Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 780 Helping with Promotion (23)

Gu Shenyan's departure from the storyline does not affect the plot's progression; filming of "The Rebel" will continue...

Shen Yan immediately changed her mood and began their daily interactions with Lan Xinjie, played by Song Jia…

In fact, Gu Shenyan's death was a relatively normal one, caused by being shot. In contrast, Zuo Qiuming, played by Wang Lei, died a very cruel death!

He swallowed the intelligence before his arrest. After being arrested, he was sent to the hospital and tortured by the Japanese. They cut him open, repeatedly ripped open his wounds and stitched them up, without anesthesia, in an attempt to extract information and force him to say what he wanted to know. But he gritted his teeth and endured the pain without saying a word.

Knowing he couldn't escape, he pulled out his IV drip after his caregiver fell asleep that night. He then bit down on a sheet, tearing open his wound in pain, and died from excessive blood loss.

This drama cost so many lives…

……

Entering September, firstly, the Venice Film Festival awarded the Golden Lion to "The Woman Who Left," but "Call Me in Your Name" won the Special Jury Prize, and "Moonlight" also won the Grand Jury Prize...

As for "Hello, Crazy!" and "Kaili Blues", they didn't win any awards...

However, both films later went to the Toronto International Film Festival and sold their rights quite well.

The total exceeds $300 million!
It was a small success...

"Hello, Crazy!" will be released on September 14th, the same day as "A Chinese Odyssey Part Three", "Z Storm 2", "Soul Mate", and "Cock and Bull"...

The box office on the first day was only 1100 million...

The final box office is estimated to be around 6000 million.

That's already pretty good. In the original timeline, "Hello, Crazy!" only grossed 1566 million...

But Rao Xiaozhi felt quite embarrassed—his previous films included "The Big Shot 2" and "The Big Winner," both of which grossed over 800 million yuan at the box office.

He's gone into seclusion to work on the script for "Lucky Key"...

It's good, but I'm worried he might end up writing something like "The Unknown: From Adversity to Prosperity"...

They tried to imitate "The Truman Show," and then they made a fool of themselves!
In fact, Rao Xiaozhi is very good at playing this kind of script structure, creating an environment that is both illusory and real, making people doubt the reality of this world.

"Hello, Crazy!" and "The Sun Shines on Youth", which he produced, all use similar expressions, but "From Adversity to Prosperity" got it wrong!

The so-called reality show...

The film creates an extremely exaggerated and unreal world, and the plot and character settings determine that the story is about Chen Sanjin, a scumbag with poor character, who will change his ways and win back his girlfriend. It's basically obvious to everyone that he will change and will be able to win her back. The ending is predetermined.

This resulted in all the plot arrangements in the second half of the movie being completely useless.

The protagonist is held at gunpoint, threatened with a knife, and sprayed with bullets by a submachine gun...

The audience knows it's all fake and won't empathize with the characters at all.

This results in no matter how hard the actors perform or how dramatic the story is, it has no appeal to the audience!
Moreover, the plot is very convoluted…

The advertisement claims to "tear apart a scumbag," but it doesn't actually portray a real scumbag...

What's wrong with him causing trouble because he couldn't get the final payment for the show that couldn't be broadcast smoothly?

What's wrong with him not standing up when he could have escaped immediately after being raped by terrorists?

Seeing bags of gold bars, and knowing his older brother's factory was facing bankruptcy, what was wrong with him choosing to forgo his own life and try to take the gold bars?

In that situation, he knew how to seize the opportunity to fight back, how to become sworn brothers with the terrorists, and how to save his own life while also protecting his ex-girlfriend. He had already done more than enough. The director and screenwriter were overly cautious in preventing the protagonist from truly falling into a "scumbag" state, which ironically made his subsequent transformation less impressive and less inspiring...

Back to September…

"Kaili Blues" has also been released, taking the arthouse film route...

This movie is doomed to be a box office hit!
The film interweaves reality and dreams in its narrative, making it essentially an auteur film…

The final box office should be around 1600 million...

That's already pretty good, considering the total investment was only 30!
However, there aren't many Hollywood blockbusters in September this year, only "Star Trek Beyond," "Shark," and the Japanese import "Parasyte"...

This led to a sluggish box office performance throughout September!

Oh, Spark Studios' "The Big Shot 3: Breaking the Ice" will be released on September 30th...

The main publicity team is confident in "L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties", "I Belonged to You", and "Mission Milano"!

Secondly, a review of the summer movie season…

Overall, this year's summer movie lineup is terrible...

Not only domestic films, but Hollywood films also failed to contribute many well-received works.

The box office and critical reception weren't great either!

Especially compared to last year…

Last summer's blockbuster season saw the release of films like *Monkey King: Hero Is Back*, *Monster Hunt*, *SPL 2: A Time for Consequences*, and *Go Away Mr. Tumor*, while Hollywood films included *Jurassic World*, *San Andreas*, and *Terminator Genisys*…

This year... apart from "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" which exceeded expectations, the other movies were all bad in their own way!

In particular, "Warcraft" only managed to reach 14.5 billion yuan at the box office.

There weren't many Hollywood movies that performed well either. Whether it was "X-Men: Apocalypse" or "Now You See Me 2", including "Independence Day 2" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2", they didn't do well in terms of reviews or box office!
A bunch of independent media outlets are starting to worry…

Actually, there's no need to worry!
At present, hot money and capital have not withdrawn on a large scale. It's not too late to worry in two years!

……

"The Thunder Operation is based on a true story... Everyone can pay attention to the 2013 Thunder anti-drug operation... Actually, we originally planned to make an independent film, but Brother Jing wanted to link it with The Big Shot... so we brought out Sun Wukong!"

"Sun Wukong and Li Hongqi... these two are from different timelines, they can't interact!"

At the hotel, Shen Yan was live-streaming, promoting "The Big Shot 3"...

Some netizens suggested a crossover development between the two police and gangster series, "The Big Shot" and "Northeast Police Story," but Shen Yan refused!
"The second installment of 'Northeast Police Story' will be released on May 19th next year, barring any unforeseen circumstances... As for the fourth installment of 'The Big Shot'... there are no plans for now. Wu Jing is busy working on 'Wolf Warrior 2,' so the story of Sun Wukong is temporarily on hold..."

"But don't worry, we've planned four installments of 'Northeast Police Story'... one of them will be released every year!"

Then, a netizen in the comments section said: "What do you think about Wu Jing calling young male celebrities effeminate?"

Shen Yan smiled and said, "That's just the kind of person Jing is... He likes to say a few words whenever he feels like it, and most of the time he just speaks his mind without thinking it through or doing any systematic research or investigation... Don't overthink it, he's just saying it offhand!"

After a pause, Shen Yan added, "Let me tell you, these young, popular male celebrities work very hard. Fans like fair-skinned, youthful, and thin physiques, so they stubbornly maintain that physique. But if one day the market favors muscular men, they'll also become more sunny and masculine..."

(End of this chapter)