My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 733 The light and shadow fight in the corner outside the wall and inside the wall.

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By the end of May, the lively #MeToo movement on Hong Kong Island continued to set off an upsurge in Southeast Asia, gaining the attention of the world's film industry.

Of course, only limited to insiders.

The most people outside the circle are watching the excitement.This kind of thing is like one day, when a parade breaks out in a small European country, we can at most watch the excitement, and don't pay too much attention to it, and people don't care.

At the very least, Wu Xiaozu's popularity in the European and American markets is still without waves.

Of course, there must be some enthusiasm. After all, because of the Cannes Film Festival, as a "personal name", he was still on the entertainment news in North America.

Therefore, taking advantage of this wave of enthusiasm, his movie "Dragon Inn" officially landed in the North American market under the operation of Harvey's Miramax, and the number of theaters opened is 102.

Distribution of the film was handed over to Twentieth Century Fox.

Twentieth Century Fox, which was almost bankrupt because of "Cleopatra", tapped the young Lucas in the 70s, and then launched the "Star Wars" series, which was able to return to the ranks of giants.

In the 80s, after the acquisition by Murdoch, he started to create the Fox TV network and began to group it, which gave the [-]th Century Fox Film Company a sufficient background and strength.

"Dragon Inn" landed in the North American market. On the premise that it opened in 102 theaters in the first week, it earned a good result of 52 US dollars. In the second week, Fox expanded the theaters to 245 theaters. It is so realistic!

This score and the opening screen are already very high for a foreign language film.

This is mainly due to the subject matter.

The martial arts theme of "Dragon Inn" still has a market in North America.In addition to Chinatown and Chinese gathering areas, there are many loyal movie fans in North America who were deeply in love with Kung fu in the 70s and love Chinese Kungfu!

Since the 70s, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest have released many kung fu movies in North America that shocked foreigners.

Produced by Shaw Brothers, directed by Goryeo director Zheng Changhe, and starring Luo Lie, "The First Fist of the World" began to open up the popularity of kung fu movies in North America.

The plot and logic of this movie are vulgar, and even the box office and word-of-mouth in Hong Kong Island are average.But the film is generally in line with the viewing mode of western films.

The most important thing is that the luminous iron sand palm stunned the ghosts. At that time, foreigners hugged their heads in the cinema and saw this movie as similar to the oriental version of "Star Wars", just like we watched "Approaching Science"... …

Quentin, the pork-kids face of later generations, "paid homage" to this movie in "Kill Bill".

The soundtrack in the film when recalling the wedding massacre is exactly the same as the music used by Luo Lie in "The First Punch".The author of this soundtrack is Chen Xunqi.

The box office performance of this film in North America is higher than that of "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Fist of Fury", which landed in the North American market in two months.

《天下第一拳》在美国卖了1000多个拷贝，当年美国票房就超过2000万美金票房，那可是1973年啊！我们2017年的大战狼2才收获了270万美元。

However, "The First Fist of the World", a pure Chinese kung fu film, has not always been the number one.

In the second half of the year, at the beginning——

Bruce Lee's Concorde Company, Hong Kong Island Golden Harvest Film Company and Warner America jointly invested US$80. The co-produced "Enter the Dragon" broke the box office record of Chinese-language films in North America, earning US$2570 million, and the global box office exceeded $9000 million!
It's just that Bruce Lee didn't have the chance to enjoy the bonus~ He passed away a month before the film was released!
Warner Pictures eats steamed buns made of human blood!At that time, all the news about Bruce Lee was overwhelming. For its publicity effect, please refer to Paul Walker of Suji 7. . .Or, that Heath Ledger who obviously committed suicide, but has been promoted by Warner as an immersive character, who is too deep in the play, which will lead to depression and death.

Hollywood isn't very good at this kind of thing.

As for Jiahe, did he follow suit and make a lot of money?
hehe~
Golden Harvest, which cooperated with Warner Pictures, finally recovered a huge profit - 230 million US dollars after deducting the input costs.

You have to know, this f*ck is a blockbuster movie with a global box office revenue of nearly [-] million!
For this matter, Zou Wenhuai was angry and scolded his mother, but it didn't help in the end.

Hollywood treats all outsiders the same - hell!Not only Chinese movies, even European movies have never been popular at the North American box office.Even movies that sell well at the box office can make you a paper loss.

However, this film is not a purely Hong Kong film or a Chinese-language film. It belongs to the category of American trade union films, and in the final analysis it is considered a Hollywood film.

In the 70s, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest exported a lot of kung fu movies to Hollywood, and the results were pretty good.

However, after the 80s, this type of movie was somewhat weak, and Golden Harvest switched to making fashion action movies with Big Nose Dragon.

