In August, the summer season has come to an end. Previously released movies are stepping up their efforts to harvest a wave of box office, while newly released movies must seize the remaining half a month.
The movies released in August are basically small and medium-budget movies. There are no good schedules to choose from, and you have to avoid a few blockbusters.
The character of a master is also about the honor and disgrace of the nation. The third part is about accidents, relationships, family affairs and shortcomings.
Even though the real boxing champion Tyson starred and the supporting actor Zhang Jing's fighting scenes were very good, the box office was still not satisfactory.
The movie-watching habits of domestic audiences are not as good as those in North America, and the average number of movie-watching times per capita is less than 0.5. It is not easy to get audiences to spend money to go to the cinema. "Tiny Times" is also a skill to make money.
Martial arts films like "Xiu Chun Dao" were produced in the late Ming Dynasty, and rising to a national level was the most direct and effective way to mobilize the audience's emotions.
However, if you do that, it will be a bit vulgar, and you will probably be scolded by film critics for feeding the audience patriotic pills.
Promoting patriotism means that it is easy to be criticized, criticize the main theme, criticize the government, and resist reality. Those who resist the government are easy to be praised by film critics. This is normal.
Of course, if you pay enough public relations fees, no matter what you shoot, people will brag about it.
Good movies never mean high box office. Also released at the same time as "Xiu Chun Knife" was the anti-corruption movie "Anti-Corruption Storm" starring Louis Koo.
The two-day weekend sales were 32 million, the second week was 45 million, and the nine-day total was 76 million, which was much higher than the 11-day sales of "Xiu Chun Dao" of 67 million.
The reputation is not very good. Gu Tianle is getting older and his face is getting stiffer and stiffer, and he can hardly look at it anymore.
His expressions changed almost every time throughout the film, so much so that after watching it, I couldn't remember any of his memorable scenes. It was not as impressive as Lin Jiadong's sex scene.
In addition to these two movies, the animated movie "Qin Shi Mingyue: Dragon Soaring Ten Thousand Miles" received a box office of 55 million in ten days after its release.
In the past two years, there have been more and more domestic animated films with a box office of 30 to 50 million yuan, but compared with Hollywood, the gap is still huge.
The creative concepts and costs are very different. The director and team of "The Return of the Great Sage" have been working on animation projects in Hollywood and Japan before, so they have enough experience.
"How to Train Your Dragon 2" took in a box office of 300 million in just two weeks and eleven days, which is currently incomparable to Hollywood in terms of animated films.
"Secret Superstar" took in box office of 113 million and 51 million respectively in the past two weeks, and the total box office in the 46 days of release reached 2.459 billion.
It is still 41 million short of the 2.5 billion mark, and it is possible to reach it based on the current trend.
However, Tang An doesn't have much time to wait now. The crew of "Operation Red Sea" has already gone to Nanjiang to prepare. They have to finish shooting the scenes of Nanjiang and spend a whole week in China for repairs before flying to Africa.
On August 18, Tang An held a celebration conference for the movie, which cost 2.5 billion.
The film history record has once again been increased by 400 million US dollars. Converted into US dollars, it is also 400 million US dollars.
Last year, the only two movies that exceeded US$400 million in the North American market were "Iron Man 3" and "The Hunger Games 2", and the top film, "The Hunger Games 2", only US$420 million, not much higher than "Mysterious Superstar".
Suddenly, the domestic single-film box office has caught up with the North American market. Although there is only one such film, and there is a serious gap in the 2 billion-level movies, this is the first time for the national film market.
No country or region has ever reached this number.
Japan, which is also a major film country, ranked first in film history with "Spirited Away" in 2001 with US$280 million, while the North American champion that year was "Harry Potter" with US$318 million. The box office gap between the two in their respective countries was
$38 million.
Catching up with the United Kingdom and the United States is something that the Chinese people never dream of seeing. Although it has not exceeded it, the gap is only 20 million US dollars. Now the domestic box office growth rate far exceeds that of North America. It is just around the corner that the domestic box office of the highest single film will surpass the North American market.
Faced with this topic, Tang An said quite confidently, "In the 1990s, in North America, apart from phenomenal movies like "Titanic", there were already movies with box office exceeding 400 million. The North American market has basically grown in recent years.
There has been little progress in the industry, and the country is in a period of rapid development. If we look at each country alone, it is very easy for a single chip to surpass the North American market."
There is nothing to be low-key about. Others can be low-key, but as the number one director in the country, Tang An should not be low-key.
Even the first director has no confidence, let alone others.
What's more, this is still external. Look at which powerful country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not very tough.
Externally, you should ensure that others do not look down upon you, and internally, you should ensure that people feel safe.
"The box office of "Secret Superstar" is expected to exceed 2.5 billion. Director Tang, your past few movies have improved year by year from 1 billion to 25. So, should "Operation Red Sea" released next year break 3 billion?"
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A reporter asked, although according to mathematical rules it should be 3 billion, this number was still unimaginable in 2014.
The film industry cannot use mathematical probabilities to calculate. If the answer is that simple, just hire more actuaries.
It’s full of uncertainty, big directors and big stars are jumping on the bandwagon at any time, and dark horses and new directors are constantly emerging.
The reporter just asked casually, but Tang An was still not modest at all, he nodded affirmatively.
"The investment in "Operation Red Sea" is as high as 500 million. It will be an unprecedented military blockbuster. It is also my first time to make such a large investment. At the same time, I have also set a small goal for myself this time to win 3 billion box office.