Chapter 156: A Beautiful Ending
On December 20th, Big Brother Cheng took his long-prepared "Zodiac" to live and set off another wave of kung fu comedy!
I have to admit that Big Brother Cheng is definitely a legend in the history of Chinese film.
A Chinese can make a name for himself in Hollywood and win the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award!
Lao Mei's discrimination against Asians is from the heart!
However, you won't find a single American who speaks ill of Jack Chen!
Zhang Aijia once told a story: once when she went to Congo to participate in an event, she was unexpectedly surrounded by people, "At that time, there was no local guide in the car, and the crowd outside the market was constantly restless, and even began to shake the car." "It's a thrilling scene. Her head went blank and she had to shout, "Jackie Chan! You kno? My friend!” As soon as it was tried, the excitement of the masses was instantly appeased.
Big Brother is a famous brand in China!
Back to "Zodiac", to put it simply: this is a standard movie, international style, generous, style, story and "Flying Eagle Project" in the same vein, juggling and fighting, witty and funny, beautiful women competing for style, and multi-country filming.
It's a pity that the eldest brother has done too much by himself, and several male supporting actors are dull and dull, boring, the plot is anticlimactic, and the narrative is pale and blunt.
But overall satisfied!
How can you say that an international superstar who is nearly 60 years old and has a net worth of billions is still willing to perform at the cost of his life, what more could you ask for?
It's a pity that he was released when "Thai Embarrassment" was released, and it has already caused a frenzy of movie-watching.
We have mentioned more than once that there were no two movies that exceeded 1 billion at the same time in the box office market at that time!
Because the number of screens is limited, the total number of people watching the movie is limited!
In addition, "Thai Embarrassment" was released for 9 days and won a box office of 600 million, which has become a phenomenon...
The focus of media attention, including public discussion, is all focused on "Thai Embarrassment", to be honest, it is very unwise to release "Zodiac" at this time.
Look at Lao Wang, who directly withdrew "The Grandmaster" to January 8 next year, and would rather compete with "Orphaned" for the box office than tear it head-on with the two 'box office blockbusters'!
In addition to the day of the premiere, "Zodiac" won 36 million box office results with 32% of the film schedule, beating the 34 million of "Thai Embarrassment", until the two movies were down, the single-day box office results of "Thai Embarrassment" have always suppressed "Zodiac"
As of December 23, "Thai Embarrassment", which was released for two weeks, swept 800 million at the box office!
The eye-catching data has changed the previous box office forecast of 1 billion to 1.5 billion...
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In fact, on December 20th, not only "Zodiac", but also "Big Shanghai" and "Blood Drops" will be released...
"Blood Drops" is not mentioned, Chen Kexin has a characteristic, as long as it is a movie he produces, 90% of them are big bad movies, and "Blood Drops" is just one of them...
Just like what netizens commented: The last time I saw such a bad film in the theater was back to "The Military Order of the Female General of the Yang Gate"...
Even if Li Yuchun is found and there is a bunch of corn to support the scene, it can't save the movie's reputation and box office failure!
Ruan's first film in the mainland film industry today collapsed at home...
"Big Shanghai", a movie that Wang Jing wants to shoot seriously!
Now many people say that through "Chasing the Dragon", we know that Wang Jing is the kind of director who can still make good movies if he works hard...
Despite this, it can't hide the fact that he is the king of bad movies!
It's no longer enough to describe him as prolific and prolific - so far, he has more than 300 non-movies!
After making a bad movie for a long time, even if you want to take it seriously, the market and the audience will not recognize you, as long as you see the movie with the words 'Wang Jing's works', you will subconsciously scold 'It's definitely a bad movie!'
This pot, Wang Jing has to carry it if he doesn't carry it!
When we evaluate a director's work, we usually have a preconceived impression.
Since you have the nickname of 'King of Bad Movies', don't complain about the audience giving your movies low scores, it's really not a flood of water armies...
