Chapter 1487 1589. Nervous and expectant
Although Mao Tongtong regretfully lost the opportunity to star in "The Captain of China", she opened up the market in the TV drama circle. If she had really been selected for "The Captain of China", she might not have become so popular today.
Yang Aoao got the opportunity of "The Captain of China", which also opened up the market for herself in the film circle.
As one of the leading actors of "The Captain of China", she won the favor of many directors while the movie was a big hit with her remarkable performance.
Invitations came one after another, including some productions by big directors, which made Yang Aoao, who had rarely been exposed to film resources before, dazzled.
There are so many drama invitations that if Yang Aoao accepts them all, she may have to film continuously for the next three years.
Of course, with such a good first step, she is more cautious in accepting dramas. She is not only choosing the role when choosing a script, but also the director and co-actor. She is willing to act in works with all three excellent.
With her current popularity, she has the confidence to make such a choice.
For Yang Aoao, the good news is not just this one. This time, she played the role of a flight attendant in "Captain of China", which also made her suddenly receive an image endorsement contract from an airline. In fact, several actresses have received it, and major airlines have all set their sights on these actresses.
For actresses such as Yang Aoao, Li Qin, and Tian Ai, airline image advertisements are really accepted even if they are not paid.
Because this is a kind of affirmation of their own status.
Just like those blue-blooded and red-blooded fashion brands, they never look for second- and third-tier artists to endorse. Generally, they only choose supermodels or first-tier artists, and even if they are first-tier artists, they must be linked to fashion before they are included in the list of candidates.
The same is true for airline advertisements. This is considered a high-end advertisement in the industry. If you don’t have a certain status, you really can’t get it even if you ask for money. The airlines are afraid of bringing down their company image.
"Captain of China" is popular, and Lin Qin, this girl, has finally got her sweet moment after all the hardships.
Her starting point for her debut was actually not low. In the four famous classics "A Dream of Red Mansions", she played the second female role Wang Baochai, which was definitely a high starting point at the time.
Unfortunately, although the topic of "New Red Mansion" is high, its reputation is not good. Some people think it is very interesting, but some people can't appreciate it. The current score on the film review website is only 6.0, which is barely acceptable.
Lin Qin failed to become popular because of this drama, and she has been stumbling in the following days.
She has filmed many movies and TV series, but in the popular movies and TV series, she either plays a supporting role or a female villain, and at best, she is an unpopular female second.
She has good looks and strength, and she was a professional Kunqu opera actor who can sing and dance. This qualification should be able to become popular in the circle, but she has been tepid for nearly ten years since her debut.
Some people feel sorry for her behind her back, and it is also rumored that she is not destined to become popular.
She was even deliberately combined with Yang Rongrong and Li Kun as the actresses who were destined to be unpopular in the circle, meaning that they could not be popular no matter how much they were promoted. When this topic came out, I don’t know how many big Vs followed and expressed "regret". However, it is better to say that these people are taking advantage of the popularity to laugh at the joke than to say that they pity them.
Nie Wei also read that topic at the beginning, and joked with Shu Chang with a smile that if she was not there, she would also be selected and become a strong competitor for the TOP3.
Shu Chang naturally did not believe it, but Nie Wei knew that not only Shu Chang, but also Da Tiantian, who is doing well now, would become the hot candidates for this topic.
However, due to Nie Wei's influence, the original five actresses who were destined to be unpopular have now become three. After the release of "The Captain of China" this year, the three may also become two.
Li Qin has finally felt the feeling of being a popular artist in the past ten years.
The agent only needs to post her schedule to the super chat. Whether she goes to the airport or gets off the plane, there are fans to pick her up, and there are also a group of fans to support her when she goes to commercial activities. The enthusiasm of the fans is much higher than before.
This is a very normal phenomenon. After all, when an artist's popularity rises, fans will also be encouraged.
This is just the fans aspect. What she cares more about is her work. Like Yang Aoao, she has received many invitations.
TV series, movies, variety shows, all kinds of things, her coffee table is suddenly filled with work.
