China Entertainment Times 1999

Chapter 277 The Second Huayi Civil War! (Please subscribe!)
As September approaches, the popularity of movies has gradually waned, and box office growth has slowed down.

There are two main audiences for "Xiu Chun Dao".

Martial arts fan, Lin Xuan fan.

These two types of people went to the cinema to support the movie as early as when it was released.

The rest of the box office is mainly driven by ordinary audiences.

Another important reason for the slowdown in box office growth is the proliferation of piracy.

The more excellent a movie, the more serious the piracy situation is, let alone a blockbuster movie like "Xiu Chun Knife".

Less than a week after the movie was released, pirated resources appeared on the Internet.

The definition of the online version is not high, so the impact on the box office is not too great.

The real threat is the subsequent high-definition DVD version.

Film and television companies, distribution companies, actors in the industry, private business owners...

In early September, "Xiu Chun Knife" was released, and the mainland box office exceeded 2.1 million yuan.

But for Lin Xuan, whether the coal boss enters or not has no impact on him at all. His movies have never lacked funds.

Stimulated by the high box office of "Hero" and "Xiuchungdao".

When the movie was released, Lin Xuan was still filming on the set.

Such huge profits not only shocked the entertainment industry, but also attracted investors from outside the industry.

The shooting cost was 1500 million yuan, and the mainland box office was 2.1 million yuan.

Coupled with martial arts fans, passers-by who love watching movies, and the 5000 million points injected into the box office pool, the total box office of the movie is still very impressive.

According to conservative media estimates, the gross profit from investing in "Xiu Chun Knife" is 800%. As the largest investor, Lin Xuan Studio's income this time exceeded 7000 million yuan.

Everyone he knew in the circle, regardless of their relationship, called to congratulate him.

If these anti-fans want to find fault again, they will probably have to take international awards and argue with overseas markets.

"Congratulations to Director Lin for becoming the youngest billionaire director in film history!"

The streets and alleys of the capital are full of vendors selling CDs.

The first is "Hero", with a box office of 300 million.

Nowadays, "Xiu Chun Knife" ranks second in box office in film history, and Lin Xuan is thriving in both circles.

Everyone wants to have a relationship with him, using rich and beautiful women as bait, hoping to get a piece of the next movie.

Their messages can be seen everywhere on the Internet, which is more lively than the Chinese New Year.

Spending this small amount of money and being able to show off in front of the folks back home can be said to be well worth the money.

The box office in Hong Kong and Taiwan is about 5000 million yuan when converted into RMB. The buyout fee for the broadcast rights in Japan and South Korea is 800 million US dollars. Together with the buyout rights from other countries, the DVD sales of the movie.

If you make money, money will fall from the sky.

Apart from a celebration banquet held at the hotel, he did not celebrate in a big way.

He was actually not particularly satisfied with this result.

If you lose, you won’t lose much.

"Congratulations to "Xiu Chun Knife", which ranked second in the mainland movie box office rankings!"

The spring of the film and television industry has finally arrived, and tens of thousands of practitioners can benefit from this bonus, especially those films that lack funds.

From the moment the movie box office exceeded 200 million, Lin Xuan's mobile phone entered virus mode again.

Piracy is a nightmare for movie producers, but there is no way to deal with it.

It turns out that Lin Xuan has been working in the TV industry. Although the ratings are outstanding, the quality of TV is not as good as that of movies.

Coal bosses are not stupid either. Most of their investments are small-budget movies worth around 500 million yuan.

"Congratulations to Director Lin Xuan for joining the Billion Dollar Director Club!"

It was not until 12 years later that capital implemented ticket subsidy for movies, coupled with the audience's increasing demand for ultra-high-definition images, that piracy was effectively curbed.

A regular disc costs three yuan, and a high-definition disc only costs five yuan.

Those anti-fans like to use this to attack him.

Recently, the entertainment section has been full of messages like this.

After the movie's box office results were released, Lin Xuan's fans were also excited.

For ordinary viewers who don’t want to queue up at the cinema, or who like to be cheap, watching discs at home is a more economical option.

Starting next year, outside capital, mainly coal bosses and real estate developers, will enter the film and television market on a large scale.

When other fans saw it, they were too angry but dared not say anything.

It became the second highest-grossing film in mainland film history.

Fortunately, Lin Xuan has a huge number of fans. They alone can push the movie box office to 100 million.

There is currently no solution to this problem, and Lin Xuan can only talk more about the dangers of piracy during interviews. He hopes that everyone will go to the cinema to support the genuine version.

Because among the 2.1 million box office, there are still 5000 million system points.

Excluding this part of the box office, the real box office of the movie is probably around 1.6 million.

Compared with the 300 million box office of "Hero", "Xiu Chun Dao" is only half of it, which is disappointing.

Of course, this is just his personal opinion.

