From collapsed house idol to entertainment superstar

Ding Zhi accepted the role of "Wushuang", partly because he liked the script, but also because he was satisfied with director Zhang Wenqiang's style and character, and also because there was really no film contract.

So they hit it off immediately.

However, regarding the drama "Wushuang", in Ding Zhi's plan for the beginning of this year, its importance is estimated to not be among the top three.

In fact, Ding Zhi has always been very purposeful when running a company or planning his future route.

If the previous Jiuyao Media was more or less regarded as a large studio of Dingzhi, then in the field of TV series there are "The Beginning" and "Flower of Evil", and in the field of movies there are "The Tuner" and "The God of Medicine"

Under such circumstances, no one dares to underestimate this media company that only has two “kitten and puppies”.

Because its boss is Ding Zhi.

From the time he tested the waters with "The Tuner" to the current state where "The God of Medicine" is gaining commercial reputation, Jiuyao Media has become famous in just one year.

However, contrary to Ding Zhi's very purposeful career planning, his way of selecting works is particularly "casual".

The casualness here does not mean that he randomly accepts films for money, but because he is a rare top actor who does not like to maintain his "B level".

It stands to reason that any actor in the industry who has reached a certain level will start to maintain their "fashion status" or status and start to pay attention to certain things.

Why in the entertainment industry, people have been fooling people into "losing their position" for more than ten years? This is actually the reason.

It is always a comparison. A film and television drama, even if it is a group portrait, will have the most important central character, which is the legendary C position.

Sometimes even the male and female protagonists must have their own priorities.

But this kind of "fighting for position" has never happened to Ding Zhi.

The most important point among them is naturally because Ding Zhi is quite unique. Basically, he will be a well-deserved protagonist in all the film and television dramas he appears in.

But at the same time, there are actually many cases where Ding Zhi plays supporting roles.

Leaving aside games such as "Eight Hundred" and "Cold War 2" that have yet to reach the top stage,

However, Ding Zhi, who is the only one in the top slot, can still go to play the villain for Wu Jin and Tony Jaa for the filming of "Greedy Wolf 2".

In "The Beginning", she became a great match to set off the two newcomer protagonists.

To be honest, Ding Zhi's free will really made Yang Qiong, as an agent, quite distressed for a time.

However, there are really not many works nowadays that are attractive enough for Ding Zhi to do this.

Today's "Wushuang" can be considered to be able to do this.

To be honest, according to the script, the character Wu Fusheng, although it is fictional, is slightly better than Li Wen in terms of expressiveness and brilliance of the character.

I guess that when Zhang Wenqiang wrote the story and created the characters, he unconsciously tended to prefer this character.

After all, Ponyboy was really the romance in the minds of many men of that era. Not to mention our Chinese-speaking areas, people like Xiao Xiba next door, in that era, the admiration for the true nature of heroes and Ponyboy was also extremely high.

This role not only turned Fat Brother, a box-office poison, into a "fairy hair", it also gave him a terrifying influence throughout Southeast Asia.

However, compared to Ding Zhi's previous situation where he would play supporting roles to consume his "B" when the whim happened, Liang Qiong has no objection to the current situation of "Wushuang".

After all, that’s Fa Ge!

Even the reason why Ding Zhi took on this drama was not only because of the script and Zhang Wenqiang, but also being able to act in the same frame as Fa Ge also gave him great appeal.

Nowadays, Ding Zhi is already able to dominate in terms of acting skills among his peers, so he sets his sights on the older generation.

This has nothing to do with winning or losing, or the desire to win or lose.

It's that wonderful feeling of being able to interact with each other on a character level in a rival scene. It's one of the few things that can make Ding Zhi's heart swell.

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In fact, during their first meeting, Ding Zhi and Zhang Wenqiang verbally agreed on the matter of co-directing.

This is naturally because after Ding Zhi's rise in status, some of the old-fashioned ways in his heart have "revived" and he likes to take the lead.

To be precise, he doesn't like being passive.

A certain young lady here who has a strong personality and is willing to reveal her name is quite helpless. Ding Zhi is good at everything. The only thing she is dissatisfied about is that there are very few opportunities for her to be condescending.

Not long after she succeeded, she would always be knocked to the ground by someone who was practicing martial arts. She was crushed to death.

