The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 371 Wu Jing, Come on!

At 2006 o'clock in the evening on September 9, 26, the temperature in Yanjing gradually turned cold. When going out, it is generally necessary to wear a coat.

If some people are stubborn and feel that they can resist, there is a high probability that they will catch a cold.

China Film International Studios, the banquet hall on the top floor, is currently holding a small banquet.

Just two hours ago, the premiere of "Baby Project" was held here.

Cheng Long, Gu Tianle, Gao Yuanyuan, and Asa all came over. Most of the audience were celebrity reporters, or selected loyal fans of Cheng Long. The big guys naturally gave face, and the response from the audience was not bad.

At this time, Cheng Long and his team toasted the guests again and again to thank them.

Li Shengyao and Feng Xiaogang sat on both sides of a small table in the hall.

When he came back from the beautiful country, he devoted himself to editing the movie. After all, it was a blockbuster movie with an investment of 2000 million dollars.

Li Shengyao was much more cautious this time, he didn't hurry, but carefully screened and considered more.

Editing is a little slower, and it takes four or five days to finish editing.

Today's "Baby Project" held its premiere, Li Shengyao left the editing room and brought Dong Xuan who happened to be in Beijing.

At this time, Dong Xuan had already chatted with several actresses.

Li Shengyao was too lazy to move, he was a little tired recently, so he found a seat and sat down.

As soon as he took his seat, Xiao Gang Pao followed and sat opposite Li Shengyao.

I haven't seen him for several months, like ten years later, Feng Xiaogang, who used to be in high spirits, suddenly looks much older.

His eyes were tired, and his already pale face was now even thinner and bloodless.

Feng Xiaogang looked at Li Shengyao's young face, his eyes were full of envy, "Director Li, it's good to be young."

"Director Feng is an upright man, so there is no need to be sentimental, right?"

Feng Xiaogang shook his head with a wry smile, "I'm old, I'm really old."

He raised his wine glass, took a sip, wrinkled his eyes and nose together, then sighed, hesitant to speak.

Li Shengyao raised his glass, "I understand, let's touch one."

"clang!"

The two had a drink.

Feng Xiaogang's previous Fung comedy has been the box office champion in the Mainland for several consecutive years.

Later, "Hero" was born, and both Feng Xiaogang and Hua Yi knew that the era of blockbuster movies was coming.

They are preparing for "A World Without Thieves", with a box office of over [-] million and the third place of the year. Everyone is in a very good mood and very excited.

However, with an investment of [-] million, I want to go further and work hard in the domestic and international markets. The "Night Banquet", which took nearly two years to produce, was released on a large scale in China half a month ago.

Although "The Banquet" is adapted from "Hamlet", although they invited the international chapter.

However, after the international distributors of "The Banquet" watched the film, distributors in several countries were not willing to release it, and everyone said that the movie was ugly.

They originally thought it would be a movie similar to "House of Flying Daggers", but it wasn't like this, the action was mediocre and the scenes were not big.

As for Zhang Ziyi, he has no appeal in the international market.

It can be said that this movie failed.

In the past few days, when the big and small kings saw Feng Xiaogang, their faces became much more gloomy.

Smiling when making money, but fierce when losing money.

Feng Xiaogang was naturally disappointed, he raised his glass and took another small sip.

"Director Li, I feel that the current movies are too difficult to make. So far this year, "Fearless" and "Crazy Stone" have made money."

"Fearless" has an international box office, and its DVDs have sold tens of millions of dollars in the beautiful country, so it should be able to make money.

As for "Crazy Stone", the investment is only 300 million, and the box office of 300 million should make some money.

As for other films, including the well-received "Trial of East View", none of them were profitable.

"East View Trial" only had a box office of 800 million, and the cost was about 3000 million.

Director Gao Qunshu also yelled at the reporter, saying that his film had been stolen at the box office.

Hearing this, Li Shengyao nodded, "It's more difficult."

Feng Xiaogang glanced up, "Director Li, you invested 6000 million in this film, are you worried?"

The surrounding sounds seem to have improved a lot. The chatting of several actresses nearby, the sound of wine glasses colliding, and the sound of high heels stomping on the ground are all much clearer.

Under the bright light, Xiaogangpao's face turned even paler, like a vampire.

There was a sour smell of alcohol in the air.

Li Shengyao seemed to be able to feel that although all the directors and stars present were smiling, they were all anxious.

It's been so bad this year.

For Huaxia movies, the big guys are getting more and more negative.

He chuckled and shook his head, "I'm not worried. I think mainland audiences definitely prefer mainland movies. It's just that if we find out the context and make movies that audiences like to watch, then we won't lose money."

