Chapter 174: The Emperor of Shanghai
As for Xiao Ran's writing a script for Encyclopedia, how could Lu Yuesheng not know?
Since the successful establishment of the first Zhengying Film Company, Lu Yuesheng has already felt that Xiao Ran has begun to break away from his camp, so he has planted a lot of nails into Xiao Ran's new film company.
If Xiao Ran's new company wants to operate normally, it must recruit all kinds of staff, including secretaries, front desks, watchmen and tea!
How could Xiao Ran go to check their family backgrounds one by one to see if they might have received money from other companies to be informants?
Moreover, Huo Chengen appeared in Xiao Ran's office, even if there were no nails for such a thing, as long as he spent a little money, he could still buy news.
But what can Lu Yuesheng do if he knows?
Now Yida Group looks like a giant behemoth, but the most profitable business last year was the revenue sharing of movies cooperated with Xiao Ran, so let alone cracking down on Xiao Ran, even if it is suppressed, Lu Yuesheng already feels that he can't hold it down!
And Xiao Ran naturally couldn't overhear the pillow words of Lu Yuesheng and his wife, and it was impossible to believe that they would really support him wholeheartedly, so the script that Xiao Ran wrote to Encyclopedia was indeed a good script that was very in line with Encyclopedia.
Therefore, after the Chinese New Year, "Journey to the West: Cinderella" was drawn, and the total box office reached a level of nearly 800 million, which means that the total amount of money attracted by the entire Journey to the West movie series exceeded 1.6 billion, which shocked the world!
Then next, the encyclopedia held a press conference, announcing that the first part of the film series it filmed, "The Emperor of Shanghai", will also hold a premiere. And in the previous movie alone, there are already a lot of big-name stars, and the salary alone has exceeded 50 million.
This time, the encyclopedia cinema line can be described as an all-out battle, with a total investment of no less than 120 million yuan in the entire Shanghai Emperor series, and the publicity is not weaker than the Journey to the West series, and it is even more important to hold a press conference when "Journey to the West: Cinderella" is drawn!
Encyclopedia's "The Emperor of Shanghai" was released on the sixth day of the Journey to the West series, taking advantage of the east wind of the Journey to the West, in the name of the investment masterpiece of the first and second episodes, plus the grand premiere. Let this new movie of Encyclopedia attract attention. The box office on the first day has accumulated more than 12 million!
And based on the scale of the theater chain of a total of 58 theaters in the current encyclopedia, such a first-day box office represents the lowest attendance rate of its theaters with more than eighty percent, which has made the Huo family father and son completely crooked their necks!
"Mr. Xiao, Yida Group asked you when the new movie will be released?"
Xiao Ran was still filming "Once Upon a Time: Lingyun Ambition". His secretary, Xu Xueqing, called. Asked him.
Xu Xueqing has been in the film industry for more than ten years. He was already Xiao Ran's secretary when Zhengdong Film Company was formed, and he is in his thirties this year.
The reason why he found a secretary of such an age, Xiao Ran's first reason was to covet the other party's work experience. can be better qualified for the work of a secretary, and the second is to see how old she is, so that Tang Yun can avoid thinking blindly, after all, there are already a lot of bad cases between the boss and the secretary.
"It's not so fast for the time being, Director Liu's "Law Enforcement Pioneer" may be faster, you tell Yida, let's go all out to promote the movie "Law Enforcement Pioneer" first."
At this time, Xiao Ran didn't know that Lu Yuesheng planned to fully support him, so when filming "Huang Feihong: Lingyun Ambition", he didn't rush too hard, and the maximum shooting time per day was no more than ten hours, which is already a very benevolent and good boss in the film industry.
Secondly, the script of "The Emperor of Shanghai" was written by Xiao Ran, the purpose of which is to help Encyclopedia fight a beautiful turnaround, which is not only that Xiao Ran can get 10% of the total box office profit share, but also because Xiao Ran does not want Yida to dominate.
So even if Lu Yuesheng openly announced that he would fully support Xiao Ran, Xiao Ran still couldn't fully believe him, because Xiao Ran knew very well that when he reached Lu Yuesheng's level, if he really reached the point of being a complete overlord in the film industry, shearing sheep would definitely be something to do, which could not be guaranteed by any promise.
Therefore, it is necessary for Encyclopedia and Jiayi to save zĂ i, only in this way, Xiao Ran is the safest, when the prey is finished, the hunter will no longer cherish the shotgun in his hand, because the mission of the shotgun has been completed!
Encyclopedia is in full swing, and the huge investment of "The Emperor of Shanghai" was released at a very good time, that is, when Yida Cinema Line has no blockbusters, and more importantly, it has avoided Xiao Ran's blockbusters, so the box office has been very stable after the release.
Although the box office in the first week is not as exaggerated as the Journey to the West series, it is close to the level of 300 million at every turn, but it is not bad, it has exceeded 120 million!