Even the small details in life are like this, and when it comes to the "eating guy" in movies and TV series, he will become inexplicably "overbearing".

Ding Zhi's reputation as a "tyrant on the set" and a "drama tyrant" is now quite famous in the industry.

But he finally got what he wanted, and took away the rights to "Wushuang", but Ding Zhi finally took away the producer rights.

In exchange, Ding Zhi invested 50 million in this project, and also persuaded Huansong Media to invest another 50 million.

In this way, plus the more than 100 million given by Bona itself, the production cost of "Wushuang" came to 260 million.

In addition, Ding Zhi's remuneration is also paid in the form of 10 million + box office dividends.

Speaking of which, after his current net worth has increased, several movies have actually been produced in this way, which is equivalent to transferring many of the risks of the movies to him, Ding Zhi.

What a good actor, he is simply the favorite of the capitalists. Of course, it would be better if he didn’t need to pay dividends...

This is one of the reasons why many employers are flocking to Ding Zhi.

Now the crew's wallet is full.

So the progress on Fa Ge's side is going very smoothly.

Over the past few years, Fa Ge's output of works has greatly decreased.

It’s one thing that I don’t like to mess around as I get older, but it’s another thing that I can’t come across any decent scripts.

Of course, there are also reasons why his salary is somewhat too high. Overall, the price-performance ratio is low.

In recent years, the king of bad movies, Huang Zhixiong, has been more attracted by his films. On the one hand, it is a humane reason, and on the other hand, it is very practical, and the offers are really too much.

It can be said that as soon as Ding Zhi entered the game, he completely revitalized the "Wushuang" project that had been stumbling for several years.

Today, the initiative began to slowly shift to Ding Zhi's side inadvertently. It can only be said to be due to fate.

In fact, when Ding Zhi said "come and learn something" when they first met, Zhang Wenqiang didn't take it seriously.

After all, at that time, in addition to supervising several hit dramas, Ding Zhi only had one "The Tuner" with some practical experience in movies, not to mention that the director was Ding Zhi's No. 2 toolman Cai Wen.

, outsiders don’t even know the true situation.

But things are different now.

At the end of March, "The God of Medicine", which had obtained the delay key, finally exceeded 4 billion, surpassing the box office of "Operation Red Sea" and taking the runner-up spot in the box office of film history.

This throne, Lin Chaoxian, had not yet warmed up, but it was stabbed in the chrysanthemum after a year.

This "Two Five Boys" is also the protagonist of "Operation Red Sea", Ding Zhi himself.

When he called to congratulate him, Bald Lin also complained jokingly about him for a long time.

This is also the great thing about Bald Lin.

I think back then, it was Baldy Lin who let Ding Zhi off in "Broken Wind", but it turned out that Ding Zhi won the box office championship of Hong Kong movies that year with "The Hunt".

It stands to reason that the two of them can be said to have some degree of grudge. After all, one is the enemy of "bullying a poor young man" and the other is the humiliation of "being slapped in the face".

As a result, after "Operation Red Sea", Bald Lin has become the director with whom Ding Zhi has the best connections in Hong Kong.

Comrade Zhou Xianyang, who originally produced "The Hunt", after the follow-up "Heroes Dream" became a hit, Ding Zhi also gradually drifted away. It is said that he complained that Ding Zhi rejected his role at that time.

The difference in structure between the two Hong Kong directors who are also closely related to Ding Zhi is evident.

It’s no wonder that Bald Lin is now one of the first batch of directors who moved north from Hong Kong Island to become one of the first-tier directors in China. He can even get his hands on blockbuster films like "Operation Red Sea" that are a bit of a political mission.

Let’s talk about the current “God of Medicine”.

This film has been a hit since the beginning of the new year, making it a joke for many people in the industry to swear that this year's Spring Festival will be "Enter the Dragon" before the Spring Festival.

Sing Yee's "The King of Comedy 2" has been in theaters for 40 days and ended with a box office of 622 million. It is actually his biggest blockbuster in history, and both the box office and reputation have been greatly affected.

Gong Dapao's "Only God Knows" created a heated discussion with Ding Zhi, and it did achieve good box office results. After all, it was equally popular at the time.

Even after the third week of release, it even fell slightly, but the marketing of off-board tricks ultimately depends on the hardness of the work itself.

