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Chapter 619 8038W
The first wave of movie-watching emotions was the gimmick of "Pacific Rim" being the first monster blockbuster in China!
The second wave of movie-watching sentiment is the reputation Wang Shu has accumulated over the years of directing movies.

The third wave of emotions when watching the movie was Wang Shu shedding tears at Little Pearl.

The fourth wave of movie-watching emotions, "Pacific Rim", which made the people of the whole country feel proud, was post-produced by a domestic special effects team.

Chinese special effects are not inferior to Hollywood!
Four waves of movie-watching emotions accumulate, merge, and extend. Whether the box office of "Pacific Rim" can reach 7, 8, 9 million, or even exceed 10 billion depends on the future box office trend.

In the original timeline, "Avatar" was expected to hit theaters in January 2010 and gross over 1 billion at the box office, shocking everyone.

In addition to the fact that this movie is a groundbreaking special effects blockbuster, there is also the box office appeal of the name Cameron!
"Titanic" is so famous in the country!

After more than ten years, Cameron's "masterpiece" movie has once again landed in domestic theaters.

And before it was released, it was highly praised.

There are endless sayings such as "You will regret it for the rest of your life if you don't watch it".

So much so that everyone, whether human or ghost, went into the cinema to buy tickets!

With the combined efforts of the entire country, it contributed over 1 billion in box office revenue in an era when there were only more than 5,000 screens!
In fact, the plot of the movie "Avatar" is very ordinary except for the special effects.

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12 month 21 day.

The box office of "Pacific Rim" on December 12 was released, 20W.

December 12th was a Sunday. As various topics became popular, the movie box office on that day exploded, which was 20 million higher than Saturday's 5036 million.

When this data was disclosed, the entertainment circles across Taiwan Straits and Hong Kong were all dumbfounded.

8038W in a single day?

How can it be!

If these people knew that in the original timeline, Avatar achieved similar results when it was released in January 2010, they would not be so shocked.

It is undeniable that at present there are only more than 8000 screens across the country, and it is difficult to achieve a box office revenue of more than million in a single day.

However, if the circumstances are special, it is not impossible.

Not to mention, "Avatar", which was released more than ten days later in the original timeline, achieved such box office results!

If Wang Shu has both word-of-mouth and the tear-shedding little pearls, plus the exciting gimmicks of domestic special effects blockbusters, and the special effects of the movie are indeed quite good.

It can be said that all factors that can increase the box office are present, which is why the movie achieved a single-day box office of 8000 million yuan.

If you want a movie to have high box office, you need to appeal to the general public's desire to watch movies.

How to arouse the audience's emotions in watching movies is another science.

Although Zhang Weiping wanted to hype up "Three Shots Surprise" and criticize Wang Shu, for Wang Shu, it was nothing more than giving him a pillow when he was sleepy.

Following Zhang Weiping's criticism, Xiao Zhenzhu shed tears, trying to gain sympathy and arouse the audience's emotions.

Combined with various other methods, it can also arouse the public's desire to watch movies again.

Wang Shu has always been clear that whether a movie can achieve good box office success depends most on publicity and promotion, while ensuring its distribution.

Only publicity and promotion can arouse the public's enthusiasm for watching movies.

He insisted on including BASE in the movie "Pacific Rim" just for the gimmick of domestic special effects production!

It is only the end of 2009, and the actual level of BASE at this stage is far from the period when "Pacific Rim" was produced in the original timeline.

But this is not important to Wang Shu, as long as Industrial Light & Magic has the technical level to produce it.

All he wants is the gimmick of domestic special effects production.

Not to mention, BASE learned a lot with the guidance of Industrial Light & Magic.

From a side perspective, Wang Shu's move also promoted the progress and development of the domestic special effects industry.

"8038W!"

Zhang Yimou also learned the news at this time, and couldn't help but mutter to himself in a daze.

He has always believed that Wang Shu is a talented director, and now his understanding of this has been deepened.

However, his eyes were full of doubts.

He went to the cinema to watch "Pacific Rim". Apart from the amazing special effects, the plot was quite ordinary.

It stands to reason that whether a movie can achieve high box office depends on whether it has a good plot.

But "Pacific Rim" is obviously a cliché and ordinary story, but it achieved an incredible box office result of 8038 million in a single day!
"Commercial film," Zhang Yimou muttered to himself.

Although he made movies such as "Curse of the Golden Flower", it was actually due to the times and the influence of capital.

Like many mainland directors, he looks down on commercial films and prefers art films.

Therefore, like many mainland directors, when he makes commercial films, they often have an artistic flavor.

