Chapter 490 Mr. 3 Billion Box Office and "Day and Night Chase"
In April, "Detective Chinatown" was finally released, and the final box office was 2.402 billion, firmly occupying the first place in film history.
Wei Yang and Wang Baoqiang have also become the most popular male actors nowadays.
Wang Baoqiang's most impressive movies are "Lost in Thailand" and "Detective Chinatown", and the cumulative total of the two movies is 3.7 billion.
The box office of other starring movies is not much, some have broken 100 million, some have tens of millions, and even a few million, and the total is almost over 4 billion.
Wei Yang's film works are relatively shabby, with only three starring movies, but all of them are outstanding, and the box office is very close to integers, which is very convenient to calculate.
"Famous" 505 million, "Time Travel" 803 million, plus "Detective Chinatown" 2.402 billion, the cumulative total is just over 3.7 billion.
However, their box office data is not the highest, and the one with the most accumulated box office in the mainland is Huang Bo.
Three movies with over 1 billion yuan, "Lost in Thailand", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Heart Flower Road", made him the earliest "Mr. 3 billion box office". With the help of other movies, he became the first "Mr. 4 billion box office".
Even Cheng Long can't compare with him in this respect. Big Brother's box office data in Hong Kong and even internationally is beyond reproach, but in the mainland film market, he is still behind Xu Zheng.
What is more worth mentioning is the change of the top actress with the highest cumulative box office in the mainland.
Before this, the female artist with the highest box office ranking was not Gong Huang of the older generation, not Zhou Gongzi and Zhang Ziyi, the three-time Golden Horse Award winner, nor Fan Xiaopang, who has performed outstandingly in the past two years, but Da Mimi, whose movie reputation is poor.
That's right, don't look at the movies shot by Da Mimi, the ratings are not high, and there are many complaints, but the box office is awesome.
The "Tiny Times" trilogy alone has made more than 1 billion yuan. Although she is a supporting actress in "Painted Skin 2", she is indeed the leading actress, and "The Breakup Master" is also a comedy with a hot box office in recent years.
In addition, she is diligent enough and has made many movies. Although most of the movies are bad, the total of the scattered ones is not a small number.
So, in the last count, Da Mimi's total box office is nearly 3 billion, and her ranking is above Zhou Gongzi and Zhang Ziyi.
This is also a classic joke in the domestic entertainment industry!
And now, the joke is updated. Da Mimi has finally been driven out, but she was replaced by Gao Yuanyuan, a well-known vase in the entertainment industry.
Gao Yuanyuan has previously participated in 5 movies with a box office of over 100 million, two of which have exceeded 200 million, and the highest box office is 228 million. This data is not bad, but it is not a big number among many popular artists.
But it was a movie "Detective Chinatown" that allowed her to complete the box office that could only be achieved by ten movies before, and she was the best in the industry as a vase.
Wei Yang didn't know what Zhou Gongzi and Zhang Ziyi thought, but Fan Xiaopang couldn't stop being sarcastic when he called these days.
After working hard for more than ten years, the data on paper is not as good as a lucky vase. Who can bear this?
However, this is not without benefits for Wei Yang. That is, many first-line actresses have contacted Wei Yang to express their interest in his new movie.
This interest has existed before, but it is still somewhat reserved. The main reason is that they understand that Wei Yang likes to use his own people. Although they contact him, they don’t want to be too active to avoid losing face.
But after "Detective Chinatown", the reserve is gone. Losing face is losing face. Just get the resources.
Even many actresses personally called Boss Wei, and there were hints in their words.
There are more than just Fan Xiaopang and Gao Yuanyuan who are sensible, good and non-clinging big sisters!
Even Liu Tianxian’s team couldn’t help but come to contact her. Her film performance is a flaw. In the past two years, she has been made particularly miserable by the 85 flowers. If she can take a high-quality movie, Liu Tianxian would rather suffer some criticism and strive for it.
But unfortunately, her possibilities are very few. The three beauties of the Chinese Paladin and Zhao Liying are guarding against her like they are guarding against something.
Wei Yang is willing to cooperate with her. Several people can join forces to grab roles. The resources can be discussed with anyone, but they must not belong to Liu Tianxian.
