"Hey, it's worthy of Wu Yusen, the box office will break 100 million in four days."

Li Xiaoping sighed and said with some disappointment: "As soon as "Red Cliff" was released, the schedule of our "Gravity" was reduced by nearly half, and the number of films scheduled in the country in the past few days has been reduced to about 42%. ”

"The daily box office of "Gravity" has also fallen to more than 20 million, which is still affected by the release of "Red Cliff"."

Now the total number of theater seats across the country is theoretically the highest box office result of more than 200 million in a single day.

Of course, this is a theoretical achievement, and it would take a day when all the movie theaters in the country were full.

In fact, the total attendance rate of all the shows in a day is about 30%, after all, there are no people in the cinema in the morning, noon and afternoon on weekdays, and only the golden field from evening to evening can have 90% attendance.

Therefore, in fact, the current box office plate in China is about fifty or sixty million.

If you eat more "Red Cliff", you will eat less "Gravity".

As for the other films of the same period in addition to these two films, they are all policy-oriented literary films, and the box office is only hundreds of thousands a day, which is not much.

The big battlefield is still on the two movies "Gravity" and "Red Cliff".

Before "Red Cliff" was released, the daily box office of "Gravity" could be about 40 million, otherwise it would not have been possible to break 500 million in 12 days.

When "Gravity" was released, this result immediately dropped by half, and the daily box office was only 20 million.

The just-released "Red Cliff" is menacing, with a 48% film scheduling rate, and the box office exceeded 100 million in four days.

In Li Xiaoping's view, although this result is not as good as "Gravity", it is also eye-catching enough, and it is half a day ahead of last year's "Casting a Name" with a box office of over 100 million in four and a half days.

Moreover, the box office of "Casting a Name" exceeded 100 million, which is the total box office of the mainland plus Hong Kong Island, and the box office results of "Red Cliff" are only counted in the mainland.

Overall, the premiere results of "Red Cliff" are still very gratifying.

However, in the eyes of Wu Yuan, who knows the inside story, the release of "Red Cliff" this time has already been frustrated.

In his dream, the box office of "Red Cliff" was 120 million in four days after its release, 20 million more than now!

Don't underestimate 20 million, this is 20% of 100 million!

"Don't rush, let the bullets fly for a while." Wu Yuan was not nervous at all, and said calmly: "The recent discussion of "Red Cliff" is not small, and it is difficult to say whether the next box office can be maintained. ”

Wu Yuan once read a joke on the Internet.

said that when Wu Baige wanted to make this movie, the screenwriter he was looking for at first was Lu Wei, who was the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine".

According to Lu Wei's recollection, at that time, he asked John Woo what was the core theme of the Battle of Red Cliffs?

Wu Baige said: Peace.

Reed asked again which character he wanted to focus on.

Wu Baige said: Little Qiao.

Reed asked why?

Wu Baige: Lin Chiling is very beautiful.

Then Lu Wei parted ways with him, and he didn't touch the film "Red Cliff".

It doesn't matter whether this joke is true or not, but Wu Baige's idea of wanting to express "peace" in "Red Cliff" is indeed true.

Then the question is, what kind of good battle can this kind of thinking make as a guide?

Wu Yuan sometimes wonders, do these Hong Kong Island directors not read history?

In the current film industry, Hong Kong Island directors' ability to make commercial films is indeed the first in the Chinese-speaking circle.

But the premise is not to touch the historical theme.

Wu Baige, the director, has no doubt in the history of action movies on Hong Kong Island, but what he is good at is simple and straightforward love between men and women, and stories of brotherhood.

He is proud of "The True Color of Heroes", "Across the Seas" and "Bloody Heroes", the first two are actually about brotherly righteousness and love, and the latter carries forward his violent aesthetics.

Including "Spy in Spy 2", the whole story line goes straight up, the fight scenes are in slow motion, flying pigeons, and two guns shoot each other, which are all things that Wu Baige is used to.

This is Wu Baige's advantage, but "Red Cliff" is the place to show his shortcomings for him.

He is neither good at grand narratives nor good at blank spaces.

is a war movie, it's not good to shoot a grand and brutal war scene, and you want to put everything in it.

The relationship between men and men, between women and women, between men and women, the history of the family and the country, and the emperors and the common people should also be told.

As a result, nothing was said well.

In a sense, Wu Baige is very powerful.

He was able to make a thrilling battle of heroes into a deep and rainy one.

The most impressive thing in the whole film is the sentence "Meng Meng, stand up!" ”

If there are no other blockbusters to choose from in the same period, then everyone will pinch their noses and go into the cinema to see the big investment of 300 million.

But now there is another "Gravity" being screened at the same time.

If the reputation of "Red Cliff" is average, will everyone still go to the cinema to watch this movie with an indifferent attitude?

Wu Yuan took out his laptop and found the newly opened "Red Cliff" movie review page on the Douban website.

"Look."

