Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 568 The Era of the Four Great Directors

The box office of "I Am Legend" was RMB 9300 million in the first week, which shocked the entire industry and the media!
It also let everyone know that the current mainland is the era ruled by the four major directors!

The four directors, especially Guoshi, Chen Kaige and Chen Hao are completely three big mountains in the film market, making everyone unable to hold their heads up!

Among the four directors, Guoshi’s highest box office is 2.48 million for “Hero”, Chen Hao is currently 2.16 million for “The Martian”, Chen Kaige is 1.86 million for “The Promise”, and Feng Dapao is 1.2 million for “A World Without Thieves” !
Apart from Yu Benzheng, the four are the only four mainland directors who have entered the 4 million box office club. Guo Shi and Chen Hao have already entered the 2 million box office club.

When other directors are still working hard for tens of millions of box office, the box office of the four major directors has long been high!

And judging from the current trend, as long as the four major directors shoot commercial films, the box office will basically be steadily over [-] million!

The box office appeal of the four directors is reflected in all aspects.

The first is investment. With four major directors directing the film, the investor dares to invest more than 1 million yuan. Other directors are not so reassuring.

The second is the actors, as long as the four major directors direct, then superstars and big names will rush to cooperate with them. As for other actors, as long as they can act, they will definitely not hesitate to pay!
What's more, it can be seen from the box office in the first week, how much the audience and the market are after it!
3100 million in the first week of "A World Without Thieves", 5500 million in the first week of "House of Flying Daggers" (a record in film history), 7500 million in the first week of "The Promise" (second in film history at the time), and 9300 million in the first week of "I Am Legend" Ten thousand (breaking film history record)!

The box office of the four major directors' films in the first week is the final box office that others dream of, even with a half discount. From this, we can see how huge the gap between the four major directors and other directors is!

Now the box office of "I Am Legend" in the first week has once again confirmed this point.

And the following Feng Dapao's "Night Banquet" and Guoshi's "Curse of Golden Armor" will surely prove this point!
It is no exaggeration to say that the first 10 years at the beginning of the century were the ten years when the four major directors ruled the mainland!
The only one who can threaten the four of them is Master Xing!Even Cheng Long, Li An, and Wu Baige are a little bit off!
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"I Am Legend" hit the box office of 9300 million RMB in the first week, and the box office of one film accounted for 75% of all the box office for the whole week!

And "Dragon Tiger Gate", which was released in the second week, only won 1500 million RMB, ranking second in the weekly box office list!
This box office was far below the film's expectations. It was killed by "Mission: Impossible 3" in the first week, and it was killed by "I Am Legend" in the second week.

For this reason, Yu Dongdu called Chen Hao and complained that "Dragon Tiger Gate" also had Haotian Film and Television's investment, and this attack was too ruthless!

Yu Dong also understood that the next release of the film must be far away from Chen Hao's film.

At the same time, Yu Dong also has to worry that the blockbuster "Scarred City" that he arranged at the end of the year will compete with the National Teacher's "Full City with Golden Armor", and the result is worrying!
What Yu Dong didn't know was that because of "City of Injury" and "City Full of Golden Armor", he would become attached to Zhang Weiping and start a years-long grievance!
In the second week of August, 8 new films will be released in the mainland film market, but the Hollywood animated film "Garfield 2" is slightly more threatening.

However, judging from the box office and reputation of "I Am Legend" in the first week, as well as the box office performance of past Hollywood animation films in the Mainland, it should not be a big problem for "I Am Legend" to win two consecutive championships.

The main reason is to see the box office decline of "I Am Legend", which has a major impact on whether it can surpass "Hero" in the final box office and win the box office champion of domestic movies.

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Time flies, and another week has passed. Chen Hao finished the promotion of "I Am Legend" and returned to the imperial capital.

While Chen Hao was waiting for the next week's box office of "I Am Legend", he first received two emails from Smart.

The first email is the first weekend box office of "Dancing Out of My Life" starring Xiaohu!
"Dancing Out of My Life" was released on August 8 last Friday. For this reason, Xiaohu rushed to the United States at the end of July to promote it. As her first Hollywood film starring, Xiaohu is very positive!
And seeing the box office of "Dancing Out of My Life" in the first weekend, Chen Hao couldn't help raising his eyebrows, this result was a bit unexpected.

This small-budget youth song and dance film with an investment of only 1000 million US dollars, the director was only a senior choreographer before, and the actors naturally have no big names, even Xiaohu is the most famous!

The others are just a group of handsome men and beautiful women, and the distribution scale can only be regarded as low-medium.

But I didn't expect that with such a lineup alone, it actually won a weekend box office of 2100 million US dollars, and it was also the runner-up in the North American weekend box office list!
"Talladega Nights" at the top of the list is only $200 million more than "Dancing With My Life", which is definitely a dark horse at the box office!

This is related to the scale and the promotion strategy formulated by Sony Columbia. The audience of the film is obviously mainly young women.

Therefore, before the film was released, the two companies repeatedly played the dance clips of the film on the Internet and major music TV stations. This is the most common channel for girls to receive information, and thus captured the hearts of a large number of young women in one fell swoop.

According to statistics, the vast majority of the audience who watched the film were young women aged 18-24, which proves that the promotion strategy this time is definitely the right medicine!
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the summer season of the North American film market is coming to an end, and the fall season is about to enter the off-season. There were no big movies released last week!
There was a sentence at the end of the email that surprised Chen Hao, Xiaohu actually ranked No.1 in the IMDB global newcomer popularity list!
When Chen Hao saw this sentence, he thought that Xiaohu would be overjoyed, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he came back!
Then Chen Hao read the second email, "The Da Vinci Code" was released in North America, which means that the film was officially released globally!

The final North American box office of "The Da Vinci Code" was 2.17 million US dollars, temporarily ranking No. 2006 in the 4 North American box office list!
According to the previous remuneration agreement, Chen Hao can get 15% of it, which is 3255 million US dollars. After taxation, he can get 2750 million US dollars!
Adding the previous 1500 million, Chen Hao's total film remuneration for directing "The Da Vinci Code" is 4250 million US dollars!About RMB 3.5 million!
At the same time, the global box office of "The Da Vinci Code" reached 7.61 million US dollars, temporarily becoming the global box office champion in 2006!

However, the global box office champion position of "The Da Vinci Code" is now in jeopardy, because the global box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has reached 7.5 million US dollars, and there is no suspense over "The Da Vinci Code"!

Less than a month after reaching the top, Chen Hao is about to say goodbye to the global box office champion!

　Thanks to "Du Tianzi" 100, book friend 20200513143621845 for the reward!
　　
　
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