You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 673 ① Killing like crazy ② Unprofessional stewardess ③ Director Huang Bo ④ Wang Quan's new film ⑤ Xixi's comeback

"I don't want to guess, I just want to know who is next to you, screaming so loudly."

"Tangtang."

"Be gentle when you hit her, I feel sorry for her even if you don't." Yang Mi warned.

"No, she is happy."

To prove that it doesn't matter, Tang Yan also asked: "So who did Hua Mulan choose in the end?"

Wang Quan smiled evilly and told them: "I'm sure none of you can think of it, it's Li Yuchun!"

"Ah!" Tang Yan.

"Ah?" Yang Mi.

Yang Mi asked again: "Is this true? I didn't see any news about Li Yuchun's audition online, but I saw that Da Tiantian flew to Los Angeles."

Wang Quan: "It should be correct. Dorothy found out."

This time Yang Mi couldn't stand it anymore, "No, what right does she have!"

Tang Yan catered to Yang Mi: "That's right, she hasn't acted in many dramas, she can't even be considered an actor."

Wang Quan: "But he is the top star of the nation, the first generation of idols selected by the people of the country, the darling of the fashion circle, and the C position in every evening party."

Although Wang Quan didn't quite understand why Chun Ge had such a high status, he was indeed the C position every time, even the Hong Kong and Taiwan superstars had to stand aside, which was ridiculous.

Yang Mi said "huh", that's because I wasn't at the party, if I was there, she would definitely stand aside

Afterwards, Yang Mi told Liu Yifei about the news and complained to her that Disney was blind, "You can't use not looking like a woman as the only criterion for casting!"

Liu Yifei had just coaxed her daughter to sleep, and she smiled and responded, "Yes, yes, it's better to choose Zeng Yike than Li Yuchun."

"Huh?" Yang Mi asked suspiciously, "Are you familiar with her?"

Liu Yifei: "Not familiar, but don't you think Zeng looks a bit like you?"

Yang Mi was silent for a moment, and finally spit out a sentence: "Fuck you!"

After hanging up the phone, Yang Mi continued to exercise. Although she was mainly responsible for logistics and technical support in "The Climbers", there were also some scenes of climbing snowy mountains. She had to train her body quickly, otherwise she was afraid that she would die in the Himalayas.

Wu Jing was too cruel. He actually wanted to shoot on location. Now the crew is training in the Himalayas.

Moreover, he decided to shoot the outdoor scenes first, and then the studio scenes after that, so that if someone had an accident during the filming, they could replace them in time to minimize the loss.

Listen, is this human talk? You have to worry about your life safety when filming.

Yang Mi felt a little sympathetic to Bai Yu and Zhang Ruoyun. They and Wu Jing really wanted to challenge Mount Everest.

Although there will be the best Sherpas leading the team, Tibetan medical staff will always be around, and helicopters will be deployed in advance, which will be safer than real climbers, but it is still a huge risk for actors. Many young actors do not have the courage to take this role.

Fortunately, Wu Jing has the record of "Wolf Warrior 2". Even if there are risks, Bai Yu and Zhang Ruoyun are willing to give it a try.

Especially Zhang Ruoyun, he first filmed the super hit "Time 1997" with Sister Mi. In recent years, he has been deeply involved in the field of TV series, but his performance in movies is very poor. Although he tried hard this time, it is also an opportunity.

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At this time, the mainland movie market is still dominated by "Ne Zha". Even the Japanese One Punch Man Saitama and "Your Name" began to interact with "Ne Zha" and conduct cross-dimensional publicity.

Under "Ne Zha", "The Journey 3" also stabilized the situation, and it is likely to break 1 billion.

Outside the mainland, there are two movies related to China that have achieved great success, but they are not seen in the mainland.

One is the new movie "Crazy Rich Asians" with an all-Asian cast that has exploded in North America. It is the first work of Wei's wife Li Xian as a producer, starring Asian stars such as Wu Constance, Yang Ziqiong, and Gemma Chan.

This movie has triggered a viewing trend similar to "Black Panther" in North America.

However, the number of black people is far greater than that of Asians, so "Crazy Rich Asians" only has a box office of about 200 million US dollars in North America, which is already a huge breakthrough for the Asian group.

And this movie will not be released in the mainland until the end of September.

And the other movie that exploded around the mainland is probably never to land in the mainland movie market.

That is Chen Zhengdao's "Along with the Gods" adapted from a Korean comic.

