The Crown Prince of Huayu!

August.

Seeing that the box office of "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Lost Tomb" has also exceeded the 2 billion mark after "Lost in Chongqing", I can't help but feel fortunate that the movie was postponed to August.

No matter how good other movies are, the box office ceiling is only 1 billion. If you encounter one, as long as the market is large enough to accommodate movies of 2 billion or even 3 billion, there is no need to worry about not having your own space to survive.

There is no comparison between this and Han Jiadong's movies which cost 2 billion.

Just as they were rejoicing, "Monster Hunt" was released.

Other films released at the same time include "The Pancake Man", "One Step Away", "Go Away Tumor", "Steel Knife", and "If You Are the One".

Among them, the most promising one at the beginning was undoubtedly Jiang Wen’s new film "One Step Away".

After all, his last movie was "Let the Bullets Fly", which was enough to go down in film history and won the box office champion of domestic films that year!
The cost of this new film alone was 300 million yuan.

He is therefore seen as the most likely mainland director after Han Jiadong to become the second director to achieve a box office revenue of over 1 billion yuan.

If that is achieved, his chances of being inducted into the Hall of Fame will greatly increase.

Currently, he has met the minimum standards in terms of honor.

The movie "Sunny Days" helped him win the Golden Horse Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.

Even before the millennium, when the Golden Horse Awards cost 1.5 gold medals to equal one gold medal, it was enough for him to have a full-gold Golden Horse Award.

"Let the Bullets Fly" helped him win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor and Best Picture.

He is just a little bit lacking in influence. Among the three major domestic directors before Han Jiadong, he has no place.

If he can break through the billion mark this time, it will definitely be a huge bonus for him.

Next up is "The Pancake Man", the debut film directed by Dapeng, who had gained enough popularity with "Diaosi Nanzi".

However, the fantasy blockbuster "Monster Hunt", which was jointly invested and produced by Star Pictures, Emperor Entertainment Group, Digital Imaging, Jia Mi and other companies, and cost a total of 3.5 million yuan to create, is not very well received by the industry.

It is even considered that there is basically no hope of making a profit.

After all, the previous film, "The Crossing", which had such a huge investment, lost all its money even though it had a stronger cast, a more powerful production company, and a famous director like Wu Yusen.

The earlier "Red Cliff" also recovered its costs by dividing it into two parts.

This movie, which had such a huge investment, was so confident that it was not divided into two parts.

It would be strange if you can make a profit.

Even Yang Mi, the film's heroine and investor, was very unsure and called Han Jiadong on the eve of the film's release.

“Are you sure this movie will be a big hit?”

It was under Han Jiadong's persuasion that she took on the film and participated in part of the investment.

The male lead of the movie is Li Yifeng, who is still relatively unknown.

It is said that the film crew conducted very thorough market research before contacting Li Yifeng.

The survey results show that although Li Yifeng is still a third-tier star and does not have many opportunities to play the leading role, even if it is just some small supporting roles, Li Yifeng's data are very outstanding.

For example, in the talent show "Come on! Good Man" where Li Yifeng made his debut, even though he did not show any extraordinary talent in the show, he kept persuading fans not to vote for him, as if he wanted to be eliminated early. However, as long as the fans voted, other contestants could not vote for him.

And every time he appears, the show's ratings will see a significant increase.

Although he didn't have many roles as Yang Yuanhao in "The World of Cultivation", the few opportunities he made to appear on screen still attracted a large number of fans.

Recently, a new group called up masters has emerged on Bilibili, whose main job is to edit and produce short videos and earn compensation based on the number of video views.

And "The World of Cultivation" has supported a large number of up-masters.

The most popular topics are the beautiful girl groups, handsome boy groups and mixed groups in the clips.

Liu Yifei, Yang Mi, Liu Sisi, Tang Yan, Tong Liya, Gulinaza, Dilireba, Zhao Liying, Fan Bingbing, Zeng Li, Zhang Tianai...

Hu Ge, Zhu Yilong, Chen Xiao, Huang Xiaoming, Lin Gengxin, Yang Yang, Chen Kun, Li Yifeng...

There are many up-loaders who attract hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans by editing such videos.

Li Yifeng only plays a minor role, but the number of video views of him is no less than that of videos starring popular stars such as Hu Ge and Huang Xiaoming.

The only movie he starred in, "So Young", demonstrated the cohesion and purchasing power of his fans, and ultimately helped the movie win more than 900 million yuan at the box office.

