If there is no accident, the box office of "Black Fist" in the mainland is properly moving towards 50 million, but the public opinion that is gradually heating up can obviously only continue to raise the box office of "Black Fist".

If you only calculate the box office in the mainland, the investment of 10 million US dollars cannot be recouped at all, and it can be said that the loss is miserable, but with the box office in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and other places, it is another algorithm. Converted into dollars, the box office in the first week was 15 million to 16 million, and it is almost certain that it will be able to pay back in the second week, and the rest will be earned. In particular, Kasuga itself is a part-time issuing agency, and the issuance fee almost shifts the money from the left hand to the right hand.

What's more noteworthy in Greater China is another film, Zhou Xingxing's "Shaolin Football" was also released at this time, which was released more than half a year earlier than Shen Zhenghui's memory, although it did not have the enthusiasm of the Chinese team in the group stage of the World Cup, but Xingye's movie suddenly detonated the box office list when it came out after a long time.

Shen Zhenghui had to be glad that "Black Fist" and "Shaolin Football" are completely two types of movies, and "Shaolin Football" cannot be released in the mainland, audiences who have been attracted to cinemas in Hong Kong and other places often choose two movies to watch, "Shaolin Football" is "Black Fist", two different types of films give people different feelings, and for a while, on the Hong Kong movie box office list, these two films are gone together. There are a lot of cannon fodder left, but "Shaolin Football" has a much higher box office in Hong Kong than "Black Fist", and the box office result in the first week is a full eight million higher than "Black Fist".

It seems that because the market has been too depressed in recent years, the release of two excellent works has actually triggered unprecedented enthusiasm for watching movies, and other movies have been forced to give way, and Liu Tianwang has to be glad that "A Tiger" was released in November and has been achieved

No matter how you calculate, the box office of "Shaolin Football" breaking 60 million is already proper, and in comparison, "Thunder Police", which collided with these two films, was suppressed to a bleak level. Possess Guo Lao Tianwang. The new generation of little king Wang Leehom, the Japanese beauty Fujiwara Norika, these big-name actors, turned out to be a pitiful 4 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in the first week, and they still ranked third. Zhonghuan Co., Ltd., which has a Taiwanese background, feels that its face has been disgraced. In particular, the film invested eight million dollars. In the end, it may have to rely on the copyright and DVD long-term to earn back the investment, which makes Central feel extremely angry, and at the same time angry at the scheduling of this schedule. actually bumped into the two icebergs of Zhou Xingxing and Shen Zhenghui.

Originally, if there was no comparison between "Shaolin Football" and "Black Fist", the weekly box office of four million would have been counted, but on the same list, the top two results of 18 million and 10 million were too conspicuous, everyone cared about the top two at most, and no one had the heart to look at the third, so they continued, and in the second week, "Shaolin Football" continued to maintain a box office of 16 million in Hong Kong, "Black Fist" also rose a little, and the box office was actually 12 million, and "Thunder Police" continued to remain at about 4 million.

After Shen Zhenghui got the information that "Black Fist" affirmed the preservation of the capital, he really let go of a qiē and devoted himself to the filming of "Assembly Number". In this film, all the actors, including the consultants, are going through one of the most painful trials of their lives, and everyone has to learn to try to express themselves and try to persuade others to accept their ideas and expressions.

In the future, the young actors who recalled this time, the leading actor Zhang Hanyu said, "At that time, filming day and night, after filming, the film was sent to Japan to be washed out, and before the next filming, there was a special meeting to see what the effect of the last filming was, the crew re-filmed in response to the problem. I don't remember how I survived that time. Several veterans were sick and hospitalized, and they were still thinking about filming, and insisted on coming to the meeting with hanging bottles. The most shocking thing is to see the real war scene filmed, many people, including me, were stunned, this is simply shocking, we have only seen it in American blockbusters before, I can't imagine that we can shoot it ourselves, many veterans are crying when they see it. ”

