Directing three films in one year...

It seems that only Hong Kong directors do that!

Zhang Yimou's previous efficiency was one drama a year, and it was stopped for three years during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Generally speaking, mainland directors, because of the small-workshop production model, it is relatively normal for them to have one drama a year and one drama every two years.

Director Chen Da maintains this efficiency...

Zhang Yi has three plays in a year?

In fact, in the early years, Zhang Yimou's energetic energy had spread throughout the circle - "Ju Dou" (1990), "The Red Lantern Tower Hangs High" (1991), "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" (1992), "Alive" (1993)...

At that time, he was the first director in the mainland!

Later, he became a 'stinky dung' - all the people who didn't like him commented on him about the same, and the logic was roughly as follows: a good, "native", in-depth and critical fifth-generation director, first went to the market, and then approached the system, and sold all his talents to the good of reality, and from then on he could not make a qualified movie - in Jia Baoyu's words, "Lu Yi".

In those years, his reputation was really bad...

Even if he directed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, he was still evaluated: engaged in decoration!

Then, after "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", he signed a contract with Tianmei, and after a round of output, the word of mouth was directly reversed - the only remaining film master!

Now, you tell me that Zhang Yi filmed three dramas in a certain year?

Zhang Yimou explained: "We are preparing three dramas at the same time, "Big Buddha" has just ended, "Love" came, and then "Return" was filmed... The actors are basically the same! ”

"Xudong arranged for his literary planner, assistant director and script planner to help with the storyboard..."

"It's really efficient... I basically only need to focus on the live shooting, and the rest is taken care of. ”

"I think a good script accounts for more than half of the success factors of a movie. Because it's a source, especially for my type of director. I don't usually direct and write my own works, so from the very beginning, I had a step to try. We usually say triple jump, the script is at least the first jump, its goal should be aligned, the first step is aligned, the posture is correct, and the last two steps can exert force... There were many scripts in the past, and Xudong gave me seven or eight scripts at one time, all of which were good scripts... I picked two films to shoot..."Big Buddha" and "Love"..."Return" is Geling's script..."

'Pressure' is given to Shen Xudong!

The name of Shen Xudong Bole is very wide...

So much so that many people ignore the fact that he himself is a top screenwriter.

The next day, when promoting "Tang Detective", some media asked Shen Xudong about the script.

"I actually think that Director Zhang's coffee position should no longer be obsessed with the box office or something, he should shoot something that reflects reality, so what is the current reality? The gap between the rich and the poor is widening, polarization and class solidification... I've written quite a few scripts about these things..."

"What help did you provide for "Big Buddha" in addition to the script?"

"The story of "Big Buddha" has a certain universality, and the core is the gap between the rich and the poor... The world of the poor is black and white, the world of the rich is color, I just said this concept... You don't think that Director Zhang will make a movie, I will go up and point fingers, right? ”

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The discussion degree of "Big Buddha" is obviously higher than that of "Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" - no way, Zhang Yimou's popularity is here...

Of course, "Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" is not bad, Yan Bingyan starred in "Latent", "Steel Age", "Wenzhou Family"...

are all popular works.

Not only has high ratings, but also won the Feitian, Magnolia, Golden Eagle Awards...

Although she is not as well-known as a star, she is also the person in charge of Tianmei's national drama, and her status is very high!

Both of these movies were released in March, "Big Buddha" was released on March 7, no surprise, the box office should be able to break 100 million, as for the more accurate box office, it's just easy to say...

TiMi doesn't have any hard requirements for the mainland box office of "Big Buddha" - on the night of winning the Golden Bear Award, the copyright of "Big Buddha" was sold in 182 countries and regions, and they were basically bought out...

That's over $30 million in total!

The cost of "Big Buddha" is only 30 million yuan...

Not only did it pay for itself, but it made a lot of money.

Most importantly, the good news in Berlin and the big sales of "Tang Detective" have stimulated the secondary market performance of Tianmei companies - although I don't know how much of the stock price increase is due to the award won by "Big Buddha", but there is definitely a correlation!

Therefore, regarding the publicity and distribution of "Big Buddha", it is directly in accordance with the specifications of commercial films - spending 25 million yuan to do publicity.

As for "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", keep it high...

Pulling it back, although the discussion of these two movies is quite high, it is still not as good as "Detective Chinatown"...

As of February 23, "Tang Detective" has been released for 13 days, with a cumulative box office of more than one billion!

That's it, the key "The Hobbit:" unexpected journey is menacing, and I haven't done "Tang Detective"...

——"Tang Detective" broke the box office records of various Chinese films at a rocket-like speed, and I thought that the release of "The Hobbit" would put pressure on "Tang Detective"...

I was expecting "Detective Jack"...

The movie "Detective Jack" is obviously perfunctory, and the Chinese version is accused by the audience of being full of loopholes, and there are many errors and incomprehensible words in the translation...

It stands to reason that "Detective Jack" was released in North America in December last year, and the mainland release time 3 is February 16 this year, so there is enough time to deal with the subtitle problem.

But Paramount didn't deal with it!

Other issuing companies are not optimistic...

"The Hobbit" is different, as a masterpiece of the same series as "The Lord of the Rings", from the beginning of the project, I knew that it would definitely be a box office bomb!

The first part of "The Hobbit" grossed $303 million in North America, and before its release in the mainland, the global box office had exceeded $900 million.

Outcome... Still can't beat "Detective Chinatown"...

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It broke one billion in 13 days of release, once again refreshing the box office record for the fastest time to break one billion.

The theater chain has long adjusted the box office forecast of "Detective Chinatown" - from the previous 1.2 billion to 1.5 billion...

In front of "Tang Detective", there are only 1.126 billion "Wolong", 1.187 billion "Thai Embarrassment" and 1.209 billion "One Shot to the End"...

That's right, they are all Tianmei 3 movies, and "Thai Embarrassment", "One Shot to the End", and "Detective Chinatown" have broken one billion in a row, and the interval has not even exceeded three months!

According to Gao Fenfen's meaning, it is necessary to celebrate.

Chen Xi also agrees, but she has a new idea - not only to celebrate, but also to announce the film list by the way, and to pull a few celebrities to help the fun...

After thinking about it, Stephen Chow has to come, and Zhong Lifang has to come over...

Seeing the huge success of "Tang Detective", Zhong Lifang immediately decided to restart "Best Partner"...

The first thing was to get the copyright - the copyright of "Best Partner" was in the hands of Xinyicheng, and it was later sold to Media Asia Films.

The hot sale of "Tang Detective", she thinks the hilarious detective comedy is funny!

This genre was originally a major branch in Hong Kong films, a combination of "resourceful boy + reckless stupid man", one is responsible for solving puzzles, and the other is responsible for action, and jointly solve the confusing case. You can cite a lot at hand, such as "Best Partner", "Five Lucky Stars", "Wesleyan Legend" and so on...

As for Shen Xudong's thoughts?

Unimportant!

Shen Xudong is busy greeting the New Year - the second wave of publicity of "Tang Detective" is over, he returns to BJ, and he has time to pay New Year's greetings to his predecessors...