After getting a summary of the national box office situation on Sunday, on such a night, countless people across the country couldn't sleep all night.

For Oriental Cinemas, it means that after missing the box office explosion of "Red Sorghum" in the first week, it bet on the wrong treasure in the second week. After devoting themselves to the maximum scale of screening to support "Bad Life" and reducing the screening scale of "Red Sorghum" to the minimum allowed by the screening agreement, they once again gained a much lower than normal market share in such a weekend when other theaters were making money.

For two consecutive weeks, it is no exaggeration to say that just because of missing "Red Sorghum", Oriental Cinemas has missed at least more than 20 million, and possibly even as high as 30 million.

Zhou Yanghua's depression, anger, and helplessness can be imagined.

For the producers and distributors of "Bad Life", as well as for director Lu Ping, with the support of such a large screening scale in the first week of release, instead of being able to suppress "Red Sorghum", they were killed by the other party with a very high attendance rate, which basically means that it is difficult for "Bad Life" to turn over again after this - because each other's advantages and disadvantages are so obvious.

"Red Sorghum" is a literary film, or a literary film that has won an award, has a huge momentum and a very high reputation and has an excellent reputation, its natural characteristics are destined to be a film with a relatively stable long-term blockbuster - if a commercial film does not kill it in the first week of release, then it is better not to report any expectations after that.

After such a first-week box office came out, Lu Pingzhi's disappointment, indignation, and even Zhou Zhengyang's helplessness and frustration can be imagined.

But fortunately, for a commercial film with an investment of more than 40 million yuan and the publicity and distribution funds are also controlled within 20 million, it got a box office of nearly 53 million in the first four days of release, and although the word-of-mouth is very polarized, at least it has not completely collapsed, so if this movie wants to return to its original cost, there is still a lot of hope - of course, it is not feasible to continue to rub the popularity of "Red Sorghum" in the future.

Facts have proved that whether it is awards, word-of-mouth, forced qualifications, or box office, "Red Sorghum" and "Bad Life" are really not on the same level.

And such a box office data that broke 100 million yuan every week is naturally a big happy event for Minghu Culture - early the next morning, Qi Jie had already released his words, and when the box office broke 300 million, Minghu Culture would throw millions to hold a celebration banquet!

Well, Minghu culture has never liked to hold celebration banquets.

From the earliest time, Liao Liao He Runqing's albums have been sold repeatedly, and they haven't done anything, the albums of the four major beauty bands and Rose Power have been sold one after another, and they haven't done it, "Super Girl" is on fire, it is HUNAN Satellite TV, "The Legend of the New White Lady" is a big hit, and it is just a small internal celebration, one person pours half a glass of wine, talking and laughing, even if it is celebrated- Of course, no one will explain that Lake Culture is slamming the door, because whether it is a TV series or a movie hit, Minghu Culture has always praised the entire industry for the big red envelopes and the cool distribution of red envelopes to the actors and staff.

But this time, Qi Jie said in a very high-profile manner, we are going to hold a celebration banquet!

The whole Minghu culture is jubilant.

Li Qian shook his head and smiled, and let her go.

He knew that Qi Jie was happy, and it was the kind of joy that he couldn't control himself.

When it comes to writing songs, making albums, and even singing and releasing albums by himself, in short, in the music industry, Li Qian has been playing since his debut, almost no one dares to provoke him, and there was a flying band in the middle to find fault, but to be honest, even at that time, the forced character and identity of the flying band, which has been retired for many years, has a certain gap with the four beauty bands.

Therefore, they are finding fault, to a greater extent, they are actually rubbing the heat, and they want to use the popularity of the four beauty bands to sell their own albums. What's more, not long after their provocation, Li Qian almost slapped the other party away - "Once You" was a big hit in Asia, and the Spring Festival Gala was extremely popular in ten minutes, and then the Flying Band was honest!

Therefore, although the Flying Band blamed the four beauty bands, Qi Jie was also very unhappy, but if she was unhappy, she was unhappy for a while, Li Qian turned her hand and slapped the other party away, and she couldn't talk about any anger in her heart - from her heart, she didn't think the other party's provocation was really a big deal at all.

