Chapter 554: "Detective Chinatown 3" Premiere
Chapter 554: "Detective Chinatown 3" Premiere
Although because of the easter egg in the previous "The Witch", everyone has already expected that the heroine of this movie, Xiu Mei, will participate in "Detective Chinatown 3".
But when she really appeared in the trailer and poster of "Detective Chinatown 3", everyone was still surprised and excited.
But that’s not all. On December 12, the film released a special episode called “Asian Detective League”, and this time new characters appeared.
The forensic doctor Mikoto Misumi (played by Satomi Ishihara), who appeared in the popular TV series "Unnatural Death" which is one of the works in the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" series and is very popular in Japan, will also appear in "Detective Chinatown 3" to provide technical support to Qin Feng and others.
As soon as the special was released, it caused quite a stir in Japan. At the same time, the national sweetheart Satomi Ishihara also officially joined the promotion activities of "Detective Chinatown 3".
This is not the end. On December 12, "Detective Chinatown 18" released a "Happy Reunion" version of the poster; on December 3, the film released a "Happy Tokyo" special; on December 12, the film once again teamed up with "Harper's Bazaar" to release a set of "Detective Chinatown Wanted" visual blockbusters shot by photographer Yin Chao.
On December 12, the film released the "all-star" version of the trailer, and Masami Nagasawa, who previously played the female reporter Ryoko Takai in "Distortion Crisis", also appeared in the trailer.
At this point, all the well-known actors of "Detective Chinatown 3" have gathered. The two mature Japanese sisters, Masami Nagasawa and Satomi Ishihara, immediately attracted countless people's attention with their unique charm.
At the same time, the star lineup of "Detective Chinatown 3" has made everyone full of expectations for this movie. It's not just a few Japanese stars, but more importantly, so many characters from the previous "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" appeared in this movie.
what is this?
This is a huge gathering of movie characters!
"The Man from Nowhere", "Detective Chinatown 1", "Detective Chinatown 2", "The Witch", "Unnatural Death", "Distortion Crisis", "The Shallows", "Bad Genius", ...
All of these works are involved, and this collection features only female characters.
In response to this, many netizens online called "Detective Chinatown 3" a preview of "The Three-Body Problem 1" or "The Three-Body Problem 0.5", and some netizens called it "The Avengers".
Anyway, the more "Detective Chinatown 3" is promoted, the more people are looking forward to it, and just the little trailer makes people itchy.
On January 1, "Detective Chinatown 4" also officially held a "New Year's Family Dinner" press conference at the Galaxy Theater in Shangjing.
Not only the main characters such as Wang Baoqiang, Qin Feng, and Song Zu'e appeared at the meeting, but also supporting characters such as Ishihara Satomi, Nagasawa Masami, Wang Zhi, Kim Soo-hyun, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Shang Yuxian, and Chen Yao.
In addition, Wang Hao, chairman of Galaxy Group, and other senior executives of the company, as well as many well-known actors and directors in the circle, such as Tsui Hark, Zhang Yimou, Wong Jing, Cheng Long, Wu Jing, etc., also attended the press conference.
At the meeting, "Detective Chinatown 3" was officially announced to be released during the Spring Festival and will be released on January 2017, 1.
On the second day after the press conference, pre-sale of "Detective Chinatown 3" started, and the pre-sale box office exceeded 23 million yuan in 2017 hours, setting a record for the fastest pre-sale of a Chinese-language film to exceed million yuan, leading the Spring Festival box office.
In contrast to the hot pre-sale of "Detective Chinatown 3" and the high expectations of the audience, "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back", which has also started pre-sale and has also made over million yuan in pre-sale box office, has seen its reputation decline rapidly even after only some trailers were released.
Especially Wu Moufan, even though the trailer has been specially edited, you can tell from the footage alone that his acting is terrible.
Nowadays, the majority of netizens on the Internet have long been disgusted with the behavior of traffic stars participating in film production, occupying the leading role but with poor professional ability.
It’s just that netizens’ complaints are not effective. Capital will still be used as it should be, and they will not give up on traffic stars.
