James Bond's "Jaws" was setting records every day during its screening, and finally, just one month later, the box office exceeded an astonishing 900 million.
This is a landmark data, and everyone is amazed.
Two years ago, this was a box office figure that would have been unthinkable.
"Men in Black" has been released for a month and a half, and the box office has reached an astonishing 760 million. As the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies gradually faded, the corresponding theater schedules also decreased, and the daily box office dropped from 10 million to 1 million.
level, the total box office on the 20th was only 5 million. All parties expect that this movie is on the verge of being canceled, and it is only a matter of time.
The total box office of "The Youth We Chased Together" and "Sniper Phone Booth" are one 340 million and the other 450 million. After the crazy baptism of October, the box office of the two movies has also begun.
After a certain degree of decline, the daily box office of "The Youth We Chased Together" dropped from tens of millions to one million. "Sniper Phone Booth" can hold on for a while, but it is only in the upper tens of millions. It is estimated that today's
The box office will drop.
In Xinghui's office.
"What did Lao Cao say?"
"I didn't take sides, I abstained from voting, and I said everything will be subject to the leadership's arrangements... How to support and how to cooperate will be subject to the leadership's arrangements."
"oh."
Feng Minmin and Chen Kai were smoking cigarettes and looking out the window.
The situation in the new round of general elections of the China Film Association is not very optimistic for them. Zhou Yilin has received more than 60% support and is currently gaining momentum. It seems that he is invincible and invincible.
posture.
Feng Minmin, the former president, only received 40% approval rate. Except for a few old foxes who abstained from voting, the rest of the young people or middle-level directors all supported Zhou Yilin.
After Feng Minmin saw that the China Film Association, which he once controlled, was about to fall apart, his heart was inevitably complicated.
"Only by uniting and making this cake together can everyone have food to eat. Now that the entire association is like this, I don't know how many new generation directors will go hungry, and I don't know which direction Chinese films will go in the future..."
Feng Ruiming put out his cigarette butt and finally sighed quietly.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a little old, and he felt sad beyond words.
Chen Kai's face was gloomy, but he didn't say anything. He just looked at his watch silently.
It's seven o'clock in the morning.
In two hours, Shen Jinsong's "Sword God" will premiere.
This era has gradually become a commercial era, and movie box office is naturally a crucial part.
In the past two years, the China Film Association has really not had any good works, and they are all holding back their energy to prepare for a big fight with Hollywood in the second half of 2007 to boost morale.
"Sword God", adapted from the best-selling martial arts novel, is naturally one of the movies that competes with Hollywood.
Shen Jinsong has been preparing for this movie for three years, and his enthusiasm has almost gone bad, but he is still ambitious and has been waiting for the right time to release it.
As it is said at the beginning of the novel, it takes ten years to sharpen a sword, and one sword will shock the world.
Feng Minmin and Chen Kai are actually looking forward to this movie.
"Let's go and watch "Sword God"."
"Um."
Among all the bad news, there is still good news.
After all, "Sword God" is considered a production of their Chinese Film Association.
……………………
All the Chinese directors who used to be very popular were very low-key when "Sword God" premiered.
When facing the media, everyone is extremely humble. Even Shen Jinsong, the director of "Sword God", has always maintained a silent attitude.
"Sword God" will not be released during the Golden Week of October 1st, nor is it a holiday. Although we are confident about the movie, everyone knows that the box office will not be ideal at the premiere.
"Haha, I'm not the president, I'm just activating my old bones to make this association more dynamic, lest some people say that our association is an elderly care association, haha..."
"The road to the release of "Sword God" is indeed quite bumpy. After all, there are so many blockbusters in October that it is not easy to get the film scheduled. But I believe this movie will surprise the audience."
"Hey, President Feng is here. President Feng, please come over here. I've reserved a place for you..."
"..."
When Zhou Yilin came to the screening room, his face burst into laughter.
Facing the camera, he said something that was not arrogant but made some directors sound harsh.
When Feng Ruimin walked over, he happened to see Zhou Yilin's smiling eyes.
Feng Juji immediately felt a strong sense of disgust in his heart. He felt acid reflux in his stomach and wanted to vomit on the spot.
The premiere of "Sword God" should be directed by director Shen Jinsong or Feng Minmin, but Zhou Yilin turned away from the guests and started to greet him as a guest.
"It's getting more and more arrogant!"
