Chapter 249: A New Record is Born
"It's true that the heroine of this movie hasn't been decided yet, but how did you find me here?"
"Who are you looking for? Aren't you the big boss? Or is it an investor in the project - why should I look for someone else if there is the best? Da Mimi said it so reasonably, Li Jingkun was speechless.
And I have to say that she is still very set about men; can look at the face and speak nicely; And the words that come out of her mouth are not embarrassing and excessive at all, but you will feel that she is really distracted.
As a result, the man in front of him will be greatly satisfied with his vanity, and then easily agree to her request······ Well, it's not that exaggerated, in public.
Jing Kun actually didn't want to get involved in this project too much, but it was no problem to recommend it to Ning Hao.
It's up to them. ······ After Da Mi Mi left Li Jingkun's side with satisfaction, other colleagues soon came over to chat with him.
Including Yu Hewei, the actor of "Extreme Occupation", also came over to chat with him for a while. He said that Ning Hao had told him before that it was Li Jingkun who recommended him to play the leading role in this movie, so he came to thank him.
"Director Ning said that if it wasn't recommended by you, he would definitely not think of me; In other words, few people would think that a person who has been acting in dramas also has a talent for comedy. Yu Hewei said it quite modestly, and Ning Hao in his words was also quite modest.
But it's normal, Yu Hewei has acted in a lot of historical dramas, and he hasn't been seriously exposed to any comedy before, so few people will definitely think of him.
However, he didn't deliberately try to be funny in "Extreme Career", and even kept a straight face most of the time, but the plot and lines were outrageous, so his expressionless performance revealed a contrast effect, which is why it looked so funny.
"Originally, I was a little hesitant to play this kind of role, but thanks to the two great directors, I decided to give it a try. After watching the premiere today, I think it's really good! It seems that I do have a bit of a comedic flair in it. Hahaha. It seems that Yu Hewei himself is quite happy.
It should be a relationship that has greatly increased confidence after reading the finished product······ After the Kyoto premiere of "Extreme Careers", there will be premieres and roadshows in other regions, and so on.
Propaganda work is in full swing. After Li Jingkun attended the premiere, he basically had nothing to do with other work.
So sometimes it's cool to be a pure boss or investor, you don't need to do too much work, and you can make money by lying at home.
Even now the roadshow of "Bouquet of Flowers" is not as active as before. Running will definitely still run, but the number of days and cities have decreased.
is so rich, you can't just do a roadshow every time it's released, right? "The Tuner" was so hard before, but with "Bouquet of Flowers", the workload here is a little lighter, isn't it too much?
Besides, it is famous, and sometimes it is ideal without running so many places at the box office, and the reputation of this movie has always been very stable, and the evaluation of netizens is getting better and better.
It feels like drinking old sake, and the more you taste it, the more fragrant it becomes······ 7 days after its release, the box office performance of "Bouquet of Love" has reached the figure of 482 million, and there should be no suspense in the future to surpass "The Future" and become the No. 1 domestic literary film at the box office.
At the same time, "Extreme Occupation" also landed in major theaters across the country on this day and began its release journey.
Both of these are Li Jingkun's
"works", why is the release time so close? One is because "Bouquet" is a literary film, and "Extreme Occupation" is a commercial comedy, and there will be no great conflict between different genres.
Even if there are many groups of people who coincide, then a one-week cycle difference is enough. Another reason is because this is a summer vacation, and it can also be seen from the box office market of previous years and this year that there is no problem with launching two or three works at the same time during the same time period, and the market is full of two or three blockbusters.
For example, "Monster Hunt" and "Pancake Man" in July, they were still released one day apart, and each other's box office was not affected much.
Even the former has become the first work at the domestic box office, and it is still the first work in domestic history at the box office.
So now that their two movies are released a week apart, the impact will not be great. You can't let one of their works continue to be a little later, right?
It's September, and it's not advisable to take up too much time after the start of school. When the school starts, the market will definitely be slightly worse.
On August 14, "Extreme Occupation" was released. On the day of the premiere, it successfully broke 100 million yuan, got a high box office of 156 million, and also became the box office champion of the day.
"Bouquet of Love" and "Monster Hunt" came in second and third place, respectively. Then "Extreme Career" continued to lead the market, and continued to get more than 100 million box office on the second and third days.
In addition to breaking some records of other films, it also successfully broke some box office records of Ning Hao's individual.
The total score of the first three days was 468 million. The results are not over, and the box office continued to exceed 100 million in a single day on the fourth and fifth days; The five-day total box office reached a terrifying 674 million.
The overall trend is reminiscent of Li Jingkun's previous work "Tuner", because the total box office of their first five days was not much different, when the box office figure for the first five days of "Tuner" was written at 6.75.
This also reminds many people of what Li Jingkun said before: I just released it a while earlier than Ning Hao and Yu Zheng, otherwise the first director to have two films with a box office of more than 1 billion at the same time may not be me.