It is precisely with the support of these data that the film producers dared to boldly use a third-tier star like him to star in this fantasy blockbuster costing 3.5 million yuan.

When Han Jiadong received the call, he was already on the crew of "The Universe in a Moment".

The final list of the Hall of Fame will not be announced until the end of the year, so at the urging of Liu Yifei and considering the timing of the Oscars, he started filming "A Moment in the Universe" in advance.

In response to Yang Mi’s worry, I just told her to just wait for the result.

Although Yang Mi only accounted for 20% of the film's investment share, it was still a full million!
How can I not worry?

But Han Jiadong didn't want to say more, so she could only hang up the phone angrily.

Then on the day of the release, there was the press conference.

"Excuse me, male lead Li Yifeng, what do you think of working with Yang Mi for the first time?"

"Well... first of all, let me clarify that I have worked with Teacher Yang Mi before, in Director Han's "Cultivation World", but I was just a small role. This is the first time I co-star with Teacher Yang Mi. I grew up watching Teacher Yang Mi's works and I am considered her fan. I am naturally very happy to have the opportunity to work with my idol."

Li Yifeng made a joke.

Yang Mi rolled her eyes at him: "Come on, I'm only less than a year older than you."

“But you debuted as a child star!”

……

In the relaxed interview atmosphere, at the end, the reporter finally asked about the box office.

"Let's talk about your expectations for the movie. Director Xu, please go first?"

Chinese-American director Xu Chengyi, who is directing a domestic film for the first time, is also under great pressure: "I'll be thankful if we can get 50 million on the first day."

Others also gave only a conservative figure.

It was Yang Mi's turn. Thinking of what Han Jiadong said, she gritted her teeth and gave a number: "Two billion!"

Instantly, the whole place was in an uproar.

The rest of the crew, including them, all had their eyes wide open in disbelief.

The report titled "Target 2 Billion" quickly became a hot search. That night.

The first day box office results are out: 1.8 million!
It set a first-day box office record for non-imported blockbusters and films not directed by Han Jiadong!

Even though the film had two fewer screening spots than "The Pancake Man", it still grossed 50 million more at the box office!

It tripled the box office of "One Step Away" and won the box office championship of the day with absolute advantage!
As soon as the result came out, Yang Mi excitedly called Han Jiadong.

He kept chattering for a long time before reluctantly hanging up the phone.

In the following days, "Monster Hunt" maintained extremely high daily box office revenue, while its competitors "The Pancake Man" and "One Step Away" were falling by an extremely exaggerated number every day.

In less than a month, "Monster Hunt" broke the 2 billion mark.

It became the first domestic film directed by someone other than Han Jiadong to break the 2 billion mark.

However, after 2 billion, the movie was obviously losing momentum, and after a key extension, the box office finally settled at more than 2.1 billion, nearly 300 million less than the original time and space, but it also exceeded the box office of "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Legend" by several million.

Ranked third among domestic films!
"The Pancake Man" also had a box office of more than 300 million less than the original time and space. Although it earned more than 100 million on the first day of its release, the final box office was only more than 800 million.

But with a cost of less than 30 million and a Douban score of around 3, it was able to gross over 800 million, which can already be considered a box office miracle.

In comparison, Jiang Wen's new film also had a cost of 300 million yuan. Under the pressure of these two films released during the same period, it only earned more than 400 million yuan at the box office, which was even worse than the original time and space, with a loss of nearly 200 million yuan!
Han Jiadong was quite surprised to see that these films did not perform as well as their original time and space despite having a better market.

He also thought that "Monster Hunt" had grossed over 2.4 billion in the original time and space, so now it would definitely exceed 2.5 billion, or even 3 billion.

I didn’t expect that it would just break 2 billion in the end.

But on second thought, the pockets of movie fans have just been emptied twice by his two 2 billion-level movies, so it is not surprising that the box office of subsequent movies will be affected.

If "Monster Hunt" hadn't focused on the young people's market, it might have been difficult to even break 2 billion.

And the movies released after them are not weak either.

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" has a box office of nearly 1 billion yuan.

"The White-Haired Witch of the Moon Kingdom" 300 million.

"Dear" has more than 300 million.

"Yanjing Love Story" made more than 500 million yuan.

"Soulmate" grossed over 300 million.

"Mr. Six" made just over 10 billion.

……

Together with the previous "Lost in Chongqing" which grossed over 2.6 billion, "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Legend" grossed over 2.1 billion.

Three 2 billion-level movies, one 1 billion-level movie, and two movies with a box office of more than 800 million.

