Chapter 282 Bai Lu is not allowed to enter
. Zhao Jinmai's eyes lit up when she heard Meng Bai's words.
"Thank you, producer brother!" The little girl said excitedly, "I'll tell my mother later."
Meng Bai looked at her happy face and joked, "I should have said it earlier so that I could hear you call me brother more often."
"Hehe..." Zhao Jinmai smiled a little embarrassed.
In fact, she was more accustomed to calling Meng Bai "producer brother" as she did when filming "Psychological Crime 1".
It's just that she is a little embarrassed because she is older.
"Is your mother on the set?"
"Yes."
"Okay, then I'll talk to her directly later."
Like most child stars, Zhao Jinmai has not signed with any company yet. Her mother is in charge of the agent and assistant team.
As a weak minor, the little girl has no say in what movie to shoot, and must get the consent of her guardian.
In fact, generally speaking, they will not disagree, after all, Zhao Jinmai is not very famous.
The only possible worry is that the filming period of the movie coincides with the high school entrance examination, which may affect the results.
After all, even if you want to take the art exam, you have to go to high school first.
Bai Lu on the side looked at Zhao Jinmai with envy, and then raised her hand excitedly: "Boss, I can call you 'brother' too."
"..."
"..."
Looking at the two people looking at each other in bewilderment, Bai Lu withdrew her hand a little embarrassedly: "Haha, I, I was just joking."
"That's a good joke, don't make it next time."
Meng Bai glanced at her, but still added: "In the next year of Huguang, I will try to do some ancient idol projects. When there is a suitable role, I will contact your agent." "
Really?!"
Bai Lu asked in surprise, and when she saw Meng Bai nodded affirmatively, she said happily: "Thank you 'producer brother'!"
"...Hey, Xiao Yang, put up a sign at the door of the company, and it says 'Bai Lu is not allowed to enter'."
"Sorry, boss! I was wrong, please forgive me!"
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In the last month of 2016, the film and television industry has also reached the end of the year, and various award ceremonies and evening parties have opened one after another.
Unlike previous years, Meng Bai has also been busy this year.
Although the major mainstream awards still do not have a web drama unit, various video websites still have platforms like Weibo, and there are also many evening events such as "Starlight Night".
In particular, this year there is also a "Golden Bone Web Drama Festival" for new scripts.
Although because it is the first session, the attention is not high, and it is not authoritative.
But as a rare award specifically for web dramas, the film and television companies and platforms in the industry are still quite supportive, and basically everyone who has time to attend is present.
Meng Bai was naturally not absent, after all, the organizer personally invited him on Weibo.
In order to prevent him from not coming, they even revealed the award for Arc Light in advance.
"Best Online Drama" "The Forbidden City", "The Online Drama with the Most Brand Value" "Soul Ferry" series, "Best Online Drama Actor" "Forensic Qin Ming" Zhang Ruoyun, "Best Online Drama Supporting Actor" "Soul Ferry 2" Yu Yi...
Because it was the first session, the works selected were from 2015 and 2016, which is why "Soul Ferry", which has been broadcast for a long time, can still win the award.
Even Meng Bai himself has an "Outstanding Contribution Award for the Online Film and Television Industry".
This is indeed well-deserved. After all, he has many labels such as "the originator of online dramas", "the ceiling of online dramas", and "the first team of online dramas". It is unreasonable to give it to anyone else except him.
He even suspected that this award was specially set up for himself.
In any case, it is always a happy thing to win an award. It doesn't matter if it is not authoritative. It's also good to take it back to the company's honor room to show off.
While attending various evening parties and celebrations, Meng Bai also took a break from his busy schedule to pay attention to "The Great Wall" which was released in the middle of the month.
As a movie with multiple buffs such as "China-US co-production", "fantasy blockbuster", "all-star lineup", "many years of polishing", and "Jingtian heroine", "The Great Wall" has been attracting attention since the project was launched.
As the company's last and largest project this year, Leshi Films has been promoting it vigorously.
And with Zhang Yimou's name and the support of China Film and Wanda, the comprehensive scheduling volume is as high as 45%.
In other words, if you go to the cinema recently, there are only two choices, "The Great Wall" and others.
Chen Sicheng and Meng Bai also complained in private chats that if "Detective Chinatown" could have such resources, the total box office would at least increase by 500 million.
