Chapter 230 I Haven't Even Started to Exert My Strength yet, and You Fall Down First

Chapter 230 I haven't even started to exert my strength yet, and you fell down first?

"The first week box office of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" directed by Li Yang is out!"

"8 million box office in the first week!"

A very good report card was placed on Li Xiaoping's desk.

Although Wu Yuan's movies often have a daily box office of more than 20 million yuan, "The Promise" also has a daily box office of 30 million yuan, as if it is normal for mainland movies to have a box office of over 10 million on the first day.

But in fact, there are only two or three such "blockbusters" a year.

In most normal situations, the daily box office of movies released in the mainland is only a few hundred thousand.

"Crazy Stone" became the dark horse of the box office last year, with a total box office of more than 20 million, and its first week box office was only more than 2 million. It was relying on the word-of-mouth reputation that gradually counterattacked in the later period.

After all, "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" spent 3 million before the premiere, and did a wave of ground and online publicity, and the effect was very good, so it could achieve a box office of nearly 10 million in the first week.

Similarly, the reputation of this movie is also very good.

At a time when youth movies are not yet rampant, the theme of this movie is still novel, and it also evokes the youth memories of those born in the 1970s. Indeed, the word of mouth is still very good after one week of release, and the Douban score is as high as 8.0.

The audience group targeted by this movie is indeed a bit small.

Only those born in the 1970s can feel involved in this movie, and they have to be college students among the 1970s.

If you are an ordinary person born in the 1970s who has never been to college or even high school, you can't empathize with the college life of the protagonists in the movie and the college love that is so passionate, and you don't understand why the heroine chooses to go abroad.

Among those born in the 1970s, only a very small number of people have gone to college.

The only thing to be thankful for is that college students born in the 1970s are now the backbone of society, with real money in their pockets, and they are not stingy at all to spend some money to go to the cinema to watch a movie.

The movie "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" is spread by word of mouth among the vast group of college students born in the 1970s, although it can't achieve any very impressive single-day box office results.

It's unthinkable to even think about a single-day box office of 10 million or 20 million.

But the daily box office performance is very stable, with a daily box office of about 1 million every day, and a single-day box office of two to three million on weekends.

According to the current trend, there should be no problem in making a profit.

It depends on whether "The Battle of Mo" will be released on November 23 to cause a siphon effect of blockbusters and suck up the box office market of other movies of the same period.

Li Xiaoping is very worried about this.

However, Wu Yuan, who is still filming "Gravity", is not worried about this at all.

The current publicity campaign of "The Battle of Mo" is indeed very fierce. A lot of money has been spent, and many media have been invited to write press releases everywhere. Various portals on the Internet are also promoting this movie crazily.

It seems that it is indeed coming in with great momentum. The combination of Andy Lau + Fan Xiaopang is indeed very attractive. It is a cooperation between China, South Korea and Japan, and Huayi is the lead investor. It can be said that the BUFF is full.

Any industry insider believes that this movie will become another blockbuster with a box office of over 100 million.

Don't worry about whether it can make a profit, but the box office will definitely not be less than 100 million.

Because before "The Battle of Mo", such movies with big stars and big investments had box office revenues of over 100 million yuan, and there were no failures.

Even though "The Promise" had a bad reputation, it still had a box office revenue of over 100 million yuan!

Only Wu Yuan knew that "The Battle of Mo", a movie that countless people had high hopes for, would only get 60 million yuan at the box office in the end, losing all the money and not producing any blockbuster effect at all.

Those movies that were released earlier to avoid "The Battle of Mo" were all in vain.

Facing Li Xiaoping's concerns, Wu Yuan comforted her on the phone: "Don't be afraid, believe in Director Li, believe in "Whose Youth Is Not Confused"."

"Our movie is not the same theme as "The Battle of Mo", and its release will not have any impact on us."

The fact is indeed as he said.

As time goes by day by day, the box office growth of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" is still very stable, maintaining a daily box office of about one million.

Until November 22, the day before the release of "The Warring States", "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" had already earned 23 million yuan at the box office, not only recovered the investment, but also made a lot of money.

Thanks to the good cooperation relationship with Toho before, Toho took the initiative to negotiate and hoped to introduce this movie to Japan for screening.

Japan is the largest market for youth films, but Japanese youth films are very Japanese, telling stories of Japanese campus life and youth experiences.

It is certainly not the case that Japanese movie fans are tired of watching it, but they do want to see the different youth in other countries.

Toho thinks that "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" still has a market in Japan. I dare not say how good the box office is, but there is still hope for more than 10 billion yen.

So they want to buy out the Japanese distribution rights of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" for 5 million yuan.

It is a fool not to make money. Anyway, Wu Yuan is not optimistic that "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" can make money in Japan. The risk of buying out is lower than that of sharing. He immediately accepted the 5 million from Toho.

Hey, this is the connection!

