Chapter 401 The New Year's War! The war between old giants and industry upstarts!
"You are still wiping that trophy. If you keep wiping it, your eyes will be blinded. Sooner or later, the gold on it will be wiped off by you."
Li Qian was speechless as he watched Tong Liya carefully wiping the Hundred Flowers Best Actress trophy she won not long ago. After winning the award on the night of the 29th, she had to wipe the trophy every two days. I don’t know.
I thought it was some kind of antique.
"I'm happy to!" Tong Liya smiled and rolled her eyes at Li Qian. After wiping it, she moved the position of the trophy, stood a few steps away and looked at it repeatedly until she was satisfied.
"You might as well sleep with the trophy in your arms."
"I don't, I'm so panicked."
Tong Liya chuckled, hugged Li Qian's arm, and said with longing, "Now that I have won the Best Actress of Hundred Flowers, I am still missing the Best Actress of Golden Rooster."
Li Qian hit her mercilessly, "I just won the movie Queen of Hundred Flowers, and I just thought about the movie Queen Golden Rooster. I only think about good things. Just wait. Unless it's a movie with a main theme or a realistic theme, you won't be able to survive it."
"snort!"
Tong Liya pouted, with the word "unhappy" barely written on her face.
Li Qian stretched out his hand to pinch Lao Gao's pouted lips and smiled, "Don't think about awards or not. One Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers is enough. More are just icing on the cake. One day I will join the Filmmakers Association."
Chairman, Dangdang, I will award you one."
Tong Liya's eyes lit up, and then she said arrogantly, "No, I want to rely on my own strength."
Li Qian shrugged, "Then just wait."
"..." Tong Liya glared at Li Qian, took the shiny Baihua Best Actress trophy, held it in her arms, and walked to the bedroom angrily.
"I'm going to sleep with it today!"
Li Qian followed him, lifted up the quilt, got in, and kicked the trophy onto the carpet. It couldn't be broken anyway.
"ah!"
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During the National Day holiday, the box office of several previously released movies has increased significantly. After all, they are all on holiday.
There is an old saying that if you stand on the wind, even a pig can fly.
This sentence is usually used in the 1980s and 1990s, when countless people dared to work hard and achieved success.
The same goes for the film industry. The industry is developing rapidly, the film market is getting bigger and bigger, and watching movies has become a very common form of entertainment.
Most people who watch movies are not movie lovers, they are just a form of entertainment.
There are also a large number of couples who are also one of the main audiences. After all, there is no more cost-effective way of entertainment than watching movies.
Two tickets cost sixty or seventy yuan, plus drinks and popcorn, it cost about one hundred yuan. Two hours passed, and I was still sitting. It was much more comfortable than shopping.
It's even cheaper if you buy in a group.
On a schedule like the National Day schedule, as long as it is a commercial movie, it should not be useless. It is too easy to sell the movie at the box office.
The box office of several previous movies soared. "Tongque Terrace", which grossed 6 million on the first day, took in 56 million in its second week during the long holiday.
Adding in the total of 32 million received in the previous five days, the box office will be 88 million, with great hope of exceeding 100 million.
"Tai Chi" only sold 34 million in the first four days. In the second week, it sold 80 million, already exceeding 100 million.
Although it is still a hit, it is just about the same as the cost.
It grossed 17 million in its first two days. The romance film "Double Exposure" starring Fan Binbin also grossed 70 million in its second week, and the box office reached more than 80 million.
All three movies were guaranteed to earn 100 million. That is to say, Zhang Ziyi's "Dangerous Liaisons" failed and only took 50 million at the box office.
Zhang Ziyi has not yet recovered from the Sanzhongmen Incident, that blow was quite severe.
The few domestic films released during the National Day period were barely adequate, and other films were released one after another after the long holiday.
The Sino-U.S. co-produced horror film "The Great Tsunami: Shark's Mouth" successfully exceeded 100 million at the box office. With "Jaws" in the lead, shark-type horror films have a relatively high audience acceptance.
This movie is very scary. It should be said that it is bloody. It has the usual characteristics of American gory horror movies, such as inserting foreheads, sawing hands, living fish bait, biting and dismembering... everything.
There was a character who was hung in mid-air and had most of his body bitten off by a shark, leaving his head and shoulders hanging there. There were many bloody scenes like this.
