Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 287 Scolding Mindy Ke
Li Jing quickly changed the subject: "Oh, by the way, I heard that your company attaches great importance to screenwriters. The script of "Stone" was written by your company's screenwriter team..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Chen nodded: "Indeed, there is a saying in the industry to describe the status of the screenwriter in the crew: except for the producer, director, actor, post-production, lighting, props, script supervisor, stage manager, camera, dubbing, stage manager, art, special effects, stand-in, and sound recording, no one can surpass him...

In general film crews, the screenwriter has a very low status.

But our company is just the opposite. The screenwriter group has a very high status within our company. Our company has always attached great importance to scripts, and the treatment given to screenwriters is higher than the industry average.

The script of "Stone" was written by Ning Hao and two other screenwriters. The other two are professional screenwriters and members of our screenwriter team. The screenwriter team was already famous when they wrote "The Accidental Murderer". After "Stone", they became even more famous. "

The profession of screenwriter is really frustrating.

When most people watch a movie, they all look at the stars and the director. Who would specifically look at who the screenwriter is?

Who is the screenwriter of "Hero"? Does anyone know?

Who is the screenwriter of "A World Without Thieves"? Who knows?
The screenwriter of "The Orphan of Zhao" was fired by poet Chen for disobeying his orders. Is anyone still paying attention to this?

So this profession is very sad, and can be said to be behind the scenes behind the scenes.

But this profession is not easy to change.

In the career advancement system, directors generally transfer to producers, actors and cameramen transfer to directors, but what can screenwriters transfer to?
Unless you are extremely rich and become your own producer and director like Guo Xiaosi, it is very difficult to make the transition.

……

"Super Interview" was broadcast and the effect was very good, which aroused a certain degree of discussion.

It didn’t break ratings records like the first time, but it was pretty good nonetheless.

In the past two days, there has been a lot of slander against "Stone" in the media, but there have also been many people who have spontaneously stood up to support "Stone".

"Shitou" appeared on "Super Interview" and "Seven Swords" was also not idle, they contacted "Happy Camp".

At that time, the ratings of "Happy Camp" were still very high, but in fact many of the games in it were copied from Korean variety shows.

It is still quite attractive to see Xu Ke and a group of celebrities playing games on "Happy Camp".

Therefore, the box office of the two movies still has no gap, and the competition is almost evenly matched.

The broadcast of "Happy Camp" triggered a small climax in movie-watching, but Ma Zhongjun of Ciwen Media was not very happy.

All this was so different from what he had imagined.

The first weekend box office of 2700 million was far below his expectations. You have to know that the cost of "Seven Swords" was 1.4 million, and Xu Ke was ambitious to make it a trilogy.

Now, let alone a trilogy, it’s even a question whether one film can make a profit.

Now he really regrets it.

Regret your greed.

Originally, there was nothing dirty between Ciwen Media and Xingchen Entertainment. It was Chengtian Wu Kebo who found him and seduced him.

If Seven Swords is advanced in schedule and competes with Stone, the Red Cliff project will give Ciwen Media a ticket.

Ma Zhongjun was naturally eager to be able to participate in a project by a big director returning from Hollywood.

I was obsessed with it and moved up the gear.

And then, this is the result.

The expected crushing trend did not appear. Instead, the two films became increasingly competitive and the box office remained very close.

He knew that Zhang Chen was a publicity genius, so he could imitate him.

Zhang Chen promoted it on the Internet, and he also promoted it on the Internet.

When Zhang Chen appeared on "Super Interview", he appeared on "Happy Camp".

The results seem good at the moment, but Ma Zhongjun wants better.

……

At night, Ning Hao and Xing Aina lay in bed.

Afterwards, Ning Hao lit up a cigarette and said, "Xiao Na, do you think the box office of Stone can really exceed 100 million?"

Xing Aina shook her head: "I think it's unlikely. Don't hold your hopes too high. Maybe Chenzi deliberately exaggerated during the promotion?"

He was very afraid that the greater Ning Hao's hope, the greater his disappointment would be.

Ning Hao said nothing, blowing out a smoke ring, his eyes blurred: "Yeah, I also have to tell myself not to expect too much. It's not that easy to break 100 million, so many directors can't do it, why should I?
In fact, according to the current trend, I would be quite satisfied if the box office finally reached over 7000 million.”

Xing Aina was relieved to see that Ning Hao was still sober. She suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, have a lot of people come to see you recently?"

Speaking of this, Ning Hao also perked up and nodded: "Yes, Huayi just contacted me, and Han Sanping, the president of China Film, also talked to me once. Many other large and small film and television companies also want to contact me. Don't you know all this?"

Xing Aina's face was full of worry: "That's why I'm worried. What does Huayi want you to do?"

Ning Hao took a deep puff of his cigarette, then exhaled: "What else can I do? You want to poach me."

"You agreed?"

"of course not."

"But you're moved~"

Xing Aina looked into Ning Hao's eyes. She knew her boyfriend too well.

