After the release of two new Lunar New Year films, "The Wheel" and "The Year in a Hurry", the industry was stunned.
The former is called Oriental Titanic, and Wu Yusen said two days ago that it is not just a simple disaster movie like Oriental Titanic, but more meaningful than Oriental Titanic.
It was a good show, with hundreds of millions of investments, a lot of stars, and a top international special effects team, but the box office on the first day was only 20 million, which can be said to be the biggest contrast of the year.
More importantly, the low-budget youth film "The Year in a Hurry" released on the same day received 30 million, which is 10 million more than "The Wheel".
This comparison has simply become the laughingstock of the industry.
Especially Wang Changtian, everything is happy. "The Year in a Hurry" itself is a small-budget youth film. Although director Zhang Yibai's last film "Love" was a box office hit, it had the added benefit of being a TV series.
Moreover, with the extremely popular "Return to Youth" and the super blockbuster "Taiping Wheel", Wang Changtian was already prepared to hit the box office. Anyway, the investment was not big, so he couldn't lose any money.
But now.
"That's it?"
The super blockbuster "The Taiping Wheel" had a box office of 10 million less than his low-budget "The Year in a Hurry" on its first day!
Not to mention how happy I felt, because of Li Ming's accident, Xiaoma's funds were in trouble, and Wang Changtian wanted to get involved.
Although Wang Changtian has always been small-time and keen on investing in small-budget films, and has been secretly ridiculed by major companies for being timid, he still wants to make blockbusters.
And "The Wheel" is a super big production, and the box office is at least guaranteed. In addition, if you participate in the movie midway, the payback period will be greatly shortened, so I wanted to give it a try.
However, in the end, Huayang and Leshi intervened and squeezed Wang Changtian out.
In June, due to an accident involving L, who was closely involved with Jia Leting, at the same time that he was under investigation, Jia Leting suddenly went abroad for inspection and disappeared for five months. He only came back half a month ago.
During that time, Lay's people were in panic, and the stock price continued to fall. Wang Changtian once again wanted to participate in "Tai Ping Wheel", but Huang Zhongjun rejected it, not wanting Wang Changtian to come back and get a piece of the pie.
If he met Huang Zhongjun now, Wang Changtian would really like to thank him for rejecting his participation.
Wang Changtian felt very comfortable when he thought about the box office success of "The Taiping Wheel" and the fact that his "The Year in a Hurry" was a hit at the box office, which was a double happiness.
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Some people feel comfortable with this situation during the Lunar New Year holiday, while others feel uncomfortable.
Needless to say, Lay’s Zhang Zhao, after L was investigated, Lay’s went through a series of regulatory turmoil, political rumors, capital crisis, etc., and it was a tragedy.
I originally hoped that "Tai Ping Huan" could recover, but seeing this box office, let alone recovery, I would be thankful if it can stop bleeding.
Another person who was very angry was Huang Zhongjun. Although he didn't have high hopes at first, as the box office was low, it was low. He just wanted to invest less, and even if he lost money on the distribution fee, he could make up for the shortfall in investment. Even if he made less money, it didn't matter.
However, Huang Zhongjun thought that the box office would be low, but he did not expect it to be as low as only 20 million on the first day!
It simply broke Huang Zhongjun's bottom line. Even if he had no confidence, he still thought about having a box office of 400 to 500 million yuan.
But now, the reputation of the box office is poor, and there is a rival who is chasing two billion, and then there is Jiang Wen who can make money on his own, let alone four to five billion, even half of it will be highly praised.
"This John Woo is not very capable and has a bad temper, yet he still provokes Li Qian!"
After thinking about it, Huang Zhongjun, who was irritated, directly threw the blame to John Woo.
Huang Zhonglei also had an angry look on his face, "In the past two days, the patriotic enthusiasm of netizens and their recognition of the fight to aid Korea have been so high. Even John Woo was scolded, otherwise there would be no box office like this."
The two brothers cursed John Woo and got entangled again.
"Brother, what should we do next? Do we need to increase publicity?"
"..." Huang Zhongjun struggled for a while, but shook his head, "Forget it, the first-day box office is not even as good as "The Year in a Hurry", don't waste that money, the less you lose, the better."
A film with such a small budget as "The One Day" has sold over 30 million yuan. This cannot be said to be due to a bad schedule or a too strong opponent. It is simply because of the film's failure.
Generally, big productions with a bad reputation can still make some money from the box office in the early stage. However, the first-day box office of "The Wheel" was 20 million. No matter how much it was promoted and deceived, the box office on the first weekend was not much higher. For this reason
It’s not worth the huge publicity expenses.
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For a super blockbuster with hundreds of millions of investments to only get this little box office, it also heralds the complete ruin of a great director.
The sunken great director was completely lost at this time. From the time he got the box office in the early morning, for a whole day, he couldn't figure out why.
However, except for the media chasing him, no one cares about what he thinks.
Several major investors no longer care about this film, other companies don't care, and apart from some of his fans, the only people in the audience are complaining about it.
The audience may not be as good as the literati when it comes to venomous tongues, but it doesn't matter if the words are rough or not, or if the words are unpleasant.
