Chapter 116 The challenge of 2 million to 9 million(1/2)
The first-day box office results of "Riding Single Riding Thousand Miles" were very strange, so strange that even the scenes of the heart didn't even announce the box office results of the first day. In order to get the exact news, Wang Zhongjun used his connections and came to the premiere box office record of "Riding Single Riding Thousand Miles" in the five most easily box office cities in the country. These eleven theaters are the largest theaters in the country and are also the places where movies are most likely to achieve results, but the final statistics result is only 850,000!
Among these eleven cinemas, there is also a record of 400,000 yuan for Beijing Xinying Lian, which is the highest record of art films in a single cinema!
This also proves that under the crazy offensive of "The Embroidered Spring Sword", the first day of "Riding Single" was defeated by "A Thousand Miles"!
In other words, the box office of "Riding Single" is definitely not likely to exceed two million on the first day... They have already lost.
Zhang Weiping was a little panicked. He wanted to use "The Embroidered Spring Sword" to snipe Hua Yi's "Embroidered Spring Sword" to avenge the first press conference of "Heroes" premiere. But after taking out "Heroes" and "Ten Faces", Lao Touzi suffered a Waterloo in the box office again. Although the reviews of all parties have not yet risen, what's the use of relying on reputation alone? Box office is the weapon to kill the enemy...
"Wei Ping, "Embroidered Chunjian"..." Zhang Yimou said lightly at Zhang Weiping's home: "How many box offices were there on the first day?"
Zhang Weiping sighed. He knew that Zhang Yimou didn't care. When filming "Riding Single in Thousand Miles", Zhang Yimou said that he would bring back the lost reputation. Now the box office of this movie has fallen out is expected. For Zhang Yimou, literary and artistic movies rely on reputation. Only commercial films will chase the box office.
"Nine million, this is still the box office record on the first day." Zhang Weiping looked at Zhang Yimou and said softly, as if there was some lack of energy.
Zhang Yimou nodded without comment: "I want to go and have a look."
"no!"
Zhang Weiping immediately denied: "You are sophisticated, if this is another movie, I have no opinion at all. I can also make a fuss about the news for the producers. We can also make a good relationship, but if this is Huayi's movie, you must not go. Even Gu Changwei and the others can't go. If you go, we will not only lose, but also lose."
"I know what you mean. I just want to know what's good about "The Embroidered Spring Sword"? That's it. I'll find someone from our company to have a look and let him go and describe it to us after reading it?"
Zhang Weiping must not spoil Zhang Yimou this time. This is related to the face of the heart. He grabbed the phone and dialed a number and said, "Xiao Sun, I am your boss. You will buy a movie ticket tomorrow to watch "Embroidered Chun Dao" and give you a task. When you come back, you must clearly describe the plot. You must never forget it after watching it. In addition, the money for the movie ticket is reimbursed, which is considered as the company invites you to watch a movie."
"Isn't this enough?" Zhang Weiping said to Zhang Yimou.
The next day, Xiao Sun from Xinpai Company, Zhang Weiping's secretary, returned to the company after watching the movie at 4 pm, but as soon as she came back, Zhang Yimou immediately asked him to ask.
"Xiao Sun, what is the plot?" Zhang Yimou asked.
Xiao Sun said: "At the beginning, it was a messy search. After Wei Zhongxian fell, the Jinyiwei confiscated all the officials related to Wei Zhongxian. The first few households described it in detail. The most important thing was Zhou Miaotong's family. Zhou Miaotong was later sold to an official prostitute... and then... it was subtitles, saying that Wei Yin fell, and the emperor ordered a thorough investigation of the eunuch party..."
"Well, Xiao Sun, there will be some action scenes when the house is searched? What are the characteristics of this action scene? Is it cruel, beautiful, realistic or rather exaggerated expression techniques?"
