Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 342 Venice (third update)
In addition to "Hero", there are three other films released at the same time this week, namely "Python 2: Searching for Blood Orchid", "Baby Genius 2: Super Baby" and "Suspect Zero" by Liang Tianchi Films .

"The Calamity of Python 2", an adventure story related to pythons, appeared in the form of a sequel, and the number of theaters showing it exceeded that of "Heroes", reaching 2093.

Perhaps because of the good word-of-mouth the special effects of the first film have created for it, such a story that any viewer could think of still earned $1320 million, ranking No. 2 on the chart.

However, there is still a certain gap compared with the first box office of 1997 million US dollars in 1660, and it seems a bit difficult to reach the first box office of 6550 million US dollars.

However, "Suspect Zero" produced by Liang Tianchi Films barely squeezed into the top 10 box office rankings, earning 340 million US dollars in three days in the first weekend.

For a movie with an investment of 400 million US dollars, this result is considered impressive. There is no doubt that "Suspect Zero" must have made a profit.

As for the last new film, "Baby Genius", it didn't even make the top 10 list. It seems that this toddler comedy has little market appeal.

Last week's champion film "The Exorcist Prequel" plummeted to No. 5 at the box office this week, with revenue of only 670 million US dollars, less than half of last week's total box office of 10 million in 3080 days of release.

The total box office of the top 12 films in this week's box office list was 8470 million US dollars, a decrease of 31% from last week, basically the same level as the same period last year, and the lowest point in four months.

At the same time, in the film market in mainland China, the box office of "No Surname" fell by 51.92% in the fourth week, and it sold another 1250 million yuan in a single week.

This box office result won the weekly box office championship again, allowing "The Man With No Surname" to successfully achieve the weekly box office championship for four consecutive times, tying the mainland weekly box office record created by "The Ninth District" for Chen Hao!
And if "The Man With No Surname" can still win the weekly championship in the next week, then "The Man With No Surname" will win five consecutive championships.

At the same time, it will also become the film with the most consecutive championships in mainland film history, and it will also be exclusive to this record!

Now, the four-week cumulative box office of "No Surname" has reached 1.42 million yuan, while the cumulative box office of "House of Flying Daggers" has reached 1.51 million yuan!

The gap between the two has narrowed to about 900 million RMB, and the odds of "The Man Without a Surname" are getting bigger and bigger!
In this regard, the mainland media reported wantonly, it seems that "Man with No Surname" has surpassed "House of Flying Daggers", and Chen Hao has surpassed the national teacher.

This made Zhang Weiping and Guo Shi, who were in a better mood just because "Hero" dominated the North American box office, were very depressed.

……

Time soon entered September, Chen Hao received good news, Marco Ruffano agreed to participate in "The Hangover", it is said that Downey and Chris contributed a lot in it.

At the same time, Chen Hao also called the widow to invite her to be a guest star in "The Hangover", and the widow readily nodded in agreement.

It's a pity that the widow sister is not in Los Angeles at this time, otherwise Chen Hao would definitely invite her to come to his house to do it!
The widow sister and Mark agreed to participate in the performance, so after the Women's Federation version of "Chain Saw", Chen Hao will make another Women's Federation version of "The Hangover", which will definitely be talked about by everyone in the future.

After all the leading actors were settled, the behind-the-scenes of the crew had already been found, so Chen Hao gathered everyone to meet and get to know each other in advance, and at the same time read the script around.

There's a lot of dialogue in The Hangover, and it's quite difficult to make the dialogue funny.

The key point is that many of the dialogues in the original version of "The Hangover" are not suitable for 2004. There are many things and many stalks that have not happened yet, so it would be very strange for Chen Hao to write them out!
Therefore, Chen Hao intends to gather the strength of the entire crew to perfect the script. The so-called three cobblers are the best of Zhuge Liang, and some ordinary old drivers can still contribute a lot of "brilliant ideas".

The movie "The Hangover" is a pure comedy, relying on the magical use of language, there are no special effects at all, and there are almost no action scenes.

Therefore, Chen Hao's original budget was only about 2500 million US dollars.

Chen Hao didn't plan to find another partner to cooperate with, and directly measured Tianchi Films as a sole proprietorship, so he didn't count his salary.

However, Lionsgate invested 1000 million with the copyright mortgage of Marvel superheroes, so Chen Hao had no choice but to modify the plan.

The revised investment budget for "The Hangover" is US$4500 million, of which Lionsgate Pictures invested 1000 million US dollars, and Liang Tianchi Pictures assumed the remaining 3500 million US dollars.

Of the 3500 million, 1000 million is Chen Hao's remuneration as producer, director, and screenwriter, so Liang Tianchi Films still only needs to pay 2500 million US dollars.

The shooting location was also chosen in the casino city of Las Vegas, and the location selection producer has already gone to Las Vegas to negotiate with the casino and hotel that need to be used for shooting.

While Chen Hao and the crew were perfecting the script, another week passed.

"The miracle of Huaxia's "Heroes" continues!"

This is the news headline given by the major media in North America.

After topping the North American box office charts in the first week of its release, Guoshi's Chinese martial arts masterpiece "Heroes" won the North American box office chart again last week.

The North American weekend box office rankings won two consecutive championships, which undoubtedly created a miracle in the history of Chinese films and even Asian films.

According to the results announced by the North American Box Office Statistics Company, "Hero" received a total of about 1500 million box office last week.

Coupled with the previous week's 1780 million US dollars, in fact, the film has already broken through Miramax's prior forecast of the best results --- 3000 million US dollars, reaching 3252 million US dollars.

And "Hero" will make a difference in the next week, because there are not too strong new films to be released, "Hero" has the opportunity to continue its miraculous journey.

Some analysts in North America believe that "Hero" is expected to break through the box office of 5000 million US dollars in North America.

Meanwhile, "Suspect Zero" by Liang Tianchi Films earned a box office of US$205 million in the following week, and the cumulative box office in the two weeks was US$545 million.

According to this box office trend, it is estimated that the final box office of "Suspect Zero" will be around 800 million US dollars, which is not a loss.

However, distribution channels such as DVD sales, leases and paid channels are net profits!

……

After more than a week of perfection, the script has been revised and all preparations have been done, and the filming is just waiting to start.

However, Chen Hao did not start the machine immediately, but took a plane to Venice, Italy.

Because on September 9th, the 11st Venice International Film Festival is about to close, and the award ceremony will be held as scheduled in the evening, and the major film crews competing for the Golden Lion have gathered in Venice!

(End of this chapter)