On the evening of June 24, 2005, Huayi Brothers Group hosted a banquet for many famous film and television stars at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Beijing.

On the mainland, Feng Xiaogang, Ge You, Fan Binbin and others participated in the banquet, and on the Xiangjiang Treasure Island, Luo Jiaying, He Rundong, Chen Baixiang and others attended the banquet.

Tomorrow night is the opening ceremony of the first "Beijing International Sports Film Week", when 200 sports and film stars will walk hand in hand through the "Gold Medal Road", 20 excellent sports-themed films will be screened in turn during the film week, and the new work of the American director "Challenger Yao Ming" will start in the new Dong'an Cinema.

It is reported that Yao Ming will not be able to attend the meeting due to injury, but he will rely on online media means in the United States to conduct transatlantic dialogues with the emcee, Olympic champions, and movie stars at the opening ceremony through a large screen.

Since June 24th, many stars from all over the country have gathered in Beijing, and Huayi Brothers has always attached great importance to the cooperation with filmmakers from Xiangjiang Baodao, so they just took this opportunity to invite many stars to contact their feelings.

During the meeting, the star movie "Kung Fu" released at the end of last year and Cheng Long's movie "Hurricane Rescue" released today naturally became the focus of everyone's discussion.

2004 was the most tragic year for Xiangjiang films, from an annual output of 150 films to less than 60 in 04, and from an annual box office of more than 1 billion yuan to an annual box office of less than 300 million yuan.

On December 2, 2004, some Hong Kong media began to use the title "Hong Kong Film Ice Age". Xiangjiang Films suddenly appeared in major media with the attitude of "sudden death", and director Chen Jiashang publicly said that Xiangjiang Films had reached the most dangerous time.

Under such circumstances, the national hit of "Kung Fu" has undoubtedly injected a boost into the dismal Xiangjiang movie, so it is not surprising that everyone admires "Kung Fu".

"If it weren't for the end of last year, there was a star master's "Kung Fu", I really thought that Xiangjiang people would really not watch Xiangjiang movies." Luo Jiaying said with emotion.

"The box office of 4.99 million Hong Kong dollars on the first day plus zero point is more than double the 1.95 million Hong Kong dollars of "Shaolin Football" in 2001! Thanks to Xing Ye, so that we, the Xiangjiang filmmakers, can still feel a trace of the glory of Hong Kong films in today's market environment. Chen Baishen said.

Next, various Xiangjiang filmmakers spoke one after another.

"Hong Kong films can't be supported by Xing Ye alone, and they can't be a forest alone."

"The next time I want to see the release of "Kung Fu", I don't know what year and month it will have to be."

"The plate of the Xiangjiang movie is still too small, "Kung Fu" sold 61.27 million Hong Kong dollars in Xiangjiang, and the highest single-day record in the mainland sold 22 million yuan in one day, and the weather was so bad on the first day of release, it was still a working day, and it also won 11 million yuan, if you want me to say, the way out for Xiangjiang movies is still in the mainland."

Wang Zhonglei smiled when he heard this: "That's right, the future of Xiangjiang movies is in the mainland!" ”

"Backed by this super market in the mainland, coupled with the stars of Xiangjiang and the mature shooting team of Xiangjiang, the Chinese film industry is a good time to promising."

Seeing that everyone listened carefully to his speech, Wang Zhonglei continued: "Huayi and Xing Ye's co-production of "Kung Fu" can become a model for this kind of cooperation, and Huayi is also willing to carry out more related cooperation with Xiangjiang filmmakers. ”

Chen Baishen said: "At the end of last year, "Kung Fu" swept away the decadent atmosphere of Xiangjiang movies, and I don't know if "Hurricane Rescue" released today can reproduce this glory. ”

Feng Xiaogang said at this time: "I have watched both movies, "Kung Fu" is a good movie, I watch it again and again, and I can watch it at any time, I can say that I never get tired of watching it; "Hurricane Rescue" is a very good action movie, and it is very enjoyable to watch it once, but I personally don't really want to watch it a second time, and I personally judge that "Hurricane Rescue" is unlikely to surpass "Kung Fu". ”

Wang Zhonglei interjected: "The total score of "Hurricane Rescue" is not likely to surpass "Kung Fu", but the box office on the first day is likely to surpass "Kung Fu". ”

"This time Cheng Long made the premiere so beautiful, tens of thousands of people watched the movie together in the Workers' Sports Hall, customized a 22-meter-long, 12-meter-wide, 4-storey tall screen, hyped up the acquisition of overseas rights by Columbia Company for 25 million US dollars, and was praised by film critics all over the world - this combination punched down, plus the quality of the movie itself is also okay, it is still very possible to achieve a good box office on the first day of release."

