Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 250 Another explosion!

The negative reviews of "In Time" mainly focus on two aspects.

First, it was not in line with the expected big special effects scenes. Li Qiutang made it into an adventure action film like "Mission Impossible". However, this part of the audience can understand the difficulties of the crew. Li Qiutang only had 1 million yuan, which was not enough to make big special effects. However, Li Qiutang relied on this 5 million yuan to bring the audience robot (dog) wars and drone wars, which were scenes that had never appeared in previous movies and satisfied the curiosity of the audience. Other classic elements of action movies, such as flying cars, helicopters, and jumping from buildings, were also retained and carried forward, and the audience's desire to see big scenes was satisfied.

The second aspect is that the theme of In Time has been criticized by many netizens. It is the 10s, and public intellectuals and the "leaders" are rampant. Do you think they don't understand? They understand better than anyone what In Time is satirizing and what it is fighting against.

Many young intellectuals criticized "In Time" as "a superficial movie."

Some even said that Li Qiutang "sucked the carbuncle for those in power" and "lost the social responsibility of a filmmaker."

Even some media criticized Li Qiutang through various channels.

Does criticism of "In Time" only exist in the media and among certain audience groups?
No, some experts and professors in the film industry also don’t like In Time. One professor openly said, “Such a big hit of a movie will make filmmakers become impetuous.”

These critical voices did not have any negative impact on the box office of "In Time".

But it brought bad consequences to them personally.

Li Qiutang was going to invite Mr. Hu, who used to work in the propaganda department, to dinner that day. In addition to introducing a domestic fireworks team to her, Mr. Hu also helped the crew a lot with publicity.

But Mr. Hu changed his mind at the last minute, saying that he was very busy at work after the New Year and that he was currently on a business trip.

Li Qiutang didn't ask about his work, but he took the initiative to say: "This is all thanks to you. You gave me the results."

Li Qiutang was confused for a moment, and Mr. Hu said, "Your film is taken very seriously. We cannot control the criticism of the content of the film, but we must take seriously the criticism of your theme by some media and scholars."

Simply put, you can say that the story of "In Time" is not good, but you cannot say that there is a problem with its theme and expression of ideas.

As I said before, the theme and ideas of "In Time" are iron-clad and correct in China and cannot be questioned.

Mr. Hu said that if he could achieve some results during this business trip and make some efforts, he should be able to make further progress.

Li Qiutang was naturally happy for his friend as he had hope of making progress.

The copyright of "In Time" to other countries and regions in Asia has been sold for a good price of tens of millions of dollars.

But in Japan and South Korea, "In Time" was criticized before it was released, and some government officials even said that the film should not be introduced.

The creators’ plan to go to Japan and South Korea to promote the film has been shelved, and local distributors are still working hard to coordinate and secure a release.

After the Lantern Festival, the large-scale promotion of "In Time" was suspended.

This period of time was indeed very tiring. Liu Yifei would not meet Li Qiutang when she came back from other places, and would just go to sleep when she got home.

But Li Qiutang still has to continue working.

When "In Time" reached the 6 million mark, Autumn Pictures put forward more stringent conditions to Media Asia.

If Media Asia wants to invest in Li Qiutang's movie, it must undertake 80% of the production costs, otherwise there is no deal.

This is robbery, but now there are at least 20 companies and investors outside, craning their necks and waiting for Li Qiutang to chop them down.

Although the risk of 80% is high, the returns are also great. Li Qiutang's ability to make money is now obvious to all.

Media Asia is very conflicted. It wants to take a gamble, but it doesn’t dare to.

After considering for a few days, Media Asia finally gave up the cooperation negotiations with Qiu.

Nine out of ten projects fail, which is normal for commercial investment.

The negotiations for the A round of financing had to be modified due to the huge success of "In Time".

Just as the A-round investors reached a new preliminary agreement, another drama produced by Autumn Pictures became a hit. Mango TV's opening drama "Palace" exploded in ratings and made Yang Mi a huge hit!

But I didn’t expect that the follow-up to “Palace”, “Temptation to Go Home”, would be even more popular!
The highest urban ratings reached 5.2%, and the audience share was as high as 26.7%. Mango TV hasn’t seen such data in many years!

Now that I think about it, the sky-high price of 130 million per episode was totally worth it! It was not expensive at all!

With the huge success of "The Temptation to Go Home", Autumn Pictures also made a name for itself in the drama circle.

This TV series is guaranteed to bring 100 million net profits to Qiu Tian. Yes, net profits! And Mango TV will only make more than Qiu Tian, not less.

The three male and female protagonists of "The Temptation to Go Home" also became famous.

Apart from anything else, Qin Lan, who plays Ellie, has seen her commercial performance fee increase fivefold and endorsement fee increase tenfold since the beginning of the year.

How much money do stars make from filming? Here's where the bulk of their income comes from.

Qin Lan realized only then that Li Qiutang might have foreseen that this extremely melodramatic drama would become a hit, and that he had given her the role as a disguised way of giving her money.

The movie "Nanjing! Nanjing!" made her lose everything except her house.

After the huge success of "Temptation to Go Home", although the bills were not settled, the visible profits were already very considerable.

The bosses who had previously invested in "The Temptation to Go Home" decided to invest in the autumn project without saying a word.

Especially those coal bosses, other companies treat them as guise, they project film and television projects, but lose more than they earn.

Now that you have made a ton of money from Autumn Pictures, why don’t you hurry up and curry favor with them?

But Qiu was not overly aggressive and did not take money as soon as he saw it. He said that the company's projects are progressing steadily now, and they are still discussing the A round, so they will not rashly take money to start a project.

However, Lantern Entertainment needed more money, and Li Qiutang wanted to take advantage of the momentum after the New Year to raise money for his American company.

This time, these bosses have given their words, and at least it can be seen that they have investment ideas.

In the past, Li Qiutang was a young man who tried to trick them into investing in the United States. Of course, they did not fall for it. But now that they have seen Li Qiutang's abilities, they may try to invest in his American company.

After the last weekend of February and into March, the official Weibo account of "In Time" announced that the film's total box office had reached 2 million yuan, and expressed gratitude to friends from all walks of life who supported "In Time". At the same time, it announced that "In Time" had obtained an extension key and would be released until April 3, when the Qingming Festival holiday ends.

That day, Li Qiutang and Huang Xiaoming went to the filming location of "The Ordinary Man" in Shanxi Province.

If he wants to help Huang Xiaoming save the situation, he needs to have a comprehensive understanding of the situation of the "Pifu" crew.

"Ordinary Man" was filmed in a rural village under the jurisdiction of Yunzhong, Shanxi Province. The rural area of Yunzhong was still very bleak in early spring. According to Huang Xiaoming, they lived in this village when filming. The conditions were not as good as those in the city, but everyone could overcome it.

"It can also bring income to the villagers." Dozens of crew members eat and live in the village, so the villagers can indeed increase their income.

I spent two days in the village, and the scenery was fine, except that the weather was not very good.

"We have to wait another two months. I haven't finished sorting out the materials, and the weather here is not suitable for filming."

Now all Huang Xiaoming’s hopes are placed on Li Qiutang, and he can afford to wait for two months.

"Just stabilize the crew first and make sure there is no chaos."

Many of Li Qiutang’s old teammates were unable to lead the team when they entered the scene temporarily, so they could only rely on Huang Xiaoming to stabilize the situation.

Huang Xiaoming agreed to all of Li Qiutang's requests.

(End of this chapter)