Chapter 247 Self-destruction

Two weeks after its release, the box office of "Wolf Warrior" entered a period of weakness.

Although this is because the movie’s box office potential has been almost used up after more than 10 days of release, it is also directly related to a new blockbuster released in the third week.

On April 12, the long-awaited Hollywood blockbuster "Fast & Furious 7" finally landed in mainland theaters. According to preliminary statistics, the box office of the midnight show exceeded 46 million, breaking the midnight show box office record of 21 million set by "Transformers 4: Age of Extinction".

According to the data provided by "Maoyan Box Office Analysis", as of 10:00 on the 12th, the national box office of "Fast and Furious 7" has exceeded 200 million, accounting for 94.50% of the market.

In 2013, "Fast & Furious 6" achieved a box office of 414 million yuan in China. As a super Hollywood series, "Fast & Furious 7" received enthusiastic attention as soon as it started filming, especially the unexpected death of the lead actor Paul Walker, which triggered a sad and nostalgic atmosphere across the country, and the film also received unprecedented attention.

In the first two days after the release of "Fast & Furious 7", major online ticketing platforms opened pre-sale channels for midnight shows, and the sales were extremely hot. Nearly 10,000 midnight screenings that day were almost full, and the national box office grossed over 46 million.

According to preliminary statistics, the film's first-day box office has reached 400 million yuan (including midnight shows), breaking both the first-day and single-day box office records in the Chinese film market.

Last summer, "Transformers 4: Age of Extinction" broke the limits of the Chinese film market with great momentum. The midnight show took in 20 million yuan, nearly 200 million yuan on the first day, and nearly 270 million yuan on the second day of its release. With the arrival of "Fast & Furious 7", these three records have now been broken. The midnight show alone took in 46 million yuan, and 400 million yuan in one day - this is an astronomical figure. You know, it is not easy for many movies to get 5 million yuan in a single day, and it is not bad to accumulate 400 million yuan in half a month after its release.

As of the 13th, the screening share of "Fast & Furious 7" is still high, accounting for about 60% of the national total; and the films that will be released this week are unlikely to have a fatal impact on it in terms of sales. Zhang Aijia's "Nian Nian" is too literary, and Yi Nengjing's directorial debut "I Am Queen" does not look like a blockbuster. Even with big stars like Johnny Depp, the film's publicity and attention are relatively limited, so it is unlikely to become a big hit.

This is indeed the case. "Fast and Furious 7" broke 500 million in two days and 1 billion in five days. Since its release, the film's single-day box office has never fallen below 100 million, and the cumulative box office in 6 days has exceeded 1.1 billion.

When "Fast and Furious 7" became a huge hit, it seemed that no one cared about what new movies were released in theaters.

Domestic filmmakers cried "wolf" one after another, but they were helpless against this car-racing blockbuster.

Influenced by this, "Wolf Warrior" has reached the 500 million mark in its third week of release, but the growth rate is very slow, and the screening volume in the country's top 20 cities is only about 5%.

The new film "I Am the Queen" was released and was temporarily advanced to meet the audience at 2 pm on the 15th. Unfortunately, the box office on the first day was less than 3 million, and the box office in three days of release was about 8.5 million.

Everyone is placing their hopes on three new Chinese-language films that are about to be released, namely "Everything Grows" starring Fan Bingbing and Han Geng, "Left Ear" directed by Su Youpeng and starring Gu Wei, and "Love Me If You Dare" starring Huang Xiaoming and Yang Mi.

The three films will be released on the 17th, 24th and 30th respectively. It is hoped that they can make a comeback for Chinese-language films when "Fast & Furious 7" is wreaking havoc in the Chinese film market.

On April 15, the youth romance film "Everything Grows" held its premiere press conference in Beijing. Producers Fang Li, Lu Jinbo, director Li Yu and starring actors Fan Bingbing, Han Geng, Qi Xi, Sha Yi and Wu Mochou appeared.

Recently, the relationship between Fan Bingbing and Li Chen has once again become a hot topic. The two parties have been ambiguous in their attitudes and neither has directly admitted it.

When asked about this question at the press conference, Fan Bingbing said frankly, "I don't want to respond to any questions about my relationship."

She also said that she had seen a topic online called "There is a promotional period called Fan Bingbing and Li Chen". She did not want to talk about her relationship during the promotional period, but was kept being asked.

