Chapter 272: Going Abroad
"It can be said that the police story series has almost completely westernized by the time it reaches the fourth part, and it feels like watching a Hollywood movie, a super cop was assigned to Russia to participate in a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons and save mankind, but was caught in the quagmire of conspirators by the counter-generals, and finally with his invincible skills, alpine skiing, stilt kicking, fighting sharks, saving mankind, and taking a sexy photo in the middle of wearing bear underwear......"
"The story of the police seems to be endless, after Chen Jiaju, an ordinary policeman, evolved into a super policeman, he began to incarnate as the savior of mankind, which is simply a bunker, but he pursues internationalization too much, and at the same time wants to impact the foreign market, it seems that he has also thrown away many good things in domestic movies, and it can only be said that there are gains and losses!"
"The plot of Russia is still very attractive, the battle in the aquarium is also very creative and interesting, all in all this is a very cool movie, some people may feel too exaggerated when they watch the movie too much logic, but shouldn't the movie itself be higher than life? In real life, we may never find a Taoist who can kill zombies, nor can we find a character as powerful as Wong Fei Hung's martial arts, but will this also affect our watching movies......
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After "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" came out, the general audience still expressed their support, and the special effects scenes in the movie also made many people addicted, and called it a cool movie.
Of course, there are also audiences who are too westernized and feel unaccustomed to the excessive pursuit of movies, but there is no way to do it, if Chinese films want to go abroad. You must be able to absorb the culture of other countries, just like us Chinese people watch foreigners' movies. If there is a Chinese culture or region in it, does it look much more intimate?
And at present, although Chinese films have begun to recover. But after all, it has been in the doldrums for more than ten years, and there is no way to rebound all at once, just like the North American Hollywood market, people have been in a downturn recently, but it is not a big problem for ordinary movies to get a box office record of nearly 100 million US dollars.
You must know that the box office of nearly 100 million US dollars is equivalent to more than 600 million Chinese yuan, even if it is a movie made by Xiao Ran, there is no guarantee that it will be able to get this figure!
However, the box office markets on both sides are constantly narrowing the distance, which is a fact, for example, Xiao Ran's "Wong Fei Hung 3: The Lion King" has set a box office record of more than 1.88 billion yuan in China. Even if it is converted into dollars, there are as many as 300 million.
You must know that 300 million US dollars can already be in the top five of the North American box office record list, and the current highest box office in the US dollar box office market is 400 million US dollars, which is a movie called "The True Story of Ada".
Ada was actually first released on Treasure Island, and then covered the whole country, so the meaning of the word Ada in translation is actually the meaning of the mentally handicapped in the words of Treasure Island, using a mentally handicapped man as the protagonist, through the story that happened to the protagonist. It reflects the important events of the 30-year historical development of North America.
Therefore, many North American audiences prefer the other name of the movie "Once Upon a Time in North America", and when the Wong Fei Hung series was released in foreign countries, the name was "Once Upon a Time in China".
The most entangled history of the Chinese people is related to the unique martial arts in the Chinese tradition. A movie that is combined with fights, laughter, and more suffering and thinking!
In the process of Chinese films going abroad. A good translation of the movie name is very important, so Xiao Ran is also very particular. For example, the previous "East Evil and West Poison", Xiao Ran followed the most exquisite translation in his previous life. Translate it as "The Ashes of Time".
It is said that many French people who are romantic by nature are particularly fond of this movie title, so this movie, which many viewers in China feel very dull after watching it, is just in line with the taste of the French people, and has entered the top five of the annual box office in the local area.
And even in North America and Western Europe, and even Northern Europe and Stick Country, the box office of "East Evil and West Poison" is not bad, and it can be converted to about 500 million Chinese yuan!
Therefore, this "East Evil and West Poison" finally made Xiao Ran a lot of money, investing about 100 million, but the total revenue of the final box office exceeded 700 million, even after deducting foreign distribution and production fees, Xiao Ran was still able to recover 300 million!
However, it is worth mentioning that Xiao Ran and Tang Yun starred in "New Love", when going abroad to distribute foreign film markets, Xiao Ran used a translation "Dear, That's Life" that he thought was very good and beautiful in his previous life.
In fact, although Amin didn't have a chance to say it to Applejack in the movie, and most Chinese people don't talk like this, it seems a little too hypocritical.
