In the last few days of September, in addition to being busy with his company's affairs in Beijing, Gu Wei participated in the premieres of two movies one after another.

The first scene was released on the 25th, directed and starred by Xu Zheng "People in the Embarrassing Journey".

Originally, Gu Wei and Xu Zheng had no friendship, and the two had not cooperated before, so they didn't know each other at all.

It's just that Mr. Wang of [Light Media] tried his best to invite him to participate, and Gu Wei didn't want to save Wang Changtian's face, so he had to go to help.

However, he was relatively low-key throughout the premiere, quietly passed, sat in the audience and watched the movie, and said hello to Lao Wang after the premiere and left.

Of course, he was inevitably caught by the media in the middle, and asked him how he felt about watching the movie, Gu Wei praised the movie very face-savingly.

But in fact, in Gu Wei's opinion, the quality of [Hong Kong] is relatively average, not as amazing as [Thailand].

As the third part of [People in Embarrassment], to be honest, it has smashed the reputation of this series.

First of all, Xu Zheng is no longer satisfied with being simply funny in "Hong Kong Embarrassment", he wants to express some of his thoughts through movies.

It is the nostalgia of middle-aged men for youth and their reflection on life.

All the jokes revolve around this central idea.

It's not that he doesn't do it well, the movie should really express something so that the audience can gain something after watching it.

But the point is that he pursues this kind of expression a bit too much, ignoring the real attraction of comedy to the audience, which is that it must be funny.

The reason for the success of [Thai Embarrassment] has nothing to do with what the film wants to express, it is the clever baggage design and dense jokes from beginning to end.

The audience entered the cinema and laughed non-stop from the beginning to the end of the movie.

This is the main reason for attracting everyone to watch, not to see what can convince and educate you in the movie.

Compared with the second part, the burden of [Hong Kong Embarrassment] is a bit perfunctory, and there is a feeling of being rigid, not as natural as [Thai Embarrassment].

Moreover, Bao Beier's audience popularity is still much worse than Wang Baoqiang.

The same plot, if Wang Baoqiang acts, everyone can accept it, but if you change it to Bao Belle, the audience may be bored, which is entirely caused by the different images of the actors themselves in the hearts of the audience.

However, although there are many shortcomings, [Hong Kong], as the third part of the much-anticipated [Embarrassment] series, has achieved very good results after its release.

The box office exceeded 200 million on the day of the premiere, and then the box office on Saturday and Sunday was as high as 240 million and 220 million respectively.

The box office in the first three days was 660 million.

This ferocious momentum is even stronger than when the current box office champion "Monster Hunt" was released.

After all, the highest single-day box office of [Monster Hunt] did not exceed 200 million.

Just when everyone was looking forward to whether [Hong Kong] would create a new box office record, the box office performance of the movie on Monday of the second week fell directly from 220 million to 91.24 million, and it was more than halved.

And the reviews on the Internet are not very good, among which netizens questioned the most, that is, why not use Wang Baoqiang and not as funny as [Thai Embarrassment].

At this time, everyone also knew that this movie would be very good at the box office, but breaking the record would definitely be no show.

The second premiere that Gu Wei attended was very attentive.

He was invited by Shen Teng to attend the premiere of "Charlotte's Troubles", which was released on the 30th.

Although he has no friendship with [Happy Twist], he has a good relationship with Shen Teng, and the post-production of "The Richest Tomato" filmed by Yan Fei and Peng Damo has not yet been made.

Gu Wei is still waiting for the two directors to finish [Charlotte's Troubles] so that they can return to his honest work.

On the day of the premiere, Gu Wei's appearance was a bit unexpected by the news media present.

Two days ago, he attended the premiere of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" was also reported, but after all, that movie is the sequel to the former box office champion [Thai Embarrassment], and director Xu Zheng is also a big name in the circle.

Gu Wei appeared to cheer everyone, and everyone was not surprised.

But Charlotte's Troubles are different.