This Taiwanese film, with an investment of 150 million RMB, is the largest local film in Taiwan's history, which is about 700 million New Taiwan dollars at the current exchange rate.

Although the investment of "Seediq Bale" is also 700 million New Taiwan dollars, it is divided into two parts, while "Along with the Gods" is a single movie.

Last year, the Korean version of "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds" was released and became a hit in Asia. This year, Chen Zhengdao's "Along with the Gods" was released a month before the second Korean version of "Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds", which unexpectedly won a good effect and broke many records.

Of course, the cast of this film is also very strong. Milk Tea Lun, who has not acted for a long time, came out again to play the second male lead, which is the role of Cha Tae-hyun in the Korean version.

As for the male lead, it is Zhang Zhen.

In addition, there are Taiwanese stars such as Lin Zhiling, Li Hongqi, Guo Biting, Li Liqun, Zhang Zhiyao, Qiu Xinzhi, Ming Dao, Lai Guanlin, etc.

This lineup is very attractive to mainland audiences, and the subject matter is even more attractive, but it is precisely because the subject matter is about the underworld, and there are not one or two ghosts in it, but a group of ghosts, so the mainland market is not expected.

It is also because of this that some movie fans specially applied for Hong Kong and Macau passes to go to Hong Kong to watch "Along with the Gods", which pushed up the box office of the film in Hong Kong, which was quite like the grand occasion when "3DXX Group" was released.

At the beginning, Chen Zhengdao wanted to return to his native place to absorb some nutrients, and by the way, help Taiwanese filmmakers so that everyone could have a meal.

This movie cost 150 million RMB. Although the Taiwanese market exceeded "Cape No. 7" and won the championship in the history of local films, it only had more than 600 million New Taiwan dollars, which can probably make back the investment.

In addition, the Hong Kong market also broke the best record of Asian films in Hong Kong, surpassing "Train to Busan", and ended with 75 million Hong Kong dollars, which can probably get more than 30 million RMB.

Wang Quan's Chinese films cannot sell as well as Hollywood films. Hollywood's "Inception" and "The Force Awakens" have exceeded 100 million Hong Kong dollars, but "Leng Feng", "Parasite" and "The Happy Journey" are all in the 60 million level. Instead, a Taiwanese film made history.

And Hong Kong and Taiwan combined, "Along with the Gods" only recovered less than 100 million in costs.

In addition, there is the Southeast Asian market, which can also recover 10 or 20 million, but it still cannot cover the cost.

At this time, it can continue to be distributed globally, sold to Japan and South Korea, sold to North America, and sold to Europe.

But apart from Japan and South Korea, there will not be many people interested in this film, and the Korean version has been very successful. Whether this Chinese version can be accepted by Korean audiences is also a question.

In the end, Chen Zhengdao chose to sell it directly to Netflix in exchange for a good profit. In addition to recovering the cost, he can also make more than 10 million.

After working for two years after "The Tuner", he made more than 10 million. This ending made Chen Zhengdao more clearly understand the importance of the mainland market to Hong Kong and Taiwan films.

Even though "Along with the Gods" has such a good reputation and such a strong cast, it is nothing without the mainland market. If you are unlucky, you will lose money directly.

So after collecting the follow-up income of "Along with the Gods", he immediately invested in the preparation of the new film "The Captain".

In addition to the first male and female protagonists Liu Ye and Gao Yuanyuan, Zhang Tianai and Meng Ziyi also joined the cast to play two young stewardesses.

Meng finally acted in a movie!

And she finally got what she wanted and tasted the taste of big beauty.

In order to learn how to be a good stewardess, she and Zhang Tianai bought stewardess uniforms and went to Wang Quan's private plane to experience life.

Unexpectedly, Gao Yuanyuan thought so too. After the filming of "The Accidental Detective 2" was completed, she rested for a few days and then invested in the preparation of the new film. At this moment, she is serving Wang Quan under the guidance of a real stewardess on the plane.

After that, the plane took off, and the three novice stewardesses served Wang Quan together. The original four stewardess teachers had also worked in civil aviation, and they taught him over and over again.

Wang Quan was going to fly to Qingdao to attend the premiere of Huang Bo's directorial debut "A Good Show".

On the plane, Wang Quan deliberately made things difficult for the three stewardesses, and took advantage of them from time to time, which was quite interesting.

Later, Da Meiyuan was the first to invite Wang Quan to the bedroom, and then Sister Meng followed in.

