Chapter 342: The premiere of "Get Rid of My Father-in-law".
"I'm not very sleepy now", Zhao Yang was a little hesitant when he heard Luo Yang let him go to sleep, in fact, Zhao Yang was also very sleepy, but he couldn't sleep when he was lying in bed, he honestly thought about the movie, and as soon as he heard that Luo Yang was back, he immediately got up, and Zhao Yang was very uneasy not to hear the evaluation of this movie from Luo Yang's mouth.
"Brother Zhao, if you're not sleepy, I'm still sleepy, don't you know that I just got off the plane, let's discuss this matter tomorrow, what do you think", Luo Yang looked at Zhao Yang's somewhat disappointed face, and said with a helpless wry smile: "Brother Zhao, I know that you value this movie very much, it is your first movie, you are only allowed to succeed, not to fail, but you also have to have a little confidence in yourself, and even if this movie fails, what can you do"?
"I know that even if this movie fails, you will still let me have filming in the future, but I don't want to rely on your relationship to survive in the company", hearing Luo Yang's words, Zhao Yang replied to Luo Yang firmly.
"I know, you go to rest first, and we'll discuss this matter tomorrow", Luo Yang looked at Zhao Yang's tired face, and gave an eviction order to Zhao Yang, who was reluctant to give up, and forced Zhao Yang to rest first.
Finally got Zhao Yang to sleep, Luo Yang sat on his boss's chair, rubbed his temples, and the dust and dust along the way also made Luo Yang very tired, but there were still many things in the company, and Luo Yang had no time to rest.
After closing his eyes for a while, Luo Yang picked up the phone and notified Xu Hong to come in, and after a while, Xu Hong appeared in Luo Yang's office.
"Mr. Luo, what is the matter with me?" Seeing Luo Yang motioning for him to sit down, Xu Hong was not polite, sat opposite Luo Yang, and asked Luo Yang.
"There's nothing to do, I just want to ask you how the promotion of "Get Done with Father-in-law" is doing", there are more and more things in the company, and Luo Yang gradually can't take care of it, and these things are basically handed over to Xu Hong to deal with.
"It's not bad, after the trailer was released, many people expressed great interest in this movie, and they will go to the cinema to enjoy this comedy when the time comes", Xu Hong heard Luo Yang's question, nodded, and replied to Luo Yang.
"That's it", Luo Yang knocked on the table, thought for a while and said to Xu Hong: "Increase the publicity of this movie, don't be afraid of spending money, I still value this movie very much, the investment in "Shijie Doomsday" can count on this movie, Sister Xu, you follow up on this matter."
"I understand", Xu Hong nodded, indicating that she knew, and then left Luo Yang's office to follow up on the promotion of the film in person.
Seeing Xu Hong leaving, Luo Yang relaxed a lot, and increased his investment in the publicity of "Get My Father-in-law", Luo Yang is not only because he wants to increase the box office of this movie, but another reason is that Luo Yang hopes that the first film directed by Zhao Yang can achieve the box office, Zhao Yang is a person, Luo Yang also understands, is talented, and has a good character, but maybe he has been working for Chen Yimou as an assistant director, maybe he has been affected by Chen Yimou's light, and he is not very confident in himself, Luo Yang also hopes that this movie will be released. can help Zhao Yang find self-confidence, after all, the company can't rely on Luo Yang alone
Back in TH province, Luo Yang had a good rest for a day, and began to devote himself to a new job, at present, Poplar Company has two things, the first is the release of "Get the Father-in-law", and the second is to prepare for the crew of "The End of Shijie", but things have priorities, the most important thing at present is to finalize the release schedule and theater of "Get the Father-in-law", and the crew of "The End of Shijie" is to be prepared, and you can move it back slightly.
For this matter, Luo Yang held a small meeting the next day, and all the current senior executives of Poplar Company were present, for the schedule of "Get Your Father-in-law", everyone discussed it, it is now around June, and it is about to be July, and this time point is about to reach the summer file, and if the movie "Get Your Father-in-law" can be released in this schedule, it is of course the most haode thing.
