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When he came back, Lin Yuquan and Liu Shishi came back together, but when he returned to Los Angeles, Lin Yuquan was the only one, and for the next period of time, he was really busy and couldn't spare time, and Liu Shishi will also start to take on new plays, she just became popular with "The Legend of Deer and Ding", and now she needs a good work, either to consolidate her position, or to go to the next level, before leaving, he secretly confessed to Qiu Qingyi, pay attention to suitable works.

"Oh, I'm back, okay, I'll be here next afternoon." As soon as he returned to Los Angeles, Lin Yuquan received a message from Paul. Haggis's phone call followed him to Little Bear Press.

"Boss, welcome, it's finally time for you to come to our company again, especially the new colleagues who are especially eager to see you."

As soon as we met, Paul. Haggis's resentful words made Lin Yuquan sneer, as the boss, he was really a little incompetent, after 9 months, he only came to the company for the second time, and the last time he came was just a successful acquisition of Little Bear Press, and Stephanie. Mel came along.

"I've always wanted to come and see you, but I'm too busy to help it, but fortunately, with Paul here, I can devote myself to the filming with confidence." Lin Yuquan smiled.

"Haha, I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do, and we're all looking forward to your new movie." Paul. Haggis laughed.

"Really? Then when my movie is released, I invite everyone to watch the movie. ”

While talking, the two walked towards the company. Compared to the last time. The changes at Little Bear Publishing are undoubtedly very noticeable. Not only the changes in the size of the staff and the office environment, but also the fighting spirit that everyone exuded, which made Lin Yuquan very satisfied.

Lin Yuquan's arrival immediately made the entire Little Bear Publishing House a sensation, and everyone's faces were full of excitement, and they couldn't stop saying hello to Lin Yuquan, and Lin Yuquan was also full of smiles.

After saying hello, Lin Yuquan entered Paul. Haggis' office.

"Hey, Paul. Earlier, you said on the phone that the novel was printed, so show it to me. After Lin Yuquan sat down, he immediately said impatiently.

“ok,boss。” Paul. Haggis said as he picked up a book from his desk and handed it to Lin Yuquan, while he sat on another sofa next to Lin Yuquan.

"It's really beautiful." Lin Yuquan looked at the cover of the book in his hand with satisfaction, the whole cover was mainly gray, the whole was a picture, a vast land, a giant ape was unwilling to roar in the sky, and behind it were all kinds of fierce beasts that pounced on it, just such a cover. Immediately, you can feel a wave of vastness and slaughter from the wilderness, and in addition to the picture. On the cover, there are words such as "Savage Notes", "Rise of the Ape Race", and "Lin Yuquan", among which "Lin Yuquan" is displayed in Chinese.

"It's all thanks to the cover illustration provided by you, boss, otherwise the illustrator we found wouldn't have been able to make such a feeling." Paul. Haggis exclaimed that maybe they could find an illustrator who could draw a more beautiful picture, but definitely not with that vast, old-fashioned atmosphere.

"Hey, it's not the first time you've said that." Lin Yuquan looked at Paul with a smile. Haggis.

"But every time I say that, I absolutely mean it." Paul. Haggis chuckled,

"Okay, I believe you, but don't say that in the future, sometimes compliments can be stressful." Lin Yuquan smiled, and then carefully examined the back cover, spine, title page, table of contents, copyright page, preface, illustrations, text layout, paper, printing, and so on.

The binding design of a book involves a lot of content, among which the cover, title page, and illustration design are the three main design elements, and then the cover is the most important, the cover is the façade of a book, in the book city full of dazzling books, the cover of the book undoubtedly plays the role of a silent salesman, and its quality will directly affect people's desire to buy in a certain process.

However, Lin Yuquan does not care about attracting more readers to buy because of the beauty of the book, he cares about the overall quality of the book, only for the general books, that is, those books that are not well-known, the appearance of the book is extremely important, and the famous writer or work is not needed at all, because the readers who know will naturally buy it.

Lin Yuquan's face quickly showed a satisfied look, maybe the strength of Little Bear Publishing House is not as strong as Hachette, Pearson, etc., but it is obviously careful in the book binding design, the quality of the books is very high, not like most of the books he saw in bookstores when he was in China before, and finally his eyes stopped on the preface, this is Stephanie. Mel wrote it for him, and he wrote the preface to The Eclipse.

