When Lee Shengyao was filming "Parasite" on Hong Kong Island, he actually missed a lot of things, such as the mainland film market in October and November, and the Chinese New Year in early and mid-December.

October's "The Legend of the White Snake", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", November's "33 Days of Broken Love", "Hongmen Banquet", and "Twilight 4" are all highly anticipated movies, but unfortunately except for "33 Days of Broken Love", other movies are not very good at the box office.

Entering December, the Chinese New Year file is coming, and the competition in the mainland film market is more intense.

At the beginning of December, a series of films such as "Happy Magic", "Racing Legend", "Huge Deal", "Trying Love Before Marriage", "Roll Over, Ashin", "Chasing Love" and so on were released.

Among them, "Happy Magic" is a movie supervised by Huang Baiming, and like his past films, he invited a bunch of stars and then performed an embarrassing and inexplicable story.

If you want a plot without a plot, if you want special effects without special effects.

What's even more speechless is that the celebrities invited by Huang Baiming are all crooked coffees on Hong Kong Island, and they have no market appeal.

Under such circumstances, Huang Baiming, who was full of confidence, suffered a major blow in his life, and the first day of "Happy Magic" was only about 15%.

This made Huang Baiming very dissatisfied, and he complained on Weibo, feeling that he was targeted by mainland filmmakers.

Wang Zhongjun was also very angry, and directly replied to Huang Baiming on Weibo, asking him to see what kind of messy movie he made.

Hua Yi is the main investor in "Happy Magic", and the movie is so bad, Wang Zhongjun is even more annoying.

After this incident, Huang Baiming kept a lot of low profile in the mainland, and at the same time, the mainland cinema chain no longer gave him face.

His messy "happy event" movies can no longer get high-ranking films.

By mid-December, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" were released successively.

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" invited Bell to target the global market.

"Dragon Gate Flying Armor" invited Li Lianjie, known as the world's first 3D martial arts movie, and the target is also the global market.

The investment in both films is very high, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" claims to invest 600 million, and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" invests 200 million, of which Li Lianjie is paid 90 million yuan.

The investment is so high, there is naturally pressure to return to the cost, and the two films are now playing very crazy, and fans are constantly arguing in the forum.

When "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" were released, Li Shengyao was on Hong Kong Island, and Lao Mouzi and Xu Wei both called him, hoping that he could attend the premiere and that Li Dadao would help drain the traffic.

Li Shengyao refused, he was filming the most important scene of "Parasite" at that time, so it was naturally impossible to leave Hong Kong Island to cheer them on.

Li Shengyao completed the filming of "Parasite", and after the finale banquet, he hurried back to Yanjing with the crew, intending to complete the film editing in his editing studio.

At this time, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" were still playing hard, Li Shengyao went to the theater to watch these two movies, and praised them separately in front of reporters, which can be regarded as giving face to Lao Mouzi and Xu Wei.

He then planned to edit "Parasite" wholeheartedly, and at this time, there were many film invitations.

"Tears of a Fallen City", "Intimate Enemies", "Speed Angel", "Double Bed Treaty" and other movies have been released successively, and the directors and producers of these films all want Director Li to give them some advice.

All to Li Shengyao refused.

Lao Mouzi, Xu Wei has a bigger face, so he squeezed out time to watch a movie, in fact, he didn't watch it seriously at all, he just slept in the cinema for two hours.

He had seen these two movies in his previous life and didn't feel the need to watch them a second time.

Ma Chucheng, the director of "Speed Angel", and producer Hou Jidong do not believe in evil, and they also came to the door in person, hoping that Li Shengyao can give them more support.

Ma Chucheng is a first-class photographer in the Chinese film and television industry, and he is the main photographer of "Sweet Honey", but is he making movies?

There is always a little less heat, such as "Star Wish", "Eastview Raiders", "Hancheng Raiders" These movies can't be said to be bad movies, but even if there are celebrities, the attraction is still not enough.

As for Hou Jidong, his master is very famous, Wang Jingzhen in the Beijing circle.

He worked as a manager in the brokerage department in Huayi and Guangguang, and then he floated away and came out to work alone.

"Speed Angel" was his first film as a producer, and he should have invested a lot of money.

The movie invited Tang Wei, Liu Ruoying, Lin Zhiying, and Zhang Baizhi, all four of whom had no box office appeal.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, this dreamer would quickly decline and be forgotten by the entertainment industry.

Li Shengyao did not see Ma Chucheng and Hou Jidong, he was in the editing room at the time, heard the assistant's report, and directly refused.

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At 7:30 p.m. on December 24, 2011, it was overcast, the night sky was moonless, there were no stars, and a black cloth covered all the light in the night sky.

The cold wind was howling, and the pedestrians on the road were all neck bent, and the zippers on all parts of the body were tightened to prevent gaps.

