Chapter 25: The Aftermath
Although Zhang Mu thinks that his level is no worse than that of the original director An Bingji, he asked himself that the quality of the two versions of the movie is actually about the same.
The most fundamental reason why there is such a big difference in the box office is simply because of the different production companies.
A-Post Pictures, the company behind the original "Pen Fairy", is a small company with a small name.
And now CJ Entertainment, the stick company that bought out "Pen Fairy", is one of the four major film and television giants in Bangzi Country.
Whether it's in terms of publicity ability or relationship with theaters, CJ Entertainment is not comparable to A-Post Pictures.
Therefore, for the sake of its own interests, CJ Entertainment will naturally promote it with heart.
This led to the box office of Zhang Mu's version of "Pen Fairy", which was much higher than the original version, and Fusang was almost for this reason.
Therefore, even if those companies make a lot of money this time, Zhang Mu has nothing to regret.
But he can be so calm, and others are not so rational.
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Beijing, headquarters of Huayi Brothers.
"Where did this kid come from?"
After reading the post on the Internet, Wang Zhonglei, general manager of Huayi, couldn't help but raise his head and said in surprise.
Compared with his impatient younger brother, Wang Zhongjun is much more stable.
I saw that he made a few phone calls unhurriedly, and from time to time he jotted down something on the paper.
After a full quarter of an hour, Wang Zhongjun, who hung up the phone, looked at the record in front of him and was silent.
Seeing this, Wang Zhonglei immediately leaned over curiously, and then found that all the records on the paper were Zhang Mu's past experiences.
Although it is only an approximate record, being able to find these in such a short period of time is enough to show how powerful Wang Zhongjun is.
For the ability of the eldest brother, Wang Zhonglei has long been commonplace. At this moment, he was even more curious about what the kid named Zhang Mu was.
However, after he read the information recorded on the paper, he immediately understood why the eldest brother, who had always been unfazed, had such an expression just now.
"Big brother, this information can't be fake, right?"
"A person who only has a high school degree and has not taken a professional course for a day can make a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars as soon as he makes a shot?"
It's no wonder that Wang Zhonglei is suspicious, after all, if Zhang Mu's information is only on paper, it is indeed a bit incredible.
Regarding his younger brother's gaffe, Wang Zhongjun understands it very well.
After all, no domestic director has ever won such a high box office except for Lao Mouzi.
Even their Huayi's leading director, Feng Xiaogang, now has the highest box office "See You or Leave", which is only 43 million at the box office.
After being silent for a moment, Wang Zhongjun finally frowned slightly and said slowly:
"Existence is reasonable!"
"Xiaogang is not from a professional class, isn't he also a fifth-generation crusher!"
Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then said with a firm look in his eyes:
"If you can shoot the first part, you can shoot the second part!"
"Second brother, you run it yourself. Such a talent, we Huayi can't miss it! ”
Seeing his eldest brother say this, Wang Zhonglei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded vigorously.
Thinking that Huayi may have the opportunity to have top commercial directors like Zhang Mu and Feng Xiaogang at the same time, Wang Zhonglei's heart couldn't help but feel hot.
So I was still surprised, and even got up decisively and left.
Looking at his younger brother who said he would leave, Wang Zhongjun's heart was half relieved.
After all, when it comes to dealing with people, his younger brother does have a set.
When Huayi Brothers was still an advertising company, a lot of business was brought in by him.
However, although he had already thought about pulling Zhang Mu down to Huayi no matter what, Wang Zhongjun still had some doubts in his heart.
After all, Zhang Mu's rise was too sudden, and Wang Zhongjun was also worried that he was just an accidental flash of inspiration, and then he would return to mediocrity.
So after thinking about it for a while, Wang Zhongjun decided to give Zhang Mu a few horror movies to test the water first. After he proved that he did have real materials, he would consider other themes.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhongjun couldn't help but nod silently.
In fact, Wang Zhongjun's move is not new.
Feng Xiaogang, the current director of Huayi, although he looks infinitely beautiful, he also came here like this at the beginning.
At the same time, in the headquarters building of Bona in Beijing. Yu Dong was also looking intently at the posts on the Internet. Then, his eyes couldn't help but flicker.
It is said that Yu Dong was originally born in China Film, but later he was unwilling to be lonely, so he resigned from China Film in 1999 and went to the sea to create the capital Bona.
Beijing Bona is the first private company in China to obtain a "film distribution license", relying on the connections in the system at the beginning, Yu Dong's business can be said to be getting bigger and bigger.
It's just that the film distribution is booming, and it has gradually been unable to meet Yu Dong's ambitions.
Therefore, since the beginning of this year, he has been in contact with Poly Group, trying to use the financial resources of Poly Group to intervene in the upstream investment and production field.
However, Yu Dong knows in his heart that film production is not enough to have money, but also to have a reliable director. is like Feng Xiaogang of Huayi, which made Yu Dong covetous for a long time.
Originally, Yu Dong also thought that after getting Poly's investment, he would slowly look for a suitable project.
But when he saw Zhang Mu's news, the ambition in his heart suddenly swelled irrepressibly.
In his opinion, Zhang Mu is simply a gift from God, after all, this is too timely.
If Zhang Mu can be taken down, Yu Dong is confident that he can make Huayi a defeated general within three years.
Thinking of this, Yu Dong didn't care about the meeting later, and left the company in a hurry.
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Dongcheng, Lao Dong Restaurant.
After Zhang Mu hung up the phone again, Zeng Li on the side couldn't help but glance at him helplessly and said:
"You're a phone call for a while, do we want to eat?"
"My bad, my bad!"
When Zhang Mu heard this, he immediately arched his hand apologetically to everyone, and then simply turned off his mobile phone.
After all, he came to him for this purpose. It's the same whether he picks up or not, he's not in a hurry anyway.
I don't know how those people knew about his phone number, originally he thought that this meal was a small celebration banquet for the crew of "Pen Fairy", but not long after the banquet started, the phone calls kept coming one after another.
However, looking at Zhang Mu and Zeng Li's casual attitude, Yan Danchen on the side suddenly couldn't help but move his eyes slightly.
Then I saw her quietly leaning into Zeng Li's ear and saying:
"Da Mei, you tell you the truth, are you two already ...... Already that? ”
"That? Which one? ”
Zeng Li hadn't understood it yet, but when he saw Yan Danchen's expression of frowning, he immediately understood what she meant.
So he couldn't help but pinch his best friend, and his cheeks were slightly red and said with a slight annoyance:
"What nonsense are you talking about, we have nothing to do, don't think about it!"
Hearing this, Yan Danchen couldn't help but move his eyes slightly.
"Really?"
Then I saw her say as if she was joking:
"Since you don't like it, I'm going to do it?"
As soon as these words came out, Zeng Li was stunned for a moment, and then immediately looked at his girlfriend with vigilant eyes.
Seeing her react like this, Yan Danchen suddenly smiled proudly:
"Hehe, dare you say it's okay, let me try it out!"
Zeng Li suddenly heard this, his face suddenly turned red, and then he rushed towards Yan Danchen with some annoyance:
"Okay, you little Bichi, you dare to trick me, I'm not done with you!"
After speaking, the two beauties rolled together in sweat.
The occasional spring light was really dazzling, which made Zhang Mu on the opposite side a little unintentionally drinking.