Chapter 420: Pony Galloping
Domestic small films did not dare to enter the fiercely competitive Lunar New Year stalls, and they wanted to catch up with the lively New Year's movie-watching trend, so they had to join the box office melee before the Lunar New Year stalls, resulting in a large number of small-budget films appearing at the end of November. If it were in previous years, it would still be possible to take advantage of the heat of the film market, but this year, cinemas are still screening a super blockbuster like "2012", and the life of small-budget movies is not easy.
Among them, Hu Jun, Jiang Wu, Li Liqun and other starring, although the "My Tang Dynasty Brothers" created by the newcomer director Yang Shupeng is well-made and the story is new, but the box office is miserable, only 960,000 in the first three days, Li Liqun participated in part of the film's publicity work and entered the crew of "Chama Town", when he saw the dismal box office of "Tang Dynasty Brothers" on the news, he couldn't help but sigh, the most should sigh should be Hu Jun, he invested money in this movie, and he invested a lot, looking at this he is going to lose all his money, Is it easy for actors to make money, alas.
Better than "My Tang Dynasty Brothers" is directed by Liu Yiwei, starring Huang Lei and Xie Na, Xu Zheng, Guo Degang and other cameos in "Mars is Nothing", a good star lineup made the film gain 4.6 million in the first week, but it was only less than one-thirtieth of "2012". The best performance of Lu's new film is Wang Yuelun, who created a classic case of "Ten Perfection and Nine Beauty", his new film "Panda Hero" ranked second on the list with a weekly box office of 10 million, although the box office is so-so, but the reputation is not good, and it is called "low-level fun" by some experts, but Director Wang has no heart to care about the remarks of the outside world, and his wife Li Xiang just gave birth to a big fat queen Shiling last month. Now he's busy serving the confinement child.
It can be said that under the strong deterrent power of "2012", no movie can come to the fore, and the investment in "Mulan" is not small. After all, it is a costume war blockbuster, and the cast is also strong, if the box office is dismal because of "2012", it will be a pity, although I haven't seen this movie yet, but He Mu has a good impression of this kind of movie about Chinese historical heroes.
The director of "Mulan" is Hong Kong director Ma Chucheng, who made his debut as a photographer. Later, he changed his career as a director and made films such as "Summer Mama Tea", "Star Wish", "Tokyo Raiders", "Hancheng Raiders", etc., and Director Ma's works are mostly romantic love films and action movies. This is also the genre he is good at, and this time he tried costume war films, and he also integrated the beautiful romance and wonderful fights he is good at in the movie.
The film is financed by Bona Films, Pony Galloping, Shanghai Film Group, Starlight International, etc., and is jointly distributed by Bona and China Film. The grand premiere attracted a lot of insiders. When He Mu walked on the red carpet, the reporters immediately pulled the camera back from the previous star and collectively projected it onto He Mu, "crackling" and shooting randomly.
Since getting married and returning from Europe, He Mu has rarely communicated face-to-face with the media, so there are a lot fewer news reports about He Mu, but He Mu's popularity has not diminished, even after two movies with a box office of over 100 million. People's attention to him has intensified, which has caused an imbalance between readers' thirst and He Mu's exposure. Therefore, whenever He Mu appears, the reporters show their housekeeping skills, even if they can't talk to him, at least they have to take a few beautiful photos and put them in their newspapers and magazines as a façade, I believe that they can increase a lot of sales.
The crew members of "Mulan" are basically here today, He Mu is most interested in Vitas who makes a cameo appearance in the film, this recently famous Russian singer has a charming singing voice that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, He Mu loves his dolphin voice to death, He Mu admires those who have good singing conditions because of his own physical defects, and tonight he and Sun Yanzi, who sang the theme song, will both take the stage to sing.
The last time I saw Zhao Wei was two months ago when "Glass Heart" was released, at that time Zhao Wei's belly was not obvious, and now, she is already a little pregnant, her belly is about a month earlier than Zilin's, Zilin is now used to wearing maternity clothes, but Sister Wei is still holding on, just wearing a loose white one-piece skirt, blocking the belly that seems to be fat, she is now like this, the media will definitely say that she has become fat the next day, a national idol of her level, Even if it is a little fat, it is enough for people to talk after dinner, if people know that she is married and pregnant, I don't know what kind of lively scene Lu Dao is.
signed his name on the signature board, said a few auspicious words to the reporter's camera, and exchanged a few words of greeting with Sister Wei and Chen Kun, He Mu found a seat and sat down.
Next to He Mu's seat was a tall and thin middle-aged man, who took the initiative to stretch out his hand to He Mu, "Mr. He, thank you for your face to participate in today's premiere." ”
He Mu was stunned for a moment, and quickly remembered who this person was, "Oh, Mr. Li is too polite, why didn't you go to the front to join them?" He Mu pointed at Zhao Wei and them, although he didn't know much about some of the little stars He Mu, but He Mu had specially seen and remembered the photos of the bosses of major film companies, and he naturally had a certain understanding of him.
"We are still used to hiding behind the scenes, and not every boss can be as beautiful as Mr. He." Mr. Li said with a smile.
This Mr. Li is Li Ming, the chairman of Pony Galloping, a very simple and unpretentious name, but his strength is very outstanding, and he is a well-known figure in the circle, otherwise it would be impossible to develop such a small advertising company as "Remington" into today's Pony Galloping Media Group, and has won the friendship and trust of Ning Hao, Gao Xixi, Liu Zhenwei and other famous directors. Li Ming is known in the circle for being low-key and close to the people, he doesn't like to promote movies with directors and actors as much as Wang Zhonglei and Yu Dong, but the reputation in the circle is much stronger than Xiao Wang and Fat Dong.
Pony Galloping is a comprehensive media company, involved in advertising, television, movies, performing arts agents, magazines and other fields, and last year also attracted a $40 million investment from Baring Asia, which is much more powerful than Shuimu Forest, otherwise it would not have made big moves one after another, but in the film field, they have just started, and the box office profitability is far less than the three dark horse blockbusters of Shuimu Forest in 09, so Li Ming did not despise He Mu, the owner of the film company who was born as an actor.
In fact, the stars and film companies of He Mu and Shuimu are not very favorable, you can refer to Andy Lau and his Tianmu Movie, those who can act well may not be able to run a good company, Liu Tianwang has so many connections in the circle, and he also ended up with a situation where Tianmu Movies suffered a lot of losses, He Mu, a fledgling little guy, even if he has the titles of "Rookie King" and "The Most Powerful Xiaosheng", can he be stronger than Liu Tianwang, so it includes Yu Dong, Wang Zhonglei and other people who watched the excitement almost all believed that He Mu would close the Shuimu Forest within half a year and return to the arms of the tiger wolf, and only He Mu, who was covered by Xiao Fang, could barely be regarded as a character, which was a common opinion in the circle.
But now a year is about to pass, none of the three films that Mizuki participated in the investment have lost money, and all of them are dark horses, "Mizuki Forest" has become the most dazzling star in the film market this year, and it is also the fastest rising film company, with the baptism of three small-cost high-box office films, Mizuki has completely opened up the second pulse of the distribution link, and has become the most popular film production company in theaters and theaters, and now they can't wait to see Mizuki's new film, because Mizuki's production means that the box office is soaring.
Now who dares to say that "Shuimu Forest will be closed within X years", those sour colleagues can only ridicule a few words He Mu is just a shit luck and happened to pick up a few good movies...... (To be continued......)
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