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The next day, Gu Wei returned to the set and continued filming.

At noon, Gu Wei and Bai Lily chatted while eating lunch.

"Gu Si, have you read the news about Chen He?"

Gu Wei took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, not surprised by Bai Lily's gossip.

"I saw it."

"Tsk tsk~ No one thought that Chen He's matter could cause such a big fuss!"

Her agent is the famous Wang Jinghua, and her husband Chen Yufan is also from the Beijing circle and has some relationship with Huayi.

Otherwise, Feng Xiaogang would not have asked her to play one of the female leads when he was filming "Private Customization".

Chen He's current agency is Huayi, and the two of them know each other.

Seeing his current black state on the Internet, Bai Lily felt a little sad.

It seems that yesterday Chen He was still a popular star liked by many people because of his running job, but he was thrown into hell overnight and became a scumbag that everyone wanted to beat.

"The main reason is that he and his ex-wife showed too much affection before. After 13 years of long-distance love, the lovers finally got married. Now he has ruined it all with his own hands. How can he not avoid the backlash."

As he spoke, Gu Wei looked at Bai Lily's face and said meaningfully:

"So if you show affection in front of the camera just for profit, once you are caught, it will be difficult for netizens."

Bai Lily nodded, not hearing the meaning of Gu Wei's words at all, but sighed.

"This time it's Zhuo Wei who broke the news again. He is truly the number one paparazzi in the entertainment industry!"

Gu Wei looked at her face and did not answer. He remembered that the person who exposed Bai Lily's "One Finger Zen" incident seemed to be Zhuo Wei's Fengxing Studio.

"By the way, Gu Wei, do you have a girlfriend?"

After talking about Chen He's cheating, Bai Lily started gossiping about Gu Wei again.

"No."

Gu Wei said matter-of-factly.

"Really? I don't believe it."

Bai Lily looked suspicious.

"You are so handsome, and there have been so many scandals on the Internet, how can you still not have a girlfriend?"

"Sister Baihe, you said it was a scandal, how could you take it seriously?"

Gu Wei looked innocent.

"Then if you don't have a girlfriend, do you need me to introduce you to her? My sister knows a lot of pretty little girls."

Bai Lily looked at Gu Wei with a smile.

"Haha, I won't bother you with this. I'm still young and my career is my top priority.

Sister Baihe, why haven’t you seen your husband come to visit the team after so many days in the group? "

Gu Wei laughed and changed the topic.

Speaking of her husband, Bai Lily's interest immediately dropped and she said calmly:

"He has his own things to do, and he usually doesn't interfere much when I'm filming."

As time goes by, the filming of "Monster Hunt" gradually enters the later stage, and the crew's filming progress is advancing at a high speed.

On this day, Tang Wei and Yao Chen also joined the cast. Their roles were not in the original script, but due to reshoots, some plots could not be connected, so they had to be found to play two roles that connect the plot.

The scenes are very simple, and Yao Chen's scenes don't even share the same frame with Gu Wei.

It was all shot in one day.

Gu Wei had met Yao Chen a few times when he participated in previous events, but they had no interaction with each other. They were complete strangers.

Tang Wei was the first time he had met offline. She was very beautiful. Although her facial features were not three-dimensional and her face was a bit round, her manners were elegant and generous, and she had the traditional intellectual charm of oriental women.

Her agency is Jiang Zhiqiang's Anle Film Company, so it's not surprising to find her as a guest star.

"Hello, this is the first time we meet. I'm Tang Wei."

In the crew, Tang Wei shook hands with Gu Wei and introduced himself.

"Hello, Sister Tang Wei, I am Gu Wei. You are more beautiful in real life than in the movies I watched before."

Tang Wei in 1979 was 13 years older than Gu Wei. He looked bright and charming, with the charm of a mature woman.

Complimenting a woman for her beauty is always the best way to get closer to her, especially for a handsome guy of Gu Wei's level, saying it more sincerely.

