Superstars start as villains

Chapter 139 The exciting start of 2006.

On the day of its release, Douban’s score was as high as 7.3, which is definitely considered a high score among commercial films in these years. For example, the score of [The Promise] once dropped to 3.5, and the score of [House of Flying Daggers] has never been higher than 5. of.

The evaluation of [Huo Yuanjia] on the Internet is also quite high. First of all, the fighting scenes are very fun, especially the part where Huo Yuanjia forces foreigners to sign life and death certificates, and the foreigners flee in fright, which is even more hearty.

Secondly, the Huo Yuanjia portrayed by Zhou Xing this time is not like the previous heroes such as Huang Feihong and Hong Xiguan. He was born with a heart of worrying about the country and the people. Demeanor, but it is precisely in this way that it appears that Huo Yuanjia is a character of flesh and blood.

He is no longer a cold word in history textbooks, nor is he a senior sage in the mouth of martial artists. First of all, he is a real person.

Of course, if there are those who like it, there must be those who don’t like it. Many netizens said that Huo Yuanjia played by Zhou Xing is too hostile, like a gangster, more than a hero, and even picked up several of Zhou Xing’s plays. A villain talks about it, saying that he can't get rid of the shadow of it.

In the midst of this hustle and bustle, the first-day box office of [Huo Yuanjia] was released, and the first-day box office of 800 million is supposed to be a qualified report card. Putting the two together, it seems that [Fearless]'s box office on the first day is not up to par.

Of course, part of the reason for this is that during the Spring Festival, the floating population in the first- and second-tier cities returned to their hometowns, and the theaters did not cover the city and county-level markets.

However, distributors, theaters, and investors are actually very satisfied with the first-day box office of [Fearless], although the first-day box office of [Fearless] did not reach the height of [The Promise], but its cost is not that much Gao, according to this box office trend, it shouldn't be difficult for [Huo Yuanjia] to break through [-] million at the mainland box office.

In addition to DVD sales, the mainland market will be able to maintain its capital. Even if it is a little short, the Xiangjiang market will be able to make up for it. It means that all overseas profits are purely earned. This is a bad debt, and a fool will count it. reason?
It is worth mentioning that [Fearless] is also extremely popular in the Hong Kong market, with a box office of 123 million Hong Kong dollars on the first day. According to this posture, it is aimed at 3000 million.

This also made Xiangjiang media very entangled. Last year [Initial D] won Xiangjiang's annual box office champion, but Zhou Xing was the leading actor. Let's report it. I feel uncomfortable. After all, Zhou Xing has never returned to Xiangjiang since he went to the mainland. Films have been made, and the mainland film market has been booming year after year. A large number of Hong Kong filmmakers have started to go north to make films, but the Hong Kong film market is getting more and more sluggish. Isn't this a slap in the face of Hong Kong films?

But don't report it, Zhou Xing is the number one male, how can he get around it?I can only pinch my nose to admit it, Xiangjiang entertainment media is so sour, it’s finally over, it’s 2006, and it’s just the beginning of the year, [Huo Yuanjia] gave them a “surprise”.

Alas, I can't have a good time this year!
It was New Year's Eve again, and when Zhou Xing called his parents to pay New Year's greetings, the house was very lively. He heard from Zhou Lan that the family was going to build an ancestral hall, and the elders with the same surname and senior elders all came.

"Speaking of it, I don't want our family to spend more money." Zhou Lan pouted, she herself was very disgusted with these things, plus a group of outsiders came to the house to disturb the family reunion on New Year's Eve, it was even worse His face turned pale.

There is nothing wrong with building ancestral halls. The Chinese nation always likes to explore where they came from. Even news reports show that many old overseas Chinese who have emigrated overseas for many years want to go back to the mainland to find their roots. This is the gene of the Chinese people. .

"Mum, the money I gave you before is my filial piety to you and Laodou. I have no problem with how you spend it, but this time we are building the ancestral hall. At most, our family is counted as the third house. Usually, big things and small things are said by the big house." Forget it, it doesn’t make sense for us to pay more, what do you think?” Zhou Xing doesn’t care about the money, but he can’t make people feel that he is being taken advantage of, his father is a person who wants to save face, and he must be framed up by others, and his eldest brother is a junior , the only one who can speak is the mother.

Zhou's mother thought it made sense when she heard it, and hurriedly told her son a few words, and then secretly pulled Zhou's father out.

The elder brother was in a daze, but the elder sister-in-law followed quietly.

And Zhou Lan went to the capital for half a year this time, and when she came back, she was a completely different person, with a completely different temperament. Many girls of the same age surrounded her with envy.

At first, Zhou Lan had a sense of accomplishment, but soon she felt bored. Most of these girls of the same age were married and had children, and they all lived in this small mountain village. They really had nothing in common. Brother, maybe, I will be like them, trapped here for the rest of my life, right?
In the middle of the night, after the sister-in-law finished cleaning the house and went back to her room, she locked the door. The elder brother's eyes lit up and he pulled her onto the bed.

