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Chapter 320 The Dark Side and Twilight

Cheng Yu'an is busy promoting "Inception" and handling company handover matters. "Twilight Saga 3" is about to be released. Cheng Yu'an can sleep up to 5 hours a day. Cheng Lingfeng and Liu Yifei are also in the same situation.

In China, although "The Dark Side" has a niche subject matter, it is full of creativity and the rhythm is well grasped. The popularity of the male and female protagonists is booming, and the film's reputation is gradually fermenting.

The first day's 700 million results were mediocre, but the box office received 3580 million in the first three days of the weekend.

Three days broke the remote inside its projected box office.

"It's a rare domestic horror film with conscience, with a solid story, a tight rhythm, and well-acted actors. It seems that Han Yan has really worked hard in the past three years."

"The size of the layout is not the criterion for judging a movie. A small layout can produce a good movie. Han Yan's "The Dark Side" is not very big, it is just a love triangle story, but in this old villa In ", Han Yan gave full play to his scheduling and control skills. The most surprising work of the year is definitely Han Yan."

"After Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" was killed and Wu Ershan switched to producing "Painted Skin 2", I thought that the new director Yuan Yuan would be cut off, but I didn't expect Han Yan to stand up. Although the first film was not a success, But the advent of "The Dark Side" convinced the industry that the remote training mechanism for new directors is still healthy. Many people may not know that Han Yan has been doing remote internships since he entered the university as a freshman, and has always been Cheng Yu'an's assistant director and executive. "

"It can't be said that there are no loopholes. For example, when the heroine disappears and the police come to investigate, why don't you find the old lady of the landlord? Just ask the landlord and you will find the secret room; what's more, it can be seen that Han Yan actually wants to make a passionate scene to show the hero. The comparison between the two relationships, but for some reason it can’t be done, so in the finished film, the kiss scene between the hero and the two heroines or the passionate scene is very awkward to watch, but fortunately the two women The main character is beautiful enough to make people watch it patiently. The loopholes in the film are obvious, but the director has made good choices and is self-consistent, and the surprise work of the year must be "The Dark Side."

On the whole, "The Dark Side" was not restricted in its dissemination because of the niche audience of the subject matter, but because of shameless marketing techniques such as "annual surprise" and "domestic horror film milestone", it attracted a group of fans. A large number of audiences walked into the cinema to watch the movie.

This adds a bit of uncertainty to the already packed summer vacation.

"The Battle of Shama Town" and "The Dark Side" were released in the same week. The former was on Tuesday, and the latter was on Friday. "Dark Side" kicked down.

"Ip Man's Prequel", which was released on the same day, was even worse. Except that the IP "Ip Man" attracted some viewers in on the first day and earned 120 million, the box office did not exceed 400 million in the first three days of the weekend.

Before the release of "The King of Guns" at the end of the month, the theater directly released this film!
A week in theaters, with a total box office of 700 million.

Cheng Yu'an has not paid attention to domestic news for the time being. He has been accepting interviews from various media for the past few days. Today, he will fly to the UK with the crew of "Inception" to attend the world premiere.

Even at the airport, the reporter also interviewed the crew of "Inception" in every possible way.

The focus of the interview was naturally Nolan and Xiao Li, and Liu Yifei was also included.

After chatting at the airport for half an hour, everyone bid farewell to the reporters and started boarding the plane.

"How are you, are you nervous?" Cheng Yu'an asked the young lady.

Liu Yifei sat next to her: "A little bit. I wasn't so nervous during the global promotion of "The King of Kung Fu."

"I see that you coped well on the talk show earlier."

"I want to save face." Liu Yifei smiled, and continued, "I have a question that I have wanted to ask you for a long time. Why is "Twilight" so popular? I have thought about it for a few days, and it doesn't make sense."

Yes, "The Twilight Saga: Lunar Eclipse" was released. It was released in 3 theaters around the world on the first day, and it scored a global box office of 4518 million U.S. dollars that day, breaking last year's "Transformers 6800" record of 2 million first-day box office. .

But it failed to surpass the previous record of $7270 million in the first day of "New Moon".

Universal was so happy that his nose was blowing, and since the second part, Universal has been in the car of "Twilight".

Cheng Yu'an explained: "First of all, fantasy literature has always had a strong market in the West, such as "The Lord of the Rings", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Harry Potter", etc. Before "Twilight" was made into a film and television, the original novels sold very well. , sales and praise once surpassed "Harry Potter", which accumulated a large number of original fans for the film."

"Why did you take the right to adapt such a popular novel? At that time, your family was big, bah, can you change the name of the company, this name is really shameless. The company was not doing well at that time." Liu Yifei complained. .

""The Twilight Saga" was picked up by us, not to mention at the time, even now, major Hollywood studios still don't believe in film and television adaptations of juvenile books. They think the popularity of "Twilight Saga" is an accident."

"What about the second reason?" Liu Yifei asked him to quickly tell the reason why "Twilight" became popular.

"The second is that "The Twilight Saga" is different from other fantasy novels. You can see "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter". No, he is talking about the love between vampires and humans, which is very novel, and adds elements of werewolf, adventure, suspense, schoolyard, and sadomasochism to the relationship. Coupled with the company's strong production and publicity, this That’s how the movie went viral.”

If you want to talk about "Twilight", even if you talk about it for two days and two nights, you can't finish it.

"But this film is too..."

"Dog blood?" Cheng Yu'an smiled.

"I didn't say it, you said it." Liu Yifei smiled.

"It's dog blood, but..." Cheng Yu'an was thinking of words to say to her.

Liu Yifei snapped up, "Are you trying to say that although it's bloody, it's enough to deceive girls."

"What I mean is that he satisfies all the fantasies of ordinary girls about the opposite sex and ideal love. How can it be called cheating money." Cheng Yu'an said cheekily.

"Then why don't you make such a movie in China." Liu Yifei said.

"Uh... isn't this shameful? I can't bear to make this kind of film in China. When the audience scolds, ah, you Cheng Yu'an made this kind of film to fool us. I can't even bear this kind of scolding. ""The Twilight Saga" has been scolded from the first part to now, but it has not delayed the box office.

"You are so virtuous!" Liu Yifei smiled, and asked him about his future arrangements.

Cheng Yu'an said: "After the premiere in London, I will go back to China to attend the premiere of "Tangshan Earthquake"."

"Tangshan Earthquake" was released on the 22nd, but the premiere will be on the 12th, at the Tangshan Sports Center, and it is said that 1.5 million people were invited to watch the movie.

Cheng Yu'an went on to say: "Fly back after the premiere of "Tangshan Earthquake"."

Liu Yifei added: "At the end of the month, I have to go back to attend Ranqiu and Zhixi's wedding."

The wedding of the two is scheduled for the 28th, and the groomsmen and bridesmaids have to arrive on the 25th.

(End of this chapter)