Chapter 185: The Box Office Myth Created by Thai Embarrassment
"I watched the Best Newcomer award slip out of my nose at this time last year, and this year I came again, but I was indeed the presenter, and based on the experience of previous years, it seems that it will be difficult for me to be shortlisted for Best Newcomer in the future, which is really a sad story!"
Wang Xu showed a pitiful look when he spoke, and everyone laughed gloatingly. However, he changed his tone and said: "But I am happy again now, because I saw my senior brother Brother Hua sitting below, and I was happy again when I saw him." ”
The camera switched to Liu Dehua, I saw Liu Tianwang's expression smiling, and he was in a good mood when he saw it, but no, he was the favorite to win the actor award this year, and his film "Sister Peach" won the award last year.
"Why do I say that?" Wang Xu continued: "I grew up watching my brother's movies, and I remember twelve years ago, that is, in 1999, I knew that my brother got the first little golden man, at that time I felt so strange, and I also cried out for my brother, why is my brother such a great superstar, and he has been in the film for almost 20 years before he won the first golden statue award, which is very unscientific." ”
"Thinking of the past 12 years, the senior brother has changed from a person who was rejected by the Academy Awards to a frequent visitor to the Academy Awards, and he has won the award softly, I am thinking about what I am anxious about, I am still young, I can't come again this year, I can't do it next year, I can't do it next year, and I still have the senior brother as an example, do you want to encourage me, senior brother!"
In the last sentence, Wang Xu shouted at Liu Dehua in the audience, and Liu Dehua stood up, made a trumpet with both hands and shouted: "Come on!" ”
Everyone saw the deep friendship between the two and couldn't help but applaud and encourage.
After the applause stopped, Wang Xu stopped playing treasure and began to do business. The award was unveiled, and the winner, Xiao Jingteng, won the award as a singer.
The actor of this year's Academy Awards was not surprisingly won by Liu Dehua.
The next day, Liu Dehua invited dozens of friends in the circle to celebrate, and Wang Xu brought his wife Zhuang Xiaodie to participate. When Wang Xu was drinking with his elder brother, the two good friends promised each other to help each other with something.
Liu Dehua promised to participate in the screening ceremony of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" on May 1. And Wang Xu promised to be the guest singer of Liu Dehua's Taipei concert on June 15.
After participating in the celebration of the elder brother, Wang Xu began to travel all over the country to promote the film, and there were three important activities that need to be mentioned during this period.
The first is March 2o, the 19th University Student Film Festival.
Wang Xu was shortlisted for the most popular actor award among college students, and he was full of confidence that he could win the award, but he returned disappointed. In 2o11, the article won this award with the popularity of "The Age of Naked Marriage" and "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love".
Wang Xu felt that he really didn't have the life to win the award, and he comforted himself by saying that the box office and the trophy were like fish and bear's paws. Zhuang encouraged him. is full of confidence in him, saying that her family's hammer will definitely be recognized, and she will get the actor Xiaojinren.
The second event is that the Golden Hammer mobile game studio celebrates that the number of fruit ninja games has exceeded 300 million, and the monthly profit is 8oo, you must know that this game has a conservative estimated lifespan of up to ten years, this is really a hen that lays golden eggs.
Wang Xu's purse bulged suddenly, and he generously sent more than 3oo red envelopes. Even the company's cleaning aunt got a red envelope of 10,000 yuan.
The third important event is the screening of "Thai Embarrassment" on March 28.
Prior to this, the publicity activities of "Thai Embarrassment" were even more powerful than "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance". The three trailers have been viewed 1ooo million times on Youcom.com, which is much higher than the 8oo0,000 on-demand views of "Tang Bohu".
Wang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, and Xu Yu are known as the three fools in Thailand, which is very funny.
On the same day, Wang Xu attended the screening of the film as an investor in the film, so it was inevitable that a reporter asked him to predict the box office of the two films "Thai Embarrassment" and "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance".
