From early November to early December, the publicity and distribution department of the film "Fast Pursuit 2" began to gradually exert its strength, during which the film party successively released multiple versions of the trailer, and offline screening activities were also opened one after another.

In terms of scheduling, a total of two new films will be released in China on December 5, in addition to "Fast Pursuit 2", there is also a "Hurry That Year" directed by Zhang Yibai.

The film is adapted from the same name of Jiu Yehui, with a huge domestic readership, starring Peng Yuyan, Ni Ni, Zheng Kai, Wei Chen, Zhang Zixuan, etc., and the cast lineup is very strong, which will definitely pose a certain threat to "Fast Pursuit 2".

However, at present, on the whole, Huashang's "Fast Pursuit" is more dominant, when the pre-sale box office of "Fast Pursuit 2" broke 70 million, the pre-sale box office of "Rush That Year" was only about 47 million, but this is definitely an opponent that should not be underestimated.

In the North American market, there is only one film released at the same time as "Fast Pursuit 2" in terms of schedule, and this film basically does not pose any threat to Huashang's "Fast Pursuit 2", almost no one in Hollywood is optimistic about this film, it is said that there are less than 600 theaters at the premiere, and the number of "Fast Pursuit 2" is 3500!

The two films are not of the same magnitude at all!

The ones that can pose a certain threat to "Fast and Furious 2" are precisely those films that are released a week or two earlier than it, such as "Penguins of Madagascar" and "Evil Boss 2".

There was a lot of good news before the release of the film, and Wu Jing couldn't help but be a little ambitious.

Last year, "Fast Pursuit 1" won nearly 700 million box office in the mainland, and the domestic film market has become even bigger in the past year or so, and the film has the popularity base of the first movie, so this time Wu Jing's psychological expectation for the mainland box office of the film is 10 billion!

In other words, if the overseas box office can have the size of the first part this time, then the global box office of "Fast and Furious 2" can easily break the $300 million mark.

You must know that the global box office of "Die Hard 5" released last year was only 300 million US dollars, and the "Die Hard" series has always been an action movie series that Wu Jing likes very much.

I remember that when I first came to see Li Mu, Wu Jing was also deterred by the seemingly extremely harsh conditions offered by Li Mu.

The contract period is 6 years!

He was almost 40 years old when he signed the contract, and when the contract expired, he would be 45 years old and 50 years old, and this is almost all the time that an action movie actor can play.

But at that time, his career had not developed for a long time, and he finally gritted his teeth and signed this contract like a deed of sale, but now looking back, he is very glad that he made the choice he made at the beginning.

The "Fast Pursuit" series made him stand out in Hollywood, and the "Operation Mekong" that was being prepared was originally a resource that he didn't have to think about, by the way, and "The Wandering Earth".

The contract signed by Huashang Media with him was indeed very harsh, but he also got a very generous reward for it!

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On November 30, the crew of "Fast Pursuit 2" held its world premiere in Beijing.

On December 3, the crew went to the United States to hold the American premiere, and after the premiere, Wu Jing also went to the set of "The Hunger Games 3" to meet Li Mu, and Li Mu took the opportunity to arrange a role for him in "The Hunger Games 3".

On December 5th, "Fast and Furious 2" was officially released worldwide - with clean fight sequences, unobtrusive plots, and stunning attention to detail, it's no surprise that "Fast Chase 2" quickly conquered fans around the world.

In fact, to put it in detail, this version of "Fast Pursuit 2" made by Huashang Media is still quite different from the original movie of the original time and space.

It's not that Li Mu is not satisfied with the plot of the original movie, nor does he think that after his own modification, "Fast Pursuit 2" will definitely achieve a higher box office, but if he doesn't modify the plot significantly, then "Fast Pursuit 2" will most likely fail to pass the domestic review.

That's right, Li Mu does have certain privileges in China, if he doesn't go too far, Li Mu's movies can basically be reviewed and approved with one eye closed, but if he does it too much to the point where he can't close one eye, then it must be really bad.

The plot of "Fast and Furious 2" is originally very dangerous.

It's not that there are too many murders in this movie and it's too bloody, "Operation Mekong" is also extremely high-scale but can still pass the trial, the key is that the setting and behavior of the protagonist must not be too controversial.

For example, "There Are No Thieves in the World" back then, at the beginning, it was also delayed in passing the trial, just because the two protagonists, Andy Lau and Liu Ruoying, were thieves in terms of identity.

Later, Feng Xiaogang, who was in a hurry, found Wang Shuo, Wang Shuo smiled slightly, and gave Feng Xiaogang an idea, saying that it would be good to let the female thief get pregnant, and the result was successfully passed.

The protagonist of "Fast Pursuit 1" is the killer of the golden basin washing his hands, and the setting of the killer protagonist generally cannot pass the trial, but the golden basin washing his hands and reforming the evil is completely negotiable.

