Chapter 331: Lunar New Year holiday ends, Mars tourism boom

Feng Kuzi and Wu Kebo kept cursing each other from 2008 to 2009.

However, even a shrew's scolding will eventually stop, and it is impossible for the two of them to keep scolding.

Shortly after New Year's Day, Han Shanping, who was filming "The Founding of a Republic", couldn't stand it anymore and saw the two of them continuing to curse at each other.

Both of them have high status in the circle, and Feng Kuzi is very popular in the outside world.

It does no good for anyone for the two of them to expose each other's secrets. Instead, it is a discredit to the entire circle.

So Han Shanping decisively greeted the two of them separately and asked them to stop their shrewish behavior.

Although neither of them is a small figure, they have to give face to Han Shanping.

After all, not everyone can be as awesome as Golden Harvest and not rely on China Film.

But even Golden Harvest sometimes needs to cooperate with China Film.

Huayi and Wu Kebo's Chengtian, who are behind Feng Kuazi, are in even worse situation. Whether it is the screening of movies or the smoothing of some relationships, they need to rely on China Film.

What's more, Feng Kuazi was able to get successful thanks to Han Shanping's push.

So Han Shanping spoke, and both of them stopped attacking each other.

In fact, they had been cursing at each other for nearly half a month, and there was nothing more to curse at each other, so they just went with the flow and announced their departure.

The crowd who had been watching were a little surprised at first when they saw that both of them stopped. Some people tried to stir up trouble, but when they saw that neither of them reacted,

Everyone also understood that this war of words should be over, which made them feel a little regretful.

We have been eating melons for such a long time, and although we feel a little unsatisfied, we are also satisfied.

The two of them stopped talking, but the onlookers became active, discussing their verbal fight online, as well as the various shocking revelations that the two revealed during the fight.

In fact, when it comes down to it, Feng Pants lost.

Although he did not lose in the verbal battle with Wu Kebo, Feng Kuzi is a popular director after all, and this verbal battle has actually caused considerable damage to his image and reputation.

On the other hand, Wu Kebo is not a public figure, but just a company owner. Even if his reputation has been greatly damaged, it will not have much impact on his company operations.

But it is undeniable that the verbal battle between the two did play a role in hype, greatly increasing the popularity of "If You Are the One" and "Battle of Guandu".

As of January 2.4, the box office of both movies exceeded million yuan, with If You Are the One taking million yuan. If the extension key had not been obtained, it would have been a bit difficult to break million yuan.

As for "The Battle of Guandu", it is certain that it will not be able to reach a box office of 300 million yuan, which feels like a failure to Wu Kebo and Wu Baige.

The biggest beneficiary of this war of words is undoubtedly Sina Weibo.

Not to mention the newly added users, Sina Weibo also got a good chance to show off because of this incident, and the publicity effect was maximized.

Up to now, tens of thousands of new users register every day.

At this point, the Weibo war can be said to have officially settled. Sina Weibo has produced a siphon effect, and the activity levels of Penguin, NetEase, and Sohu's Weibo have become increasingly lower.

In fact, this was a matter of time, but because the two of them were scolding each other on Sina Weibo, the time was brought forward.

Now, under Liu Zhou's instructions, Cao Guowei is also trying to invite official departments to open Weibo accounts.

At this time, the other two Lunar New Year films, "Mei Lanfang" and "Ip Man", have also been taken off the screen.

"Mei Lanfang" finally won a box office of 1.26 million yuan, which is a good result. To a certain extent, it also restored some reputation for poet Chen.

The performance of "Ip Man" was much better, with a box office of 2.23 million yuan, which was a huge profit considering the investment of only more than million yuan.

Fortunately, Feng Kuzi did not use his rate of return to imply Golden Harvest's movies, otherwise Zhang Zhao would have killed him.

Golden Harvest has produced many small-scale films that have achieved big success. For example, "Crazy Stone", with an investment of eight million yuan, brought in more than eighty million yuan at the box office.

"Crazy Racing", with an investment of 1.5 million, brought in nearly million at the box office.

In addition, with an investment of more than 2.23 million yuan for this movie "Ip Man", it grossed million yuan at the box office. What is there for Feng Kuazi to be so arrogant about?
Moreover, the movie "Ip Man" not only made as much money as "If You Are the One" in mainland China, but as a kung fu film, it was also able to make a lot of money in overseas markets.

However, "If You Are the One" has no overseas market at all.

On the contrary, "Mei Lanfang" was distributed to the United States by Emperor Motion Pictures. After all, Mr. Mei Lanfang was quite famous in the United States at that time.

At the same time, the director of "Ip Man", Wilson Yip, also became famous overnight.

He became the fifth billion-dollar Hong Kong director after Xu Ke, Stephen Chow, Chen Kexin and Wu Baige.

Before "Ip Man" was released, many film companies had already extended olive branches to him.

Bona, in particular, spared no effort in recruiting him.

