Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 243: Everything is complicated
"Hello, Director Zhang..."

"Congratulations Director Zhang..."

"Good morning, Director Zhang..."

As soon as Zhang Chen walked into the company, he was greeted by many people, because he was holding two trophies from major film festivals.

Dong Jianqiang heard the noise and came out, "What's the noise down there?"

"It's that kid Lu Chuan, trying to show off his presence again. Ignore him, come and look at my trophy~"

Dong Jianqiang tactfully took the trophy from Zhang Chen and looked at it carefully.

The Golden Rooster Award trophy is a chicken, the Hundred Flowers Award trophy is the Hundred Flowers Goddess, the Huading Award trophy is a tripod, and the trophy for major film festivals is a flying tiger. I wonder what the meaning is.

Dong Jianqiang weighed it in his hand and found it was quite heavy.

The company has a small showroom dedicated to displaying various honorary trophies. Currently there are only two in it, the Saturn Award trophy and the Fantasy Film Festival trophy.

Two more were added today.

Dong Jianqiang opened the glass door of the display cabinet, put the trophy and certificate inside, then closed the glass door and looked at them happily.

"We need to attend more award ceremonies like this in the future, otherwise it will take forever to fill these display cabinets."

"You can join us if you want. I'm too lazy to flatter them anyway..."

"It's not good for you to do this. You are alienating yourself from the people. If you are in this circle, you will have to deal with these social practices sooner or later..."

"Isn't this about you?"

Zhang Chen really doesn’t like these things and feels upset just thinking about them.

From this point of view, he is still an artist, not a businessman.

"By the way, how much bonus did you get?"

"And a bonus?"

Zhang Chen had also forgotten about this. He was awarded 50 yuan for Best New Director at the last Hundred Flowers Awards. He won two awards at the College Student Film Festival, but didn't get a cent.

"I don't know either, I'm just asking casually." Dong Jianqiang hadn't heard that there was a prize at the major film festival, and he was counting on Zhang Chen to give him some general knowledge.

"By the way, how is the preparation for Painted Skin going?"

The script of Painted Skin had not passed review before, but later they made a deal with Lu Zheng, and the script passed review within a few days.

I have to say that Jing Tian’s background is indeed strong. She managed to handle things that even Han Sanping couldn’t.

Dong Jianqiang shrugged and said, "It's too early~"

"Painted Skin" is a costume film, and a magical one at that. The preparation was much more troublesome than those Zhang Chen had filmed before.

Zhang Chen wanted to make it into a blockbuster, so there were many things he needed to consider.

"By the way, when are you going to start filming? I can coordinate the actors' schedules in advance."

"Painted Skin" is different from Zhang Chen's other films. It uses big names, and big names' time is always precious. The best ones can be scheduled for a year later, so schedules must be booked in advance.

According to Zhang Chen's previous habit, he would definitely start the computer quickly.

None of his previous films had a preparation period of more than a month. Unexpectedly, Zhang Chen shook his head this time and said, "In February after the Chinese New Year, Eden Lake sold well. New Line wants to take advantage of the success and make another one. I have already promised them."

Dong Jianqiang's eyes lit up when he heard this: "What movie? Do we have a chance to invest in it?"

The "we" he was referring to was not Zhang Chen, but Xingchen Entertainment.

So far, all of Zhang Chen’s projects in the United States have been in collaboration with Hollywood in the name of his personal studio and have nothing to do with the domestic Star Entertainment.

But the success of "Eden Lake" made Dong Jianqiang realize Zhang Chen's influence in North America and he wanted to get a piece of the pie.

He has a 5% dividend from Xingchen Entertainment, which is what Zhang Chen promised him when he poached him. But Zhang Chen shook his head: "This is an R-rated film, it is destined not to be shown in mainland China..."

Dong Jianqiang nodded to show his understanding. He really wanted Zhang Chen to collaborate with Hollywood on a film that could be released in mainland China next time, so that Star Entertainment could use the gimmick of collaborating with Hollywood. At this stage, Chinese people still recognize this.

"Okay, I'll think about it..."

He does have the idea of ​​transformation. Horror films are still too niche. If he wants to break into the Hollywood market, he needs to make more films of other types.

In fact, "Taken" is an attempt.

He planned to use this to open the door to North America, let his sharp shots and solemn style leave a deep impression on North American audiences, and pave the way for his future impact on Hollywood.

At this moment, Lu Yang happened to walk past the door and was seen by Dong Jianqiang through the glass door.

"By the way, did you promise to open a play for this kid?"

Zhang Chen nodded: "Yes, when I was filming Taken, I found that this guy had some ideas about martial arts scenes, so I agreed to give him a movie. What's wrong?"

"Nothing. This guy just came back and asked the script team to make a script for him. He said that you wrote the introduction and asked them to fill in the content. The key is that he didn't leave and just sat in the script team and watched them work..."

"Let this kid figure it out on his own. This story is indeed what I came up with. I'll give it to him to practice on..."

Zhang Chen laughed, he could understand that behind Lu Yang's actions was his desire to make a movie.

In fact, every director is like this. They pay special attention to the first work they handle, just like a baby in the womb for ten months, and they can't wait to be with it day and night.

It’s just that being a director is a profession that requires a lot of talent. Some directors’ debut films are beautiful and lovely angels, while others are busy tyrants.
"By the way, I forgot to congratulate you. 'Mistakenly Killing' easily earned over 100 million yuan..." After returning to the office, Dong Jianqiang poured Zhang Chen a cup of tea and handed him the box office report.

Zhang Chen glanced at the numbers above:

"The Accidental Murderer" grossed 3400 million in its first week, 5000 million in its second week, and over 20 million in its third week. It has been released for 1.2 days and has reached million at the box office, and is still making steady progress...

"According to this trend, the final box office is estimated to be only 1.4 million."

After all, it has been released for 20 days, the craze period has passed, and now even the roadshow promotions have stopped.

Compared to the beginning of the release, the daily box office has been decreasing, so Zhang Chen said this.

"Are you still not satisfied with 1.4 million? Do you think a box office of million is cheap?"

Dong Jianqiang expressed his contempt for Zhang Chen's disdain.

"No no……"

In fact, Zhang Chen felt a little strange. Logically speaking, the ceiling of a suspense film like "The Accidental Murderer" would not be too high.

They had rehearsed internally that the box office would be at most a little over 1.4 million, but now it's heading for million, which is really a pleasant surprise.

The reason is really unclear.

Because Zhang Chen is a billionaire director?
Because of the dispute between Jiang and Xu?

Or is it because of the excellence of the script?

No one can explain it clearly and there is no reason.

"I want to hold a celebration banquet this week and give it another push to see if I can raise the box office to 1.5 million..."

The promotion and publicity of "The Accidental Murderer" is still led by China Film.

It just so happened that Xingchen Entertainment had just obtained its distribution license, so I took charge of a small part of it myself.

We need to train the team.
"Okay, you decide. I'm just doing the post-production of Hurricane these days, so I have plenty of time."

……

There have been fewer updates these past two days. I have used up my outline and am thinking about losing my hair.
(End of this chapter)