Chapter 844: No one can succeed forever
Beijing, Great Wall Hall.
In the capital city where more than half of the domestic entertainment industry is concentrated, the Great Wall Hall is a rather special existence.
This hall is considered to be an early private club in China, but it is basically not open to the public. It uses an inviting membership system. Only those who are invited are eligible to become members, and most of the invited guests are entertaining. Upstream people in the media, literary circles, and celebrity stars.
For those who have a face in the Beijing entertainment circle, the members of the Great Wall Club are proof of their identity, and the Great Wall Hall is also an excellent place for them to socialize.
The topics that these people are talking about are also irrelevant to the current film and television entertainment.
"49.20 million..."
In a certain room of the Great Wall Hall, a group of people are chatting with tea. Some people quickly mentioned the first song of "Swordsman" which was released yesterday. Its first-day box office results inevitably aroused everyone's interest.
This group of people has the helm of the film company, the director of the entertainment brokerage company, the popular movie stars, well-known freelance writers, and even the executives of the it world.
Lu Shengda, the general manager of Marriott Pictures, was one of them. He heard the other party chat about the first day of the box office of "Swordsman", his thick eyebrows could not help but pick a trace of gloom in his eyes.
As a circle insider, and a top-level figure, Lu Shengda certainly knows that "Swordsman" was officially released yesterday, but he did not want to pay attention to this movie.
Because "Swordsman" as a martial arts film, it is too easy for him to think of his major failure a few months ago.
Lu Shengda's "Juvenile Rivers and Lakes" project, the first martial arts blockbuster in China, the production cost plus the publicity investment of nearly 300 million yuan, and finally the box office barely more than 400 million, basically no hope to return, let him in the circle I lost a big face.
Although relying on Marriott's cinema line, "Juvenile Rivers and Lakes" is not a big loss, compared to the two films of the same type, "New Seven Heroes" and "Jianghu Longzi", the situation is much better, but still Poured a cold water to the ambitious Lu Shengda.
The film's failure, even his lack of authority in the Marriott film industry has dropped a lot, has not fully recovered, and is also a scar that his heart can not touch.
However, Lu Shengda is reluctant, and can not stop other people's discussion. After all, talking about the current movie, "Swordsman" is absolutely inescapable. I don't know how many people in the industry are staring.
"Never 50 million is not there?"
The young man sitting next to Lu Shengda smiled and said: "That is good for the morning Philippine media to recover the cost. If I am Lu Chen, I will interrupt the shooting of the latter two, otherwise the more you shoot, the more you lose! ”
The young man is a ceo of a new media company. He has a close relationship with Lu Shengda. The two sides have a deep cooperative relationship. He is very clear about Lu Shengda’s thoughts at this moment.
For a domestic movie, the box office of nearly 50 million on the first day is already very good, but "Swordsman" has invested hundreds of millions, and publicity has tens of millions, plus the call of Lu Chen and many other superstars. It is not an exaggeration to say that such achievements are failures.
"Junior Jianghuxing" was the first day of the box office but it was over 100 million. As a result, there was a cliff-like decline. "Swordsman" did not even have half of "Juvenile Rivers and Lakes". Success is a strange thing!
Lu Shengda’s heart was very comfortable, and he thought that the other side said it was very reasonable. They were all martial arts films. There are examples of “Juvenile Rivers and Lakes”. How can “Swordsman” reverse the market?
The 4,200,000 first day box office is the best proof!
Someone immediately echoed: "Yes, the opponent of "Swordsman" is a big action movie of Superstar Pictures. I think Lu Chen will have a big fight this time. I heard that he made the film for "The Pride" trilogy. The total budget is 500 million, and most of the money comes from Chenfei Media."
Most of them are insiders, and they are well-informed people. They have a good understanding of the situation of "Swordsman" and it is natural to talk about it.
Lu Shengda exclaimed: "The martial arts theme is really not good, even I have been fooled. Now I think it was too impulsive at the time, thinking that we can create a new type of domestic film, how can innovation be so simple..."
He is self-exposed to be ugly, but with the accompanying slogan of "Swordsman", he does not have much pressure to ridicule himself, and even some are fortunate that at least "Juvenile Rivers and Lakes" has not lost too much.
"Yeah yeah…"
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Everyone nodded and talked about the current domestic movies. There are three main types of popular movies, youth idol films, comedy films and ip derivative films.
The martial arts film can also be classified into the category of ip derivative films. Several of them are adapted according to the popular martial arts novels, but they are definitely of the new theme type, which is relatively risky.
The road to innovation has never been good. Even Hollywood is not easy to try new types of subjects, especially those with high investment.
Like the newly released action blockbuster "Ace Special Agent", it is entirely a Hollywood entertainment line product. The most typical popcorn movie, it is easy to crush "Swordsman" at the box office.
"Swordsman" was selected in the relatively less competitive National Day, and it is still impossible to avoid the impact of Hollywood movies. Failure is almost foreseeable.
"No one can succeed forever..."
The young ceo of the new media company said: "Lu Chen’s unbeaten myth is also to be poked. I only hope that he will not lose too much this time. After all, his talent is still very good."
Anyone can hear the meaning of gloating in his tone, and the person who knows the inside knows that this new media company once wanted to cooperate with Chenfei Media, and the result was rejected by the latter, so... everyone knows.
But he also said a lot of people's thoughts, and several of them showed a smile.
Yes, no one can succeed forever, Lu Chen is no exception!
At this time, someone asked: "Which of you, have you seen this movie?"
Yali Li was suddenly silent, and everyone looked at each other.
There are a lot of small circles in the pan-entertainment circle. Their circle is different from the circle where Chenfei Media is located. So no one has participated in the premiere of "Swordsman" and did not go to the cinema yesterday.
It was a little bit awkward, but soon someone opened the door and let the atmosphere regain its excitement.
In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't see it. Can this movie still be impossible?
Lu Shengda does not believe that everyone does not believe it. ——