It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1302: Treat others in their own way!

What does it mean to have a single-day box office of over 10 billion?
Before "Detective Chinatown 3" was released, many people didn't even have this concept in their minds, and never thought that a Chinese-language film would achieve such results.

But today, with the release of the first day box office data for the Spring Festival, the once seemingly impossible conjecture has turned into a reality before our eyes!
11.68 million.

This is a goal that many domestic films still cannot reach even after being released for a month.

But in "Detective Chinatown 3", it was achieved in just one day!
It is no exaggeration to say that this achievement can be regarded as a new milestone in the box office performance of domestic films!
Many people working in the film and television industry may have been too shocked, so they did not react much for a while.

But looking at the media circle, it is even more lively than the Chinese New Year!

"It is reported that within just 3 hours of its release, the box office of Detective Chinatown 12 exceeded 10 billion yuan, setting a record for the fastest box office revenue of 10 billion yuan in the Chinese film market! This is a first-of-its-kind case in the Chinese film industry!"

"'Detective Chinatown 3' continues the style of its predecessor, cleverly blending comedy and mystery. Coupled with the wonderful performances of the leading actors, it has attracted a large number of audiences to the theaters. It has been highly anticipated since the pre-sale stage, and now the box office results have further proved its strong market appeal."

"The box office of Detective Chinatown 10 has exceeded 3 billion yuan. It is not only a successful movie, but also an important step in the construction of the "Detective Chinatown Universe"; from Bangkok to New York, and then to the current Tokyo, each one is interpreting high-quality presentation, and has profoundly laid the foundation for the development policy of 'leaping through film and television, only making high-quality products'..."

"From the box office performance of Detective Chinatown 3, we can see that super high popularity and top quality are the strong support for the box office explosion. I hope that domestic films can continue to work hard in the future and create even higher brilliant results!"

“Reprinted from The Hollywood Reporter: Forbes published an article saying that Detective Chinatown 3 is undoubtedly a Chinese domestic blockbuster, and its appearance once again proves that Chinese cinema chains will no longer rely on Hollywood imported films;
Variety has noticed the film's ever-increasing screening schedule and believes that the overwhelming advantage in screening schedules is due to the high audience expectations.

In addition, Deadline Hollywood, Hollywood Reporter and other media also pointed out that the good performance of "Detective Chinatown 3" is of great significance to the recovery of Chinese cinemas and the Chinese film market!"

The Chinese-language film market has not yet responded, but Hollywood has already paid attention to "Detective Chinatown 3".

The box office on the first day was 11.68 billion yuan, equivalent to 1.81 million US dollars.

This achievement is absolutely unparalleled even in the history of Hollywood films.

At present, the only movie that can rival it is "Avengers 4".

As for other blockbusters, none of them can match the current first-day box office performance of "Detective Chinatown 3".

Especially with the outbreak of the epidemic last year, the Hollywood film market has been extremely bleak.

So far, no Hollywood movie released this year has made more than $3 million, and the number of blockbusters is even smaller, almost equivalent to none...

Under such circumstances, a blockbuster suddenly emerged in the Chinese-language film market, with a box office of over 11 billion yuan and 1.8 million US dollars on the first day.

This is a huge impact on Hollywood!
Even Natasha called in amazement and asked Chen Fei if Walton Pictures could be responsible for the overseas distribution of the film?

A quality movie can be appreciated around the world.

If "Detective Chinatown 3" can sell high box office in China, then its performance abroad will not be too bad.

After all, overseas Chinese are also very hard-working in contributing to movie box office, even harder than some public intellectuals in China.

"Of course, I will give you the authorization after the screening in the Chinese film market is over."

Chen Fei agreed to Natasha's request without thinking.

So far, all the overseas publicity and promotion work of the films produced by Feiyue Films has been handled by Walton Pictures.

A long time ago, Chen Fei would sell copyrights to foreigners to earn foreign currency and US dollars.

But today, he has already stopped selling copyrights.

Because now he has already mastered the copyright operation methods and channels.

After a movie is officially released, he can create sufficient and continuous benefits without selling the copyright and only authorizing the relevant rights.