However, although many students are on vacation in the summer file, they have become the main force of the movie box office, but there is also a problem, that is, the summer file every year is the period when foreign blockbusters are stationed, if Poplar's new film collides with these blockbusters, it is really possible to break the head, after all, this movie is just a low-cost urban comedy, and compared with those foreign blockbusters with exquisite special effects, grand scenes, and hot action, there must be certain disadvantages.
Therefore, Luo Yang and a few people discussed, for the sake of insurance, it is still necessary to raise the release schedule of the movie a little earlier, try to avoid rushing in front of the summer file, and avoid meeting those foreign blockbusters, zuihou everyone discussed it, and Luo Yang finalized it, and determined that the movie will be released on July 10.
In a blink of an eye, time flies, and soon it is about July, and the focus of Poplar Company's work is slowly shifting to the release of "Get the Father-in-law", because Poplar Company has increased its publicity for this movie, during this period of time, you can see the trailer about this movie on major video websites in China, especially the classic lines of the pit man in the movie trailer, which makes everyone laugh and look forward to the release of this movie. And many people have also noticed that the screenwriter column of this movie is written with Luo Yang's name written on it.
Who is Luo Yang, it is estimated that no one in Huaguo does not know this name now, the winner of the Best Original Screenplay Award at the Academy Awards, the first small-budget movie created a box office miracle last year, and it is also the idol of many young people, for this young man who is good at creating miracles, everyone has great expectations, the movie written by Luo Yang himself seems to be worth watching, although the director of the movie seems to be a newcomer and has never seen it, but everyone doesn't mind, with the script provided by Luo Yang, at least it is not a bad movie.
Just in everyone's anticipation, the time soon arrived on the evening of July 10th.
Like "33 Days of Broken Love", the cinema also held its premiere at the Crimson Cinema in TH Province, where many reporters were already waiting on the red carpet at the entrance of the Crimson Cinema to find the most haode location and find the most breaking news.
As the producer of this movie, Poplar Movie of course has to appear as soon as possible, so at about five o'clock in the afternoon, Poplar Movie and his party came by car under the leadership of Luo Yang, the car just stopped at the door of the Crimson Cinema, and was immediately discovered by the reporter The arrival of Luo Yang and his party, and immediately dozens of media immediately poured up, although the current Poplar Entertainment has only produced the second movie, there is no appeal in the film industry, but the company's boss Luo Yang has, after the invitation letter of Poplar Entertainment was sent, Many media rushed over to save face, although the director of this movie is not famous, but he still has to give Luo Yang face, otherwise Luo Yang will have any news in the future, what should he do if he hates himself.
As soon as everyone got out of the car, the camera in the reporter's hand clicked and flashed, looking at these cameras, Luo Yang proudly helped the sunglasses on his eyes, since he suffered several losses, Luo Yang has now learned to wear sunglasses.
"Luo Yang, is this movie written by you, how did you think of writing a comedy about your father-in-law, is this a hint that you are getting married?" Seeing Luo Yang get out of the car, a group of reporters immediately surrounded Luo Yang, and a reporter immediately raised a question.
Hearing this reporter's question, Luo Yang was stunned for a moment, this reporter was really wonderful, and couldn't help but ask with a smile: "How did you infer the news that I was going to get married from the release of this movie, can you tell me?"
Not only did Luo Yang want to hear it, but other reporters also suddenly became interested, let the reporter out, and asked him to explain how he thought about it, and the reporter who asked the question also said to Luo Yang with great heart: "Director Luo, everyone knows that you have a girlfriend, if you don't want to get married, how can you make a movie about your father-in-law, do you put forward the way you want to deal with your father-in-law in this movie, let everyone discuss it, as your reference."
