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"The box office of "Lost in Hong Kong" broke 12 billion, surpassing "Detective Chinatown", "Zodiac", "Journey to the West" and "Edge of Tomorrow" ranked No.3 in the box office of Chinese film history, second only to "The Martian" and "The Martian" Longling Misty Cave"!"

"The box office of "Lost in Hong Kong" and "Journey to the West" both broke one billion, setting new box office records for the Spring Festival one after another. The two comedy masters presented a wonderful comedy feast for the audience!"

"Summary of Spring 2013: From New Year's Eve (February 2) to Lunar New Year's Sixth (February 9), during the seven-day holiday, the mainland film market is like a money printing machine, sweeping 2 billion box office, surpassing last year's Spring Festival The file more than doubled, and set a new record for the box office of the mainland film market in a single week!

The magic of the Spring Festival file is mainly due to the miraculous performance of two domestic films, namely "Journey to Hong Kong" and "Journey to the West".In addition, low-cost films such as "Together" and "Better and Better Spring Festival Gala" also have good box office.

The domestic box office of the Hollywood fantasy blockbuster "The Hobbit" also set a new record for Peter Jackson.

But the real biggest winner can only be the new film directed by Xu Zheng, which "changed" 7 million box office in 7 days, making "Chinese Zodiac", "Journey to the West" and "Titanic" 3D all Chinese and foreign blockbusters. Be willing to bow down. "

The 2013 Spring Festival file is destined to be included in the history of Chinese movies. Its box office reached 14 billion in seven days, breaking [-] million in a single day for several consecutive days, creating the highest single-day and weekly market in film and television. High at all times.

Even "The Martian", "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling", "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate" in the Lunar New Year file of the previous year, and "Longling Miku" and "Zodiac" in the Lunar New Year file this year are far from breaking out within a week. So much energy.

The movie channel specially released a special feature for this year's Spring Festival, covering the entire Spring Festival in detail from beginning to end.

From the way of publicizing and releasing the two blockbuster films in the early stage, the status of popular screenings across the country when they were released, the impact on movie fans, and the impact on the film industry, we interpret this year's Spring Festival file in an all-round way.

Make history and usher in a turning point!

The movie channel uses these eight words to summarize this year's Spring Festival.

From the first blockbuster film released during the Spring Festival in 06 to the present, the box office of "Fearless" was 7000 million, which surpassed the Spring Festival holiday. The total box office of the entire Spring Festival that year was 8000 million.

In six years, from 8000 million to more than 14 billion, a full 17.5 times increase.

This is only the box office for the seven days of the Spring Festival. The box office for the entire February exceeded 25 billion, which was second only to December last year.

It can be said that starting from this year, the Spring Festival stalls are no longer the third largest schedule in China after the summer vacation and the Lunar New Year stalls, and can already be tied with the former two.

Even the explosive power of the Spring Festival file is stronger than any other time of the year.

Now more and more blockbuster films are produced every year. It is foreseeable that the future Spring Festival file will be as cruel as the Lunar New Year file and summer file, and more than three blockbuster films will be released at every turn.

The Spring Festival stalls have come to an end, and some low-cost movies have been released one after another, but those few movies are still harvesting box office.

Except for the series "Die Hard 5", which broke through 4 million in [-] days, among the newly released movies, other movies are basically soy sauce.

Hantang Media, Huayi, Ah Li, Zhou Xingchi, and many theaters have become the biggest winners of this year's Spring Festival stalls.

The box office broke 12 billion, and it was almost over. Tang An once again held a grand celebration press conference for "囧囧 in Hong Kong".

The celebration press conference is all about bragging. A movie with a box office of over 12 billion should of course be bragging.

At the banquet that followed, senior executives from major companies came to join in.

After receiving a lot of congratulations and compliments from everyone, they chatted in twos and threes.

Yu Dong and Wang Changtian, who didn't show up at the movie premiere, also came.

"Congratulations to Director Tang, four of the six Chinese-language films with a box office of one billion yuan were produced by Han and Tang, and last year's market share was the first in the country."

"Everyone, you're welcome. They're all series and adaptations. This year's competition is getting bigger and bigger. The quota for imported movies has increased by more than ten. Especially in the summer, the pressure is not small."

Tang An toasted with them and said with a smile.

Yu Dong laughed and said, "Tang Dong is being modest. "Interstellar" is your longest movie. Not only the audience, but we are all looking forward to it."

What a joke, no matter how awesome the Hollywood blockbusters are, Tang An is not the king of this year's summer vacation.

What's more, there will be a "Breakup Master" in June, starring Deng Chao and Yang Mi, who knows that the box office is bound to be a hit even if they close their eyes.

Although Han Tang Media did not have Tang An's new film last year, its performance was not bad at all. All the films released were sold well, and it still occupied the first place in market share.

At the beginning of this year, there was a one-billion-level "Hong Kong Jiow", followed by "Interstellar" with at least one billion yuan, plus other films, and the market share tripled again.

Although Berna has also achieved the number one market share in the country for five consecutive years, it is almost meaningless to make a deal with the current Han and Tang Dynasties.

Think about the glory of Bernard back then, the number one share of private film companies, and now
The few people are not very interested, even though the relationship between the two parties is good and they are in the cooperation period, but watching each other make a lot of money helplessly, they are just drinking soup.

Some people are happy while others are worried. There are only so many markets. If there are more Hantang media to grab food, the share of other companies will naturally decrease.