Faced with such a situation, not only Yida Group, but even other filmmakers felt very panicked, including Xiao Jiaban's own people, and when his father Xiao Yuanshan asked Xiao Ran's opinion, Xiao Ran replied like this: "There must be a union under a strong enemy!" â
Because he was in a hurry to catch up with the drama at that time, Xiao Yuanshan didn't have time to analyze the meaning of his son's words, and it wasn't until a few days later that he realized that Xiao Ran still had the ability to predict the future!
That's right, after seeing that Encyclopedia's "The Emperor of Shanghai" exceeded 120 million at the box office in the first week, Yuan Xiaojun on Jiayi's side finally couldn't sit still!
For this reason, the two theater companies have reached an agreement, that is, to join Wu and fight Cao, and jointly screen the film!
In addition to being released in Encyclopedia's own 58 cinemas, "The Emperor of Shanghai" was even released in more than 100 small theaters on Jiayi's side at the same time, and the box office was immediately fired on both sides, and the total number of votes in the second week has accumulated more than 350 million!
For this reason, a new temporary cinema chain has been formed, and other small cinema chains, including the son of the former film tycoon Rong Shaojie, have also joined the Anle Cinema Line, which has only four theaters left at hand!
This cinema company has always been known as the fastest declining cinema company in the industry, and now it has finally begun to exert its strength, joining the temporary cinema plan of Encyclopedia, and screening "The Emperor of Shanghai in the Years" in its own four theaters, and finally ushered in a full session that has not been seen in ten years!
Seeing that Encyclopedia's new movie was so powerful, Lu Yuesheng was also completely convinced by Xiao Ran at this time, and the little thought of suppressing Xiao Ran in his heart was completely gone.
Although "The Emperor of Shanghai" is only the script from Xiao Ran, because Li Shengtian recommended by Xiao Ran is indeed an excellent director, under his operation, the last episode of this movie was very good-looking.
"Phoenix Business Daily" even commented that this is a very good Jianghu movie, in which the domineering Zhang Xiaolin, the greedy Huang Jinrong, and the 3,000 diners Du Yuesheng who is very good at being a person, including Sister Li Gui with a strong personality, the alcoholic sharpshooter, the arrogant and domineering Lu Xiaojia, and the perverted Bi Shuzheng, all of which are portrayed vividly, which is simply a reproduction of Shanghai Tang!
In addition to the praise of "Phoenix Business Daily", other newspapers, magazines and online forums also have excellent reviews of this movie, which also makes Lu Yuesheng completely anxious.
Originally, only Yida Cinema Line had a movie with a box office of hundreds of millions, and as long as Yida produced a talent as Xiao Ran, so what Lu Yuesheng thought about was how to firmly control Xiao Ran in his own hands, and even thought about how to encroach on several film companies in Xiao Ran's hands, but now what Lu Yuesheng is thinking about is how Xiao Ran can help Yida launch a good movie to defeat the menacing "The Shanghai Emperor of the Years".
So Yida kept urging Xiao Ran to come up with a new movie.
In the end, Liu Kui's "Law Enforcement Pioneer" was filmed a few days in advance, and because the background was an urban plot, it was completed in two weeks, and in the end, Yida Group could only reluctantly use this movie to fight with "The Emperor of Shanghai", for which Yida even spent an additional 50 million as an announcement fee, so that the whole movie has not yet been released, and it has already caused a great sensation.
With the grand premiere, the box office of "Law Enforcement Pioneer" reached 14 million on the first day of release, which was higher than the premiere box office of "The Emperor of Shanghai", but the follow-up attendance rate was not too high, because many audiences were divided by other theaters.
The box office of "Law Enforcement Pioneer" finally accumulated more than 70 million in the first week, but for a new attempt at the police and bandit type movie, Xiao Ran is already very satisfied with the box office.
And what makes Xiao Ran even more satisfied is that many viewers sympathize with the role of Xia Lingzheng in the movie, which also makes the sixth senior brother Yuan Biao begin to be recognized by the public.
In fact, Xiao Ran was only a teenager when he watched this movie in his previous life, and at that time he saw the prosecutor with infinite scenery, because justice could not be served, because the criminal killed his own witness family, but he was unable to make decisions for them, so in order to preside over justice, he began to plan to kill one of the drug lords, Wei Cheng, when Xiao Ran was young, when he saw this paragraph, although he couldn't understand it very well, he also felt enthusiastic!
It wasn't until I grew up and watched similar movies that I understood that a character like Xia Lingzheng has a title: Hell Judge!
That is, to carry out lynching in private, to kill some criminals who commit crimes but are not punished, of course, based on certain principles, such protagonists will die or be caught in the end.
Although such behavior is not worth encouraging, such a protagonist is impossible to hate, and even pity and pity for it!
This "Law Enforcement Pioneer" has actually caused a lot of viewers to think about the integrity of the law and its existence, so the general reviews after its release are good, but compared with the quality of "The Shanghai Emperor of the Years", it is still a little worse, so the box office must have blocked and divided part of the box office of "The Shanghai Emperor of the Years", but the role is not too strong! (To be continued......)