198 Overseas Box Office and Newcomers(1/2)
March is the season of early spring, when all things come to life, and the animals...that's wrong, it's the season when Chinese opera starts school.
Ye Fan was busy throughout the first month. After returning to school life, comparing the two lives, Ye Fan felt that going to school was so comfortable.
During the half-month autograph session, Ye Fan sold a total of 85,916 albums, with an average daily sales of more than 6,600, and sales reaching 1.088 million.
This sales volume is average for Ye Fan. It's not that the sales volume can't be increased, Ye Fan also has to sing and rest, and the actual time for signing sales is only more than 6 hours a day.
This is equivalent to sales of more than 1,000 albums per hour. Think about signing more than a thousand names in an hour, some authors may not be able to code so quickly!
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On March 1st, several movies scheduled for the Spring Festival will be released one after another.
"My Body" has reached a box office of 33.83 million in the mainland, and its potential has been exhausted.
"Who Am I" has a box office of 61.87 million, becoming the annual box office champion of Chinese-language films, which is terrifying!
The film "The Original Spacetime" has grossed more than 80 million at the box office in the Mainland, but now it has lost nearly 20 million at the box office. Cheng Long will probably be furious when he finds out.
But Brother Cheng Long is really popular these days. He is very strong in the film market in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. It would be great if Ye Fan can take away so much of his meat.
And through the excitement of these two movies, people can see the potential of the mainland film market, especially the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival movies.
As for Hong Kong Island, it is still Cheng Long’s world. "Who Am I" won the box office championship of Hong Kong Island’s Spring Festival with a box office of 40.13 million.
The box office of "My Body" and "Lucky One Train" were 31.77 million and 22.61 million respectively.
Ye Fan couldn't help laughing when he learned about the box office of "Who Am I"? In its previous life, "Who Am I" only had a box office of over 38 million.
Now that Ye Fan's movies have been added to the mix, the box office of "Who Am I" is actually higher than in the previous life. Ye Fan would never believe it if Golden Harvest did not manipulate it.
Because of this, the box office of "Who Am I" surpassed Ye Fan's two movies, and it is currently the first box office of Hong Kong Island movies of the year.
However, the box office results achieved by "Body of Me" were also astonishing. In theory, it beat Stephen Chow's movie. This result caused quite a controversy in Hong Kong Island.
Previously, there were relatively few voices saying that Hong Kong films were in decline, and they were only circulated among Hong Kong circles and media people. With Ye Fan's rise, this statement has gradually spread.
Some of the media in Hong Kong even put forward the theory that mainland movies are a threat to get Hong Kong people to support Hong Kong movies.
This statement has gained support from some Hong Kong filmmakers, such as Huang Gou and Du Gou.
However, film and television bosses and other filmmakers don’t think much of it. The decline of Hong Kong movies is visible to the naked eye. If we don’t go to the mainland to develop the market, will we just sit in a tiny place and wait to die?
In Wanwan, the box office of "Who Am I", "Lucky One-stop" and "My Body" were equivalent to RMB 35.54 million, 25.13 million and 32.61 million respectively.
Cheng Long continues to dominate, and "Who Am I" has a total box office of 137 million nationwide, dominating the national film market.
The total domestic box office of "Suspect" and "My Body" were 113 million and 98 million RMB respectively.
"Suspect" can achieve such good results, part of the credit goes to Ye Fan, but more importantly it is due to the influence of Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and To Qifeng.
Although "My Body" unfortunately failed to break the 100 million mark, it was already an amazing achievement for Ye Fan and the people in the mainland film industry!
Some mainland filmmakers had mixed feelings when they saw the box office of Ye Fan's movie. They did not expect that mainland movies could achieve such high box office in Hong Kong Island and even across the country.
This makes them wonder, is it wrong to want to get into Hong Kong?
Moreover, the total domestic box office of Ye Fan's two movies combined reached 211 million RMB.
This data is so horrifying that investors such as Boss Yang, Xiao Wang and others are all smiling!
There was no result in trying to persuade his brother to his boss some time ago. He himself was a little hesitant and unwilling to bow to Ye Fan.
But after seeing the box office results of Ye Fan's two movies, he no longer hesitated and made up his mind to stop his brother from harassing Zhang Yushan!
"Who Am I" is even more impressive at the global box office, with a global box office of 34 million US dollars.
"Suspect" has been released overseas for two weeks. This movie has set off a movie-watching craze in Japan. After all, this novel originally came from them.
"Suspect" took in a box office of 560 million yen in Japan, equivalent to US$4.72 million.
The number of viewers of "Bangzi Country" also reached 192,300, with a box office of US$3.22 million.
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand also took in a box office of US$6.01 million, for a total of US$13.95 million.
However, this is only the box office performance for two weeks. Leslie Cheung and Lin Qingxia are as popular as Cheng Long in East and Southeast Asian countries.
It has been released for a month, and coupled with Ye Fan's popularity and film quality, the film's reputation has been fermented, and the box office overseas will definitely follow suit!
The movie "My Body" is scheduled to be released overseas in mid-March, staggering the release time of "Suspect".
