"This movie shooting is a unique experience for me, and it is also an unforgettable experience." Li Hyuk responded calmly and calmly to the reporter's interview.
"Will you continue to work as an actor in the future?" Interview reporter Yu Shuang asked.
Li Hyuk replied: "Actors only make occasional guest appearances, and the focus of my career is always on music."
“What’s next for film work?”
"Next, I am preparing a musical film, and I also plan to get involved in the directing industry and direct this musical film. I hope to meet you in the future."
The exclusive interview report was quickly released along with the premiere that day. Some people were happy and some were worried.
What is gratifying is that Lee Hyuk has not completely transformed, but continues to stick to the music industry. What is worrying is that Lee Hyuk actually plans to get involved in the directing industry and direct movies himself.
In the past few years, people who have crossed over to become directors have fully proved one thing. It is really not possible to become a director across industries. The profession of director is a highly professional profession, just like music creation, and not just anyone can do it.
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However, Li Hyuk has a huge number of fans. As long as it is not an exaggerated investment, there will still be capital willing to pay for Li Hyuk based on his appeal.
At the same time, the box office of "Initial D", which premiered during the Dragon Boat Festival, was released on the first day. With Li Hyuk's strong appeal, many fans immediately attracted many fans to go to the cinema to support it. It scored 103 million in the box office on the first day, which was a success.
Won the first day box office championship.
The market response in the island countries is also good. Li Hyuk himself is very popular in the island countries, and this comic also has a group of fans in the island countries.
Moreover, the success of "Initial D" can be regarded as opening up the exploration of racing themes in Chinese-language film genres, even though the film is adapted from the island country's comics.
Since other films were not released in the same period and are not as competitive as the above-mentioned films, they are not worth mentioning.
The most important markets for "Initial D" are Japan and South Korea. In South Korea, Lee Hyuk has a large number of fans. The movie was released in South Korea and directly attracted 5.3 million moviegoers.
The movie "The Best of Us" released in the same period only took in 151 million, which was unable to compete with "Initial D". "X-Men: Dark Phoenix", also released in the same period, posed a slight threat, taking 2.2 in three days.
billion, but its reputation has completely collapsed.
The number one rating on Douban is Time, which is as high as 8.1. As the number of people rating increases, it will definitely drop, but maintaining a score of 7.5 or above is not a problem.
Although many times, this support eventually turns into disappointment.
So as the movie's reputation spread, praise for Li Hyuk and other leading actors also spread to the Internet, which converted into box office revenue.
The movie has achieved good results at the box office and has a good reputation. What impresses the audience the most is that although Li Hyuk's acting skills are young, they are also remarkable and completely break the previous stereotype.
Although Douban ratings are not very objective, there is a saying that goes well: a movie with a high Douban rating may not necessarily be a good movie, but a movie with a low rating on Douban must be a bad movie.
At least it proves that "Initial D" is not a movie made for fans of Lee Hyuk, but a mature work for movie fans and the movie market.
Although Li Hyuk is not a popular star, he will inevitably face such doubts as an actor across borders.
I have to say that Chinese movie fans are tolerant and have been devastated by bad movies again and again, but as long as there are signs of improvement, many movie fans will support it.
Winning the box office championship for three consecutive days, "Initial D" also became the box office champion during this year's Dragon Boat Festival with a box office of 415 million, setting a box office record for this period.
Needless to say, the other actors are all professional.
With the support of fans, Yuan Hua's first film only grossed over RMB 60 million at the box office on the first day, which shows Li Hyuk's strong appeal.
Fans from the island country were interviewed after watching the movie, and they described "Initial D" with words such as wonderful, incredible, Lee Hyuk is so handsome, Suzuki Airi is so beautiful, and the movie is great.
After the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, films continued to hit theaters, and there were almost no heavyweight opponents throughout the first half of June.
It wasn't until June 21, when Hayao Miyazaki's classic animated film "Spirited Away" was released, that "Initial D" lost its spot as the single-day box office champion.
This is not complete. There is a three-day holiday during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is a small period. Although it is not as good as the National Day period, it is still enough to create excellent box office. On the second day, "Initial D" continued to score 145 million in box office. By the third day
, the box office did not decline and continued to earn 167 million.
Because of this, fans who have some trust in Lu Xiaohan's acting skills and who have high expectations for domestic science fiction movies after the impact of "The Wandering Earth" at the beginning of the year are looking forward to "Shanghai Fortress" which will premiere next month.
Popular celebrities are criticized for being actors, mainly because their acting skills are poor, they receive enviable high salaries, and they are very perfunctory and unprofessional.
Li Hyuk's one movie has a higher box office than Yuan Hua's three or four movies, which makes Yuan Hua's fans very angry.
Maybe I just didn’t have expectations, but when the movie performed beyond expectations, the positive feedback it brought was huge.
But after the movie was released, viewers who watched the movie realized that Li Hyuk did a good job! He played the role of Takumi in a decent way, and he didn't have any stage fright when he acted opposite Fa Ge, and he was able to catch the scene.
But at this time, the box office of "Initial D" has reached 883 million. Although there is little hope of breaking through 1 billion, it is enough to satisfy investors.
The most important thing is that "Initial D" is a mature commercial movie, not a popular traffic movie in recent years. In addition to fans, passers-by also have a good sense of the movie.
Even Lu Xiaohan's guest appearance was the pinnacle of his acting career. The dirty-braided brother he played was very embarrassed and funny when he crashed into a car.
415 million also broke the box office record of Yuan Hua's first film, leaving those Yuan Hua fans who were talking about the film's box office speechless.
As we all know, due to the severe depreciation of the Korean currency, the Korean film market is generally counted based on the number of movie viewers. The number of movie viewers of "Initial D" actually ranked among the top fifteen movie viewers in Korean film history. This shows that Lee Hyuk is popular.
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The sequel "Chasing the Dragon 2" directed by Wang Jing brought together many Hong Kong movie stars and earned 141 million in three days. It also had a poor reputation and did not pose any decent threat.
A movie with a score of 7 or above is already a good movie, and any movie with a score of 8 or above can be classified as a classic movie.
Before the movie was released, various rumors about Lee Hyuk's poor acting skills and perfunctory attitude were flying all over the place, which interfered with the choice of movie fans to a certain extent.
The film lived up to expectations and topped the box office of the island country for two consecutive weeks, creating a box office performance of 35 million US dollars, and it is still accumulating.
The scattered box office revenue in other parts of Asia is more than 10 million US dollars, which is all due to Li Hyuk's appeal. Together with the mainland box office, "Initial D" has created a considerable profit, which has attracted major investors.
Be happy and smile.
Da Mi Mi made a lot of money as an investor, and this investment earned her hundreds of millions.
In order to reward Li He, Da Mi Mi tried many new tricks with Li He in their private love nest. Da Mi Mi also gave Li He a luxury sports car as a birthday gift.
Li Hyuk's birthday is coming soon, and no one will doubt the gift. After all, the movie has just been a hit.