Depressive Screenwriter

Late January.

Su Yan and his group went to Shanghai in a grand manner.

Strictly speaking, attending the Xia Yan Awards Ceremony was just a side goal for Su Yan. His real purpose was to start promoting "Rurouni Kenshin" in advance.

Now, there were only about half a month left before the Spring Festival release date, and the competing works during the Spring Festival were basically clear.

Like the film and television industry and television industry in Su Yan's previous life, Xia's film industry also has several giant film companies at the top of the industry.

And every Spring Festival, these companies basically have works that they place high hopes on for release during the schedule.

Like Su Yan's previous life, many people in Xia's Spring Festival watch movies just for the atmosphere. They do what everyone else does. Residents have time and money, and the number of moviegoers is not comparable to that of ordinary schedules.

Among the nine films released during this year's Spring Festival, Su Yan mainly focused on three films.

Tianyu Film and Television's costume film "Breaking the Formation", which is said to have invested 510 million.

Judging from the style of the trailer, it is basically not much different from the costume dramas in Su Yan's previous life.

A group of big stars are stuffed into it. Teng Xi, a well-known director in Xia who can rank among the top ten in terms of popularity and work performance, plus a bunch of first- and second-tier movie stars joining or guest starring, is considered a strong contender for the box office champion of the schedule in the industry before its release.

The comedy detective film "The Counterfeit Detective" invested 430 million.

The cast is similar to "Breaking the Formation". A group of Xia's movie stars are stuffed into it. Anyway, as long as enough actors are stuffed in, there will always be one that the audience appreciates and can attract the audience to watch.

These two films are the two works with the highest investment in the Spring Festival. Further down is Su Yan's "Rurouni Kenshin".

A total of more than 400 million funds were invested in filming and promotion, which is the largest investment since the establishment of Su Yan's company.

And this time, no black fans can use the fact that Su Yan is a TV drama screenwriter and that his company's team can only produce shoddy works when making movies to discredit Su Yan.

The results of "5 Centimeters Per Second" during the summer vacation last year and the highest score of Xia's romance films in the past ten years made those black fans unable to say a word.

The only thing that can be criticized is that no one in Su Yan's "Rurouni Kenshin" team has won awards at Xia's major film awards, and there is definitely a gap between the cast and the other two films.

Moreover, as competitors, Su Yan's aggressive approach in the film industry in the past one or two years has indeed made many people a little frightened.

Like Ying Rui, the male lead of "Breaking the Formation", and Xi Xiaoling, the female lead, as well as Lu Yu, the male lead of "The Counterfeit Detective", and Meng Ningtian, the female lead, basically presented a three-way battle with Su Yan and Shen Liqian's fans.

As the national promotion of several films began, posts scolding each other from the three parties' fans could be seen everywhere on the Internet.

In Xia, the fan circle culture is not worse than Su Yan's previous life, and in Xia's entertainment industry, Su Yan's fans are definitely among the top in combat effectiveness.

News media also began to frantically report on the situation of several films during the Spring Festival, and even competitors spent money to hire water armies to discredit Su Yan.

The hot searches for several films were basically on once every other day under the promotion of the capital behind them.

As for Su Yan, he basically changed locations every other day with a group of his subordinates to hold press conferences and fan meetings.

After several days in a row, even Shinozaki Ikumi, a workaholic woman, couldn't bear it anymore. Seeing Su Yan busy from morning to night, and even having time in the office to gesticulate with the sword from the Kenshin movie at night, she cast an envious look at Su Yan.

"No wonder your action scenes are so beautiful. Your physical strength is also extraordinary."

"Just practice more. These days, when participating in fan meetings, many fans hope that I can perform Kenshin's Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū in reality. I have to study it."

Su Yan said.

Filming and performing are two different things. If Su Yan really wants to use these to promote the movie, he can only do some beautiful, non-lethal moves.

