Chapter 179: Three billion
Information about "Liberation Day" has been released one after another in the past few days.
Of course, for the sake of confidentiality, some less important information is disclosed, such as the title of the film is tentatively set to "Liberation Day", who is the director, who is the producer, the film is the main theme movie, etc. As for further specific information, including but not limited to the plot, it is not disclosed at all.
After answering Wu Jun's words, Du An looked down at the greasy tabletop, felt the stool that was not very stable on the butt, and turned to look at the wall that was slightly darkened by the years of oil smoke. A strange and intimate feeling came to his face.
When he had just got some money but was not very rich, he had set up such restaurants many times to cultivate his billionaire temperament. However, when he was really rich, he either made it at home or ordered takeaway. Even if he went out to eat, he would go to some clubs or star-rated hotels. He hadn't been to such a fly restaurant for a long time. At first, he was really a bit intimate.
"Director Du, don't look at the place being not very good, but the dishes cooked are really good!"
Wu Jun, who was opposite, saw Du An's expression, thought he was not satisfied with the place, so he quickly explained, "And you are in the limelight now. If we go to another place to have dinner, we will definitely not be able to eat this food. How many fans do you have! This place is better, no one comes, and the boss is also a person who doesn't watch movies. He doesn't know you at all, so he saves trouble."
The key is that it is cheap, Wu Jun kept it in his heart and didn't say anything about this.
Duane shook his head and said with a smile: "No, this place is pretty good. In the past, I was the biggest wish at that time when I came to such a restaurant to eat every day."
Wu Jun didn't take it seriously.
According to the information he has, Duan is now the boss of a special effects company. The two recently released movies have investments. According to the box office of the two movies, assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars are absolutely indispensable. How could he have such a wish?
But he believed it immediately.
Wu Jun usually ordered a meat and vegetable dish with white rice when he came here to prescribe a small meal. Today, he "entered" Du An to pay a lot of money to take out some ingredients, ordered three dishes and one soup, and ordered two bottles of beer. Among them, bacon and garlic was the fastest and came up quickly.
Then Wu Jun poured himself a glass of beer and wanted to meet Du An toast a glass. As a result, as soon as he picked up the cup and looked up, he found that Du An was chewing his mouth and chewing it constantly. The chopsticks in his hand were not idle, and it went straight down like a flying one. Every time he picked up a slice of bacon with one chopstick. There were some garlic leaves hanging on it. The garlic here is actually green onion, and the name was different.
Looking further into the plate, the bacon and garlic that just came up looked very beautiful, red, green, and white, but at this moment it was basically green and white, and there were no few pieces of red meat slices.
Seeing this, Wu Jun felt a chill: If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't run away, he would have thought that the African refugee in front of him was not a billionaire. Is this so popular?
Du An hasn't eaten such a roadside restaurant for too long. He misses it at first. Although the taste is just like that, it feels different in his mouth. He can't help but reveal his long-restrained refugee-style eating habits. However, the unique skills he practiced with his rice bowl at his doorstep for more than ten years were not in vain. He immediately discovered Wu Jun's actions, so he also brought the cup to meet him.
"Director Du, I'll give you a respect first. I wish you a big hit in the new film and a new box office record!"
Wu Jun said auspicious words and killed them in one sip.
Duane also sniffed it in one bite, and drank a few pieces of bacon and served with beer, and finally slowed down.
While staring at the meat on the plate intentionally or unintentionally, Wu Jun continued the question just now and asked: "Director Du, everyone knows that main theme movies are the most difficult to shoot, and are even more difficult to shoot than art films. Why do you want to shoot main theme movies this time?"
Du An understood that Wu Jun’s “difficulty in shooting” means that it is difficult to make high box office, especially the main theme movies, and even a decent box office work. Even if there is a congenital advantage of government departments and institutions to organize viewing, it cannot beat other art films, let alone compare with commercial films.
"Actually, this is a long story, but I'll just say it short."
Duane chewed the meat and said, "It's mainly to repay the society."
Wu Jun turned on the recorder and was about to take advantage of Du An's speech to take the opportunity to pull the remaining meat from the plate into his mouth. Unexpectedly, Du An's speech would be over so soon.
Without waiting for him to react, Du An asked back: "By the way, reporter Wu, I think you have good writing skills and exquisite ideas. You are a good material for writing novels. Why did you come to be a reporter?"
