Chapter 886: The Domineering Female President Is Resurrected with Full Blood!
After getting the summary of the national box office situation on Sunday, on such a night, countless people across the country could not sleep all night.
For Oriental Cinemas, it means that after missing the box office explosion of "Red Sorghum" in the first week, it made a wrong bet in the second week. After using the largest screening scale to support "A Fate", and reducing the screening scale of "Red Sorghum" to the minimum allowed by the screening agreement, in such a weekend when other theaters are raking in money , they once again gained market share well below normal levels.
For two consecutive weeks, it is no exaggeration to say that just because of missing "Red Sorghum", Oriental Cinemas missed at least 20 million, and may even be as high as 30 million in operating income.
Zhou Yanghua's depression, anger, and helplessness can be imagined.
As for the producers and distributors of "A Fate", as well as the director Lu Ping, with the support of such a large screening scale in the first week of its release, instead of being able to suppress "Red Sorghum", they were instead held back by the other party. The extremely high attendance rate has basically meant that "Bad Life" has been difficult to turn around since then-because the advantages and disadvantages of each other are so obvious.
"Red Sorghum" is a literary film, and it is also an award-winning literary film with great popularity and excellent reputation. Its natural characteristics are destined to be a long-term blockbuster with relatively stable sales ability. Movies——If a commercial movie doesn't kill it in the first week of its release, then it's better not to report any expectations after that.
After such a first-week box office came out, one can imagine Lu Ping's disappointment and resentment, and even Zhou Zhengyang's helplessness and frustration.
But fortunately, for a commercial film with an investment of 40 million yuan, and the publicity and distribution funds are also controlled within 20 million yuan, the box office was close to 53 million yuan in four days in the first week of release, and although the word of mouth is polarized It's powerful, but at least it hasn't completely collapsed, so there is still great hope for this movie to return to its original value-of course, it is not feasible to continue to follow the popularity of "Red Sorghum" .
Facts have proved that whether it is awards, word-of-mouth, popularity, or box office, "Red Sorghum" and "A Deadly Life" are really not on the same level.
And such a box office data of breaking 100 million in the next week is naturally a great happy event for Minghu Culture - early the next morning, Qi Jie has already released the word, and when the box office breaks 300 million, Minghu Culture is going to spend millions to hold a celebration banquet!
Well, Minghu Culture has never liked to hold celebration banquets.
From the earliest days, Liao Liao and He Runqing's albums have been selling well, but nothing has been done. The albums of the Four Great Beauties and Rose Power have sold well, but they have never been done. "Super Girl" became popular, and Hunan Satellite TV is doing it. "Legend of the New White Snake" was very popular, and it was just a small internal celebration. One person poured half a glass of wine, chatted and laughed, and it was considered a celebration-of course, no one would say that Hu Culture is stingy, because no matter it is a TV series. , or the movie is a big hit, Minghu Culture has always been praised by the entire industry for the large red envelopes that Minghu Culture gave to the actors and staff, and how well they were distributed.
But this time, Qi Jie said in a very high profile, we are going to hold a celebration banquet!
The whole Minghu culture was full of jubilation.
Li Qian just shook his head and smiled, and let her go.
He knew that Qi Jie was happy, and it was the kind of happiness that he couldn't control himself.
When it comes to writing songs, making albums, and even singing and releasing albums by himself, in short, in the music industry, since Li Qian first debuted, almost no one dared to provoke him. There was once a fault from the Flying Band. , but to be honest, even at that time, the force and identity of the Flying Band, which had been retired for many years, was already far behind the Four Great Beauties.
Therefore, when they find faults, they are actually chasing the popularity to a greater extent, trying to sell their albums by taking advantage of the popularity of the four beauties. What's more, not long after they provoked, Li Qian almost slapped the opponent away with a slap - "Once Upon a Time You" was a big hit in Asia, and the Spring Festival Gala was extremely popular for ten minutes, and then the Flying Band was honest!
Therefore, although the Flying Band criticized the Four Great Beauties, Qi Jie was also very unhappy, but she was unhappy for a while, and when Li Qian flipped the other party away, she couldn't talk about it. Why not be angry—from her heart, she didn't feel that the other party's provocation was really a big deal at all.
