Chapter 944: Breaking One Billion Fastest

Directing three films in one year…

It seems like only Hong Kong directors do that!

Zhang Yimou's previous efficiency was one film a year, and the film was suspended for three years during the Olympic opening ceremony.

Generally speaking, it is relatively normal for mainland directors to produce one film a year and one film every two years due to their small workshop-style production model.

Director Chen Da maintains this efficiency...

Zhang Yi has three dramas in one year?

In fact, in the early years, Zhang Yimou's high energy had already spread throughout the entire circle - "Ju Dou" (1990), "The Red Lantern Tower" (1991) and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" (1992) "Alive" (1993)…

At that time, he was the number one director in the Mainland!

Later, he became a "stinking turd" - all the people who didn't like him had similar comments about him. The general logic is: a good-natured, "home-grown" fifth-generation director with depth and criticality. First he surrendered to the market, then he tried to get closer to the system, and he sold all his talents to the real benefits. From then on, he could no longer make a qualified movie - in Jia Baoyu's words, he was "a beetle".

In those years, his reputation was really bad...

Even though he directed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, he was still criticized as a decoration person!

Then, after "The Thirteen Beauties", he signed with Tianmei. After a round of output, his reputation directly changed - he is the only remaining film master!

Now, you told me that Zhang Yi filmed three movies in a certain year?

Zhang Yimou himself explained: "We were preparing three films at the same time. "Big Buddha" had just finished, "Love" came, and then "Return" was filmed... The actors are basically the same batch!"

"Xudong arranged for his literary planner, assistant director and script planner to help with the storyboarding..."

"The efficiency is really high... I basically only need to focus on on-site shooting, and others will handle the rest."

"I think a good script accounts for more than half of the success factors of a movie. Because it is the source, especially for a director of my type. I usually do not direct or write myself, so my creative habit from the beginning is to have a step Let’s try it. We usually talk about triple jumps. The script is at least the first jump. Its target must be aligned. The first step is aligned and the posture is correct. Only then can the power be exerted in the last two steps... The script has been idle for many years. Xudong gave me seven or eight scripts at once, all of which were good... I picked two to film... "Big Buddha" and "Love"... "Return" is Geling's script..."

The ‘pressure’ is on Shen Xudong!

Shen Xudong Bole's reputation is widely spread...

So much so that many people ignore the fact that he himself is a top screenwriter.

The next day, while promoting "Tang Detective", some media asked Shen Xudong about the script.

"I actually think that Director Zhang, as a celebrity, should no longer be obsessed with box office and so on. He should make something that reflects reality. So what is the reality now? The gap between rich and poor is widening, polarization, and class solidification... I wrote a lot of scripts about these things..."

"As for "Big Buddha", apart from the script, what other help did you provide?"

"The story of "Big Buddha" has a certain universality. The core is the gap between rich and poor...The world of the poor is in black and white, and the world of the rich is in color. I just said this concept...You don't think Director Zhang makes a movie , I will go up and give advice, right?"

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The discussion of "Big Buddha" is obviously higher than that of "Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" - there is no way, Zhang Yimou's popularity is placed here...

Of course, "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" is not bad either, and Yan Bingyan starred in "Latent", "The Age of Steel", "Wenzhou Family"...

They are all hits.

Not only did it have high ratings, but it also won the Feitian, Magnolia, and Golden Eagle TV Drama Awards...

Although she is not as well-known as a star, she is also the role of Tianmei in Chinese dramas and has a very high status!

Both movies were released in March, and "Big Buddha" was released on March 7. Not surprisingly, the box office should exceed 100 million. As for a more accurate box office, it's hard to say...

Tianmei Company actually does not have any rigid requirements for the mainland box office of "Big Buddha" - on the night when it won the Golden Bear Award, the copyright of "Big Buddha" was sold to 182 countries and regions, and it was basically a buyout...

A total of more than 30 million US dollars!

The cost of "Big Buddha" was only 30 million yuan...

Not only the cost was recovered, but also a huge profit was made.

Most importantly, the good news from Berlin and the huge sales of "Tang Detective" have stimulated the secondary market performance of Tianmei companies. Although I don't know how much of the increase in stock prices can be attributed to the award-winning "Big Buddha", there is definitely a correlation. !

Therefore, regarding the promotion of "Big Buddha", it directly followed the specifications of commercial films - spending 25 million yuan on promotion.

As for "Thousands of Arrows Pierce the Heart", maintain a high level of style...

Back to the topic, although these two movies are highly discussed, they are still not as good as "Detective Chinatown"...

As of February 23, "Tang Detective" has been in theaters for 13 days, and the cumulative box office has exceeded 1 billion!

Forget it, the key point is that the unexpected journey in "The Hobbit:" is coming fiercely, and I haven't actually done "Tang Detective"...

——"Tang Detective" broke the box office records of various Chinese-language movies at a rocket speed. I thought that the release of "The Hobbit" would put pressure on "Tang Detective"...

I originally expected "Jack Reacher"...

The movie "Jack Reacher" is obviously perfunctory. The Chinese version has been accused by the audience of being full of loopholes, with many mistakes in the translation and incoherent text...

Logically speaking, "Jack Reacher" was released in North America in December last year, and the mainland release date is February 16 this year, so there is enough time to deal with the subtitle issue.

But Paramount didn’t handle it!

None of the publishing companies are optimistic about it...

"The Hobbit" is different. As a masterpiece in the same series as "The Lord of the Rings", it was known from the beginning that it would be a box office bomb!

The first "The Hobbit" had a box office of US$303 million in North America. Before it was released in mainland China, the global box office had exceeded US$900 million.

The result... still couldn't beat "Detective Chinatown"...

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It exceeded 1 billion in 13 days of release, once again setting a new record for the fastest box office to exceed 1 billion.

The theater chain has long adjusted the box office forecast of "Detective Chinatown" - from the previous 1.2 billion to 1.5 billion...

In front of "Tang Detective", there are only "Wolong" with 1.126 billion, "囧" with 1.187 billion and "One Shot" with 1.209 billion...

Yes, they are all TiMi 3 movies, and "囧", "One Shot", and "Detective Chinatown" have exceeded one billion in a row, and the interval does not even exceed three months!

According to Gao Fenfen, there must be a celebration.

Chen Xi also agreed, but she had a new idea - not only to celebrate the success, but also to announce the film list, and also to bring in a few celebrities to add to the fun...

After some calculation, Zhou Xingchi had to come, and Chung Lifeng had to come too...

Seeing the huge success of "Tang Detective", Zhong Lifang immediately decided to restart "The Best Partner"...

The first thing was to secure the copyright - the copyright of "The Best Partner" was in the hands of New Art City and was later sold to Media Asia Films.

"Detective Tang" is a hit, and she thinks the hilarious detective comedy is on the way!

This type was originally a major branch in Hong Kong movies, a combination of "wisdom boy + reckless fool", one is responsible for solving puzzles, the other is responsible for action, and together they solve the complicated and confusing case. There are many that can be cited casually, such as "The Best Partner", "The Five Lucky Stars", "The Legend of Wesley" and so on...

As for Shen Xudong’s thoughts?

unimportant!

Shen Xudong is busy paying New Year greetings - the second wave of promotions for "Tang Detective" is over. He returns to BJ and has time to send New Year greetings to his seniors...