I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 734 Stealing box office?
The general producer of "Seven-Man Band" is Du Qifeng...

Including "Seven Man Band", he has failed eight times in a row...

He is a typical frustrated Hong Kong director who was unable to catch up with the explosive growth of the Chinese film market.

Now, no one asks him to make a movie.

Then I got nervous...

Blame the overall environment, the audience this time, or else blame the censorship.

Especially censorship, Hong Kong filmmakers love to use this as an excuse.

Tin Kai Man was also being sarcastic all day long, saying that we were not allowed to film this or that.

However, there are many successful Hong Kong directors. After all, if they cannot adapt to the mainland audience, it is useless to pretend to be high-brow because they will be eliminated by the market.

Many Hong Kong filmmakers are just like this, relying on the mainland for their livelihood but still putting on a condescending attitude.

"The Tomorrow War" created a new situation: selling misery!

At the beginning, the promotion of "Legend of Tomorrow" mainly focused on conventional brands such as "domestic science fiction" and "mecha thriller", but its reputation was average (Douban score 6.4) and coupled with the fierce competition from "The Lone Moon" at the same time, the box office was already in decline by the end of the first week.

It was not until August 8 that the film's official Douyin account posted a video titled "The world is so cruel, 13 years of hard work leads to no reward", which received 10 million likes. This was in stark contrast to the videos that only received tens of thousands of likes at the beginning of the film's release. Things came to a turning point.

The film company seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, and has since continued to launch marketing campaigns based on selling misery, quickly gathering a group of "The Battle at Days" fans. This then led to farces such as "suspecting that films released at the same time stole box office revenue" and "kidnapping other Hong Kong and Taiwan stars to promote "The Battle at Days"". It even got to the point where "capital would not let "The Battle at Days" have an easy time".

It doesn't matter if the trick is old, as long as it is useful.

In the original time and space, Louis Koo’s “selling misery” was still successful!

But after all, it consumed his popularity among the public, as well as the popularity of Hong Kong films among the public…

If used too much, it will be like "crying wolf". The replicability of "selling misery" marketing is very low and it is a self-destructive trick.

So the question is, Louis Koo has starred in many movies before, many of which suffered box office failures and losses. Why would he waste his 28 years of accumulated popularity on "The Battle at the Tomorrow"?

The reason is very simple, there is no capital to take over!

In the original time and space, in addition to "The Lone Moon" being rumored to have stolen box office revenue, several movies released after "The Tomorrow Battle", "Broken Bridge" and "New Gods: Yang Jian" all had "rumor-mongering" short videos claiming to have stolen the box office revenue of "The Tomorrow Battle".

In the world of short videos, it seems that all domestic films are stealing the box office of "The Tomorrow War"!

"Broken Bridge" and "New Gods: Yang Jian" are not big productions, and their box office ambitions are not very big. They were rumored to have stolen the box office, but they did not say anything...

This time, if he dares to touch "The Novelist", Shen Liang will definitely scold him!
……

In Beijing, Shen Liang greeted Yu Hewei, Lei Jiayin, Dong Zijian, and... Yang Mi.

Lu Yang asked him: "What do you think of "Novelist"?"

Shen Liang praised: "I think it's pretty good, a bit like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" or "The Magic Show"... "

"So how would you rate it?"

“7 points… the special effects are really amazing.”

"Only 7 points?"

“I feel like at the beginning, the movie showed that novels can indeed affect reality, but it couldn’t be made up later… the logic collapsed!”

“It did affect…”

"But the ending is too nonsensical..."

The appearance of the Blue Fire Gatling... Actually, it is an exaggeration to achieve a contrast. One is that the author of the novel has changed, and the other is to show Guan Ning's urgency. In the end, it is also a burden...

But this part is in stark contrast to the previous plot!
It caused the whole show to fall apart.

After all, what you created earlier looks very much like realism...

After a pause, Shen Liang waved his hand: "Not bad, those who like it will like it very much... When the various districts in the capital attacked each other, whether it was the floats or the candle dragons, it was really shocking!"

The fighting scene in "The Novelist" is really awesome, much more awesome than "Fengshen"!
Yang Mi interrupted: "Then how much do you think the box office will be?" "...It's hard to say, I think at least 10 billion!"

"That's not bad..." Yang Mi added: "Don't go to our premiere tomorrow..."

"What?"

“You don’t praise us…”

"Okay," Shen Liang nodded.

Yang Mi changed the subject: "Has the movie "New Journey" been released?"

"…Not yet, we got the extension key…"

Lei Jiayin interjected: "Is 'Keep You Safe' scheduled for the National Day?"

"Yes, it will be released on September 9 during the National Day holiday... It will compete with The Journey Home for the National Day box office champion!"

"Are you stressed?"

Shen Liang smiled and said, "It's not a big problem...Everyone is tired of watching traditional mainstream movies...What's more, this year's National Day schedule only has one comedy, and the other three are mainstream dramas!"

"The Journey Home", "Ordinary Heroes" and "Iron Will"...

Then the entire schedule collapsed, and a movie called "Hello, Brother" which was released for 25 days took away 8500 million at the box office!
Lu Yang couldn't listen any longer: "Let's continue talking about "Novelist"..."

……

Shen Liang stayed with them for more than half an hour, and then... he went home.

He indeed wasn’t attending the premiere.

This is Liang Ge’s personality: honest and truthful!

This is the label he uses when he travels around the world.

If we ask him to comment on "Assassination of Novelist"...

You can't just abandon your character for a movie!

Oh, the idol didn't invite him to discuss art...

Understandably, she must be looking forward to "Assassination of Novelist", which is her first movie after "Famous", with a big investment, a female lead and a female fighter...

Most importantly, she had a complete falling out with Jiaxing recently, and the success or failure of "Assassination of Novelist" is related to her future film resources!
Idols are still very ambitious - it should be because Zhou Dongyu became the "Hong Kong Film and Golden Horse Film Queen" a few years ago, and many 85 flowers were dissed by netizens. Faced with these so-called "pull down", many post-85 female stars were eager to get rid of this title, but Yang Mi wore "post-85" on herself...

If I didn't have ambition, I wouldn't have announced at iQiyi's Scream Night, 'See you in 2024!'

Compared with his career, Shen Liang is nothing...

So, this sister is indeed brave but not wise!
Not even as good as Tian, ​​Xiao Tian knows that Shen Liang represents resources...

Forget it, Liang Ge is going to go home and do a live broadcast to promote "Novelist"...

As soon as I got in the car, I received a call from Chen Jiadong, saying, "There are rumors online that we stole the box office?"

Shen Liang didn't react: "...What the hell?"

Chen Jiadong explained: "On TikTok...some people said that "New Journey" stole the box office of "The Tomorrow War"...and even posted the ticket stubs..."

"A New Journey?" Shen Liang was stunned. "Are you crazy? We have made 33 billion at the box office, and we have more than screenings a day. How can we steal the box office?"

"Look for yourself..."

Then I sent him a video...

It was a staff member of XX Cinema who reported it with his real name and he even showed his ID card...

(End of this chapter)