Chapter 205: Stepping on Wuji to the Top

On December 26th, martial arts - from scratch was simultaneously released in major cities across the country.

On the 27th, it was learned from the news fed back from major theaters that the box office of the premiere of the first martial arts series was 14 million, far lower than the 21 million premiere box office set by Wuji.

After learning the news, Yue Song was lying in Gao Yuanyuan's boudoir and refused to get up, he only told Dai Wentao one sentence: Wait a few days and see it!

The day after the premiere, the box office from scratch suddenly jumped to 18 million!

On the third day, the box office continued to remain at 18 million from scratch.

In three days, the mainland box office of the first martial arts series has successfully exceeded 50 million.

Correspondingly, Wuji, which was released exactly two weeks ago, ushered in the box office shrinkage expected by Yue Song.

Compared with the martial arts released at the same time, starting from scratch, Wuji only earned about 150,000 box office in these three days.

From the box office exceeding 100 million in the first week to the box office of 30 million in the second week, its span is so large that almost the entire film market is stunned.

Even the Wuji crew, who shouted that they were going to break 300 million before, seemed to be silent after seeing the figure of 130 million.

In stark contrast to Wuji, it is still martial arts - starting from scratch.

This novel and unique film has been greatly favored by industry insiders, who believe that this is a new way of expression for martial arts films, which is completely different from many previous martial arts movies.

However, in the eyes of the audience, I just think that this movie is very interesting, it looks cool, and it is very enjoyable, but after watching it, I still feel unsatisfied. Would like to see it again!

Just because I haven't enjoyed it, I want to watch it again, which is still very rare in Chinese movies, and it generally only appears in movies with strong ideology.

For this movie from scratch, Xiangjiang has an almost touted evaluation, thinking that this movie is completely comic-style expression, and it perfectly reproduces every scene of martial arts novels in reality, which is the culmination of all martial arts films!

As Xiangjiang, which was released simultaneously with the mainland, in just three days, the box office of martial arts - starting from scratch has risen to 13 million!

Look at the momentum. This film is destined to go beyond hurricane rescue. Become the champion of this year's Hong Kong box office list!

But the madness has just begun.

On the 61st day after the release of Martial Arts from scratch - that is, the last day of 05 years, the mainland box office announced that it exceeded 100 million!

Unlike the performance of most movies, Wuxia - Starting from Scratch is a commercial film that relies on word-of-mouth and quality to win. from the day of the premiere fourteen million. and then the 18 million harvested in the next two days. The next three days were no less than that.

On the 29th, the mainland box office is 17 million!

Number 30. The mainland box office is 17 million!

On the 31st, the mainland box office is 17 million!

For three consecutive days, the exact same data, and the amazing box office revenue, constituted martial arts - only six days after its release from scratch, the mainland box office exceeded 100 million.

This figure not only broke the previous record of Wuji breaking 100 million yuan in the fastest year, but also kicked Wuji into the garbage heap.

In the first three days of the release of the first martial arts series, Wuji barely received 10 million box office, and after the next three days, this number plummeted to 5 million!

Half a month after its release, Wuji's total box office was only 135 million, and if I changed the general movie, I am afraid that from the director to the crew, I would have been secretly happy, but on Wuji, it means one thing: losing money!

That's right, Wuji is going to lose money!

This news spread all over the mainland entertainment industry in just a few days, and it also made Chen Kaige the focus of the recent entertainment industry.

is on the list of the mainland entertainment industry with him, and there is also the little martial god Yue Song, who single-handedly created a martial arts trilogy, but only earned back the cost with the first part.

Relying on a good reputation and universal praise, martial arts - from scratch as soon as it was released, it began to blow a hurricane in the mainland, and Yue Song's popularity took a big step forward with this film.

The solid box office trend, the amazing returning audience, and the double harvest of word-of-mouth and film reviews all indicate the fact that this movie is going to be a big hit.

At this juncture, an originally inconspicuous hour suddenly became the last straw that destroyed Wuji, and it also made this super production with an investment of 30 million US dollars not be able to turn over.

On the day of the 28th, a video called "Mantou Bloody Case" began to circulate on the Internet, in which the producer re-edited the movie Wuji - of course, it was edited out with pirated version - and then paired it with CCTV's rule of law reporting program, the re-adaptation of the dialogue, the whole scene was about 20 minutes, nonsensical dialogue and funny video clips were broken down, plus funny and alternative interspersed advertisements......

For a while, this video with the theme of spoof movie Wuji has attracted more attention than the main one in a short period of time!

Yue Song also learned about this from his assistant and watched it in person on the Internet, and the result was naturally overjoyed.

