China Entertainment Mythology 2004

On the evening of June 24, 2005, Huayi Brothers Group hosted a banquet for many famous film and television stars and directors at the Oriental Grand Hyatt Hotel in Beijing.

On the mainland side, Feng Xiaogang, Ge You, Fan Binbin and others attended the banquet, while on the Xiangjiang Island side, Luo Jiaying, Peter Ho, Chen Baixiang and others attended the banquet.

Tomorrow night is the opening ceremony of the first "Beijing International Sports Film Week". At that time, 200 sports and film stars will walk hand in hand on the "Gold Medal Avenue". 20 excellent sports-themed films will be screened in sequence during the film week. American directors

The new work "Challenger Yao Ming" will have its first show at Xindong'an Cinema.

It is reported that Yao Ming will not be able to participate in the meeting due to injury, but he will rely on online media in the United States to have cross-ocean dialogues with the emcees, Olympic champions, movie stars, etc. at the opening ceremony on the big screen.

Starting from June 24, many stars from across the country will gather in Beijing. Huayi Brothers has always attached great importance to cooperation with filmmakers from Hong Kong and Baodao, so they took this opportunity to entertain many stars to connect with each other.

During the meeting, Xingye's movie "Kung Fu", released at the end of last year, and Cheng Long's movie "The Rescue", released today, naturally became the focus of everyone's discussion.

2004 was the most tragic year for Hong Kong movies. The annual film production dropped from 150 to less than 60 in 2004, and the annual box office dropped from more than 1 billion yuan to less than 300 million yuan.

On December 2, 2004, some Hong Kong media began to use the title "Hong Kong Movie Ice Age". Xiangjiang Movies suddenly appeared in major media as a "sudden death", and director Chen Jiashang publicly stated that Xiangjiang Movies have reached their most dangerous moment.

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Under such circumstances, the nationwide hit of "Kung Fu" has undoubtedly injected a boost into the bleak Hong Kong movie scene, so it is not surprising that everyone highly praises "Kung Fu".

"If it hadn't been for the movie "Kung Fu" by Star Master at the end of last year, I really thought that people in Hong Kong would really stop watching Hong Kong movies." Luo Jiaying said with emotion.

"The box office of HK$4.99 million plus extra screenings on the first day was more than twice the HK$1.95 million of "Shaolin Soccer" in 2001! Thanks to Mr. Star, we Hong Kong filmmakers can still experience the experience in today's market environment.

I can see a hint of the glory of Hong Kong movies in the past," Chen Baixiang said.

Next, various Hong Kong filmmakers spoke one after another.

"Hong Kong films cannot rely on Mr. Star alone. A single tree cannot make a forest."

"Next time I want to see the grand release of "Kung Fu", I don't know what year or month I have to wait."

"The movie market in Hong Kong is still too small. "Kung Fu" sold 61.27 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, and the highest single-day sales in mainland China were 22 million yuan. The weather was so bad on the first day of release, and it was still a working day.

11 million yuan, if you ask me, the future of Xiangjiang Film will still be in the mainland."

Wang Zhonglei laughed when he heard this: "You're right, the future of Xiangjiang Film is in mainland China!"

"Backed by the huge market in mainland China, coupled with the stars in Hong Kong and the mature shooting team in Hong Kong, the Chinese film industry has great potential."

Seeing that everyone was listening to his speech attentively, Wang Zhonglei continued: "Kung Fu" co-produced by Huayi and Xingye can become a model of this kind of cooperation. Huayi is also willing to carry out more related cooperation with Xiangjiang filmmakers. At present, domestic

There are not many companies with this kind of strength and this kind of willingness, and among them, Huayi has the strongest strength and the highest willingness."

Chen Baixiang said: "The "Kung Fu" released at the end of last year swept away the decadence of Hong Kong movies. I wonder if "The Rescue" released today can recreate this glory."

Feng Xiaogang said at this time: "I have watched both movies. "Kung Fu" is a good movie. I laughed over and over again, and I can watch it at any time. It can be said that I will never tire of it; "The Rescue" is very well done.

It’s an action movie and it’s very enjoyable to watch it once, but I personally don’t want to watch it a second time. I personally judge that “Taken” is unlikely to achieve better results than “Kung Fu”.”

Wang Zhonglei interjected: "There is no possibility that the total score of "The Rescue" will surpass "Kung Fu", but the first-day box office is very likely to surpass "Kung Fu"."

"Cheng Long made the premiere so beautiful this time. Tens of thousands of people watched the movie together at the Workers' Stadium, custom-made a 22-meter-long, 12-meter-wide, 4-story-high big screen, and hyped up Columbia's US$25 million acquisition of overseas copyrights.