"Extreme Occupation" continues to progress like this, and breaking 1 billion is basically a sure thing! And there may be a chance to surpass the overall score of "The Tuner".
After all, the number of theaters now has also increased a little compared to a few months ago, and the appearance of "Monster Hunt" also indicates that as long as the movie is hot and quality enough, it is not impossible for the box office to exceed 2 billion······ So does this movie have the heat and quality?
There must be popularity, Ning Hao's works have always been popular, and the movies he directed have always attracted a lot of attention.
For example, in 14 years of "Blooming Heart", the results obtained a few days ago were not much worse than "Extreme Occupation".
"Blooming Heart" was released on the National Day, which is generally better than the current summer vacation file, when the box office performance on the first day was 135 million, and then the second and third days also broke 100 million, and the cumulative box office in three days has reached 377 million, and the box office has reached 756 million in 8 days of release.
At the same time, "Extreme Occupation" is still one of the starring roles of Huang Bo this time, as well as the very popular Li Xian, the handsome Xin Zhilei, and the very comedic Xiao Yang.
So on the whole, the lineup of this movie can attract the audience. However, in the past few days, it did rely on popularity to attract high box office, and if the quality is not good, the box office will soon fall off a cliff.
However, after six or seven days of release, although the box office did not break 100 million, the decline was not very large, and it still remained within a healthy range; So what is certain is that the quality and reputation of this movie can also be stabilized.
"It's a laugh from start to finish, and it's intensive. Huang Bo's laughter is more outgoing, and Yu Hewei's is more restrained, but that expression is also amazing, and I feel very happy inexplicably, hahaha! ”
"There are comedy forms of humor, satire, self-deprecation and self-blackening, as well as high-level and popular laughs, which are really as many people have commented, and the laughs are indeed many and dense! And the action scenes are also outstanding, and it really feels novel from beginning to end! Personally, I think it's better than Ning Hao's last movie "Blooming Heart". ”
"I heard that Li Jingkun is also one of the screenwriters of this movie, so I came to the cinema to watch it very early. The overall quality is good, but in the end, it has been transformed by Ning Hao, and the overall style feels a little different from Li Jingkun's comedy form! On the contrary, it is a bit similar to Ning Hao's previous one or two 'crazy series' movies. Of course, this time the characters are a lot more introverted, but there are also a lot of laughs. It's still worth a look! ”
"A hot-blooded and funny movie! Although it's very rude, I still want to laugh when I think of the protagonist's embarrassed and speechless expressions, hahaha. ”·····
"I won't be making a lot of money this year!" Since Li Jingkun's debut, he has had a very good relationship with Huaying; Later, after coming into contact with Han Shanye himself, the two also got along very well.
But in the end, it was the age, so Han Shanye officially retired when he was 14 years old. Then the new generation at the helm was officially launched.
Longqi Film and Television They don't need to re-acquaint themselves or something, because they were also deputy directors and deputy general managers before.
I've dealt with it several times, and I know each other. Therefore, when you want to contact or discuss something, you can contact and communicate at any time.
Today, Jiao Hongfeng, the new chairman of Huaying, came to the door.
"It's okay, mainly because after so many years of hard work by Huaying, our film market environment will be so good." "Bouquet of Love" and "Extreme Career" are both in hot theaters.
The former has already finished the roadshow, and the latter doesn't need him to worry about it, so it's more leisurely. And because of the popularity of the movie, some media discussing that he made a lot of money have appeared again; Needless to say, "Bouquet of Flowers" is a movie he wrote, directed and acted in, and most of the income will go into his own pocket.
The main production company of "Extreme Occupation" is Bai Xi, who is also a major shareholder, and his share is also large. As a result, some media have threatened in newspapers and on the Internet that Li Jingkun's assets will rise by at least 1.5 billion this year, and it will only be more, not less.
Because we also have to add the income from works such as the movie "The Tuner" and the TV series "Ode to Joy······ In other words, the estimated assets given to him by the media this year may reach more than 5 billion!
"What do you mean by okay, you're being modest. Nationally, no, how many people in the world are self-made and can earn 5 billion assets before the age of 30? ”
"Assets, assets, this kind of can be estimated at will; One hundred million more and one hundred million less is very casual, and many times only media people need to change it casually! Of course, Jiao Hongfeng didn't come to talk to him about how much money he made, but it wasn't a loss, because the topic behind it might indeed be related to his net worth and earning ability.
"I heard that a lot of Da Liu's copyrights are in your hands?" Da Liu, of course, is talking about the domestic science fiction master Liu Cixin.
His representative works include the long stories "Supernova Era", "Ball Lightning", "Three-Body Problem" trilogy, etc., and the short and medium stories "The Wandering Earth", "Country Teacher" and so on.