"Since you have so much energy, you should hold more related promotional activities usually. In Xia, other stars have to participate in activities every few days to maintain their popularity. You're good. You only become active during the few days when your new works are released. Journalists can't even find you on weekdays. Look, you've only been active in front of the media for a few days, and your ranking on the popularity list of TV drama stars and movie stars is rising rapidly."

"People's energy is limited. Work is important, but work is not the only important thing."

Su Yan smiled.

"What else is important for a single person like you?" Shinozaki Ikumi directly complained.

"What about you? Aren't you single too?" Su Yan smiled.

He usually uses mutual harm to deal with this kind of problem.

Shinozaki Ikumi's breathing stagnated when she heard this.

In the Tokyo area, she basically goes home every day, and is basically nagged by her mother every day.

"Compared to you, I definitely have more plans for the future and family."

"For example?" Su Yan spread his hands.

"I remember when I first met you, your life goal was to become a well-known producer. Now you have basically become the top producer in the TV drama industry. What's next? What is your life plan?"

"When the movie we make can win the annual box office champion in Xia, then I will put my energy on other aspects."

Shinozaki Ikumi rolled her eyes and said with a smile.

"Then you watch me. With my charm, I can find the perfect love interest in a week."

"Then you have to hurry up. Maybe half a month later, after "Rurouni Kenshin" is released, it may win the Spring Festival box office champion, and normally speaking, the Spring Festival box office champion is the annual box office champion. Plus the release time of the movie, you have one and a half months."

Su Yan said with a light smile.

Shinozaki Ikumi's expression froze when she heard this. She wanted to refute, but as the producer of "Kenshin", could she refute that this movie is unlikely to win the championship? The whole person was stuck there for a long time before she said in a faint voice.

"You have great ambitions. You are directly aiming for the summer box office champion."

"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier."

Su Yan smiled.

In fact, he doesn't have much confidence in his heart. From the current point of view, the pre-release popularity of "Rurouni Kenshin" is not worse than the other two main competitors.

But this is only the pre-release popularity. Who knows how the quality of those two works is?

Moreover, in addition to the two films "Breaking the Formation" and "The Counterfeit Detective", there are six other films released at the same time.

Although everyone thinks that those movies can't eat meat and can only drink soup, no one can say for sure about things like dark horses.

However, since Su Yan's movie is released during this schedule, his goal is definitely to win the championship.

"Also, don't try to change the subject."

Su Yan took a sip of water.

Shinozaki Ikumi knew that she couldn't win against Su Yan, so she quickly left on the pretext of going home to rest.

Su Yan stretched his waist, and also left the company department in Shanghai and drove to his home in the nearby villa area.

The next day, Sunday.

The popularity of "Fate/Zero" in Su Yan's fan group suppressed "Rurouni Kenshin" today.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the fourth episode of "Fate/Zero" premiered.

The previous three episodes of "Fate/Zero" let the audience know the main characters of this work.

And from the fourth episode, it began to shift to the roles of secondary characters.

For example, the friendship between Kiritsugu Emiya's wife Irisviel and Saber.

For example, the inexplicable ambiguous atmosphere between Kayneth's wife and Kayneth's heroic spirit, Diarmuid, the lancer with a tear mole at the corner of his eye.

Kayneth, as Waver's teacher, looked down on Waver in class and ridiculed his impure bloodline.

But at home, he was criticized by his wife Sola, and even his wife seemed to have a great idea about Diarmuid, this heroic spirit.

Well, you guessed it right, she fell in love with the lancer.

From other perspectives.

Gilgamesh's dissatisfaction with Tokiomi Tohsaka, and the inexplicable slightly overlapping values between him and Tokiomi Tohsaka's disciple Kirei Kotomine.

Then, the fourth episode ended with Kiritsugu Emiya breaking into Kayneth's base camp and confronting him head-on.

Of course, in this episode, after Kiritsugu Emiya took action, his methods that did not conform to the magician were also criticized by fans and people in the plot.