"Director Lin doesn't seem to be in a good mood these days!" Gao Yuanyuan said in a low voice. @

"Anyone with normal eyes can see it, I don't know what the reason is? The box office of "Painted Skin" is so good, it stands to reason that it should be happy! Qin Lan's words were full of incomprehension.

"That's it, hey, Yifei, you have such a good relationship with Director Lin, do you know what the reason is?" Gao Yuanyuan turned her head to look at Liu Yifei.

"I don't know." Liu Yifei glanced at Liu Shishi imperceptibly in the process of shaking his head, and when it came to having a good relationship with Lin Yuquan, who could compare to this.

"Even you don't know, it seems that we can only guess, Shi Shi, what do you think is the reason?" Gao Yuanyuan was slightly disappointed, and then looked at the quiet girl beside her.

"Ahh Just thinking about something, he was suddenly named, Liu Shishi said in a panic: "I don't know either." ”

This is not perfunctory, she really doesn't know, looking at the figure leaning alone on the recliner in the distance, Liu Shishi couldn't help but worry, and secretly made up his mind, at night, he had to ask anyway.

The warm afternoon sun was shining, Lin Yuquan closed his eyes, letting the sunlight shine on his hair, cheeks, eyes, and skin, and the whole person seemed to be quiet and indifferent, but his mood was extremely irritable and difficult to calm down.

This week, he has been thinking about his new movie, but he has never been able to decide, especially when the box office of "Painted Skin" came out in the second week, and his heart is even more difficult.

This year's National Day file in the mainland is undoubtedly very lively, "Painted Skin" and "Baby Project" and the earlier "Night Banquet" have made this National Day holiday a feast for Chinese films, setting the highest box office result in the National Day file in the past years.

There is still no suspense in the first place in the weekly box office in the mainland from October 2nd to October 8th, and "Painted Skin" earned 81 million yuan in a single week. Topping the box office charts. The cumulative box office in two weeks is 152 million. has surpassed "Night Banquet" and has become the annual box office champion so far.

In second place is "Baby Plan", the funny and joyful plot is very suitable for the atmosphere of the National Day, the box office of the film rose unexpectedly this week, closing 43 million box office in a single week, an astonishing increase of 105% compared to last week, and a cumulative box office of 64 million in two weeks.

The third to fifth places are 8 million for "Night Banquet" and 5.6 million for the newly released Hollywood animated film "Jungle Counterattack". "Tokyo Judgment" 1.8 million.

As for North America, four new high-profile films were released this week. Scorsese's remake of Infernal Affairs, starring Leonardo and Matt. Damon's Infernal Affairs; The second is Jonathan, who once directed the horror film "Darkness Falls". Liebesman's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel"; The third is made up of Britney Britney. Pierce, Christina. Aguilera is also known as Jessica Brown, the four little divas of the late 90s in the United States. Simpson's starring Star Employee, her second film; Fourth, Kate. Winslet starred in the Olympic bid literary film "Being a Mother".

However, these films did not pose much of an obstacle to "Painted Skin", which collected another $43.3 million in a single week in its second week of release, firmly occupying the top spot at the box office for the weekend from October 6 to October 8, with a cumulative box office of $223 million in two weeks, surpassing the $108.7 million of "Red Cliff" in the same period last year.

The second is "Infernal Affairs", which was released in more than 3,000 theaters. A total of $25.4 million was earned, which is for a cop movie without a big scene. Definitely a good score, director Martin. Scorsese is also very happy because of this, his films have always been so-so in terms of commercial value, and the previous best-grossing "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator" also mainly relied on the box office appeal of Xiao Lizi.

In third place is "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel", a horror movie that opened in a small theater, but the horror movie fans and horror film market in North America are very mature, collecting $17.3 million in a single week.

The fourth to eighth places are $13 million for "Jungle Strikeout", $11 million for "Star Employee", $8.7 million for "Lifeguard", $6.1 million for "Foolish Funny Show 2", and $3.6 million for "School of."

The box office of other overseas countries and regions has been declining, and in the end, "Painted Skin" closed $117 million worldwide in the second week, accumulating $247 million in two weeks.

The brilliant results of the second week of "Painted Skin" continue to make the film a hot topic in the media, fans, and the entertainment industry, and almost everyone is optimistic that "Painted Skin" will surpass the results of last year's "Red Cliff", and the success of "Painted Skin" has also made the popularity of the film's main creators soar.

Zhou Xun is the most rewarding actor, her superb performance in the film was unanimously affirmed by the media and film critics, and the film entered the international market and became an international Chinese actress, overpowering Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and others. Li Lianjie, who was originally in Hollywood and was about to return to the mainland to develop, once again shocked the crowd and returned to the ranks of popular action actors. Chen Kun really has well-known film works, and has stepped into the ranks of leading young actors with idol appeal and strength in the Chinese film industry. Wang Luodan, Hao Lei, and Wu Zhengyu also benefited a lot.