But this time, it's different.

From last year's "The Door of Life and Death" to the release of "Huang Feihong" at the tail of "Huang Feihong", to Qin Wei's nonsense in order to compete for the box office, it made Qi Jie extremely unhappy, but Li Qian was too lazy to fight back, and Qin Wei's status in the rivers and lakes is indeed very high, and the box office of "The Gate of Life and Death" is indeed more than "Huang Feihong", so Qi Jie's breath has been holding back like this, and it has been holding back until this time.

"Red Sorghum" shined in Berlin, and this heel stood all at once!

You Qin Wei started as a literary filmmaker, and won an award at the Venice Film Festival, so he is known as a film master, now it's okay, our "Red Sorghum" won an award in Berlin, which is only better than you, not worse than you!

Then, back in China, Ka Ka Ka - broke 100 million in the first week, setting a box office record for literary films, and broke 100 million again the next week, and the box office of the two weeks added up, which is infinitely close to 250 million!

What is it called?

This is called hard goods!

In the face of such an award-winning work, invincible word-of-mouth, and at the same time a box office reversal, if you have the ability, will you jump out of the blind **?

So, all of a sudden, the breath in Qi Jie's heart was smooth.

And immediately, almost everyone who has the opportunity to see Qi Jie often will find that the smile on Mr. Qi's face, and the high-spirited mental state that naturally brings out her whole person, are obviously back to the way they were before last spring.

indifferently and scolded Fang Xuan.

Well, a "Red Sorghum" made the domineering female president straighten out her heart and resurrect with full blood!

For others, in addition to congratulations, but for her, it is just one sentence - this is normal! This is his normal level!

Of course, in fact, she didn't know that in recent years, Li Qian has actually been playing at a super level.

Some things of pop songs, for an expert who has been doing music for so many years, are relatively easy to copy, and even to a certain degree of localization on the basis of the original.

But the movie is many times more complex than the music.

Even if you have a script that is very clear in your head, and there are already very successful images and editing that can be copied as you like, it is still extremely difficult to reproduce it perfectly.

Therefore, as an ordinary actor and second-in-command assistant director in his previous life, Li Qian is very self-aware to start with TV series that focus more on storytelling than on artistry.

Temper yourself, but also temper your team.

Later, when he started making movies, he also started with relatively simple and relatively easy to replicate commercial films, and he also started with an urban youth comedy, and then tried martial arts kung fu films, and then he finally dared to try a literary film.

Fortunately, "Red Sorghum" was a huge success.

But even so, even since the coronation in Berlin, the popularity of "Red Sorghum" in China has been wave after wave, and now it has exceeded 100 million yuan every week, and the box office has completed a big reversal.

Because after returning from the Berlin Film Festival, all his energy has been completely pulled away by the backlog of various jobs at hand.

The first is Zhou Yan's new album, the child's mother's comeback, this can't be explained just by writing songs, you have to keep an eye on it.

Then there is the production of "Gourd Baby", although there are Cao Zhan and a group of masters on Minghu Animation's side to rely on, but almost every modeling design, every action design, and every frame of the picture must be seen and satisfied by Li Qian with his own eyes.

So it is conceivable that this is simply full of all kinds of balabalas, explanations, arguments, and even quarrels - and sometimes, in order to let others understand what kind of thing he wants, Li Qian has to use his really crappy painting skills to demonstrate it himself.

But fortunately, the overall progress of "Gourd Baby" is relatively smooth.

The most important thing is that several teams have been rigidly pinched together, because of such a project, they have to work together with each other, and the integration is quite good.

But because of the lack of technology and experience, every step we take, we are crossing the river by feeling the stones, and mistakes and mistakes are really normal things - one road is crooked, and when we find that it is wrong, we turn around and take another, often a few days, or even more than ten days have passed.

For "Hulu Baby", China's first animated film, all the other costs added up are not as good as the time cost caused by those detours.

