Chinese entertainment, from radio love songs to superstars

In the development of today's film industry, movie premieres have become a vital and indispensable part of it.

For the majority of audiences, a movie premiere is undoubtedly a special moment filled with endless anticipation and excitement. They can be the first to get a glimpse of the latest film works and personally experience the unique and charming charm of the film. At the same time, it is also a social occasion where they can communicate with industry insiders, celebrities, media, etc. and share their viewing experiences. This communication atmosphere undoubtedly adds a different color to the viewing experience.

From the perspective of the promotion of the film itself, the premiere plays an extremely important role. It can quickly gain more attention and popularity for the film, thereby effectively increasing the popularity and influence of the film in the public eye. If a film can successfully attract everyone's attention at the premiere and trigger widespread discussion, then in the subsequent official release process, it is possible to reap good box office results and word-of-mouth effects.

Furthermore, the premiere can also create more business opportunities for the development of the entire film industry. Through the premiere platform, film producers, investors and other relevant parties can conduct in-depth negotiations and cooperation with various business partners, further promoting the film industry to develop in a more prosperous direction.

Shen Lang participated in the premiere of "New Police Story" in order to bring more attention and topics to the film.

On the one hand, he is one of the investors of this film. As an investor, he naturally hopes that the film can achieve excellent results. So it is reasonable for him to support the film by participating in the premiere.

On the other hand, Gao Yuanyuan is one of the leading actors in this movie. Out of support for his girlfriend's career, he will also actively participate in promotional activities related to the movie and will not miss the premiere.

In addition, he and Jackie Chan have subsequent cooperation plans, and participating in the premiere is also an effective way to consolidate their relationship and lay a good foundation for future cooperation.

"Shen Lang!"

"Ahhh!"

"Brother Lang!"

When Shen Lang appeared at the premiere scene after being introduced by the host, he instantly aroused warm cheers from the audience.

If Jackie Chan is the pride of Chinese people, the most famous and influential Chinese star in the world, then Shen Lang is also working hard towards this goal. Although he has not yet reached the heights of Jackie Chan, he has already occupied a place in the world music circle with his own talent and hard work.

It is also worth mentioning that in the domestic entertainment industry, his popularity is much higher than Jackie Chan.

"thank you all!"

Shen Lang was dressed in casual clothes today, simple yet stylish. He stood on the stage, forming a handsome scene with Xie Tingfeng and Wu Yan, and immediately attracted the attention of everyone present. He took the microphone from the host with a gentle smile on his face, and said, "I am very happy to be here and witness the premiere of the wonderful film "New Police Story" with everyone. Thank you for the invitation, brother."

When he said this, Jackie Chan laughed and interrupted, but because he did not raise the microphone, no one could hear what he said.

Seeing this, the host helped to relay the story: "Big brother said that it would be better if Shen Lang accepted the previous invitation. Let me ask on behalf of everyone, big brother, what was the previous invitation?"

At this time, Jackie Chan raised the microphone, still with his signature smile on his face, and explained: "It's like this, before the filming of this movie started, a role was reserved for him, but as you know, he released an album, held a concert, and filmed a TV series, so there was no time left for us, which is a pity."

Shen Lang said quickly, "In fact, when I watched Big Brother's movies before, I would think, what would happen if I were in that movie? If I had the opportunity one day, I would be very happy. I think working with Big Brother must be the dream of many actors, including me. It's just that my schedule has been too full in the past two years. But I believe that there will definitely be opportunities in the future."

His words were so sincere and heartfelt that Jackie Chan smiled from ear to ear.

"Then let's really look forward to it, don't you think?" The host said while livening up the atmosphere.

"Yes!" The audience nodded in agreement, and there was warm applause and cheers.

Shen Lang's purpose of coming was to increase attention and popularity of "New Police Story", so he couldn't steal the limelight from the film and the main creative staff and occupy the main venue of the premiere, so he simply chatted with everyone for a few words, and then the premiere began.

As the lights in the theater slowly dimmed, the originally noisy environment suddenly became extremely quiet.

The audience members stopped smiling and talking, and focused all their attention on the screen in front of them.

In fact, everyone is looking forward to "New Police Story".

