Chapter 559: Global Annual Crown
The opening reception was very successful, mainly because of all kinds of prospects. Today's technology is not mature, and there is no need to talk about it.
In addition, many people hide some directional ideas and do not confide them easily at all.
After the reception was over, from the next day, Lu Lin talked to several technical directors about development. Useful advice is mixed in a few useless strips and let them experiment on their own. The rest of the time is busy with the later stages of "Romance of the Dragon and Snake".
The 16th is the Spring Festival, Longlin Pictures has no films on the Spring Festival file this year, and the 12th is an early holiday. Lu Lin didn't take Jing Yan to run out and celebrate the New Year with the young lady's family.
On the night of the 15th, the mainland box office of "Havoc in Heaven", which was released for two months, officially exceeded 5.9 billion yuan, surpassing the 5.83 billion of "Wolf Warrior 2", becoming the first in mainland film history.
It's a pity that a total of nine new films will be released in the next day, and the box office of "Havoc in Heaven" can only be fixed here, and it can't further break through the 6 billion mark.
can have such results, firstly, the special effects are really powerful, and they have filmed what many audiences imagine to make trouble in the heavenly palace. Another point, it is also the result of this year's Chinese New Year stalls without strong opponents.
Since the release of "Havoc in Heaven", almost all of the follow-up promising films have been pounced, such as "The Legend of the Demon Cat", "Blood of the Machine", "Qimen Dunjia", "The Second Generation Goblin", "Star Wars 8" and so on.
The only one that broke out under the aftermath of "Havoc in Heaven" was actually a love movie like "Predecessor 3", with a total of 1.7 billion, because of "Havoc in Heaven", it was 200 million less than another time and space.
And "Fanghua", which was finally adjusted to January 2018, I don't know if it was affected by the atmosphere of the upcoming New Year or the schedule, and the final box office was 1.08 billion, which was over the billion mark.
is a huge Chinese New Year file at the end of 2017, it can be said that there is no film that can be as hard as "Havoc in Heaven", and many viewers are wondering, where have all the good Chinese films gone?
And on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 18, the answer came, and the good films were crowded into the Spring Festival stalls. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the national box office was as high as 1.288 billion.
On the first day of the release of "Havoc in Heaven", the film schedule was as high as 82%, and the box office on the first day of the zero point show was only 560 million. The popularity of the Spring Festival stalls is simply terrifying.
In terms of single films, "Monster Hunt 2" achieved a first-day box office of 541 million with 36% of the scheduled films, as well as "Tang Detective 2" and "Operation Red Sea", any of these three movies will be released on the schedule of "Havoc in Heaven", which will not allow it to easily win the first place in mainland film history, many filmmakers secretly thought in their hearts.
The mainland box office is 5.9 billion, which is about $890 million at the exchange rate of 6.61 at the moment. Counting 360 million in North America, 170 million in Japanese benzene, 101 million in South Korea, 131 million in Southeast Asia, 290 million in the European market, 83 million in Oceania and South America, and 2.02 billion US dollars in the world, it easily won the annual crown.
Such achievements are publicized, and the glory of the Spring Festival stalls is obscured. After all, although "Tang Detective 2" and "Operation Red Sea" are popular in China, the overseas box office is quite pitiful.
Of course, this is mainly a matter of subject matter. Not to mention "Operation Red Sea", the two "Wolf Warriors" of the Longlin version have a combined box office of more than 8 billion in the mainland, and they also can't sell at the box office in overseas markets.
The global box office of "Havoc in Heaven" exceeded 2 billion US dollars, and such a face-showing thing naturally attracted CCTV reports, and it was also featured in "Focus Interview". After that, many media wanted to interview, but they were pushed by Lu Lin.
He has too many things to do now, many film festivals, all kinds of dinners are too lazy to participate, how can he always be interviewed, this day, he asked Xu Lao Wei to come out for tea together. There are many people in Hong Kong who live in the mainland all the year round, especially those like Wang Jing and Xu Ke who have opened up the situation in the mainland and gained a firm foothold.
In a tearoom near the International Trade Center in Beijing, Xu Ke casually chatted a few words about the topic of "Daughter Country", and seeing that Lu Lin was not very interested, he couldn't help but say: "Director Lu asked me to come over, what's the matter?"
Lu Lin didn't sell Guan Zi, and said with a smile: "By the way, Director Xu, is the copyright of the "A Chinese Ghost Story" you filmed back then in your hands?"
The 87 version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was shot by Xu Ke's film studio, produced by New City Pictures, and distributed by Golden Princess Entertainment. However, Xinyicheng has closed down in the nineties, so Lu Lin is really not particularly clear about the copyright ownership of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
Fortunately, Xu Ke quickly said: "Oh, when Xinyi City was dissolved, it was planned to package and sell the company's film rights. However, several shareholders couldn't get along, and finally said that they would buy their own works. I also took this opportunity to buy "A Chinese Ghost Story". ”
Lu Lin knew that although he was one of the "sevens" of New City Pictures, he did not own shares. Now that he learned that the copyright of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was in Xu Ke's hands, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said: "Director Xu, let's discuss, how about you sell me the copy and copyright of this movie?"
Xu Ke smiled: "What, does Director Lu want to remake "A Chinese Ghost Story"? Then you don't need to buy the copyright from me!"
Films with themes like "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Journey to the West", and "Fengshen" can be made by anyone.
Lu Lin said: "I really like this version so much, I want to use it to restore it!"
Xu Ke smiled: "Even if it's a 3D ......" He wanted to say that 3D movies are nothing to look at, but suddenly remembered that Lu Lin had just established a VR technology company, and couldn't help but say: "You don't want to make it into a VR movie!"
Lu Lin was distracted, and said secretly: "This old monster, his mind is turning fast!" slowly took a sip of the tea in the cup, and then said, "Well, there is a little idea!"
Xu Lao Wei has always been a technical freak, his eyes lit up when he listened, and he leaned forward and said: "This idea is really good, if the technology is mature, watch "A Chinese Ghost Story" in VR, although it is not particularly scary, but it should be quite exciting." But now the technology is not mature, Director Lu is so optimistic about VR?"
Lu Lin said: "Nowadays, the rapid development of VR technology can indeed bring a good experience to the audience. Although the technology is not yet mature, there will always be a day when it will develop. As for me, I just want to try it first and see if I can use data repair, modeling, and extension deduction methods to build a VR version, which is a small experiment!"
His "super microcomputer" has time to watch a movie, so he makes the film a VR version. The parts that were not filmed in the original film are nothing more than scenes and characters, which can be made through the powerful deduction function of the "super microcomputer". In merging with the original data......
For Lu Lin, technology is not a problem. How to make a shocking film that seems reasonable is the problem.
Xu Ke smacked his tongue and said: "I estimate that the cost of restoration is enough to shoot a new blockbuster, and Director Lu is really ...... Rich and capricious. ”
Lu Lin smiled, "I really like this version too much, how about you watch 10 million?"
Xu Ke thought for a while, and then said: "Cheng, you can take the source and copyright, as long as the technology is successful, you can let me steal the teacher!"
Lu Lin smiled and said, "Director Xu is refreshing!"
That being said, this money must still be given!