Millennium director

Chapter 230 You fell down first before I even exerted my strength?

"The box office for the first week of director Li Yang's "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" has been released!"

"8 million box office in the first week!"

A very excellent report card was placed on Li Xiaoping's desk.

Don't look at Wu Yuan's movies, which often have a daily box office of more than 20 million yuan. "The Promise" also has a daily box office of 30 million yuan. It seems that it is normal for mainland movies to have a box office of more than 10 million yuan on the first day.

But in fact, there are only two or three such "blockbusters" a year.

Under most normal circumstances, the daily box office of movies released in the Mainland is only a few hundred thousand.

"Crazy Stone" became a dark horse at the box office last year, with a total box office of more than 20 million, and its first week box office was only more than 2 million. It relied on word-of-mouth praise to gradually counterattack in the later period.

After all, "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" spent 3 million on a wave of ground and online promotions before its premiere, and the effect was very good, with a box office of nearly 10 million in the first week.

Likewise, the film's reviews are also very good.

At a time when youth movies are not yet common, the subject matter of this movie is quite novel, and it also evokes memories of the youth of those born in the 1970s. Indeed, it still has a good reputation within a week of its release, with a Douban score of 8.0.

The audience this movie is targeting is indeed a bit small.

Only those born in the 1970s can feel immersed in this movie when watching it, and they must be among the college students born in the 1970s.

If you are an ordinary person born in the 1970s who has never gone to college or even high school, there is no way to substitute for the college life and the love-to-death college love of the protagonists in the movie, and they will not understand why the heroine chooses to go abroad.

Among those born in the 1970s, there are really only a handful of people who have gone to college.

The only thing worth celebrating is that the college students born in the 1970s are now the backbone of society. They have real money in their pockets and are not stingy at all in spending money to go to the cinema to watch movies.

The movie "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" is spread word of mouth among the vast group of college students born in the 1970s, although it has not been able to achieve any outstanding single-day box office results.

It is unthinkable to think of a box office of 10 million or 20 million in a single day.

However, the daily box office performance is very stable, with a stable daily box office of about 1 million every day, and even two to three million single-day box office on weekends.

Judging from the current trend, it should be no problem to return to the original position.

Just wait and see whether the release of "Ink" on November 23 will create a siphon effect for blockbusters, sucking up the box office market of other movies in the same period.

Li Xiaoping was very worried about this.

However, Wu Yuan, who is still filming "Gravity", is not worried about this at all.

The current publicity campaign for "Ink Attack" is indeed very fierce. A lot of money has been spent, many media have been invited to write the draft, and various portals on the Internet are also promoting the film like crazy.

It does seem to be coming in a big way, and the combination of Liu Dehua + Fan Xiaopang is indeed very attractive. It is also a cooperation between China, South Korea and Japan, and Huayi is leading the investment. It can be said that BUFF is full.

Anyone in the industry believes that this movie will become another blockbuster with a box office of over 100 million.

Don't worry about whether it can make back the money, but the box office will definitely not be less than 100 million.

Because before "Ink Attack", this kind of movie with superstars and big investment had a box office of over 100 million, and there was no case of failure.

Even if "The Promise" has a bad reputation, it still has a box office of over 100 million!

Only Wu Yuan knew that "Ink Attack", a movie that had high hopes from countless people, actually only received 60 million at the box office, losing all its money and not having a blockbuster effect at all.

Those films that were released in order to avoid the movie "Ink Attack" were all in vain.

Faced with Li Xiaoping's worries, Wu Yuan comforted her on the phone: "Don't be afraid, trust Director Li and the movie "Whose Youth Is Not Confused"."

"Our film is not based on the same theme as "Ink Attack", so its release will not have any impact on us."

The fact is exactly what he said.

As time goes by, the box office growth of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" is still very stable, maintaining a daily box office of around one million.

As of November 22, the day before "Ink Attack" was released, "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" had already received 23 million yuan at the box office. Not only did it recover its capital, it also made a lot of money.

Thanks to the good cooperative relationship with Toho, Toho also took the initiative to negotiate, hoping to introduce this film to Japan.

Japan is the largest market for youth films, but Japanese youth films are very Japanese-style and tell stories about Japanese campus life and youth experiences.

It’s certainly not true that Japanese movie fans are tired of watching it, but they do want to see the different youth in other countries.

Toho believes that "Whose Youth Isn't Lost" still has a market in Japan. It can't say how good it will be at the box office, but there is still hope for over one billion yen.

So they want to buy out the Japanese distribution rights of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" for 5 million yuan.

You would be a fool not to make money if you have money. Wu Yuan was not optimistic that "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" could make money in Japan anyway. The risk of a buyout was lower than a share, so he immediately accepted the five million from Toho.

Hey, that’s connections!

If it were any other domestic film production company, they would have no connections with Japanese film producers, and it would be even less likely that Japanese film producers would take the initiative to buy the films they make in the mainland.

