"Director Wu, you also know the current situation. Although you got a part of the guarantee fee for your investment, plus the overseas copyrights, you also made some profit, and I was the only one who lost. But the failure of the movie will have no impact on you.
You will be smaller than me. I lost part of it this time, but I can still make it back in the next movie. What about you, the failure of a blockbuster with a 400 million investment, who will dare to give you such a high investment in the future, everything is for the box office.
, hope you can understand."
Wu Yusen was unwilling to die in front of Tang An, so Zhang Zhaoqing persuaded him sincerely.
No matter what, the next film will still need Wu Yusen's cooperation in publicity. In order to attract audiences and gain exposure, it will have to be hyped up. As the director and the most famous person in the whole movie, he will be indispensable.
In order to stop the loss as much as possible, Zhang Zhao did not bother to let Wu Yusen "send death". Anyway, there is no hope of being released on a normal schedule next year. It is better to give it a try, and the difference will not be much worse.
, if the effect is good, you can catch the leak and drink the soup separately, maybe you can recover the loss.
Wang Zhongjun and Kang Pei had no objections. Logically speaking, the release date is usually arranged by the distributor, and Zhang Zhao's statement also convinced them.
The major investors had all made their decision, and Wu Yusen had no choice but to accept it even if he didn't want to at all.
In so many years, I have never been forced like today. A great director, facing three big companies, has no say at all, which makes Wu Yusen feel more aggrieved than ever before!
Leaving indignantly, Wu Yusen secretly swore.
"When my next movie is successful, I will make you all beg me!"
The Lunar New Year festival is still going on as usual. Starting from Saturday afternoon, a considerable part of the reports about "The Wheel" have quietly been replaced by praise for the movie's war scenes.
"The frontal battlefield of the National Guard's Anti-Japanese War in "The Taiping Wheel" is fierce and comparable to any European and American blockbusters!"
""Taiping" is an epic war blockbuster. The war scenes far exceed those of any previous war movie!"
"A milestone in real domestic cinema, which perfectly restored that era"
The efficiency is also very fast, and news and movie reviews are rushed out one after another.
The sudden change in painting style left netizens baffled.
Isn't it a disaster romance movie? When did it become a war movie? Isn't this a movie?
The audience was confused about the situation and wanted to find out. Suddenly there were more news and posts about "Tai Ping Wheel".
When Wu Yusen was being interviewed in the afternoon, he kept talking about how difficult it was to make this war movie, and how to learn from the model of Hollywood blockbusters and restore the true history.
Then a reporter followed the plan and mentioned that Tang An's new film "Operation Red Sea" is also a war film.
"War films are still a blank slate in domestic commercial films. I am very happy that someone has the same courage as me to shoot this genre."
"Actually, I'm also worried that Director Tang would turn a good war movie into an action movie or a spy movie. That would be very disappointing to me. War movies are not that easy to make."
After these words were exaggerated by the media and added to the hype of the navy, the Internet seemed to start debating which one is the better war movie, Wu Yusen's "The Wheel" or the upcoming "Operation Red Sea".
Although discerning people believe Tang An more, a large number of media and self-media, and the navy are everywhere praising the war scenes of "Tai Ping Wheel", intentionally or unintentionally belittling and doubting Tang An's new film, making Tang An's fans, Lu
People can't help but argue with these trolls.
At least the heat is there and the purpose has been achieved.
However, it did not have much effect on the box office. In the next two days, "The Wheel" received 17 million and 14 million respectively, and the total box office in the four days was 83 million, which was not even 100 million.
The total box office of "Detective Chinatown 2" in the second week reached 512 million. Although it was lower than the first week, the total box office has exceeded the one billion mark, reaching 1.143 billion!
The failure of "The Wheel" left "Detective Chinatown 2" with no rivals, and it continued to sweep the Lunar New Year festival with an invincible attitude.
The box office of "The Year in a Hurry" was also very good, earning 240 million in three days, far exceeding "The Wheel" which was released one day earlier, which made Kang Pei very unhappy, who had not paid attention to "The Year in a Hurry" before.
The box office of "Coquettish Women Are Best" also reached 170 million, which is quite modest for a small-budget movie.
Another week later, "Detective Chinatown 2" received 231 million this week, with a total box office of 1.374 billion.
"The Year in a Hurry" earned 270 million in its second week, with a total box office of 510 million in ten days.
The marketing of "Peace Wheel" may have had an effect. The trolls and the audience were quite quarrelsome. Most of the viewers who watched the movie thought it was a bad movie.
Whether it's a war movie, a romance movie, or a disaster movie, they can all be described as bad movies.
For such a bad movie, it was compared to Tang An's new movie, and many viewers couldn't help but complain.
This is what Zhang Zhao wants to see. No matter what, as long as it is popular, it can at least attract some curious viewers to go to the cinema to see what is so good about this war drama that is so praised.
"Peace Wheel" managed to stop its decline in the first few days of its second week, but as word-of-mouth continued to ferment, it couldn't be stopped no matter how hard it worked.
It received 58 million in the second week, and the total box office in the two weeks after its release was only 141 million.
The most watched movie this week is undoubtedly the newly released "One Step Away". Jiang Wen's new film is only enough to attract the audience.
93 million on the first day, barely breaking 100 million, and a total of 378 million in the first four days.
Although it is not like those blockbuster movies that frequently broke 100 million on the first day, this figure is enough to rank among the top of the year.
However, the film's reputation is polarized. Those who think it is bad sneer at it and declare that Jiang Wen's talents are exhausted; those who think it is good are amazed by it and directly rate it as a benchmark in the film industry.
Movie fans are also divided into those who support Jiang Wen and those who support Jiang Wen. The supporters of Jiang Wen say that this is the current situation of domestic movie fans and the current situation of domestic society and people's wisdom. Ma will be shot by public opinion in the future, but Jiang Wen's movies will not die.
In the clamor and saliva of public opinion.
Fans think the movie is extremely boring, saying that the first third is about watching a musical to see the thighs, the middle third is about watching an animated series and feeling the special effects, and the last third is about watching a stage play to figure out the ending.
Jiang Wen's movies are niche, those who like them like them, and they look down on those who don't like them. There is such a chain of contempt not only in the film circle, but also in any cultural circle.
However, it is a reality that the box office is poor. 378 million in the first week is considered good. Even for a guarantee of 1 billion, as long as the subsequent trend is good, this figure is acceptable.
However, on the first working day that followed, Li Pictures, the guarantee company, was completely confused.
24 million!
There were only 24 million in a single day. Yesterday, that is, Sunday, there were 86 million in the box office.
On the first working day, the drop was as high as 72%, which is rare.
You know, even the drop of "Tai Ping Wheel" on the first working day was only 60%.
Although the box office was also very low at that time because of "The Wheel", the 72% drop was there. It can be said that no commercial blockbuster could have such a miserable trend.
If this trend continues in the future, forget about one billion. Seven or eight billion will be a big problem.
Netizens were confused, people in the industry were also confused, investor Wanda was confused, and Ah Li, who won the movie at the cost of a one billion guarantee, was even more confused.
Is it possible that after Wu Yusen, a famous director will die?