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Chapter 1228 - 658: Good Fellow, Full Traffic Lineup (Request for Subscription)_2

Chapter 1228: Chapter 658: Good Fellow, Full Traffic Lineup (Request for Subscription)_2

Many years ago, Director Liu Hui was the epitome of major Hong Kong films. Now, returning to the scene, his new film "Hong Kong Spokesperson" features actors who were familiar faces from previous major Hong Kong movies, most of them critically acclaimed actors, with three even being award-winning best actors!

The film "Hong Kong Spokesperson," with its potential to become a blockbuster hit during the Spring Festival Period, is surely expected to be so, given its extraordinarily strong cast.

This type of strong cast isn’t like any other film; it brings together three of the four top actors from Hong Kong and a host of talented actors.

Frankly speaking, even Ding Yue was somewhat looking forward to it and would definitely go to the cinema to see "Hong Kong Spokesperson."

"Right, ’Hong Kong Spokesperson’ is currently the film that most netizens are looking forward to, and I’m pretty excited about it as well,"

Ding Yue nodded and said with a smile.

Unexpectedly, Director Su Yangfan also started laughing and said, "Yes, Principal Ding, I also want to see this ’Hong Kong Spokesperson.’"

"Let’s also talk about Master Zhang’s ’National Fortune.’"

Ding Yue looked towards Director Su Yangfan, eager to hear his thoughts on Master Zhang’s "National Fortune."

"Principal Ding, Master Zhang’s works have always had a certain viewership base, but also have a certain viewership threshold. Based on past performance, Master Zhang’s ’National Fortune’ is quite up to par, so it should at least rake in two billion yuan during the Spring Festival Period."

Director Su Yangfan analyzed seriously.

Master Zhang, a grandmaster-level director in Xia Country, hence known as Master Zhang, creates films that are generally considered "high-end." Precisely because his films maintain such quality, their box office results are, to some extent, guaranteed.

"Two billion yuan, though the pie for the Spring Festival Period is huge, around ten billion yuan, having Master Zhang taking two billion suggests that the competitive level and the difficulty of setting new film box office records is indeed significant."

Upon hearing this, Ding Yue couldn’t help but express his thoughts.

"Isn’t that the truth."

Director Su Yangfan shrugged and commented.

"Director Liu Hui’s ’Hong Kong Spokesperson’ has unlimited potential; it’s hard to say how much it will make, especially since three best actors are in it and Master Zhang’s ’National Fortune’ will also take about two billion yuan, leaving us with not much of an opportunity."

Ding Yue murmured.

"So, our ’Wandering Earth’ feels like trying to cross a single-log bridge with soldiers and horses; breaking through depends on the quality of the film."

Director Su Yangfan nodded.

"Comedy Paradise, I know that company. They once made a comedy movie during the Summer Vacation and created a box office champion legend with nearly thirty billion yuan. It looks like they are another strong competitor."

Ding Yue felt that the competition among the four movies analyzed by Director Su Yangfan this Spring Festival Period wasn’t weak at all.

The first two had already been analyzed; this comedy produced by Comedy Paradise titled "Lucky New Year" also used the same actors and crew that made their previous comedy a blockbuster, specifically made for the Spring Festival Period, and it’s very competitive!

"This is another dark horse with great potential. Comedy Paradise has really risen through focusing on making comedies in recent years."

Director Su Yangfan analyzed: "I have a feeling that Comedy Paradise’s ’Lucky New Year’ might also make a splash. Even if it can’t become a major hit, becoming a minor hit is basically effortless."

Ding Yue knew clearly; when Director Su talked about major and minor hits, in terms of box office performance, that meant over twenty-five billion yuan for major hits and over ten billion yuan for minor hits.

After years of development, domestic films had been reaching higher box office earnings.

Taking "Super Combat Team" as an example, from its period’s performance, though it had good box office returns, there were films at the same time earning over two billion yuan.

Though "Super Combat Team" held the record for animation films, it wasn’t the record for domestic films, which currently stood at over thirty-seven billion yuan!

