Chapter 335 Public Opinion Crisis
The story framework of this version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" shot by Guo Fan is basically based on the 1987 version, but it adds a lot of novel settings and metaphors.
In addition, the picture quality and fighting scenes of the film are far superior to the previous ones.
On the love line, Xiaoqian fell in love with Ning Caichen, broke up with the tree demon, and finally sacrificed herself, which made many viewers shed tears.
There are certainly some touching moments, but they don't seem so strong.
In general, as a commercial film, it is still qualified.
Compared with the film directed by Jiang Heng, this version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" seems to give people less shock.
The 3D special effects are not as shocking as "Havoc in Heaven", and the story is not as novel as "The King's Avatar".
As a result, Xinlang Entertainment's evaluation is that "A Chinese Ghost Story" produced by iQiyi, Youku and Tencent is like a fast food with good color, fragrance and taste, delicious but without any nutrition.
Because Jiang Heng's technology company launched Weibo, Xinlang Company has always liked to report some negative news about Jiang Heng in recent years, and various entertainment reports also have a bit of a weird feeling.
Fortunately, other entertainment media have basically reported positively on "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Thanks to the fact that Jiang Heng and Liu Yifei starred in it, and it was a love and 3D blockbuster, the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story" on the first day of its release in mainland China exceeded 60 million.
Compared with Jiang Heng's directorial works in recent years, this first-day result is not high.
But from the perspective of Guo Fan's directorial works, this result is simply explosive. This is his first time to independently direct a film!
In a short time, Guo Fan went from being an unknown person to a well-known director in the industry.
Of course, many people on the audience side don't know he exists.
Because many people will subconsciously think that this movie is written, directed and acted by Jiang Heng.
Many results are also viewed according to the standards of Jiang Heng's works, such as overseas results.
"A Chinese Ghost Story" performed well in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, but it was unprecedentedly cold in North America and Europe.
Because from the perspective of mythological movies, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is not as shocking as "Havoc in Heaven", "Lion Camel Ridge", "Pingdingshan" and other films.
And from the perspective of love elements, Europeans and Americans have no feelings after watching it.
In fact, Chinese love movies have never had very good box office results in the European and American markets.
When it comes to "A Chinese Ghost Story", thanks to Jiang Heng's starring role and the 3D version, it barely broke through 20 million US dollars in the first three days of its release on the weekend.
According to the current box office trend, it is quite good to be able to pass the 100 million US dollar mark.
The global box office of the whole film is expected to be around 360 million US dollars, which is half of Jiang Heng's previous works.
Therefore, many entertainment media deliberately concealed the fact that it was directed by Guo Fan in order to gain traffic, saying that "Jiang Heng's new film failed at the box office and was suspected to be abandoned by the overseas market"!
"Jiang Heng was defeated in the United States, and the first Chinese director may face a crisis of losing money."
"The unbeaten myth is broken, "A Chinese Ghost Story" may not make more than 300 million US dollars at the global box office, and Jiang Heng's new film is cold."
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At iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures, Jiang Heng sat in the boss chair and casually browsed the entertainment news on the Internet. From the "horrifying" headlines above, it seemed that he was going to lose money.
But in fact, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is quite hot in the mainland market. At least in the IMAX theater a few days ago, it was hard to get a ticket!
It was just that Liu Yifei was a little disappointed. It was the first time for her to star in a love movie with Jiang Heng, and she didn't want the overseas box office to be so bad.
"I'm sorry, brother!"
Liu Yifei, sitting on the sofa, couldn't help saying.
Jiang Heng smiled, "I've already said, it's not your fault, why do you take it to heart?"
"If I had known, I wouldn't have made this movie!" Liu Yifei became more and more annoyed.
Jiang Heng stood up and walked to Liu Yifei, patting her on the shoulder, "Don't be upset, it's nothing, just earn less!"
"But they said nonsense on the Internet...!"
The young lady was almost crying at this moment.
Jiang Heng smiled, "The media always likes to talk nonsense. If you pay attention to them, you will be angry to death. Don't think about it!"
"Oh!"
Liu Yifei pouted and suddenly said, "Then will "White Snake" have better box office?"
Jiang Heng smiled embarrassedly. He really didn't want to discuss this topic with Liu Yifei. In fact, Liu Yifei rarely mentioned it.
But at this moment, the film she starred in was "a disastrous failure" in the overseas market, so she wanted to know how "White Snake" starring Jiang Heng and Jing Tian would perform. Girls like to compare.
What's more, both are love movies, and the release dates are only half a year apart.
"They are almost the same!"
Liu Yifei raised her head, "White Snake's box office will be better, right? That's yours!"
Jiang Heng smiled, thinking that the young lady was blaming Guo Fan?
After thinking for a while, he said, "The box office in the mainland should be better, and my film must be better. As for overseas, maybe the difference is not big. You know, foreigners often don't feel anything when watching our love movies."
"Oh!" The young lady responded, lowering her head, not knowing what she was thinking.
Suddenly raised her head, with a panic expression, "Doesn't that mean that you will have two consecutive films with average box office overseas?"
Jiang Heng shrugged his shoulders, with an indifferent expression, "Maybe!"
Liu Yifei was almost crying, "How can that be possible? Isn't this destroying your reputation?"
Jiang Heng smiled, "Not really. In fact, even "A Chinese Ghost Story" has a good reputation in Hollywood, but it's not as amazing as before. The total box office is about 20th of the year, which is also very good!"
"Then, should we make a super blockbuster? This won't work, right?"
Jiang Heng was silent for a while, and slowly said, "Indeed, we have to make a super blockbuster!"
It's normal for the overseas box office to fall after two love movies were released in succession. If the third movie doesn't stand up again, many people may really think that they have been abandoned by the overseas market, which won't work!
But Jiang Heng didn't think about what to shoot for a while.
In terms of popularity, science fiction, mecha, monsters and other movies are naturally more popular in the overseas market.
In terms of science fiction, "The Three-Body Problem 2" and "The Wandering Earth" are not planned to be shot in the next few years.
In terms of mecha, the script of "Pacific Rim 3" is still being revised repeatedly and has never been finalized.
And monster movies, to be honest, are somewhat incompatible with the Chinese market.
You can't shoot Star Wars, right?
The Hollywood movie Star Wars series has a very high box office performance.
As for the story!
While thinking, Jiang Heng suddenly remembered "Legend of the Little Soldier", which is known as one of the "three great books on the Internet".
When he first read it, he was really amazed. He was obsessed with the latest chapter and couldn't forget it for a long time.
There are many interstellar battleship fighting scenes in the book, which made my blood boil.
Maybe I can give it a try!
Thinking of this, Jiang Heng called the copyright department and asked if the company had bought the film and television adaptation rights of "Legend of the Little Soldier".
The department manager checked the reply and said that it was bought a few years ago!