The long Spring Festival holiday has passed. In just seven days, the outcome of the Spring Festival season has been decided. "Time Planning Bureau" can already determine the box office champion of the Spring Festival season in advance.
Thanks to its strong reputation, it has maintained a stable trend after the holiday.
On Thursday, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the first working day, it still received 14 million at the box office, and it also received 77 million in the next three days of the weekend.
After eleven days of release, the total box office reached 361 million.
The big production "New Shaolin Temple" with an investment of 200 million yuan earned 37 million yuan in four days, and the total box office reached 197 million yuan.
During the holidays, more people watch movies. Apart from "Time Planning Bureau", "New Shaolin Temple" can be seen. It has a strong lineup and full of star flavor, so even if it has a mediocre reputation and is not a comedy, it still sells
high box office
But once the holidays are over, people have no time, and some audiences without targets may not go to the cinema, and the box office will naturally collapse.
After the holidays, a new superhero movie "The Green Hornet" was released, starring Jay Chou. The movie is a remake of the 1966 movie of the same name starring Li Xiaolong.
It is very rare for a Chinese to play the leading role in a major Hollywood A-level commercial production, even though he is only the second male lead.
However, it’s either a superhero movie or a superhero movie. The movie was made into a comedy. Jay Chou, who was originally responsible for the action copy, had no room to show his talents. From the beginning to the end, the actor Seth Rogen’s unique jokes were made.
A comedy is more suitable.
Moreover, Jay Chou's character is a martial arts master in the magic city, and he actually has a Japanese name called Kato.
The original manga was indeed written by Kato, a Japanese manga artist. This version was changed to a manga character from Morto for the sake of domestic box office, and some machines were also marked with Chinese characters to show that he was from China.
However, domestic audiences didn't buy it, and it was just because of Jay Chou's fame that the film received a box office of 77 million in the first week.
Moreover, this role caused Jay Chou to receive a lot of criticism two days ago, saying that he went to Hollywood to play a Japanese.
Most people have never seen the movie, but when they saw the name Kato, they started to criticize Jay Chou, and even named Li Xiaolong and criticized him.
To go even more extreme, the movie's encyclopedia entry was changed. The original character description of Kato was the Green Hornet's assistant in the Magic City, but someone with a deliberate intention changed it to Kato, a Japanese character.
In terms of fame, Jay Chou is definitely one of the most popular stars in China. Playing a Japanese man is such a sensitive matter. Fans, sunspots, and passersby got into a quarrel after celebrating the New Year. It even vaguely overshadowed "Time Planning Bureau"
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There was also "Love to the End", a remake of the TV series of the same name, which was also released on the weekend and grossed 40 million in box office in two days.
After the Spring Festival holiday, the competition for the Spring Festival stalls has become even more intense.
However, the two new films did not pose any threat to "Time Planning Bureau". It still received 80 million box office in the third week and seven days, and the total box office reached 441 million, becoming the first movie to break 400 million this year.
"New Shaolin Temple" was squeezed by two new films, and its box office began to collapse. It only received 28 million in seven days, and the total box office reached 225 million.
It has exceeded 200 million, but that’s it.
"The Green Hornet" took in 40 million at the box office in its second week, and the trend was also average.
The second week of "Love to the End" coincided with Valentine's Day, and the box office was still hot. It almost exceeded 100 million in a single week, earning 92 million, and a total of 132 million in nine days, surpassing "The Green Hornet".
There are no new films released in the next half of February, and the box office battle for the Spring Festival is almost settled.
"Time Planning Bureau" and Li Qian are undoubtedly the biggest winners in the Spring Festival. Although everything goes as it should, without any twists and turns, major companies are not calm.
It has been five months since the National Day period at the end of September. During these five months, the National Day, Lunar New Year, and Spring Festival periods were all occupied by Li Qian.
Major companies are feeling unprecedented pressure. Counting back, last year's Spring Festival release "Avatar" was eliminated, and it was also "Unfortunately" that dominated.
March, April, May and June were all the territory of Hollywood blockbusters, and it was not until July and August that "Tangshan Earthquake" broke the record.
In other words, in the past twelve months, except for imported films and the only "Tangshan Earthquake", the entire film market has been eaten up by Li Qian!
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At the same time, in different places, many people gasped in unison when looking at the compiled data on their desks after the New Year.
Reluctant and powerless, there is absolutely nothing we can do.
After calming down, Huang Zhongjun suddenly discovered that if Li Qian still maintains this state, even in two or three years, Li Qian's Future Pictures will threaten Huayang Media's status as the boss of private enterprises.
Huang Zhongjun had never thought about this kind of thing before, because he felt very angry when he thought of Li Qian, and it was a small studio, so he didn't think about it in that regard.
When I calm down and think about it, it’s really hard to say if there are three or four blockbuster movies in consecutive years.
However, after thinking hard for several days, Huang Zhongjun could not find a way to restrain Li Qian.
He can't bribe theater chains to prevent his films from being released, nor can he ban all his films. He's not the boss of optoelectronics.
