In the office, Yu Dong looked at the report and sighed.
The new film with the greatest expectations, Xu Ke and Jet Li, the golden partners, teamed up, but still lost to Zhang Yimou.
"The Thirteen Hairpins" opened at 6 o'clock on the first day and sold 25 million box office in six hours.
On the first day of release, in China, the show will either start at zero o'clock, show one round at 12 midnight, and then start the official screening at around 9 o'clock in the morning.
Or start at 6 pm. The six-hour peak period will show the attendance rate, and the average number of people per game will be much better than if it is released all day. After all, even if a movie is just released, the number of people watching during the day is far less than at night.
Originally, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" was also scheduled to be released at 6 p.m., but in order to get a better chance of overpowering the other film on the first day, Yu Dong specially arranged to show it four hours in advance, starting at 2 p.m.
The box office also exceeded "Jinling Thirteen Dynasties" as expected, with a box office of 30 million.
It's just that I overtook the opponent on the first day, but it didn't seem to be of much use. It was still 10 million lower in the first week.
However, the only good news is that the second week Monday sales of "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" and "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" were almost the same, both with more than 22 million.
"The Thirteen Beauties" has no rivals the next Monday, and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" has to face competition from the other side, and it has already won the same box office.
This did not make Yu Dongduo happy. "The Thirteen Hairpins" still had a box office of 16 million on Monday of its third week, and the trend was very stable.
In three days, "The Adventures of Li Xianji" will be released, and then "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" will face a double attack.
Originally, Yu Dong didn't think of each other as a rival, but the popularity of this film immediately skyrocketed from the super-hot trailer last Saturday.
Traveling to the Middle East single-handedly, turning on the lights in a duel, and destroying a group of heavily armed pirates in the Caribbean, it looks like a super blockbuster.
What is even more exciting is the ultimate preview released on Saturday. It goes back in time and space. In just one minute, it completely reviews the history of the capital city from the beginning of modern times to the age of dinosaurs. After watching the scenes, I
Dong himself felt a little shocked.
The anticipation for this movie has already been maxed out online.
Yu Dong can only hope that the content of "The Adventures of Li Xianji" will not be as exciting as the trailer, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with the attack from two sides.
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Just when Yu Dong was regretting the schedule arrangement, Zhang Weiping was wiping his sweat while secretly feeling proud.
Before the release, at the end of October, he and Yu Dong exchanged words for a while, thinking about having a head-on fight on December 15.
However, the huge hit of "Thirty Days of Love" made Zhang Weiping realize that "The Adventures of Li Xianji" was not simple, so he decisively moved it to release on the 8th, so that he would not have to face two opponents at the same time.
However, Zhang Weiping cannot be happy with the current box office performance. At this rate, "The Thirteen Hairpins" will lose money, unless there is an Oscar gain and there will be profits later.
Even if "The Adventures of Li Xianji" becomes a big hit, he will be affected a lot.
I met Li Qian twice, but nothing good happened.
"What a bad luck!" He cursed in his heart. At this time, Zhang Weiping could only do the same as Yu Dong, hoping that "The Adventures of Li Xianji" would not be as popular as "Love Is Not Blind" in November.
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The upcoming release of "The Adventures of Li Xianji" has put a lot of pressure on the two blockbusters currently in theaters, and the promotion of the two movies has become more and more crazy.
The two sides also had a tacit understanding of each other and started to quarrel again. The two film company CEOs frequently scolded each other in public.
"It's really interesting." Li Qian felt a little funny.
They had sprayed each other several times before, and just over a week after it stopped, they started spraying again.
Soon, amidst the hustle and bustle, "The Adventures of Li Xianji" also had its premiere on December 21st, officially joining the Lunar New Year schedule.
Li Qian also attended the premiere. During the ceremony, when the two directors Guo Fan and Li Yang, as well as Liu Ye, Zhou Xun and other actors were talking on the stage, some noise could be clearly heard behind them.
He seemed a little excited.
