The news that the post-production of "Operation Red Sea" was completed and that it was ready to be released in August quickly spread.

Especially for the directors of this tribute film, they are very concerned about this. At this time, several other directors except Xu Ji were in full swing with their own crews filming their own tribute films.

The most important thing is that because Xu Ji put down his rhetoric before, the box office of "Operation Red Sea" was able to exceed 3 billion.

Originally, the box office task of this gift film was one billion yuan on average for each director, but Xu Ji directly took three-fifths of it, so for several other directors, the remaining box office tasks are not much difficult at all.

However, the box office is one thing, in fact, what is more important is if Xu Ji really does it. The pressure on them becomes enormous.

At that time, Xu Ji will have a box office of 3 billion, and he will only get a few hundred million box office on his side, and even the cost has just been recovered.

Everyone is a super first-line director, and the same gift film project is equivalent to being slapped in the face by Xu Ji alone.

But three billion such an achievement, in fact, many people do not believe in it. Even Zang Sheng, who ranks among the top three super-first-line directors, released his movies on a schedule like the National Day file.

also only dared to promise a box office of two billion. It's still quite a good result. After the sharing, the other directors were willing to give up the National Day file to each other.

Because they don't have much confidence that their movies will be released on a popular schedule like the National Day, they will really be able to get a box office of 2 billion.

After all, this time everyone took on the project of a tribute drama, and the movie was limited from the beginning in terms of subject matter.

As for Xu Ji's desire to be released on August 1st, and then get a box office of 3 billion, it is simply whimsical.

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"Director Zang, Xu Ji's movie is about to be released, do you know the news?" Zang Sheng was still in the crew at this time.

Because it is a military-themed movie, there are many actions and big scenes, but in fact, it is more difficult to shoot than Zang Sheng imagined.

Since the crew, an old bone is still busy, and it hurts every day. Hearing Deng Shengxing's words on the other end of the phone, Zang Sheng also replied slowly: "We are all in a group, and I also saw the message sent by Minister Hu." Deng Shengxing was also in the crew at this time, but when Hu Lan sent out the news that Xu Ji's "Operation Red Sea" was about to be released, he directly asked the crew to rest temporarily, and then called Zang Sheng as soon as possible.

"Director Zang, you said that Xu Ji's movie won't really be able to get three billion box office, right?" If it was before, in fact, Zang Sheng would have smiled disdainfully.

I think Xu Ji is too young. But in just a few months, the changes have been too great.

Produced by Tongji Entertainment and written by Xu Ji as a screenwriter, basically every TV series can become a hit.

What's more, Xu Ji's Tongji Entertainment even went to the American market. relied on an animated movie and a niche horror film, and achieved very amazing results.

"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't believe him if he said it."

"But he is Xu Ji......" Hearing Zang Sheng's words, Deng Shengxing also fell silent.

He still watched it, but Xu Ji was not happy, especially when Hu Lan called Xu Ji. That tone of disdain, as if to say that you need to fight around?

Three billion box office, isn't that just a matter of having hands? Therefore, Deng Shengxing very much hopes that Xu Ji's movie will finally be saved at the box office.

But reason told him that with so many miracles Xu Ji had created before, it was really possible for that guy to do it.

Seeing that Deng Shengxing suddenly fell into silence, Zang Sheng also spoke at this time.

"Actually, I saw it too."

"There's no need to compare with Xu Ji, the more you compare, the more depressed you will be."

"And he's so young, most of us are actually half-necked in the ground."

"No matter how reluctant you are to admit it, the future is indeed promised." ...... Hearing Zang Sheng's words, Deng Shengxing was a little surprised.

He originally thought that Zang Sheng, as the top three directors in China, must have a very high spirit.

And judging from the attitude shown by the other party before, this is indeed the case. I still have a little disdain for Xu Ji.

I feel that the other party is still too young. I don't know what made Zang Sheng change his mind.

"Director Zang, you are too modest."

"And the director's job doesn't mean that you can't make good films when you're old."

