Chapter 436: Casting (Part II) (3/5)
On October 6, the weekly box office statistics were released.
The box office in a single week is 290 million.
It's still a bit of a gap compared to the week when "Avatar" was raging.
Maybe there are a lot of movies released, and everyone prefers to put aside their homes to watch pirated versions...
The National Day file is coming to an end, and "33 Days of Broken Love" cannot be called the leader - the box office is 110 million in a single week, and the cumulative box office is 270 million;
The box office of "The Empire of Babel" was 94 million in the first week, almost breaking 100 million;
The third place is "Inception", which was released in the sixth week and had a box office of 28 million in a single week...
The cumulative box office is 560 million, and the sustainability is too strong!
China has also become the largest overseas box office of "Inception", with a single-region box office of more than $83 million.
According to the prediction, the total box office of "Inception" in China is likely to exceed 600 million - after all, there are still three weeks before the release
"Jingwu Fengyun" and "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" have a single-week box office of 16 million and 11 million respectively, with the former having a cumulative box office of 97 million and the latter having a cumulative box office of 56 million...
The worst is "Rain of Swords", with a box office of only 19 million in the first week...
The draft reads: "Rain of Swords" is such a high-quality production, whether it is from the screenwriter, production to the main creative team to the performance of the actors, it is mature and smooth, and the film can be called a superior work, why can't the film get the box office that he deserves?
also used the blessing of celebrities, for example, Liu Zhenwei said: Martial arts films are not the same as martial arts films, I like "Sword Rain", "Tongtian Empire" and "Jingwu Fengyun" can only be regarded as martial arts films at most, only "Sword Rain" has the taste of martial arts!
and Zhang Yibai also said, 'I prefer films like "Rain of Swords", which return to family, life and emotion, and contain deep themes such as tolerance and redemption. Martial arts films talk about some realistic and socially related propositions, so as to get rid of low-level fun. โ
As for "33 Days of Broken Love", Liu Zhenwei said that the film did not have a high box office in Hong Kong, and said that "some movies have no art at all, and I think this is a harm to the domestic audience..."
Hurt your sister, you eat less of the old book, which is the best salvation for the audience!
Why did they jump out?
Do you really appreciate "Rain of Swords"?
I don't rule out this possibility, but it's more likely that they're both signed directors of Xiaoma like Wu Yusen...
So, they all know!
Then the media came to the news that more than a dozen actors under the Mengxi Company went to Hollywood en masse...
A lot of people in the circle are discussing...
That's a dozen people going together!
Guo Jingfei brushed his face through "Tongtian Empire", and then a bunch of magazine covers, interviews, and endorsements came to the door!
This is to carry out internationalization to the end.
Moreover, people have this condition.
Zhao Jinsong simply held a press conference, which can be regarded as an official announcement...
......
At 10 a.m., a bunch of media crowded the first floor of the company.
The door to the venue had not yet opened, so I had to wait outside.
There are portals, print media, and several TV stations, all of which rely on breaking news to eat!
These people are communicating with each other:
"The current public news is the casting of "Resident Evil", and it is said that Li Lianhua will also participate!"
โ... Who is Li Lianhua in Hollywood?"
"Deng Wendi, Ziyi has fallen, and the lotus is full!"
โ... Lotus got the status of Gucci promotion ambassador, and Deng Wendi contributed a lot!"
"It's useless, Shen Mengxi is a partner of Fox, and Deng Wendi is not enough. โ
"It's just a "Resident Evil", you don't have to work so hard..."
"Yes, let's wait and see!"
A few minutes later, the company staff opened the door of the hall, and then Zhao Jinsong and Song Hang strode to the front of the stage with a blank face, tried the microphone, no nonsense, and said directly:
"There are two main things I want to report today:
First: In response to the skyrocketing salary in the industry, our approach is not to increase the production budget, if you are confident in your call, you can sign a follow-up sharing contract;
Second: The "Inception" we invested in has achieved relatively good returns on a global scale, so we decided to take the subway while it is hot, and cooperate with Bren House on three films: "Shark Beach", "Source Code", and "Ex Machina", "Unidentified" with Warner Bros., "Super 8" with Paramount, in addition to "Resident Evil" and other projects..."
Speaking of which, he stopped: "What do you want to ask?"
Immediately, a reporter asked: "Do these project companies have investment?"
Zhao Jinsong smiled: "Hollywood money-making projects will not cooperate with outsiders casually, you are like "Inception", we are just picking up leaks..."
"What do you mean by that?"
Song Hang interjected: "It means "Resident Evil", we don't have the opportunity to participate, it's just a suitable release, they need a Chinese actor to join the crew, and we are responsible for providing it;"
"What about the other projects?"
"Some of them are our own led Sino-US cooperation, and some of them are involved in behind-the-scenes investment..."
"Then the "Unidentified" and "Super 8" you just mentioned, are they all considered to be involved in investment?"
"That's right, these two are our more optimistic projects... In fact, Hollywood doesn't leave many opportunities for outsiders!"
Song added: "The filmmaking projects of large film studios can usually be divided into two categories โ good deals and bad deals, and bad deals refer to films with high risk of return on investment. There is little reason for these studios to leave the opportunity to invest in blockbusters to outsiders. Large film studios have their own production financing platforms, so even if a Chinese investor has the opportunity to participate in a film production project, he will only get a very risky film project!"
The atmosphere of the whole press conference was quite harmonious, one question and one answer, although Zhao Jinsong and Song Hang were not in front of the scene, the weight was enough, and the positions were equivalent to the company's executive president and vice president...
Then a stupid reporter asked: "Does Mengxi Company have a monopoly on the route of Chinese actors to Hollywood?"
"What is a monopoly?
"Then why don't you open it to outsiders? There are so many actors in the circle, they also need opportunities..."
Zhao Jinsong looked at the reporter speechlessly: "The director of "Super 8" is Jยท J. Abrams, a very famous director in the United States, his work is almost unknown in China, so we need a Chinese partner, our company invested 15 million US dollars, accounting for one-third of the total investment, and took such a big risk, why should it be made public?"
"So, Mengxi Company's behavior is self-respect?"
"I think we are mastering the art of mastering to control the razor!"
After a pause, Zhao Jinsong said: "In April 2007, the United States sued the WTO for certain restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on films, sound recordings and other products. โ
In December 2009, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body finally adopted the Appellate Body report on the case, ruling that the Regulations on the Administration of Film and the Interim Provisions on the Access of Film Enterprises to Business Qualifications promulgated by the Chinese government violated the relevant provisions of China's Protocol to Accession and the Report of the Working Group on Accession to the WTO. โ
"The import and distribution of Sino-US split films is of great significance, and it is directly related to the international obligations undertaken by the Chinese government in the WTO!"
"The government has bought us a year, Hollywood is pressing step by step, we must step up learning!"