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Chapter 145 Closing and Arrangements

Finally, "Crazy Stone" was released with a score of 5030 million, shocking the industry!
This is the highest rate of return on investment in a domestic film since the new century, except for Cheng Yu'an.

300 million cost, 5000 million box office.

Remotely held a celebration banquet for Ning Hao to celebrate the perfect ending of "Crazy Stone".

Cheng Yu'an was quite busy throughout July. After finishing "Crazy Stone", it was the end of July, and the only mainland film "Sunflower" of the "Asian Rising Star Director Project" was about to be released.

Director Cheng Er, the heroine is Jing Tian, ​​who just passed her 18th birthday, and the hero is Zhang Yi, who is in the art troupe.

It's all recruits!

The lineup is even worse than "Crazy Stone". "Crazy Stone" has Xu Shanzheng at any rate, and Guo Tao, a big star in drama, has something to write about when promoting it. "Sunflower" is good. Before the two leading actors There is no such person in the entertainment circle.

But "Sunflower" has one thing that "Crazy Stone" can't compare to. "Sunflower" gathered the power of Yingyi Entertainment, Telemedia and Guangxian Films. Andy Lau even came to the scene to stand for Zhang Yi and Jing Tian.

"This film will be screened simultaneously in Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asia, and I am looking forward to its performance." Andy Lau told reporters, "Cheng Er is a very talented director. Although Zhang Yi and Jing Tian are both newcomers, they both work hard. , I believe they will become very good actors in the future.”

How popular Andy Lau is is needless to say, anyway, now nine and a half out of ten audiences are directed at Andy Lau.

The schedule of "Sunflower" is not very good, because there is a big killer that is released at the same time as it - "Dragon Tiger Gate"!
"Dragon Tiger Gate" was released 3 days ahead of "Sunflower", with a box office of 600 million on the first day, and 1560 million in the mainland on the first three days, plus Hong Kong Island and the three Southeast Asian countries, its box office broke 3000 million in the first week, and "Sunflower" hit it. blood mold.

Under the impact of "Dragon Tiger Gate", the box office of "Sunflower" on the first day was worth more than 100 million. The film schedule was guaranteed at the beginning, but it is not known whether it will be adjusted by the theater later.

The combination of Yingyi, Yuanyuan, and Guangxian is not an option. "Sunflower" has a bad start. If it does not perform well later, it will be released directly in theaters. Therefore, each of the three companies paid 100 million yuan to buy the first weekend box office.

Not shabby!Buying the box office is usually done in the early stage of the release, so that the early data can be made more beautiful for publicity.

Therefore, the box office of "Sunflower" exceeded 7 million in the first 31 days of the week - Monday 1000st!
"Dragon Tiger Gate" has reached 3000 million at this time.

The score of 1000 million is already a big profit for a low-cost film with an investment of only 300 million Hong Kong dollars. If there is no accident, the total box office should exceed 2000 million, but who made it follow the newly released movie? What about Crazy Stone?

However, Andy Lau is very satisfied with this result. So far, "Sunflower" will be the best-selling film among the six films in the first phase of the entire "Rising Asian Director" project.

Regardless of what the plan is for, whether it's for fame or profit, if they actually paid for it to support the new director, and even traveled thousands of miles to give the new director a platform, there's nothing wrong with it.

Let's go back to the "Butterfly Effect 2" crew, ever since Huang Ke took over the project, he has been calling him 24 hours a day.

Inviting people to dinner, making appointments to play ball, and even sending girls to their door, anyway, Huang Ke has experienced all the ways you can imagine in the past half a month.

In the end, Guo Fei was afraid that Huang Ke would not be able to stand up, so in order to prevent outsiders from spending their time, Guo Fei decided on Yan Danchen as the heroine.

Yan Danchen let the audience really know her from the role of Chang'e in "Lotus Lantern", but she is still a long way from becoming popular, but she has not been short of filming in the past two years, and she is quite content with the role of the second female and the third female.

Now that I suddenly heard it, I was a little bit unconvinced when I asked her to shoot "Butterfly Effect 2" remotely.

She seldom interacts with distant people, because all her old classmates knew that Cheng Yu'an chased her when she was in school, but she rejected Cheng Yu'an.

Although so many years have passed, Yan Danchen and Cheng Yu'an still consciously keep a distance.

It was Guo Fei who persuaded her to relax: "It's been so many years, Yu'an has already forgotten about this matter. Don't worry, Yu'an will hardly interfere in this drama. Besides, even if there is anything other people can say, the male unmarried The daughter is not married, and it is really a good story to continue the relationship."

Yan Danchen gave Guo Fei a blank look, and finally agreed to play the heroine of "Butterfly Effect 2".

A fool would not agree, but Yan Danchen knew how many people out there were thinking about this drama. If the first film had a bottom line, it would be considered a failure if the box office of the second film was less than 3000 million.

Cheng Yu'an didn't spend much energy on "Sunflower", and flew to the United States after helping out for a week.

"Wearing Prada" was released in the United States, with a box office of 940 million US dollars on the first day and 2750 million US dollars in the three days of the weekend.After the screening in the North American market, "The Devil Wears Prada" won a total of 1.2 million US dollars in the North American box office.

Fox has arranged for the film to be released around the world in an orderly manner.

This made Bob, who had bet on "The Devil Wears Prada", a teenager who was not optimistic about the film by Hollywood big factories, breathe a sigh of relief.

At last he made the right bet.

The performance of "Sin City", another highlight of a major film company this year, is also surprising.

This kind of cult film did not expect to have such a big energy. It received 2800 million US dollars at the box office in the first week, directly hitting the top of the list, and 7500 million in North America. Unfortunately, the North American market failed to exceed [-] million.

The performance of "Sin City" in the international market is also unsatisfactory. After all, the release of R-rated films is greatly restricted. Although it has a good reputation in France, Britain, Germany and other countries, its box office is mediocre.

Swaying, the global box office of "Sin City" reached 1.6 million US dollars.

It can’t be said that blood is earned, excluding the cost of 4000 million plus publicity and distribution expenses, a large film company can also earn about 3000 million.

Of course, most of the profits of this cult film come from DVD and new media, but it takes a long time to pay back, so it is not included in the statistics.

Last year, a major film company also produced a film "Flight 911" that responded to the 93/7000 incident.

This made Bob see the prospect of making realistic themes, and thought about making two more movies that reflect real historical events in the United States. This kind of movie usually sells well as long as it passes the test.

Therefore, Cheng Yuan retreated for 3 days and wrote the script of "Buried Alive".

A story reflecting America in Iraq: "Bob, this story may be restricted in America."

Don't think that all movies can be released in the United States. For movies like "Buried Alive", Cheng Yu'an expected that the release would be limited.

"Cheng, don't worry, even if the release is limited, we can sell it overseas." Bob said while flipping through the script, "and the cost of this movie will not be very high, I think it will be $200 million It can be shot, and there is no such thing as a loss at such a low cost.”

Just sell a DVD and online copyright for 200 million and come back.

Since Bob is confident, Cheng Yu'an certainly doesn't mind trying with 200 million. As he said, there is no such thing as a loss at such a low cost.

(End of this chapter)