0185 [A million-dollar director?]
"Director Wan Xiaohu's sincere work saves the glorious moment of "Infernal Affairs"!"
"Sweeping the Mainland and Hong Kong, the first week's results are incredible!"
"Mtime Time Network and the National Film Special Fund Office have authoritatively released mainland box office data!"
In the most prominent position on the homepage of Time.com, the top post with bright red fonts introduces the box office results of the first week of "Infernal Affairs". In June, there were many movies released in mainland China, but only one movie "Infernal Affairs" was released in large scale. In the promotional storm, it also became the first movie in the theater system to schedule more than 30%.
It is said that it is 30% of the screenings. In fact, many theaters have contributed the best show and the largest cinema to the highly-reputable and highly-watched "Infernal Affairs".
Since its premiere, there have been no shortage of reports on the box office.
A week later, a crazy number appeared in the national box office.
In the eyes of everyone, the numbers are jumping!
57 million RMB!
This is the eight-day data from June 16 to 23, 2002, and the average daily rate is almost 7 million!
"Watching movies is like a craze, who is the opponent in the world? "Infernal Affairs" has caused madness in the mainland, and cinemas lined up to watch movies, creating the hottest movie-watching season since the release of "Titanic" in 1998! Eight days after its release, it has already won 57 million yuan and launched an attack on the 100 million yuan mark!"
"'Sorry, I'm a policeman' has become the most popular dialogue nowadays. "Infernal Affairs" is popular all over the country. Dongguan alone contributed nearly 10 million box office, and its reputation is even known as the audience. It is the best Chinese-language movie in recent years. In Beijing, the box office of 6.2 million in eight days, and in the Magic City. "Infernal Affairs" also achieved nearly 6 million."
"After the domestic main theme "Life and Death Choice" of 120 million, the second Chinese movie that exceeded 100 million is coming!"
"Director Wan Xiaohu is at the forefront of all Chinese filmmakers!"
As soon as the box office data in the mainland came out, it almost shocked all filmmakers. 57 million yuan, which was only eight days of box office. It was not a problem to break 120 million yuan. The movie "Life and Death" was 120 million yuan, but everyone was not shocked because the movie was sold for tens of millions of dollars with government tickets alone, which was too cheating.
Now there is finally a Chinese-language movie, which is really about to exceed 100 million. Why isn't it surprising?
In fact, the Chinese market is not without movies that have actually exceeded 100 million. After the market reform in 1994, a Hollywood action blockbuster "The True Lies" achieved a record of over 100 million in 1995. In 1996, "Simple Task" starring Cheng Long also exceeded 100 million. The craziest one is "Titanic" in 1998. It was released for several months and its popularity has not diminished. It has achieved a peerless box office of 350 million yuan, becoming an indelible shame for Chinese filmmakers.
But at that time, it was the hungry period for mainland audiences. VCD and DVD had not been widely popularized on a large scale, and there was almost no pirated version. The audience was not even more fond of appetite. After entering the new millennium, pirated versions were stronger day by day. Hong Kong and domestic films were both disliked by the audience.
Under such circumstances, the 57 million brilliant achievements of "Infernal Affairs" can be said to be against the will of heaven.
With such achievements in the mainland, it is inevitable that the screening will be expanded. It is only a matter of time before we can achieve another good result.
The box office data in Hong Kong is also marked by the mtime internet celebrity.
"Infernal Affairs" was popular in Hong Kong for 27 million Hong Kong dollars in eight days. It exceeded everyone's expectations and its reputation was beyond imagination. Everyone shouted that this was a Hong Kong movie to save the market. The four best actors, Liu Dehua, Liang Chaowei, Anthony Wong, and Zeng Zhiwei, were praised as the mainstay of the Hong Kong movie market!"
The entire Chinese-speaking area is shrouded in "Infernal Affairs".
The number of moviegoers is no longer decreasing. The release scale is getting bigger and bigger day by day.
With such a good momentum, we naturally need to continue to build momentum. Starring Liu Dehua and others flew around and promoted all the countries and regions that will be released soon.
Only Wan Xiaohu hid in the capital, read the news leisurely and browsed the film reviews.
The number of ratings of "Infernal Affairs" on Time Network has soared to 13,687, and the rating has dropped a lot from the previous 9.7 points, but it still remains at the height of 9.3 points.
Member [Perfect LV Hermit] scored five stars: "The best Chinese movie, classic, perfect."
[Star Want Abao] is also: "For these men, I have to give five stars!"
【Lost in the Wind】Five Stars: "The Undisputed Classic in Hong Kong Police and Criminal Films."
[Saberio's Spirit] Four Stars: "I watched it twice in the cinema and felt more and more aftertaste. I like Liang Chaowei, with a faint smile and a melancholy look, and I always feel so lonely. Unfortunately, I died in the end, and I lost one star!"
[Scholar Wujian] Five Stars: "There is no doubt that Wan Xiaohu saved Hong Kong movies. Stephen Chow's personal style is too strong and has no reference value. The theme of "Infernal Affairs" is old-fashioned, but let Hong Kong movies see hope for reference, wait and see, insider movies will definitely be popular for a period of time!"
【halilia】Four stars: "It's great. Although I don't think I can call it the best Hong Kong film, the best one is made by Wang Jiawei. I have always disliked Liu Dehua. I have always thought that he looked treacherous since I was a child. As for Liang Chaowei, I just think he is a good person! I love him so much."
