Chapter 466 First Week
The first-day box office of "Republic of China" was 4.4 million!
It doesn’t look good, after all, the first-day box office of “Yin Yang Town” was close to 7 million, and the first-day box office of “Fengtian Baishi Shop” was also 6.8 million...
But it can’t be compared like that.
Shen Xudong's folkloric horror film has become a brand benefit, even with the replacement of brand-new actors - the leading actors are replaced by Yuan Hong, Zhu Awen, Lu Fangsheng, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan and the others...
Except for these two horror movies, the entire first half of the domestic movies were simply terrible!
The top spot so far is "Fight to the End" with 2 million, followed by "Looking Beautiful" with 1.57 million.
Note, this refers to the total box office.
The box office performance of "The Detective of the Republic of China" directly ranked third on its first day of release...
In fact, even if it is considered a Hong Kong co-production, except for "Fearless" which beats "The Detective of the Republic of China", the others have also been trampled under its feet...
In the first half of the year, so far only one "Made in Heaven" has grossed close to 8 million...
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After any movie is released, what the media is most concerned about, including the creative team, has changed from the liveliness of the movie to cold and direct data.
This is especially true for commercial films.
"The Detective of the Republic of China" is definitely a commercial film...
The box office on the first day was 4.4 million, which was considered big news, and of course it had to be reported in a press release.
It must be coordinated with word-of-mouth promotion...
The reputation is of course very good!
"It's obviously Shen Xudong's style, suspenseful reasoning + folklore and weird stories + historical interpretation. The story is told in an unhurried manner and with a high degree of completion..."
"The story of the Republic of China + suspense reasoning, the atmosphere is created very well, some parts are really scary, and the helplessness about current affairs at the end sublimates the theme, it is worth watching;"
"I originally thought that the picture in the TV movie would be terrible, but it turned out not to be the case. The tone, picture, and art are all at the big screen level..."
Although it can't be said to be overwhelming - after all, it's not a great blockbuster.
The focus of publicity has become, medium and low-cost genre films, the story wins...
A bunch of media even hailed it as a benchmark for mid- to low-cost movies.
""Republic of China" sold 4.4 million on its first day and has received a huge reputation. We are very happy to see such a movie. It can stand out in the domestic film market dominated by blockbusters. It is really a rare dark horse..."
"The Detective of the Republic of China" is another miracle led by Shen Xudong. In the mainland film market where blockbusters are popular, investors hope to get quick returns. They are more willing to trust those big directors with box office appeal. Shen Xudong does not believe in evil and chose to leave. A medium-low-cost way...'
"There is a phenomenon in China's film industry. For movies with a larger investment, some people dare to invest in movies with hundreds of millions, or one, two million, or less than three million, but no one dares to invest in medium-sized films. "The Detective of the Republic of China" is just right It’s the middle part…”
In addition to bragging about Shen Xudong, of course I also want to brag about Chen Hao, Huang Bo...
The news that Chen Hao will star in the movie for free continues to create hype - for a movie to achieve market success, stars are essential. Chen Hao joining the movie for free solves the crew's biggest problem: there are no stars familiar to the audience;
Huang Bo…
In "The Aviator", "The Adventures of the Republic of China", and later in "Crazy Stone", he has successfully been promoted to a second-tier movie actor.
As one of the first actors to join the company, he definitely had to buy a few press releases to spread the word.
"Huang Bo, an underrated actor..."
"Taking stock of the dramas starring Huang Bo..."
"Huang Bo you don't know..."
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The main plot of "The Detective of the Republic of China" is very simple, the case of corpses floating in the Haihe River!
Song Yanqing, played by Chen Hao, is the daughter of the Chinese police chief of Tianjin Wei. She studied intelligence abroad and wanted to be a police officer after returning to China. However, she was opposed by her father. She happened to catch up with the Haihe River floating corpse case. She wanted to prove herself, so she investigated the case secretly. Along the way, I met Guo Deyou (played by Huang Bo), known as Master Guo, who specializes in salvaging corpses from the river...
The investigation process encountered obstacles from the gangs, including the police department, and the National Government of TJ City even issued a decree prohibiting major media from publishing articles about the Haihe Floating Corpse Case...
Of course, in the end, the chapter found out that it was done by the Japanese and Ben people.
The Japanese garrison headquarters in Tianjin forcibly recruited Chinese laborers to build the Hedong East Bureau barracks.
These Chinese workers were all from poor people in Hebei and Shandong, and were forced to work for the Japanese in order to make ends meet. During the construction of the fortifications, a large number of Chinese workers were overwhelmed and died of illness or starvation. In order to conceal the truth, the Japanese hired local gangs and threw the dead workers into the Haihe River...
The corpses thrown away at night had flowed into the Bohai Sea by the next morning. Too many were thrown away and they floated...
They wanted the police station to close the case, but Song’s father locked up Guo Deyou directly and explained why he wanted to stop him: "From the beginning, I knew it was related to the Japanese people, but what would you do if you found out? Lushun killed Twenty thousand people, 300,000 died in Nanjing... International condemnation? Then what? This is a fucked up era, when the country is weak and the people are poor... Forget it!"
At the end of the movie, Song Yanqing found her uncle, Song Zheyuan, and begged him to release Guo Deyou, the northern chief official of the Nationalist Government at the time.
Song Zheyuan had no choice but to order the TJ city government to build some cheap guesthouses to accommodate the poor people who came to work in the city. They were strictly prohibited from entering the Japanese concession and organized to work...
It saved a lot of people...
At the end of the movie, Song Yanqing was confused: "...But I don't know what I can do?"
Guo Deyou, however, is very open-minded: "In troubled times, what can we do? It's good if we can protect ourselves and live well..."
"How can we live a good life? How can there be intact eggs when the nest is overturned? How can we survive in troubled times?"
"Don't tell me this, I have a master to support... By the way, there is a case that interests you?"
"case?"
"After cracking it, thirty yuan!"
"...What case?"
"That's it!" Guo Deyou pointed at the newspaper and wrote four big words: Heads in the ghost market!
Well, it's kind of a promotion for the next one...
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After the box office hit on the first day, the creative team became even busier.
They are roughly divided into two groups, one is Shen Xudong and Chen Hao, the other is director You Dazhi and starring Huang Bo and Zhu Awen...
In the next three days, which is the first weekend, the two teams will run through seven cities: Chongqing, Chengdu, Changsha, Wuhan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
frenzied!
It's just a road show. When you arrive in a city, you have to go to two or three theaters non-stop to communicate with the audience, and then accept interviews with the media.
Newspapers, TV stations, weekly magazines, including portal websites, any channel that can gain exposure will accept them.
Chen Hao was too tired. He was busy with the schedule and had almost no time for serious rest. He could only catch up on sleep on the plane or in the car when changing places...
Shen Xudong felt okay at first...
There is no need for artistic communication, it is simply physical fatigue, and he can handle this!
Well, actually the number of artistic exchanges is limited...
No matter how busy you are, when you have free time, for example, on the plane, you can just call him to the bathroom or something...
Chen Hao is very excited - she is the publicity and selling point of "The Detective of the Republic of China". Now it has won both box office and word-of-mouth. In terms of commercial performance, she is no longer inferior to the so-called Four Danshuangbing!
Emotions are high, and the excitement overwhelms the physical fatigue...
For commercial movies, the first weekend is very important. If the first weekend is a hit, there will be no problems in subsequent theater schedules...
On the third day, Shen Xudong was obviously in a trance - when he woke up, he was dizzy for a long time before he figured out where he was.