I didn't want to be an actor

"To be honest, the level of most directors is actually limited. They cannot achieve the true elegance and vulgarity. Most film directors are not really elegant, but "elegant"... Many films that are considered to be highly artistic by the film industry and many film critics are ultimately for a small audience."

"Don't always think about "using good movies to guide the audience's aesthetics". The most important thing is to attract the audience to the cinema."

"The mainstream audience is always young people around 20 years old. Don't let young audiences lose confidence in domestic films."

"Remember, the cinema is for the audience to watch. The director can shoot whatever he wants. We can't control it, but we can choose not to watch it."

Shen Liang talked about some criticisms of the industry, and then the topic shifted to "Sunshine" which Xu Zhiyuan liked.

"In recent years, I have particularly liked "Sunshine". It seems that your subsequent films have not leaned on this route?"

Shen Liang nodded and admitted: "Sunshine is a very special movie for me..."

"Special ?”

“First of all, it is not a traditional commercial narrative, but it is a hit. Secondly, that movie proved my talent as a screenwriter... Since then, if I express my opinions in the preparation stage of many movies, everyone will listen carefully...”

“But your subsequent movies did not follow this path... Is it because of capital coercion?”

“Not really... Mainly because I don’t have so much desire to express myself...” Shen Liang thought for a while and said, “I don’t even have the idea of ​​being a director...”

“Why?”

“... No reason, I am not so narcissistic, and I don’t have the mentality to prove myself... Besides, I think being a producer is pretty good.”

“Then will you make a movie like "Sunny Day"? ”

“Who can say for sure?” Shen Liang shrugged: “Maybe one day I will see a good script, and then I will organize a group...”

…

Xu Zhiyuan’s attitude towards Shen Liang is level, unlike the scrutiny he has towards Ning Hao, or even condescending - he has the inevitable prejudice as a literary youth at the beginning of the conversation, almost heartbroken: How can such a good independent director go to the main theme 20 years later?

However, Xu Zhiyuan is really not a good interviewer. He didn’t even talk about “Keep You Safe” in detail…

I feel that being interviewed for a show with him is not as good as the line in “Four Poisonous Uncles”: “Is your movie about selling insurance? Keep you safe!”

This thing is at least a joke!

It doesn’t matter. “13 Invitations” is not very popular.

It’s just that there are really not many decent interview variety shows…

As for “Round Table”…

I have been there once in August.

To be honest, the publicity effect of being on a variety show is not even as good as Shen Liang’s live broadcast!

——Shen Liang’s live broadcast has more than 30 million online users, and the number of online users on general long video platforms is not that high.

In addition to his own live broadcast, there are thousands or even tens of thousands of special anchor accounts that specifically capture what he says during the live broadcast…

So, he tore up “The Tomorrow War” and spread it all over Douyin, Kuaishou, and Xiaohongshu within 24 hours…

Including the actors mentioned in the live broadcast of “Keep You Safe”…It soon became known to the whole network.

"In "Keep You Safe"... At first we were going to ask Liu Yan to play the heroine Han Lu... But her age was not right, after all, Liu Yan is already in her 40s..."

"We wanted to find an actress who was slandered by various dirty rumors... Then Liu Yan must be the first to bear the brunt. About fifteen years ago, I heard someone say that Liu Yan sold her body to get promoted. After 15 years, no one has dug up her dark history..."

"Wang Sicong doesn't understand the entertainment industry. In fact, if she is really isolated by the entertainment industry, maybe it really proves that she is a pretty good woman.

Being isolated does not mean being bad, it mainly depends on who isolates you. You are isolated by a bunch of trash. Li, then you are a good person! "

"In fact, according to my standards, the Golden Rooster Award that year should really be awarded to Liu Yan!"

"For the heroine of "Keep You Safe", we finally chose Naza..."

"She was also rumored to be a yellow person..."

"Why didn't you choose Huang Bo for the male lead? Let me put it this way... Actually, we looked for many first-line actors in "The Wandering Earth" and they were all rejected... Do you understand what I mean? I am not very familiar with Mr. Huang Bo... And I owe Brother Jiayin a play..."

Oh, Dong Runnian has a good relationship with Huang Bo. His first play "The Man Caught by Light" was starred by Huang Bo!

Therefore, many fans of Huang Bo mentioned why Huang Bo was not the lead actor in "Keep You Safe"...

However, most people don't care about this...

They are more concerned about the actors who rejected "The Wandering Earth"...

Shen Liang is not a fool, he just said: "You just need to know that we have contacted most of the suitable actors, and in the end only Wu Jing agreed to join!"

...

The box office of the movie "Keep You Safe" is good - the real preview, there are 9,000 screenings every day, and most of them are at 8 pm...

It has won more than 15 million box office for three consecutive days.

The reputation is very good, and the scores on the two major ticket purchasing platforms are both over 9.5 points, which can be called rave reviews...

On September 30, it will be released across the board.

The first day's screenings of "The Journey Back" and "Keep You Safe" are both 22%, and "Ordinary Heroes" also has 21%...

"Iron Will" is 14%.

There is not much difference in the screenings!

At the end of the first day, "The Journey Home" had 50.8 million, "Ordinary Heroes" had 14 million, and "Keep You Safe" had 65 million, temporarily ranking first

This result is a bit unexpected.

It's not too low, but a bit too high - "The Journey Home" also had a preview, the box office was 9 million, and the reputation was not bad...

The key is that "The Journey Home" is a large-scale mainstream commercial film, the kind that was promoted on the news broadcast.

It didn't even beat "Keep You Safe" on the first day...

Of course, the most unexpected thing is "Ordinary Heroes". Bona also plans to copy the box office miracles of "The Captain", "The Heroes of Fire" and "Chinese Doctors"!

Bona is the main producer, with an investment of 250 million. Yu Dong is the producer and producer, Chen Guohui is the director, Li Lianhua, Feng Shaofeng and Huang Xiaoming are the leading actors, and the supporting actors are Lin Yongjian, Zhang Yishan, Na Zha, Hu Bingqing and so on...

The box office on the first day was only 14 million?

The key word of mouth is not good either, Maoyan predicts a total box office of 204 million!

In addition to the Spring Festival "Watergate Bridge" which made a lot of money this year, Bona has lost four consecutive films: the first one was co-produced Spring Festival "Four Seas" directed by Han Han, starring Liu Haoran and Liu Haochun, the second co-produced summer film "Mozart from Outer Space" directed by Chen Sicheng, starring Huang Bo and Fan Wei, and the third one, the Mid-Autumn Festival "The End of the Sea is the Grassland" directed by Er Dongsheng, starring Chen Baoguo and Ma Su...

However, Yu Dong is not in a hurry at all. Lin Chaoxian's "Breaking Point" is being filmed in Hong Kong and is expected to be released in the summer of 2023. There is also a main theme movie "Operation Red Sea 2: Orca Operation"...

Shen Liang has joined the crew of "Beasts Clawing at Straws"...