$405: Almost Achieved
The script of the movie Earth, modified by Jiang Ge, is very popular in China, but it is not so well-known overseas. Google search reading
It is normal to think about it. Chinese directors, screenwriters, and actors who are popular overseas have all succeeded after years of hard work.
In a word, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard.
After seeing the box office and word of mouth on the first day, Jiang Ge was relieved. He was not worried about the box office and word of mouth, but just a little excited and looking forward to it.
After all, in this period of time in Europe and the United States, there are Christmas-themed blockbusters with Hollywood stars such as "Saving Santa Claus 2", "Happy Christmas Eve", and "Christmas".
The high overseas publicity and promotion costs were not in vain, and Long Wei was not invited in vain. In addition to the reputation accumulated with "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift", it became the first movie from a Chinese screenwriter and director to win more than 20 million US dollars in a single day in North America after Long Wei's movie.
In fact, in recent years, from the perspective of film types, the overseas distribution of domestic films is no longer limited to martial arts films, but also comedy films, war films, etc., which have not only increased in number, but also achieved certain improvements in box office and word-of-mouth performance compared with the past.
From these distribution strategies, it can be seen that the influence of domestic films overseas is gradually expanding, and domestic films are increasingly paying attention to the spread of films in the core audience circles around the world. The targeted matching promotion of story content, characters, and elements is the entry point to penetrate into the overseas market, and the focus of overseas distribution of domestic films is on the direction of "geographical advantage and human harmony".
Under normal circumstances, domestic films will be released and released by overseas distribution companies such as Sony and Huashi when they are released overseas.
For example, Jiang Ge's "Swordsman: Invincible in the East", "Detective Chinatown 1", "Painted Skin" and other films were released overseas in cooperation with Sony Pictures.
North American Huashi, seeing that the money from "Fast and Furious Prequel 1" was earned by Sony Pictures, was so jealous!
"I knew I wouldn't be so tough to buy it out." Rod kept sighing and regretted it.
Their China Lion Films is a distribution company rather than a production company. Its official name is China Lion. It mainly exports Chinese films to North America and Australia.
They were not chosen simply because their business scope is too small. Sony Pictures is large and covers most countries in the world.
"Have you seen "Fast & Furious Prequel 1"?" Rod turned to the secretary and asked, "How was it?"
The secretary replied, "I haven't seen it yet, but according to my friends' feedback, it is a movie worth the price of admission."
Rod asked again, "It's a prequel. Does it matter if you don't watch "Initial D" and "Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift"?"
The secretary shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about that, but judging from the audience's evaluation on Rotten Tomatoes, there doesn't seem to be this problem."
Sony Pictures stepped up its publicity efforts amid the envy of North American China Lions.
Christmas is on Thursday. Although the box office fell to $12 million on Friday after the holiday, it slashed $28 million and $32 million over the weekend. After four days of release, the North American box office has reached $93 million.
Rotten Tomatoes's freshness is 76% and Popcorn's is 79%. The former is the rating of film critics, and the latter is the rating of ordinary audiences. The two scores are very close, which can reflect one thing. The film critics and ordinary audiences in the United States have a good evaluation of this movie.
Back to China, the box office in the four days was 300 million, 600 million, 900 million, and 800 million respectively, totaling 600 million, exceeding the box office of "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" in the same period.
[Feng Qing Yi Dan]: It is a very pure Fast and Furious, without any messy extra plots. It really relies on racing as the main line. The moment when the two cars scraped past the train in the last race was so handsome!
[Deep Sea Buried with Drowned Fish]: The plot is very old-fashioned, but the plot is relatively full, passionate and hot-blooded. Who doesn't love beautiful cars, beautiful women and handsome men?
[Remembering by People]: It is indeed Fast and Furious. Any road is a racetrack. The sudden situation really catches people off guard, makes people grit their teeth, and makes their blood boil!
【Jiarong is not Jiarong】: Actually, it doesn't matter who the screenwriter or director is for this kind of movie. As long as the cars are cool, the beauties are hot, and the stunts are exciting, it's enough.
【New Rain in the Empty Mountain】: Second-rate story, first-rate passion, pursuit of pure limit and freedom, car racing and gun battles, visual effects editing, thrilling adrenaline rush, some of the styles are the usual routines of Hollywood commercial films.
【Enjoy this again】: Very good, there is both the White Night Universe with plot and the Speed Universe with visual effects, whichever one you like.
