my time as a director

Chapter 457 The Fourth Movie with a Billion Box Office

In November, the outpost of the Lunar New Year stalls, the highly anticipated "Waiting for the Wind" failed disastrously at the box office, which made the entire Lunar New Year stalls much quieter. It was not until the release of "囧囧 in Thailand" that the Lunar New Year stalls gained the popularity it should have.

It was 8400 million on the first day, and although "Four Famous 2" was released on the second day, it still broke through 108 million, and it got [-] billion in a single day.

Breaking through [-] million in a single day is definitely a milestone symbol for today's domestic film market. Up to now, no one doubts that "Tai囧" can't break [-] billion. The only variable is "Private Order" which will be released in more than ten days. ", which is also a comedy, can it steal a certain market.

The "Four Famous 2", which was released on Friday, was still the same as the first film, with a tepid box office gain of 2300 million on the first day.

Even with Deng Chao, who has dedicated his superb acting skills in "The Truman Show" and "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door", this movie is only full of slots.

Deng Chao also feels a bit like Schrödinger's acting skills. The performance in the movie is not good at all, not as good as the big villain Wu Xiubo.

As an actress, even Liu Yufei, who is called a fairy by netizens, was overshadowed by Liu Yan and Jiang Yiyan's bathroom scene where they competed for beauty.

Facts have proved that in most cases, people still like to wear less.

The only thing to watch about this movie is probably that the ruthless played by Liu Yufei will continue to sit in a wheelchair in the next movie, but he can still stand up. After all, this second movie uses some kind of tool to stand up and fight.

There were no other competitors in the same period, and "Lost in Thailand" had no opponents who could take a serious look at it. It won 24 billion on Saturday and Sunday, and 43 billion in four days after its release.

On the entire Internet, wherever movies are mentioned, "囧囧" cannot be avoided. Just looking at the words of netizens, you can feel their laughter.

A sentence from a beautiful woman in the elevator 2b, Wang Baoqiang mistook Xu Zheng for greening Huang Bo, Xu Zheng went through a gut-wrenching battle in the room of a strong white man, and strayed into a gang transaction scene

These funny plots have contributed countless laughter to this Lunar New Year file.

Of course, it's not just funny, under the shell of comedy, there is also an emotional blockbuster with not much pen and ink hidden.

Xu Lang and his wife's marriage crisis, Wang Bao's wish for his mother's health and obsession with the goddess, Gao Bo's nostalgia for his wife in labor, and the bumps and bumps between Xu Lang and Gao Bo during the long journey. friendship.

In the end, everyone was happy, which met the needs of the audience and the style of the Lunar New Year file. Xu Lang and his wife did not divorce. Goddess, and took commemorative photos of the honeymoon series with her.

These emotions hidden in the depths of the film have been secretly surging. Although there are not many scenes, they also play the role of icing on the cake, making the film more than just a funny film.

The box office of 43 billion in four days made the industry sigh and lament again and again.

Ticketing platforms such as Glava and Meituan outside the industry can only watch countless users abandon them and flock to future movies.

They were gnashing their teeth at Li Qian. Everyone was competing fairly and reasonably, but Li Qian cheated directly, completely breaking the rules.

In the past four days, out of the 43 billion box office of "Lost in Thailand", there were 35% of the online tickets. Except for the official websites of the local theaters in each region, 35% of the 90% of the online tickets came from future movies.

More than 1000 million movie tickets have nothing to do with other platforms.

This is a deadly shock!

Liu Yong, the boss of Glawa, is now completely fooled by Li Qian's tricks. If there are no tickets sold, no one will buy tickets. No one will buy tickets.

In the conference room, all the senior executives of Glava were frowning. Since receiving Li Qian's angel round investment, the company has been going smoothly, and it only received 2000 million US dollars in financing last month.

The valuation has also changed from a few million at the beginning to more than 10 billion now.

But now, the industry leader has no tickets to sell during the Lunar New Year.

After a meeting, no one had a good solution, and in the end, an executive suggested with some hesitation, "Otherwise, let's also talk to Huayang Media and Wanda, and exclusively represent "Private Customization", " Online ticket purchase for Police Story 2013?"

"No!" Liu Yong vetoed it flatly. Cheng Long is old, "Police Story" is hard to sell, and "Private Order" is sure to sell well, but he doesn't like such tacky movies.

If you don't do this, there is no other way. Liu Yong can only comfort everyone, "There will always be a day when "Tai囧" will be finished, and the situation will improve after this month."

It is not only Glava who has thought about taking pictures of gourds. Meituan, which wants to enter the online ticket market on a large scale, is also ready to move, and has contacted Huayang Media and Wanda successively.