But this sentence is like a translation of the movie name of the movie line, but it makes many foreigners understand the core values of this movie at once, this mentality of not being discouraged and not giving up, being a person with laughter, and being a person with pain, is actually in line with the values of most regions.
Therefore, "New Love" has achieved the third best result in the annual box office in France, and the alliance countries in Western Europe and Northern Europe have basically entered the top ten of the annual box office, even in North America and the stick country, as well as island countries, and even the film market of the connected treasure island Xiangjiang, etc., have achieved good results.
Therefore, this movie with an investment of tens of millions of dollars, the final income is so high that it is frightening to death, the domestic box office in China alone has exceeded one billion, and the foreign box office has actually recovered 1.2 billion after deducting some distribution costs, which means that this movie has brought Xiao Ran about one billion in income!
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Xiao Ran's series of films became popular in the foreign film market and made a lot of money, and it was easy to get the attention of other filmmakers, so many hard-cobbled low-budget films began to look for foreign distribution companies.
The end result was that the box office in the foreign film market was not enough to pay the distribution fees of foreign distribution companies, and eventually became a joke in the industry......
However, some people eat deflated, and naturally some people harvest.
For example, Red Star Film Company's "Crazy Boy 1 People in the Rivers and Lakes" has entered the two major markets of the island country and Xiangjiang with this kind of blood and violence, and has become the top ten local annual box office.
And another cold and violent movie "Dragon City Years", which competes for the position of the club to sit in the museum, has entered the North American and European markets instead, because the audience there has already watched too many bloody and violent movies, and they like this kind of cold violence that is almost suffocating.
The so-called cold violence is actually a new term in the movie, because in the full version of the movie "Dragon City Years", the vendetta of the community has become no longer bloody, but interprets this violence in an almost elegant way, which feels like an ink painting, but it can penetrate people's hearts!
The films made by the two societies have not only achieved good box office results in China, but also achieved considerable box office results in Xiangjiang and Baodao, as well as in foreign markets, among which the happiest are naturally the senior executives of the two film companies of Red Star and East Star!
Of course, Xiao Ran is also one of the beneficiaries, because he only participated in the screenwriting, and with the blessing of his fame, it is enough to share 30% of the profits of the two movies!
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Of course, the biggest winner in the whole month of June is still Shaw Films, "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" has easily exceeded one billion box office in less than a month after its release in China!
In order to give full play to the full potential of "Police Story 4: Simple Mission", after marrying Xiao Ran, Yida Cinema Company's support for "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" has also reached the top.
Not only has a lot of movie posters of "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" been added to major movie theaters, but many movies that were originally scheduled to be released in June and have more potential have all been postponed to July, so that "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" dominates the prime time of the entire June.
This is also the reason why "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" was able to achieve a billion box office in less than a month!
It can be said that now that the two sides have become a family, Lu Yuesheng's Yida Cinema Group has not only given full support to the original, but even paid regardless of the cost!
For example, a lot of movie posters were added to the cinema, and even other potential movies were made way for "Police Story 4: Simple Mission", striving to make this movie break through a very amazing number in the Chinese domestic market.
It can be said that if Yida Cinema Company could have the current support when "Once Upon a Time 3: The Lion King", then it would be entirely possible to break the box office record of 2 billion!
It wasn't until "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" broke through the box office of one billion that there was finally a decline, and the average attendance rate fell to about 40% all of a sudden, and it was finally forced to give up the prime time and reduce the number of scheduled films.
However, at this time, Yida Cinema Company put its support on Xiao Ran's new movie "The Saint of Gambling", this movie is still written and acted by Xiao Ran, and the whole movie is based on the theme of nonsense and special functions.
And it can be said that the whole movie is more of Xiao Ran's personal show, he starred in Zuo Songxing is a young man with special functions, under the leadership of his third uncle, he made a windfall in the underground casino, and finally became the object of competition between the gambling king Hong Guang and the boss of Treasure Island, and finally almost caused a murder!
Ah Xing, who was hovering between the two major forces, finally because his dream lover Qimeng belonged to the boss team of Treasure Island, so Ah Xing finally chose the camp on the side of Treasure Island, and used special functions to defeat the gambling king Hongguang and become a new generation of supreme figures! (To be continued......)