Chapter 346 Top Three
This year's Sina ceremony can be said to be the most headache-inducing for Sina's top management.

Because the netizens' selection was cancelled this year, many special major events occurred.

Therefore, it is even more difficult to balance awards in the entertainment industry.

Chief Operating Officer Du Hong faces two challenges.

First, we must take the overall situation into consideration. What is the overall situation?

"Mei Lanfang" is not only an Oscar-winning film, but also the official most important film of the year.

So there must be an award, and it can’t be a small one.

But the box office was so little, and the word of mouth was not as good as "The Bow" and "The Sound of Wind", two other films with special themes.

If the grand prize had been given to "Mei Lanfang", not only would Rongchen Pictures have objections, I'm afraid even thousands of Sina netizens would not agree.

Secondly, we want to host the event with a glittering cast of stars and receive congratulations from all sides.

Then we must give full play to the Madonna spirit of universal love.

But the most eye-catching in the entertainment industry this year is undoubtedly Rongchen Pictures.

Just talking about the box office, the three films of Rongchen Pictures, "The Bow", "The Message", and "Love Is Not Blind", will most likely be the top three in this year's box office list.

In 08, a special moment of the global financial crisis, the contribution to Chinese films is self-evident.

And the most important point is that Du Hong knows that Mr. Cao and Director Li have a close relationship, and she would never let her own people suffer.

Du Hong gave the finalized list to Cao Guowei.

Unexpectedly, Cao Guowei had no objection and said that he would come to invite Li Chen personally.

Cao Guowei quickly dialed Li Chen's number.

"Chinese film promoters? Me and Gongli? Are you kidding me?"

"What? Do you have any objections?" Cao Guowei said with a smile.

"Of course I have an opinion. Why not give it to Gongli instead of Zhang Manyu? Lao Cao, can you Sina keep up with the times?"

"He has become a Singaporean citizen, so other awards are fine, but as a promoter of Chinese films, he should at least be a Chinese citizen."

"Among female celebrities, Zhang Manyu donated the most to Wenchuan, four times more than Gong Li."

"Europe's three major film actresses, whose global influence is not as good as Gong Li's?"

“This year’s Pietà and The Sound of Wind set new records one after another.”

"The most important thing is that they have always been Chinese."

"If you guys keep doing whatever you want, I won't support you."

Cao Guowei made Li Chen unable to utter a word after hearing his rapid-fire barrage of words.

He didn't expect Li Chen to change his attitude faster than turning the pages of a book. He originally thought it was no big deal.

Because Li Chen didn't care about these things, he didn't expect this result.

If Li Chen didn't come, Sina's ceremony would most likely be the target of public criticism.

Actress of the Year: Zhou Xun.

Popular singer of the year: Liu Yifei.

Popular film of the year: "Draw the Bow"

These awards are more or less related to Li Chen, which really stumped General Cao, Guo and Wei.

Cao Guowei had no choice but to call Du Hong after hanging up the phone.

"Replace Gongli with Zhang Manyu!" Cao Guowei ordered with a sullen face.

Du Hong understood everything in an instant: "I understand, Mr. Cao."

This little thing is nothing to Cao Guowei.

Li Chen is his most solid partner.

Providing financial support for his subsequent MBO is a prerequisite for him to become the true helmsman of Sina.

He also pointed out the direction for the future of blogging, and we can be considered as like-minded partners.

"Love Is Not Blind" is full of momentum.

Second Friday box office: $2550 million

Saturday: 3350 million

Sunday: 3150 million

The box office for the first four days was 1.12 million yuan.

"Mei Lanfang" will be released at 6pm on Thursday, a week earlier than "Love Is Not Blind".

The box office in the first week was 4350 million.

This week, it was hit hard by the dark horse "Love Is Not Blind".

The current total box office is 8925 million, and the daily box office has dropped to around 300 million.

Another film, "Women Don't Die," only grossed 535 million in its first week.

Several other films scheduled to be released in November had to be withdrawn from theaters one after another.

Bald Xu's "Hong Kong Journey" finally took in 2.5 million yuan at the box office amidst a chorus of negative reviews, securing his position as a big director.

China Film Group, Yinghuang Film Group, and Guangxian Film Group held a celebration banquet for Bald Xu.

But Han Sanping did not show up.

The total box office of "Twilight" is 5800 million.

But the global box office has exceeded 3 million US dollars, and a number of domestic filmmakers are puzzled.

As for "Love in the Blossom Field" and "Love Call 2", one has less than 2000 million and the other has just exceeded 2000 million.

The chain reaction this triggered was that all major cinema chains continued to increase the screening schedule of "Love Is Not Blind", which inevitably led to a reduction in the number of screenings of "Mei Lanfang".

But Director Chen's bad luck did not end there. The sudden outbreak of the Zhang Guanli Dai incident dealt a fatal blow to "Mei".

My brother’s fans launched a boycott against “Mei”.

This sudden change made Chen Hong wonder if Li Chen was behind it.

But on second thought, the box office of "Love Is Not Blind" is so strong that there is no need to use these tricks.

If Li Chen really wanted to do something bad behind her back, he wouldn't have had to remind her at the premiere of "Plum" that day.