However, both Song Ge and Huang Zhongjun rejected the cooperation of Meituan as the exclusive agent of Wangpu.

Faced with the menacing "Lost in Thailand", Huayang Media can only increase its publicity efforts and prepare for the next screening. Wanda is fortunate that "Police Story 2013" will not be released until the end of the month.

Sensitive to the box office of "Tai囧" is also Teng Huatao who has just experienced a fiasco on Double Eleven. He once agreed to Beijing Satellite TV to be the chief director of a variety show.

Like many people, Teng Huatao had been secretly looking forward to it before, expecting that "Lost in Thailand" would hit the box office, so that everyone would hit the street, like brothers and sisters.

However, instead of hitting the street, it became a big hit, and it was going to hit the fourth domestic film with a box office of over one billion.

In addition to being a little uncomfortable, Teng Huatao felt ashamed of his previous thoughts. When filming "33 Days of Broken Love", he also chatted with Xu Zheng about the comedy plot in the movie, and he was a little friendly.

However, the explosion of "Tai囧" further highlighted the failure of "Waiting for the Wind", and Teng Huatao became more and more depressed. After thinking about it, he dialed the phone number of Beijing TV Station and agreed to take over "Brave". Heart" program, as producer and chief director.

Li Qian, who was far away in Shanghai, also saw Xu Zheng again. He brought Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo to the road show in Shanghai, and came to visit the crew of "Rejuvenation".

Li Qian smiled and said, "Brother Zheng, I'm not lying to you, "Tai囧" is definitely stable when it breaks one billion."

"hey-hey."

Xu Zheng is on the verge of laughing these days, one billion box office, there are only three in the country, and two are still Li Qian's, which means that he is the third billion club, and this directly ranks among the top directors.

After working as an actor for more than ten years, he became a first-line director. After only four years as a director, he turned from a rookie to a great director.

Seeing how happy he was, he couldn't see his eyes when he laughed so much, Li Qian was also happy, "Brother Zheng, Brother Bo, and Baoqiang, you three will be the benchmark of domestic comedians, and the audience's laughter will depend on You guys!"

Wang Baoqiang will also star in "Detective Chinatown" next. After Xu Zheng, Huang Bo and Ning Hao finish "Detective Chinatown", they will have to film his own "Beautiful Heart", which will be well received in the next two or three years. There must be three of them in a popular comedy movie, and there must be one of them.

After chatting for a while, Li Qian will continue to make his own movie. This scene is in the church where the hero successfully stands up.

Xu Zheng and the others were not in a hurry to leave. The first movie in the early morning had just started, and the road show didn't start until 11:30, so they simply sat and rested beside them.

Seeing the Mi Lijian actors who played the ensemble and the god stick priest and they were preparing to shoot, Xu Zheng suddenly made a suggestion, "Director Li, actually, I think it might be better if a domestic actor plays the priest in this part, and by the way, it is ironic Let’s take a look at what is said on the Internet, what is that word called?”

Huang Bo next to him added, "Cents, shepherds, etc."

"That's right, it's these two words. If you find a domestic actor to play the priest, the irony will be obvious." Xu Zheng nodded again and again, and said, "I think Bozi is quite suitable, and the long one is very ironic."

Upon hearing this, Huang Bo immediately became unhappy, "Whoever is sarcastic, why is it so sarcastic!"

"I mean, you're a good fit for the role of irony."

"I think you're ironic. It's just right to play this kind of unscrupulous movie. How good it was to play a profiteer who sells a cemetery. The mean boss in "People on the Journey" is the same. He is suitable for this kind of role, yes Let's protect the wall."

"" Wang Baoqiang, who was watching the play, was speechless. You two quarrel as long as you want, it's none of my business.

"Okay, okay." Li Qian stopped the two of them from fighting each other, shook his head and said, "It is indeed more ironic to play the priest played by a Chinese, and it will be more funny no matter who you play, but it doesn't match the style of the whole movie." It’s okay, generally speaking, this is still a heavy movie, it’s too funny.”

Li Qian could imagine that if Huang Bo shouted to make the protagonist stand up in the name of the Lord, it would be like a monkey yelling to make the monkey stand upright and salute.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing, but all the departments and actors on the scene were ready, and I didn't talk to Jill with them, so I took the time to shoot.

It is also a simple scene. The pastor in the church has just finished praying with the believers. The mother who works in the nursing home under the church, that is, the middle-aged woman played by Liu Mingtao who adopts the hero, is also a religious believer.

She hurriedly pushed the wheelchair to the pastor, and whispered to the pastor that she had been unable to conceive.