You made me a superstar

Chapter 498 Is He Crazy Again?
Zheng Jun lit a cigarette, while smoking, pondering over the script of "Mine Bottom".

Smoking is a habit he picked up in Hollywood. At first, everyone around him was smoking, and he followed suit. Later, only when he was smoking, would he have a little inspiration in his mind.

"Mine Bottom" is a sci-fi film, and it was a dream he had when he was a child. Later, in order to make a living, he had no choice but to sell this dream to others. Many years later, this dream came back to him.

Sometimes, Zheng Jun also feels the impermanence of life.

""The History of the American Gangster" has a high probability of being unable to be released. A movie of this length will not be able to obtain any commercial benefits after all. Movies are originally a product of entertainment. You have to add this kind of entertainment product. Isn't it unique to go to art?"

"People, sometimes you have to accept the reality, really... Now this society is getting more and more impetuous, and no one watches serious literary movies, let alone your seven-hour literary movie, I started playing halfway through watching it sleepy..."

Zhang Changsheng, the director of the road movie "Laughing Flowers All the Way", called Zheng Jun and talked with him a lot about suggestions for "A History of American Gangsters".

Zhang Changsheng used to be a very good comedian in the early years, but later he switched careers and became a director. He made several films with mediocre responses, and was finally banned because of the company's contract issues and Xinghui's falling out. During the period of banning However, Zhang Changsheng was not discouraged, but has been thinking about the script of "Laughing Flowers All the Way", waiting for the opportunity to come, and dreaming of fighting for a turnaround.

Although "Laughing Flowers All the Way" has not yet been released, the domestic situation is very good. As one of the suppressed directors, Zhang Changsheng naturally feels that Zheng Jun is in the fog and wants to help him recognize himself.

After Zheng Jun received Zhang Changsheng's call, he didn't say much.

In essence, there is a big difference between him and Zhang Changsheng. Zhang Changsheng is more commercial, and his mind is full of thinking about making movies to cater to the audience and be popular.

There is no doubt that comedies are definitely the most profitable and easiest movies in this field.

Zheng Jun, on the other hand, leans a little towards literature and art, thinking more about how to express his understanding of this society and the world through movies, followed by what kind of senses movies can present to the audience, and finally movies Of course, Zheng Jun does not understand business. The American version of "The Departed Walker" is a successful commercial example, but he always has a literary dream in his heart, that's all.

"Hey……"

"I don't know what Mr. Zhou said, whether our own theater chain can do it..."

"However, is Mr. Zhou really willing to build a theater for "A History of American Gangsters"?"

Although I always feel that the things I shoot are unique and irreplaceable works, but countless people said to themselves, after letting themselves recognize the reality, Zheng Jun will inevitably become gloomy in his heart.

He sighed.

It reminds me of the movie "American Gangster History".

If a seven-hour movie is really going to be screened in theaters, it is indeed a very unpleasant thing for the senses.

He suddenly began to lose confidence in Zhou Yang, after all, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that it was unrealistic.

Although I made "The Departed Walker" and proved myself in a sense, but if I really tasted it carefully, I really didn't deserve Zhou Yang's trouble.

However, since everything has been filmed, don't think about so many things, whether it will be released or not, it depends on the destiny.

Zheng Jun shook his head and continued to immerse himself in the world of "Mine Bottom"...

The film "History of the American Gangster" has been filmed, and the post-processing has also been completed. After that, he basically has nothing to do.

Just when he was relaxing and thinking about the filming of "Mine Bottom", he received a call from Zhou Yang.

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China.

The movie "Sword God" really rushed.

The box office of the premiere was barely okay, but the box office of subsequent movies continued to pull the hips.

Finally, at the end of October, the film schedule of this film was finally reduced to an embarrassing point.

A martial arts movie that cannot surprise the audience, and it is indeed difficult to generate blockbusters in today's era.

The audience didn't buy it very much, and the theaters naturally couldn't make much money, so they could only free up the schedule of this movie and give it to other movies.

However, "Sword God" has not been ridiculed much. During the period from before the release to the reduction of the film schedule, no one on the Internet talked about this movie at all. The score of 7.3 on Douban has a total of thousands of people's comments, and the following There are also some film critics who think it is the navy at a glance are evaluating this movie.

"It seems that the older generation of directors really can't do it... Since "Overlord", Chen Kai's movies have become more and more magical. He thought that Shen Jinsong was better, but no one thought that Shen Jinsong also pulled it. ..."

"Isn't there still Shen Changwei?"

"Shen Changwei? Huaxia only has Shen Changwei, who else besides Shen Changwei?"

"Zhou Yang!"

"Is Zhou Yang a director of the older generation?"

"..."