Li Shengyao took his assistant and drove to a courtyard in Chaoyang District.

On the side of the gate of this courtyard hangs a vertical plaque, on which are written five big characters - Wang's private dishes.

This private dish is one of the top private dishes in Yanjing, and it is said that a table of dishes costs tens of thousands of yuan.

The ancestors of the chefs in it used to mix in the palace and were the imperial chefs who cooked for the royal family.

Li Shengyao came over this time because Yu Dong and Xu Wei invited him together, so he came over.

Before Ma Chucheng and Hou Jidong looked for Li Shengyao, he didn't bother to see him.

This time Yu Dong and Xu Wei were invited, and he came over for dinner, naturally it was not that Yu Dong and Xu Wei were handsome, but mainly because these two could provide benefits for Li Shengyao.

In the past two days, a batch of new films have been released, whether it is "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" or "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", the film schedule has been further compressed, and the single-day box office has naturally declined.

Zhang Weiping called Li Shengyao, hoping that Fenghua Cinema could support more and increase the schedule of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling".

Fooled Li Shengyao.

Zhang Weiping just relied on Lao Mouzi to eat, why did he give him face.

If there is no benefit, you have to increase the film schedule, who gave you the courage?

Now Yu Dong and Xu Wei are looking for Li Shengyao, and Li Dadao is coming, and they will take it as a good meal.

If you want to improve the film schedule, there is no benefit, and Li Shengyao still does not give face.

He then met Yu Dong and Xu Wei, in addition to these two old men, there is also a petite and lovely girl, who is Xiao S's good friend Fan Xiaoxuan.

Yu Dong was dressed in a suit, he was chubby, and his thighs were especially thick, very much like an ordinary little fat man, without any aura.

Xu Wei is more like a big guy, he is thinner, and he has two mustaches, like someone hiding behind the scenes.

Fan Xiaoxuan is dressed in regular clothes, with a blue sweater with black jeans and a pair of ordinary Gaobang sneakers.

Her face is very good-looking, and her figure is actually very ordinary, but her legs are very straight, and she is wearing jeans, which is slightly curved, which is a little tempting.

"Director Li, please take a seat."

Yu Dong reacted the fastest, saw Li Shengyao, and immediately stepped forward to invite.

Li Shengyao sat down, Yu Dong and Xu Wei sat on either side of him, and the two of them began to praise Li Shengyao, and by the way, they introduced the fragrant dishes on the table.

Li Shengyao was naturally not polite, picked up the chopsticks and ate it in a big gulp.

Fan Xiaoxuan looked very shy, occasionally looked at Li Shengyao, and when she met Li Shengyao's gaze, she would quickly turn away.

Li Shengyao saw it in his eyes and smiled secretly in his heart.

In the past two or three years, Fan Xiaoxuan and Zhou Xun have become good friends, Zhou Xun took her into the film and television industry, Fan Xiaoxuan has acted in a few movies, and it seems that she is going to develop in the direction of an actor.

It is not strange that she followed Yu Dong, Xu Wei, and Li Shengyao.

However, if Fan Xiaoxuan wants to figure out the pure character design in front of Li Shengyao, it will be whimsical.

When Fan Xiaoxuan was bending, she played very fiercely with Xiao S's group and publicly stated that she was separated from sex/love. To put it bluntly, the women Li Shengyao has slept with may not be as many as the men Fan Xiaoxuan has played.

The bend actress is like this, there are two kinds of characters in the bend of the mainland.

It's almost time to eat, and Yu Dong is finally about to get down to business.

"Director Li, I invited you over this time, mainly because I want to discuss one thing with you."

"You say."

"We hope that Fenghua Cinema can schedule more films for "Dragon Gate Flying Armor"."

Yu Dong looked at Li Shengyao's young, handsome, and fatless face, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, a kind of helplessness, unwillingness, and painful emotions lingered in his heart.

When Fenghua Video was listed in the beautiful country last year, it was a great success, which made Li Shengyao's net worth increase all of a sudden, even if TVB is excluded, the market valuation of Fenghua Film and Television Company can now reach 50 billion yuan.

Bo Na was also listed in the beautiful country last year, but the effect was average, a year later, the market valuation of Bo Na is only 5 billion yuan.

Fenghua Video's stock appreciation in the beautiful country is 35 times faster.

And Bona's stock in the beautiful country has only tripled.

This made Yu Dong very distressed, and what made him even more speechless was that film and television companies such as Huayi, Guangguang, and Huace chose to list in the mainland, and now they are making more money than him.

The market value of Huayi has risen to 15 billion, the market value of Light has reached 12 billion, and the market value of Great Aim has reached 10 billion.

