Chapter 168 The third in film history, the perfect ending!
"Get up."
Early in the morning, Li Qian lifted the quilt and patted Tong Liya who was still sleeping soundly.
"I'm so tired. Let's sleep some more."
Tong Liya immediately reached out and snatched away the quilt again, holding it tightly and covering her body.
"There's still a show today, don't make the whole crew wait for you."
"oops!"
Remembering that this was still in the crew's hotel, Tong Liya screamed and stood up suddenly.
If Li Qian comes and he is late in the morning, it will be very embarrassing. Let the director and the leading actor Xu Zheng think.
"Don't go to the set later. Come over at noon."
Without saying a word, Tong Liya put on some clothes, swayed her two slender legs, and hurried to the bathroom to wash up.
"What's wrong? I have to go see the crew. I'm leaving in the afternoon."
Li Qian followed him to the bathroom, put the water in, and looked at the sink, "Do you have any extra toothbrushes and cups?"
"There are toothbrushes on the table outside. I just bought them yesterday afternoon."
Tong Liya had a mouth full of toothpaste and pointed out vaguely. Li Qian said at noon yesterday that she would come over today. She had bought the toiletries after work yesterday.
But then he remembered that Li Qian said he would leave in the afternoon, and immediately asked, "Why are you leaving in the afternoon? Is there something urgent?"
"It's nothing major. It's just time to plan the way forward. Su Lun's script is coming out soon. I need to take a look. There is still some publicity work in the capital."
"What's the road ahead? Did something happen at work?"
"What can I do about work? I have a box office of 200 million and earned tens of millions. Everything is going well. I just noticed yesterday that Wang Changtian is jealous of the money I make."
"Then what's the matter? You've made so much money, so it's normal for him to be jealous."
Tong Liya is a little strange. It's normal to be jealous when you see others succeed and make a lot of money. She used to be jealous of some classmates in school who received good resources.
"My eyes are red, not jealous."
"...What's the difference?"
Although the literal meaning is the same, everyone understands it differently.
Li Qian shook his head, "A play sells 200 million yuan. There are so many people who are jealous of me. This is what many people think in their hearts, but the jealousy is directly reflected on their expressions. Wang Changtian's thoughts are very deep.
Some people can't control themselves.
Wang Changtian is different from others, and the success of the movie has nothing to do with others, but Wang Changtian has his share, but he can only get a small share, which makes him feel unhappy.
Interest can make father and son turn against each other, and brothers become enemies. When one day Wang Changtian's unhappiness reaches a certain level, I have no doubt that he will do something. This man is very thoughtful, and all possibilities will make me unhappy.
The happy things, such as pushing for my new film and testing whether I can give Guang Xian more share, are all Zhang Zhaolai's doing, and Wang Changtian himself seems to be a perfect partner."
It's a bit fake. Wang Changtian is still a deep-thinking person, and Li Qian is not stupid, so you can't tell this.
Tong Liya finally understood, "So, you don't plan to cooperate with Guangxian, but according to you, Wang Changtian is very smart, and you can help him make money, he shouldn't do anything."
"Who can say for sure? If Zhang Yimou and Ma Xiaogang's films were taken by themselves, and Zhang Weiping and Huang Zhongjun took a small part, do you think they could still be so harmonious? They would have fallen out long ago."
People are unpredictable. Even if Li Qian hands over his new movie to any company for distribution and does not allow them to participate in investment and only gets a share of the distribution fee, they will even be happy to spend it because it is an extra profit.
And I have collaborated with Wang Changtian twice, to be precise, it should be four movies. The more times I have worked with him, the more I subconsciously take Li Qian and him as a matter of course, and even regard Li Qian as his person.
As for how to do it and what to do, to be honest, Li Qian hasn't thought about it yet.
I originally planned to be a director and make movies, and since I have so many movies in my mind, I can also explore more young and promising directors, like Qi Yukun, Guo Fan, Su Lun, etc. I don’t need to write scripts for them and give them ideas.
Check the script and storyboards, and occasionally check them out during filming.
There is really a gap among domestic directors. If one day Zhang Yimou and Ma Xiaogang can no longer keep up with the times, Cheng Long and Jet Li are also old, and no director who can take over has emerged, then the domestic market may really be dominated by Hollywood blockbusters.
So annoying.
Tong Liya could tell that Li Qian was not in a very high mood, but she couldn't give any advice in this regard. She could only smile broadly and said, "If you don't cooperate with Guangxian, you won't cooperate. What's the big deal? There must be many companies who want to work with you anyway."
It’s a collaboration, and Zhang Yimou can support the new picture alone. No matter which company you work with, you don’t have to worry about the distribution and promotion of the movie, and it’s really impossible to distribute it in theaters yourself.”
"Hey...it's not that simple. Let's not talk about it anymore. After we have been busy for a while, we can plan what we should do in the future."
Annoying, let’s not talk about this topic anymore. After sitting in the room with Tong Liya for a while, she went to the set.
It took Li Qian two hours before he took a detour and arrived at the set.
The whole crew worked hard to film the movie, but when the investor came, he slept with the heroine and almost made her late. After all, it was not good.
The bank robber played by Zhang Jiayi was filming in the studio. He locked everyone in the refrigerator and, speaking with a Shanxi accent, asked about the whereabouts of the diamond.
