Chapter 102: Box Office Champion of the Year
With the release of the last heavyweight movie "Seven Swords" in the summer file, the summer file of 2005 is coming to an end.
This martial arts movie, which brings together stars such as Li Ming, one of the four kings, Donnie Yen, Xiangjiang action star, and Lu Yi, one of the four major students, has replaced "Horror Cruise" and become the object of most media and fans.
If it weren't for the fact that "Horror Cruise" would soon be the box office champion of the year, and the news of Tang An's new film came out, it is estimated that the news about "Horror Cruise" could only be found in the corner.
Just like the previous "Initial D", the popularity of the first time was no lower than that of the previous "Horror Cruise".
But as soon as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released and took away the box office crown, the attention immediately decreased by half.
After the release of "Horror Cruise", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was unpopular.
The same is true of the current "Seven Swords", the martial arts films directed by Xu Ke are still very marketable, although the actor is no longer Li Lianjie.
In the end, "Seven Swords" got a box office of 820,000 at the zero point field, ranking second at the box office of the year.
The first is the record of 1.09 million set by "Horror Cruise", a difference of nearly 300,000.
And the score of "Horror Cruise" on the 29th is 1.66 million, and the trend is still stable.
"Seven Swords" lost the first battle, but this is also expected.
Compared with "Horror Film" at the box office?
Who goes to watch martial arts movies in the middle of the night, eat too much!
Except for some tabloids who began to compare the box office of the zero point field and sang the decline of "Seven Swords", most of them are waiting for the release of the box office on the first day, and the box office of "Horror Cruise" facing "Seven Swords" on the first day.
In the early morning of Friday the 30th, the box office of the two movies was released at the same time.
"Seven Swords" 7.78 million!
"Horror Cruise" 1.21 million.
"Seven Swords" set a box office record on the first day of 2005!
It's another new round of media carnival, and the media is happiest at this time.
Then, unsurprisingly, the vast majority of the media touted "Seven Swords" and pursued Xu Ke.
In the mouth of the media, "Seven Swords" became the best blockbuster of the year.
Xu Ke became a super director, and the title of director with a box office of 100 million yuan was placed on his head again.
And the horror cruise ship, which is still strong, has naturally become the object of comparison by the media, and the result is of course a complete failure.
"Seven Swords", which set a first-day box office record, continued to win 8.21 million on the second day of its release, not only breaking the 8 million mark, but also only one step away from the annual single-day box office record set by "Horror Cruise".
As for whether "Seven Swords" can break the record, everyone is extremely sure and has no doubts at all.
On the third day of the movie's release, the first day off, "Seven Swords" sat on the throne of the annual single-day box office record as desired, and drove "Horror Cruise" off the stage.
8.34 million!
Although the increase compared to Friday is almost negligible, and the box office of "Horror Cruise" on Saturday fell by 27% again, reaching 1.65 million, it was automatically ignored by the media.
On Sunday, August 1, the word-of-mouth of "Seven Swords", which was released for three days, has spread.
However, most of them are negative reviews, and fans are obviously not satisfied with Xu Ke's disgusting work.
The negative reviews were finally reflected at the box office, and "Seven Swords" only got 7.42 million box office this Sunday, which was even lower than the first day of release.
And "Horror Cruise" still got 1.46 million box office. Relying on a good audience reputation, it is still slowly reaping the box office.
The media is still playing deaf and dumb, ignoring the good news of "Horror Cruise".
Anyway, it's been blowing for more than half a month, and it's no fun to blow it anymore.
After doing a simple elementary school math addition, the media were pleasantly surprised to find that "Seven Swords" got 31.25 million box office in the first four days of the first weekend, 80,000 more than the 31.17 million of "Horror Cruise"!
What else to say, hold it, hold it hard!
"The summer file is coming, director Xu Ke brought Li Ming and Donnie Yen to the Tianshan Mountains and swept the summer file!"
"King Li Ming, kung fu superstar Donnie Yen, and ghost director Xu Ke presented the best martial arts film of the year, and the box office of "Seven Swords" was as high as 31.25 million in 4 days after its release!"