The most optimistic estimate is that this animated film will probably be able to make a prototype in the second half of this year, and it will not be completely completed until at least the end of this year.

If not optimistic...... I guess it's not until after New Year's Day!

Then there's the preparation for The Matrix.

Props are the biggest one.

But fortunately, there are all kinds of sketches that Li Qian had done in advance, and the props team made them according to the drawings, and at best reworked them several times, and finally Li Qian could always accept them satisfactorily.

Again, in order to save costs, the picture that can be achieved with props, models, and shooting skills can be realized, Li Qian chose not to use post-production special effects as much as possible.

The main thing is that the special effects cost too much.

Oh, for the time being, there is another point, that is, Liu Chengzhang is too fierce with special effects.

originally thought that the special effects follow-up of his new movie would require about half of the workload of the special effects department of Minghu Culture, and the remaining half could also borrow a lot of casual work, while continuing to upgrade new technology and new equipment, but in fact, he took away at least 80% of the workload of the Minghu Cultural Special Effects Department with one movie by himself!

It should be said that after experiencing the blow of "Sword Fairy", Liu Chengzhang's courage in special effects and spending money has not only been restrained a little, but even more exaggerated!

Now he desperately needs a super successful work to make a name for himself!

And justify your own special effects and money!

Well, that's a long way off.

The film "The Matrix", Li Qian plans to start filming around July and August, and its preparation must be completely completed by the end of June.

There is not much problem with props, Li Qian is staring very closely, in terms of actors, Zhou Baoshan and He Yingyu, the male and female protagonists, have already received some necessary training, such as firearms training, but after that is over, because of Li Qian's "The Matrix", the company did not arrange any other film appointments for them, basically they belong to the state of fitness, training, and waiting for the start-up.

At present, the Oriental Dream Film Company in the United States has reported to the Screen Actors Guild, and in mid-April, Li Qian plans to fly over for a few days for open auditions and auditions - the prophet Morpheus, Li Qian plans to arrange for black actors to play, and the villain in the movie, that is, Agent Smith, is set to be a white actor.

The audition in the United States, to put it bluntly, is mainly for these two characters.

And in Li Qian's version of the script setting, the big city as the background of the story is obviously blurred about the specific positioning, so some of the doppelgangers of Agent Smith who will appear in the movie will be shown in the original work, in addition to the men and women, old and young, there are also both yellow, black and white.

It is said that on the Hollywood side, black actors cannot play negative roles, which is the so-called "political correctness" in the United States, but for Li Qian, filming "The Matrix", although he has a certain intention of impacting the international film market, but in the final analysis, in his opinion, this film must first stand in China!

Make it a super blockbuster that Chinese love to watch, and then add an international background moderately, so that foreign, especially European and North American audiences, look at least unavoidable, and that's fine.

Maybe the fact that the male and female protagonists are both Chinese actors will make "The Matrix" congenitally lose some points in the European and American markets, but ...... Whatever!

Anyway, Li Qian's base camp, whether it is now or in the future, will definitely be in China!

In fact, with a population of more than one billion and a rapidly developing economy, it is fundamentally doomed that once China's domestic film market rises in the future, the North American market, with a population of only about 300 million, cannot be compared at all!

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Over there, "Red Sorghum" was a big hit across the country, and after the box office exceeded 100 million the next week, it became a "national topic", and the "Red Sorghum" crew headed by Qin Jingjing and Fu Xuelong also worked very hard to promote all over the country, interact with fans, and record TV programs, etc., Li Qian here, although he did not participate in the promotion of the movie, he was also busy every day.

After finally checking the production and preparation of the two films, the existing problems were discussed and the direction of work was reformulated, and Li Qian could finally breathe a sigh of relief for the time being.

And at this time, Feng Bi has become the release version of the movie "Big Shot", and it has been out for a short time, first of all, an internal viewing meeting is imperative.

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No matter how hard you work to ask for a monthly pass, it doesn't seem to increase much, so is it okay to ask for a few recommendation tickets today?