Chapter 578 The Technician’s Technique Is Very Good, Feng’s Comedy Eating Style Completely Fascinates Lu Tailang!

Familiar hotel, familiar massage room, familiar friends, new technicians...

Every time he comes to India, Chen Fei will get together with Rajkumar Hirani, the director of "Three Idiots in Bollywood".

His idea was actually very simple. He just wanted to chat with this talented Indian director, not to experience the services of those skilled female technicians.

"Fei, how are you? The skills of these new technicians are pretty good, right?"

Rajkumar Hirani understands Chen Fei's taste very well. Every time he looks for technicians who are in line with Asian aesthetics, and he carefully selects them.

Men actually only have a few hobbies. As long as you like them, you can naturally make them happy.

For example, now, after making Chen Fei happy, he directly got a script that is very suitable for the Indian background.

"Wrestle!" dad"

While Chen Fei was enjoying a massage by a technician, Rajkumar Hirani briefly read the script and gained some basic understanding of the story inside.

The story tells the story of the male protagonist Mahavira Singh Perga who was forced to give up his dream of wrestling when he was young due to life constraints, but unexpectedly discovered that his daughters Geeta and Babita had wrestling talents. He bravely broke the traditional prejudices of Indian society and Under pressure from all sides, he let his two daughters learn wrestling and trained them to become world champions.

At the end, Rajkumar Hirani suddenly felt that this story had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

He subconsciously raised his head and was about to ask Chen Fei when a voice suddenly sounded in his ears:

"This is a biographical script based on the Indian wrestler Mahavira Singh Perga..."

Mahavir had won the Indian national championship when he was young, but failed to achieve his dream of becoming a world champion.

Later, he trained four daughters and two nieces to become well-known Indian wrestlers, and was also hailed as the "Father of Indian Women's Wrestling."

His eldest daughter Geeta won the 55kg women's wrestling championship at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. She is the first female athlete to win a wrestling championship in the history of Indian sports, and is also the first female athlete to qualify for the Summer Olympics. hand.

Although scripts are rewarded by the system, biographical scripts usually come with a specific introduction.

Chen Fei didn't know much about Mahavira. If the system hadn't helped introduce him, he might have made a big joke.

Rajkumar Hirani thought quickly. After hearing Chen Fei's answer, he immediately said: "I will personally invite Mahavira to serve as a consultant for this film."

"Yes, yes." Chen Fei agreed very much with his proposal: "For subsequent preparations and casting, you can just contact the company, and I won't have to worry about it. When the film is finished, you can just call me."

"Ok!"

Rajkumar Hirani responded, put away the script very sensibly, said goodbye and left Chen Fei's room.

As for the four female technicians, they will massage until very late tonight, after all, the clock has been added in advance.

…

Chen Fei did not stay in India for long.

In addition to promoting the movie this time, his other purpose is to present "Dangal!" The script of "Daddy" was personally handed over to Rajkumar Hirani.

It is a pity that Deepika Padukone was not in India during this time, but went to the UK.

However, the four female technicians were quite good, which made up for the regret.

On the plane back to Los Angeles, Chen Fei saw the weekly box office results of "1942".

183 million yuan.

How high a movie's potential is can actually be seen from the box office data in the first three days.

This time can only last up to one week!

And now, the weekly box office of "1942" is obviously not good, and the box office trend continues to drop, and it is about to fall below 10 million.

"In one week, you only got 183 million?"

In the large conference room of Huayi, Wang Zhongjun had a gloomy face at the moment, his eyes swept over Feng Xiaogang, Wang Zhonglei and others, as if he wanted to choose someone to devour!

An investment of more than 200 million yuan, and only such a small box office return is simply too miserable!

In his previous expectation, if the film had such a good reputation, even if it could not exceed 1 billion, it would not be a problem to exceed 700 million, right?

But looking at it now, if the total box office can exceed 400 million, it is already considered very impressive.

Although he won't lose enough to sell his pants, he will definitely become the object of ridicule in the circle.

Thinking about this, coupled with the plummeting box office and stock price caused by the box office failure, Wang Zhongjun felt annoyed for no reason.

Glancing at his incompetent brother who spent all day in the club, he felt inexplicably that he hated iron.

When the movie first started shooting, it was so exciting that no one was convinced!

But now, it has failed at the box office, and the whole person has shrunk like a quail, which is simply annoying to watch.

However, this was his own brother, so he couldn't say too harsh words.

So, he turned his attention to Feng Xiaogang and said in a deep voice: "Director Feng, we spent a total of 210 million for your "1942". Now you have the name you want, but... …”

As one of the shareholders of Huayi, Feng Xiaogang naturally understands the meaning of this sentence.

He opened the bag, took out a script and put it on the table: "This is my next play, a commercial film with a comedy theme."

Hearing the sound, Wang Zhonglei's eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly looked up.

"Private Customization"

Not to mention anything else, just by looking at the name, joy appeared on the faces of everyone in the conference room.

Personal order?

Isn't this an obvious announcement that our film will be "inviting investment" to the public?

