Chapter 41: Frontal Toughness
Joss Whedon messed up, and took out the literary atmosphere when he was filming "Firefly", wanting to wrap "Avengers 2" more literary.
After all, Joss is a genuine Englishman, and people are natural admirers of Shakespeare.
All Shakespeare's embraces have an unconscious pattern of behavior, and they subconsciously feel that the movie should be more profound!
The same goes for Ang Lee, so his big production "The Incredible Hulk" is green!
The Marvel Universe is planned to be on the air for almost ten years, and how many people in the world don't know Iron Man, Black Widow, or Captain America?
To be honest, as long as these people appear on the big screen at the same time, coupled with the action scenes of mutual PK, the global box office will start at least $1 billion!
The power of IP!
What comic movies want is picture effects plus a little joke by the way, it's enough, "Women's Federation 1" is very good, so its box office exploded, earning 1.53 billion US dollars worldwide, and the Chinese box office is only 526 million yuan, not even 100 million.
It is said that the box office performance of "Women's Federation 2" should not be lower than that of "Women's Federation 1".
The reality is so helpless, 12 days after its release in North America, "Women's Federation 2" box office was 270 million US dollars, which looks awesome, but in comparison, "Women's Federation 1" won nearly 400 million US dollars at the box office in 12 days after its release!
As of May 12, the global cumulative box office has reached 958 million US dollars, and it is certain to break 1 billion, but it is a bit suspenseful to exceed the 1.53 billion estimate of the first part, not to mention Disney's ambitious slogan of 2 billion US dollars.
"Women's Federation 2" premiered in China, and the creators came to China collectively to promote.
Nonsense, if this piece of the mainland loses this piece of ticket warehouse, they will really be finished!
"Furious 7" created a box office miracle in China, with a box office result of about 400 million US dollars, which directly shocked Hollywood studios.
In order to avoid being swept by the tail of "Furious 7", Disney deliberately postponed the Chinese premiere date for half a month - it was originally intended to open in China and the United States at the same time.
The theater chain is very powerful, on the first day of release, "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" won nearly 70% of the film scheduling rate!
What's more, the first day of filming of "Furious 7" is only sixty percent, and "Change 4" is also sixty percent, why give such a high film scheduling rate?
It is also understandable, after all, when "Furious 7" was released, "Wolf Warrior" was in full swing.
The release of "Women's Federation 2" definitely caught up with the good times, and no domestic film could pose a threat to him!
Everyone knows that "Women's Federation 2" is going to be released, who dares to confront it?
The box office in the mainland won the box office championship in the first week without accident, with a box office of 997 million.
But it's still not enough, and it can only be ranked fifth in mainland film history!
It is lower than the seven-day billion of "Chinatown Veteran", the five-day billion of "Super Body", the first-week box office of "Interstellar" is also 1.1 billion, and the first-week box office of "Furious 7" reached 1.3 billion!
The theater attendance rate of "Women's Federation 2", which makes Disney even more chilling, is not good, although the average of 49 people per game is high enough, but it is not super enough, last year's "Super Body" averaged 114 people per game in the first week, and the average number of people per game in "Fast and Furious 7" was as high as 111, and the average number of people per game in the first eight days was 63.
On May 21st, "Operation Mekong" was launched!
Although Shen Lin, as a director, is not in China, and although the premiere scheduling rate of "Mekong" is only 30%, far lower than that of "Women's Federation 2", which occupies 50% of the market, but the box office and word-of-mouth are the most intuitive!
The box office reached 97 million on the first day — because it was Thursday.
The box office directly crushed the 47 million of "Women's Federation 2".
The theater chain made timely adjustments, and the number of films scheduled for "Mekong" rose directly to 47%, and on Friday, the box office of "Mekong" reached 140 million, and on Saturday, it reported 160 million in a single day, and on Sunday, the news of Shen Lin winning the Palme d'Or spread to China, and "Mekong" won 210 million in a single day!
Four days after its release, the box office reached 610 million!
At the same time, the four-day box office of "Women's Federation 2" is only about 200 million, which is because the number of films in theaters has been maintained at about 30%.
The film industry is going crazy, what's the situation?
The main theme movie actually killed a Hollywood blockbuster?
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When he returned to China, he didn't have time to celebrate winning the Palme d'Or, so Shen Lin didn't stop and started the promotional tour of "Mekong" in the afternoon of the same day.
On May 24th, the magic station was promoted.
"First of all, congratulations to director Shen Lin for winning the Palme d'Or, can you tell us about the difference between filming "Carol" and filming "Operation Mekong"?"
The host is Zhu Zhen, Lao Xue is a good friend of Chen He, and Shen Lin has had several encounters with him.
"Thank you, from the perspective of film genre, "Operation Mekong" is a commercial film, "Carol" is a purely literary film, I enjoy making these two kinds of movies, the difference is that I enjoyed the filming of "Mekong" I enjoyed torturing the actors, watching Zhang Hanyu's eldest brother run back and forth in the jungle at forty degrees with a weight of 20 kilograms on his back, although I am also very hot, I just can't help but be happy..."
Before Shen Lin finished speaking, Zhang Hanyu decisively took over; "I said why did I shoot that one six times, you little devil!"
"Brother Han Yu, you don't know me too well, am I the kind of person you imagined? Well, yes, I'm what you imagined, Huang Xuan has a good understanding of this, when I first filmed a scene of "Those Years", I asked him to shoot back and forth more than 20 times, just because I wanted to find out the details of this actor! ”
It's all routines, publicity, if you blindly focus on 'our shooting is so hard, we have to do all kinds of actions on dog days, everyone go to the cinema to support us', who cares about you?
You think you're Chenlong?
The salary of your special movie is enough for us ordinary people to be busy for a lifetime, you deserve your hard work!
"Continue to answer the host's question just now, I will be very relaxed when I shoot "Carol", you can see the actors I chose, Chen Daoming, Gong Li and my wife, they are all acting schools, I just need to sit in the director's chair and watch their performances freely, I enjoy it so much, I have gained five or six pounds!"
Interviewing Shen Lin is something that many hosts are willing to do, not only because he is famous, but more importantly, he is very good at interacting and answering all questions!
"Director Shen, many viewers want to ask why you didn't bring "Operation Mekong" to Cannes, but made another "Carol"?"
"Cannes is a French film festival after all, what do French people like? Avant-garde and art! The so-called art must make the audience feel the distance, you can appreciate it, but you will not buy a ticket for it! "Carol" is one such movie, it is different from "Operation Mekong", "Mekong" is essentially a commercial popcorn movie under the banner of the main theme! ”
"Commercial films, if you want to make money, you must have the audience to pay, so you must not give the audience a sense of distance!"
"If I take Mekong to Cannes, I don't think I will even be able to make it to the main competition." [.]