With the release of the last heavyweight movie of the summer season, "Seven Swords", the 2005 summer season is coming to an end.
This martial arts movie, which brings together one of the Four Heavenly Kings, Lai Ming, Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen, and one of the Four Big Boys, Lu Yi, has replaced "Terror Cruise" and become the object of most media and movie fans.
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If "Terror Cruise" were not about to become the annual box office champion, and news of Tang An's new film had not been released, I would have only found news about "Terror Cruise" in nooks and crannies.
Just like the previous "Initial D", the popularity before its release was no less than that of the previous "Terror Cruise".
But once "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released and took the top spot at the box office, the amount of attention immediately dropped by half.
After "Terror Cruise" was released, no one paid attention to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith".
The same goes for "Seven Swords" now. The martial arts films directed by Xu Ke are still very popular, even though the leading actor is no longer Jet Li.
In the end, "Seven Swords" received a box office of 820,000 in the zero-time show, ranking second in the year's zero-time box office.
The first is the record of 1.09 million set by "Terror Cruise", with a difference of nearly 300,000.
On the 29th, "Terror Cruise" delivered a score of 1.66 million, and the trend is still steady.
"Seven Swords" lost the first battle, but this was expected.
Comparing the zero-point box office with "Horror Movie"?
Whoever watches a martial arts movie about fighting and killing people in the middle of the night must have eaten too much!
Except for some tabloids who have begun to compare the box office of "Seven Swords" with the zero-point box office and badmouth "Seven Swords", most of them are waiting for the release of the first-day box office and the first-day box office of "Terror Cruise" to face "Seven Swords".
In the early morning of Friday the 30th, the box office results of the two movies were released at the same time.
"Seven Swords" 7.78 million!
"Terror Cruise" 1.21 million.
"Seven Swords" set a first-day box office record in 2005!
It's another round of media carnival, and the media is the happiest at this time.
Not surprisingly, most of the media praised "Seven Swords" and pursued Xu Ke.
According to the media, "Seven Swords" became the best blockbuster of the year.
Xu Ke became a super director, and the title of director with a box office of 100 million yuan was placed on his head again.
The horror cruise ship, which is still going strong, has naturally become the target of comparison by the media. Comparisons are made from all aspects, and the result is of course a complete failure.
"Seven Swords", which set a first-day box office record, continued to earn 8.21 million on its second day of release. Not only did it break the 8 million mark, it was only one step away from the annual single-day box office record set by "Terror Cruise."
Everyone is extremely confident and has no doubt whether "Seven Swords" can break the record.
On the third day of the movie's release, the first rest day, "Seven Swords" sat on the throne of the annual single-day box office record as expected, knocking "Terror Cruise" off the stage.
8.34 million!
Although the increase compared to Friday was almost negligible, the box office of "Terror Cruise" once again fell by 27% to 1.65 million on Saturday, but it was automatically ignored by the media.
"Seven Swords" was released for three days on Sunday, August 1st, and word of mouth has already spread.
However, most of the reviews are negative. Movie fans are obviously not satisfied with Xu Ke's heart-breaking work.
The negative reviews were ultimately reflected in the box office. "Seven Swords" only received 7.42 million at the box office this Sunday, which was even lower than the first day of release.
And "Terror Cruise" still received 1.46 million box office. It is still slowly reaping the box office due to its good reputation among the audience.
The media is still pretending to be deaf and mute, ignoring the good trend of "Terror Cruise".
Anyway, after blowing for more than half a month, there is no point in blowing anymore.
After doing a simple elementary school math addition, the media were surprised to find that "Seven Swords" actually took in a box office of 31.25 million in the first four days of the weekend, which was 80,000 more than the 31.17 million of "Terror Cruise"!
What else can I say? Hold it, hold it hard!
"The hot summer movies are coming. Director Xu Ke, Li Ming, and Donnie Yen are descending from the Tianshan Mountains with Seven Swords, sweeping the summer movies!"
"The king of heaven, Li Ming, kung fu superstar Donnie Yen, and the genius director Xu Ke, jointly present the best martial arts film of the year. The box office of "Seven Swords" reached 31.25 million in four days of release!"