However, the opening performance of "The Great Wall" is worthy of such a big battle.
In the first three days of the weekend, the cumulative box office was 496 million, and it won the single-day box office championship for three consecutive days.
Although it is also related to the lack of competitors during this period, the nearly 70% box office share still shows that the audience has trust in Master Zhang.
Unfortunately, the movie’s rating seems to indicate that Zhang Yimou messed up this time.
Three days after its release, the rating is only 5 points, and there is a downward trend.
In various online movie communities, audiences are also complaining one after another.
"A shortened version of the Olympic opening ceremony. Zhang Yimou used his usual human wave tactics to mix a boring 'Ultraman Jingtian' to fight small monsters."
"The complaints are as many as the appetite of gluttons."
"Master Zhang has gloriously entered the blacklist of those who have lost their integrity in their later years!"
"Zhang Yimou is dead."
"..."
Among the various negative reviews, more than half are directed at the movie, and the other half are all directed at Zhang Yimou.
But to be honest, Zhang Yimou is actually more or less wronged.
It is obvious to look at the production team and main creative staff of this movie that almost 80% of them are Hollywood teams.
Even industry insiders like Meng Bai have heard that this time several producers almost completely copied Hollywood's "producer-centered system".
The entire shooting process and the final effect are almost all decided by American personnel.
Zhang Yimou, the chief director, does not even have the final editing rights.
Even the classic Hollywood scene of "white male protagonist and oriental girl rolling in bed" took a lot of effort and a long time to finally convince the American team to give up.
But what can I say? Reasons are reasons, but you still have to endure the criticism.
After all, the audience paid to go to the cinema for you, and then they found out that they were cheated, so they deserved to be criticized.
In fact, for the capital side of the film, whether the audience scolds or not is a small matter, as long as the box office can be stable.
Unfortunately, as the reputation of the film deteriorated, the box office of "The Great Wall" also fell off a cliff.
Nearly 500 million yuan was sold in the first three days of the weekend, and the total box office was only 800 million yuan in the second weekend.
Half a month after the release, the single-day box office fell to the level of 10 or 20 million, and it was very difficult to break through 1 billion.
At this growth rate, let alone making money, it is a problem whether the box office can exceed the production and publicity costs in the end.
Being scolded is a small matter, but losing money is a big matter.
As the main investor, Zhang Zhao, president of Leshi, posted seven Weibo posts in five days, scolding those who gave bad reviews to "The Great Wall" online, and even hang up the accounts of several film review self-media.
In response, netizens only had one comment - he was anxious, he was anxious.
Even this movie was not only ridiculed on the internal website, but also because of Matt Damon's participation in it, there were many ridicules on the American Internet.
"Is this the movie that made Matt Damon give up the Oscar favorite "Manchester by the Sea" and go all the way to the other side of the ocean to shoot?"
American netizens: (*^▽^*)→Matt Damon
Fortunately, netizens' verbal criticism of "The Great Wall" did not last too long.
Another movie "The Ferryman" released at the end of the year sacrificed himself to block the wind for it.
This movie produced by Wang Jiawei and directed by Zhang Jiajia caused a huge controversy as soon as it was released.
Most of the audience's comments were "I don't understand it, I don't like it."
Then, I don't know what evil King Sunglasses did, he directly posted a sentence "I like it" on Weibo.
Then, dozens of celebrities followed suit under personal connections or company requirements.
It can be said that this wave has fully demonstrated the custom of "grouping and following the trend" in the film and television industry.
However, not everyone is so "obedient". Wang Chuanjun, who was famous for "Love Apartment", posted a Weibo saying "I don't like it".
Speaking of which, his fame is not that big, and he can barely be considered a third-tier star in the circle.
If he posts a Weibo or something like that at other times, few people will pay attention to it.
But unfortunately, this node is a bit special now.
The audience's rebellious psychology has reached its peak in the entertainment industry. As soon as someone starts a group, they immediately follow up.
Not only has Wang Chuanjun's Weibo become a popular check-in point for netizens, but the term "I don't like it" has directly rushed to the hot search.
For the stars who participated in the group before, this is simply a slap in the face.
So the fans of each company, the movie's water army, the angry audience, and the netizens who are just having fun, instantly quarreled on the Internet.
The last days of 2016 passed in the midst of these complicated arguments.
(End of this chapter)
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