Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 318 November

"Avatar" landed in North America on December 12, with 18 million in its first weekend, and 7300 million in the second week. After 1.4 days of release, the North American box office was 10 million, and the global box office exceeded 2.13 million.

The first stop in East Asia on Hong Kong Island, with revenue of HK$11 million in 4800 days of release, locking in the annual championship in advance.

This result has spread to the mainland, and coupled with the news of the confirmed introduction, the domestic Lunar New Year stalls have basically entered the settlement stage ahead of schedule.

No one thought they could touch Avatar.

I don’t know what Director Hu Mei was thinking about putting “Confucius” on January 1nd.

Maybe they thought that "Avatar" could be squeezed out of its box office by being released in the mainland for three weeks.

At this stage, more than 70% of a movie's box office will be released within 2 weeks of release. This theory is correct when applied to other movies, but Hu Mei and China Film clearly misjudged "Avatar" - who has encountered such a situation? Miscasts happen in every movie.

"Avatar" landed in the mainland and broke all records!

It grossed 400 million at midnight, 3600 million on the first day, and 4900 million on the next day. On this day, "Avatar" was released globally for 20 days. The global box office surpassed "The Lord of the Rings: The Third" and ranked second in global film history. The first place was still stuck. Mellon's "Titanic".

2.87 million in the first week in the mainland, easily breaking the single-week and first-week box office records of 2 million in the mainland film market set by "Transformers 6" in June last year. Not only that, this was also the best opening week for the film in all overseas markets. score.

On the 12th, the box office of "Avatar" exceeded HK$1 million in Hong Kong.

On the 17th, the box office in mainland China was 5.4 million.

This blue-skinned alien has occupied more than 90% of the market's film lineup - no one watches other films.

Although the audience complains that movie tickets are too expensive - a 3D IMAX ticket costs 100-150, it is still unavailable, and scalper tickets are even more expensive.

Although some viewers said clearly in an interview: "I'm still waiting for the subsequent resources to be downloaded to watch."

But this does not prevent truck drivers from once again conquering the world.

I'm sorry, Zhang Yuanjun watched the pirated version before, but now he can't buy a ticket to watch the original version, and he doesn't have time to watch it.

But according to colleagues from the crew who came back from watching the movie, they said: "Oh my god, that's really awesome!"

"It turns out that movies can be shot this way."

"This is called 3D, it's so realistic."

"That light and shadow is amazing!"

The success of "Avatar" was not limited to the box office. It successfully revolutionized film shooting technology - truly popularizing 3D.

3D movies have been around for a long time, but it was "Avatar" that brought this technology to the public.

It successfully promoted theaters around the world to update their projection equipment.

For a time, there was a 3D craze all over the world.

This level of popularity is unjustifiable.

In just one week, several domestic production companies announced that they would produce 3D films.

The most high-profile company is a company called Juli Media. The boss is Yangzi and the president is Huang Shengyi.

""White Snake" will continue to use the production team of the movie "Avatar", with no upper limit on investment, to create a 3D movie that belongs to the Chinese."

"People have been sent to Canada to learn 3D production technology."

This guy will definitely not let him pretend alone.

Bernard's Yu Dong also took advantage of the heat to announce his latest movie:
"Xu Ke's "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is a 3D martial arts film and is Bernard's biggest project this year!"

Juli Media is a newcomer in the industry, and Yu Dong doesn't mind stepping in: "We are not riding on the popularity of "Avatar". 3D technology is not an industry secret. We have been researching and studying for two years and are fully prepared."

"We are still in preparation and will start shooting within the year. Whether it is actors or behind-the-scenes production, I can confidently say that we have the strongest lineup in the Chinese film industry!"

This is considered the first appearance of "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate".Then, something happened that ordinary viewers would not pay attention to, but is related to the development of the industry.

"Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Prosperity and Development of the Film Industry" was released.

The file is not long, but contains a lot of content.

There are three main points, briefly as follows:
"Financial institutions are encouraged to increase financial support for film companies."

"Further deepen the reform of the cinema chain system and vigorously develop cross-regional large-scale cinema chains, specialty cinema chains and digital cinema chains."

"Actively implement the film's 'going global' strategy and promote domestic films to enter the international mainstream market."

To put it simply, at the policy level, we need to provide money to the film market, and cinema chains to provide cinema chains, in order to strive for overseas markets and increase the international influence of domestic films.

The document was clearly written in response to the onslaught of Hollywood.

"Avatar" is too scary. When domestic films were still complacent about breaking through 4 million yuan, and "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" was only 10 million domestic films in the year, "Avatar" pushed the box office ceiling to 10 billion level - now It's not there yet, but the industry has basically confirmed that the box office of "Avatar" will exceed [-] billion.

Film is the most important cultural product of a country. This position cannot be lost and must be firmly held in one's own hands.

Benefiting from this policy, the share price of Huayi Brothers, the only A-share film company, bucked the market trend and soared 4.62%.

Liu Yifei has always paid no attention to Zhang Yuanjun's financial situation, but it may be due to the influence of policies, or someone may have tipped her off.

The next day she actually asked Zhang Yuanjun how many original Huayi shares he had and how much they were worth.

Zhang Yuanjun told her honestly: "There are 143 million shares." This is already the most shares that non-Chinese arts stars can get. Among actor shareholders, his shareholding is second only to Huang Xiaoming.

These 143 million shares were not so much given to Zhang Yuanjun by the Wang brothers as to the Guodao Catering Group.

"I don't care how much it's worth." Who looked at this after eating, "Little rich woman, if you have money, you can also buy Huayi's stocks."

Huayi's stocks are still very popular and worth investing in.

"I don't understand." Liu Yifei's investment acumen is very average. Most of her money is in the hands of her mother. Liu Xiaoli's investment acumen is even more average. She buys houses, mainly real estate and commercial real estate.

Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said: "If you don't understand, just give the money to my sister-in-law. I dare not tell you if there is more. I can guarantee a 5% return a year. A lot of my money is with her."

Speaking of which, Zhang Yuanjun had actually guessed that it was Liu Xiaoli who had instigated her daughter to inquire about her financial situation.

Liu Xiaoli has seen the world, and she doesn't believe that Zhang Yuanjun relies on his salary to make a living.

But she did not daydream that her daughter could control Zhang Yuanjun's economic power.

This kind of rich man has a professional financial manager to take care of his money, and the cash in his account is as high as 500 million.

Compared to the economy, Liu Yifei is still more worried about movies, worried that her first female-led movie "Introduction to Architecture" will die in February.

Due to the raging popularity of "Avatar", more than 2 movies were squeezed out in February, including several ruthless characters:
"The Golden Guard", "Su Qier", "Hua Tian Xi Shi 2010", "Love in the City" and "Little Soldiers".

Especially "Little Soldiers" was released on the same day as "Introduction to Architecture".

Jackie Chan + Wang Lihong, both are top names.

Zhang Yuanjun comforted her: "What are you worried about? The total investment in "Introduction to Architecture" is only around 1000 million, how can you lose if you lose more?"
"Based on the words "Liu Yifei", sell for 4000 to [-] million with your eyes closed and get your money back. As long as you don't lose money, investors will still believe in you and invest in you. What are you afraid of?"

The young lady’s name is still worth 4000 to [-] million.

In fact, some movies are more for investors.

No matter how fierce the audience is, as long as investors still trust you, you can still film.

This is how Wang Jing plays.

Besides, the quality of "Introduction to Architecture" is not so bad that it cannot recover its original value.

(End of this chapter)