The 402nd episode of the 2010 summer file
When Peng Yichen was busy preparing for the filming of his first sci-fi movie "Country Teacher", the summer of 2010 gradually came to an end.
For the first time, the film markets in China and North America have focused their attention on the same Huaxia film company.
Chen Jing Film Company, which was just a small film company 3 or 4 years ago.
Relying on the two movies "Infernal Affairs 1" and "Double Treasure Fighting Demons", the summer files in Huaxia and Star Flag Country have been turned upside down.
Needless to say, "Infernal Affairs 1", written by Peng Yichen, directed by Zhao Zexin, and 7 actors from the mainland and Xiangjiang such as Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Chen Daoming, and Zhao Jianguo joined.
Since its release in May, it has broken the first-day box office record in China, and although the box office has declined, it has also remained very stable at about 70 million per day.
By the time it was released in July, the total box office of this movie had just exceeded the 1 billion mark, becoming the second film in China to exceed 1 billion at the total box office.
and the 1.01 billion of "Journey to the West", which is only a difference of 10 million at the box office.
Some small media even maliciously speculated that the reason why "Infernal Affairs 1" was released 'early' before breaking the box office record of Chinese movies.
is to not break the box office record of their company boss Peng Yichen, so that the honor of the first person in Chinese commercial films is still on Peng Yichen's head.
Of course, not many people will believe this statement.
The release cycle of "Infernal Affairs 1" exceeded that of "Journey to the West" by 2 weeks, and by the last week, the daily box office was only more than 300,000.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the box office potential of this movie is well tapped out. It is obviously impossible to break the box office record of "Journey to the West".
And the performance of "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" in the North American film market is also amazing.
It was released in North America from mid-April to North America in July. Except for the first two weeks of screening, the box office results of this film could not enter the North American weekly box office chart because the screening scale was too small.
In the month and a half of the subsequent large-scale releases, two-thirds of the time were ranked in the top ten of the weekly box office list in North America, and even reached the championship for one week.
The result was a staggering $280 million at the box office in North America.
What's even more desperate is that this movie was released in China in July.
Yes, immediately following the release time of "Infernal Affairs 1", this movie that has been eagerly awaited by Chinese fans will be released again.
At the premiere of Huaxia, Peng Yichen had no time to attend because he was busy preparing for "Country Teacher".
In the end, he was able to record a VCR and play it at the premiere to satisfy fans who hadn't seen him since the Oscar.
Even with such a hasty and insincere premiere, the next day still made the headlines of almost all entertainment media in China.
Because the first-day box office of this movie reached an astonishing 110 million, surpassing the previous first-day box office record of 97 million set by "Infernal Affairs 1".
This is the result of the strong movie-watching demand generated by fans holding back for two months (the release in North America was 2 months early), and the terrifying schedule of 11,000 screens.
But because in the following half a month, the box office of this movie fell sharply, horror and black humor are very niche themes in the Chinese film market after all, and racial discrimination and prejudice are not the hottest social topics in China.
Therefore, after Peng Yichen's fans all entered the cinema to watch this movie, the follow-up box office potential was not as huge as in Xingqi Country.
In the end, when the film was released, it only received a total of 870 million Chinese coins.
Subsequently, under the operation of Legendary Pictures, the film was released in Europe, Wa Kingdom, Bang Country and other countries.
In the end, the film's global box office reached $500 million, making it Peng Yichen's highest-grossing film in the world.
And the filming cost of this movie plus the publicity cost only cost a total of 35 million US dollars.
With the box office share of this film alone, Chen Jing Film Company made a net profit of $95 million.
If you add the income from the operation of film peripherals and post-copyrights, the film Chenjing Film Company can obtain at least 150 million US dollars in net income, that is, about 600 million Huaxia yuan in profits. (The U.S. dollar is about 4:1 to the Chinese dollar)
plus the net income of "Infernal Affairs 1" is about 400 million Huaxia coins.
This summer, Chen Jing Film Company obtained a net profit of 1 billion Huaxia coins with two movies, even if it was a bank robbery, it didn't make it fast.
Relying on this kind of profitability, countless investors in the Chinese film industry are holding money and want to cooperate with Chen Jing Film Company, but they find that it is not their turn at all.
Not to mention Peng Yichen's sci-fi movie, this movie, which has been constantly hyped by fans since last year, has the endorsement of Hua Na, the largest film company in the Star Flag Country, and will not let others interfere at all.
And "Infernal Affairs 2" and "Infernal Affairs 3" after "Infernal Affairs 1" have already been filmed, just waiting for their release.
Well-informed people, even got a message.
That is this police movie that amazed the whole of China, and now there are even 3 Hollywood companies that have found Chen Jing Film Company and want to remake the Xingqi Country version.
As the Huaxia government lifted import restrictions on Hollywood and Huaxia Film Company's films, the cooperation between Hollywood Film Company and Huaxia Film Company became closer and closer.
Chen Jing Film Company is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this.
Peng Yichen's personal films were released in Star Flag Country and Huaxia successively, and won a global box office of 500 million US dollars, not to mention.
Seeing that the copyright of "Infernal Affairs" is also used by Chen Jing Film Company, as a weight for cooperation with Hollywood film companies.
For the first time, the copyright of Huaxia films was reversely exported to Xingqi Country.
This is not only a red sight for Chinese filmmakers, but also the best example.
The secret of the success of Chen Jing Film Company has gradually become clear and clear under the research of countless Chinese film companies and media.
That is, there is a god-level screenwriter Peng Yichen, and a director who can shoot these classic scripts in place, coupled with the reasonable use and attention to special effects technology.
Of course, learning everything is very difficult for most studios.
But it is indeed easy to vigorously cultivate a good screenwriter and increase the importance of the script.
For a while, the screenwriters who were a little famous in Huaxia became fragrant and were robbed by major film companies.
And those good scripts can be sold at sky-high prices that were unimaginable before, so that more talented young people are willing to enter the industry.
Peng Yichen finally realized his ideal of changing the ills of the Chinese film industry.
Of course, at this time, the disturbances from the outside world are not the focus of Peng Yichen's concern.
After he came out of the plot world, he re-invested in the preparation of "The Country Teacher" with the performance evaluation of the drama spirit, the memory of the supreme consul for 20 years, and the skills of the three supreme consuls.
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