Rhapsody of Entertainment Rebirth

The release of "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" was a sensational shock to the Chinese film industry and movie fans.

Animated movies are an indispensable type in the film market, and their influence is no less than any other type, because there is an entire vast animation market behind it.

Chinese animation has had its own glory days, starting from "Havoc in Heaven" in the 1960s, the ink cartoon "Tadpole Looking for Mom", the puppet feature "Peacock Princess", to "Nezha Haohai" in the 1970s. ", "Three Monks" in the 1980s.

Not only are they classic descriptions of Chinese culture, they also represent the top level of global animation production.

After the 1990s, the entire Chinese animation industry shrank rapidly. Neon animation and Hollywood animated films were raging back and forth in China. In the past two decades, domestic animation has been pushed into a corner, and its living space has been weakened to the extreme.

Especially animated films, the last impression left on the public was "The Lotus Lantern" more than ten years ago.

Since then, there has been no movement. Although many animators have been speaking out and working hard to change, there is really no sign of recovery.

The Chinese people sighed over it, but they had no choice but to wait for the miracle to come with hope.

And the miracle really happened!

The stunning debut of "The Return of the Great Sage" shocked the entire Chinese media circle on the first day. Whether online or offline, "The Return of the Great Sage" succeeded "Let the Bullets Fly" and became a phenomenon-level focus topic.

As soon as "The Return of the Great Sage" was released, it immediately became a hit all over the country, with 40 million on the first day, 55 million on the next day, and 68 million on Sunday!

With the spreading word-of-mouth and popularity, the box office soared at an unconventional speed.

Compared with "Let the Bullets Fly", "The Return of the Monkey King" has obvious advantages. It is a 3D animated film. The increasing number of 3D screens in China has given the film more room for box office.

After exceeding 160 million in the first three days, the momentum continued unabated the following week.

The characters in the movie, Sun Wukong, Jiang Liuer, Zhu Bajie, the old monk, and the child Xiaochan, have all become hotly discussed on the Internet. Even the villain Shan Yao and the big boss Chaos are very popular.

Many parents took their children into the cinema in admiration, and China Animation instantly attracted unprecedented attention.

The next week's box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" stunned the national media and the public. It exceeded 400 million in a single week, and the cumulative box office in ten days was 580 million!

It swept all the Lunar New Year movies, including "Let the Bullets Fly"!

The good news doesn't stop there. "The Return of the Monkey King" successively hit the Asian, European and American film markets in its second week. Due to cultural barriers, the film did poorly at the box office in Europe and the United States, but the response in East and Southeast Asian countries was quite enthusiastic.

Especially in Japan and South Korea, China Animation made its debut in the film markets of the two countries and received praise and high box office revenue.

It only took ten days for Colorful Light to ascend to the altar, enter the history of Chinese movies, become an irreplaceable revivalist of Chinese animation, and become the expectation of countless animation fans!

The entire colorful light prism is in a state of excitement and congestion. We succeeded!

From now on, Colorful Light Edge is no longer the big-breasted baby in the group who is ridiculed and ridiculed by others. We can make our own blood, and the prospects are limitless!

There are no obstacles in the universe of "Fengshen" and the follow-up "Deep Sea", and the colorful light prism has the backbone to grow from now on!

At the same time, the box office data at home and abroad and the impact of the film have brought unprecedented shock to the Chinese film and television industry, even no less than Shanhe's "Gravity"!

Once an animated film is successful, its profit prospects are much broader than that of live-action films. Although the domestic market is immature and piracy is frequently banned, it will still bring a lot of additional peripheral income.

This can be seen from the brisk sales of peripherals in Jiahe Movie City. Various trinkets, dolls and figures of various movie characters are very popular, especially among children after watching the movie.

Since "The Return of the Great Sage" proves that domestic animated films have enough market and potential, why are you hesitating? Let's invest and bet!

Chuhe Film and Television's competitors are gritting their teeth and having no choice but to put animated films on their development agenda.

