At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 509 "Taken" Success Again

Before the rise of Weibo and Douban, Tianya and Tieba belonged to gossip distribution centers...

Especially Tianya!
There's a lot of celebrity gossip, the beginning is from XX classmate, XX company's resigned employees...

This group of people is very good at smearing, and out of five rumors, three or four are true, and two or three are fake, which makes it easy for people to believe that fake stories are also true!

To give an example: a "Huayi employee" who claimed to be a resigned came out and said a lot of things, for example, Sammo Hung bought a SOHO apartment as a gun house...

What else did Taiwanese artists look down on mainland artists...

How to distinguish true from false?

Anyway, just take a look at it casually, whether it is true or not, what does it have to do with you?
Cough, the company has posted posts on Tianya, Movie Box Office, and Ghost Blowing Lantern. The main idea is that Zhang Ziyi broke her promise and temporarily raised the price. Therefore, "The Ancient City of Essence" was postponed for three months and the heroine was re-elected.

Thus, the international chapter became popular!

Well, she has always been very popular, when she fought in the Hong Kong circle, "I am the gift" began - at Jackie Chan's birthday party, she went up and sucked on Jackie Chan's face (Jackie Chan's face looked like "cupping" );

To "Memoirs of a Geisha" as a Japanese Benz...

The original name of the International Chapter was International Dirty...

Why is this happening?

Because she is the first female star to take the commercial route...

Zhang Ziyi has never won a category A film festival queen. As an actor, her professional achievements are not as good as Gong Li and Zhang Manyu.

But she is a sister of the business age.

The blockbusterization of domestic films and the uprooting of green onions in the fashion industry are synchronized.

This wave of people told her to catch up.

A sister is also a commodity. If it is a commodity, it must be packaged and promoted, and channels must be opened up to be put on the shelves for sale.

But most people's thinking is still stuck in the last century, and they think that actors should act well. In a word, they can't understand her!
In addition, such things as temporary price increases are not unreasonable...

So, a bunch of people crazily insulted her!
As for the reaction of Zhang Ziyi or her team?

Had a gross reaction...

Not to mention anything else, fraudulent donations, the public opinion at the time was all about black Zhang Ziyi, and there was no shortage of fellow actresses who hired sailors to belittle them, but what people in the industry know is that donations are generally handled by agents. But her manager's handling methods... have no means at all!
There is no sense of crisis at all.

……

Today's reporters are quite...straightforward, and so is Yuji. Back then, Zhao Yanzi won the Golden Eagle Award for Favorite Actress for "Little Swallow".

Then I was late, and I was scolded to get out from the door, I didn't want to interview and so on, and the scolding didn't stop until Zhao Yanzi cried.

Zhao Yanzi could only keep apologizing to the other party, and even said that if I wore a suit, I would kowtow to you all to appease the reporters.

It's normal, nowadays, the media controls the star's greatest need: exposure...

No matter how famous you are, if you are not exposed for a year or two, you will be out of breath.

Oh, when Zhang Ziyi chose to promote "The Banquet", she was directly asked by the media about the temporary price increase. She looked a little ugly, and then explained: "The main thing is that the United States has accepted a play..."

"So, the "Exquisite Ancient City" that was rejected because of that play? Why didn't you just talk about it? Temporarily double the price? Are you thinking that if the producer agrees, then make this money?"

"...This is actually the agency's mistake, they directly signed my schedule to "Wrangler"..."

"Why don't you say that you have accepted "The Ancient City of Essence"?"

Zhang Ziyi glanced at her manager in embarrassment, who cut off the interview decisively...

Just to ask...

In fact, the media knew in their hearts that nothing more than their disdain for Chinese films!
Oh, "The Wrangler" is actually "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", a B-movie starring Zhang Ziyi, it's pretty bad...

There is no memory point at all, the global box office is more than 300 million, and it has not been released in North America at all. The direct release price of DVD...

It is estimated that it is a loss-making work!
There is no way, who told people that it is a Hollywood production, the name is better than Chinese films.

After getting rid of the reporter's interview, Zhang Ziyi went back to rest in the car. The agent got in the car after handling the media. The former immediately asked, "What's going on with the "Human Purge Project"?"

"It's a low-budget horror film that shows off blood," manager Ji Lingling explained. She is Zhang Ziyi's current manager, a native of Singapore. It is said that this actress worked hard in the American entertainment industry...

Why sign a Singaporean as an agent?
You have gone back to China for development, and you still hand over the brokerage business to a Singaporean?
No wonder the triple door incident was handled like shit...

I don't understand domestic public opinion at all!

Zhang Ziyi immediately asked: "Is it really a cost of 300 million?"

"There are one or two horror and thriller films that create box office miracles every year, but this type has almost no bonus for actors..."

Also...

Zhang Ziyi pondered for a while, then wondered: "But "The Wrangler" is also a suspense film?"

"...What's different, the number one male is Dennis Quaid, a first-line actor in Hollywood!"

"Really…"

Zhang Ziyi nodded, she still believed in her manager's judgment.

Ji Lingling thought of something: "Tianmei Media, do you want to warn me?"

"No need?"

"Warning...you are an international superstar, you have your own bottom line!"

"…All right!"

Well, it's obviously the promotion of "The Banquet", and the two of them didn't mention "The Banquet" at all...

……

After Shen Xudong arrived in the United States, he first discussed with Michael Burns the follow-up cooperation of "The Purge Project"...

Shen Xudong is different from Wen Ziren. Wen Ziren's "Chain Saw" was produced by Lionsgate, and the copyright is in the hands of Lionsgate. Most of the copyrights of "Human Purge Project" are Shen Xudong, and Lionsgate is just publishing...

If Shen Xudong is unhappy, the next step is to leave Lionsgate aside and play by himself!

Lionsgate is not the only company in Hollywood that has the ability to distribute films.

Therefore, Lionsgate still has a sense of proportion.

In addition, Shen Xudong also proposed the idea of ​​"Spiritual Ghost Story", which is a reprint of "The Blair Witch", a pseudo-documentary shooting mode, rickety, deliberately processed into a rough DV film, there is a high probability of "four or two thousand catties", Realize a million profits.

Of course, Michael Burns knew the goods, and immediately agreed to cooperate together, but this time, Lions Gate will also join the production camp.

In other words, shared copyright...

Shen Xudong did not agree - the "Ghost Story" series is a gold mine, the cost is low, and the box office is overwhelmed.

Michael Burns still wanted to persist, but Shen Xudong directly said, "Either you release it, or I will find Xinxian!" '

Having said all of that, Michael Burns can only agree...

Why look for a new line?

Because New Line released "Taken", it won the box office champion in the first week, surpassing "Return in the Jungle" and "Purge Human"...

(End of this chapter)