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Chapter 579: Lucy is released, Magnolia incident

Chapter 579: Lucy is released, Magnolia incident
After a short reunion, we parted again.

Liu Yifei will be responsible for most of the promotion of "Lucy" in China.

A series of schedules, including variety shows, interviews, roadshows, etc., fill the entire month of June.

Zhou Yutang will also return to the filming of "Joy of Life 2".

When he returned to the crew, the news of his attendance at the premiere of "Lucy" had already made the headlines of major entertainment portals.

This movie, which premiered simultaneously around the world, attracted the vast majority of attention from both inside and outside the circle, including Aunt Liu.

"The box office of Coming Home has reached 3.69 million yuan, and the total box office of Overheard 3 is close to 3 million yuan. The box office trends of Godzilla and X-Men are also very stable."

Aunt Liu, who usually doesn't pay much attention to box office data, checks the box office data report compiled by the team almost a dozen times a day.

"Mom, don't worry. Xiao Zhou said it's okay."

Liu Yifei saw Aunt Liu frowning and looking uneasy, so she tried to comfort her.

Mother and daughter are connected by heart, and she can feel her mother's care for her.

It's understandable. From her point of view, she naturally hopes that "Lucy" can perform better at the box office.

"You just trust him so much."

Aunt Liu knows all the potential competitors well: "There are too many strong competitors in June, including "Maleficent" and "Transformers 4". What kind of films does Pei Kang have scheduled?"

"I believe in him, and he is worthy of trust."

Liu Yifei said nonchalantly: "Mom, look at the projects that Xiao Zhou has done, they have never failed."

"what?"

Aunt Liu was slightly stunned.

“Not even once.”

Liu Yifei's flawless face was filled with a hint of pride.

"Well, let's go."

Aunt Liu looked dazed, as if she had thought of something, and shook her head and laughed: "Let's go, I have two talk shows scheduled today."

“How’s the attendance?”

"On the first day, the attendance rate was over 90% at midnight, and the first wave of word of mouth was good."

"Keep paying attention, including in America."

"Yes, got it."

Ni Ni hung up the phone neatly.

Time soon came to the 11th, the publicity campaign reached its peak, and "Lucy" was officially released.

If he wasn't on the crew, Zhou Yutang would definitely go to the theater in person.

Evaluate the box office potential of a movie from various angles such as audience attendance and viewing experience.

Now we can only let Ni Ni bring a professional data team to do this.

The feedback was very good. On the first day, "Lucy" took the top spot with a first-day box office of 4820 million yuan.

It was released in North America, with a single-day box office of 2800 million U.S. dollars, becoming a rising star and taking the North American daily crown.

It achieved success both at home and abroad, and reached the top simultaneously.

This couldn't help but make filmmakers across the mainland feel suffocated.

At the meeting of the Guangguang Film Department, many senior executives wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads.

Some people took the opportunity to flatter him: "Fortunately, Mr. Wang is wise and postponed the release of "The Breakup Master" to July."

According to the original rhythm, it was scheduled to be released in mid-June. With the sudden release of "Lucy" at the top and "Red Dead Redemption" at the bottom, and several Hollywood blockbusters in between, there is a high probability that it will become cannon fodder of the summer season.

"The North American box office looks like it will exceed 100 million. Will the domestic box office be at least 500 million?"

"Among the eight-five flowers, when it comes to performance, we have to look at the fairies."

"Liu Yifei is already at the next level."

"If the first sister doesn't come out, who will compete with her?"

"I have Admiral Da Mi Mi, I can fight!"

"Haha, Yang Mi is far behind."

Da Mimi, who had just finished promoting the variety show "Gu Jian Qi Tan", was scrolling through online comments in the nanny car, and her little hand paused at the last comment.

Very angry.

The amazing curve of the chest.

Click and report in one go, no explanation required.

Looking at the box office success of Lucy, it would be a lie to say she wasn't envious.

Although "Charlotte's Troubles", which created a dark horse myth last year, now ranks second on the domestic film box office list, the biggest profit from that movie went to Shen Teng and Happy Twist.

Yang Mi is equivalent to a pendant heroine. Although she has the bonus of traffic, it is completely incomparable to the influence brought by such commercial films with heroines that are popular both at home and abroad.

The specific manifestation of these influences is the status and endorsement of top luxury brands.

In this regard, among the current actors of the same age group, only Liu Shishi, who has just been nominated for the Magnolia Award for Best Actress, can compete with the goddess.

call--

Exhaling slowly, Yang Mi's emotions gradually stabilized. She just thought of the man who pushed the immortal to the position behind the scenes, and a few traces of resentment flashed in her eyes occasionally.

"Mimi?"

"what?"

