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Chapter 497 Dead Knock (Please subscribe for the first update!)
""The Martian" breaks another billion, and Tang An continues the box office myth!"

""The Martian" broke the billion mark in 16 days, breaking the record for the fastest time!"

"The single-day box office champion for 16 consecutive days, "The Martian" swept the Lunar New Year file!"

"As the end of the year draws near, on December 2011, 12, after half a month of screenings, the sci-fi blockbuster "The Martian" directed by Tang An surpassed one billion at the box office. It was unrivaled in the entire Lunar New Year file and became the 24 Chinese film box office champion. , and second only to "Transformers 2011", it ranks No.3 in the mainland film market!"

"One billion is not the end, "The Martian" aims at the box office record set by "Avatar"!"

"The high-profile Lunar New Year file is more than halfway through. I was expecting Zhang Yimou and Tang An to have a great battle between sparks hitting the earth. As a result, "The Martian" led the Lunar New Year file almost invincibly. 10 billion at the box office, on the other hand, the combination of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate" is not as high as "The Martian"!"

Last year, five blockbuster films were released at the same time, creating the worst Lunar New Year file.

Although there are only three blockbuster films this year, the interval between the three blockbuster films is only seven days, unlike last year's rotation, the degree of tragedy is not worse than last year.

By December 12th, there are still no other movies for the Lunar New Year file.

The movies that can be named are "Tears of the Fallen City" starring Ren Xianqi and Zhou Dongyu, and "Intimate Enemies" starring Xu Jinglei.

However, the combined schedule of the two new films is only 7%, and the remaining 1% is reserved for other films, and most of them are daytime shows.

The three blockbuster films still accounted for 92% of the film schedule, and completely occupied the evening prime time shows.

"The Martian" is in its third week of release, and there are still 37% of the films scheduled.

"Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" 29%, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" 26%.

"The Martian" won 5 million in the 2.14 working days of the third week, firmly occupying the daily and weekly box office champion.

"Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" earned a total of 5 million in 1.6 days in the second week, and a total box office of 9 million in 3.64 days of release.

However, "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" is still hot on the heels, with a total of 1.46 million in five days and a total box office of 3.32 million.

Due to the lack of film schedules, the three films still have considerable box office potential to be tapped, and they also maintain a fairly high attendance rate on weekdays.

However, "The Martian" was released a day early after all, and the day of box office explosion has almost passed, and 36% of the film schedule is enough.

However, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate" are different. The two films have just been released. Judging from the feedback data from the theaters, about 30% of the films are far from enough.

In the office of the chairman of Berna Film Group, Yu Dongzheng held a small meeting with COO Chen Yongxiong, distribution director Zhang Ziming and others.

Halfway through the meeting, the phone on the desk rang.

Yu Dong motioned for himself to answer the phone first.

"Hey."

"Okay, I see, just wait."

Without saying a few words, Yu Dong hung up the phone with a smile on his face.

Zhang Ziming asked curiously, "Yu Dong, is there anything good for you?"

"Ninghang Cinema Management Company called. A copy of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" has been sent." Yu Dong laughed.

Zhang Weiping "banned" nearly a hundred movie theaters owned by Bernard, and did not give a single copy. As a result, the film schedule of "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was two or three points higher than that of "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" in more than a week.

Chen Yongxiong smiled and said, "Zhang Weiping is in a hurry, there should be a call from other places soon."

Zhang Ziming continued, "Can you not be in a hurry, everyone is short of filming now."

Within 2 minutes, Berner's three movie theater management companies in the three major cities of Xiyong, Chongqing, and Guangzhou all called, and New Picture would provide copies of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" to their movie theaters.

Bernard's theater chain has been dismantled, and all its movies have been joined by other theater chains. These four movie theater management companies are responsible for the management of nearly a hundred movie theaters under them.

The top 20 theater chains basically have at least one Burner movie theater.

Joining other theaters separately has deepened the relationship between Berner and the theaters, but it has not been less eye-catching for the new screen in terms of film arrangement.

Zhang Weiping was going to give copies now, but Yu Dong didn't want them. He notified the five major movie theater management companies one by one that they would not accept their copies.

If you want to give it, you will be who I am, Yu Dong!

Yu Dong can be regarded as relieved now. Back then, Zhang Weiping got angry with Berner because of Dong Ping, so he cheated him when "Scared City" was released.

Dong Ping, who didn't know how to do it at the time, won the global distribution rights of "Speak Well", and the mainland was lucky to get 4000 million box office. As a result, Huayi had no overseas channels at all.

The copyrights of three small countries were sold within four or five months after its release in China, and the copyrights of four or five countries were sold one after another in the next few years, making it impossible for this film nominated for the Golden Lion to be released overseas.

More importantly, Dong Ping only gave Zhang Weiping 4000 million of the 800 million box office, and it took a long time to recover the remaining 400 million.

The domestic box office was in arrears and could not be distributed overseas. Zhang Weiping was cheated by Dong Ping, a layman.

Later, Huayi and Poly cooperated to form Poly Huayi, and Bona merged with Poly Huayi’s Dongfang Shenlong to form Poly Bona, which became a member of Poly Huayi, and Zhang Weiping naturally regarded it as Dong Ping’s person.

However, Dong Ping was not much better. With the release of "Speak Well", Huayi formed a three-legged situation with New Picture and Huayi at the beginning of the century, the first generation of the Big Three.

In the end, he bought out Brother Chen Kai's "Assassins of the Qin Dynasty" at a huge price, and lost everything.

Later, the Big Three became Huayi, Guangxian, and Bernard, and now with the addition of Han and Tang, they became the Big Four.

Having won over Wu Yusen and Ning Hao, Xiaoma, who is preparing to go public, has a tendency to become the fifth largest giant.

Yu Dong refused to show "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" in the movie theater owned by Berna, and Zhang Weiping's ears were immediately heard.

"boom!"

I don't know how many times the poor phone has suffered. Every time Zhang Weiping answers a phone call, he will severely abuse the phone brother.

In front of him, Qin Lixin, vice president of New Screen, was full of worry.

"Zhang Dong, did Yu Dong really reject all of them?"

"Okay, Yu Dong, he is deliberately trying to beat me to death!" Zhang Weiping said bitterly.

Qin Lixin worried, "Although Yu Dong will lose a lot if we don't show our movie, we will also lose a part of the box office. This is killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred ourselves."

Why didn't Zhang Weiping know that he originally wanted to force Yu Dong to add hype, but he didn't expect that "The Martian" could maintain such a high box office in the third week, so Yu Dong was confident now.

However, Zhang Weiping is not without opportunities. Tomorrow "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" will be screened in North America, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Russia. As long as the overseas box office succeeds, it will definitely stimulate the domestic box office! ! !

(End of this chapter)