His words seemed to have poked Wu Jun's itch. Wu Jun put down his chopsticks, sighed, and said, "It seems that literary style really can't deceive people... To be honest, I have loved literature since I was a child. My original ambition was to be an essayist, but gradually I grew up and knew that my talent was not enough to become an essayist. But fortunately, my imagination was okay, so I changed my direction and planned to be a novelist..."
Wu Jun was poked into the itchy place and talked about his sad past. How did he turn from a novelist with a bright future to a reporter for gossip and tabloids? After talking for a long time, he finally realized that something was wrong: It's not right, isn't he supposed to interview Du An? How did Du An interview him?!
I thought of something again, and suddenly lowered my head, and saw that the plate was full of white garlic roots. Not to mention the slices of meat, I couldn't even see the green garlic leaves. I looked up at the opposite side and saw Du An slowly drinking with beer, looking like an old god.
It seems that he was cheated?
Wu Jun shook his head and threw this thought out of his mind. A billionaire, is it as for cheating himself?
"By the way, Director Du, now there is a lot of debate about your "Liberation Day" being a main theme movie."
When Du An heard Wu Jun's words, he didn't say anything: "Everyone is whispering? The adjective used by Wu Jun is quite light. He is not a paradise. He also reads newspapers and surfs the Internet every day. Naturally, he also knows what the current public opinion situation of the media is.
There are crowds of people, firecrackers are ringing, gongs and drums are clamoring, and when you worship the world, this is probably the scene.
Since the first day of the release of the film, a production cost of 400 million yuan, the largest production in history is about to be released, and it is directed by Duane, the leading young director of the current popular young generation, the media have been hit and are optimistic, especially when "Terminator" defeated "Myth" and won the first place in the box office. In a few days, the media reporters collectively climaxed, shouting for the arrival of a new era, claiming that "this is a new era for young people."
But within two days, when the name of "Liberation Day" was revealed and the news that it was a main theme movie also broke out, media reporters were all silent.
The largest production in history, directed by the young director who is in the limelight, the most powerful old film and television company China Film and the fast-growing film and television rookie DreamWorks jointly participated in the investment... These are all positive factors, which make people believe that this will be a positive factor for a box office big-time film. Just like "The Promise", it has been named a blockbuster since the day the project was launched. Its box office is directly for 3 billion, or even broke the record. The billion box office that no other movie dares to expect is just a guaranteed bottom line for "The Promise".
People's expectations for the project "Liberation Day" were almost the same.
But that was before they knew that Liberation Day was the main theme movie.
After they learned the details of "Liberation Day", no matter how many positive factors are, they cannot match one negative factor, the main theme movie.
The three types of movies have box offices from high to low, namely commercial movies, literary movies, and main theme movies. This is when the main theme movies are often arranged by government agencies and institutions to watch and support them. According to the winning rate of each award, from high to low, there are literary movies, commercial movies, and main theme movies. Half of the domestic awards are set by various folk societies, and the other half have gradually transformed into private institutions in the process of de-officialization over the past decade. The art field has completely realized the principle of blooming a hundred flowers and contending with a hundred schools of thought. The official does not intervene, so the news that the main theme movies have won frequently against the laws of nature will never be seen again. In every award, the main theme movie category is the category that is the worst.
The main theme movies have almost become hot potatoes, and are considered dead. Whoever touches them will die. Except for some people who do have feelings, no filmmaker wants to touch them, so the media has changed dramatically overnight.
Thanks to the increasingly relaxed environment in China, these media can freely make their own remarks without worrying about official factors, so they express or imply that Duan is wasting production costs and money from himself and others, and then they are still regretting, regretting why this young director who has proved with several works that he is indeed a capable director wasting his youth and talent in a main theme movie. Finally, he was shocked, shocked that a main theme movie actually needs to use so much shooting funds. Is Duan planning to bring Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehua, Ge You, Jiang Wen, Liang Jiahui, Zhou Runfa all gathered together to summon Shenlong to realize his wish to sell his main theme movie at the box office?
400 million... Media practitioners have said that they could not even think of how much money should be spent in a main theme movie! Some people have even begun to question the authenticity of the investment amount.
"Do you have any opinions that you want to post on this?"
Wu Jun followed up with what he said just now.
Du An looked at Wu Jun and didn't say anything for a long time. Until Wu Jun was furry and the boss brought the second dish of braised eggplant with vegetable oil, he spoke and said, "I think the box office of "Liberation Day" can reach 3 billion, which is my opinion."
After hearing this, Wu Jun turned around and looked at the two bottles of wine on the table.
It's beer, not white wine, why did this director Du get drunk after just two glasses? (To be continued.) Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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