The studio was keeping an eye on the preparation of "Animal World", and there were also professional managers on "Buried Alive", so Zhang Yuanjun was able to take time off to build momentum for the new album.
Because he had to face Wang Lihong directly, Zhang Yuanjun could be said to be very busy these days. At the most, he traveled to five cities and held seven events in two days.
Zhang Yuanjun's hard work has not been in vain, and his hard work in the past few days has paid off significantly.
The pre-sale of the new album has exceeded 30,000. As more and more people heard about the pre-sale album, the reputation of "Zhang Yuanjun Album of the same Name" began to ferment, and several major dealers in Maitian have placed additional orders.
Song Ke looked at the pre-sale data and smiled from ear to ear.
"If we continue with this growth trend and go on sale on the 24th, we will be able to sell at least 100,000 yuan of goods."
A newcomer, his first album sold 100,000 yuan, and he is no longer in the Best New Artist category.
Zhang Yuanjun was also happy when he heard this data. His busy days have not been in vain.
I was so happy that I didn't even have time to pay attention to the good results of "The Promise" which grossed 21 million at the box office on the first day of release.
This result broke the opening day box office record of all Chinese and foreign blockbusters released this year, including "Harry Potter 4".
However, the audience's reputation after the premiere was mediocre, far less good than the feedback at the premiere.
However, the reputation on the first day did not have time to ferment.
The opening weekend of "The Promise" is here.
On Saturday, the 17th, it grossed 25 million, breaking the previous single-day box office record set by "Kung Fu".
On Sunday, the 18th, it broke the record of 63 million set by "Kung Fu" with a first-weekend box office of 82 million.
Breaking 100 million is a foregone conclusion.
But as the first weekend ended, the reputation of "The Promise" gradually became uncontrollable.
On the 21st, "Jingbao" published an article criticizing "The Promise" for making money at the box office and accompanying word-of-mouth:
"...However, the high box office failed to bring good reputation to the film. Our reporter conducted a questionnaire survey among 100 viewers at Xidan Times Cinema and Wangfujing New Century Cinema and found that 56% of the audience did not like "The Promise" ", 32% of the audience responded that they had no feeling after watching it and thought the movie was average, and only 12% of the audience liked the movie."
"Among the audiences who responded to this survey, hundreds of viewers were collectively dissatisfied with the plot and lines set by Chen Kaige for "The Promise". 73% of the audience thought the story of "The Promise" was average, and they all expressed that they could not be moved by the movie. .”
"94% of the audience thought the lines were 'very poor', and the remaining 6% only gave an 'average' rating. Some viewers said: 'The lines in "The Promise" are all spoken in a sinister tone, which makes It makes people uncomfortable to hear that.'"
As for the golden finger designed by Chen Kaige for Wu Huan, the Duke of the North, he explained that this weapon represents "thousands of people can point to it", which is intended to show that Wu Huan's people betrayed their relatives and separated.
However, the audience did not buy his design and criticized it as "very funny".
Netizens’ free comments are even more poisonous.
"If The Promise is a comedy, he succeeds."
"The dialogue is actually advertised as Shakespearean, haha. The cutest line is after Kunlun leads Guangming to catch up with Qingcheng, she says: 'I am no longer afraid...' That sequence. I laughed so much that I spewed out coke. . Please don’t ask primary school students to write scripts in the future, okay? It’s too childish.”
"I also hope that the sea water will flow back, the time will reverse, and the snowflakes will fall in the spring...because my money is really unfairly spent~~~ah~~~"
Zhang Yuanjun was tired of running publicity these days, so he looked for netizens' venomous comments to relieve his boredom.
Nowadays, netizens are quite merciful. If Sun Ba, an abstract guy, were to write a review of "The Promise", the scene would be unimaginable.
These comments were not enough to collapse the reputation of "The Promise". The negative reviews were completely detonated after blogger queen Xu Jinglei and young writer Han Han commented on the movie.
