Chapter 119 "Crazy Racing" is released
The trust between people is very difficult to cultivate, and the relationship between Feng Xiaogang and Hua Yi and the Wang brothers is not cultivated in a day, so why does Shao Yingying ask Stephanie to look forward to Hua Yi, a hero who does not have much influence in the world?
Shao Yingying was not too indignant about Stephanie's attitude, but remembered the meeting and acquaintance of Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei.
After the filming of "Party A and Party B" and "See You or Leave", Feng Xiaogang already had a great reputation in the circle at that time, and investors invited him to dinner almost every day, Feng Xiaogang didn't know the Wang brothers at that time, and their first meeting was entirely because Wang Zhonglei saw a movie promotional poster in the subway, which was the poster of Ge You and Liu Pei eating cherries at the wedding. The key is that there were no movie advertisements in China at that time, and there were no similar advertisements in the subway or on the bus stop signs, and Feng Xiaogang thought of this.
It was this poster that made Wang Zhonglei walk into the cinema and watch Feng Xiaogang's movie, and discovered the director's talent like an audience who didn't know Feng Xiaogang.
No, maybe based on the situation at that time, I am afraid that the people of the whole country have already discovered Feng Xiaogang's talent, and Wang Zhonglei is just an afterthought.
The first meeting between Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang was introduced by Tong Guò Ying, it seemed to be a press conference, it should be the press conference of "See You or Leave", and the scene of the press conference was to get a few tables of banquets in the hotel, the organizers were together, reporters and media people were also interviewing in eating and drinking, and there was not even a host, so the producer had to make a cameo.
When Wang Zhonglei saw Feng Xiaogang and Xu Fan (who were not husband and wife at the time) rushed to the scene. He remembered that Feng Xiaogang's face was very stinky, as if he was saying, 'Why is there another investor?' ’。
In this way, Wang Zhonglei did not become friends with Feng Xiaogang!
The opportunity to really get to know Feng Xiaogang was because of the joint venture of many companies to shoot the movie "Endless". This is still a matter of multiple investors and directors sitting together to talk about this matter, so that they can be regarded as officially getting acquainted with Feng Xiaogang.
Even so, there is no trust between them, even in "Endless", Wang Zhonglei was invited by Feng Xiaogang to play two of Fu Biao's four bad friends with Zhang Hanyu. Wang Zhonglei also has his own ideas when he accepts Feng Xiaogang's invitation, he doesn't want to be a star, but he wants to know more about shooting, and at the same time. also wanted to take advantage of filming to get closer to Feng Xiaogang, and even at that time, Huayi was still called Huayi Brothers Advertising Agency.
It's a pity that Wang Zhonglei's efforts fell short. He and Feng Xiaogang became friends who could nod their heads when they met, but they were not trusted.
They really have a friendship, and they have to start from Wang Zhongjun's return from a business trip, when Wang Zhongjun walked out of the capital airport. Just in time for "Endless" to shoot the scene of Ge You chasing a car at the airport. Wang Zhongjun went over to say hello after seeing his acquaintance, after all, Huayi Brothers also participated in the investment. Unexpectedly, when I saw Feng Xiaogang, Feng Xiaogang asked when we met, 'Zhongjun, your company's money hasn't arrived, and the actor's salary hasn't been opened, so we will carry it with this.' ’。
Wang Zhongjun immediately called Wang Zhonglei to inquire, and the news he learned was that Huayi's money was all in accordance with the contract, and it was not bad in the first period.
Back then, even Feng Xiaogang's drama was paid on schedule. Watching the filming progress and getting paid for these are clearly stipulated in the contract.
Is Feng Xiaogang confused? Why doesn't he remember which company's money has arrived?
I'm afraid no one can answer this question. But in that scene, Feng Xiaogang asked like this, maybe he was busy under pressure.
So, Wang Zhongjun made a decision, in order to solve the urgent needs of the crew, he called all the money that was not due to the crew, in fact, Wang Zhongjun didn't have to give money at all at that time, and later Feng Xiaogang also knew that Wang Zhongjun was wrong, and apologized. It's just that Wang Zhongjun still gave it, and it was precisely because of this money that Feng Xiaogang thought that the two brothers of the Wang family were people who did things, so they had the move to join Huayi, and they had cooperated for so many years.
After that, there was the embarrassment that Wang Zhongjun had to borrow 50,000 yuan from Xu Fan when he was overstretched, at that time they really had no money, and the Huayi Brothers did not invest more than one million in total, this money was all the money of the Huayi Brothers at that time, if he didn't want to make money with Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhonglei would not be so bothered with Feng Cannon.
