For all kinds of reports, Meng Chao naturally didn't take it to heart, being in the entertainment industry, he naturally had the mentality of being entertained to death.

If this is not deliberately slandering, or even scandalizing your own image, those reports should be regarded as hyping up scandals and increasing fame, which is always a good thing!

In the past, when he was playing tricks, Meng Chao was most afraid of no exposure, but now that he has become famous, he is afraid that the exposure rate is too strong, so that even if he wants to take a two-day holiday, he has to wrap it like a zongzi to have a way to go out, and he can only say that being famous also has advantages and disadvantages.

As for the success of "Taking the Wrong Car", Meng Chao was indeed very surprised, it turned out that Meng Chao's expectation was 30 million box office, but he didn't expect the current rise to be so exaggerated.

Originally, the most successful part of this movie in the parallel world was in Wanwan, because the entire shooting background was set in the background of the life of the people at the bottom of Wanwan, but I didn't expect that the box office in various regions of China received a good response.

From here, Meng Chao can only draw one conclusion, that is, in recent years, the Chinese film market still has more kung fu and comedy genres, and song and dance movies like this kind of tragedy are very rare, so the audience is naturally more interested.

It's not that there were no tragic movies in the Chinese film market in the past, but the blockbusters were relatively rare, such as Liang Zhu and The Legend of the White Snake, both of which were sold by the tragic love of folklore, but because the age is too old, many audiences are not too interested, so naturally it is not as popular as the original tragic movie theme of "The Wrong Car"!

It can be said that many filmmakers now want to imitate the success of "The Wrong Car", and they use it as a gimmick to coax investors to be willing to spend money, and then try to imitate a tragic movie and achieve success.

Because film is a very risky industrial art, there are chances of big profits and big losses, so it naturally attracts a lot of people with speculative psychology!

For example, the toilet king He Dada, who had contacted Meng Chao before, is worth mentioning!

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April 15, 1986.

Meng Chao, who has just finished the top ten promotion competitions of the Youth Innovation Competition, has been relatively idle recently, and the new movie is still in preparation, as for the "Rich and Powerful" handed over to Gao Zhisen for filming, he is still doing post-production work, and it will be released in about a week, so Meng Chao will steal half a day of leisure!

In the past two days, he has written all the songs that need to be prepared for the night of the May 1st finals, including those handed over to Ye Qianwen, Zhou Huimin and Liu Huan, and is waiting for the finals to break out again.

And on this day, Meng Chao received a special invitation!

"Mr. Meng, do you remember the last time He Da, this is his invitation to participate in the premiere of "Happy Zombie"!"

Early in the morning, Meng Chao received an invitation letter from Huang Baiming in the office, and Meng Chao, who was drinking water, almost squirted out: "Yanjing toilet king, right?" filmed a "Happy Zombie", what the hell is this? ”

Huang Baiming couldn't help laughing: "This person is a full layman, thinking that he can get a high box office by imitating a successful movie, so what movie is hot recently, he will add any elements, it's just a mess of stew, happy zombie is naturally a happy ghost plus Mr. Zombie, and then in order to imitate your "Wrong Car", he added a female singer as the heroine, and specially hired someone to write a few theme songs at a high price, making this movie a suspenseful horror song and dance comedy, I will definitely hit ......the street when I see this movie."

Meng Chao couldn't help but ask curiously: "Who did you find to be the starring role?" ”

Huang Baiming reported several names: Mr. Guan Shan, Liang Chaowei and Li Saifeng, the director is Wu Yusen, it is said that the salary of these people alone cost three million! ”

This number made Meng Chao spray again, among the three actors, Li Saifeng just became popular, it is estimated that He Dacheng took a fancy to her appearance in "Mr. Zombie", but Li Saifeng is a signed actor of Golden Harvest, if he takes the initiative to come up, Golden Harvest must be a lion with a big mouth, it is estimated that He Dacheng does not understand so much, at least hundreds of thousands more are slaughtered!

As for Guan Shan, this old gentleman doubled his worth after playing a dumb uncle, but he is actually not an actor who really attracts the box office, plus Guan Shan didn't look down on He Dasheng in the first place, this time to film him, I'm afraid the minimum price will be hundreds of thousands more!

And Liang Chaowei is now the palm treasure of several TV production companies, seeing that the movie market is getting better, he naturally hopes to make movies to enhance his popularity and fame, but the problem is that people want to cooperate with big directors and powerful film companies, and He Dacheng's team is not interested at all, so it must be for the sake of money!

In addition, Wu Yusen, the old brother, has been struggling with the film company to make a low-budget comedy for them, and he was already tired of filming in 1986, and he only wanted to shoot a hero film with a rain of bullets, and now he is looking for a comedy, and the effect may not be satisfactory!

With such a team, if Meng Chao took the initiative to contact him, he could invite all of them for more than one million at most, and he didn't know that He Da had spent more than a million more!

"This guy is really stupid and has a lot of money!"

Meng Chao's summary is very in place, I have to say that this person is simply a layman to the extreme, the actors and directors alone spent more than one million, you don't have to think about it to know that the filming process is constantly being added to the budget, everyone sees that the investor is a layman, and the money is stupid, so naturally they are extorting bamboo poles!

In the end, the cost of filming "Happy Zombie" was as high as more than 9 million, which was enough for Meng Chao to make three movies, even "Mr. Zombie" was about 6 million, and the effect was very good, as for this "Happy Zombie", Meng Chao was very interested in knowing what kind of treatment he would usher in after the release!

Of course, although I was curious to know how this "Happy Zombie" would end, Meng Chao had no intention of going to the premiere!

Although Meng Chao is a sociable and kind person, it does not mean that anyone will be praised in the field, after all, people like He Da are obviously laymen, and people who want to get a piece of the pie when they see the gradual prosperity of the film industry have always been despised by insiders.

In particular, his way of participating is to get a high box office by imitating and following the trend, to put it bluntly, he wants to copy everything, such a character is simply a pest in the film industry, and naturally it is not worth Meng Chao to make deep friends, let alone support his new movie, lest insiders regard Meng Chao and He Da as an interest group, then there is no need!