Chapter 346: Director Turmoil
The turmoil at the celebration banquet of "Hell Apartment 2", although it seemed to have stopped after Ji Jiaxin was set up that day, the follow-up impact had just been revealed.
The celebration was held semi-in-house and no media were invited. However, in this era, at a drinking party attended by nearly 100 people, how can it be that what happens in public cannot be heard at all?
Not to mention, among the people present, in addition to the own people of Wedo Group, there are also many practitioners in the film industry.
These people, it is always difficult for Wedo Entertainment to keep their mouths shut.
In fact, that night, and even before the end of the party, there were some news and rumors circulating in the circle. And the next day, some media smelled the news.
At this point, a large number of media outlets are excited.
For them, this kind of conflict is natural news material. Wedo Entertainment is now a relatively well-known company in China, and the content related to them, as long as it has a little weight, will have a strong degree of attention. Not to mention that like this, there is a direct conflict between Fan Zhe, the boss of Wedo Entertainment, and Ji Jiaxin, the director of the currently popular "Hell Apartment 2".
After this incident, the media from all sides threw interview applications to Wedo Entertainment and Ji Jiaxin.
Of course, Fan Zhe is not interested in accepting such an interview, but this matter cannot be without a response at all, and the public relations department of Wedo Entertainment still gave an official response, the tone is not strong, which probably means that there are some contradictions between the two parties in the cooperation of the film.
In terms of Wedo Entertainment, we definitely hope to minimize the turmoil caused by this incident.
But relatively speaking, Ji Jiaxin is much more unscrupulous.
After waking up on the second day, recalling what he had done yesterday, Ji Jiaxin really wanted to slap himself. Of course, he has always regarded himself very highly, and after the success of "Hell Apartment 2", Wedo Entertainment made a lot of money, but he, the director, could only get a salary of 400,000 yuan, and the subsequent income had nothing to do with him, so he felt very unhappy.
Although the contract was signed by himself, he was even very happy to receive such an appointment at that time. But when he saw the white money and entered the account of Dimension Entertainment, he didn't even have a dime, and he could only get a 60% salary increase for the third part, and he had to accept the third part of the bonus before he could get it......
To be honest, all of this made him feel very unbalanced.
But no matter how unbalanced it was, if he was sober, he would not have been able to make such a disturbance at the time of the celebration banquet.
But at this point, no matter how much you regret it, it's useless. Turn around and apologize? Impossible.
There is only one way left in front of him - to the end!
So, he was very happy to accept interviews with many media, and in the interview, he made a lot of nonsense.
The main argument is that Fan Zhe has an arrogant attitude and is a victim; What to say, after the success of the movie, we, as the producer, unloaded the grinding and killing the donkey of the main creative team......
After receiving such an important revelation, all the media were very happy and released all of Ji Jiaxin's words with an attitude of wanting to make things bigger, and even in order to attract attention, there were a lot of content in it.
It is not surprising that this matter has caused a lot of discussion.
In this initial discussion, the public's public opinion orientation was slightly biased towards sympathy for Ji Jiaxin.
This is normal, although Ji Jiaxin is a director, it can be regarded as a job with a relatively social status. But if it is compared with a large group like Wedo Entertainment, it must still be relatively weak.
And sympathy for the weak is itself a feature of mass psychology.
After the discussion on the Internet appeared, the public relations department of Wedo Entertainment also responded again at the first time.
The general content is to expose the situation at that time, and accuse Ji Jiaxin of not abiding by the contract, not having the spirit of the contract, breaking the contract alone, and asking for excessive remuneration.
On the Internet now, it can be described as a piece of chicken feathers.
However, these quarrels have not had a particularly big impact on the box office of "Hell Apartment 2" itself.
The broadcast of this movie itself has reached the late stage, although it will probably stay online for a month, but the entire schedule has become very low. At the same time, the potential audience is almost consumed, even if it is a normal situation, the box office is afraid that it will be 500 million, and there will be no room for care.
But in any case, it's also a particularly disgusting thing.
On the night of the celebration banquet, after the conflict broke out, Fan Zhe had already decided from the bottom of his heart that the third part of "Hell Apartment" would definitely not let Ji Jiaxin be the director again.
As for the new director, as Fan Zhe thought before, there is no situation where it is difficult to find.
After deciding that he didn't want Ji Jiaxin to continue to be the director, Fan Zhe contacted Wang Zhicheng as soon as possible. They also happily agreed to be the director of "Hell Apartment 3".
Of course, the filming of this movie will start as soon as next year.
This Wang Zhicheng is also a veteran director, and back then, he also had the experience of cooperating with Wedo Entertainment and Fan Zhe. At the beginning, when the first part of "Hell Apartment" was filmed, Fan Zhe served as the chief director, but at that time it was his first time directing a movie, and he lacked experience, so he found two more experienced assistant directors to be his deputies, one of which was Wang Zhicheng.
Comrade Wang, I am also going to be 50 years old this year. In the past experience, he has also slowly climbed up, and has always been mainly to help people, as an assistant director, and has made a lot of films. Later, it was not that I didn't have the experience of directing a film alone, but those few times were not successful, so I didn't encounter any better opportunities after that.
Wang Zhicheng is a standard director who is not talented, but experienced and obedient, and he doesn't need to worry too much about his execution.
If it is a normal investment in a film and shoots it in this kind of big director model in China, to be honest, Fan Zhe would not dare to find Wang Zhicheng. However, their style of making movies has always been to solve most of the problems in the project establishment stage before shooting.
In this way, I am not too worried about Wang Zhicheng's weaknesses, which will delay the quality of the movie too much.
So, the matter was settled.