After his previous work "Around the World in 80 Days" suffered a box office failure all over the world, Jackie Chan returned to Hong Kong to prepare this masterpiece. In fact, in addition to being positioned as a "comeback work" and worthy of the audience's expectations, Gao Yuanyuan has joined, and nearly idols, stars, and singers of all sizes, such as Xie Tingfeng, Fiona Sit, Wu Yanzu, and Wang Jie, are either starring, or are willing to play supporting roles, or make friendly guest appearances. How can people not look forward to such a strong lineup?

In addition, this film implements Chen Musheng's shooting techniques. Whether it is a chaotic scene, a large-scale explosion production, or capturing the essence of the actors, he can control it with ease. From "Young and Dangerous", "Who Am I", "Police Story 2", and even "Handsome Daughters", most of his works are full of rhythm, with compact plots one after another and many changes. Therefore, he is known as one of "Hong Kong's most outstanding police and gangster film directors".

However, although it is a Police Story series, due to copyright issues, the originally popular protagonist, Chan Ka Kui, had to change his name to Leslie Chan.

Fortunately, it’s just a name, and no one paid too much attention to it. After all, the word “new” is added to the title, which clearly tells everyone that this film will definitely be different from the previous ones.

What's more, as long as Jackie Chan is in charge, the style and flavor of this film will not be much different from the previous Police Story series.

Shen Lang had watched it no less than 10 times in his previous life and remembered the plot clearly.

[Chen Guorong is a legendary figure in the police force. During his many years as a police officer, he has handled almost all major cases in the police district, with a 100% crime-solving rate, and his fame is unmatched.

A-Zu was born into a family of police officers, but because he was abused by his father since he was a child, he always hated the police. So, together with four other people, he planned a series of hunting operations against the police. After robbing the bank's safe, the five-member super criminal group headed by him actually took the initiative to ring the alarm, openly challenging the police, and waiting for the police to arrive and then shooting the police for fun.

Chen Guorong said he would return the favor within three hours, so he led his nine elite men straight into the thieves' den. However, the secret arrest operation was betrayed by his colleague Sen, and the entire team was killed one by one by A Zu and his gang who had been lying in ambush, including his girlfriend Ke Yi's brother Hao Kang. Although he escaped death, he witnessed the brutal murder of his team members with his own eyes, and he was helpless to do anything. Shame and guilt made him and Ke Yi increasingly estranged, and eventually broke up. From then on, he became even more depressed and spent his days drinking.

Xiaofeng cannot be a policeman due to his family background, but he longs to be the embodiment of justice. In order to cheer up Chen Guorong and to satisfy his own wish to be a policeman, he decides to pretend to be the new partner assigned to Chen Guorong by his superiors, and force him to resume his post and investigate the case of the "super criminal"...】

For Shen Lang personally, although "New Police Story" cannot be compared with the previous films in this series, the narrative is smooth, the plot is ups and downs, and the logic is reasonable. The fighting scenes still maintain Jackie Chan's usual high standard, and the literary drama is more exciting and profound than the martial arts. In particular, A-Zu, played by Wu Yanzu, perfectly presents the multi-faceted nature of a bad guy. He can be said to be a rare excellent villain in domestic films.

However, this movie is actually a very "Jackie Chan" movie, which makes the movie lose the charm of a "Jackie Chan movie" and makes the audience lose their positioning. In addition, this era is relatively fond of comedies, so that this big production with an investment of over 1.2 million yuan did not have ideal box office when it was released in the original time and space. The box office in Hong Kong was only 2111 million Hong Kong dollars, and the box office in the mainland was only 4300 million RMB, with a total global box office of 871 million US dollars.

In the same year, "Kung Fu" written, directed and starred by Stephen Chow achieved a box office of 1.73 million RMB in mainland China, 6100 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, and 1.05 million US dollars in the world, which is a huge difference.

At that time, many people believed that New Police Story not only failed to save Hong Kong films, but also made Hong Kong filmmakers more cautious and timid in their creation. However, it is gratifying that despite the unsatisfactory box office, the film performed well at major award ceremonies, and was a big hit at the Formosa Province Golden Horse Awards, Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Awards, Hong Kong Film Awards, Chinese Film Media Awards and Huaxia Film Golden Rooster Awards. Jackie Chan was nominated and won the Best Actor Award, and Wu Yanzu was nominated and won the Best Supporting Actor Award.

Shen Lang believed that even if he joined the production of this film, the changes he could bring would be relatively limited. He probably couldn't recover, and the best case scenario was to lose less money.

