Chapter 652 The night the comet came
May 1st.
Labor Day holiday.
"Mr. Wang, the box office of "The Night the Comet Came" came out yesterday, 3536W."
"The Night When the Comet Came" was released in theaters at 6 pm on April 29, with 3536W in just half a day. Not only was it a height that many domestic films could not reach, it also set a new box office record for domestic film debuts.
A sci-fi film + Oscar-winning director + a gimmick created by the original cast of "Space Traveler", many people couldn't wait to enter theaters when "The Night the Comet Came" was released.
With a box office of 35.36 million in half a day, it is foreseeable that the movie will be a big hit on May 1st.
Of course, it is still uncertain whether it will continue to explode or whether it will start to shrink after a few days.
Because the movie has just opened, the high box office is mainly due to the gimmicks.
When this wave of movie-viewing emotions is exhausted, it will be the time to test whether the film is suitable for the audience's taste.
……
at the same time.
"How much was the box office of "The Night the Comet Came" last night?" Han Sanping looked at his secretary.
The secretary knew that Han Sanping would ask about this matter, so he was prepared early and quickly replied: "3536W."
"3536W?" Han Sanping was shocked when he heard this number.
"Yes!" the secretary replied affirmatively.
"Hiss~" Han Sanping murmured to himself, "Although I guessed that Wang Shu's low-cost film would achieve good box office, I didn't expect that it would set a new record on the first day."
"Now he is worth 500 million, and now he is going to make a fortune again."
"With money and sufficient confidence, he will be more motivated to pursue higher honors in Hollywood instead of returning to China for development."
In his opinion, as long as Wang Shu is not short of money, there is no need to worry about it at home, but to pursue higher film honors abroad.
Mainly focused on winning prizes, rather than commercial films.
Although art films can also be made in China, domestic art films can only compete for the top three awards in Europe and cannot participate in the Oscar competition.
It is undeniable that it can compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but it is not interesting.
On the other hand, making art films in Hollywood can not only win the three major European awards, but also the British Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Oscars.
It can be seen that if you make an art film in Hollywood, you can achieve more and greater honors than in China.
So in his opinion, the more money Wang Shu has, the more he wants to stay in Hollywood and develop.
Although Han Sanping was happy for Wang Shu that "The Night When the Comet Came" was a hit, he also thought it was bad news.
Just as he thought, if Wang Shu was not short of money, there was a high probability that he would stay in Hollywood and pursue higher honors.
"Mr. Zhang, the first-day box office of "The Night the Comet Came" came out, 3536W."
At New Picture Company, Zhang Weiping's secretary was reporting to him.
"3536W?" Zhang Weiping frowned when he heard this number and looked at his secretary in disbelief.
The secretary was a little uneasy because of Zhang Weiping's eyes, so he answered bravely: "Yes, 3635, oh no, it's 3536W."
"In addition, "The King of Guns" and "City Alert" have all been rescheduled, and it is currently unknown which schedule they will be released in.
"King of Guns" and "City Alert" are scheduled to be released on May 1st. However, since "Iron Man 2" will be released in mainland theaters on May 7th, these two movies are worried that they will be affected by Hollywood blockbusters. Change files.
Now there is an additional reason to change the schedule, and that is to stagger the release of the movie with Wang Shu.
Last year during the New Year holiday, several films were influenced by films directed by Wang Shu.
Now everyone is smarter. In order to ensure the box office, they should stagger Wang Shu's movies as much as possible.
"Changed the schedule?" Zhang Weiping was stunned when he heard this.
"The King of Guns" is directed by Hong Kong director Er Dongsheng and stars Louis Koo, Ng Yan-zu, Li Binbin, Cai Zhuoyan, Fang Zhongxing and others.
"City Alert" is directed by Hong Kong director Chen Musheng and stars Aaron Kwok, Zhang Jingchu, Shu Qi, Wu Jin and others.
Both films, both in terms of direction and cast, are extremely strong.
He also hopes that these two films will compete with Wang Shu's "The Night the Comet Comes" in the May Day slot and affect the box office of "The Night the Comet Comes".
In other words, the loss of two movies with strong lineups to "The Night the Comet Came" can also make the loss of "Three Guns" to Wang Shu less embarrassing.
