""I Am Legend" has exploded in word-of-mouth, grossing 43.3 million on its first day, setting a new first-day box office record in film history!"
"Li Qian's long-awaited new work, the apocalyptic science fiction blockbuster "I Am Legend," was finally released yesterday. This first domestic apocalyptic-themed blockbuster hit an unprecedented box office of 43.3 million on its first day!
At the same time, "I Am Legend" has also continued Li Qian's consistently high reputation. It has received high ratings and reputation on Douban, Time and other forums, winning unanimous praise from fans. It is expected to join forces with "Let the Bullets Fly" and "If You Are the One 2" to create
The biggest box office boom in the history of the mainland film market!"
"The box office of "I Am Legend" exceeded the 40 million mark on the first day, "If You Are the One 2" reported 42 million, and the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" was still strong, earning 13 million. The three films jointly contributed 90 million in box office, plus
"The Orphan of Zhao" and "Big Bang", which are currently in theaters, have pushed the single-day box office of the movie market to a new level, with the single-day box office exceeding the 100 million yuan mark!"
"The single film exceeded RMB 4,000 on the first day, and the total box office in a single day exceeded RMB 100 million. "I Am Legend" leads the domestic movies, ushering in the peak of the Lunar New Year festival!"
"'I Am Legend' topped the box office on its first day of release, beating out the second-placed 'If You Are the One 2' by tens of millions. Li Qian has once again regained his amazing box office appeal!"
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With a first-day box office of 43.3 million yuan, even though the publicity of "I Am Legend" was far less than that of "If You Are the One 2", the huge first-day gap still allowed "I Am Legend" to occupy most of the entertainment news, and even once
Nothing less.
After all, there is a gap between 30 million and 40 million, not to mention breaking the record of "Tangshan Earthquake".
Whether it was "Let the Bullets Fly" or "If You Are the One 2", they were all left far behind.
On the second day after the release of "I Am Legend", it became the focus of all entertainment media reports from the early morning when the box office came out.
I don't know how many filmmakers and media were waiting for the release of the box office in the early morning, but Li Qian went to bed early and didn't see the email until he woke up early the next morning.
After all, one day of publicity is tiring enough. The response from the audience at the road show and meet-and-greet during this day gave Li Qian enough confidence.
Tong Liya had nothing to do these days and stayed at home with Li Qian. She got up early and saw that he had finished washing, so she brought breakfast over.
"You are really calm. You went to bed at 11 o'clock yesterday and didn't wait for the box office to come out. However, it was 43.3 million on the first day. I didn't even expect it."
"I know, I looked at my phone when I first got up. I couldn't sleep without confidence." Li Qian said with a smile.
"I visited several movie theaters yesterday and took the time to ask the managers of the theaters. I have an idea of the approximate attendance of several movies."
"I Am Legend" received 35% of the film schedule, "If You Are the One" 31%, "Let the Bullets Fly" 18%, and the remaining 16% was divided between "The Orphan of Zhao", "Big Bang" and other films.
Starting from the road show in the morning, Li Qian asked the manager of every theater he visited about the current attendance rate, average number of visitors per game, and the pre-sale status of online tickets.
Before Grava, several lifestyle websites had the business of group buying movie tickets, and there were also several websites such as Hapiao.com that also provided movie tickets, concerts, and drama ticketing.
Basically in the same cinema and in the same time period, the attendance rate and online ticket pre-sale of "I Am Legend" are similar to those of "If You Are the One 2".
The sample is not enough, but even if the error is relatively large, the film schedule is large, the attendance rate and online pre-sales are similar, which means that the first-day box office of "I Am Legend" will be similar to "If You Are the One 2".
The second day of "If You Are the One 2" will definitely be higher than the first day, so why worry about it?
The result was exactly what Li Qian expected. The first-day box office of 43.3 million was enough to satisfy him, and even exceeded expectations.
"Seeing how calm you are, I'm really worried. The crew of "Gong Lock Heart Jade" is still waiting for me. I'll rush to Hengdian in the afternoon." Tong Liya put her hands on the dining table and looked up at Li Qian's slow talk.
He said while eating breakfast.
"Go ahead, I'm leaving the capital tomorrow. I'm traveling all over the country. You, the protagonist, don't keep the crew waiting. People will think you're trying to be a big star," Li Qian said.
"I'm not the biggest star, there are four other actresses on the crew."
Li Qian shook his head, "Can someone who is bigger than you match you? What kind of four little actresses? Except for Liu Yufei, the other three are incomparable. They are just forced together."
"What about Liu Yufei, are you very optimistic about it?" Tong Liya suddenly asked.
"Why, no."
"Then "Time Planning Bureau" didn't ask her to play the heroine."
