Just when "Puhai Fortress" was in full swing of filming, time passed smoothly.

"Battle Fairy Snow Wind" was released during spring break, and this film is also very attractive because of the previous title of "World Air Battle Story", not only in Japan, but also in Europe and the United States, there are studios to see the film, but in the end it was decided to release it first in Japan, according to experience, the box office of this film in Japan is the main box office, and the box office in other places will not exceed the box office in Japan. Naturally, issuers will focus on the Japanese home market.

Because of the release of the film, the Japanese film market, which was warmed up by "The Legend of Goku", became hot again, and the film exceeded the box office of 2 billion yen in the first week of release with a large number of films and hot attendance, but then it took a sharp turn in the second week. Shoji Murahama almost had a heart attack. As a feature film, "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" is very different from "World Air Battle Story" in terms of evaluation. "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" is a story arranged almost strictly according to the novel, and at the same time uses the technical accumulation of "World Air Battle Story", but I have to say that "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" and "World Air Battle Story" are completely two stories from two perspectives.

"World Air Battle Story" has a grand background and many characters, and the stories involved directly pretend to be related to reality, which is very attractive to people, especially the air battles arranged according to the fighters that exist in the real world, which directly scratch the itch of military fans. And "Battle Fairy Yukikaze", as a fantasy novel, is basically about exploring the combat methods of future fighters, so it is not easy to understand in terms of form and content. Although those aerial combat scenes are still gorgeous, the characters are distinct, and the story arrangement is unclear. But compared to the simplicity and brightness of "World Air Battle Story", this work is much more obscure, and many children who come to watch the plane don't understand what aliens are all about, and the story is over, and humans have fled back to Earth, which makes many people who are interested in the sequel to "World Air Battle Story" very disappointed.

But despite its connection to World Combat Story, "Battle Fairy Yukikaze" is still a delicate, excellent work, and the Japanese are painfully searching for the relationship between man and machine - they even elevate it to the level of communication between souls. It fully reflects the depth of this work. Now. The power of rotten girls is not strong enough, but it does not prevent many female audiences who like handsome guys who like eye-catching people from loving this work, so the box office of this movie is like a roller coaster, and in the third week, it was actually reduced in the third week. The box office rose to 1.2 billion yen. But in the fourth week, there was another big dive at the box office. All of a sudden, it was only half of last week's time, 600 million yen.

In the first four weeks of its release, the box office reached 4.8 billion yen. And obviously it can continue to be released, and the box office will continue to increase, but Murahama Shoji's heart can't stand this loss, and compared with the box office of "World Air Battle Story" that finally exceeded 30 billion yen, "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" obviously can't reach such a level, according to normal estimates, it will probably be able to exceed 6 billion yen when the final painting is made, although it is certainly not a loss, and it can even be said that it has made a lot of money, but Murahama Shoji is still difficult to bear such a gap.

In the eyes of many veteran military fans and military critics, "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" is still remarkable, and the battle situation it envisions and depicts is not a prophecy in future battles, at least it is very valuable for reference. Relying on electronic suppression to capture the enemy's fighter planes is also very touching to think about. In the case of little difference in hardware, software configuration and information system have become the final weight to determine the outcome of the game, etc., which are very interesting topics. Therefore, the release of "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" in Europe and North America has also achieved good results, but GONZO, who is envious and jealous, is not too concerned about the overseas box office, they basically sold the overseas rights of "Battle Fairy Snow Wind", which can almost reach the level of 6 billion yen, so that "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" has brought more than 10 billion yen of income to GONZO, but Murahama Shoji, who is full of envy and jealousy, is still psychologically unbalanced, because his expected income is 30 billion box office. Such a gap also sounded the alarm for him, after all, such a large-scale investment in an animated movie, a little careless, it is easy to lose money. Shoji Murahama is considering whether to maintain the TV animation business, which can be regarded as a way out.

Immediately following "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" is the release of "Black Fist 2", although the film was originally intended to be released in the second half of the year, but because of the unusually smooth completion, coupled with the cooperation of the American distributor, Mitsumi Fukuda made up his mind to release this movie before the start of the World Cup. This sequel film co-directed by Miyamoto and Lu Yang, with Yuan Xiangren as the martial arts instructor, maintains the same level as "Black Fist", and Tony Jia plays a more important role in this movie, mainly because this guy is too fierce and brilliant, as early as in "Black Fist", he showed his ability and suzune that far exceeded that of ordinary kung fu stars.

