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"Crazy Stone" is red!

At that time, the first day of the new year was really not a good time period, but this time period was just a not-so-good time period in concept. , the real concept of schedule has not been thoroughly rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is not as conventional as the North American market that has developed for a century. Therefore, except for a summer schedule that has been basically accepted and recognized by domestic movie-loving audiences and fans, in fact, even The so-called Lunar New Year file has not really taken shape yet.

Minghu Culture first proposed the concept of "Spring Festival stalls", which attracted the attention of many people in the industry. As we all know, on the first day of the new year, who is not allowed to visit relatives and friends for a New Year? Who doesn't want a family reunion for a drink?

Even in the next few days, who can't get together with three or five confidants?

Who will go to the movies?

It's strange that the movie market can be hot!

In fact, "Crazy Stone" won 72% of the hegemony-level filming rate as soon as it was released, but in the first few days, the attendance rate was indeed not too ideal.

Even though Feng Bicheng and Huang Ge are already quite appealing directors and actors, the publicity team headed by them, in the first few days, wherever they went, the enthusiasm of the fans they got seemed to be. And not as much as they should have gotten.

But the viewers who have seen it have almost unanimous praise!

In this era, the pace of life is getting faster and faster. In the past, it was impossible to realize that it was only the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that the year was over. It used to be a day to visit a relative, but now, urbanites have a big table dinner with several relatives during the Chinese New Year, and rural people also join relatives quickly, and then they have to quickly consider going back to the city for work-this year has been getting shorter and shorter. .

And more importantly, in fact, many people no longer regard visiting relatives and friends to drink and eat meat as an important thing in the New Year. In addition to reunion, it is entertainment.

So, on the first day of "Crazy Stone", it didn't seem to be so lively. On the second day, the number of people watching the movie was already increasing, and then it seemed to be getting hotter and hotter. On the fifth day of the new year, the movie market suddenly changed. It seems to be particularly lively, and by this time, only five days after its release, "Crazy Stone" has already grossed more than 200 million at the box office - no doubt, many people dropped their jaws.

After the box office of "Big Shot" exceeded 500 million, Feng Bicheng became famous in one fell swoop. His second work dare not say that it exceeds "Big Shot". The humorous element makes "Crazy Stone" appear once and has an amazing effect.

Therefore, even if it got the relatively cold "Spring Festival", it seems that this film did not really have an "explosive peak" at the box office. The movie's big sales have been unstoppable!

The film itself is of high quality and has an excellent reputation. The distribution and arrangement of the film are extremely powerful. There are absolutely no influential competitors in the same period, and in fact, the audience is quite skilled and rich at this time!

As a result, "Crazy Stone" launched the first shot of the new year so easily and calmly!

As of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the film has been released for ten days, and the cumulative box office has reached more than 420 million!

At the same time, the "black skin" is on fire!

A previously unknown actor Liu Zhongxin became a big hit within ten days!

And when the film finally went offline on April 14, 2005, it created a jaw-dropping box office record-a total of 68 days of release and 47 consecutive days of domestic box office champions!

This is something that big-selling movies such as "The Matrix", "Dragon Inn", "The Gate of Life and Death" and so on have never been achieved - who said that the off-season must really be the off-season? Who said off-season box office must be bad?

The film finally won the domestic box office of more than 680 million yuan, making "Crazy Stone" the fifth place in the domestic box office rankings, second only to "The Matrix", "Dragon Inn", "Life and Death" The Door" and "Once Upon a Time in Wong Fei-hung's Man, Be Self-improvement".

And Feng Bicheng's film works accumulated at the box office is close to 1.3 billion Chinese yuan. Among Chinese film directors, he has even surpassed Qin Wei and Liu Chengzhang, and is currently second only to Li Qian.

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In 1995, when Li Qian had just arrived in this time and space, Hollywood films were already dominating the world with incomparable strength, but at that time, European literary films were dead but not dead, and the commercialization of Chinese films was in the ascendant. Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea It has not yet completed the final step of the complete fall.