This time "Dragon Inn" has achieved good results, and Fox and Miramax have also increased the cost of publicity and distribution.

This makes the film's performance continue to rise, and it is very popular with Kung Fu fans.

To know,
Before this movie, the box office results of director Wu's movies in North America were really mediocre.

Several of his films have been screened in Europe and America one after another, and the results are very average.

"The Suspect," which won the Palme d'Or last year, grossed $130 million at the North American box office, which is better than nothing.

It's not even as good as the US$320 million result of "Cell of Fear", which was also released on a small scale. After all, the latter is indeed favored by many horror movie lovers, mainly in the video tape market.

The two purely commercial films "Twin Heroes" and "God of Gamblers" were the two highest-grossing films of director Wu.Especially the former, through the operation of Miramax, achieved an excellent result of more than 670 million U.S. dollars after its release, ranking among the top five Chinese-language films in the North American box office. The latter won 530 million U.S. dollars and entered the Chinese-language box office. top ten.

That's right.

The Light of Chinese Language, the new generation of Chinese film masters, and the new Asian film giant Wu Xiaozu's films are only at the box office level of third-rate directors in North America.

Haven't broken the box office of tens of millions of dollars~
Today, the most well-known representative of Chinese Americans in North America is still Bruce Lee, or even Zunlong!
The latter was nominated for the Golden Globe Award twice for "Year of the Dragon" and "The Last Emperor", comparable to the Qing Emperor.

However, at this time, the status of the Chinese in Hollywood was too low, and they were still subject to ubiquitous discrimination and suppression.

"The Last Emperor" was nominated for 60 awards at the 9th Academy Awards, all of which won.Only no Best Actor.At the Golden Globe Awards, the film received another 5 nominations, but only Best Actor did not win.

However, he is already the most well-known symbol of Chinese descent in Hollywood!He is the only actor of Chinese descent who has truly entered the mainstream of Hollywood.

It is a pity that Bruce Lee passed away as soon as he kicked open the door.

Therefore, regardless of deeds and minds-big-nosed dragons are indeed worthy of respect.

Outside the wall, "Dragon Inn" did well at the North American box office, continuing to earn 270 million US dollars and continue to rise.

However, it is destined to be just the self-entertainment of niche kung fu fans.

At this time, the real overlord of the third weekend of May in North America was Spielberg and his "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3: Holy War Cavalry". North American market!
Harrison Ford, the superstar, joined forces with Sean Connery to reap the box office results.

In the market, "Dragon Inn" and Wu Xiaozu are vulnerable to Indiana Jones and Spielberg.There is no comparison at all!
Being able to maintain the popularity of the box office has proved the quality of this movie.As for comparison...not even qualified.

More than 3700 theaters are planning to start filming. There are only more than 260 theaters for the filming of "Dragon Inn", which is not as good as others.

It is basically difficult for that kind of Chinese-language film to make a big hit in North America, even if "Double Heroes" is not weaker than Wu Yusen's "Face Changing" in the later generation.

But the reality is so cruel.

In fact, North America is the most conservative and closed film market.

In this situation, without the blessing of big stars, without theatrical production, and without high investment in publicity and distribution, even if the quality of the film really passes the test, there will still be no high box office.

Huge publicity investment and the correct direction of publicity and distribution are indispensable prerequisites for a blockbuster film!
"The Blair Witch" cost 6 yuan to produce and earned 2.48 million US dollars at the box office?What you don't see is behind the scenes, the publishing company's investment of more than 1500 million US dollars in publicity and distribution and ingenious Internet thinking marketing.

Our Chinese filmmakers also learned this kind of marketing later.

A pure director's work "The Last Night on Earth" is forcibly rendered into a beautiful romance film.The marketing team used the marketing slogan "New Year's Eve with a Kiss" to quickly harvest a group of unlucky people from the media and Weibo to pay for it...

After watching the movie, there should be many couples breaking up in place.

In any case, the box office on the first day reached 2.64 million yuan, creating a historical record for a single-day box office of a domestic literary film.Although the final cumulative box office was 2.76 million.But it has been commercially successful.

The negative teaching material is "Flash Girl"... Fuck!Impression Culture is a really poisonous company.

Therefore, Wu Xiaozu does not feel disappointed about the box office results in North America.

I didn't expect much at first, so what do you care about?
Now he sometimes wonders whether he will go to the United States to fight if the Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asian markets continue to prosper.

The answer is really uncertain.

Yelling out of your comfort zone is a fool!
If there is money to be made, who will be the grandson? ?
So yeah~
Taking advantage of the booming Hong Kong film market, Wu Xiaozu also plans to make more money.

Although I haven't really felt the decline of Hong Kong films, but under the influence of Wu Xiaozu's #MeToo incident, I believe that many community funds, illegal, and unclear capital will be withdrawn from this right and wrong place. It will be too fast, but there will definitely be sequelae.

