My wife is in my arms

Chapter 1288 Production Copyright Eight

Compared to other movies.

This film, created by the original team behind "Goodbye Mr. Loser" and starring Jin Kai, who just won the Best Actor award, attracted the attention of many movie fans as soon as it was promoted.

The promotional content also focuses on comedy.

"On the first day of the Lunar New Year, 'Crazy Stone' will be a laugh-out-loud hit."

To boost its popularity, the film even linked itself to "Goodbye Mr. Loser" during its promotional campaign, saying, "Didn't you laugh enough with 'Goodbye Mr. Loser'? Then 'Crazy Stone' will keep you laughing."

"Director Zhang You, along with director Li, Shen Jiaming, and award-winning actor Jin Kai, collaborate again to create an extraordinary Lunar New Year's Day."

Similar comedic themes are popular regardless of the release window.

Chinese people only like two types of movies: first, pure visual effects blockbusters, and second, comedies. Good comedies often achieve great success with low budgets, as countless examples have proven.

The netizens' reaction was particularly intense.

"This is the movie I've been most looking forward to this year, and I hope Zhang You won't let me down."

"Crime dark comedy genre, how strange! Why would Zhang You combine these two genres!?"

"I heard Shen Jiaming played a gangster boss. Now I can't help but laugh whenever I see his face. Can an actor like that really play such a role well?!"

Some people have raised this question.

But before the movie was released, no one answered.

Besides "Crazy Stone", director Pan's "Take It Seriously" has also started its pre-release promotion. There is still some time before the first day of the Lunar New Year, so the scale of promotion for all of them is relatively small.

The main reason was the fear of being scared by the performance of the film market throughout last year. They were afraid that if they went on a large scale, they would not only lose money on the production costs of the film, but also lose a lot on publicity expenses.

This kind of thing has happened many times last year. The film production cost was three or four hundred million yuan, the publicity cost was more than one hundred million yuan, but the box office was dismal.

Therefore, this year, everyone did not spend too much on advertising at the beginning.

"Crazy Stone" doesn't have this concern because, due to the focus of its promotion, a little promotion is enough to generate considerable buzz.

The key point is that both "Goodbye Mr. Loser" and "The Truman Show" made a lot of money for theaters last year, so when "Crazy Stone" was scheduled to be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the heads of major theater chains called Tianyu Entertainment to guarantee that the film would be given priority in screenings.

They also guarantee that if this movie has a high occupancy rate and other movies perform poorly, screenings will be immediately allocated to it.

Of course.

This also depends on "Crazy Stone" performing exceptionally well.

If it's a dud, there's nothing the theaters can do.

If you want screenings, you have to produce results. That's a healthy market practice, not colluding with theaters to create "ghost screenings" because of box office fraud or poor box office performance.

It's around eight o'clock in the evening.

Li Ran returned with Xiao Zishan. Before they even reached the second floor, the girl called out, "Dad, I finished playing the piano. I played it at Sister Xu's house."

"Oh"

Zhang You nodded.

Since the other party said they had finished playing, Zhang You naturally didn't say anything more.

If she really relaxes and gradually stops playing, Zhang You won't force her. It mainly depends on Xiao Zishan herself; she can play if she wants to, and she can stop if she doesn't want to.

"dad"

Not seeing her father in the living room, Xiao Shan ran into the study, where she indeed found him. Smiling, she walked over to Zhang You, glanced at the computer, and asked curiously, "Writing a movie script?!"

"Um"

Zhang You nodded.

"You're really smart."

Xiaozi Shan praised.

"Not as smart as you."

Zhang You casually replied. Li Ran also rushed in, leaning against Xiao Zishan while looking at the computer, and then asked, "Master, are movies all presented through text?!"

"Film is about images."

Zhang You slightly corrected him, saying, "But writing is something that must be done before presenting the visuals. For example, what kind of personality does this character have, and what kind of person is that character? Only after it's written down can the actors find the right way to perform it."

Of course, there are also directors who don't use scripts.

But let's not talk about that director. Besides liking to study actors, he also likes to mess with them.

"Is writing a movie script difficult!?"

Li Ran asked again.

"Difficulty varies from person to person. What is difficult for many people is not difficult for some. But one thing is certain: no matter how difficult something is, as long as you keep trying, you will eventually see results. The worst thing is to give up in the process of trying. In fact, many things seem difficult, but if you keep trying, and look back after a few years or a decade, you will find that those things that seemed difficult before were actually quite simple."

Zhang You replied with a smile.

"Master, is this what they mean by practice makes perfect!?"

Li Ran countered with a question.

"right"

Zhang You nodded.

"dad"

Xiao Zishan shouted unhappily, "I asked you a question, and you only replied with five words. Li Ran asked you a question, and you only said this much. You're being very disrespectful to your daughter. She just didn't do well on her final exams, it's not that she's not smart enough."

"you're right"

Zhang You replied with a smile.

Seeing his daughter glaring at him angrily, Zhang You stopped typing. The script for "If Love Has a Destiny" was to be directed by Han Wei.

She's just had a baby, so it's impossible for her to come back to filming right away. And as for writing scripts, he doesn't write them himself; he just recounts them from memory bit by bit. So even if it's slow, there's a limit.

Even if you type two or three thousand words every night, it will only take a month or two. Zhang You looked at the two girls and said, "Now that 'Sending You a Little Red Flower' is finished recording, what stage names do you want when it's released?"

"Can't I use my real name!?"

Xiao Zishan's attention was instantly diverted, and she quickly asked.

"no"

Zhang You shook his head directly and then said, "I'll give you two choices. The first is to come up with a group name. As for your mother singing in this song, we can completely ignore that. The second is to take one character from each of your names to form a group, for example, Zi Ran..."

"It sounds awful!"

Before Zhang You could finish speaking, Xiao Zishan shook his head vigorously, like a rattle drum.

"Then you and Li Ran should discuss it yourselves and let me know before you release it."

Upon hearing their father's words, Xiao Zishan and Li Ran immediately ran out. Not long after, they ran back in, pulled out a dictionary of idioms from the bookshelf behind Zhang You, and a collection of ancient poems that Zhang You had bought to decorate his study but had never turned a single page of, before running out again.

"What are you doing!?"

Jiang Yiren's voice came from outside asking questions.

"My dad told us to choose stage names, saying he wanted to create a group name for me and Li Ran."

Xiaozi Shan replied.

"How about a pretty teenage girl!?"

Jiang Yiren said with a smile.

"They're not even in puberty yet!"

Xiao Zishan's words nearly made Zhang You choke on his tea after he had just taken a sip.

(End of this chapter)