Not only Zhang Hanyu, but also Zhang Jiayi, Liao Fan, etc., all complained bitterly when they talked about this time, but it was this hard time that became the best wealth in their lives. The directors of the three Bayi Factory said, "After filming a lifetime of war films, I didn't realize until I was filming "Assembly Number" that the things I shot before were simply too rough, but you can't help it, "Assembly Number" is to burn money, arrange explosion points every day, and there are hundreds of people who do explosion special effects, and there are real sappers on the scene to guide, and the ambulance is next to it. ”

Shen Zhenghui seems to be the most leisurely, in fact, he himself is under more pressure than anyone else, after all, the last bearer of this qiē is himself, the popularity and prestige accumulated through several movies, if it is smashed at once, although Shen Zhenghui feels that he can bear this loss in money, but the impact on his reputation and career is incalculable.

As the director who is responsible for the last responsibility, although all the arguments and opinions are thought up by everyone, but in the end, Shen Zhenghui is still needed to be made by someone, and although the things that are shot in the end are still attached to Director Feng's things on the frame, they are already two completely different things, Shen Zhenghui is sometimes very hesitant, although his movie is still novel in terms of characters and ideas, but the theme is completely the main theme, which is completely inconsistent with Director Feng's petty bourgeois intention of wanting to express human nature. Such things are filmed, different from previous movies, the audience market is mainly Chinese mainland, and whether it can be accepted by mainland audiences at that time. This is a big problem, although in terms of release time, Shen Zhenghui has done as much as possible with foresight.

With the help of the consultants, the progress of the literary drama is very fast, these young people have been trained enough to hone their acting skills, coupled with the empathy of the old soldiers, it is not a difficult thing to grasp the feelings and feelings of the people in the play, and the progress of the war drama is much slower, after all, this is a systematic project, and every time filming starts, you must be fully prepared. Shen Zhenghui is reluctant to learn Director Feng's shaky pseudo-documentary shooting method. In terms of equipment, Sony equipment had to be used.

However, the filming progress of the whole film was really beyond Shen Zhenghui's expectations, and the progress was very fast, and it was almost the New Year. We're almost halfway through the shooting. It's almost certainly at the current pace. At the end of February, we will be able to complete the shooting task and enter the post-production process, and we have already started to contact companies in Hong Kong and Japan about these things. The level of post-production zuò in China is still too weak. Just when Shen Zhenghui was in the middle of gaining and losing, Wang Jiansheng came to the shooting site.

This time the filming was chosen in the Northeast region, in addition to the needs of the story itself, Shen Zhenghui also had certain thoughts, the extras on the scene are thousands of people every day, which is a big expense, and the expenses of the crew themselves are even more expensive, because of the relationship between Poly, the local garrison also participated in the filming, but at least on the surface they don't charge money. A month after the crew started filming, they suddenly received an order that the commander of the local provincial military district was going to come to the crew, Shen Zhenghui was feeling inexplicable, Wang Anping sent the news that Wang Jiansheng was going to inspect the crew.

Even if it is a retired vice chairman of the Military Commission, it is also a remarkable figure, the governor, vice governor, and secretary general of the province have also come with a lot, and even a chief of staff has come with a large military region, and for a while the crew feels like a panda being strictly guarded.

Shen Zhenghui is naturally not narcissistic enough to think that this is because he exudes the spirit of a king, Wang Jiansheng's arrival may be just a whim of his old man, maybe it is an indirect statement by him, maybe it is out of consideration for the interests of Poly, but no matter what, this old gentleman came to the crew, which gave Shen Zhenghui a great help, and the news of the crew can be brushed in the newspaper for a period of time, and it is estimated that it will be easier for the film to pass the review in the future.

General Wang himself felt that his purpose was very simple, but the people who came with him did not dare to think so.

The veteran general who also participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea treated these veteran soldiers and cadres very kindly, and he still knew several veteran soldiers, he asked them about their recent life one by one, and finally asked them how they worked in the crew.

