China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 303 Bombardment of Source Code

In mid-December, there was only one voice in the North American film and television market.

"Avatar" unsurprisingly won the North American weekly box office championship last week with a score of 7600 million US dollars.

If the number of 3D screening halls were not too small, 7600 million would be far from the limit of "Avatar".

"Source Code"'s weekend box office dropped to $1200 million, a drop of more than 50%.

In the music world, "Call Me Maybe" continues to score points, and imitation shows initiated by big-name singers such as Sister Niu and Rihanna triggered a series of followers and imitations.

Thousands of follow-up imitations pop up on YouTube every day.

On December 12nd alone, the single-day digital downloads of "Call Me Maybe" reached over 22.

Seeing such phenomenal popularity, media and music critics from all walks of life expressed their disbelief.

Is it going to be the birth of the second singer who has two songs that hit the number one spot in a single album?
  At the same time, Universal Music Group was also spending heavily on radio.

Even if it is Bao Changchang, this song must achieve the achievement of being ranked first in the air.

Universal Records is full of confidence in Lu Yuan's second English album.

The quality of this album still maintains the level of the previous album, not inferior to the famous singer's "Greatest Hits".

15 songs, the first one is a masterpiece!
  Although there are several "slobber songs", the reputation may not be as good as the previous album, but from the perspective of the record company, the more "slobber songs" the better!

Not every song can be called a "saliva song".

Only those songs that become popular and make people vomit or feel nauseated can be called "slobber songs".

The record company hopes that every song will be a "salable song".

After all, ‘Saliva Song’ is really easy to sell.

Those attempts, explorations, and breakthroughs are easily polarized, and in most cases, they have a great reputation in the industry and extremely poor business performance.

There are very few albums that achieve both good reputation and sales.

Performances like Lu Yuan's last album are rare.

same day.

Mainland box office statistics for the 51st week are released.

"Source Code" continues to dominate the charts, with a box office of 7800 million in a single week, winning four consecutive championships.

The cumulative box office is 4.31 million, leading "King Kong 50" with a box office gap of 2, ranking the box office champion in mainland film history.

At the same time, the application to postpone the release of "Source Code" has also been received.

It was postponed for one month and will be drawn on January 2010, 1.

This week's box office runner-up is not "Three Guns", but the star-studded "October Siege", with a weekly box office of 6700 million, ranking second.

"October Siege" came in second place, not because of how good the movie was. If it were scored, it would probably score 70-80 points.

Not really a classic film.

But in the Lunar New Year season, when there are so many bad movies, an above-average film is enough to make the audience wash their eyes.

"Three Guns" ranked third at the weekly box office, with a weekly box office of 5380 million and a cumulative box office of 1.25 million.

After two weeks of release, "Three Guns" not only recovered its original investment, but also made a small profit. The box office every day after that was a net profit.

However, Zhang Weiping was very, very dissatisfied with this result.

At the expense of Lao Mouzi's reputation, the result is only a small profit. With the current box office trend, this movie will not even make [-] million!
  Three years, a full three years of waiting. If the three-year window period is averaged, not even [-] million will be distributed each year.

Comparing "Heroes" and "Golden Armor", the money earned is too little.

That night, Zhang Weiping secretly issued a scarf.

[I have a good rest tonight. I was planning to go to the cinema to watch a movie, but I went to several cinemas and couldn't find the movie I wanted to watch.

Then, I called and asked if the movie was offline. Well, it turned out that it was not offline, but that the film was not scheduled. 】

At first, the scarf didn't make much of a splash.

Who would follow a movie investor if they have nothing to do? Until Wang Yuelun retweeted this scarf and named "Source Code" on the spot.

This scarf is starting to ferment.

[Haha, I agree with Mr. Zhang. I went to the theater several times last month.

"Source Code" has over 5% film schedule.

Is this phenomenon reasonable?
  Is it fair to those small and medium-sized films?

If every movie is like this, will Chinese movies still have a future? 】

Wang Yuelun is also not well-known. Who would pay attention to a small director?

However, his wife is quite famous. Li Xiang, the former pillar of Xiangnan Satellite TV, is his wife.

Many fans of Li Xiang also followed him.

Last year, Wang Yuelun directed his first film "Nine Beauties", which grossed more than [-] million in box office.

For a small-budget film with an investment of three to four million, achieving this result is already a huge profit.

This year, Wang Yuelun returned to the big screen and filmed "Panda Heroes", which was released during the Lunar New Year.

Then, it was a disaster.

The total box office was only over [-] million, and even the cost could not be recovered, resulting in a loss of several million.

"Panda" was released on November 11, nine days apart from "Source Code". In the first nine days, the box office performance was pretty good.

A total of more than 900 million was collected, close to [-] million at the box office, just when Wang Yuelun thought it could be the same as last year.

boom!
  The giant ship is coming.

"Panda Heroes" encountered "Source Code" and was smashed to pieces. In the following 400 days, the cumulative box office was only more than [-] million.

The investment was 700 million, the publicity was 200 million, and the total box office was more than 1300 million. It was a loss that left me with no pants left.

Then, he hated "Source Code".

If it weren't for "Source Code", he would at least be able to make money. No, he should be able to make a few million. A little more, ten million is not impossible.

But, it's all ruined!
  All were destroyed by Lu Yuan.

In normal times, Wang Yuelun would definitely not name him by name. Tonight, he had a little drink.

A little emotion will come to your head if you scratch it.

So, there was this scarf.

It didn’t take long for this scarf to receive a lot of comments.

[Brother, are you drinking too much? 】

[Who is this, standing in this weird mood? Oh, I took a look, the director of Blind Panda, no wonder, if you can’t do it yourself, why should you blame others? 】

[You are the director of Panda Warriors. You tricked people into entering the cinema. It turned out to be a vulgar spoof. The star on the promotional leaflet only appeared for less than one minute. It was a lie! 】

After a while, Zhang Weiping received a lot of messages from @himself. When he clicked on it, he saw Wang Yuelun's Weibo.

What the hell!

The moment he saw Wang Yuelun naming him, Zhang Weiping couldn't help but curse.

Where did this charge come from?

He didn't even mention his name, but this guy started a group fight head-on?

Zhang Weiping is really unfamiliar with Wang Yuelun.

After looking through several scarves, he realized that this guy was Li Xiang's husband.

After learning the other party's true identity, Zhang Weiping immediately rolled his eyes, then changed his phone card and made a call.

Since someone is taking the lead, wouldn't it be a pity if he doesn't take the lead?
  (End of this chapter)