Xiao Sun lowered his head when he heard this: "This...it's pretty good-looking anyway, especially Shao Yingxiong, who was full of muscles. As soon as he rushed into Zhou Miaotong's house, he punched a guard guard. By the way, that person first took off and then lay down..."
Zhang Yimou glanced at Zhang Weiping, and this was simply an answer to the question. If the expression of this punch is used well, there can be countless shooting techniques. How can people guess?
"Okay, is the camera that opened the house search or the camera lens, or is it a high altitude photography, or is it a photographer running and following to show the dynamic?"
Zhang Yimou asked too professionally. Xiao Sun is just an ordinary clerk. When she went there, she really became a movie and didn't pay attention to these things. When ordinary people who are not in the circle were watching a movie, who cares about what techniques were used to shoot these shots? Isn't this a big deal?
Xiao Sun stopped talking, Zhang Yimou looked up at Zhang Weiping again and said helplessly: "Wei Ping, I'd better go."
Zhang Weiping glared at Xiao Sun fiercely: "You can't go. Once you go, you'll get blocked by the reporter. What do you say? To be honest? Tell the truth? Let's say that Zhang Yimou has come to see his Shao Yingxiong movie? Then the media can't make it a hype Zhang Yimou starts to learn shooting techniques like Shao Yingxiong?"
"I'll go!"
That's a first-day box office of nine million. So far, the only ones that are higher than the first-day box office of this movie are "Hero", "Ten Faces", "Night Banquet", and even "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" have left "Embroidered Spring Sword" behind, which shows that the movie is a movie worthy of attention from both the industry and industry insiders.
The only director of Xin Silk is Zhang Yimou, and Zhang Yimou's crew creator has not signed a contract with Xin Silk, which has led to Zhang Weiping's no one available now. He can't send someone like Xiao Sun out. After he comes back, he can't even say something clearly?
So, Zhang Weiping set out, drove to the parking lot downstairs of Xinyinglian, and showed up at the cinema. He had to go and see. Shao Yingxiong was growing too fast. If he continued to grow at this speed, he might become a major concern for the heart.
"Mr. Zhang?"
"Isn't it Boss Zhang?"
"Mr. Zhang, why are you here?"
The reporter was invited by Huayi to record the box office of "Embroidered Chun Dao" in the first week. Unexpectedly, he encountered a big news just two days after filming. Zhang Weiping appeared after only two days after Embroidered Chun Dao became the box office champion during the National Day Golden Week.
"Mr. Zhang, are you here to count the box office of "Thousand Miles and Single Riding"? What do you think about the gap between "Thousand Miles and Single Riding" and "Embroidered Chunjian"? It is said that the box office of "Thousand Miles and Single Riding" on the first day was less than two million, while "Embroidered Chunjian" reached nine million...Boss Zhang. Can you answer the question?"
Zhang Weiping had no time to deal with the reporters, so he walked upstairs to the management floor. All the reporters were carrying cameras outside the cinema toward Zhang Weiping's back.
When Zhang Weiping entered the manager's room of Xinying Lian and met his old friend, the general manager of Xinying Lian, he opened his mouth and said, "Prepare a separate cinema for me, don't let anyone go in. I want to watch "Embroidered Chunsword"."
"Lao Zhang, can you stop joking?"
Zhang Weiping stared at him and said, "Who was joking?"
"You misunderstood. I mean. Isn't this a joke that you want to watch "The Embroidered Spring Knife" in a separate cinema now? You said that my ten cinemas play forty Embroidered Spring Knife every day, and now the tickets are sold. Where do you ask me to prepare a separate cinema for you?"
"So hot?"
"Isn't it! The news that Time Magazine has been on the scene for only two days has spread. "The Embroidered Spring Sword" cannot be popular either. Who doesn't want to see a movie made by a character named Shao Yingxiong who can be on the cover of Time Magazine?"
"Old Zhang. In this way, the only thing I can do is to find you a movie ticket, otherwise I can only invite you to another house to see it. As long as there is a free cinema in Beijing, I will pay for you to watch it. You said it's OK."
