Chapter 646: Domestic entertainment industry shakes up, box office record shattered

Chapter 646: Domestic entertainment industry shakes up, box office record shattered

"Zhou told me that I must come to China if I have the chance, and I have been looking forward to it."

Director James Wan returned to his hometown for the first time and was a little excited: "I am very happy to bring "Fast and Furious" to meet the fans in China this time. Yesterday, Long took me to visit the Forbidden City, and I was shocked."

"This is an incredibly beautiful country, and everyone is very enthusiastic about us."

The bald Vin Diesel is very good at dealing with things: "If I have the chance, I want to go to the Great Wall to see it. Thank you very much for the fans' love for the "Fast and Furious" series of movies."

Several main creators of the crew, including Guo Dasen and Gal Gadot, have actively released goodwill.

The ticket bank in China during the Spring Festival has surpassed North America, which has caused a sensation in Hollywood.

Now the six major Hollywood groups have increased their attention to the Chinese market.

Universal has set China as the first stop for the Asian promotion of "Fast and Furious 7". Naturally, the main creators of the crew have to find ways to narrow the distance between them and the Chinese audience.

Zhou Yutang was filming on the set and did not go to the press conference, but some media released what he said at the press conference for "Joy of Life 3".

"James Wan is a very capable director. This may be a phenomenal movie. The Chinese film market will face severe tests."

Just after finishing a scene with Mr. Ning Li, who played the head of the Ming family, Zhou Yutang saw the news of "Fast and Furious 7" after lunch.

"The main creators of the Fast and Furious crew appeared in Beijing, and the scene was crowded."

"Hollywood goddess is sexy and hot, showing goodwill to Zhou Yutang from a distance."

"Revealing the top luxury cars in "Su Ji 7" for you!"

"Director Zhou Yutang said frankly that the Chinese film market will face severe tests!"

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The news about the press conference of "Fast and Furious 7" in China has been posted in the most prominent position of the film and television information section.

Zhou Yutang clicked on the link sent by Zhang Ruojun and saw the detailed information of a car.

He usually communicates with James Wan. He said that more than 200 cars were scrapped while filming "Fast and Furious 7".

Zhang Ruojun posted the limited edition Lykan Hypersport produced by W Motors, which made a stunning appearance at the press conference.

It is also the car that crashed into the building in "Fast and Furious 7".

It only takes 2.8 seconds to accelerate to 100 kilometers, and the maximum speed can reach 395KM/h.

This is a real catapult start.

Zhou Yutang himself has a low desire for life and is not keen on pursuing luxury cars. He has only driven the Lamborghini and Ferrari he bought a few times.

It has been parked in the garage at home for many years, gathering dust. Zhang Ruojun, who has always loved cars, feels sad for him.

But this car does look good. After consulting, Zhou Yutang decided to buy one.

"Brother Tang, are you really going to buy it?!"

Zhang Ruojun likes to play with cars. When he heard the news, he was more excited than Zhou Yutang himself.

"I've consulted, it's not expensive, 3.8 million US dollars is enough."

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"Just treat it as buying a figurine for fun. Even if you don't drive it often, it's nice to put it aside for appreciation."

Zhou Yutang's casual reply made Zhang Ruojun choke up.

But thinking of his good brother's wealth, he was relieved immediately.

My buddy even said he would buy Liverpool, so buying a luxury car is really too low-key.

Money can make the devil work, and foreign devils are also devils. As soon as the money was in place, someone from W Motors contacted the door soon.

After learning about Zhou Yutang's specific needs in detail, it will take some time to go through a series of processes such as hand-made and personalized customization.

Buying a car is just a small episode in life. Zhou Yutang still puts more energy into the filming of the crew.

The ratings and popularity of the second season of Joy of Life are not low, which has suppressed Empress Wu, but many viewers also said that the plot is relatively bland.

There is nothing we can do about it.

After all, filming a TV series is like making a love story. There must be foreplay and foreshadowing, and it is impossible to have a climax throughout the whole process.

Especially for such a long original novel, the film and television adaptation is even more difficult.

On the basis of extracting the essence of the original work, the narrative rhythm should be adjusted to give the audience a better viewing experience.

