Chapter 4: Making Excuses (part 3 of 4)

At nine o'clock in the morning, Shen Xudong went downstairs for breakfast, Chen Hao quickly put down the tablet in his hand and greeted him: "Morning!" ”

“… What time did you wake up? ”

"Around half past seven..."

“… You didn't sleep until two o'clock last night! ”

"It's okay, I can catch up on sleep at noon..."

As Chen Hao spoke, he took the milk handed by his aunt and put it on the table: "You drink milk first, and the staple food will be served later!" ”

Shen Xudong picked up the milk, drank it all, and then asked, "... Eaten? ”

“… Not yet, I just did yoga for an hour..."

"Yoga..."

Shen Xudong suddenly remembered: "I said how did you become so flexible..."

"You can practice too!"

"Forget it, I'm going to run at most..."

After chatting for a while, the aunt brought over the breakfast, which was steamed buns, egg cakes and whole wheat bread, Shen Xudong was very hungry, so he stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it directly...

Chen Hao took a glass of juice, sat aside, and accompanied him to breakfast, when he suddenly remembered something: "I feel that the days of traffic and small fresh meat are coming to an end..."

"How?"

"The industry is very unhappy with them..."

That's true!

"I used to watch Taiwanese idol dramas and felt that they had no acting skills, but... At the time, people didn't criticize these people much..."

"There are also criticisms..."Shen Xudong waved his hand: "But they mainly act in idol dramas, and now these people are starting to scourge mainstream film and television dramas!" ”

Xiao Xianrou is actually a derogatory term, referring to those young and handsome young men who have just debuted.

alludes to the fact that there is very little love life and a beautiful boy who is just beginning to fall in love, which was originally a contemptuous title, but it was brought to the table to talk about it in a grand manner, and the problem is that it has become a phenomenon.

This word has the meaning of male pet in ancient times!

If you discuss, you can discuss, fan movies and fan-customized dramas do not belong to the public, the problem is that now a lot of capital wants to use small fresh meat to get involved in mainstream dramas!

It's unacceptable.

In the past, when Taiwanese idol dramas were popular, Xu Shaoyang, William Li, including Wu Zun, were very embarrassed in their acting skills, although many young fans loved them, but in the end they were all out of luck.

Now these little fresh meats are not good at acting, but they enjoy great resources one by one!

Of course, the professionals in the circle are dissatisfied - those who are not good in professional ability should be eliminated, and this should be the case in any industry.

"Then when do you think the model of small fresh meat + IP will end?"

"It's hard to say, but next year's "Journey to the West", I will win!"

As he spoke, Shen Xudong finished breakfast with five divided by two: "I'll go out first." ”

"You're going to the company?"

"Well, I'll be back early in the evening."

……

For Ali Pictures, the box office of "The Ferryman" in the first two days was unacceptable to them.

73 million on the first day, 84 million on the next day...

It looks very high, but this is a result that took 60 million votes to make up for it, and "The Ferryman" is also a fan movie, and the box office in the first week often accounts for more than 70% of the total box office!

The most important thing is that the next day's results were directly overtaken by "The Great Wall" - the latter won a box office score of 95 million with 20.8% of the scheduled films, successfully surpassing "The Ferryman" and "Railway Flying Tiger" (82 million), and then won the single-day box office championship.

The total box office prediction of "The Ferryman", Maoyan directly gave 320 million, and the Taopiao ticket was slightly better, 520 million...

In fact, whether it is 320 million or 520 million, it has already set a new high at the box office of Wong Kar-wai's movie.

The problem is that Ahri Pictures' investment in "The Ferryman" has reached 300 million, plus more than 100 million in publicity and marketing, that is to say, the box office is only one billion, and this movie is a loss!

In fact, compared with "Railway Flying Tiger", Ahri Pictures should be satisfied - "Railway Flying Tiger" is guaranteed to be released at 1.8 billion, and the box office is only 150 million after two days of release, although the reputation is slightly better than "The Ferryman", it is still very crotch-pulling...

Maoyan predicts that the final box office of "Railway Flying Tiger" will be 860 million, and the Taobao ticket will also be 850 million...

It can be said that the guarantee side of "Railway Flying Tiger" should set a record for the biggest failure of the guarantee!

Before Bona's guaranteed release of "Legend of the Gods", the final box office was 283 million, and Bona's blood loss was more than 200 million. You're a great man...

'Burn yourself and illuminate the fat woman (Xiang Tai)'

Ahem...

"Railway Flying Tiger" has a minimum guarantee of 1.8 billion, which means that it took nearly 700 million to the producer, and the final account share did not exceed 300 million...

It's just two Yu Dong!

This is no longer the extent of burning yourself, directly burning yourself into black charcoal...

Pull it back, Ahri Pictures will definitely be 'unconvinced', after all, it has not completed the established KPI, and when the time comes, it will be held accountable, and it will be responsible for itself!

Alibaba Pictures publicly responded that 'disliking is not the same as being bad, malicious reviews and bad reviews are two different things!' 'Malicious smears don't mean there's something wrong with our movie!' ’

directly attributed the poor box office of "The Ferryman" to too many people who gave bad reviews...

is the same as Deng Chao's operation - after the release of "Villain Angel", he forwarded more than 100 positive comments in one go...

However, Deng Chao was not convinced, and Ahri was most likely to dump the pot!

What should I do if the KPI is not completed?

Smeared!

As long as the pot is thrown out, the main responsibility is not mine, then no problem!

Ahri's system is like that...

……

When he arrived at the company, Chen Xi asked about the situation of "The Ferryman".

"It's pretty bad, I watched it for half an hour and then fell asleep... I haven't finished reading it at all..."

“… I said, why is there a photo saying that you went to the movies with Chen Hao! ”

"Got a picture?"

Chen Xi nodded: "I almost got on the hot search..."

"Won't it, you can also be on the hot search if you watch a movie?"

Shen Xudong turned on his mobile phone and looked through the comments on Weibo, and sure enough, many people asked him, 'How is "The Ferryman"...'

“… Chen Hao wanted to watch a movie, and then we went to watch "The Ferryman"..."

"You should pay more attention in the future... If this is on the hot search, won't it increase the popularity of the other party! Even Xu Ke knew that he refused Ali's invitation! ”

What Chen Xi said was that Xu Ke refused the invitation of "Journey to the West"...

I heard that Ahri offered 30 million Hong Kong dollars and wanted Xu Ke to direct "Journey to the West"...

Zhou Xingchi + Xu Ke!

However, Xu Ke should have thought of what happened to Mai Jia, and decisively refused.

Since 1982, the three parties have their own tricks, and Golden Harvest is on the backward side, and then in 1986, Mai Jia, the boss of Xinyi City, suddenly starred in "Best Lucky Star"...

After the film was completed, Mai Jia returned to the New Art City, and while holding a meeting to arrange how to fight against "Best Lucky Star", she actually said to everyone proudly: "Don't think about it, it's not enough to shoot anything." ”

I heard that Golden Harvest promised to pay Mai Jia 6 million Hong Kong dollars - at that time, Cheng Long's salary was the highest in Hong Kong, but in terms of pure actors, the salary was 4 million, which means that Golden Harvest gave him the first salary in Hong Kong...

Of course, it was only a verbal promise - only the first installment of the salary was paid, and then on the grounds that Mai Jia only filmed for 7 days, no more remuneration was paid!

This incident directly led to the complete split of the three giants of New Art City (Mai Jia, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming), and the collective creation system that New Art City is proud of is no longer there...

(End of chapter)