In the second half of the Lunar New Year show, Ma Xiaogang's love affair added fuel to the fire, causing the Lunar New Year show that has lasted for a month to become more and more popular, even approaching the level of popularity when "The Promise" was first released.
Cheng Kai, who was already on the throne back then, was filming period commercial blockbusters, which were quite a sensation before and after their release. Even later, when Zhang Yimou's "A City of Golden Armor" was released, the momentum was slightly less impressive.
"If You Are the One" was a box-office hit and has the potential to overtake "Red Cliff", making Ma Xiaogang the annual box office champion among Chinese-language films.
"Red Cliff" is released on the 7th, "Crazy Racer" is also coming soon, and the woman in that photo is also being hyped like crazy.
Qi Wei, An Yixuan, Tang Yan, Chen Xing... names began to appear in the news one after another.
An Yixuan is from Huayang. She plays Zhao Min in the new version of "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword", which is expected to be broadcast this year.
Tang Yan is also owned by Huayang, and she is also the heroine of "Assembly Number", which makes people think that such an important big production has an unknown actress, and the suspicion is immediately heightened.
Chen Xing and Ma Xiaogang had contact in 2007 at the World Outstanding Chinese Awards Ceremony, but because they were not actors, they were less suspected. The media was hyping up the other three, even though she looked the most like the girl in the photo.
As for Qi Wei, she had just become famous because of the song "No. 18 on the Bund", but she had no contact with Ma Xiaogang at all, so she suddenly became a suspect for some reason.
It's so abnormal, but it is precisely because of the abnormality that netizens noticed her.
Ma Xiaogang didn't refute the rumors. Anyway, he didn't say anything or admit it. It was just that friends were having dinner together and there was something wrong with the direction and angle of the photo.
Huayang also issued an announcement to refute the rumors and condemned the bad media.
What's even more shocking is that when Xu Fan was asked about this matter in an exclusive interview, he directly said that when he reached Ma Xiaogang's position, it was normal for women to jump on him one after another. She believed in her husband.
What was even more shocking was that later, she actually said directly that even if something happened, her Ma Xiaogang was the man, so she would not suffer any loss and would take advantage of her. No matter how many people, one by one, fell to their gun, she would not suffer any loss.
Although the tone seemed to be a joke, it cleared the minds of netizens.
He didn't get angry, and his words crushed the dignity of the women who jumped on Ma Xiaogang.
She is really a powerful woman, but her dignity has been lost.
These words added fuel to the fire, and the couple was scolded by netizens, the media, and some public figures.
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"Tsk tsk tsk."
“Wonderful.”
Li Qian, who continued to follow the drama, was also shocked by the development of the plot.
This time it was better, but things got worse and worse. Suddenly some media said that Xu Fan had found Qi Wei's house and blocked the door. Some even said that Xu Fan led people to smash up her house.
Then there were reports that according to someone from the crew of "Assembly Number", Tang Yan had hooked up with Ma Xiaogang while filming "Assembly Number".
As for Huayang's An Yixuan, some tabloids said that not only her, but half of Huayang's female stars have become Ma Xiaogang's harem.
It's getting more and more outrageous, but netizens are so fond of it that they are eager to expose Chen Guanxi's scandal last year.
As a viewer who insists on following updates, Li Qian has gradually come to understand.
An Yixuan is the heroine of the upcoming "Heaven Slaying the Dragon" and is also Huayang's own actor, so she took this opportunity to create some hype.
As a newcomer who has just graduated, Tang Yan can stand out from the many female stars in Huayang. The heroine who stars in "Assembly Number" must be a new actress that Huayang is ready to support. This is also an opportunity for speculation, at least for a short time.
His reputation rose rapidly within a short period of time.
As for Qi Wei, he is a singer and is not from Huayang, so he is out of reach.
Li Qian couldn't understand either, but then some netizens doxxed her background information, saying that she and Xu Fan were distant relatives.
Regardless of whether it is true or false, it is all for hype anyway.
As for who it is, it should be the host. The similarity with the profile in the photo is too high.
Others are here to hype them up. There are so many news reports about them, and after they became popular, they gradually began to report on their upcoming film and television dramas and new songs. Their intentions are obvious.
The entertainment industry is so complicated that Li Qian is tired from watching it, but what Chen Guanxi did is so simple and straightforward that even a primary school student can understand it at a glance.
However, it does make January this year more popular than in previous years. Although "If You Are the One" was slightly affected, the box office is still booming.
In the last four days of the second week, that is, from the 1st to the 4th, during the New Year's Day holiday, it received 76 million. Adding in the 45 million from the first three days, the box office for the entire second week reached an astonishing 121 million.
The total box office in 11 days also reached 201 million, breaking 200 million.
Although this film was criticized by professional film critics, it was indeed shot to a high standard.
Leftover men, leftover women, mistresses, financial crises, earthquakes, wars, and even homosexuality make the whole movie more relevant to life.