In addition to Xu Zheng, the supporting cast of the movie "Nightclub" is also outstanding. Characters with distinctive characteristics and their own laughter can support more than 90 minutes of comedy in a semi-enclosed space.
Li Qian didn't stay here long. It was not a good thing for investors to show up at the filming scene, but it would affect them.
He himself doesn't want others to criticize his films, and the same goes for other directors.
I had dinner with Tong Liya at noon and went back in the afternoon.
Su Lun's script is almost finished. It's already a semi-finished product, and it will take more than half a month to complete.
In the following time, we will mainly promote in the capital. Several portal websites have exclusive interviews, as well as two print media. There is a meeting in the capital. After another week of busy work, we will almost be free.
This past Monday, "Moon" took in a box office of 3.3 million. Although the single-day box office has been less than 5 million, but there are no new films released, it still firmly occupies the top spot at the single-day box office.
In the entire fourth week, 26 million was obtained in a single week, and the decline remained stable at around 45%.
And other movies, during this popular period, have also maintained a very good trend.
"Mei Lanfang" is in its third week of release. Although the box office is not good, the momentum is not small. There are all kinds of literati and scholars discussing this movie on TV, the Internet, and print media.
The reputation is still average, neither good nor bad.
It has been released for more than half a month, and there are more and more negative reviews.
Because the theme is somewhat similar to "Farewell My Concubine", many viewers went there with high expectations.
But there is a huge difference in how Li Ming and Leslie Cheung look on stage.
She is older, taller, and has a bigger face, so her appearance is much different, especially her Yu Ji appearance, which has been criticized a lot, and she also has forehead wrinkles.
In response, the crew gave a response, saying that it was caused by insufficient makeup, and the entire styling department had been fired.
After the filming of the movie is finished and the crew has been disbanded, there is still no one left to take the blame and be fired once.
Brother Cheng Kai is a pretty good person, and he especially thanked Xintong Chung for her efforts in the movie. Because of that incident, she had to delete all her scenes, leaving only her back.
The box office in the third week was still very strong, and the trend was similar to that of "Moon". It received 20 million in a single week, and the total box office in 17 days reached 86.4 million, which is expected to exceed 100 million. The Ministry of Culture did not lose face.
The comedy-romance film "Women Are Not Bad" co-produced by Xu Ke and Zhou Xun, this time adopts an exaggerated style, nonsensical, funny, and a bit blunt. Typical Xiangjiang movies have this kind of market atmosphere in their bones, but this is not what Xu Ke is good at.
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Since the premiere, some viewers have said that it is a mess and incomprehensible, and the audience's evaluation is not very high.
Last week, we took out 9.5 million, and this week we only have 5 million left.
Xu Ke's two films, "The Deep Sea" in the summer season and "Women Are Not Bad" in the Lunar New Year season, both hit the streets.
Li Qian still hopes that Xu Ke will make a martial arts film. Although I don’t know who directed the movie "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" that I remember, it was 100% filmed by Xu Ke. His personal style is so obvious that it will probably be filmed in the next two years.
, because judging from the faces of the actors in it, they are all very young.
And Donnie Yen's "Ip Man" has become a dark horse in the Lunar New Year season.
It sold 13.2 million in the first three days and sold 23 million in the second week, and the response from the audience was very good.
It would be too difficult for a conventional action movie to maintain this trend in the second week, but "Ip Man" is set in that era, and the main villain is Japanese, which completely aroused the national sentiment of the audience.
The sentence "I want to fight ten" has been widely circulated on the Internet.
Anti-Japanese War TV series are so popular, and even poorly made ones are not lacking in market. This is why.
According to this momentum, if there is not another "If You Are the One" in the future, as long as the trend is stable next week, it is not impossible to exceed 100 million.
By the way, there is also an action movie "Spike" directed and starred by Wu Jing. Last week it got close to 2 million, but this week it has less than 1 million left.
It's a low-budget action movie. Although Wu Jing fights one against a hundred to save the heroine in the end, the scene is quite exciting, and the closing song "Once Upon a Time" sung by the heroine is also quite nice, but the action movie is really
There is no market anymore.
The next week, "Moon" was released in its fifth week, with a box office of 15 million, bringing the total box office to 246.6 million.
"Mei Lanfang" is still hitting the 100 million yuan mark, and "Ip Man" has taken another 20 million yuan, which is a very good trend, while other movies have completely fallen behind.
"If You Are the One" was also released this week, with 16 million on its first day, surpassing "Moon" to rank second in the year's first-day box office.
And with its opening weekend box office of 80 million, it also replaced "Moon" and swept the middle of the Lunar New Year season.
On January 1st, the troubled year of 2008 came to an end, and the 2008 film market also came to an end.
In the three days of 29, 30 and 31, it won 3.5 million box office, and the total box office officially exceeded the 250 million mark, reaching 250.1 million.
Last year's Chinese-language box office champion "Assembly" was affected to some extent by "Frequency of Life and Death" in its later and final stages. The total box office just exceeded 250 million, which was thousands of dollars more.
"Moon" became the fourth Chinese-language film to have a box office of over 250 million, surpassing "Assembly" to become the third highest-grossing film in Chinese film history, second only to "Red Cliff", which had a box office of 300 million, and "Manchu", which had a box office of 290 million.
"The City Ends with Golden Armor".
For Li Qian, 2008 can be considered a perfect end.