Chapter 259 Premiere [Chapter ]
In the screening room.
Ning Hao and Huang Bo were among a group of media people, craning their necks to watch Han Sanping and an old cadre being polite to each other, and finally sitting together in the center of the front row. They couldn't help but wonder about the identity of this person who could make Han Sanye so polite.
"That's the director of Beijing TV."
The media people nearby listened to the two of them mumbling for a long time without getting to the point, and couldn't help but complain: "Which media are you from? You may not have seen the real person, but you must have seen photos, right?"
"No wonder."
Ning Hao smiled at the man cheekily and said, "We are from the online media industry and have just started working in the industry."
"Oh~"
The man responded with a drawn-out sound, then turned around and went to talk to his colleague on the other side.
Internet media is still non-mainstream these days and has suffered much more discrimination than Guo Degang.
Ning Hao was a fake, so he naturally didn't care about being discriminated against. He turned around and discussed with Huang Bo who had a higher position between Han Sanping and the director of Beijing Taiwan.
In fact, the two have the same professional title. Han Sanping is still a deputy at China Film Group Corporation. He will have to wait until next year when he is promoted to a full-time position, before he will be half a level higher than the director of Beijing Film Studio.
However, the two sides are not subordinate to each other, so there is no point in discussing this.
As time goes by, more and more media professionals, people with connections, and big stars come to the scene.
The most eye-catching thing was, of course, the simultaneous appearance of the nine sisters of the Teddy Sisters. The scene of nine young and beautiful female stars walking arm in arm and sitting down at the table must have consumed countless films and memories.
It was also from this day that the Teddy Sisters officially stepped out from behind the scenes and onto the stage. With in-depth research by major entertainment media, they gradually became a "high-end organization" that countless young female artists flocked to.
By around 8:40, the first seats were already full, and some media personnel who had sneaked in temporarily set up cameras in the corridors and on both sides of the screen - of course, these cameras needed to be inspected when they left the venue to prevent pirated videos from leaking out of the premiere.
Seeing this scene, the media person next to Ning Hao couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement: "Isn't this scene worse than a blockbuster movie?"
“What’s the point of having a good premiere?”
Someone said disdainfully: "The premiere of The Promise was even more grand than this, but what was the result? It still lost a ton of money!"
"Speaking of Director Chen, did you hear that he flew into a rage in Berlin yesterday and said he would sue Hu Ge in court when he returns to China!"
"Which Hugo?"
"Of course it was Hu Ge who made "A Murder Caused by a Bun". I heard that when Director Chen landed in Berlin, a German reporter asked him what he thought of the "Bun" incident. Director Chen couldn't hold it in and said something like 'People can't be so shameless'."
"Alas, the film industry is getting harder and harder these days. Even a figure like Director Chen can be driven crazy by a comedy short film - I wonder how good this Lost on Journey will be."
"I guess it's not going to work out. Xu Kun is a gangster. He can act in a TV series, but as for a movie... I heard that Huayi is only planning to sign him as an actor. I guess this press conference is just to please him. Who made him so popular now?"
"Yeah, I've never heard of him doing any comedy before, but he did do really well in Zhu Yuanzhang."
"I heard that he failed to control the cost of the film. The film could have been made for 5 or 6 million, but it cost 940 million!"
"If we want to make a profit, wouldn't we need 3000 million at the box office?"
"More than that. Look at the publicity and promotion efforts of Huayi. I estimate that it will take at least 4000 million to make a profit."
"4000 million? Feng Xiaogang's first Lunar New Year comedy only earned a little over 3000 million!"
"There's quite a lot of fanfare out there. Maybe they can really make some money with those girls."
"Making money from those little girls? Do you think he is Liu Dehua?!"
Huang Bo listened to the gossip for a while and found that most of the media people were not optimistic about Xu Kun. He couldn't help but poke Ning Hao and asked, "What do you think?"
"I'll sit down and watch." Ning Hao pointed at his eyes with two fingers, then pointed at the big screen, and said, "I just want to see what this 940 million 'small' budget comedy looks like."
His words sounded both sour and gloating.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the screening room, and many people turned their heads to look at the back row.
Huang Bo and Ning Hao were confused and turned to look at the back row, only to find that the audience who had actually bought tickets had already started to enter.
Most of these audiences are young girls in their teens and twenties, and occasionally mature women in their thirties can be seen.
However, unlike the impression women usually give, these audience members did not chatter and call friends when they entered, nor did they look around curiously, but instead looked for their seats in an orderly manner.
Although they were not completely silent, they were unusually quiet compared to the noise in the front row.
When all 300 vacancies were filled, the contrast became even greater.
“Are these women possessed?”
Someone whispered.
"What's going on? Did the organizer make any requests?"
Some people tried to find the staff of the cinema or Huayi to find out what happened.
More media people used their cameras to record this strange scene.
Front row center C position.
Han Sanping was originally discussing the preparations for "The Banquet" with Wang Zhongjun - although he was supporting young directors in a planned way, he still advocated the blockbuster model the most. The consensus in recent years that "blockbuster is king" was the result of Han Sanping's deliberate guidance.
Now that he had discovered the strange situation in the back row, he couldn't help but ask Wang Zhongjun, "Did you arrange this in advance?"
"This...I don't think so."
Wang Zhongjun himself was a little uncertain. Seeing that the director of Beijing TV and other industry bigwigs were waiting for his explanation, he hurriedly called a few people and ordered them to act separately.
Some people went to the back row to ask what had happened, and some went backstage to find Xu Kun to see if he had arranged this.
The people who went to the back row came back soon, saying that the girls refused to speak, and if they asked too many questions, they would just tell them that they would know after a while.
Wang Zhongjun, Feng Xiaogang and others became increasingly anxious, but they did not dare to show it in front of the leaders and could only try their best to maintain the situation.
At this time, the person sent to look for Xu Kun also came back and reported to Wang Zhongjun: "Boss Wang, Brother Kun also said that he didn't know what was going on and was going to come over to ask in person."
As he was speaking, Xu Kun flashed out from the backstage and walked quickly towards the microphone in the center of the stage.
But before he walked to the center of the stage, 300 fans in the back row suddenly stood up, waving their cheering sticks and shouting, "Kun Shuai, Kun Shuai, the commander who loves Kun, love Kun, love Kun, love Kun the most!"
The sound grew louder and louder, and each wave became more orderly than the last, and soon it dominated the entire screening room, and in turn suppressed the more than 500 media professionals and people with connections in the front row.
Xu Kun was caught off guard and stopped in shock. He was so embarrassed that he wished he could use his toes to dig out a Palace Museum on the stage.
This slogan is so fucking childish!
Didn't you hear any news about it before?
Is it that Lao Jia is deliberately making trouble for himself? !
Xu Kun was so embarrassed on the stage that he didn't know how to react. However, the media professionals and colleagues in the audience had completely different feelings about this scene.
It's quite childish, but this kind of atmosphere and cohesion can overshadow the big scenes in "The Promise". People who originally didn't believe that Xu Kun could make a name for himself with these little girls couldn't help but change their minds at this moment.
Although this scene is not common in the film industry, similar situations can be found in the music industry. As we all know, these days singers have much stronger ability to make money than movie stars.
Han Sanping, who had previously been mostly focused on "Night Banquet", couldn't help but turn around and look at the girls in the back row in shock.
Although he didn't quite understand what was going on, he felt as if a deformed monster was about to break into this era of "blockbuster movies are king."
(End of this chapter)