The fuse of the plot of "Fast and Furious 2" is that the villain Mike DeAnthony takes the blood contract and asks the protagonist to kill his own sister, many years ago the protagonist had asked for this villain, so he gave him a blood contract with his own blood handprint.

The blood contract has a very special status in the killer world, according to the rules, the blood contract is quite a bit of Yang Guo's Yufeng needle in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and Xie Yanke's Xuantie Order in "Knight's Journey", but the first two rely on the sender's consciousness, and the latter If the blood contract sender refuses to complete the task, it is a violation of the rules of the entire killer class, and the end is to be hunted down by the entire killer organization.

At first, the protagonist rejects the villain, and then the villain blows up the protagonist's home with a bazooka, and the protagonist's house carries too many memories of him and his dead wife.

In this way, the protagonist's motive for revenge is there, but according to the rules of the killer world, if he refuses to complete the task assigned to him by the villain, the killer organization will not allow him to retaliate.

As a result, the protagonist really found the villain's sister, a woman who had no ability to resist in front of the protagonist, and the woman saw the protagonist and knew that there was no reason to be spared, so she took the initiative to commit suicide, but the protagonist finally shot her in the head.

The plot design here is not a problem from the perspective of the plot, but it is very problematic from the perspective of passing the trial.

First of all, the protagonist refuses to carry out the blood pact mission at the beginning, which is somewhat untrustworthy.

Secondly, it doesn't matter if the villain's sister is a member of the underworld or not, or whether she is also a villain, at least she has no direct violent conflict with the protagonist, the protagonist is simply to complete the task issued by the villain with the threat of blood contract 4, so he shot the head of a woman who has committed suicide and has no direct conflict with the protagonist.

Although this kind of shooting shows the basic qualities of the protagonist as a killer, and the unobtrusive style of acting is indeed quite able to attract some fans, it is really difficult for this kind of character setting to pass the trial on the territory of China.

So how did Li Mu modify this plot here?

In fact, it's very simple, just add another rule of refusal to the blood pact mission in the killer world.

Zhang Wuji's promise to Zhao Min of the three things can't violate the way of chivalry, isn't it normal for the blood contract to refuse to enforce the clause?

In Li Mu's revised setting, after the holder of the blood contract finds the sender with the blood contract, the sender of the blood contract does not only have the option of completing the task, but also has another waiver clause.

In terms of specific settings, the blood contract sender either helps the holder complete the task, or evades the blood contract holder's crazy pursuit within 24 hours, during which the blood contract sender can only run for his life and cannot fight back, let alone cause the death of the killer who chased him, as long as the blood contract sender lives for 24 hours without violating the rules, then he can openly withdraw the blood contract and refuse the blood contract task issued by the blood contract holder.

In "Dragon Babu", in order to be extrajudicial to his subordinates, Qiao Feng did not hesitate to insert a knife into his chest to replace his subordinates, and after Qiao Feng received it on behalf of his subordinates, the mistakes made by his subordinates could be written off.

Here, in order not to complete the task he did not want to complete, the blood contract sender did not hesitate to resist the killer's 24-hour pursuit and never fight back, which logically speaking, it is completely in the past.

In the end, the villain must be very excessive, the protagonist has obviously escaped the 24-hour pursuit, and has completely lifted the blood contract task in accordance with the rules, but the villain still does not give up, and even completely ignores the 24-hour constraints that have passed and still wants to kill the protagonist, so that the protagonist has no problem fighting back.

In this way, the identity of the protagonist is still a good person who is tired of the killer work, and not a real cold-blooded killer who can kill a woman who has no direct conflict with him without hesitation in order to complete the killer mission, and everyone he killed later was for self-preservation.

After this modification, "Fast Pursuit 2" has also successfully passed the domestic review.

Although the Huashang version of "Fast Pursuit 2" has made certain changes to the plot in order to pass the review, the overall style and most of the plot remain the same, and the film is still the clean, decisive, simple and rough movie that loyal fans of "Fast Pursuit 1" are familiar with.

Therefore, the box office of the film is basically not lower than the first part.

And that's exactly what it turned out to be.

The film won 103 million, 131 million and 127 million yuan at the box office in the first three days of its release, plus the box office of the screening and midnight screening, the cumulative box office of the film was 413 million three days after its release.

The box office of "The Year in a Hurry" in the first three days was 69.86 million yuan, 90.84 million yuan and 75.96 million yuan respectively, with a cumulative box office of 267 million yuan.

As for the evaluation of the film, "Fast Pursuit 2" has a Douban score of 8.0 points, while the Douban score of "The Year in a Hurry" is only 5.6 points.

Today's movie audiences are becoming less and less interested in youth movies that are prone to pregnancy and abortion, as if youth without abortion is not youth, so as soon as the film was released, it caused crazy complaints from the majority of fans, and countless people expressed their extreme disappointment with the film.

