The most anticipated movie during the Spring Festival, "Modern Times," failed. Since the holiday, the box office has collapsed, with a cliff-like drop. It is estimated that there is no hope of breaking over 100 million.
When word-of-mouth reaches a certain scale, it can really affect the life or death of a movie, whether it is good or bad.
For a passable funny movie, the audience's expectations were too high, so criticism was almost everywhere, and in the end it did not achieve the expected box office.
However, if it had not been for Xu Zheng's starring role, this film would not have received more than 70 million at the box office during the eight-day holiday.
For the producer and distributor Zhuying Group, this film, which cost less than 20 million to produce, is actually considered a success.
Among several other movies in the same period, the box office of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" has exceeded 150 million, and the box office is slowly moving towards 200 million.
"The Greatest Happiness" is also close to 150 million, and "Wonderful Heroes" exceeds 50 million
During the Spring Festival, there is also a Hollywood superhero movie "The Green Hornet" invested by Colombia, with a box office of more than 150 million.
This movie was originally filmed as a TV series by ABC TV station. Li Xiaolong became popular in North America because of his role as Kato in the TV series version of "The Green Hornet".
This time, Jay Chou took over from Li Xiaolong, with a North American box office of US$34 million in the first weekend, a total box office of nearly 100 million, and a global US$200 million. Compared with the production fee of US$90 million, Colombia still made a lot of money.
Of course, this film received very poor reviews both in North America and China.
But after all, it has a global box office of 250 million U.S. dollars, real data, and it is still the second male lead. It is definitely a big qualification, enough to brag about for a while.
In addition, the domestic box office of "Love to the End" starring Xu Jinglei exceeded 200 million.
In addition, the box office of "New Shaolin Temple" also successfully exceeded 200 million. So far, Si Dan Shuang Bing has all starred in movies with a box office of over 200 million.
In the span of ten years, they are still active at the top level of domestic actresses. This may be due to luck, but it also fully illustrates their strength.
Tang An took the time to go to the premiere and asked Xu Jinglei to play a role as a leader of a space agency. His role was not much, so he treated it as a guest appearance.
This film is basically Liu Ye's one-man show, and there are basically only a few characters who have some acting roles.
In addition, there is also a role as the director of the space agency. Tang An asked Changying Group to contact Li Youbing.
Oriental Dragon Pictures, a subsidiary of Poly Culture, is a joint venture between Poly Culture and Changying Film Studio, and it has also been called a little bit.
Li Youbing was an actor at Changying Film Studio back then. With this relationship, it was much easier to talk about it. After all, he was also one of the top TV drama actors in the country, and the price of a single episode was more than 200,000.
Although TV drama actors are not as good as movie actors, at the level of Li Youbing, Chen Baoguo and others, there is no longer any distinction between movies and TV dramas.
What's more, he was specially recruited by the General Political Department and the Bayi Factory because he successfully played the role of a military commander who fought against floods with the soldiers in "The Storm".
Civilian officers, civilian level 2, are equivalent to the rank of major general, second only to the general of special-level civilian cadres and the lieutenant general of level 1 civilian cadres.
This time, under the introduction of a director of Changying Group, Tang An came to visit Li Youbing's home.
No matter what, etiquette must be observed.
"Hello, Teacher Li."
"Hello, Director Tang."
Li Youbing smiled and asked Tang An to sit down, and his wife Shi Lan also poured a cup of tea over.
Tang An thanked him, exchanged a few words of greeting and directly explained his intention, and then took out a copy of the script and character outline and handed it over.
"Teacher Li, this time I'm here to ask you to play the role of the director of the space agency in my new movie "The Martian"."
"I have admired Director Tang's films for a long time, but why did you think of asking me to play this role?" Li Youbing took the script and asked curiously.
"Teacher Li, please read the script first, and I will speak slowly."
"Then let me take a look first. Director Tang, please wait a moment."
Li Youbing's attitude towards Tang An is quite good. After all, he was introduced by Changying Group, and Tang An is now a top domestic director.
It's not like he hasn't heard of Tang An's new movie. Judging from the title "The Martian", he can probably guess it.
Li Youbing read slowly, and it took him more than half an hour to finish reading a script. The plot was not much different from what he had guessed.
The director of the space agency he plays is a leader who arranges and implements a plan to rescue astronauts on Earth. The character is not complicated and there are not many scenes.
Tang An waited until he had finished reading, then took a sip from the tea cup before introducing him.
"Teacher Li, you have also seen this role. There are not many scenes, but this role is also very important in the film. Our astronauts are like rootless duckweeds, floating in outer space and alien planets, and you, the director
The image must be stable, trustworthy, and bring a sense of security to astronauts floating in outer space.”
Li Youbing nodded approvingly, holding the script in his hand and listening to Tang An continue.
"Astronauts are trapped on Mars. The entire space agency is worried, the people are worried, and the audience is also worried. Your role is to reassure them. In terms of appearance, I think there are few people who are more suitable than you, Mr. Li.
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"Of course, the more important thing is the scene in the middle. The monitors accidentally discovered that the astronauts were not killed. The space agency needed to rescue them. But given the conditions at the time, there was very little hope. Although you only had a few lines, you still had a good performance during the performance.
The entire space agency must have confidence in the rescue operation."
"There is also the press conference for the rescue operation that is open to the whole country. People all over the country are watching you, waiting for you to rescue the space heroes. Your speech at the press conference should make people feel at ease and have confidence in the rescue operation. Your voice must be strong.
Infectious."
Tang An took a sip of water, observed Li Youbing's expression, and felt that he should be more confident.
Li Youbing also spoke at this time and asked, "In that case, Lao Chen is more suitable for this role."
Tang An naturally knew that he was talking about Chen Baoguo, and said with a smile, "Teacher Li, you are more passionate than Teacher Chen. Aerospace is a risky business, and I need your passion."
Among the actors of the older generation, Li Youbing is the most suitable for this role. He must be mature and steady, have a trustworthy appearance, be passionate, and speak contagiously.
After finishing the role of Li Youbing, there were basically no other important roles, and then Tang An continued to work on the storyboard script.
Occasionally, I look at the exterior photos, props, and interior scenes sent back by Zhao Jun.
The preparations for "The Secret of the Dragon" and "Detective Chinatown" have basically been completed. The former was filmed at the Huairou Film and Television Base. The studio has a total area of nearly 10,000 square meters. It was set up and filmed at the same time.
The Thai government was very supportive of the latter, there were almost no problems with the location, and the location fee was waived.