Xinying Lian is the first digital theater. They are also Huayi’s key cooperative units. "Xuchun Dagger" almost occupies the best playback time for Xiuchun Dagger. It is played from the afternoon until nine o'clock in the evening, and that’s it. Xinying Lian even greeted Huayi for additional screening.
"Okay."
Zhang Weiping never thought that since he became the boss, he would still have to watch movies in the same theater with the audience...
"Look, Mr. Zhang is coming down."
The sharp-eyed reporters waited at the door for a while and immediately found Zhang Weiping. They raised the camera one by one and aimed it at Zhang Weiping and started shooting wildly. Until they watched Zhang Weiping enter the cinema, everyone opened their mouths in surprise.
They thought Zhang Weiping was here to count the box office of "Riding Single in Thousand Miles", but they didn't expect that the LED on the door frame of the cinema where Zhang Weiping walked into actually showed the playback subtitles of "Embroidered Chun Dao"!
Zhang Weiping came to see "The Embroidered Spring Knife"?
This joke is a bit big!!!
The lights went out, and Zhang Weiping felt a little uncomfortable in the fifth row of the cinema. In fact, he felt even more uncomfortable. He didn't see the footage of the reporter at the door. Since they were all here, they had to leave without looking at "The Embroidered Spring Sword", but the reporter was really unwilling to step into the cinema where "The Embroidered Spring Sword" was hanging. If Zhang Yimou hadn't insisted on seeing what kind of flowers Shao Yingxiong could shoot, Zhang Weiping would never have gritted his teeth and walked into the cinema. I'm afraid he would never have watched "The Embroidered Spring Sword" even at the first glance.
All kinds of promotional videos played on the big screen have come to an end. After the opening of the "Dragon" by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television appeared, Huayi's opening also gradually flashed.
Then the video began to be officially played. On the big screen, the night sky of the Ming Dynasty and the capital city where every household had its lights turned off. At this moment, a figure on the roof was gently passing by. Then, countless figures were like locusts churning in the wheat field, and hundreds of figures began to leaps through the house and ridges under the night sky.
Zhang Weiping remembered that this is the effect of post-production. He narrowed the movements of people under the green screen, then enlarged the shooting site, and then placed the figures on the head of the entire city. At a not-so-clear high-altitude photography angle, the audience can't see the flaws clearly, and there is even a sense of pleasure of seeing many Jinyiwei flying over the eaves and walls.
"What's the matter?"
Zhang Weiping muttered alone.
A vicious voice suddenly came from beside him: "Don't talk!"
Zhang Weiping gritted his teeth and suppressed his anger. He would not compete with these civilians, and he would not be able to do so.
The camera on the big screen began to speed up the pace of the entire movie. Hundreds of Jinyiwei divided into three teams and rushed to the three huge mansions in the capital. Liang Jiahui and Wen Zhang ran to both sides, but Shao Yingxiong's team gave a close-up.
"General Flag, there are soldiers patrolling in front of you." After his subordinate Jinyiwei reported, Shao Yingxiong shouted with a sharp look: "Hidden!"
All the Jinyiwei instantly entered the alley, and the next scene of the conversation between the updater in the movie appeared.
So far, Shao Yingxiong did not make any modifications to the movie except for adding a post-production opening. Even the scene of the Night Soldier discovered that the Jinyiwei was very similar to the original film, but when he looked back, it was a little different.
The Qihong gate of Zhou's mansion appeared in front of the Jinyiwei. While Shao Yingxiong used his hands to go straight to the sides, many Jinyiwei behind him began to look at every corner of the mansion.
Pa, pa, pa, at this moment, the door of Zhou Mansion was knocked.
"Who?"
"Emperor Uniform Guard. Capture the eunuch party."
"Sir, have you gone to the wrong place? Our master belongs to the court..."|
"Open the door and talk!"
"Sir, I'm just a concierge. Let me report..."
