In fact, Lin Yuquan does not need to wait long for the completion of "Immediate Rescue", according to the current filming progress of the crew, it is expected that he will be able to wait for that moment on December 19, three days later.

However, it is impossible for him to wait for the film to be completed without distraction, as in the past, there will be many new films released this week, just before that, on Thursday, December 18, Shuguang Films' annual masterpiece "October Siege" will be released on a large scale across the Taiwan Strait.

Time undoubtedly flies quickly, and when attending the second China Film Directors Association Commendation Conference in April last year, Lin Yuquan, after a short period of consideration, agreed to invest in Chen Desen's shooting plan, which was once considered as crazy as "Infernal Affairs", to make a late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China action film "October Siege" to build a 1905 Hong Kong Central and tell the story of eight grassroots people to protect Sun Yat-sen's safe departure from Hong Kong.

At that time, Chen Desen had been running for the filming of this film for eight years, during which he experienced ups and downs, SARS set up a stoppage, investors committed suicide by burning charcoal, and he suffered a car accident.

Also at that time, after learning that Lin Yuquan promised to invest in "October Siege" and had Chen Desen as the film director, many of the many directors attending the meeting felt incredible, who is Chen Desen, he is not a first-line director in the Hong Kong film industry such as Wang Jin, Xu Ke, Du Qifeng, Liu Zhenwei, Wong Kar-wai, and Hui Anhua, but just a cutting-edge action film director who has emerged in the Hong Kong film industry with "Thief Spy" and "Purple Rain Storm", and is known for action scenes. Such a director. There are quite a few in the Hong Kong film industry.

Furthermore. His ability to control big-production, big-spec movies is also quite worrying, among his few works, there is an investment of up to 170 million Hong Kong dollars in "Secret Service", a typical action movie starring Cheng Long, although it has achieved a box office of 30 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, but the global box office is only 15.5 million US dollars, which is not as high as its own investment, and it is one of the few films starring Cheng Long to fail at the box office.

I have to say. It does take a lot of courage to let such a director direct an era action movie with an investment of more than 100 million.

"October Siege" is indeed a movie that is considered crazy, with a cost of 48 million in the old Hong Kong Central, gathering Zhou Xingchi, Chen Daoming, Zhen Zidan, Zhou Xun, Liu Ye, Leung Jiahui, Ren Dahua, Jiang Yan, Xu Zheng, Sun Honglei and other actors The bright star lineup is fully displayed. Therefore, since the launch press conference was held at the beginning of the year, the film has firmly occupied the attention of countless people and is known as the most anticipated discourse film of the year.

After nine months of construction, script revision, costume production and other preliminary preparations, three months of shooting. After nearly four months of post-production, "October Siege" was finally completed at the end of October. The total cost is also fixed at 150 million, including 48 million for the construction of the city, 32 million for the actors' salaries, and 70 million for the production costs.

Not only that, Shuguang Film also spared no effort in the promotion and distribution of "October Siege", investing a total of 40 million, striving to create a fierce publicity offensive, in the hope that "October Siege" can release the greatest box office power when it is released.

Now it's finally time to be released, and it's also the most tense time, after all, the total cost of "October Siege" is as high as 190 million, which means that if you simply count on box office revenue, it will take 475 million box office to recover the cost, which is not a small number.

Of course, the box office of Shuguang Film's "October Siege" is actually not so high, because it is a period drama, there is no product placement in "October Siege", but due to the attention that the film has received, the income of patch advertising alone is as high as 20 million, and the 48 million that builds Hong Kong Central can be regarded as a film and television base investment, so that as long as the box office income of "October Siege" can reach 300 million in the cross-strait three places, Shuguang Film can obtain a lot of economic returns through other channels.

Judging from the current scale of the film market in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the quality of the film itself, it may not be too easy for "October Siege" to achieve this, but it is by no means difficult.

What's more, with "No Man's Land" and "Old Boy" successively achieving amazing box office, everyone at Dawning Movies is full of expectations for the upcoming "October Siege", and so is Lin Yuquan himself.

The mainland box office of "No Man's Land", with a production cost of 38 million and a total cost of 63 million, broke 300 million, and "Old Boy", with a production cost of 32 million and a total cost of 50 million, is destined to break 200 million at the mainland box office, so what kind of results will "October Siege", with a production cost of 150 million and a total cost of 190 million, achieve in today's mainland market? This is very exciting indeed.