Xiao Liu, who loves to play with his mobile phone when he is free, has recently given up this habit because he is too busy to play.
Of course, Xiao Liu is also in pain and happiness. Although he has no time to play mobile games and is busy every day, his income has increased. The original monthly salary of 5,000 yuan has increased directly to 8,000 yuan. Counting the bonus, he has become a person with a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan.
Not only Xiao Liu, but the salaries of all people in Lin Qin's team have also increased.
Lin Qin gave everyone a salary increase not only because she was too busy recently, but also to unite this group of people. After all, this is her key rising period. It only comes once in ten years. If the rising period is blocked due to some small problems, she will probably cry and faint.
So the people around them must be stable. After all, when stars have problems, they often start from the people around them.
Of course, among the several flight attendants, Lin Yifei is the most popular.
Her artist career is completely different from Lin Qin. Lin Qin's tepidity is compared with Lin Yifei's popularity. The former is so sad that she will cry.
As the goddess in the hearts of a generation and the recognized fairy sister, Lin Yifei's comeback this time has attracted countless people's attention.
After several years, Lin Yifei's face has not changed, and countless people sigh that her beauty is like eating preservatives.
However, as the most popular, she should have used this opportunity to consolidate her foundation in the mainland, but after countless businesses and directors made offers, they suddenly found that this girl was no longer in the mainland.
"Sorry, Director Feng, our Sissi has now taken on a new Disney movie, and it is really a pity that she has no chance to participate in your new movie."
"Director Zhang, Sissi is filming in Hollywood. We will definitely cooperate next time if there is a chance."
"Director Chen..."
Invitations from various big directors were sent to Lin Yifei, but they were all rejected by Lin's mother. Although "Mulan" has not officially started filming yet, she also knows that this is the most important step in Lin Yifei's future career development, so now she has to eliminate some external interference factors and let her daughter prepare for this movie wholeheartedly.
Several leading actors were praised so much and gained so much. As the male and female protagonists, Cheng Kun and Yuan Quan gained a lot.
Cheng Kun is not short of popularity, let alone endorsements, but this movie opened up the market for serious dramas.
Yuan Quan opened up the commercial market. This queen of art films finally stepped into the field of commercial films. In fact, this is also the general trend.
Moreover, the current commercial films are far less terrible than before. There are more and more commercial films with excellent quality, and this market also needs such movies more. This can be seen from the fact that art films accounted for less than 1% of the total box office last year. What is the market demand?
"Captain of China" has been singing all the way. After the first day of 660 million, it received another 500 million box office on the second day. In less than two days, the total box office exceeded 1 billion.
All the movies behind it are worried and scared, and they can't sleep at night.
After all, this is simply a ferocious beast, and it is the kind that eats people without spitting out bones. Who wouldn't be terrified when they encounter such a ferocious beast?
But this time, everyone can't hide.
The first to face "Captain of China" is Brother Long's "Detective Pu Songling".
This oriental fantasy-style movie is undoubtedly a work that Brother Long has put a lot of effort into, and the investment in special effects is also very expensive, but it still has no power to compete with "The Captain of China".
On March 3, the box office of "The Captain of China" officially exceeded 2 billion, while "Detective Pu Songling" premiered on the same day had less than 70 million. Although it ranked second in the single-day box office list, compared with the nearly 300 million box office data of "The Captain of China", the gap is huge, and there is no hope of catching up.
After all, this is the first day of the movie, which also includes a lot of pre-sale box office. There is such a big difference, so there is naturally no hope later.
On March 4, "The New King of Comedy" directed by Zhou Xingxing was also released.
The box office performance of 120 million on the first day is not bad, but most of it is the box office performance of "Detective Pu Songling". On this day, the box office performance of "Detective Pu Songling" was only more than 20 million.
However, "The Captain of China" was not affected much, and the single-day box office still easily exceeded 200 million, and the total box office performance was infinitely close to 2.5 billion.
You should know that "The Captain of China" has only been released for six days.
