On December 16, [The Great Wall] was officially released nationwide.

The $150 million film is billed as the most expensive film in China to date.

The largest co-production made by Hollywood and a Chinese company, Matt Damon's first Asian-themed film.

At the same time, it is also the pioneering work of Legend Pictures' Chinese subsidiary, Legend Oriental, and it is also Zhang Yimou's first film to cooperate with the main creative team of Hollywood.

Finally, after a lot of publicity, I met with all the domestic fans and audiences.

On Friday the 16th, [The Great Wall] undoubtedly set off the first movie-watching frenzy of this year's Lunar New Year, with 43.5% of the national film schedule on the first day, winning nearly 80% of the national box office on the same day, with a single-day box office of 171 million, which is a perfect start.

In the next two weekends, [Great Wall] still ranked first in the country with a film scheduling rate of nearly 43.48%, and on the 17th, it was 193 million yuan in a single day, accounting for nearly 70% of the national box office, and the cumulative box office has reached 360 million yuan.

On December 18, another 168 million yuan was collected, and the cumulative box office in the first three days of the weekend was 530 million yuan.

The 2016 Chinese New Year stalls ushered in a wave of climax, and the market closed at 950 million, an increase of 230 million over the previous week, although it failed to break through 1 billion, but this result is already the highest number of box office in a single week after the end of the National Day file.

In addition to "The Great Wall", the new films that opened on the 16th also include "The History of the Disappearance of Romantic", "Youth", "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City", etc.

Among them, only [History of the Disappearance of Romantic] ranked among the top three in this week's box office list with a score of 65.6 million.

Previously, this lavish gangster romance film was regarded as the most powerful competitor of "The Great Wall", although it could not match [The Great Wall] at the box office, but it achieved a fairly good reputation, and its exquisite literary style was quite praised.

[Your Name], which has been the weekly box office champion for three consecutive weeks, was finally pulled down from the top of the championship this week, dropping to fourth place.

This animated film directed by Makoto Shinkai is a dark horse in the December film market, and has previously broken many records such as the pre-sale of the annual 2D movie, the box office of the annual 2D movie zero, the fastest 2D animated film to break 100 million, and the first 2D animated film to break 100 million in a single day.

As of this week, the box office of [Your Name] has reached 540 million, refreshing the box office record of 531 million held by [Doraemon: Walk with Me] for Japanese comic movies released in China.

Affected by the opening of the two domestic masterpieces of "The Great Wall" and "The History of the Disappearance of Romantic", most of the old films were swept out this week, and the word-of-mouth masterpiece "Hacksaw Ridge" directed by Mel Gibson still stuck to the runner-up position, the film broke 100 million in the first week, and still received 120 million box office under the suppression of [The Great Wall] this week, with a total of 240 million.

[Harry Potter]'s fantasy magic movie [Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them] in the same series reported 14.5 million this week, a large decline, and has retreated to the ninth place in the box office list.

Although the results of the first week of [The Great Wall] are amazing, compared with the high box office, the reputation of the movie is not satisfactory, perhaps because the film does not match the public's expectations for the "national teacher" Zhang Yimou, and the Douban score is only 4.6 after the release, which is far from the passing line of 6 points.

The comments on the whole movie on the Internet are also mostly negative, and the audience expresses their disappointment with the movie from all angles.

[Selling dog meat on a sheep's head, Gu Wei has a 5-minute scene in the whole process, I counted it carefully, there are less than 5 shots of him, just this early stage to promote Gu Wei's special appearance, the position on the poster makes me think he is the second male lead, return the money! ] 】

[The picture is good, suitable for friends who like large-scale parties or art performances, and the special effects are probably the upgraded version of the [Nine-Story Demon Tower] low-profile version of the [Independence Day] level.] 】

[The actors are quite embarrassed, the English lines are embarrassing, the rhythmic gymnastics performance is embarrassing, the role positioning is even more embarrassing, and the national teacher's temperament of bending his waist for five buckets of rice is really admirable! ] 】

[As a world superstar, Miss Jingtian only acted for about 90 minutes in this 104-minute movie, giving a full ten minutes of play to other unknown actors, and the high wind and bright festival is admirable! ]

And Director Zhang, who has been making movies for 30 years and is still unknown in the world, finally has the opportunity to become a Hollywood A-level production director with a budget of 150 million US dollars because of Miss Jing this time! 】

[The reasoning is not as bad as it says on the Internet, it is a standard assembly line Hollywood magic film (5.5-6.5 points) with a national teacher's aesthetic hat, and the theater has been immersed in "Oh oh Gu Wei! Oh oh Lu Han! Oh Zheng Kai! Oh oh TFboys", it's very fun]

[It's so disappointing, let's not talk about how it was filmed, you tricked me into the cinema in the name of Gu Wei, and then let me watch this? ]

Before the release, a wave of publicity was carried out through the scandal between Gu Wei and Jing Tian, but the two did not interact at all in the movie? 】

[As a popcorn movie, I think it's qualified, and the special effects are very enjoyable to watch, but the plot is too weak and it's a hard injury, and the part without special effects is very boring.

It's still okay to take a look, it's not so unbearable, I have to say that this lineup is really expensive! Hahaha]

[Stand in line, the national teacher played very well, this movie is a bit too dark, I personally think that the picture sense of the approaching winter in the ice and fire was filmed in advance, and the special effects and soundtrack are plus.

