Chapter 379: Continue Sniping

Chapter 379: Continue Sniping

Chapter 379: Continue Sniping
During the period when "Bad Genius" was in theaters and was competing with the Taiwanese entertainment industry, an interesting incident even occurred.

It turns out that after "Bad Genius" was released overseas, the box office was not low in East Asian cultural circles such as Japan and South Korea, but in regions such as North America and Europe where there is no involutionary examination culture, the box office was not very ideal.

However, when the news broke, the film also caused a sensation in European and American circles.

Because someone reported that the STIC test in "Bad Genius" mapped the SAT test in reality, and some people also cheated in the test, and the cheating methods were exactly the same as those in the movie, except that the cheating took place not in Hong Kong, China, but in Thailand.

Movies reflect reality!

This is so dramatic.

The majority of the onlookers don’t know whether this is a coincidence or whether "Bad Genius" itself was aware of this plagiarism technique and then used it to create its own work. Anyway, this does not stop them from enjoying the show.

Some students abroad who also need to take the SAT or have already taken the SAT even went to the cinema to watch this movie because of this, wanting to understand how cheating is done.

As a result, the overseas box office performance of "Bad Genius" has seen a surge against the trend, and even the SAT exam organizing department has postponed the exam to be held in October this year.

"Bad Genius" has been making great strides in both domestic and overseas box office since then. Soon, its box office in mainland China exceeded 5 million and finally closed at 5.37 million.

As for overseas, thanks to the strong support from South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, the film’s overseas box office also reached 1.77 million US dollars.

Compared to the production cost of "Bad Genius" which was only 10 million, Galaxy Pictures can be said to have made a huge profit this time.

At the same time, this can be regarded as a small victory over the Taiwanese entertainment industry, because "Bad Genius" itself also achieved good box office results in Taiwan.

However, this is not the end yet. Wang Hao will not just hit those guys in the Taiwanese entertainment industry this time.

On June 6, the famous film actor Chen Qiang passed away in Beijing at the age of 26.

As a respected senior in the mainland entertainment industry, Mr. Chen is known for his villain roles and has starred in many classic films, such as "The Red Detachment of Women" and "The White-Haired Girl". In addition, he has also participated in the filming of many comedy films.

Therefore, his death was considered a major event in the mainland entertainment circle, especially in the Beijing circle, and many artists and celebrities from the Beijing circle came to express their condolences.

Having just finished filming "Gravity", Wang Hao and his mentor Tian Zhuang attended the memorial service and farewell ceremony for Mr. Chen.

There were many people from the circle who attended the event at that time, and those who were able to enter the auditorium were of high status. After the memorial service, Wang Hao also took the opportunity to chat with these old seniors in the entertainment industry.

It's nothing more than two things.

One is that Mr. Chen Qiang’s son Chen Peisi was banned by CCTV because of a lawsuit against CCTV over copyright issues. It has been almost ten years now.

It is indeed a pity that an excellent actor and comedian like Chen Peisi was banned due to the imperfect copyright awareness of this era.

So Wang Hao took the opportunity of Mr. Chen's death to propose a suggestion to help Chen Peisi lift the ban.

This is actually not a difficult matter. On the one hand, Mr. Chen has just passed away, and the dead are the most important. On the other hand, Mr. Chen has a certain status in the industry and is a revolutionary artist. Chen Peisi is also his son. Under such circumstances, the newly elected CCTV leaders will not make things difficult for Chen Peisi.

Moreover, many of the people who came to attend the memorial service today are good friends of Chen Peisi, or have friendships with Mr. Chen and have connections in the industry.

If everyone can help mediate, we may be able to do our part to solve this problem.

For example, Wang Hao's uncle has now been successfully promoted to the leader of the Film Channel, and the Film Channel has its own management system outside of CCTV. He can easily ask the Film Channel to invite Chen Peisi to do a show.

In addition, Galaxy Pictures can also invite Chen Peisi to make movies and participate in film and television projects, and try to help him make a comeback little by little.

Naturally, everyone present had no objection to Wang Hao's suggestion, and some even greatly appreciated Wang Hao's act of lending a helping hand.