Feng Xiaogang gathered himself together and looked at Li Shengyao. Seeing that his face was calm and his eyes were open, he didn't seem to be lying, so he couldn't help feeling respectful.

"Director Li, with your character, you are the one who can accomplish great things."

He then raised his glass and took another sip, "Yes, we must have confidence."

At this moment, there was a crisp clang, and someone knocked over a glass.

The whole hall was suddenly much quieter.

"It's okay, it's okay, I just broke a small wine glass, it's safe."

Someone came out to smooth things over, the waiter quickly stepped forward to clean up, and the hall quickly returned to its former bustle.

Xiaogangpao looked around nervously, "Director Li, this is not a good signal. How much box office do you think "Baby Project" can get?"

He went on to say: "Dianying word of mouth has come out, some people say it's funny, some people say it's boring."

Compared with the previous Long's comedies, Cheng Long in "Baby Project" is much more decadent. Apart from being funny, he has more warmth.

But overall, the movie doesn't break ground.

It is reasonable that the audience will get bored with the funny routines of Cheng Long's movies.

"Myth" has more than 9000 million, and "Baby Project" has more than 9000 million.

Facts have proved that this is Cheng Long's basic position in the mainland.

Li Shengyao felt that Xiaogangpao was too negative, he didn't want to say some pessimistic words, "I think it's okay, "Baby Project" is expected to exceed [-] million."

Xiaogangpao was a little bit down on "Baby Project", he felt that it couldn't exceed [-] million, "Director Li, are you so optimistic about this movie?"

"Well, it looks good."

He went on to say: "It should be better than "Myth".

When Feng Xiaogang heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

Cheng Long went back to filming his famous Long's comedies, so should he go back to the way he used to be?

Feng's comedy, no matter what, at least it won't lose money.

Thinking of this, he immediately cheered up a lot, raised his glass, "Director Li, come, let's touch one."

"clang!"

Feng Xiaogang then gulped it down, "Director Li, you are right, we should have confidence."

……

Although Li Shengyao told Feng Xiaogang to have confidence, he also said that "Baby Project" has the hope of exceeding [-] million.

However, the arrival of Li Shengyao has slightly changed things. In his previous life, "Baby Project" had a domestic box office of 700 million, but at this time, it is estimated to be the same as "Mythology", with a box office of just over 9000 million.

The first three days of "Baby Project", plus the box office of the seven days of screenings, totaled 300 million.

According to the box office trend in the mainland, if there is no good word of mouth, the general box office is about twice the box office of the first week.

In other words, it is also difficult for this movie to exceed [-] million.

Cheng Long was busy with publicity, and led the other leading actors to run around, but in his spare time, he called Li Shengyao, and his tone still couldn't hide his loneliness.

"Director Li, I still haven't made over [-] million. Hey, those people in Hollywood must be laughing at me. Now I can only watch "Taken"."

The subsequent box office trend of "Baby Project" is indeed similar to most predictions, that is, it is more than double the box office of the first week, in the early 9000 million.

The box office of this movie on Hong Kong Island is better than "Mythology" and "New Police Story", with 300 million.

However, compared to the investment cost, there is no doubt that it is another money-losing movie.

……

Half a month after "Baby Project" was released, "Raid 1" starring Wu Jing, co-produced by Lee Sing Yew and Hong Jinbao, was released.

This movie is 95 minutes long, and [-] minutes are played.

The fight was very beautiful, intense and exciting.

But the plot is much weaker.

Mainland audiences have to write paragraphs and themes since they were young. The more complicated the subject matter of the movie and the more metaphors, the more mainland audiences like it.

Like Let the Bullets Fly.

As for some routine movies, they have always been unpopular in the mainland. Even superhero movies have only been selling well for a few years.

Under such circumstances, the reputation of "Raid 1" in the mainland is mixed.

Many people think that the movie is good-looking, and many people think that the plot is too thin.

In the end, the box office in the first week was only 500 million, and the final total box office is estimated to be around 7000 million.

However, "Raid 1" is in Southeast Asia, and the data on Hong Kong Island is very good.

The first three days on Hong Kong Island reached 1000 million, and the word-of-mouth is also very good. Many Hong Kong media believe that this film is a new type of kung fu movie.

But in Southeast Asia, word of mouth is better, and it has set off a movie-watching frenzy. If nothing else, the box office in Southeast Asia has a chance to reach 5000 million.

It can be regarded as the best Chinese film at the box office in Southeast Asia in recent years.

The Southeast Asian media said that this film is well shot and has the characteristics of previous action films.