Chuhe Film and Television, the colorful light of the dog day, are really unworthy of human beings, and they can do this kind of perversion that goes against the rules from time to time!

How the hell are you arguing? It’s just cheating!

It's still early days!

"The Return of the Great Sage" is just the first half of Chuhe Film and Television's Spring Festival animation, and the comedy bombs in the second half are also coming.

On January 30th, three days before the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rabbit, "A Man on an Awkward Journey to Thailand" is here!

The success of Colorful Light made everyone at Chuhe Film and Television Production Center hold their breath. There was no way they could let the big-breasted kid show off and watch the joke!

Shanhe originally didn't want to attend the premiere. From Shanhe's point of view, "囧囧" did not require him to attend the stage. In the previous life, it could have easily exceeded one billion.

This life is only a year ahead of schedule, and the conditions in all aspects are several times better than in the previous life. There is no need to worry about the box office of "囧".

But the entire production center was unwilling, and strongly demanded that the mountains and rivers should be equalized, and not favor one over the other!

The boss of the production center, Lu Lufeng, brought Xu Zheng, Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang directly to the door to request.

"Boss, we don't want you to say good things about the movie. You just need to show up. You don't know how irritating the colorful light is now. Once you feel proud, you will ride the donkey like a horse!"

"You are lucky enough. Look at "Let the Bullets Fly" and "The Return of the Great Sage". You attended two premieres this year, and both times they exploded!"

"Shanhe, please give me, a new director, some confidence. I'm really nervous!"

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Shanhe looked at the four of them and couldn't help but nodded and agreed to their request.

As expected, "囧囧" made the whole audience laugh. Although the protagonist changed from Xu Zheng to Ge You and the point of laughter also changed, the movie still has the taste of Shanhe's memory.

It's a pure comedy movie. Hollywood calls this kind of movie "shit and shit". It has no connotation or thinking, and is just for laughter and entertainment.

This type of movie perfectly matches the needs of the public during the Spring Festival. Just have fun during the New Year!

Besides, Ge You's appeal was still at its peak at this time, which was several times greater than Xu Zheng's at the time.

"囧囧" is also a sequel movie, and with the reputation boost from Chuhe Film and Television's Spring Festival release, "囧囧" became a hit on the first day!

Even more exaggerated than "The Return of the Great Sage", 51 million yuan!

Compared with "The Return of the Great Sage", "囧囧" has a poor professional reputation, but the audience's reputation is sufficient. Fans who have watched it said they were laughed out of laughter.

Two days ago, the box office of "囧囧" exceeded 100 million. With the arrival of the Spring Festival holiday, the box office of "囧囧" is bound to be even more terrifying!

I have to say that Zhong Lifeng is very accurate. Animated movies and comedy movies are indeed the most suitable types of movies for the Spring Festival.

Two phenomenal movies immediately pushed the popularity of the Spring Festival stalls in the Year of the Rabbit to another level.

None of the other films were left behind by the two, and several competing film companies couldn't even scold them now.

We’ve accepted it, why don’t we accept it!

The two movies were a big hit at the same time, making the entire Chuhe Film and Television excited and busy.

Shanhe's family was not affected at all. With Qiu Chuxi's arrival in Beijing, the family reunited in the courtyard to welcome the arrival of the New Year in the Year of the Rabbit.

This year we have a new baby in our family, and several elderly people attach great importance to the Spring Festival, especially grandpa and grandma. Although they are not in their hometown and cannot participate in the family festival, they have not left out all the matters of the family festival.

For this reason, Shanhe specially followed Grandpa's instructions and got two old-fashioned Eight Immortals tables from Ma Weidu.

On the early morning of New Year's Eve, except for the pregnant Hathaway, the whole family got busy with the ancestor worship feast.

Until five o'clock in the afternoon, the two Eight Immortals tables were already filled with incense candles, a big braised pig head, rice wine, chicken, duck, fish and other major dishes.