Let me go, why are you talking about this? Girls’ brain circuits are different, and I don’t know when they will get involved.
Li Qian thought for a while, and it seemed that he had met him three or four times. Counting again, he had said less than twenty words in total.
"That was chosen by Guo Fan. What does it have to do with me? I don't interfere with his selection."
Tong Liya curled her lips and said, "Brother Fan still doesn't listen to you in everything."
"Then why didn't you say that Guo Fan fell in love with Liu Yufei."
"With his slender head, he spends all day writing scripts and filming. Before the editing of "Time Planning Bureau" was finished, he was thinking about a new script. He had no time to think about anything else. Those who create are all weird.
Titus, Brother Fan is a freak, and Su Lun is about the same. We can handle it better than you when we go shopping together."
"I can't handle it. I also like shopping."
"Then you know how to say yes, yes, it's okay." Tong Liya cursed.
"There is also Fumakuno. Every time I see him in the studio, he is either studying comedy or reading some social reality news and related books. He has a split personality.
Xu Zheng is quite artistic when he makes comedy films, and Wu Jing is the most normal one. Brother Kun is also surprised that after he made the sequel to "Jaws" for you, he stopped making movies. How can you say that any director doesn't want to
Filmmaker."
Tong Liya scolded several directors one by one.
"With this in your mouth, we all become freaks, right?"
Li Qian laughed, "Guo Fan has always wanted to make hard science fiction. Apart from this, he has no time to think about anything else. Xu Zheng was originally a literary and artistic young man, and that's what he did when he was in college. Besides, why can't literary and artistic young people make comedies?
In search of a balance between art, reality and business, I have been studying "Let the Bullets Fly" for half a month.
As for Lao Qi, it’s not that he doesn’t want to make movies. Otherwise, he would have skipped school and joined the film crew in his second year of high school. He is different from us. He is the kind of person who hopes to reveal reality through movies, have an impact on the audience, and adapt reality.
director.
He is from Jiuyuan. Although he is not in western Shanxi, there are many coal mines in Jiuyuan. He has seen the dark side of some coal mines. He wanted to make a film about coal mines before, but then he heard a story from a man from southern Henan on the set.
There was a murder in a rural area in southern Henan. I went to the local area to investigate again. I haven’t contacted him for a long time. I don’t know how it went.”
"Kun is also a weirdo..." Tong Liya complained.
"People have ideals. After filming "Jaws 2", they became famous and had no worries about food and clothing. They don't make movies for money. Anyway, I admire this kind of people. I am just a layman." Li Qian spread his hands.
"You are so talented. Didn't "Perfect World" trigger a large-scale discussion on social phenomena in children's education?" Tong Liya said immediately. She can only speak about Li Qian. No one else is allowed to speak, and Li Qian is not allowed to speak about himself.
.
"Well, I'd rather not trigger any discussion. With my talk, I have become a tool for some people to attack exam-oriented education."
Li Qian shook his head. If he had it to do over again, he would really not make that film.
Those who attacked exam-oriented education were either stupid or bad, or stupid and bad at the same time. At that time, Li Qian did not say anything, otherwise he would be taken as a target.
"Anyway, I think you are much better than such artistic film directors. Your commercial films are also very meaningful, and so many people like them. Commercial films can't influence society. One day you will use your fame to change society.
Some bad situations." Tong Liya held her chin up and stared at Li Qian with admiration.
Change society?
Then you have to become an official. Ordinary people don't have that much energy.
Let’s not talk about such serious issues anymore. We have to be separated for a few days. Next time we have to wait until we go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a road show and pass by Hengdian to spend some time.
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Until nearly eleven o'clock in the morning, Li Qian helped Tong Liya pack her clothes and continued with the day's promotion.
Yesterday Ma Xiaogang mocked him again, and today reporters came to convey it again and asked Li Qian to confront him.
Let's just talk on the line. Under the expectant eyes of the reporters on the scene, Li Qian picked up the microphone and smiled slightly, "I don't want to comment on "If You Are the One 2" anymore. "I Am Legend" is released, and I will do it in the past two days and in the future.
Very busy.
I gave him Director Ma’s original words. Stop talking nonsense. It’s useless to talk nonsense. It can’t change the reality. It will be what it is. Early tomorrow morning..."
"wrong."
You can't copy it exactly. Li Qian apologized and smiled, "Early this morning, the results have come out, and the results are obvious to all. I think there is no need for me to say anything more. I also suggest that we should not be too full of words as human beings.
, maybe you will be slapped in the face by reality in the next second, will you feel embarrassed at that time?"
Of course it's embarrassing. The reporters present can't wait to see Ma Xiaogang's expression now.
