Chapter 743 Legendary Figure (Part 1)

The first-day box office result of 18.6 million was quite a surprise for the crew of "Painted Skin"!

Judging from the data, last year's "The Movie" made about 10 million yuan on its first day, and the just-released "Hot Detective" made less than 13 million yuan on its first day...

"Painted Skin" grossed 18.6 million on its first day...

Even the publicity staff of Tianmei Company felt that the results were amazing.

According to the person in charge of each major theater chain, the 26th is a normal working day, which has always had a certain impact on the box office. However, under such circumstances, "Painted Skin" can still achieve such good box office results, which is very rare among domestic films. .

The peak box office period of "Painted Skin" should be later, not on the first day - the holidays are coming soon.

Judging from the National Day film schedules of major theaters, "Painted Skin" occupied almost half of the screens during the National Day period. It has strong momentum and is expected to dominate the National Day film schedule.

Well, the main reason is that so far, there has not been a domestic movie that has exceeded 100 million yuan during the National Day holiday. Therefore, everyone’s initial box office expectations for "Painted Skin" were only over 100 million yuan...

But judging from the results on the first day...

Over 100 million, horror is probably not the end. Judging from the current start of "Painted Skin", the box office can at least exceed 200 million!

In the original time and space, the rise of National Day movies started with "Painted Skin".

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Although Shen Xudong does not need to go on road shows with the crew, he still has to receive necessary publicity.

This time he was with Gao Fenfen.

Gao Fenfen's expectation for "Painted Skin" is that the box office will exceed 100 million...

After all, the cost is only 35 million...

It’s like this. Hong Kong directors who go north to shoot are all quoted on a group basis. Chen Jiashang’s quote for "Painted Skin" was 15 million, and it was a one-stop service behind the scenes...

Including art, modeling, action design...

The subsequent expenses are only the filming fees, actors' remuneration, etc...

Gao Fenfen was a little emotional: "I didn't expect Chen Jiashang to be quite talented!"

Shen Xudong nodded: "Chen Jiashang is an all-rounder... You wouldn't expect that he started out as a prop maker."

"real?"

"Of course, in the early 1980s, when "Star Wars" became a hit, Hong Kong films followed suit and made science fiction films, and Shaw Brothers' "Star Wars" was one of them.

Chen Jiashang was originally a production assistant for "Interstellar". One day, director Zhang Guoming saw him drawing airplanes on the set. After several exchanges, he was asked to draw the sketch of the spaceship in the film.

"Later, Shaw Brothers took advantage of the stunt craze to set up a separate department and made Chen Jiashang the director. However, when the craze subsided, he was also left out."

Gao Fenfen was very interested: "There are still science fiction movies in Hong Kong?"

Shen Xudong is very familiar with Hong Kong movies and did some popular science on the spot: Shaw Brothers has produced several science fiction films: "Chinese Superman", "Life and Death Fight", "The King of the Orangutans", and "Interstellar Blunt"...

In particular, "Interstellar Blunt" ended up being a dismal box office failure and was offline for three days. After so much trouble, Shaw Brothers ended miserably in the creation of science fiction films.

You can say it follows the trend, but it does try hard...

New Arts City later also produced "Maria" and "Legend of Wesley", which had a good reputation and decent box office results. Unfortunately, later on, the film-selling system became popular in Hong Kong movies. Stars can make money, and science fiction movies are too difficult to shoot. complex…

Moreover, Hong Kong people are oriented towards commercial films when making movies. They are used to treating movies as a business, pursuing efficiency and seeking benefits, so they make more movies in whatever genre has the highest box office.

Finally, Shen Xudong added: "I heard that Wang Jing is filming "Future Copy", and Chen Musheng seems to be interested in mutants..."

""Future Notes"?"

""Future Police"..."

"Building on the popularity of "Iron Man"?"

"Maybe!"

Regarding "Future Police", it feels like Wang Jing is thinking of remaking "Super School Bully", using various elements from American movies, and making a big mess...

Based on his film experience, he must know that this "Future Police" has many problems, but he thought the audience would like it, so he made it like this...

Unfortunately, the audience didn’t buy it!

While we were chatting, someone from "Looking at the World" arrived.

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Shen Xudong rarely accepts exclusive interviews. So far, except for "People", "Southern Weekend", and "Sanlian Life Weekly", he will accept exclusive interviews for Mianzi...

Because doing interviews is... boring.

In the Internet age, what you want to say can be conveyed directly through blogs. There is no need to sit still and let others dig into your heart...

But...there is no other way, just publicity!

"Looking at the World" is a highly read book...

According to statistics, among airport publications, the most popular magazines are "Kantianxia" and "Sanlian".

The full name of "Kantianxia" is "Vista Kantianxia". Shen Xudong bought it several times out of boredom when he was at the airport. It focuses on entertainment. Let's put it this way, this magazine should be positioned as an advanced version of "Story Club" or "Zhiyin" , many things in it are fictitious...

Today's "Looking at the World" is not entertaining at least. Later, Chen Jinsong was the main writer. Most of his articles were about his life in the United States, especially his daughter. They had very obvious class characteristics and understanding of his own class. A sense of superiority…

There are also many sections that have become bases for promoting female boxing ideas...

It’s getting boring!

I don’t even bother to put it on, the smell is too pungent...

Besides, it’s already 2023, you have access to the Internet, and you don’t know any news? Do I still need a magazine to guide me to "see the world?"

Bringing it back, the current chief writer is Lin Chufang, who later became the vice president of Toutiao...

He was very curious about Shen Xudong. In fact, most people in the domestic media were very curious about Shen Xudong. An outsider with no foundation in the entertainment industry broke into the entertainment industry with his talents and then succeeded?

So, the first question: "Xudong, I'm particularly curious, how did Tianmei Company develop to this stage?"

"I first worked on a program, "Screening Room"... in cooperation with Phoenix TV. It was produced by four people in our dormitory. But at that time, we were just students and didn't know much about finance. It happened that the cousin of the boss in our dormitory was... Finance...then we'll ask her to help with it..."

Gao Fenfen nodded: "That's me, and didn't Beijing encourage culturally innovative enterprises at that time? It gave them a lot of preferential treatment, so I let them set up a studio and helped them apply for tax rebates... This studio is Tianmei Studio!"

Shen Xudong continued: "Then, I started to take on the work of TV drama screenwriter... The first drama was with "Dragon", which felt very novel..."

"Besides novelty?"

"Let Sister Gao say it!"

Gao Fenfen said with a smile: "He was very angry and didn't like Zhang Jizhong's understanding of martial arts... But he was very reticent at the time and didn't dare to say anything... Later, he took over the adaptation work of "The Two Prides" and it was almost completed. As a result, the producer After finding Wang Jing... they were kicked out directly..."

"This incident solidified his idea that he must continue to be a producer, and then..."The World's No. 1", he became a producer..."

When Lin Chufang heard this, he probably understood this mental process and interrupted her: "What about the movie?"

"The movie was suggested by Teacher Chen Daoming... I was also on the set of "The Best in the World". Teacher Chen Daoming suggested that I write a movie script, and then "Outstanding Citizen" was born..."