"With 153 million collected on the first day, "Return to Youth" set a new first-day box office record for domestic films, and Li Qian once again dominated the Lunar New Year festival!"
"The recovery of domestic films. Since the Lunar New Year "Transformers 4" broke the record and took in nearly 2 billion in box office, the domestic film market has been flooded with bad films adapted and remade, with few high-quality films. It has been suppressed by many Hollywood blockbusters.
Since his death, the voice of denigrating domestic films has never stopped, but Li Qian told everyone with his masterpiece "Rejuvenation" that domestic films are still the mainstream of the mainland film market!"
"Inspiring and touching, an epic work that lasted for seventy years, moved countless audiences. The first-day box office of "Return to Youth" reached 153 million, once again setting a new first-day box office record for Chinese-language films."
"The best movie of the year is out, and "Rejuvenation" lives up to the two-year wait!"
""Rejuvenation" swept the Lunar New Year festival, with 153 million on the first day, accounting for 90% of the total box office that day!"
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The 1,150-minute movie is half an hour longer than other movies. Without the advantage of scheduling, it took in a box office of 153 million on the first day, setting a new first-day box office record for Chinese-language movies.
This is the report card handed over on the first day of "Rejuvenation".
Although it is more than 10 million lower than "Transformers 4" released in the summer, "Transformers 4" is also longer, but there is no 3D version, so the ticket price is much lower.
In terms of attendance, there is not much difference between "The Return of the Boy" and "Transformers 4" which is a popcorn movie.
The previous pre-sales were also there, and the first-day box office of 153 million was also within everyone's expectations, although no one else wanted to see it.
Anyway, the bosses of major companies are used to it, and they don't feel bad if Li Qian's movie becomes a big hit. They have long been numb, although they really hope that Li Qian will break out once again.
However, Huayang Media, Guangxian, and Wanda do have new films to be released. Although some are far away, they can't help but sweat.
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"Brother, if this continues, "Taiping Wheel" won't look good."
Huayang Media and Huang Zhonglei were worried. Their publicity during this period had not fallen behind, but it seemed to be of no use at all.
The words "Oriental Titanic" are splashed across the Internet every day, but except for their trolls, no one mentions it at all.
Now that "Return to Youth" is officially released, the momentum has completely drowned out the voices of their navy.
"If it's not good, it's not good. Just look at it, Zhonglei!"
Compared to Huang Zhonglei who looked anxious, Huang Zhongjun was drinking tea leisurely.
"But brother, "Tai Ping Wheel" will be released next week." Huang Zhonglei said.
"Anyway, the loss won't be on our shoulders. Why are you so anxious? You're still so irritable after so many years!"
Huang Zhongjun looked at his younger brother with dissatisfaction. He didn't have the bearing of a big entrepreneur or a successful person. Instead, he was just like a second-generation ancestor who was quite good at eating, drinking and having fun.
"By the way, the notice was issued and the words "Huayang Media" were started to be faded from the movie." After thinking about it, Huang Zhongjun said again.
Now Huang Zhonglei realized that his brother had already given up on "The Wheel". He quickly said, "But, after all, it is Wu Yusen's film, and the cast and themes are all very popular. Isn't it too early?"
"It's getting late, let's downplay our company's label first, wait until it's released, and then check it out. If the box office is okay, then highlight the fact that this is our work." Huang Zhongjun shook his head. The little money he made from the movie is really not worth it. The stock market fluctuates a little.
The performance in the past two years has not been good. With some capital operations, the market value has soared from the lowest point of 7 billion to 35 billion. The profits here are higher than the company's profits in several years.
"Okay, I'll arrange it." Huang Zhonglei thought the same thing, but unfortunately Wu Yusen successfully fought cancer last month and announced it to the media. Otherwise, he could promote Wu Yusen's posthumous works and the like to play the sympathy card.
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"Peace Wheel" is not a Huayang Media film, so they are not too worried about it. They won't lose anything because they still have a distribution fee anyway.
"The Year in a Hurry" is a low-budget film, so Guangxian didn't worry much. It was a good thing to make money, and it didn't matter if it lost money.
As for "One Step Away", although a guaranteed contract was signed, Wanda was not too worried after half a month. After all, if it weren't for Li Qian's existence in 10 years, Jiang Wen would have become a god.
The industry is accustomed to the huge sales of "Return to Youth", and is slightly surprised, and then waits to see how much box office it can reach in the end.