Grandpa personally served as the officiant, leading the whole family to kowtow incense and pray for the ancestors’ family situation this year, and bless the family’s safety and health in the coming year!

Needless to say, the focus of the whole family during the Chinese New Year this year is on Hathaway. In just over a month, the fourth generation of the Qiu family will arrive.

The whole family is looking forward to it. No matter what the topic is, the children can be mentioned. Hathaway's little bear brings extra festivity and joy to the Spring Festival.

Several women had prepared everything for their children early, including rooms, clothes, and all kinds of baby supplies. Qiu Chuxi even prepared a roomful of toys for her nephew.

Shanhe couldn’t stay at home for too long during this Spring Festival.

In order not to miss his wife's due date, he flew to Los Angeles on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year despite his mother's nagging, and started the final color grading work of "The Instant Universe" in advance.

The schedule of "The Instant Universe" has been set. It will be released in the summer in mid-June. Coincidentally, the biggest competitor of the film is "Green Lantern", which happens to be the superhero series of Warner and DC Comics that have already finalized cooperation.

The thoughts of Disney and Bruckheimer are really outrageous!

This means that before Shanhe cooperates with Time Warner and DC Comics, he must first kill "Green Lantern", which is also in the DC Comics universe. This is the first step in the movie universe that Warner and DC Comics have been planning for a long time!

Several executives at Warner and DC Comics were outraged by Disney and Bruckheimer's rogue tactics.

We have just confirmed our cooperation, and yet you are doing this, you are not a son of a man!

Damn, please remember, Warner will come up with this tone sooner or later!

Shanhe had no objection to the schedule arrangement, and he didn't care about the various inconveniences among the Big Six in Hollywood.

What the hell is "Green Lantern"? Shan He has no memory of this movie at all. It's probably a flop. It would be nice to give DC Comics a head start before collaborating!

Once the schedule is set, the film must be completed as soon as possible. After all, it is related to the publicity and promotion of the film.

Shanhe cannot avoid the task of color grading. From the beginning of the filming of "The Instant Universe", the entire film has been shot and produced around his aesthetic expression.

Color grading must be rendered according to Shanhe's original intention. Shanhe has to work with the color grading team to complete this process that Shanhe values ​​most in post-production.

The movie "The Instant Universe" can naturally give full play to the power of color grading, because Shanhe requires that each universe have different color contrasts, so that the audience can truly experience each universe through their visual senses.

This can help the audience understand the complicated heart and epic journey of the heroine Xiulian in the film from an emotional level.

In fact, Disney's color grading team had already joined the crew when the filming of "Instant Universe" started, and they participated in the entire filming process of the film.

There is already a relatively mature plan for director Shan He's requirements.

Therefore, the color grading work went relatively smoothly. Shanhe was quite satisfied with the color grading team's overall plan, which generally conformed to his own image style.

All he needs to do is to put forward his own requirements and improvements to this plan.

It took Shanhe and the color grading team seven days to develop all the required styles of the universe, and the rest was finishing work.

This work requires some time to polish carefully. Shanhe is not a colorist, so he can't get involved in this work.

After spending another two days editing two versions of the Chinese and Western trailers, Shanhe left the remaining work to Bruckheimer.

He turned down invitations from Warner and DC Comics on the grounds that he needed to devote himself entirely to the script creation of "Joker".

It took ten days to complete all the directing work for "The Instant Universe", and I returned to the capital in a hurry.

Hathaway's precious little bear is ready to move, and Xie Meiyu is constantly urging Shanhe to return home as soon as possible.

There is less than a month left before the due date, and the child may be born at any time.

Shanhe, who returned to the courtyard, had no other thoughts. He even stopped writing the script for "Joker" and devoted himself to waiting for the birth of his son with his wife.

During this period, Chuhe Film and Television has been receiving good news.

Four weeks after the release of "Journey to the West: The Return of the Monkey King", the box office has exceeded 900 million yuan, and the domestic total box office has exceeded 1 billion yuan. It is a certainty that it is not going away!