"Brother, why don't we ask Yu Dong, Song Ge, and Wang Changtian to come out and discuss it?" Huang Zhonglei suggested.
"What's the use?" Huang Zhongjun sighed.
As for joining forces, let’s not talk about whether people with different agendas can work together as one. Even if they join forces, they may not be able to succeed. This year is the best example.
...
The Chinese New Year is over, and the work of the new year has begun. No one in the major companies is in a good mood. The only one who is feeling better is probably Xiao Ma. "Love to the End" has been a hit at the box office. Li Ming is still very happy now.
Focus on building another big ship.
After a new year, Li Qian took a good rest. He was still in a good mood and started a new round of work.
The previous actors were brought together again. More than ten days have passed, and everyone has a deeper understanding of the movie itself and their respective characters.
However, when he saw them, Li Qian was shocked.
"Let me go, what kind of look is this?"
In the reception room, Xu Zheng, who has obviously put on weight and has a larger waistline, is sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed and playing with his mobile phone. His bald head is a little greasy, and his face seems to have an extra layer of oil. He has a long stubble.
, almost half a centimeter.
Seeing Li Qian coming, everyone stood up to say hello.
"Director Li."
"Everyone, sit down."
Li Qian smiled, asked everyone to sit down, and looked at the slovenly Xu Zheng, "Brother Zheng, what is going on with you? You just came out of the refugee camp?"
Xu Zheng put his cell phone on the coffee table and said with a smile, "Isn't this a greasy middle-aged man? From the Chinese New Year to now, I haven't taken a shower, changed clothes, or shaved."
...Li Qian is speechless, he is doing this during the Chinese New Year.
But luckily it's winter. If it were summer, this house would stink.
"The collar of your clothes is almost swollen. Why didn't you let me come out when you went to your mother-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings?"
"That doesn't mean that all the old people who engage in art will understand." Xu Zheng said.
Art, what a noble word.
I glanced at Xu Zheng's cell phone on the table, and there was a message saying "Duzhu" on it. He was a farmer and seemed to be losing.
"Brother Zheng, this is not how the game is played."
Li Qian took the mobile phone, held it in both hands, and leaned on the sofa, his head hanging naturally to one side, playing Landlords boredly, glancing at the screen from the corner of his eye from time to time, and when it was time to play a card, he would just click on it to play a card.
In the end, of course, I lost. I threw the finger holding the phone with my right hand to the side and started looking at the ground and wall aimlessly, not knowing what I was thinking.
My cell phone!
Xu Zheng felt a pain in his eyes and quickly picked up the phone that fell on the ground.
"In the scene at the beginning playing card games in a store, you can't act like you're really playing a game. This is different from the sloppy men sleeping in an Internet cafe playing games. You're playing games with nothing to do. There's really nothing to do, and you don't have anything to do.
For business, playing games is just a waste of time, you have to look weak, and don't play cards casually, just click casually." Li Qian explained.
"Is it a waste of time? Are you feeling weak?" Xu Zheng thought for a while and returned to the previous state. He looked at the phone screen with hazy eyes and no focus. Suddenly his fingers moved and he clicked on the screen. He was in a daze again.
"Look, is this Cheng Yong in the script?" Li Qian asked the others.
"It's really similar."
Hu Ge, Tan Zhuo, and Mr. Yang Xinmin nodded.
"It's still a bit tasteless." Huang Bo also saved some face for Xu Zheng, otherwise he should have said "like a ball".
"Indeed, it's sloppy. It's also quite greasy. It just lacks the feeling of despair."
Li Qian thought for a while and said, "Change the posture, put one foot on the sofa and put your hands on your legs, or combine these two postures."
"This is a bit difficult." Xu Zheng thought for a while and did as Li Qian said.
But if Ge Youpa slumped on the sofa like that, his feet could only reach the edge of the sofa, and the sofa was still soft, so he needed strength to hold his feet up.
Seeing that Xu Zheng was holding back his strength and maintaining his posture, everyone could hardly help but laugh.
Li Qian said, "It's almost the same. When the time comes, I'll give you a chair and make it wider. It's fine if your face is greasy, your eyes are cloudy, and you feel weak, but it's not that interesting if you live a life without goals and direction."
"Understood, I'm looking for a feeling." Xu Zheng nodded. In order to experience the life of a greasy middle-aged man, he made himself a ghost this year.
I lay there all day long, not going to bed at three or four in the morning, getting up at six or seven during the day, not exercising, not taking a shower, and overeating, almost feeling like a useless person.
Even my wife dislikes him and won't let him go to bed with me.
But there is no way, I have never experienced this kind of state. Even when I was in college, I was not like many degenerate college students today who hide in the dormitory every day to play games, watch movies, and stay up all night. He didn't have this in his time.
I have never experienced it before, so I can only experience it again now.
Li Qian looked at the others again. Huang Bo was quite normal. This role was easy for him. It was mainly a matter of appearance.
