Chapter 379 The First Day
"The Crowd" was released, and Mei Ting, who was currently filming "How Far Is Happiness", found time to come and participate in various promotional activities.
Since "How Far Is Happiness" was filmed in the suburbs of Beijing, Mei Ting had a very busy schedule.
Sometimes I am on the set in the morning, come to participate in promotional activities in the afternoon, and go to the set again in the evening to catch up on work.
In addition to Mei Ting, actors such as Zhang Hanyu have also been actively participating in promotional activities.
"Brother Zhang, "Human Mountain" has taken advantage of your popularity this time!"
Although the premiere was relatively small, the crew of "Human Mountain" still held a post-premiere banquet.
Wang Shu glanced at Zhang Hanyu who was eating, and joked with a smile.
I said it was a joke, but it was actually correct.
"Assembly" was released on December 20, 2007, and has earned more than 200 million box office results so far.
As the leading actor, Zhang Hanyu suddenly became a movie actor worth 200 million per film.
Just right. The sun is at its peak.
"Director Wang, these words will kill me." Zhang Hanyu smiled helplessly upon hearing this.
If it were another less famous director who starred in "Assembly", it can indeed be said that he gained some of his popularity.
But "The Crowd" is a movie directed by Wang Shu, and Zhang Hanyu is not arrogant enough to think that Wang Shu is taking advantage of his popularity.
After finishing speaking, he quickly changed the subject and said: "When I came back from Venice, I thought that Director Wang would submit "Human Mountain" to the Golden Horse Award, but I didn't expect that Director Wang didn't even apply for it."
"If I can get it, It would be great to win the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor."
The two have a good personal relationship, so Zhang Hanyu did not hide his extravagant expectations and spoke out directly.
Wang Shu was noncommittal when he heard this.
In this era, the Golden Horse Awards are the most valuable film awards in the Chinese film industry.
Whether it is the Hong Kong Film Awards or the Huabiao and Golden Rooster awards in the Mainland, they are not on the same level as them.
Speaking of Best Actors and Best Actors, in the selection of awards in the Chinese film industry, the Golden Horse Best Actress is the most valuable one.
The best actresses and best actors in other awards all stood aside.
Zhang Hanyu is now an actor in a movie with a box office of 200 million yuan. If he wins another Golden Horse Award, he will become a first-line actor in the mainland.
Although there is an "Assembly Number" at the moment, it is at its peak, but these are all false.
As time goes by, if there are no new works, it will gradually return to its original shape.
It’s just a flash in the pan.
Only awards are genuine.
With awards around me, even if there are no more works for a long time, I can still maintain my status as a celebrity in the industry.
Wang Shu looked at Zhang Hanyu's resentful look and said with a smile: "There are Li Yu and Liang Chaowei at the Golden Horse Awards. Are you sure you can win the award if you go?"
As the Golden Horse Awards came to an end, Zhang Hanyu almost guessed why Wang Shu didn't send "Human Mountain" to the awards.
Facts have proved that Wang Shu’s choice was indeed the right one.
I really shouldn’t go to this Golden Horse Awards.
However, he still said unwillingly: "Even if you don't win the award, it would be good to be nominated."
This is true.
For big-name actors who have won awards, they naturally look down on Golden Horse Award nominations.
After all, there are only a few actors who have won awards.
Therefore, for many actors who have never won an award, even a nomination is part of their achievements and something they can brag about.
For example, many actors proudly say in interviews or interpersonal interactions that they have been nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Actor, which is full of showoff.
The fact is that even if it is just a nomination, it is quite valuable to many actors.
Of course, for directors such as Zhang Yimou and Wang Shu who have won awards at the three major European film festivals, they are not worth mentioning.
Wang Shu knew that Zhang Hanyu longed to win awards. His status in the film industry has always been determined by awards.
Otherwise, Zhou Xingxing would not change his style, and Feng Xiaogang would not switch to the field of art films.
After Feng Xiaogang won the Huabiao, Golden Rooster and Golden Horse Best Director Awards for "Assembly", he began to move into the field of art films in order to catch up with Zhang Yimou and become an international director.
It’s just that he doesn’t have the diamond, so he wants to do the porcelain work.
We have made quite a few art films, but none of them have gone to the top three in Europe.
So he smiled and said: "This "Assembly" is good. This kind of film is also suitable for award evaluation. Maybe the best actor in the next Golden Horse Award will be yours."