After chatting about their respective projects this year, Berner still focuses on Xiangjiang films, including "Guardian War", "Escape", "Anti-Drug", "Very Lucky" and other films.

Guangxian doesn't have any blockbuster films, "Four Famous Detectives 2", "The Best Detective", "The Cook, The Actor, The Ruffian", and "The Movie of Versailles", none of which invested more than [-] million yuan.

There is also a movie version of "The Voice", which is a money grabbing thing.

There are movies that make a lot of money, but most of them still lose money. Only a few major companies have the ability to distribute and have a certain amount of income.

However, in order to avoid risks, the investment in "Cook, Actor, Ruffian" is only a little over 1000 million. The three male protagonists Liu Ye, Zhang Hanyu, and Huang Bo all starred with no pay, and they invested in shares with their pay, each worth 1000 million.

Although the current salary of the three of them has not crossed the [-] million mark, but the risk of investing in the film salary is high, and Guang Xian will ignore this price.

Tang An quite agreed, "Wang Dong, you can promote this method vigorously. If a movie does not have a big scene, it can be shot with several million yuan, and two popular stars will be paid as shares, which will increase the popularity of the movie. It also reduces the risk, 8000 million can make ten movies, even if two or three can sell well, it will make a lot of money."

"This is also a helpless move."

Wang Changtian said helplessly, "Nowadays no one can guarantee that a movie will sell money. There are too many people who are mistaken. If you don't reduce the risk, you won't be able to stand it thanks to a few movies."

If it is guaranteed to make money, who doesn't want to invest all of it himself!

Now that Feng Xiaogang is on the street, few people can make a steady profit without losing money.

The production fee alone is paid, the leading actor's salary is a share, the director's salary is also a share, and the special effects team's expenses are also counted as a share. The original 5000 million medium-budget movie only costs less than half of the price.

The cost is low, and it looks much better on the books.

At the end of the banquet, Yu Dong approached Tang An alone.

"Yu Dong, thanks to the help of Bernard's movie theaters for the Spring Festival, otherwise, I would have almost lost to "Journey to the West: Conquer the Devil."

Although he didn't know what he wanted from him, Tang An first thanked him for the Spring Festival.

"Tang Dong is being polite, let's help each other. During the Spring Festival, the revenue of those movie theaters can exceed any previous time period." Yu Dong waved his hand and smiled.

Then he got down to business.

"Tang Dong, there are fewer and fewer high-quality projects now. Many of the films you made before can be made into series. I don't know if you have this idea."

Tang An was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that what Yu Dong was going to say was this.

It is true that "Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Martian" have not been able to be made into series from time to time. If the quality is not bad, making money is not a problem.

But Tang An doesn't have this idea yet, and he won't make a fuss about it.

If you just find someone to shoot for the sake of making money, you can make a profit, but the brand will be ruined.

Tang Anbian declined, "Yu Dong, it's hard to find a domestic director who can make sci-fi films."

Yu Dong said with a smile, "I'm not talking about "Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Martian". A few years ago, "You Now You See Me" is very suitable for making a series, making it a Rogue series. With a single story, you can make several more films."

Now Now You See Me?
It’s no problem to make this into a series. Instead of the original trilogy, it can be made into a few separate stories. The magic design should be incredible enough, the scenes should be spectacular enough, and the logic can be justified, which is basically enough.

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"Yu Dong, I only own 30% of the copyright of this film, and the remaining 70% is still in Huayi's hands. If you want to make a series, you have to convince Wang Zhongjun first." Tang An said.

"As long as Director Tang isn't worried that I'll mess up your movie, I'll go talk to Wang Zhongjun at Huayi." Dong Yu said confidently.

Bernard lacks projects, especially those that can be sold for money in the global market.

"Now Now You See Me" has sold more than 2000 million US dollars at the box office in North America. The income from videotapes, DVD rental and sales, as well as network and TV copyrights is higher than the box office, and it has already gained a small amount of popularity.

If the filming is good, it will not be worse than the first film overseas, which is absolutely crucial to Berner.

On Huayi's side, Wang Zhongjun continued to invest in the "[-]" and "Tai Chi" series. Although "Zodiac" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" have stopped the bleeding, there is also an urgent need for other high-quality projects.

Since Yu Dong went to talk to Wang Zhongjun, Tang An had no reason to refuse.

"In this case, I will leave it to Yu Dong. I only need a part of the investment and will not interfere with the filming, but the quality of the film must be guaranteed."

"Of course, the finished film after editing must be finalized by Director Tang."

Yu Dong had no objection. Even if Tang An didn't interfere, he still had to ask Tang An to check the quality of the film.

For specific matters, Yu Dong went to discuss with Wang Zhongjun, it didn't matter whether the discussion was successful or not.

The time has gradually entered April, and the North American summer holidays only started in May. At that time, a lot of Hollywood blockbusters were going to conquer the domestic market. Now it happens to be a dull period.

But at such an ordinary time, a big melon broke out in the entertainment industry.

It's almost the time when the Spring Festival movies calculate the share of accounts, and each company determines the share of each company based on the box office.

Although the box office has not yet arrived, the proportion must be divided first.

At this time, some media photographed Zhou Xingchi coming out of Huayi with a face full of anger. In the interview afterwards, Zhou Xingchi also reprimanded someone for not abiding by the contract and without faith, alluding to Huayi!
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