The reason he invested was, on the one hand, because he really liked the movie "New Police Story", and on the other hand, it was also to support Gao Yuanyuan.

Moreover, before he traveled through time, some lines in the film, such as "A-Zu, stop it, there are policemen everywhere outside", "I'll give you one million if you help me kill my dad!", and "Just because you're not dead yet doesn't mean you're capable. It's just that we haven't had enough fun yet." became popular again on the Internet.

After watching too many melodramatic movies and TV shows, people began to miss the old movies, and even raised the initial score of 7.3 to 7.9, which can be regarded as another way to prove its value.

"Oh~"

Time passed quietly, and the last scene of the film appeared on the screen, where Chen Guorong successfully proposed to Ke Yi in the police station.

When the audience saw this scene, they applauded and cheered.

In fact, the people who come here to attend the premiere are basically fans of the film, so no matter what the actual quality of the film is, they will give it their support.

For relatively objective evaluations, we have to look at those professional film critics.

At this moment, Sina Blog is booming. New professionals like film critics and music critics have found a very good platform to showcase themselves. Some of them have tens of thousands of followers on the blog.

Don't underestimate these tens of thousands of followers. How many Internet users were there in 2004? How many bloggers were there? And how many of them read movie and music reviews while blogging?

When it comes to blog followers, Shen Lang currently has the most, with an astonishing 340 million followers.

As of last year, the number of Internet users in my country was 7950 million. From this, we can infer that about one in every 23 Internet users follows Shen Lang on his blog.

This data also shows that Shen Lang has a high status and is very popular among the majority of netizens, which also means that his every move and every word may trigger heated discussions and pursuits among many followers.

At this point the film was finished and the premiere had reached its final stage.

Jackie Chan took the film's main creative team to the stage again. He showed his friendly side, actively interacted with the audience, listened carefully to everyone's comments on the film, and presented carefully prepared gifts. The atmosphere was very warm.

After the premiere, the group went to the Yanjing Hotel for dinner.

"By the way, did Ning Hao tell you about the postponement of the release of Crazy Stone for half a month?"

On the way back, Fang Wanhua, Shen Lang and Gao Yuanyuan were riding in the same car, and Fang Wanhua mentioned this matter.

"said."

Shen Lang nodded in response.

Usually, after the movie key is produced, it will be uploaded to the Internet and each theater can download it by itself. The key is valid for one month, which means the movie will be shown for one month. After the expiration, the theater server will no longer be able to read the copied movie. At this time, if you still want to show it, you need to extend the key.

How long the film is to be extended is decided by the production company, whether it is a week or a month, no one interferes.

However, the issue of extension also depends on the cinemas and the market. The cinemas have simply obtained authorization and can continue to play the film, but there must be a market for people to be willing to continue playing it. However, many films now only have a life cycle of one week. For such films, there is no need to talk about extension keys, as they cannot even survive the normal one-month screening period.

The reason why "Crazy Stone" was able to be postponed for broadcast is, firstly, because they have their own theaters, and secondly, because it is indeed popular.

After a normal month of screening, the box office reached 3300 million, a full 2300 million more than the 1000 million in the original time and space.

As a low-budget movie, this amount of money is incredible, and it will definitely be delayed to squeeze out its value.

"There is one more thing. In your future projects, just give me the investment share directly. You don't need to send me the script." Fang Wanhua has absolute trust in Shen Lang.

"Sister-in-law, this is also official business, so it's better to go through the process." Shen Lang felt it was necessary.

Fang Wanhua said nothing, and then continued: "This time, your brother Qian wants to participate and invest in the name of his coal company. You can ask him for more money."

Shen Lang raised his eyebrows when he heard this. This is his wife. He then said, "That's no problem. When the budget comes out, we'll have a meeting to discuss it."

The three projects are the movies "Lucy", "All or Nothing" and "She Was Missing". They were produced by Julang Film and Television and presented by Shenghua Film and Television. In terms of investment, they all have a certain share and will also give up part of their shares to other investors.

This is done to diversify risks. Although they were all successful works in their original time and space, the shooting time and the main creative team have changed to varying degrees. It is better to be safe than sorry. If there is money, everyone makes it, and if there is a loss, everyone shares it.

Of course, the lion's share is on their side.

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The next day, Shen Lang didn't get a late night's sleep and arrived at the company at nine in the morning, along with Zhang Guorong and Dao Lang. (End of this chapter)