"Only God Knows" is literary and artistic, and it even claims to be an official adaptation of the story of Gong Dapao's friend.

But everyone who has watched the movie knows that it is too superficial. The kind of "romance" and "until death do us part" that are too far away from domestic audiences are just a layer away from them for many viewers.

The boots tickle the soles of the feet, more inexplicably and less sympathetically.

Anyway, to put it bluntly, it doesn’t look good and everything is in vain.

Coupled with the subsequent customization, all the heat of controversy was suppressed, and the hype turned into an anticlimactic performance. This film no longer had room to struggle. Before it was released, almost all that was left was

01,000 box office.

It exceeded 100 million in five days of release, and more than 30 days after its release, the box office was 1,000 yuan. This is the answer Gong Dapao called out.

Even though the hype generated a lot of popularity, the revenue converted into it is extremely low. Coupled with the loss of reputation, this wave of big names can be said to have stolen the chicken but lost the rice.

It also seems to be a sign that their generation is getting older. They are not heroes, but they are indeed getting old.

The box office of Kai Mao Dou's "Funny Family" has exceeded 2.5 billion, which fully demonstrates Mao Dou's leading star Teng Sheng's box office appeal. Some people even claim that he is vaguely becoming the king of comedy of the new generation.

Regardless of whether he is exaggerating or criticizing, he is indeed in a class of his own when domestic comedies can hold up the box office.

It's a pity that this comedy, which seems to be the best in the Spring Festival, was left far behind by another "dark horse".

"The God of Medicine", which has a box office of over 4 billion, has been gaining momentum since its release.

Before its release, everyone did not regard "The God of Medicine" as an ordinary movie because of its terrible film performance. Logically speaking, it seems a bit wrong to call it a "dark horse".

But the reason why some people still think it is "dark" is because no one expected that after "The God of Medicine" was released, it would run wild and make great progress.

Later, the management of most theater chains gave "The God of Medicine" a very high film schedule, even reaching 50% at one time, which even attracted joint protests from many other film studios at the same time.

Of course, in the end, these protests had no effect, and the level was even increased to 55% in the end.

All because the reputation of "The God of Medicine" is so explosive.

Even the tap water that comes spontaneously, three times, four times, or even five times, there are always people there.

Especially after "The God of Medicine" became popular, someone interviewed Lu Yong, the prototype of the protagonist of the story, and exposed the high "story copyright fee" that Ding Zhi had signed with him.

That is, "Before the release, the crew of "The God of Medicine", also known as Jiuyao Media, will donate 5 million to domestic leukemia treatment-related institutions. After the movie is released, every time the box office exceeds 100 million, Jiuyao Media will donate 5 million to leukemia-related information

The organization will make a supplementary donation of 500,000." This agreement.

Once this agreement was exposed, public opinion on the Internet began to boil.

Compared with those practices where whenever something goes wrong, there will be fans who use their family to "do charity" to manipulate public opinion and prevent disasters. I'm afraid that everyone doesn't know that his family's sisters are the most loving in the world.

In contrast to Ding Zhi's style of doing things quietly but never publicizing them, the contrast is simply not too obvious!

This is one of the reasons why many people silently go to the cinema to watch movies again and again.

"There is nothing you can do, just keep silently brushing it one more time and do your best."

It's just this simple and unpretentious mentality.

However, this unexpected incident caused the weekly box office of "The God of Medicine", which was already in decline at the time, to start to fluctuate again, and even briefly won another daily championship on one day.

You know, it was already 50 days after "The God of Medicine" was released.

And no matter how popular a movie is, it will eventually be released.

There is no doubt that "The God of Medicine" will become the champion of this year's Spring Festival.

And even though the new year has just begun, no one seems to doubt that this film can win the annual box office championship this year.

The only thing that has any suspense is that "The God of Medicine" can surpass the 4.36 billion box office of "The Great Battle", which was the highest-grossing film in film history a few years ago.

At that time, the film actually had its own unique advantages. In addition to its excellent quality and the growing national pride in this era, this film even frantically obtained five delay keys, which was enough.

It was delayed by five months.

This year's "The God of Medicine" has already reached a box office of 4.07 billion, and it seems to be only a hair's breadth away from "Armageddon".