Finally, "Crazy Stone" was released with a score of 5 million, shocking the industry!

This is the highest return on film investment in China since the new century, except for Cheng Yuan.

00 million cost, 50 million box office.

A remote celebration banquet was held for Ning Hao to celebrate the perfect ending of "Crazy Stone".

Cheng Yu'an has been quite busy throughout July. After finishing "Crazy Stone", it will be the end of July and the only mainland film "Sunflower" under the "Asian Rising Star Director Project" will be released.

Directed by Cheng Er, the heroine is Jing Tian, ​​who just celebrated her 18th birthday, and the hero is Zhang Yi, who pulls the curtain in the art troupe.

They are all new recruits!

The cast is even worse than that of "Crazy Stone". After all, "Crazy Stone" has Xu Shanzheng and a drama star like Guo Tao. There is something to write about when promoting it. "Sunflower" is better. The two leading actors have

There is no such person in the entertainment industry.

But there is one thing about "Sunflower" that "Crazy Stone" cannot compare to. "Sunflower" brings together the power of Yingyi Entertainment, Remote Media and Guangsheng Pictures. Andy Lau even went to the scene to support Zhang Yi and Jing Tian.

"This movie will be released simultaneously in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. I am looking forward to its performance." Andy Lau told reporters, "Cheng Er is a very talented director. Although Zhang Yi and Jing Tian are both newcomers, both of them are working hard.

, I believe he will become a very good actor in the future.”

It goes without saying how popular Andy Lau is. Anyway, nine-and-a-half out of ten viewers now come here for Andy Lau.

The schedule of "Sunflower" is not very good, because there is a killer film released at the same time as "Dragon and Tiger Gate"!

"Dragon Tiger Gate" was released a day ahead of "Sunflower", with a box office of 6 million on the first day, and 15.6 million in the first three days in the mainland. Including Hong Kong Island and the three countries in Southeast Asia, its first week box office exceeded 0 million, and "Sunflower" hit it and fell.

Blood mold.

Under the impact of "Dragon and Tiger Gate", the first-day box office of "Sunflower" was close to 1 million. The film schedule is still guaranteed at the beginning, but I don't know whether it will be adjusted by the theater later.

The three companies, Yingyi, Remote View, and Koscilla, were combined into one. It was not an option to continue like this. "Sunflower" had a bad start. If it did not perform well in the future, it could easily be directly removed from theaters, so the three companies each spent 1 million to buy the first weekend box office.

Not shabby! Buying box office is usually done at the beginning of the release, so the early data should be made more beautiful for better publicity.

As a result, the box office of "Sunflower" in its first seven days - Monday the 1st - exceeded 10 million!

"Dragon and Tiger Gate" has reached 0 million at this time.

The result of 10 million is already a huge profit for a low-cost movie with an investment of only HK$0.0 million. If nothing else happens, the total box office should be able to exceed HK$0.0 million, but who made it preceded by a movie that had just been released?

What about "Crazy Stone"?

However, Andy Lau is very satisfied with this result. At present, "Sunflower" will be the highest-grossing among the six films in the first phase of the "Asian Rising Star Director" project.

Regardless of why they made this plan, whether it’s for fame or profit, they spent real money to support the new director, and even went all the way to support the new director, so there’s nothing wrong with that.

Let's talk about the crew of "The Butterfly Effect". Ever since Huang Ke took on the project, he has been on the phone for four hours a day.

Invitations to dinner, appointments to play ball, and even escorts to your door. Anyway, Huang Ke has experienced every relationship tactic you can imagine in the past half month.

In the end, Guo Fei was afraid that Huang Ke wouldn't be able to stand it, and to put an end to outside distractions, he decided to cast Yan Danchen as the heroine.

Yan Danchen made the audience really get to know her through her role as Chang'e in "The Lotus Lantern", but she is still far from becoming popular. However, she has not lacked filming in the past two years, and she is quite content with playing the role of second and third female lead.

Now that I suddenly heard that she was asked to film "The Butterfly Effect" remotely, I still didn't believe it.

She rarely interacts with people from far away because all her old classmates know that Cheng Yu'an chased her when she was in school, but she rejected Cheng Yu'an.

Although so many years have passed, Yan Danchen and Cheng Yu'an still consciously keep a distance.

However, Guo Fei advised her to relax: "It's been so many years, Yu'an has long forgotten about this matter. Don't worry, Yu'an will hardly interfere in this drama. Besides, even if others can say anything, the male is unmarried

If a girl is not married, it will be a good story if she really renews her relationship."

Yan Danchen rolled her eyes at Guo Fei and finally agreed to play the heroine in "The Butterfly Effect".

Only a fool would refuse to agree, but Yan Danchen knew how many people outside were thinking about this drama. The first part was a low-key success, and the second part would be regarded as a failure if the box office was less than 0 million.

Cheng Yu'an didn't spend much energy on "Sunflower". After a week of helping out, he flew to the United States.

"The Devil Wears Prada" was released in the United States with a box office of US$9.4 million on the first day and US$7.5 million over the three-day weekend. After being screened in the North American market, "The Devil Wears Prada" has grossed a total of US$100 million at the North American box office.

Fox has already arranged for the film to be released around the world in an orderly manner.

This made the teenager who originally bet on "The Devil Wears Prada" a movie that was not favored by major Hollywood studios breathe a sigh of relief to the film's Bob.

Finally he made the right bet.

The performance of "Sin City," another major film produced by a major film company this year, is also surprising.

I didn't expect this kind of cult film to have such great power. It grossed 8 million US dollars at the box office in its first week and went straight to the top of the list. It received 75 million in North America. Unfortunately, the North American market failed to exceed 100 million.

The performance of "Sin City" in the international market is also unsatisfactory. After all, the release of R-rated films is greatly restricted. Although it has a good reputation in France, Britain, Germany and other countries, its box office is average.

Staggeringly, the global box office of "Sin City" reached US$160 million.

It can’t be said that it’s a profit. Excluding the cost of 40 million plus publicity and distribution expenses, a major film company will make about 30 million.

Of course, most of the profits from this kind of cult film come from DVD and new media, but this requires a long payback period and is not included in the statistics for the time being.

Last year, a major film company produced a movie called "Flight 9" that responded to the 9/11 incident. It performed only moderately, with a global box office of only around RMB 70 million, but it still made a profit.

This made Bob see the prospect of making realistic themes, and he wanted to make two more movies that reflected real historical events in the United States. Such movies usually sell well as long as they are well-made.

So Cheng Yuan went into retreat and wrote the script of "Buried Alive".

A reaction to the story of the United States in Iraq: "Bob, this story may be restricted in the United States."

Don't think that all American movies can be released. For a movie like "Buried Alive", Cheng Yu'an expected that it would be restricted when it was released.

"Cheng, don't worry, even if the release is restricted, we can still sell it overseas." Bob said while flipping through the script, "And the cost of this movie will not be very high, I think it will be a million US dollars.

It can be photographed, and at such a low cost, there is no such thing as a loss.”

Just sell some DVDs and online copyrights for a million and you'll be back.
Chapter completed!