In the first season, the story begins with the arrival of young Master Fan in Kyoto, which opens up a corner of the whole wonderful story of power struggle.

Most of the content of the second season is that Fan Xian gradually grows up from a chess piece arranged and controlled by his parents until he can stand on his own.

What he pursues is "following his heart" and he does not want his life to be manipulated by others, so he gradually gets involved in the struggles of various forces.

He secretly lays out, cultivates confidants, controls the inner treasury, and even establishes relationships with forces such as Northern Qi and Dongyi City.

This final season is the climax of the whole story, and it is also the time when Fan Xian changes from a chess piece to a chess player, and even overturns the chessboard and formulates his own rules.

This drama is entirely controlled by Jiangdong. There is no capital game, and Zhou Yutang has the final say.

In order to prevent the chief screenwriter Wang Xun from letting himself go and making a mistake of temporarily adjusting the script before the second season began, Zhou Yutang specially asked Ping to bring two other screenwriter teams to assist.

The peak and climax of the whole story are presented in the final season.

For example, Jiangnan fights the Ming family, the battle of Dadongshan, and the rebellion in Kyoto are all classic scenes in the original work.

Although Sun Hao is the director, Zhou Yutang is actually the emperor of the crew. There is a chair dedicated to him behind the monitor.

Today's scene is the showdown between Chen Pingping and Chen Daoming, which is also the most important turning point of this season's story.

Chen Pingping joined the game with his own death, prompting Fan Xian to make up his mind to kill Emperor Qing.

At this time, Zhou Yutang, still wearing the costume of Little Master Fan, sat in his exclusive position behind the monitor.

Li Muge was filming with another group, and Sun Hao and two assistant directors were beside him.

"Lights in place!"

"Camera... OK!"

"Sound... No problem!"

"Action!"

Inside the imperial room.

Unit 2 began to push closer to Emperor Jing Qing's expression.

Chen Daoming had no expression.

The emperor's heart was like the sea, deep and unfathomable.

As the big boss of the play, Emperor Qing held the secret scroll in one hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip expressionlessly.

But Zhou Yutang saw the gaze projected from his deep eyes, which was deep and complex, but concealed a sharp murderous intent, extremely oppressive.

People dared not look at him.

Zhou Yutang secretly praised in his heart.

Chen Daoming's acting skills are indeed well-deserved.

The psychological state of the role of Emperor Qing is quite well grasped.

The aura of the Grand Master + Emperor is fully open, and he will not tolerate any disobedience. In his eyes, Chen Pingping is just a damned old dog.

"Do you still remember the things in the past?"

"How could I not remember?" Chen Pingping said calmly.

"I remember that you did something ridiculous at that time, sticking your beard on your chin. You don't want others to know that you are a eunuch?"

Emperor Qing coldly poked open Chen Pingping's scar in front of him, his tone was full of condescending contempt and ridicule.

Chen Pingping's face was as dark as water, and his tone was calm: "Yes, I used to be deeply ashamed."

"Once?"

"Yes, once, but many years later, I understood a truth."

Chen Pingping's eyes seemed to have light: "I am just me, why should I hide it from the world?"

"You really don't have to hide it from the world. I can sit on the throne and have the vast country today."

Chen Daoming leaned forward and pointed his finger at Wu Gang in front of him, full of pressure: "You, have made great contributions, without you, I don't know how many times I've died."

"That's the duty of a slave."

"But I've given you endless wealth and glory, why do you still do these things?"

Chen Daoming casually threw the secret scroll in his hand over, and stared at the head of the Supervisory Council whom he once trusted, his eyes suddenly sharp as a knife:

"In the Hanging Temple, it was you who asked Shadow to take action, you want me to die! ? "

There were really many people watching this scene, and the emotions exploded instantly. Not only Zhou Yutang cheered in his heart.

Xie Junhao, Li Jianyi, and others who played Si Gu Jian beside him also nodded slightly.

Wu Gang did not deny it, and even had a slight smile on his lips.

When the king and his subjects faced each other, everything was self-evident.

"I ask you, what do you want to do when you come back?"

"I came back to the capital to ask His Majesty a question."