It’s so right, this is Feng Xiaogang’s “Feng’s New Year’s Comedy”, it will definitely make a lot of money!

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In the blink of an eye, it’s late December.

Following the latest weekly box office results of "1942", "Big Shanghai" and "Life of Pi" were also officially released in mainland theaters on the same day.

Netizens flocked to the theater one after another, ready to taste the "flavor" of these two movies.

But what no one expected was that in the afternoon of that day, many positive reviews about "The King's Feast" suddenly appeared on the Internet. It was overwhelming!

Especially on major film review websites, if you look around, many one-star negative reviews have been completely suppressed by five-star positive reviews.

In just a few hours, "The King's Feast" has become a "high-quality" blockbuster with a Douban score of 9.1.

When the time came in the evening, the media, which acted quickly, directly issued an announcement:

"Director Lu Chuan is suspected of hiring a navy to forcefully review "The King's Feast" in order to improve the film's reputation and coax the audience into attending the movie..."

As soon as this report appeared, it immediately appeared on the Weibo hot search list!

No one is stupid. The movie is already so bad, yet there are still so many people giving it five-star reviews. This is obviously a fake.

There was a lot of ridicule on the Internet.

"It's so shameless to go all out and get good reviews. Why, do you think the good reviews mean the quality of the movie is good?"

"Have you ever thought about going to a bar? What's the point of doing this now?"

"Mad! Are you so rich? Can you refund my movie ticket?"

However, just when netizens thought that Lu Chuan would definitely choose not to admit it, something very strange happened!

This idiot actually posted a Weibo post at 8pm sharp, admitting his behavior of brushing up positive reviews: "Yes, you guessed it right, we did hire a navy team."

After this Weibo post appeared, netizens who were eating melons were stunned, and even those who were angrily criticizing him were shocked!

As a director, he actually proactively admitted that he bought a fake movie and got good reviews. What kind of shameless maneuver is this?

"Good guy, this may be the first person in the history of the domestic film industry to publicly admit to using trolls to brush off reviews, right?"

Chen Fei was also eating melon at this moment, and was still on the phone with Jiang Wen.

"Hahahaha! You don't know that when this guy posted that Weibo, I was having dinner with the two bosses of Yinghuang and Xingmei. If I hadn't pulled him, Mr. Jia would have been ready to chop someone with a knife! "

"Hahaha!" Chen Fei was so happy that he almost lost his breath: "Just wait and see, this guy must have some tricks up his sleeve."

As expected, Lu Chuan accepted an interview with the media the next morning.

In front of the camera, he burst into tears: "You have no idea how much pressure I have endured in the past twenty days. During this period, "The King's Feast" has received a lot of slander, negative comments, and abuse, with an average of thousands of comments per hour. Negative comments! No matter the reason, it’s just bad!

Why was it such a box office failure? It’s because of these bad reviews!

They have hindered too many movie fans who should have walked into the theater and chosen to buy movie tickets for "A Feast for the King". This is absolutely unacceptable to me.

As a last resort, I can only choose to hire a navy army to make a targeted counterattack against those black materials..."

At the end, he even said a wise saying: "Am I the only one who dies? The black fans will not scold me?"

Media interviews were just one of them. Later, he followed Feng Xiaogang's example and began to write short essays on Weibo, accusing other competitors and black fans.

"The Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City" naturally became his target.

According to what he means, the latter deliberately spent a lot of money to hire anti-fans to smear his movie in order to grab the box office.

However, this statement is obviously untenable.

Not only did his grievances not make netizens and passers-by fans feel good about him, but he also attracted more abuse and ridicule because he deliberately targeted "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"!

"What the hell? I've seen someone beat him up, but I've never seen someone so shameless."

"Who stepped on the horse and deliberately acted sarcastically? You didn't even look at your own videos. It's simply disgusting!"

"Okay, you can go and die. I won't scold you when you die. I will dig your grave then."

"The writing of this short essay is simply not good at all."

"Pfft... What are you doing so early? You've just started to buy movies now. Why don't you start buying movies and boosting the box office on the first day of the show?"

There was one wave of ridicule and insults on the Internet. Even if Lu Chuan closed the comments on Weibo, there were still many people who deliberately posted posts to scold him and also deliberately x-on:him to come and see.

What's even more fatal is that the two major producers of the film, Fang Yinghuang and Xingmei, quickly responded:

"The purchase of trolls is all Lu Chuan's personal behavior and has nothing to do with the film's producer, distributor, or producer. Please make a careful distinction among netizens."

This move is a direct kill!

Lu Chuan was probably confused and didn't post any more essays for a whole day.

At this point, he finally realized that the plan of selling misery would not work at all, because he was completely stinky in the eyes of netizens.

No matter how much a pile of shit sells misery, it cannot change the fact that it is shit.

…

An interesting thing happened again. Due to Lu Chuan's operation, while burning himself, he actually contributed another wave of popularity to "Ghost Blowing Light".

Taking this opportunity, several distributors announced at the same time that "Ghost Blowing Light" was officially released in the three Nordic countries and Russia.

