Millennium director

July 12, 2008.

The Shenzhou-7 astronauts conducted extravehicular activities, completed the first Chinese spacewalk, and released the accompanying satellite.

The accompanying satellite took photos and videos of the spacecraft, and the astronauts in the cabin had a space-to-ground conversation with the Beijing Flight Control Center.

China Aerospace has now made breakthroughs and mastered the relevant technologies for extravehicular activities, and has taken another solid step toward establishing a space station in outer space.

When Astronaut Zhai hung outside the spacecraft and stretched out his hand to wave the Chinese flag, the bright red color stimulated countless Chinese people.

It turns out that space is not far away from us at all, and China’s exploration of space is getting better!

Everyone’s enthusiasm for China’s aerospace industry needs a publicity point.

"Gravity" would be a perfect fit.

So, when Wu Yuan rushed back to the capital from the Jiuquan launch base, what he saw was a box office record of reverse growth.

"Director Wu, the box office trend of "Gravity" is really contrary to common sense."

"For a typical movie, the three-day box office on the first weekend can account for almost half of the total box office. This is true whether it's in China or North America."

"But our Gravity's first weekend box office of 165 million is just the beginning."

"The total box office in the second week was 223 million. It has only been released for two days in the third week and the box office is already 120 million."

"Only 12 days after its release, the total box office of "Gravity" has already exceeded 500 million yuan, breaking almost all records of Chinese movies."

“We have broken all single-day box office records, weekly box office records, and Chinese-language film box office records!”

Li Xiaoping's face glowed red with excitement, and the 20-degree air conditioner couldn't blow away the fine sweat on the tip of her nose.

The box office of 500 million yuan is an astronomical figure in today's mainland film market!

Last year's Mainland movie box office champion "Assembly" only received 250 million in box office. "Transformers", which topped the box office this year, only earned 30 million more.

And Wu Yuan's "Gravity" directly doubled this number!

This is not the end!

It has only been released for 12 days, and the box office potential of "Gravity" can still be explored!

"Haha, this is a special situation and has no reference value." Wu Yuan waved his hand, and said with some pride and pride: "The reason why the box office of "Gravity" has achieved reverse growth is mainly because collective viewings have been organized across the country. The event, coupled with the launch of Shenzhou-7, added another fire to the movie."

"It's impossible to repeat this kind of good thing. Even if it's me, I probably won't get this kind of treatment in the next movie."

"Yeah, it's just a pity that "Red Cliff" will be released soon." Thinking of this, Li Xiaoping also sighed.

Today is already the 13th, and "Red Cliff" will be released simultaneously in China, Thailand and South Korea on the 15th.

In recent days, the Internet has been filled with promotions for "Red Cliff", and trailers and trailers are everywhere.

It is also a big production with an investment of 300 million. No one is not afraid of this behemoth. Especially "Gravity", which was released half a month before "Red Cliff", there is even more need to worry that the emergence of "Red Cliff" will seize its subsequent market share.

The cake is so big, if you take one more bite, others will take one less bite.

Li Xiaoping had a cloudy look on her face. She still didn't understand why Wu Yuan insisted on releasing it within a month of "Red Cliff".

Although the two movies are separated by half a month, and now "Gravity" has basically obtained the main box office, no one wants to have a giant crocodile come to grab food before the movie is released, even if it is just leftovers.

""Red Cliff" is about to be released?" Wu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, "You are the one waiting for me!"

The whole country is still organizing collective movie viewings. Two or three days cannot accommodate so many primary and secondary school students and public officials.

Director Han of China Film and Television did not expect that his superiors would be so supportive of the movie "Gravity". He thought that leaving a window period of half a month for "Gravity" was enough.

Unexpectedly, something big came from above this time.

You know, for the later "Jianzitou" movies, there were no group viewing activities for primary and middle school students!

Now Director Han feels a little regretful

China Film Group, Chairman's Office.

