The movie version of "Carrying a Load" is indeed what Li Yi thought. Although the reputation is mixed, it can be said to be the first of its kind for a zombie-warmth film.
Coupled with the popularity of the previous short film "Moving forward with a heavy burden", the reputation and first-day box office are still quite good.
The first-day box office of more than US$6 million is not comparable to those A-level blockbusters, but for a B-level movie, such results are excellent enough.
Of course, this movie has indeed been criticized by some viewers who have watched "Carrying a Heavy Load", saying that the feature film is too wordy and the plot is too lengthy.
However, the flaws do not hide the merits. An offline sampling survey showed that the overall evaluation score of "Moving forward with a heavy load" is A-.
Alex and Rogers both breathed a sigh of relief. It's unrealistic to expect a movie like "Carrying the Burden" to have a high box office. However, judging from the current situation, it may be difficult for this movie to break 100 million, but the box office will be high.
Achieving profitability is absolutely no problem.
After Cao Zhenqun saw the first-day box office of "Carrying a Heavy Load", he was both excited and anxious.
At this time, he felt even more that Li Yi was simply a devil!
His light words made him suffer all the time.
When a movie is a hit, it is a happy and proud thing. After all, this is Hollywood, and the money you make is beautiful.
But what he was suffering from was whether what Li Yi said would come true?
Will Damien Films do anything?
Will it? No?
Cao Zhenqun felt like he was going crazy!
On the other hand, after the first-day box office and offline investigation report of the movie came out, James Dean became more and more enthusiastic, because this once again proved that Li Yi was indeed the same as other Chinese directors.
The difference is that he can not only capture the preferences of Chinese audiences, but also understand the preferences of North American audiences.
At the cocktail party that night, James Dean expressed his hope to cooperate with Li Yi.
The two parties have cooperated before, and the previous cooperation was quite pleasant, and Li Yi also had some ideas, so the two parties reached a preliminary intention.
Of course, specific cooperation will definitely not be so quick.
Li Yi stayed with Xu Nannan in North America for another week before boarding the flight back to China under Xu Nannan's reluctant eyes!
It is worth mentioning that "Moving forward with a heavy burden" has indeed performed very well. After taking in a box office of 21 million US dollars in its first weekend, it has been in theaters for one full week and its weekly box office is close to 40 million US dollars.
North American forecasting agencies predict that the box office hit for "Carrying a Heavy Load" should be around 70 million.
This number is not particularly high, but for this movie, the box office alone is enough to recover the cost. In North America, the proportion of box office revenue is actually not high.
So this project is definitely a very profitable project for Damien Films.
Of course, this may not be the case for Cao Zhenqun and Gao Le Film and Television.
After returning to China, after a few days of hard work, Li Yi began to "copy" the script.
This time, the two scripts will be written together.
"I'm Not the God of Medicine" and "A Dog's Purpose"!
The movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was something I had discussed with Chu Xuexiang and Chen Wen before. By then, this movie can be regarded as a public welfare film in the actual sense.
Although it is a commercial movie, Li Yi has no intention of collecting the income.
He cannot be as pure as Chu Xuexiang, but he is willing to support a purely charitable person like her.
As for "A Dog's Purpose", Li Yi plans to use it as an attempt to co-produce a film.
Li Yi soon completed the "creation" of the scripts for two movies!
After completing the script creation, Li Yi began to call friends to organize the game.
However, it is not a public one, but a very private one.
The people Li Yi invited were people like Chen Wen and Chu Xuexiang. This time it was not a movie preparation, it could be regarded as a relatively private gathering of friends.
The party was arranged by Li Yi at a relatively private island resort.
Mainly for the sake of Chen Wen and the others. After all, compared to him, Chen Wen and the others are all big stars.
Why celebrities like to go abroad for vacation is actually because they are public figures in China and will be watched wherever they go, but this does not happen abroad.
The group of people here started chatting naturally while making barbecue by themselves.
"So, has the movie script about leukemia you mentioned last time been completed?" Chen Wen asked while taking a sip of his beer.
Chen Wen's words immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Li Yi asked Yi Mingming to send the prepared scripts to Chen Wen and others.
"You all have a look! Just pick any role you like!" Li Yi said, "I am very generous."
"You are so generous, thank you!" Chen Wen said angrily.
Who doesn't know that Li Yi intends to use this movie to support Chu Xuexiang, which means that any role they choose will be free of charge.
Of course, this means that people like Chen Wen and others are not short of film contracts. Otherwise, if it were someone else, not to mention getting zero pay, there would still be people who would like to be in Li Yi's drama even if they were offered the job!
Soon, everyone stopped what they were doing and started reading the script.
Naturally, what Li Yi gave them could not be a story script, but a story script.
Just watching, the smiles on each face gradually disappeared, replaced by either solemnity, sadness, or red eyes like Chu Xuexiang's.
"You kid! You're awesome!" Chen Wen was the first to close the script and looked at Li Yi in amazement.
"Your character Cheng Yong in this movie is going to be canonized!" Chen Wen couldn't help but marvel.
Everyone else nodded after hearing this. Indeed, in "I'm Not the God of Medicine", Cheng Yong's character can be said to have become a saint step by step until the end. Although he is not the God of Medicine, he became a saint immediately!
"Realistic themes! You can actually write like this! Awesome!" Chen Wen praised again.
Everyone else also nodded unanimously. As we all know, currently in China, "Garland Under the Mountain" has broken the ice with the main theme movie. It not only broke the ice, but also directly put this movie on the altar.
It is destined to be recorded in film history, because this is not only a popular and popular main theme movie, but also this movie has not only created a box office record for a main theme movie, but also a box office record for domestic movies.
Compared with movies with main themes, movies with realistic themes can be said to be the real black hole of domestic movies.
It’s not that there haven’t been any good realistic-themed movies so far, but most of these movies have hardly achieved any good results in China.
Either because of censorship, many people are unwilling to touch this kind of subject matter, or because the subject matter is too profound, it has become a niche movie.
But "I'm Not the God of Medicine" subverted Chen Wen's perception of reality-themed movies.
