You don't understand the happiness of the director

As China enters mid-to-late December, the film market is becoming more and more prosperous. There are three popular blockbusters on the market: "Assembly Number", "Voucher" and "Lost Orphan".

Due to the sudden rise of "Lost Orphans", "Report" did not meet expectations. What Chen Kexin didn't expect was that the market performance of Feng Xiaogang's modern war film "Assembly", which had no star cast, exceeded his expectations.

This movie actually withstood the impact of "Tou Mingzhuang" and "Lost Orphan", and took the lead in breaking through 150 million at the box office before New Year's Day, surpassing "Tou Mingzhuang" and "Lost Orphan". This made Chen Kexin start to rethink the preferences of mainland audiences. .

Now it seems that among the three movies, only "Assembly" has the best chance of breaking 200 million.

Within the Huayi Brothers Company, Feng Xiaogang, who has avenged his shame, is very proud. With two works worth over 100 million yuan, he is already second only to Zhang Yimou in China, and his "Assembly" has a higher box office than "Orphans" and "The Twilight Saga" All are high.

The most important thing is that he has almost no star cast. The male lead Zhang Hanyu has almost no reputation before. What does this mean? It means that this film relies on his directing ability.

Even Wang Zhonglei said, "The three major mainland directors should wait for Zhang Chenfeng!"

Feng Xiaogang smiled slightly, "I think it won't be difficult for "Assembly" to surpass "The Promise" at the box office."

Wang Zhonglei quickly changed his words, "Zhang Fengchen!"

Feng Xiaogang was satisfied. I used to call you Mr. Kai, but what are you doing now? My "Night Banquet" was not successful, and I was not spoofed into "Stories My Uncle and Sister-in-law Have to Tell".

However, he also has regrets, "If it hadn't been for Lost Orphans and the film, if ours was the only one on the market, "Transformers" wouldn't have been so arrogant."

The box office champion in mainland China in 2007 should be "Transformers", with a total of 280 million. Although the three movies "Assembly" are still in theaters, they are far from enough.

Feng Xiaogang feels that without these two competitors, he has hope of surpassing "Transformers" and at the same time surpassing Zhang Yimou's highest-grossing "Golden Armor". At that time, it will be Feng Zhangchen.

But there are not so many ifs in the world. He can only place his hope on his next work. The investment in war movies is too big. Next, he plans to return to his old profession and make a light-hearted comedy with Yuko. Part of the script has already been written. It will be released this year.

While they were chatting, Chen Guofu came in and said, "I just received a piece of news from the United States. It's quite interesting."

Feng Xiaogang leaned on his chair, "What's the news?"

Chen Guofu, "It's nothing, just a summary of some data on the North American box office market in 2007 from the boxofficemojo website."

Wang Zhonglei was impatient, "A bunch of data? What's the point of that?"

Chen Guofu, "Interestingly, Longtou Pictures ranks sixth in market share."

"What!" Wang Zhonglei and Feng Xiaogang sat up directly. Their first reaction was, how is it possible? The data must be false!

Isn't it just a new company, and it doesn't have a few movies? There are six major Hollywood companies. Under the six major companies, there are several powerful small companies, such as Lionsgate Pictures and Harvey's bastard Wen. Stan Films, why are these small companies being suppressed by Long Toutou?

And sixth place, that means that there is another six big ones who are crushed by the dragon!

How can a small company that has been established for two years be so powerful?

Chen Guofu, "It can't be fake. There is also a heated discussion in the United States. The media are shouting that another DreamWorks has risen. Wang Quan is the next Spielberg."

Feng Xiaogang suddenly felt that he was not very happy after the mainland box office exceeded 200 million. Damn, it was really disappointing. I was so happy, so why are you talking about this?

Wang Zhonglei was still a little curious, "Which of the six major companies was beaten by the dragon?"

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"Actually, you should have guessed which one it is," Dorothy chuckled and suddenly became wary, "Is there anyone around you?"

"Well, we're on the set, keep talking." Wang Quan held Deepika with one hand while chatting.

Dorothy briefly explained the data report of boxofficemojo. Because the statistics are for the natural year of 2007, it is the box office data from 2007.1.1 to 2007.12.31.

Although "Juno" was a movie in 2006, most of the box office was generated in 2007, so Long Toutou was able to achieve such good results this time mainly because of "Twilight", "The Hangover" and " "Juno" is a troika, and there are three small-budget horror films such as "Purge", "Insidious" and "Teeth". Among them, "Teeth" is almost negligible, and "This Man from Earth" has not been released in theaters at all. .

