Chapter 293: Difficult to Stop

As the film with the highest investment amount of Shuguang Film this year, within Shuguang Film, "Painted Wall", which has an investment of more than 100 million yuan, is regarded as the company's number one seed to hit the box office.

As for whether the investment is too high and whether the cost can be recovered, Shuguang Film has no worries, with the help of the international influence of the film's starring Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Liu Yifei, and Wang Luodan, yes, it is the four daughters, Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi needless to say, because of Lin Yuquan's global popularity of "Red Cliff" and "Painted Skin", Liu Yifei and Wang Luodan also have a lot of recognition in the world, and Lin Yuquan escorted the excellent quality of "Painted Wall" by participating in film screenwriting and martial arts instruction. After organizing overseas distributors to watch the film, Sugon Film successfully acquired $13 million in overseas regions except North America.

This is quite not easy, after all, in the past two years, in addition to Lin Yuquan's "Red Cliff" and "Painted Skin", "The City is Full of Golden Armor", "Night Banquet" and "Wuji", the three domestic costume blockbusters have not been satisfactory at the overseas box office.

In addition, "Painted Wall" will be arranged to be released in 300 theaters in North America through Summit Entertainment on October 23, and there is no pressure on "Painted Wall" to recover costs, which is the same as last year's "Night Banquet", when "Night Banquet" was pre-sold overseas by relying on Zhang Ziyi's "bridge" of more than 12 million US dollars, basically recovering the investment, and achieving a zero-cost domestic release without pressure.

Like "Dreams Come to Reality" and "Crazy Racing", the premiere of "Painted Wall" is still arranged in the Kyoto Cinema of the Dawning Cinema Line, compared to the slightly shabby cast of "Crazy Racing", the cast of "Painted Wall" itself can be called extremely luxurious, and there are a large number of stars to help the guests, and the entire premiere red carpet show looks extremely starry.

Due to the conflict between the release time of "Painted Wall" and the filming of "Wild Story", Lin Yuquan did not rush back to Kyoto to attend the premiere this time, but recorded a VCR in the Stone Street Studio. Serkis and Benedict. Cumberbatch was also pulled over by him, and each said a message to wish "The Painted Wall" a big hit.

After the lively red carpet show, as night fell, the huge moviegoers during the National Day holiday walked into the cinema and into their long-awaited movie screening halls.

"W-where is this?" On the lit screen, when the scholar Zhu Xiaolian (played by Liu Ye) walked out of the dark stone passage under the leadership of the fairy peony (played by Liu Yifei) and pushed open a door at the end of the passage, he immediately became dumbfounded and asked in shock.

And at this moment, the expressions of countless audiences in thousands of theaters across the country are the same as Zhu Xiaolian played by Liu Ye at this time, only to see a magnificent building hidden in the boundless beauty on the big screen, which looks incomparably beautiful, like a fairyland on earth.

"Oh, it's so beautiful." In recent years, the deepest impression of Chinese costume blockbusters is the beautiful picture, the fierce fight on the water surface of the small pavilion in the lake and the red maple forest in "Hero", the endless verdant bamboo sea in "Ambush on All Sides" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the bright armor all over the mountains and fields in "Wuji", Xiao Qiao playing the piano in "Red Cliff", Zhou Yu dancing the sword in the Jiangnan courtyard, and the clouds and mist in "Painted Skin". The flower-filled Demon Fox Valley and the beautiful stalactite cave, the thousands of golden chrysanthemums in "The City Full of Golden Armor", and the Zhuhai Bamboo Tower in the distant poetry and song in "Night Banquet", and this time "Painting Wall" once again presents a beautiful visual picture that is not inferior to the previous ones.

What is a blockbuster, the biggest difference between blockbusters and ordinary small and medium-cost films is the audio-visual effect of the film, perhaps the plot structure, lines, and story of the blockbuster are far inferior to some particularly outstanding small and medium-cost films, but in terms of audio-visual effects, it is difficult for ordinary films to shoot, and blockbusters sell excellent audio-visual effects, which is the most important factor in attracting audiences to the theater.

Although with the increase of economic income in the past two years, people have more economic ability for leisure and entertainment, but when choosing to watch movies, people generally choose those movies that they think can be worth the ticket price, either visual effects blockbusters, or bright casts, or the director's brand appeal, so it is really difficult for box office dark horses to emerge, low-cost commercial films or literary films are not interested, and the box office pattern of movies is always polarized. High-grossing movies are getting higher and higher, while low-grossing movies don't seem to be improving.

