Chapter 575 Is Wu Yuan's Undefeated Legend Coming to an End?
"What a romantic love movie."
"It feels like a kind of destiny."
Outside the Beijing Light and Shadow Times Cinema, Zhu Yilong and Yang Rong walked out of the theater and talked excitedly about the movie they had just watched.
Although they are also contracted artists of Light and Shadow Times, they did not attend the previous internal premiere of "Love Letter".
Now there are more and more contracted artists of Light and Shadow Times, with about 30 contracted artists under its company. Most of them have no relationship with Wu Yuan, and may not have even met Wu Yuan since signing with the company.
Of course, these newcomers will not be invited by Wu Yuan to the internal premiere mainly attended by his friends.
However, Zhu Yilong and Yang Rong still bought movie tickets to watch this movie.
It would be unreasonable not to support the movie directed and starred by the company's big boss.
They are the new actors that the company will promote in the next stage.
The movie "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" is starred by them, Zhu Yilong plays the Shushan monk Changsheng, and Yang Rong plays Mengpo Sanqi.
For this The two spent almost two years of time and energy on the movie from the preparation stage to the release date.
For a new actor, there are not many two years to waste.
They completely bet their acting careers on this movie.
However, both Yang Rong and Zhu Yilong are very confident about this movie.
Not in themselves, but in the company.
After all, this is a movie project that Director Wu personally pays attention to and arranges, and it is an important layout of the company's next stage of the movie universe.
In addition, "Soul Ferry" already has the popularity of TV series. Now the "Soul Ferry" web drama has been broadcast to the third season, becoming one of the most popular TV drama IPs in the mainland, and it is also the originator of web dramas, harvesting a large number of young audiences.
It can be said that the "Soul Ferry" movie is one of the best IPs in China. It has the right time, place and people, and the probability of success is still very high.
"The box office of "Love Letter" has exceeded 150 million, right?"
"As a love movie, this box office result is already very impressive. "
Although he said so, Zhu Yilong's expression was still full of regret.
Perhaps a box office performance of 150 million yuan is not bad for any domestic director, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and others.
Chen Kaige's "The Orphan of Zhao" only had a box office of 220 million yuan, and Zhang Yimou's "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" had a box office of 160 million yuan.
Not to mention that "Love Letter" has broken the single-day box office record of domestic love films and is currently the film with the highest single-day box office record.
No matter from which aspect, this low-cost love film with an investment of less than 10 million yuan has achieved an extremely brilliant success.
Although The director of this movie is Wu Yuan.
Compared with Wu Yuan's brilliant achievements in the past, the box office performance of "Love Letter" is really nothing, even worse than "Your Name" back then.
There is no way, the times are different.
When "Your Name" was released, there were not many domestic movies, and even fewer good movies. The entire market was in urgent need of a movie that could attract audiences across the country to the cinema.
In this case, "Your Name" produced a siphon-like effect of emptying the streets, occupying all the theaters, and happened to cause a sensation in colleges and universities, which created such a phenomenon. Results.
Just like the phenomenal performance of "Hero" that year, even Zhang Yimou himself could not replicate it again.
The phenomenal success of "Your Name" is also something that Wu Yuan cannot replicate.
Even though the domestic box office market has increased tenfold, with seven or eight movies released at the same time and more choices for domestic audiences, the final box office of "Love Letter" is estimated to be around 200 million, which is similar to "Your Name".
This box office result may have been an exaggerated phenomenon ten years ago, but now it is not even in the top five of this year's domestic film box office list. If you count Imported films can hardly enter the top ten.
Although the cost of "Love Letter" was less than 10 million, it can have a box office of about 200 million, which has reached a revenue ratio of 1 to 20, which can definitely sit firmly on the throne of the highest revenue ratio of the year.
However, more people are still paying attention. The box office of 200 million does not seem to be worthy of Wu Yuan, the "box office king". It seems that as long as his movies do not win the mainland box office championship, they are substandard.
Who told him that almost every one of his previous commercial films won the mainland box office championship, and even won the mainland box office record many times.
"Wu Yuan's new film has a box office of 150 million! But the stamina has declined, and I am afraid that Jiang Lang's talent has run out!"
"After four years of hard work, the box office is less than 200 million. Is Wu Yuan's undefeated myth over?!"
"Wu Yuan's new film is cold, and the mainland box office king has suffered a defeat for the first time! ”
Many media reporters immediately exaggerated Wu Yuan’s “box office Waterloo” and reported in length that Wu Yuan’s new movie was a cold reception at the box office.
The 200 million box office expectation can actually be described as a “cold reception”. Perhaps this is really a treatment that only Wu Yuan can enjoy.
Of course, not all media are so exaggerated.
There are also many media that objectively evaluate the performance of the movie "Love Letter".
"An invisible and inaudible love that spans more than a hundred years."
"The film does not have any exquisite shots that are amazing, but it can make you hold your breath and your heartbeat speed up many times."
"For example, when Wei Lai and Jiang Lan sensed each other on the stairs when they first went to the old house, it was actually a very simple shot, but it made people concentrate, and even feel the sense of existence that they should feel a hundred years apart."
"The intuition and coincidence that people who love each other in the same scene can feel."
"The original soundtrack is also very appropriate, telling the story in a leisurely manner, with deep feelings."
"Finally, you met him at that time, and he met her in this time and space. The ending is a faint sadness accompanied by the upcoming full happiness, which makes people sigh."
-"Film Review Newspaper"
After leaving the cinema, Zhu Yilong bought this newspaper about film reviews on the street. The front-page headline is a long film review of "Love Letter".
There is no doubt that this movie is definitely one of the best works in mainland love movies in recent years.
In this era of impetuousness, this kind of slow and sincere love is really rare, and this kind of romance can only be found in movies.
The expected box office of 200 million yuan is really an outstanding achievement for such a low-budget love movie, and we can't ask for too much more.
"On Douban, Director Wu's "Love Letter" has a high score, it seems to be 8.1 points." Standing next to Zhu Yilong, Yang Rong whispered: "Most of the audience who watched this movie gave it a very high word-of-mouth evaluation, thinking that this is the best love movie in recent years."
"Now on Weibo, "Love Letter" has also received a very high word-of-mouth evaluation."
"The media's remarks that are bad for Director Wu have no effect at all. Anyone who has seen the movie will sneer at their statement that "Director Wu has run out of ideas."
"Many people think that this movie is Director Wu's love confession to Liu Yifei, especially the song "Missed Lovers" written by Director Wu himself."
As he spoke, Yang Rong hummed the chorus that he had heard many times in the cinema.
"I am sure that I said I love you hundreds of years ago."
"It's just that you forgot, and I didn't remember it either~" (End of this chapter)