The box office on the first day was 5.2 million!

As a biographical film, this achievement is already very good.

But I probably still feel a little regretful.

The combination of Qian Chen and An Qian has always been synonymous with box office myths. From the earliest bad movie "A Chinese Ghost Story 4", it set a record of 500 million, surpassing the 18.83 million Hong Kong dollar box office of the 1987 version of "A Chinese Ghost Story". I don't know.

How many times.

Since then, the two of them have basically never missed a beat.

This time, the box office revenue was only over RMB 5 million. Although this number seems like shit, it cannot stand up to the possibility of losing money.

The total investment in this movie is 30 million, which is not a big cost.

But if the box office on the first day is 5 million, it will only be 50 million to survive.

But Qian Chen was not panicked at all.

For his movie, Guo Jia's special film fund award of 10 million yuan has been booked.

Then Documentary Channel and Six Princesses planned to spend 20 million to purchase the rights to broadcast the film on television.

In other words, the movie has already paid back its money without box office.

His movie is a custom-made one. The order placed by his second cousin will definitely not make his poor cousin suffer.

No matter what, it has to be leveled for him.

But the film "Li Qingzhao" is not only released in the mainland, but also released simultaneously around the world.

Qian Chen and An Qian's own popularity, as well as the help of their second cousin, made it easy to achieve this.

On January 5, the official account of "Li Qingzhao" stated that this movie, which was released simultaneously in other regions of China and overseas, has achieved very good box office results worldwide.

As for how good it is, the official didn't say, but it can be found by checking. It has been released for a few days, and at least the box office on the first day can be found.

As a classical poet who is good at describing daily life and psychological changes, Li Qingzhao is not only well-known in China, but also popular in the Western world. She is by far the most valued Chinese female poet in the English-speaking world, and the classic status of her works has gradually been established.

Several authoritative anthologies of world literature only include Li Qingzhao and Li Yu in the section on Chinese poets.

And in the areas covered by Chinese culture, it goes without saying.

However, like some critics inside the pot, Han culture researchers outside the pot mostly believe that in the male-dominated literati circle at that time, Li Qingzhao’s gender was exaggerated, resulting in her works being interpreted in a difficult way.

A relatively one-dimensional state: only emphasizing her weakness and expressing her love for her husband, which is in line with the miserable side of traditional female character. It ignores her knowledgeable and ambitious side.

For example, Wang Zhuo's notes in the Song Dynasty are very typical. He not only praised her for her "extreme talent, which is close to that of her predecessors, but is rare among the scholar-bureaucrats" and "if she were a woman of this dynasty, she should be the first in the selection of words", and also commented on her "late festival."

Wandering with no return."

Li Qingzhao's talent cannot be judged apart from gender and so-called reputation.

People were once unable to accept this "immoral" remarriage, and even triggered an academic movement to deny remarriage and avenge the talented woman.

This is undoubtedly very unfair to Li Qingzhao.

Li Qingzhao was not the fragile, lonely, lonely female image who missed her husband all day long as described by Ming and Qing scholars and literary critics.

Her personality is quite competitive. For example, Li Qingzhao commented on some important poets of the Northern Song Dynasty one by one in "Ci Lun", and even had some criticisms, which can well reflect Li Qingzhao's personality characteristics.

There were many famous female literati in various Chinese dynasties, including some of Li Qingzhao's contemporaries.

It can be roughly divided into three categories, namely, geishas, ​​socialites and literati.

Li Qingzhao cannot be classified into any of the above three categories.

Li Qingzhao is a rare outstanding literati with a clear sense of self-creation.

At that time, geishas could write lyrics, and upper-class boudoir women or socialites also had some works. However, these were relatively accidental and not important matters in their lives. Many lyrics were often written as they were written.

But they were destroyed afterwards. These female authors did not intend to let their works be seen by others.

It is virtue for a woman to have no talent.

But Li Qingzhao was different. She regarded literary creation as the most important thing in life.

Although she has never said that she is a writer, she is very active in her literary creation and is conscious of her identity as a creator.

Film critics outside the film industry expressed their appreciation that China's new film "Li Qingzhao" created the image of this female writer very objectively and fairly.

In fact, Qian Chen didn't think too much about this issue.

He is one of the screenwriters.

In his time, Li Qingzhao's image was still very individual, rather than what everyone knows now, which is basically the image of a talented and loyal woman who deeply loves and misses her husband Zhao Mingcheng.