Unlike the previous "Gravity", this movie has a large number of actors and also covers a series of Chinese elements, so it naturally became the first Chinese-language film that can be sold in many countries overseas.

With the official release of various countries, cultural exports directly swept across Asia and some European countries.

Chinese-language films used to have such a grand occasion, but it was almost achieved by Uncle Long's punches and kicks.

Now, Gravity promotes China's space technology strength, and Ghost Blows Out the Light promotes China's cultural connotation. This is the real "cultural propaganda (invasion)".

Never underestimate this kind of cultural communication.

Maybe the power of a movie is not very strong, but once the number comes up, it is a very terrible "weapon"!

Now Ghost Blows Out the Light has been released in China for 22 days, and the box office has reached 920 million, and breaking 1 billion is just around the corner.

At the same time, in North America, Ghost Blows Out the Light has won 15 million US dollars on the first day, and then won 54 million box office results in the first three days of the weekend.

After 22 days of release, the North American box office has exceeded 175 million US dollars.

According to the current results, the final point may be around 250 million US dollars.

If this result is placed in all the movies directed by Chen Fei in the past, it is obviously at the bottom.

But don't forget that its director is Ning Hao, the starring team is all Chinese, and the story content is also based on China.

A Chinese-language film can actually achieve such results in the North American cinema market. The CEOs of several production companies are so happy that they can't close their mouths.

Of course, it can't be compared with hard science fiction like "Interstellar".

The latter has now exceeded 400 million US dollars in North American box office, and the global box office has very smoothly exceeded 1 billion US dollars, which is obviously aimed at "Avengers".

The new round of global promotional activities has ended. Chen Fei temporarily took his eyes off "Interstellar" and fixed on "Dallas Buyers Club".

North American premiere, publicity, preparation for awards...

He has been very busy these days!

Of course, in addition to being busy, he did not forget to pay attention to Li An's "Life of Pi".

The box office on the first day in the mainland was 11.29 million yuan, and 68.01 million yuan in the first three days of the weekend.

As an imported film, the box office trend of "Life of Pi" is not weak, and it is obviously aimed at 500 million.

It's a pity that the box office of this movie in North America is much worse.

The first-day box office was 3.64 million US dollars, and the first three days of the weekend only closed at 16.97 million US dollars.

20th Century Fox's chess game was obviously played at the wrong point. "Life of Pi" is not suitable for participating in the annual box office battle in North America.

"Interstellar" and "The Hobbit" are too powerful. Li An is still far behind in the field of commercial films.

Chen Fei also did not forget "The Great Shanghai" directed by Wang Jing and invested by companies such as Bona and Huaxia Star.

The first-day box office was 5.05 million, and the total of 23.09 million in the first three days of the weekend. The film received mixed reviews.

The plot design of the actors' acting skills, brotherhood, Cheng Daqi's emotional disputes with the two heroines is pretty good, but the plot is a bit clichéd.

Wang Jing's movies usually have a style, that is, the shadow of other films can be seen everywhere.

If there was no "Life of Pi", with top lineups such as Chow Yun-fat, Hong Jingbao, and Huang Xiaoming, it might have attracted a lot of attention.

Unfortunately, in the face of reality, the word "if" is too fragile.

If "The Great Shanghai" was unlucky by accident, then "The Banquet" was unlucky for eight lifetimes!

As more and more movies were released during the Lunar New Year period, the theater chain naturally had to increase the screening rate and volume of high-quality movies.

Well, because the screenings are fixed, if you want the box office of high-quality movies to get better and better, you naturally have to increase the screening rate from the bad movies.

And "The Banquet", "1942", "The Great Shanghai" and other films were naturally "forced" to pay.

Among them, "The Banquet" was the most unlucky, and the screening rate was cut to pieces. If you want to watch this movie, you basically have to go to the midnight show.

When the new box office fell to 890,000 that day, Lu Chuan, who had just been silent for a few days, finally couldn't help it.

A small essay directly topped the Weibo hot search!

"Dear netizens and fans, the situation is now very clear. I have said before that the main reason why "The Banquet" suffered a disastrous defeat was the attacks from multiple trolls and conflicts of interest.

And now, they are no longer hiding it!

The cinema chains, led by Pan Asia and Wanda, openly cut the screening schedule for "The Banquet" and distributed the profits to other movies.

Isn't this unfair? Why do you bully me like this! I now have reason to suspect that those who hired trolls to smear me are the film producers who have conflicts of interest with "The King's Feast"! "

As soon as this little essay appeared, it directly triggered a strong response from netizens.

"It's just a bad movie. Shouldn't your film schedule be cut off? You're a fool who is occupying the toilet and not taking a shit..."

At the same time, Ye Ning's call came to Chen Fei.

"Mr. Chen, Wanda Cinemas and Pan-Asia Cinemas under your control, including the producers of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", have all been named by that guy Lu Chuan."

"Yes, I know." Chen Fei responded lightly, his words full of disdain and indifference: "The clown looks disgusting, then... ban him."

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