With the success of many of his films in Asia, Wu Yuan has gradually built a network of contacts covering many countries in Asia.

Not only Japan, but also film studios from South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia have successively come to inquire about buying out distribution rights.

In the end, the overseas distribution rights of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" were sold for a flat price of 10 million yuan.

The cost of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" was recouped in a way that Li Xiaoping had never expected, and it also made a net profit of five million.

Even if this movie is not released in China, it will not lose money.

"Director Wu, your influence is beyond words." Li Xiaoping called Wu Yuan again and complimented him with great admiration.

With a great director behind it, and a great director with international influence, this film is really easy to sell.

Did those foreign film producers buy this movie because of Li Yang's reputation or the domestic box office of 23 million?

of course not!

All they care about is Wu Yuan’s face!

On November 23, the overwhelmingly promoted "Ink Attack" held a grand premiere in Beijing.

At the premiere, the creators talked about how difficult it was for them to make this movie.

Andy Lau injured a ligament in his left foot while filming a scene in which he flew down from a five-story tower, and required a month of repair.

In order to achieve the same effect as other soldiers in the film, Fan Xiaopang put black foundation on her face every day. Even so, she still looked whiter than others in the camera despite her fair skin, so the makeup artist had to increase the amount of black foundation. dosage.

The title of the movie "Mo Gong" was written by Andy Lau himself. After writing it for the first time, the director felt that it lacked a bit of domineering. Andy went back and wrote it again without saying a word. After writing it this time, the director fell in love with it at first sight. .

In order to get closer to history, the filming team of "Ink Attack" built a set covering an area of ​​66,000 square meters in Hebei, using loess, trees, houses, and bricks to recreate the ancient city of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period 2,500 years ago. , city walls, villages and prisons.

In order to make the movie scene grand and "blockbuster" enough, 700 field troops and 150 extras were used to form various team forms in just one shot, and 400 cavalry divisions and horses were found locally to form a cavalry formation.

There are also 40 professional action actors and 350 practitioners, a total of thousands of people, who completed the attack scene between the two mountains.

In order to film the scene of the hero rescuing the beauty in the water prison, Andy Lau and Fan Xiaopang spent a whole day soaking in the water when the water temperature was extremely low. Later, they both caught colds.

However, the complaints from the crew and creators were of no use.

Although on the day of its premiere, "Ink Attack" still achieved a daily box office of 13 million, which was considered a good start.

However, by the next day, from the Internet to the media and newspapers, there were overwhelming negative reviews of the movie.

The filming was terrible!

The theme is contradictory and the concept is vague.

It does not truly reflect Mohist thought.

Lots of laughs and lots of great truths.

The story is confusing and confusing, and the plot is inconsistent.

The character setting is abrupt and the theme of the story is confusing.

Obviously the story revolves around Mozi's thought of "universal love without aggression", but it is told in a messy way. If Mozi knew about it, he would probably sit up from his coffin in anger.

The impact of so many negative reviews was that the box office of "Ink Attack" was cut in half on the second day, with only 6 million left.

This made director Zhang Zhiliang and the main creators very anxious.

Before "Ink Attack", whether it was "The Promise", "House of Flying Daggers" or "Hero", as long as it was a big-scene movie with a high enough investment, the box office would not be bad!

Even though there were a lot of criticism when it was released, the box office was still strong.

But this halo of guarantee was broken in "Mo Gong".

Whether it is Andy Lau, Fan Xiaopang or the Korean superstar Ahn Sung-ki on the crew, they all appealed to everyone on the Internet to go to the cinema to support this movie. It was really not easy to make this movie.

The leading actors are also actively running offline road shows, and have formulated a plan for 26 road shows a month. The crew is divided into two teams, and the north and south run together at the same time.

However, these remedial measures have not worked at all. The box office of "Ink Attack" is still hitting record lows, and the momentum of criticizing bad movies is becoming more and more powerful.

In comparison, "Whose Youth Is Not Confused", which is still being screened, is still very stable. It has even been released for almost a month, and the box office has increased a bit, with a daily box office of about 1.2 million.

Although it is still not a big hit, before you know it, the cumulative box office has reached 33 million!

Because the audience of this movie is mainly people born in the 1970s, and they are all successful in their careers, at least in the middle level of the company. They are not the kind of people who have a lot of desire to speak on the Internet.

Therefore, the public opinion momentum of this movie on the Internet is indeed not very big. It is only limited to word-of-mouth communication among those born in the 1970s, and it is also spread among the "elite class".

But the box office results are real.

Not only did "Ink Attack" not have any negative impact on "Whose Youth Is Not Confused", but it once again stimulated the box office of this movie.

This bizarre scene shocked Li Xiaoping's jaw.

Li Xiaoping made countless mental preparations to face the offensive of "Mo Gong", but in the end, "Mo Gong" fell down so lightly?