He tried his best, worked hard, crossed the ocean, and wanted to make money from the people of the magnesium country, but people were not optimistic about Bo Na at all, and the investors of the beautiful country did not believe that Bo Na had great prospects at all.

This time, I spent a lot of money and invited Li Lianjie to create the world's first 3D martial arts movie - "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", just to make box office in the world and let investors in beautiful countries see the strength of Bona.

However, it turned out that it was very difficult for "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" to prove itself in the global market.

Long before the movie was released, Bo Na invited a lot of European and American film companies, but these gringos didn't think it was good after watching the movie.

They think that this movie is far worse than "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", even if there is Li Lianjie, they are still not optimistic about the future of this movie in Europe and the United States.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" to become popular in Europe and the United States.

They can't even get into European and American theaters.

The global popularity expected by the top management of Bona has proved that strength has become delusional.

In the end, the big guy thought about it, and still wanted to die and struggle, planning to make an annual champion in the mainland no matter what, and see if he could fool the shareholders of the beautiful country.

And this requires "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" to maintain a high box office, not only to surpass "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", but also to surpass "1937".

At present, the market predicts that "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" is about 500 million, and "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is about 600 million.

"Dragon Gate Flying Armor" wants to make a 2011 Chinese film annual champion, and there is still some hope.

Of course, this requires more film scheduling, especially the support of several large theater chains.

Fenghua Cinema Line is all modern, high-experience cinemas, although the number is not as good as Wanda and Hengdian Cinemas, but the income of a single cinema is among the best.

This is an important reason why many movies like to put screenings in Fenghua theaters.

When Li Shengyao heard this, he nodded without hesitation and said: "No problem, I will tell the people below to give "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" more films." ”

Yu Dong and Xu Wei glanced at each other, and Yu Dong understood that Li Shengyao was responding casually, without any certainty.

Telling your subordinates doesn't mean you can actually do it.

If you want others to do things, you naturally have to pay.

"Director Li, Bo Na's future theaters will fully support Fenghua's movies, and the artists under Bo Na will fully cooperate with Fenghua's film and television dramas and variety shows."

When Li Shengyao heard this, he nodded, "Thank you Mr. Yu for your support." ”

"The third is that all the exclusive online broadcast rights of Bona's film and television dramas are sold to Fenghua Video."

Bona's film and television pants still have some movies, which is good for Fenghua Video.

Li Shengyao smiled and nodded, but did not answer.

Seeing this, Yu Dong knew that Director Li was still dissatisfied, and then said: "Director Li, this time "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", the box office income of all daytime performances, we Bo Na do not participate in the sharing, all of them belong to Fenghua Cinema Line. ”

When Li Shengyao heard this, he smiled slightly and raised his teacup, "Mr. Yu, happy cooperation." ”

Yu Dong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

The new films released in the past two days are actually street movies, which are not interesting, but they have to occupy the schedule.

Fenghua has increased the number of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", in fact, it is not a loss, especially on weekends, there is definitely a profit.

Li Shengyao chatted with Yu Dong for half an hour, and then left with his assistant.

He didn't show any interest in Fan Xiaoxuan, Fan Xiaoxuan was a smart person, and he didn't keep up.

Yu Dong looked at a table of dishes, there were still many dishes that had not been finished, and shouted to the back kitchen with pity, "Come on two people, pack them for me." ”

Xu Wei had a good relationship with Yu Dong, and he said in a low voice: "Don't worry, since Li Shengyao has agreed, Fenghua Cinema will support you." ”

"Dragon Gate Flying Armor" invests 200 million, and the box office can return to its original cost with a box office of more than 500 million.

For the current results, Xu Wei is very satisfied, and he is very relaxed.

Yu Dong sighed, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to fool the shareholders of the beautiful country." ”

Xu Wei thought for a while and said in a low voice: "If you want to fool the shareholders of the beautiful country, Li Lianjie is not as good as Cheng Long, Cheng Long is not as good as Li Shengyao, if you can invite Li Shengyao to direct Bo Na's new movie, maybe you can let more magnesium country guys know about Bo Na." ”

When Yu Dong heard this, he turned his head and looked at Xu Wei in a daze, and watched it for thirty seconds, before he slapped his thigh suddenly, "Yes, why didn't I think of this, if Li Shengyao helps me make a movie, it will definitely be sold in the beautiful country, and won't Bona's reputation be out at that time?"

A big director like Li Shengyao has sold several movies in Hollywood, and no one in the Chinese entertainment film and television industry can compare with him, how can I forget him. ”

Xu Wei said that although he understood that this was the truth, he was a little unhappy in his heart, "Mr. Yu, Director Li may not be willing to go to Hollywood to make movies now." ”

Yu Dong shook his head, "No matter what he wants, I must let him help Bo Na make a movie." ”

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