In his previous life, Tony Jia's expression in "Thief of the Buddha Line" was praised as surpassing Jack Cheng and Jet Lee, and his own physique and kung fu provided a guarantee for his reputation, and when Jack Cheng and Jet Lee were getting old and everyone was tired of overly flashy martial arts performances, Thai kung fu also provided a bit of a fresh taste. Miyamoto and Lu Yang maintained their standards with a good script, and the murderous story attracted enough male viewers to ensure that they felt their blood boil after reading it. During the release in April and May, "Black Fist 2" achieved a box office result of more than 3 billion in Japan, and the mainland did not introduce this film, but "Black Fist 2" swept the box office charts in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand during the same period, especially Thailand, the enthusiasm for this film is unimaginable. The film was later released in the United States and Europe, and even reached the top 10 of the annual box office charts in the United States, earning enough dollars even after dropping out of the list at the end of the year.

Tony Jia has completely become a world-class kung fu superstar with his performance in the play, and there have been Hollywood companies that have extended an olive branch to him, CAA has contacted him and tried to turn him into his own artist, and even Miyamoto and Lu Yang have been watched by Hollywood. But obviously. Small companies can't invite them, and big companies can't bypass spring if they want to invite them to make films. However, the popularity of "Black Fist 2" has also made more insiders full of confidence in "Shanghai Fortress", after all, the two directors of "Black Fist 2" are serving as assistant directors in the crew of "Shanghai Fortress" at this time.

And in the crew of "Shanghai Fortress", Shen Zhenghui is not so much a director, but a coordinator, there are so many directors in the crew that they can form a political bureau, especially there are authentic military experts from the army to guide the battle, in addition to Zhang Juzao, the Air Force also sent senior pilots and commanders to guide the filming of the film, Shen Zhenghui only needs to make requests every time, and the specific shooting will be handed over to the assistant directors to discuss and realize. At the end, he made a decision on the shooting plan.

The elite directors of domestic war films have learned so much from this film. In addition to fixing the camera to the model aircraft for aerial combat filming of the model aircraft. They also learn to photograph pilots in front of indoor aircraft cabin models and green screens, and of course, pilots wearing helmets and masks can basically only see a pair of eyes. No expression can be seen. But after making these shots out of the way. They were shocked to see the final result. Many of them have been shocked by the technological power of Hollywood. Such as "Terminator", "Titanic" and so on, they once thought that the direction of Chinese film development can only be in other directions, and now. Shen Zhenghui told them with facts that what the Americans can do, we can also do. And how can they not be thrilled that they themselves are involved in how to make it happen?

However, General Zhang, as the guide, worked harder with the pilots and commanders, and had to carefully pick out every detail on the camera, and several people also sighed that if this film was filmed, it would basically be a teaching film for the Air Force.

Compared with the synthetic sea aircraft carrier formation, the scene of the aircraft air battle, the actors' performances are much simpler and easier, Zheng Chao played a college stuffy house vividly, and the attitude of facing a beautiful officer like Lin Lan who has no ability to resist and hesitates at the same time is very sympathetic, and at the same time, Zhou Xun's Lu Yiyi is eccentric, and the kind of goodwill and temptation that seems to be nothing is also moving, No. 4 can't see that she is five years older than Zheng, but looks five years younger.

The filming process was extremely smooth, a group of top directors got together, and there were basically no problems that could not be solved from beginning to end, and Shen Zhenghui's role seemed to be only nodding. So much so that after the whole filming process was completed, many people muttered that they didn't see what Shen Zhenghui's directing level was from beginning to end, because all the work was basically done by the assistant director, and at the same time, the major film studios had made a lot of money because of this film.

During the World Cup, there were still many fans in the crew who were distracted to watch the game, but with the Chinese team painfully out of the game without a goal, everyone lost interest in watching the game, and in the end, the result of the competition was similar to Shen Zhenghui's knowledge, and the Brazilian team finally won the championship. Shen Zhenghui didn't do anything superfluous, but Ning Huan, who had just arrived in Japan, bought a lottery ticket and made a small profit of millions of yen, which was the result of Shen Zhenghui telling him not to be exposed.

Just when "Shanghai Fortress" finished filming and entered the post-production process, at the end of September, "Hero" was finally released under the watchful eye, and the premiere ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People, and at the same time, the copy was escorted by the armed police to prevent piracy, etc., a series of hype methods were used, although it shows that the Chinese market is not the main purpose of film shooting, but in terms of release, the distributor still pays enough attention to it, In the end, the box office of 270 million yuan also illustrates the problem, and the investment of 240 million yuan is obviously impossible to earn back by relying on the Chinese market, and Director Zhang rushed to the overseas market from the beginning. "Hero" relied on the benefits of "Assembly" before, and the box office share ratio reached 40%, and then "Shanghai Fortress" entrusted the benefits of "Hero", and further talked about the box office share ratio to 45%.

The investors of "Hero" announced that the overseas copyright has recovered its investment, and the global box office will reach $180 million, and the investor's share will reach $58 million. (To be continued......)