"The box office of "The Lizard" on its opening day was only 32 million. Such figures are really rare among superhero movies. The figures released in North America were not very good either. It was beaten by "Jaws".
Nearly halfway through the movie, director Scolos Paige went astray, misunderstood the audience and definition of superhero movies, and actually committed the "uncanny valley" effect that made fans feel uncomfortable after watching the movie...
…”
"This is not a horror movie. Being able to make a superhero movie into a horror movie is considered a talent."
"..."
Two o'clock in the morning.
Li Zhongjun looked at the box office report of "The Lizard Man" and fell into silence for a long time.
Zhou Yilin sat next to Li Zhongjun and took a sip of fragrant hot coffee. While looking at the bustling streets and alleys outside Yanjing City, he marveled at the magic of "Lizard Man".
"Lizard Man" is adapted from a fantasy comic in the United States. It was popular in the United States for a while in the early 2000s and was famous for its amazing imagination. Later, DV Company saw the prospects of this comic and acquired it.
A comic company, making it one of the subsidiaries of DV Comics...
The success of the "Superman" series naturally made the old American DV company see the prospect of a superhero series. At the end of 2006, they held a meeting and announced several superhero movie plans. Naturally, "The Lizard Man" was among them, and they invested heavily in it.
The film is quite heavy, and we specially invited Scroll Page, a well-known science fiction director in Norway, to direct this film.
I originally thought that the "Lizard Man" IP and sci-fi director Cisco Rowe Paige would create an extremely amazing chemical reaction in the entire movie. Everyone even thought that it was very possible to turn the "Spider-Man" IP into a landmark work.
Just like "Superman", it severely cut off a wave of fans' leeks, but no one expected that "The Lizard Man" would actually be a scam.
Not only did it receive low marks from many movie fans in China, but it was also criticized in North America.
"How much will "The Lizard" probably have at the box office?"
"There is definitely a box office of hundreds of millions. After all, there are many die-hard fans. If I really watch this movie, I still think this movie is quite deep..."
“How much is Jaws?”
"It's still more than 40 million. The total box office of this movie has exceeded 600 million less than half a month after its release. According to this trend, there is basically no suspense for this movie to reach 1 billion. In North America, "Jaws" is even more
Crazy, it has already exceeded 300 million US dollars. It is estimated that this movie will eventually exceed 500 million or even 600 million US dollars. It is another landmark work..."
"What about "Sniper Phone Booth"? 31 million. Shen Changwei is making a lot of money. After three days of release, the box office is heading towards 100 million..."
"..."
The night is lingering.
There was a chill that penetrated the bone marrow.
Li Zhongjun felt extremely irritable, but for a moment he didn't know what to say. Everything seemed to be out of his control. He vaguely felt like dark clouds were closing in on the city and a storm was coming. He had been in charge of Xinghui for many years.
Never encountered such a situation.
"Isn't Shen Changwei going to set a record by stepping on "Lizard Man"?" He opened his eyes after a long time, and his voice was quite complicated.
"Looking at the situation, it should be..." Zhou Yilin did not deny it: "Shen Jinsong's previous behavior was quite irrational. He gave up the opportunity to become famous in one battle to Shen Changwei... Look, I just said Shen Jinsong.
, Shen Jinsong called... I'll answer the phone first."
"good."
After Zhou Yilin left the office, Hu Bingqing came over with a timid look on her face.
"Mr. Li...Song Qianqian called back."
"How to say?"
"Hua Xing has already taken one step ahead of us and helped Song Qianqian set up a studio, and the profit sharing is more severe than ours..."
Hu Bingqing hesitated for a moment, then took out a partial picture of the contract and handed it to Li Zhongjun.
Li Zhongjun looked at the picture, his eyes narrowed, and then he was in disbelief: "Is Zhou Yang crazy? How dare he ask for such a harsh share? Don't you know that Song Qianqian is a money tree now? How can there be such a business?
Yes? Doing charity has ruined your brain!"
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The album "The Farthest Distance" is Victoria Song's third album since the disbandment of H48.
The albums are mainly online albums, supplemented by physical albums. Well, a total of 200,000 physical collection albums are prepared, and they are sold in major Xinhua bookstores and a small number of electronic audio and video stores.
After entering 2007, with the impact of electronic music in the Internet era, it became increasingly difficult to make physical albums.
In the first half of the year, "Sunshine" had a big carnival of physical albums, and then it was sluggish for several months. When the album "Sunshine" was saturated, some video stores didn't sell anything for a month, and finally just
After a few months of losses, China entered the second half of the year, and video stores closed down and were transferred almost every day in China. The related industries seemed to have languished overnight, and they were in a state of depression.
Vaguely, not to mention tape recorders and CD players, even MP3 and MP4 have begun to gradually go downhill.
