37. Box Office and Taiwan Market Part I
"Nakaju Masahiro starred brightly, and the charm of "The Cruel History of Peking High School" is amazing!"
"**AP collectively appeared at the screening of "The Cruel History of Beijing High School", and the members of the group gathered to cheer for the film of the head of the group."
"The heroine of "The Cruel History of Peking High School" had a big career before, and she had worked for special women, and her upper position is suspected to be related to the actor/investor."
“……”
The next day's newspapers had different headlines, I don't know if it was discussed, they all avoided Shen Zhenghui, or Shen Yu, the starring role, and touted the movie to praise Nakaju Masahiro and Doxxing Aonuma Tomoaki.
"It's all tabloids, you should look at the big ones." Mitsumi Fukuda handed a copy of the Yomiuri Shimbun and a copy of the Asahi Shimbun to Shen Zhenghui, "Both newspapers praised the actor's performance. ”
Shen Zhenghui took it and flipped through it, although the main pages in it were Nakaju Masahiro and Aonuma Tomoaki, but it also mentioned the superb acting skills shown by Shen Zhenghui as the leading actor, and praised him for showing the acting ability that young Japanese actors have always lacked.
"It's a bit short to praise me, but I'm okay with it, but why is the name of this lead actor Sasaki?" Shen Zhenghui looked at Fukuda Mitsumi suspiciously.
"Ah, don't you know? Foreigners in Japan have Japanese names for convenience, and the reporter has contacted the company before, hoping to know your Japanese name, and you didn't notice that your name was put in parentheses when you watched the movie, indicating that the Japanese name is Sasaki? ”
"Sasaki?" Shen Zhenghui frowned, "How did I not know that I was actually given the name of this pit man?" You haven't communicated with me yet, isn't Sasaki a surname? Shouldn't I be called Sasaki or something? ”
"Sasa is the surname, and wood is the first name." Mitsumi Fukuda squinted, "Do you think this name is bad?" ”
"Uh," Shen Zhenghui raised his eyebrows, "Forget it, anyway, the name is just a code name, but the name Sasaki is really ......" Shen Zhenghui doesn't know how to complain, should I say I'm not a woman?"
"Did yesterday's box office come out?"
"It's not so fast, and it's only going to be released at night, so I don't even think about how high it is." Mitsumi Fukuda replied, "But," she raised the newspaper in her hand, "after their publicity, I believe that this film is still doing well at the box office." ”
"It has to be good, otherwise, our business will be affected for the rest of us." Shen Zhenghui took a breath.
"Don't worry about that, let's talk about your new movie!"
"New movie?"
"That's right, aren't you writing a script all this time? Is it written? Mitsumi Fukuda asked casually, "What about your many, many scripts?" ”
"Well, this, I still have to polish it, after all, I'm not Japanese, and the script I write has to be Japanese." Shen Zhenghui blinked.
"Director Shimizu can't help you, he's in a hurry to prepare for the filming of the film version of "The Grudge"." Mitsumi Fukuda said, "Although we have invested in it, it is not good to force others to use our actors. ”
"Our actors? Do we have actors? ”
"Miss Aonuma, isn't she?"
"Well, just one."
"More than that," Mitsumi Fukuda continued, "During this time, Queens has signed several actors, but most of them are models, and they need further training to accumulate fame before they can appear in TV series or something, after all, our firm is a newcomer in this industry, not as good as those old firms." ”
"After the release of this film, as an investor and the president of the firm, how can your reputation go to a higher level, so wouldn't it be much easier to do your work in the future?"
"Ah, maybe it's more difficult to do, but as a newcomer, isn't it common to be ostracized by the elderly? In the future, it may be more difficult to dig and borrow actors. ”
"Aren't you on good terms with Denis?"
"That's because we made it clear that Chema mainly targets actresses, and there is no conflict with Janis." Mitsumi Fukuda spread her hands, "Old man Kitagawa is not an easy person to get along with. ”
Shen Zhenghui rolled his eyes, "Since Japan is so difficult to poach people, have you ever thought about Taiwan and Hong Kong?" ”
"Taiwan and Hong Kong?" Mitsumi Fukuda was thoughtful.
"It's not easy to enter the Japanese market, right? If you want to expand it significantly, it will take too much money and time. ”
"You can cooperate with the local head snake!"
Mitsumi Fukuda narrowed her eyes, "Do you have a plan?" ”
Shen Zhenghui nodded, "I've thought about it recently, and I think I have a good idea." ”
"Really?" Mitsumi Fukuda tilted her head, "Let's hear it." ”
"Have you ever heard of the Boys Over Flowers comic and cartoon?" Shen Zhenghui asked.
"Huh?" Mitsumi Fukuda raised her head.
"Go and win the right to adapt the TV series, all of Asia." Shen Zhenghui said succinctly.
"Are you sure you can be red?"
"Of course, but the Japanese TV drama production is too clumsy, and it's unbearable to shoot one episode a week while playing," Shen Zhenghui snapped his fingers, "Let's go to Taiwan to shoot, in a sense, that island is your Japanese cultural colony!" ”
Mitsumi Fukuda narrowed her eyes, pursed her lips, and said after a while, "Then you also have plans for your collaborators in Taiwan?" ”
"I don't know if you know Chairman Chai of Taiwan Komi Wisdom Culture Communication Co., Ltd.?"
Mitsumi Fukuda's eyes twitched, "Do you know?" ”
"How did I know this kind of TV production company that specializes in making idol dramas for little girls?" Shen Zhenghui asked rhetorically, "But I think we can try to cooperate with them, after all, Chairman Chai is very influential in Taiwan's TV industry and is our best partner." ”
"You want to go to Taiwan?" Mitsumi Fukuda asked.