"Yes, what about Stephanie's novel?"

Lin Yuquan looked up at Paul. Haggis, who immediately got up and took a book and handed it to him.

The cover illustration of "Lunar Eclipse", Lin Yuquan knew that when the two chatted, Stephanie. Mel showed him a smooth torn red satin against a black background, which seemed unremarkable, but it contained a profound moral in the novel. Mel also told him about her ideas for an ingenious cover design.

The cover of "Twilight" is a pair of slender white hands holding a bright red apple on a black background, the hand is Edward's, the apple represents both Bella and the forbidden fruit on the tree of good and evil in the Book of Genesis, symbolizing the forbidden love between Bella and Edward between humans and vampires.

The cover of "New Moon" is a white tulip that seems to be stained with blood withering and falling on a black background, symbolizing the love between Bella and Edward, like a blood-like withered red and white tulip cruelly falling to the ground, representing that Bella has experienced the darkest period of her life because she has lost Edward's company and has no purpose of survival, which happens to be the epitome of the content of this novel.

In this "Lunar Eclipse", the smooth tearing red ribbon symbolizes that the love triangle of Bella, Edward, and Jacob may collapse at any time. and Bella's fluttering mood of not knowing where to turn her heart. It also faithfully reflects the theme of "Lunar Eclipse".

I watched it for a while. Lin Yuquan put down "Lunar Eclipse", and like his "Wild Story", the binding design of the book is very careful and of high quality.

The two chatted for a while, when a staff member came in to inform them that the conference room was ready, and the two walked to the conference room.

"Ok, let's talk about the progress of the publication of the two novels so far!" Lin Yuquan said.

"The first printing of both novels is 1 million copies, and the basic publicity work has been done at the moment, and it is expected to be released in the United States on August 28"

When Lin Yuquan was busy with the publication of "The Wild Story". On August 10th, following "Transformers", it was finally time for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" to be reloaded and released in the mainland, which has been released in North America for five weeks, and the film has earned a total of $220 million at the box office.

Hollywood blockbusters are from 1994 by Andrew. Directed by Davis, Harrison. Ford and Tommy. Plum. Jones starred in "The Outlaw" into people's field of vision, and then "True Lies", "Jedi Men", "Forrest Gump", "The Lion King", "Mission Impossible 1", "Brave Island", "Jurassic Park 4", "Titanic", "Saving Private Ryan" A series of familiar Hollywood blockbusters entered domestic theaters.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which premiered in London, England on November 4, 2001, was released in the mainland in early 2002, which was the first Hollywood magic blockbuster to be released in the mainland. Because of it, the Chinese people had their first intimate contact with the magic blockbuster. It also made the magic blockbuster popular in China in the future. Although the box office is not as terrifying as "Titanic", "Harry Potter", which opened the door of the magic blockbuster in China, is now definitely the most influential series of movies in China, and after several years of hard work, it has accumulated a huge fan base in China.

Looking at its box office in the mainland in the past few years, in 2002, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" had a box office of 56 million, the annual box office was second only to "Heroes" and "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Fellowship of the Ring", and in 2003, "Harry Potter and the Vanishing Chamber of Secrets" had a box office of 52.2 million, and the annual box office was second only to "Mobile Phone", and in 2004, due to the need to make room for "Ambush on All Sides", the release date of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was postponed again and again, and it was moved to a cold September, and finally received 38.7 million box office. ranked 10th at the end of the year, and in 2005, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" had a box office of 94 million, second only to "Red Cliff", "Wuji" and "Mythology" at the annual box office.

With the heating up of the domestic film market, the box office of the film in the mainland has also risen again and again, such as "Spider-Man 3", "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World", and "Transformers", which have been released since the summer of this year, the three Hollywood blockbusters have exceeded 100 million at the box office, and it is no wonder that China Film and theaters attach great importance to it, it is no exaggeration to say that compared with the other three films, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", which has a larger fan base and more influence in China, will inevitably become the fourth film with a box office of more than 100 million this year.

Seeing that the first three films were selling well, the confident China Film put 480 copies and digital theaters equivalent to the other three films for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" this time, indicating that another movie-watching frenzy is coming.

