Chapter 814 Pre-sale breaks record
Clara has been busy in January, with three films starring her released this month.
The costume fantasy action film No. 8 is [The Demons Strike Back in Chang'an], the No. 22 is [Big Red Envelope] and the No. 29 is [The Master of Empathy].
Among them, [Chang'an Fu Yao] and [Big Red Envelope] have female protagonists, and [Empathy Master] is the supporting female role.
Of course, all three movies are terrible without exception.
But it doesn't matter. As a Korean female star, it is impossible for Clara to become famous in the domestic entertainment industry. She will be satisfied as long as she can make money by filming.
After the broadcast of "Love in the City", she gained a certain degree of fame in the domestic entertainment industry, and the company helped her take on many similar roles.
It turns out that no matter whether it is a good or bad movie, it is always good for her to show her face more.
Moreover, domestic audiences don’t care how she performs as a foreigner, they are all attracted by her face and figure.
With the help of this fame, Clara has made a lot of money in the past two years by performing at various events arranged by the company, far exceeding her income in the Korean entertainment industry.
".I have been busy promoting the movie recently. Although I am a little tired, I am very happy. The audience is very enthusiastic. I didn’t expect that I have so many fans now.
Especially the male fans, they were so excited to see me.
Can I visit Oppa on set after I’m done with this busy period? I heard from his agent that he’s currently filming a very demanding movie.”
After a busy day, Clara returned to the hotel and called her boss.
In the past two years, she has been doing very well in the domestic entertainment industry. Now she is very glad that she left the Korean entertainment industry and came to the Chinese entertainment industry.
Apart from anything else, her current income is more than ten times what she earned in the Korean entertainment industry. Sometimes she regrets why she didn't come to China earlier.
She is also very satisfied with her current agency. Her boss is not only a real power figure in the domestic entertainment industry, but also handsome and in good shape. He is a world apart from those greasy middle-aged men with big bellies in Korean entertainment companies.
If the boss of the Korean agency had Gu Wei's looks and figure, why would she care about the unspoken rules?
After hanging up the phone, Clara walked to the dressing mirror, looked left and right, and stroked her proud bust with both hands.
“I seem to have gained some weight these days, it’s time to exercise.
You must show your best side in front of your boss."
Clara is very smart. She knows very well that her handsome boss is her biggest supporter in the domestic entertainment industry.
Coming from the Korean entertainment industry, she knows that a pretty face and a sexy body are not worth much. Not to mention the natural ones, artificial ones can be mass-produced in Korea.
If she, a foreigner, wants to make money in the Chinese entertainment industry, she has to please her boss.
[Changjin Lake] crew.
Although it was late at night, the filming location was still brightly lit and crowded with people.
Gu Wei was wearing a worn military cotton jacket and sitting on a stool in the rest area.
I had just finished filming a night scene and received a call from Clara during the break.
"Can you speak Korean?"
Seeing Gu Wei hang up the phone, Wu Jing asked curiously.
"Of course~"
"Wow, you're really versatile. Even if you weren't a star, you'd definitely be a good translator."
When they went to Africa to film Wolf Warrior 2 together, Wu Jing knew that Gu Wei's English was also very good.
"Come on, who would give up being a big star to be a translator?"
Having just finished filming a battle scene, Gu Wei and Wu Jing were both in a mess, with dirty faces and bodies covered in gray and white dirt and prop snow.
But none of them dealt with it because it was just a break between filming and they had to continue filming soon.
"I haven't heard that you have any Korean friends?"
“One of the artists under my company, Clara, is British-Korean.
Have you seen the beautiful model in "Love Saint"?
After Gu Wei finished speaking, Wu Jing also remembered.
“I remember the one with the best figure and who looked really sexy in red.
Is she one of your artists?
I just found out.”
Gu Wei smiled and said, "It turns out that she wasn't, but Clara wasn't doing very well in the Korean entertainment industry. I signed her after filming Love in the City, and now her work focus has shifted entirely to China.
Three of her films are coming out this month, give me a call to share your joy."
"Three movies in one month, that's amazing~"
"Haha, two of them are considered online movies, and they only have one-day trips to theaters. Only the comedy produced by Guangguang can be considered a serious theatrical movie.
By the way, I also asked for a role for her in The Wandering Earth 2, one of the attackers in the villain space elevator. Then, Brother Jing and you will have a fight scene together."
Wu Jingzhi nodded. He had received the script of "The Wandering Earth 2" a long time ago and knew which role Gu Wei was talking about.
"[The Wandering Earth 2] should start filming in the second half of this year, right?"
"Yes, I have discussed this with Guo Fan before, and the preliminary preparations are almost complete, and we expect the crew to start filming around October.
I think I’ll be able to send you a letter in two months.”
Although Gu Wei will not be starring in The Wandering Earth 2, Wei Ming Tian Xia is still the second largest investor besides China Film Group.
Gu Wei is the producer of the film in which he is personally listed.
