Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 590 Call Auntie

"John Wick" opened 2589 theaters in North America on its first day. This number is not good, but it is not bad either. Generally speaking, it is worthy of "John Wick".

The first-day gross was US$545 million, which seems to be the performance expected of a film with an investment of less than US$2000 million.

Zhang Yuanjun is filming in China and cannot pay close attention to the situation in North America in a timely manner. After getting the results on the first day, Zhang Yuanjun put down the film because it was indeed an ordinary performance.

On the contrary, his family, friends and domestic media are very concerned about the performance of the film.

This is Zhang Yuanjun's first starring role in Hollywood - "Buried Alive" is considered an independent film, not a Hollywood production.

The success of "John Wick" is considered by some media and scholars to be "of great significance to the domestic film and television industry."

Zhang Yuanjun didn't understand what the significance was.

The industry is paying close attention to this film, and Zhang Yuanjun has received hints from the bureau that as long as the results of "John Wick" are "appreciable", the bureau will not care whether it is R-rated or not, and will turn a blind eye. Let China Film Group introduce the film. If the results are not satisfactory and the above-mentioned "meaning" is not realized, then I'm sorry.

But judging from the current results, the opening results of "John Wick" are not particularly impressive, with US$1441 million in the first weekend, which is not eye-catching, but it seems to be okay.

"I thought he could do 30 to 50 million in the first weekend." This was relayed to Zhang Yuanjun by a friend from the General Administration, saying that a certain leader blurted it out after reading the data.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't bother to care about this kind of thing and concentrated on filming in Huairou.

What many people don’t know is that the box office revenue of Hollywood films usually accounts for only 1/3 of the total revenue, with the majority of revenue coming from copyrights, peripherals, and streaming media on demand.

Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei are satisfied with this result. The production cost of "John Wick" was 1700 million U.S. dollars, and the announced release was around 500 million U.S. dollars. The opening weekend in North America was 1441 million U.S. dollars. According to the 3x theory, the total North American box office of the film should be 4000 U.S. dollars. As a rule, the North American performance of a Hollywood film usually accounts for about half of the total performance of a Hollywood film that exceeds 4000 US dollars. Therefore, the overseas performance of "John Wick" should also be around million.

Although everyone knows that Zhang Yuanjun has been popular for such a long time, and his blood is not as strong as usual. It doesn't matter to him to do one or two movies, but even if it doesn't hurt his muscles and bones, there are still many people who are willing to do it if Zhang Yuanjun is disgusted.

It can't be managed.

Zhang Yuanjun was unable to come to support his wife because the crew was rushing to work.

Can't wait. On the first working day after the opening weekend of "John Wick", some people in China were promoting the news of Zhang Yuanjun's Hollywood blockbuster.

Liu Yifei attended the ceremony wearing a dark blue knee-length dress from the Proenza Schouler 2014 autumn and winter series.

Moreover, these pessimistic voices did not bring much negative impact. They were just the self-pleasure of the small circle of black fans - they really wanted to see Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei suffer misfortune.

On November 11, "Miss Bai", scheduled to be released on the 3th, held its premiere in Beijing.

They are very willing to see a young actor who has been famous for almost 10 years fall off a cliff.

And his team seems to have no intention of paying attention to this kind of noise. An R-rated action film that requires an investment of 1700 million US dollars and cannot be imported into the country for the time being is not worthy of starting a public relations process.

Of course, Zhang Yuanjun has a small position in Hollywood and cannot get any other part of the income except the fixed salary, but his studio can get it, and rounding it off, it is still his.

When Zhang Yuanjun meets his friends of the opposite sex, they will accuse him of cheating. Some people still suspect that the relationship between Zhang Yuanjun and his assistant is impure.