This is also what many other companies envy but cannot do.

Wanda has done this before, but with the arrival of the epidemic, all their efforts have turned into a moon in the mirror and a flower in the water.

Alibaba Pictures has also tried to cooperate with Hollywood film companies, but the final result was much ado about nothing.

For example, this "New Gods: Nezha Reborn".

If it can gain as much popularity and box office as "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World", then it will definitely not be difficult to develop the full copyright, and Disney will definitely be keen to cooperate with them.

But now?

With a first-day box office of 6135 million, the film ranked second from the bottom in the first-day box office rankings during the Spring Festival.

What kind of development is this?

Take a shower and go to bed as soon as possible.

“It feels like Spider-Man meets The Bund, and a superhero gangster movie with some mechanical wasteland elements added. The art style is quite unique, but it’s too exaggerated, and it looks tacky and messy.”

"If my analysis is correct, the producers wanted to lean towards the most primitive and dark Nezha in Investiture of the Gods, but in the end they only showed anger and then fought all the way to the end, so the character image is very thin."

"The director should be a fan of Stephen Chow, right? The scene where Hu Zi sells newspapers is from Kung Fu, and the scene where the little monkey jumps into the fire is from A Chinese Odyssey. The background music when the identity of the masked man is revealed is self-explanatory. It's the Third Prince. It's exactly like Wu Yifan himself!"

"To describe it in one sentence, this is a movie about Wu Yifan versus Huang Zitao's dad."

"..."

Seeing that "Detective Chinatown 3" was enjoying praise from the entire network, and then looking at his own "New Gods: Nezha Reborn" being ridiculed by many netizens, Fan Luyuan felt so frustrated.

But unfortunately, he had no way out.

Many people are comparing this movie, a collaboration between Alibaba and Light Chaser, with "Ne Zha".

However, the more people compare, the more they feel that this movie is messy and chaotic.

Moreover, as an animated film, the target audience is not children. Instead, there are a lot of images and models of "big breasts and fat buttocks".

This has already doomed its ending to be unfortunate.

Although there are indeed some people who like this style of painting, it is ultimately just a niche and difficult to be accepted by the general public.

"Song Ge is really lucky. The box office of Hello, Li Huanying on the first day was 3.88 million. Is this going to make a lot of money?"

After taking his eye off the film he invested in, Fan Luyuan set his sights on the film produced by Jingxi and directed by Jia Ling.

In fact, Alibaba Pictures also invested in "Hello, Li Huanying".

However, among the many co-producers, Alibaba’s investment is the least, accounting for less than 5%.

But now, even this profit of less than 5% is probably far greater than that of the animated film produced by the company.

This is so fucked up!
"Jingle Bell--"

Fan Luyuan was just feeling worried, but suddenly, the cell phone on the table rang.

After picking up the phone and looking at the caller ID, he raised his eyebrows in surprise, then pressed the answer button.

"Hello? Mr. Song?"

The call was from Song Ge, and it was quite magical like "Speak of the devil and he will appear".

On the other side of the phone, Song Ge, in a good mood, said "Hello, Mr. Fan" and then went straight to the point, explaining the purpose of his call.

A few minutes later, Fan Luyuan widened his eyes in surprise and asked in disbelief, "You mean, you want to join forces with Alibaba Pictures to attack Detective Chinatown 3?"

"That's right!" Song Ge said in a deep voice, "Under the current circumstances, if we don't suppress the momentum of Detective Chinatown 3, we won't be able to get a screening schedule at the theaters, let alone get a high share of the box office."

"What are you going to do? The box office on the first day was as high as 11 billion. The reputation and popularity were established on the first day. How can it be easy to suppress it?"

"Everything depends on human efforts. How do you know if you don't try?" Song Ge laughed.

He has now persuaded "The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity", which had an even worse box office on the first day, and they have agreed to lend him a helping hand.

Now we just need to convince Fan Luyuan, borrow some resources from Alibaba, and combine them with the efforts of Jingxi Culture...

