Chapter 163: The true colors of a dark horse, black to the end
In the third week of its release, "The Great Exercise" won 7.2 million at the box office, and the cumulative box office in the mainland reached 84.2 million.
However, there are no blockbusters released in the near future, and it is estimated that theaters will also need good movies to help support them for a while. The rest of the new domestic films are released, even if the total box office is not necessarily as much as the box office of "The Great Exercise" in a week. Isn't it a waste to give them a share.
The movie that fought with Hu Yifei in the ring at the same time was tantamount to a disaster.
As the year approaches, pirated discs can no longer be controlled, and have begun to spread to the streets.
Even a clear version of the download torrent appeared on the Internet, and "The Great Exercise" persisted for another week, barely getting 3.5 million at the box office. The total box office in the country reached 87.7 million, surpassing "Crazy Stone", but unfortunately it failed to break the 90 million threshold, let alone break 100 million.
In fact, according to the scale of domestic films, they can win 3.5 million box office in a week, which still has some stamina, and they can apply to continue to extend the release. But this time, the family film took the initiative to cancel the extended release. The follow-up is already weak, and no matter how much it is delayed, it will be at this level. It is better to sell the DVD copyright early and absorb another batch of DVD revenue while it is hot.
At the end of the year, every company is making a year-end summary, and Chinese films are no exception.
Since 1999, domestic films have begun to deteriorate to the limit. The box office income of the film is only 810 million yuan, the number of audiences is less than 300 million, the audience has lost hundreds of times, and the box office income has been reduced again and again, making it difficult for many screening units to continue.
In 2000, the box office was about 860 million, in 2001 it was 890 million, and in 2002 the national box office was only 950 million, and it was forced to start implementing the theater system.
2003 is the first year after the implementation of China's cinema reform system, and many people are paying attention to the results.
The results of the annual box office statistics appeared, which can really be described as a few happy and a few sad!
ranked first "Crazy Stone" with a box office of 84.78 million, and second place "Bank Robbery Exercise" with a box office of 77 million (the later release time has been pushed to 2004 and is not counted).
The third is the Hollywood blockbuster "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", and the fourth is Feng Xiaogang's "Mobile Phone" with 48 million, which is nearly 5 million lower than the original time and space box office.
The rest of the fifth and sixth are all Hollywood blockbusters "The Matrix 2 Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolution 3", the data is very uniform, all of them are neat 43 million, such a coincidence, if you want to say that there is no sneakiness in it, I guess everyone doesn't believe it. China Film may not be a fart when it goes out, but it is the undoubted boss in the mainland, and Hollywood blockbusters will lie down when they come.
"Heroes of Heaven and Earth" and "Infernal Affairs 3" are listed in the seventh and eighth places, which are the only Chinese-speaking figures in the TOP10. The ranking that slipped later, except for Chenlong's bad movie "Flying Dragon Regeneration", is all Hollywood blockbusters.
In the past year, the three revenues of film products in the domestic cinema box office market, overseas film market, and TV broadcast market reached 2.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 70 percent this year, reaching 3.8 billion yuan. In 2003, the national box office revenue was only 1.2 billion yuan, and Hu Yifei accounted for 160 million of it. And in the overseas market, it has also contributed a lot.
From this point of view, Hu Yifei's two movies can be regarded as saving the last fig leaf for domestic films.
The overall results have not improved at all, and domestic films still can't see spring. But for some people, it doesn't need to be that way. Judging from the data comparison, the achievements of the theater reform are remarkable, which is what needs to be seen above.
"Family Pictures" performed outstandingly, and was also awarded the honor of an advanced private enterprise by Beijing.
Han Mi took it back as a representative and almost threw it into the trash. Hu Yifei hurriedly picked it up and handed it to Wu Xiubo, "Brother Bo, go back and find a craftsman to hang up, maybe it will be useful one day." ”
Wu Xiubo disagreed, "If the company has public shares, it will be said in the past, but we are a pure private enterprise, and this thing is useless." ”
"Yes." Hu Yifei scratched his head, "Put it away first." ”
However, the focus of the media is obviously not on the honorary signboard of an advanced private enterprise.
