The summer season is over, and "The Pursuit of Happiness" has won the summer box office championship with an absolute advantage.
The total box office is 780 million. With the arrival of the school season and the spread of high-definition piracy, the natural enemy of drama films, there is no hope of exceeding 800 million.
It is also the only domestic film in the summer season that was both well-received and a box-office hit. Audiences rated it very highly. Looking through all the audience's reviews, the word "touching" definitely appeared the most.
As for professional reviews, although some say the movie is deliberately sensational, the vast majority of reviews are positive.
It's an inspirational movie in itself. It sounds like a chicken soup movie at worst. It just depends on how it's handled. If it's well shot, people will naturally drink it.
The final box office of "Pacific Rim" was 755 million, which did not break 800 million. The previous "To Our Fading Youth" also stopped at the 800 million threshold.
Two movies with a box office of RMB 700 million each earned a box office of RMB 1.5 billion during the summer season. Future Pictures is still the biggest winner during the summer season.
In addition, the action movie "Guild Wars" has a box office of over 100 million and has a very good reputation.
The animated movie "I Love Big Big Wolf" is also relatively popular during the summer vacation. This series frequently exceeded 100 million in the Spring Festival season, which gave the producers a taste of the sweetness. In addition to the Spring Festival season, there is one film a year, and the summer season has also started.
It can be regarded as one of the few popular cartoons in China. I don’t know when the saying “marry the Big Big Wolf” started to appear on the Internet.
The crime movie "A Romantic Affair" starring Huang Xiaoming's girlfriend Yang Ying was a hit, and it was difficult for Huang Xiaoming to star in it specifically for his girlfriend. This movie, adapted from the TV series of the same name more than ten years ago, only sold 20 million.
The 20 million is the amount of attention that director Gao Yushu and fans of "Tiny Times" got after half a month of trolling. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to get the 20 million.
The heroine, Yang Ying, plays a police officer. Her face as a policewoman is not too outrageous, but the key is that she is an undercover agent.
What's even more outrageous is that as an undercover agent, the heroine fell in love with the villain, a gangster boss in Nanjing.
Huang Xiaoming also plays a special role as a policeman and the boyfriend of the heroine.
There is no one who would not hesitate to be a cuckold in a movie in order to flatter his girlfriend.
Huang Xiaoming also starred in a movie "Mader No. 2". I don't know what the director thought. Normal people would not think of going to the cinema to find out what happened when they see this kind of title.
However, this year’s summer schedule is really special. “Tiny Times 2”, “Pen 2”, and “Fuji Detective” are all put together.
It has simply become a bad show. The classic TV series "Pink Girl" from ten years ago could not escape the fate of being adapted into a movie to make money. The director of this TV series made "Pink Girl: Lover Runs".
However, not all movies can make money, and the total box office was only over 3 million.
When it comes to adaptations, there is no shortage of Qing Dynasty dramas that have become popular in the past two years. Yu Zheng filmed "Palace Lock Agarwood".
The heroine is the former murderer Zhou Dongyu. Just like "Love at the Hawthorn Tree" promoted beautiful love before, the trailer before the release of "Agarwood" also promoted the purest love.
But after the words "the purest love" appeared on the trailer screen, less than two seconds later, the screen turned and there was a boat scene that made people imagine.
So innocent.
Yu Zheng also promised the audience that as long as the box office exceeds 300 million, he will make a sequel.
As a result, it only sold more than 50 million, and netizens exclaimed that it was lucky that there was no need to make a sequel.
Even Ning Hao's crazy series was followed by others and they made a movie called "Crazy Director".
Just by looking at the title of the film, you can tell that it is a series of stories about a small-time director who wanted to make a movie for his dream.
It's such a bad movie that when you go to watch the movie, it's better to read the synopsis. The synopsis is better than the movie, and you can understand the story better.
There is also a bad movie of this level called "Awkward Love", in which the heroine is Zhao Yihuan, the popular online drama actress.
Just looking at the word "Love" in the title will definitely make people think about it. The size of the poster is indeed large enough, and both the male and female actors are naked.
But the content definitely can’t be like that, and Optoelectronics is not blind.
However, this kind of amateur movie can be released, and there is not much difference between optoelectronics and blindness.
Villain, follower, these four words are enough to describe this year's summer movie, it's almost impossible to watch.
