Chapter 535 Final Box Office

Why did you play "Hurt City"?

Because the first weekend box office of "Hurt City" was only less than 20 million...

From the 22nd to the 25th, "Hurt City" started a head-on "competition" with "Golden Armor" and "Manslaughter".

The box office of "Golden Armor" was more than twice that of "Scarcity".

Among them, the gap between the two films in the BJ New Film and Television Theaters is the largest, with 9.1 million and 1.9 million respectively, and the Chinese Movie Star and American Cinemas with 6.3 million and 1.7 million respectively.

The gap between the two films in Shanghai and Guangdong is relatively small. The three-day box office of Shanghai Lianhe Cinema is 5.9 million and 2.37 million respectively. The cumulative box office of China Film Southern Shinkansen and Pearl River Cinema is about 8.5 million and 3.76 million respectively. .

Oh, the report didn't mention "Manslaughter"...

But the company received news: "Manslaughter" still had a box office of 9 million in its third weekend...

In other words, the actual attendance rate of "Manslaughter" is higher than that of "Hurt City"!

In fact, in terms of movie discussion, the movie "Hurt City" has the lowest discussion...

Because this movie... is very bold, it belongs to suspense reasoning + literature!

As the last work of the Iron Triangle: Liu Weiqiang, Zhuang Wenqiang, and Mak Siu-fai, "Suffering City" is their last collaboration.

Because I’m about to say goodbye, there are so many things I want to do. Everyone hopes to make this work a success and achieve greater glory.

So, stuffed in a bunch of stuff…

I want literature, suspense, and classics...

How can it be classic?

Made a literary romance film along the lines of "Infernal Affairs"...

"The City of Hurt" describes love and marriage as a city of endless purgatory, where the pain of the past is repeatedly tormented. Buddhist thought persuades people to let go and forget hatred and pain, so that they can get out of the city of hurt...

The placement of this core idea caused "Shangcheng" to use too much force, dooming it to a niche audience!

It’s baffling to see…

How to pull and step?

It's very simple. When promoting it, label it an art film!

Whenever a movie is labeled as "literary", most viewers will immediately give up the idea of ​​buying tickets...

The audience was hurt by the art film.

Art films are not "popular films" and do not cater to the mainstream tastes of the audience. In other words, 'it doesn't look good'!

After decades, it is difficult to change deep-rooted prejudices...

Why not target "Golden Armor"?

The reputation of "Golden Armor" is terrible.

According to the opinion of many experts in the media: apart from the grand scenes, gorgeous costumes, and the golden palace atmosphere that fills the screen, the movie has nothing else worthy of praise.

Wang Shuo even said, ‘Zhang Yi is just a decorator! ’

Netizens commented, ‘I just looked at the clothes and didn’t remember anything else! ’

Someone below directly retorted: "Return the clothes, just point it out, breasts"

‘The whole city is full of white steamed buns! ’

‘After watching this movie, I vowed never to watch a domestic movie again! ’

But it was really a hit...

And it’s the kind of discontinued sales—92 million in the first four days, 97 million in the second week…

As long as the popularity is high and the movie is a hit, theaters will not downgrade the movie.

So... focus on suppressing the film schedule of "Hurt City"...

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The effect is quite good. With the release of a large number of drafts, many public figures in the film industry praised "Scar City": it is a literary film that is not obscure...

Basically, "Compared with the gorgeous and grand narrative layout of Infernal Affairs, the story of Shangcheng is not complicated, or even important." ’

‘Loss and dislocation are the themes of this film. ’

‘‘Scarcity’, ‘Chungking Express’ version of ‘Infernal Affairs’’…

Well, that’s a lot of praise!

The so-called public figures in the film industry are actually film critics, planners, people with quite a status in the world...

The effect is obvious. After "Scarred City" was labeled as a literary film, the distributor of "Manslaughter" approached theaters to discuss increasing the film schedule, and it went much more smoothly!

With the increase in film schedules, the box office of "Manslaughter" also experienced a short-term recovery.