It has been overwhelmingly praised by critics - given this combination and the quality of the film itself, it is very possible to achieve a good box office on the first day of release."

""Kung Fu" took in 11 million at the box office on the first day. I estimate that "Taken" will be around this number. It may be a little higher, but not much higher, but in the end the total box office will still be far behind "Kung Fu"

Pull away."

"Just like "House of Flying Daggers" directed by Zhang Yimou, its first-day box office reached an astonishing 16 million yuan, breaking the first-day record of 13.5 million yuan held by "Hero" and far exceeding the first-day record of 11 million yuan for "Kung Fu"

, but the total box office was only 156 million, not as good as the 173 million of "Kung Fu", let alone the 250 million of "Hero"."

Wang Zhonglei's judgment has been unanimously recognized by everyone. In the past two years, Cheng Long's movies have indeed become less and less popular. Cheng Long has even been publicly rated as box office poison by the media. On the contrary, Zhou Xingchi's movies are much better. Before Kung Fu

, "Shaolin Football" and "Infernal Affairs" can be regarded as the last glory of Hong Kong movies.

"I heard that Columbia plans to buy all the European and American copyrights for US$25 million. It is true. Cheng Long refuses this deal and will regret it within a year."

"According to the account sharing ratio, if the overseas box office does not earn 70 to 80 million US dollars, it will be a loss. There are no more than three Chinese-language films that can sell this amount overseas."

"I heard that Cheng Long intended to accept a one-time sale at first, but he changed his mind later after listening to the scriptwriter named Li Mu. Cheng Long has been in the entertainment industry for decades, and he has nothing to lose.

I thought I would fall on a doll this time."

Wang Zhonglei couldn't help but laugh after hearing everyone's complaints about Cheng Long and Li Mu: "I have met this young man Li Mu, and his investment vision is indeed a bit poor, but he is still very good at writing scripts. This time "Hurricane Rescue"

This script was an impromptu idea after he heard that Cheng Long would come to Xijing to film a movie. Unexpectedly, Cheng Long fell in love with it at a glance, which shows that he is good at writing scripts."

"But to be honest, there is no shortage of people in the entertainment industry who can write scripts. What they lack is vision and fame. Judging from the fact that he persuaded Cheng Long to give up a one-time sale of 25 million US dollars, this person's vision is indeed poor, and he may be in trouble in the future.

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Wang Zhonglei laughed and continued, "If this kid really falls into trouble in the future, he can come to Huayi and Huayi will accept him. However, what I value is not his ability to write scripts, but his appearance.

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"This time he played a minor role in "Taken". Not to mention that he actually has some potential to become a star. If he can't write the script that day and loses money on investment, then he will come to Huayi

, Huayi can sign him and arrange a few roles for him to act in. Not to mention becoming a big star, at least he will have something to eat."

After saying this, I couldn't help but laugh.

Fan Binbin couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this, and said with a smile: "So Li Mu should have gone bankrupt earlier. He should have gone bankrupt earlier and signed a contract to become an actor. He is already old. If he delays for two more years, he will really only have to play a small role.

It’s my share.”

The entire private room was amused by her.

After all, Fan Binbin still has a grudge against Li Muzeng for saying that she is older.

Ring ring ring…

At this moment, Wang Zhonglei's cell phone suddenly rang. He looked at the time first and found that it was already one o'clock in the morning on June 25th before he knew it.

"Well, you say."

"How many?"

"If you say it again, you won't get it wrong, right?"

"Okay, I get it."

After hanging up the phone and seeing everyone's eyes on him, Wang Zhonglei said with a normal expression: "I just got the news that the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" on the first day was 16.8 million yuan, breaking the record held by "House of Flying Daggers"

Box office record of 16 million on the first day."

After Wang Zhonglei finished speaking, the entire private room fell into a long silence, as everyone was silently digesting this shocking news.

Finally, Wang Zhonglei broke the silence with a smile: "I knew for a long time that the box office of "Taken" on the first day would not be bad, but I still didn't expect that it would be so good. Let's see if it can break the 22 million held by "Kung Fu" tomorrow.

’s single-day box office record.

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On the evening of June 25, 2005, Feng Xiaogang went to the Beijing Hotel to participate in the first "Beijing International Sports Film Week". During the period, a reporter asked Feng Xiaogang what he thought of Cheng Long's new movie "Rescue".

Feng Xiaogang said with a smile: "The popularity of "The Rescue" tells me that no business is better than a movie. The audience who bought tickets on weekdays queued directly from the fifth floor to the fourth floor. This is the case on weekdays, how can we still get it on Sunday?"

After Director Feng answered, the whole audience burst into laughter. Anyone who has watched "Kung Fu" knows that Director Feng's words were adapted from his lines in "Kung Fu".