"Yes, some of them were bought a long time ago, and some of them were bought from other people later." Jiao Hongfeng suddenly advanced Liu, and Li Jingkun was a little surprised and relieved.
The accident was because of a feeling of no warning, and it was relieved because Da Liu was an internationally renowned Chinese science fiction writer after all, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that his works were national treasures, so as the speaker of Huaying, Jiao Hongfeng would of course care about him and his works.
"Actually, we also wanted to get all his works back, but some of them couldn't be taken back, and some of them were bought back by you, so in the end we stopped this action." If Li Jingkun and Longqi Film and Television are just unknown directors and film and television companies, Huaying will of course negotiate with them, hoping to hand over these copyrights to them, and in the future they will find more powerful and funded companies to operate these projects, film and television these works, and put these stories on the big screen.
But as Li Jingkun and Longqi Film and Television became more and more successful and rich, in the end, Huaying thought about it, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with handing over these works to them, because they did have the ability and strength to operate these projects; At the same time, at present, Li Jingkun is also a person who takes movies very seriously, and I believe he will definitely not deal with these works casually.
Of course, if you have the opportunity to care and pay attention to it, you should also care and pay attention to it. Therefore, after mentioning this topic, the two started with Da Liu's works, then talked about the environment and problems faced by domestic science fiction films, and finally talked about the country's scientific and technological development and scientific environment.
Only then did Jiao Hongfeng be more sure of Li Jingkun's thoughts: he was indeed seriously preparing for this!
He really didn't use money to pile up copyrights! But when I came to him today, in addition to talking about Da Liu, there was another thing I wanted to talk to him about.
"Cooperate in the development of patriotic films?"
"Yes, there will be another project to be released soon, this time we Huaying want to cooperate with you Longqi Film and Television, and we are ready to win this project." Patriotic movies and main theme movies have always been the focus of attention above, after all, they are also of great benefit to the country.
It's just that the main theme movie has always been unpopular, especially in the era when public knowledge is prevalent, and it is mostly ridiculed.
But whether it's a task or a business, this is one of the themes that filmmakers must consider.
A few months ago, a project called "Operation Mekong" was released, and they wanted a film and television company to bid for it and bring the project and story to the big screen.
For this kind of thing, Huaying naturally has an unshirkable responsibility, so they said: "We will make this a big production and are ready to invest 50 million to make this movie!" Unexpectedly, another film and television company jumped out at this time, and they said: "We will invest 200 million yuan and will shoot this project according to the scale of an international blockbuster!" "50 million to 200 million, it's like a heaven and an underground.
Therefore, in the end, this project was naturally included in the pocket of Bona Film and Television Company, which is being intensively prepared and produced at this time.
······ For many, that's the end of the story, the project is won and the work is underway.
But for the people of Huaying, of course, this matter is not over. I feel ashamed and ashamed to think about it; The dignified Huaying Group, when bidding for a patriotic project, offered such a huge difference from the other party?
If it's light, I don't think you have the confidence to make this project, and if it's heavy, you think you don't pay attention to this project, and just make a price to get it?
"What? Now 50 million dare to say that it is a big production? It's still Huaying······" In short, after this incident, many people in the company also felt very hurt and humiliated, and recently they have been very united······ So after a period of time, they also discussed a countermeasure and method, that is, they planned to cooperate with younger and more new-minded filmmakers to win some other new patriotic projects and make them well, so as to regain the lost face.
"The evacuation operation that ended in March? It's going to be taken out for film and television so soon? ”
"Yes, it hasn't been announced yet, but it's not far off, and if you have an idea, we'll take the initiative to talk about it at that time - of course, you have to do some homework beforehand, and you have to prepare a thicker wallet. This project is very important, and it is also very important from above. "Huaying has always developed very well, but many times it relies on the scale, connections and influence accumulated over the years, and it may be relatively weak in terms of innovation and smell.
The failure of Operation Mekong's tender is a wake-up call and a lesson, so now is the time to find an opportunity to make up for it.
But the company is huge, with a lot of people and a lot of senior executives, and sometimes it's not so easy to develop and produce a project – you have to get the approval of multiple executives at the same time.
In fact, the reason why the "Mekong Action" project opened the figure of 50 million was not random; This is also what they calculated a more appropriate amount after market research and a grasp of the subject matter.
After all, the main theme movie requires not to pile up stars, relying on the story and this kind of theme alone, it is really difficult to get back to the original.
Therefore, the stable funding is about 50 million. How did they know that there would be a company that would not follow common sense and directly pull down the price of 200 million······ I feel a face quilted
"Bang Bang" is so red! Well, in this case, we ourselves don't have the confidence to make the main theme movie well, and we don't have the confidence to make the main theme movie profitable, so we can always find a company with money and ability to operate together, right?
At present, in China, companies that are rich, capable, and have a good relationship with them, Longqi Film and Television is naturally the best choice.