The work in the crew is also very hard, although there is someone to take care of them in life, but after all, these old soldiers are all seventy or eighty people, and they can't bear to hold meetings every day, and many of them have to leave the crew to go home to recuperate, and those who stay are all tough and stubborn in thought. They all said that making movies was very interesting, which reminded them of their eventful years, although the directors didn't listen to them for everything, but their crew listened to and tried to express themselves as much as possible in the movie, and they felt that they had a very fulfilling life.

General Wang began to play along this topic and began his own speech.

He began to recall history, under what circumstances and under what pressure the volunteers fought with the US army, which was far more prepared than his own, and what kind of results they achieved, and what was the mood of the army at that time, and incidentally talked about the various problems facing our country at present; of course, General Zhang was mainly talking about the problems of the army, and the army was facing great difficulties, and under the new idea of army building, the army had to be wronged for the sake of the overall situation, but it was not because of this army that it could not fight. Peace is possible, not inevitable, and peace without the protection of the army is meaningless, so the army must always be based on being able to fight and win wars.

Shen Zhenghui himself had a sense of confusion, and he didn't understand why General Wang Lao would come to his crew to take this, the people present should not be the object of the blow at all, a group of retired veterans, the head of the local government, what kind of war is concerned, the only active military military chief of staff of the military region does not seem to listen to the old general's words at all, and his attitude towards General Wang Lao is like dealing with the leader.

So what's the point of saying that?

General Wang immediately said: movies are a good thing, and they can play a good role in publicity. Propaganda was a very important factor in the success of our party's previous undertakings. At the beginning, I asked you how you worked in the crew, and I was very happy to hear your answer, what you did was down-to-earth, of course, what the crew did was also down-to-earth, which is very good, filming the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, they didn't just talk to themselves and shoot how they wanted, but seriously asked the old comrades about the things of the year, and asked the old comrades to participate in the filming of this film as consultants. That's good. It is a down-to-earth and realistic attitude, and the movie shot in this way is also down-to-earth and realistic. So down-to-earth. Factual works serve as propaganda material. It is widely accepted because of its quality. Because it can't find fault, this is true, and what we need to do in propaganda is to use the truth to publicize......

Shen Zhenghui thinks. General Wang's words were obviously useful, but now he can't see the intention, but what he said seems to be beneficial to Shen Zhenghui himself, Shen Zhenghui of course does not refuse General Wang's exaltation of his movie, he doesn't even mind General Wang organizing the soldiers of the army to watch the movie collectively, if this matter can really succeed, he will almost wake up laughing.

General Wang quickly mentioned Shen Zhenghui, and when he called Shen Zhenghui's name, Shen Zhenghui immediately sat up straight and nodded to the leaders present with a smile.

"This director Shen is young and promising," General Wang said, "and the box office of the movies he shoots and invests in should exceed $500 million." There were exclamations of applause, and several veterans who met with Shen Zhenghui every day showed incredible expressions.

"Not so much." Shen Zhenghui hurriedly defended that the combined box office of several films he shot exceeded 20 billion yen, and at that time, 500 million US dollars would be exaggerated.

"You invested in "World Air Battle Story", right?" General Wang asked rhetorically.

"I'm only partially invested." Shen Zhenghui swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"The box office of this film reached nearly 300 million US dollars, didn't it?"

"A little over 200 million." Shen Zhenghui replied.

"With the addition of "Tokyo Fortress" and "Puhai Fortress", 500 million is already a little bit."

"The problem is that it's not my exclusive investment, I'm only partially investing." Shen Zhenghui replied.

Such a casual conversation between him and General Wang made everyone thoughtful, and in their opinion, Shen Zhenghui's relationship was exposed to them in a sense, so the purpose of Wang Jiansheng's trip was clearly seen by these self-righteous people.

"Get a discount, it should add up, don't worry, I'm not asking for your money." Wang Jiansheng waved his hand and said, "I like Director Shen, it's not that he can make movies to make money, but the things he shoots, "Puhai Fortress", "Tokyo Fortress", including "World Air Battle Story", these films have a big feature," Wang Jiansheng paused, "That is, he is ready to fight at any time." ”

You can see such a theme from the cartoon, Vice-President, you can be regarded as having a brainstorm, right? Shen Zhenghui slandered in his heart.