"Mr. Yang, what is this on your hand?"
Mr. Yang Xinmin, who plays Pastor Liu, has been holding a small book in his hand and seems to be muttering something.
"I have an English line, and I don't know English, so I had someone mark it out in Chinese for me and memorize it slowly. They also read it for me and recorded it. Listen to it more. I still have to pay attention to my pronunciation."
Yang Xinmin smiled.
"Teacher Yang, we don't insist on standard pronunciation. The character of Pastor Liu has two sides, the compassionate one facing the patients, and the angry-looking King Kong facing the counterfeit medicine dealers," Li Qian said.
Yang Xinmin also went to church and visited patients during this time. Anyone with a kind heart will feel sympathy for leukemia patients when they see the tragic situation. This aspect is easy to say.
Through chatting, Li Qian also discovered that they had made sufficient preparations during this period. Tan Zhuo had already started practicing pole dancing and sprained his foot when he landed. Fortunately, it was not serious.
Hu Ge is still participating in the promotion of "Time Planning Bureau", but the movie has been released for half a month, and he is ready to start a weight loss plan.
This is not weight loss through fitness exercises. Hu Ge has to lose weight to the point of being haggard. If he is unhealthy and weak, what he will see when he takes off his clothes is not muscles but ribs.
Although there are no shirtless scenes in the film, the two different types of thinness can be seen without taking off clothes.
The big screen is not as easy to fool as TV dramas. The people on the screen are twice as big as the audience, every detail is exposed, and the pits on the face are clearly visible.
...
After chatting for a whole day, I analyzed each character and the plot at each stage with each member of the Medicine God Team, and officially signed an actor contract.
However, Xu Zheng, as the protagonist, stayed. As the core of the film, his burden was much heavier than anyone else's.
However, Xu Zheng was not only concerned about the role. As a director, he began to care about how the movie would sell well.
"Director Li, didn't you say before the media that you wanted to hit the box office record of "Avatar"? However, the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" does not have strong commercial elements."
"Whether a movie can be a hit or not has nothing to do with commercial elements. "A Perfect World" doesn't have enough commercial elements, but it doesn't affect its success at all. The most important thing is that it resonates with the audience."
Li Qian shook his head and felt a little strange again, "Brother Zheng, you are not a young artist. Why don't you talk about the connotation of the movie and instead talk about the box office with me?"
"What kind of literary young man am I?" Xu Zheng laughed at himself, "Before this year I always thought that I was a literary young man, but during this time, in order to find my character, I was either eating, drinking or playing games at home. Sometimes I would sit on the sofa and wait for the day.
Hey, I have so many things to think about. I found that when I was in college, it was because the literary style was popular and most of my female classmates also liked artistic youths, so I became a literary youth. I was still a layman."
"In your era, it was true that young people were either literary or rock 'n' roll. It was popular to write poems and articles." Li Qian was not surprised. In the 1990s, there were already many literary and artistic young people per capita.
At that time, I was embarrassed to say that I was a college student without having written a few poems or prose.
"If it resonates with the audience, it should be combined with current events." Xu Zheng pondered.
"Pretty much, commercial movies are all about arousing emotions. The previous Spring Festival film "Wulin Biography" used housing prices as an entry point for this purpose, and "New Shaolin Temple" finally arranged a new villain foreigner to whitewash Xie Tingfeng. Almost all of them
It's a similar principle." Li Qian said.
It's strange that a movie like "New Shaolin Temple" can be a hit. It advertises that you can put down your butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately. No matter how many mistakes you make, you only need to wake up. It's very difficult for Monk Tang to become a Buddha.
The reason why foreigners are arranged instead of another group of warlords is simply that compared to the character of Xie Tingfeng, the audience will have a stronger hatred for the foreign enemies who invade the country.
Although he agreed with Li Qian's words, after all, many of the best-selling movies are very touching, Xu Zheng still smiled bitterly, "But Director Li, are you really serious about 1.3 billion?"
Although the words were spoken by Li Qian, Xu Zheng is also the male protagonist after all, and he is also full of pressure.
Li Qian smiled and said, "Haha, brother Zheng, don't feel pressured. "I'm Not the God of Medicine" will definitely be a good movie and the audience will definitely like it."
How can there be no pressure!
Xu Zheng cursed in his heart. This reminded him of last year's Spring Festival. Li Qian opened his mouth and said that the goal of "People on the Road" was to exceed 200 million. At that time, he was very nervous. If he was slapped in the face, he would be too.
Misfortune follows.
Although the box office fulfilled Li Qian's big words at the beginning, this time it is not as simple as 200 million.
I hope I won't be fooled, Xu Zheng could only think like this, and at the same time, he was a little excited deep in his heart, what if Li Qian got it right again this time.
The number one actor with a box office of 1.3 billion. Even though the filming of the movie has not started yet, Xu Zheng’s heart is already beating fast.
After figuring out that his persona as a literary young man was just drifting with the crowd, and that he was actually a common person, Xu Zheng became more and more looking forward to it.