my time as a director

This anti-corruption police film directed by Wang Jing, starring Liang Jiahui and Huang Qiusheng has an investment of more than 3000 million, but the box office on the first day is only a pitiful 230 million.

And in the first week, relying on Li Qian's name, the film's good reputation, the schedule with no competition, and the comedy with a wide audience, the nightclub even got a high box office of 1530 million in the first weekend.

And Money Empire, which was jointly issued by Bernard and China Film, had the same box office in its first week, only 800 million.

There is no doubt that the nightclub became a dark horse in 2009, and the works supervised by Li Qian continued to be a great success.

Chapter 179 Determining the actor

The nightclub with a production cost of 200 million yuan sold more than 1500 million yuan at the box office in the first weekend, becoming the biggest dark horse in the first half of the year.

For dark horses at the box office, the media has never been stingy with praise. Director Yang Qing and leading actor Xu Zheng have become frequent visitors in the entertainment media.

As a director, Yang Qing has become a new star in the director industry in the eyes of the media, and his debut work is a hit.

And Xu Zheng also relied on his identity as the leading actor in the movie, after many years, he finally became popular again.

Although before this, the box office of movies such as Crazy Stone, Crazy Racing, Love Call Transfer, Love Call Transfer 2, and Destiny Call Transfer were all good, and the difference was 3000 to [-] million, and the total exceeded [-] million.

However, except for the absolute No. [-] role in Love Call Transfer, the others are either parallel leading actors or supporting roles.

Even Crazy Stone and Crazy Racing are two highly-rated movies, the media and audience remember Ning Hao and Huang Bo more.

Now, the nightclub makes Xu Zheng the protagonist under the spotlight.

It all came so suddenly, and it came naturally.

Xu Zheng looked at the frequent appearances of his name on the entertainment news, and in some forums, he was also discussing himself.

Even though he is 37 years old, Xu Zheng still can't help being a little excited, and at the same time he has more confidence in the person he is about to direct and act in.

As a young artist, Xu Zheng has ideals and ambitions, but after so many years of hard work, he also knows that if he wants to realize his ideals and shoot what he wants to shoot, he must first abandon his ideals.

Only tacky things can make money, and only after making money can we be qualified to realize our ideals and shoot what we want to shoot.

Only when you are famous will the audience be willing to watch what you shoot.

Otherwise, it's meaningless to take pictures for self-entertainment without letting others see and not gaining others' approval.

Of course, Li Qian is also indispensable. He supervised the production of three films, all of which sold well, and received a good reputation at the box office. Moreover, these three films are all the debut works of new directors.

"New director Bole, Li Qian helped new director Yang Qing's debut film to take off at the nightclub box office!"

Some media directly used such news, calling Li Qian the Bole of the three directors.

Although it is unavoidable to be scolded as meaningless and vulgar, but a film with a production cost of 200 million yuan, even those professional film critics, are embarrassed to say excessive words.

It was peaceful, but some people were not happy.

I just decided to suppress Li Qian together, so that other directors can't be jealous, and instead go directly to several major companies that cooperate with the theater, looking at the box office data, their faces are very unhappy.

Dong is the most upset. Money Empire is a movie invested and distributed by Berner. The cost of 3000 million was exchanged for the box office of 800 million in the first week.

Others are better off, the only movie released in April is Jinling released by SMI Investment!Jinling! , it will be released at the end of the month.

However, the success of a low-budget movie did not make them too nervous. After all, it was released by Guangxian, and there was no rival in the same period.

Li Qian's new movie is probably going to be released in the Lunar New Year file, and Zhang Yimou, who is busy with the Olympics, is shooting his new movie, so it probably will be released in the Lunar New Year file.

There is not much suspense in the Lunar New Year file. After all, the box office of a single film was close to [-] million three years ago. After three years, Zhang Yimou's return of the king is definitely not an ordinary movie.

When Zhang Yimou's new film was about to start shooting, it was basically the biggest possibility for the annual box office champion. This is also the consensus in the industry. After all, after directing the Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou's name has been known all over the country.

However, in the past few days, Huang Zhongjun and Zhang Weiping have often had dinner with Zhang Yimou and Ma Xiaogang to talk about their relationship.

"Zhong Lei, how is it, Ma Xiaogang, is there anything unusual?"

"Nothing has been discovered. He is currently busy with the Tangshan earthquake, so he should have no other ideas."

In terms of film and television production business, Huayang is the number one in China, but half of it depends on Ma Xiaogang.

Moreover, this person also loves money and beautiful women, he is very vulgar, the Huang family brothers still have some concerns, Huang Zhonglei made another trip yesterday, and found an excuse to visit Ma Xiaogang.

However, Huang Zhonglei still has concerns, "Brother, If You Are the One 2 is the last contract between him and us, should we sign another five-movie contract first, and it will be listed in the second half of the year? With that equity, he will definitely sign it." of."

"No, no, the purpose of proposing to renew the contract now is too obvious. It's not like you don't know him, so you have to coax him."

Huang Zhongjun shook his head. It happened to be a critical moment. Two films, Tangshan Earthquake and If You Are the One 2, were being prepared at the same time, and they would be released together next year. They signed five director contracts.

It just so happened that Huayang was also listed, and the shares were also obtained, and Li Qian and the theater joint venture development company all got together.

Huang Zhongjun was also very troubled, but with Ma Xiaogang's character, he would definitely feel uncomfortable about renewing the contract at this time. He is a very emotional person at times, so he has to go along with it, and don't take hard things, unless they are too hard for him to bear. , have to come along.

However, there must be some bloodshed in the new contract. Thinking of this, Huang Zhongjun couldn't help scolding Li Qian again.

Like Huang Zhongjun, Zhang Weiping often went to the Three Guns Surprise crew during this period to consolidate his relationship with Zhang Yimou.

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As for Wang Changtian, his heart was bleeding when he saw that the night banquet, whose production cost was only 200 million yuan, sold for 1500 million yuan in the first week.

A Li Qian is not just making one movie a year. According to the current situation, investing in and producing two movies a year, all of which are sold well, are worth two big directors.

But now, it has nothing to do with me.

However, unlike others, Guangxian does not have a regular co-director, unlike Wang Changtian and Zhang Weiping who are worried that their directors will run away.

He was even happy to see Qi Cheng, if Ma Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou wanted to change partners, he would have a chance too.

Anyway, Guang Xian is barefoot, wishing that other people would also take off their shoes and let everyone go barefoot.

That's why Wang Changtian revealed to Li Qian that other companies were planning to join forces to deal with him.

No matter what the result is, Guang Xian has nothing to lose, and he knows that Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou have no contract, and there is no binding force on Zhang Yimou, and he can't wait for Zhang Yimou to leave the new scene.

If Zhang Yimou left, Zhang Weiping, who had nothing left, would be at the discretion of Wang Changtian, and he would avenge both old and new grievances.

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As the center of the topic of major companies, Li Qian is still busy with his new movie.

The male protagonist in the perfect world hardly thinks about it, and Zhang Hanyu couldn't be more suitable for this role.

On Monday, Zhang Hanyu came to the studio and signed the contract.

Even if Li Qian and Ma Xiaogang were a little unhappy, it had nothing to do with the other actors in Huayang. The relationship between the muddy turns and turns before the entertainment was unavoidable.

It is impossible to have a good relationship with a person without cooperating with all the other people who have had conflicts with that person.