After being hypocritically polite, Feng Minmin finally sat down in his seat. Chen Kai stared at Zhou Yilin in the distance who continued to chat and laugh in front of the media, and couldn't help but curse.
When they came in, the media didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about them. Everyone seemed to have heard something. Although there were interviews with them, most of them were of a casual nature. They held the microphone in their hands and looked elsewhere.
.
Even their treatment is not as good as that of second- and third-tier directors like Feng Kai...
Such a performance naturally made people feel a huge gap. Chen Kai jumped a little, but in the end he did not get angry.
They are no longer the same as they were in early October, and the superiors seem to be quite disappointed with them. Even the people behind Chen Kai said they should keep a low profile as much as possible during this period.
They are in the limelight, so there is no need to make themselves uncomfortable.
At about 8:50, the big screen of "Sword God" in the distance finally dimmed, and then began to play advertisements.
"Eh? This is a comedy?"
"Hey, they are all new actors. This actor is so ugly..."
"Haha, even though it's so ugly, it's so joyful and makes me laugh..."
"Gone?"
"This is the trailer!"
"..."
Advertisements before a movie are usually quite dull and cumbersome, making the audience want to fast forward.
However, when a road movie trailer advertisement called "Laughing All the Way" was played in the screening room for the first time, there was a commotion in the whole screening room.
The audience literally laughed out loud after watching the trailer of the new movie on the screen.
It's just that this trailer is very short, only about thirty seconds long. After the trailer ended, it didn't say when the movie called "Laughing Flowers All the Way" will be released...
This made the audience feel a little regretful.
Feng Minmin frowned and looked at the words "Produced by Huaxing" and the work of director Zhang Changsheng.
Before I had time to think about who the director Zhang Changsheng was, another set of trailers were played in the advertisement.
【I’ll beat your lungs out!】
[You insulted my personality first, and now you insult my IQ!]
[This matter becomes kidnapping, which is not our specialty!]
【……】
After watching "Laughing All the Way", the audience unexpectedly saw the trailer of "Crazy Stone".
This time, the audience laughed more happily than in the previous film.
The language of this movie trailer is completely cinematic and audio-visual, rather than the traditional paradigm of 'novel, prose or even poetry' that Chinese films are good at and firmly adhere to. It deliberately mobilizes the special sense of humor of the dialect.
, all about the comedies of small people in a turbulent metropolis...
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This alternative black sense of humor refreshed the audience and made them even more curious about the movie.
"Damn it! When will this movie be released? I think it's quite interesting."
"Haha, I'm so happy."
"Hey, this movie was written by Zhou Yang again, haha, I didn't expect Zhou Yang to know this?"
"..."
Waves of laughter and turbulent discussions echoed in Feng Ruimin's ears, becoming more and more harsh.
The corners of Feng Juji's mouth moved slightly, especially when he saw the director's name, Feng Juji couldn't help but closed his eyes.
The director’s name is Liu Can.
In the 1990s, I made a literary film called "Black and White Humor", which was screened at the Russian International Film Festival and achieved a great response.
Later, after returning to China, Feng Minji briefly came into contact with this director, but Feng Minji didn't like the director's temperament, he was very arrogant...
The bottom line is that the China Film Association was dismissive of them and not only rejected their invitation, but even refused to provide them with corresponding "protection fees."
Later, Feng Minmin reported to the relevant departments on the pretext of "showing abroad without approval", and Liu Can was blocked for more than ten years.
During this period, Feng Minmin heard about him and learned that he could no longer endure the hardships of life and had changed his career.
Feng Minmin stopped paying attention to it later.
There were so many directors banned in those years, how could he have the time to pay attention to them?
Even when Hua Xing announced the plan for "Crazy Stone" later, he didn't pay much attention to it.
But no one could have imagined that in this special period, his new work would appear grandly in the cinema, and what's even more unexpected is that this movie was actually directed by him.
Feng Minmin began to have a bad premonition.
He suddenly felt like a joke.
Maybe, this circle will get better without them!
This thought came to his mind.
Just when his emotions were complicated, "Sword God" was finally released.
"This movie may not perform very well..."
"The plot is too cliche..."
"Well, it's the main plot of the movie where an orphan seeks revenge and finally succeeds in revenge..."
"But isn't that how the "Sword God" novel is written?"
"..."
Not even ten minutes before "Sword God" was released, he heard an audience next to him pointing at the movie.