Unexpectedly, these two movies have been rescheduled.
I'm scared!
Zhang Weiping felt a little hard to accept it.
"Yes!" the secretary whispered nervously.
Zhang Weiping was stunned for a while and asked: "So, the only movie on May 1st is "The Night the Comet Came"?"
"No." The secretary shook his head and then added, "There is also "Ip Man 2" and "The Night When the Comet Came" on the same schedule."
"On May 7, "Iron Man 2" will also hit theaters."
"Ip Man 2 and Iron Man 2?" Zhang Weiping muttered to himself.
He thought for a moment, "If I remember correctly, "Ip Man 1" only made 84 million box office when it was released that year."
"Now the first-day box office of "The Night the Comet Came" is 3536W."
"It can be seen that this movie cannot stop the film directed by Wang Shu at all."
"Moreover, even the box office of "Ip Man 2" will be affected by "The Night the Comet Came"."
"Not only can it not stop the progress of "The Night the Comet Came", but the box office may even shrink."
"The only movie that can stop "The Night the Comet Came" is the Hollywood blockbuster "Iron Man 2."
"It's just that this movie won't be released until May 7. By the time this movie is released, "The Night the Comet Came" has already been released for a week."
"And this week happens to be the week with the highest box office trend."
"When "Iron Man 2" is released, even if it has an impact on "The Night the Comet Came", it won't have much impact."
The secretary stood aside and did not answer the call. She knew that her boss was in a bad mood at the moment.
So adhering to the concept of not doing well, as long as you don't do it, you can't be selected.
Sure enough, Zhang Weiping waved his hand and motioned for her to leave.
Seeing this, the secretary breathed a sigh of relief and turned to leave the office. "I didn't expect that in just a few years, Wang Shu would have grown to be unstoppable."
Zhang Weiping sighed.
"Not only has it broken domestic records again and again in the field of commercial films, it has even opened an era of billions in box office."
"If a movie by other great directors can earn 200 to 300 million yuan, they would be celebrating with great joy."
"It's good for him, he hit 1 billion box office in one fell swoop."
"...The same is true in the field of art films. Directors from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places have never gone to Hollywood. Except for Li Yu, they all returned to China in despair."
"And Wang Shu surpassed Li Yu and won two Academy Awards for Best Director."
"This honor is as good as Yimou."
"If it's true, it even surpasses Yimou."
"Alas, these are secondary."
"Wang Shu is good at commercial films. If I could have connected with him back then and established a cooperative relationship like Yimou, now..."
Please...you...collect 6...9...books...!
The more Zhang Weiping thought about it, the more depressed he became.
"Axin, the first-day box office of "The Night the Comet Came" was 3536W." Huang Baiming approached Ye Weixing to talk about this matter.
Huang Baiming is the producer of "Ip Man 2" and Ip Weishing is the director.
"3536W on the first day?" Ye Weixing showed an unbelievable expression after hearing this, and then added, "If I remember correctly, "The Night the Comet Came" was released at six o'clock yesterday evening, right? It took just half a day to Achieved a box office of 3536W? ”
Huang Baiming nodded. The box office of "Ip Man 2" on the first day was just over 10 million, and it was still a full-day box office.
"The Night When the Comet Came" was only released for half a day, and it was already three times as popular as "Ip Man 2".
If it is shown for a whole day, the box office may even exceed 50 million.
Ye Wei-sing's heart sank and he asked: "Where is our "Ip Man 2"? How much will the box office be the next day?"
Huang Baiming said with a dull expression: "884W, which is a little lower than the box office on the first day."
In the original timeline, "Ip Man 2" earned 35 million at the box office in three days of release and 94 million in one week.
"Affected by "The Night the Comet Came"?" Ye Weixing instantly understood the reason why the box office of "Ip Man 2" the next day was not as good as the first day.
Huang Baiming nodded: "It should be influenced by "The Night the Comet Came"."
"I thought that the movie Wang Shu only took three days to shoot, so it would be rough and the box office would not be strong."
"I didn't expect... but it was such a result."
Ye Weixing took a deep breath: ""Iron Man 2" will be released in theaters on May 7. Will our "Ip Man 2" be affected again?"