It's really a bit reasonable, Luo Yang is very helpless, these reporters are worthy of being uncrowned kings, and nonsense can be so reasonable, Luo Yang had to deny it: "I didn't mean this, my idea to write this movie came from the inspiration from Zhao Yang, the director of this movie", Luo Yang said this, and immediately pulled Zhao Yang on the side over as his shield, otherwise Luo Yang really couldn't explain why he asked why he wrote such a movie.
Zhao Yang saw that Luo Yang pulled himself over as a shield, and he was also helpless to explain to the reporters at the scene how Luo Yang got the inspiration for this movie, and many reporters suddenly realized that they did not continue to pursue this issue.
"Director Zhao, this is your first movie, do you have any expectations for the box office of this movie", another reporter asked Zhao Yang his own question.
For this problem, Zhao Yang is a little entangled, it's not good to say too much, the media will say that you are rampant, say less, and it seems that you don't have any ambition, which makes Zhao Yang very speechless, generally speaking, to deal with this kind of problem, there are some polite words, such as being recognized by the audience, but Zhao Yang is facing this kind of problem for the first time, so when he was nervous, he forgot these polite words, and actually began to think about how much box office is appropriate.
Luo Yang, who was on the side, also saw Zhao Yang's nervousness, so he stepped forward to give Zhao Yang a round: "Let's put it this way, this movie was written by me, so I am still very confident in this movie, with a guarantee of 100 million, as for what results are achieved in the end, it depends on the support of the audience."
If this movie is directed by Luo Yang, of course Luo Yang dares to shout a number in front of the media, and the guarantee of 300 million is not much, but this drama is directed by Zhao Yang, and Luo Yang is not good at talking to the full, otherwise the box office will not reach it by then, then what Luo Yang says today will make Zhao Yang very troublesome at that time, after all, Luo Yang's screenwriting ability has also been recognized by Shijie, everyone will think that Luo Yang is so full of words, which proves that he is very confident in this movie, and the results of this movie are not good, Is it that Zhao Yang's director is not capable?
If this is the case, Luo Yang's words today would not be to help Zhao Yang break the siege, but to harm Zhao Yang, so Luo Yang was also more cautious and said a relatively low number.
When many reporters heard it, this number is not much, and it is really rare and humble to Luo Yang, who has always liked to talk about the box office to the point of surprise everyone.
"Director Zhao, is the release schedule of this movie chosen today, is it to stagger with several foreign blockbusters that will be released in China? For the box office of this movie, Director Zhao, do you think you can beat several upcoming foreign blockbusters, just like last year's "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", to create a box office miracle for small-budget movies"? A reporter stepped forward and asked.
Although this sentence doesn't say anything unpleasant, the subconscious meaning is that everyone can understand whether this "Get Done with My Father-in-law" is afraid of those foreign blockbusters, otherwise how can the schedule just be staggered with these foreign blockbusters.
Zhao Yang's face was a little dark, your sister, everyone knows these things, why bother to say it, in addition, this "Get My Father-in-law" is just a small-budget comedy movie, the actors are not very famous, and he is only directing for the first time, if you want to beat those foreign blockbusters, it is not easy to say, if it is so good to replicate the results of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", the box office miracle is not called a miracle.
Therefore, Zhao Yang pretended not to hear it, did not answer this reporter's question, and this question is not easy to answer at all, no matter whether the answer can be surpassed, there is a problem, the answer can be surpassed, tomorrow's media headline is estimated to be the front page headline of "New directors want to compete with foreign blockbusters", if the answer is not good, it will be considered weak, Zhao Yang thinks about it, or pretends not to hear it.
But this reporter still chased after Zhao Yang and asked: "Director Zhao, you haven't answered my question yet", which made Zhao Yang want to give these reporters two fists, he has been the assistant director before, when was he so upset by reporters, at this moment, Zhao Yang admired Luo Yang for being able to deal with these reporters easily, and he didn't know how Luo Yang could endure these guys who had nothing to say and nothing to do.