"How could I want to go, I can't keep myself busy." Shen Zhenghui spread out his hands, "It's best for you to go, after all, you are also a woman, and it is easier for women to communicate with each other." ”
Mitsumi Fukuda tilted her head, "I hope so." ”
"Well," Shen Zhenghui leaned back in his chair, "I hope that this 'Boys Over Flowers' will be the first TV series we will work with them, and similarly, I also hope that our actors," he paused, "Miss Aonuma will be able to play the heroine." ”
"I'm afraid it's difficult." Mitsumi Fukuda said, "After all, the language barrier is a big obstacle to acting. ”
"There is no problem with Qingnuma's Chinese, Taiwanese should be able to understand Mandarin, but if you want Taiwanese accent, you should dub later."
"Really?" Mitsumi Fukuda pursed her lips and said in a voice that only she could hear, "Sure enough, learning a language in bed is fast!" ”
"In addition, our film is also released in Taiwan, and if the box office table is good, it can be regarded as excellent promotional material."
Mitsumi Fukuda was noncommittal, "I hope so." She said.
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"The Cruel History of Peking High School" almost rose at the box office in a newspaper report, and the head of the **AP group, such as Masahiro Nakai, and the former ** information film practitioner of Aonuma Tomoaki suddenly opened the topic of this movie, and after the film was released, several major newspapers even held a discussion on the current situation of high schools in Japan, discussing whether the current high school situation is as filmed in the movie. Because the time background in the movie is obviously the timeline of the seventies and eighties, in addition to discussing the current situation of high school education in Japan, it also reviews the situation of Japanese high schools in the seventies and eighties. It was a time when the student movement was in full swing, and everyone began to discuss whether the film reflected something.
It must be said that the character of the Japanese in the 9o era still retains a certain quality of truthfulness, and their analysis of the whole film is completely out of the imagination of Shen Zhenghui plagiarizing Korean movies and Shimizu Chong's adaptation of the Japaneseized film, which has produced an infinite variety of explanations, so the more I watch this kind of propaganda, the more I have an unclear feeling about this movie.
The media hype (regardless of whether Mitsumi Fukuda spent money) attracted more and more people into the theater, and in fact, the Japanese who had just entered middle age in the 9o were attracted to the theater to watch this movie more because of nostalgia, Bruce Lee who appeared in the beginning and film, and Jackie Chan who appeared at the end of the film, are almost the youthful memories of middle-aged Japanese, especially the fighting scenes inside, as if they returned to the exciting era of watching Hong Kong films and returned to their youth.
And the young people are attracted to this film, and I am afraid that it is more because at the end Watanabe Kiriri smashes the glass in the school hallway, shouting that I cāo the rebellion of all the high schools in Japan. Of course, young people will not dig deep into the ideas in the movie, they are in the rebellious period, they only worship rebellious behavior, the love of campus youth, the battle with campus bullies, etc., all of which can be regarded as touching their hearts, and the protagonist's dialogue with his father full of heart-to-heart communication was ignored by them.
The movie "The Cruel History of Peking High School" was released on the first night, and the box office was only 5 million yen, and the second day was only 30 million yen, but on the third day, the box office ushered in an explosive growth, increasing to 100 million yen, which surprised the media that estimated that the final total box office of the film would exceed 300 million yen according to the daily box office, and then the box office remained at about 100 million yen for three consecutive days, and the box office in the first week actually exceeded 500 million yen.
So Gao Qi's box office has attracted more people's attention, although the starring is a Chinese, but after all, this is still a pure Japanese movie, can not be compared with Hollywood movies that break tens of billions at every turn, but you must know that this is the first film invested by Kasuga Pictures, and it is also the first film shot by director Shimizu Chong, although Masahiro Nakaju is popular in the TV series, but he basically has no successful works in the film industry, and starring Sasaki (Shen Yu) and Tomoaki Aonuma are newcomers, This is not exactly a newcomer's movie that has such a box office, it is completely possible to exceed one billion yen, and the potential to hit two billion yen, for a while, this movie has become a bigger topic.
At the same time, the film was released simultaneously in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The box office in Hong Kong is average, and the people of Hong Kong are appetized by the kung fu films of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li, and they are not very interested in such a campus youth film with a little tribute to Bruce Lee. The box office in the first week was only 3 million, and it is estimated that the final box office will not exceed 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but the heroine Tomoaki Aonuma was given special attention by Hong Kong's gossip tabloids because she had made ** confidence films, which also enhanced the fame of the film.
On the contrary, the reaction of this film in Taiwan, the Taiwanese people seem to be particularly fond of this kind of film with a slightly literary temperament, plus a film from Japan, the female lead actor used to be an actor in an informative film, this qiē stimulated the Taiwanese people to watch the movie**, the box office of the film is rising in Taiwan, and it has completely launched the fame of Spring Pictures in Taiwan. At the same time, fueled by various gossip programs, the film ushered in a big hit at the Taiwan box office. The box office in the first week actually reached NT$100 million. Taiwan's variety show actively contacted the Japanese queens office, hoping to let Aonuma Tomoaki go to Taiwan to participate in the production of variety shows, but these applications were rejected by Fukuda Mitsumi, at the same time, Fukuda Mitsumi came to Taiwan by plane with Liu Xin, and made an appointment to meet Chai Zhiyi, chairman of Taiwan Komi Wisdom Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
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