Not to mention Lin Yuquan, countless actors are dreaming of becoming the star of his next film.

But no one knows that Lin Yuquan is actually not so satisfied, it is true that the box office of "Painted Skin" is satisfactory to any Chinese filmmaker, and he can't be more satisfied, such results are no longer good results that can be described, but miracles, is a myth, but in his opinion, "Painted Skin" obviously did not reach the height he expected.

Lin Yuquan has put a lot of effort into the movie "Painted Skin", perhaps lacking in some aspects, but it has definitely reached the world's top level in terms of special effects and fight scenes, but compared with other special effects blockbusters, there is still a significant gap in the box office results.

According to the current box office trend of "Painted Skin", it is certainly no problem for "Painted Skin" to surpass "Red Cliff" at the global box office, but it will not exceed too much, and it is expected that it will be difficult to exceed 500 million US dollars.

Let's take a look at the films with outstanding special effects and fight scenes this year, "Superman Returns" grossed $200 million in North America and $391 million worldwide, "The Da Vinci Code" $217 million in North America and $758 million worldwide, "X-Men 3: Last Stand" $234 million in North America and $459 million worldwide, "007: Casino Royale" grossed $167 million in North America and $594 million worldwide, and of course the most amazing is "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Soul Coffin", The film entered the $1 billion club as it wished, earning $423 million at the North American box office and $1.066 billion worldwide.

Although the results of "Painted Skin" are not too bad in it, compared with "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Soul Coffin" and "The Da Vinci Code", the gap is too great.

Of course, this may have something to do with the sequel to the movie and the adaptation of the best-selling novel, but the first installment in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", made $305 million at the North American box office in 03 and $654 million at the global box office, and there is no other excuse, and there are many such examples.

Why is this happening, to put it mildly, Lin Yuquan has been thinking about this problem since the release of "Red Cliff" last year, the box office results of "Red Cliff" last year are like a myth for any Chinese film, the mainland 267 million yuan, creating a new record for the mainland box office of Chinese films, 187 million US dollars in North America, squeezing out "Operation Smith", ranking 10th in the annual box office list in North America, which is the highest record on the annual box office list of Chinese films in North America, The global box office is 413 million US dollars, which is also the highest box office record for a Chinese-language film.

It stands to reason that such a result should be satisfactory enough, and Lin Yuquan is actually satisfied, but the question is, should this be the box office limit of "Red Cliff"? As an epic war movie, the war scenes in "Red Cliff" are more shocking and exciting than the same type of "Gladiator" and "Troy", you can look at the box office of the two, "Gladiator" released in 2000 was $187 million at the North American box office that year, fourth in the United States, 458 million worldwide, second in the world, and "Troy" released in 2004 had a North American box office of $133 million, although it was low, but the global $497 million was enough to rank among the top 10 that year.

If you look at the quality of the work, it is clear that it should not be this result, what is the reason for this? In fact, the answer is very simple, the difference in history and culture, the box office appeal of the main creator, and the exclusion of skin color and race.

The historical and cultural differences between the East and the West are very large, due to the existence of historical and cultural differences, it is difficult for Westerners to understand the culture and ideas in Eastern culture, such as the Xianxia demon culture, emotions, and views on certain things in "Painted Skin", and not understanding will naturally affect the viewing effect and word-of-mouth evaluation of the film, and then the box office appeal, the Chinese film industry lacks box office superstars with real global influence, look at these Hollywood blockbusters, the director of "Gladiator" is "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Crazy Flower of the End" Ridley. Scott, starring Russell. Crowe, Jacques. Phoenix, Connie. Although Nelson is not a popular star, he is much more famous than the actors of "Red Cliff". Pete, Orlando. Bloom, Tom in The Da Vinci Code. Hanks

Of course, the most important thing should be the exclusion of skin color and race, the main race in Europe and the United States is white, in the early years, blacks were also discriminated against in Europe and the United States, and had no status, but gradually, the skin color of the white and black races is weakening, but the yellow race is still in a weak position in Europe and the United States, and there will be an unconscious sense of rejection, which leads to the inevitable boycott of the movie starring the yellow race.

In Lin Yuquan's original plan, he was going to use Guò "Painted Skin" to see whether it was feasible to make a movie based on the memories of cultivators, which now seemed completely feasible, but what made him hesitate was whether he would continue to make Chinese movies or Hollywood movies in his next film.

Lin Yuquan had been hesitating, and just like that, another afternoon passed, and he still didn't make a decision until the evening. (To be continued......) R527