There is no concept of running water these days.

However, many viewers who have watched "Crazy Stone" did spontaneously promote "Crazy Stone" and recommended their relatives and friends to watch the movie.

The base camp of "Crazy Stone" is in Shancheng. It is said that the boss of Shancheng specially reserved the venue for company employees to watch it.

It was also on the local news.

Still in the Sichuan and Chongqing areas, "Crazy Stone" is the most popular here.

Pacific Cinema City, a subsidiary of Sichuan Film Group, directly scheduled 7 shows of "Crazy Stone" on the first day, and the number of daily shows in other star-rated theaters was no less than 15.

The Emei Cinema in the same city also screened "Crazy Stone" to full houses.

The current official statistics of movie box office are exclusively disclosed by "China Film News" and are released every Tuesday and released on Thursday.

Therefore, Cheng Yuan did not know the box office results of "Crazy Stone" for the first three days on Tuesday, July 4th at the earliest:

7.41 million!

Fire!

"Crazy Stone" is completely popular!

The box office of over 7 million in the first three days of the first weekend means that "Crazy Stone" can definitely exceed 0 million!

You know, the cost of this film was only 1 million, and it was paid back in three days.

In the past two years, except for Cheng Yuan, no young director has had such a return on investment.

And what’s even more annoying is that Ning Hao is also owned by Yuan Yuan!

It is said that Ning Hao was working remotely before filming "Incense" in 2000.

"Crazy Stone" continues to be popular, and directors are not shy about their praise. After watching the movie, Chen Kexin said: "I think this film will be written into the history of Chinese films. I didn't expect that black humor films, which have always been a weak point of Chinese films, can actually pass."

This movie expresses itself freely. I laughed from the beginning to the end and was very happy."

Huang Jianxin also said: "This is the best work by a young director that I have seen in recent years." Of course, Cheng Yu'an was not mentioned, why mention him?

Ever since Cheng Yu'an won the Best Director at Venice, especially after his "Clues of Time" grossed 170 million in box office and almost overturned "The Promise", he has been excluded from the ranks of young directors by the audience and the industry by default.

Although he is only 4 years old this year.

The popularity of "Crazy Stone" was beyond the expectations of Ning Hao and the leading actors, and everyone worked harder on promotion.

On the remote side, we will continue to increase advertising and publicity expenses, with a production cost of 1 million yuan. In the first round, we spent 1 million yuan in publicity expenses.

Ning Hao and his people traveled to Beijing for two days and then flew directly to Sichuan Province, where they stayed for a full week in Sichuan and Chongqing.

As of the 14th, "Crazy Stone" has been in theaters for 15 days, earning 7.6 million at the box office!

The sword points to 40 million!

At this point, Ning Hao no longer doubts the box office of "around 50 million" that Cheng Yu'an said before.

After two weeks of publicity, Ning Hao and his team returned to the capital for a short break.

Also after these two weeks, some bad voices about "Crazy Stone" have gradually spread.

"Plagiarism! You really don't think you have ever seen the movie! Plagiarized from Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch"!"

When others say good things about you, there will always be someone who will find a strange angle to criticize you to show their uniqueness and clear understanding.

As the producer of "Crazy Stone", Cheng Yu'an officially responded to this question in an interview with Xinlang: "Multi-line narrative is not Guy Ritchie's patent. It does not mean that future generations cannot use this technique. Imitation is not

The crux of the problem is, if I knew that a million dollars could be imitated like this, I would invest countless millions."

"And I have always said that the right to vote must be given to the audience. If "Crazy Stone" is a so-called plagiarism, are our audiences all fools? Will they buy votes for a plagiarized movie?"

Xinlang reporter asked again: "What changes do you think "Crazy Stone" will bring to this market?"

"There won't be any changes to the market." Cheng Yu'an doesn't have optimistic expectations.

"An expert at the seminar said that "Crazy Stone" has pointed out a path for filmmakers to produce low-cost movies."

"Well..." Cheng Yu'an pondered for a while, then continued, "Actually, this statement makes sense. Hollywood is conquering cities all over the world, and the only way to effectively fight it, besides local blockbusters, is local comedies. If not

If "Crazy Stone" can bring any changes to the market, I hope that more people will value comedy as much as Ning Hao and Xiaojun do, and value digging out our local jokes."

"Actually, there is another point," Cheng Yu'an added, ""Crazy Stone" has no big stars, and our actors' salaries are very low. Guo Tao has the highest salary in the group, 100,000, and Xu Shanzheng even stars for free. This shows that as long as the script is good,

, a good show, coupled with active and effective publicity methods, can win the market without the blessing of a big star.

"I hope Crazy Stone can bring these positive things to the market."

The reporter asked again: "But Professor Huang Shixian criticized "The Stone", saying that it was a farce rather than a comedy, and believed that young directors like Ning Hao should make art films first and then commercial films."

If Huang Shixian hadn't been a professor at the film school, Cheng Yu'an would definitely have complained about it, so he said: "Ning Hao made two art films before "Crazy Stone", "Incense" and "Green Grass". They are not well-known in China, but

These two films have won some international awards. After exploring these two art films, Ning Hao decided to make a commercial film. So I think it is inappropriate for Professor Huang to criticize Ning Hao like this."

Of course that's not right, Cheng Yu'an's first film was a commercial film.

Reporter Xinlang continued to discuss the issue with Cheng Yuan: "There is a saying on the Internet that the popularity of Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" indicates that our seventh generation of directors has officially risen. What does Director Cheng think of this?"

Cheng Yu'an asked again: "Am I considered the seventh generation?"

"Of course, you are now the first director of the seventh generation."

Cheng Yu'an didn't know that the outside world thought so highly of him.

"Actually, I don't think the popularity of "Stones" is enough to represent the entire seventh generation of directors.

"Take the seventh generation you mentioned as an example. Apart from Lu Chuan, Ning Hao and me, how many more can you name?"

The reporter was really stunned by this question.

"It's hard to say, right? The rise of an entire generation of directors cannot be judged by a limited number of people, but by universality and advancement. We can only say that the seventh generation is germinating. To say that it is rising is not enough.

"The ones that sell the most box office and win the most awards in our market are not the seventh generation directors, but the fifth generation directors. They are Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others.

"Although the sixth generation in the middle has less released films, they have won many awards in the international film industry. So I would say that the seventh generation of directors can only truly rise after they are 40 years old."

After answering the questions about "Crazy Stone", the interview was basically over. At the end, the reporter still didn't give up and asked: "Is Director Cheng really not planning to film any new movies this year?"

Cheng Yu'an shook his head: "We won't be filming this year. Oh, by the way, the company's new Lunar New Year film has been confirmed. The second part of "The Butterfly Effect" will be filmed. The director is the director of "Lotus Lantern" and "Legend of Sword and Fairy". My

My classmate Huang Ke, please spread the word."
Chapter completed!