Chapter 1001 Come Together
Qi Jie left the next day.
Liao Liao stayed for another two days, stretching his laziness enough, and then flew back to Los Angeles.
The rest of the time, including Li Qian, finally belonged to Xie Bing again.
In fact, it was only a few days, but Xie Bing was still satisfied.
Then she flew away too.
Li Qian also only delayed in Paris for a while. He intentionally stayed a day later than Xie Bing and met with John Deiss. The next day, he also flew back to Shuntian Mansion.
In the Chinese entertainment industry at this time, the shock brought by "The Matrix" has not completely subsided, but "Dragon Inn" has completely occupied the attention and heated discussions of all the people.
The film was released for three weeks, and the domestic box office exceeded 400 million.
Moreover, it has achieved very impressive box office results in Japan, South Korea, and several countries in Southeast Asia. Regardless of domestic and foreign countries, as long as it is released, the word-of-mouth is very good!
As Xie Bing said, Jin Han was completely enthroned.
Many media praised him to the sky.
Some people named Li Qian, Jin Han, Wu Han, and Lu Ping as the four major academic directors, while others named Jin Han, Du Weiyun, and Liu Chengzhang together, thinking that "Dragon Inn" has a series of martial arts masterpieces similar to Du Weiyun's to some extent. The same texture and feelings, and different from Du Weiyun, Jin Han, like Liu Chengzhang, is the kind of director who is good at telling a good story under the package of exquisite shots and sultry feelings.
Of course, the company also began to call Li Qian, Jin Han, Zhao He, and Feng Bicheng the "Four King Kongs" - when Qi Jie heard her mention this nickname in her office, Li Qian was stunned for a long time, Qi Jie Laughed for a long time.
Of course, the director is famous in the industry, but for the vast majority of ordinary audiences, the most reliable thing for a popular movie to remember is the actors.
He Yingyu's fire is self-evident.
From the sassy girlfriend back then, the sexy hit girl in "The Matrix", to the coquettish proprietress in "Dragon Inn", it can be said that among the actresses in the Chinese entertainment industry today, no one is more popular than her!
Cheng Suping and Zhou Zhiyu all jumped up a level suddenly following the popularity of the movie.
Among the younger generation of film niches in China, Zhou Baoshan and Zhou Zhiyu are known as "Two Weeks".
And less than a week after the film was released, Cheng Suping received a call from Zhang Zifang, a famous female director in China. She said, "You have a charming and neutral temperament!"
She wants to invite Cheng Suping to audition for her film that is in preparation.
It is said to be a story of two girls.
When calling Cheng Suping, she said that she was actively inviting Fu Hongxue to play another role.
Fu Hongxue didn't know how he would react, but for Cheng Suping, Li Qian's first reaction when he received the call was, "Push it! Don't answer! I don't want others to see you without clothes on!"
Cheng Suping couldn't help laughing.
Of course she made the call on purpose.
In fact, from the personal positioning of Cheng Suping in terms of Minghu culture, to the roles Cheng Suping has played in these years, and even from the positioning of several products she is currently endorsing, she is absolutely not allowed to take on one like this. It's okay to say that in Europe and the United States, in China, in the Chinese cultural circle, this kind of same-sex theme is absolutely certain.
And she herself is obviously not interested in this kind of movies with swords and swords.
What kind of education did Cheng Suping receive from childhood?
That is the most typical and orthodox oriental traditional education!
Although she was a little rebellious in the past few years, she is still a very traditional girl in the final analysis. She is actually not the only one who is promoting many things in Western society. Many young people in China are actually not the same. approved.
As for what Zhang Zifang said will impact Cannes——Cheng Suping expressed that she is not uncommon!
I don’t know if it’s Zhang Zifang’s deep feeling that she’s really not very good at making popular commercial films. Over the past few years, the overall trend of the domestic film industry has become more and more inclined to focus on the market and box office. The tide of commercialization is overwhelming. But instead, she began to pay more attention to the major film festivals in Europe than in previous years!
