China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 204 5 million Box Office!Mainland's first female director

On January 1th, "Beijing Meets Seattle" held its premiere red carpet ceremony in Beijing. Director Xue Xiaolu appeared with leading actors Zhang Jiayi and Gao Yuanyuan. In addition, directors Li Mu, Liu Yifei, Yan Ni and many other celebrities in the circle also came to the scene to help out. Director Xue Xiaolu's classmate Wang Qian also attended the premiere as a special guest.

When Li Mu and Liu Yifei walked through the red carpet hand in hand, the audience cheered one after another, which made Li Mu think that perhaps he should take Liu Yifei less to participate in such activities in the future, so as not to always give the film creators the limelight Robbed.

Director Xue Xiaolu took a few steps to greet her. After Li Mu and Director Xue shook hands, everyone entered the backstage together.

"Have you read the news? "If You Are the One 2" broke the record for the highest box office of a Chinese romance film." Li Mu asked with a smile.

Director Xue Xiaolu nodded and said: "I see, half a month, 4.4 million, very strong."

Li Mu smiled.

Seeing this, Gao Yuanyuan had an idea, and asked with a smile, "Director Li, do you think our movie has a chance to break this record?"

Li Mu smiled at Gao Yuanyuan, then turned his head to look at director Xue Xiaolu next to him and said, "Why, Director Xue is not confident?"

Xue Xiaolu nodded and said, "It's true that I'm not very confident, but it's not because of the quality of the film."

"Ok?"

Li Mu was curious.

Director Xue Xiaolu then said: "If Director Li is willing to add his name to the screenwriter column, I'm sure I'm confident, but..."

Li Mu smiled and said, "I won't compete with the screenwriters below."

Director Xue Xiaolu was quite helpless upon hearing this.

For the script of "Beijing Meets Seattle", Li Mu first came up with a big framework and plot outline, and then handed it over to the company's internal screenwriting department to perfect and plump the entire script.

In fact, normally speaking, Li Mu is the screenwriter of this movie, and he is the most important screenwriter ranked first.

There is a ready-made example in the original space-time.

It is said that director Chen Sicheng does not have the ability to complete scripts independently. Almost all of his scripts are conceived by himself first, and then invite other professional screenwriters to enrich and polish the story, but whether it is "Beijing Love Story" It's still the "Detective Chinatown" series, which were all written and directed by Chen Sicheng during the promotion.

And almost every time Chen Sicheng has to go to court with other screenwriters over the issue of authorship, but other screenwriters are actually just fighting for authorship. The column only marked Chen Sicheng alone.

Therefore, according to common sense, there is no problem with the name of Li Mu, the screenwriter of "Beijing Meets Seattle", but some time ago, Li Mu made a notice in the company, and the notice required that in the future, he would not be responsible for the publicity. Don't promote him as the screenwriter of the film when the film is shot from the script.

This notice seems very unreasonable. You are obviously a genuine screenwriter, and your reputation is obviously the biggest in the project. As long as your name is used in the promotion of the movie, it will definitely be able to effectively improve the box office performance of the movie, but But you just don't let the following publicity like this, why?What is your reason for doing this?
In fact, Li Mu really thought about this matter carefully.

First of all, the company will produce more and more films every year in the future, and it will become more and more common for Li Mu to produce the plot framework and the company's screenwriters to contribute to the richness and polish of the plot.

If the company produces five, ten, or even more films of this type every year in the future, will it be necessary to put Li Mu's name on the screenwriter column of each film?

Imagine that the company releases five and ten works written by Li Mu a year, and the audience can almost see the works of "Screenwriter Li Mu" when they go to the theater to watch movies in any month. Then, will the words "Screenwriter Li Mu" have a gold content? Will it be greatly discounted?
Secondly, Li Mu's company will not only produce those very classic works that are talked about by people. If the company produces works in the future, although the quality is uneven but there are certain merits, all of them will be labeled "Li Mu screenwriter". If the audience has just watched a not-so-wonderful "Written by Li Mu" film, will the audience not have such high expectations for the next "Written by Li Mu" movie?

But what if Li Mu's next movie is the very classic "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "Interstellar", "Coco"?

So the crux of the problem is that Li Mu is really different from other directors. Other directors only have a few good works, and of course they should bind all of them to themselves as much as possible.

But Li Mu is different. His problem is just the opposite of others. His problem is that his own works are too many, so he must do subtraction, and the audience must think of him, "Li Mu's production must be a high-quality product." "impression.

It is also based on this consideration that Li Mu asked not to use his name on scripts that he did not complete independently in the future.

"By the way, do you want to take a good rest after this movie is finished? Do you want to travel and adjust your status?" Li Mu asked director Xue Xiaolu again.

Director Xue Xiaolu has always been known for her delicate thoughts, so she immediately understood what Li Mu meant.

"Boss Li has a script that suits me again?"

