Chapter 207: Shooting on Hong Kong Island

In the face of the strong "Hero", Dongbao's films were in a weak position from the beginning, but Fan Cheng was a time-traveler, and it was impossible for him to choose to face "Hero" head-on without consideration.

The movie "Hero" is really not bad, especially when you look back at this work after watching so many rubbish works in later generations, but in this era, the harsh criticism of filmmakers in the entertainment industry has changed everything.

Fan Cheng has long known that this will be the case, although the harsh criticism received by "Hero" during the first period of release is inappropriate, it is an opportunity for him and his works, and there is no need to even do anything, as long as their works are above average, and they are indeed making a drama in a down-to-earth manner, critics will naturally compare their works with "Hero", which is "flashy" and has no merit except for dull colors and stars.

The total box office of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" is definitely not as good as "Hero", and the share of the canvas and the attention between the two are very different, even if there are so many comparisons and praise for "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space", this is still a reality, but it doesn't matter.

"Hero" is a big drama with an investment of 30 million US dollars, the investment is higher, and there are more departments for publicity and distribution and various departments to share the box office, looking at the world, it will take at least close to 100 million US dollars to ensure that all investors can make money, and the bad reputation has also made this work lose the continued development of follow-up products.

And the investment of millions of yuan in "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" is only distributed within Huaxia, as long as the box office exceeds 10 million, the rest is purely profitable.

Compared with the box office requirement of 100 million US dollars for "Hero", the requirement of 10 million yuan seems to be only a fraction.

But when the box office is really counted, except for the first day, no one will think that "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" is just a fraction.

"Hero" got about 30 million box office in one weekend, and Fan Cheng's side contributed 4 million to the box office in three days, and the 4 million was contributed by the box office surge in the next two days, and the box office on Fan Cheng's side on the first day was only a few hundred thousand.

The box office of four million in three days has shocked many people, in the internal estimation of the film by major companies, the normal sales curve of the film will take at least a week to get the box office of five million, and then the remaining five million will depend on the slow accumulation of the box office, and now the four million in three days has basically determined the money of the movie, and the rest is only a matter of how much to earn.

Looking at the word-of-mouth and attention that this movie has just been hyped up, the future box office will obviously be very interesting.

In the end, the box office of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" was reported to be 6.3 million in the first week, and the first ten days (including two weekends) were reported to be 10 million, officially entering the category of earning every box office in the future, while "Hero" has accumulated less than 60 million at the box office in ten days, compared with the box office of more than 30 million in the first three days, it is undoubtedly a failure to get less than 30 million in the next seven days, including a full weekend.

In fact, there is no shortage of publicity for "Hero", and in the past ten days on the canvas comrades in the theater, the share of heroes has not decreased at all, so that they only got 60 million box office, which is less than 10 million dollars when converted, and the situation is quite pessimistic for such a blockbuster.

Fortunately, although the box office in China and Europe is not high, the box office in the United States and other countries in Southeast Asia is quite good.

Americans actually like this movie quite a bit, although there are other Chinese-speaking regional films landing in the United States after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but if you want to make a noise, the only thing that Americans know is this "Hero", for Americans, it can almost be regarded as a hero after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", so "Hero" can also be regarded as inheriting the remaining attention of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

At the global box office, in ten days, "Hero" got a total of 20 million US dollars at the box office, of which the American box office occupies the absolute majority.

Among them, the box office in North America should be in the early 50 million, and the Chinese-speaking region can at least exceed 100 million, this box office is already very powerful but not ideal, 50 million US dollars in North America is indeed very powerful, converted into RMB, it is more than 300 million, this is a Chinese-language movie, the box office in the Chinese-speaking region is not as good as the United States, even if the market in the United States is much larger than the Chinese-speaking region, it is not suitable.

Obviously, the domestic box office data is not acceptable, so "Hero" finally launched their countermeasures a week later.

The news broadcast broadcast the news that a middle and high-level of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China went to the theater to watch "Hero".

That's too much face.

The influence of the news network is there, and the senior of the Ministry of Culture said in the news: ""Hero" is a symbol of the rise of my country's film industry, and it is urgent to promote the national film industry, and the emergence of "Hero" represents the ...... of China's blablablablabla."

It doesn't take too much, just such a piece of news is enough, going to the theater to watch "Hero" immediately became a help to the national industry, and if you don't watch it, you will be unpatriotic.

The influence of the news broadcast is too great, after the news was broadcast, the box office of "Hero", which was already declining, instantly rose against the market, originally on the theater side, "Hero" was already a little unbearable, they occupied too much of the canvas, but the attendance rate has been declining, while the attendance rate of "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space" has been maintained on a fairly good data, not only has it not declined, but its attendance rate has even increased from less than 20% on the first day to 70% Above, such good data, the first few days may still be able to hold on, and a week later, the theaters around the country are also going to make money, the attendance rate on one side is so low on the other side, but the attendance rate is so high, if there is no good news, the number of canvases that have been insisted on at the beginning will not be agreed to.

"Hero" accounts for about 70% of the canvas, and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" accounts for 15%, one of the two has policies and investment, and the other has word-of-mouth and popularity, and the bitter one has become a small production of the remaining 15% of the canvas.

There were about fifteen movies released nationwide during the same time period, and except for the two with the highest attention, the remaining thirteen had to be crowded together to share the 15% of the canvas, and now they can't even keep 15%.

70% of "Heroes" cannot be reduced, and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" has to squeeze out the number of canvases for them.

So ten days after its release, the share of the canvas became "Hero" accounted for 65% slightly, "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" accounted for 25%, and the rest of those movies accounted for 10%.

