Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 314 313. Dominate the top two box office in Chinese film history

“‘囧’ has topped the box office, and the invincible Wei Wu is defeated alone! The only one who can defeat me is my future self?”

"The box office champion in Chinese film history has changed hands! According to real-time data from China Film Group, as of 18:00 on January 24, 2008, the box office of Wei Wu's movie "囧", which was released for 24 days, reached 318 million, surpassing the 317 million box office record of "Painted Skin" , becoming the new box office overlord in Chinese film history!”

“‘囧’ has surpassed ‘Painted Skin’ at the box office. Congratulations to Wei Wu’s film for ranking among the top two in Chinese film history!”

""囧囧" has successfully reached the top with 334 million, becoming the first in the box office rankings in Chinese film history. Wei Wu, who high-profile claimed that he wants to be the best commercial film director in China, finally successfully crowned the Chinese film director with "Painted Skin" and "囧囧" The King of Chinese Commercial Films.”

"According to our reporter's sample survey of theater audiences, Wei Wu's brand appeal is the main force supporting "囧" to reach the top spot. Wei Wu's works going back to the past are all box office and word-of-mouth hits, and they are highly entertaining. Sex. 'Wei Wu's film must be a masterpiece', this has been ingrained in the audience's subconscious mind. As long as Wei Wu performs at a normal level, his movies will be successful."

…

Liu Tianxian, who was wearing home clothes at home, shook the "Beijing Times" in his hand and said:

"Hey, the newspapers are praising you so much now! How do you feel about being the king of domestic commercial films?"

Facing Liu Tianxian who was smiling sweetly and winking, Wei Wu directly pinched her face and said:

"It's okay! Since everyone says so, I can accept it reluctantly!"

"Bah," Liu Tianxian slapped his hand away, spat at him, and stretched his neck to pretend to bite him.

"By the way, how much is the box office of "囧囧" now?"

Wei Wu said proudly: "As of yesterday, January 30, the cumulative box office in the 30 days since its release was 334 million."

Just as Wei Wu had foreseen, his coin-throwing publicity strategy was a great success. The audience was chattering endlessly about his generous investment. "囧" returned to the center of public opinion and attracted a lot of attention. The single-day box office also began to rebound.

The closing banquet on January 20th happened to be a Sunday. Even though the next five days were working days, the film easily earned 15.31 million yuan in box office, and another 15.67 million yuan in the two weekend days.

By the end of January, "囧囧", which had been released for 31 days, had a cumulative box office of 335 million yuan.

"I heard that "囧囧" has been postponed?"

"Yeah", Wei Wu nodded and said:

"It has been postponed for one month and will continue to be screened until the end of February."

"How much is the final box office expected to be?"

Wei Wu held the back of his head with both hands, leaned back slightly and said easily:

"At least another 10 million can be added! Around 345 million, it should not exceed 350 million."

"I thought it could break 350 million!"

"It's difficult." Wei Wu shook his head and said:

"The main ones that are disrupting the situation are "Yangtze River 7" and "Slam Dunk". "Yangtze River 7" was released yesterday, and "Slam Dunk" will be released in eight days!"

Liu Tianxian was a little surprised when he heard this: "Ah, has "Yangtze River No. 7" been released? Why doesn't it seem to be as lively as the previous release of "Kung Fu"?

"I remember the last time, even people who don't usually watch movies knew that Star Wars' new movie was released!"

Wei Wu shrugged and said: "Because "Yangtze River No. 7" has a bad reputation! It's completely unstoppable! How does it compare with "Kung Fu"?

“The film’s previous roadshow screenings were not as good as expected, and everyone complained that it was not a Zhou comedy, but a promotional film for dolls and toys.

"The response to the film was mediocre, so I naturally didn't dare to spend too much money on publicity and publicity, so the momentum was naturally far less than that of "Kung Fu".

"In addition, the recent popularity in the film and television industry is all about our "囧" box office record-breaking, "Yangtze River 7" will inevitably be affected to a certain extent."

