Chapter 188 Savage Attack

There is no airtight wall in the world. The news that the studio share ratio of Wu Yuchen's new movie was raised to 40% quickly spread in the industry.

Jiang Wen, who had just finished filming "The Devil Is Coming", saw producer Dong Ping's happy look and couldn't help but ask: "Old Dong, what are you so happy about?"

"What a good thing! Wu Yuchen has raised the account sharing ratio by 3 points again!" Dong Ping said with a smile.

Don't blame him for being happy, now is the third time of happiness. First of all, "The Devils Are Coming" has been completed; secondly, Jiang Wen only overspent 6 million on the filming of "The Devils Are Coming", which made investors and Dong Ping breath a sigh of relief, feeling that Jiang Wen has really matured!

Now Wu Yuchen has raised the share ratio, so does it make sense not to give 40% when "The Devils Are Coming" is released next year?

Jiang Wen was happy when he heard this: "Tsk, tsk, this international director is really famous!"

Then he said to Dong Ping: "Old Dong, you have made a lot of money, so your investment in the next movie will have to increase again."

Dong Ping was stunned when he heard this and coughed: "Director Jiang, we will wait until the investment for the next part is decided. We should focus on the present. You can cut out "The Devils Are Coming" first!"

"China Film News" also made a special report on this matter. After all, this year's increase from 35% to 40% is not a small step for the ongoing reform of Chinese films.

They also interviewed many people in the industry specifically about this matter, and basically all of them applauded. For example, Feng Xiaogang stood up and cheered for Wu Yuchen:

"If you ask me, don't say 40% for Director Wu's movies, give 50%, even 60% is not too much! We are very risky in making movies, and we will suffer heavy losses if we are not careful, while movie theaters make money lying down, and now Wu The director can increase the score by 5 points, which may be just a small step for him personally, but it is a big step for Chinese film creators!"

Lao Mouzi also praised without hesitation: "Wu Yuchen has brought benefits to all Chinese filmmakers."

Chen Kaizi? Kaizi is recovering at home!

He took "Assassination of Qin" to the red carpet of Cannes in May with high hopes, but in the end he only took home one technical award, which went to art director Tu Juhua. Director Chen returned empty-handed, which was a huge disappointment. Especially compared to Wu Yuchen who won the Golden Bear and Best Actress in Berlin in February, there is no comparison!

Under such circumstances, Kaizi naturally thanked guests behind closed doors and silently licked his wounds...

However, although this incident had a great impact in the industry, it was only paid attention to by some readers. After all, most outsiders do not care at all about how the film studio and the theater chain divide the accounts. In contrast, most of their attention is focused on Justin Wu's upcoming new film "My Sassy Girl."

"My Sassy Girl" not only has Wu Yuchen, a director with a high reputation, but also has the famous star Wang Zuxian. In addition, China Film and Shanghai Film Corporation jointly promoted it. This time it was much easier to promote than the previous movies. Some newspapers did not even use it. The publicist has spontaneously started mentioning "My Sassy Girl". No way, who made this the biggest hot spot in the film industry next?

However, Wu Yuchen would not be stupid and do nothing. He paid enough publicity fees to build momentum in newspapers, TV, and movie theaters. And this time the film crew also launched a promotional slogan:

"Watch "My Sassy Girl" to cure the regrets of "If Love Is Divine"!"

Last year, Wu Yuchen's "If Love Is Provided" made movie fans burst into tears and made everyone miserable. Movie fans were definitely impressed when they thought about it, and they couldn't help but feel sad.

You must know that in China, only a few people go to movie theaters to buy tickets, and the vast majority watch pirated movies. They are potential targets for mining. And this time, the purpose is to hook in as many people as possible who have watched "If Love Is Provident".

June 25, Friday, Shanghai.

After Wu Yuchen and Wang Zuxian appeared in the cinema, many movie fans cheered. This time, the premiere of "My Sassy Girl" was held in the Magic City. After all, the entire movie was shot in Alamodou. The citizens of the Magic City were very enthusiastic about "My Sassy Girl" this time!