From the production company [Happy Twist] to directors Yan Fei and Peng Damo, and then to the heroes and heroines Shen Teng and Mary.

It's not famous, no.

[Happy Twist] includes two directors who are very famous in the field of stage plays.

Shen Teng and Mary are famous comedy stars who have appeared on the Spring Festival Gala many times.

It's just that they didn't have anything to do with movies before [Charlotte's Troubles], and everyone is a newcomer to the film industry.

Shen Teng has acted in movies a few times before, all of them are small supporting roles or cameos, and this is the first time he has really been the protagonist.

So what kind of results [Charlotte Troubles] can achieve, not to mention the media and the audience, even they themselves don't have much confidence in their hearts.

"Brother Teng, congratulations, the movie is finally about to be released, and the future king of comedy is rising!"

Gu Wei smiled and teased Shen Teng.

"But you can't say that, don't you kill me, don't you dare to be, don't dare to be!"

Shen Teng shook his head again and again.

"It's okay, I'm telling you no one else can listen."

"In this way, then I, the future king of comedy, is indeed rising!"

Shen Teng stinks and says.

"Don't you two treat me as a human being?"

Mary interjected next to her.

"Alas~ Gu Wei didn't treat you as an outsider, didn't he, brother?"

"That's right, Sister Ma Li is also the future queen of comedy!"

Gu Wei said with a smile on his face.

"Don't, your brother Teng has a girlfriend over there, and he's about to get married.

I don't want to have an affair with him, so let him be the king of comedy. ”

Mary shook her head.

"Why do I feel that you look down on me a little?"

Shen Teng was not convinced.

"Then you feel wrong, I'm not 'a little' to look down on you, it's very much to look down on you!"

Gu Wei looked at the daily bickering between the two and felt very interesting.

"Mr. Gu, are you here too?"

Yan Fei and Peng Damo also saw Gu Wei who appeared at the premiere, and hurriedly came over to say hello, after all, they took Gu Wei's remuneration for filming, and ran away before they did a good job in the later stage.

It feels like an actor is halfway through filming and suddenly goes to shoot another film, and sees Gu Wei a little weak.

"Congratulations to the two directors on the release of their new movie, it will definitely be a big hit at the box office!"

Gu Wei said with a smile on his face.

"Let's borrow Mr. Gu's auspicious words, we are all newcomers in the film and television industry, the first movie doesn't want to sell much box office, I just hope to have a good reputation, and the audience likes it."

The two directors glanced at each other, and Yan Fei, who was more extroverted, said.

But what he said was indeed what the crew of [Charlotte's Troubles] said.

Everyone wants their movies to be a big hit, but they also know that they are novices in the film industry, and the chance of the first movie being a big hit is too small.

Gu Wei smiled and didn't care, at this time, who would have known that the movie [Charlotte's Troubles] could sell more than one billion in one step.

Neither the director nor the actors dared to think about it.

After chatting with a few more people, the premiere soon began.

After the cliché interactive interview session, the movie begins.

Of course, this is not the first time Gu Wei has watched this movie.

To be honest, in his case, this kind of movie that goes back to the past is quite comedy, but I don't know if he is now "Charlotte", who will be the character of Zhou Concluding, saying the sentence "I feel like I've always lived in his shadow." ”

The film was soon screened to an end, and in the last session, the host invited all the guests present today to come to the stage to send blessings to the film.

With the connections of [Happy Twist], there are still some celebrities who come to support today.

For example, the famous director Ning Hao, after he took the stage, he praised [Charlotte's Troubles] and used two "particularly good-looking" to describe this movie.

and He Jiong, who came to the scene today, said that he would post a Weibo every day before the release of the film on September 30 to support [Charlotte's Troubles].

After Xiao Yueyue came to the stage, he sang the "Song of the Five Rings" at the request of the audience.

In the end, Gu Wei also stepped forward to the stage.

"I met Shen Teng and Mary and the two directors at the Spring Festival Gala last year, and I have always admired and admired their ability in comedy.