Therefore, with the efforts of Wu Xiaozu, Hong Kong films are destined to fall into a trough "in advance".

If there is a cause, there must be an effect.

If there is really a way, who is willing to go all out to fish?This is not impossible.

Director Wu also needs to have a meal.

This is called: I don't kill neck kernels, but neck kernels are cooked because of me~ Then there are chest oils, hanging dragons, and five-flowered toes...

cough cough.

"Dragon Inn" was screened outside the wall, and "Gunfire" was promoted inside the wall.Even, the competition of light and shadow in this small corner of Hong Kong Island is not weaker than that of Hollywood's big stage!
In terms of publicity and distribution of the movie "Gunfire", the company mainly focuses on Wu Xiaozu and Luo Dong.

With the help of its media resources, it is much more convenient to publicize.

The company's publicity and distribution department spent 120 million Hong Kong dollars for publicity. This money is naturally not too much in today's publicity investment.Not to mention last year's "Police Story 2", which had an unprecedented 750 million Hong Kong dollars in publicity costs, "Dragon Inn" also spent a real 500 million Hong Kong dollars at the beginning.

Can-

In the final analysis, this movie is really just a small budget. The total shooting time is only 10 days!
The whole movie is relatively crude, and there is basically no persuasion.

Everyone also has the attitude of playing together.

Besides, Wu Xiaozu also held the idea of ​​"study work" in this movie.Whether his previous gun battles or action scenes, they were all like "Two Heroes" and "God of Gamblers", full of cool aesthetics of violence, the protagonist jumped up, turned 270 degrees in the air, and both left and right guns were in unison shoot……

The shooting of "Gunfire" was basically all static capture.

Basically no action scenes.

Let's feel the brotherhood together~
Brother movie.

If you want to shoot exquisitely, you must pay more!

Of course, the company's publicity and distribution departments also believe that the box office of this movie will not be too bad.

The box office appeal of Wu Xiaozu and Luo Dong basically guaranteed the lower limit of the film's box office.

The two together are worth 1000 million at the box office, right?

As for the height...

Sorry, the theme, cast, production cost, persuasive way, and level of care are all there.

Compared with "Ming Pao" and "Oriental Daily", which advertised in the original version of "Days of Being Wild", this is more than a cut!
This drama took 10 months to shoot, 3 months to post, and the production cost exceeded 5500 million Hong Kong dollars.

In this publicity and distribution investment, Xu Feng's Tomson Film Company, Deng Guangrong's Yingzhijie Film Industry, and Cai Zhiming's Fuyi Film Company jointly invested 1800 million publicity costs for publicity.

Push the total investment to 7300 million Hong Kong dollars!
The most expensive movie in history!

Compared with the 4000 million cost of "God of Gamblers", including the 1300 million publicity and distribution, the total cost of 5300 million exceeds 2000 million Hong Kong dollars!
NMSL!

In addition to these two works at the end of May, there is also the western film "Dragon Brothers and Mice Brothers". At the end of last year, this large-scale production that earned 5 million US dollars at the box office in North America and 1.17 million worldwide was also put on this schedule by E2.16 Culture.

Needless to say, the box office appeal of Arnold, Swa and Singh? (Is anyone who understands this stalk old?)
In addition, "Accompany Me to the End of the World", directed by Lin Lingdong and starring Fa Ge and Hong Gu, was also released at the same time.

A week later, Big Nosed Dragon came to harvest the box office with the masterpiece "Miracle".

The summer schedule has not yet fallen, and the schedule at the end of May and the beginning of June is suddenly a bit bloody!

This is also the impact of #MeToo!
We all need to recover our investment as soon as possible.

Previously, "Days of Being Wild" was originally handed over to [-] for release, and the date was placed in mid-June.

This time, the three companies co-produced it and distributed it to Debao and Xinbao.

In addition to the four films "Days of Being Wild", "Gunfire", "Accompany Me to the End of the World", and "Dragon Brothers and Mice Brothers", in the same period, there are also female stars such as "Senior Sister Sunshine", which is a collaboration between Baohe and Golden Harvest. The movie, the independent film "Resurrection", played the signs of Wan Ziluan, Guan Zhilin, and Zhang Weijian.

But the most eye-catching thing is "Days of Being Wild"!
There is a lot of publicity about "Days of Being Wild" in the market.

It goes without saying that Zhang Guoying, Zhang Manyu, Liu Dehua, Liu Jialing, Zhang Xueyu, and Liang Chaowei are the real cast members.

What's more, this is the first movie that Liu Jialing participated in after her accident.

The gimmick is enough for many people to buy tickets.

(End of this chapter)