Chapter 188 Records Are Meant to Be Broken!
The next day, the crew of Painted Skin boarded a plane to Japan, where a premiere was waiting for them in Tokyo.
In China, Painted Skin was released simultaneously in theaters across the country on December 28.
Countless fans who had been looking forward to this movie and domestic fantasy movies for a long time went to the cinema and bought tickets for Painted Skin.
Although there were two movies, Crazy Monkey and A Single Man, competing at the same time, Painted Skin still earned 18 million yuan on the first day of its premiere, breaking the mainland's premiere box office record.
Millions of viewers went to the cinema to watch Painted Skin as soon as it was released.
"Zeng Li is so beautiful in this movie. Such a good wife should get all the love and respect from her husband!"
"Chen Kun and Zhou Xun acted well. Xiao Wei is right, and Wang Sheng is not wrong. It's just that they met each other at the wrong time."
"The demon hunter fell in love with Pang Yong, Pang Yong loved Peirong, Peirong loved Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng fell in love with Xiao Wei, the lizard spirit loved Xiao Wei, and Xiao Wei loved Wang Sheng. So many relationships were stuffed into one movie, but it doesn't look complicated or abrupt at all. The director is great!"
"No, am I the only one who feels sorry for the little lizard? He has been silently paying for Xiao Wei, even at the cost of his life, just to get Xiao Wei's love, but in the end he is still... I didn't get it. "
"Xiao Wei is so miserable. Wang Sheng saved her. She tilted her head and looked at him. This look pushed her to the point of no return. "
"This movie tells us a truth. You must never be a spare tire in a relationship!"
"Director Wu is worthy of being a big director in Hollywood. The special effects of "Painted Skin" are really good. I was scared to death when Zhou Xun changed her skin!"
"You must go to the cinema to watch this movie and feel the magical special effects on the big screen. Whether it is Zhou Xun's fox spirit transformation, the magic of the demon-slayer, or the disfigured Peirong, these can only be shocked when you watch them on the big screen!"
The first batch of viewers who watched the movie posted movie reviews on the Internet.
The Douban community has now been established, and the majority of movie fans have a place to get together to talk about movies and rate and comment.
On the day of the premiere of "Painted Skin", thousands of fans flocked to Douban to rate the movie and post reviews.
The next day, "Painted Skin" Douban opened with a score of 8.2, and received more than 2,000 short reviews and more than 300 long reviews.
For today's movie fans, whether to decide to watch a movie is still a very important thing. After all, a movie ticket of 35 yuan is still quite expensive.
At this time, they usually go online to check the reputation and evaluation of the movie.
The emergence of Douban can be said to be a timely rain.
And "Painted Skin" has become the movie that has benefited the most since the establishment of Douban.
The box office on the first day was 18 million, the box office on the second day was 22 million, and the box office on the third day was 25 million.
"Painted Skin" earned 65 million in the first three days of the first weekend in China, breaking a series of records such as the daily box office of mainland movies, the box office on the first three days of the weekend, and the fastest box office of 50 million!
In Japan, Toho invited half of the Japanese film industry to hold a grand premiere for "Painted Skin", which also added fuel to the release in the Japanese market.
Toho, who is willing to spend money on publicity, also arranged a one-stop online and offline publicity for "Painted Skin"!
Trailer + poster + celebrity recommendation, after a set of processes, the release news of "Painted Skin" is widely known in Japan.
Fox spirit + love, this theme is too popular with Japanese movie fans!
Japanese movie fans like to watch this kind of love movie where he loves her and she loves him. In addition, fantasy elements such as fox spirit, skin-changing, and heart-eating are familiar with various myths and legends during the Warring States Period in Japan!
There are no cultural barriers. The Han Dynasty is also a relatively familiar era in Japan (because of the Three Kingdoms). Without any extra explanation, Japanese movie fans can easily understand the story of "Painted Skin" when they enter the cinema.
And a commercial film, as long as it is simple and easy to understand, has the first element of selling box office.
With the goodwill that "Your Name" brought to Japanese movie fans before, Wu Yuan's "Painted Skin" was given a high screening by major Japanese theaters at the beginning of its release.
The market did give very good feedback.
In the same first three days of the weekend, "Painted Skin" raked in 800 million yen in Japan!
Although this result may not be as good as "Your Name", as a Chinese film with a costume fantasy theme, it is already very outstanding.
Dongbao also gave a box office forecast, thinking that "Painted Skin" should be able to get a box office of about 5 billion yen in Japan.
It is almost the same as the single box office of "Red Cliff" in Japan.
This is also the ceiling result of Chinese costume films.
Things like "Your Name" that have won more than 10 billion yen in box office are not achieved every year, and it requires the right time, place and people.
Of course, "Painted Skin" is not only premiered in China and Japan.
South Korea also held a large-scale premiere this time. The distribution of cinemas in South Korea is very similar to that in Japan, and more than half of the cinemas in the country are concentrated in Seoul.
Other large cities such as Busan and Incheon occupy most of the remaining cinemas, and other small cities may not have a cinema in several cities.
With the full promotion of SHOWBOX, "Painted Skin" is also quite popular in South Korea.
The main reason is that Wu Yuan's brand is well-known.
As one of the United States' "allies" in East Asia, Koreans naturally admire American culture, life and things.
