Chapter 1634 The Direction of Efforts
"The Sixth Sense" received great acclaim, and its box office performance remained stable at 25 million US dollars in the second week, with a very small decrease.
If this situation continues, there will be no problem with a box office of US$150 million in North America.
Even United Artists Film Company, which produces and distributes it, did not expect it to have such good results.
Originally it was not recommended for young people under the age of 18 to watch a movie. It was a little bit mysterious if it could break 100 million, but it turned out to be so brave and it was an unexpected surprise.
However, this is not the biggest surprise for United Artists Film Company.
At least not at the box office.
"Mission: Impossible", which Yin Jun named and produced, has been making great progress since its release in mid-March. So far, in almost a month, the box office has exceeded 150 million US dollars.
With a Hong Kong actor as the protagonist, it is unimaginable that "Mission: Impossible" could have such a high box office and be loved by so many people.
Many people are regretting that if this movie had an American starring in it, would the box office revenue have increased by tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars?
The box office in the United States is not the strongest.
"Mission: Impossible" was equally ferocious at the overseas box office.
Europeans are also obsessed with the spy theme. Tony Leung's appearance is more accepted in Europe, so their box office has reached 80 million US dollars, and the total box office has exceeded 100 million US dollars, so there should be no problem.
In Hong Kong, Yin Jun's home base, it has grossed 45 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. It will become another 50 million Hong Kong dollar movie in Hong Kong, which is just around the corner.
In Japan and South Korea, "Mission: Impossible" has also received crazy popularity. The combined box office of Japan and South Korea exceeded 150 million US dollars in one month. This is the most shocking thing.
When did North America cease to be the largest vote base?
Calculating it this way, is the total box office of "Mission: Impossible" in Asia higher than that in North America?
Such a discovery was extraordinary. Hollywood giants immediately began to pay attention to the two emerging box office dumping markets of South Korea and Japan.
If a market with nearly 200 million people that has already entered the ranks of developed countries can fully realize its potential, it will be great!
Even if they can't be so brave every time, if each movie can average half of the North American box office, that will be a very big supplement and can definitely become a source of profit for major companies!
It seems that when making movies in the future, we need to take the Japanese and Korean elements into consideration, give them a few appropriate roles, and praise their countries. Wouldn't the box office be better?
As for the fact that Japan and South Korea were previously the preserve of Hong Kong films, Hollywood giants didn't take it to heart at all.
The reason is very simple. In Xiangjiang movies, Yin Jun is the most feared.
But now Yin Jun has focused his main efforts in Hollywood, and everyone is his own. How can the mere movies left in Hong Kong compete with us?
It’s pretty good that they can stabilize the Chinese film market in Asia.
In a few years, under the huge pressure from Hollywood, maybe even the Chinese film market will be occupied by us.
It’s also very interesting to say that Yin Jun’s North American branch of Kirin Group will be the vanguard in dealing with Hong Kong movies in the future!
I really don’t know how the Xiangjiang filmmakers will feel if Yin Jun destroys Xiangjiang movies in the future?
Yin Jun didn't know their little thoughts. He just wanted to make his film company successful.
Columbus has read the script for "Home Alone."
He didn't even talk about the entire script, but spent hundreds of shots and handed it over to Yin Jun.
Yin Jun was overjoyed when he saw this.
Few screenwriters in the European and American film circles directly draw the scenes, and they do so carefully.
The most important thing is that Columbus painted very carefully.
Even the portrait of the little boy actor is painted by Koo Tim Lok.
This is amazing, it means that Columbus regarded Gu Tianle as the leading actor and took it into his mind to consider.
So just by looking at his thoughts, Yin Jun felt that he made the right decision to let Columbus film "Home Alone" seven years in advance.
So Columbus took the script he had thought up and started to build his own crew.
The producer Yin Jun assigned him was Shirley Lansing, which was still symbolic. On the one hand, it wanted Columbus to have better control over the crew, and on the other hand, it wanted to add a lot to Shirley Lansing's resume. One stroke.
But it’s Gu Tianle who’s doing the hard work.
He had just gone through a few weeks of publicity and was about to go back to Xiangjiang to rest for two months, but he was captured by Yin Jun and had to go to the ice and snow of Alaska to film a movie. This really made him extremely sad.
At this time, Gu Tianle didn't know what a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity he was getting in succession. If it were another person, he would have risked everything to get it.
But the person Gu Tianle admired and admired the most in his life was Yin Jun. He also knew that Yin Jun was doing it for his own good, so even though he had to work hard for two or three months, he still endured it.
Yin Jun didn't even mention it to Gu Tianle. In fact, he prepared a gift for this young boy.
At next year's Oscars, "The Sixth Sense" will definitely win a Best Actor nomination for Daxing Hoffman, and Gutianle's Best Supporting Actor nomination is also one of the public relations goals.
Although it is basically certain that he will not be elected, this will definitely be exciting news just like Zhou Yunfa's Oscar nomination for Best Actress last year and Lin Qingxia's Oscar nomination for Best Actress last year.