"Nine times out of ten." Huang Baiming was noncommittal.
For a moment, the two fell into silence.
After a while, Ye Weixing looked up at Huang Baiming and suggested: "How about... we withdraw the file?"
"Change the schedule and re-release it?"
"If we were on Hong Kong Island, it would be easy to withdraw, but in the Mainland, where can we withdraw if we want?" Huang Baiming smiled bitterly.
Ye Weixing didn't really want to withdraw the film, but he mentioned it like this to the producer Huang Baiming.
Anyway, as a director, he has already considered it for the investors and producers. If the producers don't accept it, that's the producer's business.
The two were silent for a while again, and Ye Weixing said: "How about... how about we buy tickets and go to the cinema to watch "The Night the Comet Came"?"
Huang Baiming nodded: "To be honest, I also want to see how Wang Shu's movie, which was shot in three days, can achieve a box office of 3536W in just half a day on the first day."
As soon as the two of them got together, they immediately went to the cinema, ready to see what happened.
At the same time, many movie reviews about "The Night the Comet Came" began to appear on the Internet.
Wang Shu knew very well that "Iron Man 2" would be released in a week. As a small-budget soft science fiction film, "Iron Man 2" would be difficult to compete with Hollywood popcorn movies like "Iron Man 2" in theaters.
Therefore, it is necessary to "fool" as many people as possible into the theaters to buy tickets and watch the movie before "Iron Man 2" hits theaters.
A well-known filmmaker wrote on his blog: "If you have not seen "The Night the Comet Came", please do not read this article."
"Generally speaking, retelling the plot of a movie is quite boring, but this movie is an exception. Its setting and arrangement are quite complex and interesting. If you have watched this movie but have many questions, please Don’t hesitate to look down.”
“Let’s talk about the setting of this film first.”
"The first setting is that the arrival of a comet connects "parallel worlds" to each other. Let me explain this a little bit. Imagine you are rolling dice. You could roll any number from one to six. Every time you roll the dice, the world is separated into six different worlds. In one world, you roll a one, in the other world, you roll a two, and so on. ”
"These different worlds part ways the moment you roll the dice, and there will never be any intersection again, just like ants on two pieces of paper, they will never meet each other."
"But that night the comet came, and it built many bridges between different pieces of paper, allowing them to communicate with each other. The ants on the paper didn't know this at first, so they crawled from one piece of paper to another. , and crawled to another piece of paper...lost in the "parallel world". ”
"The second setting is that the camera, that is, the audience, will also travel through different worlds, but this camera always follows one of the ants, and this ant is the heroine Sun Li."
"So, to understand the story of this movie, the key is to understand which world Sun Li has been to, who she has met, and which world the people she met come from."
"If you understand these, you will understand the plot of this movie."
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Well-known film critic Jia Dong: "If you haven't watched the brain-burning thriller "The Night the Comet Came", you may not understand the following content at all."
"I think even viewers who have watched it will have many extremely troubled and plot-related doubts."
"Wang Shu, the director and screenwriter of "The Night the Comet Came", likes to compare his low-cost, small-production thriller to a 'House of Horror Fun'."
"But "The Night the Comet Came" is not a film that relies on cheap visual tricks to scare people's urine. On the contrary, its tense and loose dramatic performance is more like a wonderful episode of "The Twilight Zone."
"Choose an ordinary scene from daily life (in "The Night the Comet Came" it was a scene of eight friends having dinner together), and then twist the plot through highly intelligent science fiction elements."
"Here, briefly recount the plot of the film."
""The Night the Comet Came" tells the story of eight friends gathering together for dinner on a night when a comet passed over the earth."
"That night, the cell phone signal disappeared and the power suddenly went out. Then they realized something even more incredible had happened: the comet had divided their reality into multiple dimensions, each with its own house and dinner party."
"They try to mark their houses by packing random items into boxes, and they do the same in other dimensions."
"Gradually, they begin to question their relationship to each other and the nature of their reality."
"The film stars Sun Li, Chen Hao, Chen Kun, Deng Chao, Liu Yan, Jiang Wu and others. The director and screenwriter are Wang Shu."
"Who is Wang Shu and what are his movies like? I shouldn't need to explain it, right?"
(End of chapter)