The old man present was not ignorant, and one of the old men asked suspiciously, "These films you are talking about seem to be cartoons, right?" My grandson went to see it and talked about airplane air combat, right? ”

Wang Jiansheng nodded, "It is indeed about air combat in the Air Force, which is very meaningful, and several air force units have also organized a collective viewing of the movie, and the Air Force has also used it as a teaching film." ”

The old man's eyes widened when he hadn't seen cartoons, "If you say that, I must go and see it too." ”

A few old men came back to their senses, "We have made a rigorous and realistic film like this, can it also be used as a teaching film?" "The old soldiers were a little excited.

Wang Jiansheng didn't speak, and looked at the chief of staff on the side.

The chief of staff was a little passive, and the vice chairman said that he had not seen the film, but at this time he still had to say some scenes, and the chief of staff said, "I heard that this is a film that reflects the growth of ordinary soldiers and ordinary cadres of our army. "That's a good statement.

The governor opened his mouth haha, and the first thing he said was to thank Shen Zhenghui for choosing this province as the filming location, which brought great help to the economy of the province, and the governor was very grateful to Shen Zhenghui for filming here, of course, this was said in a relaxed tone. Then the governor talked about the education of the cadres, the blood and sweat of the predecessors, there is today's new China, how to build the current new China, if it is managed, how to live up to the blood of the ancestors of the year, this is a big problem, the middle of the turn, the governor mentioned the general secretary's political slogans, said to adhere to these slogans, and put it into practice. Then he said that the film, as a film in itself, should have the same slogan-like propaganda power to alert the audience and educate them about history......

Shen Zhenghui was stunned to find that even from a later timeline, he still had to express his admiration for the eloquence and ideas of these bureaucrats.

Vice Chairman Wang left after a short stay of one day, but the provincial governor and the chief of staff of the military region left Shen Zhenghui's contact information, asking him to contact them directly if he had anything, and Shen Zhenghui had no choice but to express his great gratitude.

Shen Zhenghui guessed that Vice Chairman Wang's appearance had some kind of political significance, but he was not familiar with the high-level and did not dare to speculate. In general, Vice Chairman Wang's visit has many benefits, at least the local government is now very cooperative in front of Shen Zhenghui, and they even put a deputy secretary general of the municipal party committee here to coordinate the relationship between the crew and the local government, for which Shen Zhenghui is deeply grateful.

The only bad thing is that Wang Jiansheng and the governor's speeches made the actors misunderstand, thinking that they were going to shoot a propaganda film with the meaning of politics, about this, Shen Zhenghui had to clarify at the meeting, "It's not because we are a propaganda film that we have to shoot well, but because we are a propaganda film." His indifferent attitude was what put that fear down.

The filming is developing smoothly, Shen Zhenghui's New Year is his parents came to the crew to spend it with him, but at that time it was already the third day of the Lunar New Year, Shen Xingguo hurriedly rushed to the crew after accompanying his mother in his hometown for a few days, and sent red envelopes and gifts to each staff member who stayed behind, Liang Kexiu also did the same thing, there were fewer things during the New Year, but there was no shutdown, except for a few planes to go home conveniently, everyone else stayed in the crew to continue to work hard, which made Shen Xingguo criticize Shen Zhenghui.

After the Chinese New Year, after working hard for more than ten days, the whole film was finally finished, and immediately it was nervously post-production, the actors and actresses of the crew were scattered, and the work of the director team was still very heavy, and the three assistant directors were about to fly to Japan with Shen Zhenghui to start preparing for post-production and editing.

At the same time, Wang Anping finally came to solve Shen Zhenghui's doubts about Wang Jiansheng's visit, "The military pressure is too great, and the old leaders don't want to retreat." She said simply. (To be continued......)