The release day of "The Captain of China" happened to be Monday, which means that there is still one day to count the weekly box office data, which means that this movie will create another unprecedented weekly box office record that will take a long time to come.
Although "The King of New Comedy" has a good performance, its reputation is not as good as "Detective Pu Songling". A lot of people on the Internet complained that this movie is not funny at all, and it only knows how to sell feelings. It can be predicted that under such a low reputation, the box office trend of this film will definitely not be much better.
The two highly anticipated works failed in succession, which also made the subsequent works tremble more.
However, you can't avoid it if you want to. The schedule in March is already full. If you want to move, you have to move to April and May. Don't underestimate a month. The producers and investors will lose a lot of money because of this month.
The film is worthless if it is stored in the warehouse. It can only generate profits when it enters the market. And since it has decided to participate in the Lunar New Year period, it will naturally have to bear this price.
In the next few days, several Hollywood movies were released one after another, but they were still no match for "The Captain".
And "The Captain" also won the weekly box office championship in the first week with a score of 2.6 billion.
Of course, there are also movies that have not been greatly affected, such as the "Boonie Bears" series of animated films.
Because this kind of animated film is liked by many children, and children cannot go to the cinema alone, they need to be accompanied by their parents. Therefore, no matter whether parents like it or not, they must enter the cinema for free to accompany their children to watch it.
For children, "Boonie Bears" is obviously more "good-looking" than "The Captain", and if they don't watch this movie, everyone in the group will talk about this animated movie, and they haven't watched it. Isn't it out of date?
The special thing about animated movies is that its audience is often not an individual, but a small group.
From the first day of the release of "The Captain", Fanxing Company began to prepare a celebration banquet for Nie Wei, Cheng Kun and others. When the single-week results came out, Nie Wei knew that this celebration banquet could not be suppressed.
The single-week box office performance of 2.6 billion yuan was a surprise to even Nie Wei himself.
Nie Wei only attended the celebration banquet for about 20 minutes, of which 10 minutes were spent answering questions from reporters, such as whether he was surprised to achieve 2.6 billion box office in the first week, and what he thought about this achievement.
No reporter would ask any sharp and harsh questions in such an atmosphere, wouldn't that just be waiting to be on the blacklist of Fanxing?
The main purpose of the celebration banquet is actually to cheer for the movie itself, and to give industry insiders an opportunity to communicate with each other.
For example, the hundreds of flower baskets placed outside the banquet hall today, are they really all for pure purpose to celebrate? There must be some with pure purpose, but most of them have other purposes.
Like looking for star cooperation, or simply wanting to cooperate with Fanxing Group, or looking for partners through this occasion.
After Nie Wei accepted the media interview, he encouraged several leading actors and then left the celebration banquet. He didn't want to steal the limelight in such an occasion, nor did he want to be hypocritical with those businessmen.
After Nie Wei left and returned home, Shu Chang was preparing a celebration party for Nie Wei at home.
As soon as Nie Wei entered the room, Shu Chang threw herself on him and shouted happily: "Husband, you are so awesome! Great."
"Be careful." Nie Wei steadied his hands, carefully supported Shu Chang, and then slowly put her down.
The moment Shu Chang threw herself on him, Nie Wei's heart really jumped to his throat.
"I'm so happy, 2.6 billion, my circle of friends is all blown up today." Shu Chang smiled happily. She had received countless congratulatory text messages since the morning of the first day of college.
Husband and wife are one, Nie Wei's glory is also her glory, and Nie Wei has achieved such a great result, so she is naturally proud of her husband.
Of course, there is something else that makes her even happier.
"Husband, don't you have anything to ask me?" Shu Chang blinked, looking at Nie Wei who was changing shoes, and asked impatiently.
Nie Wei was puzzled for a moment, looking at Shu Chang's expectant eyes, suddenly thought of something, and asked quickly: "Did you have a check-up this morning?"
Shu Chang nodded shyly.
Nie Wei, who got a positive answer, suddenly felt his mouth dry and he couldn't help getting nervous.