Moreover, although he is a senior director, he seems to understand what commercial films are, but in reality he does not really understand them.

Take Li An for example, he can win an Oscar for making art films, but when he makes commercial films, they are either failures or on the way to failure.

The same is true for Zhang Yimou. If he had not been the first to start the era of large-scale movies with luxurious casts, and if he had not been one of the first to try it, his commercial films would not have been well-received.

At this moment, what puzzled him was that "Pacific Rim", like "Curse of the Golden Flower", was a film with a large cast, grand scenes and mediocre plots.

However, "Pacific Rim" achieved a single-day box office of 8038 million yuan, which is far inferior to "Curse of the Golden Flower".

Even though there is indeed a two or three year gap between the two films, there shouldn't be such a big gap in just two or three years.

"Pacific Rim took in 8038 million viewers in a single day, while Three Guns only took in 1546 million viewers." Zhang Weiping found Zhang Yimou and said with a gloomy face.

"Movies and trolls" was released on December 12 and is currently in its second week. The single-day box office of 10 million yuan is obviously not enough to satisfy Zhang Weiping.

At this moment, he already regretted it.

If I had known earlier, I would have only criticized China Film and Han Sanping and not mentioned Wang Shu. Now, netizens not only do not buy it, but they even sympathize with Wang Shu.

When he thought of Wang Shu, he felt so angry that his teeth itched.

A man actually shed tears for Little Pearl!
Depend on!
Zhang Weiping really wanted to curse, but he didn't say it in front of Zhang Yimou.

He thought that Wang Shu was young and energetic, and would at least respond a few words.

Who would have thought that not only did he not respond, but he also shed tears, so that now the whole network is sympathizing with him.

The post-production special effects of "Pacific Rim" were produced by a domestic special effects company, which is pure nonsense.

As an industry insider, Zhang Weiping is well aware of the level of special effects in China, and that it is simply not possible to produce a movie like Pacific Rim. Maybe in a few years, there will be enough, but not now.

He knew in his heart that the special effects of Pacific Rim must have been made by a Hollywood company.

However, domestic special effects companies are indeed involved in this, and this statement cannot be refuted.

He also knew that even if he spoke out to refute it, not only would no one believe him, but he would also be ridiculed by netizens.

Zhang Weiping felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten shit.

"'Three Guns' is an art film, so it's normal that its box office is not as good as 'Pacific Rim'," Zhang Yimou continued.

The Imperial Master looked calm, but he had actually been dissatisfied with Zhang Weiping for a long time.

Let’s not talk about other things, let’s just talk about this movie “Three Shots Surprise”.

When the film was about to start shooting, the male lead had already been decided.

Because Xiao Shenyang became an instant hit after appearing on the Spring Festival Gala, Zhang Weiping requested that Xiao Shenyang be cast as the male lead.

The script was not originally a comedy, and Xiao Shenyang's sudden joining left Zhang Yimou and the main creative staff helpless.

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In order to follow Xiao Shenyang's comedy style, Zhang Yimou was forced to dismiss many staff members and let Zhao Benshan's disciples join in.

The original screenwriter Shi Jianquan was not used to this style, so he had to ask screenwriter Xu Zhengchao from Zhao Benshan's team to help.

As it turned out, the comedy route of "Three Shots Surprise" was not successful.

After the movie was released, many viewers were dissatisfied and called for a refund.

Different people have different tastes. For some people, "Three Shots Surprise" is quite good.

But some people said that this movie was not in Zhang Yimou's usual style, which was disappointing.

Especially in this era, a large part of Zhang Yimou's audience is older.

They were used to watching Zhang Yimou's films in previous styles, and they were extremely uncomfortable with the sudden change to a comedy style.

Due to the dissatisfaction of the movie-watching community, coupled with the impact of the blockbuster movie "Pacific Rim", the box office performance of "Three Guns Surprise" has dropped significantly in the original timeline.

In the original timeline, "Three Shots Surprise" earned 2.44 million yuan at the box office by the time it was released.

Nowadays, it’s difficult to break 2 million!
"If I had known, I would have avoided the release of Pacific Rim." "Mr. Right" is just an art film. Faced with a monster blockbuster like Pacific Rim, whose special effects are not inferior to those of Hollywood, Zhang Weiping knew that the game was over.

However, he really didn't expect that Wang Shu could make such an amazing film!

The amazing thing is not the plot, but the special effects!
Looking across the country, no director has ever made a film like this.

Only Wang Shu created history.

Could it be that studying abroad in Hollywood really makes you so cool?

