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Now the box office of domestic films often exceeds 100 million, and whenever these are mentioned, Taiwan filmmakers will always cast envious eyes, but these works can only be exchanged for a blank eye at the box office in Taiwan.

"Let the Bullets Fly" sold less than NT$1 million, about 200,000 RMB, "Painted Skin" 4.5 million (about 1 million RMB), "Zhao's Orphan" 160,000 RMB, "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" 30,000 RMB, "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" 20,000 RMB...

"Du Lala's Promotion" has a box office of over 100 million in the mainland, and only sold 7,700 New Taiwan dollars (about 1,600 yuan) in Taipei, which may not be enough for the printing fee of a copy of a volume.

In the same period, Hollywood blockbusters in Taipei had a box office of at least 10 million yuan.

Many people may be surprised by this result, why is this happening?

Why can't mainland movies at the box office in Taiwan, Zhu Yanping, a great director who has filmed bad movies such as "Slam Dunk" and "Thorn Tomb", has something to say: "Let me correct a mistake first, not only mainland films have no box office in Taiwan, but also Hong Kong films have no box office, and Japanese and Korean films have no box office, maybe worse than Chinese films." ”

Moreover, Taiwan's film strategy is disgusting, they stipulate that only 10 mainland films are allowed to enter the Taiwan market a year, and distributors must queue up to apply at the beginning of each year, on a first-come, first-served basis, until the quota is full, so it is very important to start first.

Such a policy has also affected the pace of simultaneous release of mainland films in Taiwan.

Taiwan Bend stipulates that a movie can only start promotion if it gets a quota, that is to say, after a normal movie is screened in the mainland, it will be at least two months before it can be released in Taiwan Bend!

Fortunately, this "Chinatown Veteran" is backed by Huayi!

Huayi may be the only mainland film company to establish a branch in Taiwan, and "Tangshan Earthquake" and "Painted Skin 2" are all quasi-simultaneous releases across the Taiwan Strait, which greatly reduces the threat of piracy of films.

Shen Lin is known as an idol director in Taiwan.

is both young and handsome, and the movies he mainly directs are good.

The previous "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" was released, out of consideration for respecting each other's viewing habits, Shen Lin deliberately found professional dubbing personnel, and authentic Taiwanese dubbing made the audience feel respected!

So, it's understandable that the box office hit a new high.

However, even Shen Lin didn't expect to reach a box office result of 300 million Taiwan dollars (60 million yuan)!

Directly on the top three of the stage bend film history list!

The key is that the crew of "Those Years" didn't promote it much, they only played soy sauce in a circle on the stage, and they didn't even get on "Kangxi is Coming".

This time, "Chinatown Veteran" can't hide anymore.

In the first month of its release, the box office once again broke a record of NT$410 million, leaving behind the local pride "Mong", and only "Cape No. 7" and "Sedek Bale" were in front.

The distributor couldn't resist the demands of the masses and repeatedly proposed that the "Veteran" crew go to Treasure Island.

said that it was the crew, but in fact, there were only two people, Shen Lin and Lin Gengxing, Sun Honglei was filming, plus Huang Bo, this product is very popular in Taiwan.

The trio went to Treasure Island to promote the movie "Chinatown Veteran", which has been in theaters for a month

……

"Mr. Huang Bo, can you sign for me?"

"Mr. Lin Gengxing, can you take a picture with me?"

On the plane, there were a lot of passengers, the aisles were a little congested, and even the flight attendants took advantage of their work to find Lin Gengxing and Huang Bo to sign their autographs.

Shen Lin looked at the faces of the two of them that were almost stiff.

As soon as I got off the plane, hundreds of fans who picked up the plane immediately rushed up, crying and shouting, crazy to no!

Shen Lin listened attentively, yo he, Huang Bo's name is actually more than Lin Gengxing!

Nima, is this product that influential?

Although Lin Gengxing has experienced fan pick-ups and the like, this is a bend!

I was so touched that I almost cried!

Then there was the press conference.

Shen Lin originally thought that with the huge success of "Those Years" and "Veteran", no matter how blind the media in Taiwan was, they should not do anything.

But the truth was a bit difficult for him to accept.

"Director Shen Lin, is your film "Veteran" an indictment of mainland dictatorship?"

"Director Shen Lin, your movie "Veteran" obviously plagiarized Chen Long's "Police Story", do you have anything to say about this?"

"Director Shen Lin, I heard that you have a deep prejudice against Taiwan actors, so you rejected Zhao Youting and Ruan Jingtian's proposal to play the leading roles, right?"

It made Shen Lin a little annoying!

"Where did you get this information? I repeat, "Chinatown Veteran" is just a very ordinary action comedy movie, as for the plagiarism you said about "Police Story", I think it is a bit too exaggerated, if I did plagiarize, I guess you will not see the movie released! ”

"Also, what you said about refusing actors from Taiwan to appear in movies is even more nonsense, I treat all actors in Greater China equally!"

The journalists then turned the conversation to poverty in the hinterland.

It's annoying!

……

This trip to Treasure Island was planned for three days, and the set process was to hold a media meeting first, then participate in two cocktail parties, make friends with some local filmmakers in Taiwan, and then record "Kangxi is Coming"

Shen Lin was very unhappy, originally thought that this time he came to Taiwan, the treatment would be different from the last time, but the result was not much different.

The media still doesn't want to see a few people!

At the cocktail party that night, Shen Lin really didn't want to participate, and he couldn't bear Chen Yang's advice, so he still went.

"Director Shen, in the past two years, we have produced a lot of talents in the film industry, are you interested in coming to Taiwan to make films?"

"Hehe, I'll think about it again!"

At the cocktail party, a bunch of local natives wanted to invite Shen Lin to direct the film.

To be honest, Shen Lin didn't look down on the Taiwan market at all, if it wasn't for the fact that he had to go to the treasure island, he wouldn't want to come at all!

A movie broke through 60 million yuan, and it can actually shout 'The wolf is coming!' ’

It's so stingy!

"Director Shen, the editing picture of "Chinatown Veteran" is really shocking..."

"I can't believe you're only 24 years old, congratulations!"

"Director Shen, you don't need any good roles for your next work, we have a lot of good people here"

In the corner of the cocktail party, Shen Lin was 'bombarded repeatedly' by these big names in the entertainment industry, they either said hello or laughed and talked, this person just walked away, and the next person or couple walked up, Shen Lin kept talking to them and saying thank you, and their faces kept changing.

Some of them he knew, and more of them were just meeting for the first time!