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Ding Ge's changes to the script are just to reduce the unreasonable parts, not to turn decay into magic.
For popcorn movies, the standard of quality can be different.
"The total overseas box office is expected to hit 400 million US dollars, and the total domestic box office will not be a problem to exceed 2 billion yuan." Jiang Ge made a calculation based on the box office in the past few days.
"Whether it's box office or word of mouth, it's a step higher than "Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift." Mo Lan was happy, and the pressure on her body was relieved. The few months in the United States were not in vain.
"Next year I plan to speed up, and shoot "Fast & Furious 3" and "Fast & Furious 4" together." Jiang Ge said.
"Can you write the script?" Mo Lan asked.
"Okay, the story of this series doesn't need to be thought about too much." Django smiled.
The Fast and Furious series is arranged in the order of 12456378+Special Operations, and now it has become 12456 for the prequel of 3.
2 Because he couldn't reach an agreement with Vin Diesel on the salary, there was no scene of Dom in the script, and the story was just average, so Django chose to skip it directly.
And he learned from the lessons of the original version. When negotiating, the main actors such as Paul, Charedick, and Guo Senstan signed contracts for multiple episodes.
In short, in order to quickly open up the overseas market, it can be said that it took great pains.
Mo Lan was now accustomed to Jiang Ge's efficiency, so he turned to another matter and said, "Several of Brother Long's friends in the American entertainment industry are interested in working with you."
Jiang Ge's eyes lit up, which was a good thing, and he immediately asked, "Who are they?"
Mo Lan understood why he was excited, and quickly replied, "Rocky, Hancock, and Matt."
Jiang Ge's eyes lit up even brighter. He knew these people. When he was casting for the Fast and Furious series, he looked at some Hollywood actors' information, and they were among them. He then said, "You can contact them."
Mo Lan was not surprised, as if he saw through his thoughts, and just asked, "Three?"
Jiang Ge nodded, and then said nonsense: "I had thought of several stories before planning the overseas market, and their image and acting skills just fit."
Mo Lan believed it and said: "Okay, I'll find a time to talk to them."
After a pause, he mentioned a new thing and said: "Tomorrow's Golden Eagle Awards ceremony, will you attend?"
Jiang Ge nodded at the busy set and said: "I can't get away."
I can't go, but I have arrangements, and said: "Remember to let Pei Jie, Gu Yao and others promote the new movie."
Mo Lan smiled and said: "They will do the same if I don't remind them, and they have learned from you one by one."
Jiang Ge also smiled.
How can I miss such a good opportunity!
This year's TV series only appeared in "Young Justice Bao", and the Golden Eagle Awards were nominated for three awards. Liu Ya was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award for Pang Feiyan, and Jiang Ge was nominated for the Best Screenwriter Award and the Best Director Award. It was nominated, but compared with other nominees, it was not competitive, and the result was a runner-up.
There are few movies, but they are all blockbusters. The box office champion of the Spring Festival, "Swordsman: Invincible in the East", and the box office champion of the National Day, "A Chinese Ghost Story", are almost shortlisted for the awards that can be shortlisted, and the competition is very strong. There is a high probability that they will sweep the Golden Rooster Awards again.
On the evening of December 30, there will be not only the New Year's Eve concerts of Daxiang Satellite TV, Yanjing Satellite TV, and Oriental Satellite TV, but also the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony.
The lights and stars of Bailuzhou are bright under the night sky of the Ludao.
The Golden Rooster Awards ceremony was moved indoors for the first time and held in the sunken square of Bailuzhou.
The night temperature of Ludao today is 15℃, which provides a very good condition.
Old artists Zhou Mulong, Feng Hongyuan, Li Yujian, actors Long Wei, Zhao Tianwen, Zhang Yuhan, etc., more than 100 stars are present, singers Xu Chenyi, Qin Shiyue, Zhang Liming, etc. will perform on stage, and the wonderful song and dance show will complement the movie clips on the stage screen, presenting an ultimate audio-visual feast.
"Nirvana in Fire" has been rehearsing for several days. Tonight, Jiang Ge gave the crew an hour and a half of rest time to watch the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, because many of the staff participated in the filming of two movies.
During the period, cheers and applause were heard from time to time.
An hour passed.
Jiang Ge won the Best Screenwriter Award with two nominations for "Swordsman: Invincible in the East" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the Best Music Award, Best Editing Award and Best Original Film Song Award were also divided by these two movies.
