Perfect Life

On the night of October 22, after the premiere ceremony, "Love of Green Onion" was officially released in 13 theaters across the country, with a total of 426 theaters.

The scale of this release is quite large for a literary film.

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the box office of these three days has always accounted for more than 70% of the box office in a week, and even more than 80% of the box office at its peak. Therefore, although October 22 is already Friday, "Chopped Green Onion" "Love of Love" was launched at the beginning, and it still achieved an amazing result. At the end of October, such an absolute off-season at the box office, it reached the top three at the box office of the week in one fell swoop.

It was released for three days, with a cumulative box office of 8.16 million yuan, and an average daily average of around 6,300 yuan for a single venue. The attendance rate is generally around 50%, and there are even more than 80% of the attendance records for individual shows and cities.

For a literary film with a total investment of only more than 8 million yuan, if this is a result achieved without external factors, then it can be said that this is properly made to make money, or even sell it.

But unfortunately, this kind of short-term box office surprise is destined to be unsustainable.

What's more, in the days after the premiere, whether in newspapers, radio, TV stations and other media, or in online forums, the reputation of the film was not very good.

Even fans of the Four Beauties, and those who want to praise the film, can only think that this is a "great progress" for Yu Bojun himself! But when it comes to the film itself, even supporters and praisers have to admit that it has various problems such as slow rhythm and procrastination, and even for literary films, it seems a bit too confusing. sleepy."

And the claims of those critics and critics need not be said more.

Of course, the surprising highlight of this movie is that, first, Jin Han's photography level is still admirable as always, and second, although he only appeared in a few scenes, Li Qian's big screen debut, It's still a passing grade, not to mention outstanding, with so few scenes, and the role settings are mediocre, and there is no chance to be outstanding at all, but the performance is still smooth and natural, showing that he was born in the Shuntian Film Academy, not for nothing. , Third, well, as always, Yu Bojun once again excavated a great beauty for the Chinese film industry.

It's just that this time is different. This time, the role of Onion Hua'er is not a vase. Not only does she play the leading role, but she alone provokes more than 70% of the entire play, and her performance is remarkable.

When the media reported the release of "Love of Green Onions" and its star-studded premiere, it was inevitable to report on the hero and heroine of the play. Therefore, many people knew that, The role of Green Onion is played by a Peking Opera actor, a popular Tsing Yi from the Shuntian Peking Opera Theater, and this "Love of Green Onion" is her first film and television drama.

As far as her personal performance is concerned, even if the performance of this film is on the street, for her, this is a shining resume.

It is said that since the movie was released, tickets for the Shuntian Peking Opera Theatre have become increasingly difficult to find. In particular, the tickets for Cheng Supin's listed show have become more and more popular in the hands of scalpers.

Of course, Cheng Suping's performance alone cannot support the box office of a play.

From October 25th to October 31st, the second week of the release of "Love of Green Onion" is also the complete first week. It is in a posture that is almost head-on, and unsurprisingly, it has a big box office dive. .

The weekly box office was 3.13 million, ranking eighth on the box-office list. The average single-house box office was barely over a thousand.

As we all know, unless it is a big star like Qin Wei, it is difficult for a literary film to have a big box office hit, but it has an advantage, that is, as long as the reputation is not too bad, it is not easy to have a huge fluctuation in the box office. , neither will explode, nor will it fall sharply.

But this time, the second week of "Love of Green Onions" plummeted by more than 60%.

Of course, no one will sing the movie bad for this, because now everyone understands that the box office in the first week does not actually come from the appeal of the movie itself, but only because of Yu Bojun's special identity and his immediate To fully withdraw from the entertainment industry at this special moment.

Or it can be said that the box office of 3.13 million in the second week really reflects the strength and level of the movie "Love of Green Onions" to a large extent.

However, in two weeks and ten days, it has won a box office of more than 11 million yuan. For Yu Bojun, it has already broken the previous box office record, and he is satisfied enough.

Excluding the advantage of his own theater chain, the normal box office division in China is usually based on a 6:4 and 4:6 model, that is, the issuer and the theater chain will share the account at a ratio of 6:4, and then take After reaching 60% of the total box office, the distributor then reverses it and splits the account with the producer at a ratio of four to six. Generally speaking, the producer of the movie can generally take about 36% of the total box office of the movie.

Of course, this number is not fixed. A strong director and a strong producer will have an advantage in negotiation, while a weaker producer will suffer a little bit of a loss. The specific way of splitting accounts varies. The way of talking, the calculation of issuance fees, etc., is also the same, so this ratio generally fluctuates between 30% and 45%.

