Chapter 255: A Billion Great Director
The Hong Kong market is not strong, "Chinese Partner" only got a box office of 1.55 million Hong Kong dollars in the first three days of the weekend, and in the second week, it was even weaker, with a single week of 1.38 million Hong Kong dollars, and a total box office of 2.98 million in ten days, not even 3 million. @.23wx. The domestic film with the main theme color fell in Hong Kong.
This result, in fact, did not surprise Bai Yuhan, Hong Kong people anti. Party anti. National affairs are commonplace, and if "Chinese Partner" can explode at the box office, it will be called a strange thing.
Even if the box office of "Chinese Partner" in Hong Kong in the next three weeks was 1.07 million Hong Kong dollars, 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and 210,000 Hong Kong dollars respectively, with a total box office of 4.75 million Hong Kong dollars.
His mood was not affected in the slightest.
Because of the mainland market, it is enough for him to continue to be happy and accept everyone's worship.
May 31 to June 6.
This week, the film market continues to wither, and there are no new films released on a large scale. The low-budget horror film "Xenomorph Apartment" released by Jian Hengye is a blessing for Lionsgate in China. Jianhengye has always chosen to find another way to take the route of producing low-cost and heavy-tasting movies, and the development is okay.
"Deadly Mobile Phone" has a box office of 1.2 million this week, ranking tenth on this week's box office list, and I will accompany the last seat.
The old film "Special Mission" in 2007 landed in the mainland after three years, was released for three days, and achieved a box office of 2.1 million yuan, ranking ninth. "Ip Man 2" came to the last week of its release period, ranking eighth with 2.2 million yuan, and the total box office of 220 million successfully completed the task.
Last year's old film "High Suspicion" was introduced by China Film Group this year. Four days after its release, it was 3 million, ranking seventh. Same as Special Assignment for Secret Service. This kind of movie, which itself is not very popular abroad and has been postponed for so long, is purely soy sauce and is used to make up for the quota of imported films stipulated every year.
The first domestic 3D animation "Super Frog Warrior" created by Tsui Hark over a period of five years, but this Tsui Hark is not Xu Laowei who filmed "The Legend of Shu Mountain", but an animation director. This cartoon. It's not a Hollywood cartoon either, and the response was mediocre after its release. Except for the high box office on Children's Day, the other five days were poor. In the end, it ranked sixth with 5 million.
"Xenomorph Apartment" was released for three days, 6.6 million, ranking fifth.
"Iron Man 2" is 8.5 million this week, ranking sixth. The total box office is 180 million. Breaking 200 million seems to be difficult.
"How to Train Your Dragon", which has gained a good reputation, has begun to decline at the box office, but thanks to the impact of Children's Day, the box office has increased significantly, reaching 20 million, ranking third. With a total box office of 86 million, it is not difficult to break 100 million.
The Hollywood blockbuster "Prince of Persia: The Edge of Time" has a good review. The box office is also good, taking 50 million this week. The total box office is also 86 million, ranking second.
And this week's weekly champion was undoubtedly won by "Chinese Partner", with 96.9 million yuan in a single week, successfully achieving three consecutive championships. In 20 days, the total box office accumulated 448 million, surpassing the total box office of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" of 420 million, becoming a new record for domestic films.
"The new overlord of domestic films, "Chinese Partner", the new leader of China's commercial directors Bai Yuhan!" - Information Times.
"Suppressed Hollywood blockbusters for three consecutive weeks to win the championship, and "Chinese Partner" announced the beginning of the golden age of domestic films." - New. Lang Entertainment.
"The film "Chinese Partner" directed by young director Bai Yuhan achieved a box office of 96.9 million yuan this week, with a total box office of 448 million, becoming the highest-grossing film ...... domestic films" - "News Network".
Also on June 4, the Asian edition of Time Magazine sent a reporter to Beijing, the capital of China, to ask for an interview with the main creators of "China Partner". Bai Yuhan, Huang Xiaoming and others were interviewed by the magazine, because it was not an exclusive interview, the interview with the individual was very short, and Bai Yuhan simply answered a few creative questions, and it was over.
Eventually, the next issue of Time Magazine Asia featured a movie poster from "The Chinese Partner" on the cover, with the headline: "The Chinese Dream Has Emerged?" ”
This magazine, this report, Bai Yuhan read it three times over and over again.
The first time I interviewed myself, I didn't write much, but the evaluation was very good. The article said that Bai Yuhan is a very outstanding young Chinese director, and he is also a very talented businessman. And said that the Chinese dream rendered by "Chinese Partner" is actually a sign of the ideological rise of Bai Yuhan, a group of Chinese in the new era.
The second time I studied Time Magazine's evaluation of myself, and I felt that it was quite objective.
The third time is to read the content in its entirety. As one of the most well-known factual weekly magazines in the United States and even in the world, Time Magazine is known as the "historical library", reporting the most important international events of the current issue, and it can be said that it is a very honorable thing to be reported by Time Magazine and published in the form of a cover.
Although Time Magazine has been divided into American, International, European, Asian and Latin American editions, the Asian edition can only be said to be influential in Asia, but it is not important enough to become the most influential event in Asia.
Therefore, after reading the report, Bai Yuhan made sure that the report did not distort the facts, did not blacken himself, and generously paid for all the weekly "Time Magazine" in the small newspaper kiosk opposite the company and distributed it to the company's employees for free. Let employees care more about international events, not just look at walking, but also occasionally look up at the sky.
Time is in a hurry.
It's a new week.
