Midnight festival is a very old word. To be precise, I don’t know when it came to the mainland. In the last century, during the old cinema, ordinary people lived on a daily basis from five to nine, while some people just the opposite, liked to wander around at night.

So in order to increase the revenue of the cinema, the bosses always show some eye-catching movies in the cinema after midnight. They are all horror movies, or ethical movies, and movies you know. After the mainland has also changed its opening, midnight shows have gradually emerged.

However, in February last year, the State Council issued the "Regulations on the Management of Entertainment Venues", which stipulated that entertainment venues would stop operating at 2 a.m. Although these entertainment venues refer to dance halls, KTVs, game console halls, billiard rooms and other places, not including cinemas.

However, due to the influence of a harmonious society, the midnight scene gradually began to fade in the mainland.

However, when the old system passes away, the new system will replace it. Gradually, new midnight movies begin to appear. This midnight movie, the way to learn from North America is to arrange one or two halls on the night before the premiere of a movie, and the number of scenes will be watched first.

The movie data of midnight shows often become a movie, which is a reflection of whether it is popular.

At 0 a.m. on June 1, "Kung Fu Panda" arranged a midnight show. Of course, not every city has a midnight show. There are almost no cinemas in small cities participating in midnight show. They are all big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. A number of large cinemas with complete facilities play midnight show.

All the cinemas participating in the midnight show were computers to sell tickets online. Therefore, Mtime Time Network received box office data feedback from various cinemas almost immediately.

After the calculation, the editors on duty immediately announced the red letters and red.

"Mtime Time Network box office special news: "Kung Fu Panda" has a hot midnight event, with RMB 3.5 million. It sets the best results in the domestic midnight event!"

The scale of midnight shows in China is still very small, and the record holders have not specifically counted it before, but the data collected by Time.com is a record of less than 1 million maintained by "King Kong" in 2005. Basically, they are some Hollywood blockbusters, and midnight shows are arranged after entering the country. Domestic blockbusters are rarely arranged like this. After all, domestic blockbusters have protection mechanisms, and the number of screens is very large, so there is no need to provide additional scenes.

Now, the movie "Kung Fu Panda" has dominated the midnight show.

The next day, there was no need to do any publicity, and various media reprinted reports from Time.com.

"Wan Xiaohu is going to create a miracle again. "Kung Fu Panda" has won 3.5 million in the midnight event, and the box office exceeds 100 million in a near-dollar situation!"

"The record of the cartoon is ready to be ended by Wan Xiaohu. "Kung Fu Panda" after midnight is unstoppable!"

"Right reviews are everywhere and movies are everywhere. Panda Abao has become a phenomenon. We know that with Wan Xiaohu's movies, there is a focus of public opinion, which is the hard truth."

In these reports, there are always some disharmonious voices. Such as the arguments of "The Panda National Treasures were ruined" in "Southern Metropolis Daily" and the difficulty of "playing national treasures to Westerners to watch", but these voices quickly became drowned out in the evaluation of the first audience after watching the midnight show.

"The best cartoon I watched in 07 is also the best kung fu movie. I like Abao!"

"This is a combination of Chinese and Western style, with Chinese style background and personal heroism in Hollywood. The plot is very simple, but it is very touching to watch. Duck Dad is my laugh point!"

"Wan Xiaohu is so good at pretending to compete. The part he dubbed the Turtle Master. The part of the flying immortal who turned into a celestial fairy is so beautiful!"

"To be honest, if I hadn't known that many of the techniques of this movie were outsourced to DreamWorks, I would have made one more star. I look forward to more good works in Abao Animation!"

"The story of the fat man saving the world is so great!"

"I hope the pandas are selling well all over the world. There are many ancient Chinese thoughts here, especially Taoist thoughts, and Taoist thoughts are inaction. I just watched the video of "The Uncle Knows Wan Xiaohu the Best" on the homepage. The Uncle said it really well, but unfortunately, our own young people are afraid that they don't know what Taoist thought is."

"Can the duck father give birth to giant pandas? We have the blood of noodle soup in our bodies, and I'm so laughing to death!"

"What kind of duck father, it's obviously a goose."

"After watching it, I feel that Wan Xiaohu has become all the directors in China alone. Brother Chen Kai was depressed after "The Promise". Feng Xiaogang is still tinkering with the cold humor of the New Year holiday. Zhang Yimou's martial arts trilogy was worse than the other one and then went to direct the Olympics. Now there is only Wan Xiaohu, which makes me look forward to it!"

"I have been looking forward to it for so long, and finally saw it as soon as possible. I have a personal experience for your reference only. The technology can have four stars, three stars in the plot, four stars in the sound effect, five stars in the entertainment, summary, six stars, yes, it's six stars!"