So, now she even wants to try the way of shooting same-sex themes!
Sometimes Li Qian couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that he and Jin Han had made some names in the European art film circle successively, which made Zhang Zifang, who had been obsessed with this film for more than ten years, even more unhappy? Convinced? Is it because of this that he became more and more addicted to it?
But with her current path, it seems that she is going to seek her own death. Of course, it is impossible for Li Qian to allow his young lady to accompany her to jump down.
Not only that, but he subconsciously began to think about another problem.
Over the past few years, Zhang Zifang and her small and fresh films have always been a clear stream in Chinese films and a banner for Chinese female filmmakers.
But now, she herself is going to a dead end. Does that mean that the Chinese film industry should produce another female director who can carry the banner of female narrative films?
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On September 14, 45 days after its release, "The Matrix" officially went offline from North America. In the end, this Chinese sci-fi blockbuster, which was popular in North America, won an astonishing box office of 545 million US dollars in North America. It not only temporarily ranked first in the North American annual box office list in 2004, but also jumped to No. Name - second only to "Titanic" and "Star Wars" the first part.
Before and after this, the film has also been screened in Europe, Latin America and many other places around the world. Only in a very small number of countries such as China, this film has obtained the right to extend the screening period.
In China, it will even be screened until December—of course, after entering the middle and late September, no matter how powerful the movie is, it has been released for more than 40 days after all, and the scale of the screening will naturally be reduced again and again, but No matter what you say, there are still many audiences willing to join in the long-term screenings of the remaining one hundred canvases every day, and each of these screenings basically generates pure profits for the distributors and theaters!
When the months passed and the film finally ended its screenings in China, which means it officially ended its screenings in all markets around the world, it hit multiple successes in one fell swoop.
It finally won the first place in the 2004 North American film box office rankings, and the third place in the history of North America. With a final score of 1.045 billion yuan, it became the first work in the Chinese film market to break the box office. Of course it is a matter of course. It became the first box office of Chinese domestic films in history.
The global box office of this movie finally fell to 1.63 billion US dollars.
Second only to "Titanic", surpassing the first "Jurassic Park", won the second place in the global historical box office list!
"The Matrix" undoubtedly became the number one hot word in the global film market and cultural entertainment market in 2004. Zhou Baoshan's image of Neo in the film became popular all over the world.
And later in the same period, the martial arts masterpiece "Dragon Inn" directed by Jin Han, the film and television director of Minghu Culture, took over the magic wand in the hands of "The Matrix" and began to quickly become popular in the pan-Chinese cultural circle including China. ——In China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and throughout Southeast Asia, this movie quickly set off an extremely high movie-watching craze among local audiences.
Of course, unlike the film’s popularity in the above-mentioned regions, this film was introduced to the film markets of seven European countries and the North American market for screening, but the response was mediocre-the fact proved John Dyce’s choice in introducing Chinese-language films to European and American countries In fact, it does have vision and judgment beyond ordinary people.
Those complicated intrigues are particularly enjoyable to the Chinese, but to the vast majority of European and American audiences, they find it unpleasant at all, and many people even expressed that they were confused.
If you hit the street, it's not really a big deal, but the gains are not big.
In the end, the film was released in hundreds of theaters in North America. In just one week, the screening scale was reduced to only a few hundred theaters, and it was canceled just one month after its release.
Its total box office in North America was $7.85 million.
Both Columbia Pictures and Oriental Dream Films, the distributors, are bound to lose money-the promotion and distribution expenses of this film cost a total of nearly 10 million U.S. dollars!
But losing money is temporary.
With the DVD of the movie on the market, although it is impossible to make money back as soon as possible, after a few months of selling, the two companies discovered that the package of the movie's theatrical distribution rights and DVD distribution rights The operation has actually begun to generate profits.
The situation in Europe is much better than that in North America. During the theatrical release period, there are only profits and losses. Once the DVD is released, it basically starts to see profits.