"Wow, that's great, I really should choose a film like "Painted Wall"." A young man's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, well, not only is the scenery beautiful, but the beauties in it seem to be even more eye-catching! This face, this figure, this clothing, a word of praise, but the girlfriend next to him didn't know the dirty thoughts in her boyfriend's heart, and when she heard her boyfriend's words, she was also very satisfied and said: "I'll just say watch this one, what's so good about the "Iron Triangle" that fights and kills." Obviously, in the eyes of girls, films like "Painted Wall" are suitable for girls and couples to watch together.

It is not only the little couple who is amazed, the looks on the faces of the people in the screening hall are very happy, in the eyes of the people, accompanied by beautiful pictures, the plot of "Painting Wall" slowly unfolds, Zhu Xiaolian was brought into the fairy palace by the peony, and a group of beautiful fairies living here met, and with the help of peony played by Zhang Ziyi, he escaped the danger found by the ruler of the fairy palace who hated men, and the palace master played by Gong Li found the danger, and returned to the ancient temple smoothly.

Zhu Xiaolian, who returned to the ancient temple, was obsessed with the peony and peony in the fairy palace, and found that the peony in the mural was punished by the palace master because of his own sake, so he resolutely decided to re-enter the fairy palace to help the peony get out of trouble, and Meng Longtan, who heard about the situation in the fairy palace, also took the initiative to invite Ying to go with him, and with the help of the monk of the ancient temple, he entered the fairy palace again, and with the arrival of three mortal men, for a while, the order of the entire fairy palace was suddenly broken, which triggered a wonderful journey.

On the screen, in the sound of crackling firecrackers, Zhu Xiaolian, who was in high school, and Peony, who lost his mana because he walked out of the fairy palace, hugged each other tightly, and in the clouds, there was also a peony with a happy smile on his face, when Zhu Xiaolian and Peony looked up and seemed to penetrate the clouds and looked at each other, at this time, the theme song of the same name of "Painted Wall" "Painted Wall" sounded, and the 127-minute "Painted Wall" ended in the applause of the audience.

Regarding the ending of the film, Lin Yuquan and Chen Jiashang discussed for a long time, and in Chen Jiashang's vision, it was set up as multiple endings, so that everyone could generate their own understanding of the ending according to their own viewing.

But Lin Yuquan disagrees, if it is a suspense film or a literary movie, it is naturally the appropriate way to do so, but why should a popcorn special effects movie deliberately pursue the unfathomable? In the eyes of the audience, this will only be a trick, but it is better to simply match the theme of the movie, so that the audience can see through the film what real love is, see the attitude that they should adhere to their own love, and see the firmness in the face of the dual choice of love and responsibility.

So with the embrace of Zhu Xiaolian and Peony, because the happiness of love can be fought for by herself, so there is a peony that can only look at Zhu Xiaolian in the clouds, because the Asgard Palace needs her leadership, this is her choice in love and responsibility, but she does not feel pain, because love is in her heart.

"Painted Wall", "Iron Triangle", "Second in the World", "Ugly Girl Turns Over", "Taxi Express 4" The first screening of each film at night was completed, relying on the National Day holiday, the surging flow of moviegoers poured out from the theaters of more than 2,000 theaters across the country, with various expressions on their faces, some were excited, some were scolding, some were drowsy, some were not happy or sad, such expressions represented the audience's feelings after watching the movie, and soon, such feelings also appeared in blogs, post bars, Time.com, Douban, newspapers, QQ moods, newspapers, and portals.

Because of the movie's attention and the number of moviegoers, among them, "Painted Wall" naturally has the most reviews and reports, far exceeding several other movies.

"Another commercial masterpiece of director Chen Jiashang, the superb interpretation of the actors, the beautiful visual effects, and the handsome men and women in the eyes, "The Painted Wall" is definitely a movie worth watching." "Although the plot is not new, it is not old-fashioned and ridiculous, although the theme is not profound and timeless, but it is better to understand it, well, "Painted Wall" may not be a classic and profound film, but it is definitely a qualified commercial blockbuster." "Beautiful and realistic visual effects, "Painted Wall" once again presents us with an audio-visual feast."