For a time, Time.com was flooded with "Kung Fu Panda", and the number of ratings soared by 50,000, and the total score remained at 8.5 points. Old Time ratings, 589 representatives of filmmakers, 568 qualified, with a brightness of 96%. There is nothing to say in terms of reputation.

Next, it depends on the box office performance.

...

Wan Xiaohu is very busy. "Kung Fu Panda" has been released. After finishing the preliminary work, he no longer needs to worry about publicity. He now has a lot of burdens, one is to take care of Jun Ji-hyun, one is to prepare for a wedding with Su Ya, one is to supervise the Marvel Cinema Universe plan, and the other is to screen for film investment and TV series investment.

It is getting closer and closer to 2014. All good movies and TV series are coming out. He must be ahead and take as many good works as possible to lay the foundation for his entertainment empire.

More importantly, with the help of Vita Digital's special effects team, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will soon be able to enter the shooting state.

Just when he was selecting actors with the producers of Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood, a director named Alfonso Caron came to him. He had been in Hollywood for a long time and filmed many works. The most famous one was "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in 2004, which achieved a box office of 790 million US dollars worldwide.

Alfonso Karon's purpose is very simple. He liked the script created by Wan Xiaohu, a story about space adventures and wanted to buy it to direct it. The Hollywood script operation system allows these directors to always select stories they like from tens of millions of scripts.

Wan Xiaohu warmly welcomed Alfonso and also said that he could be directed by Alfonso, but the movie must be invested by Sasha Entertainment.

The scripts he wrote have proved absolutely good movies, but his attitude towards good scripts is not a domineering one. In fact, he doesn't have so much energy to shoot so many movies at the same time. Besides, he has become famous now and has confidence in himself. He believes that he will definitely make more good movies in the future, and there is no need to copy others specifically.

Therefore, he invested himself and found some talented directors to cooperate with, which was the best choice.

But it was precisely at this point that Wan Xiaohu and Alfonso failed to reach an agreement.

Alfonso Caron was representing Warner Bros. These famous directors have big studios behind the scenes, and the directors choose scripts, big studios invest in later, or roughly the studios provide scripts, and famous directors come to choose.

Wan Xiaohu met this situation several times, such as Martin Scorses, who wanted to buy the script of "Shut Island" on behalf of Paramount, but was eventually rejected by Wan Xiaohu, so he had to turn to film "The Walker of the Stop". Christopher Nolan also took a fancy to a script about Dream Inception written by Wan Xiaohu, which represented Warner Bros. to buy it.

Of course, Wan Xiaohu would not sell it. He proposed to invest his own investment, but the other party could not accept it.

Because there is no agreement on the account division.

Sasha Entertainment is an independent studio that seems to be popular, but its foundation is also a fact. It is nothing to shoot art films, but it is not easy to shoot commercial blockbusters, and these directors rarely consider it, and the operation risk is too great. Famous directors do not fight alone, they all have their own director team, and they need to have sufficient interests guaranteed.

In this regard, as an independent film company, Sasha Entertainment cannot guarantee all its benefits. Even if you are willing to direct, you must increase the proportion of the accounts.

As a rebirth, Wan Xiaohu was reluctant to spend so much money to hire a director. You should know that the scripts and movies he wrote have all received more than hundreds of millions of dollars in box office. Even if it increases the percentage point of the account, it is still a few million dollars. Isn’t this equivalent to giving money to others?

So cooperation is always a failure, and this time it is the same. Alfonso said that he has a team to take care of, and he will not direct the Sasha Entertainment if he has too low share.

"Sorry, Director Wan, we don't think there will be a big box office for the commercial films operated by Sasha Entertainment. Even if you directed "Never End" only has more than 300 million yuan, it still accounts for the explosion of the Chinese market. With such operating ability, it is difficult to fully explore the commercial ability of a movie. This script is not like "The Da Vinci Code". It has the guarantee of the hot sales of the original novel, but you are unwilling to increase your share. So, I can only say sorry." After Alfonso said that, he left directly.

Wan Xiaohu shrugged, didn't care much, and was not angry because of being looked down upon. Everyone had different positions. He was also a director who was a Hollywood director and could understand the other party's explanation.

Besides, no matter how many scripts are written, the movies cannot be eliminated. They will be filmed one day later or one day later, the same thing.

The future is long.

...

Alfonso looked down on Sasha Entertainment's ability. Even the box office of "Da Vinci Code" of $758 million was considered by him as a result of the popularity of the original novel. But in fact, Sasha Entertainment's combat power under the leadership of Adam Ferguson was not weak at all.

This time the release of "Kung Fu Panda" is proof.

There are almost no blind spots in the world, and the distribution capabilities of large studios are only at this level.

Especially in China, with the help of Jiahe Entertainment, its combat power is crazy and explosive.

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