This year’s Lunar New Year event was a surprise, with several twists and turns.
With the market indifferent for more than a month, the hit "Havoc in Tianzhu" grossed 200 million at the box office on the first day, and finally ended with a box office of just over 600 million.
The total box office was only three times that of the first day. Even if you haven’t watched the movie, you know what it’s like.
Everyone makes bad movies, but a bad movie of this magnitude is still a hit, and you may not get one in a year.
Moreover, it directly affected Wang Baoqiang's popularity with the audience, and his reputation among passersby plummeted.
Immediately afterwards, "Shadow" received a very good reputation and was regarded as one of the costume films with the best reputation in Zhang Yimou's director career.
Originally, Guoshi was able to turn heads in the market, but in the end, the box office was several million less than "Havoc in Tianzhu", which was only over 600 million.
The Lunar New Year season was lackluster, and another popular hit, "A Good Show," was also greatly affected by the failure of "Havoc in Tianzhu."
Wang Baoqiang's failure to direct and act once again triggered criticism from the media and the audience against cross-border directors.
The treatment was similar to that of "Tiny Times" back then, and I even had doubts about "A Good Show".
However, the facts once again surprised everyone. "A Good Show" not only did not disappoint, but was a big surprise.
700 million in four days, and it has only been released for four days, and it has already won the 2018 Lunar New Year champion in advance.
It can be considered a record.
Li Qian once again became the biggest winner in the Lunar New Year festival. "Havoc in Tianzhu" actually made a little profit and did not lose money.
Other companies that had been slightly excited before were also discouraged.
Although today's market is getting bigger and bigger, it is so big that not just any one company, or even three or four companies, can capture it.
Li Qian's Future Pictures cannot, like in previous years, eat up three of the four main schedules: Spring Festival, summer, National Day, and Lunar New Year.
However, the market is getting bigger and bigger, the capital is getting more and more, and the market share of major companies is getting smaller and smaller, and the gap with Future Pictures is still huge.
I was happy for a while after seeing "Havoc in Tianzhu" failed at the box office, but I couldn't be happier anymore after "A Good Show" was a hit at the box office.
New Year's Day has passed and the new year has arrived, and major companies have also begun their own actions.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is a big day. In addition to the gift film "My Motherland and Me", Optoelectronics also plans to launch a series of theme movies to celebrate the 70th birthday of the motherland.
The film "The Climbers" is about the two expeditions of the National Mountaineering Team to the summit of Mount Everest in 1960 and 1975, and the film "Captain of China" is about the real-life incident that the Xichuan Airlines crew successfully handled on May 14 last year. The two main themes are
Commercial films, under the competition from many parties, have also come to an end and have entered production.
The three main themes of "My Motherland and Me" were all handed over to Li Qian, so he had nothing to do with these two films.
"The Climber" was acquired by the powerful Magic City Film Group, wholly owned and distributed separately. I want to eat it in one bite.
Movies with patriotic sentiments have now become a code of wealth, something everyone knows.
Moreover, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the Magic City Film Group also named Wu Jinglai to play the leading role.
Wu Jing couldn't refuse. "Wolf Warrior 2" made his image completely different, so he could only accept this kind of task.
Main theme + Wu Jing, double guarantee, and also hired Xu Ke to supervise the production.
In recent years, if we want to talk about the directors with the best quality commercial films, Xu Ke is definitely indispensable. "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" are among them. Even the flop "The Dragon King" is still at an average level.
One project was eaten up by Modu, and the remaining "Captain of China" was divided among China Film, Bernard, Penguin, and Ali Baba.
The three major companies, Wanda, Huayang and Guangxian, have not made a single profit.
Basically, it can be seen that in the minds of the above, apart from the newly entered capital giants Penguin and Ahri, only Bernard holds the most weight.
Yu Dong himself came from China Film Academy, and even though his old superior Han Sanping retired, he still had this relationship.
In addition, the two main theme movies "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea" were both well-received and well-received, and another main theme movie "Heroes of Fire" is being prepared, which shows the new leadership ideas.
As for Wanda, Lao Wang is almost finished. Since snatching China Railway's Bandar Malaysia, it has been a bit shaky. It has been selling off domestic industries like crazy, including Blue Bird's Oriental Film.
By the way, even Xiao Wang is much more low-key online.
Xiao Wang is Xiao Wang after all. His former "national husband" has been replaced by Xiao Ma, the "national father".
It’s strange that things can develop well if you go against the government.
Guangxian has been working in small circles for so many years, and he has always been a giant in the first echelon of private enterprises, trying to force himself in.
As for Huayang Media, it has experienced huge changes not long ago and is already in a state of turmoil.
Originally, in order to repay the bet, Ma Xiaogang once again made a fuss and filmed "Mobile Phone 2", intending to explore the relationship between people and technology.
Speaking of the movie "Mobile Phone", Fan Binbin, who was forced to get together as the second female lead in "Mobile Phone", gained enough confidence after winning the Baihua Film Award for her role as the second female lead in "Mobile Phone".