And after a full day, the Internet was already filled with discussions and comments about the movie.
Basically, they are all praised. For ordinary commercial movies, you can also talk about artistry and belittle commercial movies from this aspect.
However, "Returning to Youth" is very good in every aspect, whether it is commercial or artistic. As soon as the Douban score was lifted, it scored a high score of 9.2 points.
Professional film critics from all walks of life have written extremely professional film reviews, analyzing the movie from various perspectives such as human nature, death, and life.
Of course, not all the voices are nice, there are always some who are disdainful of the movie.
On this day, Li Qian continued his road show in Beijing, and met the first audience member who criticized him rudely in the cinema.
In the audience, a young spectator with a disappointed face was recounting his dissatisfaction.
"Director Li, to be honest, I am very disappointed with you, because you always said in the past that you would not tell any big truth based on a movie, because everyone sees different things from the same movie. What you see is different." You are yourself, and you won’t make any big claims in the movie.
But this time in "Returning to Youth", what I saw was indeed preaching throughout the whole story. Those so-called classic lines that seemed full of poetry were like sentences spoken from childhood to adulthood, and the preaching in the ears of classmates... ..”
Finally hearing the audience's positive criticism of the movie, Li Qian became more energetic.
It's not that he was looking for abuse, it was just a bit boring.
In the face of criticism, Li Qian remained calm and kept smiling, "My friend, do you think the movie is preaching from beginning to end? Can you give me an example?"
The audience member immediately said, "The captain played by Jiang Wu said, "When things don't go your way, you can vent like a mad dog, curse, and curse fate, but you still have to let go." This is clearly preaching, teaching others not to do it. To resist fate and surrender to reality.
The same is true for the character of the captain. He did not stick to his dreams and was crushed by reality. He became a smoking, drinking, and foul-mouthed man. His soul was dead, and what survived was just a shell arranged by fate. .”
The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice gradually rose to a higher pitch, "I never expected that Li Qian, who taught us to break through ourselves and resist the injustice of fate in "The Truman Show", would actually turn around in the movie
Inculcating the idea of accepting fate disappoints us so much, no one wants to be a puppet in the hands of fate!"
I said, "My soul is already dead" when I opened my mouth. Li Qian said in his heart, "Good guy, I feel wronged if I don't contribute to Yilin."
However, these words, involving the soul and destiny, made the audience start to think.
There are so many words like this on the Internet, and they seem to be nonsense, but some people always regard them as classics, a bit like the QQ signature a few years ago.
Li Qian smiled and was about to lean back slightly, but then he remembered that he was standing on a stage, there was no chair under his butt, and there was no backrest behind him, so he steadied his body.
"I seem to have heard something similar to what you said. Isn't there a joke called "It turns out you were already dead when you were 30 years old."
Basically, when you reach the age where you should get married, you will get together with the same person, then work hard, have a child, be rebellious in adolescence, get poor grades, then repeat your life, and have to help your son take care of the child when you are old.
It wasn't until my grandson was 70 years old that he had time to go out for a walk, but by that time it was already difficult to even go down the stairs.
Then at the age of 75, you look at the doctor and shake your head in front of the hospital bed. The people around you have solemn expressions, so you understand that you were already dead at the wedding at the age of 30. Many people must have seen this joke.
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In the Internet age, everyone who regularly surfs the Internet knows a popular joke. When the audience thinks about it, they suddenly feel a little sad. The life in that joke is simply terrible.
Li Qian then asked, "My friend, you should not be thirty years old yet, and you are not married yet, right?"
"No, I'm 28." The man shook his head.
"But I think you'll be dead before you reach thirty!" Li Qian held up the microphone and said loudly, "You keep saying that you want to break through yourself and fight, but what I see from your words and deeds is that you have nothing.
Those who are angry and overwhelmed by reality, in your own words, you have no soul!"
The sudden words were so serious that the audience and the audience at the scene were stunned.
"What's going on? You started cursing while you were talking?"
Li Qian ignored the reaction of the audience and continued, "Although I don't know what you have experienced, I can see that you are escaping from reality, finding an excuse for your escape, and blaming the responsibility on fate.
I take the time to curse the unfairness of fate, but I don’t think about myself!
You are only 28 years old and not married yet. You can still fight with your own hands so that when you are 30, you will not overlap with the life in that paragraph.