"What are you thinking about? I called you several times but you didn't respond."

"Nothing, Sister Jia, how is the schedule going?" Yang Mi smoothed her hair, pretending nothing had happened.

"I just finished talking to Guangguang."

Zeng Jia put down his phone: "The release date of "Breakup Master" has been moved to July."

"Tiny Times 3 is also scheduled for July, so wouldn't that be a perfect time for us to be together?"

"I just want to tell you this. Director Guo's promotion plan has been finalized. What do you think?"

"Sister Jia."

After pondering for a while, Yang Mi quickly made a decision: "Turn down Lu Xuan's role in Tiny Times 3 and focus on Breakup Guru."

Although Guo Xiaosi's traffic is not low now, it is still not as good as that of Light Media, which has greater resources and energy.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements."

Zeng Jia seemed to see the light flashing in Yang Mi's eyes.

I also saw that Yang Mi’s phone was stuck on Zhou Yutang’s chat interface.

But she didn't say much.

As a qualified agent and partner, she knows clearly what to do to maximize profits.

To a certain extent, the development speed and height of "Mixing" company even depends on the relationship between Yang Mi and Zhou Yutang.

"I went to Yudu today and ate Overlord Rabbit. It was spicy but very delicious."

"The rabbit is so cute, why do you want to eat it?"

"Because it's delicious."

"You look like a rabbit to me."

Zhou Yutang could feel Liu Yifei's joyful mood through the tablet screen.

Liu Yifei, who had just finished a shower and was wearing a cat-ear headband, was rubbing bottles and jars onto her skin, "Xiao Zhou, why didn't you work overtime today?"

"Something went wrong during the wirework shoot today."

"Are you okay?" The skin care action suddenly stopped, and Liu Yifei's eyes were filled with undisguised concern.

"I'm fine. A stuntman injured his bones. It's not a big deal."

Zhou Yutang listened to Liu Yifei share interesting little things about the roadshow, and also told her about her own life on the crew.

He equipped the crew of "Joy of Life 2" with six stand-ins, including background stand-ins, light stand-ins, hand stand-ins, etc., as well as two martial arts stand-ins.

Because the shooting was divided into two groups to control different scenes, the stunt double was responsible for the shots that did not require his face to be shown, while the martial arts stunt double was used for safety and time considerations.

After all, filming a TV series is not like filming a movie, so it is impossible to slowly polish the shots.

There was an action scene today, and the martial arts stuntman twisted his foot while performing the action on the wire. This is normal.

Maybe they were really tired from the roadshow, the two didn't chat for long. After finishing the skin care steps, Liu Yifei soon lay down on the bed and fell asleep quietly, without even bothering to turn off the video.

"Good night, Miss Liu."

Zhou Yutang hung up the video call and browsed some film and television news.

"Lucy" has grossed over 1.5 million for two consecutive days, and still maintains a high number of screenings and super high attendance rates, with the cumulative box office easily exceeding million.

It was released simultaneously in North America and grossed $4800 million in its first three days.

This result is certainly not a big hit, but it has a good reputation and it happened to take over the box office champion in the first weekend when "Godzilla" and "X-Men" were in theaters for more than half a month.

According to Bob's old sconce.

Many well-known filmmakers there have praised the film. With the help of Warner's channels, it will soon be screened in more than 60 countries and regions, which means it will be a matter of how much profit it will make.

Zhou Yutang suppressed the urge to open the champagne in advance and raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw the news about charity.

"Something happened to the First Foundation?"

Not long ago, the Queen of Pop and her ex-husband's Angel Foundation was exposed for corruption, and recently even the Kung Fu Emperor's charity fund has been hit by a lot of negative news.

In recent years, the Kung Fu Emperor has gradually faded out of the film and television industry, except for the "The Godfather" which he starred in to promote his godson.

On the contrary, another brother who is as famous as him, Jackie Chan, is still in good health.

After "The Chinese Zodiac", "Police Stories" was restarted, and now the "Dragon Blade" project is being launched.

At the end of the report, the Jiangdong Charity Foundation was even mentioned in passing.

Zhou Yutang has always been quietly donating money to charity behind the scenes and has never issued any related press releases.

However, there are always some resourceful netizens who dug out the fact that Jiangdong Foundation donated schools in poor areas. Many netizens jokingly gave Zhou Yutang the title of "Principal Zhou".

The box office performance of "Lucy" was amazing, and this year's Magnolia Awards also came to a close on the 13th at the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai.

Han Sanping, who had retired after achieving success, made a big show again.

As the chief producer and director of In the Name of People, he won the trophy for Best TV Drama.