And this time, Yu's Films has negotiated that Oriental Media will be responsible for the distribution. Yu's Films can get 38% of the total box office. In addition, the Yu family owns a theater chain and is offline nationwide. After that, I will definitely take it to my own theater for long-term screening as always, to save the cost of purchasing the film, plus DVD, TV station broadcasting rights, etc., it will be able to return to some extent, so, corresponding to this movie 800 For a total investment of 300,000 yuan, it can reach about 20 million yuan, and it will reach its breakeven profit line.

For now, it's not a big problem.

Although the box office plunged in the second week, many theaters urgently reduced the film's release canvas, so that the film's release scale was rapidly reduced from 426 theaters to only 10 days after its release. 197 is a return to the normal level of a literary film, but in any case, with more than 11 million box office in hand within ten days, it is not a big problem to recover the cost of this film.

And that is, during the release of "Love of Green Onions", in the music world, Rose Power's second album "Girls' Dormitory" has successfully opened up a big-selling posture.

Perhaps compared to the last album, the quality and level of this album are slightly inferior, but the power of roses is the power of roses after all. There are a few high-quality works in charge of taking the lead, and it is not easy for their new album to sell well.

However, I have to admit that compared to their last album "super-star", the album "Girls' Dormitory" is indeed slightly inferior in sales.

In addition, when the sales data as of the end of October was counted by the authoritative Recording Industry Association, there was a shadow, and it began to quietly cover the headlights of the Chinese music scene" and "Kiss Goodbye", which made him after seeing the score. I couldn't help but admire it.

Of course, since the light rock love song "First Experience of Love" can be confirmed by Li Qian as the title of the album, it goes without saying how good it is. Even the Chinese style r&b's "Jiangnan" is actually his own. After a while, I liked it quite a bit, and even vaguely felt that this style might bring a new trend to the domestic music scene and lead a new trend.

So in the end, what really worried him was actually those two raps.

The two rock songs, one is called "Indian Dove" and the other is called "Fort William." How should I put it, from the lyrics to the music, there is a sinister and weird style, which makes Xie Mingyuan, a veteran who has been in the West for many years, not sure if they will be popular.

Of course, since Li Qian insisted on doing it, he chose from the heart to trust Li Qian's vision and strength.

At the end of November, "Cloudy Day" was completely recorded.

After just a few days, because I recorded a song for myself, and I had a successful example for reference in my mind, it was much easier than making it for others. Therefore, "The First Experience of Love" "Then announced the completion of the recording.

So then, the entire domestic music scene was looking forward to it, and even the "Li Zhou Combination Husband and Wife", which even Minghu Culture was looking forward to, officially started construction.

Zhou Ai's new album, "Red Bean", has officially started recording.

The production lineup of this album is equally luxurious.

The producer and songwriter of all ten works, Li Qian.

Producer, Xie Mingyuan, He Runqing, Cao Zhan.

And while Li Qian and others were recording the album, a martial arts novel called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" suddenly became popular in the domestic publishing market.

When the first book of this novel was published, it was not yet obvious, and it seemed that it was going to continue the dull trend of "Blood Sword", but after the second book was released, it suddenly created a wave of sales. , which also promoted the continuous hot sale of the first book. When the third book of this novel went on sale in early December, it even triggered a rush to buy.

The author of this book is a newcomer under the pseudonym Jin Yong. In the martial arts novel circle, I have never heard of such a person. After this book became popular, many authors and publishers have made rounds of inquiries ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but no one has heard of this People, and no one came forward to admit that it was his new pseudonym or something.

Many film and television companies and directors have taken a fancy to this book, found the publishing house, and wanted to contact the author to talk about the licensing of film and television copyrights. Confidentiality agreement, they have no right to reveal the real information of the author.

And when they helped convey the news that someone wanted to buy the film and television adaptation rights, they quickly got the other party's reply: there is no plan to sell it.

All of a sudden, the name Kim Yong, and his unusual low-keyness, became a hot topic of discussion for many people after dinner.

Under this circumstance, at the beginning of January, the recording of "Red Bean" was officially completed.

Unsurprisingly, when the annual statistics of the Recording Industry Association came out, the domestic record industry was full of lamentation—in 1999, the overall sales volume of the domestic record market fell by 2.1% year-on-year!

In connection with the continuous decline of the film market for two years, many people realize that the trough of the domestic entertainment and cultural industry seems to be inevitable.

But at this time, no one knew that this trough was an extremely important historical turning point.

Under the strong challenge of online piracy, the movie market will inevitably experience such a pain before it can usher in a new strong growth, while the music market is not controlled by anyone, and it will be dominated by singers and stars. The era has stepped into the era of national entertainment and the era of national singing.

Under the leadership and control of Li Qian, Minghu Culture, which has been busy from beginning to end this year, but is very low-key to the outside world, is gaining momentum.

***

Ask for a few monthly passes! (To be continued.)