This extremely spoofed video itself has no value, but it has told all the thoughts and thoughts of everyone who has watched Wuji recently and expressed dissatisfaction with this film, which can be described as the bosom friend of many audiences, and it is no wonder that once the video appeared, it caused a wave of heated discussions and attention.

However, after watching it, Yue Song put this matter behind him, and he is now more concerned about the progress of the release in South Korea and Japan.

Like last time, after South Korea and Japan bought the copyright of the first martial arts series with a lot of money, they did not choose to release it simultaneously with the mainland of China, but postponed the time for a few days.

Because of the good income brought by the last hurricane rescue, both South Korea and Japan value Yue Song's work very much this time, but in the early stage of negotiating the copyright fee, because of the concern that the director of this film is Yue Song himself, the negotiation did not go smoothly.

Especially in Japan, when Toho Co., Ltd. learned that this movie was shot by Yue Song, it even became suspicious, and it was not until after watching the sample film that he made up his mind.

On the other hand, also considering the next cooperation plan with Toho, Yue Song did not plan to sell the copyright of the first martial arts series to other Japanese distributors.

It is precisely because of the great sincerity of both parties that Toho finally decided to buy the screening rights of the first martial arts series in Japan at a price of more than 200 million yen, that is, a "sky-high price" of 30 million yuan.

Using such a large sum of money to buy Chinese movies is a unique thing in the era of Bruce Lee and Jack Chen.

In contrast, the distributors on the Korean side are not so wealthy, but the gap is not big, mainly because Park Nimei sold three beautiful goods and sold the rights of the first martial arts series to three film companies.

Although she herself came out of Megabox, this company didn't leave her with any good thoughts, so naturally don't expect her to miss her old love.

The three film companies, each of which paid more than 8 million yuan, bought the release rights of the first martial arts series in South Korea at a price of 25 million yuan.

From the two East Asian countries alone, Yue Song has already recovered the investment cost of the martial arts trilogy.

On January 1, 2006, the box office of the first martial arts series in mainland China officially exceeded 115 million, and the box office in Hong Kong was about 20 million.

On the same day, Wuxia - was released in Japan and South Korea from scratch, with a box office of 300 million yen and 250,000 moviegoers on the first day, respectively, both of which set a new record for Chinese films in Japan and South Korea.

The news quickly spread back to China, and everyone in the studio seemed to be jubilant, especially Chen Feng, who had just resigned a few days ago and joined Yue Song's personal studio with the determination to break the boat.

In Chen Feng's words, this is where he can show his strength!

As his name suggests, this dude is a weirdo who falls into madness when he is inspired, so the rest of the studio calls him a crazy screenwriter, and he claims to have more ideas than just an epic trilogy to write them all out.

Chen Feng wears a pair of glasses, according to him, Pingdu glasses, just to hide his true face.

What his true face is, Yue Song doesn't know for the time being, but there is something he has been keeping in mind for a long time.

In order to shoot the martial arts trilogy, he "borrowed" this money from the big guy, as the so-called borrowing and borrowing again, it is not difficult to borrow again, although it is impossible for him to borrow again, but it is better to repay this money as soon as possible.

On the 2nd, without waiting for the box office data of the second week of the release of the first martial arts series, Yue Songren had already appeared in Xiangjiang.

This time I came to Xiangjiang, in addition to paying back the money, the rest is to do publicity, no matter how I say it, it is also a one-stop writer, director, and acting of the movie, if you don't take this opportunity to expand your influence, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Yue Song did not go to repay the money to the big man's house, but went directly to the headquarters building of China Star and put a cash check of 50 million yuan in front of Chen Mingying.

Xiang Tai was stunned for a moment, quickly reacted, took the check with a smile, and originally wanted to say a few words to Yue Song, especially mentioning the intention of future cooperation, but saw Yue Song waving his hand and interrupting her words.

"Xiang Tai, I have also paid back the money, and we will not owe each other in the future. If you still want to cooperate, you can contact my agent Dai Wentao, who is now the main person in charge of my studio, as long as it is a project that he nods to, it means that I also approve. ”

After that, Yue Song waved his hand and left without looking back.

As soon as he walked with his front foot, Xiang Boss entered Xiang Tai's office with his back foot.

"What about people? Already gone? ”

Xiang Tai nodded.

"How can you let him go? This street boy used me 50 million for nothing, and he didn't give me a penny of interest, just with this, I can't make him feel better! ”

"And what do you want?" Xiang Tai shook his head helplessly, "It's not that you don't know how powerful he is, we've all seen it with our own eyes, do you think it's just his skills...... Which of the most common methods you use will work for him? (To be continued......)

ps: Tomorrow's five watches!