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Chapter 471 Sign the contract and go to Hollywood

This time it was not only Xia Hua's "Detective Chinatown" that was directly affected, but also several other major private film and television companies.

Jay Chou and Xie Tingfeng's "Reverse War 2" was produced by Hua Yi, "The Great Magician" was produced by Bernard, "Eight Stars Announcement" was produced by Leshi, "The Dinner Party Is Crazy" was produced by Shanghai Film, "New "A Couple Made in China" is produced by Xingmei.

Generally speaking, these movies are all trying to hit the box office during the Spring Festival holiday, and you China Film suddenly took a Hollywood blockbuster like Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 4" to the ring. Isn't this the same as asking the king of football and Luo aliens to bully people? ?
China Film had no choice but to postpone the release of "Mission: Impossible 4" to the last day of the Spring Festival. The theater still recognized Tom Cruise. After all, there are too many domestic fans of Tom Cruise, and this movie has the first three films. It is very popular, so once it was released, it strongly occupied the theater lineup. It was released for two days, and the box office was as high as 9960 million.

You know, although these two days are Saturday and Sunday, because of the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, many people have to go to work the next day on the way back and have no time to go to the movies. This result is already extremely good. The average attendance of 86 people per game also illustrates the problem.

Subsequently, the film's performance was even more overwhelming.

Due to the continuation of the "Mission: Impossible" series of thrilling plots, high-tech spy wars and other elements, this film is also the third film that uses IMAX professional cameras to shoot some shots after "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Transformers 2". For Hollywood films, IMAX technology brings greater visual impact, plus Tom Cruise's hard-working performance, the film has been well-received and well-received since it was released in the global market!
This week, the cumulative box office in the North American market reached 2.03 million US dollars, and the global box office has reached 5.7 million US dollars, sweeping away the sluggish box office of the third part of the series!
In mainland China, the gross of nearly 06 million in two days also easily surpassed the 3 million gross domestic box office of "Mission: Impossible 8100" released in [-].

Moreover, this achievement has become the first imported film to achieve great success in 2012, which has become inevitable.

The only question is whether "Detective Chinatown", which still has some stamina, can be completely crushed. After all, this movie has been released for 24 days, and it is almost a month away, but it is far from Zhou Xia's last movie. There is still a gap of 15 million!

This is not a small number!

Because the box office income of the film is getting weaker as it gets to the later stage. If "Detective Chinatown" has no film schedule, it will only have a few million box office per week at most. It will take a long time to earn 1.2 million.

But the strength of "Detective Chinatown" still surprised many people.

During the two days since "Mission: Impossible 4" was released, "Detective Chinatown" earned 28 million box office on the 20th with 2600% of the film schedule. On the next Sunday, the holiday was over and people had already gone to work, but still with 18% of the film schedule. Harvested 1400 million box office.

Although it is 4% worse than the 87% attendance rate of "Mission: Impossible 40", the 47% attendance rate is still a very high figure for a movie that has been released for such a long time.

In view of this, Zhang Zhao applied for the key to postpone the screening. Judging from the overall performance, as Zhou Xia's second work, the production is more sophisticated, the shooting level is higher, and there are more star actors. The box office performance of "Detective Chinatown" is realistic. Better than Charlotte Annoyance, too.

At that time, one week before the release, the box office of "Charlotte" was not so high, and the difference between the two was nearly [-] million. According to this performance, I believe that even if it can't exceed the box office of the former one month after the release, it will not. Too much difference.

After the Golden Week of the Spring Festival, the box office of the entire mainland market dropped by 14% month-on-month this week, and it dropped by 2011% compared to the same period in 11!

After all, this time last year was the Spring Festival holiday, and "Charlotte" triggered a nationwide movie-watching boom.

Of course, this year's result is already very good. After all, it is a weekday, and the popularity of "Mission: Impossible 4" and "Chinatown" has kept such a good result.

From January 1th and 30st to now February 31rd, five working days, the performance of other films has dropped a lot, with the exception of "Mission: Impossible 2", which is the only flower that has swept the film industry with an unstoppable momentum. City, harvested 3 million, with an average daily box office of more than 4 million, accounting for 2.18% of the total box office!

This 15-year series of films, although unable to shake the "007" series as the king of spy films, is still one of the most successful spy films!

Such a high box office release has something to do with the high ticket prices of 3D and imax.

With "Mission: Impossible 4" occupying a large portion of the theater's film schedule, the box office of other top ten box office films last week all fell by more than 50%!

"Detective Chinatown" is no exception.

Last week was the Spring Festival holiday. "Detective Chinatown" forced its second movie-watching climax, and the box office revenue was extremely high. However, in the past five days, it only received 1.24 million box office. The box office exceeded 28 billion!
"Sherlock Holmes 2", which was released in the fourth week, earned 2240 million this week, with a cumulative box office of 1.74 million.

Produced by the newly released "Galaxy Image", the black thriller film "Death Gold" directed by Navel Peak has a poor attendance rate, earning 3 million in 1430 days of release.

"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Happy Year of the Dragon" continued to earn 1250 million this week, reaching a total of 1.6 million, setting a new box office record for the series. Another domestic animation "Havoc in Heaven 3D" earned 510 million this week, with a cumulative box office Moving towards 5000 million.

Zhou Xia didn't bother to look at this anymore.

The gap between the schedule and output of these films is too great, but they still have such a high schedule, which can only be said to be a unique image in China.

And it's getting late, and I have to get up early tomorrow to meet people in Hollywood.

When I came to the company the next morning, Zhou Xia reviewed the contract with Yang Tianzhen and found that the other party basically agreed to his request. I felt very relieved. After all, win-win cooperation is the last word, and he now has the opportunity to negotiate with the other party. chips.

Just after ten o'clock, representatives from Hollywood arrived.

The chief producer of "The Expendables" is Stallone, and this time the representative is the executive producer Tessie. Zhou Xia is not familiar with this name. After listening to the introduction, he realizes that he is an executive of Lionsgate Films. Also no longer pay more attention.

After a brief understanding between the two parties, the other party confirmed Zhou Xia's spoken English and lines, and quickly signed the contract.

According to the requirements of the contract, Zhou Xia will go to Hollywood within two days, and go through a series of registration applications in Hollywood, especially buying high accident insurance for Zhou Xia, as well as registering with the Actors Union, obtaining protection, etc. After preparing everything, Then you can join the group to shoot his related scenes.

In fact, as early as February 2st, the film had already filmed scenes with some other actors in a special studio in Hollywood.

After the cooperation was concluded, Zhou Xia took the executive of Lionsgate Films to visit Xiahua Film and Television and introduced the relevant situation.

Hearing that Xia Hua was established only three years ago but has developed so rapidly, the executive praised the active mainland market and looked forward to Zhou Xia's performance even more.

After seeing off Taixi, Zhou Xia arranged some company affairs during his two days in the imperial capital, and on February 2th, he took his assistant and boarded the flight to Hollywood.

Compared with going to Silicon Valley three years ago to film the first TV series "You at the Same Table", coming to the West Coast of the United States this time has a different meaning.

Coming out of the airport, when the car was driving not far from Hollywood Studios, I saw the big white English letters of "Hollywood" on the middle of the mountain.

Zhou Xia couldn't help being a little excited: "Hollywood, here I come!"

(End of this chapter)