If it were any other domestic film production company, they would not have any connections with Japanese film producers, and it would be even more impossible for Japanese film producers to take the initiative to buy the films they made in the mainland.

Wu Yuan has gradually built a network of contacts covering many Asian countries with the achievements of his many films in Asia.

Not only Japan, but also South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia have had film producers come to inquire about the purchase of distribution rights.

In the end, the overseas distribution rights of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" were sold for 10 million RMB.

The cost of "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" was recovered in a way that Li Xiaoping did not expect, and it also made a net profit of 5 million.

Even if this movie is not released in China, it is impossible to lose money.

"Director Wu, your influence is really beyond words." Li Xiaoping called Wu Yuan again and complimented him with great admiration.

Backed by a big director, and a big director with international influence, this movie is really easy to sell.

Did those foreign film producers buy this movie for Li Yang's name, or for the domestic box office of 23 million?

Of course not!

They all looked at Wu Yuan's face!

On November 23, the heavily promoted "The Battle of Mo" held a grand premiere in Beijing.

At the premiere, the main creators talked about how difficult it was for them to make this movie.

Liu Dehua injured the ligament of his left foot while filming a scene of flying down from a five-story tower and needed to recover for a month.

In order to achieve the same effect as other soldiers in the film, Fan Xiaopang applied black foundation on his face every day. Even so, she was whiter than others in the camera with her fair skin, so the makeup artist had to increase the amount of black foundation.

The two words "The Battle of Mo" in the movie name were written by Liu Dehua in brush calligraphy. After the first writing, the director felt that it lacked a bit of domineering. Andy Lau went back and wrote it again without saying a word. After this time, the director liked it at first sight.

In order to be close to history, the filming team of "The Battle of Mo" built a set covering an area of ​​66,000 square meters in Hebei, using loess, trees, houses and bricks to recreate the ancient city, city wall, village and prison of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period 2,500 years ago.

In order to make the film scene grand and "blockbuster", 700 field troops and 150 temporary actors were used in just one shot to form various teams, and 400 horse divisions and horses were found locally to form a cavalry formation.

In addition, there were 40 professional action actors and 350 practitioners, a total of thousands of people completed the scene of the Zhao soldiers attacking between the two mountains.

In order to shoot the water prison hero saving beauty scene, Liu Dehua and Fan Xiaopang soaked in the water for a whole day when the water temperature was extremely low, and later both caught a cold.

However, the complaints of the main creators of the crew were useless.

Although on the day of the premiere, "The Battle of Mo" still achieved a daily box office of 13 million, which is a good start.

However, the next day, from the Internet to the media, there were overwhelming negative reviews of the movie.

It was so badly made!

The theme was self-contradictory and the concepts were vague.

It did not truly reflect the Mohist thought.

There were many laughs and too many truths.

The story was confusing and the plot was inconsistent.

The characters were abrupt and the theme of the story was confusing.

The story was obviously centered around Mozi's idea of ​​"universal love and non-aggression", but it was told in a mess. If Mozi knew about it, he would probably get angry and sit up from his coffin.

The impact caused by so many negative reviews was that the box office of "The Battle of Mo" was cut in half on the second day, leaving only 6 million.

This made director Zhang Zhiliang and the main creators very anxious.

Before "The Battle of Mo", no matter "The Promise" or "House of Flying Daggers" or "Hero", as long as it was a big-scale movie with a high investment, the box office was never bad!

Even if there were many criticisms when it was released, the box office was still strong.

But this guaranteed halo was broken by "The Warring States".

Whether it is Liu Dehua, Fan Xiaopang, or the Korean superstar Ahn Sung-ki in the crew, they all called on everyone on the Internet to go to the cinema to support this movie. It was really not easy to make this movie.

The leading actors are also actively running offline roadshows. They have formulated a plan of 26 roadshows a month. The crew is divided into two teams, running in the north and south at the same time.

However, these remedial measures are not effective at all. The box office of "The Warring States" is still hitting new lows, and the momentum of criticizing bad movies is getting bigger and bigger.

In comparison, "Whose Youth Is Not Confused", which is still being screened, is still very stable. Even after almost a month of release, the box office has increased a bit, reaching about 1.2 million per day.

Although it is still not a big hit, the cumulative box office has reached 33 million without knowing it!

Because the audience of this movie is mainly born in the 1970s, and they are successful in their careers, at least they have mixed into the middle level of the company. They are not the kind of people who have a strong desire to speak on the Internet.

Therefore, the public opinion momentum of this movie on the Internet is indeed not very big, and it is limited to word-of-mouth among the post-70s, and it is spread among the "elite class".

But the box office results are real.

"The Battle of Mo" not only did not have any negative impact on "Whose Youth Is Not Confused", but also stimulated the box office of this movie again.

This bizarre scene shocked Li Xiaoping.

Li Xiaoping made countless mental preparations to face the offensive of "The Battle of Mo", but "The Battle of Mo" just fell down so easily?