Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 347: Overwhelming Negative Reviews

China Film Academy, Han Sanping’s office

Han Sanping, sitting in the boss chair, closed his eyes and rubbed his temples with his fingers.

There was a knock on the door~
"Come in~"

Han Sanping didn't even open his eyes.

The door was pushed open a crack, and a head poked in to take a look before entering.

It's his assistant.

"Boss Han, the box office growth of The Promise has almost stagnated in the past two days, and everyone below is very anxious..."

The ones who are anxious are definitely those around Mr. Han. Other factions are hoping that "The Promise" will flop. The worse Han Sanping's vision is, the greater their chances.

After hearing his assistant's words, Han Sanping finally opened his eyes: "How much is the box office of The Promise now?"

"It's been 20 days since its release and the current box office is 1.5 million. The distribution department believes that with the box office trend of The Promise, it may not be easy to break 2 million."

Han Sanping didn't say anything and closed his eyes again, as if he was thinking.

It's really not good news.

This is not the first time Han Sanping has heard negative news about "The Promise".

To be exact, there has been no end to the negative news in the past two days.

"A bloody murder caused by a steamed bun" ~
And Zhang Chen~
Thinking of Han Sanping gave me a headache, and I unconsciously stopped kneading her again.

"Does anyone have any ideas?"

Han Sanping knew that if there was nothing important, the assistant would definitely not come to disturb him.

Sure enough, the assistant hesitated for a moment and then replied, "Someone privately commented that our investment in The Promise was a mistake and caused the group to lose money. They said..."

"What did you say?" Han Sanping's eyes suddenly opened and he looked at him coldly.

"They said that next year's "Painted Skin" project should also be carefully considered~" The secretary's voice became smaller and smaller.

"Hmph~
A bunch of short-sighted guys, seeing that The Promise lost money, clamored to withdraw their investment in Painted Skin. How could these guys not see how much money we made from Xingchen Entertainment before..."

Although he appeared confident, Han Sanping knew that The Promise was going to be a flop.

This can be regarded as a major mistake since he promoted the blockbuster strategy. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a Waterloo.

With a cost of 3.5 million yuan, the domestic box office did not even reach 2 million yuan. What is even more despairing is that the overseas copyright was returned by Miramax.

This is definitely bad news.

The cost of Chinese-language costume blockbusters is extremely high. It is impossible to recover the cost purely by relying on the mainland box office, so we can only hope for overseas copyrights.

This was the case with the previous films "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers", and even "The Myth" and "Seven Swords".

Although the domestic box office of "The Myth" and "Seven Swords" is not very good, it is unlikely that they will lose money.

After all, Chinese costume blockbusters are very popular at the moment, and overseas film producers are willing to pay for this type of subject matter as long as they see it.

But "The Promise" didn't sell well overseas.

"Okay, I understand, you can get out."

After the assistant left, Han Sanping looked at the phone on the table. He wanted to call Zhang Chen to ask countless times, but he finally held back.

He believed that given their relationship, as long as he opened his mouth, Zhang Chen would definitely shut up no matter how unwilling he was. But precisely because of this, he couldn't open his mouth casually.

……

At the roadshow of "A Solo Journey of Thousand Miles", Zhang Yimou is being interviewed by the media.

There aren’t really many questions about the movie itself, and everyone is more curious about the recent news.

"Excuse me, Director Zhang, do you know about the recent verbal battle between Director Zhang Chen and Director Chen Kaige?"

The reporter habitually set a trap, and Zhang Yimou keenly caught the other party's thoughts, "About this, I'm not really sure. I've been busy with the roadshow recently and haven't paid much attention to other news~" The reporter was choked by this sentence and didn't know how to respond.

"Have you watched The Promise?"

"No, I've been busy promoting A Single Man's Journey, and haven't had time to watch other movies."

Seeing Zhang Yimou's unrelenting tricks, the reporters immediately changed their minds: "Director Yimou, if your movie was edited into a funny video, would you be angry?"

You can't get around this now.

Zhang Yimou knew what the other party wanted to ask, but since the other party didn't seem to make any connection, it was difficult for Zhang Yimou not to answer.

After thinking about it, I said, "Probably not. I think this is quite good. Netizens spoofing my movie at least shows that they like this movie..."

Zhang Yimou's face was calm when he answered. He knew that the reporter was implying something about Chen Kai, but he finally decided to follow his heart...

He really doesn't think this is a big deal, and he really doesn't understand why Brother Chen Kai would take this so seriously.
The next day, Zhang Yimou's remarks were reprinted by major media outlets and became known to everyone.

Many netizens used this to mock poet Chen. They are both big directors, but look at his vision.

Zhang Chen was on the phone when he saw the news.

"Chen Zi, why did you quarrel with Brother Chen Kai? Listen to my advice. We are all in the same circle. We will meet each other sooner or later. There is no need to make it so ugly. Do you want me to help mediate?"

"Zhang Chen, Director Chen is a famous director in China and a senior director after all. You still have to show enough respect to him..."

He had no idea how many similar calls he had received in the past two days, all of them pleading for mercy.

There are seniors in the industry and school leaders. Everyone is speaking the same language. They are all doing this for your own good. We should forgive others when we can.

For such people, Zhang Chen always smiled and expressed his humility in accepting their requests.

Then I will never change in my life.

Guo Degang is right. For such people, you’d better stay away from them, or you may get struck by thunder.

However, Zhang Chen was more relieved that Han Sanping was not among these people.

Since the publication of his second blog, the blog has become a check-in point for opposing "The Promise".

Many heroes came to Zhang Chen's blog to like and leave comments:

The anti-"The Promise" righteous people passed by and praised Director Zhang for his righteous words...

Director Zhang's words are really insightful~
I support Director Zhang. What the hell is that movie that Chen Shishi filmed? It's that crap of "The Promise". I'm too tired to even clean up my ass...

When the movie was first released, I said that The Promise was definitely a terrible movie, but the review was deleted as soon as it was posted. Then the media hyped it up every day. The publicity for The Promise was really crazy...

Inside the room, Fatty Fan read the comments under the blog with great interest, his beautiful eyes were full of brilliance~
He came specifically to discuss acting with Zhang Chen.

Well, then Zhang Chen imparted a lot of experience to me.

When the CD was cooling down, I just started eating melons on the spot.

"Tsk tsk tsk~, being able to witness the direct battle between the two great directors with my own eyes, I feel like my life is worth it..."

Zhang Chen also joked: "Does it feel like watching the five permanent members fighting up close?"

"Yes, yes, yes~"

Fan Xiaopang just didn't know how to describe it, and Zhang Chen came up with such a wonderful metaphor.

She couldn't afford to offend either of the warring parties, but the war between the two sides was unfolding right in front of her.

"Zhang Yimou, Brother Chen Kai, now you only have Feng Xiaogang left to achieve the supreme godhood~"

Zhang Chen patted his head: "What Zhang Yimou, Brother Chen Kai...

I have never criticized Zhang Yimou. I still respect the national master. The one I really can’t stand is Zhang Weiping…”

Fan Binbin: "When I was in school, I learned about the fox borrowing the tiger's might, but I didn't quite understand its specific meaning. When I met Zhang Weiping, I finally understood..."

(End of this chapter)