In addition, the film's excellent reputation in Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asia has attracted the attention of some international distributors.

The beautiful country, the island country, the peninsula, as well as France and Great Britain all have distributors to introduce this film.

On October 2006, 10, "Raid 26" was released in the beautiful country, distributed by Universal Pictures, and opened to 1 studios, resulting in an explosion of word-of-mouth.

Many audiences in the beautiful country think this film is the best action film of the year, and it has grown to [-] theaters in succession.

In 1995, Beautiful Country built 7000 and 2005 movie theaters. However, with the concentration of population and the increase of the entertainment industry, fewer and fewer moviegoers watched movies, and fewer and fewer movie theaters. By [-], there were only [-] movie theaters left.

Among them, about one-sixth of the theaters are dedicated to playing some special movies, and they will not play Hollywood blockbusters following the current fashion.

At this time, Hollywood blockbusters generally open about [-] museums.

"Raid 1" can be increased to [-] pavilions, which is considered a relatively good treatment for foreign films.

In the first week of the beautiful country, the box office was 1200 million US dollars, second only to "The Grudge 2" and higher than "Peerless Queen".

However, "The Grudge 1" was a big hit in the beautiful country, and the word-of-mouth box office was good, while the box office of "The Grudge 2" was okay in the first week, but the word-of-mouth collapsed, and the box office fell off a cliff afterwards.

In the second week, "The Prestige", "The Departed", and "Flags of Our Fathers" appeared in turn. "The Raid" fell from No.2 to No.4, but the total box office came to 3000 million US dollars.

There are still many blockbuster films in the future, and the box office should be around 600 million when the picture is drawn.

It can't compare to "Hero" or "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger".

But the cost of "The Raid 1" is only 250 million dollars. If you calculate it this way, "The Raid 1" can make a lot of money.

Not to mention that such an exciting action movie should have a good profit in the video market.

The news from the beautiful country was sent back to the mainland.

Li Shengyao then held a celebration banquet in Beijing, and Hong Jinbao, Wu Jing, and Cheng Long all came over.

Holding the wine glass, Cheng Long looked at the happy faces of Hong Jinbao and Wu Jing, and couldn't help being envious.

He turned around and asked Li Shengyao, "Director Li, can "Taken" be better than "The Raid 1"?"

Li Shengyao nodded and said affirmatively: "It will be better, don't worry."

In Li Shengyao's previous life, after "Assault 1" was released in the beautiful country, the box office and DVD revenue were more than 1000 million US dollars.

But now it is filmed by Hong Jinbao and Wu Jing, the film is more beautiful, and there are more Chinese people in the beautiful country, so the box office is much higher.

Subsequent disc income should also be higher.

After splitting the accounts, Lee Shengyao might earn $1000 million.

This movie with a simple plot will make more money than "Let's Punch, Dad" and "Extreme Escape".

At this time, the mainland film market has not yet exploded, and if you want to make money, you can't avoid the beautiful country.

"The Raid 1" can be better than his previous box office, and Lee Sheng Yew believes that "Taken" will be even better.

If it was before, Cheng Long didn't believe it, but this time, he felt that there might be hope.

At this time, Wu Jing came over with a wine glass to toast Li Shengyao.

"Director Li, I know you don't drink, I respect you, you can do whatever you want."

He then took a drink from his glass.

"Director Li, is there a second part of "The Raid"?"

"Yes, our target is still the global market."

"Raid 2" is similar to "Raid 1", from the beginning to the end. The Hollywood box office is slightly better, with an increase of 300 million dollars.

Wu Jing performed very well this time. When the Hollywood share arrives, Lee Shengyao will give him a big red envelope, 500 million | RMB.

It's an acknowledgment of him.

After filming the "Raid" series, Li Shengyao plans to continue using Wu Jing.

Of course it's not "Wolf Warrior". The "Wolf Warrior" series can only be filmed after the national strength has risen and the common people are confident. China must have at least No. 2 economic aggregate. Shooting now is courting death.

Lee Sheng Yew plans to shoot the "Falling" series, that is, "Olympus Has Fallen", "London Has Fallen", "Angel Has Fallen" and a series of films.

The box office of this series of movies can only be said to be mediocre, but the DVD, streaming media, and TV broadcasting markets are very good, so it can continue to be filmed.

Li Shengyao intends to use it to shape Wu Jing and make him a Kung Fu superstar in advance.

Hearing this, Wu Jing nodded excitedly, brought another glass of wine, and drank it down in one gulp.

Li Shengyao smiled, and patted Wu Jing on the shoulder, "Act well, you will definitely be popular."

(End of this chapter)