""Kung Fu" won 11 million box office on the first day, and I estimate that "Hurricane Rescue" is about this number, it may be slightly higher, not too high, but in the end, the total box office will still be far away by "Kung Fu".

"Just like "Ambush on All Sides" directed by Zhang Yimou, the box office on the first day reached an astonishing 16 million yuan, breaking the first-day record of 13.5 million held by "Hero", and far exceeding the record of 11 million yuan on the first day of "Kung Fu", but the total box office is only 156 million, which is neither as good as the 173 million of "Kung Fu", nor as good as the 250 million of "Hero".

Wang Zhonglei's judgment has been unanimously recognized by everyone, Cheng Long's movies have indeed become less and less popular in the past two years, and even Cheng Long has been publicly rated as box office poison by the media, on the contrary, Zhou Xingzhi's movies are much better, before kung fu, "Shaolin Football" and "Infernal Affairs" are the last glory of Xiangjiang movies.

"I heard that it is true that the Columbia company intends to buy all the copyrights in Europe and the United States for 25 million US dollars, and Cheng Long refused this deal, and he will regret it in less than a year."

"According to the proportion of account sharing, if the overseas box office does not get 70 or 80 million US dollars, it is a loss, and there are no more than three Chinese films that can sell this number overseas."

"I heard that Cheng Long intended to accept a one-time sale at the beginning, but it was only after listening to the words of the screenwriter named Li Mu that he changed his mind, Cheng Long has been in the entertainment industry for decades, but he didn't expect to be planted on a doll this time."

Wang Zhonglei listened to everyone's complaints about Cheng Long and Li Mu, and couldn't help laughing: "I have seen Li Mu, a young man, and his investment vision is indeed a little worse, but he still has a good set of scripts." This time, the script of "Hurricane Rescue" was what he thought about temporarily after hearing that Cheng Long would go to Xijing to film, but he didn't expect to be really taken by Cheng Long at a glance, which is enough to show that his ability to write scripts is good. ”

"But to be honest, there is no shortage of people in the entertainment industry who can write scripts, what is lacking is vision and fame, judging from his persuasion of Cheng Long to give up a one-time sale of $25 million, this person's vision is indeed poor, maybe he will be in trouble in the future."

Saying that, Wang Zhonglei laughed and continued, "If this kid is really planted in the future, he can come to Huayi then, and Huayi will accept him, but what I value is not his ability to write scripts, but his appearance." ”

"This time he played a little dragon in "Hurricane Rescue", not to mention that he really has a little potential to be a star, and when he can't write the script that day, and the investment is miserable, then he comes to Huayi, Huayi can sign him, and then arrange a few roles for him to act, not to mention being popular, so he has something to eat."

After saying that, I couldn't help but laugh.

Fan Binbin couldn't help but be happy when he heard this, and said with a smile: "So Li Mu should have tossed himself into bankruptcy earlier, went bankrupt as soon as possible, and signed a contract as an actor as soon as possible, he is already old, and if he is delayed for another two years, he will really only have the share of playing tricks." ”

After saying that, the whole private room was amused by her.

In the final analysis, Fan Binbin told Li Mu that she was old, and she was still haunted by this matter.

Bell bell bell ......

At this moment, Wang Zhonglei's mobile phone rang suddenly, he looked at the time first, and it turned out that it was already one o'clock in the morning on June 25 before he knew it.

"Well, you say."

"How much?"

"You say it again, you can't be mistaken, right?"

"Alright, I got it."

Hanging up the phone and seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Wang Zhonglei said as usual: "I just got the news, the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" came out on the first day, 16.8 million yuan, breaking the box office record of 16 million on the first day held by "Ambush on All Sides". ”

After Wang Zhonglei finished speaking, the entire private room fell into a long silence, and everyone was silently digesting this amazing news.

In the end, it was Wang Zhonglei who broke the silence with a smile: "I have long known that the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" will not be bad on the first day, but I still didn't expect it to be so good, it depends on whether I can break the single-day box office record of 22 million held by "Kung Fu" tomorrow."

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On the evening of June 25, 2005, Feng Xiaogang went to the Beijing Hotel to participate in the first "Beijing International Sports Film Week", during which a reporter asked Feng Xiaogang what he thought of Cheng Long's new movie "Hurricane Rescue".

Feng Xiaogang said with a smile: "The hit screening of "Hurricane Rescue" tells me that it is better to make movies than to do business, and the audience who bought tickets on weekdays went directly from the fifth floor to the fourth floor, and they were like this on weekdays, and they got it on Sundays? ”

After Director Feng answered, the audience burst into laughter, everyone who has watched "Kung Fu" knows that Director Feng's words were changed from his lines in "Kung Fu".