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Chapter 452 The new summer season and the dark horse appearance

"I'm Not the God of Medicine" was originally a film that Ning Hao wanted to make, but Ning Hao has been thinking about his own movie script for the past two years, so it has been delayed.

Until he signed up with emerging director Wen Muye.

Wen Muye had never made a feature film before, and several short films had very realistic themes, which made Ning Hao think that he might be suitable for this theme.

Later, Ning Hao also found Xu Zheng, and then Ning Hao exited and Xu Zheng entered.

Ning Hao focuses on the early stage, providing advice on scripts, film positioning, actor selection, etc., while Xu Zheng provides assistance in the shooting and marketing stages.

This movie was completed at the end of last year. It is not a secret in the industry. Although Ning Hao and Xu Zheng have great appeal, after all, the director is a novice and the investment is not large. The production cost is less than 50 million, so it is not a big deal.

Attention-grabbing movies.

And Chen Jingxing would actually notice and even care about such a movie. Although "The God of Medicine" is going to be released in the summer, there are so many low-budget movies like this in the summer, so why would Director Chen care about it?

Chen Jingxing's movie this summer is "The Matrix II". It can't even be said to be a long-awaited movie by domestic fans. It is basically a blockbuster that audiences and media around the world are looking forward to.

Although it has been nearly two years since the first movie of "The Matrix", not only has the reputation of "The Matrix" faded away in these two years, it has even accumulated and fermented a larger fan base, attracting more people's attention.

After all, DreamWorks' distribution capabilities are still limited. Of the US$800 million box office of "The Matrix", 460 million were domestic contributions, so there are still many people abroad who have not seen this movie in theaters.

So after a round of communication, Chen Jingxing's kind comments were still "besieged".

It is precisely because a good script and a good story are so rare, and it even takes several years to delete, delete, and revise a story that has been remade countless times, that is why Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks are particularly watchable.

Not pleasing to the eye.

I think this kind of movie has great potential to become a dark horse at the box office."

Seeing Ning Hao and Xu Zheng looking at ease, it seemed that Chen Jingxing's comments were indeed convincing and could reduce anxiety. Chen Sicheng also began to "seek God and worship Buddha."

Chen Jingxing gave his thoughts from the standpoint of a screenwriter.

Various whimsical and imaginative stories and scripts emerge in endlessly, and they are even used in TV series, Internet universities, and animations.

Not to mention anything else, the five stories of "Black Mirror II", especially the final "Prometheus", are so good that they are not willing to be released on online streaming media.

Regardless of whether this was Chen Jingxing's comfort from his old classmates, Chen Sicheng still took the placebo, and the effect was quite good.

Under such fierce competition for summer releases, Ning Hao was still hesitant about the release date of "The God of Medicine" and even wanted to postpone it until a few days ago.

It's been more than half a month and one week since "Zheng Lian". Obviously Ning Hao is still more afraid of "Matrix II".

The ceiling for domestic suspense films is still very obvious. Chen Jingxing's "Fatal Identity" broke the box office record for suspense films with a box office of 450 million. Although the Chinese film market is much larger now than it was in 2014, the figure of 1 billion is still too small.

It was enough to satisfy Chen Sicheng.

"The God of Medicine" is a movie that Ning Hao has wanted to make for a long time. The script has been deleted several times, but Chen Jingxing didn't have any ideas to cut it.

"When will your movie "Inception" be released? Leave us a way to survive."

This has also brought the momentum of "Matrix II" to its peak. In addition, Universal Pictures has tasted a lot of sweetness in "District 9" and also has an investment share in "Matrix II", so it is also working hard to promote it.

This can be regarded as Chen Jingxing's butterfly effect, but it only caused suffering to other domestic film companies.

On the other hand, this "monster"'s speculation that "The God of Medicine" might become a "box office dark horse" really made Ning Hao's confidence a lot higher.

There are many people who encourage his decision, but it depends on whose words it comes from, right?

I have to say that Chen Jingxing's words, whether they were compliments or from the bottom of his heart, were indeed very effective in calming his anxiety.

"More than a billion?"

Although the high-grossing movies in China in recent years usually have good reputations, if you look carefully, most of them are science fiction or war blockbusters, and then comedies.

Ning Hao is confident that "The God of Medicine" will recover its cost, but his expectations are much higher than that, otherwise he would not insist on releasing it in the summer, and he gritted his teeth and spent 60 million to promote it, which is very expensive.

due to production costs.

