Millennium director

"16.8% of the movie schedule, the box office on the first day exceeded 300 million?"

"This result is already very good!"

"After all, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is a joint work between Xing Ye and Xu Keqiang. It is normal for the opening results to be ahead."

Wu Yuan was very calm when he received a call from Li Xiaoping with a hint of regret.

The first-day box office of "The Great Wall", including pre-sale box office, successfully exceeded 300 million, but compared with "Journey to the West: Conquering Monsters", it is still tens of millions behind.

As of January 28, before the official release at 0:00 on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the total pre-sale box office of the movie "Journey to the West: Conquer the Monsters" has reached 176 million, breaking the two records of the highest pre-sales in Chinese film history and the highest first-day pre-sales of a Chinese film .

The film's box office quickly exceeded 312 million within 19.5 hours of its release, setting a new record for the highest single-day box office for a Chinese-language film in the history of Chinese filmmaking, firmly occupying the top spot in the Spring Festival season.

As of 23:00, the film had grossed a total of 356 million at the box office on its first day of release, becoming the mainland Chinese single-day champion.

In comparison, "The Great Wall" was slightly inferior to "Journey to the West: Conquering Monsters" in terms of both pre-sale and first-day box office. The final opening box office was also nearly 40 million behind, and it could only be ranked second on that day. Second place at the box office.

There are objective factors and subjective factors.

The objective factor is that the cast of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is indeed more appealing. It is the beginning of 2017, and this era is the era of the four returning sons. It can be said that the four returning sons are currently the top stars in domestic entertainment. star.

Among the four returnees, Sewing Fan is currently the most popular and has the best development.

Coupled with Lin Gengxin, who has been doing well in the film field in the past two years, the cast of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is obviously more attractive than "The Great Wall".

After all, most of the cast of "The Great Wall" are actors who are mainly tough guys in the actor circle and who mostly play military roles. Ordinary audiences may be familiar with them, but really how many people are their fans? It's impossible to rush the box office for them without thinking.

Moreover, the male lead of "The Great Wall", Liu Dehua, has indeed failed the audience in recent years, and is somewhat labeled as a "bad actor" in the minds of movie fans.

In this case, even if the director of "The Great Wall" is Zhang Yimou, the trailer looks very cool and has the feel of a Hollywood special effects blockbuster, but it will not be able to compete with its predecessor "The Great Wall" in terms of pre-sales and first-day box office. Compared with "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons", which has gained popularity.

Wu Yuan was not surprised at all that the film lost to "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" at the box office at the opening, and he even had a premonition of it.

But this does not mean that the box office of "The Great Wall" cannot exceed that of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

It doesn't matter if you laugh first, the one who laughs last is the winner. This principle is also common in the film industry.

Just like this time "Journey to the West: Conquering the Monsters" broke the pre-sale box office record and single-day box office record, but can this movie break the box office record of "Mermaid" in mainland film history?

Not to mention breaking the record of "The Mermaid", the 3 billion mainland box office record of "Ready Player One" is not something that "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" can touch.

And "Ready Player One" is not as high as "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in terms of pre-sales and first-day box office!

Wu Yuan knows very well that the reason why "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" achieved such good pre-sales and first-day box office results is due to the popularity of Suiu Fan.

I have to admit that Seiu Fan does have a large number of brainless fans at the moment, who can blindly go to the cinema to boost the box office results for him, but this is only limited to the first two days of the movie's release.

Two days later, whether the daily box office performance of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" can continue to be outstanding depends on the film's own hard power.

In this regard, Wu Yuan is full of confidence in "The Great Wall". The level of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" really cannot be compared with the previous work, let alone "The Great Wall".

He believes that "The Great Wall" can be the same as "The Wandering Earth", relying on its own hard power to catch up with latecomers!

The fact is exactly as he predicted. After the craziness on the first day, the daily box office performance of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Monsters" dropped rapidly. Although it achieved a box office of over 600 million in 3 days, the performance on the second and third days after its release was The total box office cannot compare with the box office on the first day.

Of course, this is also because the box office on the first day includes the pre-sale box office results and cannot simply be regarded as the box office on the day.

But in comparison, the follow-up box office performance of "The Great Wall" was very impressive. On the second day after its release, the daily box office still achieved 210 million. On the third day, it even rose instead of falling, with a daily box office of 280 million. The three-day box office combined actually surpassed "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons"!

This is undoubtedly a counterintuitive box office performance. Generally speaking, the box office performance of a movie on the first day it is released is usually the day when the daily box office is the highest. After that, the box office will only get lower and lower every day.

But "The Great Wall" broke this convention, relying on the tap of fans from all walks of life after watching this movie!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, countless fans who had watched "The Great Wall" excitedly shared their thoughts on the Internet!

Zhang Yimou is a big hit for all mainland movie fans!

The movie "The Great Wall" is not at all a "Zhang Yimou-style" movie in the public mind. If the director's name is hidden, nine out of ten people who watch this movie will think that this movie is from a great Hollywood director. , or maybe it was taken by Wu Yuan

This movie is really too Hollywood-style from the rhythm to the storyline, which is very different from Zhang Yimou's style of telling a bad story in commercial films!

To be honest, the story of "The Great Wall" is not complicated at all, and the main line is also very simple, which is a story of fighting against monster invasion.

But it is good because the story is simple and clear, the main line is clear and easy to understand, and the character image is vivid!

Who watches commercial blockbusters with a brain?

Everyone comes to watch commercial special effects movies just for fun, just like reading online novels, the emphasis is on a fast-food culture.

And this time Zhang Yimou brought a fast-food commercial special effects blockbuster that is very Hollywood-style.

This is not a derogatory term, but a compliment!

During the Spring Festival, when the whole nation is celebrating, no one wants to watch an art movie like "The Return". Everyone just wants to watch some refreshing blockbusters and have a visual feast.

And "The Great Wall" did it!

From the simplicity and refreshingness of the story to the dazzling and shocking pictures, "The Great Wall" is better than "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back", and the acting skills of the actors are even better than the young actors in "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back".

And this advantage is enough for most ordinary audiences who follow the crowd to choose "The Great Wall" to watch when they go to the cinema with their parents and juniors.

As for comedies such as "Kung Fu Yoga", "Riding the Wind and Waves" and "Buddhist in India"?

There are a lot of comedies every year. Over the years, everyone has seen at least a dozen excellent comedy movies, but China's own commercial special effects blockbusters are rare!

Is there still a need to choose?

"The Great Wall" box office is booming! (End of this chapter)