Wang Hao naturally took the opportunity to bring up the second thing, saying that with the increase in investment in the entertainment market, the chaos in the industry is becoming more and more serious. In order to purify the industry atmosphere and ensure the healthy development and steady improvement of the industry, everyone, especially the respected old artists in the industry, still needs to contribute more.

Wang Hao certainly doesn't expect these veteran artists to be able to do anything, but they themselves have considerable influence both inside and outside the system. Sometimes getting their support on certain things might have a miraculous effect.

Anyway, it is better to be prepared. Now that the Galaxy Group has grown to its current size, it is time for it to establish its own presence.

They need to recruit and train newcomers, and they can also bring these old seniors over to become their own foundation.

After the memorial service for Mr. Chen, Wang Hao's Galaxy Pictures launched a series of overt and covert attacks on the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles.

The first is this summer’s hottest music variety show “The Voice of China Season 1”. This music variety show was registered in advance by Wang Hao around the world and its copyright had been sold overseas before, providing a lot of foreign exchange for the Galaxy Group.

Now, China's Galaxy Group and Zhejiang Satellite TV have jointly put it on television. It premiered on Zhejiang Satellite TV on July 7, which attracted the attention of many viewers, created a huge sensation, and made a lot of profits.

Unlike the previous version of "The Voice of China Season 1", this version of the music variety show created by the Galaxy Group Variety Production Company has four unchanged celebrity mentors, Liu Huan, Na Ying and Yang Kun, but Harlem Yu, who was originally from Taiwan, has been replaced by Li Jian.

Wang Hao certainly didn’t know whether there was something wrong with Harlem Yu’s stance, nor did he know whether this could be considered an accidental injury. But even if it was an accidental injury, so what? He just wanted to establish the Galaxy Group’s position in the entertainment industry through movies, TV series, and variety shows.

The Galaxy Group wants to send a signal, a concept, to the outside world, that is, the works produced by their company will be high-quality and popular, and these works will be successful even without the participation of Hong Kong and Taiwan artists.

As for whether this would push the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles to the opposite side of the Galaxy Group, why not attack some and pull others aside?
Wang Hao could only say that if he wanted to win over a group of people, he had to show off his muscles first.

Otherwise, your attempt to win over the other party will only make them think that you are weak and they will have to compromise.

After the first season of "The Voice of China" ended, in August, the Hollywood movie "The Dark Knight Rises" was released, once again setting off a craze for comic-based superhero movies.

The film "The Lost Bullet", which was released at the same time and invested by Eagle King and LeTV, directed by Luo Zhiliang, and starred by Nicholas Tse and Liu Qingyun, suffered a heavy blow and finally earned only 1.2 million yuan at the box office, 3000 million yuan less than Wang Hao's previous life. On September 09, "The Palace of the Golden Phoenix", starring Chow Yun-fat, Su Youpeng, and Yi Nengjing, was released. Two days later, "So Young", invested by Galaxy Films and directed by Li Qian, was also released.

The two films were released at the same time. Although of different genres, they still competed during the National Day holiday.

Of course, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that there was competition, because the reputation of "Taiwan independence" plummeted rapidly after its release.

Even with Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-fat as the lead actor, it was still difficult to save the film's box office decline.

In comparison, although Li Qian's "So Young" did not have any big-name stars and all the actors were new from the mainland, it still moved many people because of its delicate emotions and a story close to the reality of ordinary people.

In the end, the box office of "The Palace of Bronze Birds" in mainland China just exceeded 1 million, proving once again that the era when big Hong Kong stars like Chow Yun-fat could carry the box office is over.

"So Young" achieved a good box office of 5.77 million yuan, slightly surpassing "The Avengers" and ranking fifth in the mainland movie box office rankings.

At the same time, the popularity of "So Young" also brought the youth film genre to the public's attention, and a number of film and television production companies even launched several films of the same type.

There is no way. After all, it is too difficult to follow the trend of Wang Hao's science fiction movies, and the cost is high and the risk is too high.

In comparison, youth films like "So Young" that achieve great results with small investment are their favorites.

Just when Galaxy Pictures once again successfully targeted Hong Kong and Taiwan artists, the publicity department and the radio, film and television department finally officially held an industry discussion meeting on further opening up the domestic film and television market, and also invited people in the industry including Wang Hao and Zhang Guoshi.