But this time, it's different.
From last year's "The Gate of Life and Death" released on the tail of "Huang Feihong", to Qin Wei's nonsense in order to compete for the box office, Qi Jie was extremely upset, but Li Qian didn't bother to fight back, and Qin Wei's status in the arena was not good. It was indeed very high, and the box office of "The Gate of Life and Death" was indeed higher than that of "Once Upon a Time in Huang", so Qi Jie kept holding back her breath, until now.
"Red Sorghum" shined brilliantly in Berlin, and this follow-up was immediately established!
You, Qin Wei, started out in literary and artistic films. You won the award at the Venice Film Festival, so you are called a film master. Now it’s all right. Our "Red Sorghum" won the award in Berlin. It is only better than you, not worse than you !
Then, back in China, Ka Ka Ka—the first week broke 100 million, setting a record for the box office of a literary film, and the next week broke 100 million again, and the box office of the two weeks combined has infinitely approached 250 million!
What is it called?
This is called hard goods!
In the face of such a work that has exploded with awards, has an unbeatable reputation, and at the same time, the box office is skyrocketing. If you are capable, will you make a fool of yourself again?
So, all of a sudden, the tone in Qi Jie's heart went smoothly.
And immediately, almost everyone who has the opportunity to see Qi Jie frequently will find that the smile on President Qi's face, and the spirited spirit that naturally comes out of her whole body, obviously return to Qi Jie. It was the way it was before last spring.
Calmly, he reprimanded Fang Qiu.
Well, a "Red Sorghum" made the domineering female president calm down and revived with full blood!
For others, there is nothing but congratulations when they meet, but for her, it's just a word - that's normal! This is his normal level!
Of course, she didn't know that in the past few years, Li Qian has been performing at a super level.
For an expert who has been doing music for so many years, it is relatively easy to copy some things about popular songs, or even to carry out a certain degree of localization on the basis of the original works.
But movies are many times more complicated than music.
Even if you have an extremely clear script in your mind, and the already extremely successful pictures and editing provide references that can be copied as usual, it is still extremely difficult to reproduce it perfectly.
Therefore, as an ordinary actor and second-in-command assistant director in his previous life, Li Qian is very self-aware to start with TV dramas that pay more attention to storytelling than artistry.
Train yourself and train your team.
Later, when he started making movies, he also started with relatively simple commercial films that were relatively easy to copy, and he also started with an urban youth comedy, and then he tried martial arts and kung fu movies, and then he finally dared to try a A literary film.
Fortunately, "Red Sorghum" was a big success.
But even so, even since the coronation in Berlin, the popularity of "Red Sorghum" in China has been one wave after another, and now it has exceeded 100 million in the next week, and the box office has completed a big reversal. The crew of "Red Sorghum" went out to promote, regardless of Wherever he went, he was greeted with applause and screams one after another, but Li Qian was not intoxicated by such a huge success—his old habits, the release promotion of "Red Sorghum" and various activities, he He continued to push two five six, and directly dumped the bag to Fu Xuelong and Qin Jingjing.
Because after returning from participating in the Berlin Film Festival, all his energy has been completely taken away by the backlog of various jobs on hand.
First of all, there is Zhou Mo's new album, the comeback of the goddamn baby, it's definitely not enough to just write songs for this, you have to keep an eye on it.
Then there is the production of "Calabash Baby". Although Cao Zhan and a group of masters from Minghu Animation can rely on their abilities, almost every shape design, every action design, and every frame of the picture must be done. Li Qian had to see it with his own eyes and was satisfied.
So it is conceivable that it is full of all kinds of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Qian also had to use his really crappy painting skills to demonstrate in person.
Fortunately, the overall progress of "Gourd Baby" is relatively smooth.
The most important thing is the several teams that were abruptly kneaded together. Because of such a project, they had to cooperate with each other to work, and the integration was quite good.
However, due to lack of technology and lack of experience, everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones every step of the way, making mistakes and mistakes. , everyone turned around and took the other route, and it often took a few days, or even more than ten days.