At that time, in the traditional Chinese cultural circle, martial arts films produced by Chinese films, such as Du Weiyun in Southeast Asia, had quite a few markets and were stubbornly resisting Hollywood blockbusters.

The subsequent development is well known.

Hollywood has almost taken over the world.

Europe, the home base of literary and artistic films, has long been dominated by Hollywood blockbusters, and Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia have long become Hollywood's backyard.

Like Japan and South Korea, although local films have always been developing tenaciously, and local-style works such as Japanese animation works, youth love works, etc., are like a group of young and cutting-edge directors that have emerged in South Korea in recent years. Some of the films that have come here that have a profound study and discussion of human nature and society can be said to be their own. The box office is only a fraction of the Hollywood blockbuster, and it simply cannot compete with foreign powerhouses for food.

To put it bluntly, in the big film industry with huge investment in capital, manpower, and industrial system, no one can do it in Hollywood. They can only play a bit of soup and water that Hollywood disdains to choose, that is, local movies—even Europe. It can only be like this, especially in Japan and South Korea.

If there is no accident, if the wheel of history is not disturbed, although the Chinese film market is larger and the overall film industry is more complete, when the time travels to this time in 2005, the Chinese film market will almost certainly be It will be like this.

Hollywood blockbusters are popular all over the country, and domestic films have almost no resistance. Individual big directors invest a lot of money, attract big stars, and set up big casts to try commercial production and try to resist the invasion of Hollywood films, with certain results, but in the end , I made some money, but lost word of mouth - it turns out that at this stage, what the domestic film industry really accumulates is experience.

Successful experiences and failures.

But no one can really resist the invasion of Hollywood blockbusters, no matter how the country formulates relevant policies, it will not help - if you can do it, you can't do it.

In the time and space that Li Qian once experienced, this is how the world developed.

But in this time and space, because of the appearance of Li Qian, because of the continuous investment at all costs for several years, Hollywood blockbusters are extremely powerful, but in front of the Chinese film market, they are only one step away and have not been able to completely complete the market for this film. Conquest - that's why it's "almost" about conquering the world.

In 2002, 2003, and 2004, for three consecutive years, the Chinese film market showed a continuous and steady upward trend, especially when the time came to 2004, despite the continuous release of many domestically produced high-quality films, the annual total box office of domestic films broke through one in one fell swoop. The 10 billion yuan mark is as high as 10.73 billion.

However, on a big cake such as a Hollywood blockbuster, which is as strong as a year, it still failed to take away the biggest piece-the box office of more than 10.7 billion yuan in the whole year, and Hollywood movies finally took away more than 5.2 billion yuan, still unable to take away the biggest piece. more than half.

In the past year, the number of domestic films with a box office of more than 100 million yuan exceeded 10 for the first time in history, reaching 11, of which six films exceeded 200 million at the box office. What's more, Minghu Culture this year "Dragon Inn" has a domestic box office of over 800 million, and "The Matrix" has historically surpassed the one-billion-yuan mark, setting a new record in the Chinese box office market!

It is with these outstanding domestic productions that Chinese domestic films have once again struggled to hold on to China's local market, making the Chinese film market one of the very few local markets in the world that has not been completely captured by Hollywood blockbusters. Some countries that are closed to the country, or trade embargoed, or politically opposed to the United States are excluded, and this "one" can also be removed.

China is the only one!

Of course, in the precious box office of more than 5 billion yuan obtained by domestic films, Minghu Culture only accounted for a share of over 2 billion. Compared with the previous two years, Minghu Culture was almost alone in the market. Fighting hard against Hollywood blockbusters, this year's Minghu Culture seems to be a little more "weak" -- on the other hand, other domestic film companies and film directors have begun to rise.

The old director, the new director, some people are rushing and others are making money, and gradually they have the meaning of letting a hundred flowers bloom.