Hollywood is also a movie paradise in the hearts of most Korean fans.
In South Korea, which is extremely xenophobic, has a high national consciousness, and all walks of life support domestic products, only products from the United States are acceptable.
And Wu Yuan is a director who has been gilded in the United States!
Korean fans don't care about his European Film Festival awards.
But his "Juno" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" have very good box office in South Korea, and he is also recognized by Korean fans as one of the Hollywood commercial directors.
When SHOWBOX promoted "Painted Skin", it never mentioned Wu Yuan's Chinese identity, but only promoted his identity as a Hollywood director, which really worked well.
"Painted Skin" mobilized 420,000 fans to watch it in the cinema in three days of its premiere in South Korea, and the word of mouth it generated was not bad.
Love stories are the most accessible film genre, and with the convergence of East Asian culture, monsters are not difficult to understand.
And for Koreans, this kind of love story, where you are her spare tire and she is his spare tire, really caters to their aesthetics.
This kind of plot is popular in Korean dramas now, and it is even more bloody than this. Isn't it popular throughout Korea and even exported to other Asian countries?
Although it is not to the extent that it can cause a sensation among the whole nation, the box office performance of "Painted Skin" in Korea is still good, and it has been steadily increasing.
On the Korean Internet, many netizens are also discussing the movie "Painted Skin" fiercely and discussing the Chinese culture shown in this movie.
Unlike the Ming-style clothing inherited by Korea from the Ming Dynasty, "Painted Skin" mainly shows the clothing style and customs of the Han Dynasty, which makes Koreans who don't know much about ancient China feel very novel.
Not just Korea.
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand will also premiere on December 28.
"Painted Skin" has brought a wave of baptism and display of Chinese classical culture to the audiences in East Asia.
From the desert Gobi to the Jiangnan water town, the Han-style mansions, Qin bricks and Han tiles, small bridges and flowing water, which are completely different from the style of the quadrangle courtyard, as well as the scholars with tall hats and wide belts, the soldiers in gorgeous armor, and the women in colorful clothes and feathers in the movie, all show the charm of the Han family.
"Painted Skin" has a fantasy love in one hand and the splendor of the Han Dynasty in the other. Relying on these two weapons, it has achieved very good box office results in the six Asian countries as soon as it was released.
In the first three days of the first weekend, the six countries received a total of 15 million US dollars in box office, earning back the investment capital.
In the first week of release, the box office in the mainland broke 100 million yuan, the box office in Japan broke 2 billion yen, and the total box office in Asia exceeded 35 million US dollars, which has basically achieved profitability.
With the arrival of a new week, the box office of "Painted Skin" is still strong, and it can still maintain a single-day box office of about 15 million in China.
It is an indisputable fact that the box office of "Painted Skin" exceeds "House of Flying Daggers" and "A World Without Thieves".
Mainland audiences, fans and media reporters are all looking forward to whether "Painted Skin" can surpass the 250 million yuan of "Hero"!
You know, the total box office of the mainland market this year, including overseas imported films, is only 2 billion yuan!
If the box office of "Painted Skin" can exceed 200 million yuan, it is equivalent to a movie occupying 10% of the entire mainland movie box office market this year!
This is a very exaggerated thing!
But even so, domestic fans and media reporters are full of expectations for "Painted Skin" to break the box office record of "Hero".
The record of "Hero" has really been maintained for a long time. Everyone hopes that a movie can stand up and break this record, and hope that the Chinese film industry can continue to rise!
Records are meant to be broken!
Now, "Painted Skin", the first fantasy blockbuster in the mainland that also occupies the title of "No. 1", is coming with great momentum. How can people not expect it to create a new record?
Just when the whole country was paying attention to the box office trend of "Painted Skin" and enthusiastically went to the cinema to support the film, Wu Yuan quietly left China.
The leading actors of the "Painted Skin" crew still had to participate in various variety shows and talk shows in China and even in Japan and South Korea, but Wu Yuan had to rush back to the United States to continue filming "Rush Hour 3".
The box office performance of "Painted Skin" has basically stabilized. It is hard to say whether it can break the 250 million box office record of "Hero" in the mainland, but it will definitely make a profit.
Without the box office pressure, Wu Yuan naturally did not need to stay in Asia and had to continue his unfinished work.
However, when he landed in Mexico City by plane, what was waiting for him was not the crew that started work immediately, but a lively celebration party!
"Daniel, congratulations on your new movie being a big hit in Asia!"
"I heard it broke a lot of records?"
"You are worthy of it!"
Roald toasted Wu Yuan with a glass of champagne and said with expectation: "I really hope that Rush Hour 3 will also be a big hit in Asia!"
Yes, after seeing Wu Yuan's box office appeal in Asia, Roald is even more looking forward to the box office performance of Rush Hour 3 in Asia!
Wu Yuan alone is so powerful, what will happen if Cheng Long is added?
These two are considered the top directors and actors in Hollywood. They are working together to make a movie. What a dream lineup for Asian movie fans, right?
Will the movie tickets be sold out?
Roald gulped down the champagne in his hand, burped, and said with longing: "Maybe Rush Hour 3 should also arrange a grand Asian premiere!"
"Asian movie fans deserve our attention!"