"The way Huang Xiaoming holds a cigar in his mouth really looks like eating spicy strips!"
"You can't press fast forward in the movie theater! Please go to bed directly for the next part. Thank you!"
"Wu Yusen is simply not as good as a skilled actress. In the movie, the skilled actress played by Zhang Ziyi would shout, 'You must be paid twice if you fuck twice!' in order to protect her own rights. But in this film, she can do what she fucked once."
He wanted to charge us twice. The movie was not very good, but he was really good at making money!"
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Each one is more venomous than the other, and a new director will probably make him angry and depressed. He wants to pick up the keyboard and fight with the audience for 300 rounds.
The audience seemed to be offended. There was so much investment, so many stars, so much boasting before the release, and it was a masterpiece, but in the end they were only shown a trailer.
Li Qian, who is either promoting or on the road to promote all day long, only has to do a lot of surfing the Internet, so it is inevitable that he will see voices about "Tai Ping Wheel".
To be honest, it was quite fun to watch the audience complain.
He himself doesn't have any opinion on the film. Mainland directors can shoot this theme, and Baodao directors can also shoot it, but Xiangjiang directors will definitely not be able to shoot it well. This is a cultural issue.
The war scene is quite big, with all kinds of wars raging, cars exploding, arms broken, various close-ups of explosions, and close-ups of soldiers being shot and spewing blood.
They are all meaningless scenes, with nothing more than excitement.
The domineering president Huang Xiaoming still had time to think slowly in the battlefield, and he was hurt and missed his wife. In the end, he finally escaped into the ditch and said to Tong Dawei, who survived with him: There is one thing I haven't taken (the wedding photo with Song Huiqiao).
Then he returned to the headquarters, took the photo, cried and said a few sentimental words, "What Yunfen, I have been thinking of you during the war, thinking of you dancing barefoot on the grass."
Those who didn't know it thought he was playing Li Yu. One second he was pretending to give orders and express brotherly feelings, and the next second he was reciting poems and missing his beloved wife.
When I left the headquarters earlier, I saw the photos without taking only the diary. Two minutes later, I said, ah! I have more important photos that I haven’t taken.
There is nothing wrong with the plot itself. There are many people in the Guo army who care about their own gardens while fighting. It is even more common to cry and express their emotions to the bald man and his wife at the same time before dying.
However, Huang Xiaoming's performance could not be more pretentious.
In the end, the individual sublimates, and the sun shines down from the skylight. In the center of the picture, Huang Xiaoming walks directly into the sun, bathes in the sun, and will die in the sun.
There are so many meaningless pretentious shots that I just need to write a reminder next to them to tell the audience how cleverly I arranged the shots. Please come and praise me.
However, although Li Qian doesn't care about this film, he still couldn't help but be questioned after he trolled Wu Yusen two days ago.
Li Qian just said a few words casually, "Actually, this is a very good subject in itself. Even if it is shot according to the usual routine of commercial films or literary films, it can be shot well. It's a pity that I think too much about it."
I haven't figured it out either.
War and love? Survival and hunger? There are all of these, but they are not the same. In fact, the director does not understand the meaning of war. The sentence "It is better to devote your life to love than to war" hanging in the trailer is, compared to
For that era, it seemed too frivolous and insignificant."
I didn’t say much, and it was hard to say some things. Anyway, I was too lazy to talk to Wu Yusen, a street guy.
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Of course John Woo was very angry when he saw what Li Qian said. This directly negated the theme and core of "The Wheel".
However, after the movie failed miserably at the box office, John Woo lost his temper and went to fight with Li Qian.
Facing reporters, Wu Yusen just said that the audience lacks patience for good literary and artistic films, and said that because there are many storylines, a lot of preliminary preparation is needed, and he believes that the audience will have a good evaluation after watching the second part.
If a movie fails at the box office, it's an old trick to label itself as an art film and say that the audience doesn't understand it.
At the time of "1942", Ma Xiaogang scolded the audience for not being able to appreciate it.
Wu Yusen, who had found an excuse for himself, felt better and began to complain about the investors, saying that originally he only wanted to make a 2D love epic, and never thought of splitting it into two parts. It was the investors who asked for it to be made in 3D and divided into two parts.
This way we can sell more tickets.
Good guy, he sold his teammates directly.
Then it was reported on the Internet that Wu Yusen was filming while ill, and due to physical reasons, the film's investors sent people to intervene in the later stage, and many places were changed.
Investors like Huang Zhongjun also pinched their noses and admitted it, and began to send out navy troops to clear Wu Yusen's name and save some box office.
Not to mention, throwing the blame to the investors attracted sympathy from some viewers, and the box office saw a slight increase.
However, it was of no great use. Let alone a big hit, it couldn't even keep up with the pace of "The Year in a Hurry".
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Li Qian also continued to devote himself to the promotion of the movie, accepting interviews, going to the cinema to meet the audience, and repeating this boring life.
After traveling south to Jinling, Jinling Academy of Arts invited Li Qian to meet with the students.