Wei Yang has no doubt about this, especially Liu Shishi. The two can be said to be old enemies. She would rather accept the three beauties of the Fairy Sword in one bed than tolerate Wei Yang and Liu Tianxian getting close.
The turbulence of the outside world did not affect Wei Yang's mentality. He still has a "Mekong Operation" in his hands and is not in a hurry to make new movies.
Especially for the much-anticipated "Detective Chinatown", Wei Yang plans to take it easy and shoot the second part next year, which will be released during the Spring Festival in early 2017.
It is important to strike while the iron is hot, but this movie has been raised too high. Behind the hot box office and good reputation, there are also many controversies and doubts.
In this case, the sequel is bound to attract great attention and let people from all walks of life look at it with a magnifying glass.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. High attention leads to high box office, but it is not necessarily a good thing.
If a few drops of water jump in when the fire is boiling, it will easily explode.
Therefore, it is the most appropriate time to cool down appropriately, avoid the wave and wait for the situation to calm down.
This is also the choice of many filmmakers who have become popular unexpectedly, such as Xu Zheng, Wu Jing, and Jia Ling. They settle down and fight again next year.
Wei Yang is already planning a new movie, which is expected to start shooting in the second half of the year, but before shooting the movie, Wei Yang plans to make a web drama.
This has been mentioned before. While the review of web dramas is not particularly strict, Wei Yang intends to invest in web dramas to increase PPTV's traffic and market share.
At this stage, pure online dramas are relatively low-profile for many actors and they cannot get on the stage.
Wei Yang's appearance in the online drama is a break from the norm and a lead for well-known actors.
This is the case in the entertainment industry. As long as someone with a higher status than you does something, others will not be too taboo about it. And more and more people are doing this, which means it is commonplace and even becomes popular.
This is true for variety reality shows, as well as online dramas, and later live broadcasts are also the same thing.
When they heard that Wei Yang wanted to make an online drama, Blue Whale and PPTV were all excited.
The latter is excited and exciting, while the former has different opinions, some support it and some oppose it.
Let alone Blue Whale’s objections, they cannot affect Wei Yang’s decision anyway, and the most supportive team of Boss Wei is Blue Whale’s screenwriting team.
It can be seen that these people have been thinking about Wei Yang for more than a day or two. The number of web drama scripts or synopses suitable for him alone is nearly double digits.
The themes are diverse, including horror and suspense, crimes and murders, and the most outrageous ones include pornographic themes.
The love and hatred between the cold master and the gentle disciple!
Wei Yang silently wrote down the script in his notebook. It was just a shame, but to want him to play the passive and gentle apprentice was simply too much.
What interests Wei Yang the most are the two scripts, and he doesn't know whether they were agreed upon or not.
One white and one black!
White people are in politics, black people are in the world.
Wei Yang was very interested in these two scripts and wanted to film them for a while, especially the second dark one. The director went to a small county in the northeast to see the scenery.
Then the relevant units came to pay attention and immediately called a halt.
Online dramas are loose now, but they are not without standards. Especially dramas produced by big names like Wei Yang, which attract a lot of attention from the outside world and are watched by the superiors. He cannot do whatever he wants.
There's no need to think about Bai's script, it's just dead. Apart from anti-corruption and praise, this kind of cool personal struggle history is impossible to pass the review.
It's okay to make it dark, but it needs to be drastically changed, which is equivalent to turning "Young and Dangerous" into "Horse".
With this change, many meanings of the original script changed. Wei Yang went through the revised outline and felt that it would be better to just shoot "Hurry Up", so he put the project on hold for the time being.
Because of these two scripts, the bosses were afraid that Wei Yang would cause trouble, so they took his online drama very seriously.
As a result, many of the themes were a bit sensitive. Wei Yang cut and deleted, and simply came up with a more "conservative" web drama——
"White Night Chase"
This is regarded as a milestone in online dramas. It is of excellent quality, and more importantly, the timing is right. Once it was released in the past life, everyone refreshed the stereotypes of online dramas at the time, and greatly promoted crime and reasoning. , suspense and other themes of online drama development.
A large number of similar themes in later generations, including iQiyi's famous Mist Theater, largely benefited from the dividends caused by "White Night".
And Pan Yueming, the male protagonist who plays "White Night", also relied on this drama to rise from an old fresh man who was wronged and became a has-been to a popular first-line actor, and his popularity has greatly increased.