As a comedy, the plot is also hilarious, with an average of one hilarious scene every five minutes. Ma Xiaogang's ability to control comedy themes is unparalleled, especially Ge You's 6 marriage proposals are classics.
Whether it’s the indifferent girl with the last name who ideally lives her life once a year and asks Ge You that it’s so interesting, or the expectant mother who came to a blind date while pregnant, but Ge You said, “I bought a BMW, and you plugged it in for me.”
If there is a Mercedes-Benz logo, if something breaks down in the future, should I contact a Mercedes-Benz or a BMW?" He replied, which made people laugh.
It's down-to-earth, funny enough, and coupled with Ma Xiaogang's fame, it's no surprise that it was a box office hit.
Moreover, Ma Xiaogang has made a breakthrough this time. It is no longer a typical Ma comedy, and there is no Beijing flavor. Putting aside the good and bad aspects, at least this movie was a great success.
In the third week, even though it was affected by the scandal, it still received 63 million box office in a single week, and the trend was very strong.
This week "Under the Red Cliff" was also released. Although the first part was not well received, the second part is still highly anticipated.
The real battle of Chibi in the first part didn't even start, it was just a foreshadowing.
Many viewers walked into the cinema with expectations for exciting war scenes, such as borrowing arrows from straw boats, raiding by coalition forces, and burning Red Cliff. The war scenes were indeed filmed. After all, the investment was so high.
But the plot and lines are as exciting as ever, not much different from the previous episode, and they are exciting from beginning to end.
The box office was quite high in the first week, 92 million in 5 days, but only 75 million was left in the second week, which was not as high as the second week of "Moon".
It is still a bunch of ridicule. With this reputation and data, coupled with the flanking attack of "If You Are the One" and "Crazy Racing", it is almost impossible to exceed 300 million.
"Crazy Racer" was released immediately, based on "Crazy Stone". Huang Bo's fame increased greatly after starring in "Moon", and he earned 25.5 million in the first six days, which was quite good.
Black comedy is actually a niche type of comedy. Otherwise, during the Lunar New Year period, with the fame of Ning Hao and Huang Bo, the box office would be higher.
However, compared to "Crazy Stone", this box office is still impressive enough.
Next is the Spring Festival, and the box office of "Crazy Racing" surged in the second week, taking in 32 million.
"Red Cliff" only had 33 million left in its third week, only 1 million more than "Racing". The decline reached 56% during the Spring Festival holiday, which is enough to prove how disappointed the audience was. The total box office just exceeded 200 million.
The total box office of "If You Are the One" has reached 318 million at this time. Because it was released at the end of December last year, it is still considered a 2008 movie, surpassing "Red Cliff". Ma Xiaogang has won the annual box office championship of Chinese-language films for two consecutive years.
This is basically the case for the Lunar New Year season. "If You Are the One" won the championship, "Under the Red Cliff" could not have exceeded 300 million, and "Mei Lanfang" has also exceeded 100 million at the box office after a long run and the support of the government.
"Ip Man" is still more than four million short of breaking the 100 million mark. Now, the only suspense is whether "Crazy Racing" can break the 100 million mark.
"Moon" has also been fully released. After more than a month of screening, the total box office has reached 260.4 million.
In 2008, it ranked third at the box office and ranked fourth in Chinese film history. Due to the release of "If You Are the One", both of them fell one place.
However, no matter where you are, as long as you are not first, it doesn't mean much.
Moreover, the second movie sold 260 million yuan. It is hard not to imagine what miracles Li Qian can create in his next movie.
At this time, the entire film industry has truly regarded Li Qian as a great director. At least at the box office, these two films are already significant enough.
If nothing else goes wrong, Li Qian's new movie may be released during the Lunar New Year.
The rules of the domestic film market are, at least, tacitly maintained. If there is no competition in terms of schedules, there will be no competition. Hello, everyone, let’s make a fortune together.
Unless there are too many films to squeeze in, they will all be put together.
Although it was just like last year at the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, the days were really bad and there was no way to escape. Several movies were released at the same time. Then facing the box office hit "Moon", how could it be so miserable?
It is also a norm in the industry to see what schedule the big director chooses and then adapt accordingly.
As a director with a box office of 200 million, Li Qian has now become the director that others care about which schedule to choose.
However, now they can only rely on guessing, it is still early.
And if there are new movies that are going to be released this year, especially in the second half of the year, they basically want to know when Li Qian will be released so that they can avoid them.
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Li Qian, who was concerned by the industry, also ended his Spring Festival holiday and came to Beijing on February 2nd, the ninth day of the Lunar New Year.
Regarding the next stage, after not cooperating with Guangxian, what to do with the future work and the promotion of the movie, Li Qian has roughly made a clear plan in the past month and put it into action.
On the 4th, at the beginning of spring, Li Qian came to an ordinary hotel in Beijing, where he would meet with the new partners he had been in contact with for half a month to determine the next multi-party cooperation plan.