Therefore, when making this movie, I revised part of the script.

When choosing works, we also selected those works that were definitely attributed to Li Qingzhao five hundred years ago, and we interpreted Li Qingzhao's life on the basis of these works.

The current collection of Li Qingzhao's works contains many superficial works, the purpose of which is to strengthen Li Qingzhao's image as a chaste woman.

But the movie directed by Qian Chen has no such plan.

Even if he plays Zhao Mingcheng and his wife plays Li Qingzhao, in that case, the film will deviate from the original intention.

He is not afraid of people criticizing him for "shading" Li Qingzhao.

Under normal values, the real Li Qingzhao has more personality charm.

As shown in the second half of his movie, after experiencing the disaster of remarrying a gangster and being divorced and imprisoned, Li Qingzhao's will to live has not been depressed, and her enthusiasm for poetry creation has become even higher. After she was freed from personal pain,

Focus on Guo Jia's important events. In May 1133, the imperial court sent two officials as envoys to the Jin Dynasty. Li Qingzhao wrote a poem to see them off with passion. In the poem, he said, "I want to send my blood and tears to the mountains and rivers, and go to Dongshan to sprinkle them."

The sentence "a handful of soil" is contrary to the previous graceful style.

This is the sublimation of Li Qingzhao's life.

When ordinary viewers watched this movie, they saw that Anxi was so beautiful and the music was so good.

But what professional cultural researchers can see is the uniqueness of the movie. From a cultural and literary perspective, this movie is definitely a superior work.

It's a pity that whether it's the audience inside the pot or the audience outside the pot, they only pay more attention to Anxi's appearance and the beauty of the soundtrack, and can't see anything else at all.

In a sense, Qian Chen as a director is undoubtedly a failure.

However, his failure did not affect the success of "Li Qingzhao" at the global box office.

The box office of Xiangjiang and Wanwan both exceeded one million on the first day.

Considering that the film markets in these two places have shrunk to the extreme, one million is already a good result.

The box office performance in Europe and the United States was better.

The main reason is that the music is really good. People there are very fond of musicals, and many of them are watching them as musicals.

For example, "Mamma Mia" premiered in London in 1999. So far, the total global box office has exceeded 4 billion US dollars. 22 classic hits of the super group ABBA are used throughout the show.

"The Lion King" premiered on Broadway in 1997 and has a box office of 8 billion US dollars.

Since the "Sissi's Wedding" concert toured the world, Qian Chen's status in the music circle has skyrocketed, and he is higher than the performers in Langlang.

After all, one is the creator and the other is the user.

This time, the overseas promotion slogan of Qian Chen's "Li Qingzhao" is "Sissi's Wedding", a musical chapter tailor-made for his lover Sissi by music master Mr. Qian Chen after a year.

What are you waiting for!

Go listen now.

However, globally, apart from China, Neon is the most influential movie.

The film grossed 400 million yen at the box office on its first day, and received a high score of 6 on Neon Yahoo. Audiences also gave it quite good reviews in the post-screening word-of-mouth reviews.

The science fiction movie "Parasite" released last month only took in 400 million yen at the box office on its first day.

This comparison is very obvious.

What does this mean?

This shows that Qian Chen and An Qian together have a very powerful influence in Neon.

Although Neon people hate Qian Chen very much - those who give low scores basically criticize Qian Chen himself - but for his film that can almost be called a musical feast, even if they resist in their hearts, they have no choice but to walk in

to the cinema.

In fact, when this movie was made and started to attract investment, many non-profit film producers tried to buy out the distribution.

It’s just that the price offered is generally low. For example, for the North American copyright, they actually paid 50,000 US dollars. The film producers on Neon’s side knew that Neon people loved and hated Qian Chen, but they only offered 100 million.

The price of Japanese yen.

Simply outrageous.

Qian Chen decisively gave up selling out, chose to cooperate with Universal Pictures for overseas distribution, and then adopted the split-account model.

As the name suggests, splitting accounts means that the box office revenue of a film shown in other Guo Jia is distributed according to the share. Some are fixed ratios, and some are stepped ratios. Anyway, whether you make more or less depends on the box office results.

Compared with Guo Guo, which only collected more than 16 million yuan at the box office during the entire New Year's Day three days, the total box office performance on the first day overseas was 21 million Chinese yuan, of which Neon contributed 12 million.

Lose money?

Even if this movie is calculated based on the box office, there is no possibility of losing money.
To be continued...