In the eyes of outsiders, Lin Xuan led a group of young actors and was able to achieve such terrifying box office results. In terms of box office appeal alone, he was far superior to Zhang Yimou.

After all, the casts of the two movies are not at the same level at all. Just one Jet Li in "Hero" can defeat the entire crew of "Xiu Chun Dao".

What's more, Lin Xuan is still young, only 24 years old this year.

Such an astonishing achievement was accomplished by a young man, which almost made the faces of the seniors in the circle swell.

Those literary film directors can still retort a few words, talking about the subject matter, art, and depth.

But directors such as Feng Xiaogang who focus on commercial films have been completely nailed to the pillar of shame.

After living for a long time, his achievements are not as good as those of a young man.

But Feng Xiaogang was thick-skinned and didn't care.

It coincided with the release of "Cell Phone" at the end of the year. Not only did he not be a coward, he also tried his best to get ahead.

""Cell Phone" stars Ge You, Xu Fan, Zhang Guoli, and Li Bingbing. The cast is better than that of "Xiu Chun Dao"!"

"I have confidence in the movie box office. The mainland movie market has risen. The box office of "Mobile Phone" can at least exceed 100 million!"

"Martial arts movies have no content and depth. "Cell Phone" focuses on social issues and human weaknesses."

Feng Xiaogang is even more disapproving of the fact that "Xiu Chun Knife" has become the second-largest box office in mainland film history.

"As I said just now, the mainland film market has risen, and there will be many movies with box office exceeding 100 million in the future.

All of this is due to the market, and it does not mean that Lin Xuan's ability exceeds that of most directors! "

Before the movie was announced, Feng Xiaogang was talking nonsense in interviews with the media.

Although his words and deeds annoyed many Lin Xuan fans, he also succeeded in gaining popularity.

Many newspapers and websites reprinted his speech.

But the popularity thing is a double-edged sword.

"Mobile" has been labeled a challenger by the media.

If Feng Xiaogang can succeed in the challenge and the box office of "Mobile Phone" exceeds that of "Xiu Chun Dao", it means that what he said is right.

Lin Xuan just reaped the dividends of the times, which does not mean that his ability has reached this level.

But if the challenge fails, Feng Xiaogang will suffer serious backlash.

No matter how crazy you say now, your face will hurt when the time comes.

Huayi's two cash cows started a civil war for the second time. The media certainly didn't want to miss this kind of scene.

They wanted to enter the set for an interview, but Lin Xuan was busy filming and refused to be interviewed.

…………

It has been almost a month since "Bright Sword" was launched.

The crew and creators are all from the studio and are very familiar with each other, so the filming process went very smoothly.

This is Lin Xuan's transformation work. He is very dedicated to it and stayed on the set for a month without leaving the house.

Shooting during the day and having meetings at night, I devoted myself wholeheartedly to the filming.

After a period of filming, more than half of his personal scenes have been completed.

This morning, he got up early and went to the set as usual. Li Yunlong's makeup was so difficult to apply that he had to get up at five o'clock every morning in order not to delay filming.

"Director Lin, it's finally my part today."

Having just put on makeup, Hao Lei walked into the lounge.

There were no scenes for her some time ago, so the crew gave her a day off, and she didn't join the set until two days ago to prepare.

"Do you know the lines and everything by heart?"

"Well, I've been memorizing my lines at home, and I even asked Deng Chao to act for me."

Lin Xuan remembered the rumors he heard, turned around and said with a smile: "I heard that during this period, you often visited Deng Chao."

Hao Lei said embarrassedly: "This..."

Since the movie became popular, Deng Chao has been surrounded by many Yingying Yanyan. Of course, her girlfriend wants to declare her sovereignty.

"Don't be embarrassed, he is your boyfriend, you are qualified to take care of him."

"Haha, thank you, Director Lin."

With Lin Xuan's support, Hao Lei planned to go to the crew to watch after the filming was finished.

Deng Chao, hundreds of kilometers away, was on the verge of tears.

Today I will shoot her solo scene first.

He eavesdropped on the conversation in the Iron Triangle of Northern Shanxi and went to the county seat to kill two Japs.

This scene was shot by the executive director.

During the lunch break, Lin Xuan went to check the video and found that Hao Lei was really good at acting.

The scene of killing the Japanese was finished in one morning.

Moreover, she has a simple temperament, put on makeup and costumes, and she is really similar to a rural woman.

If it were Fan Xiaopang, even if she wore the same clothes and put on the same makeup, she would still be a dishonest rural woman.

"Director Lin, how was my performance? Do you need to retake it?"

Hao Lei sat next to him with a box lunch.

"Well, the performance was good, no need for reshoots."

Lin Xuan checked it three times and couldn't find anything wrong.

"Thank you, director!"

Hao Lei laughed and glanced around.

When she first joined the group, many people secretly spread rumors that she relied on Deng Chao's connections.