At first, Li Qian was a little surprised. The main major at Jinling Academy of Arts is fine arts. Even music, dance, and broadcasting are better than the film and television majors. Why invite him?
But forget it, just invite Li Qian and go. It’s a pretty famous school.
Besides, students are relatively simple.
At the beginning, a girl asked Li Qian with a longing look on her face: Is there really a love in the world like the one in the movies where you don't see each other for decades, but you can always keep the other person in your heart?
They don't talk about big ideas, they are more concerned about the plot and details in the movie.
"Hello Director Li, I especially want to know why the movie specifically uses a plot to describe Ma Qingyang and Ma Huaqian. It feels a bit out of place with the plot of the major events before and after."
"Actually, as a representative of business, many people say that the 1990s were at the forefront. Many industries developed rapidly in that era, but I think the Internet industry is closer to this era. After all, it is indispensable for today's work and life."
To be honest, it would have to be a simple joke on Erma. If it were anyone else, Li Qian really wouldn't know anything particularly funny.
You can't make a plan to blow up a hole in the Himalayas, change the climate in the northwest, and turn it into a land of plenty like Jiangnan.
This story was told to Ma Xiaogang by Mou Zhongzhi when he invested in "Party A and Party B", and was later used in "See You or Not Separate".
"Hello, Director Li, the clockmaker has not appeared since. He built such a large counterclockwise clock, and the male protagonist happened to be born and ended at the same time as the Big Brother. What is the significance of the clockmaker?"
"Just like what the clockmaker said, he hopes that time can be turned back so that the children who died in the war can go home and live their normal lives. You can see him as the epitome of thousands of parents.
The male protagonist is the child whose parents longed to return, but he just used another magical way to live out his complete legendary life."
"What does the old man struck by lightning mean?"
"That's just one of the various people the protagonist encounters in his life. We are all experiencing our own lives, with our own joys and losses, small happiness and big sadness. At the same time, it also reminds us that no matter what, living is important. There is hope, as long as it is not until the last moment, everything is not certain yet.”
"Hello Director Li, I am a loyal fan of yours and have read many of your interviews. I found that compared to other movies, you talked a lot about your understanding of destiny in and out of "Return to Youth"?" Another one A student stood up, but this time he didn't say anything about the plot.
Li Qian thought for a while and sighed, "Now that the Internet is developed, there are more channels and ways for people to express their voices, so I have seen all kinds of voices on the Internet. I don't know why, but I find that young people nowadays People are becoming more and more pessimistic.
Whether it is about life or love, when you gradually realize your own ordinaryness and ordinaryness, as your experience grows, you see the injustice of this society and the long distance between people, and the huge gap between ideal and reality extinguishes your life. His heart is full of blood, and he begins to become insensitive, miserable, and resentful.
Some of you here will definitely experience this when you enter society, and it is also what most young people will experience. And I just want to say one truth, if you take into account all the external factors and the bad things that have happened, all these
Take it as fate.
Every period of time in the future is an opportunity for everyone to break their destiny. Stop complaining about reality, don’t let yourself become numb, and maintain the passion for life. Everything is still possible. A person can be struck by lightning seven times and still be happy every day.
Haha, then what reason do we have to sink like this?"
It’s a cliché, something I’ve already said once.
Most people on the Internet regard these words as chicken soup. Like most chicken soups, they are a bit touching at first sight, but will be forgotten in a blink of an eye, and only a few people will really listen to them.
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Keep going south all the way and continue this boring life.
Day by day passed, and the second week of the release of "Return to Youth" also passed smoothly.
In the entire second week, "Return to Youth" has exceeded 1 billion in seven days in a single week!
Although the industry has become accustomed to box office, in everyone's eyes, breaking 2 billion is almost guaranteed.
But even so, it is still scary to see that "Return to Youth" exceeded 1 billion in its second week, and the total box office has reached a staggering 1.773 billion in the eleventh day after its release.
As for "Peace Wheel" and "The Year of the Hurry", even if the former lost the blame to the investors, John Woo won a wave of sympathy, and the box office increased, it would not help, and the majority of complaints were still made.
As for "That Year in a Hurry", there are the same bunch of complaints, saying that this movie is all about fighting. The male lead plays, and after the male lead fights, the male supporting actors fight, and the male supporting actors fight, and after the male supporting actors fight, everyone forms a team to fight. Fighting in a small restaurant, in a small restaurant
After playing at the skating rink.
It was also said that the students in the movie did everything except study.
It didn't make any waves, and no one paid any attention to it.
It seems like the only movie left in the entire movie market is "Return to Youth".
1.773 billion, which is only one step away from 2 billion. It happens that "One Step Away" will be released on Thursday. What a special fate.
On Monday and Tuesday, "Return to Youth" took another 157 million in two days, and the total box office came to just right. On Thursday at 0 o'clock at midnight, "One Step Away" opened its zero-hour show, and Wednesday's box office was also released on time.
72 million. "Return to Youth" scored 72 million in a single day on the 14th day, and the total box office reached 2.002 billion.
The first movie in mainland film history to hit a box office of over 2 billion was born!