Some are happy and some are sad.

The world premiere celebration of If You Are the One was held at Hangzhou Grand Theater.

Although it was called a "global ceremony", in fact only some of Huayi's own stars attended.

What’s interesting is that the entire evening party didn’t look like a premiere celebration at all, but more like a celebration party after the premiere. The problem is that the movie will not be released until the 17th.

Feng Xiaogang can not only direct, but also act.

On that day, he apologized to the audience for having too many advertisements, and at the same time admitted that he was also being bullied by both sides because of the advertisements.

It is reported that the advertising placement in the entire "If You Are the One" has reached 2000 million yuan.

In other words, half of the investment in this film had been recovered before it was released, so it was not excessive for him to hold a "celebration party" in Hangzhou.

The online reviews for If You Are the One are very similar to the grand occasion before the release of Hong Kong Journey.

"Ip Man 2" and "Red Cliff" have also begun to be promoted vigorously.

Wu Jing's "Wolf Tooth" is not as wealthy and powerful as these two blockbusters, and there is basically no news about "Wolf Tooth" on the Internet.

It seems to have become a common practice for action stars to turn into directors.

But currently only Big Brother Long has succeeded.

Li Lianjie also tried to become a director, but he only directed one play that year before giving up.

Although True Bullet has been released frequently in the past two years, unfortunately the mainland box office is not buying it.

When Flashpoint accepted the award at the Academy Awards, he said that he had found his own path, but that was just his own talk.

Wu Jing called Li Chen early, hoping that Li Chen could attend the premiere of his "Wolf Fang".

The release dates of the Lunar New Year blockbusters have been changing back and forth, and Wu Jing is almost questioning his life because of all the changes made by these big directors.

In order to survive in the cracks, he finally chose to release the film before Christmas.

Li Chen had a lot of things to do at the end of the year and he didn't have time to attend many award ceremonies. He asked Yu Miao to accept all the awards for "Mr. Fashion" and "Person of the Year" on his behalf.

Of course it was impossible for him to go to the premiere of "Wolf Fang".

Go there and pour a bucket of cold water on Wu Jing?
Wu Jing was worried and anxious. He both hoped that Li Chen would come and was afraid that Li Chen would come. In the end, everyone was happy when Yu Miao came.

At the premiere of If You Are the One in Beijing, Yu Miao came back and complained to Li Chen. Perhaps she didn't know how to appreciate it and didn't find it that funny.

No matter whether Yu Miao's words were in line with his wishes or were sincere, Li Chen couldn't just do nothing.

"Since it's not good, are those film critics employed by the company dumb?"

Yu Miao understood what he meant. At first she was afraid that her leader would have reservations, but now that she had the imperial sword, she naturally felt at ease.

So on the first day of the release of If You Are the One, amidst the rave reviews, some discordant voices suddenly popped up.

Southern Weekly reported
"Is If You Are the One sincere? Audiences who have watched the movie Marriage Advertisement will inevitably feel that the first half is familiar.

"Congratulations, you got the answer right. The director of that film, Chen Guofu, is the producer and storyteller of this film."

"The worst part was that I was having all sorts of distracting thoughts while watching the film, and I was competing with my colleagues to see who could see more commercials in it."

"I will count the advertisements for Mr. Feng for free."

Shancheng Evening News
"Director Feng and Mr. Ge have always had a correct attitude towards the people, and have developed an indestructible body during their 12-year journey in making Chinese New Year films.

The model of "Feng Ge combination + beautiful women + comedy sketches" is not difficult to win the audience's laughter and box office, so even if it was hastily released, "If You Are the One" can already be regarded as a high-quality work."

“Of course, no surprises”

Famous Film Critic Blog

"If You Are the One is terrible, Feng Xiaogang is very lucky!"

“Why do you say it’s bad?”

“1. The subject matter is terrible: plagiarizing others’ ideas”

“2. The script is terrible: the plot is mediocre”

“3. Advertising blockbusters: Anyone who sees it will know.”

"It's claimed to be a 5000 million yuan investment, but this kind of movie would cost at most 4000 million yuan. And the advertising revenue alone is as high as 2500 million yuan."

"It's not unfair to say that this is a big advertising film. Although Director Feng apologized publicly before the film was released, this was all a publicity and public relations tactic and had nothing to do with the sincerity of the film itself."

These negative reviews appeared on the first day of the release, which made Wang Zhonglei seriously suspect that someone was behind it.

But he couldn't be sure whether it was Li Chen who did it.

After all, Huayi has few friends but many enemies.

Bona, Guangxian, and Orange Sky are all potential competitors.

But when Yang Siwei saw it, he knew what was going on.

It seems that his boss took action.

Yang Siwei was very happy and praised his boss for his righteousness.

The first day box office of "If You Are the One" has just been released: 1650 million.

Although it is much better than "Assembly", it also surpasses "Mei Lanfang"!
It actually lost to "Love Is Not Blind", but it broke Feng Xiaogang's personal record.

Wang Zhonglei didn't know whether to be happy or unhappy.

But everyone at Rongchen Pictures must be happy because the top three box office hits this year will be taken by them.

(End of this chapter)