August 15th.

Morning.

The new round of box office of "Infernal Affairs" was put on the table.

The Chinese box office is very good.

In the four days of its release, the daily box office was 27 million, and the total box office was close to 120 million.

This data certainly cannot be regarded as a successor, but throughout the entire history of Chinese films, it can definitely be called unprecedented, and it can even be said to be a milestone movie.

Zhou Yang opened the overseas box office.

"Infernal Affairs" relies on Lao Mei's Sky Company, as one of the Chinese export films, and was officially released in 19 overseas countries and regions yesterday.

When he saw the overseas box office data on the data, Zhou Yang only felt that the air in the entire office suddenly froze, and he felt a little cold.

"'Infernal Affairs' debuted in North America with just over a million dollars at the box office......"

"Nightcrawler is four times as big as us! Such a huge disparity in the box office is absolutely abnormal......"

“……”

Xu Mei's face was very ugly.

It seems that it is more difficult than Zhou Yang to accept the results of "Infernal Affairs".

The movie "Infernal Affairs" is too explosive in China.

The box office broke 30 million on the first day!

The box office exceeded 100 million in four days!

After three days of release, the attendance rate ranked first among the movies of the same period, with an astonishing attendance rate of nearly 90%!

The word-of-mouth exploded, and on major platforms such as Douban, the word-of-mouth of "Infernal Affairs" even surpassed Zhou Yang's "Struggle" to 9.3 points, which is almost a masterpiece!

……

Such an explosive movie once made the company place a lot of undeserved hopes on this movie, and even Xu Mei herself once fantasized that this movie would be released overseas, with Zhou Yang's popularity in Europe and the United States, although it will not make world movies boil, but it is also the first shot of Chinese export films!

However......

When the box office data was officially presented to her, she looked at the one million box office in disbelief, and even felt that she had lost her eyes at one point.

"Infernal Affairs" hit the streets at the overseas box office, especially in Europe and the United States!

Her first reaction was that "Infernal Affairs" encountered a shady scene in the European and American film circles......

Since "Struggle", Zhou Yang actually has a group of loyal fans in Europe and the United States, even if "Infernal Affairs" is not very good, but these fans will at least go to the screening room to watch this movie to support Zhou Yang, right?

A million-dollar premiere at the box office!

It's really showy!

"The Hollywood movie "Superman 2" was released at this time, and it definitely had the idea of suppressing our "Infernal Affairs"......"

"The birth of our "Infernal Affairs" has moved the cake of those Hollywood movies, especially our overseas releases, and they will definitely stare at us......"

"I've been in touch with Sky, and our promotion in Europe and the United States is very difficult, even some small media with a lot of horns are more willing to report on "Superman 2" or other movies released in August, and even Django's "Night Walker" has obtained more resources overseas than us...... and the remaining resources of "Superman 2" have all been replaced by "Night Walker."

"The theater side is not very fair to us, and our film schedule is only half of that of "Night Walker"......"

“……”

"We have been suppressed overseas through various channels, and this repression has made it difficult for us to move forward......

in the office.

Xu Mei took out her notebook.

The notebook contains various information about Infernal Affairs overseas.

As she spoke, she was indignant, and even gritted her teeth when she said that she was angry.

More than ten minutes later.

Xu Mei finished speaking.

After finishing speaking, she looked at Zhou Yang and hesitated for a while: "Mr. Zhou, we can't sit still...... If I can, I hope that the company can approve a sum of money for overseas promotion, and we will buy the Hollywood movie newspaper and the media headlines that should be bought, and other than that......"

Infernal Affairs doesn't cost anything about publicity.

Whether it's in China or Hollywood.

Naturally, there is no problem in Huaxia, Zhou Yang's popularity is at its peak, and "Infernal Affairs" has countless explosions, and the media are naturally rushing to rub all kinds of popularity for the sake of traffic, which indirectly makes the box office of "Infernal Affairs" rise......

But this is not the case outside of China.

The popularity of "Chainsaw" has long subsided, and although "Struggle" has exploded and shined in Cannes, it is a niche film at the box office, which is incomparable to pure commercial blockbusters, and the same popularity as "Chainsaw" has long since disappeared.

"Infernal Affairs", which is not its own territory, does not spend any publicity funds, and does not help those "big shots", is naturally struggling at the overseas box office!

Xu Mei said and spoke, and when she gradually found that Zhou Yang had not made any noise or response, her voice gradually became softer.

She unconsciously looked at Zhou Yang, but saw that Zhou Yang was staring at the computer, as if he was browsing something over and over again.

What she wanted to say was finally held back by her.

The office fell silent.

Only the sound of the air conditioner constantly blowing wind......

Time passed bit by bit, Xu Mei looked at Zhou Yang's appearance, and her heart began to become a little uneasy, and even wondered if she had said the wrong thing.

She began to become inexplicably flustered, and instinctively lowered her head.