The box office performance in Asia is also quite good, especially in Neon. The animated film has a huge audience in Neon, with a revenue of 2.5 billion yen in three weeks. According to the predictions of Neon Media, the final success of "The Return of the Great Sage" Neon's box office is very likely to exceed 4 billion.

Four billion yen, equivalent to 200 million yuan, was beyond China's expectations.

Neon animation has always invaded the Chinese market, and "The Return of the Monkey King" finally gave China a counterattack.

The news came that "The Return of the Great Sage" has made a comeback in China.

The figures for "囧囧" are even more astonishing, with box office of 310 million in the first week, 3.7 billion in the next week, 280 million in the third week, and the highest single-day box office even reached 80 million, almost surpassing "Gravity" 》single-day box office data.

The cumulative box office in three weeks is 980 million, and the media predicts that the final domestic box office will be between 1.4 billion and 1.5 billion.

The whole of China was shocked by these two movies. Has the Chinese film market reached such a stage?

One Spring Festival slot can accommodate two movies that have exceeded one billion, and one Lunar New Year slot can accommodate three movies that have exceeded one billion.

What's more, one of the movies exceeded 800 million, and the other one exceeded 400 million!

Based on this calculation, it is not impossible that the domestic box office for the whole year will steadily exceed 15 billion, or even 18 billion, or 20 billion!

So amazing!

Suddenly, the hot money pouring into the film market doubled again. In the ten days after the Spring Festival holiday alone, dozens of films were approved, and it is even harder to count the number of films that have begun to be planned.

Copyrights and IPs are also increasing. Take the copyright of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" purchased by Chuhe Film and Television as an example.

Two years ago, Chuhe Film and Television spent three million to buy the full copyright of Tian Xia Ba Chang's novel, which had already created a legendary record in the online literature industry at that time.

But now the price has at least quadrupled!

Putting aside all the hustle and bustle, Chuhe Film and Television ushered in the annual Spring Festival Gala.

Last year, Chuhe Film and Television completed two strategic goals: exchanging shares with Disney and merging with Tudou.

During this year's Spring Festival, Chuhe Film and Television's power has not diminished, directly crushing the entire schedule, with great harvest and impact.

Zhong Lifeng made the Chuhe Film and Television Party a huge event.

The venue was directly arranged in the Bird's Nest, and the pomp and circumstance matched the concerts of top singers. Except for the staff who insisted on their posts, almost all the branch offices were concentrated in the Bird's Nest.

At the same time, representatives and actors and directors from various companies that cooperated with Chuhe Film and Television last year were invited, including China Film, Shanghai Film, Western Film, Film Academy, and China Theater. Even Disney China Branch and Time Warner China Branch also came. join in the fun.

Some fans of Shanhe or Chuhe Film and Television also joined the party.

The entire party was star-studded and full of enthusiasm, attracting the attention of many media and the public.

Zhong Lifeng wants to show the strength and status of Chuhe Film and Television to the whole of China. She seems to be declaring to other private film companies in China:

If you want to catch up with us, you still have a long way to go!

Shanhe has no objection to Zhong Lifeng's idea. The muscles that need to be flexed still need to be flexed. The climate of Chuhe Film and Television Group has matured, and it is waiting for other private enterprises to challenge!

Like last year, Shanhe and Hathaway took Qiu Chuxi to have a party with the group's employees.

As the boss and proprietress, Shanhe and Hathaway naturally received the most welcome. During the entire awards ceremony, they were occasionally coaxed by group employees and fans to go on stage or stand up to speak.

In the end, Hathaway not only sang an English song on stage, but also sang a Chinese song "Sweet Honey" for Shanhe, and spread dog food all over the floor in public.

She had just finished singing, and before the audience and guests in the audience had time to start laughing, the little bear in Hathaway's belly broke out.

At this moment, everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't care about anything. They looked at the fuss on the stage. After about ten minutes, Hathaway's condition stabilized and she was not pregnant yet, but it seemed possible at any time.