The two were chatting when a staff member came over.
"Teacher Wu Jing, Teacher Gu Wei, the director is calling, we are about to shoot the next shot"
The two nodded, stood up and walked out of the shed built by the crew.
“It feels like the nights are getting colder.”
When he went out, the cold wind blew and Wu Jing shivered and tightened his tattered cotton coat.
"It's probably around -20 degrees Celsius, haha, I feel okay."
Gu Wei rubbed his hands, and the breath from his mouth turned into a puff of white water vapor.
"Ask the staff to put on some more clothes for you. Don't catch a cold after filming the action scenes. Brother Jing, you're almost 50.
Later, Sister Nan blamed me for not taking good care of you. I promised her that I would keep an eye on you during the filming.
Wu Jing was quite dissatisfied after hearing this.
“What’s wrong with 50? I can still fight at 50 and still be young.
My firepower is not much less than that of a young man in his early 20s. Don't listen to your sister Nan. Just deal with her with one sentence at the dinner table.
Gu Wei shrugged and didn't try to persuade him any further.
Good things don't work, but bad things do. Wu Jing really caught a cold because of the scene that night.
Specifically, they filmed the scene all night long, and in the second half of the night, the two fell asleep on the set.
When Gu Wei woke up, he was in good health and nothing happened, but Wu Jing started to have a runny nose and sneeze, which were obvious symptoms of a cold.
"I told you to wear more clothes and keep warm, look~"
After Wu Jing caught a cold, Gu Wei mocked him mercilessly.
"Ah, cut!" Wu Jing sneezed and blew his nose with a tissue.
"It was an accident, a complete accident. I took some medicine and drank plenty of hot water. I'll be fine in two days."
His cold was indeed not serious and did not affect the filming of the crew.
"I have to ask for leave from the group in two days."
"Promoting a movie?"
“Yes, the roadshow for Detective Chinatown 3 started a long time ago, but I didn’t participate because I was filming The Battle at Lake Changjin.
Before the film is released, as the director and the leading actor, I have to attend a few screenings.
I have to perform at the Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve and return to the set to continue filming on the first day of the new year.”
"Then we'll meet at CCTV in a few days. I'll take your plane back with you on the first day of the new year~
A-choo!
Wu Jing also had a performance in this year's Spring Festival Gala. He performed the martial arts show "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" with Zhen Zidan and many students from martial arts schools.
"no problem"
The period between New Year's Day and the Spring Festival is also the Lunar New Year period, but there was no movie with outstanding box office performance during this period this year.
The three movies that Clara starred in were all released during this period. All three were bad movies. The one with the highest box office, "Big Red Envelope", took in just over 200 million yuan, and the other two were just one-day trips to theaters.
In mid-January, two Taiwanese movies, "The King's Avatar" and "The Soul", were released.
[The Soul] is a suspense and crime film starring Zhang Zhen and Zhang Junning. It has a good reputation and the box office has barely exceeded 100 million yuan.
[The King's Avatar] was much worse. Even with Zhou Jielun's fame, the total box office failed to break 10 million.
Zhou Jie Lun is not the leading actor of "The King's Woman", but he is the producer of this movie and plays a cameo role in it.
It is said that this movie was shot by Jie Lun to fulfill his wife's movie dream, and the heroine is naturally the superstar's wife Kun Ling.
Jie Lun made great efforts to film "The King's Avatar". He smashed dozens of racing cars and supercars, wore out thousands of tires, and also called in many friends from the music and entertainment circles to come to his aid.
However, the story of the movie is too clichéd, all the plots are predictable, the thrills of several racing scenes are not particularly good, and many plot developments seem like child's play.
The director Zhou Jie Lun found came from a background in commercials and MVs, and his abilities were limited, which resulted in the visual effects of "The King's Woman" being okay, but the plot being a bit too weak.
The whole movie is like Zhou Jie Lun and his friends playing house. Even Jie Lun’s fans would find it difficult to give it a high score.
There is another point that the audience cannot help but complain about. As the heroine, Kun Ling is obviously very ambiguous with the hero in the plot, but at the climax at the end of the movie, the two of them do not have any intimate scenes, not even a kissing scene. At most, there is a slightly awkward hug and pat on the shoulder. It is obvious that Jay Chou cannot bear to see his wife having intimate scenes with other people.
To be honest, if an actor is reluctant to even let his wife do the kissing scenes, why bother with a love line? It's awkward to act and even more awkward for the audience to watch.
After leaving the crew, Gu Wei flew directly to Shanghai to join the crew of "Detective Chinatown 3" who were on a roadshow for promotion.
【Detective Chinatown 3】In fact, the promotion and marketing activities started in December.
As early as before New Year's Day, the film company released the "Tokyo Noisy" version trailer and "Tokyo Noisy" version poster.
In the more than one month from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, the "Everyone Gathers" version trailer, the "Qin Feng Goes to Jail" version plot trailer and the "Who is Q" version trailer were released one after another.
