Chinese Entertainment: Starting from 1996

Chapter 574 Disaster Film Trend

This Saturday, "Aftershock" grossed 10.15 million yuan in China, and the total box office of the film officially exceeded billion, reaching billion.

"Aftershock" also officially became the fourth domestic film to break the 1 billion box office.

Although everyone had expected this, it was still amazing to actually achieve this result.

The two movies that grossed over 1 billion yuan at the domestic box office were both produced by Liu Zhou.

Even if these two movies drop, his movie "The Martian" will still be the third highest-grossing Chinese-language film, with 7.2 million yuan.

The top three in the box office rankings are firmly occupied by Liu Zhou, and are far ahead of other movies.

Liu Zhou’s title as the king of domestic commercial films is well-deserved.

At this point, the online dispute over film critics had come to an end, with Liu and Zhou's side winning a landslide victory.

The outer shells of those film critics have been stripped off. Audiences no longer believe their reviews, and people in the industry no longer take them seriously.

Even the authorities seem to support it vaguely.

Maybe there is no need for Liu Zhou and others to push it forward. Maybe some associations will slowly eliminate those people in the next two years.

By then, those people’s influence in the film industry will completely disappear.

This time, Liu Zhou has eliminated these troubles several years in advance. In the original time and space, they had to wait until the arrival of the traffic era. The rules of the entertainment industry have changed and these talents have gradually been eliminated.

Of course, there is also the movie "Dreaming of Show Business" which has the lowest score on Douban. The director of this movie is a well-known film critic.

After the film was released, it was criticized terribly, and it also accelerated the exit of the film critic group from the stage.

Now that the dust has settled, the media will focus their coverage on summer movie season.

The fact that the box office of "Aftershock" exceeded 1 billion is undoubtedly big news.

"The box office of Aftershock has exceeded 1 billion again, Liu Zhou continues his box office legend!"

"Aftershock" broke the 16 billion mark in days, setting a record for the fastest billion mark!"

"It has been the top single-day box office movie for 16 consecutive days. Aftershock has swept the summer season!"

"One billion is not the end, Aftershock aims at Transformers 10!"

"This year's summer season belongs to Transformers 3 and Aftershock. Both movies have broken the billion yuan box office mark. This is a head-on confrontation between domestic blockbusters and Hollywood blockbusters.

The box office of Aftershock may surpass Transformers 3 in the next week, and Liu Zhou will once again defend the glory of domestic films. "

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With extensive media coverage, the box office of "Aftershock" recovered on the second day, Sunday, and grossed 78 million.

The movie grossed 10.93 billion yuan in the first three weeks and seventeen days of its release.

This week, "Transformers 3" only took in over 11.3 million at the box office, with a total box office of billion.

The box office gap between the two films is less than 3 million, and "Transformers " has only been released for a week.

According to the current trend, in three days at most, the box office of "Aftershock" will surpass that of "Transformers 3".

Of course, this is only a comparison of the mainland box office. Compared with the global box office, "Aftershock" is far behind "Transformers 3".

The global box office of "Transformers 3" has now exceeded one billion US dollars, while "Aftershock" is only around million US dollars. Even if it can still reap box office revenue overseas, it will not increase much, and will not exceed million US dollars at most.

However, "Aftershock" was able to have a global box office of about 2.5 million US dollars, which is a very good result, second only to "Interstellar".

Although the film has not yet been completely completed, the box office of "Aftershock" has already reached Liu Zhou's expectations.

However, Liu Zhou wanted to make this movie not just for the box office, but more because he wanted to commemorate the disaster, show the Chinese people's tenacity and faith in the face of disaster, and hope to arouse everyone's attention to earthquakes.

If it was for box office success, he wouldn't have made the movie so tragic, and he wouldn't have reminded parents not to let their children watch it.

So when "Aftershock" was released, many pictures about earthquake escape were produced and posted on Weibo and various forums to educate everyone.

Although there was a devastating earthquake three years ago, Liu Zhou in his previous life was still very clear about it. Everyone took it very seriously at first, but later they gradually became indifferent.

Because that's what he thought, he always felt that the earthquake had nothing to do with him.

But disasters like this are unpredictable and come suddenly, leaving only a dozen seconds to survive.