A large number of overseas audiences watched "The Matrix" on DVD after "The Matrix" was released. After nearly two years of active case promotion by movie fans on the Internet, "The Matrix" has become a science fiction masterpiece that has not diminished but increased.

However, these words made Ning Hao and Xu Zheng look at each other. In addition to being surprised, they also felt a little strangely reassured.

Ning Hao has no doubts about the quality of the script and the movie, otherwise he would not have said, "I would be proud to be a part of this movie." However, good movies and high box office are not necessarily directly related.

How could such a blockbuster film, which will be released simultaneously in 11 countries including China and the United States, put other domestic films in the summer season in the spotlight?

Let alone care about a small-to-medium-budget film from Bad Monkey Pictures?

"I have heard the prototype story of this script. If this story is adapted into a movie, as long as the screenwriter has a certain level, it will not be difficult to write a very dramatic work, let alone Brother Zheng and you jointly promote it. This proves

This script is definitely not bad.

There's nothing we can do about it, the most popular themes right now are either science fiction or military-themed blockbusters, or comedies.

Chen Sicheng quite believed in Chen Jingxing's vision, after all, DreamWorks' movies had never been filmed before.

Although Chen Jingxing is a director, he is also recognized as a master screenwriter and belongs to the category of "top singer-songwriter" in the directing world.

After last year's film bureau started to open summer slots for budget blockbusters, and "Spike II" created a miracle, it continued to choose to open summer slots again this year with overwhelming confidence. There is quite a sense of "my family has a grown up son" confidence and

pride.

His judgment and speculation on "The God of Medicine" once again showed this "monster"'s sensitivity to stories, and he could see at a glance the powerful dramatic tension contained in the experiences of the prototype characters in "The God of Medicine".

The first part of "Tang Detective" only had a box office of 1 billion, and it was still a comedy.

Although Ning Hao said that he would be proud to participate in this film, in fact, he, Xu Zheng, and director Wen Muye did not have much confidence in the film.

The name "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is obviously intended to follow the comedy marketing route to "deceive the audience" into buying tickets.

He also invested in a movie, and the script has been released. It is adapted from a movie in Tianzhu called "Manslaughter and Concealment".

"The God of Medicine" does neither. There have been some good story-telling movies in China that are non-comedies and non-special effects blockbusters in recent years, but there is obviously a gap between box office and reputation.

Chen Jingxing does not mean this as a compliment. The script of "Manslaughter" sounds like a top-notch suspense movie. The script of this kind of movie is the most important, otherwise Tianzhu would not have remade it six times in a few years.

After hearing the plot, Chen Jingxing also gave a high commercial evaluation.

This movie was originally called "Medicine Makes You Laugh", but later it was renamed "Life is Like a Summer Flower". It was obviously intended to be a comedy marketing route, and it wanted the audience to mistake it for a comedy, so it was later renamed "The Chinese Medicine God", and then

It was renamed "I'm Not the God of Medicine" again.

"That's right, it's both "The Wandering Earth" and "Once Upon a Time on Earth". It's mysterious all day long. What big move are you holding back?"

"Manslaughter" in the hands of Chen Sicheng is already the seventh remake of this story, and it will definitely be remade by other countries in the future. This shows that gold cannot be hidden at all.

And the competition this summer is fierce, not only "The Matrix II", but also a Hollywood superhero blockbuster "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox", which tells the story of The Flash being used by his old enemy Reverse-Flash in order to save his own life.

A story about a mother who traveled across time and space and changed history, but ended up triggering a butterfly effect and triggering the Third World War.

"The God of Medicine" is definitely not a visual effects blockbuster. If you want to have a high box office without marketing romance, you have to market comedy. You have to take the lead.

It also shows that the entire world of film is now very hungry for good stories.

In addition to "The Matrix" and "Zhenglian", other domestic companies have naturally prepared various types of movies to compete, including special effects movies, and comedy movies will not be absent.

Although even so, he earns a lot of money, but it still makes people jealous and greedy.

God has been too kind to Chen Jingxing.

It’s just that although everyone has a good relationship, the partners that Dream Factory is currently cooperating with are all at the level of National Film or Universal. Even Bad Monkey, Huanxi Media or Chen Sicheng’s Chengya Pictures are out of reach, so people are even more jealous.

Already.

In the end, Chen Jingxing could only escape in embarrassment after promising to write a script for everyone when he had time in the future under the cover of Guo Fan, Tian Xinye and others.

(End of chapter)