of depression, even if the assistant pulled the door, he didn't notice it.

The assistant waited for a while, but didn't see Zhang Zhao getting into the car, and couldn't help but remind, "Zhang Dong..."

Zhang Zhao turned around and bent down into the car and said to the co-pilot's assistant: "Call Chen Su immediately and ask him to come and see me." ”

After speaking, he slowly closed his eyes, the calm on his face gradually disappeared, and his expression became very solemn.

The reason why this is the case is related to the film viewing meeting that has just ended.

It is a viewing party for the movie "The Great Wall".

The scene is gorgeous, nonsense, a billion investment, real, Zhang Yimou is very good at cooking big scenes, and he can direct the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, this thing is trivial to him!

But the plot is not to be discussed, as simple as two sentences can clearly say 'bedtime story, foreigners help Chinese fight monsters'.

Well, that's it.

The major producers are not very optimistic about "The Great Wall", and finally came to the conclusion that the box office of this movie is likely to be smashed!

Zhang Zhao was very depressed, because if "The Great Wall" was really smashed this time, Lay's Pictures would be over!

Lay's Pictures is indeed not the largest investor in "The Great Wall", the largest investor is Legendary Pictures.

As of December 31, 2015, Lay's Pictures disclosed an advance payment of 120 million yuan for "The Great Wall", which is almost 10% of the total investment.

However, in the context of the box office of "Jue Ji" not meeting expectations, or even losing money, it is not difficult to understand that Lay's Pictures relies on the box office of "The Great Wall".

In addition, for Lay's Pictures, "The Great Wall" is not just a box office figure, but also a bold attempt by Lay's Pictures in terms of film globalization ecology after binding Zhang Yimou.

According to the previous announcement of Lay's, Zhang Yimou served as the art director of Lay's Pictures, and served as the director to shoot no less than 5 films exclusively with Lay's Pictures.

The movie "The Great Wall" was originally just intended for Zhang Yimou to be the director, and Lay's funding was mainly to get a piece of the pie.

That's right, Zhang Yimou is still bound to Lay's, although Guangguang invested in his "International Market", maybe for Zhang Yimou, Lay's is a better choice.

But "The Great Wall" is indeed a bad chess!

Although "The Great Wall" is only one of the many films of Lay's Pictures, at the sensitive moment when the capital chain of Lay's group is tight and it is urgent to revitalize the financing function, every important link of Lay's cannot be dropped.

"Chen Su, I want to make sure that when "The Great Wall" is released, there will be no opponents!"

"Dong Zhang, Wanda agreed that when "The Great Wall" is released, priority will be given to the scheduling of "The Great Wall", and our direct competitor "The History of the Disappearance of Romantic" will not have a large number of films for the time being..."

Chen Su is the person in charge of publicity and distribution of Lay's Pictures, and he is also Zhang Zhao's right-hand man.

"What's wrong?"

The first half of the conversation between the two was going well, but there was a pause in the middle, and Chen Su was a little hesitant.

“… I heard that Shen Lin's "Touching the Golden Captain" will also be released in December, will it pose a threat to our films?"

Zhang Zhao thought for a while and responded: "Probably not, isn't "Touching the Golden Captain" scheduled for November 20th?"

"But on November 18th, Feng Xiaogang's "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" was released, aren't these two going to collide together?"

"You manage so many people, by the way, what's going on over there with Zhuo Wei?"

"There's no news, it's still investigating, what about Xiao Si? Didn't he find someone to investigate the hotel?"

"Come on, I haven't figured out which hotel it is yet, and even if we find out, we have no evidence to prove that the surname Shen has a leg with Yang Mi!"

……

The mainland box office market in October is still very cold, although "Love Saint" has won a box office result of nearly 1.7 billion, it is useless.

The market in October, except for the National Day file, rarely exceeds 100 million,

Stephen Spielberg's new work "Dream Giant", although it is a typical Disney family-style movie, the audience just doesn't buy it, the domestic box office can be over 100 million, Ali and Steven Spielberg's cooperation, the first part is in suspense!

However, the reason why Ali Pictures is willing to choose Steven Spielberg is probably because of the IP influence of the big director himself, and the experience of learning from Hollywood derivatives development.

In fact, since 2015, Alibaba Pictures has successively invested in "Mission Impossible 5: Mysterious Country", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Breaking the Shadow", and "Star Trek 3: Beyond the Stars" The word-of-mouth and box office are also inferior to their predecessors.

Ali's vision for cinema is indeed doubtful!

In addition, in the mainland box office market in October, there are several masterpieces, "Mechanic 2", "Donkey Gets Water" and "Dante's Code" are all street goods.

The reputation of "Donkey Gets Water" is okay, but the box office performance is not the same as Twist's last movie "Charlotte's Troubles".

After all, the subject matter is different, "Charlotte's Troubles" belongs to the hilarious comedy No. 2 "Donkey Gets Water", which focuses on black humor, and is more inclined to literature and art, and the filmmaker can decipher it even if it is successful.

By the way, a movie "Shocking" was also released this month!

gathered Xie Tingfeng and Liu Qingyun, two HK actors.

"Shocking", as a movie with a lot of investment, a very luxurious lineup, and a good appearance, even if it doesn't reach the level of "Cold War", it should be a commercial suspense action film close to the level of the "Ruffian Hero" series, what is the result?

The choreographers and directors don't seem to be interested in the audience's expectations at all, and they don't know anything about logic, common sense, and drama theory, as if they want to do an experiment through this film, and the content of this experiment is how bad a genre film that brings together A-list stars and medium and high budgets can be.

They succeeded, and the movie sucked to the extreme!

HK directors have always believed that as long as HK star actors participate, there will definitely be stupid audiences in the mainland who will buy it.

Indeed, the mainland film market is really profitable now, and the cumulative box office of "Shocking" has actually exceeded 100 million!

Da Tiantian is so pitiful, she was at home to prepare for "The Great Wall", but a "Sedum Break" completely sold her!

Damn, Tong Liya also played the female number one in it.

Hey, after watching "Shocking", it is estimated that everyone wants to sigh 'Hong Kong films are dead!'