China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 480 Time comes to heaven and earth to use the same strength, capping the number one movie history
Mid-May 2006

At the press conference of the "Hello, Time" TV series, Liu Tianxian, Hu Ge and other main creators were being asked by the media.

Everything was normal at first, but suddenly a male reporter stood up and looked at Liu Tianxian with a provocative face.

"Hi Liu Yifei, there have been many people criticizing your nationality on the Internet, and the outside world has been quite controversial. I would like to ask you what you think about this personally, and do you have anything to explain?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar at the scene.

Liu Tianxian became famous at a young age and was extremely popular, but there were also a lot of black fans. Tianya used to have all kinds of outrageous rumors, but Fanxing's legal team was not kidding, and it greatly suppressed many slanderous rumors.

But even so, the issue of Liu Tianxian's nationality is still a controversy that many people cannot ignore.

Although the atmosphere of online public opinion in 2006 was relatively "free", the so-called "angry youth groups" were also an important part of netizens, and neutral netizens were also more sensitive to international issues.

After all, there is an essential difference between a Chinese and a foreigner in many people's minds.

Prior to this, Liu Tianxian had almost never answered questions about his nationality. Under such a premise, if this reporter raised such a question in public, it would be tantamount to throwing the game straight.

Hu Ge, who was standing beside him, frowned, trying to smooth things over, but unexpectedly Liu Tianxian spoke indifferently.

"About this issue, I have two clarifications. First, because I was born in the United States and lived in the United States for several years as a child, I automatically obtained American citizenship.

Regarding this point, I believe everyone understands that I had no choice but to make a choice when I was a child, so there is no such thing as an oath of allegiance as many people on the Internet say.

The second point, regarding the issue of nationality, I would like to solemnly state that not long ago I have re-elected Chinese nationality after becoming an adult in accordance with relevant regulations, and I am currently going through the procedures. If everything goes well, I will become a Chinese citizen soon. "

As soon as Liu Tianxian's explanation came out, the scene was once again in an uproar.

Big news!

In the past, it was only heard that Chinese artists changed their nationality to a certain nationality, and it was rare for an artist of a certain nationality to change their nationality to China. Liu Tianxian's operation is too popular.

These entertainment reporters are old-fashioned, and they can almost instantly detect what this change of nationality will bring to Liu Tianxian. If there is no accident, the popularity of passers-by will increase sharply, and they may even be favored by the government.

Regardless of whether it is sincere or deliberate, all reporters have to admit that this trick is indeed very clever.

Only the male reporter who asked questions and provoked, unexpectedly being turned against the general, his face was dark and ugly, and after a while he just ran away.

Many reporters who noticed couldn't help but sneer. A female reporter from Sohu even asked a friend which media the reporter was from, not a friendly unit, so she could write news to make fun of it later.

The friend squinted his eyes and recalled: "It looks a bit familiar, it seems to be... from Fengyun Studio."

Female reporter: "..."

Fengyun studio, isn't that with Fanxing's family?
On the other side, the male reporter who was still in a state of exasperation just now walked out of the hotel humming a ditty, took out his Fengyun Studio press card and hung it around his neck, and happily made a phone call.

"Hey, editor-in-chief, it's done. Don't worry, our acting skills are useless. If it wasn't for my bad face, I would have jumped to Fanxing as an actor..."

Under Fan Xing's arrangement, the topic of Liu Tianxian's change of nationality made headlines on the front page, frantically reaping the popularity of passers-by, and many people who didn't like her at first didn't want to criticize her anymore.

At the same time, Mama Liu was completely put on the shelf, and it was too late for her to regret it now.

Otherwise, not only Liu Tianxian was spurned by everyone, but even Cao Xuan, who was tricked, would not be able to swallow this breath.

Of course, this incident also slapped some Chinese artists who changed their nationality, and caused some free people to collectively break their defenses. Some public figures jumped and scolded on the Internet, saying that Liu Tianxian's move was to make money and flatter officials. There were even rumors that she had been threatened in some way.

Regarding this, Cao Xuan can only say that the Fanxing legal team he raises heavily every year is not short of work.

Reporting one by one will not break the other party, but will disgust them to death...

.........

This matter of Liu Tianxian was big news, grabbing the headlines for several days, but soon gave up the C position to "Painted Skin".

The box office in the first week was 1.25 million!
It almost doubled the 7200 million first-week box office of "New World". Even if the entire movie circle expected it, it was still a frying pan.

Regardless of word-of-mouth ratings, box office is king for commercial films.