Of course, although it did not play well in Europe and the United States, this does not detract from the dazzling status of "Dragon Inn" in the Chinese film industry-the final domestic box office was 710 million yuan, becoming second only to "The Matrix" and "The Gate of Life and Death". The existence of , and the global box office of 520 million US dollars, also made the film's global box office enter the top five of the global box office rankings of Chinese-language movies in one fell swoop!
Jin Han became one of the most famous digital directors in China in one fell swoop after this film.
At the same time, unlike the global popularity of "The Matrix" and the strength of "Dragon Inn" sweeping the pan-Chinese cultural circle, Liu Chengzhang has always been extremely low-key when he came with the masterpiece "Flying Apsaras" that he has worked on for several years—— The box office of this movie also didn't seem to bring any surprises to people from the beginning.
When it was released, the "Matrix" swept everything. After it was released for two or three weeks, "The Matrix" finally lost its prestige, and "Dragon Inn" came again!
However, when the movie went off the assembly line at the end of September, many people were surprised to find that although it hadn't had a big explosion from beginning to end, the box office trend of this movie was surprisingly stable-you know, " At that time in "Sword Fairy", it was so high and low that it was scary!
So in the end, it was screened every week at a moderate level, and it seemed that there was no outstanding performance, but when it was released, the film won more than 440 million yuan in one fell swoop. Yuan's box office - surpassing "Swordsman and Monk" and "Sword Fairy" in one fell swoop, becoming the highest-grossing movie among all Liu Chengzhang's works! Moreover, despite the investment of more than 100 million yuan, it is still profitable!
After its final box office was released, Hu Fei specially arranged wine for Liu Chengzhang to celebrate his success, and invited Li Qian to the past, and the media all sighed: Liu Chengzhang is back!
Of course, that's all for later.
On the third day after Li Qian returned from France, Lu Lingxi and Han Shunzhang came together.
Now that Li Qian, Jin Han, Zhao He, Feng Bicheng, etc. are all focusing on movies, the two of them, a man and a woman, are basically the two leading TV dramas of Minghu Culture.
"Daming Palace Ci" directed by Lu Lingxi appeared on a program of Huaxia TV in May of this year.
The "Legend of the Condor Heroes" directed by Han Shunzhang landed on China TV in August. With the reader base of the original work, and the author of the original work is Li Qian, the ratings of this TV series can be imagined. Han Shunzhang's directing skills are there. As soon as the TV series came out, it naturally became a hit.
It can be said that today, when the film and television department of Minghu Culture began to largely focus on shooting resources and energy towards movies, it is precisely because of these two TV dramas that Minghu Culture continues to be established as a domestic TV drama. The leading position of the leader.
The two of them are naturally hardworking.
What's more, one of them was the head of Li Qian's department and served as his teacher for a year, and the other also served as their counselor, and their identities are extraordinary.
So Li Qian made tea himself and entertained them both.
At the same time, Li Qian was very clear about the reason for their visit.
Lu Lingxi has been resting for half a year since the final stage of "Daming Palace Ci" was finished, and Han Shunzhang's "Legend of the Condor Heroes" is similar.
The only difference is that Han Shunzhang is the chief steward of the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department. He has many and complicated things to do. After finishing the TV series he is in charge of, he is still very busy every day, which is nothing at all. rest.
Of course, in the final analysis, Han Shunzhang's first identity is still a director.
At present, the third part of "Once Upon a Time" has not even set a shooting date, and Lu Lingxi is not interested in playing other roles. Therefore, as a director, she is currently "unemployed".
So, after the tea was served, and everyone sat down and had a brief conversation about homework, Li Qian straight to the point and asked, "Do you want to start a new play? A movie or a TV series?"
Han Shunzhang and Lu Lingxi were surprised when they heard this.
Especially Lu Lingxi, at this time, couldn't help turning her head to look at Han Shunzhang—if it wasn't for the years of cooperation between everyone, she knew Han Shunzhang's character well, and she had absolute trust in his character, so she couldn't bear it at this time I wondered if he had greeted Li Qian in advance.