It is indeed the same as what Li Qian heard. The extremely creative and super-hot trailer, coupled with the combination of Guo Fan + Liu Ye + Zhou Xun, has made the audience wait for a long time.
"Let's show the movie quickly. I want to see Liu Yeqian pulling the lantern."
"When I heard that a movie version was going to be made last year, I was waiting for it. I really didn't expect that the movie version would be able to capture this scene. How did Optoelectronics pass the review?"
"What's wrong with La Deng? He was Mi Lijian's enemy, and he's been dead for half a year."
"I watched the animated version on my computer a few days ago. It was so awesome. It would be hard to say it is the best Chinese comic in the 21st century. I don't know how much it can be restored in the movie."
"It's definitely true. You can tell from the trailer. I think the historical flashback scene is the most awesome."
.......
With the audience eagerly waiting, the ceremony ended and the movie officially started showing.
After the dragon logo and the opening credits, a line of large characters appeared on the dark big screen.
Everyone has dreamed of traveling through time and changing the past.
Then in a flash, another line of big words appeared on the screen: Because everyone has some regrets in their past.
It can no longer be made up for.
At the beginning of the movie, on a bridge, Li Xianji's girlfriend Wang Qian broke up with him because her jet lag was over and she needed a normal life.
Anyone who has watched the anime knows that this is a flashback, but the scene that followed made everyone open their eyes wide.
A missile was being launched somewhere in the country. Li Xianji, played by Liu Ye, fixed himself on the rocket shell and flew into space with the rocket.
The rocket reached supersonic speed and began to separate. While the audience was stunned, Li Xianji stood up from the rear section of the rocket's separation and jumped to the front section of the rocket.
A man stood on the rocket, flashed past the moon, and finally crashed into what looked like a big Western city.
"Fuck!"
Such an incredible scene at the beginning made people cry out.
"Isn't this more powerful than Superman? Standing so smoothly on a rocket?"
"Here I go, I can jump like this. Rockets go supersonic, and I can still keep up."
"Newton is about to jump out of his coffin. It's completely unscientific."
.......
After a flashback and an exciting and illogical scene, the story begins.
Li Xianji is a patient with jet lag syndrome. As the name suggests, the time he experiences sometimes passes very quickly and sometimes very slowly.
When I look at the sky in the office, I feel that only three seconds have passed. In fact, a whole morning has passed. Then I can have lunch. In the afternoon, I continue to look at the sky. I feel that only a few seconds have passed. In the same way, several hours have passed.
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At this moment, most students and office workers in the cinema had the same thought in their minds.
Coach, I want to learn this.
Of course, due to jet lag, there will also be various troubles, such as being late for work.
And because of this disease, he doesn't have many friends, and there are no more than three people in his address book.
Until he met another person with jet lag, Wang Qian.
In the park, I saw the old man and the old woman doing morning exercises, but they saw a different scene.
In 1949, on the Tiananmen Gate Tower, the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China was held, and the whole country celebrated with great momentum.
In just five seconds, it makes people's blood boil.
The scene turned and a rifle appeared on the big screen.
Fighter planes roared past, hundreds of thousands of troops descended on the city, and Peiping was peacefully liberated.
In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang sent two famous generals, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, to invade the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang recovered the Han people.
A series of historical scenes, a series of historical figures, there are warriors and horses, and there are also prosperous scenes in the peaceful period.
Until Wang Jian led his army to conquer Jicheng, the capital of Yan, and called the Duke to make Jicheng the capital of Yan.
Scene after scene, segment after segment of history, the audience present could only feel the weight of history rushing towards their faces.
Then, we came to a more distant era, and the appearance of Peking Man went even further.
The earth appeared in front of the two people, and the continents were constantly changing.
A herbivorous dinosaur appeared on the big screen, followed by a roar, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex above opened its bloody mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
Immediately afterwards, the volcano erupted and the Tyrannosaurus rex turned into a pile of bones.
In just one minute, the changes of the times flashed in front of the audience like a quick glance, as if following the mission, they experienced the entire history in an instant.