[Good to die] One of the few gave three stars: "Everyone said it was OK. It was just a bunch of big brands. Everyone was playing with deep and restrained."
【cdtop】Five stars: "Edison Chen grew up and became Liu Dehua..."
Looking at the netizens' praise, Wan Xiaohu was in a good mood. The only regret is that although Time Network has launched three ratings, there is still only one rating for registered users. The rating of the enthusiast-level celebrity user is that because too few people have passed, there is no rating for the film critics' old time rating system, no one cares about it.
It is only 2002 now, and many media people have not yet realized the power of the Internet, especially movie media people. I guess they have never thought that the Internet has anything to do with movies. I just occasionally come to Time.com to check box office data. It is difficult to build mtime Time.com into a temple of Chinese movie data.
Just as I was looking at the film review, the office door was knocked.
"Come in."
"Mr. Wan, Director Xu of the Investment Department asked me to notify you that all the employees of the Investment Department are waiting for you in the conference room." The company secretary came in and said.
"Xu Weijin is back, I understand. By the way, I will give you a task. Please help me collect the development data of Chinese cartoons over the past few years. The more comprehensive the better, the better. I will give it to me in three days."
"Okay, Mr. Wan."
Wan Xiaohu then got up and went to the conference room.
As a film company, Dandelion, in addition to making movies, naturally also needs to develop investment business and invest in more film shooting. The investment department specializes in assessing potential film project establishment, formulating investment plans, and finally submitting them to Wan Xiaohu for review, making a decision whether to participate in the investment.
"Supervisor Xu, have you gained something when you go to Russia this time?" After sitting down, Wan Xiaohu asked with anticipation.
Xu Weijin was over 30 years old and was the distribution manager of the former Changchao Film Studio. Later, he resigned and entered the field of TV series investment, but he failed, but he lost a lot. When Dandelion recruited the head of the investment department, Wan Xiaohu didn't like Xu Weijin very much at first, thinking that this was just a loser.
However, after the interview, Wan Xiaohu immediately made a change. Perhaps Xu Weijin had a bad vision. However, he had a deep understanding of the operation of movies and the operation of film markets in various countries, and he was very skilled in his business. Dandelion was led by Wan Xiaohu, and the senior management almost didn't care. As long as his business level was good, it was enough, so Xu Weijin was hired immediately.
"Mr. Wan, this time the harvest is good." Xu Weijin was wearing glasses. He was very calm. "We are in Russia. Following your instructions from Mr. Wan, we found Sergei Lukiyanenko, the author of "Night Watcher", but he had sold the movie adaptation rights... Although we had made some troubles, we finally got the copyright."
The novel "Night Watcher" is a science fiction novel published by Lujiyannenke in 1998. It won the second place in the Star Bridge Award for the novel and the best novel by the Wanderer Award.
The story is that in today's Moscow, there is an organization called "others", which includes two factions: light and darkness. They are composed of magicians, warlocks, wizards and vampires with supernatural powers. The two factions maintain the balance of power through ancient agreements. Until one day, a little boy with infinite potential appears, and the two sides wage a war of humans and demons for this power that breaks the checks and balances, and the world begins to collapse...
Basically, this is a magic novel, not a science fiction novel. The reason why Wan Xiaohu was interested in this novel is because "Night Watcher" was later made into a movie and became the box office champion of Russian local movies. It is a symbol of the revival of Russian movies and has a very good reputation.
The cost of a movie is less than US$4 million, but it has reached more than US$30 million worldwide, making a lot of money for a small cost!
In Wan Xiaohu's eyes, he didn't make much money, but no matter what, he could make a lot of money. Moreover, there are sequels "The Sun Guardian" after "The Sun Guardian", as well as "The Sun Guardian" and "The Last Guardian" that were later bought for copyright by Hollywood, but were not produced for a long time.
This is a commercial movie that can work successfully.
Because I took Xu Wei into Russia, I saw if I could get the copyright.
I only found out after I went there that the copyright of "Night Watcher" had been sold to poligon production company, but Lujiyannenke was a stubborn temper and was not satisfied with the script adapted by others. In addition, poligon production company was not really interested in the novel adapted into a movie, so it was stranded.
Recently, poligon production company plans to sell the copyright, but does not want to keep it anymore. It wants to sell it to Russia's "CCTV", which is the first channel, and is still under discussion. So Xu Weijin quickly inserted it and included the copyright of "Night Watcher" at a cost of not very high, that is, more than 100,000 US dollars, and signed a sequel copyright agreement with Lukiyannenko.
"Very good, Director Xu, the next step is to be fortunate that you will take the team to Russia to find a director and crew, and shoot "Night Watcher". I will give you $4 million in funding, and you must complete it."
"good!"
After the meeting, Wan Xiaohu touched his chin and laughed silently.
The most common invasion method in Hollywood is to buy local copyrights and then let local directors make movies. It is still local movies, but the Hollywood behind the money is indeed the Hollywood method. Wan Xiaohu used Hollywood methods for the first time on himself. The Russian film market is completely open to the public, just for experimenting with dandelions.
"The profit of "Infernal Affairs" is even more profitable, but how can it make money faster than capital operation!"
After stretching, Wan Xiaohu laughed: "I, Wan Xiaohu, want fame and fortune! Tsk, director of 100 million yuan, I'm looking forward to it!" (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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