In this way, the total global box office of "John Wick" will be 8000 million US dollars. With this result, why should Zhang Yuanjun be dissatisfied!
Of course, this is a consistent algorithm, provided that there will be no major crisis events later in "John Wick" that will cause the reputation to collapse.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know what to say after hearing this. He wanted to earn US$30 million in the first weekend in North America. To put it harshly, he just wanted to put a snack rack in the director's office so that he could have snacks every day. Even the director could do it. Did it for him.

But not everyone will settle accounts like this or be willing to settle accounts like this.

Liu Yifei was slightly silent at the scene, giving many speaking opportunities to Xue Xiaolu and other actors.

Qin Hao shared his experience of accepting the role of "Miss Bai" at the scene: "That day my agent told me that Liu Yifei wanted to film with us, should we accept it? I said, should we accept it? Hurry up and accept it! But after I accepted it, I reacted again Come here, could it be that he is a liar? I only confirmed that it is true after I met him."

Qin Hao has told this joke many times, but it still makes the audience laugh every time. The host asked the next question smoothly: "What was it like meeting Yifei for the first time?"

Qin Hao understood very well: "It's beautiful."

Although Liu Yifei has always wanted to get rid of the shackles of the "fairy sister", she has to admit that beauty is still a very important marketing point for her.

Liu Yifei didn't want to, but sometimes she had to endure it in order to cooperate with Xuanfa.

When Liu Yifei heard what Qin Hao said, she denied it repeatedly and said with a smile: "You are already married, so it is inappropriate to praise other women for their beauty."

Nonsense.

It also made the audience laugh.

Sun Li also expressed her original intention of starring in "Miss Bai" and once again said that she is not afraid of playing the villain: "On the contrary, it will be more enjoyable. There is a scene in the play where Yifei and I are rolling on the ground and fighting. When everyone watches it later Just know it.”

Among the leading actors, the most controversial and topical one is naturally Pan Yueming. Although things have passed, Pan's exposure in the past two years has indeed been pitiful, and his role is not very good.

Being able to play the leading role in "Miss Bai" this time is already the best role he has received after his marriage change.

Liu Yifei doesn't care what the outside world thinks. According to the pre-arranged agreement, she said bluntly: "I chose Teacher Pan because he is good at acting and has a suitable image."

Pan Yueming responded: "Isn't it because I'm cheap?"

The scene laughed again.

The joyful pre-screening interaction passed just like that, and we entered the movie watching scene.

The theme of "Miss Bai" is indeed bold, which is rare in China. It was able to pass the review thanks to the couple having many buffs. Otherwise, they would have been killed by the General Administration at the stage of changing their scripts.

This year in the domestic film industry, realism themes seem to be experiencing a small explosion.

"Dear" has achieved both box office and word-of-mouth success. "The Orphan" with the same theme will be released in the first quarter of next year. "Rescue Mr. My Life" based on Wu Ruofu's real experience has also been put into production.

It was also under such a relatively relaxed environment that "Miss Bai" could be filmed and released.

The screening of "Miss Bai" ended, and the audience and media burst into warm applause.

The microphone was first handed to a girl. The girl stood up and said in authentic Chongqing dialect: "I grew up watching your TV series."

Liu Yifei didn't even react, and the whole audience burst into laughter. Liu Yifei looked at the host next to her. She couldn't understand the Chongqing dialect. The host translated it again, and then Liu Yifei said: "Oh, grow up, call me Auntie, hurry up."

"Hahahahaha!" The scene became even more joyful.

Take "The Golden Family" as an example. The TV series has been around for more than 11 or 12 years. A slightly younger audience can really say that they grew up watching her TV series.

This audience member actually had no questions to ask. He grabbed the microphone just to express his love for Liu Yifei and praise her for her good acting.

Liu Yifei naturally thanked her.

In the 20-minute post-screening interactive session that followed, each of the main creators on the stage was taken care of, and many interesting stories about "Miss Bai" were shared both onstage and behind the scenes.

Finally, today's event ended with the host's call to "please support "Miss Bai"."

(End of this chapter)