But... it's only short-lived, because the movie "Manslaughter" has been released for more than 20 days, and pirated copies are everywhere. On the Internet, a casual search will show high-definition pirated copies...

This affects the box office too much...

Pirated copies can be found everywhere on the Internet, so how can the audience buy tickets to see it?

According to estimates, it is only 170 million at most!

The free film schedule of "Scar City"... I got a new movie "Big Movie" at a bargain price...

It's not cheap, because the "Big Movie" company also has investment - Ning Caishen is the screenwriter, Huang Bo stars...

The company invested 2 million yuan, accounting for half of the investment ratio-it helped to attract 4 million yuan in advertising sponsorship.

"The Big Movie", a pure spoof film...

It spoofed "Daisy", "In the Mood for Love", "Infernal Affairs", "The End of Love", "Please Close Your Eyes when It's Dark", "Kung Fu", "House of Flying Daggers", "Brokeback Mountain", "The Promise" , "My Sassy Girl", "Shaolin Football"...

But the story line is quite complete. The film talks about what Chinese people care about most, houses.

There is a very classic line in it: "It's glorious to be sick!" If you can't bear it anymore, take medicine; if it doesn't work, hang yourself. I insist on one point of view, that is, not all people can afford medical treatment. ’

It’s the part about real estate agent Jiang Zhiqiang: ‘I insist on one point of view: Don’t let all ordinary people buy houses! ’

In fact, Ning Caishen's movie scripts are pretty good. In "Big Movie", he found a contradiction of great practical significance and used conflicts between all parties to construct difficult problems. And some of the dialogue is well written.

Including "Laughing in the Rivers and Lakes", his original intention was to deconstruct Jin Yong and martial arts...

One of these two novels met director Forrest Gump, and the other met Zhu Yanping...

"Movie"... was very absurd, and the box office was good. Later, a second movie was made - "Movie 2.0: The Absurd Affair of Two Idiots". Without Ning Caishen's screenwriting blessing, this film has a good reputation and box office. crotch…

As for the other movie "Laughing Out Loud", after it was released anyway, Ning Caishen announced that he would never be a movie screenwriter again.

Well, I was hit hard enough...

Bringing it back, the box office of "The Big Movie" in its first weekend was 6.8 million...

In the three days of New Year's Day, I got 21% of the film schedule...

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Many people don’t know that before digital hard disk copying, it was difficult for our movies to be released simultaneously!

In the era when film films were the mainstream, because it was impossible to accurately estimate the actual demand for film copies and considering the high production costs of film copies, some distributors adopted a conservative approach and generally implemented first-, second-, or even third-round screenings. Way.

The number of copies of film films is limited. Cinemas in big cities with good screening conditions and high box office revenue will show them first, then cinemas in medium-sized cities will screen them, and finally cinemas in small cities will screen them.

This kind of chronological screening in rounds has seriously affected the enthusiasm of moviegoers in small and medium-sized cities, making them feel that such movies are like other people's leftovers...

But there is no way. The cost of film copying is about seven to eight thousand yuan. In addition, a 35mm film copy weighs forty or fifty kilograms, and the transportation cost is also very high...

Therefore, at this stage, generally speaking, except for blockbusters that attract national attention, most movies are screened in the first, second or even third round.

"Manslaughter"...can barely be considered a blockbuster, after all, 700 copies were produced!

But...many small cities still haven't released copies.

New Year's Day is here, "Manslaughter" is also being screened in big cities and central cities, and the position has moved to small cities...

That is the second round of screenings.

Although the box office is small, the map is grand and adds up to a considerable sum.

On January 12, "Manslaughter" was fully released, and its box office data was firmly fixed at 178 million, third in the year, second to "Golden Armor" (240 million) and "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" (207 million)...

The box office in other places is very good. "Carol" was released and Gong Li's popularity is very high. In addition, the quality of "Manslaughter" itself is not bad. The box office in other places is close to 90 million yuan. This mainly refers to the box office in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...

South Korea and Japan have not yet scheduled a release...

In Europe, MK2 is currently in theaters and the box office is very impressive.