Wang Although Shu said it in a half-joking way, in fact, the leading actor of the next Golden Horse Award is Zhang Hanyu.
With the movie "Assembly Number", Zhang Hanyu became the Best Actor of Huabiao, Volkswagen Baihua and Golden Horse in one fell swoop.
Of course, if he had previously won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for "The Crowd", then the honor of this award would be much higher than these awards.
However, the strength is not enough.
"Haha." Zhang Hanyu also knew that this kind of film is easier to win awards in China, but he answered with a smile on the surface, "It would be good to be nominated, how can it be so easy to win an award?"
Wang Shuxin said that since Feng Xiaogang made this film, Huayi will definitely help Feng Pants win the award, and you are Huayi's artist, plus Huayi will be on the market next year, and Huayi's composition is complicated.
As long as Huayi takes action and the cake is distributed directly into the bowls, how can there be any surprises?
That’s what I’m thinking in my heart, but I won’t say it openly.
Then he smiled and said: "In my opinion, I should be able to win the award, so just relax."
"Assembly Number" is adapted from Yang Jinyuan's novel "The Lawsuit". It originally had "hidden dangers", and was written by Liu Heng Under the director's direction, it turned into a main theme script, which was then filmed by Feng Xiaogang.
I have to admit that Feng Pants can claim to be the most powerful commercial film director in the Mainland, but he still has two skills.
Ten years ago, when Feng Xiaogang made "Party A and Party B", almost no one watched Chinese movies.
The box office sales of Zhang and Chen's works nationwide are less than 10,000 yuan.
Han Sanping, who was the director of the Beijing Film Studio at the time, said that if the Beijing Film Studio paid its employees wages in full, such a large film studio would not have 100 yuan left in its account.
I didn’t expect at the time that Feng Xiaogang’s film would create a new period for Chinese film screenings: the Lunar New Year period.
Ten years later, Feng Xiaogang returned to the Lunar New Year show and brought "Assembly Number".
At this time, Chinese films have entered an era of rapid development. This year, the official domestic box office statistics of the imported Hollywood "Transformers" reached 280 million yuan.
In this era, it’s not that no one watches movies, but whose movies are watched.
Domestic films are obviously not as attractive as Hollywood films, so domestic films still face the embarrassment of having to withdraw from the stage after cultivating a market for Hollywood. Therefore, the face of Chinese cinema is still the same as it was ten years ago, urgent and vague.
Guo Shi once made a bold statement with another real estate developer named Zhang, asking Guo Shi to make a movie to save the market.
Compared with his personal salvation talk, Hong Kong director Wang Jin is still self-aware.
He said that directors can never save the market, they just adapt to the needs of the market.
Zhang Yimou's movie "Ride Alone, Thousands of Miles" with a box office of 35 million fully illustrates this problem.
The success of a commercial martial arts film in period costumes does not mean that a literary film will be a success.
What the Chinese film market needs is commercial films. The only way to save the market is commercial films.
This is what Zhang Yiwu said at a seminar for young film directors. If Zhang Yimou doesn't make "The Golden Armor", the money won't fall on you sixth-generation directors like Chief Jia.
This sentence does not mean that Chief Jia’s movies are not worth watching, but that movies are first and foremost a business, and making money is the essence.
This argument extends to Chinese movies, that is, the ones that can save Chinese movies in the future must be Chinese commercial movies, not niche movies and art movies.
In the 1990s, Baodao movies were in decline. Later, many people concluded that the reason was that Baodao’s new film movement killed Baodao movies.
Actually, this conclusion is putting the cart before the horse.
Baodao scholar Lu Feiyi summarized a large number of Baodao film screening data and believed that the Baodao New Film Movement has never occupied a major position in the box office of Baodao movies.
In other words, it has been on the edge of the market, waiting for a film movement that can only walk on the edge to save the entire Baodao film market. This is either a foolish dream or a high fever. The fact is that the death of commercial films has caused The death of Treasure Island Movie, this is the truth.
Without the emergence of Wang Shu, domestic films in mainland China would have faced these problems.
What should mainstream commercial films in mainland China look like?
Is this the direction guided by the national master?
If so, then Chinese movies will definitely die.
In fact, the experience of the National Master is closely related to the historical era at that time, and there is no possibility of replication at all.
Therefore, China's rapid transformation over the past two decades cannot leave room for a second Zhang Yimou.
So, what national teachers can do, it is difficult for domestic directors to copy, including investment, connections, fame, actors, editing, distribution, screening, etc.