The next few big awards are left, including Best Film, Best Director Award, Best Actor and Best Actress Award.
"It's a bit bullying. These awards are nominated for both "Swordsman: Invincible in the East" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", which means Huafeng has a 40% chance."
"No way, these two movies are the ceiling of martial arts and ghost movies, and they can't convince the public if they are not nominated."
"They are nominated based on their strength, what's the problem? Just watch it well."
"It's not easy to choose. Best Film: "Swordsman: Invincible in the East" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", Best Director: Jiang Ge and Zhou Mulong, Best Actor: Pei Jie and Zhang Fucheng, Best Actress: Gu Yao and Qin Shiyue!"
"What to do, the palms and backs of the hands are all flesh."
"The first three are 2, 2, 2, and the last one is a double yolk egg. The leader is as good as Xiaoqian."
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The screen was full of bullet comments, and the audience in the CCTV6 online live broadcast room was discussing heatedly.
Don't say it.
It's not easy to choose.
"Too difficult..." Zhou Lingwei was so confused that she worried about the judges and asked Jiang Ge, "If it were you, how would you choose?"
"There are three other nominees. It's anyone's choice until the last minute." Jiang Ge's confidence was not arrogance. He turned and said, "But as far as our two movies are concerned, the story of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is relatively more complete, so I prefer it."
Zhou Lingwei thought for a moment and agreed with this point of view, saying, "Then, what about the Best Actor and Best Actress awards?"
Jiang Ge said objectively, "The focus of "Swordsman: Invincible East" is on Invincible East, and the performance of the character Linghu Chong will be a little weaker."
Zhou Lingwei blinked and said, "It's Zhang Fucheng and Gu Yaojie."
Jiang Ge shook his head and said, "I don't think Pei Jie and Zhang Fucheng can win the award."
After a pause, he said, "The Best Actress Award is likely to go to Gu Yao and Shi Yue. Gu Yao's Dongfang Bubai is a combination of beauty and domineering, and Shi Yue's Nie Xiaoqian is a combination of gentleness and beauty. Their performances in the film are perfect. If I were a member of the jury, I would definitely recommend Double Yolk Egg."
In fact, there was only a slight deviation from the prediction of that barrage.
Best Film - "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Best Director Award - Zhou Mulong.
Best Actress Award - Gu Yao, Qin Shiyue.
The deviation is the Best Actor Award, which was won by Shi Jin from the spy film "The Bourne Legacy".
Seeing this result, Zhou Lingwei couldn't help but give Jiang Ge a thumbs up and said, "The Golden Rooster Awards should invite you to be a judge. You guessed it all!"
Jiang Ge blinked at her and smiled, "Professional enough."
Suddenly, the sound of "Jiang Ge yyds" rang out on the set.
There is no doubt that Jiang Ge and Huafeng artists are the biggest winners of this year's Golden Rooster Awards.
"With eight awards, we almost achieved the achievement of winning ten awards for film, television and music."
"It's a pity that it would be better if Zhang Fucheng and Pei Jie won the Best Actor Award and Feng Hongyuan won the Best Supporting Actor Award."
"It's already awesome enough."
"Yes, none of the nominees are just for the sake of numbers, they are all talented."
"Fight again next year!"
"With regrets, there will be expectations."
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Everyone has no objection to this result, and every award is well deserved.
After Xu Chenyi, Qin Shiyue also met Jiang Ge's requirements for superstars.
Huafeng Media is growing stronger and is moving towards becoming a giant in China's entertainment companies.
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In the past two days, the upcoming "Swordsman: Sunflower Manual" has become more talked about than the currently released "Fast and Furious Prequel 1"
The New Year's Day period, originally a relatively cold period, became hot due to Django's choice. Last year's "Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift" broke the historical box office record of movies released during this period.
Since the cost of "Detective Chinatown 2" is higher than "Swordsman: The Book of the Sunflower", it was naturally arranged in the Spring Festival period, and the New Year's Day period happened to have the popularity of the Golden Rooster Awards, so it would not be too bad.
Zhao Bohang just didn't watch "Swordsman: Invincible in the East", but because this movie won many awards at the Golden Rooster Awards, he bought a ticket for "Swordsman: The Book of the Sunflower".
"I want to see how it takes on the important task of "recasting the glory of martial arts films"!"