Today, the movie theaters in Shanghai are basically fully booked with "My Sassy Girl", and all other movies have made way for it. The tickets for this movie are also sold out, so scalpers have also been born, and a ticket can be sold for 100 yuan. !

After the two dealt with the media and fans, they sat in the front row and chatted:

"Sister Xiaoxian, I thought you were going to take over Wanwan~"

Wang Zuxian waved his hand and said confidently: "Wanwan, it doesn't matter. I have already participated in variety shows, and I will definitely enter the cinema, and there is boss Cai here~"

The Boss Cai that Wang Zuxian mentioned is Cai Songlin, a blockbuster film businessman in Bay Area. He founded Scholar Films and owns two major theater chains in Bay Area. He is a black and white character. This time, the rights to "My Sassy Girl" were sold to Bay Area. He paid 20 million Hong Kong dollars for the full copyright of the Bay Area.

In fact, the film market in the Bay Area is now almost dominated by Hollywood blockbusters, and those in Hong Kong can no longer compete. But last year, "If Love Is Provident" achieved very good results in Wanwan, and it was able to compete with Western films without falling behind. This made Cai Songlin tempted.

Therefore, this time I was particularly interested in "My Sassy Girl" co-produced by John Woo and Joey Wang and decided to buy it after watching the finished film. With Wang Zuxian's appeal in Wanwan, and the quality of the movie, it can make money at the box office alone, and the disc is pure profit.

Thanks to Wu Yuchen's reputation and the good results achieved by last year's "If Love Is God's Will", many Asian film producers came to buy "My Sassy Girl" after it came out. Therefore, Wu Yuchen still wanted to see the price this time. It was considered reasonable, so I sold all the copyrights in various places in advance. Among them, Neon is US$6 million, Bangguo is US$3 million, and Singapore is US$1.5 million. We have our own company on Hong Kong Island, so we might as well just show it directly and get a share of the box office.

The overseas Asian copyright alone has earned more than 10 million U.S. dollars, but Beijing Film Studio and Shanghai Film Studio, which participated in the investment, are so happy that they support Wu Yuchen no matter what he does now.

The reason why Wu Yuchen did this was to have a simultaneous release in Asia. He and Wang Xianxian teamed up to fully support the simultaneous release in Asia.

"Sister Xiaoxian, from now on, Bangguo and Wanwan will have to trouble you to make a trip~" Wu Yuchen cupped his hands and said with a smile.

Wang Zuxian rolled her eyes: "I can't compare to you, a busy man, a big Hollywood director!"

"I don't want to either, but Hollywood is pressing me hard. I will fly to the United States tomorrow."

The United States is also urging Wu Yuchen to come over, because "The Sixth Sense" is also scheduled to be released in the summer, and will be released in July. Disney has already started promoting the film, but Wu Yuchen has to be called on the show. New A-list director.

Therefore, this time Wang Zuxian has to carry the publicity banner for both Bangguo and Neon. She is already well-known in both places, and in Bangguo, she is regarded as the most popular actress over her native country. However, Joey Wong does not want to promote Hong Kong Island, and obviously still resents the Hong Kong Island media and paparazzi in the past.

Wu Yuchen is not worried about this. Wang Zuxian of Hong Kong Island is not willing to go, but there is no F4 here. Let F4 mobilize the fans to enter the cinema, and Cai Yinong can also recruit some trolls to set the pace on the Internet. Nowadays, young people with Internet access are all the potential main group of movie viewers of "My Sassy Girl". Today's netizens are still very pure. They cannot see or even think of the existence of trolls. They can enter the cinema with a little encouragement.

Xu Zheng, who was also sitting in the front row, was both excited and nervous at the same time. After all, this was his first major commercial movie and the first time he attended a movie premiere. Even though he has already won awards such as the drama Magnolia before, but now that he has really entered the film industry, of course he understands how important this movie is to him, but it is inevitable that he will still be nervous when things happen.

Although there is a high probability that the movie will not be a loss, he is afraid of what might happen. Both Wu Yuchen and Wang Zuxian have strong backgrounds, so they are not afraid of failure once, but it will be difficult for him, a newcomer, to stand up!