Even big bosses like Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei want to get Feng Xiaogang's trust so hard, why does Shao Yingying ask Stephanie to trust him?
"What do you think?"
Lin Xilei asked Shao Yingying on the set.
Shao Yingying suddenly found that Lin Xilei was staring at him, and grinned and said, "I'm distracted." ”
Lin Xilei thought she knew, and said, "I know what you're thinking. ”
"Oh?" Shao Yingying responded, not taking it seriously.
"You must have been bothered by the recent media reports, in fact, you don't have to care what they say, those people are making money by talking nonsense." Lin Xilei stuck out her tongue after saying self-deprecation, leaned down on the train carriage and said, "How did I educate you, I'm sorry." ”
"Ah......" Shao Yingying came out of his thoughts just now, he has been filming these days, and he has no idea what the recent hot topic of the media is: "What did the media say?" ”
Lin Xilei found that Shao Yingying really didn't care and asked, "Don't you really know?" ”
"I want to know all about this, why do I ask?" Shao Yingying began to get serious.
"The media has been reporting on two films recently, one is "The Assembly" directed by Feng Xiaogang, and the other is "Casting Names". The media doubts whether Feng Xiaogang can make a good movie without Ge You, and also doubts whether a movie without Feng's humor will be unattractive when Feng Xiaogang does not make comedies. The key is that there are no big names in "The Assembly", but there are three big names with the strongest box office appeal in "Casting Names...... Boss Shao, to be honest, this is a tough battle. ”
In Shao Yingying's impression, it seems that he really saw this news in the 'history of the entertainment industry', when "Assembly Number" was questioned. "Vote for Fame" is wildly sought after, and in terms of media publicity, "Vote for Fame" has almost been crushed, and "Assembly" can't be voted on, in many film critics and box office forecasting experts. "The Assembly" is also not favored.
"I'll bet you a dollar." Shao Yingying stretched out a finger and said to Lin Xilei: "I bet that "Assembly" will definitely win." ”
Lin Xilei asked in surprise, "A dollar?" ”
"Yes, because these two films are not comparable at all, both films are very well-made and pay attention to exploring the internal emotions of the audience when watching the movie. This dollar does not mean insulting the movie "Vote for Fame", but I believe that Feng Xiaogang has the luck to win. ”
Shao Yingying likes both the movies "Casting the Name" and "The Assembly", and he was shocked by the scene of Takeshi Kaneshiro killing his sister-in-law in "The Vote for Fame". was also moved by Zhang Hanyu's performance when he saw the cemetery of the martyrs in "Assembly", but the victory of "Assembly" is a foregone conclusion, after all, no one can stop Huayi's strong propaganda and 'news broadcast'.
Historically. When Shao Yingying saw Wang Zhonglei holding the premiere of '10,000 people watching the movie and celebrating the New Year with 100 stars' for Feng Xiaogang, he knew that "Assembly" had won, and a film company owner did not hesitate to use his connections to organize such a huge premiere in order to win the annual box office championship, just like using a cheat to force the media to report. Based on this alone, "The Assembly" is much cheaper than "Vote for the Name". Coupled with the excellent quality of "Assembly Number", Feng Xiaogang did not forget to give Zhang Hanyu a funny line of 'the front does not turn and the back turns' in such a strict movie, and it is very brilliant just in the control of the subject matter.
What about "Vote for Fame"?
Robbing official food, being used by the Qing Dynasty government, and refusing to come forward to support when they were fighting together, but the final brothers killed each other...... It's not a question of actors or producers not being good enough, it's a director who wants to test the audience's patience with cruelty, and he has to bear that some people don't like these plots.
"Okay, I'll bet with you if I lose. I flew all the way from Xiangjiang to give me my bets. ”
Shao Yingying saw Lin Xilei's more and more formal attitude. He said, "Do you want to be so serious?" ”
"You taught me ......" she learned Shao Yingying's tone and said: "Acting, you have to be serious." After saying that, he laughed: "I think other things should be the same." ”
Shao Yingying wanted to say, 'I served YOU', but when he opened his mouth, it became: "Let's film." ”
Then he got up from the carriage and shouted at the others: "Get up, get to work!" ”
In June, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Shao Yingying spent a whole month on the train scene in "Source Code", during this time, his requirements were very strict, not only requiring himself and Lin Xilei's performances to be at the same rhythm, but also requiring every temporary performance to have continuity in the performance, so strict that every expression and every action must be compared. Every scene on the train is very important to the whole movie, and the focus of this movie is entirely on the acting skills of the actors, the structure of the story, if the acting skills are not up to standard, the whole movie is equivalent to half of the collapse.
