Chapter 711 Starway Entertainment's last resort

   "Master Gao."

  Starway Entertainment.

  Compared with Mubai Entertainment’s beaming, Starway Entertainment is sad.

  As the biggest investor in "Heroes of Fire", this time it suffered heavy losses.

  They invested hundreds of millions of dollars in this movie, but the box office of the movie was only 300 million when it was full.

  As the producer and distributor of the movie, they can get about 40% of the box office, which is about 120 million.

  It doesn’t seem to be a loss, but the publicity expenses of their company are not included in this, which is a large sum.

  The previous more than 100 million funds were film production funds, that is, film actors’ remuneration and crew expenses

For this movie, Starway Entertainment had a huge publicity on the eve of its release, and spent more money. Later, the reputation of the premiere was not good. Starway spent a great price to guide and cover up public opinion that was unfavorable to the film, and also spent a lot of money. .

  One after another, I lost tens of millions and went in!

  Many entertainment companies make a profit of tens of millions throughout the year. Starway Entertainment has lost tens of millions of net profits this time.

  All the funds earned in the Spring Festival stalls have been lost, and it may not be enough!

  This time the defeat of "Heroes of Fire", the board of directors is also mourning.

  When this movie was first invested, everyone was very optimistic.

  Who knows, I fell into the pit like this.

  When they knew that Chen Mubai had new movies, they worried that he might target them and choose to release them at the same time, which would have an impact on the box office of their movies.

  Now, Chen Mubai's reputation is booming, and he still has many loyal fans.

  After Chen Mubai announced the movie's release date, they were very happy and lost a major enemy.

   And because he chose to go head-to-head with the sci-fi blockbuster "Monsters 2", they also laughed at him for not knowing the sky and earth, hoping to see him fall into a big somersault.

  As a result, who would think, "Infernal Affairs" not only sold at the box office, but also defeated such a powerful opponent as "Monsters 2"!

   even broke into the tenth place in the movie rankings!

  And their Starway Entertainment's movies, on the contrary, because of their bad reputation, they painted early and suffered heavy losses.

  How happy you were when you laughed, how miserable it is now!

  They can’t blame Gao Jin for the decision-making. After all, everyone will build momentum for the film during the promotion, and expand the influence of the promotion as much as possible. This behavior is correct, but they ignore the influence of the success of "Infernal Affairs".

   "Apologize." Gao Jin's voice was full of exhaustion.

  These days, it was a nightmare for him, and he never had a good night's sleep.

  Every day I can see the news of "Infernal Affairs" in my dreams, and then I am awakened.

  Chen Mubai has become a nightmare for him. Every time he fights against him, he can't make a profit, and every time he loses.

  Since he took over Zhang Yaohui's position as general manager, every time he wanted to do something ambitious, he would always be influenced by Chen Mubai and fail. Chen Mubai has become his nightmare.

  Have no choice but to make him unable to disperse.

"it is good."

  Apologizing means that they have officially surrendered. They apologized to the majority of netizens with the WeChat account of "Heroes of Fire", admitted the garbage from the filming, and admitted all the facts they said.

  This is really a double blow, both psychologically and physically.

   Even if you didn’t make money, you still had to sprinkle salt on the wound. General Manager Gao felt very uncomfortable.

  There is no way without an apology. After all, the movie has already been drawn, the box office is doomed, and failure is a foregone conclusion.

  If you apologize now, you might save some passersby and make others feel that they are still ashamed. At least the work you will shoot in the future may be able to make people pay for it.

  Blindly carrying it to death will only make people lose their confidence in Starway Entertainment, and it will also make people in the industry dare not accept their film and television production needs.

  After all, taking bad movies will greatly affect the star’s personal reputation and reputation. The impact is too great, and it will even affect their worth!

  This apology is not only for netizens, but also for film and television personnel.

   Even if I fail this time, I can only work hard again next time. At least this attitude should be shown for everyone to see.

  After apologizing, I’m afraid that those who scolded Huan will not continue to scold again, and it is enough.

  But the fate of this movie being a joke and being ridiculed is inevitable.

  "Publish as I want"

  Gao Jin slowly let out a sigh of relief, as if he vomited all the heavy heart, and returned to the elite state at work.

  No mediocre person can achieve this position. The reason why Gao Jin was able to replace Zhang Yaohui to take over Starway Entertainment relied on his excellent work ability before.

  His top position is the result of a large number of shareholders' votes. If he is mediocre, he will not be the general manager.

  Actually, judging from many of his current decisions, there is no problem. It is only Chen Mubai who has repeatedly disrupted the situation to make him fail.

  It's not that his abilities are not good, but that Chen Mubai is too good!

  Four movies got 8 billion box office, an average of 2 billion movies, let alone China, even in the history of world movies, there is no such awesome person!

  Gao Jin knew that Chen Mubai was great, and even chose to avoid him, but he couldn't stand Chen Mubai's initiative to find the fault. What could he do?

  This time, "Infernal Affairs" succeeded, and they failed again.

  Since you become an opponent, you don’t need to show mercy.

  Gao Jin has thought of a new way to deal with Chen Mubai, anyway, it is good to have a little impact on Chen Mubai.

  "Is this all right." The vice president hesitated.

  "Do you have a better way?" Gao Jin asked rhetorically.

  "Um"

  The vice president suddenly became speechless, and it really seemed that there was no other way.

   "Then try it." The vice president thought to himself.

   Soon, an apology statement from Starway Entertainment was released.

   "I'm sorry to take up everyone's time. I made a movie of not good quality. We have seen everyone's comments. We will definitely correct it next time and try our best to make a movie that everyone likes."