Although a sure win is definitely impossible, as long as it can trip up "Detective Chinatown 3", "Hello, Li Huanying" may be able to make a comeback. After all, according to current feedback, the first-day box office performance and word-of-mouth of "Hello, Li Huanying" are quite good, and it is worth investing energy to support it!
This matter was indeed beneficial to Fan Luyuan, and there was no need for him to lead the charge personally, so he agreed to help Song Ge without much thought.

After hanging up the phone, thinking back to what Song Ge had just said, he suddenly couldn't help laughing again.

"Fight, the harder and more intense the better... It's best to be like a mantis stalking a cicada, while the oriole is waiting behind, hahahaha."

On this side, Song Ge and Fan Luyuan both had their own little ideas, wanting to make more profits during the Spring Festival.

On the other side, Wang Changtian called Chen Fei with a sigh.

"Alas, I'm afraid that 'The Crowd' will lose money. Liu Dehua's box office appeal has been getting worse and worse in recent years..."

Hearing this, Chen Fei, who was checking the real-time word-of-mouth and film review data of the Spring Festival movies, consoled him, "It's impossible to lose money. At most, you just won't be able to make a lot of money."

This is indeed the truth, but Wang Changtian, as an investor, still finds it difficult to accept.

Having put in so much effort, his dream is naturally to make a lot of money.

However, the works that are released again and again are at most relatively stable and will not lose money, but the number of times that they make big money is very rare...

This is indeed a bit unconvincing for Light Media, a listed company.

Fortunately, Guangguang also had an investment share in "Detective Chinatown 3", which gave him some comfort.

"I'm very puzzled. Liu Dehua is so popular, but why are the movies he stars in so mediocre at the box office? It's hard for them to have a big hit?"

After hearing this question, Fade Chen paused for a moment and then answered, "In fact, it's not just him. The ability of all Hong Kong actors to carry the box office is declining. They are already out of date. This is the general trend and cannot be changed..."

It has been more than 40 years since his debut, and Liu Dehua can definitely be regarded as an evergreen in the entertainment industry.

With comprehensive development in film, television and music, his name is known to almost everyone!

But I don’t know since when, the movies he starred in always give people an inexplicable sense of mediocrity, and in recent years he has been dubbed the "King of Bad Movies".

Although this movie "The Crowd" cannot be said to be bad, its overall rhythm still cannot escape the evaluation of "mediocre".

It has merits, but it's not so conspicuous.

It has flaws, but they are not fatal.

Therefore, it naturally received a mediocre and mediocre evaluation. We can only wait for time to pass and wait for the audience to discover its highlights and savor them carefully.

But in this case, it is impossible for the box office to be a big hit.

As for the falling behind of Hong Kong actors, this is the result of changing times and no one can change it.

In fact, this situation has been happening since the end of the Hong Kong film era, but it has become faster and faster in recent years.

After talking about the Hong Kong film market, changes in the times and future development, Wang Changtian changed the subject and turned the topic to animated films.

"I've discovered that Boonie Bears is almost becoming a touchstone for Spring Festival movies."

"Hahahahaha!"

Chen Fei smiled, but a popular internet phrase from a few years later came to his mind.

——Film quality inspector!
This term refers to the "Boonie Bears" series of movies.

As long as the box office of the movie can exceed that of the "Boonie Bears" series during the Spring Festival, it means that this movie is worth watching, and at least you will not feel regret after watching it.

But if the box office is even worse than that of the "Boonie Bears" series of films, which were not keen on promoting, then its quality is bound to be worrying.

Now, judging from the first-day box office, "New Gods: Nezha Reborn", which was also an animated film released during the same period, is undoubtedly the one with questionable quality.

……

In a blink of an eye, the second day of the Chinese New Year has passed and time has entered the third day of the Chinese New Year.

This day happens to be Valentine's Day this year!
However, because of the Spring Festival movies, there are no blockbusters or romance movies released during this year's Valentine's Day period.

However, on this day, "Human Affairs", which had been released for 60 days, was taken off the screen.