At the same time, the weekend in North America also ushered in several new films that attracted much attention, occupying the first place is of course Cheng Long's "Rush Hour 3" that seeks to rebuild Hollywood's box office appeal, the "Rush Hour" series is undoubtedly Cheng Long's most successful work in Hollywood, the first two episodes achieved $141 million in North American box office, $244 million in global box office and $226 million in North American box office, $347 million in global box office, which established Cheng Long's status in Hollywood in one fell swoop and became the most valuable Chinese actor in Hollywood.

But after the fiasco of "Around the World in 80 Days" in 04, Cheng Long's position in Hollywood suddenly became precarious, and he had to return to Hong Kong to develop, and in three years, he filmed "Myth", "New Police Story", and "Baby Project" Three movies, although these movies have achieved good results, but as long as possible. Cheng Long naturally hopes to return to Hollywood for development. After all, films such as "Mythology" are good. But the combined income of the three movies is not as high as the salary he received for a movie in Hollywood.

Now, after seven years, the sequel to "Rush Hour" with an investment of $140 million will be grandly landed in 3,778 theaters, and Cheng Long will also fight in Hollywood after three years.

The second is "Stardust", which claims to be the second "Lord of the Rings", a film produced by Paramount based on Neil Brown. Gaiman's graphic novel of the same name, "Stardust", is adapted with an investment of $70 million, and is directed by Matthew Gairitch, the producer of "Two Big Smoking Guns", "Kidnapping and Robbery", and "The Evil Enemy". Vaughn, in '04, released his directorial debut* "Layer Cake". Critically acclaimed, starring Michelle. Fareifer, Charlie. Cox, Claire. Denise, the film will be available in 2,540 theaters.

There are also two "Daddy Summer Camp" and "Skinner", the former is the big seller Eddie in 03. Murphy and Steve. Zinn starred in the sequel to the work "Daddy Rangers", but this time the father was replaced by the noisy comedian Little Cuba. Kudin and depressed praising Paul. Ray, a sequel comedy that is typical of changing the protagonist fried cold rice, will open in 2,332 theaters. The latter is produced by Lionsgate, which has made a name for itself in Hollywood as a low-cost horror genre, like "Van Helsing", "The Legend of Knife Peak", and "Legend of the Night". This is another horror movie about werewolves, blatantly selling blood-spilled plasma.

When the week from August 6th to August 12th passed, the new week's mainland weekly box office rankings were released first, and the results surprised many people.

"Crazy Racing", which was also released in the first week, actually cut down the super blockbuster "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" from Hollywood, seeing such a result, I don't know how many people thought at first in addition to not believing or not believing.

The reason why there is such a psychology is not because "Crazy Racing" is a bad movie, but because the characteristics of comedy movies naturally make it difficult to compete with blockbusters on an audience basis.

Of course, this is not to say that there are few audiences who love to watch comedy movies, but because watching movies costs money, and now the ticket price of movies is not cheap, due to the constraints of economic income, the audience's spending power to watch movies is always limited, in this case, people are naturally more inclined to spend money to watch blockbusters when they enter the theater, rather than any small and medium-cost comedy.

This can be seen from the release of domestic films in recent years, taking Feng Bigang as an example, so far, Feng Bigang has released a total of 11 movies, among these 11 movies, the highest box office is last year's "Night Banquet", this film won a total of 138 million box office, but it is a pity that the highest box office work of this comedy master is a costume blockbuster, and the highest box office in his comedy works is "No Thieves in the World" launched in 04, This 126 million box office film makes him the nominal third mainland director to step into the 100 million yuan club, but how the 120 million box office of "Life and Death Choice" came about, everyone knows. But although "No Thieves in the World" is powerful, it is still inferior to the two blockbusters "Kung Fu" and "Ambush on All Sides" on the annual list, and even slightly inferior to Lin Yuquan's "Huo Yuanjia", and then before that, his highest comedy movie was 53 million in 03 "Mobile Phone", and other movies are basically around 20 million-40 million.

Looking at the premiere box office of the movie directed by Feng Bigang, the highest box office is of course "Night Banquet", which won a total of 57 million box office in the first 4 days of the week, but in the same way, "Night Banquet" is not a comedy movie, and the highest box office of the premiere of a comedy movie is also maintained by "No Thieves in the World", which recorded 30 million box office in the first week, and the theaters and screens in 04 are of course less than now, and "No Thieves in the World" can achieve such a high box office because there are many factors, such as Feng Bigang's personal brand influence, Liu Dehua, Liu Ruoying, Li Binbin, Ge You star-studded, and the full support of the theater chain, at that time, "No Thieves in the World" was scheduled for more than 60, and there were no strong opponents in the same period.

