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Chapter 737 The Confidence of Mystery
At the end of July, the mainland's summer vacation has basically entered the second half.

"Mysterious Superstar" officially broke through the 20 billion mark on Monday of the fourth week, sweeping the entire summer schedule again.

"Transformers 20", which originally had a box office potential of 4 billion, was also strongly suppressed. Other movies with good box office such as "Little Times 3", "No. In front of the box office, it also seems insignificant.

The gimmicks of these films are not small at all, especially Guo Jinming and Han Han are facing each other in the film industry.

Moreover, the films taken by the two are completely two extremes, which makes this contrast even more obvious.

"Capital No. 81", as the highest-grossing horror movie in recent years, is also a dark horse.

However, all of this seemed insignificant in front of Tang An.

In addition to the reports on "Mystery Superstar" and Tang An, the headlines of the mainstream media and various media are also the drug abuse incident.

In this regard, the investors and distributors of several other films are also helpless.

It was released in the summer, and they also faced Tang An and "Transformers 4". They didn't expect to surpass these two movies. Just drink soup after a few days.

After all, if it is released on an uncompetitive schedule, the box office might as well be released in the summer, even if it has to face strong opponents.

It's just that the box office of these few movies is very good so far, and it can be said that it has greatly exceeded the expectations of the film studios.

People will never be satisfied. If they can get so much box office in the gap between two blockbuster movies, if there is no such big competition, wouldn't the box office still be able to soar.

It's a pity that if there is no if, all they can do is promote it hard.

But it was all in vain. On Tuesday, "Mystery Superstar" broke the box office record in mainland film history set by "Interstellar", and once again grabbed the headlines of entertainment news from Ke Zhendong.

After the CCTV interview was aired a day ago, Ke Zhendong squeezed "Mysterious Superstar" down again, and today he won it back by breaking the film history record.

Two major events, plus Zou Xun's big wedding, the broadcast of many popular variety shows and TV series, and the number of times that several other movies appeared on the hot searches can be counted on one's fingers.

The summer file is not just a summer file for the film industry, it is the same for variety shows and TV dramas.

After breaking the record in film history, "Mystery Superstar" has not stopped moving forward. It still won a super high box office of 2.41 million this week, and the total box office in 25 days came to 22.95 billion.

It's the fourth week, and even if "Mysterious Superstar" has a high reputation, it can no longer maintain the previous trend, and the decline has fallen to less than 50%.

However, the data of 2.41 million in a single week still allowed "Mystery Superstar" to win the weekly box office championship again, and won the weekly championship for four consecutive weeks.

"The Future" ranked third with a score of exactly 2.1 million in the second week, and the newly released "White-haired Witch: Moon Heaven" took [-] million in four days in the first weekend, ranking second.

The martial arts film produced by Xu Ke has a classic story. The word-of-mouth of the two leading actors has not completely rotted at this time. It is normal for the data of 2.1 million in four days to be placed in the popular summer file. After all, two blockbuster films It's been almost a month since it was released.

But word of mouth is of course surprisingly poor, comparable to that of "Little Times".

Some viewers are curious about how Wang Xiaoming is half a head taller than Fan Binbin in the film, as tall as Fan Binbin in another moment, and a little shorter than Binbin Fan in another moment, how did he do it.

The remake has a high box office, the hero and heroine are well-known, but the reputation is poor, and it has all the elements of a hot topic in the script.

There was nothing to report about other movies, but "White-haired Witch" attracted a lot of follow-up reports from the media, and various reviews were sent out one after another.

Of course, almost all negative reviews.

At the same time, there was another game-adapted animated film "Dragon Nest", dubbed by Brother Hu and Jing Tian.

3200 million in four days is not bad.

Novel IP, song IP, and now the game IP has also come out. I don’t know if Fujixun has thought about adapting games such as "Cross Fire", "Dropped City and Weak Warrior" into movies.

The latter player claims to have 800 million warriors, and if it is filmed in 3D, one ticket counts as 50. 800 million warriors have one ticket per person, which also has a box office of 4 million.

After all, playing games is much more expensive than watching movies. It costs a few hundred yuan to make a gift package during the holidays. The movie tickets worth tens of dollars should be paid by the audience.

July has passed, and in the previous month, Tang An was definitely the biggest winner.

Bernard also made a lot of money from the two films "The Future Will Never Come" and "The White-haired Witch: The Kingdom of the Moon", and Yu Dong also swept away the haze of being delisted from NASDAQ.

Leshi could have become one of the winners of the summer with "Little Times 3", but the movie's male lead had an accident at this time, and it was an irreparable scandal, which directly affected the movie's box office.

This once again directly affected the injection of Leshi Pictures into the listed company Leshi.com. All shareholders, including Zhang Zhao himself, would have to lose a lot of money.

Huayi and Guangxian don't have much sense of existence, after all, there are no movies with hundreds of millions.

However, they are not idle either. Wang Changtian won Maoyan, which is more important than a big production. Now most of his energy is focused on Maoyan.

On Huayi's side, they are preparing for the announcement and release of films such as "Little Love: Gradually Getting Better", "A Coquettish Woman's Best Life", "One Man's Martial Arts", "Taiping Wheel".

At the same time, "Legend of the Gods", which is cooperating with Xiang Huaqiang, is also ready to be approved.

It was so fast. It took only two or three months from the intention of cooperation to the filing and then to the official project approval.

This is a mythological blockbuster, not a drama, and "Legend of the Conferred Gods" has been in preparation for nearly two years.

All props, locations, sets, script polishing, pre-models and special effects have been prepared for almost two years, and have not yet been officially launched.

But the money laundering film, this speed is not fast at all, it is completely normal.

