Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 228 Zhang Yimou, the Cursing Mother

Before leaving Japan, Li Boda specifically contacted the copyright holder of the movie "Ju-on" and bought the copyright for 50 million yen, which is about 300,000 US dollars.

Yes, it's clear that the copyright fee for the movie "Ju-on" was much cheaper than that for movies like "Resident Evil" and "Alien".

In fact, if we have the time and energy, we can continue to negotiate the price down. We may not be able to reduce the price by a lot, but we should be able to reduce it by a little.

However, Li Boda did not have the time and energy to lower the price.

The main issue is that while the movie "Infinite Terror" has already been released, not many people on our social media platform know that the sequel to "Infinite Terror" is "Ju-on".

If the news gets out and the copyright holders of the movie "Ju-on" find out, they will definitely raise the price of the "Ju-on" copyright.

In fact, the day after Li Boda bought the rights to "Ju-on" for 50 million yen, the company holding the rights to the film "Ju-on" found out and began to regret it. If they had known, they would never have sold the rights to "Ju-on" no matter what the price was. They wanted to get involved in Li Boda's film "Infinite Terror 2".

The main reason is the movie "Infinite Terror," which was really successful. It seems to have been a huge success worldwide.

Putting everything else aside, just looking at the Japanese market, some experts predict that the final box office of the movie "Infinite Terror" may reach 5 billion yen, or even higher.

This alone is enough to make people envious.

Not to mention the movie "Infinite Terror," which was released in China, the United States, Europe, and other regions, and performed quite well.

Given the success of the first "Infinite Terror" film, the second one is likely to perform even better. It's safe to predict that "Infinite Terror 2" will be an exceptionally successful project.

If they hadn't sold the rights to "Ju-on" to Li Boda, and instead used those rights to invest in the sequel to "Infinite Terror," they would have made a fortune. Instead, they sold the rights for a mere 50 million yen, which is only about 300,000 US dollars, without getting any benefit at all.

In fact, it wasn't just Li Boda; after "Infinite Terror" had been released for a while and achieved good box office results, Sister Wang had already gone to Hollywood to buy the film and television rights involved in the "Infinite Terror" movie series.

Unfortunately, this time Sister Wang's actions came a little too late.

After the Chinese film "Infinite Terror" was released in the United States, some people took notice of it and even obtained a translated version of the novel "Infinite Terror," confirming the film and television rights to the novel. They held onto the film and television rights to the movie and had no intention of selling them.

Then, they revealed their intention to invest in the sequel to "Infinite Terror".

Clearly, they also see potential in the [Infinite Terror] IP project and want to get involved. And rightly so, since nobody's a fool.

The companies that previously sold the rights to the movies "Resident Evil" and "Alien" have already regretted it.

And the movies that follow "Infinite Terror" will likely all become Sino-foreign co-productions.

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After Li Boda, Zhao Liying, and Huang Xiaoming traveled to many countries and returned to China, "Infinite Terror" had already been showing in China for over twenty days, almost a month.

The box office of "Infinite Terror" has already reached an astonishing level of eight small goals.

No domestic film has yet surpassed the box office success of "Infinite Terror." And that's while "Infinite Terror" is still in theaters.

When the movie "Infinite Terror" finishes its run, its box office will likely be even higher.

Some people even fantasized that the box office of the movie "Infinite Terror" in China could surpass that of "Avatar".

It's worth noting that when Cameron's "Titanic" was released in China, it grossed 360 million yuan, holding the domestic box office record for eleven years until it was broken by "Transformers 2" in 2009.
Just a few years after that box office record was broken, Cameron brought in Avatar, which topped the charts again with $1.339 billion.

Although "Infinite Terror" only grossed 8 small dollars, many people are already clamoring to see it and hope it breaks the box office record of "Avatar".

The reason why they are making such a fuss about "Infinite Terror" achieving eight small goals in just over twenty days of its release is because the movie "Infinite Terror" has already received a key extension even before it has finished its run, and for a whole month at that.