For "Calabash Baby", China's first major animation film, all the other costs added up cannot compare to the time cost caused by those detours.
The most optimistic estimate is that this animated film will probably have a prototype in the second half of this year, and it will not be fully completed until at least the end of this year.
If you are not optimistic... it will probably be after New Year's Day!
And then there's the preparations for The Matrix.
Props are the biggest item.
Fortunately, there are various sketches made by Li Qian in advance, and the props group is made according to the drawings. At most, it can be reworked a few times, and Li Qian can always accept it with satisfaction in the end.
Still the same sentence, in order to save costs, Li Qian chose not to use post-production special effects as much as possible to achieve a picture that can be realized with the help of props, models, and shooting skills.
The main reason is that the special effects cost too much money.
Oh, for the time being, there is another point, that is, Liu Chengzhang's special effects are too strong.
Originally thought that the special effects follow-up of his new movie would require about half of the workload from the special effects department of Minghu Culture, and the remaining half could borrow a lot of casual work, while continuing to upgrade the new one. Technology and new equipment, but in fact, he took away at least 80% of the workload of Minghu Cultural Special Effects Department for one movie!
It should be said that after experiencing the blow of "Sword Immortal", Liu Chengzhang's courage in special effects and spending money, not only did not restrain himself a little, but became even more exaggerated!
Now he desperately needs a super successful big work to justify himself!
And to rectify his name for his road of special effects and money!
Well, it's getting too far.
Li Qian plans to start filming the movie "The Matrix" around July and August, and its preparations must be completely completed before the end of June.
The props are not a big problem. Li Qian is very concerned about the actors. Zhou Baoshan and He Yingyu, the male and female protagonists, have already received some necessary training, such as gun training, but after that is over, because of Li Qian For the first "The Matrix", the company did not arrange any other film appointments for them, basically it was a state of fitness and training while waiting for the boot.
Then, Li Qian plans to find some foreign actors of other skin colors that are needed from the United States. At present, the American Oriental Dream Film Company has reported to the actors union. In mid-April, Li Qian plans to fly over for a few days to make public The audition and selection of the Prophet Morpheus, Li Qian plans to arrange for black actors to play, while the villain in the movie, Agent Smith, is scheduled to be a white actor.
The American audition, to put it bluntly, is mainly for these two roles.
Moreover, in Li Qian's version of the script setting, the big city as the background of the story is obviously going to blur the specific positioning. Therefore, some clones of Agent Smith that will appear in the movie, except in the original In addition to men and women, old and young, there are also people of yellow race, black race and white race.
It is said that in Hollywood, black actors cannot play negative roles. This is the so-called "political correctness" in the United States, but for Li Qian, he has a certain intention of impacting the international film market when filming "The Matrix". , but in the final analysis, in his opinion, this movie must first be based in China!
First make it a super blockbuster movie that Chinese people love to watch, and then add an international background appropriately, so that foreign audiences, especially European and North American audiences, at least seem to feel at ease, and that's fine.
Perhaps the fact that the male and female protagonists are all Chinese actors will cause "The Matrix" to lose some points in the European and American markets, but...don't care!
Anyway, Li Qian's base camp, no matter now or in the future, must be in China!
In fact, a population of more than one billion and a rapidly developing economy are fundamentally doomed. Once China's domestic film market rises in the future, the North American market with a population of only about 300 million cannot be compared at all. !
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Over there, "Red Sorghum" was a big hit across the country, and became a "national topic" after the box office exceeded 100 million in the next week. The crew of "Red Sorghum" headed by Qin Jingjing and Fu Xuelong also worked very hard to run around the country Promoting, interacting with movie fans, and recording TV programs, etc., Li Qian here, although he did not participate in the promotion of the movie, is still busy every day.
After finally checking the production and preparation of the two films, the existing problems were discussed and the work direction was re-established. Finally, Li Qian could breathe a sigh of relief temporarily.
And at this time, Feng Bicheng's cut-out version of the movie "Big Whistleblower" has been out for a long time. First of all, an internal viewing meeting is imperative.
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