Mr. Wu Gang even took a special leave from the crew of Joy of Life, and together with Mr. Zhang Zhijian, who had already finished filming, he won this year's newly established Magnolia Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Both teachers were very excited and solemnly expressed their gratitude to Zhou Yutang on the spot.

There is no shortage of actors with good acting skills in this circle, but it takes some luck for a good horse to meet a good horse trainer.

One is Li Dakang and the other is Gao Yuliang.

Even after a dozen years, he will surely be a classic character in the hall of Chinese TV dramas and will be talked about by the audiences.

This is enough for them to eat for a lifetime.

Besides.

Wang Zhiwen was awarded the Magnolia Award for Best Actor for his outstanding performance in "A Real Man".

Although Lin Yufen successfully won the Best Director award for "Reply 1988", unfortunately, she lost to "If Life Deceives You" in the competition for the silver award for TV series.

Liu Shishi won the most popular actress award in the online audience vote with a huge advantage in votes, but unfortunately lost to Sun Li from "Hot Mom" ​​in the competition after the Magnolia Awards.

Fans of the Reply series were not satisfied and started to post crazily online.
"It's a shady deal! It's absolutely a shady deal! Forget about the Silver Award for TV Drama, but why did the Magnolia Award for Best Actress lose to that crappy drama?"

"It's amazing that 'I married my scumbag loser, and my mother-loving weird boyfriend and didn't commit suicide' won the Magnolia Award for Best Actress. What were the judges thinking?"

"Haha, Sun Li herself was embarrassed to attend and receive this award."

Of course, there were also fans of Sun Li who came out to fight, and passers-by from all sides joined the group.
"How old is Liu Shishi? If it weren't for Zyt's support, she wouldn't have won the Magnolia Award for Best Actress. Sister Li has much more experience than her, so she deserves the award."

"The above poster, check your conscience. Are Reply 1988 and Hot Mom of the same standard?"

"I'd like to say that Shi Shi's performance in Reply 1988 is definitely worthy of a Magnolia Award for Best Actress."

The Magnolia Awards are out, and Jiangdong Entertainment is undoubtedly the biggest winner.

Fans of various celebrities were arguing fiercely on the Internet, mainly over who would win the Magnolia Best Actress award.

However, Liu Shishi herself was very calm. When her friends tried to comfort her, she just smiled indifferently.

While still on the set of "The Tuner", I received a call from Sun Li specifically to explain.

"Sister Li, let's not talk about this anymore. Wait until I finish filming and then I'll go to your house to see Erbao."

Liu Shishi behaved as generously as usual, and her attitude towards Sun Li was still gentle and intimate.

She also takes awards very lightly.

I agree with what Zhou Yutang said: "If I get it, I'm lucky, if I lose it, it's my fate."

It's fine to win the Magnolia Award for Best Actress once, but it's extremely difficult to win it again.

Because this involves the rules of the game in the circle.

Liu Shishi didn’t understand it before.

Now I am slowly beginning to understand.

Compared to the Magnolia Award for Best Actress, she actually wanted to meet Zhou Yutang more, after all, they haven't seen each other for a while.

By mid-June, the total box office of "Coming Home" reached 3.78 million, and the daily box office dropped to a few hundred thousand.

The box office potential seemed to be affected by several Hollywood imported blockbusters released during the same period, and it was still a little short of the 4 million threshold.

Zhang Yimou himself was quite satisfied with the result.

According to him, "It's already pretty good to have such a box office."

"This is my way of experimenting with the coexistence of art and commerce. I will continue this experiment with my next film, 'Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils.'"

Zhou Yutang: “-_-||”

Compared with Zhang Yimou's artistic pursuit, he is more vulgar.

A realistic art film that has already recovered its costs through overseas copyright alone, and the domestic box office share is pure waste.

What more bike do you want?

By the way, we talked about the casting of the script "Zhou Chu".

Wu Zhenyu and Jin Shijie have already signed contracts, and for the remaining important female lead, the hairdresser Xiaomei, Zhang Yimou finally chose Ke Jiayan.

This girl is also an old acquaintance of Zhou Yutang.

It’s hard to say whether casting director Fu Lulu made use of this relationship.

Anyway, Zhou Yutang felt that the imperial tutor had some taste in selecting actresses.

Ke Jiayan's performance in "Monga" is amazing, with a kind of pureness yet a bit of broken and pitiful feeling.

By the way, Zhou Yutang glanced at the list of other actors and said to Li Shuang,
"Sister Shuang, please arrange the celebration party for The Return and give out red envelopes then."

"okay, I get it."

Li Shuang agreed readily.

She has been working with Zhou Yutang for many years and they have a very good understanding of each other.

Zhou Yutang made a fortune, but he would never keep all the benefits to himself.

Those who follow him will never suffer any loss.

(End of this chapter)

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