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Chapter 118 The Billion Box Office Celebration Banquet
As time came to the end of February, "Ball Lightning" was released for a month, and its box office has reached 2 million, breaking the highest box office record for a Chinese-language film, while "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", which was released at the same time, finally sold for 9 million. Multiple scores offline.

It has to be said that Zhou Xingxing’s signature is really strong. Under the attack of the male protagonist Wen Zhang’s complete house collapse and the attack of “Ball Lightning”, he still cut more than 7 million box office, although it is 12 million less than the [-] billion box office in his previous life. , but it is enough to prove its influence.

In order to hit the 10 billion mark, Zongheng Film and Television applied for an extension of the film key. Finally, in early March, more than a month after the film was released, the total box office officially reached 3 billion!

This is also the first Chinese film with a box office of over 10 billion in the history of the mainland. It is of great significance. Whether it is for the production company or the film market, many people in the industry exclaimed that this achievement will hardly be surpassed within three years.

But only Gu Zhongyu knows that this record won't last long. In the second half of the year, "Lost in Thailand" will break it, and there will be movies with billions of dollars in the future. The domestic film market is developing too fast!

It is worth mentioning that the Douban score of "Ball Lightning" also reached 8.5 points, which is already considered very high for a commercial film. After all, "Let the Bullets Fly" released two years ago only scored 8.8 points on Douban.According to Douban's evaluation rules, one point is added to foreign movies, and one point is subtracted from domestic movies. His movie is enough to be a classic with 9 points!
The film has achieved such a great achievement, so it is natural to celebrate it. Since Gu Zhongyu was filming in Chang'an, everyone was simply invited here to hold a celebration banquet.

Except for Yang Mi who was filming in other places and couldn't come here, all the original crew members of "Ball Lightning" are here. We found a five-star hotel in our store, and invited the main creator of "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an". They are all employees of Zongheng Film and Television, so they are regarded as the company's team building.

At the dinner table, Gu Zhongyu was squeezed in the middle by Wan Qian and Nazha. After three months of filming, the relationship between the two women has not eased. They are still often jealous because of little things, but basically every time it is Nazha who has a worrying IQ suffer.

Now they can't stop eating, the two girls frequently add vegetables to Gu Zhongyu's bowl, and the plate in front of him piled up a hill in a short while.

Others looked enviously, this blessing of Qiren is too enviable and jealous!

I don't know how they would feel if they saw the small movements of the three under the table, anyway, Gu Zhongyu feels a little too exciting now!
"Mr. Gu, Zhou Xingxing has agreed to take over "The Mermaid". He chose the first plan, with high salary + bonus." Gong Ge persevered with Zhou Xingxing for more than a month, and finally convinced him.

"Zhou Xingxing? Isn't he in competition with our film? Why did he come to help us direct?" Zhou Wei asked curiously. The two films were out of their wits during the Spring Festival. Did they laugh at each other so soon?

Gu Zhongyu smiled lightly: "Because we offered him a number that he couldn't refuse."

"How many?"

Then Gong Geer stretched out three fingers.

3000?
No wonder Zhou Xingxing turned an enemy into a friend so quickly, and he was paid 3000 million yuan for directing a movie. If it were him, let alone acting in a movie, making a third-level movie would not be out of consideration!
At this time, Gu Zhongyu noticed that Guo Fan, as the director, had been wandering from the beginning of the meeting to now, wondering what he was thinking about.

"My director Guo Da, do you think the food is not satisfactory, or do you think the wine is too bad? I have been putting this out of my mind, why, spring is here, and it's seedlings?"

"No, I'm thinking about whether I should go abroad."

"Are you going on a trip? Take me with you!" Gong Geer and Guo Fan have really been conjoined twins for a while, and they wish that the health care company would only order one young lady!

"No, I want to go to Hollywood for further study."

It turned out that the Bureau of Radio, Film and Television launched a plan to invite public-sponsored study abroad some time ago, allowing young domestic directors to study and observe at American Emperor Paramount Pictures. Guo Fan, Chen Sicheng, Wu Ershan, Ning Hao and others all received the invitation.

It's just that if he went to study, it would take a few months or a year to return to China, and the sequel of "Ball Lightning" would definitely be postponed, so Guo Fan was still hesitating whether to accept this invitation.

"Why do you suddenly want to study in Hollywood?"

"Because I don't have confidence..."

Guo Fan said frankly that although the first part of "Ball Lightning" was a big success and broke the box office record, the pressure that followed suddenly increased. He was very worried about whether the sequel would continue to be brilliant, and he lacked confidence in his directing ability.

He has seriously considered that the movie "Ball Lightning" has Liu Cixin's original work as the backing, Gu Zhongyu Gong Ge's meticulously improved script, a complete and efficient Xiantao digital special effects team, and a film plan that has been in preparation for two or three years. Everything has been prepared long ago, and the director himself is more like a tool man, as long as he follows the procedures, he will be safe.

"Frankly speaking, even if Mr. Gu doesn't find me this time, he can just find a director with strong execution ability and decent level to make this movie, and he may not be worse than me..."

"So I have been thinking, what is so great about me? Unfortunately, I don't seem to have a bigger head than other directors, so in order not to disappoint the trust of the company and Mr. Gu, and for me to continue to direct science fiction movies in the future , I want to study abroad for a while, to settle down."

After hearing Guo Fan's thoughts, Gu Zhongyu was very happy. At first, he was worried that if he made him famous in advance, there would be a risk of spoiling the seedlings, but now it seems that he worried too much. He has always stuck to his heart and was not confused by fame and fortune. .

In all fairness, if it were Gu Zhongyu himself, he might have learned from Uncle Liu Huang, playing music and dancing!

"Then let's go! I'm not in a hurry to make a sequel. It doesn't matter if it's two or three years late. You can go to the white guy to steal the teacher. It's best to wipe out all their film skills!"

"This is Mr. Gu that you said, so I'm really going!" Guo Fan was overjoyed, and he was worried that Gu Zhongyu was eager for quick success, so he must finish filming the sequel!

"Just go, I'm not your girlfriend, I've made it so gross! Look at Gong Ge, when I heard that you were leaving, I couldn't bear it, my tears were almost in my eyes."

Gong Geer, the fat man, hugged Guo Fan very cooperatively, and said softly against his ear: "Fanfan, you can't leave me! Every night without you, then I have to be alone Are you alone in the empty boudoir?"

"Gewuen~ Get lost!" Guo Fan kicked the disgusting Gong Geer away with one kick.

"Hahahaha!" There was a burst of cheerful laughter in the hall.

(End of this chapter)