Therefore, Liu Zhou feels that no amount of popular science education about earthquake escape is too much.

In daily life, we are exposed to a lot of things, so some escape skills will naturally be imprinted in our minds, which can save lives at critical moments.

Liu Zhou's goal was undoubtedly achieved. After watching "Aftershock", many viewers were deeply shocked, and many of them took the initiative to search for relevant knowledge about earthquakes on the Internet.

Therefore, Jiahe’s science popularization has met everyone’s needs very well, and it can be said that it has once again played a role in popularizing earthquake knowledge among the entire population.

Of course, with the huge success of the movie "Aftershock", several of the leading actors also became famous.

Although the movie has three protagonists, Ms. Zhou undoubtedly has the most scenes, so she is also recognized as the number one.

She was already very popular before, and was in the first tier among the four Dan and two Bing actresses. Only Zhang Ziyi and Fan Xiaopang could be compared with her.

However, as Zhang Ziyi's reputation plummeted due to three consecutive incidents in the past two years, only Fan Xiaopang could be compared with her.

But last year during the Lunar New Year holiday, "Interstellar" starring Fan Xiaopang set a new box office record in domestic film history, and it was taken back from Hollywood movies.

Moreover, the movie was also very popular overseas. Coupled with the "The Legend of Zhen Huan" which was broadcast at the same time, it made her extremely famous and she had already widened the gap between herself and Zhou Gongzi.

Fan Xiaopang is also called the number one female star in China by the media, and has now begun to enter Hollywood.

Of course, Master Zhou was very dissatisfied with this.

Now that "Aftershock" has become a big hit, Mr. Zhou has also entered his harvest period.

Although this movie may not be as good as "Interstellar" at the box office, its influence in China will not be worse than "Interstellar".

So her current popularity is no less than Fan Xiaopang's at the beginning of this year.

The two of them are back on the same starting line.

But generally speaking, Fan Xiaopang is more popular.

Although Mr. Zhou has a TV series "The Disguiser", Fan Xiaopang's "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is really deeply rooted in people's hearts. The charm and popularity of Zhen Huan's character are much greater than Cui Ping's.

But no matter what, Miss Zhou is now one of the most popular actresses in the country.

Apart from Mr. Zhou, the one who gained the most was Liu Yifei.

She was also very popular before, especially after starring in Those Years, her influence increased greatly. Before Aftershock, the only person who could slightly surpass her was Fan Xiaopang, and even Zhou Gongzi could not necessarily say that his influence was greater than hers.

In this movie, Liu Yifei changed her previous pure and fairy-like character image and became a female worker.

She also gave her best performance since her debut in the movie. Not only did her performance as a worker not make people feel out of place, but her performance after the earthquake also received recognition from the outside world.

Especially the scene in the movie where Dou Xiao died in front of her and then she hugged him and cried, conquered all the audience.

Her acting skills have always been criticized in the past, but in this movie, she has finally been able to hold her head high.

Not only did her fans happily show off everywhere on the Internet, but even some passers-by fell in love with her because of her role.

After that is another leading actor, Zhang Yi, who is no longer an unknown figure.

The movie "Live" made him a popular actor in China.

However, his influence is more in the field of TV dramas. Apart from appearing in "The Martian", he has not acted in any other movies.

This time, Zhang Yi's performance in "Aftershock" was also highly recognized, and it also made him leap from a TV star to a movie star.

Before the movie was released, Golden Harvest Entertainment had already received many movie scripts inviting him to star in them, and all of them were as the leading male role.

However, Zhang Yi is quite cautious in choosing scripts. These scripts are obviously designed to leverage his fame. Although the pay is very generous, he rejected them all.

With his current fame, Golden Harvest Entertainment has already helped him make a lot of money. What he wants now is to play more good roles and bring more good works.

He and Zhu Yawen joined Golden Harvest at the same time, and now both of them have developed very well.

However, at that time, Zhu Yawen became famous first with "Crossing the Guandong", "Going West" and "Snow Leopard".

It wasn't until Zhang Yi starred in "The Disguiser" that I caught up with him.

Zhu Yawen then brought another film "Love Is Not Blind" and was the first to enter the film industry.

Now, through "Aftershock", Zhang Yi also entered the film industry and surpassed others.

