Chapter 160: Standing Alone
[This is the first update, ask for votes]
"It's young, big may not be good" is an ancient Chinese way to describe young geniuses who are obscure when they become adults.
After "Crazy Stone", there is also a saying in the circle that Hu Yifei's first movie "Crazy Stone" is just a miracle born by chance and coincidence, and the script was also written by Ning Hao. It is not unheard of such a meteor director who is clear in the crowd with such a flash of inspiration, and his second film may be "no longer bright", and it is difficult to make a masterpiece that the audience likes and the market is hot about.
However, "The Great Exercise" quickly slapped his face with facts, proving that Hu Yifei was not in vain, and he wanted to continue the good results of the previous one and sell a lot.
No one questioned whether "The Great Exercise", which cost 5.2 million yuan in production and 4 million yuan in publicity, and had a total cost of no more than 10 million yuan, could make money, as soon as the box office came out in the first week.
With the production cost of "The Great Exercise", the local box office has already achieved profitability in the first week. And this time overseas is still cooperating with Anle, and the foreign exchange earned by the last "Crazy Stone" overseas even exceeded that of the local market, which is not something that ordinary domestic films can achieve.
And this achievement was fiercely won under the sniping of "Mobile Phone" and "Infernal Affairs 3", which shows the ferocity of his nickname "Little Wolf"!
This achievement made the family film and all the crew of "The Big Exercise" very excited, Hu Yifei wrapped millions of red envelopes for the crew at the last movie celebration They still know that they are now sharing the glory and disgrace with "The Big Exercise", and they are looking forward to its success.
Hong Kong also followed suit, and the hype topic of Anle is very clichΓ©, but it is very attractive.
"Mainlanders are called little wolves, Feizi knows how to bite people at a young age, and he is even more ruthless when he grabs the box office! γ
"Five million cost small production, create another box office myth!" γ
"Defeated the gods in six days, no big stars, no big productions, no massive funds. Strength circle money, a nineteen-year-old billionaire director is about to be born! γ
"Liu Weiqiang + Liu Dehao + Liang Chaowei + Li Ming + Chen Daoming + Feng Xiaogang + Ge You VS Hu Yifei, Hu Yifei WIN! γ
"Full score masterpiece Christmas hits Hong Kong, the re-creation myth of the phenomenal director, are you ready! γ
β¦β¦
The titles are hot, and An Le has made a bloody investment this time. Hong Kong people have never had a good impression of mainland films, and even "Hero" created such a big box office, but it only broke 20 million at the box office in Hong Kong. The last "Crazy Stone" was a little amazing, but after all, it was a Chinese film, and Hong Kong people didn't watch it too deeply. This time, I couldn't help but look sideways when I saw that young man make a comeback again, and he also took their mythical "Infernal Affairs" down within a week.
Hong Kong people are proud, even if the movie has been downtrodden and surpassed by the mainland, they are not less arrogant.
The appearance of "Infernal Affairs" has greatly inspired Hong Kong filmmakers, which is also a classic in the minds of many people. But now it is still a little difficult to accept that it is sinking in the sand in the mainland. But this is the case, irrefutable, even if it is difficult to accept, at least the character of Hu Yifei has once again left a mark in the minds of the audience!
Jiang Zhiqiang is quite reasonable, Hu Yifei has reminded him of the risks, and he also has his own judgment, so the main publicity lineup is still in Taiwan, other countries in Southeast Asia and South Korea.
But this round of publicity has alarmed Taiwan on the other side of the sea, and less than half a year has passed, the small mainland director who created a box office of 10 million in Taiwan has come to a new work, and has once again created a box office myth on the other side.
"Crazy Stone" is not a high box office in Taiwan, but as time passes, the word-of-mouth impact of the movie is real. And at this time, Hu Yifei's fame is much greater than the last time, the album has broken 2 million copies, and nearly 500,000 copies have been sold in Taiwan, which is a real ability.
It's just that I didn't expect his achievements in other areas to be so remarkable.
- It's incredible!
Naturally, jealousy of Hu Yifei's ability to hype is indispensable.
Some people re-made fun of his fall, saying that he was hype, he didn't learn well at a young age, and he used such an indiscriminate method to win sympathy. It's hard to die!
But Hu Yifei has already taken all the benefits, what can you do. And the benefits of that fall are not only that, at least in the company, a group of women led by Han Mi also take him seriously now, don't let him do anything, feel at ease to be a boss, and the enthusiasm of the employees has also increased significantly, for fear that he will be tired.
As a result, this week, he only symbolically interviewed a few IT elites, and then sat in front of the computer to play games and write novels.
Then the second week came.
"When the heat passes, I believe the audience will come back to their senses." This is the conclusion issued by a certain theater boss after facing the market survey form of "The Big Exercise", and his remarks were indeed verified on Monday's box office data.
But not on "The Big Exercise", but on "Mobile Phone".
Based on the good news that the box office of more than 8 million per day was collected on average in the three days last weekend, Huayi's confidence in the release of "Mobile Phone" soared, and it was expected that "Mobile Phone" would receive at least 20 million box office this week, but Monday's box office stabbed them hard. 1.03 million, this is the total box office of "Mobile Phone" in 500 theaters across the country on Monday, which is three-quarters lower than Sunday's box office!