Last year, that is, in 2008, Yu Dong officially separated from Poly Group, and Poly Bona was officially renamed Bona Film Group.

In the past two years, Bona Group has officially entered the film production business, but almost all the outstanding directors in the circle are already employed, so Bona Group can only rely on those directors in the Hong Kong circle.

Although there are many famous directors in Hong Kong, none of them can make a hit movie. Now that Wilson Yip has finally appeared, Yu Dong certainly wants to win him over.

After all, up to now, Bona has not produced or released even a single movie with a box office of over 100 million yuan.

Wilson Yip did not refuse Bona's invitation, but he did not sign with Bona, but signed a film contract with the other party.

To be honest, Wilson Yip is very happy to cooperate with Golden Harvest. Golden Harvest is a big company in the industry, and he does not want to completely end the cooperation with Golden Harvest.

What's more, the performance of "Ip Man" is so good that a sequel will definitely be put on the agenda, and he doesn't want to give up the director of the sequel.

So he just signed a film contract with Bona first to see how the cooperation goes. If the cooperation is good, then he will talk about it later. If not, then he will definitely have another chance in the future.

Just as the smoke of the Lunar New Year box office was gradually dissipating, "The Martian" came out to steal the spotlight again.

On the evening of January 12, news about "The Martian" was once again on the news broadcast.

After more than ten minutes of reporting a series of news, the report about the Mars base finally came.

"Recently, the Jiahe Mars Tourism Base, which took a year to build and was used as the filming location for the first domestic science fiction movie "The Martian", was officially opened to the public.

On the opening day, we received thousands of tourists from Dunhuang, Gansu and surrounding areas. On this unique Yadan landform, we took a unique space journey and experienced "

Along with the host's clear and melodious introduction, an aerial video clip appeared on TV.

After color adjustment, it looks like a cold and desolate planet, with gravel everywhere, desolate and silent, and the ground is covered with potholes formed by the impact of meteorites.

There are also endless canyons, shield volcanoes, and polar caps that look like ice fields.

After the aerial photography, the perspective also came to the Mars base, and tourists also began to appear in the camera.

In the picture, there are dozens of Mars base warehouses connected in an endless stream, with men, women, old and young coming in and out.

Following the tourists' perspective, you can see that the decorations and furnishings inside the base warehouse are exactly the same as in the movie.

At the same time, some tourists were playing simulated weightlessness training, some wore space suits and helmets and boarded the spacecraft, and there were people taking pictures of them.

Some people drove the Mars off-road vehicle for a ride, while others played with the remote-controlled Mars rover, searching for treasures buried on the surface of Mars by the base.

There are even people who pick vegetables in the greenhouse and take them to the base warehouse to cook themselves. It's like a Martian version of a farm stay.

In this one-minute news, basically all the highlights of this tourist base are shown.

After the news about the Mars base was broadcast, Liu Zhou also turned his attention away from the TV and began to tease his son in his arms.

Zeng Li on the side asked curiously:
"Why are you on the news again?"

“This is a joint effort between Jiahe and Dunhuang authorities. Now that the Jiahe Mars Tourism Base has been built, it definitely needs to be promoted.

Now the country attaches importance to the development of the western region, and this kind of aerospace-themed tourism industry has also received support from above.

In addition, the popularity of The Martian has not completely dissipated, so with the efforts of many parties, it was once again featured in the news broadcast.”

"With the publicity from the news broadcast, this Mars tourist base should have no shortage of visitors."

“Who knows now? Although The Martian is very popular, Dunhuang is indeed a bit out of the way.

But at present, there are quite a few tourists from Dunhuang and some surrounding provinces and cities. It depends on whether we can attract tourists from central and eastern China."

"Don't worry, this kind of tourist attraction with Martian characteristics is unique in China, and it will definitely be popular by then."

"Hopefully."

Liu Zhou was not very anxious about this. It didn't matter even if the flow of people was not high. He had originally planned to operate this tourist base for a long time.

In the future, as the number of tourist attractions increases, it will become more and more attractive to tourists.

However, Zhang Zhao hoped to get off to a great start, so in addition to the promotion on the news broadcast, he also spent a huge amount of money on advertising on other TV stations and online.

"By the way, Zhou Zhou, are you going back to Yangcheng for the Spring Festival this year or are you staying in Beijing?"

"Let's go back to Yangcheng. Grandpa has not been in good health recently and can't travel too much. We should go back to see him. This will also be a good opportunity for him to spend some time with his great-grandson."

"Then when will we go back?"

"Before the New Year, the company has some things to deal with recently."

With Yu Zhengjun taking office as Chief Financial Officer, Golden Harvest's listing process has been significantly accelerated.

After the Chinese New Year, we need to formally introduce external shareholders and determine the number of Golden Harvest shares that celebrity shareholders and other employees can purchase.

All these situations need to be determined, and Liu Zhou is currently in contact with several investment institutions.

The investment institutions Liu Zhou will introduce this time will not be too many, only one or two at most, so he is more cautious in his choice.

(End of this chapter)