I don't know how long it took, Zhou Yang turned off the comments on the overseas movie network and looked up at Xu Mei.

"I'll think about it again, looking at this situation, blindly spending money on publicity, maybe it will have little effect......"

"Huh?"

"Infernal Affairs itself is not a film designed to please Europe and the United States......"

In the past ten minutes or so, Zhou Yang has been browsing the movie reviews of those fans on overseas websites.

About 30% of them couldn't understand it, thinking that the characters in "Infernal Affairs" were too complicated, and they didn't understand what this movie meant when they saw the ending.

More than 20% of the audience compared this movie with "Night Walker", they felt that the gunfights and action scenes between the good and bad guys in "Night Walker" were very enjoyable, especially the acting skills of several well-known overseas kung fu superstars in "Night Walker" can be called classics and perfectly poked at their aesthetics, making them deeply trapped in it and unable to extricate themselves, on the other hand, the plot of "Infernal Affairs" is very boring, there are no scenes in the whole process, only dialogue, and there are very few gunfight scenes, and some fans even bluntly said that they left after watching half of it, They really can't understand the language and art of the East......

Zhou Yang did not feel disappointed after reading this series of comments!

This is the inevitable result of the cultural differences between the East and the West, and many popular Chinese movies in the world will be affected to varying degrees when they are screened overseas and the box office is not ideal.

This is normal.

The movie "Infernal Affairs" is not a film made to cater to the European and American markets at all, and in the original memory, the overseas box office of "Infernal Affairs" itself was mediocre.

"Mr. Zhou, is that all it ...... Let others see our jokes? At least, give it a try......"

Xu Mei bit her lip, feeling a little unwilling in her heart.

After getting the overseas box office data of "Infernal Affairs", her heart seemed to sink to the bottom.

Disappointment, disbelief, uncomfort......

All kinds of emotions lingered in her heart, making her panic for a while.

"Infernal Affairs", which has been praised countless times in China, turned out to be cold overseas, and she can't imagine how tomorrow's Chinese media, driven by people with intentions, will belittle this movie.

"Let me think about it again......"

Zhou Yang was still calm, just tapping his fingers on the desk.

Step by step from humility, he has really seen too many people who have fallen from great heights.

He closed his eyes.

He suddenly thought that there was a movie called "The Departed" in Hollywood, which grossed nearly $300 million and won many Oscars.

In a sense, although "Infernal Affairs" did suffer from cold at the overseas box office, its international influence cannot be denied.

These two seem to be contradictory, but in fact they are not contradictory, under the influence of factors such as the times, the water and soil, or propaganda, there are not a few movies with high reputation and high influence in China that are almost gods but have a miserable box office, "Journey to the West" and "East Evil and West Poison" are two movies that are a very clear example......

Just as Zhou Yang was thinking about how to deal with this matter, Xu Mei's mobile phone rang.

Xu Mei suddenly lost her voice after receiving the call.

"What? What did you say? What do you mean? ”

"In order to make room for "Superman 2", our "Infernal Affairs" has to be drawn in advance in the overseas version? Draw tomorrow at noon? ”

"It's only been released for one day, what is this for?"

The phone was hung up.

"Smack!"

Xu Mei couldn't hold the phone, and finally let the phone fall to the ground.

Her face was damp. Red, constantly panting, trembling with anger, and he didn't recover for a long time.

She let out a long breath, finally calming down.

Just when I was about to say something to Zhou Yang......

saw that Zhou Yang's mobile phone also rang.

Zhou Yang looked at the caller number suspiciously.

The caller number was very unfamiliar, and even after Zhou Yang received the phone call and heard the other party's respectful and apprehensive greeting, he didn't remember who the other party was for a long time.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm Zheng Jun......"

"Huh? Hello ......"

When the other party noticed that Zhou Yang didn't hear who he was, he immediately raised his voice.

Jung Jun?

The name was both familiar and unfamiliar, as if he had heard it somewhere, but Zhou Yang couldn't remember it for a while.

"Mr. Zhou, that, I followed Christian to shoot "Lamb", because the filming progress of "Lamb" was too slow, so I adapted the script of "Infernal Affairs", and then I borrowed the plot of "Infernal Affairs" and filmed an American version of "Infernal Affairs" with Christian, who couldn't continue filming "Lamb...... It wasn't until I finished filming and editing that I realized I hadn't said hello...... The sample film has been sent to your email, please help take a look, do you think this can be released in Lao Mei? ”

"......" The phone took the head, and Zheng Jun said this sentence in a very embarrassed tone.

Zhou Yang was stunned at first.

Subsequently......

He suddenly remembered who Zheng Jun was!

He was the screenwriter of the original "Mine Bottom"!

Later, he followed Christian in the old American mess, and he has not been heard from for a long time.

I didn't expect ......

This guy has been doing big things?

------Off topic------

There is still only one change today......

There are certain reasons, but it is not convenient to disclose.

I'll talk about it tomorrow when it recovers......

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