"The movies we shoot are all from the perspective of the public. If we want to make easy-to-understand works, what is a movie? Movies are the culture of entertaining the public, and it is also a way of pastime, so it can be understood and appreciated by everyone. A movie is a good movie. It is based on this that the middle scale may not be well grasped, and the quality of the movie has problems."

  "The failure this time makes us reflect on ourselves, and we will definitely improve next time. Everyone compares us with "Infernal Affairs". We are indeed inferior to each other. It is a very good movie!"

"But this type of excellent film has one thing in common, that is, it requires the audience to spend a lot of time and energy to dig out the truth and information. This kind of film is more literary and has a specific audience. Director Chen Mubai is very suitable for directors. This type of film, and we still produce mainly commercial films. This is also the mainstream of the current film market. These are two styles. We will try our best to tell a story. After all, there is only one excellent director, such as Chen Mubai. We strive to be able to Take pictures that please everyone!"

  As soon as Starway Entertainment’s apology statement came out, it quickly became a hot search.

  After all, few filmmakers will apologize generously, which shows that they have admitted the fact that they are not good.

  On the other hand, this statement fully described the excellence of "Infernal Affairs" and affirmed Chen Mubai's ability.

  You know, Starway and Chen Mubai are rivals!

Starway Entertainment was really not at ease. They lowered their stance first, complimented Chen Mubai, and bluntly said that his movies are very good, but unfortunately they need to use their brains to watch them, and they are not suitable for all audiences. Only those who like to watch this genre or who are partial to art like to watch this Kind of movies.

  Throughout the movies such as "Buried Alive" and "Crazy Stone", they are actually not the kind of movies that the public will like. You need to concentrate on watching them, or you won't understand them.

  On the contrary, young people like it. Middle-aged people don’t necessarily understand or like it.

  Many people just want to relax when watching movies, but watching Chen Mubai’s movies does not have this effect.

  Even "Crazy Stone", because of its regional culture (dialect), many people don't like it.

  Middle-aged and young people, in fact, do not quite understand Chen Mubai's movies. His audience is more young people and a few middle-aged people.

  Starway Entertainment means that when they make commercial films, what they want is for everyone to understand, and they don’t know how to engage in literature and art. What they want is for everyone to watch movies easily and happily.

   Although I praised Chen Mubai, I also specifically said that good movies are popular and easy to understand.

  Chen Mubai’s movies have a good box office and high ratings, but the public seems to be too tired, not mainstream. His success depends on his own ability, not all the credit of the movie.

  In fact, this is not wrong. If "Infernal Affairs" is produced by another company, I am afraid that the box office results are not so high, including "Buried Alive" movies, the same is true.

  Many times, everyone watched this movie because of Chen Mubai, and the reputation was good, the quality was high, and it attracted a lot of people to watch it.

  If you change to someone else, I am afraid that the initial impact will not be so great, so even if the reputation and quality remain unchanged, it may not be able to get such a high box office.

  The box office will definitely be high, but it will not be so high. Starway has secretly changed the concept here, as if the movie will fail if it is replaced by someone else.

  Most of the films are commercial films. They are like other entertainment companies in this type of film.

  Commercial movies have a box office, but it is difficult to get a box office for a literary film.

  The movies on the movie box office rankings are not literary and artistic films. This also illustrates the truth that only what the public likes can make money, and literary and artistic films are just a niche carnival.

  Chen Mubai can get such a high box office for making a more literary film, only himself, and no one else.

  Facts are proof. Chen Mubai’s high box office is based on his wide influence, high ratings in literature and art, and good reputation. If it is a pure commercial film, he may not be good.

  After all, commercial films and literary films are two styles. In the meaning of Starway, Chen Mubai cannot make commercial films that are easy to understand.

  He can only shoot elegant works, but not vulgar ones.

  This statement is to criticize Chen Mubai, saying that he can only rely on this type of film to get the box office and cannot make an orthodox commercial film.

  Starway Entertainment also has no choice. Chen Mubai is too good in all aspects, and the quality of the movie cannot be degraded. He can only pick the bones in the egg and find the "flaws".

  This is also the only weakness they can find to launch an attack.

  However, this meaning is definitely not visible in the eyes of the public. What everyone sees is that Starway apologizes and admits that it is inferior to Chen Mubai.

   Soon, it caused a group of people to leave messages under this apology statement.

   "Starway Entertainment's attitude is still quite correct, and I hope to change it next time."

   “Indeed, I just want to relax and be happy when I watch a movie. Watching Chen Mubai’s movies is very tired. I don’t like watching it. I never watched one after I watched it.”

   "It makes sense. Chen Mubai needs to concentrate on every movie, otherwise it is really easy to not understand~"

  “Chen Mubai seems to have never made any easy-to-understand movies. This kind of commercial movie is the mainstream, and the public can watch it...”

   "I took my father to watch "Crazy Stone" before, and he went to bed as soon as he went in, saying that he couldn't understand them, he didn't understand words, and he didn't read the subtitles..."

   "I hope that Chen Mubai can make a movie that everyone can watch. Don't make every movie so sophisticated. For simple-minded people like us, the movie-watching experience is not good."

  This is the strategy of Starway Entertainment. It wants to force Chen Mubai to challenge commercial films, because commercial films and literary films are still different, and it is difficult to grasp the balance.

  If Chen Mubai challenges a commercial film, he is likely to get a high box office but the film’s rating is not high, then his reputation for boutiques is gone, and it will still have a certain impact on his reputation.

  If you do not shoot, you will expose your shortcomings. After all, netizens have expressed similar meanings.

  (End of this chapter)