Chapter 226: Billion! Billion

February 27, 2010, the fourteenth day of the Lunar New Year.

Today, it is not an ordinary day for everyone in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Because just this morning, the first domestic film with a box office of more than one billion was born.

After 34 days of release, the film that carries the expectations of all domestic filmmakers finally reached 10.02 billion after winning 4 million box office yesterday.

For a while, the entire industry was crazy, whether it was reporters, directors, actors, or film critics, they were all frantically touting the miracle created by "Thai Embarrassment" and singing praises.

"One billion Chinese movies have finally arrived at this moment!" - from the homepage of Tengxun!

"Thirty-four days of screening, more than 30 million people, more than 500,000 screenings. Before this, I'm afraid no one dared to imagine that there would be a domestic movie with a box office of more than one billion, let alone a sequel to a small-budget movie that could achieve this feat!"

"The day before the Lantern Festival in 2010, the billion-dollar box office of Chinese films finally arrived yesterday. is not a blockbuster, not a big director, and no superstar joining, but "Thai Embarrassment" with an investment of about 50 million. Not only that, the film's investors, Bernard Film and Television Group and Tianmu Studio, are even more happy, with the current account sharing ratio, the two companies can get 400 million shares, 800% of the investment income ratio, regardless of booking today's box office champion in advance, I am afraid it will also be the film with the highest rate of return this year, and even in the next few years!" - from Baidu News.

"The victory of Chinese filmmakers, encountering Waterloo's super masterpiece "Avatar"!" - from the homepage of Xinlang.

Half a month ago, the "King of the World" James Cameron landed in various countries around the world with his "Avatar", setting off a wave of movie-watching craze in hundreds of countries around the world, and records were broken one by one, but today a Chinese film stepped on the head of "Avatar" and the box office exceeded one billion, which is not only the victory of "Thai Embarrassment", Tianmu Studio and Berner Group, but also the victory of our Chinese filmmakers. In the past, our films could only retreat in the face of Hollywood blockbusters, and in the past three years, two of the box office champions were Hollywood movies, but now, we can proudly tell them that Chinese filmmakers have stood up, and from now on we are in charge of our market!"

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And celebrities from all walks of life expressed their happiness when they were interviewed and TV stations participated in the show, and posted on their personal Weibo to say goodbye.

"I got good news the day before the Lantern Festival, the box office of "Thai Embarrassment" exceeded one billion O(∩_∩)O~~, I am really happy, thank you for your support of domestic films, the first Chinese film set a record, a good omen has just begun, keep up the good work!" This is a Weibo posted by Wang Baoqiang, with joy in his words, and there are two posters of the movie below the text!

"Although I have been very calm, but in fact, there are still some joys, when this is approaching the Lantern Festival, I hope everyone can share this joy with me, the real miracle belongs to the Chinese movie audience, I wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival in advance!"

Within 10 minutes of its posting, 8,000 posts were retweeted and the number of comments exceeded 10,000.

Today's Xu Zheng is no longer the well-known second-tier actor he used to be.

After directing and acting in a billion-box office blockbuster, which is also the first blockbuster with a billion-dollar box office, he is already a hot superstar in the entertainment industry, and in the directorial industry, he is also second only to the national teacher in terms of total box office.

At present, Zhang Yimou ranks first in the box office list of domestic directors with 11300000000 yuan, and Xu Zheng ranks second with 10900000000 yuan with the two parts of "People in Embarrassment" and "Thai Embarrassment".

In third place is comedy master Feng Xiaogang, with a total box office of about 120 million.

These three are also the only billion-level directors in China.

Of course, these two are indispensable for such an important thing as a billion box office, and when asked by a reporter how they felt about the record created by Xu Zheng, they all expressed their congratulations.

Zhang Yimou said to reporters, "Xu Zheng is a very aura actor and a very talented director, he has fully matured after the previous training of "People in Embarrassment", I hope he can make persistent efforts to make better movies to give back to the audience!"

Zhang Yimou's words are decent, and people can't find faults, but another big director, Feng Xiaogang, is not very polite.

is worthy of the nickname Feng Cannon, maybe his reputation as a comedy master was put on Xu Zheng's head to make him unhappy, and he immediately fired in the face of reporters.

"I haven't seen it, I don't care about the name, I know it's an embarrassing thing that happened in Thailand, and it's another movie that relies on a funny plot to fool the audience, what's the difference between this and those, pee, and fart comedies in Xiangjiang!!"

Wow, big news, the reporter who interviewed him had a light in his eyes, and he was secretly glad that he didn't go to Chen Kaige and Jiang Wen for interviews, it seems that Feng Cannon's name was not blown out.

"Then Director Feng, what do you think is the reason for the high box office of "Thai Embarrassment"!" The reporter hurriedly continued to ask.

Feng Xiaogang said, "The lower and lower appreciation level of domestic audiences has led to the high box office of this movie!"

Well, this cannon has a bit of a range!

"Also, he didn't touch me today!" Feng Xiaogang added at the end!

The reporter said excitedly, "It is said that Director Feng's "Tangshan Earthquake" has been filmed, do you mean that this movie will be even better than "Thai Embarrassment"?

"One billion! "Tangshan Earthquake" is a huge production that took me two years to complete, and the box office will not be less than one billion!" Feng Xiaogang is not only powerful, but also unambiguous when he blows up!

Developed!

The reporter is ecstatic in his heart, now the headlines are there, the bonuses are also there, and the promotion and salary increase are not a dream!

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Not to mention how the outside world is disturbing, in order to celebrate the Thai box office exceeding one billion today, Li Mu and Yu Dong discussed it and jointly held a celebration party.

Since its release a month ago, no matter how many records "Thai Embarrassment" has broken, they haven't even held a celebration party, if it were someone else, I'm afraid that every time the box office exceeds 100 million, I will have to hold a celebration party, didn't I see that when the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" exceeded 600 million, almost half of the entertainment industry was invited!

Before, because he was busy with the release of "The Return of the Great Sage", Li Mu didn't think about it, but now everything is on the right path, and one billion is a huge hurdle, and it can't be said that there will be no celebration party.

However, there is another layer of thought here, and now the single-day box office of "Thai Embarrassment" has long fallen below the 10 million mark, and there are only four or five million box office per day, and it is not without re-promotion to stimulate the box office!