Seeing that Chinese people are coming to Hollywood one after another to show off their prowess, and even children can be nominated for Oscars, how can the group of people who stayed in Hong Kong not work hard to get Yin Jun to give them a chance?
Although the Academy Awards has gradually caught up with the Golden Globe Awards, it is not the most authoritative award after all.
At least many people in Baodao's film and television industry don't really agree with it.
But the Oscars are different. The three major European film festivals are regarded as super awards in the eyes of Chinese people, but when placed next to the Oscars, they are still not enough.
The Oscars are the world's number one film awards, and there is basically no controversy about this.
Otherwise, when Lin Qingxia won the Oscar for Best Actress, the Chinese people around the world would not be such a sensation.
Even China TV Station in the Mainland reported this matter on its news channel.
A few days ago, a special program was released to introduce Lin Qingxia.
Now that Lin Qingxia is a Chinese-American, the mainland has naturally fewer worries. Moreover, the mainland knows that Lin Qingxia came to Xuchang to visit her eldest sister, and that Yin Jun came to see her later.
Since he has a close relationship with Yin Jun, he is not an outsider, so he can publicize it well.
That is to say, Yin Jun has not won the Best Director award yet, otherwise China TV Station would have been able to boast about Yin Jun for a month. From the time he arrived in Xiangjiang to the present experience, it would have been a flower.
In fact, if you tell others, they may not believe what Yin Jun is thinking now.
Yin Jun only thinks about getting an Oscar for directing once, and the other awards are meaningless no matter how many they are.
You still have to look at your own strength and create more and better-looking movies, which is the most important thing.
Not just special effects blockbusters and action films, but also good-looking literary and artistic films, romance films, films that are worthy of people's thinking. This is the best thing to do.
Just like American movies.
Many people think that American movies are just stupid and clumsy. Anyway, the special effects are enough, and the filming is smooth and satisfying.
But are these really the only American movies?
Ever thought about Gone with the Wind?
Have you ever watched "Roman Holiday"?
Have you ever wondered how they made "Forrest Gump"?
Are these beautiful movies that convey beauty without any impurities all made by Americans?
Therefore, American movies are not walking on one foot at all.
People walk on two feet: literary films and commercial films.
Only by walking in a down-to-earth manner can we have the best impact.
This is why in 2018, we produced the movie "I Am Not the God of Medicine", which caused many film critics to shout that "Chinese films have made progress."
Before this, even though we had movies with a box office of more than 5 billion yuan and countless good comedies, not many people felt that we were very proud of it.
Only movies that bear social responsibility and have social educational significance are truly powerful movies.
On this point, Korean filmmakers have done very well and have been ahead of us for a long time.
Yin Jun didn't like the arrogant and arrogant Koreans, but he never ignored their advantages.
In terms of disclosing the darkness and despair of society, Koreans have done more extreme things than Europeans, and they have done it better!
Europeans call it a disease-free moan.
The Koreans simply opened their chests and let you see that trembling and fragile heart.
It was still a dumping ground for Hong Kong movies in the 1990s. In just ten or twenty years, they have been able to develop to such an extent. It is simply a miracle.
Therefore, Yin Jun feels that Chinese films, including Hong Kong films, have too much to go.
It won’t work if you don’t work hard.
Xiangjiang Film was too obsessed with its own glory, blindly making shitty movies, blindly making commercial movies that seemed to make money, and finally collapsed.
This is why Yin Jun supports Xu Anhua and why he supports Zhang Wanting and his wife.
In a few years, Yin Jun will also support mainland directors such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Moumou, so that they can make films that reflect this era.
There are some things that you can’t do if you don’t do them, let alone if no one does them.
But Yin Jun also reminded himself not to train those directors to be useless people like European directors.
For example, those taken by Jia Zhangke and other people of that generation, I really don’t know what they are.
What does it mean to completely exaggerate the ugliness of China to please European audiences?
It’s not that you can’t film ugly things. Korean directors have exposed a lot of ugliness.
It's just that what they filmed is not of any positive significance at all, and is completely out of touch with the times and reality. And then in turn, they say you don't understand movies.
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Audiences who don’t understand movies can vote with their wallets.
Tell them what our favorite movies are.
"I Am Not the God of Medicine" is not a happy movie, nor is it a movie with big names gathered, and the story is not very sensational.
But when the movie came out, it was never well received. It was suddenly lifted by the audience to a box office of over 3 billion. Is it an accident?
Certainly not!
Because it says something.
It tells something that the audience has seen but may not really understand, and then allows the audience to reflect in tears, thus bringing positive meaning.
That's how good it is.
This is a movie that the general public likes.
It truly has power!
Yin Jun's hope is that under his guidance, directors from China, whether from the mainland, Xiangjiang, or even Baodao, can make more and more movies like this!
In this case, his persistent efforts will really be in vain!
And the young man also believes that he will definitely be able to see that day! !