She dominates the entertainment industry with her disaster system

In late March, the crew of "Summer of Sixteen", which had finished filming and disbanded at the end of last year, gathered together again to start the pre-release promotion period.

Since the main actors of this movie are now nameless and unknown, with only a few fans at most, the producers unanimously believed that appearing on variety shows or creating scandals would not be very effective in promoting the film, and instead placed the focus of promotion on the film's content and director Tang Wanhua.

After all, nine out of ten directors in the current film industry are men, and female directors are rare; "Summer of Sixteen" is Tang Wanhua's debut film, a youth film shot from a female perspective. As long as this gimmick is promoted, there will be no shortage of female audiences attracted to the film.

As for Wuhe Su Lingxi and others, they only managed to get a few interview opportunities with industry film newspapers and magazines thanks to Director Tang's connections.

Shooting scene of "Popular Movies" in the studio.

Knowing that this opportunity was hard-won, the four of them would even take out the prepared character interview scripts and read them while putting on makeup in the lounge, for fear that any wrong word would cause public controversy.

Also because they themselves are not very well-known, the manuscripts basically only focus on the character settings, acting styles and innovative points of the film, and do not focus on the actors themselves.

"At first, Guan Mingyue approached Qiao Qiao just out of curiosity, but as their friendship gradually warmed up, she seemed to have opened the door to a whole new world. Everything in Qiao Qiao's world made her feel new and interesting..."

Su Lingxi read it in a low voice while revising the manuscript repeatedly.

She rarely wrote this kind of manuscript before, usually she would give it to the staff to write, and she would just memorize it. But now that she has a new life, she prefers to do it herself.

Suddenly, Wu He's annoyed voice sounded - "Why do we have to wait another hour? Didn't we agree to shoot us the second time?"

Su Lingxi looked back and saw Wu He arguing with a studio staff member.

"I'm sorry, but this is what my boss meant. I'm only responsible for conveying it." The staff member left in a hurry after saying this, leaving the others in the room looking at each other in bewilderment.

"What's this guy's attitude?" Wu He was so angry that her eyebrows were raised. She took out her cell phone and called her agent on the spot, "Sister Wen, our crew's filming has been postponed for no reason. What should we do now?"

"Wait patiently? We were here first, why should we let them take the photo first?"

Wu He had a heated argument with his agent for a few more sentences, and finally hung up the phone with a sullen look on his face.

Su Lingxi keenly sensed something was wrong and asked, "Did someone deliberately cut in line and snatch our photo opportunity?"

Wu He sat back on the sofa angrily, looking indignant, "These guys in the studio are too snobbish. Even if we are not famous, there should still be a first-come, first-served rule!"

"Sister Wen only knows how to persuade me to mind my own business, and she doesn't think about the fact that we came here to prepare before eight o'clock, but now it's almost twelve o'clock and we still haven't filmed. This is obviously bullying us newcomers because we don't have a say."

Su Lingxi patted her shoulder soothingly, "Don't be angry yet, did she mention which crew cut in line?"

"It seems to be 'The Pursuit'. Anyway, there are many big names in that crew." Wu He said unhappily, "Wait, this matter is not over yet. I'm going to find some netizens to give their movie one star."

Su Lingxi didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she heard her words, but after thinking about it, she instantly had a good idea, "Since they are unwilling to leave a way out, then we should just use their strength to fight them back."

"Chasing" is an action drama produced by Huasheng Film and Television with an investment of 1.5 billion yuan. The early publicity has been benchmarking against the standards of Hollywood action movies, and the plot and special effects are praised to be unparalleled on earth. It has been on dozens of hot searches on Weibo before it was released.

Obviously, "The Pursuit" is not at the same level as "Summer of Sixteen" in terms of actor status or financial strength, but both of them were released during the May Day holiday.

"Summer of Sixteen" is a youth film with a budget of only 20 million, and the marketing expenses are not even a fraction of others - but what if they can expand the conflict between the two films?

What if this conflict is so big that people will think of their movie when they see "The Chaser"?

Isn't that equivalent to directly taking advantage of the other party's publicity and marketing?

After finishing shooting the inside pages of the "Popular Movies" newspaper at five o'clock in the evening, Su Lingxi went straight to the company to tell Yang Qian about his ideas.

Now is the 21st century, the era of the comprehensive Internet.

After entering university, Wu Tingting quickly grew into a senior Internet surfing expert. When she had no classes every day, she would switch between various apps such as Xiaohongshu, Banzu, Weibo, Douyin, etc., specifically to read some gossip and interesting things.

That day, she opened the Weibo hot search list as usual. After reading the main list, she switched to the entertainment list, and happened to see a hot search title with the word "boiling" after it.

"On the current state of the film industry: Commercial blockbusters cannot beat chick flicks"

She subconsciously thought that this must be another marketing account using clickbait as the title, but she still clicked on it out of curiosity.

【@方卫国: Compared to the science fiction action film "The Pursuit" which is comparable to Hollywood blockbusters, I have to admit that "Summer of Sixteen" is more interesting and more enjoyable. The former pretends to be profound and adds a variety of new elements at the beginning. The setting is also full of cyberpunk style, but the plot is boring and vulgar, and the tense and exciting atmosphere created makes people feel no sense of substitution. It is a typical high start and low end; the latter is full of youth, and the protagonists are real boys and girls. As a campus movie, the plot is innovative, no longer confined to painful literature, and focuses on exploring the inner growth of girls in adolescence. It can be asserted that this is a creative youth film, and it may have a more far-reaching significance in the future. 】

The first thing Wu Tingting saw was the blog post by Fang Weiguo, a famous film critic from Ban Group, which was on the hot search list. After reading it carefully, she couldn't help but become curious about this youth film that Fang Weiguo praised so highly.

Scrolling down, she saw several other film critics expressing their own opinions. Most of them agreed with Fang Weiguo, while a few believed that chick flicks were no match for action blockbusters and insisted that Fang Weiguo was just talking nonsense to make money.

In addition to the film critics who were invited to watch the preview in advance and posted comments, there were also red-V marketing accounts trying to fish in troubled waters, but their rhetoric was all the same, and it was obvious at first glance that they were water armies hired by the "Chasing Action" production team.

Wu Tingting had no intention of joining in the war of words. She was more eager to see the styling and materials of the film at the moment - after all, it has been a long time since we have seen a youth film in the domestic entertainment industry that is not melodramatic.

It took Wu Tingting a long time to find the cover image of "Summer of Sixteen" on the homepage of Ban Group.

She was attracted by it at the first sight.