Xiao Ai waited for a while, and just as she was about to go in, the loudspeaker announced that they had arrived at Qingdao.

What a pity, what a pity!

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In addition to the four young men Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Deng Chao, and Huang Xiaoming, the six less handsome movie stars of the same age, Wu Jing, Shen Teng, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, and Wang Baoqiang, plus Zhang Yi, who rose to prominence in "Operation Red Sea", were nicknamed "the six middle school students" by netizens.

Some people also felt that Zhang Yi was not qualified and should be replaced by Huang Xuan.

In short, the dozen of them can be said to be the first-line lineup of domestic male movie stars. Generally, they have to go through any scripts first.

And this movie is a signal that Huang Bo is catching up with Xu Zheng, Wu Jing and others. The director is the peak of power in the film industry. He doesn't want to be the one who is chosen. He also wants to stand up and see the scenery below.

Of course, his good friend Baoqiang once said to him, "Sometimes being a director is not a good thing."

That year, "Buddies in India" made Baoqiang win a Golden Broom Award, and he went to the scene to receive the award in person. It can be said that he has a shadow, and he dared not touch the director again in the past few years.

But the fire in his heart has not been extinguished. When filming the "Tang Detective" series, he learned a lot from Chen Sicheng.

When he arrived at Qingdao, Wang Quan went directly to the hotel. Sister Zhiling was already waiting for him in his room.

I don't know if it is to match the style of Qingdao. She is now wearing a bikini, showing off her beautiful figure.

Wang Quan waved his hand: "Wait a while, we'll talk tonight."

Sister Zhiling stood up and said with a smile: "You're not honest even on the plane, okay, hug me."

This coquettish voice doesn't sound like a 40-year-old.

The two hugged for a while, talked for a while, and then went to the premiere.

This is Huang Bo's hometown, and the film was shot in Wanda's Qingdao Oriental Film Metropolis, so they chose to hold the premiere in Qingdao.

The story of "A Good Show" is a very classic desert island model, which can be found in the classic literary work "Lord of the Flies".

So the story is very interesting, but Huang Bo's ability is average, so the film is just a little better than passing. Maybe this is also the reason why he no longer got involved in directing.

After the premiere, Huang Bo told Wang Quan, "The crew of "The Three Kingdoms of Gods" has also settled in Oriental Movie Metropolis, and I play Jiang Ziya in it."

"Oh, has it started shooting?"

"No, we held an audition and training before, and just confirmed the candidates for young actors. They are now concentrating on training. Director, do you want to go over and give some guidance?" Huang Bo invited. He also invested a little in the Three Kingdoms of Gods, and was considered one of the small bosses.

Wang Quan shook his head. Sister Zhiling looked at him with tears in her eyes, so he didn't get involved.

Today is also the 13th day of the release of "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World". On this day, the film successfully broke the 3 billion mark, and Maoyan's total box office forecast for the film exceeded 5 billion for the first time!

Netizens shouted crazy, crazy!

They are not saying that Maoyan is crazy. They are more in favor of this prediction. They think this world is too crazy.

There is not even a 4 billion movie in China now. There are only two 5 billion phenomenal movies in the mainland, "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Happy Journey".

Who would have thought that an animated film could have such great power and surpass these two masterpieces?

Compared with Japan, we do not have a very deep animation culture, so it is more difficult and more valuable for animated films to achieve this result than live-action films.

The success of "Ne Zha" has made animation brands such as Guangguang Color Strip House, Light Chaser, and Huaqiang Fangte all eager to try. It can make 5 billion, and we are not demanding. We are satisfied with 20 to 30 billion.

Especially Guangguang's Color Strip House, they invested in a company of China Media Group. The film being produced by this company is called "Jiang Ziya", which is about to be completed. Taking advantage of this Fengshen Dongfeng, there may be great potential!

Coincidentally, Light Chaser also took a fancy to the theme of Fengshen, and is also preparing a story about Nezha. The script has been written and the model has been basically completed.

However, whether it can be launched depends on the performance of "White Snake: Origin" at the end of the year.

If it still fails, there may be no Light Chaser in the future.

On August 10, "A Good Show" was officially released, and the box office on the first day was 160 million, which was a good start. "Demon Boy" was affected by the new film and only had 112 million on that day.

However, today's box office champion is not "A Good Show", but a movie adapted from a sitcom that has been popular for several years - "Love Apartment".