Even if Monday does have an impact on the box office, it can't be compared with the weekend, but the proportion of three-quarters is too large, right? Their psychological bottom line is to fall by half.
"It should be an exception, it will rise later." Wang Jinjun's heart also trembled.
However, Murphy's Law has been fulfilled, and the bad often creates the worse.
At the box office on Tuesday, "Mobile Phone" closed 800,000, and continued to fall instead of rising. However, for the current "Mobile Phone", it is good to be stable - stable on weekdays, three days on weekends, according to the momentum of last week's weekend and three days, there is still hope for breaking through 40 million box office this week.
The box office figures in the past few days have seen that Xiao Wang and Feng Xiao have just slept well, and they really can't think of what went wrong - aren't people in the industry highly rated? Feng Xiaogang's successful work, the golden sign will not fall so quickly. Unlike "Mobile Phone", "The Big Exercise" is as stable as Mount Tai, although the attendance rate has declined. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, four consecutive days, the average attendance rate per game is above 30% every day.
β¦β¦
"Director Guo, you have worked hard, the next time you drive and meet a subordinate who dares to open your ticket, you must educate you well."
The Spring Festival Gala program team started, and Guo Donglin was participating in the rehearsal, when he met a group of acquaintances who were making fun of him. He has acted in sketches for so many years, and he has participated in many film and television works, and naturally there are a few nicknames. didn't expect that with the hot release of a "Big Exercise", his supporting role also became popular. Now these people call him Director Guo when they open their mouths and close their mouths.
In just a few days, several film and television companies handed him scripts and invited him to appear.
"Hu Yifei came to the Spring Festival Gala for an interview?" I don't know who shouted, and immediately a large group of people ran to watch. Director Guo, who was still popular just now, was instantly left out in the cold.
Hu Yifei came to the rehearsal, and the director team sent him an invitation. He didn't get to the point of ignoring the idle Spring Festival Gala, and agreed when he had time. But the director team didn't think about which song to let him sing, because there were so many to choose from.
This rehearsal is just a greeting and a little bit of a finish.
After all, he "recovered from a serious illness", and the director team also took care of him, so he didn't delay too much time in a hurry, and he said hello to his acquaintances and left in a low-key manner, and he didn't see many people. But the news of Hu Yifei coming to the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala group still spread, and it also made many people look forward to it.
The focus is still on the movie, after Christmas is the New Year's Day, a good day to grab money, and the second week of the release of "The Big Exercise" also ended in a lot of disturbances.
With a box office of 28 million, it is a standout in the Chinese New Year stalls!
"Mobile Phone" in the same schedule has just passed 40 million, and "Infernal Affairs 3" has come to an end, with a total box office of 36 million in the mainland.
In the two weeks after its release, the cumulative box office in the mainland reached 77 million, and it was only a matter of time before it broke the box office record of 80 million set by "Crazy Stone" in the summer. The suspense now is whether it is possible to break 100 million if the release is extended.
Whether it can break 100 million depends on whether the pirated lock can be locked!
But in the eyes of professionals, in fact, a negative answer has been given, "It's a little bit worse, it's a pity!" β
The third week has entered 2004, and the Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer, and factories, schools, institutions, and companies have begun to have holidays. The Spring Festival tide has already begun. As young people in the city return to their hometowns, small cinemas in some places are also beginning to come to life.
It's a pity that domestic theaters have not yet been standardized, and these second-tier theaters are too chaotic. If you steal the ticket and don't talk about it, you just don't issue a ticket. How much box office it can contribute is really unknown.
can be regarded as the director and actor of a film with a total domestic box office of more than 80 million, and the second movie with a total box office of more than 80 million, Hu Yifei is now popular again, even more popular than when he was in "Crazy Stone" - at that time he was only a director and supporting role, but now he is a director and protagonist, or he is still a screenwriter.
The media saw the right time to fry cold rice and hot rice together, which added another seven or eight minutes to the fire.
How popular is he now? For example, it will be understood: he was idle at home yesterday, so he went to the vegetable market for his mother to buy vegetables, and the round-trip time plus the time to buy vegetables only took ten minutes at most, but it took him nearly an hour to come back - take photos with fans and fans who recognized him, sign autographs for them, and answer all kinds of strange questions, such as the vegetable seller: "You also came to buy vegetables, are you cured?" β
"Yes, auntie, if you're well, can you give it cheaper."
"Ouch, such a big star, he still bargains when he buys groceries. didn't say it, who told my aunt to watch your TV series, count you five yuan a pound cheaper. β
Hu Yifei was embarrassed: "Auntie, this price seems to be five yuan a catty, you don't discount it at all." β
Auntie's face was not red or panting, "The price has risen, this is the old price has not been changed, and you will not make money selling it for five yuan a catty." β
"Well, I bought it." Hu Yifei took out his wallet.
"Okay, I'll wrap you with a big star, a total of twenty-five yuan, and then sign my daughter's name."
β¦β¦
"Ouch, it's so tall, young man, it's a little familiar, are you the ...... who played the policeman in the movie?"
"Hehe, hehe." It's only been a few stalls away, weren't you all watching from the sidelines just now, and you couldn't recognize it in a blink of an eye.