"The true color of a dark horse, black to the end!"
"The Great Exercise" made a big profit of 80 million again in China, and Hu Yifei and his family film company may become the highest-grossing film director in the country in 2003, the strongest rookie director and the most profitable company!"
This was the day after the "Great Exercise" was drawn, and the report was published in the latest edition of the Global Times, which has a nationwide circulation of more than two million copies.
At the same time, the "Global Times" also added some gossip to the report, such as they interviewed a staff member who did not want to be named, and learned from him that Hu Yifei is likely to be preparing his third film.
Although the news of the third film has not been confirmed, the third TV series of the family pictures is not small.
Adapting the well-known domestic game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", this time the family film industry has made a rare investment, not to mention the cost of tens of millions, and will try to use a lot of special effects technology for the first time. Before the filming of their TV series started, Mango Channel threw an olive branch and wanted to prepare for the start of filming together, and the family film industry also agreed.
A grass platform team that was only established at the end of last year, how dare to invest tens of millions of dollars in TV dramas?
This has to do a good job of settling accounts for Hu Yifei.
The exercise was mediocre in Hong Kong, but impressive in Taiwan and other parts of Southeast Asia. South Korea, in particular, performed even better than the previous movie. The report boldly predicted that once the overseas distribution is completed, the movie "The Big Exercise" will bring Hu Yifei at least half a billion in revenue. And his worth will also rise to a new level.
And this year, Hu Yifei's achievements did not stop at the film festival.
He is a writer, and two new books have been published this year, and "Zhu Xian" has sold tens of millions of copies nationwide. "Flight Attendant" has also driven the best-selling of physical books after the TV series became popular, and has sold millions of copies so far. There is also a large series of novels "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", which has great potential for the physical book market.
The royalty income of the novel alone is enough to be included in the best-selling novel writers of the year.
He also released two albums, but during the music desert period, they sold more than 3 million copies, which made the industry staggering, and the number of downloads of digital music was tens of millions.
His company has a total of two TV series launched this year, both of which are popular all over the country. Two TV series, and there are still TV stations rushing to broadcast them, and they have good ratings every time.
What's more, he also has two movies that rank first and second in the country at the box office, all of which are classic examples of small and broad. The total box office of the two films in the mainland alone alone exceeded 170 million yuan. I heard that he also invested in Ning Hao's "Incense", which won an international award at the Tokyo Film Festival, no one knows whether he made money or not, and he shouldn't lose money.
One thing makes people doubt that Hu Yifei did not endorse any advertisements, which is the biggest regret of a star.
Of course, no one doubts that advertisers don't go to him, and according to his worth, the endorsement fee will be seven figures. Most of them are too high-minded and can't look down on it.
Even if the income from advertising endorsements is missing, Hu Yifei's annual income will reach the level of 200 million, to say the least.
As soon as this issue of the report came out, it immediately caused a national sensation.
With more than 2 million copies of the newspaper sold, the Times sold more than 2.5 million copies in one day, setting off a frenzy of discussion among the people!
A nineteen-year-old boy, self-made, born out of nowhere, earns 200 million yuan in a year, is there any more exaggerated than this?!
"I can't believe he's making so much money, but his work is really good. It's good-looking, good-sounding, novels, songs, movies, and TV series are all good. ”
"Liar, huh? You don't have to pay taxes. Why don't you calculate it in detail, isn't this adding to the mess. ”
"I like Hu Yifei's style very much, and his films have a kind of innovative charm. It's not vulgar or old-fashioned, both movies make people watch it, and they want to watch it a second time. Although it is a pity that this time it still did not break 100 million, I believe that the next one will not be far off. ”
"Today's young people are really amazing, I think I was already the richest person in Shili and Eight Streets when I made a million, but I didn't expect a young man to earn so much in a year!"
The outside world has been discussing one after another, which has also brought a lot of trouble to Hu Yifei.
The tax bureau came to the door, looking at Hu Yifei like a villain, "You have to pay your taxes on time, otherwise you will be arrested and sent to jail." "It's good that he's been paying attention to that.