Compared with "Crazy Racing", although Ning Hao is one of the three most outstanding young directors, he is not Lin Yuquan, and his influence is far weaker than Feng Bigang; Secondly, in addition to Xu Zheng, there is a group of grassroots stars in the film. The star effect is several levels lower; At last. This week is the second week of the release of "The Secret That Can't Be Said" and "The Fuse". In the fourth week of the release of "The True Color of a Man", the competition is quite strong, while "Crazy Racing" is only 44% scheduled.

With such a comparison, it is no wonder that everyone is not optimistic about Ning Hao and "Crazy Racing", but the fact is so unpredictable, relying on a strong reputation, following the first day. "Crazy Racing" did not decline too much at the box office on Wednesday-Friday, but ushered in a new round of climax over the weekend, and finally burst out with amazing energy, winning 46.75 million, trampling 41.59 million "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" under his feet, and this box office figure also exceeded the weekly box office record of all Feng Bigang's comedy movies, even among all comedy movies released in the mainland, it was only lower than the original 64 million premiere box office of Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu", which is definitely out of nowhere.

Because such an outcome was not expected. Countless people were first deeply shocked, followed by ecstasy. Who said that Chinese movies can't beat Hollywood blockbusters, didn't "Crazy Racing" do it? Suddenly, Ning Hao, who was already hot, the main creators, and the movie itself showed a trend of prosperity.

For this reason, the "Kyoto Daily" wrote on its front page: "Mainland comedy movies must be Feng Bigang? No, there is also Ning Hao, the era of Ning Hao has come! ”

Some people are happy and some are worried, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" definitely belongs to the "person" who is very lost, although the global box office is quite bright, but "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" did encounter a lot of trouble in North America, and failed miserably in the competition with "Spider-Man 3", "Shrek 3", "Transformers", and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World". Now in China, it has also encountered such a bad situation, "Spider-Man 3" box office in the first week 69.6 million, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World" 45 million, "Transformers" 97 million. Perhaps the only consolation for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is that "Shrek 3", which will land in the mainland on August 21, is limited to theaters that meet the DCI standards for digital films, and it is destined that the box office will not be very high, but in this way, even if it wins, can it be considered comfort?

Soon, the box office list for the weekend of August 10-August 12 in North America was released, and Cheng Long won the box office list of the week with "Rush Hour 3" as he wished, earning $50.23 million at the box office in 3778 theaters, far exceeding the $40 million expected by the media in advance, although it was not as good as the $67.4 million of "Rush Hour 2", but after a lapse of six years, it is really commendable to achieve such a result, and this achievement is second only to "Spy Shadow 3" and "Spy Shadow 3" in the premiere in August of each year. Rush Hour 2 and "Wheat Field Symbol", I believe that after this movie, Cheng Long will inevitably return to Hollywood for development, and Zhang Jingchu, who starred in this movie after Zhang Ziyi, must also receive international attention and get better development.

Released last week, the word-of-mouth "Spy Shadow 3" ranked second in the box office list with 33.62 million this week after earning $70.18 million last week, with a total of $132 million in two weeks, and according to the current trend, the film is expected to finally break through the North American box office mark of $200 million, as for whether it can make persistent efforts to break the North American box office record of $215 million held by "Mission Impossible 2" in the field of "agent movies", it depends on the situation next week, but many people are already looking forward to it.

In addition to "Rush Hour", other high-profile new movies have suffered fiascos, "Stardust" is one of the better, but it is only 50 steps and 100 steps, only 9 million US dollars at the box office compared to 70 million US dollars of investment and 2540 theaters on a large scale, which is really flattering. "Daddy's Summer Camp" and "Skinwalker" grossed $3.55 million and $1.87 million respectively, and with only 15 points and a 6% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, they were undoubtedly shortlisted for this year's Golden Sour Plum Awards.

Cheng Long's return to Hollywood and "Rush Hour 3" to storm the weekend box office charts are of course glorious, but the headlines and media spotlight on Monday in North America don't belong to them at all, because it belongs to Lin Yuquan and Stephanie. Mel's two. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......)

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