So when Ye Fan saw that the Asian box office of "Suspect" reached 27.59 million US dollars, he knew that those people were going crazy.
Sure enough, when Ye Fan was still in school, Wang Jinghua called him and asked him to go to the company quickly. There was no other way, so Ye Fan had to ask Chang Li for leave.
"I asked for leave just after school started. What happened this time?"
Ye Fan smiled and said: "Someone came to the company to see me, and I had to go there because of the movie."
"Who deserves to be treated like this? Can't it be done in the past after school?"
"I would like to, but I can't wait any longer. There are Mr. Han, Mr. Xiang, Mr. Yang from Hong Kong, Mr. and Mrs. Wang..."
"Stop, stop, stop... I know you know a lot of important people, so you don't need to tell me the name of the dish. Just come back as soon as the matter is done."
"Okay, thank you Grandma Chang!"
Looking at Ye Fan's back, Chang Li shook her head. How to control Ye Fan now was a problem for her. If it were another teacher, she would have obeyed Ye Fan's words long ago, which means she has not given up her principles.
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However, having such an outstanding student as Ye Fan makes other teachers envious, which is really a happy trouble for Chang Li.
"Xiao Fan, this is really amazing, so many elders want to see him."
"I heard that his movies have grossed more than 20 million US dollars and more than 200 million yuan at the global box office. If it were me, I would be eager to find him for investment."
"No, the city will give out awards in a few days. The awards for outstanding youth and three good students must belong to Ye Fan."
Hearing the discussion among the teachers, Chang Li frowned and said, "Don't talk about this, prepare your own lessons."
Seeing Chang Li speaking, everyone did not dare to say anything and quickly went to do their own things...
"Mr. Han, why are you here in person? If you need anything, just tell me and I will come over."
Mr. Han looked at Ye Fan and praised him: "We all know that you are a busy man, so I won't bother you. We can just come here ourselves. You are indeed a talented person."
Ye Fan quickly said a few words of humility. After all, whether some movies will pass the review and be released depends on this boss.
After greeting others, Ye Fan said after everyone sat down: "Mr. Han, Sister Hua told me everything, but I haven't written the script yet. Isn't it too early to discuss investment now?"
Already."
"It's getting late. By the time your script is written, all the investment shares will probably be taken away."
At this time, Boss Yang also smiled and said: "Yes, I heard that there are many people looking for Mr. Wang, and we also believe in your ability to write scripts."
Ye Fan smiled and said: "Thanks to everyone's kindness, let me tell you the shooting costs of the two movies. One is 40 million Hong Kong dollars and the other is 2 million Hong Kong dollars."
Everyone was shocked by these two prices.
"Xiao Fan, what kind of movie costs so much money?"
"Yeah, the two movies I made before had such high box office, but the investment cost was less than 20 million."
The corner of Ye Fan's mouth curled up slightly. Of course, the sheep that came to his door must be picked up hard.
"A police film, the protagonists are Andy Lau and Leslie Cheung, and a romance film, the protagonists are Zeng Li and me."
When they heard that it was a police film and a romance film, and that it required so much investment, everyone hesitated, or doubted the authenticity of Ye Fan's words.
Mr. Han asked: "Xiao Fan, for police and criminal movies and romance movies, even if Andy Lau and Leslie Cheung are involved, is the investment cost too high?"
Hearing this, the others nodded in agreement.
Ye Fan smiled and said, "So I said I'll talk to you after I finish writing the script, otherwise you won't believe me even if I say it."
Seeing that Ye Fan was so confident, everyone wanted to ask more about the plot of the script.
How can Ye Fan reveal now that he simply said something and stopped talking about it, "Infernal Affairs" is okay, but "My Sassy Girl" would be very easy to plagiarize.
Everyone saw that Ye Fan was in trouble, and after they couldn't get any more information, they had no choice but to give up on Ye Fan.
The huge amount of investment and the uncertain content made some people give up, so some investors got up and left, saying that they would come back to discuss it after Ye Fan finished writing the script.
This situation is what Ye Fan wants to see. There are too many people who want to invest, so he can only persuade them to quit first. After he finishes writing the script, it will be their turn.
In the end, in addition to those who Ye Fan had worked with before, there were also Mr. Han and Wu Dun, the boss of Wanwan Changhong Film and Television.
"Xiao Fan, everyone is gone now, it's time for you to tell the truth."
The others also laughed. Mr. Han and Wu Dun were mature men and could see Ye Fan's purpose at a glance. The others had cooperated with Ye Fan many times and chose to trust Ye Fan.
Ye Fan smiled and said: "I can't hide it from Mr. Han, but the investment for the two movies is not much lower. 35 million and 15 million are still needed."
"Although the themes of police movies and romance movies are popular, I dare say that the scripts of these two movies are more classic than the two movies "Suspect" and "My Body"."
Hearing Ye Fan's words, Boss Yang slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll give you the last two words. I voted for this movie."
As soon as Boss Yang said this, others also expressed their opinions one after another:
"More classic than those two movies? Then I'll vote for it too."
"Then this one must be voted for."
To be continued...