Lao Mouzi's "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" are not well-received, but the box office is high, so he is a hot director.

Even if Director Chen's "The Promise" hadn't been for Cao Xuan's intrusion to reach 1.5 million box office, even if the word of mouth was so bad, people would still praise him.

After all, there are only a few directors in the entire film industry who can reach this box office level, and they are all favorites.

Beginning with "When a Man Is in Love" in 2003, Cao Xuan's films have never lost the summer champion in the following years. Last year, "New World" also won a Lunar New Year champion and annual box office champion by the way.

Not to mention that the word-of-mouth reviews of Cao Xuan's movies have always been above the standard, even if they are all bad movies, this box office result is enough for various media and the industry to promote.

In the film review program of the Six Princesses, the guests directly and openly commented on Cao Xuan as the "King of Summer Movies", calling him the most popular actor in the mainland at present.

"When a Man is in Love" has a domestic box office of 5240 million, with a total box office of 1.3 million yuan.

"Embroidered Spring Knife" has a domestic box office of 1.5 million yuan and an overseas box office of over 2.5 million yuan, with a total box office of [-] million yuan.

"Embroidered Spring Knife 2" has a domestic box office of 1.84 million and an overseas box office of over 3 million, with a total box office of nearly [-] million yuan.

The domestic box office of "New Police Story" exceeded 1.5 million yuan, and the box office in Japan was converted into 3 million yuan, with a total box office of about [-] million yuan.

The domestic box office of "New World" is 2.3 million yuan, while Japan, Xiangjiang and other regions have a cumulative global box office of about 4.6-4.8 million yuan.

Today's "Painted Skin" has a box office of 1.25 million in the first week. Not surprisingly, the box office in the mainland is at least 3 million.

The current copyright of "Painted Skin" is still under negotiation, and it may not be released in some regions, but considering Cao Xuan's influence in Asia and the accumulation of box office popularity of previous films,
The most conservative estimate can be more than 5000 million yuan, and 1 million yuan is probably not difficult.

Based on the total box office of "Painted Skin" is 3.5 million yuan, the total box office of several films starring Cao Xuan is about 18 billion yuan.

This data is not necessarily accurate, because the data in many remote areas cannot be completely unified and clear, and the exchange rate is not easy to calculate, but in any case, the box office of 18 billion yuan is only a lot more.

If you count "The Matrix 2" and "The Matrix 3" in which Cao Xuan cameo, according to the exchange rate at that time, the total global box office of the two films exceeded 95 billion yuan.

Cao Daguan directly hit the tens of billions of movie stars!

Of course, Cao Xuan wanted to save face, he couldn't do the thing of cameo to grab the box office, he only admitted the box office of the movie he starred in.

With a total global box office of 18 billion yuan, it can barely compete with Master Xing and Liu Tianwang.

The former was the box office king of Xiangjiang in the 90s, and the overseas box office of "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung Fu" was also very bright.

The latter Liu Tianwang, don’t look at the average box office of a single movie, and even some box office can be called dismal, but it can’t stand the large number of works, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and his personal cumulative box office data is still quite high.

However, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie are the top box office Chinese movie stars.

Especially Cheng Long, the total global box office of later generations exceeded 200 billion yuan, and now it is about 50 billion yuan. Li Lianjie is worse than him, but his personal total box office is at least [-] billion yuan.

Cao Xuan's total box office of 18 billion is still some distance away from these two.

However, most of these people have already passed their peak period, and Cao Xuan is still in the stage of rapid rise, so he may not be able to catch up in the future.

Since the beginning of the new century, Cao Xuan is one of the movie stars with the most box office growth.

Especially in the mainland market, the cumulative box office of movies starring Cao Xuan is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan. Since the official records, it is the first in the history of mainland movies.

I dare not say too much, in the current mainland film market, Cao Xuan is the real box office king.

Master Xing, Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, Fa Ge and other big names in Hong Kong and Taiwan all ranked behind him.

Even though Cao Xuan's achievements in the Chinese music scene are unparalleled, the outside world must admit that Cao Xuan is not only a singer, but also a top actor in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Cao Xuan was at the height of his power, and Young Master Zhou was also elated.

Most of the films she made before were literary films, and it was rare that a commercial masterpiece came out, and she went straight to the record-breaking phenomenal level.

Mr. Zhou, who was already brilliant in the movie, is now a complete mess.

