Chapter 106: Properly Breaking a Billion

Action movies have always been a golden sign of Chinese-language films.

'KongFu' even became synonymous with Chinese for a time.

From Mr. Bruce Lee to Big Brother Cheng to Li Lianjie, he has entered Hollywood one after another, relying on real kung fu!

Latecomers, Zhen bullets are also good!

Martial arts movies belong to kung fu movies, but its connotation is more oriental, foreigners can't understand internal strength, and they can't understand that the role can fly around for Mao...

At the beginning of the 2,000th year, Ang Lee won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is the first time that a Chinese martial arts film has received such a high-level courtesy internationally.

The fame and fortune of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" made Zhang Yimou, who was eager to transform into a commercial genre film, see a new way out. In 2002, "Hero" was released, and the domestic box office of 250 million yuan opened the commercial blockbuster model of Chinese martial arts.

After that, Zhang Yimou concocted "Ambush on All Sides", which was completely detached from the real historical background.

Everyone has a martial arts dream in their hearts, and Zhang Yimou's big victory at the box office finally stimulated the nerves of the mainland's great directors.

As a result, one after another Chinese movie "tragedy" followed, "Wuji" made Director Chen a laughing stock because of the "steamed bun blood case", and "Night Banquet" also made Feng Xiaogang lose face.

After "Night Banquet", martial arts blockbusters officially became synonymous with bad movies.

This is also the reason why when Xu Hui proposed to shoot "Embroidered Spring Knife", Huayi was so excited.

Costume martial arts = bad movie!

It's already a consensus!

Fortunately, "Embroidered Spring Knife" did not become a bad movie, and the subsequent "Once Upon a Time" successfully entered the North American market and became another signboard of Chinese films.

It's a pity that although "Huang Feihong" has successfully entered the overseas market, most viewers only know Huang Feihong played by Wu Jing, as for Xu Hui, who created it, I'm sorry, if you ask a foreigner who Xu Hui is, 80% of them don't know...

The industry recognizes him!

But the industry and the market are different, which is why Disney doesn't pay enough attention to "New Dragon Gate Inn" - if you don't use a mature kung fu superstar like Wu Jing, what newcomer will you use?

is like this, Wu Jing has formed a certain popularity in the world, and his appeal is much stronger than Xu Hui himself!

Therefore, it is normal for "Wind of Kings" to give box office shares!

To be honest, he didn't directly ask for 20% of the box office dividends like Liangtang, and by the way, there were 20% of the peripheral and DVD dividends, which is already very good!

After all, Huiwen Tianxia really counted on him to initially establish export channels...

If you change an actor, you will definitely not have his influence!

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On July 27, "Once Upon a Time: The Wind of the King" officially landed in mainland theaters.

The theater chain directly gave 55% of the film schedule, which is completely a blockbuster treatment.

On the first day, "The Wind of Kings" handed over a box office result of 92 million, crushing "Search", which ranked second...

Although this result is very impressive, when you think of the 32 million pre-sale results on the first day, 92 million is actually nothing.

No one doubts Wu Jing and Huang Feihong's box office appeal, just as no one doubts Qianli in the domestic market!

In addition, Huiwen Tianxia has invested so much money and resources in "The Wind of Kings".

Huiwen Tianxia's internal box office prediction for "The Wind of Kings" is more than 800 million in the mainland, 200 million US dollars overseas, and more than 350 million US dollars in total...

In fact, judging from the final box office results of "The Lion King", such data should not be difficult to achieve, provided that the distribution can be coordinated!

Xu Hui is still confident in "The Wind of Kings".

The main source of this confidence is Wu Jing!

After all, "Wolf Warrior 1" won a box office score of 540 million yuan in the face of "Fast and Furious 7", which is enough to prove that his ability to direct is still good, plus several mature assistant directors are in charge, and the core of the action continues the design team of the previous films!

There is no reason to collapse!

Moreover, "Fast Pursuit" won $80 million at the box office after its North American release, and a total box office of $200 million worldwide.

In terms of box office appeal, Wu Jing is definitely not weaker than Li Lianjie at his peak!

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The word-of-mouth of "The Wind of the King" was released, with a Douban score of 7.8 points, and a Time.com score of 8.4 points.

As expected, a bunch of comments questioned whether they had seen the fake Huang Feihong...

The style of "The Wind of Kings" is completely different from the previous three, creating more of an atmosphere of slaughter and personal heroes!

"Sure enough, after losing Xu Hui, the "Huang Feihong" series lost its soul!"

"My maid is gone! Aunt Thirteen has been replaced by Aunt Fourteen..."

"I used to think that Huang Feihong was always insidious that reality was not interesting, but now I suddenly feel that if Huang Feihong doesn't say a few big words, the whole movie will be boring!"

"Hey, the lines are a lot worse, the first part has 'If there really is a mountain of gold in this world, why do these foreign ships come to our port.'" Maybe we're already standing on a mountain of gold. The second part has 'May the rising sun always shine on my land; Don't forget the blood of the martyrs', and when you get here, you can only 'win a gold medal but lose the whole country'"

It's time for film critics to show their presence.

""The Wind of the King" doesn't see the so-called 'king' at all! In the final analysis, it's because the most important link is missing, the director!"

"The reason why the first three parts of "Huang Feihong" are classic is that Xu Hui transplanted his personal interpretation of the history of the last years of the Qing Dynasty to the Chinese of that era represented by Huang Feihong, and we can feel the process of the Chinese of that era slowly moving towards the world through the changes of Huang Feihong himself, but Wu Jing abandoned all this and simply interpreted Huang Feihong into a superhero-like role..."

"A typical dog-tailed mink!"

These film critics have left no room for "The Wind of Kings" to hack "The Wind of Kings", it is obvious that the release of "The Wind of Kings" and such a big movement it has caused will wreak havoc on the film market for at least half a month!

What about newly released movies?

In August, "Disappearing Bullet", "Listener to the Wind" and "Hedong Lion's Roar 2" are confirmed to be released...

These are all production funds of 50 million at a minimum, and the handicap is so big, if "The Wind of Kings" is all accounted for, what will they do?

Waiting to lose money?

Fortunately, Huiwen World was already prepared.

The 3,000 naval army was dispatched at the right time.

"In my opinion, "The Wind of the King" can be called a classic, boldly pushing new ones!"

"Hot-blooded, lively, such a movie is worth watching!"

In short, bad reviews and good reviews go hand in hand.

The box office is a record-breaking all the way!

On July 28th, "The Wind of Kings" won 105 million, and on July 29th, it continued to be unstoppable, winning 110 million again, and the box office exceeded 300 million in the first weekend!

Even if it enters the working day, the single-day box office is still 50 million!

This posture is properly breaking one billion, and it is possible to break the box office record that "Avatar" has always held...

(There were errors in the previous chapters, which I have corrected...) Excuse me... )