Chen Pingping, who had been silent, had been keeping his head down, but suddenly raised his head slightly at this moment, looking directly at the majestic emperor in front of him, and said word by word:

"Back then, did you ever give her a chance to live? Why did you kill her!"

The "she" Chen Pingping was referring to was naturally Ye Qingmei, who was also the one who got the script of the heroine.

"Ka!"

Sun Hao, who was behind the monitor, saw Zhou Yutang nod slightly, and shouted excitedly: "Passed! Two teachers, this scene is very good."

Ka! Ka! Ka!

Zhou Yutang took the lead, and the rest of the people at the scene followed suit and applauded.

Wu Gang and Chen Daoming walked behind the monitor and began to discuss the performance effect just now.

A good actor has the ability to lead people into the play.

The two are undoubtedly veteran actors with first-class acting skills in the circle, and it is their wonderful performances that support the quality of the entire drama.

The news that Liu Feiren announced his retirement on Weibo was like a heavy bomb that exploded.

When it comes to Liu Feiren, many people are most impressed by the peerless genius who won the championship in the 2004 Athens Olympics and shocked the world.

However, he did not know that since his debut, he has participated in 48 international hurdle competitions, won 36 championships, 6 runner-ups, 3 third places, and only withdrew twice due to injuries.

With his epic performance, he proved that Chinese people can also fly.

Unfortunately, he was forced to withdraw from the 2008 Olympics due to injury, which attracted a lot of criticism.

It can only be said that injuries are also part of sports.

Now that Liu Feiren has retired, many fans have sent their blessings, and then the Running Man officially announced that Liu Feiren will officially replace Bao Qi as a permanent guest of the Running Man team, which immediately triggered a very wide discussion on social media.

Liu Feiren dominated the hot search list, which actually helped Chen Chichi.

He has spent a lot of money during this period, taking care of various media and negotiating terms with his ex-wife.

He also helped the obscure Zhang Zixuan win the title of the most successful mistress.

Yang Mi has been a little depressed recently.

The limelight of being mocked by the whole network for winning the Golden Broom Award last month has just passed.

He was thinking about saving face this month with the movie version of the hit drama "Fall in Love with You".

But then the incident with Chen Chichi suddenly happened.

It's not that it will have a big impact on the movie, as Chen Chichi doesn't have many roles in it, but the subsequent publicity plan needs to be adjusted.

Originally, LeTV Pictures was going to use Chen Chichi, a member of the Running Man team, as one of the publicity gimmicks. Now, his promotional posters were removed overnight, and several roadshows scheduled for the future were also cancelled.

After the meeting at the company, the financing plan was discussed.

Zeng Jia drew a lot of cakes, as if the company's listing was just around the corner, and the whole big Mimi was a little excited.

After the meeting, the executives of Mixing went their separate ways. Zeng Jia kept Yang Mi and asked eagerly: "Mimi, have you met with Boss Zhou recently?"

"How can I have the time?"

Big Mimi asked weakly.

At the moment, in addition to Chen Yao, Zeng Jia has also signed Gao Weiguang at Mixing Company.

Chen Yao is a little transparent who just debuted. He only has one movie "Wuxin the Monster Killer" that was traded by PY. He is still in the post-production stage and needs to continue to devote resources to training.

Gao Weiguang graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. He has solid acting skills, but he is not well-known and can only play supporting roles in some crews.

The entire Mixing Company is carried on the shoulders of Yang Mi alone.

"You have too many announcements now, but it will get better in the future."

Zeng Jia rolled her eyes and came up with a plan: "If there is a chance, find Boss Zhou next time."

"Sister Jia, you have also heard him say that."

Yang Mi said helplessly: "I will not manage the specific operations of Mixing."

If Mixing wants to grow bigger, the next step is financing. If Zhou Yutang comes forward, let alone hundreds of millions, tens of billions of funds will be no pressure.

There are many capitals that want to get on board.

Relying on Yang Mi and Zeng Jia, it is obvious that there is no such arrangement.

Big Mimi also wants to build the company by herself, but the reality is not that easy.

She claims to be strong inside, but no matter how strong a woman is, there will always be those days when she is weak.