He motioned for Li Xiaoping to look at the online comments.

"Outrageously rotten! Joking about everyone's lives is a biography of Lin Chiling licking dogs! Write Cao Cao like a prostitute... also wasted a lot of good actors, a bad movie that purely wants to rely on their popularity to cheat the box office..."-Douban user: Xiao Jinhua

"The hero has become the boss of the underworld, the strategist has become a chivalrous knight, and the fierce general has become a reckless man, so the conspiracy and heroic deeds have disappeared, and the director presents the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his personal understanding, not the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the public's understanding." ——Douban user: Tudou 123

"The grand scene with the incomparably small pattern, I can imagine a war movie, it is so small that I don't see the heroism, I only see the love of the children." ——Douban users: See flowers in the fog

"I entered the cinema with the desire to see an epic masterpiece, but I only saw a group of people in the rivers and lakes who deduced the chivalrous enmity and enmity through the world." ——Douban user: I love a piece of firewood

"The theme is absurd, the plot is absurd, the characters are absurd, and Xiao Qiao can be called a disaster. From the image to the action to the lines, it is extremely contrived. I have to wonder how Lin Chiling joined the group. - Douban user: Eighteen years old is youth

"Wu Baige basically shoots Chibi from the perspective of Westerners, it is completely for foreigners, knight-like generals, Joan of Arc-like duels, the naval army defeated the villain who pinned on the cavalry's stubborn resistance, and finally the power of justice humiliated the powerful enemy.

This is simple and easy to understand for Westerners, but for Easterners, what is it filming? - Douban user: Tony Jia

"In a word: small doors and small households can't grow towering trees, Hong Kong Island directors should honestly shoot some police and gangster films, I shouldn't have any expectations for an epic blockbuster made by a Hong Kong Island director, it's better to go to the second "Gravity" with this effort!" ——Douban user: A drop in the ocean

quickly swept through these high-praise comments in the comment area of "Red Cliff", and Li Xiaoping was a little surprised.

is different from the excellent box office results of "Red Cliff", the after-viewing reviews and word-of-mouth of "Red Cliff" are not generally bad!

"Is the reputation so bad?" She said in surprise: "Then why is the box office still so good?" ”

Wu Yuan spread his hands: "Only young people can play Douban, and even fewer people will post movie reviews on Douban, which is estimated to only account for about 5% of the number of moviegoers." ”

"Most people who watch movies now don't pay attention to Douban, they see the overwhelming publicity of this movie, and when they see those blind starring lineups, of course they are tempted to go to the cinema to watch it."

"However, I believe that these negative comments will soon ferment to the extent that everyone knows."

"When the time comes, the market will give the right feedback."

I have to admit that the current mainland fans still watch the movie lineup very much.

Liang Chaowei, Zhou Yunfu, Jin Chengwu, Lin Zhilin, these actors are hung on the poster, which can still attract mainland fans to watch "Red Cliff" in the cinema.

Since "Hero", mainland movies have joined the era of superstar blockbusters, as long as it is a blockbuster, there must be superstars.

Do you think investors are willing to spend half of their total investment to hire these big-name superstar actors?

It's not that today's movie fans watch the lineup first, whoever has a bigger movie lineup will have more people watching their movies.

So far, only two films, "Your Name" and "Assembly", have broken this convention.

"Gravity" has Gong Li, the first actress in the mainland, to be the Poseidon Needle.

With its superstar lineup, it is normal for "Red Cliff" to achieve a stellar box office in the first weekend, which is something that no one can stop.

But the follow-up box office trend of this movie, whether it can be like the original trajectory, and still soar in the midst of scolding, is uncertain.

Just when Wu Yuan and Li Xiaoping were watching the online comments of "Red Cliff", a few blocks away from them, Wu Baige and his team were also paying attention to the online comments of "Red Cliff".

Unlike Wu Yuan's laughter mixed with a few hints of ridicule, Wu Baige's side can be said to be cloudy and full of low pressure.

Wu Baige is actually very ambitious, he doesn't even look down on Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and thinks that this is not so good, Luo Guanzhong wrote Cao Cao too stupidly, and put all the halo on Zhuge Liang.

He wants to make a film about the Three Kingdoms in his heart, which is more reasonable and exciting than the original work, and wants to reshape the public's impression of those Three Kingdoms heroes.

Then, the classic "catch and release Cao" was changed by him to have nothing to do with Guan Yu, and was caught and released by Zhou Yu.

can only say that Wu Baige feels that he understands "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" better than CCTV, and wants the national audience to understand him.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.

Looking at the various criticisms and incomprehensible voices on the computer screen with a gloomy face, Wu Baige snorted coldly, breaking the gloomy atmosphere in the conference room.

"This audience can't do it, they don't understand my thoughts at all!"

"It's just playing the piano to the cow, wasting a piece of my true feelings!"

"Have you collected the comments of foreign audiences, and what do they think?" (End of chapter)