Open your eyes and see clearly, I still need to go through the back door for such good acting skills.

Besides, no one in the circle knows.

Lin Xuan's back door is very tight and not everyone can get in.

Xiu Qin didn't have many scenes, and the crew didn't take any special care. They just followed the normal schedule.

When there was a scene to be filmed, she would come. When there was no film to be filmed, she would go to the set and stare at Deng Chao.

As for the last scene, the Battle of Pingler, we have to wait until the people from the military region arrive.

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In mid-September, Lin Xuan took the time to visit the Political Department of the Military Region.

Meet with the relevant leaders to reconfirm the shooting content and the number of assistants.

A few days later, there were more than a dozen military vehicles on the set.

Hundreds of active-duty soldiers got out of the car in unison, and the scene attracted many people to watch.

In addition to personnel, the crew also borrowed many old weapons, all of which were genuine and had been used on the battlefield.

The crew of the original "Bright Sword" was so poor that Li Yunlong had to play a guest role as a bandit and was shot to death by Monk Wei.

The big scene in the play is even more shabby, with only twenty or thirty people attacking Ping'an County.

As for the shelling that often appears in anti-Japanese dramas, the TV series only filmed a few scenes and then used them over and over again.

Lin Xuan wants to correct all these flaws. The crew has sufficient funds and the support of CCTV and the military region.

He wants to make "Bright Sword" into a benchmark for anti-Japanese dramas, making it difficult for future TV dramas of the same type to catch up.

Therefore, every detail in the play must be carefully considered, such as the trenches on the battlefield.

A real trench must be at least two meters deep and wide enough for two people to walk side by side, making it easier for soldiers to move in the trench.

The trenches in most anti-Japanese dramas are not even half a meter long, and your head can be exposed when you squat. This is not seeking death.

There are too many details like this, and Lin Xuan, a layman, only knows a little bit about them.

Therefore, the military region sent two consultants to be responsible for this work.

Lin Xuan chatted and got close to the army leaders in the lounge.

The soldiers had already put on their costumes and makeup, and several deputy directors and assistant directors began to tell them about the play.

Today's scene is the first episode of the TV series. Li Yunlong disobeyed orders on the battlefield, counterattacked and killed the Bantian Regiment Headquarters.

Some of the soldiers in the military region wore the clothes of the Eighth Route Army and some wore the clothes of the Japanese army, and they fought happily on the battlefield.

Li Yunlong contributed many famous scenes and lines in this episode.

Especially that sentence, what a fucking elite, I don’t believe in this evil, I’m fighting the elite!

Sakata Regiment, Yamazaki Battalion, the Battle of Pinangrad...

The crew gathered all the large-scale war scenes together and tried to shoot them all within half a month.

Whether it was gun battles, shelling, hand-to-hand combat, charges, or retreats, the quality of professional soldiers was far superior to that of extras, and the filming process was very smooth.

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Sometime in late September.

After finishing work in the evening, Lin Xuan held a meeting with the crew as usual to discuss tomorrow's scenes.

Halfway through the meeting, everyone discovered that the director was in a hurry, and today's meeting was less than half the usual length.

After the meeting, Lin Xuan left in a car in a hurry, which confirmed everyone's suspicions.

"Does Director Lin have something to do tonight?"

"There must be something going on."

The creators guessed right, there are guests coming to the house tonight, and they have been waiting for a long time.

After taking the car back to the courtyard, Lin Xuan saw the guest in the garden.

"Director Zhou, welcome to our home."

"sorry for disturbance."

Zhou Xingxing was wearing casual clothes and took the initiative to shake hands with him and say hello.

He didn't come alone, Wang Zhongjun was also standing beside him.

Lin Xuan exchanged greetings with the two of them and continued to accompany him to the garden.

"The courtyard is so beautiful. I heard that you designed it yourself."

"It's just so-so. I just do it casually when I have nothing to do."

"This is not ordinary. There are so many Chinese-style mansions on Hong Kong Island, but none of them can compare to yours."

Zhou Xingxing said this from the bottom of his heart.

Most of the luxury houses on Hong Kong Island are Western-style, and the number of Chinese-style luxury houses is rare. The ones he has visited are more traditional and not in line with modern aesthetics.

"Director Zhou has given me too much praise. If you really like it, just get a design draft from me."

"Thank you very much. I'm planning to buy one in the capital."

In the past two years, a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan directors have gone north to film.

As long as they can establish a foothold in the mainland, they will have to travel to and from the capital frequently in the future, and buying a house will be convenient for them to live in.

Moreover, housing prices in Beijing have been rising, basically at a price every half a year. Even if you can't live in it, you can still use it as an investment.

Garden rockery, small bridge pond, hand-held verandah.

They visited several landscapes in the courtyard, and then came to the living room to sit down and rest.

Lin Xuan asked people to prepare dinner and at the same time took out the treasured tea leaves.

(End of this chapter)