After the Spring Festival holiday, the domestic film market continues to move towards the next hot schedule, the summer file.

However, now there are more and more theatrical movies released in China every year, and new films are released almost every week.

After the end of the Spring Festival, starting in March, there will be medium-budget movies released every month, or even every week.

In April, "White Ghost: Jedi Escape" starring Liu Yufei and Uncle Cage was released, this film was originally going to be released for the Chinese New Year last year, but the domestic distributor of this film is Yunying Bernard, that is, the company that Yunying Group and Berner cooperated.

Last year, Bernard himself had a blockbuster released during the Chinese New Year, and although Liu Yufei and Uncle Cage were famous, the box office of the movies they participated in in the past few years was not very good, so they moved to April, a schedule with less competitive pressure.

However, it was in vain to change the schedule, 12 million in three days, 27 million in ten days, and the total box office barely exceeded 30 million.

The pants were all lost, and Bernard didn't even get back the cost of publicity.

Fortunately, they are all digital copies now, and if they have to change the film copies of ten years ago, one copy is 810,000, and Yu Dong estimates that he will have to scold his mother.

Immediately after the release of movies such as "Storm Yu" starring Wang Xiaoming and Liu Qingyun, and "Treading Snow and Looking for Plum Blossoms" starring Guo Fucheng.

However, on April 12, the release of "Fast and Furious 7" swept the domestic film market, overshadowing all the films in the same period.

50 million were screened, 360 million on the first day, and the mainland box office exceeded the 400 million mark in just one day of release, shocking all domestic film and television companies and filmmakers, but anyone who has something to do with the industry was stunned by this number.

Even if strictly speaking, 360 million on the first day is an extremely terrifying number, which directly refreshes the single-day and first-day box office records in the mainland market, and raises the record set by Tang An a year ago by more than 100 million.

More than 300 million, there are very few domestic movies that can break 100 million in a single day, and this "Fast and Furious" directly broke 300 million, and all the major companies were suppressed.

The media has also climaxed, and this kind of super explosive film is enough to keep the entertainment media busy for a while.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a phenomenal movie, and the media, audiences, and filmmakers are all discussing this movie.

Some second- and third-tier stars also posted ticket stubs on Weibo to rub off on the popularity of the movie.

Although the word-of-mouth is not very good, it still can't stop "Vegetarian Chicken 7" from going on a rampage all the way and knocking all the subsequent movies to the ground.

In the second week, it directly exceeded 1.2 billion, breaking 1 billion in a single week, which is another desperate record, surpassing "Aomen Fengyun 2" in one week and winning the annual box office crown in the mainland.

470 million in the third week, 290 million in the fourth week, and 110 million in the fifth week.

broke 100 million yuan for five consecutive weeks, and the total box office reached 2.48 billion in 29 days of release, setting a new box office record in mainland film history, which is also the first time in three years that Tang An has lost this record.

Countless records have been broken, and the old records have been replaced by piles of numbers that make 99% of directors in China desperate, and the vast majority of directors, looking at this series of numbers, are blinded.

In the Colorful Danxia Scenic Area of Zhangye City, Suzhou Province, the fantasy action blockbuster "The Great Wall" co-produced by China and the United States was filmed here.

Zhang Yimou is also fully committed to filming, but it is impossible for him not to pay attention to the explosion of "Fast and Furious 7".

As the box office continues to rise, Zhang Yimou is becoming more and more unsettled.

There is a Tang An in this country, who has pressed all the famous directors under him, and no one has been able to turn over for several years.

Now Hollywood blockbusters have really risen in China, last year's "Transformers 4" was 1.7 billion, and now "Fast and Furious" is about to break 2.5 billion.

Zhang Yimou, the film "The Great Wall", was not looking forward to breaking Tang An's record, with a box office of more than 2 billion, and more than 1.5 billion points would be considered to meet expectations.

It will also take time to catch up with Tang An, and 1.5 billion is enough to rank among the top five in the mainland.

Now that watching other films sell well and break Tang An's record, Zhang Yimou begins to feel a sense of loss.

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Feng Xiaogang is similar, since the failure of "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 2", he has won the annual Chinese film box office championship for two consecutive years, and he has begun his journey to catch up with Tang An.

However, Feng Xiaogang is more studying the factors of the fire of "Vegetarian Chicken", and this film is not particularly outstanding compared to the previous ones.

Paul Walker's death was an important reason, something Feng Xiaogang could not learn.

The research was fruitless, Feng Xiaogang smiled self-deprecatingly, "If I die after filming "Fanghua", I don't know if it can have this effect." ”

"Phew!"

His wife Xu Wan on the side hurriedly slapped him, and said angrily, "I think you are stunned, and you still want to die after making a movie." ”

"Speaking of playing, I've won the box office championship a few times, and I don't care about this thing for a long time. ”

Feng Xiaogang smiled, with an expression of indifference.

"I don't care if you're still staring at the box office of Fast & Furious 7?"

Xu Wan felt a little funny, he couldn't know his husband better, and after he succeeded at the box office, he wanted to shoot something deep and shoot his heart, but he couldn't let go of the box office.

Feng Xiaogang shook his head, "It's nothing, just take a look, I hope that our country's film market will not be like Europe and Japan, which will also be attacked by Hollywood movies, just see if Tang An's summer file can be defended." ”

Ten years ago, Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang had been pressing Hollywood blockbusters, and they had some superiority, and now they naturally don't want to be attacked by Hollywood blockbusters like other countries in the world.

In recent years, although the box office ratio of domestic films and imported films has been maintained at about 55:45, I don't know when this balance was broken.

"If Tang An can't hold on, then I'll remake comedy movies. ”

Feng Xiaogang said a little stinky, the implication was that Tang An didn't hold the domestic market, so he had to take action himself.

Xu Wan rolled his eyes and reminded, "Don't forget, I just signed a gambling contract with Huayi, and it will rise by 15% on the basis of 100 million per year for five years." ”

"Don't worry about that. ”

Feng Xiaogang waved his hand and said confidently, "Now I have two movies in my hands, and I asked people to talk about a comic book adaptation of a TV series with Mango Channel, so it's really impossible to prepare for "Mobile Phone 2", and it's no problem to complete the contract." ”

The two movies in his hand are not blockbusters, and Feng Xiaogang is not too conceited, otherwise he will have to spit out the money he gets.

Now the TV drama market is very good, with Feng Xiaogang's current status and fame, it is very simple to invest in a TV series.

Most of the companies that invest in TV dramas are also artist agents, and even artist agents are their main business, as long as Feng Xiaogang opens his mouth to give up the second and third roles of a new film, it is too easy to get an investment in a TV series.

Some investors even approached him and asked him to be named the producer of the TV series, participate in the publicity, and give away 10% of the share.

And "Mobile Phone 2" is even his hole card, no matter what, he has absolute confidence that this comedy will be a big hit.

It is almost foolproof, Feng Xiaogang is not worried about this VAM agreement at all.

Unlike those artists under Huayi, they also signed a gambling agreement with their eyes, one TV series after another, no one refused, four or five variety shows all year round, Feng Xiaogang felt tired for them after watching it.