The marketing of this movie is too strong, and the audience is too generous. The box office on the first day exceeded 300 million!

Then the film was criticized by the whole network.

"Refund, refund!"

"Fraud, this is a fraud!"

"What Love Apartment, this is basically Grave Robbers' Chronicles!"

"You are so good at hiding it, it turns out that the real male lead is Yuan Hong!"

"It's a dog meat under the guise of sheep, ugh!"

Although Nanpai Sanshu couldn't make Grave Robbers' Chronicles into a movie, he could use roundabout tactics and play tomb robbing in "Love Apartment".

So there was the advent of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", and the filmmakers wanted to squeeze out the last bit of value of the IP of Love Apartment.

But the audience is not stupid. Under the overwhelming bad reviews, only more than 3 million stupid people bought tickets to enter the theater on the second day, and then the online criticism increased a bit.

300 million on the first day, only a little over 100 million on the second day.

In contrast, the mediocre "A Good Show" earned another 190 million in a single day, and the 1 billion box office is already within range.

"Necromancer" is not to be outdone, with 185 million in a single day, and the attendance rate and average number of people per show are both the first.

By Sunday, the box office of "Love Apartment" was only more than 50 million.

"Necromancer" regained the first place with 181 million, and "A Good Show" temporarily ranked second with 178 million!

Netizens called Necromancer mighty. When faced with such a phenomenal movie, "A Good Show" was ready to be suppressed all the way.

Then there were no blockbusters in August except "Ant-Man 2".

The day when "Ant-Man 2" was released was the Zhongyuan Festival, which was also the birthday of Xixi and Xiaoxianmi.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yifei was not in Beijing, and she took Xiao Xianmi, who was on summer vacation, to Jiangcheng to visit her grandmother. Xiao Xianmi should be called Taimu.

So Wang Quan had to chase her to Jiangcheng. Fortunately, the post-production of "Xiaoyaoyou 2" had been completed, and Wang Quan would be relatively free until it was released in November.

Jiangcheng, coming here again, Wang Quan immediately thought of the thing that changed the world next year, and even couldn't help wanting to go to the seafood market to take a look.

"Why don't we accompany grandma to listen to the opera." Liu Yifei suggested.

"What opera?"

"Jiangcheng, of course we have to listen to Han Opera. I accompanied my grandmother to listen to it when I was a child. I didn't understand it very well, so I just watched it for fun."

Wang Quan had no objection, so the two took the old and the young to a theater in Jiangcheng.

The play we watched today is called "Heavenly Officials Blessing", which is also in Peking Opera.

However, Wang Quan saw the performance repertoire of Yue Opera in the theater's tomorrow's preview.

This is not surprising. Now that opera is in decline, Han opera, Huangmei opera, Huagu opera, Peking opera, and of course Yue opera can all be performed here, as long as they can make money.

Coincidentally, the Yue opera troupe tomorrow is Jiang Xiaobaihua, and the protagonists of the performance are also Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao, and the play is "Butterfly Lovers".

Because there are too few spectators, everyone sits sparsely, and no one else in the audience noticed these two topic figures.

Although there are few people, the actors on the stage perform very hard.

Xixi's grandmother is from Northeast China. The family came to Jiangcheng for work reasons. They lived in Jiangcheng longer than in Heilongjiang.

So although the grandmother still has a Northeast accent, she can fully understand the singing in Han opera, and is responsible for explaining to her granddaughter Xiaozhong what the story is.

What Wang Quan is more concerned about is the income of these niche opera actors and whether they can support their families.

Later, the grandmother told Wang Quan, "Many of these actors have side jobs. They can support themselves by singing opera, but it is difficult to support their families. But out of love, they have not given up their skills. Of course, more people choose to give up."

Liu Yifei touched Wang Quan, "What's up, do you have the inspiration to write a script again?"

The "Xiaoyaoyou" trilogy has been filmed, and the last one will be released in 2019. Wang Quan should also prepare a new film for 2020.

Having just completed an industrial film masterpiece, Wang Quan wants to shoot something with a small budget in the next one to play some self-expression.

Besides, the market will definitely not have recovered by then, and it will be difficult to have high box office with high cost, so this time he plans to win awards as the main purpose.

He curled his lips at Liu Yifei: "I do have some inspiration, but it's a pity that someone has retired, and no one will film it even if I write it."

"Ah, is the role suitable for me? Then I can make a comeback right away!"