The first place is actually Paramount, which occupies 15.5% of the market share. Paramount’s performance this year is so good mainly due to DreamWorks, because it sold itself to Paramount, and DreamWorks’ movies are handed over to Paramount. In terms of distribution, if it weren't for the two 300 million-level movies "Shrek 3" and "Transformers" produced by DreamWorks, as well as two 100 million-level movies, Paramount would be at the bottom of the six. They distributed their own The highest box office was just over 100 million, which is only second-rate.

The second place is Warner, with a market share of 13.9%. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is nearly 300 million. "I Am Legend" has truly become a box office legend. Will Smith alone supported the 200 million level. The movie, as well as the dark horse "300", also grossed over 200 million at the box office.

The third place is Sony Columbia, with a market share of 12.8%. They were first last year, but this year it has declined. The main focus is "Spider-Man 3". Although it won the annual championship of 330 million, the cost of 260 million is too high. Sony We plan to temporarily terminate the development of this series, and it just so happens that the leading actor no longer wants to play the role.

The fourth place is Disney, with a market share of 12.5%, focusing on "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Ratatouille" (Ratatouille), one with 300 million and one with 200 million, of which "Ratatouille" is Pixar works.

Fifth place is Universal, with a share of 11.3%. "The Bourne Supremacy", "Bunch of the Night", and "My Big Fat Gay Wedding" all exceeded 100 million. Although "Fake God 2" exceeded 100 million, it suffered serious losses and was the only film this year. Second to the loss of "The Golden Compass", the lack of big IP is also a major vitality for Universal.

The sixth place is Dragon Head, with a market share of 7.9%, which is only 0.2% higher than the seventh place Fox, which can be said to be a narrow victory.

These seven companies account for 80% of the market share in North America, and dozens of other companies share the remaining 20%.

Fox performed poorly this year. Only "The Simpsons" exceeded 100 million, and "Die Hard with a Vengeance" barely exceeded 100 million. The third place was "Fantastic Four 2", which was impacted by "The Twilight Saga". In the end, the North American box office Not even over 100 million.

But since it is a big company after all and has many films, it can still save some face by relying on its numerical advantage.

Of course, the seventh place was lost to the new company Long Toutou, and the face was completely lost. What's the use of saving that point.

On this day, Fox became the laughing stock of the entire Hollywood. Paramount said it was lucky to have bought DreamWorks, otherwise it would have been the one being laughed at. The ridicule soon spread from the United States to China.

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"Friends, it's time to revisit the title of The Hollywood Seven! 》

Tianya Forum, riding on this wave of popularity, a post went viral.

The earliest were the Big Eight in Hollywood. In addition to these six, there were also MGM and United Artists.

Later, United Artists sold to MGM, and MGM sold to Sony, but another DreamWorks appeared.

So now eight, now six, now seven, with DreamWorks selling to Paramount in 2006, it eventually became the Big Six in Hollywood.

“But I think the rise of the dragon means that Hollywood is about to become a big seven again.

"Why do you say that? Because this company is so profitable. It released a total of six movies in 2007. Other big companies have at least a dozen movies, usually 20 or 30 movies. With just these six movies, Long It surpassed Fox and ranked sixth in the box office of the year, which shows that leaders have a very strong vision, and good leaders are the key to a company's success!"

"Director Wang Quan is such a reliable leader. The company's most successful movies are either directed by him or written by him. He is simply a god in the film industry!

"Some people may say that DreamWorks was also very good back then. When Steve was still in his prime, he was still making one movie after another. With three old men, he just made a way out of Hollywood and created the structure of the Seven Majors. But in the end Still selling myself to Paramount. But I have to say, it’s different, it’s really different.

"Don't forget, Long Toutou not only has a royal director, but also Boss Tao. Boss Tao is the daughter of a Jewish consortium. Nowadays, Hollywood's giant companies are backed by big consortiums, so they have a high error tolerance rate, even if they lose money It won't break your bones after a few.

"What DreamWorks lacks is the support of large conglomerates. As Lao Si's creative ability declined, the company began to decline. But Longtou has the Greenberg family of Boss Tao. I believe that Director Wang and Boss Tao will eventually become a family. Sooner or later, Long Toutou will join the Seven Greats and become a legend!"

I'm also very cool: Damn, after watching it for a long time, I turned out to be a CP fan of Director Wang and Boss Tao. Hello, actually I am too!