Xu Zhi said that Chen Kaige's filming of the actresses was too ugly, and the martial arts scenes made him dizzy.
Han bluntly said that Chen's film was "too artificial" and the lines and script were "too pretentious", and criticized director Chen for not knowing special effects.
Some people have previously accused "The Promise" of not knowing where the tens of millions of special effects were spent.
There is actually a response to the issue of special effects. The special effects of "The Promise" are handled by Wan Kuan from Hong Kong Island.
Their special effects staff didn’t want to take the blame, blaming Director Chen for unclear needs: “At first they said the general’s hair wanted to be black, and we made it black, and then he said he wanted red, so we changed it to red, and then he said he wanted yellow. , we changed it to yellow again, and finally decided that black would be better.”
In this way, money was spent, time was delayed, and the effect was not achieved.
However, amid waves of negative reviews, the crew of "The Promise" also fought back.
On the 20th, news came from distant Berlin that "The Promise" was shortlisted for next year's Berlin Film Festival.
Of course it is a non-competition unit - the main competition unit of Category A film festivals requires the film to premiere at the film festival - but the draft will not say so.
This is the second international award invitation that the crew of "The Promise" has received after the Golden Globe Award.
However, within two days, Chen Kaige's old comrade-in-arms and the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine" Mr. Lu Wei was thrust into the limelight because of his remarks.
"The theme of "The Promise" is very false and the plot is scattered. It is a very failed movie."
Public opinion was suddenly out of control.
Zhang Yuanjun is still promoting the release of his new album and is so busy that he doesn't even have time to read the news.
But he knew that the real storm would come on the 28th.
On this day, Zhang Yuanjun was promoting his new album in the mountain city.
We didn't get back to the hotel until 11pm.
Xiao Zhao also told him: "Ning Hao is here."
"Huh? Who?"
"Big Brain Ning Hao, the director of "Big Diamond"."
"I know, I mean, why is he here? Isn't he working in the post-production stage in the capital?"
"There's not a penny left. Come and beg us." Zhang Yuanjun's studio had clearly refused to vote for "Big Diamond" again.
After Ning Hao left, he approached China Film and said that he could complete post-production and cover publicity and distribution with only 2 million.
But China Film was only willing to give 500,000 yuan. After Ning Hao took the 500,000 yuan, he used it up halfway through the post-production period.
China Film will not give you any money this time.
Han Sanping took a fancy to Zhang Yuanjun's Hollywood drama and gave Zhang Yuanjun his share.
Ning Hao had no choice but to shamelessly chase Zhang Yuanjun to the mountain city.
It was so late at night that he couldn't be left alone, so Zhang Yuanjun went to see Ning Hao.
Ning Hao lost a lot of weight visibly to the naked eye, and his fatigue was evident.
Ning Hao didn't say anything, and said directly: "I really have no choice, 1.8 million, I only want 1.8 million, you can take 40% of "Big Diamond"."
Zhang Yuanjun knew that Ning Hao was not a person who had been living under others for a long time, but he looked very pitiful now, and it seemed that he was really desperate.
Zhang Yuanjun was really moved by his compassion: "Did Liu Dehua agree?"
"There's nothing he can do if he doesn't agree. He doesn't want to give money." In business, Andy Lau is very smart in this regard.
"It's not that I don't want to invest, I personally like the script of "Big Diamond", but you have to convince Andy Lau to let go, and then I will give you the money."
Ning Hao saw hope and promised to persuade Liu Dehua.
In fact, until now in "Big Diamond", Andy Lau is still riding a tiger.
He accounts for the bulk of the investment. If "Big Diamond" fails, his 3 million investment will be lost.
But he would not invest in Ning Hao without any bottom line. At this critical moment, he could either bite the bullet and continue to give Ning Hao 2 million, or find external investors to share the risk.
Zhang Yuanjun felt that the latter was very likely, so he really asked the studio to assist Ning Hao in trying to win "Big Diamond" this time.
(End of chapter)