From June 7th to 13th, a Hollywood blockbuster "Robin Hood" was released on a large scale this week, and two new domestic films were released on a small scale, the pseudo-documentary horror film "31 Degrees North Latitude Videotape" directed by Forrest Gump, and the urban romance film "Swing de Marriage" directed by Yan Po.
Because "31 Degrees North Latitude Tape" and "Swing de Marriage" were only released for one day, they ranked ninth and tenth in the box office list with 1.1 million and 800,000 respectively. "Iron Man 2" 1.55 million, ranking eighth. "High Suspicion" 2 million, ranked seventh. "Special Assignments of Agents" 2.5 million. Ranked sixth.
"How to Train Your Dragon" slipped to 5.5 million, ranking fifth. "Xenomorph Apartment" ranked fourth with 7 million.
The newly released "Robin Hood" over the weekend may be affected by the Dragon Boat Festival. This Saturday and Sunday went to work normally, which led to a lack of momentum at the box office, 10 million in three days, which deviated greatly from the original expectations of the distributor. In second place is still "Prince of Persia: The Edge of Time", with 25 million and a total box office of 111 million.
The champion is also "China Partner", which is the fourth weekly champion of "China Partner". 50.8 million yuan in a single week, compared with last week, it was also affected by the normal work on weekends. The drop was almost half. After 27 days of release, the total box office was 498.8 million yuan, and breaking 500 million was imminent.
Before the release, absolutely no one thought that "Chinese Partner" would be able to soar all the way. broke the box office record of domestic films. Go straight to 500 million, or even 600 million.
"Next week, Bai Yuhan will become the only member of the Director's Club in the mainland with a single film box office of more than 500 million!"
"And we can also look forward to whether Bai Yuhan will become the first director in the mainland with a total box office of more than one billion!"
Previously, the most likely director to become the first director in the mainland with a total box office of more than one billion was Feng Xiaogang, "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" 325 million, "Assembly Number" 250 million, "Night Banquet" 130 million, and "No Thieves in the World" 120 million. "Mobile Phone" is 56 million, and "Big Names" is 43 million. "A Sigh" is 28 million, adding up to 952 million, and some other movies have no specific box office to examine.
In short, Feng Xiaogang is only one step away from the billion-dollar box office.
On July 22, his movie "Tangshan Earthquake" will be released, and it will be successfully titled.
As a result, it is estimated that he will kneel now, and Bai Yuhan will be killed halfway, and after only three movies, he will grab the title. "People in Embarrassment" is 103 million, "33 Days of Broken Love" is 354.2 million, and "Chinese Partner" can achieve the grand goal of one billion as long as it gets 542.8 million.
Now that it has been released for 27 days, the total box office has accumulated 498.8 million, and it is only 44 million yuan away from 542.8 million.
"What a billion director, I don't care at all." In the face of the billion-dollar director hyped by the media, Feng Xiaogang scoffed.
"What a billion director, I don't care at all." In the face of the billion-dollar director hyped by the media, Bai Yuhan calmly looked at the ceiling.
I complained in my heart: "My goal is the sea of stars!" ”
The data is magical, for Feng Xiaogang and Bai Yuhan, they all laughed and passed by, and they were famous.
Soon, the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is coming, and from June 14th to 20th, this week's Hollywood cartoon blockbuster series "Toy Story 3" landed in the mainland. Another big-name Sino-US co-production "Spy Sea" was also released, and the movie was joined by Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li.
In addition, there are two films directed by female directors released this week, namely the literary film "Ocean Paradise" directed by Xue Xiaolu, and the romantic comedy "You Deserve to Be Single" directed by Cai Xin.
After the smoke of gunpowder filled, the ending was happy and sad.
"Xenomorph Apartment" 1.8 million, "31 Degrees North Latitude Videotape" 2.1 million, "You Deserve to Be Single" 4.3 million, "Swing de Marriage Engagement" 4.8 million, "Ocean Paradise" 4.8 million. 12 million for "Spy on the Sea", 20 million for "Prince of Persia: Blade of Time", and 27 million for "Toy Story 3".
The champion belongs to "Chinese Partner", with 30.4 million yuan in a single week, winning the fifth weekly championship. With a total box office of 529.2 million yuan, it became the first domestic film to break the box office of 500 million, and ranked second in mainland film history.
In the next four weeks, "Chinese Partner" failed to win the championship again, and completed its 55-day release schedule with 12.8 million, 6.2 million, 2.4 million and 400,000 respectively. With a total box office of 551 million yuan, Bai Yuhan was successfully crowned the first billion-dollar box office director in the mainland.
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The direct impact of the gods at the box office is that more and more filmmakers have begun to study the mystery of Bai Yuhan's "money grabbing".
Bai Yuhan is really good at grabbing money, 8 million "People in Embarrassment", in exchange for a box office of 100 million; "33 Days of Broken Love" of 9 million yuan in exchange for 350 million box office, and "Chinese Partner", which cost 40 million yuan and publicized 30 million yuan, got 550 million box office.
With such an efficient return on investment, the producer made other investors' eyes red and hot, and they were eager to eat it alive.
Some filmmakers who make a living from this naturally began to make up a lot of various box office grabbing elements in order to fool those investors, or show their data analysis capabilities as an afterthought to attract attention. "Chinese Partner" has been painted, but its influence has not diminished at all.
At this time, the disaster blockbuster "Tangshan Earthquake" directed by Feng Xiaogang is about to be released, and it is scheduled for July 22.
The low-budget suspense film "Hypnosis Master" directed by Bai Yuhan also began to be promoted, and in order to stagger "Tangshan Earthquake", it was scheduled for July 30. (To be continued......)