Wang Zhongjun also attached great importance to this movie. With the title of a [-] million production and a large number of stars, no matter how poorly he did it, he would have no problem getting him [-] to [-] million at the box office, and Hua Yi would never lose money.

Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei talked about this project, and Wang Zhonglei said with a smile, "Xiang Huaqiang has already invited Li Lianlian, Liang Jiahui, and Gu Tianle, which is almost enough."

This film depends on the box office in the early stage, the lineup is definitely crucial, and it is best to lure all the audience in on the first weekend.

Wang Zhongjun nodded, "Adding Wang Xiaoming and Fan Binbin, it's enough."

As one of the investors and publishers, Huayi also has several roles.

Wang Xiaoming plays Erlang God, Fan Binbin is of course Daji.

In a TV series "Fengshen" a few years ago, Fan Binbin played Daji, and the response from the audience was pretty good.

As for Fan Binbin was already self-reliant, Wang Zhongjun still gave her this role.

Fan Binbin is now on Hengda, and Huayi is also developing a movie town with Hengda, so there is still some contact.

Besides, since Shuang Bing and Zou Xun had left, only Yao Chen and Yang Ying were the only actresses under Huayi's banner. They were obviously not suitable for this role.

Huayi is the issuer, and there is also a distribution share, which is not a small number.

The starring role was confirmed, but Wang Zhonglei said, "Brother, there is something wrong with Fan Binbin, she doesn't seem to want to accept this film."

"what happened?"

Wang Zhongjun frowned. This kind of blockbuster movie will not be cheap, and the shooting is simple and the time is short. It is definitely a good opportunity to earn extra money. With Fan Binbin's personality, how could he not accept it.

Wang Zhonglei explained, "It was basically settled two days ago, but now when I send someone to negotiate the contract, her agent is obviously refusing."

"I checked. Her agent went to Hantang Media yesterday. I think it might be because of Wu Ershan's "Fengshen". He should also want to win the role of Daji."

Wang Zhongjun instantly understood that basically everyone in the circle of these two films of the same type knew what was going on, and any actor knew how to choose them.

As for why Fan Binbin suddenly changed his attitude after discussing it well before, Wang Zhongjun speculated that it might be because of the good box office of "The White-haired Witch" that he gained confidence.

However, Wang Zhongjun didn't have any hope for Fan Binbin. During Tang An's time in Huayi, Fan Binbin took the initiative to approach him many times, but Tang An ignored him, politely with obvious alienation.

You must know that Tang An had a good relationship with most of the actors when he was in Huayi, no matter how famous they were, except for a few people including Fan Binbin.

Obviously, Tang An rejected Fan Binbin a little bit. As for the reason, Wang Zhongjun didn't know, nor was he interested in knowing.

Although Tang An's casting has always been based on whether it is suitable or not, and there is not much personal prejudice, but it has never been possible for anyone in this world to treat everything equally, and personal preferences can affect people's choices at any time.

Tang An didn't want to see Fan Binbin, even if Fan Binbin was really suitable for the role of Daji, Tang An was unlikely to use her.

Wang Zhongjun didn't care anymore, he smiled and said, "Then let's talk about it when she hits a wall, then it's her turn to look for it."

Wang Zhonglei nodded and said, "Well, I guess she has no chance."

In a certain movie theater, the crew of "White-haired Witch" is preparing for the next road show.

The male and female protagonists Wang Xiaoming and Fan Binbin are both present. Although the box office is good, the two protagonists are worried at this time, as if something is wrong.

Wang Xiaoming glanced at Fan Binbin, and suddenly said, "Did your people go to Hantang yesterday?"

"Yes."

Fan Binbin nodded and said with a smile.

There are a lot of paparazzi stationed around Hantang Media, and they come and go every day, and they can't hide anyone, after all, they are not meeting in private.

She wanted to ask Zhao Jun, the director of the production department of Hantang, to come out alone. After all, Zhao Jun was the vice president of the production department in Huayi before, and he was also an acquaintance.

But they are not free, so they have no choice but to formally visit the door.

Wu Ershan's "Fengshen" trilogy is unknown outside the circle, but all companies and actors in the circle are all staring at it. With a big production of 20 billion, any role is very attractive to ordinary actors .

I don't know how many people have already taken action. Regardless of whether they know each other or not, the senior executives of Hantang have all connected in a roundabout way, and they will see each other first.

Fan Binbin is not worried that others will find out. Although the reputation of "White-haired Witch" is a little bit bad, it can be considered a success at the box office.

This is her only box-office hit movie as a leading actress, and it's her capital.

With the results, there is everything, otherwise it is all empty.

Moreover, after all, she hadn't signed a contract with "Legend of the Conferred Gods", so she was just shopping around and there was no problem.

Fan Binbin didn't consider Wu Ershan's "Feng Shen" before because she didn't have much success on the big screen, and she could feel Tang An's alienation in Huayi before. Don't offend Tang An.

But now that I have achievements and capital, it might be impossible to win this role.

There are definitely not many actresses with box office appeal in China. If Tang An can reverse Tang An's prejudice against him for some reason, then the benefits will be more than one series.

Moreover, the adaptation attitude of a big director who has always been indifferent to himself, although not to the extent of "today you indifferent to me, tomorrow I will make you unable to climb", but Fan Binbin believes that with his beauty and means , can always make a breakthrough!

Fan Binbin thought confidently, then looked at Wang Xiaoming, smiled and said, "You probably think the same as me."

The two "Fengshen" are like a genuine version and a shoddy pirated version. Everyone knows how to choose, but any actor who has some hope will want to fight for it.

PS: Today is Ching Ming Festival, let’s not say happy holidays, good night everyone!

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