But you didn’t. You were waiting by yourself, playing games and surfing the Internet every day. When you couldn’t wait for 30 years old and couldn’t wait any longer, under the urging of your parents and relatives, you found someone to live with. You were just waiting to die!”
"You're just waiting to die!"
Li Qian's voice kept echoing in the audience's ears, making him feel a little dazed.
"Am I waiting to die?"
He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
But Li Qian didn't give him a chance and sighed, "The reason why I don't want to talk about big things is because I don't want to waste my words, because not many people will listen to me.
You said that you saw the struggle against fate from "The Truman Show", but ask yourself, even if you saw it, did it change a little bit? It was nothing more than a moment of excitement at the time, and then continued to sink.
Back to the movie, the captain you said succumbed to fate, at least he is much better than you. He accepted his fate, but still did not forget his dream, otherwise a big boss would be able to say those words
Come?
Just those words, he is a poet, his dream has always been there, his body is accepting his fate, doing the work of a captain, but his mind is adhering to his ideal, so everyone will see such a funny scene, a big old man
But he studied literature and art all day long.
Many people will laugh at him, but this is not ridiculing a person with ideals.
Unlike many people, he has no so-called soul.
In addition, in the movie "Rejuvenation", no character has ever succumbed to fate and reality. Fate gave the hero's father a monster baby, and his father accepted it?
The male protagonist is abandoned and he becomes cynical?
Destiny in many people's minds is just something that has already happened and cannot be changed. No matter what you think, it is absolutely unchangeable. What happens happens.
But what hasn't happened yet is in your own hands. You have the ability to change it. Even if the chance is slim, the decision-making power is in your own hands. You can't change it yet and blame your fate later.
The characters in the movie don't blame others for the misfortunes that have happened, they just try to live a good life every day in the future.
To take a step back, even if you get to that stage and live with someone, your future life is still in your hands. You can choose to live a good life instead of going step by step.
Don't make excuses for your cowardice. As long as you are not dead, every day in the future is in your own hands. How you live your life depends on your own choice."
Li Qian's eloquent words made the audience stunned on the spot, and they began to struggle in their originally gloomy eyes.
It was also the first time for other viewers at the scene to hear Li Qian make such a big call. They were also stunned for a while. Some people disagreed, and some people's eyes gradually became brighter.
After a brief silence, bursts of applause began to ring out in the screening room.
"Pah, pah, pah..."
Li Qian led the crew out of the cinema amidst a round of applause, returned to the business car, picked up the cup, and filled half of the bottle of hot water.
"call!"
I just said so much that my throat is almost smoking.
Tong Liya took his cup and said with a smile, "If you continued talking just now, you would almost become a philosopher."
"What is philosophy? It's just deceiving people." Li Qian shook his head.
"I think what Director Li said is very good. The unchangeable fate is only what has happened, but the future is in your own hands." Chen Kun seemed to agree very much.
The other actors also nodded repeatedly. Although every director can tell a lot of truths, there are only a few who are as simple and straightforward as what Li Qian said.
Even Jiang Wu, who has a brother who is a great director, has to admit that his brother Jiang Wen is more of a show-off, at least to his ears.
Facing the compliments from everyone, Li Qian just smiled. He was just deceiving people.
Although there is a certain truth to it, everything that has not happened is in your own hands.
But, so what?
It's useless, the choice is in your hands and you can hardly change it, so those words are just nice to deceive people.
Li Qian is quite good at deceiving people. Although he is not very good at it, it is enough to deceive ordinary audiences so that they don't realize how serious he is.
At the next stop, Li Qian continued to cheat.
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Another day passed, and Friday’s box office was released on time. Due to the explosion of word-of-mouth and the approaching holiday, the box office increased significantly, with 176 million in a single day.
Over 300 million in two days, another single-day box office record for a Chinese-language film.
However, the following Saturday, the first working day, still occupied the majority of the film schedule, and the attendance rate of "Return to Youth" without any rivals reached a higher level. In many places, it is difficult to even grab the prime position for the morning show.
203 million in a single day!
Breaking 200 million in a single day, raising the single-day box office record for Chinese-language movies to the 200 million mark!
At the same time, because the movie may look sad to some people in a certain aspect, and some pseudo-literary young people’s comments about the movie are more sad than the other, Li Qian also talked about it a lot during the road show.
The positive things actually sparked a lot of discussion.