On the contrary, Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" is a new direction that is eye-catching.
In this direction, first, commercial films.
Second, the main theme.
Domestic theme movies have always been criticized because they do not speak to people and do things for people. Therefore, even a film like "Zhang Side" with a box office revenue of 200 million (estimated to be 90% water) cannot be called a commercial film because it cannot bring people together. Give the audience the desire to buy tickets and watch.
The success of "Assembly Number" as a commercial movie is that audiences can buy tickets (not book the venue).
Besides... there is no need to hide it, "Assembly" is the main theme movie.
Making "Assembly" the main theme is the brilliance of director Feng Xiaogang and screenwriter Liu Heng.
The story of "Assembly" is adapted from "The Lawsuit". This is a story that cannot be called the main theme in any way.
When Feng Xiaogang first contacted Bayi Film Studio about filming "Assembly", the leaders of Bayi Film Studio were "far-sighted" and saw through the hidden worries behind the novel "The Lawsuit", so they considered rejecting Feng Xiaogang's request again and again.
What the leaders of Bayi Film Studio did not expect was that this novel could become the main theme of a movie, so the audience was lucky enough not to be tortured by Bayi Film Studio's war films.
From the perspective of "Assembly Number", this may not be the best war movie in China, just like "Party A and Party B" is not the best comedy movie in China, but if "Assembly Number" can be like "Party A and Party B" ”, it has also done a great job in pointing out the future path for Chinese films.
So, Feng Pants still has a few brushes.
This is not to say that "Assembly" has become a main theme movie, but that the appearance of "Assembly" has changed the appearance of previous war films and successfully pointed out a new direction.
Wang Shu chatted with Zhang Hanyu for a while, and then chatted with Mei Ting and others for a while.
The time was getting late and the banquet ended.
January 31st.
The box office of "Human Mountain" is released, 7.65 million on the first day.
For an art film, the box office on the first day exceeded 7 million, which is an extremely outstanding achievement.
However, Wang Shu knew in his heart that this momentum would most likely not last long.
The opening was only 765W, and the subsequent box office is unlikely to be high.
Compared to the millions in box office of "Human Mountain", "Yangtze River No. 7" is different.
The first-day box office was 18 million, breaking the first-day box office record set by "Assembly".
Although the heavy snowfall in recent days has hindered the scheduled release of "Yangtze River 7" in some southern cities, China Film Group has actively taken various emergency measures and tried every means to transport copies. The copies of "Yangtze River 7" have been Shipped to many cities in the south.
In recent days, most viewers have been busy returning home for the Spring Festival, shopping and socializing, so it is not yet the "blowout time" for "Yangtze River 7"'s box office performance. With the arrival of the New Year holiday, the huge potential of the Spring Festival schedule will be realized.
At the same time, the box office of "Human Mountain" will also usher in a small explosion.
Because during the Spring Festival holiday, only "Yangtze River No. 7", a wave of commercial Chinese blockbusters, was released.
After watching "Yangtze River No. 7", the audience does not have many choices. In addition, "Yangtze River No. 7" has led to a movie-watching craze. Many people will go to the cinema to contribute to the box office of "Crowd Mountain and Sea of People" .
"Director Wang, how much was the box office of "The Crowd" on the first day?"
From the crew of "Taipei Trip", Li Binbin came over curiously and asked.
"More than seven million." Li Binbin could learn this kind of thing just by asking a little bit, and Wang Shu did not hide it.
“So many?” Li Binbin asked in surprise, his eyes widened.
Liu Dehua on the side heard this and also praised: "As expected of Director Wang, he is really amazing."
It was not that Liu Dehua and Li Binbin were specifically praising Wang Shu, but they were genuinely shocked.
"The Crowd" is an art film, and art films have never done well at the box office.
There are a lot of art films that gross tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and hundreds of thousands on the first day. There are only a handful of art films that gross more than seven million on the first day.
With a first-day box office result of over 7 million, Wang Shu’s box office appeal has been proven.
Of course, this box office appeal can only be seen in the first few days, and when the potential is exhausted, it will return to normal.
But again, during the Spring Festival holiday, "Yangtze River No. 7" drives the market, and "Human Mountain" can also make a profit.
Wang Shu predicts that the box office of "Human Mountain" will be around 40 to 50 million.
This movie is different from "The Tuner".
The box office results that "The Tuner" can achieve are difficult to replicate in "Human Mountain".
(End of this chapter)