Wang Xu's box office prediction for "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" is relatively conservative. estimated a box office of 8-1o billion, and the prediction of "Thai Embarrassment" put a big satellite, and unabashedly said that the box office would be more than 1.3 billion.
I'm afraid only Wang Xu knows that 1.3 billion is also a conservative number, because in the time and space of the earth, "Thailand". This time-space film market is more prosperous, and it is no problem to exceed 1.3 billion.
Wang Xu's optimistic estimation is not to mention that the reporters were surprised, even Xu Yu, Wang Bo and others felt that it was unlikely. A few film critics couldn't help but laugh at Wang Xu on Weibo at the scene. Of course, fortunately, they didn't say that the live broadcast would have been a joke, because the daily box office of "Thai Embarrassment" came out the next day, which shocked the entire entertainment industry.
"Thai Embarrassment" became the first domestic film in the history of Chinese films to break 100 million at the box office in a single day, and this record has been held by the overseas film "Avatar".
A week later, the box office accumulated more than 500 million, and until the day of its release on May 1, it set a box office of 1.5 billion, surpassing the record of 1.4 billion in "Avatar", becoming the most Chinese-language film.
The film reviews that were on file at the same time as him were unlucky, and the box office was dismal. The films planned to be released have all been postponed, and even "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" is said to have been postponed to May in order to avoid the edge.
This month, the entire entertainment industry is discussing "Thai Embarrassment" like taking aphrodisiacs, and the film has become an image-level film. The so-called phenomenal films usually have a strong fan appeal by directing and starring themselves, and they can save their capital by relying on fans alone, coupled with the marketing planning of the professional team, the topicality created is far greater than the movie itself, and it has achieved a "phenomenal" movie.
The topicality of "Thai Embarrassment" is far greater than the movie itself, Wang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, and Xu Earn have all received huge praise, and the combination of the three of them has become a new benchmark for comedy films.
Director Xu Yu said in an interview with the media: "I just wanted to make a normal movie and expect it to have a normal result, but it turned into an event, and I don't think this incident has anything to do with me." ”
Xu Zheng has been in the film and television industry for many years before filming "Thai Embarrassment", but there has been no big hit. He has an impressively bald head and a bit of a cheeky smile. Later, he became famous, but he has not been on the front line, and he became embarrassed, he revealed his heart and said: "My value as an actor has always been underestimated, and no one has ever seen my true value." But when you realize your value, this value may be overestimated. ”
After making his first film, he was labeled as a new "1o billion club director", and Xu Yu laughed at himself and said that he was probably the first director to make less and less box office.
In the interview, Wang Xu is Wang Xu.
Why are you most grateful to the two investors, Xu Yuci said the bitterness of the preparation of the film. In fact, "Thai Embarrassment" is not Xu Zheng's insistence, this movie may have been stillborn. The reason is that Xu Yu held the script and looked for investors one by one, but they were all rejected in the end. "Some investors even paid Wang Baoqiang's deposit, but in the end they all withdrew." The reason for the withdrawal was that he did not believe in Xu Chuang's ability as a new director, and one boss thought, "How can he direct?" He's an actor! ”
And when Wang Xu heard that he was Xu Earn as a director, he did not hesitate to invest 6ooo million, and what moved him the most was that Wang Xu once said to him in private: "Let go of your heart, I will not make any demands on you, including the box office, I will admit it if I lose it, who told me to believe you?" ”
This revelation made Wang Xu not only get a huge income of 500 million yuan, but also gain the reputation of Bole. Some media people lamented that he is not a leader of comedians, and his eyes are vicious.
Wang Xu also got the benefit that as the topic of "Thai Embarrassment" cooled down, as the release date of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" gradually approached, the media was full of expectations for the first costume drama starring him, a comedy genius.
Will the box office of "Tang Bohu Point Autumn Fragrance" surpass "Thai Embarrassment", this topic has gradually been stirred up.
The time finally arrived at five o'clock in the evening of May 1, and the film "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" held a huge red carpet in Duyanjing.
[Preview, I have something to go on a business trip tomorrow, only one chapter] (To be continued!)
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