Li Qian is Li Qian. He doesn't talk nonsense, answers simply and straightforwardly, and is very nice to listen to. I really want to interview him every day.
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This remark was half a retelling of Ma Xiaogang's original words and half a mockery, which also made netizens happy.
"Haha, Li Qian's counterattack is really sharp. Ma Xiaogang thought it was a big deal if he took 34 million on the first day."
""I Am Legend" is awesome, Li Qian is awesome, 43.3 million is almost 10 million higher than 34 million, let's see what else Ma Xiaogang can say."
"I have already said that "If You Are the One 2" is just average. In the past two days, people on the Internet have been praising this movie. God knows how many trolls Ma Xiaogang bought!"
"What a shame. I saw so many people praising "If You Are the One 2" for its combination of first-class comedy and first-class art. I was so fooled that I went to watch it last night."
"There were actually people who went to watch "Advertisement 2". They often took aerial shots and panoramic shots to show the scenery around their vacation villas in all directions. I even suspected that I was watching a documentary."
"43.3 million on the first day. How high the final box office was. I've seen it possible to break the record of "Avatar" in two years!"
"Ma Xiaogang is just an advertisement seller. How can he compare with Li Qian? The special effects and plot in "I Am Legend" are not better than those in "If You Are the One 2"!"
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Although he has only been in the industry for more than three years, Li Qian has quickly accumulated a group of loyal fans after four high-quality movies.
The box office has come out, and his fans have enough capital and confidence.
For the media, this situation is also welcome.
This is the first time in ten years that two of the most popular directors are fighting each other.
In previous films, at least, a director of Ma Xiaogang's level would not have been encountered.
Although competition is gradually getting bigger and blockbusters are being released together, no one is that crazy except Ma Xiaogang.
This time it was Ma Xiaogang who fired first because he was dissatisfied that Li Qian did not share the firepower for him.
The media was eager to point their noses at the two men and scold them, and the news headlines were full of provocations.
""I Am Legend" undoubtedly crushed "If You Are the One 2" at the box office on its first day."
"Li Qian said "If You Are the One 2" is completely worth mentioning."
"The new generation director Li Qian completely defeated the famous veteran director Ma Xiaogang, and the film industry has changed dramatically."
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Seeing these voices from netizens and the media, Ma Xiaogang was almost furious.
In fact, Ma Xiaogang has not been in a good mood since he received the box office text message in the early morning.
During the roadshow promotion process, reporters continued to stir up trouble and ridicule him overtly and covertly.
However, the first-day box office of "I Am Legend" was too high, with a difference of 10 million yuan. For such a huge gap, Ma Xiaogang, who has always advocated the theory of box office only, has no excuse at all.
"Director Ma, what do you think of Director Li's words?"
"Director Ma, the first-day box office of "I Am Legend" not only surpassed "If You Are the One 2" but was also five million higher than "Tangshan Earthquake". Do you still think that "I Am Legend" is a science fiction gimmick to make money?
Bad movie?”
"Director Ma, yesterday you said we would see the results today. Now that the results have come out, do you have anything to say?"
"Director Ma..."
"Director Ma..."
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The reporters' slightly mocking voices could be heard in his ears, making Ma Xiaogang's head almost explode.
This is the time in Ma Xiaogang's life that he has hated reporters the most, even more than when he threatened to beat reporters at the press conference.
However, the same thing is that Ma Xiaogang had the same idea today. He even wanted to have a machine gun and shoot at them to make the world a little quieter.
Ma Xiaogang didn't say anything. He really didn't know what to say. After all, he was the one talking about the box office every day.
The reporters also stopped. At this time, one of the reporters squeezed forward, stood at the edge of the stage, stretched out his hand, handed the microphone to Ma Xiaogang's mouth, and asked.
""I Am Legend" sold 43.3 million on its first day. Did Director Ma watch "I Am Legend" today?"
"I didn't see it." Ma Xiaogang forced out two words from his throat.
"Will the horse guide go and see it?"
"Won't!"
""I Am Legend" has achieved great success at the box office and is both commercial and artistic. Director Ma, you only make commercials. I think Director Ma should go and see it and learn from Director Li Qian..."
Ma Xiaogang's face became increasingly ugly. He gritted his teeth and stared at the ugly reporter in front of him.
Seeing that Ma Xiaogang's face was gradually becoming more ferocious, even though he was a little embarrassed by being stared at, the reporter became more and more excited and tried to get closer to the stage, and the microphone in his hand also reached in a little further.
There is also provocation in his eyes, as if to say, come on, come and hit me!
The reporter was so close that it felt like he could reach him with his hand. Ma Xiaogang even had the urge to slap him and unconsciously clenched his fists.