At the press conference, celebrities revealed embarrassing stories from their youth.

Fan Bingbing recalled that when he came to Beijing to work hard, he only had 400 yuan per month for living expenses.

In response to the topic of "youthful poverty," Han Geng revealed that he rented a computer from a computer science classmate 13 years ago. Instead of returning it, he secretly sold it. This revelation left Sa Beining, the former host of a legal program, speechless. She asked him directly, "Do you know what this is?"

Han Geng seemed to have not yet grasped the seriousness of the incident, and still recounted it as a funny story: "Later, I went to South Korea and heard from classmates that the person who lost the computer had been looking for it for four or five years."

The host and guests were all embarrassed after hearing this, so Sa Beining had to smooth things over by saying, "You confessed today, so it can be considered as surrendering yourself! After so many years, the statute of limitations has also passed..."

When Han Geng heard this, he thought, "Confession is treated leniently"? His interest suddenly increased. He continued, "Besides stealing computers, when I was in school, I loved listening to music, but I didn't have money to buy cassettes. So we wore our military coats with big cuffs and went to other people's stalls to buy cassettes. We could hide five cassettes in one sleeve..."

When discussing the simultaneous release of the Hollywood blockbuster "Furious 7" in mainland China, Lu Jinbo, the producer of "Everything Grows," expressed confidence: "Don't idolize "Furious 7" so much. The people there are all brainless and prone to fighting at the slightest provocation. But in "Everything Grows," everyone has feelings."

Regarding the box office of "Everything Grows," he said, "As the best youth film in film history, the box office should be slightly higher than the best youth film before it."

However, the reality was not as Producer Lu had expected. The highly anticipated leading new Chinese-language film "Everything Grows" was released on the 17th, and the box office on the first day was only 24 million, less than a fraction of "Fast & Furious 7" (the box office on the 17th was 140 million). Even the combined efforts of Fan Bingbing and Han Geng were unable to shake the dominance of this Hollywood blockbuster.

"I've worked with Han Geng before on a commercial. How come I didn't realize how clueless he was then?"

During the lunch break at noon, Yang Mi sighed while browsing the news.

She and Gu Wei are both spokespeople for Pepsi, and they had some contact with Han Geng when filming the commercials.

Yang Mi's father is a policeman. The environment she grew up in made her more sensitive to crimes than ordinary people.

She felt that Han Geng's remarks at the film press conference were equivalent to self-destruction. It was no longer a moral issue, but a real violation of the law.

"Many celebrities don't have a high level of education, but are held in high esteem by their fans, which gives them a sense of superiority. When they say these things, they have no idea they've broken the law."

Gu Wei was also speechless about this situation.

To be honest, many well-known stars in the domestic entertainment industry are "killed" by themselves. They make all kinds of self-exposures and outrageous moves because they are afraid that they will not be able to escape fast enough.

"Miss Mi, with the momentum of Furious 7 going on right now, aren't you worried about the release of Love and Destiny at the end of the month?"

"Why should I worry? You said it would be released at the end of the month. By then, Furious 7 will have been in its fourth week, and even its momentum will have fizzled out.

The movie you starred in, The Left Ear, is going to be released next week, right? Now that the first one to be released, Everything Grows, has already flopped, the next one will depend on how The Left Ear performs.

Yang Mi looked at Gu Wei with a smile and said.

Gu Wei didn't look worried at all and said confidently:

"According to the current trend of Furious 7, it is aiming to break the domestic box office record. To think that it can beat it is definitely a pipe dream.

However, it should be no problem for "The Left Ear" to snatch a piece of meat from "The Furious 7" and take over some of the market box office share.

After all, this is my movie, isn’t it?

Seeing Gu Wei saying such pretentious words with an expression of "I am the best", Yang Mi wanted to make a sarcastic remark.

However, when she thought of Gu Wei's previous achievements, she swallowed the words on her lips.

"Miss Mi, how about we compare the box office performance of two upcoming movies? Whoever performs worse will agree to a condition?"

Gu Wei continued with a smile.

"Okay, if you don't agree it'll seem like I'm afraid of you!"

Although he lacked confidence in himself, Yang Mi did not show any weakness.

She could imagine what requests this little pervert Gu Wei would make. It didn't matter even if she lost. It would just make her work harder at night, which was a mixture of pain and happiness.

Happy Qixi Festival everyone!

(End of this chapter)