On January 29, pre-sales for the six films released during the Spring Festival period started simultaneously, and the pre-sale box office on the first day exceeded 100 million yuan in 32 hours.
Among them, "Detective Chinatown 3" is undoubtedly the most anticipated by the audience and the one with the fastest pre-sale performance.
After the pre-sale started, the pre-sale box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" exceeded 50 million in 7 hours and 41 minutes, setting a record for "the fastest pre-sale box office of a domestic film to exceed 50 million".
"Director~"
"Baoqiang, you've worked hard these days!"
After meeting up with the rest of the crew, Gu Wei first greeted Wang Baoqiang.
In his absence, Baoqiang is the center of publicity for "Detective Chinatown 3".
"Director, you don't have to be so polite. This is what I should do." Wang Baoqiang smiled naively.
By the third part, he also held a partial investment share in the film, so the box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" had the most direct interest relationship with him.
"How's the preparation for that new movie you told me about going?"
"I'm still revising the script. I've consulted several screenwriters, but I'm not very satisfied with the final script."
Gu Wei thought about it.
"Well, when you have nothing to do after a while, you can come to my company. I will have the screenwriting department arrange for several screenwriters to make targeted revisions according to your requirements until you are satisfied.
There is no doubt about their professionalism and ability. Many scripts, including the Detective Chinatown series, were written by the writers of my company."
“That’s great, Director.
I have always believed that the script is the key to a film. Without a good script, it will be difficult to proceed with the subsequent preparations."
Gu Wei smiled and nodded.
"Have you decided on a name for this movie?"
“Because it’s based on the real-life ‘Enbo Fighting Incident,’ I’m going to call it ‘In the Octagon’.”
After exchanging a few words with Baoqiang, Gu Wei greeted the other members of the roadshow team.
In fact, the roadshow team for "Detective Chinatown 3" is not large.
Because there are many Japanese actors in the movie and it is not convenient for them to come, the remaining domestic actors can be counted.
After spending a day in Shanghai, the crew flew to Yuezhou, then went to Shenzhen, and finally returned to Beijing to prepare for the premiere ceremony.
After several days of roadshow promotion and various online and offline publicity and marketing activities, the pre-sale box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" increased rapidly.
With two days left before the Spring Festival, the pre-sale box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" officially exceeded 700 million yuan.
[Hello, Li Huanying] ranked second with a pre-sale box office of 150 million yuan, Lu Yang's [Assassination of Novelist] ranked third with 59.12 million yuan, [The Order of the Samurai] ranked fourth with 38.41 million yuan, [Boonie Bears: Wild Continent] ranked fifth with 33.54 million yuan, and [New Gods: Nezha] ranked sixth with 26.71 million yuan.
As of February 10, the total pre-sale box office of all films released during the 2021 Spring Festival exceeded 1 billion yuan.
The premiere of [Detective Chinatown 3] held in Beijing was called "New Year's Family Dinner", but it was actually a press conference with no purpose of publicity.
On the stage, the four leading actors Gu Wei, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang and Nazha all wore the same style of detective windbreakers, performed activities according to the host's arrangements, and answered questions from reporters on the scene.
"Teacher Gu Wei, what was the biggest challenge you faced while filming Detective Chinatown 3 in Japan?"
"It's definitely expensive. Filming in Tokyo isn't much cheaper than filming in New York. Furthermore, many of the scenes in Detective Chinatown 3 are large-scale. For example, we recreated a Shibuya crossing in nearby Tochigi Prefecture at a 1:1 scale to film the scene."
"Did you learn any Japanese while filming in Tokyo?"
Gu Wei smiled and was about to speak when Bao Qiang rushed to answer.
"The director didn't need to learn Japanese. He spoke excellent Japanese and could communicate with the Japanese actors without any problems. We were so envious watching from the sidelines."
After he finished speaking, there were surprised "Oh" sounds from the audience.
"Teacher Gu Wei, can you show us a few sentences?"
I remember that after asking Gu Wei, I spoke a few normal sentences in Japanese.
Although most people didn't understand, everyone knew that Gu Wei really could speak Japanese by seeing how comfortable he was with it.
"Actually, I said this before when I was on a show. I have some talent in languages and I know quite a few. Japanese is just one of them." Gu Wei explained with a smile.
"Did Teacher Baoqiang learn a few sentences?" The reporter turned his attention to Wang Baoqiang again.
"After filming for such a long time, I have learned a few lines."
After that, Baoqiang also began to show off his Chinese-style Japanese.
"Smi Masai (Excuse me), Moshi Moshi (Telephone greetings), Linen belt (No)"
When he mentioned "flax belt", there was a burst of laughter at the scene.
Wang Baoqiang was a little confused and didn't know what everyone was laughing at.
Gu Wei suppressed his laughter: "It's okay, your Japanese accent is too strong, it's normal for everyone to laugh."
(End of this chapter)
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