Chapter 534

Sure enough, as Li Qian expected, on the second day of its release, the "box office" of "On the Road" began to plummet - although this box office is only a theater, even if the theater is full, it is limited, but as a new work To test the waters, the amount of this box office is still of great reference value.

On the first day, there were five shows in a row. The first two shows were full, and the third show started to lose people. By the fifth show, the attendance rate was only about 80%. More than a thousand people have watched it, and its audience spontaneous word-of-mouth, began to spread among the audience who came to watch the film at the film festival, so, in the two morning shows, the attendance rate dropped to less than 70%.

Moreover, one factor that has to be considered is that this is a film festival!

There are a lot of movie-loving audiences all over the country, but a large part of those who come to Guangzhou to watch movies at film festivals can be regarded as true fans.

Firstly, the aesthetic level and appreciative taste of this part of the audience must be higher than the national average level. Second, these audiences came to Guangzhou on purpose, and there are quite a few of them in the middle of the novelty. The mentality comes, and even some people come here specifically to watch some foreign movies that are destined not to be released on a large scale in China, so the tastes of these audiences are actually more literary movies.

But even this group of viewers is not very interested in "On the Road".

After the third game in the afternoon, the attendance rate dropped to less than 50%, and Jin Han's face became serious.

Although this level of attendance is still slightly better than "The Mountain of Red Stones", which is currently highly rated at the film festival, but you must know that it is a foreign film, and it is also a partial Iranian film!

In addition, not to mention ordinary audiences, the film lovers who are slightly high-end literary and artistic films seem to be struggling. To be honest, it is only people like Jin Han who can see some shocking things from the language of the lens and so on. It’s amazing. For the vast majority of ordinary viewers, you can’t understand anything after watching this movie. At most, you can remember the name of the movie and know that the movie is about a group of sheep herders and children who pick up rags. thing.

But there is no way, Iranian movies, we don’t have to be afraid if we don’t understand them, since they are all here, at least buy a ticket to go in and take a look, and it’s also a capital to pretend to be back home, isn’t it? That's his Iranian movie!

How rare, how unpopular!

The Yangcheng Film Festival opened on April 15th and will not end until April 24th. Ten days before and after, Li Qian came late and missed the screening period of several opening films, but it doesn't matter. The few films he missed were all It will definitely be screened in the future, and Li Qian plans to go to the cinema to watch it again.

On the contrary, in the few days after he arrived, some niche films that participated in the competition started to be screened, so he put on a hat and sunglasses, and covered Wang Jinglu tightly, and the two of them slipped out to watch movies every day.

Ordinarily speaking, this is really a very romantic thing, if Li Qian is an ordinary senior student.

But the reality is that he is not an ordinary person.

Apart from hiding their heads and showing their tails, covering up for fear of being photographed by reporters, the two of them watched a movie together, and they didn't even dare to eat together - although looking at Wang Jinglu's attitude, she seemed not afraid of being exposed, but Li Qian didn't want to be at this stall. What a mess!

The reason is simple, his first solo album will be released in a few days, and if there is any news at this time, it will become a hype, if not a hype.

So, the two of them had no choice but to keep a low profile.

In order for the two of them to have a peaceful meal together, they even had to leave the town where the movie palace was located and go far into the city of Guangzhou.

In the middle, he took Wang Jinglu together and had a meal with John Days. This guy was full of emotion, because after the filming of "Titanic", including the director's salary and box office dividends, James Cameron got His siblings are more than 300 million US dollars, and then, he has no new film plans, and he plans to take a break for two years before considering new films. But he can be willful, but John Days can't, so he took over "Margaery the Witch".

In addition to participating in the production of this film, he now has an extremely important task, which is to urge Cameron's new film-although a "Titanic" costs a lot, it has made Hollywood's two major The production company teamed up and failed to get it down, and finally introduced Wall Street capital to make it to the release. However, with a global box office of over 2 billion US dollars, all the past has instantly become cloudless.

With such a huge success, James Cameron is now the most popular person in Hollywood. As long as he reveals even the slightest idea of ​​wanting to make a new movie, the heads of the seven major Hollywood production companies will immediately take it. The checkbook ran over—to use John Dess's words to describe it, it was an investment of less than 100 million US dollars, and several major studios would not even hesitate to write a check directly!

One hundred million dollars, what is the concept in the current film industry?

Don't look at the investment of more than 300 million yuan in "Titanic" before and after, plus the publicity and distribution, it exceeds 400 million yuan, but that is just an example. Even Hollywood, with a total investment of more than 50 million US dollars, is already in the category of blockbuster movies ! Those with an investment of more than 100 million yuan are the kind of masterpieces that can only be produced by masterpieces that attract worldwide attention!

In China, the current exchange rate is that one U.S. dollar can be exchanged for 2.05 Chinese yuan, but the cost of various domestic productions is lower, and there is still little awareness of making blockbuster movies in China, and the general investment exceeds 10 million Chinese yuan. , is already an above-average production, and if it exceeds 30 million yuan, it is an absolute big production.

At present, the number of directors with this level of production in China can be counted on two hands!

Liu Chengzhang's new film is in preparation, and he has a cooperation plan with the special effects department of Minghu Culture, so he has a close relationship, so Li Qian knows some news in advance. His new film does not know the story yet, but it will definitely use a lot of special effects shots. The total investment will be between 60 million and 80 million - if the news is true, this will be the largest investment in the history of the Chinese film industry!

So you can imagine what position James Cameron is in Hollywood after the big ship is released!

Of course, there is more than one James Cameron who is popular in the big boat. In addition to the hero and heroine who are popular all over the world, John Days is the main producer, especially a person who can be as eccentric as James Cameron. A producer who is partnered with a irascible guy and can last until the movie is made is also a well-known upstart figure in Hollywood-many production companies have realized that John Dess and James Cameron are very similar. A good pair of production partners, so Cameron has no new film plans for the time being, and is hiding for people to find. Several major production companies have contacted him one after another, urging Cameron through him.

So, in his words, this time he was invited to participate in the Yangcheng Film Festival. On the one hand, he was on a mission to pave the way for 20th Century Fox, which he worked for, to come to China. By the way, he also promoted the new film "Margaery the Witch". Meaning, but most of all, he's actually here for the holidays.

Being pursued by the seven major Hollywood production companies, in his words, is a happy and troubled thing.

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After watching movies for several days in a row, the Yangcheng Film Festival finally ushered in the closing day.

The leading actor of the French film "The Life of Mr. Stella" and the famous French veteran Treme Reynolds won the Best Actor Silver Lychee Award. Zhou Youping's "The Great Wall" heroine Lu Mingli won Acting, won the Silver Lychee Award for Best Actress.

The biggest winner of this year's Yangcheng Film Festival belongs to the 31-year-old young director from Iran, Lehr Raymond, who won the best award for his debut film "The Mountain of Red Stones". Two Golden Lychee Awards for Director and Best Film!

However, "On the Road" came up empty-handed.

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One, it will be after twelve o'clock, and I don't want to delay it until after twelve o'clock; I'll be there to help at five o'clock... I have to go to sleep for a while!