Disappointment comes from hope.

After all, in "The Year in a Hurry", there is Peng Yuyan, who is so handsome that girls scream, and Zeng Xiaoxian, who is so cheap that netizens laugh, and Ni Ni's performance in "Waiting for the Wind to Come" is also remarkable, and Zheng Kai's past acting skills have also been recognized by many people.

Besides, the original work is really good-looking, and in August this year, the online drama version of "The Year in a Hurry" starring Yang Le, Bai Jingzhu, and He Hongshan has just been launched on Sohu.com, and it has also received unanimous praise from the majority of netizens, and its Douban score is as high as 8.1 points!

Netizens said in their hearts, with so many such good conditions put together, it's probably not easy to make "The Year in a Hurry" ugly, right?

I didn't expect Director Zhang Yibai to really do this, and he overfulfilled the task!

However, although "The Year in a Hurry" was frantically complained by netizens, the box office of the film was not bad, and three days after the release of the film, the final box office forecast of the film given by Maoyan Films had reached 710 million yuan.

By the way, the predicted box office of "Fast Pursuit 2" has reached 1.25 billion yuan at this time.

In the first weekend, three days plus on-demand screenings and zero-point screenings, with a total of 413 million yuan, it is predicted that the second week can normally get about 400 million, the third is about 200 million, the fourth week is not a big problem with 100 million yuan at the box office, and normally the final box office is not a big problem with 11.2 billion.

At the same time, the film's opening weekend box office in North America was officially announced.

"The Furious Chase 2" topped the North American box office chart this week with a weekend score of 31.02 million, followed by the animated film "Penguins of Madagascar," which premiered last Friday, with $11.1 million, and the third place in the box office list was "Evil Boss 2," another R-rated comedy released last week, which grossed $8.6 million this weekend.

In addition to the mainland and North American markets, "Fast and Furious 2" has also achieved good box office results in Hong Kong, South Korea, Treasure Island, Southeast Asia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Australia and RB, and the market predicts that the film's final overseas box office performance should be around $170 million.

At the current exchange rate level, with a box office of about 1.2 billion in the mainland and $170 million in overseas box office, the final global box office of "Fast and Furious 2" may reach $370 million!

In 2012, Li Lian participated in "The Expendables 2", which was full of big names, and its global box office was only 314 million US dollars, and Wu Jing's current fame in North America is of course completely incomparable with his senior brother Li Lian, but if you talk about box office performance alone, the achievement of Li Lianlian, who was previously regarded as unattainable by Wu Jing, does not seem to be as difficult as before.

"Fast Pursuit 2" performed well at the box office, especially in overseas markets, which ultimately caused a certain stimulating effect on some domestic directors and actors.

Take director Zhang Yimou as an example, this year he has just reached a cooperation intention with the Hollywood independent film company Legendary Pictures, and in the future, he will serve as the director of the film "The Great Wall" written by the CEO of Legendary Pictures.

Zhang Yimou felt that the script was very old, popcorn, and uninteresting from the beginning, but the agent told him that the film might be released in hundreds of countries around the world at the same time, and there was a high probability of winning the weekly box office championship in North America and other markets.

In the end, Zhang Yimou was still moved by the prospect of global release and North American championship, director Zhang Yimou as a "national teacher", his "Hero" released in 2002 had a domestic box office of 250 million, and the annual film market in China was only 900 million, how terrifying was "Hero" that year?

But to this day, our director Zhang Da is still interested in the prospect of global releases, weekly champions in North America and other markets, and these things that even Zhang Yimou wants to be excited about, let alone Li Mu, even other directors under Huashang Media are not too new.

Director Guo Fan's first film "Shark Beach" directed independently won the box office championship in North America that week, and his second film "Space Traveler" won a global box office result of 651 million US dollars, and the global box office of the global hit "Mission Impossible 4" was only 690 million US dollars!

There are also the "Hurricane Rescue" series and "Doomsday Collapse" directed by Chen Musheng, and "Source Code" and "Fast Pursuit" directed by Lin Chaoxian - speaking of which, among these actors who have worked closely with Li Mu, which one of them has not been easily released worldwide?

Which one didn't win the box office in the North American market in the week of release?

One of these directors is counted as one, and all of them used to be far inferior to director Zhang Yimou, but after these people cooperated with Li Mu and Huashang Media, today one of them has completed the global release and easily won the box office championship in North America and many overseas markets that week, and to this day, director Zhang Yimou is still excited about such a prospect, and even does not hesitate to take on a film project that he was not optimistic about from the beginning.

This also reflects Li Mu's unique status in the Chinese film industry today, even director Zhang Yimou, who is known as the "national teacher", is completely unable to compare with him.

In addition, looking at the good box office of "Fast Pursuit 2", Zhen Dan, who is also a kung fu superstar, also fell silent.

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