In terms of quality, "White Night" is a classic masterpiece of online dramas, with a Douban score of 8.9.
In terms of performance, it once broke the record for the number of views of online dramas, and it can be described as a phenomenal work.
In terms of subject matter, the scale is very good. It is higher than TV dramas, but it does not step on the wrong side. It is just within the acceptable range of relevant departments.
Wei Yang did some research and found that this drama is indeed suitable for him to film. It can also become the first online drama of PPTV [Mist Theater]. As for the "Magic Revival of "Hurricane"", it is better to wait for a while before filming.
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In March, PPTV announced that it would join forces with Blue Whale to produce an online drama with a crime mystery theme and a surprise cast.
This news did not attract much attention at the time. The two companies have launched several online dramas in the past two years, which are hardly new topics. Not to mention that this kind of deliberate publicity is very unpopular, and some rebellious netizens do not support it.
But in April, the crew of "White Night", which had officially launched the project and launched its official Weibo, began to announce the starring lineup.
The first poster is for the director. There are two in total. The first one is called Wubai. He is not well-known. He is an unknown new director.
However, his resume in his previous life was pretty good, including "Psychological Crime", "Antique Game", "Big Shot" and "Sweeping Crime". He is a director who is very good at crime themes.
Another director is Wang Wei. He and Wu Bai are old acquaintances. He once worked as an editor for Wu Bai, who was the director at the time, on a micro-movie.
Because of this, his reputation is even smaller than Five Hundred, but he has an advantage that only Wei Yang knows.
In his previous life, Wang Wei was the director of "White Night", and also directed "The Hidden Greatness". Compared with crime suspense, he is better at shaping characters.
The fate of the twins is also the key to the success of the drama "White Night". This is a major reason why Wei Yang chose Wang Wei as the director.
The posters of the two directors did not cause any controversy and were posted on Weibo within 24 hours.
The number of views will exceed 10,000, the number of likes will only be a few hundred, and the number of comments and retweets will be in single digits. This is probably because the crew bought the traffic.
The official blog, which had originally planned to slowly release posters, could no longer sit still. The publicity and distribution team also had KPIs, but the data was too shabby and could easily lead to the death stare of the leader.
So the official Weibo quickly announced the second male lead, Pan Yueming, who plays the role of Captain Zhou Xun of the Criminal Police Detachment.
This is the general that Boss Wei personally selected. It's fine to rob other people's resources. This is Lao Pan's comeback work. It's not easy for him. Boss Wei really can't lose his conscience.
So let him play the second male lead. At least he can help him first. When he sees if there are any good resources, he can arrange another wave to make up for it.
Lao Pan was a top figure back then. His poster finally caused some discussion, but most people still felt sorry.
Back then, Pan Yueming was a well-known first-line actor. Alas, because he had a loser woman, he has now fallen to acting in a web drama. It's too miserable.
And when it was the third day, it was seen that Gulinaza played the leading female Zhou Shutong, and the Internet went crazy.
To be honest, originally this role didn't have a lot of scenes. Wei Yang planned to find a new actress. The film contract was sent to Coral Entertainment, but Gulinaza didn't know where she heard the news and tried her best to get the role.
It is said that she still won the game with the scissors and the bag, otherwise she would not be the only one to grab the role.
Although it feels like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken, Guli Nazha is throwing a tantrum and wants to learn from Boss Wei, and even her management team has no objection, so it's settled.
But outsiders don't know these situations, especially Guli Nazha's fans, who are almost mad when they see that such a top-tier star is actually acting in a web drama.
The official Weibo accounts of "White Night Chase" and Blue Whale have been attacked, and even Boss Wei's Weibo has been targeted.
In short, Blue Whale is too bullying, and we must give our Nazha an explanation.
In the end, the explanation didn't come, but the poster of "White Night Chase" released that Wei Yang is the male lead of the web drama.
Nazha's fans were silent, and then quickly deleted the Weibo, and the indignant voices were swept away, and the forum and fan groups were even more excited.
But other netizens and fan groups couldn't sit still, and the whole network was in an uproar.
How did Wei Yang act in a web drama? !
Why let Guli Nazha, a vase, play the female lead? !