But then, Li Xianji found out that Wang Qian secretly took the antidote. In the car, Li Xianji impatiently asked her to take the medicine and leave quickly.
However, after Wang Qian opened the door, she was hit by a large truck speeding by.
Li Xianji was in great pain and wanted to go back to the past.
His second uncle left behind a game that allows you to travel through time and space as long as you clear the level.
So, in order to pass the game, he sold his kidney and bought himself an iron hand.
In order to buy medicine to enhance reaction, I went to help people smuggle Ledeng to make money. As a result, I encountered the daughter of the President of the United States who was kidnapped, so I rescued the president's daughter and killed one of Ledeng's troops.
Finally, he broke through the game and entered the door, but he found that there was more than one door, and there were countless doors in the void.
Some were in the first second of the game, and some were just born. Li Xianji has cleared the game countless times and traveled through time and space countless times.
He went back to the Cretaceous period to avoid being hunted by dinosaurs.
I have also been to the Age of Apes, watching each ape making fire through wood, and taking out a lighter from his pocket to light it.
I even went to Germany and sat on a park bench with the young Einstein and chatted cross-server.
Ten thousand years later, the world was frozen and the end was coming.
During this long and repetitive search, he became more tactful, and he no longer did anything like holding on to a lantern, or killed a group of pirates when he got angry.
His mechanical hand began to rust, and his body could no longer feel mosquito bites. He was not really old, but he understood the true meaning of life.
Finally, with his head full of white hair, Li Xianji stepped through the door again and appeared on a road.
Not far away, in a car, he and Wang Qian of that year were in a car. After learning that Wang Qian was going to take the antidote and become a normal person, Li Xianji drove her out of the car.
Wang Qian opened the car door as usual and planned to leave.
But at this time, the old Li Xianji suddenly appeared and blocked the car door with his body.
With a bang, a large truck passed him behind him.
After countless years, he finally came to this moment.
Looking at the two people in the car, the elderly Li Xianji, played by Mr. Yu Bencang, had deep eyes and a smile. This look seemed like it lasted for thousands of years.
His mouth moved up and down, but he couldn't hear the sound clearly.
He found Wang Qian, but he didn't take another step forward.
This is the end and the beginning.
"Wait a minute, what is he talking about? Why is there no sound?"
"I'm afraid I didn't hear it either. Mr. Yu Bencang's acting skills are amazing. This episode was completed more than an hour ago."
"The look in his eyes made people go numb. Li Xianji acted like a sage, a saint, like Gandalf."
"I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to the shape of my mouth, and I was just looking at Mr. Yumotokura's eyes."
"I'm sorry that spans decades. This shot is worth it. The front part is actually a bit messy."
"Damn it, this part feels like "Journey to the West", what a god-like acting!"
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At the end of the movie, amid applause, Guo Fan and Li Yang took the actors on stage again.
Li Qian shook his head, feeling a little disappointed. The film scored six points. It still had so many big scenes and exciting scenes. It didn't become a literary and artistic film like the original version. Moreover, it was a somewhat inexplicable literary and artistic film.
In the end, one point is added to the performance of Mr. Yu Bencang, and the film is given seven points.
Next to her, Tong Liya noticed that Li Qian didn't seem very happy, so she couldn't help but whisper, "Why are you shaking your head? Brother Fan filmed it very well. The last scene was so touching."
"It's okay." Li Qian said.
Two directors and two different concepts intertwined together make this film look a bit nondescript.
Therefore, a director must have enough control over the movie, and a movie can only have one voice.
One person may make a bad movie, but two people will definitely make a completely different movie.
Of the two directors of "The Wind", it was actually Chen Guofu who made the call, and each of them was responsible for one area of expertise, so there was no conflict.
This film is different. Both of them are directors, so they are on equal footing. They probably had a lot of quarrels on the set. Their styles conflicted, which would look weird.
However, the story itself is good, the completion of Liu Ye and Zhou Xun is also high, and it is imaginative and exciting enough. In the end, Mr. Yu Bencang also ended it perfectly, so there is no need to worry about the box office.