Such are the times...
It was so turbulent when it came that pigs could fly when standing in the wind, and when it left it was also very sudden, with pigs falling to death everywhere along the way.
"Don't be crowded, everything is in stock, everything is in stock!"
"Commemorative editions, signed editions, all..."
"After completing this order, our store announced its closure. Our store supported Sissi's last album and will support it online from now on!"
"..."
Although the times are no longer about physical albums, when the album "The Farthest Distance" was released, the entrances of several surviving audio and video product stores were still crowded with countless fans, and there were once long queues.
.
Not far away, at the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore, a large screen was erected to play the MV for the album "The Farthest Distance".
Countless boys and girls were standing under the big screen. They looked up at a poem in the MV and were immediately moved to their core.
The weather in October is getting colder and colder.
Zheng Qianwen, whose eyes were red, put on her coat subconsciously when she came out of the cinema, and then blew her nose hard, her heart filled with great regret and discomfort.
The movie "The Youth We Chased Together" was so realistic that as she watched it, her tears kept flowing out and she couldn't stop it.
After calming down a little, Zheng Qianwen took out her "Baoli" mobile phone, plugged in her headphones, and listened to the familiar and gentle voice in her ears.
This is a song called "Those Years". It was after listening to this song that Zheng Qianwen learned about the movie "Those Years of Youth We Chased Together", and then went to the cinema to watch the movie.
After watching the movie, listening to this song again, the scenes in the movie and bits and pieces of my student days will unconsciously reverberate in my mind.
Zheng Qianwen's nose felt sour, and her eyes instantly became moist again.
The songs written by Zhou Yang can always touch people's emotions and give them strength, but they never tire of listening to them.
Two years ago, the song "Girl with Waving Wings" that was popular in the streets still sounds powerful...
Two years later, the song "Those Years" came out. In one day, Qgou Music's playback volume exceeded an astonishing five million, and it is now heading towards tens of millions of playbacks...
Everything seems to be telling the arrival of that era.
Two years later, Zheng Qianwen is no longer the clerk who was beaten to pieces by life and completely lost her confidence.
She has her own store and it is doing well.
After walking out of the cinema...
She saw the streets were bustling with people, and the Xinhua Bookstore not far away was full of noise and hustle and bustle.
She raised her head subconsciously.
When I looked up, I happened to see a line of text.
[The furthest distance in the world is not the distance between life and death
But I'm standing in front of you, but you don't know that I love you
The farthest distance in the world is not that I am standing in front of you but you don’t know that I love you
But I love you to the point of obsession, but I can’t say I love you...]
At first it was just a slight glance, but then he was stunned and looked at this line of poetry dreamily.
After reading this poem, Zheng Qianwen's originally calm emotions stirred up waves again...
I was extremely moved and saddened, but at the same time I was stunned.
Immediately afterwards...
She lowered her head and flipped through every song in Song Qianqian's second album "Sunshine" on her phone...
As she listened, she suddenly heard a different smell.
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The new album launch conference of "The Farthest Distance" was held in the gymnasium of Yan Film Academy.
There was a sea of people outside the college, and the media rushed to squeeze in. Inside the college, the originally spacious gymnasium was now dark and densely packed with people, so crowded that it was hard to breathe.
Victoria Song invited many people over.
Some former members of H48, Wu Zhenhong, Song Lian, and Feng Kai, also invited their principals, teachers, and former classmates from the college.
As the most popular female singer in the entertainment industry, Victoria Song's new album press conference is naturally full of glamor.
Zhou Yang and An Xiao also came together.
It's just that both of them were extremely low-key and deliberately put on makeup. When they came in, none of the media recognized them. Only a few talent scouts saw that An Xiao was tall, slim and cold, so they couldn't help but come over and ask a few questions.
But in the end, they were pulled away by the security guards who were mixed in with the crowd.
"This album is too poorly prepared..."
"There are 200,000 albums. It has only been on sale for two hours and more than 30,000 have been sold. Maybe this album will be sold out today..."
After taking a seat, Xu Mei next to her looked at the real-time updated album sales numbers and the number of plays on the Internet, and couldn't help but sigh.
Q Gou Music's electronic album "The Farthest Distance" sold an astonishing 10,000 copies in less than half an hour after it was released. Two hours later, the physical album exceeded an astonishing 30,000 copies, and the electronic album even more
It sold more than 70,000 copies, breaking the historical record.
Not long after Xu Mei was pleasantly surprised, she answered a phone call. Then, Xu Mei looked at Zhou Yang.
"Mr. Zhou..."
"Um?"
"Sissi suddenly terminated her manager Xu Xiaohua's contract. Just now...I heard from the staff backstage that Sissi seemed to be in a strange mood today. The album was obviously selling like crazy, but her mood was out of control..."