Chapter 630: The First Year of the Chinese Box Office Boom

Light and Shadow Era Cinema.

In the screening room reserved by Wu Yuan, the screening of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has ended, and the ending subtitles have entered the rolling playback stage.

"Hey, the Monkey King transforming into a giant ape should be a tribute to the Dragon Balls, right?" Liu Yifei took off her 3D glasses and said with some unfinished thoughts.

"Hey, have you seen Dragon Ball?!" Wu Yuan looked at her in surprise.

He suddenly realized that his understanding of his little girlfriend seemed not deep enough!

"Of course." Liu Yifei raised her lips proudly: "I used to watch "Dragon Ball" when I was a kid, and Goku's adventure was particularly interesting."

"As soon as I saw the transformation of Sun Wukong played by Huang Bo in the movie, I thought of Dragon Ball. It is very similar to the transformation of Wukong on the night of the full moon in Dragon Ball!"

Wu Yuan nodded and agreed: "I think so too. Mr. Xing should be paying tribute to "Dragon Ball". I heard that Mr. Xing is also a fan of Dragon Ball."

"I also heard about the promotion for the release of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in Japan, and I asked Mr. Akira Toriyama to draw a promotional poster for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons"."

It's not surprising that Xingye likes "Dragon Ball". Wu Yuan also likes it very much. He was surprised to see the tribute in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

"But the empty boy is more interesting, he feels very nonsensical like Mr. Xing." Liu Yifei replied with lingering interest: "Whether it's Huang Bo or Wen Zhang, it doesn't feel like the role played by Mr. Xing. Instead, he is Xiaozhu's empty boy. The most touching thing.”

"Yeah." Wu Yuan agreed again, he felt the same way.

Whether it's Huang Bo or Wen Zhang, their acting styles are too "selfish". Even if they follow Xingye's nonsensical route, what they perform is their own nonsensicalness.

In comparison, the empty son played by Luo Zhixiang is the most "star-like nonsensical" character, which is quite missed.

However, Wu Yuan still took the initiative to tell him: "Look, don't get too close to the little pig."

"What's wrong?"

"He's not a good person."

None of the celebrities who can hold a silver party at home are good people. Wu Yuan doesn't want Liu Yifei to have anything to do with him!

"Oh." Liu Yifei nodded as if she understood, and did not continue to ask. She grabbed Wu Yuan's hand and said with a smile: "I know."

The two held hands and went home.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Wu Yuan, who had a nice week's rest with his wife at home, set out on the road to work again.

The filming of "Dear" has come to an end.

After the crew regrouped in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, they filmed for another half a month. When February was about to end, "Dear" was successfully completed.

Of course, it’s hard to say whether there will be reshoots in the future.

While production of "Dear" is wrapping up, the mainland film market is also turbulent at the beginning of this year.

After "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" grossed 76.85 million yuan on its premiere day on New Year's Day, the box office exceeded 220 million yuan in three days, once again breaking the box office record for Chinese films.

When "Conquering the Demons" was released in the mainland, the box office exceeded 700 million and broke 14 box office records.

Including overwhelming "Transformers 3" to become the highest-grossing movie in a single day (more than 120 million).

Overwhelming "Titanic" to become the highest box office in a single day.

It overtook "囧囧路之囧" to become the fastest Chinese film to surpass 700 million.

Not surprisingly, the film will eventually earn a total box office of 1.247 billion yuan in the mainland.

And as a movie by Star Master, this movie has an international market.

As of March 21, 2013, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has been widely released in many Asian countries, mainly in East Asia and Southeast Asia. The cumulative global box office has reached 215 million US dollars!

This box office result has surpassed the previous box office result of $213 million set by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee in 2000.

But compared with "Your Name", it's still a step behind.

The film that currently holds the global box office record for Chinese films is "Your Name", a film made by Wu Yuan almost eight years ago.

No way, although the domestic box office performance of "Your Name" has long been surpassed, the box office performance of this movie in the entire Asian market is simply legendary among legends.

The box office in Japan alone was more than 20 billion, which was equivalent to 100 to 200 million U.S. dollars that year.

In addition, this movie was also a big hit in South Korea and topped the box office in various countries in Southeast Asia.

For latecomers, it can be said that it is very difficult to obtain a higher overseas box office than "Your Name".

Not to mention surpassing this movie, it is a bit difficult to surpass "Along with the Gods" and "Painted Skin".

These two movies have also achieved very high box office in the Asian market, but the domestic box office is indeed a bit outdated, and a few hundred million yuan is not enough to watch.

"Speaking of which, I should also refresh my mainland box office record." Watching a series of media chasing "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" to report its box office results, shouting that the Chinese film box office market has arrived, Wu Yuan also looked forward to it .

In just three months, two movies have exceeded 1 billion in box office, and one is higher than the other.

"Lost in Thailand" has just set a record. The industry originally thought that this achievement could be maintained for at least a year. After all, the box office of 1 billion is still a huge barrier for current Chinese-language films.

Unexpectedly, in less than three months, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" broke this record and surpassed it directly.

The first reaction of industry insiders is generally surprise, and then ecstasy!

It’s a good thing that the record has been broken!

It is even better that it broke so quickly!

This shows that the desire and habit of moviegoers have been cultivated and are very high!

After a recovery period that lasted for ten years, the mainland film market has finally ushered in a bonus period!

Although it is not to the point that you can pick up money with a sack, there is no doubt that the market has indeed been cultivated. Now there is no shortage of market but good movies.

As long as your movie can attract people, it can sell well. Hundreds of millions or even billions of box office are not a problem. Domestic moviegoers can do it!

Unlike before, the market is not big enough, no matter how good your movie is, you can only get 200 to 300 million box office.

The gap between them is very large.

Only when the single box office that the mainland can create is higher, the production company will dare to invest more money to make movies when producing!

Just like why Hollywood can invest more than 200 million US dollars to produce a blockbuster?

Isn’t it because their movies can get more than 1 billion US dollars in box office, even if the cost is 200 million, it will not lose money!

Let domestic film production invest 200 million US dollars to try?

You will lose money!

This is the market limitation, a hard limit.

But now, this limit seems to have expanded a lot, and the mainland market has shown an explosive growth of more than ten times!

Now even if you invest 200 or 300 million RMB to make a movie, you still have a chance to make a lot of money!

I don’t know how many mainland film companies are eager to make a move after seeing the success of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Lost in Thailand"!

After the filming of "Dear", Wu Yuan also began to think that he should make a commercial blockbuster.

Otherwise, his domestic fans will really be waiting for it!

It was decided.

After the release of "The Martian", I will make a Chinese blockbuster! (End of this chapter)