In the second half of August, "The Banquet" also started its pre-publicity. Originally, Mr. Zhou was ranked at the back of the international chapter, but now many media directly put the two of them side by side, and even individually put Mr. Zhou at the front.

The entertainment industry is the most realistic!
The international chapter broke into Hollywood, she is the number one popular flower, but she has not made any big moves in the past half a year, and Zhou Gongzi first won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and "Painted Skin" became popular, naturally the east wind overwhelms the west wind.

That is to say, Hu Jing doesn't like to meddle, otherwise, before "The Banquet" is released, I'm afraid the four little Huadans will tear it apart first.

Compared with Mr. Zhou, who is in the limelight, Hu Jing is so low-key that she doesn't look like the heroine of "Painted Skin". She didn't even participate in the film's follow-up road show.

This is cheap for Da Mimi, Hu Jing gave her a lot of resources, which exposed Da Mimi a lot.

Coupled with the popularity of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "Wulin Biography", Da Mimi has become one of the most prominent newcomers in the entertainment industry, so she was compared with Liu Tianxian before.

It's a pity that Liu Tianxian came here to change his nationality, ruthlessly brushed off his popularity, and stole Da Mimi's limelight again?
While Da Mimi was depressed, she could only comfort herself secretly.

No matter how frightening Liu Tianxian is, she is the third female lead in a blockbuster movie with a box office of 3 million yuan in the mainland, and she is fighting with Cao Xuan, Hu Jing, Zhou Gongzi and other big names during the summer vacation.

Well, although it was Cao Xuan and others who killed me randomly and she was in charge of Quack, it doesn't matter, she is still one of the main creators of "Painted Skin"...

Then I saw the new news announced by Fanxing——

Cao Xuan's next movie "Hurricane Rescue" was launched in Xiangjiang in September, starring Cao Xuan, Chang Wei, Wu Jing, etc., as well as herself and Liu Tianxian.

Well, Liu Tianxian plays the heroine, and Da Mimi is a guest star, the heroine's wronged best friend.

Big Honey: (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻

Although before this, she had already expected the role when she received the role, but when she actually saw herself supporting Liu Tianxian, Da Mimi still felt aggrieved in her heart.

Why did I act in three movies, all of which were supporting roles. Liu Tianxian acted in a movie for the first time, and it was the heroine, or the heroine of Cao Xuan's movie.

Da Mimi really wanted to ask Cao Daguan if he treated them differently from the Donggong party, and the agreed bowl of water was fair.

Co-author Nishigong Niangniang suffered a loss in resources, let her apprentice make up for it, right...

But unfortunately, she didn't have the courage, so she could only grind her teeth silently. In "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "Operation Hurricane", she played supporting roles for Liu Tianxian twice.

30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, don't bully young girls into poverty!
Da Mimi swore in her heart that one day, she would let Liu Tianxian play a supporting role for herself.

Not just to express a sigh of relief, but also to tell her Liu Tianxian that my big honey will not be weaker than others in my life.

However, it is a pity that it is hard to say whether Da Mimi was weak or not throughout her life. After Liu Tianxian changed her nationality, it gave her another major blow.

In mid-August, when "Painted Skin" hit theaters, "Hello, Time" co-starred by Hu Ge and Liu Tianxian premiered on Hunan TV.

This youth campus-themed TV series is actually a bit sensitive. If you don't pay attention, it may involve puppy love, so many TV stations dare not buy it.

Only Hunan Provincial TV Station felt that this TV series was very suitable for its young audience, and coupled with its deep pockets, it felt that it would be able to survive even if it was smashed.

Sure enough, the broadcast of this drama has attracted a certain amount of discussion about puppy love, but because the hero and heroine in the drama are only in an ambiguous period, no formal relationship has been established.

It can be said to be a puppy love, but it can also be said to be a childhood sweetheart. This is not love, it is clearly friendship.

Under the pressure, Hunan Province TV pretended not to hear, and insisted on continuing to broadcast, and "Hello, Time" did not live up to their efforts.

Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger, the famous fairy sword CP, got together for the first time in a year. They already had a lot of topics and attention. Coupled with the incident of Liu Tianxian's change of nationality, the TV series became popular before it was broadcast.

After the TV series was broadcast, the relatively localized campus plots made audiences who are used to watching campus dramas of nobles and private middle school idols feel very substituting.

It only took two days to become the number one TV drama in the same period.

Yu Zhouzhou, played by Liu Tianxian, is dressed in a classic blue and white school uniform. He is smart, gentle, pure and pretty, with a frown and a smile, obliterating the hearts of countless boys.

