0405 【Newborn】
"Give us two tickets to Frozen."
At the ticket window of the Magic City Peace Yingdu, a young couple paid for the ticket.
There was a long line in the ticket window, and the Spring Festival period in 2014 created the most popular film market period in China in history.
Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, "Journey to the West: The Great Trouble in the Heavenly Palace" and "Where Are We Going, Dad" took turns to bombard major cinemas. "Macau Storm" and "Ex-Labor Strategy" also snatched food from the tiger's mouth and desperately snatched the audience. It set a new record of the market exceeding 200 million yuan in a single day.
In just a few days, Dazhao and Dad have easily won 500 million or 600 million box offices, and have worked together to win half of the film. Faced with these two movies that are at its peak, "Frozen" cannot monopolize the films like the previous movies directed by Wan Xiaohu.
Therefore, on February 5th, "Frozen" only received 21% of the screening volume. For the Chinese film market, which has almost reached 20,000 screens, this data is pretty good. "Journey to the West: The Great Palace" has 27.8%, "Where Are We Going, Dad" has 22.75%, and "Macau Storm" has 12.95%, and the battle for the four films is becoming more and more intense.
Soon, as the movie fans looked forward to it, the box office on the first day was freshly released.
The data released by Mtime Time Network is still so exciting. Although "Frozen" is not as lively as other movies, it has excellent reputation and Wan Xiaohu's reputation for many years, plus the Anne Award and Oscar nomination halo.
100.2 million yuan per day, strongly crowned. "Journey to the West: The Great Trouble in the Heavenly Palace" and "Where Are We Going, Dad" are ranked 20 million and 55 million respectively.
On February 6, "Frozen" made another effort. The screening also rose by 1%, winning 105.3 million yuan. On February 7, the screening rose by 2% again to 24%, with a slightly lower box office, and only 98.5 million yuan was won. 304 million yuan in three days completely ignited the Spring Festival.
And this is when office workers start working, on the 8th and 9th, it’s the weekend.
A new storm is coming again.
The screening of "Journey to the West: The Great Trouble in Heaven" and "Where Are We Going, Dad" can finally be no longer unscrupulous. Wan Xiaohu is enough to ensure that "Frozen" has the right to fair competition in terms of fame, status and power. Therefore, on this weekend, "Frozen" has won 30% of the screening volume for the first time.
"Mtime Time Network's box office news on Saturday: the market broke a new high, reaching 250 million yuan in a single day, of which "Frozen" crushed 150.3 million yuan."
"Mtime Time Network's Sunday box office news: The market fell slightly since yesterday, with 240 million yuan in a single day, of which "Frozen" won the championship again with 136.5 million yuan."
"Mtime Time Network's weekly box office broadcast: After five days of release, "Frozen" surpassed the box office of 448 million yuan in a single week for "Journey to the West: The Great Heavenly Palace" with 590.8 million yuan. It won the weekly championship. At the same time, the total box office also surpassed "Where Are We Going, Dad" which was released for ten days, second only to "Journey to the West: The Great Heavenly Palace" and became the second box office in 2014."
"In the first full week at the beginning of the new year, the market also created a new height in Chinese film history, breaking the record of 1.6 billion in a single week! The Chinese film market has entered a real period of explosion! According to experts, this year, domestic films, co-productions and imported films such as Hollywood will inevitably have greater achievements, and it is not a problem to exceed 30 billion in the whole year."
"Wan Xiaohu is king again, "Frozen" aims at the best Oscars, with 1 billion US dollars worldwide and 1 billion RMB in the mainland!"
"Mtime Time Network's Korean box office in one week: The director Wan Xiaohu's work "Frozen", which is currently being screened in South Korea, has become the box office champion of cartoons in Korean film history after 24 days, surpassing the box office results of 7.28 million viewers, surpassing the box office results of 7.074,867 viewers in "Avengers", and also becoming the seventh place in Shanghai film history in Korean film history."
"The Korean Film Revitalization Committee expects that the box office of "Frozen" will exceed 10 million visitors, becoming the first cartoon to exceed 10 million visitors in South Korea and the second overseas film to exceed 10 million visitors."
"Mtime Time Network's global box office in one week: In the 6th week of 2014, "Frozen", which has been popular all over the world, topped the box office for the second time since its 11-week release, with 47 regions closing at US$84 million, driving the global box office to exceed 900 million mark and reach US$990 million, one step away from the billion dollar mark that Wan Xiaohu had previously booked."
"Frozen won the overseas box office championship on its seventh weekend of its release. Now it scored twice, and the box office curve is magical. With the popularity of mainland China and the unreleased Japanese box office, no one can predict how much box office Frozen can reach."
The cover of Time magazine selected two princesses, Elsa and Anna, with the inscription: "In the history of animation films, another masterpiece that will surely be recorded in history."