At this meeting, Wang Hao also made a brief speech, introducing the current status of overseas film and television industry talents who are currently working in [Eastern Galaxy Movie Metropolis] for a long time.

Then, the top leader made a summary at the end of the meeting, saying that the film and television culture industry must have a more open and enterprising attitude in the future and must not stand still.

After the meeting, Wang Hao knew that further opening up of the domestic film and television market was a sure thing.

Of course, this kind of opening up cannot be done immediately and comprehensively. It is estimated that it will take three to four years to gradually connect with the world.

But at the end of October, the follow-up impact of this meeting was the first to benefit Wang Hao's Galaxy Group.

No, it should be their [Eastern Galaxy Cinema Metropolis] that benefited, which became the first pilot project for the opening up of China's film and television industry.

Originally, the Galaxy Cinema Industrial Park had been applying to become a tax refund zone for film and television production, but had never been able to do so. Now, with the name of a pilot project, this matter has finally been approved.

In the future, all overseas films that come to [Oriental Galaxy Cinema] for filming and production will enjoy the tax refund policy, which greatly enhances the attractiveness of [Oriental Galaxy Cinema] to overseas film and television projects.

Because of this incident, the fourth phase of the [Eastern Galaxy Film City], which had been dormant for a long time, immediately started construction. It can be expected that the area of ​​this film and television industry base will be further expanded.

Throughout October, Wang Hao was busy with the opening of the domestic film and television market, while supervising the behind-the-scenes special effects work of "Gravity".

Everything was going so smoothly until the end of November, when good news came: Wang Hao's "Inception" was shortlisted for several awards at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.

As a co-production, "Inception" was not eligible to participate in the Golden Horse Awards.

But in "Inception", apart from the leading actors, all the people from the director to the backstage are Chinese, so the Chinese element in this movie is even greater, and the Golden Horse Awards has included it in the shortlist.

Of course, Wang Hao also understood another thought of the Taiwanese entertainment industry. Since it was difficult for them to fight against Galaxy Pictures, they might as well show further goodwill to it.

Using the reputation of awards to lure talents from the mainland film and television circles is a tactic they have often used in the past.

However, Wang Hao didn't buy it and simply refused to participate in this Golden Horse Awards.

The reason he gave was also very legitimate, because the first "Starlight Awards" jointly organized by Galaxy Group, Huaying Group and Film Channel will also be awarded at the end of November.

This is a professional award specially developed by Galaxy Group for the behind-the-scenes personnel of domestic film and television production. It is also a grand event to showcase the development of domestic and foreign film and television production technology.

The first "Starry Film and Television Technology Development Expo" will be held in [Eastern Galaxy Film City]. The exhibition will have a total of 12 awards, namely:
Best Editing, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, Best Costumes, Best Makeup, Best Music, Best Sound Effects, Best Lighting, Best Props, and Best Equipment Invention.

And although these awards are currently limited to movies, they will be expanded to TV dramas in the future.

It can be said that the "Starlight Award" will focus on the behind-the-scenes field that is rarely paid attention to by domestic film and television awards, and honor those unknown behind-the-scenes workers from a professional perspective.

Of course, as a first-time film award, and one that involves behind-the-scenes work, the "Starry Film and Television Technology Development Expo" did not receive much attention.

However, Wang Hao still relied on his own influence to invite not only many domestic and foreign film directors, producers, actors and stars, but also many film and television production companies and film and television equipment manufacturers.

After all, this expo is mainly focused on showcasing the most advanced film and television production technologies and new equipment.

High-end filming and production equipment, such as those used by Galaxy Pictures in the filming and production of "Inception" and "Gravity", were displayed at the exhibition.

On the last day of the "Starry Film and Television Technology Development Expo", when the "Starlight Awards" ceremony was held on November 11, "Life of Pi" directed by Li An was released worldwide.

This film of the same name, adapted from Yann Martel's novel, had an investment of nearly 1.2 million US dollars, and Li An had high hopes for it.

However, immediately on November 11, the fifth film of Sony's Spider-Man Cinematic Universe, "The Defenders", produced by Wang Hao, was also released worldwide.

(End of this chapter)