He once said: "There are too many fake evaluations on the Internet, and it would be good to give money to the evaluation, but there are many trolls, so don't care about the evaluation on the Internet! Besides, is the person who evaluates you qualified to evaluate you?"
Movies are products for the public, especially commercial films, why do you think that the audience is not qualified to evaluate you?
When the market matures, Wang Jing will not be able to make money...
"Ace Amuses Ace" and "The Legend of Demon Suppression" failed miserably at the box office...
Objectively speaking, "Greater Shanghai" is a good biographical movie.
Wang Jing likes to be afraid of character biographies, has experience and shoots well, "500 Million Inspector Lei Luo" is his work!
One sentence evaluation of "Greater Shanghai": The shell of the era drama is packaged with a gangster story full of Hong Kong flavor, with a strong aura, well-made, and many classic shadows, and it is popular and good-looking, very enjoyable, with small shortcomings, but the flaws are not hidden.
In fact, Du Yuesheng's movies have never been favored by the market, and what about the most classic "Shanghai Emperor"?
directly led to the golden combination of "Mai Dangxiong Brothers + Xiao Ruoyuan + Pan Wenjie", and since then they have parted ways...
Wang Jing still has a hero complex in his bones, it is said that he has wanted to shoot Du Yuesheng since 07, but no one has invested in it.
Finally, "God of Wealth Inn" made a fortune and won Yu Dong's investment.
Wang Jing brought Zhou Yunfa and Huang Xiaoming, "two generations of Xu Wenqiang" to play "Big Shanghai" together, and changed the story of Du Yuesheng to the anti-Japanese hero and love route, and simply killed the New Year.
However, in order to avoid "1942", "Greater Shanghai" chose to retreat from December 8 to December 21, making a fatal mistake. "1942" failed at the box office, "Thai Embarrassment" was released ahead of schedule, "Zodiac" was not bad at the box office, and "Blood Drops" swore to resist, making "Greater Shanghai" completely lose its living space - the film's first-day film schedule rate was only 14%, even worse than "Blood Drops" 20%!
Yu Dong also insisted on advocating the box office of "Big Shanghai" before, "starting at least 1 billion"
"Greater Shanghai" invested 90 million, and the box office was less than 150 million...
It's a miserable loss...
Wang Jing simply and neatly drummed up "Macau Fengyun", and this time he also brought Da Tiantian...
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On December 31st, the legendary world did not arrive as scheduled...
"Thai Embarrassment" has a cumulative box office of 1.12 billion and has not yet been released, but the situation is already very clear.
You can get at least 1.5 billion!
The box office list of Chinese movies is about to be rewritten again!
Poor Xu Hui worked hard for four years to easily create a box office champion, but this year he was surpassed by Wu Jing and Xu Guangtou...
Throughout 2012, Huiwen Tianxia released a movie every month from June, and the word-of-mouth and box office were all ahead of the market average.
What's more, none of these films are works directed by Xu Hui...
At the beginning of Huiwen's listing, many investors and shareholders, including those in the industry, believed that Huiwen's biggest problem was that it relied too much on Xu Hui.
This is the most unhealthy place for a film company!
Therefore, Xue Xiaolu's "My Little Black Dress" was released and won 300 million box office, Huiwen rejoiced, and even Huiwen's stock price rose sharply.
After that, Yang Qing made efforts, "Hot Pot Hero" had a good reputation and box office, and then signed contracts with Ning Hao and Zhang Yimou, and then this year, several signed directors have made efforts.
Facts have proved that Huiwen Tianxia has initially realized 'going to Xu Hui'...
The box office miracle of "Thai Embarrassment" can be regarded as the most perfect ending to Huiwen's 2012!
Huiwen Tianxia's stock price has risen by 15% because of the movie "Thai Embarrassment", with a total market value of more than 92 billion...
Throughout 2012, the total box office of domestic films reached 18 billion, of which Chinese-made films accounted for 55%, and Huiwen contributed more than half.
The audience has become accustomed to it...
By the way, Xu Hui was successfully elected as the Youth Representative of the Year...