Sure enough, [Charlotte Troubles] is a very good comedy movie, and I wish this movie a big hit at the box office, and I hope that more people can see this very good movie! ”

September 30, the last day of the month.

In addition to [Charlotte's Troubles], there are also Liu Dehua's "Rescue Mr. Wu" and Lu Chuan's "Nine-Story Demon Tower" released.

Everyone chose to release the film on this day, and it was also for the seven-day holiday of October 1st National Day.

I want to achieve a good box office result in this National Day file.

The three movies plus "Hong Kong", which was released a week in advance, are basically the main force of domestic films in this year's National Day file.

There is no accident, [Nine-Story Demon Tower] is adapted from the popular IP [Ghost Blowing Lantern], a 3D disaster adventure film directed by the famous director Lu Chuan, which is highly anticipated by the majority of fans and book fans.

On the first day of release, it got the highest national proportion of 31%, while [Charlotte Troubles] and "Rescue Mr. Wu" were not optimistic because of the relationship between fame and subject matter, and the proportion of films was only about 10%.

Although the decline has been revealed, it still has more than 20% of the film schedule.

However, after entering the 11th Golden Week, after a few days of release, the trend of various movies has changed unexpectedly.

The most normal thing is [Rescue Mr. Wu], which is similar to what everyone began to predict, even if powerful stars such as Liu Dehua, Liu Ye, and Wang Qianyuan joined, this movie still can't be a box office hit.

There was only 13.26 million on the first day of the premiere, and the follow-up has been fluctuating between 1,000 and 20 million, and the movie's reputation is very good, and the final box office should be no problem to break 100 million, but it stops there.

Although the box office of [Hong Kong] has decreased significantly compared with the first week, it still has 70 or 80 million yuan a day.

And the [Nine-Story Demon Tower], which everyone thought would be a big hit, achieved a box office of 92.13 million on the first day of release, and a box office of 102 million on October 1 the next day, and the box office fell all the way from the 2nd, almost at a rate of 10 million per day, until the last day of the small long holiday on October 7, the single-day box office was only 32.48 million.

The main reason for this situation is that the reputation of the [Nine-Story Demon Tower] has collapsed.

A large number of book fans who entered the theater because of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" shouted that they were deceived after coming out, and the movie borrowed the name of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and the content was changed in a mess, and the shadow of the original work could not be seen at all.

In this regard, Lu Chuan talked eloquently in the interview, he felt that the movie he made was his own work, and hoped that the audience would not be affected by the original work, and the quality of the film was the key.

After the report came out, netizens were scolded.

[If you want to shoot your own work, don't mark it as an adaptation of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and you want the traffic of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and you don't want people to say that it can only be sold by relying on it, and you can be a bitch and set up an archway! ! ] 】

[What the hell is this that changed, completely ruined the original work, and returned the money!!] 】

[I will watch Lu Chuan's movie in the future, I am a dog, and I will post as proof!] 】

【. 】

Affected by this bad reputation, the box office of [Nine-Story Demon Tower] naturally fell again and again.

In the end, even the original author of [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] couldn't help it, he thought that the movie [Nine-Story Demon Tower] had made an "excessive" adaptation of [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] and infringed on his copyright, and sued China Film Co., Ltd. and Lu Chuan, the director of [Nine-Story Demon Tower], to the Beijing XC District Court.

After the trial of this matter, the court ruled that "Tianxia Ba Sing" won the lawsuit and ordered the defendant to compensate the author 50,000 yuan.

It doesn't matter if the [Nine-Story Demon Tower] pounces, there is a dark horse that no one expected on the National Day - [Charlotte Troubles].

Although this movie was only a little more than 10% scheduled on the day of its premiere, it received a good score of 34.51 million with its super high attendance.

After that, the box office trend was completely opposite to [Nine-Story Demon Tower], and with its super high reputation, the box office went all the way up.

Seeing this situation, the theater chain also added more films to [Charlotte's Troubles], and finally in the last two days of the National Day, the box office rushed to a good result of 112 million in a single day.