The 23-year-old Hundred Flowers Best Actress, let alone 15 years ago, even though the Hundred Flowers Award is getting more and more popular now, there is no one so young.
The program "One Story, One Story" on "Mobile Phone", even a fool can tell is Xiao Cui's "Tell the Truth".
In "Cell Phone", Yan Shouyi's wife discovered the secret of cheating on him because he forgot to bring his mobile phone when he went out. He was embarrassed when his extramarital affair was exposed. At first, the audience suspected that this was an allusion to Xiao Cui.
During that time, Xiao Cui kept breaking news about depression and suicide. Although it was not the reason for the movie, this state aroused the suspicion of the audience, and he was obviously unhappy.
It wasn't until 10 years ago, when Ma Xiaogang appeared as a guest on "Xiao Cui Talks" for the first time, that the two reconciled for the first time.
But what is intriguing is that regarding this reconciliation, Xiao Cui said in an interview afterwards: After we live to this age, we have learned a way of dealing with the world. When some problems are not so easy to solve, we can put them aside. , as time goes by, as we get older, and everyone becomes rational, it will be too late to solve it slowly by then.
At the beginning, everyone thought that Xiao Cui was not rational before that, but only after 10 years did he become rational and start to solve the problem.
Now it seems that he may have had something to say at that time, and now he has really begun to solve the problem.
When the old story of "Mobile Phone 2" was brought up again, Xiao Cui completely upset the situation. He posted the crew's yin and yang contract on Weibo and submitted the materials to the local tax bureau.
The so-called yin-yang contract is very common in the film and television industry, and optoelectronics and taxation are not unfamiliar with it.
It is an unspoken rule. For example, if you take 50 million and sign two contracts, one for 10 million and one for 50 million, the middle 40 million will not be taxed.
The unspoken rules mean that they cannot be stated openly, and now the tax authorities will begin a thorough investigation.
The leader is Fan Binbin. Compared with Huayang and Ma Xiaogang, touching her as a "little star" is simple and requires only one sentence.
Kill the chicken to scare the monkey, and show it to the common people.
Back taxes, late fees, fines, more than 800 million, plus ban.
With this closure and this incident, "Mobile Phone 2" is completely finished and will never be released again.
Moreover, Huayang Media has also become a lost cause. It is in a difficult situation and has no time to care about Li Qian winning the Lunar New Year box office champion again.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a life-or-death situation for Huayang Media.
Ma Xiaogang's reputation has been completely ruined. This incident is much more serious than being scolded for making bad movies before. When the audience really hates a person, unless the movie is good enough to eliminate this disgust, it is over.
Each of its star artists has set up a studio, and the mainstay Ma Xiaogang has collapsed. This is much more serious than when Wang Jinghua left.
The only remaining trump card is "Eight Hundred Heroes", which is also the last hope of the Huang brothers.
The only thing that makes Huang Zhongjun feel better is that "Eight Hundred Heroes" is a main theme movie. No matter what, Optoelectronics will definitely support it. I can only hope that Guan Hu will not let him down.
Huang Zhongjun and even the entire Huayang Media are all paying attention to "Eight Hundred Heroes". The quality of this movie directly determines the life and death of Huayang Media.
I have no time to care about who won the Lunar New Year slot, and who won the main theme movies such as "The Climber" and "Captain of China".
Li Qian, who was far away in Chongqing, didn't pay much attention to the ownership of these two films.
It is impossible for Optoelectronics to give itself all the main themes of commercial films. That is impossible and unrealistic.
However, unknowingly, the mainland film market has ushered in a new round of changes.
Wanda lost its momentum completely, Huayang Media was in dire straits, and the Huang brothers continued to reduce their holdings.
Bernal, which delisted from Nasdaq, swept away the decline and regained the style of the first privately-owned issuing company in the past, still standing proudly in the first echelon.
Ahri, Penguin and China Film have participated in the main theme commercial blockbuster, which also means that the two capital giants have received official recognition.
Speaking of which, the attitude above is also very strange. While criticizing the current trend in the entertainment industry, they also accept Ahri and Penguin.
Although the current state of the entertainment industry is due to the development of the times, it is also fueled by capital, mainly them.
The two giants replaced Wanda and Huayang Media, but Guangxian was still half-dead. His previous attempt to acquire Maoyan was thwarted.
Meituan did not have enough funds to invest in Maoyan. It originally planned to sell Maoyan and focus on the food delivery platform to completely kill Hungry, but Penguin got there first.
I heard that the two companies have already begun negotiations on the merger of Weipiaoer and Maoyan.
If you can't beat it, buy it, it's such a simple principle, but there is no way Penguin can buy the fare evasion ticket, unless Xiao Ma is crazy.
Although the three-legged alliance is unstable, it can still persist. As long as Penguin and Ahri do not merge with each other, Li Qian has no worries.