Moreover, this is still 3D, but pseudo-3D.
Among the Chinese films, there is only one "Men Are Like Clothes", Huang Baiming's comedy.
The title of this film makes a man want to punch him.
If it were a woman, the director and screenwriter would probably be scolded to death.
But that’s not what it means. It’s not that men are like clothes and can be changed at any time. What it means is that men are like clothes, warm and safe. That’s probably what it means.
However, this is still a bad movie. Just watch Huang Baiming and you will know that he has not kept up with the times.
Apart from this, there are only two imported films left, "The Twilight Saga 4" and "The Bourne Supremacy", which coincidentally are both the fourth films.
"The Bourne Supremacy" changed its male lead, and the core character Jason Bourne did not appear, which attracted a lot of criticism from movie fans.
The producers of the series are brave enough to change the lead actors.
It's true that actors were changed. "The Amazing Spider-Man" replaced the actors from the first three Spider-Man films, but at least the male protagonist Spider-Man was not replaced by some other hero.
But "The Bourne Supremacy" was better, the male lead was changed.
This is one of the most classic spy series in film history, and the filmmakers are seeking death.
To use a sentence from all the audiences around the world: "The Bourne Supremacy" without Jason Bourne is like "Harry Potter" without Harry Potter.
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November has arrived in the blink of an eye, which also means that the Lunar New Year is just around the corner.
This year’s Double Eleven, there is no romantic movie to line up, and the entire early November has become a melee.
Huayang Media's "Tai Chi 2" took the lead. The first part took in a box office of 140 million during the National Day holiday. It had a garbage reputation. It stands to reason that the second part should be even worse at the box office.
However, the box office on the first day was as high as 11 million, and the box office in the first four days of the weekend was 55 million.
This is completely unreasonable box office. You must know that the box office of the first part was only 8 million on the first day.
But this box office data is true, and the number Li Qian got is also the same.
With the first film's not-so-favorable reputation, the second film's initial box office is actually higher, which is really strange.
But that was it, the box office plummeted in the second week, with only 33 million left.
This week "Chill", which was invested and distributed by Future Pictures, was released, and Li Qian also helped promote it and posted on Weibo.
26 million on the first day and 110 million in the first four days of the weekend. The reputation is also very good. It can be said that it is one of the Hong Kong police and gangster films with the best reputation after "Infernal Affairs".
A work of salvation!
These four familiar words have appeared frequently on the Internet after a few years.
Movies in Hong Kong are too difficult. As long as there is a movie with good reputation and good box office, the media in Hong Kong will always promote some salvation movie. This salvation is too simple.
The movies invested by Li Qian were very popular, far exceeding any other movie in the same period, and once again swept the movie market.
At the same time, CEOs of major companies once again felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
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Huayang Media.
"Can this Li Qian go to heaven?"
Huang Zhongjun, who has always been happy but not angry, rarely showed the same expression on his face as his irritable brother Huang Zhonglei.
At this time, the two brothers both had angry faces, coupled with some confusion, and all kinds of negative emotions were mixed together, making it as ugly as possible.
The two brothers couldn't help but be frightened. Even if the movies Li Qian made were hits, the movies directed by him could barely make it if they were hits under his guidance.
But what the heck, this "Chilling" is a Hong Kong police and gangster film through and through. Li Qian was also filming "The Truman Show" when it was being filmed. Not to mention that he was not free. Even if he had time, it wouldn't be on par with Hong Kong films.
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However, "Chill" happened to be such a hit, and it did so on the back of "Tai Chi 2," a blockbuster movie in which they invested hundreds of millions.
For a moment, both brothers felt a chill in their hearts and began to doubt themselves involuntarily.
However, this thought only passed away in a flash. Huang Zhonglei regained his ferocious look and said bitterly, "Brother, he is just unlucky. This film is mainly controlled by Wu Siyuan. He was the producer and producer at the time.
It’s a classic Hong Kong movie, so there’s nothing surprising about it!”
Yes, it was just a matter of luck, a blind cat met a dead mouse and picked up a popular Hong Kong movie.
Huang Zhongjun also immediately convinced himself with this reason, regained his fighting spirit, and said firmly, "Zhonglei, "Zodiac" will be released in two months, and we must not fail again!"