Zhong Ping Wanfeng: I am a CP fan of Director Wang and Tianxian. Didn’t they go on a date a while ago?

I am a pure person: Is there any mistake upstairs? On a date between three people, don’t we, Mi Mi, deserve to have a name?

Ansj: I think Yang Mi is more like a cover for Director Wang to date Tianxian. She is actually Director Wang’s good sister.

The novice who follows his words: Seconded!

Third Young Master Zhi: Agree!

"I agree with you sister!" Yang Mi also saw this post. She was very excited at first. My brother Quan was about to rise to prominence and achieve dominance in Hollywood. But later on, he ended up with CP and Liu Yifei. The fans programmed me.

snort! If I had known earlier, I would have forced myself on Brother Quan that night and boiled the uncooked rice until it was soft.

Then Yang Mi called Liu Yifei and asked her what she was doing. Her fans made her angry and she had to make up for it.

"Oh, I'm attending a wedding. Sister Tao is getting married."

"Tao? Oh, you mean Liu Tao!" Yang Mi started gossiping, "I heard he is a rich second generation whom I just met not long ago. Isn't he handsome?"

"Just an ordinary person," Liu Yifei lowered her voice, "I heard that she is two years younger than Sister Tao. I'm born in the 1980s, so I really can't tell."

Yang Mi asked again, "You are the only one who went to the Tianlong crew. Didn't Brother Hu Jun go?"

"No, I heard that he is practicing action scenes for "October Siege", but my good sister is here."

"Brother Jun, with his physique and temperament, he's a great master with just one shot. He doesn't need to practice at all. By the way, why don't you practice?" Yang Mi asked.

"My foundation in "The King of Kung Fu" is still there. I can do it easily without any special practice."

"Then when will you join the group?" Yang Mi asked.

"I'm in February, how about you?"

"It's the end of February. I'll shoot a movie first this month," Yang Mi said meaningfully, "The heroine."

"Ah, Mimi, you are going to act in a movie, what kind of movie will it be?" Liu Yifei asked in surprise.

"You remember Crazy Stone," Yang Mi said proudly, "This movie is called "Crazy Supermarket," you know what it's about."

Liu Yifei liked "Crazy Stone" very much. When Yang Mi said this, she thought it was Ning Hao's new work, and she was immediately envious. "Your crew must be very fun. How about I go visit the cast then?"

"Ah, this, let's talk about this later, the crew needs to keep it a secret." After Yang Mi finished pretending, she was worried that Liu Yifei would see through her low-budget nature.

In fact, the cost is not very small. First, we bought the copyright from Kimchi Country, then invited Ning Hao to serve as the producer, and authorized the title "Crazy Supermarket". Then we can legally, reasonably and reasonably use "Crazy Supermarket" to "Stone" was promoted.

In addition, Yang Qing learned his shame and became brave, and improved the script and added a few slightly larger scenes, so the budget soared to 3.5 million, which was higher than "A Story of Two Foods" and "Crazy Stone".

As one of the producers, Yang Mi is selecting actors. The male lead must be Xu Zheng, and there is also a female lead, CP Xiao Gangya.

Wang Quan originally wanted to find Hu Ge. This guy would be lucky if he survived the catastrophe. He might be able to make his own movie a hit, which would make up for the regret of not being able to work with him on "Xiao Qian" before.

But it's a pity that Hu Ge took over the movie "Sword Butterfly", voiced Wu Zun, and played Ma Wencai.

Yang Mi thought of her leading actor Ma Tianyu again. Their "Brilliant Legacy" was about to be aired, and the two of them had recently appeared on a show together.

It turned out that he was about to shoot a TV series, "You Are My Dream" starring Wu Qilong, and he was not available.

Yang Mi had an idea. Didn't "Come on Good Man" hold a new edition last year? If Ma Tianyu, a veteran, didn't perform, he would go and take a look at the freshly produced guys.

So she found last year's top ten contestants on the Internet. Yang Mi took a fancy to the eighth one at a glance. She looked dull and fit the character she wanted.

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In Mumbai, King Power has finally finished filming the childhood scenes, and it’s now time for the teenage scenes.

He kept an eye on the date and saw that it was almost there, so he called Heath Ledger, one of the actors in "Inception."

"I heard that you are seeking investment for your directorial debut. This may not be easy. If you want to get support from Long Toutou, please come to Mumbai to see me immediately..."