"The annual opening record has been broken, and "Seven Swords" surpasses "Horror Cruise" in all aspects!"
"Seven Swords" is hot at the box office, and it is difficult to find a ticket in major cities during the prime time!"
"The 100 million yuan club will add new members, Xu Ke will be a sword in four years, and it will eventually become a masterpiece!"
It was called a Huan, and the words that were originally blown about Tang An were used on Xu Ke again.
Having said that being a journalist is sometimes quite simple, a press release is used several times, and it is estimated that it will continue to be used next year.
However, insiders know that "Seven Swords" is like this, on the fourth day of release, or on Sunday, the decline reached 12%.
At the beginning, the decline of "Horror Cruise" was only 5%.
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In the past few days, Tang An has been writing scripts at home, and he no longer follows the crew to roadshows, which is basically unnecessary!
Sometimes when I was bored at home, I went to the studio to sit, and went to Xu Yanyun's house to eat at night.
In four or five days, Tang An revised the script again.
Almost several of the main roles already have ideal candidates, and they have been fine-tuned according to the characteristics of the actors compared to the original book.
As for the actor's reluctance to come?
Inexistent!
I rubbed my right hand, which was a little sore, and it was really uncomfortable to hold the pen for a long time.
took the script to Xu Yanyun's office and asked her to take A4 paper and print it out.
"Just make three copies, don't use too much, play when you want to use it, it's not good to drop it and leak it out when the time comes!"
Keep a manuscript and a printed draft, one for the heroine, and one for Chen Daoming.
Xu Yanyun took Tang An's manuscript, tapped the keyboard quickly with her hand, and said as she tapped, "You really want to shoot this Superwoman's story?"
Tang An leaned back in his chair and rubbed his wrist, "Otherwise, the script has been refined three times!"
Xu Yanyun opened her mouth, but stopped talking.
"It's only 30 million, even if I lose it all, I can still earn it back, even if I pounce on this movie, as long as I open my mouth to continue making horror movies, a lot of people wave banknotes and invite me over!" Tang An knew what she was worried about, smiled, and said proudly.
"I made more than 30 million in a year, it's a big deal to spend more than a year to earn it back!"
"Of course I believe you, it's just that you know it in your heart!" Xu Yanyun sighed secretly.
How could he not believe that Tang An could earn another 30 million, but he had seen too many geniuses suddenly rise, and after suffering setbacks, he quickly became popular with everyone.
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Tang An is preparing a new movie here, and Xu Ke is running all over the country with the crew, intending to save the poor reputation.
However, all in vain.
On August 2, the box office of "Seven Swords" plummeted by 60%, winning only 3.01 million.
It looks similar to the trend of "Horror Cruise", but this is a costume blockbuster, which occupies a natural advantage in the audience, and the base is there.
On the 3rd, "Seven Swords" continued to fall, and it was able to stand at the threshold of 2 million, a drop of as much as 30%.
In the next 3 working days, it stabilized the momentum and stopped winning more than 6.2 million box office without danger.
And "Horror Cruise" is still as stable as a dog, with an average box office of about 1.2 million per day.
In the third week of the release of "Seven Swords", after a brief rise over the weekend, the box office was only a little over 1 million.
"Horror Cruise" also just stopped at the critical point of 1 million, and the two returned to the same level.
But "Horror Cruise" has been released for almost a month, which shows the horror!
At this time, the media, who had already praised Xu Ke and "Seven Swords" to the sky, suddenly changed the direction of the wind and began to lash out at "Seven Swords" as a bad movie.
The common routine of the media is to hold you to the sky first, and then fall even harder, and then slap hard and slap you in the face!
In the end, it was the Seven Swords that fell below the million mark first, and "Horror Cruise" was postponed for two days.
After a long screening, "Horror Cruise" was fully drawn on August 22, with a total box office of more than 80 million and a whopping 82.34 million!
And "Seven Swords" was also painted a week later, with a total box office of only 66.38 million.
"Horror Cruise" won the 2005 summer box office champion and is also the annual box office champion.
Tang An also won his first annual box office championship, and he is one step closer to the "big director"!