China Entertainment Times

Chapter 804 If I Die

After the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the domestic film market continues to move towards the next popular summer season.

But now there are more and more theater-line movies released in China every year, and new movies are released almost every week.

In the past, it is impossible to see blockbuster movies in non-popular schedules. After the Spring Festival, starting from March, movies with medium investment will be released every month or even every week.

In April, "White Phantom: Jedi Escape" starring Liu Yufei and Uncle Cage was released. This film was supposed to be released last year during the Lunar New Year, but the domestic distributor of this film is Yunying Bernard, which is Yunying Group and The company that Berner works with.

Last year, Bernard himself had a blockbuster film released during the Lunar New Year, and although Liu Yufei and Uncle Cage are well-known, the box office of the films they participated in in the past few years has not been very good, so they moved to April, which is a less competitive schedule.

However, it is useless to change the schedule, 1200 million in three days, 2700 million in ten days, and the total box office barely exceeded 3000 million.

The trousers were all lost, and Berner didn't even recover the cost of the announcement.

Fortunately, they are all digital copies now. To replace the film copies of ten years ago, each copy costs [-] million yuan, so Yu Dong must be scolded.

Immediately afterwards, films such as "The Storm in" starring Wang Xiaoming and Liu Qingyun, and "Treading Snow and Looking for Plum Blossoms" starring Guo Fucheng were released.

However, on April 4, the release of "Fast and Furious 12" swept the domestic film market, eclipsing all the films of the same period.

It had 5000 million screenings and 3.6 million on the first day. In just one day of release, the domestic box office broke through the [-] million mark, which shocked all domestic film and television companies and filmmakers. Anyone who has anything to do with the industry was stunned by this figure.

Strictly speaking, 3.6 million on the first day was still an incomparably horrifying figure. It directly broke the single-day and first-day box office records in the mainland market, and surpassed Tang An's record set a year ago by more than [-] million.

More than [-] million, there are very few domestic films that can exceed [-] million in a single day, this "Fast and Furious" directly broke [-] million, and all the major companies were suppressed.

The media is also at a climax. This kind of super hit movie is enough to keep the entertainment media busy for a while.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a phenomenon-level movie. The media, audience, and filmmakers are all discussing this movie.

Some second- and third-tier stars also posted their ticket stubs on Weibo to catch the popularity of the movie.

Although word-of-mouth is not very good, it still can't stop "Vegetarian Chicken 7" from going on a rampage all the way, smashing all subsequent movies to the ground.

In the second week, it reached 12 billion, breaking one billion in a single week, another disappointing record. It surpassed "Omen 2" in a week and won the annual box office title in the mainland.

4.7 million in the third week, 2.9 million in the fourth week, and 1.1 million in the fifth week.

Breaking through 29 million for five consecutive weeks, the total box office reached 24.8 billion in [-] days of release, breaking the box office record in mainland film history. This is the first time Tang An has lost this record in three years.

Numerous records have been broken, and the old records have been replaced with numbers that make 99% of directors in the country despair. Most directors, looking at this series of numbers, are dumbfounded.

The Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot in Zhangye City, Hansu Province, where the fantasy action blockbuster "The Great Wall" co-produced by China and the United States was filmed here.

Zhang Yimou also devoted himself to filming, but it is impossible for him not to care about the explosion of "Fast and Furious 7".

As the box office kept rising, Zhang Yimou became more and more restless.

There is Tang An in this country, who has suppressed all the famous directors, and no one has been able to stand up for several years.

Now Hollywood blockbusters are also on the rise in China. Last year, "Transformers 4" made 17 billion, and now "Fast and Furious" is about to break 25 billion.

The movie "The Great Wall" Zhang Yimou didn't expect to break Tang An's record. With a box office of more than 20 billion, if it reached more than 15 billion, it would meet expectations.

It will take time to catch up with Tang An, and 15 billion is enough to rank among the top five in the Mainland.

Now seeing other films selling well and breaking Tang An's record, Zhang Yimou began to feel a sense of loss.

Feng Xiaogang is similar. Since the failure of "If You Are the One 2", he has won the annual Chinese film box office champion for two consecutive years and started his journey to catch up with Tang An.

However, Feng Xiaogang is more concerned with studying the reasons for the popularity of "Vegetarian Chicken". Compared with the previous films, this film is not particularly outstanding.

Paul Walker's death is an important reason, which Feng Xiaogang can't learn.

The research was fruitless, Feng Xiaogang smiled self-deprecatingly, "If I die after filming "Fang Hua", I don't know if I can have this effect."

"Pooh!"

His wife Xu Fan who was at the side quickly patted him, and said angrily, "I think you are in a daze. You want to die after making a movie."

"Just kidding, I've won the box office champion a few times, and I don't care about this stuff for a long time."

Feng Xiaogang smiled with a nonchalant expression on his face.

"Never mind that you're still staring at the box office of "Fast and Furious 7"?"

Xu Fan thought it was a bit funny, he knew his husband very well, after he succeeded in the box office, he wanted to shoot something with depth, to shoot his own heart, but he couldn't let go of the box office.

Feng Xiaogang shook his head, "It's nothing, just take a look. I hope our country's movie market won't be captured by Hollywood movies like Europe and Japan. It depends on whether Tang An can hold on to the summer vacation."

Ten years ago, Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang had been suppressing Hollywood blockbusters, and they had some advantages. Now they naturally don't want China to be broken by Hollywood blockbusters like other countries in the world.

Although the box office ratio of domestic films and imported films has remained at around 55:45 in recent years, it is unknown when this balance will be broken.

"If Tang An can't hold on, then I'll make a comedy movie again."

Feng Xiaogang said something rather stinky, implying that if Tang An failed to keep the domestic market, he would have to do it himself.

Xu Fan rolled his eyes and reminded, "Don't forget, you just signed a VAM contract with Huayi, which will increase by 15% on the basis of [-] million per year for five years."

"Don't worry about that."

Feng Xiaogang waved his hand and said confidently, "Now I have two movies in my hands, and I have people talking with Mango TV about a comic adaptation TV series cooperation. If it is really impossible, I will prepare for "Mobile Phone 2", and it will be no problem to complete the contract." .”

Neither of the two films in hand are blockbuster themes, and Feng Xiaogang is not too conceited, otherwise he would have to spit out the money he got.

The TV drama market is very good now, with Feng Xiaogang's current status and fame, it couldn't be easier to invest in a TV drama.

Most of the companies that invest in TV dramas also act as artist managers, and even artist brokers are their main business. As long as Feng Xiaogang lets go of the second and third roles in a new film, it is too easy to get investment in a TV drama.

Some investors have even approached him, asking him to be the producer of a TV series, to participate in the promotion, and give 10% of the share.

And "Mobile Phone 2" is his trump card, no matter what, he has absolute confidence that this comedy will be a hit.

It is almost foolproof, Feng Xiaogang is not worried about this gambling agreement at all.

Unlike the artists under Huayi, they also signed a gambling agreement with their eyes. One after another TV series will be on in turn, and they will not refuse. Four or five variety shows are non-stop throughout the year. Feng Xiaogang feels tired for them after watching them.

(End of this chapter)