Finally, on June 5th, Shao Yingying ended the filming on the train, and Lin Xilei, who was finally able to rest, returned to Xiangjiang, and every actor on the train could go home after the filming ended, but the crew and Shao Yingying had to go to the rented room to meet Fan Yiyi and Kou Shiyi, and work together to finish filming the remaining scenes.
Just when the filming was finished, "Crazy Racing" started Huayi's first gold boom in 2007 with a sweeping attitude!
"Crazy Racing" reached 15 million at the box office in three days after its release!
"Crazy Jewel" sowed the harvest of "Crazy Racing", and the box office of "Crazy Racing" reached 30 million in the first week of release, winning the first box office weekly championship for Huayi!!
The appearance of this news may not be better for Hua Yi, Hua Yi's current capital chain is almost exhausted, if there is no source injection, then Shao Yingying may even be able to rush out with white hair, fortunately Ning Hao did not disappoint him.
can reach 30 million in the first week, so that is to say, this movie can get a total box office score of 70 or 80 million at worst in the summer file, if the publicity can keep up, the box office may not be a luxury.
Shao Yingying made a special call to Zhang Wan for "Crazy Racing", originally when he wanted to tell Zhang Wan to pay attention to the secondary publicity during the release of the movie, Zhang Wan reported to him a bunch of details of 'Ning Hao is on the way to the second promotion'.
Zhang Wan's maturity allows Shao Yingying to settle down and concentrate on filming, anyway, there is nothing to worry about him in the company......
30 million, 63 million, 84 million...... The next few weeks were all about "Crazy Racing" steadily climbing to extremes, and even in the third week, it was still growing by three to four million per day. Xu Jinglei saw the right time, and saw that the climbing speed of "Crazy Racing" began to decline, and at that moment, she quickly launched an in-depth analysis and criticism of this movie on her blog, Ning Hao fought back without concession, and the battle between the two once again made a small climax for the end of the box office, and the final box office results soared to 92 million because of the war of words between Ning Hao and Xu Jinglei.
This is not to say that "Crazy Racing" is drawn, but that a more ferocious Hollywood monster has begun to devour the mainland box office market, and "Transformers" has set off a 'Iron Man' craze around the world.
The punch of "Transformers" hit the tail of "Crazy Racing", and when Hua Yi was about to come out of the way that he thought he was a local cutting-edge, it was a pity that it came to an abrupt end. In the remaining release schedule of "Crazy Racing", the daily box office was only a pitiful hundreds of thousands, and in the end, it had no choice but to paint, with a total box office of 93.1 million.
Shao Yingying is also very sorry for "Crazy Racing", 93.1 million and a box office of more than 100 million are obviously two concepts for the director, just like the immortal who crosses the catastrophe and ascends in the online novel and the old monster who hides in the world and can obviously ascend but deliberately hides his cultivation, these are two completely different levels.
So, Shao Yingying did the only thing in his life to deceive himself, falsely reporting the box office!
Hua Yi held a huge celebration party for Ning Hao, and the 100000000 ice sculptures at the celebration were quickly smashed under Ning Hao's suspicious falling hammer.
At the celebration party, Huang Bo smiled happily, and all the participants were in a festive atmosphere, but Ning Hao was looking at Shao Yingying strangely during the whole process, and Shao Yingying didn't see it at all.
Sometimes, you have to turn a blind eye to your subordinates, and at this time, it is much better for Ning Hao to think that some departments of the company have made mistakes in box office verification than to let him know that Shao Yingying deliberately praised him.
Can Ning Hao not know the real box office of "Crazy Racing"? No way! But Ning Hao also wants to get the bonus promised by Shao Yingying, and Hua Yi must come up with a new director at this time to boost morale.
In the case of Shao Yingying pretending not to know anything, Hua Yi issued a large check worth one million to Ning Hao, and the other main actors also had a red envelope each, at this moment, Ning Hao didn't ask much, but there was bound to be a trace of 'next time must be worthy of the name' in his heart, this is the stubbornness that everyone has, because no one is stupid enough to believe that every time the company will make accounting mistakes.
At this moment, news came from Hollywood that the filming of "Twilight" is over, and the whole movie has entered the post-production process, and the better news is that the Columbia Gang hero Hua Yi is scheduled for November 23, 2007, that is to say, "Twilight" has squeezed into the North American Christmas file!
The hero Huayi finally sent the message of the nectar after the long-term drought after the capital chain dried up, and a crisis is about to pass! (To be continued......)