Chapter 509 Zhang Weiping is finished, the new picture is finished.
2011 is almost over, and this year’s Lunar New Year festival did not disappoint the audience.
The three movies have always maintained a very good reputation and can be considered both critical and box office hits.
The three major companies racked their brains in arranging films for publicity. After Zhang Weiping "blocked" Bernard's cinemas for 9 days, he finally provided a copy to Bernard.
But Yu Dong lost his temper and would rather make less money than show "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling".
The conflict between the two sides once again deepened, and Zhang Weiping couldn't get angry anymore, so he began to argue with Yu Dong again, and a large number of trolls began to appear, criticizing the two movies "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate".
""Jinling Hairpin" is also too politically correct. Prostitutes must be fucked to death and female students must escape intact. Every paragraph demonstrates Zhang Yimou's high-end function of being unable to poop. Far-fetched transitions and clueless narrative
, vomiting sensationalism, plagiarizing "Schindler's List" + "The Embalmer", I strongly hope Zhang Yimou will refund his money."
This is one of the most liked comments on a professional website. In just seven or eight hours, there were more than 40 comments, and all kinds of abuses came out one after another.
It also plagiarized "Schindler's List" and "The Embalmer". It would be more convincing to say that it plagiarized "Asylum".
At that time, the writer Li Si wrote the novel "Jinling Singer", which was adapted into the movie "Refuge", directed by Han Sanping.
In addition to Li Si, the screenwriter also includes Yan Geling's husband Li Kewei.
Yan Geling also came into contact with the script, but did not participate in the creation.
In the past few years, Yan Geling wrote the book "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", which has now been adapted into a movie of the same name.
The actual story structure of "The Thirteen Hairpins" is basically the same as the movie "Refuge".
"Refuge" tells the story of a small town in southern my country that was captured by the Japanese army in 1938, and the church where American Bishop Holden lived became a refuge.
The famous prostitute Yang Liufeng, Hu Cuihua and the actor Xiao Caiyue came to seek refuge and made a mess in the church.
Holden asked Keith from the Red Cross to take them away with the choir girls. Unexpectedly, more wounded soldiers from our country came to take refuge.
Japanese officer Hattori first broke in and killed the wounded soldier, and then attempted to violently assault the choir girl, but Holden stopped him.
Kedaisi, who was responsible for the rescue, did not come. At the critical moment, Yangliu Feng and three others stepped forward and boarded the Japanese car in place of the choir girl.
Wind in the Willows set off a bomb, and three miserable women protested with their lives against the atrocities of the invaders, and died together with the Japanese.
Doesn't it feel inexplicably familiar? It's almost the same as the outline of "Thirteen Beauties of Jinling".
But almost no one mentions it, why?
Just because "Shelter" and "Songstress" are not famous, while "Schindler's List" and "The Embalmer" are more famous, and they are still foreign films.
Especially "The Embalmer" is a Japanese film.
A Chinese-language film with the Anti-Japanese War as the background is more likely to be attacked if it plagiarizes a Japanese film.
Just because the priest in "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is an embalmer, he was labeled as plagiarizing the movie "The Embalmer"
There are all kinds of abuses. Some say that Zhang Yimou now only relies on stories about women in bed to attract box office, some say that he consumes the suffering of the nation, and some say that he is flattering and kitsch.
The same goes for "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate". The movie has no plot and is like watching people playing games.
Some said they couldn't stand Li Yuchun playing a female character and falling in love with Chen Kun.
Li Lianlian's slumped face, Chen Kun's eyeliner, Zou Xun's voice, Brother Chun's square face
Originally, Yu Dongfang also did a lot of negative marketing for "The Martian" when the new picture was released, but after finding that it was not effective, he still focused all his energy on promoting his own movie.
There was peace for a while last week, with each of them promoting their own, but now New Picture and Bernard are at war again, attacking each other, creating a mess.
The weekend is gradually passing, and this weekend coincides with Christmas, but the limited film schedule is still difficult to achieve a box office explosion.
118 million in two days, and the total box office in 18 days was 1.135 billion, officially surpassing "Edge of Tomorrow" with 1.134 billion, becoming the new Chinese film box office champion.
And there is only a gap of 30 to 40 million between this year's annual box office champion "Transformers".
"The Thirteen Beauties" earned 102 million in two days over the weekend, with a total box office of 466 million.
"Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" earned 95 million in two days, with a total box office of 427 million!
In the past week, "The Martian" had 332 million in a single week, "Jinling" had 262 million in a single week, and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" had 241 million in a single week.
Last week, the market reached a record high of 835 million, surpassing the previous week's 823 million, once again setting a new single-week box office record for the mainland film market.
Throughout December up to the 25th, the box office in a single month has exceeded 2 billion, of which 2.03 billion was generated in the 18 days from the 8th to the 25th.
The domestic film market has once again exploded with amazing potential, attracting the attention of the entire film and television industry
On the evening of Monday, December 26, Tang An and the crew finished their day's schedule and rushed to the airport again to rush to the next scene.
It broke the Chinese film record, and Tang An did not hold a celebration party.
If we really want to do it, we should do one today, and in two days we will do another one after surpassing "Transformers 3" to win the annual title.
We might as well wait until "Avatar" is over before we start working on it. Judging from the current situation, it's basically a done deal.
In the business car driving to the airport, Tang An lay on the chair and squinted for a while.
As Tang An's assistant, Xiao He is recording some things arranged by Tang An and checking the schedule for the next two days.
Suddenly, there was an email in the mailbox, which was sent by the person in charge of the overseas distribution department stationed in North America.
The content of the email is about the screening status of "The Thirteen Beauties" in North America and other regions.
"Chairman." Xiao He gently pushed Tang An.
"Um?"
Tang An didn't sleep too deeply and woke up immediately.
"Chairman, the data for the first day of North American release of "The Thirteen Beauties" is out."
"Let me see."
Tang An took the laptop.
Originally, "The Thirteen Beauties" was released in North America on the 23rd, but the distributor did not schedule a large number of films from the beginning.
In the first two days, I just screened it in more than a dozen cinemas, trying to do word-of-mouth marketing.
On Sunday the 25th, "The Thirteen Hairpins" began to be released on a large scale in North America with 1,200 cinemas.
Zhang Yimou + Bell, even if it is a movie with a background of the Anti-Japanese War, the distributor has secured 1,200 cinemas.
However, the box office was not satisfactory.
Tang An looked at the data above and was not surprised at all. If it could be sold, it would be a ghost.
I don’t know where Zhang Weiping got the confidence to think that foreign audiences would be able to buy it just because of “Mr. Wayne” who just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor?
For this reason, Zhang Weiping even kicked out Jiang Zhiqiang, who he had worked with for ten years, and wanted to win even the overseas cake. I really don't know who gave him the confidence.
The opening scale of the movie was 250,000 US dollars on the first day, with 1,200 movie theaters opening and the first day box office was US$250,000.
This number has basically given this movie a death sentence.
Last year, "Edge of Tomorrow" opened in 1,600 theaters and took in a first-day box office of US$2.8 million...
In other words, the average attendance of "The Thirteen Beauties" is only that of "Edge of Tomorrow".
Originally, "The Thirteen Hairpins" had a box office of 320,000 US dollars in North America, but it got 250,000 US dollars on the first day, which is even more.
However, this figure will inevitably lead to a sharp decrease in the film schedule in the future. In the end, the box office of even 500,000 yuan will be on the line.
"The new picture is finished, Zhang Weiping is finished."
Tang An smiled and shook his head, then continued to lie down on the chair and fell asleep.