Li Mu said with a smile: "In 2007, I bought the film and television adaptation rights of an online novel on Jinjiang.com. The main line of the story is about a girl who finally chooses to commit suicide due to illness and Internet violence. Director Xue has a delicate mind and should Can handle the subject very well.”

Director Xue Xiaolu nodded and said, "I'll look at the script later."

Li Mu nodded.

Gao Yuanyuan hesitated to speak.

She is very interested in this new movie!

Movies about cyber violence, the protagonist sounds like a woman, it is likely to be a movie with a leading heroine, the leading heroine will get extra points, and the realistic theme will also get extra points; Li Mu bought the copyright as early as 2007 for the project he is optimistic about Well, this [-]% is another hit, right?Plus points!
After the heartbeat, she looked at Li Mu with hope, her eyes were almost filled with: "Choose me, I want to act!"

But this time Li Mu acted like a normal person, as if he couldn't receive the signal from Gao Yuanyuan at all.

No matter how good the relationship is, you can't just give it to me right away if you want to play, right?

It's as if Li Mu begged you to act in my movie, but it's really unnecessary.

The communication between Li Mu and director Xue Xiaolu came to an end. Xue Xiaolu is the director of the movie, she is very busy tonight, so Li Mu quickly let her go to her own business.

The on-site staff, directors and actors who came to help out looked at Liu Yifei differently than before.

Beautiful is still beautiful, and it seems to have become more beautiful.

The most important thing is - a total box office of 30 billion US dollars!

The heroine movie "The Hunger Games" series has a single film score of 9 million US dollars, and there will be 3 follow-up films in this series!
Cow!

It took about half an hour for the premiere ceremony to officially start, and the premiere ceremony of the day was broadcast live by CCTV Six Princesses.

……

After the interaction of the premiere ceremony, the film crew played the film on the spot. After the film screening, a large number of audiences spontaneously stood up and applauded-it seems that the effect of holding this premiere ceremony is quite good.

After the premiere, there will be a zero screening of the film, and after the zero screening, it will be released on a large scale nationwide on January 1.

The original space-time "Beijing Meets Seattle" has a box office curve that is quite against the sky. Generally, the movie has the highest box office in the first weekend after the movie is released, but "Beijing Meets Seattle" is different. Its first weekend The two-day box office was only about 2600 million yuan, but it completed a considerable box office counterattack on the second weekend after the film was released, with a single-day box office of 3300 million yuan!

The box office of the second week is higher than that of the first week, which is actually quite rare.

But there is something even more rare in the future. In the third week after the film was released, that is, more than half a month after the film was released, its single-day box office was still higher than the first weekend when the film was just released.

This shows that the early attention of the original space-time movie was not enough at all. Many audiences entered the theater after the movie's reputation became popular.

But in this time and space, there is no such problem at all.

Late counterattack?

Please, this is a movie of Li Mu Company!
It is said that the script was written by Li Mu himself, but Li Mu didn't let the company promote it like this.

Based on this, it is impossible for the film to lack attention in the early days.

The first day of the show was 4700 million, the next day was 4800 million, the third day was Saturday, the box office of the film soared to 7300 million, and the fourth day was Sunday, the box office continued to be at a high level, 7700 million.

Next:
Monday, 4300 million.

3700 million on Tuesday.

……

5200 million on Saturday.

4900 million on Sunday.

Because this time and space has attracted a lot of attention from the very beginning, there is no phenomenon that the box office of the original time and space is higher than that of the first week in the second and third weeks.The box office of this space-time movie was as high as 7700 million in the first weekend, but it shrank to 5000 million in the weekend of the second week.

从1月6日到1月16日，影片一共上映了11天，总票房5.13亿。

The box office of "Beijing Meets Seattle" shocked the entire Chinese entertainment circle!
"If You Are the One 2" has been in theaters for 26 days, and the current total box office is 5.8 million.

It should be explained that the final box office of "If You Are the One 2" in the original time and space was actually 4.71 million yuan. The domestic film market in this time and space is developing more rapidly, so the final box office of "If You Are the One 2" naturally also rises with the expansion of the market. , the recent prediction made by relevant agencies for this movie has been raised to 6.6 million yuan.

The final box office forecast of "Beijing Meets Seattle" has also been raised to 7.2 million yuan.

Amazing.

Director Xue Xiaolu is really a blockbuster this time!

And the degree of shock is quite serious.

At present, how many female directors have successfully joined the "[-] million yuan club" in the entire Chinese film industry?

Actually there are 3!
Director Jin Yimeng, "Perfect", in 2009, had a total box office of 1 million.

Director Hu Wen, "Confucius", in 2010, had a total box office of 1.01 million.

Xu Jinglei's "Du Lala's Promotion", in 2010, had a total box office of 1.24 million.

But in fact, the box office of these three female directors may all have a certain amount of moisture, and they are all suspected of trying to squeeze in a box office of over [-] million. In fact, it seems that all three of them have marketed themselves as the first female director in China with a box office of over [-] million.