Shen Jinsong, who came out of the theater, was depressed, especially when he heard someone talking about it in front of him, his emotions fluctuated, and naturally he was filled with countless unwillingness.

But there was no other way, he could only get in the car, then wrapped up his clothes, and returned to Xinghui's office silently.

After the election of the Huaxia Directors Association, Xinghui's film department did not become deserted, but became more and more lively.

The high-spirited Zhou Yilin would always bring some young directors over to chat with his boss Li Zhongjun about the project, and at the same time Shen Jinsong found that the people around him began to be less and less familiar to him.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Zhou Yilin is building his own team.

Half a year ago, who knew that this smiling Zhou Yilin would suddenly attack, and then directly throw the Huaxia Film Association upside down?

After carefully reviewing Zhou Yilin's actions in the past six months, Shen Jinsong unconsciously felt a chill down his spine, and even felt that Zhou Yilin's smile was hiding a face that he could not understand at all.

Feng Minrui suddenly made trouble with Zhou Yang and put pressure on the relevant departments. Although Zhou Yilin was never seen from the beginning to the end, Shen Jinsong always felt that Zhou Yilin had something to do with it. Zhou Yilin set up a game, and then Feng Minrui and others jumped in for the sake of profit.

In fact, at the end of September, the atmosphere of the entire Huaxia Film Association began to be wrong. Everyone was full of resentment and regarded Zhou Yang as an enemy. Even Shen Jinsong himself was infected by this atmosphere. Zhou Yang was trampled to death.

Only when people are calm can they truly see through some things.

"President Zhou..."

"Director Shen, Mr. Li of Xinghui and I have already made a part of the project plan... I also talked about your "Sword God" with Mr. Li. In the past, the association has been talking about unity, but basically Everyone is fighting for their own interests, and everyone is a little cautious. This time I plan to reform. Regarding "Sword God", I chatted with the relevant departments and made this movie a special export of martial arts movies. Departments come forward to export to Southeast Asian countries, you don’t have to worry about copyright matters, it is the level of relevant departments who come forward..."

"Thank you, Chairman Zhou."

"Thank you, they are all my brothers."

Shen Jinsong looked at Zhou Yilin's leaving back with more complicated emotions.

I have to say that Zhou Yilin does have some energy. If there is no accident for the movie "Sword God", the box office in the mainland may be cold.

After the domestic box office is cold, you can only count on overseas copyrights.

Don’t think about Laomei and Europe, unless it’s a movie of the level of "The Grand Master", otherwise they look down on such martial arts movies, and there are problems of regional and cultural barriers, so they can only hope to sell in Southeast Asia The copyright back and forth blood.

Naturally, there is nothing wrong with running over to promote the copyright of "Sword God" by myself, but if the relevant departments come forward, it will be different.

Even though he knew that Zhou Yilin was winning people's hearts, Shen Jinsong still had some inexplicable emotions in his heart.

After a long time, he sighed again.

He probably resigned himself to his fate.

When returning home in the evening, Shen Jinsong heard Xiao Chen, the driver and assistant, chatting with him about Zhou Yilin's activities.

Zhou Yilin not only brought a group of young directors to Xinghui to discuss cooperation, but also went to Tianxia Entertainment, Shengshi and other companies to chat about movies, and also brought a group of screenwriters.

Shen Jinsong was not surprised. Zhou Yilin was different from Feng Minrui. Feng Minrui would occasionally put on airs and show off with some companies, but Zhou Yilin was all-round.

"Except for Huaxing, Zhou Yilin has found all the cooperations he should be looking for."

"Oh... at least there is a little bottom line..." Shen Jinsong nodded.

Huaxing's side is now a point of shame for the older generation of directors.

Their emotions towards Hua Xing were rather complicated, they hated and even gritted their teeth, but they had to admit that they couldn't shoot Hua Xing, and at the same time they felt a little sour.

At this stall, Zhou Yilin seemed to know that he couldn't get too close to Huaxing.

Then Xiao Chen chatted with Shen Jinsong about Huaxing's news.

Shen Jinsong was stunned when he talked about Huaxing and Xingyang setting up a theater chain in the United States and preparing to show an inexplicable seven-hour American movie.

"Really? A seven-hour movie? Released on November [-]? Who is the screenwriter?"

"Jeff..."

"Who is Jeff?" After hearing this strange name, Shen Jinsong frowned, and then seemed to think of something: "Wait, is it the director of "The Departed Walker?"

"I don't know who Jeff is. Huaxing hides it very deeply, but according to some unreliable information, this Jeff may be from Huaxia... But Christian said cryptically that Jeff is a black man. ..."

"What the hell is Zhou Yang going to do? Are you crazy?"

(End of this chapter)