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Shen Peng is a sophomore student at Modu University. In fact, his final exams have ended, but he hasn't left yet because he wants to watch "My Sassy Girl" with his beloved girl Lin Hui. Thanks to Wu Yuchen, the time is not scheduled until July. Otherwise, how can they watch it together when they have returned to their hometown?

The relationship between him and the other person is almost complete, but he just needs to confess his love, so he plans to take the opportunity of watching this love movie to warm up the relationship and advance it to a new stage. These days, men and women are still relatively innocent. If a girl is willing to go out to watch a movie with you, she is basically interested in you.

Dressed in handsome clothes and with his hair parted in the same style as the popular Aaron Kwok style, Shen Peng walked into the cinema with his head held high and Lin Hui in tow. Seeing people queuing up to buy popcorn at the counter, Shen Peng resolutely pulled Lin Hui over in order to express himself.

Lin Hui looked at the ridiculous price of 15 yuan, tugged on Shen Peng's clothes and persuaded: "Why don't you buy it? Last year I cried so much when I watched Wu Yuchen's "If Love Has God's Will" that I was not in the mood to eat. thing."

Shen Peng waved his hand and said proudly: "It doesn't matter. I saw the promotion said this is a comedy movie, so it doesn't matter!"

After walking into the cinema, it was almost full, and everyone was chatting:

"I've been looking forward to this movie for a long time last year, and it's finally come true!"

"To say that only Wu Yuchen's movies can be watched in China now, what other movies are they? It's not interesting at all!"

"No, Wu Yuchen is a famous director in Europe and America, and his level is different!"

"I wonder how this "My Sassy Girl" compares to last year's "If Love Has a Will"?

"If Wang Zuxian joins the team, there's no need to mention it!"

After sitting down, Shen Peng looked around him, holding a bucket of popcorn, and felt a faint sense of superiority emerge in his heart. Moreover, he heard from his roommate that when he took a girl to watch a movie and eat popcorn, his hands touched each other while eating, and then they could hold on to each other. Thinking of this, Shen Peng was full of expectations.

After a while, the lights in the theater went out.

While Shen Peng watched Xu Zheng appear on the screen, he grabbed popcorn and stuffed it into his mouth from time to time, hoping to catch Lin Hui's little hand.

But soon, he couldn't eat anymore...

Because the plot starts with the meeting of the male and female protagonists, a classic vomiting plot.

The drunken Wang Zuxian physically persuaded the young man to give up his seat, the angry old man was vomited all over the body, and the male protagonist was misunderstood as his boyfriend. This classic misunderstanding setting made everyone laugh out loud.

At the same time, everyone instantly understood the meaning of the title "My Sassy Girl". It is so simple and straightforward!

It was funny, but Shen Peng looked at the vomited Guo Da on the screen, and then looked at the popcorn in his hand, and it was hard to swallow anymore.

The male protagonist Qian Niu, played by Xu Zheng, is undoubtedly an honest man who is a bit sultry but actually naive. After meeting the powerful and somewhat overbearing Wang Zuxian, he encounters a series of unfortunate, sad and funny things.

Although we have seen domineering women in movies and TV shows in the past, unlike those who are unreasonable and annoying like shrews or little girls, Wang Zuxian's "barbarism" did not arouse the disgust of the audience, and it also It makes people feel quite cute. This cute feeling is naturally inseparable from the support of appearance, which combines elegance, intelligence, naughty cuteness, and domineering queen.

Moreover, the tall man Wang Zuxian comes from a basketball family directly supports the impression that the woman is strong and the man is weak.

Next, a series of incidents such as the male protagonist carrying the drunken heroine to a small hotel twice, the heroine pretending to be pregnant to help the male protagonist skip school, an encounter with a fugitive on his birthday, a bet on the forehead on the subway, and the male and female protagonists swapping shoes, etc. followed one after another.

The rhythm of the movie is relaxed and lively. The audience laughed and felt full of interest at the same time. This kind of life-like laughter in love does not make people feel embarrassed at all, and it can be said that there is no urine point in the whole process.

The images of the male and female protagonists are also becoming more and more fleshed-out. The heroine is smart, pure and beautiful, but she has a "savage" side that is different from the appearance. She is completely different from traditional Asian women, which is refreshing.