Compared to his previous life on Earth, that number was indeed slightly lower, considering Ding Yue knew that film box office records had already exceeded fifty billion yuan.

He hoped that this small endeavor in this parallel world would achieve a commendable result.

"Ah, what about ’Demon Sealing’ produced by Penguin Film and Television?"

Ding Yue shrugged his shoulders, finally coming around to his old rival, the fantasy movie ’Demon Sealing’ under Q Entertainment Media.

When Director Su Yangfan was producing ’Wandering Earth’, the special effects studio he wanted was poached all because of ’Demon Sealing’.

Ding Yue knew that Chen Xueming of Q Entertainment Media was probably petty, not wanting his own Feiyue Media’s ’Wandering Earth’ to compete with their ’Demon Sealing’ during the same release period.

After all, he had been hammered last time!

But what Mr. Chen probably never expected was that, despite Q Entertainment Media’s meticulous efforts, they still couldn’t stop the production of ’Wandering Earth’.

’Wandering Earth’ still had a chance to be released normally during the Spring Festival Period!

"This ’Demon Sealing’ is claimed to be a six hundred million yuan epic production, with most of Q Entertainment Media’s popular male and female stars participating. Its pull is very strong, which is why ’Demon Sealing’ is considered a strong competitor for the Spring Festival Period."

Director Su Yangfan briefed Principal Ding about the situation of ’Demon Sealing’ from Penguin Film and Television.

Until now, Ding Yue had only heard about it, knowing that Q Entertainment Media primarily funded ’Demon Sealing’, which was dubbed "star-studded", and here, ’stars’ referred to not necessarily top-notch actors but a slew of traffic stars cultivated by Q Entertainment Media.

"Principal Ding, look, when you open the cast list, page after page, it’s all traffic stars!"

Director Su Yangfan had searched for the cast list of ’Demon Sealing’ on his phone and showed it to Principal Ding.

Ding Yue took a focused look, and goodness, counting on his fingers, he almost lost track - male and female traffic stars were everywhere, indeed most of the traffic stars nurtured by Q Entertainment Media had joined the battlefield.

With these traffic stars gathered in the same movie, the pull for their fans should still be very strong.

How much box office ’Demon Sealing’ could ultimately achieve would depend on the viewing power of these traffic stars’ fans, and also on how many fans truly had the pull to go to cinemas.

"Q Entertainment Media, eh, no surprise, they like to play this game. Let’s see what kind of results their full traffic star lineup in ’Demon Sealing’ can achieve."

Ding Yue chuckled and teased, "Times have changed now, especially in the film industry. Many viewers now only value quality films, not traffic-driven films."

"You’re right," Principal Ding.

Director Su Yangfan very much agreed with Principal Ding’s statement.

Put five years ago, traffic stars might still have been popular, but it’s different now. As the tastes of the wide audience have been elevated by high-quality films, watching those films or dramas starring traffic stars feels truly like a downgrade.

More and more viewers are getting this feeling, resulting in movies or TV shows featuring traffic stars coming out to nothing but marketing, more marketing, and a bunch of delusional, loyal fans hyping them to the skies.

"Let’s not talk about the Spring Festival Period anymore. Anyway, when our sci-fi movie ’Wandering Earth’ is confirmed for the Spring Festival release, we’ll see what kind of results it achieves based on the viewers’ choice, Director Su, now you talk."

Ding Yue looked sharply at Su Yangfan.

"Me?"

Su Yangfan was taken aback for a moment, unsure of what Principal Ding meant.

"Director Su, I’ve seen your professional talent. Now that you’ve directed the film studies class for Mist City Arts and Science University and have cultivated two promising college student directors for Feiyue Media, I hope you can continue to discover and nurture more talent."

Ding Yue spoke to Director Su Yangfan with high expectations.

It had indeed been a stroke of luck to have been able to recruit such a talented director.

If not for Director Su Yangfan, it would have been difficult for the film studies class at Mist City Arts and Science University to produce any talented young directors.