As for "Tiny Times", the box office was stuck at 298 million, just over one million short of it, and failed to break through the 300 million mark.
Based on the poor reputation of the first part, it is a miracle that the second part has not crashed at the box office.
The Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Film Association met again in early September, but this time it was a press conference for the public.
What we mainly talk about is the industry atmosphere and chaos shown in the summer season. Remakes of classics have become a trend and people follow the trend to make money.
Criticism is the theme of the press conference, and it’s the same old thing anyway.
As a member of the Film Association and a representative figure of commercial directors, Li Qian also wanted to speak.
Speeches are indispensable on various occasions. In fact, this summer vacation is full of troubles. The Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Film Association are holding meetings at every turn. Today they will hold meetings in the capital, and tomorrow they will go to Shanghai to hold meetings.
There were not so many meetings last year. Even when "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was released the year before last, the Film Association was not so active in holding meetings.
That is to say, the higher-ups announced the medical reform, which clarified the matter and set the trend. The Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Film Association and various organizations came out to hold meetings.
After all, meetings cannot be held haphazardly.
If the higher-ups send you a letter about the movie, you will see if they can still hold a meeting and start a hammer blow.
This time it is not so much a criticism of following the trend of chaos and the prevalence of bad movies as it is that others have made big bad movies and made money. It is mainly due to psychological imbalance.
How come you, an amateur director, make a bad movie that sells hundreds of millions, while our artistic movies lose money!
If "Tiny Times" only had a box office of tens of millions, no one would hold a conference for this film. It would be too full to hold up.
"A Love Affair", "Crazy Director", "Pink Lady" and other movies that bombed the box office, why didn't anyone go to the meeting?
Not to mention the meeting, I don’t even bother to mention it.
Just hold the meeting and make your speech. Li Qian didn't care and spoke to the media in the audience.
"Actually, the core problems currently faced by the film industry are not just remakes. There is no problem with remakes themselves. The four famous works and Jin Yong's martial arts dramas have always been the focus of remakes, and they have also contributed many excellent film and television dramas to the audience.
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Li Qian's speech in favor of the remake left the media in the audience confused. Isn't this a criticism meeting?
At the same time, the heads of the Taiwan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Film Association were not very satisfied either.
However, Li Qian would not say what they thought, so it would be better not to say anything, what's the point.
There is nothing wrong with remakes. There are so many remakes of classic movies and TV series. There are a lot of classic movies and TV series adapted from them both at home and abroad.
"Romeo and Juliet" has been remade more than 20 times.
Basically, two or three editions of the four major domestic masterpieces have been made. In 2010, Gao Xixi also planned to make a movie "Three Kingdoms: Jingzhou", the story of Guan Yu's careless loss of Jingzhou. The launch press conference was held, with an investment of 250 million and a use of 150 million.
Jingzhou City was built.
However, the project was put on hold. Zhang Li, the famous TV series director who had filmed "Toward the Republic" last month, took over again and held a press conference to announce the restart of the project.
However, if Li Qian guessed correctly, the final title of this film should be "Shadow", starring Deng Chao. The plot of this film is hard not to remind people of the Three Kingdoms.
In Jingzhou and Jingzhou, the enemy generals have the same proud character as Guan Yu, and they also use broadswords. There are many similarities.
This is also a remake. Previous remakes of the Three Kingdoms movies include "Red Cliff" and "Guan Yunchang", both of which were quite poor. This time around "Three Kingdoms: Jingzhou", the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Film Association will not hold meetings or criticize.
Li Qian continued what he just said, "Stage plays and dramas are the most reproduced or re-enacted. Some classic plays have been rehearsed by dozens, hundreds or even thousands of theater troupes across the country and even around the world.
Therefore, remakes are not the problem. The key is that they are just using remakes as a gimmick, using the fame of the original work to make money without pursuing quality. This is the chaos in the industry. Everyone just wants to take this opportunity to make a fortune, not
If you really want to make movies, you will naturally end up with a lot of bad movies."
As soon as these words came out, several old artists next to Li Qian on the stage looked even worse, and even compared the retelling of the play with these bad movies.
If reporters weren't here, I'm afraid they would have to criticize and educate Li Qian.
The reporters in the audience also asked, "Director Li, since some people are just following the trend and making remakes just to make money, isn't this trend irreversible and we can only allow the industry to develop like this?"
Li Qian shook his head, "No, nothing can't be solved. That's exactly what I want to say today."
