The Spring Festival season ended with the huge success of "Want to See You". It was not until the Disney animated film "Super Marines" voiced by Li Hyuk was released in mainland theaters on February 28 that "Want to See You" went from being number one on the box office list that day.
Position down.
However, as of February 28, the film has already earned 1.458 billion, becoming the first domestic love movie to exceed 1 billion. Professional box office forecasting agencies believe that the film is expected to exceed 1.6 billion, setting a new box office record for domestic movies.
I have to mention here the movie "There's a Place Only We Know" in which Liu Kai plays the second male lead. This movie was released on February 10th and has only made 230 million at the box office so far.
Logically speaking, it is good for a low-cost film to achieve such results, but compared to "Want to See You", there is only a huge gap. The director and the starring actors were very happy, but only Liu Kaiwei was angry. Perhaps it was because he personally went to work on Li
He reason.
Although "Want to See You" has a high box office and a good reputation, the film I am most happy about is definitely not this one, but the variety show "Where Are We Going, Dad 2".
This variety show film took one week to shoot and three days to do post-production, but it achieved a box office of 222 million. Although it was not as high as the previous film, it was enough to satisfy the investors.
In addition, guests from the first season of Where Are We Going, Dad worked together to make a movie called "Dad's Holiday", hoping to make money, but they miscalculated that the film's total box office was 115 million, and they could not even get their money back. Because of this film
It has nothing to do with Mango Channel. Actors' remuneration has naturally increased, so 115 million is not even enough for actors' remuneration, leaving the main investor Bona Pictures with a huge loss.
The film industry is like this. Those who make money will lose money. What matters is whether they can sum up experience and continue to grasp the market if they make money. Those who lose money will avoid a similar situation happening next time. But this time Mango Channel and Bona Pictures won
My experience is that the IP address of Dad, Where Are We Going has been ruined and cannot be invested in anymore.
At the same time, TM gained another experience, that is, love movies with time-travel elements are now a general direction of the market, so needless to say, several companies immediately started to initiate projects with related themes.
If Li Hyuk knew about it, he would just shake his head. These investors only saw the appearance of the film's success, but did not analyze the specific reasons why the film was successful. What is the reason for the film's success? It is because of its excellent quality and exciting plot.
The actors' hard work and other factors made "Want to See You" a huge success.
Needless to say, except for a few companies that follow the trend, others can't even lick their plates. In this era of traffic, everyone is blinded, and it depends on who can wake up early and understand that quality is the key.
This is the essential truth.
But Li He hopes they don't wake up, otherwise how can he stand out among the bad movies? It's not that our army is too good at fighting, but that the enemy army is too rubbish!
Next, it is the turn of "Big Hero Marines" to show off its power. As an animated film produced by Disney, its quality is excellent enough. The most important thing is that it is the only animation that uses the same actor to dub in both Chinese and English.
Movie.
When the film was released in China, the biggest publicity name was Li Hyuk. With Li Hyuk as his brand, the film had a bright future. As expected, the film was released on February 28 and grossed 56.385 million box office on the first day, breaking a new record
The first-day box office record for Hollywood animated films in China.
Then "Big Hero 6" got out of hand, earning 213 million in box office in its first week, which shocked many experts. Disney executives were very happy. The most important revenue from animated movies is peripheral products, but in China
As we all know, peripheral products have never been very good, but fortunately, this time the box office performance was excellent.
Li Hyuk is a box office star, Disney President Robert Iger thought, and then he held a meeting with people from Marvel Studios to discuss the possibility of Li Hyuk joining the Marvel Universe. However, Kevin Feige clearly expressed his opposition because he believed
Li Hyuk is just lucky and does not deserve Marvel to develop a separate movie series for him.
Marvel had previously tentatively invited Lee Hyuk to play the role of its superhero Shang-Chi, but was rejected by Lee Hyuk. Lee Hyuk believed that this superhero setting hurt his national sentiments unless Marvel fully adapted Shang-Chi from comics to movies.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to star in this superhero movie.
For Marvel, which is aloof, letting you, a yellow-skinned monkey, play a superhero is enough to make you look good, and they want us to change the character, which is absolutely impossible.
I earn your money, but I still look down on you. You are just like the pigtails a hundred years ago, you are all inferior people. Do you understand?
Kevin Feige's idea is by no means an exception, which shows that this idea has a huge market in the West. Although it is not stated explicitly, the meaning behind it is very clear because of what a fine person Li He is. No matter what he thinks in his heart
, but after all, I am a flower grower now. There are some things I can do and some things I cannot do. This kind of thing must have a bottom line.
In this way, Robert Iger's idea of inviting Lee Hyuk to join Marvel movies fell through, and the conversation ended there. However, Disney had no idea, but other Hollywood companies had ideas about Lee Hyuk.
Since the success of "Drummer", Damien Chazelle has attracted the attention of the industry. At the 87th Academy Awards held on February 23 this year, "Drummer" was nominated for Best Picture, and even more
It won three awards including Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Sound Effects.
Li Hyuk was busy filming "The Secret of the Dragon" and he was not nominated, so he did not go. However, as the film won awards, he also attracted a lot of attention in North America. If it were not for his identity as a Chinese, he would have been
The reputation of a talented actor cannot escape.
It is worth mentioning that "Big Hero 6", voiced by Lee Hyuk, successfully won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. When the award recipient went up to give his acceptance speech, he thanked Lee Hyuk.
When J.K. Simmons took the stage to accept the Best Supporting Actor Award, he even called on everyone to pay attention to Li Hyuk, a young actor, and to pay attention to Chinese movies.
Although others are soft-spoken, Li Hyuk has indeed attracted a certain amount of attention. Damien Chazelle's new film is still about music themes. He has received the full support of Warner Pictures, which provided a production fee of 30 million US dollars for the film.
, and promised that the film’s promotional funds will not be less than 20 million.
In view of the excellent performance in the Chinese market and Lee Hyuk's strong appeal in the Chinese market, Warner Pictures communicated with Damien Chazelle about the idea of continuing to appoint Lee Hyuk as the leading actor.
Unexpectedly, it coincided with Damien Chazelle's idea. According to him, when writing the script, he followed Li Hyuk's template. The two parties hit it off immediately, so another overseas phone call came.
On the desk of Li He's agent Qian Duoduo.
"Qian, I solemnly invite Li Hyuk to come and audition for my new movie..."
Qian Duoduo instantly lost his sleepiness at night and immediately woke up: "Director Chazelle, what is the name of the new movie? Is there a script?"
"What's the name of the new work? I haven't decided yet, so why not call it "La La Land" for now..."