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Chapter 211 210. Liu Tianxian was extremely happy to start filming "Left Ear"

Time flies and it’s New Year’s Day in 2007, and today is also the day when “Left Ear” was officially launched.

Bad Monkey Pictures held a grand opening ceremony for "Left Ear" in Yanjing just like the previous "To Youth".

It can be clearly seen that there are obviously many more reporters attending the opening ceremony this time than last time. After all, Liu Tianxian is the leader this year and is very popular!

Moreover, Liu Tianxian will make a youth film again, and her fans are quite looking forward to it.

The other one is "Left Ear". After all, it is an adaptation of a best-selling book and is inherently popular.

It may be due to two aspects that the attention of "Left Ear" is obviously much higher than that of "To Youth".

Previously, "Those Years" exceeded 100 million in one fell swoop, sparking a craze for youth films. During the period of its popularity, the sales of many youth-themed novels surged, including "The Left Ear."

When they heard that Liu Tianxian was going to play Li Er, most book fans were actually quite happy and left messages online to express their support.

On the one hand, it's because Liu Tianxian's appearance and temperament match her, and on the other hand, it's because she is quite popular now.

Except for a few extremists who don’t want the novel to be turned into a movie.

In fact, most fans of the original novel still hope that a big director or a big star can participate in the adaptation, so that it will get more attention after it is released.

Seeing this situation, Wei Wu couldn't help but began to feel that perhaps his previous speculation was too arbitrary.

He used to think that among the four youth films, "Youth" should have the highest box office, but now it seems that this is not necessarily the case.

Mainly he ignored one issue, which is that when the previous movie "The Left Ear" was released, the novel had actually been published for almost ten years.

After such a long time, although the number of people who have read and know this book has definitely increased, the fan stickiness is actually not as good as before.

And at that time, youth pain literature had actually long ceased to be popular!

In the words of the fan circle, the number of floating fans has increased, but most of the true fans have long since passed away.

While casual fans generally only join in the fun online by talking about it, only true fans can spend money to buy tickets and use practical actions offline to support their favorite novels.

Therefore, if "The Left Ear" is released next year, the proportion of box office conversions from book fans will definitely be much higher.

In addition, Liu Tianxian can reap the dividends from "Those Years" and maybe earn an extra ten or twenty million at the box office.

With this dual help, "Left Ear" may be able to overtake "Youth" in the final box office.

Liu Tianxian may have realized this, so she was particularly happy today, and her smile was even brighter than usual.

Although Liu Tianxian is a bit Buddhist, there are some things that she really has to care about.

For example, when it comes to things related to Yang Mi, others don't care. She definitely doesn't want the movie she stars in to not be as good as Yang Mi at the box office.

Mainly because the two movies are of the same genre, they will inevitably be compared, so Liu Tianxian doesn't want to lose.

When she heard Wei Wu say that "To Youth" might have the highest box office, she had actually been a little depressed in the past month or so.

To this day, when I saw so many reporters coming to the launch conference, I realized that Wei Wu might have misjudged the situation, so I felt much better.

Wei Wu couldn't help but say something mean: "Stop being silly, you have lipstick on your teeth!"

Liu Tianxian quickly suppressed his smile, then took out a small round mirror from his handbag and took a look at it. Only then did he realize that he had been fooled, and immediately rolled his eyes at him:

"Are you sick?"

Wei Wu said with a playful smile: "Do you have medicine?"

"Humph", Liu Tianxian snorted coldly, not bothering to pay attention to him.

But less than two minutes later, Liu Tianxian took the initiative to talk to him:

"Wei Wu, do you think our movie "Left Ear" will have a box office of over 100 million?"

Wei Wu didn't even raise his eyes and said with a half-smile:

"Are you OK?"

Liu Tianxian giggled: "Hey, I'm kidding you! Let me tell you seriously, do you think it can be half as good as "Those Years"?"

Wei Wu clasped his hands behind his head, thought for a while and said:

"Half? "Those Years" is 110 million. In other words, your psychological expectation is: 55 million?"

"Yes." Liu Tianxian nodded and looked at him expectantly.

Wei Wu crossed his legs and said leisurely:

“If it were released this year, it would definitely be a no-show.