"How does Director Li think it can be solved?" the reporter asked.
"money!"
"money?"
The reporters in the audience were stunned, and the leaders of the Literary and Art Federation and Film Association on the stage were also stunned, and they all wondered if they had heard wrongly.
"Yes, it's money."
Li Qian repeated, and then said, "In fact, when a movie is shown in a cinema, it can be regarded as a commodity, and the audience is the customer. Only when the audience is satisfied can the movie be sold at a good price.
I think investing in people to remake one movie after another is also for money. In this case, I want to say to all investors inside and outside the industry that bad movies can only defraud a small amount of money. Sooner or later, the audience will
Once you gain experience, you won’t be so easy to be deceived.
Even if it is a remake or following the trend, it must be of high quality, so that the audience will pay for the movie. Everyone has seen the situation in this summer's movie. Many remakes of movies only have a box office of 10 to 20 million, or even several million. How can such a bad movie be successful?
make money?
What can make money is precisely a good movie. Director Zhao Wei's "To Youth" was very good, so it made money. Director Teng Huatao's remake of "Love Is Not Blind" received a good reputation and also made money. This is what it means.
What remakes and cross-industry directors should pursue is to win the applause of the audience and make money while standing."
Such tacky words made the reporters at the scene and the leaders of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Film Association stunned.
Especially the latter, several old artists, after being stunned, almost had the idea of leaving away. However, facing a large group of reporters and Li Qian's reputation in the industry, they still held back.
Talking about movies as commodities and talking about making money from movies is completely different from the theme of today's press conference, which caused a brief silence on the scene.
However, Li Qian ignored them, and then faced the camera directly in front of him and said with a serious face, "So, as a director and filmmaker, I appeal to all colleagues and investors inside and outside the industry, even if it is to make money, I hope
Everyone puts the quality of movies first, and I don’t want to see anyone destroying the market and destroying the jobs of all filmmakers.”
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After the press conference, Li Qian's tacky speech was widely reported by the media and caused a lot of discussion.
Some netizens think Li Qian is too vulgar and only cares about money, money, money.
Most people also think that money does not matter, and they agree with Li Qian's statement that even if it is a remake to follow the trend, as long as the movie is well-made and good-looking, they will be willing to go into the cinema and pay for the movie.
However, there are also some who speak more sharply. A well-known film critic liked Li Qian on Weibo, scolding him for focusing on box office for everything, which will kill domestic movies and turn them into tacky money-making tools. Movies
Art is dying, and Li Qian is the sinner of domestic films.
Li Qian ignored him. He was still a sinner. Do you want to apologize to the people of the whole country?
Netizens let him experience what cyber violence is, and Weibo was directly attacked.
Of course, it's not because of scolding Li Qian.
Instead, it was revealed that he wrote a thousand-word five-star review for "Tiny Times" on Douban.
Many older generation filmmakers also criticize Li Qian, but most of them don't go online.
A number of commercial film directors also responded to Li Qian's call on Weibo, expressing their determination to make movies seriously.
Su Youpeng favored Li Qian and said that he would remake "The Left Ear" with all his heart and would not disappoint Li Qian or the audience.
Zhao Wei Aite Li Qian, thank him for his recognition of "To Youth".
He Juan also favored Li Qian, saying that he was nervous and scared to become a director in another industry, but he would definitely learn more, work hard to make "Gardenia Blooms" well, and learn more from Li Qian.
Even Guo Jinming, who has been criticized during this period, also favored Li Qian, saying sincerely that his debut film still has some shortcomings, thanking the fans for their love, but "Tiny Times 3 and 4" will still continue
Filming, I hope everyone will not deny the sequel because of the current criticism, because everyone will grow, and he will produce better works to give back to the audience.
That's probably what it means. In addition, Guo Jinming also said that he will remake his own "Grand Trail" of the same name again to make it the first fantasy blockbuster in China. He also hopes to cooperate with Li Qian's digital special effects company.
Good guy, we even started advertising.
Li Qian's last Weibo post was when "The Pursuit of Happiness" was released. He hadn't posted on Weibo for more than half a month, but it suddenly became lively.
Guo Jinming, Aite and Li Qian were directly searched on Weibo.
"Left Ear", "Gardenia Blossoms", and "Jueji" as mentioned by Guo Jinming, were immediately known to the audience, which was equivalent to a lot of hype through Li Qian.