In a sense, this kind of pure campus character image is the easiest to impress a man's soft heart. After all, which man didn't have such a gentle and beautiful goddess in his heart when he was in school.

It's okay for a man who has passed his age.

【Kill Hu Ge, grab Zhou Zhou】has become a hot blog word recently, and many Liu Tianxian's "husbands" went to Hu Ge's blog to warn him that if he dared to have a kiss scene, he would be killed.

However, Hu Ge's "wives" are not good. The hero he plays is lively, cheerful, positive, nicknamed [Little Sun], and he is also a very lovable character.

After the broadcast of "Hello, Time", Hu Ge has countless fans. If many boys regard Liu Tianxian as the goddess in their hearts, then Hu Ge is the male god of many girls.

These fans fought fiercely on the blog for several days for their "wife/husband".

Fortunately, this drama focuses on campus youth. It didn’t skip the timeline until the last 10 minutes of the last episode, making the male and female protagonists who have graduated from college become lovers. Except for one time, the male protagonist secretly kissed the female protagonist’s face. Any kind of intimacy.

This allowed the two sides to exercise a little restraint and did not go to war completely.

However, the heroine of "Hello, Time" sneaked a kiss on the face of the heroine, and Ling'er in "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was also kissed by Li Xiaoyao.

For Liu Tianxian who has never filmed a kissing scene, it is enough for her fans to regard Hu Ge as "a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh".

What they didn't know was that Liu Tianxian played a guest role as Lu Su in "Mythology". Before he died, he came to bid farewell to his lover, kissed the unconscious Yi Xiaochuan on the lips, and contributed his first screen kiss.

Hu Ge played the role of Yi Xiaochuan.

Just like countless fans of Liu Shishi are bitter about Yuan Hongduo's first kiss, Hu Ge will probably be hated by many immortal fans in his life.

There is one thing to say, if there is no suitable plot, and Empress Xigong has to be taken into account, otherwise Cao Daguan has blocked this disaster for Hu Ge.

Putting aside the first kiss or not, the main reason is to protect the employees...

The ratings of "Hello, Time" are not considered a blockbuster, but the characters are pleasing and the fan rate is extremely high. Liu Tianxian, who is already very popular, has taken the two to a higher level.

Seeing that the gap is getting farther and farther, not to mention Da Mimi's heart is desperate, even the Empress of the East Palace is muttering in her heart, should she find another good seedling for Da Mimi's help.

The last time she accompanied Cao Xuan to watch an audition on the Internet, it seemed that Cao Xuan had praised a girl with a round face, and she could look for it later.

Witnessing countless times of Cao Xuan turning stones into gold made Hu Jing have absolute trust in her man's vision, even if the girl did not give her a good impression at the time, she was willing to give it a try.

What if it happens!
.........

Cao Xuan didn't know what he said casually, so the Empress Donggong remembered it in her heart, and she came up with the idea of ​​helping Da Mimi form a team.

He doesn't have time to eat the love and murder of two employees under Melon. If he has that time, he is more willing to help "Painted Skin" do more publicity.

It stands to reason that "Painted Skin" has exploded at the box office this year, and the momentum has already picked up, so Cao Xuan doesn't need to work harder.

But he and China Film couldn't help but want to kill "Titanic" and make "Painted Skin" top.

Now many forecasting media and institutions estimate that the domestic box office of "Painted Skin" is only around 3.3 to 3.4 million. Facing the domestic box office of "Titanic" as high as 3.6 million, the challenge is still very difficult.

However, China Film and Fanxing are not helpless.

The two of them can almost influence the second, third and fourth theaters in the mainland, and there are many small and medium theaters that have formed alliances with Fanxing and China Film to share resources and advance together.

In other words, the joint efforts of the two companies can control 50% of the theaters in the mainland to schedule films to a certain extent, and at a certain price, the other 50% of the theaters will also give face.

If the two companies are willing to fully support "Painted Skin" at all costs, then the resources they can obtain in theaters will be very terrifying.

Under normal circumstances, China Film and Fanxing would rather earn less at the box office than do such a thing, which is too ugly and disrupts the balance of the industry.

Usually relying on the presence of theaters, it doesn't matter if they take advantage of it, as long as the disturbance is not too much, the higher-ups will turn a blind eye.

But if the two join forces and continue to play like this, if they don't give other companies a way out, they will be forced to die and their nets will be broken, and they will file a complaint with the higher authorities, and things will be difficult to deal with.