"Director Wu, why don't we reschedule?"

Han Sanping sighed, glanced at Wu Baige, who was sitting on the sofa with an extremely embarrassed look on his face, and said sarcastically: "Now "Gravity" accounts for almost 80% of the film schedules in major cinemas across the country, and looking at this momentum, at least there will be more If it lasts for about a week, the public’s enthusiasm for watching movies will diminish.”

"At this time, it is undoubtedly unwise to release "Red Cliff"."

As the head of China's film industry, Han Sanping certainly doesn't want his own people to beat up his own people, especially when both movies have investment from China Film Group, he certainly hopes that both movies will do well.

Now that "Red Cliff" is released, it can indeed grab a piece of the market from "Gravity". At least it can share half of it with it in the three days of its premiere, and it may even get more films than "Gravity", but this doesn't mean Has it affected the current hot release of "Gravity"?

"How about we reschedule to November?"

"November is pretty good, too. As for the Lunar New Year holiday, there aren't many blockbusters in this year's Lunar New Year holiday. Director Feng's "If You Are the One" is scheduled for December 20, and director Kego's "Mei Lanfang" is also scheduled for early December."

"There aren't any blockbusters in November, so the whole month can be given to "Red Cliff". That would be great."

However, Wu Baige remained unmoved in the face of Han Sanping's constant temptation.

With a dark face, he said in a loud voice: "We have been promoting the release of "Red Cliff" for more than half a year!"

"Since February, news has been released that it will be released on July 15th. All the promotional materials are in this way, and the trailers and trailers have been released several times!"

"Now that it is about to be released, fans are suddenly notified to change the schedule. Can the fans accept it?"

"Not only the fans, but also the producers can't accept it!"

"The schedule was suddenly changed to November. With such a long waiting period, all the publicity we did before was in vain!"

“You spend so much money on publicity, you can’t let it go to waste!”

"Even if there is a knife from the sky and flames from the ground, "Red Cliff" must be released on July 15th. It is impossible to change the schedule!"

"Isn't it just a science fiction movie?

"It's been half a month since he was released. Can he still attack me?"

It's only two or three days before it's released, so I'm thinking of withdrawing it. It's really too late.

If "Red Cliff" is withdrawn now, it will almost be obvious to everyone that "Red Cliff" is afraid of gravity, all the preliminary preparations will be in vain, and it will have a reputation of being cowardly and running away without a fight. Next It won't do well on release.

At least based on Wu Baige's experience, most of the movies that were temporarily withdrawn from Hollywood were later rescheduled and released.

Instead, they faced the difficulties of strong films and insisted on not changing their schedules. There have been many dark horses at the box office, and they climbed to the throne by stepping on those films with strong momentum.

In Wu Baige's eyes, his "Red Cliff" can obviously surpass "Gravity" to become the box office champion.

This is the story of the Three Kingdoms that the Chinese people are most familiar with!

The mass base is much larger than that of "Gravity". Even with the blessing of administrative power, it can at least be a rival!

"Okay." Seeing Wu Baige insist, Han Sanping couldn't say anything else. He also knew that withdrawing the film before the battle was not a good choice, at least "Red Cliff" would not be forced to this extent.

It's just a pity that two tigers are fighting each other.

Two days later, on July 15, "Red Cliff" held an extremely grand premiere and was released simultaneously in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore.

Starting from the day it was released, "Red Cliff" took half of the film schedule of "Gravity". Within four days of its premiere, the box office successfully exceeded 100 million.

This result is pretty good, breaking 100 million in four days. Before this year, no Chinese-language film had achieved this result.

However, things are different now.

With "Gravity" leading the way with a record of 165 million in three days, the entire creative staff of the "Red Cliff" movie was filled with a bit of gloom.

The opening performance did not exceed "Gravity", and it would be even more unrealistic to achieve a counterattack at the box office in the future.

It seems that the situation of the release of "Red Cliff" is not good! (End of chapter)