In other words, the movie "Infinite Terror" can be shown for a full sixty days.

In about twenty days, [Infinite Terror] has achieved eight small goals. So, in the remaining thirty days or so, the possibility of achieving five more small goals should be quite high.

So, after Li Boda and the others returned from their trip outside, Master Han urged them to continue their promotional tour and try to increase the box office of "Infinite Terror" as much as possible.

This time, Master Han and his men really wanted to treat Li Boda and his crew like donkeys. Mainly, for Master Han, it was truly unappealing that the record for the highest-grossing domestic film was held by a foreign film for so long.

If "Infinite Terror" can break the box office record of "Avatar", it will be a source of pride for Han Sanye, and it could even be considered a political achievement for him.

As a result, for a period of time afterward, various news, gossip, and other information about "Infinite Terror" began to appear frequently, almost like brainwashing, entering the minds of more and more people. Then, some people, as if hypnotized, went to the cinema to watch the movie "Infinite Terror".

The popularity of "Infinite Terror" has been so high, and it has grossed so much at the box office. "Infinite Terror" has benefited, so naturally, other films have suffered losses.

【The Flowers of War】

To avoid competing with "Infinite Terror," the release date of Zhang Yimou's movie was even deliberately postponed from December 18th to December 25th.

Even so, "The Flowers of War" was still affected to some extent.

Despite the impact of "Infinite Terror," "The Flowers of War" only grossed 15 million yuan on its opening day.

Of course, 15 million seems like a lot less than other movies in terms of box office revenue.

But in reality, this number isn't actually that low.

For other movies, the opening day box office is calculated from midnight, and the box office for the entire 24 hours ends at midnight the following day.

As for Zhang Yimou, he doesn't know when it started, but he stopped choosing to hold his movie premieres late at night and instead held them during the day.

Therefore, the 15 million yuan box office of "The Flowers of War" on its opening day was achieved in about ten hours.

This is probably the source of a great director's confidence.

Meanwhile, "The Flowers of War" grossed 120 million yuan in its first four days of release.

While this result is significantly worse than that of "Infinite Terror," it's still a respectable achievement compared to other films.

However, Zhang Yi frowned upon this result, because according to data analysis, he discovered that the box office performance of the film "The Flowers of War" was indeed affected by "Infinite Terror".

Without the impact of "Infinite Terror," "The Flowers of War" would have grossed at least 140 million yuan in four days. In other words, due to the influence of "Infinite Terror," "The Flowers of War" directly lost 20 million yuan in box office revenue, and this is only after four days of release. If this continues, the impact on "The Flowers of War"'s box office will likely be even greater.

Zhang Yimou was already quite upset about falling out with Zhang Weiping.

After learning that the box office performance of "The Flowers of War" would be significantly affected by "Infinite Terror," Zhang Yimou's mood worsened.

However, before Zhang Yimou could even calm down, he was exposed by Zhang Weiping.

On one hand, it was to retaliate against Zhang Yimou and make things difficult for him. On the other hand, it was also to attract public attention in the hope that people would go to the cinema to see "The Flowers of War" directed by Zhang Yimou.

After all, it doesn't matter whether Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou have fallen out.

At least the investment for the film "The Flowers of War" was secured by Zhang Weiping, and most of the film's profits also went to him.

After learning that the box office performance of "The Flowers of War" was squeezed by "Infinite Terror", Zhang Weiping directly sacrificed Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Weiping's actions have indeed brought Zhang Yimou into the limelight. Previously, various media outlets were reporting on "Infinite Terror," but now some media outlets have started reporting on Zhang Yimou's affairs.

Then, the box office of the movie "The Flowers of War" actually saw a small increase.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Weiping began to publicize Zhang Yimou's affairs like crazy.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yi was cursing Zhang Weiping's mother.

After all, Zhang Weiping had promised to help him with his child's registration, but instead he just lied to him. And to make matters worse, Zhang Weiping has now exposed the matter, and Zhang Yi has even received a court summons.

In this situation, it would be strange if Zhang Yi didn't curse.

(End of this chapter)