Millennium director

"Director Wu, the total box office of our movie broke 400 million on the day of the release!"

"This result is already very good!"

"200 million of the 400 million are pre-sale box office, and more than 200 million box office was generated on the day of the release!"

Wu Yuan's assistant, Xiao Zhang, who also serves as the executive director of Guangying Times and receives two salaries, excitedly reported to Wu Yuan the release results of "The Monkey King".

400 million box office on the first day, this is already a very good result, especially outside the Spring Festival period, there are very few movies that can achieve such a result.

Even Wu Yuan is very satisfied with this result.

In his impression, the box office that can be better than this result must be "Detective Chinatown 3" released in 2021. The pre-sale box office of this movie before its official release exceeded 700 million yuan, and the box office on the first day of release exceeded 1 billion yuan.

But the situation is different.

"Detective Chinatown 3" not only has the influence of two highly acclaimed and highly box-official predecessors, but this movie is also the first attractive movie after the epidemic, which directly ignited the general public who have not been to the cinema to watch movies for two years due to the epidemic.

The good first-day results of "Detective Chinatown 3" are the result of the joint creation of the right time, right place and right people, and it is a miracle that can hardly be replicated.

In addition to this movie, "The Mermaid" was released for 15 hours, including the pre-sale box office, and the first-day box office only exceeded 200 million yuan.

For example, the first phenomenal hit movie "Ex-Files 3" in 2018 only had a box office of 60 million on the first day.

The first-day box office of "The Monkey King", including the pre-sale results, was 400 million, which is already a very good result, worthy of Wu Yuan's fame and status.

However, a good first-day box office does not necessarily mean that the final box office will be good. The box office on the second day of release was halved or even only one-third. There are many movies whose first-day box office accounted for half of the total box office. Most of them were scam movies whose reputation collapsed immediately after the first day of release. They were known as "trailer scams".

And a movie with average first-day box office does not necessarily mean that the final box office will be bad, just like the first-day box office of "Ex-Files 3" was average, but it did not affect the final box office of 2 billion.

The first-day box office of "The Wandering Earth" was only 187 million, which was not as good as "The Mermaid", but the final box office performance was nearly double that of "The Mermaid".

The good start of "The Monkey King" is worth celebrating, but it is not time to open champagne to celebrate.

Wu Yuan slapped his thighs with both hands and said with a smile: "This is a very good result, but I am more concerned about the current online audience's evaluation of this movie!"

It is now 6 pm on December 25th. The first wave of viewers who watched the midnight and afternoon shows have basically expressed their opinions on the movie "The Monkey King" on the Internet.

Douban also gave "The Monkey King" a score at noon today. The current score is 7.2, which is a good or bad score.

To be honest, Wu Yuan thinks that this score is still high. After all, "The Monkey King" is really just a typical commercial popcorn movie. On a "strict" movie evaluation website like Douban, it should usually only get a score of about 6.0.

The fact that it can be scored 7.2 now is mainly due to Wu Yuan's status and influence. After all, he is a director who has won film awards internationally. The group of critical critics on Douban have neither dared nor reason to pick on Wu Yuan. Instead, they will look up to him.

Just like foreign movies are automatically rated +1 on Douban, Wu Yuan's movies are basically treated the same way on Douban.

However, he values ​​movie reviews more than simple and crude ratings.

"When the monkey farm keeper played by Liu Xiaolingtong turned into Sun Wukong, I almost cried in the cinema. Just for this shot, the movie ticket was worth it!"

"There is nothing much to say about the plot. It is a very exciting commercial blockbuster. Zhang Yishan is indeed an actor with a "monkey-like" look. Letting him inherit Sun Wukong is indeed the best choice. I can't think of anyone else in the domestic entertainment industry who is more suitable. This casting is half successful, at least much better than the new version of Lin Geng next door."

"The battle between the Dapeng demon king and Sun Wukong, the picture effect and special effects level are not inferior to Hollywood's super Hero movie, this is the first time I have seen such a cool Chinese fairy battle. Domestic fairy TV series should really learn from it and stop standing there and casting spells. "

"Sun Wukong and Sun Wu's stick skills and Dapeng Monster King's claw skills are very handsome, and the fighting is very exciting. It feels like watching a martial arts movie in the past, and it is a martial arts movie with full special effects, which is too rare to see in this era."

"Excellent! Good to see!"

Wu Yuan roughly read the comments on Douban and Weibo, and found that most netizens focused on and praised the several fierce fighting scenes in the movie.

Whether it was the battle between Sun Wukong and Dapeng Monster King, or the final battle between Sun Wu and Dapeng Monster King, and the battles between Sun Wu and various monsters when learning stick skills in the trial, they all received a lot of praise.

This made Wu Yuan very happy, and he felt that the audience really understood him.

This time, the filming of "The Monkey King" really put the most effort into the action scenes, and invited more than a dozen action directors from Hong Kong Island.

Although this is a fantasy blockbuster, this movie is not like a fantasy idol drama, where the battle depends entirely on the protagonist flying in the air and making hand seals, and then all kinds of red and blue special effects spells fly around, even in a fierce battle.

Such scenes are really boring and very lazy.

Look at Hollywood next door. Even superhero movies will eventually return to fist-to-flesh fighting scenes.

Whether it is "Iron Man" or "Captain America" ​​or the "Avengers" series, except for the wizard Doctor Strange, other superheroes have various abilities, but most of the battles are still naked hand-to-hand combat.

Including the mysterious Wakanda, no matter how powerful the technology is, their warriors still fight with spears.

Even when fighting Thanos in the end, it was a righteous hand-to-hand fight.

Hollywood is the country with the best film special effects technology in the world. They are not short of money to make special effects for movies, but they still chose fist-to-flesh fighting scenes!

Why?

It is because only by returning to the original action scenes in this way can the visual effects be the best and the most adrenaline-pumping audiences.

What's the point of watching a group of people standing far away in the air smashing special effects at each other?

Men, you have to watch fighting!

The reason why "Journey to the West" became a classic was because Sun Wukong in the film was waving his golden hoop to fight monsters in every episode!

On the other hand, in China, there are fewer and fewer movies with such intense action scenes, and the martial arts movies that were popular at that time have long been lonely.

Now the combination of action + special effects in "The Great Sage" has finally achieved the effect of visual enjoyment for the audience!

And seeing this well-received scene also made Wu Yuan feel relieved.

After all, this movie is an original fairy-hero universe movie created by Light and Shadow Times, not an excellent work copied by Wu Yuan from later generations, and there is no reference answer.

"It seems that everyone is quite satisfied." Wu Yuan said with a long sigh of relief.

As expected, the market gave him very positive feedback.

At 8 o'clock in the evening on the third day of the release of "The Great Sage", the mainland box office of "The Great Sage" successfully broke 1 billion yuan on the Maoyan Movie Data Network, not only breaking the highest single-day box office record for Chinese-language films, but also setting a new record for the fastest Chinese-language film to break 1 billion box office! (End of this chapter)