Although the hero is a silly ordinary boy, he has a very soft and kind heart and is willing to tolerate everything the heroine has to offer.

At this time, Shen Peng's attention has been completely attracted by the movie. It is really interesting, and this funny, warm and sweet love scene is indeed worthy of the healing slogan mentioned in the promotion!

Of course, the heroine will not always be so "savage", and the plot will not always be so purely funny.

As the relationship between the male and female protagonists develops, the film unknowingly begins to shift from being funny in the first half to touching and tragic.

In the classic piano canon sound, the male protagonist slowly walked down the steps, took off his hat and mask one by one, and presented roses in front of the teachers and students of the school. The audience cheered, and they only had eyes for each other on the stage.

The romantic atmosphere of this scene was simply stretched to the extreme. Many girls in the theater shouted "Wow" and laughed, and even the big man Shen Peng smiled crookedly.

At this moment, he suddenly felt his arm being hugged. Lin Hui, who was beside him, tilted her head and leaned on his shoulder, saying movedly: "It's so romantic!"

Shen Peng turned his head and looked at Lin Hui's big eyes and her beautiful face so close at hand. Under the influence of this atmosphere, an impulse came up in his mind, and he lowered his head and kissed her.

Lin Hui didn't struggle, and their lips touched each other. Then the two of them followed the way they usually do in movies and TV dramas, opening their lips and wanting to have further contact. However, the next moment, Lin Hui felt that the other person's stretched out tongue was full of popcorn residue, and she lost all affection. She pushed Shen Peng away, took out a tissue and quickly wiped her mouth.

Shen Peng also knew what was going on at this time, and he wanted to slap himself in the mouth. I am such a fool. Why should I take a girl to watch a movie and eat popcorn? What kind of advice was given to him by some beast? He must break off the relationship when he returns!

Lin Hui ignored Shen Peng, who was crying beside her, and watched the movie attentively. She was a loyal fan of Wu Yuchen, and this movie really suited her taste.

Then when the heroine went on a blind date, the hero's "10 Rules of Love" were even more touching. With the background music of "I believe" sung by Li Jian, many of the audience who were laughing before fell silent. The girl even started crying. Just like Lin Hui, her nose was sore and her eyes were hazy.

Next, the two buried breakup letters under the tree, making promises and blessings to each other. During this process, the heroine's monologue also allowed the audience to understand the wounded and fragile heart hidden under her brutal appearance.

Seeing the heroine running into the train after hesitation, the hero jumped off the train and could only lie on the ground watching the heroine move away with the train. This missed scene made Lin Hui feel uneasy.

Doesn't this foreshadow the ending of the two of them? !

Isn't it? Could it be that Wu Yuchen is planning a tragic ending again? Is it not healing but causing depression? !

At this time, the hearts of the audience were tightly pulled. Sure enough, on the day agreed upon two years later, only the male protagonist Qian Niu came under the tree. Especially when she saw that the person sitting under the tree turned into an old man wearing the same clothes and carrying the same bag as Qian Niu, Lin Hui felt cold, fearing that "50 years later" would pop up on the screen. of words. When she saw the young Wang Zuxian walking under the tree again, she breathed a sigh of relief.

When he saw Qian Niu appearing at the end and being held in the face by his aunt played by Zhao Yazhi, his mind instantly recalled that the male protagonist received a call from his mother at the beginning and did not go to the blind date arranged by his aunt. The echoes and foreshadowing are so perfect!

In the sound of Canon's piano, seeing the unexpected reunion of the male and female protagonists, with only you and me looking at each other in the eyes, and the hands that were tightly held together under the table and never separated, Lin Hui covered her mouth and shed tears of emotion. My heart almost overflowed with honey, showing a big aunty smile!

At this time, at least half of the audience was crying and laughing like her. Until the end of the movie, the theme song played. Lin Hui turned around and looked around, only to see Shen Peng crying harder than her, with two big circles under his eyes. Turning red, he couldn't help being startled and asked cautiously: "Are you okay?"

Shen Peng shook his head sadly: "I'm so touched! Woohoo..."