Chapter 711 Do You Blame Me?

"Blockbuster" has also been released overseas, mainly in Southeast Asia. Golden Harvest tried to release it, but the box office was not good...

It can be said that 95% of the income is domestic!

After all, this work is too localized...

Thanks to "Red Cliff", the release of "Blockbuster" directly opened up the popularity of "Blockbuster". According to Golden Harvest data, in the first week of the release of "Red Cliff", the disc rental and sales data of "Blockbuster" in Southeast Asia soared 1,000%...

Well, that’s tenfold.

Mainly, the previous base number was too small...

It seems that last year’s rental and sales data did not reach 800,000 US dollars, and last month it did not even reach 50,000 US dollars. As soon as "Red Cliff" (Part 1) was released, it immediately boosted the disc data of "Blockbuster". In just three years Days, this figure jumped to 500,000 US dollars...

For this reason, Golden Harvest’s Zhong Lifang specially ‘thanked’ director Wu Yusen and the crew of ‘Red Cliff’ at the premiere of ‘Girls in Underwear’…

Oh, "Girl in Underwear" is a light comedy produced by Jiahe. It is quite large in scale and full of sexual openness...

But it's just lip service, not a third-level film...

The cost is very low, 4 million Hong Kong dollars, mainly for the Hong Kong local market.

"The Ancient City" has been in theaters in Hong Kong for 20 days, with a box office of 22 million Hong Kong dollars. There are only 3 theaters left, so it's time to release a new film...

Oh, "Red Cliff" (Part 1) had a cumulative box office of 84 million in the first three days. In Hong Kong, the box office of "Red Cliff" exceeded HK$2 million on its opening day, and the box office on Sunday reached HK$3.14 million. It became the box office champion in Hong Kong last week after just 3 days of release. , the cumulative box office has reached HK$8.59 million;

In Taiwan, "Red Cliff" earned approximately US$1.87 million at the box office.

"Red Cliff" (Part 1) also performed well after its release in Singapore, with a box office of US$625,000 in its first weekend, which exceeded the first weekend box office of "Superman".

The box office in Asia in its first weekend exceeded US$18 million.

Very fierce.

The box office performance of "Red Cliff" is more due to the subject matter and the psychological expectations of the audience, as well as the trust in the director accumulated through films such as "A Better Tomorrow" and "Face/Off".

This is called the balancing effect of the market!

Also called word-of-mouth fulfillment.

The market is very fair. Your previous movies had good reputations, but due to various reasons - insufficient number of screens, etc., the box office was poor. Then when the market expands and you release new movies, the audience will reciprocate!

Just like Ning Hao, the box office of "Blissful" is mainly to compensate for what has been lost and missed in the past few years.

"Red Cliff" can also be regarded as a kind of encouragement from the market to Wu Yusen in the past few years...

It's a pity that "Blockbuster" has too much influence!

In other words, the navy hired by Tianmei is all-pervasive. When "Red Cliff" was promoted, almost all the staff present were asked the question "Cao Cao went south to rush to the crown and became a beauty in anger"...

Zhang Fengyi replied: "This is a movie, not history! From a movie perspective, this change is more entertaining...

Our mainland directors and audiences like to respect history, but they are often easily framed by history. The Hong Kong director is different. He feels that history serves the characters, and the characters serve the actors. Everything is centered around the actor's performance, doing whatever needs to be done. "

You Yong, who plays Liu Bei, said: "The Mainland has always been relatively orthodox in its viewing habits for movies, so it is impossible for a movie like Stephen Chow's spoof of Journey to the West to appear in the Mainland. But in recent years, people have also become more interested in this type of movie. I started to accept that people like to watch movies like "Wulin Gaiden", so I think movies of this style are also needed to impact the mainland film market."

Wu Yusen seemed to have recovered - the box office was not bad anyway. He replied: "Mainland screenwriters have no romantic feelings, and they go from being angry to becoming a beauty. How romantic!"

Well, he thinks his "Red Cliff" is very romantic...

By the way, after the release of "Red Cliff" (Part 1), the box office of "The Ancient City" in the third weekend was 16 million, and the cumulative box office was 347 million...

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After the premiere of "Red Cliff", Shen Xudong has not appeared in public, nor has he expressed his views on "Red Cliff" again...

Many netizens were quite disappointed, but they didn’t even fight?

Shen Xudong is busy exploring the cast of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom"...

In fact, many people are not optimistic about "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom". Is Xu Ke, the martial arts film director, filming a G theme?

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" is one of the eight model dramas!

But Shen Xudong has full confidence in Xu Ke - he knows that Xu Ke's version of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" is great.

Therefore, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" is also a project that he strongly promotes.

"There needs to be a battle of wits, a battle of martial arts, a vast forest, a sea of ​​snow... the artistic conception needs to be more artistic, and it doesn't violate the main theme. Such a good subject can be used to film suspense, martial arts, and snowboarding in the snow." The road movie...can be made into a red war-type theme to educate primary and secondary school students...it will definitely not be a loss!"

Of course, after it was announced that director Xu Ke would star Jackie Chan and Ni Dahong, many investors rushed over instantly...

Not for anything else, just for starring as Jackie Chan!

Jackie Chan has been really awesome in recent years.

Of course, Shen Xudong knows that after the Boao Forum next year, his reputation will officially fall into a low ebb...

That's why Shen Xudong wants to ensure that "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" will be released during the Spring Festival next year!

Xu Ke has never lost in terms of efficiency.

In order to catch up with the schedule, I directly kicked out Hu Jinquan and formed my own team to film "New Dragon Inn"...

After all, if the schedule is not met, the boss will be forced to refund the money by overseas film companies, and the boss will be refunded... You can think about how they, the workers, will be treated!

Of course, Shen Xudong is not like this.

So, he came to supervise it personally!

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Shi Nansheng is the producer of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", and she admires Shen Xudong very much.

At the age of 24, he started from scratch and is worth over 2 billion.

The key is that his judgment of the film market is too accurate.

She is more knowledgeable than most of the bosses she has known before...

The key point is that he rarely interferes in the filming - except for the early preparations, he will make a general request, and at other times he completely respects the director...

Shen Xudong came to visit the cast of "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wise" mainly to see the progress...

Fortunately, the scene in Xuexiang has been completed - it was filmed on location in Mudanjiang Xuexiang for five months!

Mainly because of the temperature, which is more than 30 degrees below zero. The equipment is really unbearable and I can only shoot for three or four hours a day...

The camera is very expensive and cannot withstand high or low temperatures!

——The battery is the component most affected by temperature changes. A drop of 10°C (18°F) in temperature may cause the battery to drain by more than half...the damage is permanent!

Fortunately, I got over it...

Now I mainly shoot interior scenes with scenes, which are shot at the Huairou Film and Television Base.

Shen Xudong spends most of his time watching Xu Ke filming and never interferes...

"I heard them say that "Red Cliff" has become a laughing stock?"

"It's not that exaggerated...it was quite a hit at the box office!"

"...Someone said you were targeting Wu Yusen?"

"Am I targeting him? What qualifications does he have for me to target? Is he Li Min? Has he won an Oscar?"