Although "Painted Skin 2" made money, it was still far from expectations, and it was even beaten by "Jaws 3".
"Tai Chi 1" did win the National Day box office championship, but it was just a matter of rookies pecking each other, and the short ones getting the better.
"Tai Chi 2" has a box office of just over 100 million at most. The two films add up to 250 million, but the cost is also as high as 220 million.
It's like losing all the money earned from "Painted Skin 2", and all three blockbusters were in vain.
They only have two blockbusters left, "Twelve Zodiac Signs" and "1942". There is absolutely no room for failure!
"Don't worry, brother, Li Yi's "Life of Pi" is nothing to worry about. What's interesting about a movie about a child and a tiger floating on the sea? The main thing is the re-released 3D version of "2012", the first one
The box office is expected to be pretty good this week, but it’s only the first week, so it won’t make any waves.”
Huang Zhonglei analyzed with a relaxed expression that "Life of Pi" was an adaptation. He went to read the original work, which is a survival adventure story of an Indian boy and an adult Bengal tiger that lasted 227 days in the Pacific.
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At first glance, it seems like a very interesting story, but after drifting for more than 200 days, the tiger did not eat the child for two hours, so the tiger is a waste.
Although the book talks about such profound things as faith, survival, people and animals, people and people, people and the world, etc.
But if it were to be made into a movie, what would it be worth? How could the average audience have the time to watch such a boring story?
"Life of Pi" is not something to be afraid of. Huang Zhonglei thinks the biggest opponent is the 3D version of "2012".
Although it was released a few years ago, the 3D re-release of "Titanic" has a box office of nearly 1 billion, so we have to take it seriously.
However, the reputation of the re-released film is not as good as that of Dachuan. Huang Zhonglei probably only managed to sell well in the first week, but then withered away.
After listening to his analysis, Huang Zhongjun nodded repeatedly and couldn't help but look at his younger brother with admiration.
However, he still warned, "Don't forget there is also Lu Chuan's "The King's Feast"."
"Lu Chuan?"
Huang Zhonglei smiled.
After Huang Zhongjun finished speaking, he also laughed. The two brothers looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Li Qian has just arrived, but Lu Chuan is not qualified to be the opponent in "Twelve Zodiacs" yet.
It can be said that Lu Chuan was abandoned by Huang Zhongjun. At that time, the most outstanding director of the new generation, he risked his life to make "Jinling! Jinling!". The script was too controversial, and Huang Zhongjun abandoned him without hesitation, without investing a dime.
Of course, the biggest problem is that the cost is too high. The production cost alone is 80 million. If it were 8 million, not to mention that the butt is crooked, the butt is sitting on the wrong chair. Huang Zhongjun would also invest.
The result proved his vision, the film failed at the box office and its reputation was ruined.
Huang Zhongjun still doesn't look down on a director who has been abandoned by him.
Looking at it this way, Huayang Media will not encounter any problems before "The Truman Show" is released.
I finally feel a lot better!
The subsequent box office performance also confirmed Huang Zhonglei's expectations.
On November 20, the 3D version of "2012" sold 16 million on its first day. For a re-released movie, it was definitely a hit. Many Hollywood blockbusters did not have this number on their first day.
The next day, the box office dropped to 15 million, which was obviously a lack of stamina. After all, high-definition resources were available online and many people had watched it.
On Thursday the 22nd, two blockbusters, "Life of Pi" and "Zodiac", were released simultaneously.
Half a month later, on December 6th, "The Truman Show" will be released, and the promotion has begun intensively.
One month later, on December 20, the disaster blockbuster "1942" directed by Ma Xiaogang will also be released in domestic theaters.
The 2012 Lunar New Year holiday has reached its hottest time, with three famous directors + Cheng Long and four blockbusters about to start the most brutal fight.
The two blockbusters "Zodiac" and "1942" happened to sandwich "The Truman Show" in the middle. Li Qian faced a double team and was his biggest opponent so far.
Although apart from China Film, only Huayang Media and Future Pictures are competing for it, the Lunar New Year festival still attracts the attention of the entire film industry.
No matter which one wins the Lunar New Year slot, the established giant Huayang Media or the upstart Future Pictures, the impact on the industry will be huge.
However, others still hope that it is best for both parties to lose!