But Li Qian is not very sure. If the two of them really reach an agreement, it will not be fun if Maoyan, Weipiaoer, and fare evasion tickets are merged into one platform.
They practiced in the meantime. After all, they are three platforms. If they are combined together, it will be 65% to Li Qian's 30% share, which is twice the size difference.
Capitalists will do anything for the sake of profit. It was Penguin who took the lead in the merger and acquisition of Meituan and Dianping, which directly made Meituan the dominant player in the life service platform and laid the foundation for what it is today.
"I'm so annoyed!"
Shaking his head, Li Qian tried his best not to think about these things. Doing business is much more demanding than making a movie.
"Everyone seemed as if they hadn't eaten. They cheered up and continued shooting!"
Li Qian picked up the loudspeaker and shouted at the entire crew.
"Didn't you just finish lunch?"
Deng Chao was a little confused. He didn't know that Li Qian was fine and suddenly became nervous, so he didn't dare to ask any more questions.
Although "Shadow" performed well, its box office results can only be said to be okay.
"The Truman Show 2" was also okay. Except for the first one, there were no hits. Compared to Xu Zheng, Wu Jing and others, Deng Chao felt that he was always missing something.
Recently, Yu Baimei had an idea. She originally wanted to chat with Li Qian, but now that Li Qian is not in a good mood, she gave up on the idea and quickly prepared for the next shooting. Otherwise, I don’t know who will be blamed for it.
, was educated by Li Qian.
After four months of filming, the movie has come to an end, with only the last few weeks of scenes left.
Some of the concentrated scenes have basically been filmed, and the remaining scenes are a bit scattered.
What we filmed today was a rivalry scene between Deng Chao and another supporting actor on the plane. In fact, it was not considered a rivalry scene, but more of a spectator's perspective.
There was a middle-aged couple on the plane. Five years after disappearing, their son also grew up to be an eighteen-year-old boy.
The period from 13 to 18 years old happens to be the most important time for a teenager to grow up, and it is also adolescence.
This age is exactly the time when children are shaping their outlook on life.
Children are generally pretty much the same before the age of ten, and most children are no different in terms of good or bad.
Of course, this refers to the past, when the Internet was not so developed, and children could not use their mobile phones to surf the Internet anytime and anywhere as they can now, which is convenient and fast, and they could receive a lot of unfiltered things on the Internet.
For example, on the current short video platform, what is the most popular?
Only the most exaggerated and unreal videos are watched, and all kinds of videos that lower one’s intelligence, destroy one’s outlook on life, and are staged are used to attract people’s attention.
No one will see the real thing, only the more exaggerated it will be.
Short videos are only one aspect, they are also a variety of channels. Today’s children mature prematurely, which is not a good thing.
Lack of ability to distinguish right from wrong, accepting so much information at once, unable to judge good or bad independently, and it is easy to be led astray.
The background of the movie was a few years ago, when the Internet was not that developed. A thirteen-year-old child needed guidance and a correct outlook on life and values.
But in the past five years, my parents have disappeared, and the most important part of education is missing.
Without parents, the children can only live with relatives.
After all, he is someone else's child, and he has met good relatives who are closer to him than to his own children, so he cannot replace his parents. They also have children of their own.
The school could only focus on knowledge, without parents around, lacking education and care. Over time, during this adolescence, he slowly became bad at learning and became a little gangster who entered the palace many times.
This scene was when Deng Chao went to the police station to get his new ID card, and happened to encounter the child who was caught stealing something, and the police called the middle-aged couple over.
There was no conversation. When Deng Chao, who had just received his ID card, was thanking the police, he encountered the couple rushing there.
Deng Chao will never forget that experience on the plane. He remembers everything clearly. Even though the couple just sat diagonally in front of him and never spoke, they met once on the plane and bumped into each other again after getting off the plane.
, but Deng Chao still remembered it.
The couple ran so fast that Deng Chao didn't have time to say hello. He could only ask the police curiously, "Have their ID cards been applied for? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"They are not here to get ID cards." The policeman shook his head.
"What happened?"
The policeman sighed, "Their son was caught stealing again."
"Again?" Deng Chao asked.
"I heard that he is a very well-behaved child. He has not been with his parents for the past five years and has learned badly from the gangsters in society. Counting this time, he has entered the palace for the fourth time."
Deng Chao was stunned for a moment, thinking of his daughter, but the only good thing was that his daughter was with his wife, so he could only sigh, "Hey."
It was a very simple scene, a conversation with the police, and I was affected to a certain extent by it.
This was also a turning point in the relationship between father and daughter. After a while, another scene was filmed, in which the couple's son was fooling around with a group of gangsters, and the two fathers begged their children to go back with them. Deng Chao was still watching,
In the end, he comforted the couple with a few words and was further touched by the scene.
Some sporadic shots continued until January 9th, when they were finally all shot, and "Flight of Destiny" was also completed.