Zhang Yimou did not respond. It was Zhang Weiping's request to use Xiao Shenyang in the movie "Movies and TV Series". Knowing that Wang Shu might have two movies in the New Year period, he also wanted to release it during the New Year period, which was also Zhang Weiping's request.

After the film was released, they accepted an interview and criticized China Film, Han Sanping and Wang Shu, which was also their own decision.

Seeing Zhang Yimou was silent and depressed, Zhang Weiping thought that Zhang Yimou was hit hard, so he smiled and said, "It's okay. If the box office can't compare, then we can still go to Berlin and win a Golden Bear."

Although he also knew that Wang Shu's "Life of Pi" had a high chance of winning an Oscar, he did not think Wang Shu could win the golden statue this time.

On the other hand, at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Mr. Right" has a good chance of winning an award because of its advantage of being adapted from "Blood Simple"!
Zhang Yimou nodded slightly but still said nothing.

He got a share of the box office revenue from the movie "Three Shots Surprise".

The higher the box office, the more share he gets.

Now that they are affected, even the most open-minded people will feel uncomfortable.

If Zhang Yimou knew that Zhang Weiping had never thought of giving him his share, he probably wouldn't think so now.

In the original timeline, after Zhang Yimou parted ways with Zhang Weiping, chairman of New Picture Company, he sued his "old boss" New Picture for 1500 million yuan because he did not get the profit share of "The Monkey King ".

Zhang Yimou sued, claiming that in 2009 he reached an agreement with New Picture to jointly shoot "Movies and TV Series: Revenge of the Condor Heroes", with Zhang Yimou as the director and New Picture responsible for all publicity and distribution matters in China. The film was invested by a Hong Kong company.

According to the agreement, the box office revenue of the film in China, minus the promotional expenses, will be divided equally among the three parties.

According to estimates, each of the three parties should receive at least 1500 million yuan.

Zhang Yimou claimed that he has not received this share of the profits so far, so he took the producer of "Three Shots Surprise" New Picture Company to court.

In response to this, New Picture released a statement saying that it did not owe Zhang Yimou any money and that this was malicious hype by Zhang Yimou.

On September 2015, 9, the Chaoyang Court of Beijing made a first-instance judgment, requiring New Picture Company to pay Zhang Yimou 15 million yuan in box office share of the film, and to bear more than 1500 yuan in litigation fees.

After the verdict was announced, Zhang Yimou's side clearly stated that they would not appeal, but New Picture Company stated that it would appeal.

On April 2016, 4, the Beijing Third Intermediate People's Court made a final judgment on the case, annulling the first-instance judgment and changing the judgment to require New Picture Company to pay Zhang Yimou a share of the profits of more than 7 million yuan.

You should know that whenever Zhang Yimou collaborated with Zhang Weiping, he always directed movies for free.

In other words, he worked so hard on the movie "Three Shots Surprise" but only earned 246W.

The national master is one of the most famous directors in the country. Even if he signs a cooperation intention contract with Shanghai Film Group like Director Chen Kaige, the salary would easily be tens of millions, not to mention the director's salary is calculated separately.

As a result, not only did the movie "Three Shots Surprise" ruin its reputation, but it also only earned 246W.

I was really badly betrayed by Zhang Weiping.

It is now the end of 2009 and 2010 is almost here.

In 2011, Zhang Yimou finally stopped giving in and parted ways with Zhang Weiping.

After the two "broke up", negative news about Zhang Yimou's private life was exposed one after another. The media first revealed that Zhang Yimou was secretly married, and then revealed that he had three extra children. Later, there were rumors about his illegitimate son who was nicknamed the father of the seven gourd babies, which attracted continuous attention from the media and public opinion.

Before this, there was no such news about Zhang Yimou, but as soon as they broke up, he was surrounded by negative news.

It is obvious that when Zhang Yimou was working with Zhang Weiping, Zhang Weiping was determined to defeat Zhang Yimou.

After Zhang Yimou no longer tolerated and chose to "break up", Zhang Weiping wanted to destroy Zhang Yimou.

But Zhang Yimou is the imperial teacher after all, so his future will not be ruined by this little negative news.

"Xiaogang, Pacific Rim grossed 8038 million in a single day. Why don't we also make a special effects blockbuster? Whether it's a monster movie, a zombie movie, or a Star Wars movie, do you have any ideas?"

Huayi’s CEO Wang Zhongjun found Feng Xiaogang and told him what he was thinking.

With 8038 million in a single day, the total box office in China alone is heading towards million, million, million or million, not to mention the box office in overseas markets.

Now that Huayi has gone public and has money, Wang Zhongjun is jealous and wants to copy Wang Shu's model to make a blockbuster movie.

(End of this chapter)