Liu Chengzhang, Zhao Meicheng, Wu Han, Guo Yulong.

"Flying Sky", "Blood", "Laughing Heroes", "Beacon Fire Show Princes".

Movie fans still complain a lot about stories, logic, costumes, characters, actors, etc., but it is undeniable that at that time, in the Chinese film market in 2004 and 2005, The quality of the entire domestic film, especially the degree of commercialization, is indeed steadily improving.

However, even so, even if everyone can start to make a certain level of commercial blockbuster despite the bad reviews, and they can make money, it seems that Minghu Culture is not so strong in the domestic film market, but the four words of Minghu Culture, But it is still enough to make the entire domestic film circle daunting.

Because of The Matrix.

Because of Li Qian!

Li Qian, and his "The Matrix", are the first truly global hits in the history of Chinese films, and they have represented Chinese films that have really entered the second place in the global box office!

That is to say, at a time when domestic filmmakers are still busy figuring out how to make a good Chinese film and try to make money, for which they have even had to sacrifice word of mouth to a certain extent, Li Qian and " The Matrix has really gone global and has begun to compete with Hollywood movies on a global scale!

The movie was a hit in North America, a hit in Europe, a hit in Japan and South Korea, and a hit in every place Hollywood would sell, and with the exception of the god-like Titanic, it was a hit in Hollywood. In our market, it beats all Hollywood movies.

So take it for granted that the sequel to "The Matrix" has become a thing that not only Chinese movie fans but also global movie fans have been paying close attention to - there have been various news and rumors before, but about the second "Matrix" The filming time of the department has always been unclear.

Even whether there will be a second part of "The Matrix" is currently an unconfirmed matter. As for whether Li Qian will personally direct the second part, it is even more impossible to talk about.

Just when "Crazy Stone" swept across the country, and when the generally recognized off-season of the film market was frantically harvesting the box office after the Spring Festival, Minghu Culture suddenly announced a new film conference. When the reporters arrived at the press conference at the agreed time, they were pleasantly surprised to find that Li Qian and Qi Jie were both there!

And when the press conference officially started, Li Qian announced in person that his fifth film after "My Sassy Girl", "Once Upon a Time", "Red Sorghum" and "The Matrix" will officially start shooting soon.

The total investment of the film is 500 million yuan, equivalent to 250 million U.S. dollars. It will be jointly invested, produced and filmed by Minghu Culture and the American Columbia Film Company.

In addition to the fact that this film is directed and written by Li Qian, the entire crew, including the actors, will change. Li Qian always prefers to use Chinese actors, even if it is "The Matrix" that has entered Europe and the United States. The male and female protagonists of the film all insist on the habit of using Chinese actors. Except for the currently confirmed Bai Yujing who will join and play an important supporting role in the film, most of the roles in the film will be played by actors from all over the world and of various skin colors.

The filming cycle of the entire film was as long as 10 months, and the post-production was as long as a year! When the film is finally completed, the plan will be in June 2007, the official launch of the global theater.

This film will be the first film in the world to be filmed with 3D-IMAX technology, and the photography and production technology is the exclusive patent of the research institute affiliated to Minghu Culture.

The name of the film, officially named, "Avatar".

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You must know that Li Qian is now an international director worthy of his name.

He is much more influential than Qin Wei's so-called international director~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Therefore, his new film is one of the hot spots that most fans pay attention to, even on a global scale.

Therefore, the name "Avatar" has spread all over the world almost within 24 hours as soon as the new film conference appeared.

It's just that no one currently knows what he's going to shoot and how he'll shoot.

And what is the so-called 3D technology, and what is so good about it, so that Li Qian has to use this technology to shoot, and more than 95% of the audience in this world know nothing about it.

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To be honest, I actually like wine. I tried to drink some wine, whiskey, etc., and tasted some wonderful flavors, but every year during the Spring Festival, I really... Alas, don't say it, I will cry too much.

In short, this year should be over, and I'm back.