The benefits he enjoyed from "Aftershock" were much greater than those Zhu Yawen enjoyed from "Love Is Not Blind".

After all, the influence of the two movies is incomparable, and the focus of "Love Is Not Blind" is still on the heroine.

The three leading actors were the hottest stars at that time. Various film and advertising contracts came to them like snowflakes, and they caused a certain sensation wherever they went.

In addition to these three leading actors, Dou Xiao also received considerable attention.

Although he doesn't have many roles, his partner in the play is Liu Yifei.

Previously in "Those Years", they played lovers who missed each other regretfully, and now they play newlyweds directly.

This time the two of them teamed up for the second time, and many media called them the best screen couple, which made some of Liu Yifei's fans so angry that they jumped up and down, and then they directly attacked Dou Xiao.

After "Those Years", Dou Xiao was no longer an unknown figure and also gained a large number of fans.

Faced with the attack from Liu Yifei's fans, they refused to give in and a fan war broke out.

However, the number of fans of both sides is not on the same level after all, and in the end, Dou Xiao's fans gradually lost ground.

Later, Liu Yifei and Dou Xiao personally stepped in to stop the conflict between fans of both sides.

Fortunately, the two of them are from the same company, otherwise this conflict would not be so easy to end.

This fan war also occupied a considerable amount of space during the summer vacation when all kinds of hot news were flying around, and even topped the hot searches on Weibo.

Finally, another girl who became famous because of the movie is Zhang Zifeng. This cute little girl infected many people with her stubborn eyes in the movie.

Especially when she followed Mr. Zhou back to Tangshan, learned that her home was destroyed by the earthquake and her family members were buried underground, the scene with tears in her eyes as she moved stones with Mr. Zhou made countless viewers cry.

However, she is still young and her studies should be the priority. However, her family has decided to let her take the entrance exams for Beijing Film Academy or the Central Academy of Drama in the future.

The movie "Aftershock" greatly increased the influence of artists under Golden Harvest Entertainment, and also made Golden Harvest Entertainment more attractive.

Zeng Jia just so happens that he is preparing to sign a few more new players, so he can now make a careful selection.

The impact of this movie is multifaceted, not just on the actors. In fact, there was also a wave of disaster films in the industry because of this movie.

The film industry likes to follow trends. This is true abroad and even more so in China.

After "A Better Tomorrow" became a hit, more than a dozen gun battle films were released in a short period of time, and that was within half a year.

It would be fine if you shoot it well, but many companies follow the trend and make very poor quality movies just to make money.

In the past, many good themes in Hong Kong were ruined by shoddy copycat movies.

The mainland is no less impressive. After the success of Li An's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it sparked a craze for costume blockbusters in the country.

Even Feng Kuzi, a director who makes low-budget comedies, followed suit and made a movie called "The Banquet."

When Liu Zhou's "The Martian" was released, there was also a wave of science fiction blockbusters.

However, the threshold for science fiction movies is relatively high. There are no science fiction movies released by other film and television companies yet, but it should be soon.

Now that "Aftershock" is so popular, it is not surprising that it has brought about a trend of disaster films.

Some of the faster actions have already been announced to the public.

For example, Huayi has announced that it will make a movie called "Going Home" based on the recent snow disaster in the south, which will be directed by Gao Qunshu.

Then Feng Xiaoning also announced that a movie would be made based on the true events of Super Typhoon Saomai making landfall in Wenzhou.

In addition, I heard that disasters such as mining accidents and fires are also made into movies.

Some people even want to make a movie about the great flood in 1998.

After the craze for period costume blockbusters has gradually faded, a craze for disaster films is emerging in the film industry.

However, Liu Zhou doesn't care about these things. As long as they shoot well, the subject matter is actually good. He is just afraid that they just want to make money by taking advantage of the popularity and ignore the quality of the film.

In this case, I believe the disaster film craze will soon pass.

In fact, Liu Zhou feels that as long as the film is not like a doomsday disaster movie like Hollywood, it is still quite warning if the real disaster events on Earth are adapted into a movie.

But Liu Zhou couldn't care less.

Now that the final outcome of "Aftershock" is settled, he doesn't need to worry about it anymore. He also needs to go to North America to complete the post-production of "Joker".

(End of this chapter)