As for the box office, ten days later, the box office potential and prediction of the two works are more accurate, "Hero" With the support of national policies, the box office will inevitably skyrocket again, and there is no problem in the final report of 250 million, about 30 million US dollars at the box office, and then counting the box office of about 50 million in the United States, the most important box office of 80 million can already be basically flattened, and then there will be about 20 million box office in Europe, and the entire Southeast Asia and other countries and regions together are about this number, and finally counting the DVD release in the United States, this movie should still be able to earn tens of millions of dollars.

Oh, by the way, in Fan Cheng's original world, "Hero" also has 4 billion yen in Japan, and the box office is about 40 million US dollars after conversion, and there is no Japan in this world, but on the other hand, the sales of CD products such as Huaxia DVD can also get some.

The investment of 30 million, in the end, the main investor earned about 30 million US dollars, and the whole movie took nearly two years from the beginning of the plan to the shooting, of course, 30 million in two years is a lot for a person, but for a company, it took two years, wasted so much energy, and opened up so many joints, and earning 30 million can only be regarded as a loss.

As for Fan Cheng's side, the box office calculation is much simpler.

"The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space", the overseas box office is zero, maybe it can be sold in East Asia in the future, but it will also be a direct sale of broadcast rights without a share, all overseas income, from broadcast rights to DVDs, etc., can add up to two million yuan is already very good, of course, this is pure earning.

In the domestic part, the final screening time of this work, which is quite popular, has been extended to a month and a half, which can be regarded as the theater's response to the canvas by "Hero" A kind of compensation for the crowding, during the screening period of more than 40 days, the final box office is very likely to reach about 30 million yuan, and at least half of it will be distributed to the theater chain at that time, Dongbao can receive 15 million, and then remove about 5 million investments, the company has earned 10 million yuan, and finally plus millions of DVD distribution and foreign parts, Fan Cheng's company can finally earn about 15 million, or RMB.

And this number is already quite good, even within the company that Fan Cheng saw very well, the initial expectation of this movie was to support the flat, this is not a big production, the company is clearly pushing people's works.

With an estimated income of about 15 million, the company is quite happy in less than a year of operation, and Fan Cheng actually doesn't care about the money, so after having this estimated figure, he directly took out 7 million and sent it to the entire Dongbao Film and Television Production Company and the crew of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" as a bonus.

This is quite generous, Dongbao Film and Television Production Company has less than 100 employees, and in terms of crew, the crew of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space" is about 150 people, less than 300 people are divided into 5 million, even if the main creative staff other than Fan Cheng takes at least 30% of the head, everyone still gets nearly 10,000 yuan, at the beginning of 2003, this is already the monthly salary of most ordinary employees for several months.

The role of Fan Cheng's generosity is obvious, and at the same time, in the crew of "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" filmed, in fact, most of the crew members are members of the crew of the previous "Girl Through Time and Space", especially those field workers, camera assistants and cameras, props and costumes are all people found by the comprehensive entertainment channel themselves, and these people basically got the bonuses of the previous play.

The rest of the crew of "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" did not participate in the previous film, including director Mi Zhigao from Hong Kong Island, and stylists and pyrotechnic designers invited from Hong Kong Island.

The former is specifically responsible for the film's Hong Kong Island styling and set up in the studio, while the latter is responsible for the pyrotechnic weapons in this play, which are not in the previous film.

Because of the popularity of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space", the recent attention of "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" has also risen, especially the protagonist is Fan Xiaoqian, who has been in the limelight recently, and this drama has received even more attention.

Fans are not blind, Uncle Fan is obviously different from Fan Xiaoqian, European performances, Fan Xiaoqian is the absolute center of the three, the girl's various exposures, and the songs included in the album are also generous, on the movie side, although Qin Ruoxue and Wen Zhen have a beginning and an end, as the work in the middle, "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun" is definitely the best in the eyes of everyone's experience.

Coupled with the attention caused by Fan Xiaoqian's sailor suit, the recent crew is full of various media who want to grab hot spots

The crew was filming in such an environment.

Filming will be carried out until the beginning of January, after that, the crew will go to Hong Kong Island, because of the special content, so the background of this film is set on Hong Kong Island, the filming on the mainland side is mainly a variety of scenes in the studio, and on the Hong Kong Island side, a variety of exterior scenes will be filmed, from the beginning of January to March, a total of about 30 minutes of exterior scenes will be shot in about a month and a half.

The thirty-minute movie scene a month is very tight in time, but Fan Cheng and they only have this month, Fan Xiaoqian starts school in March, they have to go back to the mainland, and not delaying their studies is a major requirement for Fan Xiaoqian to be an artist, even if this is the work of the third uncle, she is not willing to compromise.

This can't be regarded as using the time of the rest of the crew to cooperate with Fan Xiaoqian, because the filming was originally going to Hong Kong Island, and the time was also in early 2003, at most, because Fan Xiaoqian's relationship was locked before and after.

Of course, she is also very, very, very looking forward to going to Hong Kong Island with the third uncle, in the world far away from Beilin Province, away from all the social relationships between her parents and here, in Fan Xiaoqian's opinion, it is only a two-person world between herself and the third uncle, so when her mother Nie Jin proposed to go to Hong Kong Island to take care of herself, Fan Xiaoqian's heart was cold, she didn't hate her mother, but such a good opportunity, she definitely didn't want her mother to be there!

But...... Mother's request is too normal, she has no reason to refuse, and the third uncle didn't say much when he knew that Nie Jin was going to follow, for Fan Xiaoqian, this is almost a huge change from heaven to hell, the girl doesn't want to go to Hong Kong Island in an instant, and having a mother on Hong Kong Island is no different from being in Yangji or the imperial capital......

At the beginning of 2003, after spending New Year's Day in Yangji, the crew packed up and went to Hong Kong Island, and the intense filming work could only be spent on Hong Kong Island during the Spring Festival this year.