Amid the sound of a joint boycott, "The Desperate World" was forced to go offline in the capital area early.

A week later, according to statistics from Hua Film Company, the total box office of this Hollywood blockbuster in six cities in China was 25 million.

Although it did not exceed 30 million, it was also very shocking. After all, it was only a week's box office result.

Think about it, if this movie was screened in more than a dozen major cities across the country for a month, the box office would be very likely to exceed 100 million.

This is quite terrifying. Faced with such a high box office result, the senior executives of Huaying Company were extremely happy, which shows that their approach to introducing Hollywood blockbusters can stimulate the domestic film market and bring audiences back into the cinema.

When "The Desperate" was released, audiences from all over the country asked to continue the screening, and other cities also had similar calls.

This shows that the people do not like watching movies, but do not like watching bad movies.

With this data as support, the plan to attract ten Hollywood blockbusters next year will definitely receive support from superiors and will not be as difficult as this time.

As for the way out of the domestic film industry, it is not a problem that Huaying Company needs to consider.

As long as they firmly grasp the screening rights of ten Hollywood blockbusters, they can make huge profits from them.

There was a fierce debate in the news media about the amazing box office results of "The Desperate World".

Box office is undoubtedly an important indicator to measure the success or failure of a movie.

Some people exclaimed that entertainment movies have defeated art movies, some people lamented that domestic movies will enter a trough, and some people felt that they should learn from Hollywood and put down their artistic airs.

In the past, when people held seminars in movie magazines or the film industry, they would talk about entertainment movies without any pain. Most of them were contemptuous and thought it was too superficial and not worth mentioning.

In fact, there are also entertainment films in China. In order to cater to the market, they simply pursue box office, but such films are too vulgar.

Some people have exaggerated comments that it is "killing no one left and getting naked". It can be said that domestic entertainment films are full of mud and sand, and there is no road to healthy development.

Directors who make art films do not pay attention to the market. They always regard themselves as artists and think that their films should bring spiritual touch to the audience. After watching them, the audience will be enlightened and sublimated.

They face the audience with a lofty attitude, as if God preached.

Some directors even complained that the audience was low in quality and could not understand the movies he made, but they did not know that the audience was their parents of food and clothing, and the audience was God. They made this role reversed.

Over time, this kind of abnormal movie environment in China has been formed.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the blind command of the film industry by the upper class during the planned economy.

This time the screening of "The Desperate World" sounded a wake-up call to the domestic film industry. There was no comparison before, and everyone still lived a life in a daze without looking shabby.

Now that there is comparison and seeing the huge gap, I can't pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Conservatives are still sticking to their own opinions, and reformists are already calling for learning from Hollywood movies and keeping pace with international standards.

This year is a new beginning for the domestic film industry.

Lin Zixuan doesn’t care about the troubles outside, but only focuses on the later production of "Party A and Party B" and the promotion of the movie.

Under the coordination of Beijing Film Studio, "Party A and Party B" is scheduled to be released on December 24. This day is Christmas Eve in the West, and it will be screened for one month, almost close to the Spring Festival.

If the box office results are good, you can apply for an extension of the schedule of about half a month.

The main reason is that there is no one fighting during this period, and everyone is busy with the New Year. Who will watch domestic films?

New Year's films are actually not unfamiliar with the film industry in the mainland. Xiangjiang shoots one or two similar films every year.

By the end of the year, we will gather a group of big stars in Xiangjiang and make fun of each other. It has no meaning, it is just exaggerating and funny, making the audience laugh, so that they can have a happy New Year and earn box office by the way.

However, this is the first time this form has been in the mainland and is not favored by others. The film environments in mainland China and Xiangjiang are different.

Xiangjiang audiences have the habit of watching New Year’s films, but mainland audiences do not know what the concept of New Year’s films are.

Besides, "Party A and Party B" is a Beijing-style movie that may be popular in Beijing, but it is not possible in the south. It is too regional and has a narrow audience.

Therefore, Lin Zixuan basically gave up publicity in the south and focused his publicity on the capital.

For example, if he advertises in newspapers in Beijing, finds relationships on TV stations and does promotional programs. If others do not pay attention to publicity, he will not ignore it, but will make more fanfare.

This kind of publicity does not require Chinese TV stations, Beijing TV stations are enough.

The stars who can make excellence in this film are Ge You and Liu Bei. Lin Zixuan arranged for them to appear on TV, mainly to talk about some interesting stories about making movies and to praise the highlights of the movie.

This year, the film market in China is extremely sluggish.

Zhang Yimou's "Alive" was banned and Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days" was postponed. It can be said that there are no particularly outstanding domestic films, especially after watching Hollywood blockbusters, the audience was even more disappointed with domestic films.

For "Party A and Party B", this is an opportunity, which may surprise domestic audiences or may fail miserably.

This time, Ge You was willing to go out and was quite low-key and let go of the conversation alone. In order to let everyone go to the cinema to watch movies during the Chinese New Year, I have to say that the people in the capital have a special preference for Ge You.

They thought that they were actors when they looked at other actors, and Ge You felt that they were like their own children, friendly.

After recording the program, several people came out of the TV station. It was already winter in the capital and it was a bit cold.

"Xiaogang is probably still in the editing room now, so why don't we go and condolence him?" Ge You suggested.

"Okay, bring him some dry food, I'm afraid I haven't eaten yet." Lin Zixuan agreed.

Watching comedy movies is very different from making comedy movies. Comedy movies have very strict arrangements for jokes.

Basically, there must be a laugh point within three minutes, otherwise the audience will feel bored and boring. It is not OK to have too dense laugh points. You should leave time for the audience to react, otherwise it will appear messy.

Generally speaking, when the audience sees a funny point, it takes about two minutes from the time it feels ridiculous to the end of this feeling.

What Feng Xiaogang had to do was to arrange all kinds of jokes just right through editing so that the audience would feel comfortable.

Lin Zixuan and Ge You came to the Beijing Film Studio and bought Feng Xiaogang a lot of food and a bottle of wine.

They were eating and drinking while chatting, talking about movies, and talking about the future.

The three of them walked along the way, from nothing to something, from TV series to movies, it was not easy to get to this point.

Now it is time to require audience testing, and for them, this is also a new beginning. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!