"You are the box office champion of this year's Spring Festival." Deng Shengxing said. In fact, according to his status as a super-first-line director, he doesn't have to deliberately please Zang Sheng.

Most of what he said came from the heart. Zang Sheng is more than ten years older than him, and before Deng Shengxing officially became a director, he really liked many of Zang Sheng's movies.

"Actually, I only realized it recently."

"I was idle and bored in the crew, so I watched most of Xu Ji's previous works between filming."

"Including those TV series for which he was a screenwriter."

"This kid is indeed a genius that I have rarely seen in my career." Such an evaluation had to make Deng Shengxing subconsciously stunned.

If other young directors can get Zang Sheng's evaluation, it is estimated that it will cause a lot of shock.

I'm sure I'm going to have to be happy for a long time. But Xu Ji is different, although it has only been four years since his debut, but until now.

Xu Ji already has the qualifications to be on an equal footing with their group of super-first-line directors. Deng Shengxing actually thought that he could find some sense of identity here in Zang Sheng.

After all, in fact, both of them should still not want Xu Ji's box office to exceed 3 billion this time.

But after listening to Zang Sheng's words, Deng Shengxing felt that he suddenly lost interest. No matter how much he thought about it, he compared himself with Xu Ji in all aspects.

But when Xu Ji said a word

"I'm not yet 30 this year", how should he deal with it? I think when I was Xu Ji's age, I was still doing odd jobs in some crews.

There is no comparison at all.

"I see."

"Then Zang Dao, you should be busy first." Deng Shengxing hung up the phone, and simply didn't pay attention to Xu Ji's movie anymore.

Instead, he stood up and shouted

After "starting work", I am ready to continue to shoot my own tribute film. ...... the launch of Operation Red Sea has begun.

It was announced that it would be set for August 1, ten days later. Xu Ji's name is still very attractive, although because of the plot of "Bright Sword", everyone has a lot of opinions about Xu Ji.

But when I saw the works of director Xu Ji, and Ji Yiyang and Chen Kang both starred, they still attracted a lot of attention for the first time.

Successfully on the hot search of Weite. Of course, it is different from the official announcement of some other movies. Other movies need to be bought for hot searches, but Xu Ji's movies just posted a micro-special, and they successfully relied on the discussion of netizens and appeared on the hot search.

"Military films? Xu Ji's new movie this time is actually made with this kind of theme? ”

"Isn't this a port-city style film? I thought that "Infernal Affairs" would come out with a second part. ”

"Tribute film, this news actually came out before, they are all super-first-line directors, but I didn't expect that the first to be released was Xu Ji's one." ...... Originally, Xu Ji got a lot of funds from Hu Lan in terms of publicity.

After all, this tribute film has a box office task, of course, it can't really be released quietly like this.

In that case, the box office target of one billion is indeed quite difficult. In addition to the normal spending of money and publicity, the publicity board of "Operation Red Sea" this time is full.

Dozens of official micro-specials on Weite have forwarded the fixed micro-special. Many of them are the main propaganda accounts on the official side, and the number of fans is tens of millions.

Of course, when the movie of my own boss is released, I have to promote it as an employee. The artists under Tongji Entertainment also actively forwarded it and helped publicize it.

Although the number of artists in Tongji Entertainment is not large, basically everyone has a lot of fans. Especially among the actors, Ji Yiyang, She Yue, An Cailing, Ran Bai and others, the number of fans is tens of millions.

For a while, it did seem like there was a kind of momentum. The whole Weite is swiped by Xu Ji's new movie.

Such a scale of publicity and distribution is basically at the top level. However, Xu Ji also knows that marketing is too much, and it is not a good thing.

And for the movie "Operation Red Sea", it is completely based on the quality of the plot and word-of-mouth to attract the audience.

There's no need to go too far. Therefore, except for the day of the finalization, the follow-up made both the official and Tongji Entertainment choose cold treatment.

There is no deliberate attempt to increase the scale of publicity. But even so, there are still many viewers who have discussed this movie in advance.

