How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 798 Paramount: Actually, it’s pretty good at making sneakers. Isn’t your AJ selling very well~
After nearly a month of screenings in mainland film markets, and still no independent screenings with any competitors, "Aquaman" has basically achieved its box office potential in the mainland.

The single-day box office has dropped to less than 10 million yuan, but the cumulative box office is close to 2 billion yuan.

It is estimated that when the film is finally released, it will break through the box office threshold of 2 billion yuan.

It can be said that China Film has given great support to James Wan, a Chinese-American director, for his first commercial movie in the mainland (Wan Ziren’s first commercial movie in the mainland was "Fast and Furious 7") .

However, no matter how much support is given, it is impossible to allow a pure European and American Hollywood blockbuster like "Aquaman" to enter the mainland's Lunar New Year schedule.

Moreover, Wen Ziren has been given such a high salary since he entered the Lunar New Year bracket at the beginning. What will he do in the future?
So when the time came to early January 2019, [Aquaman] was canceled on a large scale.

Instead.

It is a spin-off of the "Transformers" series - "Bumblebee" produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Nike's successor.

……

1 month 4 day.

Without it.

However, unlike the Lunar New Year stalls many years ago, today’s Lunar New Year stalls are no longer the top slots in the mainland, but have regressed to a situation similar to the National Day stalls.

Fortunately, on January 1th the next day, the box office of "Bumblebee" experienced a sharp decline, and it collected another single-day box office of 5 million yuan, which somewhat reflected the influence of the "Transformers" series IP.

It's just that series spin-offs are less interesting than series main projects.

The annual Lunar New Year festival in the Mainland has begun again.

[Bumblebee] relied on a 1.11% film schedule and only reported a box office of million yuan.

However, in the mainland movie market, people who are sensitive to box office trends can judge that the box office trend of "Bumblebee" is not good.

But it is precisely because of this that "Bumblebee" can squeeze in by being a spin-off project that continues the "Transformers" series of co-productions.

Because in the North American movie market, [Bumblebee] did not have a single-day box office of more than 2100 million US dollars in its first three days, and only accumulated a single-day box office of more than million US dollars.

On the first day.

In North American film and television, anyone who knows how to count can tell that the box office trend of "Bumblebee" is not optimistic.

Compared with the first-day box office of Zhang Nan's "Transformers" series of 200 million to 300 million yuan, or 340 million yuan to 400 million yuan, it is a bit less interesting.

finally.

This has resulted in the current Lunar New Year schedule becoming the preferred schedule for some non-top-tier film projects in the Mainland.

However, on Sunday, the third day of release, the single-day box office performance of "Bumblebee" was unstable. It almost fell back to the box office of the first day of release, and only reported a single-day box office of 1.27 million yuan.

no way.

With the rise of the Spring Festival period, the box office potential of the approaching Lunar New Year period will naturally be extracted.

However, those who are sensitive to box office trends can easily tell from the chaotic box office trend of "Bumblebee" during its first three days that the box office trend of "Bumblebee" is a bit bad.

[Bumblebee] grossed 4.05 million yuan at the box office in the first three days of the Lunar New Year festival in the mainland movie market.

Faced with this situation, Paramount Pictures immediately and distressedly stopped the development of the follow-up series of "Bumblebee".

On average, the single-day box office is only over 7 million US dollars a day.

The [Transformers] series at this time is not the [Transformers] series that was ruined by the $5.92 million global "Transformers 5" in the original time and space.

It is a real, top-notch global series with a box office of more than one billion U.S. dollars in a row.

The reason why Paramount was willing to let Nike's rich second generation Travis Knight take over the "Transformers" IP series was to try to make a "Bumblebee" spin-off. On one side is Travis Knight’s Nike chairman father.

The relationship is indeed in place, and the benefits given are quite good.

On the other side are the executives at Paramount Pictures.

After reading Travis Knight's resume, I feel that this young man's ability should be good, so it doesn't hurt to give it a try.

Maybe we can do what [Voldemort] is to [Harry Potter], [The Legend of Sauron] is to [Lord of the Rings], and [Bumblebee] is to [Transformers].

But now that [Bumblebee] is attacking like this, it is almost destroying the golden signature of the [Transformers] series. This is the core IP series that is related to Paramount Pictures.

How can Paramount Pictures still be stable? They just had a phone call with Travis Knight's father, the chairman of Nike.

"Stop letting your son wander around in Hollywood. Come home quickly and inherit the family business."

The tone was like Kurotsuchi and Xiao Cui talking about the village chief's expectations for [Confinement 2] in front of Baiyun, and how uncomfortable they were.

At the same time, he also said to Travis Knight: "Actually, making sneakers is quite good. Your AJs sell very well~"

then……

What happened next to Zhang Nan is not clear. Anyway, after the project was approved, Michael Bay, one of the co-directors of "Changjin Lake", was in a much better mental state.

……

October 1th, Thursday.

Looking at "Bumblebee", a big name with the title of the world's top series "Transformers", the box office trend fell into decline the next week, with a single-day box office figure of only 30 to 40 million yuan.

Immediately, many mainland film and television companies had the idea of ​​​​stepping on "Bumblebee" to take over, but in the end only Horgos' "Big Shot" took action and was released on January 1.

to be frank.

The quality of this [Big Shot] movie is pretty good.

The second son of the Zhao family played by Bao Beier is very impactful.

The phrase "Do you know how much I have contributed to Binhai?" was directly on the hot search.

The police captain played by Wang Qianyuan is a bit mediocre.

Of course.

It's not that Wang Qianyuan's acting skills are inferior to Bao Beier's.

After all, Wang Qianyuan's performance in "Rescue Mr. My" can still be seen as capable. Not to mention how strong it is, at least it is better than Bao Beier in the previous "囧" and the current "Big Shot". More than one level.

It can only be said that under the censorship system of mainland film and television, or in plot conflicts and characterization, villains tend to shine.

Because the villain actor is not very inconsistent when performing transitions.

But if an upright actor performs too grandly and uprightly, it will be a bit fake.

Moreover, the intense plots of villains are often mixed with various psychologically shocking elements, such as violence, color, and horror, which are more likely to create distinctive performance characteristics.

It's just that January 1th is a working Thursday, and soon on January 10th, another big animated movie "The Origin of the White Snake" will land on the big screen, diverting the attention of "Big Shot", and there is still a lingering movie in the film market. Bumblebee】.

So in the end, [Big Shot] only took in a first-day box office of 1480.15 million yuan and a second-day box office of 2935.29 million yuan.

(End of this chapter)