"The annual opening record has been broken, "Seven Swords" surpassed "Terror Cruise" in all aspects!"
""Seven Swords" is a hit at the box office, and it's hard to get a ticket in major cities during prime time!"
"The Billion-Yuan Club will add new members. Xu Ke's sword strike in four years will finally become a masterpiece!"
It was a joy to brag about it, and he applied the words he used to brag about Tang An to Xu Ke again.
It is said that being a reporter is quite simple sometimes. If you use it a few times for a press release, I guess you can continue to use it next year.
However, everyone in the industry knows that "Seven Swords" is like this. On the fourth day of its release, on Sunday, the price dropped by 12%.
At the beginning, the decline of "Terror Cruise" was only 5%.
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Tang An has been writing scripts at home these days and no longer goes to road shows with the crew. It is basically unnecessary!
Sometimes when I feel bored at home, I go to the studio to sit around, and in the evening I go to Xu Manyun’s house to have a meal.
In four or five days, Tang An refined the entire script again.
Almost several main roles already have ideal candidates, and some slight adjustments have been made compared to the original work according to the characteristics of the actors.
As for the actors not wanting to come?
Doesn't exist!
I rubbed my sore right hand, which felt a little uncomfortable after holding the pen for a long time.
I took the script to Xu Manyun's office and asked her to print it out on A4 paper.
"Just make three copies. Don't use too much. Just make it when you need it. It won't be good if it drops and leaks!"
Keep one manuscript and one typed copy for yourself, one for the heroine, and one for Chen Daoming.
Xu Manyun took Tang An's manuscript and typed on the keyboard quickly. As he typed, he said, "Do you really want to make this superwoman story?"
Tang An sat back in the chair and rubbed his wrist, "Otherwise, the script would have been revised three times!"
Xu Manyun opened his mouth, but stopped talking.
"It's only 30 million. Even if I lose everything, I can still make it back. Even if I lose this movie, as long as I say I want to continue making horror movies, a lot of people will wave their money and invite me over!" Tang An knew what she was worried about.
, smiled and said boldly.
"If you make an extra 30 million yuan in a year, it will take you another year to make it back at worst!"
"Of course I believe you, as long as you know it well!" Xu Manyun sighed secretly.
How could he not believe that Tang An could earn another 30 million? He had just seen too many geniuses rise suddenly and quickly become popular among others after encountering setbacks.
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Tang An is preparing for a new movie, and Xu Ke leads the crew all over the country in an attempt to save the poor reputation.
However, everything is in vain.
On August 2, the box office of "Seven Swords" plummeted 60%, taking in only 3.01 million.
It seems that the trend is similar to that of "Terror Cruise", but this is a costume blockbuster, which has a natural advantage in the audience, and the base is there.
On the 3rd, "Seven Swords" continued to fall, barely reaching 2 million, with a drop of 30%.
In the next three working days, the momentum was stabilized, and the box office stopped at more than 6.2 million without any danger.
The trend of "Terror Cruise" is still as steady as a dog, with an average box office of about 1.2 million every day.
By the time "Seven Swords" was released in its third week, after a brief rise over the weekend, the box office was only just over 1 million.
"Terror Cruise" also just stopped at the critical point of 1 million, and the two returned to the same level.
But "Terror Cruise" has been released for almost a month, which shows how terrifying it is!
At this time, the media that had already praised Xu Ke and "Seven Swords" to the sky suddenly changed their tune and began to criticize "Seven Swords" as a bad movie.
A common trick in the media is to first lift you up to the sky, then throw you down even harder, and then slap you hard in the face!
In the end, it was Seven Swords that was released later, and "Terror Cruise" was postponed for two days.
After a long screening, "Terror Cruise" was fully released on August 22, and the total box office exceeded the 80 million mark, reaching a high of 82.34 million!
"Seven Swords" was also canceled a week later, with a total box office of only 66.38 million.
"Terror Cruise" won the 2005 summer box office championship and was also the annual box office champion.
Tang An also won his first annual box office championship, and is one step closer to becoming a "great director"!