Especially in the trailer released later, the various war scenes really make people a little excited to watch.

...... Sang Shaolong had already come to the news that Xu Ji went abroad to film, and he was quite looking forward to this movie.

Of course, he only learned about the news of the gift film after it was finalized. No wonder the relevant secrecy measures were done very well before, and no news came out.

Xu Ji would choose such a military film, but Sang Shaolong didn't expect it. Or Xu Ji may also be an official task received in desperation.

But no matter what, what Sang Shaolong is looking forward to most is what Xu Ji will be like when he comes to shoot those war scenes.

Although Xu Ji is obviously not unfamiliar with military films. But the previous opponent's "Soldier Assault" actually didn't have a lot of large-scale war scenes.

And later "Bright Sword" has a lot of war scenes, and it is quite well filmed. It's just that Xu Ji only played the role of screenwriter and producer, and the director of the TV series is still Song Ideal.

There are many big scenes in military films, as well as action scenes or something, which actually test the director's on-site scheduling ability.

Xu Ji has made so many movies before, but none of them have ever appeared with a plot that shows a very light scheduling ability.

Although action movies are in decline now, not just any director can shoot them. If Xu Ji can shoot well, it can add a lot to his identity as a director, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is omnipotent.

After the trailer of "Wushuang" came out, in fact, Sang Shaolong was looking forward to the action scenes in it.

It's a pity that the action scenes of the movie "Wushuang" are not the main content. It's only one or two, and it's obviously not very difficult to shoot.

And this time, judging from the trailer of "Operation Red Sea", the whole movie should be a very pure military film.

There should be no shortage of various big scenes and action scenes. ...... The release of Xu Ji's new movie is also a thing that has to be paid attention to for the three majors.

Of course, although there are no small actions, even Li Bokai will not dare to buy the water army this time, and he will deliberately damage the reputation of the movie or something when the time comes.

After all, it's an official gift film project, unless you're tired of it, otherwise there's absolutely no need to die for this.

And in addition to Xu Ji, in fact, each of the three major entertainment companies has directors who have gone to the gift film project.

We all know the importance of this project. Of course, the best news is that the movie will be released on August 1.

It's not a good schedule. At this time, at most, it can catch up with the tail of the summer file. At the same time, the three major entertainments, and even some larger film and television companies, basically will not have that kind of large-investment film that will be released during this time period.

Therefore, everyone will not be afraid of losing money to their company this time because of Xu Ji's new movie.

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"Three billion?"

"Xu Ji, that guy really said it in front of Hu Lan and Duan Shengyu?" At this time, when Ji Yeming heard the assistant's words, his face was incredible.

The assistant nodded and replied affirmatively: "It was Director Wang Huilan who said it himself." ”

"Several other super-first-line directors present at the time heard all of them." Ji Yeming's attention to this "Red Sea Operation" is naturally more than other peers.

In addition to his own son participating in it, in fact, several young actors under Tianwu were also borrowed by Xu Ji.

So although this movie is a tribute film, it actually has a lot to do with Sky Dance.

"This is a tribute film, and it will be released at such a schedule."

"Xu Ji is still a little impulsive." Ji Yeming couldn't help but sigh. In fact, although he and Xu Ji have never met once, Ji Yeming has heard a lot of things about the other party from various channels.

Especially Ji Yiyang, every time he comes back, when he mentions Xu Ji, he looks like a little fan brother.

It was the first time that Ji Ye Mingdu had seen his son worship someone so much.

"But it seems that Xu Ji took the initiative to propose it at that time."

"Neither the military ministers, Hu Lan nor Duan Shengyu, agreed."

"It's not really that Xu Ji was directly allocated a target of three billion." The assistant explained.

But Ji Yeming is not surprised. If you can say yes, you will have a ghost. Even if Xu Ji is confident, there is a great chance of getting such box office results.

But as long as it wasn't for the two of them deliberately trying to harm him, it was impossible to agree to such a thing. ......