"Tang Wei is beautiful, am I not beautiful?"

Bai Baihe interjected from the side and said that she and Tang Wei had known each other for a long time, so they spoke very casually.

"You are also very beautiful, but you are still a bit inferior to a goddess like Sister Tang Wei.

Our crew made you so dark again, it’s even more incomparable! "

Gu Wei said jokingly.

"Gu Wei!"

Bai Baihe picked up the crew's prop whip and pretended to hit her.

Gu Wei quickly walked around behind Tang Wei.

"I'm afraid of you, you are also a beautiful woman, okay~"

"Hmph~ That's pretty much it. I'll let you go."

After saying that, he showed an expression that said he knew you were a kid.

After playing "Monster Hunt" for more than 20 days, the two of them also brought out the way the male and female protagonists get along with each other in the play. It was quite interesting to fight and fight.

Tang Wei watched the two of them playing tricks, smiling and saying nothing, acting like a goddess.

From the beginning of January, when Gu Wei joined the team to film "Monster Hunt", "Journey to the West: The Return of the Monkey King" started pre-release promotion activities under the auspices of the two distributors, Enlight Media and Wanda Film and Television.

Although Gu Wei spent 32 million in real money as publicity funds, and the two major publishers did contribute, the actual publicity effect of "The Return of the Great Sage" was not very satisfactory.

There is no way. During this period of 2015, domestic audiences’ impression of domestic animated films was that they were cartoons for children, not for adults at all.

Especially the previously released animated films like "Pleasant Goat" and "Bear Bears" series have deepened people's impression.

Therefore, no adult is willing to watch an animated movie alone without taking children.

For more than ten days in a row, the promotion through various online and offline channels has made [The Return of the Great Sage] somewhat famous. At least it became familiar to some viewers. The tens of millions of publicity expenses were not in vain. of.

But if this inherent impression in the minds of the audience cannot be reversed, the early box office of the movie will not be too high when it is released.

On January 30, [Bear Bears: Bear Wind in the Snow Ridge] was released. This movie is the first animated movie released during the Lunar New Year this year.

With the deep popularity accumulated by the "Bear Bears" series of cartoons, "Snow Ridge Bear Wind" accounted for 18% of the national film schedule on the first day of its release, with a box office of 27.72 million on that day.

This box office result ranked second in the national box office that day. The first place was also the new movie released that day - the variety show "Running Brothers".

Since the popular variety show "Where Are We Going, Dad" at the beginning of 2014 was made into a movie and released, it has achieved excellent box office results, and the door has been opened for such popular domestic variety shows to be turned into movies.

No matter how much passers-by and audiences criticize it, or how much film critics criticize it, as long as it makes money, this kind of comprehensive reform movie will continue to be made.

"Running Brothers" is indeed the most popular variety show this year. The box office reached 79.81 million on the first day of its release, accounting for more than half of the total national box office on that day.

On the 31st, Saturday, [Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Pleasant Goat in the Year of the Sheep] was released. This cartoon with a somewhat confusing name has a strong audience base just like [Bear Bears].

However, the quality is far from that of "Bear Bears". It is just like a cartoon shown in a cinema, not much different from what you see on TV.

The first-day box office was only 14.75 million, less than half of the first-day box office of "Bear Bears".

"Run" shocked many filmmakers by grossing 85.8 million at the box office on Saturday.

On February 1st, Sunday, "Run" continued its box office miracle, achieving 64.47 million on that day. In these three days, the movie's first-week box office reached 230 million, ranking first among the movies released a year ago.

Three days after its release, the film's Douban score was also released, with a measly 3.6. Tens of thousands of people rated the film on the platform, and the comment section was full of curses.

[In the future, let’s just give this kind of movie a separate genre. Don’t call it comedy or reality show. It would be more appropriate to call it money making.

If you want to be happy, there are so many ways to do it. How empty is it to rely on this? Is it worthy of being called a movie? 】

[In the past two years, I have never used any brains when doing variety shows in China. If you have money, you can just introduce them as you please.