Therefore, although China Film and Fanxing have this ability, at most they will focus on the two directly affiliated theaters, and they will not easily unite the entire theater to cause trouble.

Only this time, "Painted Skin" is about regaining the number one box office in the mainland, and eradicating the shame of foreign films that have been box office champions for the past ten years. China Film and Fanxing feel that they can make an exception.

To be on the safe side, the higher-ups sent a report to the higher-ups. Although the higher-ups did not support it, they did not object. They just said that "Painted Skin" performed very well, and the higher-ups were studying it to postpone the film's release.

The understanding of Cao Xuan and Han Sanye is that this is a guarantee for "Painted Skin". If the increase in the number of films is not enough, then the painting will be postponed.

Anyway, no matter what, "Titanic" must be killed...

As a result, Cao Xuan and Han Sanye let go, and the number of films scheduled for the second week of "Painted Skin" soared.

Originally, there were not many movies in August, but the film schedule rate of "Painted Skin" is thriving. The daily average in the first week is basically stable between 8% and 50%, which is already a relatively high proportion.

However, after China Film and Fanxing jointly manipulated the theaters, the daily filming rate of "Painted Skin" basically stabilized at more than 70%, and the peak filming rate exceeded 85%.

It increased by almost 1/3 of the market in one breath, and the box office of "Painted Skin" in the second week was nearly 3000 million more than the first week.

1.53 billion!
2.78 million in two weeks, 3 million is within easy reach. Even if the painting is postponed, it can be ground to 3.6 million.

At this time, "Painted Skin" has exceeded 2.5 million "Heroes", the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in the Mainland.

But Cao Xuan and China Film still did not relax. Although they relaxed their control in the third week, the film scheduling rate of "Painted Skin" remained stable at more than 60%.

In the third week, despite the obvious decline in the box office, it still cut 9600 million box office.

"Painted Skin" scored 3.74 million box office, officially surpassing "Titanic" to become the number one movie in the mainland box office.

That night, a group of news media headed by "News Lianbo" reported the matter. Regardless of word of mouth, at least at this moment, "Painted Skin" became the pride of Chinese-language movies.

After reaching the summit successfully, in September, China Film and Fanxing no longer control the theaters and restore normal market order. "Painted Skin" still maintains a screening rate of more than 9% to 40%.

According to this trend, if the draw is normal, the box office will easily exceed 4 million, and it is even expected to reach 4.2-4.3 million.

But if it is postponed for one month, it should still be able to hit the top, but considering the impact of new movies such as "The Banquet" and "Baby Project", it is hard to say whether it can reach the box office of 5 million.

But no matter what, the box office of "Painted Skin" has greatly exceeded the expectations of Cao Xuan and others.

So much so that Cao Xuan felt a bit like a dream a month after the movie was released.

It was in 4 that the batch of 2009 million+ box office appeared in the mainland of the original time and space. It was only in 2010 that the first Chinese film breaking 5 million appeared, and I was several years ahead of schedule.

He pondered for a long time, and he could only attribute this result to the strengthening of the domestic film market and the expansion of the film market by the star theaters in the past two years; in addition, this year, because of "Legend", his influence was unprecedentedly high, attracting a large number of fans and passers-by Support; coupled with a schedule with almost no strong enemies; and Fanxing and China Film blatantly "cheated and cheated" and had official assists...

The combination of various reasons made "Painted Skin" a phenomenal box office hit.

If you change to another movie, as long as the quality is not bad and the cast is reasonable, I am afraid that even if it is not as good as "Painted Skin", it will not be so bad.

If the release dates of "New World" and "Painted Skin" were reversed last year, I am afraid there is no need to postpone it, and there is a chance to reach 5 million.

Time, luck, and fate!

Cao Xuan didn't know whether he was lucky that "Painted Skin" had a good opportunity to borrow from the world, or regretted that he didn't make a better movie, maybe it could reach 10 billion in one go...

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ps: When I wrote the plot of "Painted Skin" in the last chapter, I actually wanted to simply change the plot according to the original version, but after watching the movie once, it is full of flaws, and I really don't like it (I think this movie is still very good-looking , I don’t know why I can’t watch it now)
So when I was writing the plot, I unconsciously changed it, or it was not so much a magic change, it was better to say it was a copy of the cool text, and if it turned into a male lead, how could I kill the villain?
In fact, after writing it, I also feel that something is wrong, but I don’t want to change it. Maybe I’m really not good at magic changes in film and television. I’ll just copy it normally in the future.

(End of this chapter)