Seeing that Zhao Yang was so embarrassed, Luo Yang came out to save the scene again, coughed, attracted the reporter's attention, and said: "I don't think there is any need to answer this question at all, the foreign blockbusters introduced by Huaguo every year have a lot of investment, star-studded, and no director in Huaguo dares to beat his chest and say that he has overwhelmed these foreign blockbusters, and we are a small-budget production, and the investment in the whole film may not be as much as the special effects investment of these blockbusters, this cannot be compared at all, of course, it does not mean that our film has no chance at all, I'm afraid of these foreign blockbusters, it's impossible, I can only say that everyone's audience is different, the foreign blockbusters introduced by China every year are basically action movies with hot scenes, and our film is a light-hearted urban light comedy, the audience is different, and the advantages of the two movies are different."
Listening to Luo Yang's words, these reporters nodded, Luo Yang answered well, the investment in this movie is much lower than that of foreign blockbusters, and the box office is simply like a child and an adult fighting, which is unfair in itself, but Luo Yang is not afraid in his words, but puts this "Get Father-in-law" in the same position as these foreign blockbusters, Luo Yang's answer also makes these reporters very satisfied, and tomorrow they can publish a message on the front page "Luo Yang said proudly, new movies are not afraid of foreign blockbusters, It's also a good piece of news.
Luo Yang understands the ideas of these reporters very clearly, but it is just a gimmick, Luo Yang can also give them to them, although this will put this movie on the cusp, but it is not without benefits, in everyone's discussion of this matter, it will also play a role in promoting the movie "Get the Father-in-law", there are losses and gains, maybe after the hype of these reporters, this movie can also achieve a good box office.
Zhao Yang was still very grateful to Luo Yang's round, and Luo Yang also felt Zhao Yang's grateful gaze, and gently patted Zhao Yang's shoulder, indicating that it was okay.
"Director Luo, how are you preparing for your new movie "The End of Shijie", and has the main creators confirmed? What is the main story of this movie", and then, after answering a few questions from reporters, a reporter asked Luo Yang about his new movie.
"I'm sorry, this is the premiere of "Get My Father-in-law", please don't deviate from the topic, if there is anything about my new movie, I will hold a special press conference" Luo Yang saw that this reporter mentioned his new movie, smiled and refused to answer about the new movie: "I'm sorry, the guests are coming soon, I still have some things, so I'll leave first", Luo Yang glanced at the guests and began to arrive one after another, smiled at the reporter, and then prepared to leave.
Seeing that Luo Yang was about to leave, these reporters were stunned for a moment, but they all thought that it was the reporter who asked Luo Yang's new movie to ask something unrelated to the movie, which made Luo Yang reluctant to be interviewed, and immediately stared at the reporter very dissatisfied.
However, Luo Yang wanted to leave, and everyone couldn't force Luo Yang, so they had to make way for Luo Yang, and Luo Yang didn't leave Zhao Yang there alone, and pulled Zhao Yang to greet the guests present, and the first guest to arrive was Chen Yimou.
"Teacher"!
"Director Chen"!
The two walked up to Chen Yimou and greeted Chen Yimou one after another, "Teacher, why did you come so early today", Luo Yang asked Chen Yimou with a smile.
"Zhao Yang's first movie, how can I not come earlier", Chen Yimou smiled and patted Zhao Yang's shoulder: "Today is the time for your first movie to be released, from today on, you will also officially enter the directing world, and work hard in the future to make more haode movies, and I wish you a box office success of this movie, I delayed you before, I hope you don't get angry with me."
"Xiexie Director Chen, I will work hard in the future, and I have never been angry with Director Chen", hearing Chen Yimou's words, Zhao Yang replied movingly.
"The teacher is really eccentric, the last time my first movie premiered, the teacher didn't come so early", seeing that the atmosphere was a bit of a sign of moving towards the eight o'clock file, Luo Yang smiled and joked.
"You kid, by the way, how are you preparing for your new movie", hearing Luo Yang's words, Chen Yimou scolded Luo Yang with a smile, and then casually asked Luo Yang about the preparation of the new movie.