"Go, I've been tired all day. After serving them, I still need to serve you. Can't you let me rest for a while?" The sister-in-law angrily knocked off his mischievous hand.

The eldest brother had no choice but to retract his hand resentfully, and was about to go to bed, but was patted by his wife again: "All day long, you either eat or sleep, can you still have some business?"

Brother scratched his head, what happened to this bitch today?It's like eating dynamite.

The sister-in-law patiently told her husband about the eavesdropping on the conversation between her parents today: "You can tell my father tomorrow that the 50 cents can't be moved, and our family will pay as much as the big house pays."

"The money is for the second child to respect his parents. How can I intervene in how they spend it?" The eldest brother shook his head when he heard that.

The sister-in-law was so angry that she beat him with a pillow: "That's 50 yuan, and you can't earn it all your life. If you say that the money is spent in useful places, I will admit it, but building ancestral halls is a big guy's job." , why make our family pay more?"

Speaking of this, the sister-in-law's tone also became gentle: "Head of the family, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children, right? Look at the third sister. It's like a different person after going to the capital with the second child. You don't want your children to stay in the country for the rest of their lives like us, do you?"

"With this money, our family can go to the county to live. At that time, we can start a small business and let our children go to elementary school in the county. Even like the second child, go to the capital to study. Isn't it more promising than us?"

The eldest brother was persuaded, everything is for the children.

A few days later, Zhou Xing received a call from Zhou Lan, saying that it was Zhou's father who beat up his elder brother. However, the final result was that the family decided to go to a nearby county town to live in the county after the next year. .

Zhou Xing did not expect that there would be unexpected gains in this matter.

But Zhou Xing doesn't have time to think about other things now, he is either doing various publicity roadshows every day, or on the way to the roadshow.

During the road show, Zhou Xing discovered an interesting phenomenon. Although many third- and fourth-tier cities are not as prosperous as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, their actual development is also changing with each passing day. The number of theaters is also increasing rapidly. Obviously, the prosperity of the movie market has driven The development of the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain.

[Fearless] The news that the box office exceeded 5000 million in the first week attracted a large number of media to report on it. According to the 800 million box office on the first day of [Fearless], the box office can break 5000 million in the first week, which is definitely extremely high. A good result, because there is also the influence of the Spring Festival.

According to the Chinese tradition, no one would go to the cinema on New Year’s Eve. The first day of the new year is the time to go out to pay New Year’s greetings, and there are no people in the cinema. More than ten million.

Such a strong stamina cannot be achieved by ordinary movies, not to mention that [Fearless] is a kung fu movie, and few viewers would choose to watch it a second time.

Not only that, but on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, all major first- and second-tier cities ushered in a wave of Spring Festival travel boom. Many migrant workers left their hometowns and started to work, which brought another wave of movie-watching boom for [Fearless] , Some theaters in first-tier cities have even found it hard to get a ticket.

[Huo Yuanjia] was released for three weeks, and the box office exceeded 2006 million. The situation is very good, and many media have even shouted the slogan of "predicting the [-] mainland box office champion".

Of course, some people are not happy about this. Xiaogangpao first said that his first epic blockbuster "Night Banquet" will be released this year.

Although Xiaogangpao didn't mention a single word about the annual box office champion, any fool could tell that he was declaring: This thing is mine, no one is allowed to touch it!
Of course, Xiaogangpao is absolutely qualified to say this. As the former king of New Year's films, [Night Banquet] has invested as much as 1.3 million yuan. It is also a work that Xiaogangpao has been preparing for two years. The male number one is also his queen. The hero, Uncle Ge, who dares to say that the little steel cannon is bragging just from this card?

However, Xiaogangpao will never be lonely. Zhang Weiping then stepped forward and said that Lao Mouzi's new film "The Golden Armor in the City" will also be released this year.

Well, there is no need to say anything else, Lao Mouzi is a brand in itself, and Zhang Wei’s bad reviews are all bad. Obviously, the cast of "Full City with Golden Armor" is also unprecedentedly strong. Tell the media that this is the only way you can do it, and you have to get Uncle Ge to do the publicity. Lao Mouzi alone is enough for us.

This made Xiao Gangpao very angry, but he could only suffer from being dumb, and secretly vowed in his heart that this year he must pull Lao Mouzi out of his horse.

In 2006, the entertainment industry became lively at the beginning of the year. [Fearless] finally had a box office of 1.13 million in mainland China and 3000 million in Xiangjiang. At the same time, some overseas regions are still in theaters, and the data cannot be counted. However, according to the forecast of the publisher, [Fearless] It should not be a problem to win the box office of 7000 million US dollars worldwide.

(End of this chapter)