The box office market has ushered in a comprehensive explosion.

During the entire two-month summer vacation, the total box office revenue exceeded 15 billion!
More than twice as much as last year!
It directly set a new summer vacation box office record.

After spending more than a month filming "A Moment in the Universe", Han Jiadong stayed in North America to spend time with his wife and children.

My mother and mother-in-law have come to North America to see Tong Yi and the children.

The children are too young to take a plane now, so if they want to see it, they have to come to North America from China.

In order to spend more time with his wife and children, Han Jiadong directly handed over the filming of Game of Thrones to several assistant directors of previous seasons, and he was just listed as a figurehead.

In addition, the content of the last two seasons has also been greatly modified based on the original version.

The scripts for the last two seasons of Game of Thrones in the original time and space were not written by the original author, but were created by the screenwriter.

During this period, the script was leaked, which led to further revisions.

The final result obviously failed to satisfy Game of Thrones fans.

Tyrion, who is known as the smartest character in the whole show, served as the prime minister of Dragon Mother, but he did not offer any useful suggestions in the last two seasons. Instead, he made many stupid moves, causing heavy losses to Dragon Mother.

The big boss Night King, who had been laid out for so long, was defeated by Arya in an extremely sloppy way.

In the end, the heroine Dragon Mother was stabbed to death by the hero without any warning, because she might become a tyrant???
Not to mention the two people who are so in love as described in the drama, even if they were ordinary subjects, if they found that their king had a tendency to become a tyrant, or had even become a tyrant, the first step should be to persuade him, right?
If persuasion fails, then we should consider other strategies, right?
As a result, our male protagonist, not being sure that the Mother of Dragons would become a tyrant, just attacked with a knife without saying a word?

Are you two lovers or enemies?

There are also too many flaws in the way Dragon Queen finally captured King's Landing.

We failed to capture the dragon when there were two of them, and even lost one dragon.

When there was only one dragon left, he used it alone to capture King's Landing. His own army became a complete decoration. Not only did it not play any role, but many people were accidentally burned to death by the dragon.

In this case, what's the point of developing any power?

Why not just take the three dragons and develop slowly? When the dragons grow up, wouldn't it be easy to capture King's Landing and get revenge?
They won't be targeted in advance, allowing King's Landing to be prepared, and there will be no need to fight against the White Walkers, lose a dragon in advance, and in the end they won't be stabbed by their own people.

According to this setting, all the hard work that Dragon Queen put in to develop her power in the early stages was not only in vain, but also had a counterproductive effect?
While Han Jiadong was accompanying Tong Yi, Fang Xiang also completed the manuscript for the rest of "The World of Cultivation".

Then, as usual, it was sent to Han Jiadong for review before publication.

Han Jiadong was very excited when he saw the peerless warriors from all the major forces step onto the historical stage and start to capture cities and territories everywhere. But then suddenly, Lin Qian came and easily killed Gu Liangdao, who was known as the Western Mysterious Tiger, in the siege of the top combat units. He also crippled a top combat unit by himself and finally left calmly???
Ask Han Jiadong to return the manuscript directly and ask Fang Xiang to rewrite it.

The War Department in "The World of Cultivation" is ten times better than the Unsullied Legion in Game of Thrones.

According to the setting, individual strength is simply not enough to compete with the combat department.

Only with this kind of setting can the balance of power not be easily broken because of one person's outstanding strength.

Among all the peerless warriors, Gu Liangdao can be firmly ranked in the top ten.

His combat unit is also ranked among the top ten in the world.

In this situation, he was killed single-handedly. How is that different from the original Game of Thrones where the Dragon Queen took over King's Landing riding a dragon?
Aren’t all those generals and troops laid out in the early stages just mere decoration?
Why does the protagonist spend so much effort to develop his power and use the huge wealth earned from his power to arm the war department?

When I become stronger, can't I just go and kill Kunlun by myself?
After a lot of talking, Fang Xiang obediently followed Han Jiadong's instructions to make the changes.

The result remained the same, Gu Liangdao died in battle.

But the process was changed to Lin Qian volunteering to serve as the spearhead of Kunlun's second war unit. Under the command of Mu Xuan, a peerless warrior who was also ranked in the top ten, he defeated Gu Liangdao's war unit head-on and killed Gu Liangdao.

After finishing the script, Han Jiadong did not return to China immediately to start filming "Cultivation World", but stayed until December, when both children were at least eight months old and the eve of the announcement of the Hall of Fame members, before returning to China with his wife and children. (End of this chapter)