The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 55 Box Office Market
Compared with the original film, Han Jiadong did not make much changes in the movie "300", but he shot different versions in some places.

For example, the version of the passionate scene between the queen and the king that was released abroad did not cover up anything and openly showed off the sexy and charming figure of Theron, a South African beauty.

But in the version for domestic release, there are only subtle shots such as sounds, clothes scattered on the floor, and the constantly shaking bed.

This will also avoid having to make cuts or cuts when it is released in China.

No way, they can't control what the audience likes to watch, but they can really control us.

There is also the scene where the queen sacrifices herself to the parliamentarians in exchange for sending troops.

This does not exist in the original comics, or in other words, the role of the queen does not play much role in the original comics.

The original comic is a man's comic.

But as a movie, it must not be without female audiences.

The role of the crazy and extravagant queen is a role created for female audiences to be brought into the show.

For the sake of my husband and my country, I endured the grievances and devoted myself to an old man, oh! How touching!

Those men are not the only ones fighting in this country!

We women are also giving and playing a key role!

But this approach obviously doesn’t work in China.

Although we have entered the new century and the social atmosphere has become much more open, people go to bed with other men behind their backs in exchange for helping their husbands...

It’s not impossible to say that there are no women who will climax for this kind of plot, but they are definitely very few.

Not to mention, do you really want to send troops if the congressman is playing tricks?

How do you guarantee that he won't lift up his pants and deny it?

And for domestic men, it is the biggest poisonous point.

I'm working my ass off on the front lines, but the congressman is playing with my wife from behind?

What a fight!
Just do the opposite, join Persia, and kill those birdmen of the senators!
Therefore, in the version released in China, Han Jiadong changed it to take advantage of the congressmen to become interested in the queen and relax their vigilance. The queen used a hidden knife to coerce the congressmen into sending troops.

Later, before the congressman wanted to take revenge, he chose to commit suicide.

In the end, the king and queen, who are the male and female protagonists, both died for the sake of this country.

After finishing his business in North America, Han Jiadong went back to China without making any further stops.

At this time, "House of Flying Daggers" has been released for two weeks, and the box office has reached nearly 1.2 million.

Far more than "The Day After Tomorrow" with more than 3 million, and "Lord of the Rings " with more than million.

It took less than two weeks to reach the top of the annual box office.

Among them, it took in a box office of 55 million in the first three days, surpassing the previous box office record of 52.4 million for a domestic film in the first week set by "Hero".

The box office for the zero-point screening alone was 1.7 million, which also exceeded the box office record of 760,000 for the zero-point screening set by Hero.

In terms of film arrangement, although there are no specific statistics at this time, it is definitely over 90%!

Especially small cities!

As long as you can get a copy of "House of Flying Daggers", the film schedule will be filled up immediately.

Cinemas in big cities have to show off and have too many auditoriums to show one copy, so other movies will be shown in late-night theaters when there are fewer people.

But movie theaters in small cities don’t care that much.

At this time, movie theaters were operating at a loss for most of the year, relying on government subsidies to survive, and only a few blockbusters made a lot of money when they were released.

At this time, you still want them to show art films that no one will watch?
How funny!
This is why Zhang Weiping single-handedly was able to force theater chains to regress. Ten years later, the five major distributors, China Film, Huayi, Enlight, Bona, and Star America, formed the "Avengers" and used "Zodiac", "The Grandmaster" ", "Blood Drops", "The King's Feast", "The Devil" and other nine New Year films, they wanted theaters to increase their box office share from 43% to 45%, but in the end they still failed. Because in the domestic film market ten years from now, the number of films will no longer be what it is now, and the total box office will be more than twenty times that of now!
You don’t want to be released, but there are movies that are willing to be released.

Moreover, other theater chains are eating you to death. If you make a movie worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, but you don’t release it in China, where else can you show it to earn back the cost?

Unlike now, Zhang Weiping is not in a hurry to release it.

Because they have already made their money back just by selling the copyright.

"House of Flying Daggers" claims a US$2.8 million investment, which translates to million. This figure must have been blown by Zhang Weiping.

Because "Hero", which is packed with big names, only costs 30 million US dollars.

Among them, Jet Li alone took away 10 million US dollars!
And what about House of Flying Daggers?

The only big names are Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro.

The salary of both of them is less than 10 million yuan!

The copyright fee for "House of Flying Daggers" in North America and Japan alone was 200 million!
Domestic audio and video rights were sold for another 20 million.

This does not include copyright fees in Europe and Southeast Asia.

So they don’t lack the box office money allocated domestically.

The two sides are in a stalemate, and it is only the cinemas that will regress in the end.

"Congratulations!"

After Han Jiadong returned to China, he made a congratulatory call to Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou did not appear too happy.

Because like "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers" was criticized again.

It's still his old habit of making commercial blockbusters, and he doesn't have to choose the shots or images. As Spielberg said, in his movies, you can know what he wants to express by just looking at the images and not the subtitles.

But there are always flaws in the plot, and a lot of loopholes can be found.

At present, it has begun to show decline at the box office.

Not to mention Zhang Weiping's exaggerated talk of exceeding "Hero" and reaching 1.6 million, it is already impossible to reach million. There is a high probability that it will be settled at around million in the end.

From Zhang Yimou's answer, Han Jiadong also discovered a problem.

"You don't get a share of the box office share of your director's fee?"

"I usually don't talk about money with Wei Ping. It's up to him to give me more or less. As long as I can make the movie I want to make, that's all."

"If you don't talk about profits with the businessmen, and the businessmen only talk about feelings with you, then you will be the only one who suffers in the end."

As soon as Han Jiadong clicked the button, he rested at home for a day before joining the crew and officially started filming "Xiu Chun Dao".

The filming location was mainly Hengdian, plus some outdoor scenes.

The other actors had already joined the cast half a month ago.

Except Liu Dehua and Jin Chengwu.

The two were delayed for more than a week while promoting "House of Flying Daggers", but they were able to join the group before Han Jiadong.

Other stars such as Huang Xiaoming and Li Bingbing even turned down Tang Ren's TV series "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" for this movie. With a lot of announcements, they started joining the group more than two months in advance to practice with martial arts. Play.

Even actors like Tong Liya, who had no acting experience, joined the cast more than a month in advance after the college entrance examination.

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