“But now our country’s film market is growing rapidly every year. If it is released in the summer next year and there is no strong resistance during the release period——

"I think there is still hope, that's all I can say for the time being."

From 2006 to 2007, the mainland's movie box office market did grow significantly.

A clear proof is that in the previous life in 2006, there were only 4 mainland movies that exceeded 10 million yuan in box office, and only 30 movies that exceeded 10 million yuan; in 2007, there were 7 movies that exceeded 10 million yuan, and 43 movies that exceeded 10 million yuan.

The top three box office results in mainland China in 2006 were 291 million ("The Golden Jackpot"), 130 million (The Banquet), and 105.8 million ("The Da Vinci Code").

The top three in 2007 are: 281 million ("Transformers"), 220 million ("Assembly"), 202 million ("Vote")

It can be seen from the above data that both the overall and the head data have experienced visible increases.

It can only be said that it is a good thing that "Those Years" was released this year, and it can boast of a box office exceeding 100 million!

With a box office of 110 million, it can firmly hold the annual box office championship for several months. If this was done next year, it would definitely be a no-brainer!

With the beauty in front of him, Wei Wu naturally couldn't help but show off:

"The main thing is that the director of your movie is not me. Believe it or not, if I were the director of this movie, it would only take a matter of minutes for the box office to exceed 100 million!"

"I believe it," Liu Tianxian said quietly:

"Then why don't you direct the movie?"

Wei Wu scratched his head and said, "Then I can't keep making youth films! Then wouldn't I be characterized as a youth film director?"

Liu Tianxian couldn't help but sigh and said: "So your great director is really great! Your box office appeal is much stronger than our actors!

"I heard that "The Golden Armor" has surpassed "Heroes" and set a new box office record!"

Half a month ago, on December 14th, the much-anticipated "The City of Gold" finally opened and grossed 15 million at the box office on its first day of release.

However, no one expected that this was just the beginning. For three consecutive days, the box office on each day would be significantly higher than the previous day.

In the end, it grossed 96 million at the box office in four days during its first weekend, easily beating the first-week box office record of 74.52 million set by "The Promise".

It was just a little bit close, it almost broke 100 million in four days!

And unlike "The Promise", although the reputation of "The Golden Armor" is not that good, fortunately, the subsequent box office trend is basically stable.

After all, if calculated based on three times the first week's box office, the final box office of this movie will be about 288 million.

However, the final box office of this movie was 291 million, almost three times as much. This alone is much better than "The Promise"!

As of December 27, the box office of "Golden Armor" has officially exceeded 250 million, breaking the previous box office record set by "Hero" and becoming the new box office champion of Chinese-language films in mainland film history.

Wei Wu also sighed: "Zhang Yimou is indeed amazing! The previous box office record of 250 million set by his "Hero" has not been even approached by anyone for 4 years, but he finally broke it himself!"

So far, there are only two domestic films with a box office of over 200 million, and both of them are films by Zhang Yimou.

The third highest-grossing domestic film at the moment is Chen Kaige's "The Promise": 175 million.

It can be said that the gap is quite clear. At present, in terms of box office performance, Zhang Yimou is indeed the best, the only real one.

Even if others want to imitate him, they can't. Take "Golden Armor" for example, with an investment of 360 million, it is already the second largest investment among Chinese films, after "Red Cliff".

That would be Zhang Yimou. If it were another mainland director, if you say I want to make a movie with an investment of 360 million, the investors will definitely tell you to stay cool and stay away!

Chen Kaige may have had a slight possibility before, but after the failure of "The Promise", it will definitely not work.

Not even Feng Xiaogang, after all, the movie with the highest investment he currently has is "The Night Banquet", which is only 120 million!

Liu Tianxian considered it carefully and said, "Well, I believe you can definitely surpass him."

Wei Wu smiled slightly and said: "I can definitely surpass him!

"He is about to prepare for the Olympics, and the next movie will have to wait at least three years. In other words, the current "Golden Armor" is his highest record.

"You can say it's super! Even if our "Painted Skin" can't surpass him, then the next movie "囧" will definitely surpass him!"

Wei Wu had no doubt about this. After all, the mainland film market is expanding rapidly every year, and it will only become easier and easier for the box office to exceed 300 million.

Although the victory is somewhat weak, you can say that it is better or not, right?