Whether you are a fan of it or not, "Taken" is moving forward firmly.
These days, it is simply an impossible task to rely on film critics or trolls to discredit a movie, or to increase the box office of a movie. For hundreds of millions of Weibo and public accounts, that is
Children are like a bowl of water in the ocean, they really cannot play a decisive role.
The most important thing is the quality and reputation of the movie itself.
So after the second weekend, word-of-mouth among netizens caused Hurricane's box office to increase instead of falling. It reached 56 million on Saturday. Although it dropped a bit sharply on Sunday, it reached
41 million, but the box office of nearly 100 million still satisfied everyone.
"...Teacher Sun, we will have a celebration banquet on Wednesday night, you must come!"
Fang Lanshen's tone on the phone was unusually brisk, and he laughed and greeted Sun Peng in advance.
However, Sun Peng was a little strange and asked confusedly: "Celebration party? So early? Don't you have to wait until the movie is offline?"
"Uh... who said that?"
After being stunned for a moment, Fang Lanshen laughed and said: "As long as the box office is good, we can hold a celebration banquet anytime! Now that the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" has reached our target, we can hold it at any time!"
"……All right."
Unconsciously losing someone, Sun Peng nodded sarcastically.
The investment for "Taken" plus promotion and distribution expenses exceeded 100 million, so the cost can be recovered with a box office of 300 million. This figure is almost enough in the first week domestically, plus the second weekend.
Enough. Then the remaining box office split, as well as all overseas income, including subsequent TV, online broadcast rights and other income, are all net profits. Forbidden City Pictures will definitely make a lot of money!
It’s only natural to have a celebration party!
After putting down the phone, Sun Peng suddenly looked happy. Then Ni Yue'er, who was memorizing the lines next to him, saw it and smiled slightly: "Teacher Sun, I have been paying attention to the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" these days. Now I am very interested in our movie.
"Dragon Inn" is becoming more and more confident! Do you think... can our movie's box office reach 500 million?"
Like the script of "Dragon Inn" does not mean that Ni Yue'er has confidence in its box office success.
She knows that martial arts novels now have millions of fans, and the scripts and the exciting fighting scenes look great, but will a pioneering film in a new genre be welcomed by the market?
Ni Yue'er didn't know and couldn't predict it.
So when "The Rescue" became a hit at the box office, far exceeding her expectations, Ni Yue'er began to have confidence in the movie she starred in, or in other words, she had more confidence in Lao Bai!
"Five billion..."
After blinking his eyes, Sun Peng smiled.
Compared with the total box office of China's movies, 500 million is definitely not a big number. In fact, during the summer vacation and Spring Festival every year, there are at least 20 blockbusters and at least 30 blockbusters with a box office of over 1 billion, including domestic films.
It can account for at least half. It doesn't sound like 500 million is a very ambitious number.
But for the movie "Dragon Inn", Sun Peng didn't dare to say how far it would go!
It is a martial arts movie.
It is the world's first martial arts movie. Although Sun Peng has great respect for the scenes he shot, he feels that it can beat all other traditional kung fu movies in an instant, even if it is not worse than the original version; and he is very fond of "Dragon Gate".
The plot, dialogue and even costumes of "Inn" are more confident, and I firmly believe that it can convince millions - maybe tens of millions of fans of martial arts novels now, but how much was the box office of the first martial arts movie?
He didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to speak nonsense.
but……
Even if the future box office does not reach the level of "Taken", or even falls far behind, it will not change Sun Peng's emphasis on this movie - it is far from comparable to Hurricane, Bourne and Mission Impossible!
This "Dragon Inn" carries the future of martial arts movies!
The three spy movies are actually movies that Sun Peng made to disgust Mao Xu. To put it bluntly, if the results are good, it is natural to be happy, and if the results are not good, there is nothing to be sad about. But "Dragon Gate Inn" represents the influence of martial arts culture in this world.
development, it affects not just "Dark Night 2", but Sun Peng's martial arts novels, and even countless martial arts novels and even martial arts movies, TV series and games in the future...
How can two movies be measured by box office?
After pondering for a moment, Sun Peng still smiled and said: "I'm not sure whether the box office can reach 500 million, but I am sure that this movie can definitely create an era, an era of new action movies! So I believe,
Both Ye Xing and the others, you and He Qingfang, will all witness this!"
"..."
Ni Yue'er's eyes widened and she even opened her mouth.
Isn’t this Teacher Sun too brave to speak out?
Create an era?
"Director Sun, Director Wei invites you to come over!"
Just when Ni Yue'er was about to say something after being stunned for a moment, a staff member ran over and said.
"OK, go right away!"
Nodding towards Ni Yue'er, Sun Peng hurried away with the staff.
Ni Yue'er was left alone, frowning, looking at Sun Peng's back in a daze, her big watery eyes filled with doubts and expectations...
…
While Sun Peng was busy filming the movie, four days passed quickly.
From Monday to Thursday, "Taken" received more than 100 million at the box office, bringing China's total box office to successfully reach the level of 460 million. Therefore, after the celebration party on Wednesday, the mainstream predictions about the movie's box office
It has already stood at 600 million, and many people are beginning to move closer to Yiye Zhiqiu's optimistic estimate of 800 million.
"Watching this spy movie makes me feel inexplicably happy!"
A grassroots film review blogger’s comment may best represent the voice of the audience. He wrote excitedly: “Except for the first twenty minutes, which seemed a bit boring, the rest of the entire process was spotless and exciting all the way to the ending! And!
More importantly, what we see is no longer a company with many high-tech supports and many high-precision equipments.
He is an elite agent assisted by countless intelligence personnel, but he is a retired agent, and more importantly, a father who loves his daughter! With one person and a gun, he can kill gangs, high-ranking officials and rich people.
home, just to save his little baby, this sense of immersion cannot be replaced by other movies!"
As for the speech of another grassroots blogger, it also received numerous likes: "What a thrill, what a father's love, am I the only one who feels good because of the actions of Chinese agents in Europe? Americans take photos like this every day
The Soviets also make a lot of movies, but we in China seem to be secretive and no one makes such movies... Big praise!"
The number of viewers who hold this idea is obviously quite large.
So much so that at Thursday's regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a French reporter asked with a serious face: "I just watched a Chinese movie "Hurricane Rescue". Could you tell me about your country's intelligence personnel holding guns overseas?"
Do murders and abuse of lynching really exist?”
"..."
After hearing this question, for a moment, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs looked confused.