After all, controversy is also a form of traffic, and Wu Moufan's fans still have a certain fighting power.
Seeing that their brother's movie received bad reviews online before it was even released, they did not think that it was their brother's fault, but that someone was deliberately blackening their brother. They began to confront those who gave bad reviews online, and at the same time flooded the comment sections of major platforms, recommending passers-by to watch "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" during the Spring Festival.
Of course, this is still considered good. The more abstract fans of Wu Moufan have already started to raise funds to buy pre-sale movie tickets for "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" at the call of the fan leader.
This is not malicious speculation by netizens. It's just that when normal people buy movie tickets, they don't choose the good seats in the middle of the theater. Instead, they deliberately choose some places at the edges and corners to give up the good seats in the middle.
It's clearly a box office scam, and it's only pre-sale now. Who knows if these people are inflating the data to lure in uninformed passers-by and then refund the tickets when the movie is released?
Anyway, the public has sharp eyes. How can a traffic star like Wu Moufan, who has never studied acting or attended a formal college, make a good movie?
Isn't this also proven by some of the interview footage released for "The Monkey King 2"?
During the interview, Stephen Chow asked, "If you are not a handsome guy, why should we look for you?"
Wu Moufan clenched his fists and said with a firm look in his eyes: "It must be because of my acting skills!"
This made Stephen Chow smile knowingly, because the director knew that Wu Moufan had no acting skills.
That is to say, Wu Moufan’s fans have not admitted it and are continuing to argue online, with some even saying.
Just because you haven't studied acting or attended film school, does that mean you can't be an actor?
Anyway, with the promotion of movies like "Detective Chinatown 3" and "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back", the 2017 Spring Festival period was very lively and attracted a lot of attention.
Just when the Spring Festival period had been warmed up and the New Year holiday was approaching, the Galaxy Group was busy from top to bottom.
After all, this year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Galaxy Group, and the annual meeting must be held in a grand manner.
It's easy to arrange for the employees in the Beijing headquarters, but it's hard to decide how to arrange for the employees from other places. Should we ask them to come to Beijing? Or should we send representatives? Or should we just hold a small annual meeting in the local area?
Also, for those companies that have very close relations with the Galaxy Group and with which they frequently cooperate, should their leaders be invited to the annual meeting?
Since it is an entertainment company, what about the celebrities and famous directors that they work with? Should they also be invited?
How will the annual meeting be arranged? Where will the venue be? What programs will be prepared? Do we need to invite some celebrities to perform? If so, who will we invite? What programs will these celebrities perform?
There are quite a few similar problems. Even though the Galaxy Group is an entertainment company and has a large event planning team, it is still very busy on this matter.
In addition, the end-of-year summary of each department, year-end summary, and New Year's plan are also necessary processes.
There are also year-end benefits and bonuses for the company's employees. As China's leading entertainment group company, the Galaxy Group has many branches and the number of employees has long exceeded 10,000.
In addition, the company's welfare benefits have always been very good, and the bonuses distributed to employees this year alone are not a small amount.
Some employees who met the requirements even received housing quotas at the end of the year. After the news spread, although the houses could not be bought or sold, it still made many people working in Beijing envious. Annual meetings, holidays, benefits, bonuses, this Spring Festival, the employees of Galaxy Group were completely happy, and everyone had a smile from the heart.
The Galaxy Group's 10th anniversary party was also held extremely smoothly without any unexpected problems.
During the period, not only a large number of their company's employees attended, but also many invited guests, including many celebrity artists, behind-the-scenes practitioners in the film industry, teachers from film and television schools, as well as a small number of local and industry leaders.
Even the Galaxy Group's annual meeting was live-streamed on TikTok to support TikTok's live-streaming function which was recently launched.
In this regard, many netizens said that the annual meeting of Galaxy Group was more lively and interesting than the Spring Festival Gala.
And the key point is that when their company holds a lottery on site, the rewards are really eye-catching.
Not to mention the red envelopes of three or five hundred yuan, the new OPPO mobile phones and DJI drones are really enviable.
Not to mention the final grand prize, there are three houses there. With the current housing prices in Beijing, it is enough to cause a lot of sour remarks to appear in the live broadcast barrage.