The running man variety show part is not done yet, with stiff coordination, repeated replays of scenes in one episode, and the part about tearing off famous brands can actually be made into a whole episode.

The seven don't work well together, and they can all be adjusted slowly, but it's your fault for making money. I will never watch this kind of movie. 】

[I am not opposed to variety shows being made into movies.

In fact, I think as long as it is shown in a movie theater and there are audiences willing to pay for tickets, no matter whether the content is a variety show or a football match or concert, there will be no problem at all.

The only requirement is that since it is being sold and consumed as a movie, the audience must be allowed to view it from the perspective of a movie.

From this point of view, its technical content is too low, so the low evaluation is reasonable. 】

[This is a variety show, not a movie, just another way to make money...]

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I don’t know whether it was affected by negative reviews online or because fans had already watched the movie in the previous three days. On Monday, the box office of "Run" was cut in half, with a revenue of 29.86 million.

The box office of "Bear Bears" on Monday was not ideal, with only 14.35 million, and "Pleasant Goat" only had 4.53 million.

The two animated films released during the Lunar New Year period are unlikely to go far, especially "Pleasant Goat", which has a hard time breaking over 100 million.

This is the true current situation of domestic animated films.

"Okay, I got it. I told Mr. Zhang from Wanda to try to get more film schedules for our movies. "Bear Infested" has 18% of the film schedules. Our big production with an investment of 100 million yuan, how can we not do it? It can’t be worse than [Bear Infested]!

After the filming is completed in these two days, I will promote it online. You have the employees in the fan base to prepare, and then mobilize the fans to watch the movie on the first day of release.

I'm the producer of the movie, so this is my movie. Isn't it normal for fans to support it?

Okay, that's it. I'll talk about the rest when I return to the company in two days. "

During a break in the filming of "Monster Hunt", Gu Wei received a call from his agent, telling him about the current promotion status of "The Return of the Monkey King".

After explaining some things, Gu Wei hung up the phone.

As he said, now he is the producer of [The Return of the Great Sage], of course it is for publicity.

This was also the idea of ​​Enlight Media, which wanted to use Gu Wei's reputation to attract popularity for this animated film.

If you can fool Gu Wei's fans into watching the movie, you'll make a lot of money.

Of course, Gu Wei has no objection to this attention. Now he has accounted for 60% of the total investment in "The Return of the Monkey King" and is the largest investor. Most of the money he made in the end ended up in his own pocket and was used to promote the movie. His fame doesn't matter.

Moreover, this movie is not a bad movie, but a good movie with high quality, and it is not a thorn in the side of my fans.

During this year’s Lunar New Year holiday, the domestic film market is in a state of despair. There are no films that can make people’s eyes shine, and the market is also particularly sluggish.

At this time in previous years, there would always be one or two movies that could stand up to the box office dominance of domestic movies, such as last year's "Detective Chinatown" and "Private Customization", and the year before that, "Thailand" and "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" were all there. The Lunar New Year stall achieved excellent results.

This year, everyone originally placed their hopes on the blockbuster "Taipei" released last month. Unfortunately, this big ship sank as soon as it was released. In the two months of December and January, there was no domestic film with particularly outstanding box office.

Gu Wei feels that this is also an opportunity. No blockbusters are released, which means there is no competitive pressure. At least "The Return of the Great Sage" will have a great advantage in arranging films.

For example, the original version of "The Return of the Great Sage" was released this summer, and at the same time, Director Chen's "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain", Da Peng's "Pancake Man" and Guo Xiaosi's "Tiny Times 4" were released. The Return of the Great Sage] How can an unknown animated film earn a film schedule with them?

The current situation is perfect for "The Return of the Great Sage". Gu Wei believes that as long as the publicity is in place, this film will not only be the first high-quality animated film in China, but also take up the box office banner of domestic films during the Lunar New Year period. .

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