Chapter 696 Two Hundred Million in 11 Days
In fact, the person in Tianmei Company who is most unhappy is probably Huayi!
As the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.
As a bridgehead in the Beijing Circle, Tianmei Company's development momentum is too strong...
In three years, Huayi was overtaken by Huayi. Except for its foundation, it was inferior in all other aspects...
But in the entertainment industry, the most useless thing is actually the so-called background...
Especially overseas, after Tianmei acquired Golden Harvest, it directly had distribution channels in Southeast Asia. In the United States, Shen Xudong also has Wonder Studio, which has cooperative relationships with Lionsgate and Warner.
Now we have reached a cooperation with South Korea's CJ Group...
You can't copy this thing even if you want to copy the route!
Of course, at this stage, Huayi has not fallen behind, at least domestically...
Last year's annual box office champion movie "Mobile Phone 2" was produced and promoted by Huayi; this year there is "The King of Kung Fu"...
"The King of Kung Fu" received poor reviews, but its market performance was not bad, with a box office of 182 million US dollars in the mainland and 126 million US dollars globally.
As for the total investment... anyway, according to Li Lianlian's words, 'the global box office has exceeded 50 million US dollars, and filming of the sequel has begun'
In other words - as long as the box office is 50 million, the project can be guaranteed to be profitable.
Oh, "Yangtze River No. 7" is jointly produced by Bona and controls the distribution in the mainland...
I originally thought that "The King of Kung Fu" could beat Tianmei, and indeed it did - the box office of "The King of Kung Fu" in the mainland just exceeded that of "Unfortunately" and "Zhao Zilong 2"...
In addition, "Love Has Afterlife" and "Nan Xing Ke" failed at the box office...
Especially "Nan Xing Ke", which was released in the same period as "The King of Kung Fu", was suppressed by the latter and was breathless!
Yes, the two parties are not the same type at all, and the star lineup and investment scale are not at the same level...
But who cares?
All I know is that it was suppressed at the box office!
Then, "20 Again" was released, with 82 million in its first weekend. This result surpassed "The King of Kung Fu" and even had a higher first-week box office than many high-profile blockbusters in the Lunar New Year period.
Huayi is very embarrassed...
Now is a critical moment for Huayi to seek listing. It is very important to become the leader in the mainland!
The so-called leading position cannot be achieved by boasting, you must have real materials.
When making statistics, I deliberately avoided talking about "Cao Cao"...
How to do it?
What can I do? Congratulations first!
Then…
Since Shen Xudong can cooperate with CJ Media, Huayi can certainly do the same. Huang Zhonglei proposed to introduce the works of CJ Media and bought the mainland distribution rights of "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys"...
Jointly invested in the production of two movies starring Jang Dong Gun, "The Warriors of the Yellow Sand" and "The Day We Landed"...
Real money investment.
In just one week, a lot of decisions were made and a press conference was even held...
Thinking of overwhelming beauty.
Unfortunately, no one cares - the Olympics are only two months away, who cares about what entertainment companies do?
Besides, "20 Again" was released for 4 days and the box office exceeded 100 million, and after 11 days of release, the box office exceeded 200 million...
At present, the daily revenue in a single day is still over 10 million.
The theater chain even raised the box office forecast for "20 Again" and gave a final box office forecast of 320 million...
Also, the first weekend box office of "Cloverfield" was US$42 million, continuing to write about Wonderful Studio's strong original ability...
Both pieces of news are more worthy of reporting than the cooperation between Huayi and CJ!
Oh, "Cloverfield" is a pseudo-documentary film produced by Shen Xudong and costing US$25 million, about monsters attacking the earth and the end of mankind...
…
"This is the script we received. I think it's quite interesting. It's in the form of a pseudo-documentary, showing the disaster coming through DV, making people immersive..."
"The screenwriter Drew Gouda is very capable, so we bought the script and invited him to direct another movie "I Saw the Devil"..."
"Drew Gouda is one of the writers of the American TV series "Lost". He has a good relationship with J.J. Abrams... "Cloverfield" was also co-produced by us and Bad Robot..."
"Well, Bad Robot is J.J. Abrams' production company, we each put in half the money, and Paramount is distributing..."
Hotel, private room, Shen Xudong is telling Zhong Lifang about the situation of "Cloverfield"...
Zhong Lifang is quite frustrated - Jiahe is not in the production company of "Cloverfield"!
"You should also consider that Golden Harvest...you are going to direct "Iron Man" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to dominate the Hong Kong market one after another..."
"Wait a minute? "Iron Man"? That's..."
""Iron Man", the mainland translation is called "Iron Man""
Shen Xudong couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing...
Iron Man... This translation is so stupid. I laughed and asked, "How do you translate The Incredible Hulk in Hong Kong?"
"Doctor Shapeshifter..."
"…puff…"
"What happened to "Medicine"? Is Hulk a doctor? Is he immortal and able to transform?"
"Hulk is a Doctor. Although they are both Doctors, they are different..."
Zhong Lifang was speechless: "I'm telling you something serious!"
"Let me tell you the truth, investing in "Cloverfield" is not the purpose at all. Our purpose is to connect with J.J. Abrams... He is a mainstream Hollywood filmmaker, and he is closely related to Spielberg and George Lucas has a good relationship... We don’t want to remain on the fringe, we also want to be mainstream!”
"...You want to cooperate with Spielberg? Spielberg's own DreamWorks can't even survive..."
Shen Xudong waved his hand: "It's okay, the business can't continue. Many wealthy people in the mainland want to take over!"
Just as he was talking, the box door opened and Chen Xi, Yu Feihong, and Tang Yan walked in.
Today is a small celebration, "20 Again" breaks 200 million...
Shen Xudong is going to the United States the day after tomorrow, so he will help celebrate in advance.
"The Twilight Saga" is coming to theaters!
"...The box office performance of "20 Again" in Hong Kong was quite satisfactory. It ranked second at the box office for two consecutive weeks, second only to "Magic Kingdom", with a total box office of 6.98 million Hong Kong dollars..."
"Magic Kingdom?"
Chen Xi explained: ""The Chronicles of Narnia 2"..."
"Not bad, it shows that Hong Kong audiences are still willing to watch Chinese films..."
"The quality is good, I'm definitely willing to take a look."
"There are still differences. The mainland box office of "20 Again" has exceeded 200 million!"
"I heard that the Korean version of "20 Again" had more than 6 million viewers?"
Zhong Lifang was curious: "How much is the box office?"
"It's very simple. Multiply it by the ticket price. The ticket price of Korean movies is fixed, which is 8,000 won (about 40 yuan)...about 5 US dollars..."
"Then why do we need to count the number of moviegoers? Can't we just use the box office to count them?"
Chen Xi explained: "It seems that for comparison with the past, there is no need to count inflation when counting moviegoers."
"Take off your pants and fart, it's unnecessary!"
"People are used to doing this!"
Zhong Lifang remembered something and lowered her voice: "...I heard that in Korea it is customary to use female celebrities to entertain guests..."
"Ask Shen Xudong about this. Last year he ran to Seoul whenever he had something to do!"
Shen Xudong corrected: "That's Seoul!"
"...Is this happening?"
"You know how to spread rumors about me all day long. I only went to South Korea twice last year, and both of them were to discuss business."
"Who spread rumors about you? Am I not answering Sister Zhong's questions? You are the only one of us who is familiar with South Korea... Who are you asking?"