It's a show, it's fake, there's a shady deal going on, and so on.
But when a cafeteria chef from [Oriental Galaxy Cinema] won the special prize and went on stage to receive the award, all the voices of doubt turned into praise for Star Group and Wang Hao.
In particular, when facing the host's question, the winning chef brother held the award certificate and answered excitedly:
"With this house, I will bring my son and mother here. They have been living in the countryside, and my wife and I came here to work, so the children have become left-behind children.
Now that I have this apartment, I can bring my child and mother to live here. There is a school in the company community, and it is definitely better for him to go to school there than to stay in his hometown."
"Really?!"
"I admit I'm jealous."
"I also want to bring my child to Beijing, but I don't have a house!"
"Is it too late to enter the Galaxy Group now?"
"What a blessing!"
……
Similar voices appeared repeatedly in the barrage during the live broadcast, and by the next day, related hot search terms quickly appeared on the Internet platform.
#Galaxy Group Annual Meeting Free Room#
#In Xinghe, chefs can also settle down in Beijing#
#How to join Galaxy Group#
Similar hot search terms and related people have caused a huge response on the Internet.
As I said before, the winter of film and television is coming.
The main reason for the coming cold winter of the film and television industry is that the real estate economy across the country is facing certain problems.
Since problems have arisen in real estate brokerage, other industries certainly cannot remain immune.
House prices are rising rapidly, commodity prices are climbing, rents are changing every year, but wages have not increased for many years.
After drifting in Beijing for many years, he ended up with nothing, not even a home of his own.
At this time, seeing that a chef of the Galaxy Group won a house in the annual meeting lottery and was able to bring his children to Beijing to study, how could the majority of working people not be envious and jealous.
Moreover, taking advantage of this wave of popularity, the chef who won the special prize opened an account on Douyin, responded to some controversies online, uploaded a video of himself cooking in the cafeteria of [Oriental Galaxy Movie Metropolis], and even started a live broadcast during his break.
These actions caused his number of fans on TikTok to soar rapidly, and everyone was still very interested in the central cafeteria of [Oriental Galaxy Movie City].
Especially nowadays, food safety has become a more serious problem. Seeing that the kitchen of Galaxy Cinema is so clean, the employees operate in a standardized manner, the food is delicious, and the price is very affordable, it has caused a series of praise and envy.
Such a conscientious performance naturally makes everyone more favorable towards the upcoming "Detective Chinatown 3".
Time passed in a lively atmosphere and it came to New Year's Eve on January 1th.
Most of the employees of Galaxy Group have gone home for holiday, but many still stick to their posts because Galaxy Pictures' "Detective Chinatown 3" will have its premiere on New Year's Eve.
Other films that held their premieres at the same time included "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" and "Kung Fu Yoga". The fact that these three films chose to hold their premieres in Shangjing at the same time made this last day particularly lively.
Among them, the premiere of "Detective Chinatown 3" by Galaxy Group was naturally the most lively and the most grand. Many celebrities came, and the red carpet was star-studded, which made many idle people around there exclaim in excitement.
Wang Hao was naturally among the stars present, and he also arrived at the premiere venue - Galaxy Theater - with his wife.
The appearance of the two, of course, caused a heated response at the scene. Some stars who came to attend the premiere took the initiative to come forward to greet them, and many people were proud to be able to talk to Wang Hao.
After this enthusiastic social event ended, the premiere of "Detective Chinatown 3" officially began.
It still followed the established process, with the main creative team taking turns to speak on stage, talking about the difficulties faced in the creation and filming of this film, and interacting with the audience to liven up the atmosphere.
After this interactive process lasted for more than 3 minutes, everyone's emotions and enthusiasm for watching the movie were aroused. The lights in the screening room of the Grand Theater were turned off, rapid drum beats and soundtracks sounded, and projection lights flashed on the huge screen. The movie "Detective Chinatown " officially began.
At the very beginning of the movie, it gave countless viewers who watched the premiere a surprise, because the movie actually adopted a very bold one-shot mode at the beginning.
(End of this chapter)