[Charlotte's Troubles] became completely popular, and was called the only surprising comedy movie by the audience in the second half of the year.

Shen Teng, a sketch actor, has also turned into a sought-after movie actor and comedy star.

Gu Wei's office.

He made tea and sat opposite a fair-skinned, good-looking woman across from him.

"Senior sister, this tea tastes good, right?"

Gu Wei asked with a smile.

"It's okay, I don't know if you like this, my dad has a lot of good tea, it's all given by others, and he can't finish it himself, I'll bring you some when I go back."

"Isn't that okay?"

Gu Wei hesitated.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's a waste to put it away, it's better to take it out and give you some to drink, and it can be regarded as sharing some for him."

The daughter of the Han family waved her hand, looking like she was not distressed about selling Yetian.

"Then I'll be disrespectful, thank you in advance, senior sister!"

Gu Wei smiled, as if he saw Han Sanping's heartache when he found that his beloved tea was missing.

"By the way, I came to you today for business.

The script I told you about before was finally completed after several revisions. ”

The Han family girl looked at it and took out a thick white bound book from the bag beside her.

Gu Wei took it and saw that there were four big characters written on the cover: [The Road of Life].

He flipped through it casually, and the content in it was the later movie [I Am Not the God of Medicine].

After a while, Gu Wei closed the notebook.

"Senior sister, your script is very complete and very well written."

Hearing Gu Wei's praise, the Han family girl couldn't help but smile.

"And when will the film start preparation?"

"Actually, since the last time we had dinner together, I've been obsessed with your script.

It just so happened that I found a very suitable director the other day.

I think with his ability, he will definitely be able to make this movie well. ”

Gu Wei said.

"Oh? Which director? Do I know? ”

The Han family girl looked curious.

"It's not a big director, but you definitely know this person."

Gu Wei smiled and picked up the teacup, blew the tea leaves floating on it, and took a sip slowly.

"Gu Wei, I found that you are not very old, and you always learn some old men's way of speaking, just like my father's gang, you love to hang people's appetites."

The Han family girl complained.

"Hehe, blame me, Wen Muye, senior sister, you must know him, he is a 11-level graduate of the Beiying Directing Department like you."

"Xiaowen?

Of course I know my classmates.

Only, can he do it? ”

The Han family girl was skeptical of what Gu Wei said.

She has also been classmates with Wen Mu for two years, and of course she knows that he is indeed a very talented director.

But she also knew that his classmate had just graduated for a short time and had no experience in directing feature-length films at all.

"You can't believe that others can't believe me, after all, I'm the one who has to pay real money to make this movie!

I have also signed Wenmu into my own company.

I know you're afraid that he has too little filming experience and is too young, so you specially arranged a relatively simple romantic comedy for him to team up.

At the same time, he let the assistant director with rich shooting experience in the company assist him.

When that movie is finished, let's start preparing for this movie right away! ”

Gu Wei also said good things for Wen Mu.

Others don't believe in his ability, but Gu Wei knows, after all, [I am not the God of Medicine] was originally the work of Wen Muye.

And they have made other blockbuster movies in the future, and there is no need to question their ability and talent.

"Uh~ Okay, I'll listen to you."

The Han family girl hesitated for a moment and agreed.

Just like Gu Wei said, not to mention anything else, people are investors in this movie, and they must attach the most importance to whether the movie will be a big hit in the future.

Now that he has a complete plan, he has no reason to oppose it.

"By the way, there's another thing, the name of this movie has to be changed.

[The Road of Life] is a feature film at first glance, and if you want the movie to be a big hit, this name is not good. ”

Gu Wei said.

"And what good advice do you have?"

"According to the performance of the male protagonist 'Cheng Yong' in the movie, it is not an exaggeration to be a god, you can call it a 'God of Medicine', and the name of the movie can be called [I am not the God of Medicine]!"

"[I'm not the god of medicine]?"

The Han family girl muttered twice.

"A good name indeed!"

(End of chapter)