Even when Director Li Yu's "Second Exposure" was released in 2012, after its box office exceeded [-] million, there were still a large number of drafts on the Internet that Director Li Yu was the first Chinese female director with a box office of over [-] million.

In three years, four female directors, and four works, four first female directors in China with a box office of over [-] million were born.

Among them, it may be that director Jin Yimeng's reputation as "the first female director with a box office of over [-] million" is more recognized in the circle.

But no matter which of these people is the first domestic female director with a box office of over [-] million in the true sense, but one thing remains unchanged, that is, almost all of the works of these four people are just stuck in the [-] million mark. on this critical node.

But when director Xue Xiaolu came here, everything changed suddenly.

Are you still arguing over who is China's first female director with a box office of over [-] million?
Sorry, the box office of "Beijing Meets Seattle" directed by Xue Xiaolu exceeded 11 million in just 5 days of its release!

It seems that the title of the first female director with a box office of over [-] million yuan has suddenly become unpopular. Now when the group of female directors in China is mentioned in the circle, Xue Xiaolu must be the first thing that comes to mind!

There are few other answers left.

Director Xue Xiaolu is the only answer!
What is the concept of a box office of over 5 million?
Might as well come up with an enumeration method!
Who are the directors with a box office of over 5 million for a single movie in the domestic market?
The first place must be Li Mu, and the second place is Li Mu's tool man director Shen Junsheng. This guy's "People on the Journey: Lost in Thailand" has a box office of 15 billion!

The third is "The Great Earthquake" and "If You Are the One 2" directed by Feng Xiaogang.

The fourth is "Let the Bullets Fly" directed by Jiang Wen.

Then again?

No more, it seems like there is none.

In other words, director Xue Xiaolu is the fifth director in the country with a box office of over 5 million!
Is director Zhang Yimou good or not?

In 2002, the movie "Hero" was born, and its domestic box office finally reached 2.5 million!We must know that the national market in 2002 was only 9.2 million yuan, and director Zhang Yimou only used one "Hero" to account for more than a quarter of the total box office for the year.

And in the 9.2 million annual total box office, even the box office of imported movies will account for nearly half, so you all know how terrifying director Zhang Yimou was at that time, right?
However, director Zhang Yimou has not had a box office of more than 5 million works so far, and the box office of Director Zhang's "Three Shots Surprise" released last year was less than 3 million.

Even directors as powerful as director Zhang Yimou have yet to have a work with a box office of more than 5 million yuan. As a result, director Xue Xiaolu, who only started directing last year, did it first?
Is director Zhou Xingchi good or not?

Whether it was "Kung Fu" in 2004 or "Yangtze River No. 2008" in [-], these two films undoubtedly created a movie-watching frenzy at the time, but what are the box office of these two films?
"Kung Fu" 1.7 million, "Yangtze River No. 2.03" [-] million.

That's right, these movies were indeed released too early. If these movies were released today, it would be almost impossible to only have such a small box office.

Especially "Kung Fu", the final box office will almost certainly exceed 5 million.

But an assumption is an assumption. The actual situation is that Zhou Xingchi has not yet had a work with a box office of over 5 million.

Who are the other great directors in China?
Brother Chen Kai and Director Chen that Zhang Yimou used to carry the camera for him?
He even has no work with a box office of over 5 million!
"The Founding of a Country" co-directed by Han Sanping, Huang Jianxin and others?
It's a pity that it's just a little bit worse.

There are really no more. There are only 5 directors with a box office of more than 5 million in a single domestic work, and among these 5 people, there is a female director.

It really feels like being famous all over the world.

The focus of attention of ordinary audiences and insiders must be different.

Ordinary viewers are exclaiming that Gao Yuanyuan is really a goddess, the appearance in the film is not too beautiful, etc. They are all exclaiming that our family Yuanyuan also has a masterpiece with a box office of over 5 million, which is simply too beautiful!
However, people in the circle pay more attention to these horrific achievements of Director Xue Xiaolu.

But when the people in the circle calmed down and thought about it carefully, they found:

"My grass!"

"There are only 5 directors in China with a box office of more than 5 million works. As a result, I will not talk about the first Li Mu, the second Shen Junsheng is director Li Mu's tool, and the fifth is Xue Xiaolu—— Shit! Director Xue directed The movie is actually a project of Li Mu's company!"

"It's not just a movie of Li Mu's company? In fact, who in the circle doesn't know that "Beijing Meets Seattle" is a work written by Li Mu himself? But there are too many classic works by Li Mu. He doesn't want this false name anymore. That's all!"

"Damn it! Five directors have to get rid of three 'Li Mu series', and the remaining directors are Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen. "

"Let me tell you another well-known secret—"Let the Bullets Fly" Li Mu also invested in it!"

"Huh? Speechless!"

In short, the circle exploded!
(End of this chapter)