In the media reports of major media, "Painted Wall" has been highly praised, of course, it is not without criticism, such as "Jinbao" wrote in the report, "It is another insincere, only box office domestic commercial blockbuster, peel off the coat of visual effects, what else can be left of "Painted Wall" that can make the audience think and feel." But for a magical movie that focuses on visual effects and illustrates the concept of love, such a comment itself is ridiculous, you can't ask every movie to talk about connotation, all about enlightening soul, all about education, all the audience needs education, not entertainment? "Painted Wall", which aims to entertain the audience, has successfully completed its task.

October 1 is exactly Monday, after the release of the full National Day seven-day holiday, the high-profile "Painted Wall" won the championship of the weekly box office list without the slightest suspense, and won an astonishing 72.35 million box office in a single week, becoming the second highest box office film in the first week of mainland films released this year, second only to the terrifying 98 million of "Transformers", and ranked third in all weekly box office results this year, lower than "Transformers" The 98 million in the first week and 80 million in the second week are extremely impressive.

Although I have long known that the box office performance of "Painted Wall" must be good, but such a box office table still makes countless people's hearts full of shock, and the major film companies are even more envious of it, so far this year, Shuguang Film Company is definitely the most beautiful among the domestic film companies, first in the summer file in May, a small-cost literary film "Dream into Reality" unexpectedly won an amazing box office of 18 million, and then in August, "Crazy Racing" beat " Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" won the weekly box office championship, and finally won 142 million box office, becoming the fifth film to break 100 million at the box office this year, and now "Painted Wall" has won the weekly box office championship again, and has become the sixth film of the year to break 100 million at the box office.

Huayi Brothers, China Film, Bona, Orange Sky Entertainment and other company executives are wailing, originally thought that after Lin Yuquan went to Hollywood to develop, the previously strong Dawning movie would be gone, who knew that although Dawning Movie did not have Lin Yuquan, but Xu Jinglei, Ning Hao, Chen Jiashang's box office table Xiàn will be better than one another, is it that after the previous two years, Dawning Film will win the domestic box office market share championship for the third consecutive year this year, many film company executives have worried about thinking.

And when it comes to the new week, "Painted Wall" once again won the weekly box office list with a box office of 48.72 million, and the cumulative box office in two weeks is 121 million, such worries are undoubtedly more obvious.

Who else can stop the three consecutive championships of the mainland box office market share of Shuguang Films, everyone's eyes are focused on the film companies that will release blockbusters next, "Lust and Caution" is not good, the investor of this film is Hollywood's Focus Pictures, and "Casting Names" is not good, there are too many investors in this film, China Film, Media Asia, China Film Warner Hengdian, Bona, Orange Sky, Xingmei, Morgan. Chen, according to the proportion of investment, no matter how high the box office of the movie is, there are not many companies, it seems that there are only Huayi brothers, Feng Bigang's movies are almost guaranteed to make money, of course, Huayi brothers can't let others share the money without risk, so "Assembly Number" is made by their own exclusive investment.

Seeing such a result, many people don't have much hope anymore, there is no way, there are only two main works of Huayi Brothers this year, one is "Assembly Number", the other is "Ghost in the Heart", "Ghost in the Heart" has been released at the beginning of the year, this Huayi Brothers invested 50 million, directed by Teng Huatao, and the box office of the horror movie starring Liming, Liu Ruoying, and Fan Binbin was only 11 million, which can be said to be a box office fiasco.

And according to the cumulative box office of Shuguang Film Company and Huayi Brothers, the amazing box office of 270 million for "Assembly" is only the same as the cumulative box office of the current Shuguang Film Company, yes, it is only the same as the cumulative box office of Shuguang Film Company so far, after all, today's "Painted Wall" is still in theaters! According to the box office trend of "Painted Wall", there should be no problem for "Painted Wall" to finally receive a box office of 160 million.

In other words, if Huayi Brothers wants to surpass Dawning Movies, the box office of "Assembly" must be at least more than 300 million, but is this possible? It must be known that the box office of "Transformers", which has been soaring all the way and has amazing momentum, is only 282 million.

In comparison, "Assembly" is just a war-themed movie with a production cost of 80 million, which is really difficult to give confidence that it will break through the 300 million mark.

In this regard, Wang Zhonglei and Feng Bigang can only smile bitterly, 300 million, where is it so easy, if they can break through the 200 million mark, the two of them should have fun secretly and prevent Shuguang Movie from reaching the top, it's difficult! It's hard! R1152