Ning Hao didn't dare to look her in the eye, and looked out the window: "I am a little tempted. The conditions offered by Huayi are too good. A signing fee of 500 million, no interference in the subject matter of my filming, and at the same time, they allow us to invest a certain proportion..."

Xing Aina turned his head and said, "Don't be silly. Zhang Chen said you are a genius, but don't really think of yourself as a genius..."

Ning Hao smiled and said, "How could that be possible? I know my own worth. Stone is certainly a good movie, but if Zhang Chen hadn't invested so many resources in promoting it, it wouldn't have achieved the current box office. What's more, we are still good brothers. I would never do something like crossing a river and then destroying the bridge..."

"It's good that you know. Zhang Chen can meet all the conditions Huayi offered, except for the 500 million signing fee.

You are famous now, and 500 million sounds like a lot, but it will be nothing to you in the future?
You know how much money Zhang Chen makes from a movie, right? "

"I know."

……

On the fourth day, "Stone" grossed 680 million and "Seven Swords" grossed 720 million.

On the fifth day, "Stone" grossed 620 million and "Seven Swords" grossed 650 million.

On the sixth day, "Stone" had 900 million and "Seven Swords" had 880 million.

Seeing that the movie was about to be released for seven days, but the box office was still sluggish, Ma Zhongjun became a little anxious.

In the past two days, he has been constantly looking for people to create topics on the Internet, and Xu Ke has also led the main creators on a crazy roadshow, but the results have always been poor.

No matter what they did, the popularity just wouldn't go up. Not to mention making the entertainment headlines, they couldn't even make it into the top three, because all the popularity during this period was sucked away by "Super Girls".

"Super Girl"!
Ma Zhongjun couldn't understand why a talent show could be so popular. It seemed that all the media's attention was attracted by him and they had no time to care about anything else.

Ma Zhongjun was a little frustrated, but the only consolation was that although "Seven Swords" did not make it to the hot searches, neither did "Stone".

On the evening of the 22nd, a blog post by Zhang Chen set off a media frenzy.

This time he cursed again, but the person he cursed was not "Seven Swords", but a judge of "Super Girl".

Then Ma Zhongjun unexpectedly discovered that the judge named Ke Yimin was actually the singer of the ending song of "Seven Swords".

The title of the blog is: Karen Mok, get out of the entertainment industry!

It was very provocative, but Ma Zhongjun immediately thought that this should be a criticism of "Seven Swords".

When you deny a movie, you also have to deny everything and everyone related to that movie.

This is a very common method of mutual ridicule when a movie is released.

Ma Zhongjun felt that this was what Zhang Chen was doing.

He read the entire blog and understood the general meaning.

A female executive named Chen Xi from Xingchen Entertainment has recently become obsessed with Mango TV's talent show "Super Girls".

Under her influence, several senior executives of Star Entertainment fell in love with this program.

Everyone likes different contestants, but they all hate the same judges.

The person who was hated was Karen Mok.

It is true that what this person named Ke Yimin did was outrageous to both humans and gods, and it has completely exceeded the scope of a judge.

In the Chengdu competition area, a contestant had a sore throat due to a cold. After hearing that the contestant had a cold, Ke Yimin directly told him to "get out".

Zhang Chen expressed his surprise, saying he had never seen such behavior on a variety show.

This is no longer an evaluation, it is outright bullying, bullying by relying on the status of a judge.

So Zhang Chen started to curse directly:

Are the "Super Girl" program team blind? They thought they found a "foreign monk" who could chant sutras, but they didn't expect that the foreigner was a "beggar". Ke Yimin had long been unable to make it in Malaysia, but she bought a monk's robe and came to China to pretend to be a master.

I have investigated this guy. She is a Malaysian, but she is developing her career in Taiwan. She is known as a famous female singer. How is she famous?
I have never heard of this person, nor her representative works.

Such people, from the beginning of the audition, have been stimulating the young contestants with various methods such as ridicule, sarcasm, and mockery. From time to time, they also threaten, sneer, show impatience, and even speak Chinese quintessence...

Such a thing was actually put on the judges' seat by Mango TV and made it all the way to the finals.

Excuse me, are all the singers in this country dead?

You have positioned him as a "poisonous tongue judge". Please, do you know what "poisonous tongue" means? Do you have any misunderstandings about "poisonous tongue"?
Is what he did called being venomous? That's called bullying.

Look at what he did in the Big Ten national tournament.

Also, as a judge, he actually stole the limelight from the contestants.

During the competition in Chengdu, Jane Zhang caught a bad cold, which led to pneumonia, but Karen Mok asked her to sing high notes and even mocked Jane Zhang and showed off for a while.

This forced Jane Zhang to respond with a higher pitch.

Seeing this, Ke Yimin said: That’s right!

What? It seems like you can sing high notes?

After some contestants finished singing, she would repeat the song as an "excellent demonstration" and even deliberately chose to sing high notes. At the end, she added with a satisfied look: "This is you, do you understand?"

Is it teaching or showing off?
No wonder Wang Han said: Do you feel like your hair stands on end when you listen to Teacher Ke singing?

I strongly urge people like this to get out of the entertainment industry.

(End of this chapter)