At that time, Yang Mi also wants to find a broad shoulder to rely on, and Zhou Yutang is the perfect candidate in her mind.

But the Grand Commander has too many sisters to lean on.

"Mi Mi, Boss Zhou doesn't like this business."

Zeng Jia had other ideas and continued to instigate: "But if he can get some connections from his fingers and introduce us to several companies in the capital circle, it will be enough for us."

"Then I'll ask him when I have a chance."

Yang Mi's mind turned slightly, and she murmured: "Wait a little longer and see how the box office of "The Pancake Man" is. If it goes well, we can get the chips to enter."

"Boss."

Another day of shooting ended. When Zhou Yutang and Sun Hao came out of the meeting, Ni Ni stepped forward and asked: "The invitations to the Cannes International Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival have been sent this year. What should I do?"

"Forget about the Cannes in May. The schedule is tight and I really can't leave."

Zhou Yutang thought for a while and smiled softly: "Please reply to the email for me. When is the Shanghai International Film Festival?"

"June 13th."

"The filming should be finished by then."

Zhou Yutang said lightly: "Director Tong just said hello last night. I have to go there when the time comes."

No matter how bad the Shanghai International Film Festival is, it is still Class A. This time it was Director Tong who made the decision. As the face of the domestic entertainment industry, Zhou Yutang can't avoid some social etiquette.

The North American box office beast finally landed in domestic theaters.

Due to the accumulated reputation of the previous series and the high attention of Universal, James Wan and the main creators held press conferences in Beijing and Shanghai.

In addition, the sentimental marketing of Paul's death made the popularity of this movie unprecedentedly high.

In fact, most domestic audiences don't know Paul, but forums and WeChat Moments are all forwarding it, and not following the trend would make you seem unsociable.

So it inexplicably formed a trend.

In addition, Zhu Yilong also starred in it, and the sports car beauty shown in the previous trailer was also very eye-catching.

The result was that the pre-sale box office of "Fast and Furious 7" in China has reached 200 million. On the day of release, the box office of the midnight show alone was 46 million!

At this time, the movie has been released in North America for eight days and has swept 211 million US dollars in the box office, and the global box office has also broken the 500 million US dollar mark.

Today, even the crew was discussing this movie. After finishing work early in the afternoon, Zhou Yutang simply used his money ability to find someone to book a theater and invited several crew members to go to the cinema to watch the movie together.

"James Wan's talent is indeed not only in the field of horror movies."

Reba on the left and Li Xin on the right are happy and free, but his attention is all on the movie.

Putting aside other things, this is definitely a highly completed commercial blockbuster.

The box office record of imported blockbusters previously held by "Transformers 4" was directly shattered, with a box office of 385 million on the first day.

It caused a sensation in the entire Chinese film and television industry.

The news spread to the other side of the ocean, and even Hollywood was shocked.

The second day was a working day, and it continued to close at 187 million.

On the third day, it still closed at a stable 167 million.

Such a strong performance made countless people in the industry dumbfounded, watching this box office beast wreak havoc in the Chinese film market.

For three consecutive days, the market accounted for an astonishing 90%.

All the Chinese films released during the period were knocked away, and none of them were spared.

The most regrettable one is "Lost and Love", which has a very good reputation by King Liu.

It originally had some potential, but encountered such a monster and could not complete the release period. It finally closed at 225 million at the box office and was a dismal failure.

The next unlucky person is Teacher Fan.

"Everything Grows" she collaborated with Director Li Yu stood up to snipe.

The marketing press release released by the film company earlier said that it was the Chinese version of "The Catcher in the Rye".

Zhou Yutang read the original novel and found that there were many explicit descriptions. In the words of director Li Yu, this story is a "heavy-flavored youth journey".

Teacher Fan played a sexy and beautiful mature woman in it.

Zhou Yutang, who had experienced all kinds of charm of Teacher Fan, thought about her mature and sexy appearance in his mind, and his calm heart seemed to spread a circle of ripples.

Even the governor who was used to the romantic battles was like this, let alone those young and restless boys, who could stand up to Teacher Fan who was at the peak of her appearance?