Those who want to read Wan Xiaohu's jokes are destined to be disappointed.
Billion dollars, do what you say!
Walt Disney was even more jealous. The princess brand they had run for decades was not as good as the ones that Wan Xiaohu made casually! Many people are now saying that Abao animation is much stronger than Disney's main animation capabilities. After acquiring DreamWorks, it is even more powerful than the alliance between Disney and Pixar.
If they were told that this animated masterpiece should have belonged to them, then... Disney's tragedy is imaginable.
However, Wan Xiaohu doesn't care what he did when he was in the animation field, the two companies are rivals who are frank and hard.
...
In the executive meeting room on the top floor of Dandelion Building, Wan Xiaohu sat in the main seat, surrounding the circular conference table, and sat all the top producers, screenwriters and planners of Sasha Entertainment and Jiahe Entertainment. Most of them are members of Wan Xiaohu's personal team, including Hollywood producers and Chinese screenwriters.
"You should know the specific notification. I have turned down the movie project of World of Warcraft and recommended Duncan Jones to direct it. There is no good choice for the rest. We make Chinese films, shoot ancient legends themes, and build an ancient legend plan that is even larger than the Marvel Cinema Universe Project!"
Wan Xiaohu talked happily: "We will do a good job in the story of this legend and strive to achieve a larger and mysterious background than the Lord of the Rings series. In this regard, the screenwriter department needs to organize the ancient Chinese legends first. In the first issue, we will first film the character Huangdi."
"Boss, the ancient legends are too large, and there are few things to learn from. The previous planning part suggested that the stories of "Journey to the West" and "The Romance of the Gods" be brought out. I don't know what this proposal is. I just watched "Journey to the West: The Great Trouble in the Heavenly Palace" yesterday, and I feel that the charm of famous works has not been discovered at all."
As a Chinese epic blockbuster that has been hyped for a long time, "Journey to the West: The Great Facts in the Heavenly Palace" has been hyped recently, but it has not received any good reviews. I won't comment on the flaws in the special effects. The whole plot has nothing to do with the original "Journey to the West". Bull Demon King became the boss of the Demon World, Erlang Shen became one of the villain bosses, and Sun Wukong even talked about love.
The 4.2 score on Mtime Time Network shows the audience's evaluation of it.
However, it happened to catch up with the booming Chinese film market and there was no comparison of similar films, which made "Journey to the West: The Great Fighting in the Heavenly Palace" achieve a pretty good box office. It just went abroad and it was directly declining. The performance of the overseas market was obviously very different from that of the domestic ones. In addition, the merciless criticism from foreign media, it was very difficult to make a breakthrough.
Of course, because GSP companies that want to learn "Heroes" and have mastered North American copyrights have decided to cool down for one or two years and then rush to North America to release. Whether they can achieve good results in North America can be said to be absolutely not successful even if the possibility is very small.
"Forget it, "Journey to the West". It's already ready to film the sequel "Journey to the West: The Third Fighting the Bone Demon". Liu Xiaolingtong also plans to film the 3D version of "Making a Fight in the Heavenly Palace". We won't join in the fun. Others say that I, Wan Xiaohu, are too domineering, and I will get into the money-making project."
In the end, Wan Xiaohu denied the remake of classic classics and always kept something for others to enjoy. Once he decided to remake the classics, would he still have other people's life with the strong production team behind him? Wan Xiaohu is not a saint, but he also hopes that Chinese films can flourish and let these people taste the sweetness so that they can try to shoot blockbusters more boldly.
A country's film industry is composed of countless movies of varying costs, but ultimately, blockbusters still need to promote surrounding industries, special effects, post-production and other industries. Moreover, the international influence of blockbusters is not comparable to that of small-cost movies.
After the meeting, a consensus was reached, that is, to start planning the "Ancient Legends Plan" as Wan Xiaohu's next shooting target.
The preparations will take a long time, and Wan Xiaohu does not intend to intervene or announce it to the public for the time being.
He continued to devote himself to his family's life.
Enjoy the wealth, status and reputation brought by rebirth. He cannot guarantee that he can achieve such great glory in the original movie in the future, which will be the beginning of a new life. Now, all he needs to do is enjoy the last movie he copied, "Frozen".
"In the past fourteen years, there have been countless glories, but my life still has a long way to go. When the halo brought by this movie ends, I will sink everything into my heart, like a beginner, and devote myself to the great cause of the director!"
"I am Wan Xiaohu! I believe I have talent and ability to create a real honor that is completely me!"
"I have to rely on my own abilities to surpass James Cameron and kill "Avatar"! I have to rely on my own abilities to win the Oscar for Best Director again and create classic movies! I have to rely on my own abilities to bring the best dream experience to everyone!"
The moment he walked out of the conference room, the corners of Wan Xiaohu's mouth slightly raised.
Chapter completed!