In the blink of an eye, the calendar has turned two pages, and it is December 18, the day on which "October Siege" was officially re-released in thousands of theaters across the Taiwan Strait.

Because the star cast of the film itself is already extremely bright, Lin Yuquan did not fly back to Kyoto to attend the premiere of the film, but only spoke at the premiere through remote video conference.

At the same time, because the filming of "Immediate Rescue" will end tomorrow, the filming of the crew will continue as usual, and there is no charter to watch the premiere of "October Siege".

However, after a day of filming, Lin Yuquan drove to Dongyang City with Liu Yifei and Xu Zheng, and entered a local cinema affiliated to Xingmei Cinema Line, and then undoubtedly bought a movie ticket for "October Siege".

"Wow, in a fourth-tier city like Dongyang, the attendance rate is also so high, it seems that the box office of "October Siege" will definitely be very amazing on the opening day."

In one of the full screening halls in the theater, Lin Yuquan, Liu Yifei and others sat in the back position, and Liu Yifei leaned in joy and said softly.

Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, he was not surprised by such a situation, just kidding. "October Siege" brought together so many stars. Tens of millions of marketing expenses were spent. If the attendance on the premiere day is not high, then it will undoubtedly be a failure.

"How much box office will it have? I guess there should be tens of millions. Wang Luodan said with a smile.

"Of course there will be, if it weren't for the simultaneous release of "Old Boy" and "Ip Man", and the film schedule is not too much, 20 million should be no problem." Xu Zheng said with a smile, his guess is naturally grounded, "No Man's Land" was originally under the condition that there was not much competition, and there was a half-price day. got a box office of 9.85 million on the opening day, and with the momentum of "October Siege" now, it must not be difficult to exceed double this box office.

"Perhaps!" Lin Yuquan smiled, the box office of 20 million on the premiere day is naturally not so easy to achieve, but in a Chinese annual production like "October Siege", if the film schedule is enough, of course there can be no problems, but the current film schedule, as long as it can reach 15 million, it can be celebrated.

Time flies in the chat, in the blink of an eye. When the time came, the theater suddenly became quiet. At this time, it is estimated that except for Lin Yuquan, everyone is full of expectations for the upcoming screening of "October Siege".

The corners of Lin Yuquan's mouth turned up, he had already watched the edited version of "October Siege", and naturally he had no expectations for the movie itself, what he was looking forward to was to see the audience's reaction when watching the movie.

And as the movie began to be screened, the theater sounded in admiration and applause after a while, and then, the smile on Lin Yuquan's face became stronger and stronger, to be honest, his own box office target for "October Siege" is not very high, in fact, as long as the movie does not lose money, it is already a great success to shoot such a high-quality movie that can be liked by many audiences.

is not only the movie "October Siege", whether it is Dawning Movie or Summit Entertainment, what he wants is always to pursue the quality of the movie first, and then the box office, rather than the box office first, and then the quality of the movie.

Although it seems that both are both quality and box office, they are actually completely different, and the two represent completely different pursuits and completely different results.

DreamWorks is a film company he greatly admires, although DreamWorks eventually embarked on the road to bankruptcy, but its sincerity in filmmaking has allowed it to leave behind masterpieces that will be remembered for a long time to come, "Saving Private Ryan", "Broken Locks", "Freaks and Nerds", "American Beauty", "Almost Famous", "Desert Island Survivor", "Gladiator", "Shrek", "A Beautiful Mind", "Impunity" and this is what he wants to do, in fact, "DreamWorks" It was already very successful in the film business, but it was only because of the blind expansion in other fields, including music, that it went bankrupt.

Time passed minute by minute, two hours passed quickly in the wonderful story of the film, and when the cast and crew appeared on the screen, even though there was no main creative staff here, there were still many audience members in the theater who spontaneously applauded, just because it was a good movie, and their emotions were completely driven.

"Oh, it's really great, although it's not on your movie, but compared with other domestic films, "October Siege" is definitely a rare good film." As soon as he walked out of the theater, Liu Yifei immediately said excitedly.

"Yes, it's really good-looking, and now there are too few good-looking domestic films, which is why so many people would rather watch Hollywood films than domestic films." Wang Luodan said.