However, under everyone's expectation, "Everything Grows" only closed at 21.46 million on the first day of its release, and "Fast and Furious 7" continued to collect more than 100 million on the same day.

They are not opponents of the same level at all.

Teacher Fan, who was very hard to promote the movie, was angry.

Zhou Yutang heard the heartbreaking voice of the beauty from her call.

Teacher Fan was also helpless.

Maybe the entire Chinese film industry didn't expect that "Fast and Furious 7" would be so strong.

"Zhou Yutang seemed to have said that "Fast and Furious 7" was particularly noteworthy this year. His vision was really accurate, and the box office was really a big hit."

"How did La Peikang do things? He let the wolf into the house and released such a movie."

"It's not as good as when Zuo Shandiao was in power!"

"Starting with 1.5 billion, it may be expected to hit 2 billion, or even higher. The Chinese film market is facing an unprecedented severe test and is about to be broken through!"

The online discussion was boiling, and followed by doubts and complaints about La Peikang, the head of China Film.

Industry experts also began to write that "Since the release of Fast and Furious, the entire Chinese film market has no rivals at all."

"This is still a relatively quiet period. If it were in a popular period, the box office would undoubtedly be even more terrifying. We must admit that the Chinese film market is facing an extremely severe test."

"According to statistics from box office data agencies, the final box office of Fast and Furious 7 is at least more than 1.6 billion yuan, and it is not impossible to be even higher."

"This reminds me of last summer, when Transformers 4 was also raging in the Chinese film market. At that time, Zhou Yutang stood up. The right time, right place, and right people created the unrepeatable box office miracle of Red Ling, so that the Chinese film box office record would not fall to imported blockbusters.

"And now, who can stand up? "

Zhou Yutang was lying comfortably on the sofa bed in the hotel and talking to Zou Zhongyan.

Zeng Li, who was wearing a nightgown behind him, was applying medicine to him gently and carefully.

The scene shot today was that Fan Xian was killed by Qin Ye, the head of the Qin family, a big shot in the Daqing military.

The Qin family participated in the plot to kill Ye Qingmei. Seeing Fan Xian's rapid rise, Lao Deng finally killed him.

In the whole play of "Celebrating Yu Nian", all the famous people in the court are veteran actors.

Qin Ye is also a key plot character, and Mr. Feng Enhe was invited to play him.

This is an old acquaintance of Zhou Yutang. They worked together in "The Hidden". At that time, Mr. Feng played the stationmaster Wu, and left many jokes. .

Because there were many action scenes, Zhou Yutang accidentally fell down. After going to the hospital for a check-up, he was told that it was not a big deal, only the skin on his leg was broken.

But in the eyes of the beautiful woman in green, it was a very important matter.

Her bare hands gently massaged Zhou Yutang's body, listening to him talking to Zou Zhongyan and listening to him reporting on the status of the North American project.

It has been more than a month since the start of "The Conjuring 2". Because James Wan had to participate in the promotion of "Fast and Furious 7", he handed the remaining shots to the assistant director. However, most of the shots have been completed, and the remaining ones are just some work to check for omissions and make up for omissions.

"Speed ​​up the progress, strive to finish this month, and release it this year."

Zhou Yutang has his own plans in mind.

After this battle, James Wan has steadily ascended to the top Hollywood director, and "The Conjuring 2" can use his gimmick to hype it up.

"Mr. Zhou, the early preparations for "La La Land" are not very smooth."

"What's the situation? "

Zou Zhongyan said: "Damien wants to invite Emma Watson to play the leading role, but she has a project in hand."

Hermione from the Harry Potter series is a popular idol star in Hollywood. Even in China, she can be regarded as a well-known Hollywood star.

"Then change someone."

Zhou Yutang said without thinking.

There are many young actresses who want to rise in Hollywood, and Emma Watson is not the only one.

The biggest gain this year is the explosion of "Fifty Shades of Grey".

Starting from North America, it continued to ferment and swept the world, and finally got a global box office of 571 million US dollars.

The amazing return on investment of more than 10 times still continues Zhou Yutang's fine tradition of winning big with small.

This is much better than some blockbusters with an investment of over 100 million.