Although the rating of "Yangtze River No. 7" on Douban was 7.2 later, in the first two years after its release, the Douban rating of this movie was only 6.4.

This is undoubtedly Zhou Xingchi's lowest-rated movie in the past 15 years, bar none.

The most unpopular "Lucky One-stop" before, at least it still has a 6.9!

Fortunately, this "Yangtze River No. 7" happened to follow "Kung Fu", and "Kung Fu" is the third highest-rated movie among Zhou Xingchi's movies, second only to the two "Westward Journey".

This huge psychological gap caused the star to almost be scolded to death when "Yangtze River No. 7" was released. There was an overwhelming amount of negative reviews, and the saying that "the actor has exhausted his talents" was rampant.

Don't look at this movie. It ended up taking 203 million at the box office in the Mainland, but that was purely based on the success of "Kung Fu" and Stephen Chow.

You must know that the box office of "Kung Fu" in the mainland 4 years ago was as high as 195 million. During these 4 years, the mainland film market has grown rapidly. As a result, "Yangtze River 7" only had 8 million more box office than its predecessor.

"Kung Fu" won the title that year, beating out Zhang Yimou and "House of Flying Daggers" (156 million) and Feng Xiaogang's "A World Without Thieves" (120 million).

But "Yangtze River No. 7" didn't even make it into the top three, let alone win the championship. It only finished fourth in the year.

The top three box office hits in the mainland in 2008 were "Red Cliff" (321 million), "If You Are the One" (260 million) and "Painted Skin" (232 million).

“Did a lot of people criticize this movie?”

Liu Tianxian has been busy rehearsing for the Spring Festival Gala during this period and has no time to watch movies. Not to mention "Yangtze River No. 7", she has not even watched "囧" yet.

Wei Wu nodded: "There are so many bad reviews! You can check online yourself."

If it weren't for the harsh scolding from the audience, Stephen Chow probably wouldn't have been completely disheartened. He ended his career as an actor and completely retired from the stage to behind the scenes.

"Oh, then I want to see what they scold..."

Liu Tianxian said as he opened his laptop and went straight to the Tianya Forum to check netizens' comments on "Yangtze River No. 7":

"I can't stand it at all, it's so cliché!"

"It's not funny at all, you're just complaining!"

"This is the film with the weakest style of Mr. Xing, right? The life of a father and son who depend on each other is always a bit inconsistent with Mr. Xing (many people didn't know that Xu Jiao was a woman at the time)."

"It was extremely artificial from the first scene. Mr. Xing is no longer the same as before. He has been away from the bottom for too long, leaving only an empty, simple and crude dichotomy between rich and poor, good and evil, good and bad. The rich are all the same. Harlequins and fairies are all fairies.”

"What should I say? Everyone is scolding me. I want to say something nice, but I don't know where to start."

"When Stephen Chow grows a beard and looks serious, and still shoots things based on the concept of laughing with tears, it will inevitably slide into artificiality. Because your sensational part has lost the same amount of humorous response and balance. This is CJ7's The biggest problem.”

"If you're not sad or happy, you can't bring it in."

"Speechless, cliche. Even a little boring and childish."

…

Liu Tianxian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air: "Hiss, everyone scolded me so harshly, not even a single positive comment!"

Wei Wu spread his hands: "Actually, this movie is not that bad, at least it is above the passing mark.

"But everyone's expectations for Zhou Xingchi were too high. Most people came here for Zhou's comedy, but it turned out that the product was not right and it was not that taste at all!"

In fact, the reason why there are so many negative reviews is that Mr. Xing has gradually raised the audience's expectations for the movies he directed.

The four recent films he directed have Douban ratings of 8.2 ("God of Cookery"), 8.8 ("The King of Comedy"), 8.1 ("Shaolin Football") and 8.8 ("Kung Fu").

All of them are good movies with a score of 8 or above. If you suddenly get a movie with a score of 6 or above, you won't be caught and scolded by everyone!