Zhong Lifeng and Yang Liu quickly brought their assistant team and followed Shanhe and Qiu Chuxi to send Hathaway to the hospital.

Before leaving, Shanhe took the microphone and apologized to the guests and employees:

"The situation happened a little early and suddenly. I'm a little panicked now. I apologize to everyone. I have to take a step first. Lao Ning, you and Sister Aina will pay more attention. Huang Bo, you continue to host! "

After saying that, he hurriedly ran out of the venue.

Huang Bo looked at Shan He's leaving figure and couldn't help but sigh:

"Did the little boss wake up due to our heckles? It seems that he is born to like big scenes!"

The whole audience was stunned. They couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Huang Bo's emotional intelligence, and then burst into laughter!

In less than an hour, Shanhe's whole family gathered in the VIP ward of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Union Hospital.

After a period of nervous and anxious inquiries and greetings, the whole family finally felt at ease.

Hathaway and Xiong'er are in good health and are expected to give birth in the next two days.

The doctor then introduced the situation to the family and asked Shanhe Hathaway to discuss it with her family. Now she can still choose the delivery method, natural delivery or caesarean section.

His suggestion was of course to give birth naturally. Hathaway's body was fine. Natural birth was beneficial to both the child and the mother. Of course, many mothers also chose caesarean section for psychological reasons.

Hathaway chose to give birth naturally without even thinking about it. She is very maternal now, and all she thinks about is the child, and she will do whatever it takes for the child!

There is nothing else to do, all you can do is wait.

Shanhe began to experience the most anxious moment in his life.

There were many complicated thoughts in my mind, and tension, expectation, joy, and fear were tangled up in my heart.

He had palpitations, rapid heartbeat, sweating, and trembling. He even felt that the things around him were unreal, and he had an indescribable feeling of madness.

Hathaway was not as scared as she imagined, and was even able to laugh at herself and her worried family members.

"I just thought Little Bear was going to be born on the stage. It seems he is a lively child!"

"Haha...Sister-in-law, you just finished singing "Sweet Honey", and my eldest nephew got impatient. It seems that he doesn't like to eat your and my brother's dog food!"

Before Qiu Chuxi could finish her words, she was slapped on the back by her mother.

"What nonsense are you talking about! My grandson won't eat anything like that!"

"Mom! You are so old-fashioned. Dog food is just a metaphor. It's about my sister-in-law and my brother getting tired of each other!"

"Don't give me nonsense metaphors here. You can't talk nonsense now!"

Xie Meiyu glared at her daughter, closed her hands and said:

"Ancestors bless, Mazu bless, let Nini and the child be safe and sound!"

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Qiu Jiang looked at his confused and dazed son on the other side, and patted Shanhe's shoulder.

"Don't think too much! If you really can't sit still, just go outside for a walk. Nini and the child will be fine!"

Shan He looked up at his father and smiled reluctantly.

"I understand! Dad, are you worried that Xixi and I were born at that time?"

"Nonsense, can you not be nervous? Xixi is better. You are so tormented. My legs were weak outside the delivery room! However, the conditions at that time are not comparable to those now. Please relax, Nini. I still need you to accompany me!”

"I see!"

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The Shanhe family waited anxiously in the ward. News that Hathaway was about to give birth to a baby had quickly spread to the outside world.

Huang Bo's exclamation of high emotional intelligence became the headline of many online media.

"The Young Master Chuhe's family was born to be a grand spectacle, and they are about to come to this world amidst the cheers of millions of people!"

"All Chuhe employees are making noises to wake up the future little boss, and the second generation of the richest man will be born!"

"A lucky son will be born, and the happy party of Chuhe Film and Television will give birth to the future boss!"

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As soon as the news came out, it immediately became a super hit on the Internet. The live video of the Chuhe Film and Television Party became the biggest tool for Tudou to attract traffic, and netizens were attracted one after another.

While everyone was watching the video, they were gossiping about the child's natural wealth and future.