Shao Yingxiong took a step back, and a Jinyiwei had already kneeled not far from the courtyard wall. At that time, Shao Yingxiong stepped on the legs of Jinyiwei, and supported the wall with one hand and fell into the yard with a backflip.
"Why are you here? Don't you tell me, wait for me to report?"
The ruthlessness of the Jinyiwei was completely performed by Shao Yingxiong. He stepped forward as if he hadn't heard it, until the man in the gatehouse blocked his way, Shao Yingxiong glared and said, "I'll run away when you report it to others!"
Shao Yingxiong's body pulled back like a bow, using his fist as an arrow, and his whole body prepared for movements very much, and there was no secret of the warrior before the move. However, such movements were still real and beautiful in the movie.
bump!
Just a punch. The action characteristics of "Embroidered Chunjian" were instantly revealed. The doorman did not fly out of the ground with exaggerated feet. Instead, he used very realistic techniques to show Shen Lian's strength... The doorman who was hit jumped high, as if he was oppressed by huge force and then landed not far from Shao Yingxiong's feet, with dust flying.
This is what Shao Yingxiong suggested to Yuan Heping by learning the action design of "Cheng Xiaodong" in "The Legend of the Conquest". This action has a very strong visual effect, and it has a strong visual impact whether it is a single-player battle or a war.
Click.
When the door latch was removed and the door was pushed open, the Jinyiwei at the door rushed out with his life. At this time, Shao Yingxiong pulled out the embroidered sword from his waist and threw it at the door of a closed door in the courtyard. The blade broke through the air. At this time, the knife in the camera was the focus, and everything else was empty. Even if it was empty, the door was pushed open, and a girl could still let everyone see clearly when she walked out of the door.
null!
The tip of the knife stabbed directly into the door, only an inch above the woman's head.
The woman stood tremblingly at the door, frightened and motionless. Her upper and lower lips touched slightly. A mosquito-like voice came from the pale beauty of the flowery face below the close-up: "Shen... Lian."
"If there is resistance, kill it without any consequences!"
Shao Yingxiong shouted at the door with a cold face: "Mr. Zhou, you have been kind to me, but the emperor's order is difficult. Please ask Lord Zhou and his family to come with us. The judicial department will make a statement!"
The screen became dark, and rows of small words on the screen came out with narration: "Wei Yan fell and eliminated the eunuch party... Chen Lian was forced to take action against Lord Zhou, who had recommended him, because he knew that if he didn't come, the Zhou family would be even more miserable."
Zhang Weiping had already forgotten what he was here for in a completely different style of fighting. He saw the Zhou family being raided, and also saw the Chen family flashing through the screen (the scene of the Chen family being raided was cut, and the whole movie could be connected with the Zhou family being raided. The Chen family being raided did not have much connection with the whole plot). He also saw Li Zixiong falsely passing the imperial edict to let Lu Jianxing, Chen Lian, and Jin Yichuan attack Wei Zhongxian at night to take his life.
He was trapped in the plot. He wanted to know what Wu Zhenyu, who appeared in the capital, would make Wen Zhang like, and he also wanted to know what kind of connection task Wei Zhongxian, who pretended to die, would be responsible for this drama after the fighting scenes in Wei Zhongxian's nest. He was more like Chen Lian was a good person or a bad person, whether he deducted the money alone or gave the three brothers points.
It's just a beginning, but it leaves too many suspense, making people unable to leave the theater even if they don't finish watching it.
During the Yan Mansion battle, the martial arts moves of the three brothers instantly express the character's character to the fullest. Lu Jianxing's sword path is very open and close, and he will not turn around; Shao Yingxiong's embroidered spring sword flew up and down, but he will always pull Leng Zi to take out a crossbow arrow and shoot it out; Wen Zhang used two short swords to fight in close combat, playing the fierce routine of life and death in the world.
The moves of the three people are different, but they all enjoy their fighting!
To be continued...