With the support of multiple factors such as the Lunar New Year period, the Golden Lion Award, the Golden Great Wall Award, the New Year's Day period, and the Spring Festival period, this literary drama film successfully grossed 30.63 billion yuan at the box office!

The No. 2020 Chinese-language literary drama film of 1 is officially born!
As expected, all major media outlets praised the announcement.

However, half of the praise for "Life Events" should be given to "Detective Chinatown 3".

Because on the second day of its release, the movie’s single-day box office record hit a new high, soaring directly to 14 billion!
In two days, the total box office revenue reached 25 billion!
Looking at the entire Chinese-language film industry, and even the global film industry, this is a unique existence!

Even "Avengers 1", which is currently ranked No. 4 on the global box office list, only achieved such a high result on the third day of its release.

However, "Detective Chinatown 3" achieved this result on the second day.

I have to say that the retaliatory consumption caused by being unable to go out due to the epidemic is really too exaggerated!
But at the same time, a large number of controversial remarks suddenly emerged on the Internet.

For example, all the films in the "Detective Chinatown" series are just shell plots, and they are suspected to be malicious attempts to reap the box office revenue from moviegoers.

Also, Chinese actors' acting skills are not as good as Japanese actors', so going to Japan to shoot scenes is totally unnecessary, embarrassing, and unpatriotic.

Some people who were more emotional even directly criticized that "Detective Chinatown 3" did not deserve such high praise.

"Going to Xiaozizi to film and use Xiaozizi actors, isn't that just giving them money for nothing? Isn't that selling out our country and aiding the enemy, and just giving them money?"

Many people have a herd mentality. Seeing the large number of comments criticizing "Detective Chinatown 3" online, they also began to express related opinions.

They don’t care about all that mess, and when they see marketing accounts leading the trend, they just join in the scolding in the comment section.

Many people even vented the anger they felt at work.

The end result was that in less than half a day, the film review data and reputation score of "Detective Chinatown 3" began to decline.

On the other hand, the reputation of "Hello, Li Huanying" has risen because of its high "Tencent content", coupled with the fact that it has many mature jokes and down-to-earth sketches and comedians.

Many people even went to Zhang Xiaofei’s Douyin works and started shouting “Mom”!
Chen Fei had naturally anticipated this situation.

He is keeping an eye on the cinemas and also on what is happening online.

Song Ge thought that his arrangements were flawless, but he never expected that all his actions were exposed to Chen Fei's eyes.

If the competition can be fair and just, Chen Fei actually doesn't mind "Hello, Li Huanying" making a lot of money in the theater market.

After all, compared to "Hot Summer Days", "Hello, Li Huanying" still has many remarkable aspects.

Looking at all domestic Chinese-language comedy films, the story presented in this film is still considered to be of high quality.

However, Song Ge was unwilling to give up.

He was unwilling to stop there. This was not the only thing he wanted. He was eager to get more profits to save Jingxi's weak stock price!

But he forgot one thing.

Greed makes people blindly pursue vain desires, lose their original heart in the endless demands, and finally be imprisoned by the shackles of desire, thus... there is no return!
"Detective Chinatown 3" did not fall into the "self-proving trap".

Chen Fei's counterattack was not to treat the opponent in his own way.

He simply handed over to the CSRC anonymously the evidence he had prepared in advance, which he had obtained from Lou Xiaoxi, the former vice chairman of Jingxi Culture, regarding Song Ge's breach of trust to damage the interests of listed companies, fraudulent issuance of bonds, illegal disclosure, non-disclosure of important information, and embezzlement of office.

The person that Song Ge had spent countless energy and money on searching for for two years had actually already been secretly protected by Chen Fei.

Otherwise, Lou Xiaoxi, who was under the dual pressure of frozen bank account and smuggled identity, would have been forced to go out and make a living due to financial difficulties.

It was also because of Chen Fei's protection that she was able to produce more evidence of Song Ge's crimes.

Thus, the first major hot search in the film and television industry in 2021 was detonated!
At the same time, a series of outrageous actions by another post-90s actress Zheng Shuang, who is known as the "Crazy Little White Flower", were also completely exposed!
(End of this chapter)