Jing Tian did subtract points, and by setting up the characters, he invisibly magnified the flaws of his acting skills, but there was no need to follow the trend! 】

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In addition to netizens, film critics generally have a negative attitude towards Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall", and the voices of criticism are endless, the most exaggerated is that a professional online film critic turned all the actors in a [Great Wall] poster into an image of the heroine Jing Tian, and then hung the title "Zhang Yimou is dead".

Director Zhang did not give any response to this, but Zhang Zhao, the CEO of the film's promoter [LeTV Pictures], expressed his strong dissatisfaction on Weibo, angrily reprimanded Yuan Bo, and asked the other party to apologize and attach a statement.

The controversy about "The Great Wall" has alarmed many big directors in the circle, such as Wang Jiawei, Lu Chuan, Chen Sicheng and the director of "Wolf Totem", France, Jean Jacques Arnaud and other well-known directors expressed their support for Zhang Yimou in various channels.

On Monday, December 19, the second week of the release of [The Great Wall], the proportion of scheduled films has not changed, but the box office has dropped from 168 million in a single day to 53.09 million, a somewhat large decline, but it is also in line with the box office trend of normal movies on weekdays.

However, according to the current reputation of [The Great Wall], it is impossible to get the long-tail effect by virtue of word-of-mouth like some high-quality movies.

And this Friday, there will be Zhang Jiajia's first work as a director [Ferryman] and Cheng Long's comedy film "Railway Flying Tiger", two blockbuster new films will join the Chinese New Year war, [Great Wall] will inevitably not maintain the current ultra-high proportion of films, and it is unknown whether it can continue to release its potential in the future.

In the crew of [Predecessor 3], Gu Weizheng typed Jing Tian back to WeChat on his mobile phone.

Da Tiantian has been sprayed miserably by netizens and film critics in recent days, almost 80% of the bad reviews of [The Great Wall] are talking about her, and some comments obviously think that the movie is not bad, and at the end I have to add a sentence "It would be better if there was no Jingtian!" ”。

Just like the [Warring States] she filmed before, after all, it was Da Tiantian who carried everything alone.

Although the little girl has a good personality, she will inevitably be in a bad mood when she receives so many accusations, so she sent a WeChat complaint to Gu Wei and complained.

In fact, the bad reputation of [The Great Wall] also had some impact on Gu Wei, mainly because of the excessive publicity of the early publicity party, and Gu Wei himself did not stand up to make it clear.

Because the audience who entered the theater and his own die-hard fans felt deceived, and while scolding [The Great Wall], he couldn't help but complain a few words about Gu Wei.

But everyone also knows that Gu Wei is a friendship actor after all, and you can blame the director for watching a bad movie, the story written by the screenwriter is bad, and the starring actor has no acting skills, but you can't blame a cameo with only three or two shots.

"[Great Wall] It's not your problem that the reputation is not good now, and netizens just want to find someone to blame, don't take it too seriously"

Gu Wei sent some similar words of persuasion, and I don't know if it was useful, but Jing Tian replied with some comforting emojis, and then confirmed with him that Gu Wei would invite him to dinner when he came back from the United States.

"No problem, I always count!"

Da Tiantian, who was far away in the capital, saw Gu Wei's final reply, and sent a big smile, with a smile on her face, feeling that the depression of netizens' cyberbullying in recent days has been alleviated a lot.

"Tiantian, get ready, we'll leave in a while~"

The agent pushed the door in and urged.

Jing Tian turned off his phone and stood up.

"Sister Chen, when will you come back from this trip?"

"According to the arrangement of the [Pacific Rim 2] crew, this filming will be turned over to New South Wales, Australia, Queensland, Australia and the mountain provinces of our country, which will last 4 months, and will probably be completed around April next year.

Although you are the heroine, if you don't follow the group in the later stage, you will be able to finish filming all the scenes related to yourself around March.

Of course, it depends on the arrangement of the director and producer."

The broker explained.

Jing Tian lowered his head and thought about it, although it felt a little long, but he could still accept it.

"Sister Chen, you tell the company about it, wait until this movie is filmed to see if there is any way for me to cooperate with Gu Wei once.

Although the box office is not bad, the reputation is too bad, and there is basically no blessing for me, but it has attracted scolding from netizens.

This is no different from when [Sengoku] was released before.

[King Kong: Skull Island], which was filmed last year, will also be released early next year.

I'm afraid that the results of the next two Hollywood blockbusters will still not be ideal."

The agent frowned when she heard Jing Tian's words, how could she not know these things.

"It's not easy to cooperate with Gu Wei, he is now a sweet spot in the circle, and many girl stars want to take his ride through various channels, but now it seems that unless he is willing to pull you, it is difficult to impress him through other ways.

He used to cooperate with either a well-known first-line actress, an artist from his own company, and a friend in the circle who had a good relationship with him.

Like Liu Yifei and Yang Mi, who have had a second relationship with him, I heard that they all became friends for the first time, and when there is a chance, Gu Wei will think of an old friend to pull a hand."

"That's right."

Jingtian pursed his lips in thought.

"I have a good relationship with him now, but it's not enough for people to give me resources directly, so I'd better communicate through the company."

"Understood, I'll see if I can talk to Gu Wei through Wanda's channel."

Over the years, Jingtian has also figured it out a little, and the popular sentence in the circle, "A small fire depends on support, and a big fire depends on life" is still very reasonable, and the [Great Wall] invested by 150 million US dollars not only did not make her popular, but became darker.

Now looking at Gu Wei is the "life" that can be relied on in that sentence, if you can't be popular when you cooperate with him, then you have to consider whether it is suitable for the road of being an actor.

(End of chapter)