Lin Yuquan shook his head, "The Siege of October" is good, but it is just good, in his opinion, there are still many problems in the film, which also makes it difficult to sell overseas, it can only be said that the quality of other domestic films is too bad, which invisibly reduces people's requirements for domestic films and Chinese films, as long as they are shot a little well, people will praise them, but in fact, there is still a huge gap between the Chinese film industry and Hollywood in the field of commercial films, "Painted Wall", "Ambush on All Sides", "The City is Full of Golden Armor", " The films released in North America in recent years are a good example, they have achieved good box office results in China, but the box office in North America is quite unsatisfactory, in fact, if it were not for the vigorous promotion of Summit Entertainment and his own influence, it may be difficult for the box office to break two million US dollars, and if Chinese films want to achieve good results in the international market, they must continue to innovate and make movies well. It's just that the reason is simple, but it's difficult to do, and the lack of good directors and screenwriters is a problem that has to be faced.

On the way back, Lin Yuquan picked up Chris. Anderson called, the Screen Actors Guild Awards just announced the list of nominees, there are no surprises, Summit Entertainment's work does not have any actors nominated for it, but the nomination list itself has some surprises, such as Best Actor, Mickey. Locke, Sean. Pan, Brad. Pete, Frank. Langla's four previous favourites were successfully selected, but Leonardo. DiCaprio was defeated and replaced by Richard of The Visitor. Hawkins, like Best Actress, has been invincible in the sentinel battle for "Carefree" Sally. Hawkins was left out of the list, Christine in "I'll Love You for a Long Time". Scott. Thomas was also defeated.

And as we all know, the Screen Actors Guild Awards' prediction of the Oscar winner and actress is the most accurate of all the weather vanes, so far 14 Screen Actors Guild Awards, the former only four bets from 2000 to 2003, the latter only 94, 99, 02 and 07 against the Oscars, which also means that Leonardo, who has not even been nominated for the best prize. DiCaprio, Christine. Scott. Thomas, Sally. Hawkins is out early.

However, the three of them are actually not the hottest candidates, and they are not even the second and third hottest candidates, so such an early exit does not have much practical prediction significance.

What's more, for Lin Yuquan, this year's Actors Guild Awards has nothing to do with him, so naturally he doesn't care about anything else, compared to this, he cares more about the evaluation of "October Siege" by film critics and movie fans.

As he believes, the Chinese people have generally lowered their requirements for domestic films and Chinese films, which makes the quality of "October Siege" a tidal wave of praise, well-made, wonderful soundtrack, high degree of restoration of historical scenes, moving fight scenes, superb actors' performances, and proper grasp of the story rhythm, there is no doubt that it is the top ten Chinese films of this year, a work of sincerity and conscience, and such praise also makes the final box office of "October Siege" more and more worth looking forward to.

There is no surprise, "October Siege" easily won the domestic single-day box office championship on the first day of release, and collected 15.65 million box office in one fell swoop with 50% of the national theater schedule, and also bagged the single-day box office champions of Hong Kong and Treasure Island, earning 2.82 million Hong Kong dollars and 8.11 million Taiwan dollars respectively.

For such results, of course, Lin Yuquan is extremely satisfied, as for how much the weekly box office will reach, that is a later story, for the time being, he can't take care of it, because it took nearly four months before and after, and his seventh personal work "Immediate Rescue" was finally completed.

Every movie is a new story and a new shooting process, which also makes Lin Yuquan feel very excited even though it is his seventh work.

Compared with previous performances, he is in "Huo Yuanjia", "Red Cliff", "Hurricane Rescue", more in maximizing the temperament of the character image, as well as the cool kung fu, but this time in "Immediate Rescue", he needs to fully explore the character's inner emotions, for him, this is undoubtedly an extremely difficult challenge, the book is used to hate less, he has a deep understanding of this, I am also very grateful to Jiang Li for teaching him in the performance at the beginning.

As a matter of fact, after the end of work, everyone in the crew held a lively finale banquet in the Dawning House, Lin Yuquan shouted with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard for a period of time, I believe that our efforts will not be in vain, let's drink this cup in one gulp, celebrate in advance the box office success of "Immediate Rescue" next year, win the award and get a soft hand, cheers!" ”

"Cheers!" Everyone laughed and shouted, then looked up and drank all the beer in their glasses.

"Haha!" (To be continued......)