When Boss Wei was being tortured to death by Fan Xiaopang and Tang Yan.

The outside world is boiling with excitement over the explosion of the National Day box office!

2015 is destined to be a year with a booming box office. At the beginning of the year, "Detective Chinatown 3" broke the record in film history. Many other films released during the same period also grossed over 500 million yuan. The total box office for the entire Spring Festival period was close to 5 billion yuan.

From April to June, Hollywood blockbusters were released frequently, including three movies with box office of over 1 billion yuan. "Fast and Furious 7" was the first movie in mainland China to earn 2 billion yuan at the box office.

"Terminator: Genisys", which was released in late August and quite close to the National Day holiday, and "Mission: Impossible 5", which was released in early September, also had box office revenues of 700 to 900 million yuan.

Adding other scattered time periods, as of October, the number of Hollywood movies with box office revenue exceeding 500 million was nearly in the double digits.

The number of domestic films is even greater.

The two explosions of the Spring Festival and summer movie seasons have already surprised the Chinese people and the industry, but no one expected that the National Day season, which was not particularly valued, would also make a splash this year.

The popularity of "Lost in Hong Kong" was within everyone's expectations.

After all, although it is not certain whether Xu Zheng is just a flash in the pan, the influence of "Lost in Thailand" was not to be underestimated. The industry was quite optimistic about the movie before it was released.

According to the predictions of relevant institutions, nearly half of the respondents believe that "Lost in Hong Kong" can reach a box office of over 800 million yuan, and the lowest estimated number is around 500 million yuan. Although the number of people who believe that it will exceed 1 billion yuan is the smallest, the proportion is also close to 20%.

Therefore, it was not surprising to the outside world that "Lost in Hong Kong" became a hit.

At most, no one expected it to be such a huge hit, and behind the booming box office, the relatively mediocre quality of "Lost in Hong Kong" caused controversy.

Among the movies in the "Lost" series, the first one "Lost on Journey" has the best reputation. It has strong comedy elements and is about the people and things that two unlucky guys encounter on the road.

"Lost in Thailand" has both good and bad reputations, but overall it is good. Xu Zheng added a main emotional line about a middle-aged man's career and family, but he stopped at the right point.

By the time we watched "Lost in Hong Kong", we could see that Xu Zhengjia had more and more personal opinions, which deviated from the mainstream.

Most people can actually understand the family and career difficulties faced by middle-aged people.

But the middle-aged son-in-law is unable to have children, and he hides it from his wife, and desperately goes to find Bai Yueguang, pursuing the so-called youth and self. In the end, the three people inexplicably face life and death in the building, and their true feelings are not something that many normal audiences can understand.

How should I put it? Lost in Hong Kong has an unpleasant plot and a terrible ending...

So even if this movie didn't use Zhao, who was acting perfunctory, and let his wife Tao Hong play the role herself, and the stupid Bao Beier was replaced by his old partner Wang Baoqiang, and the cold/expressionless first love professional was turned into the charming Gao Yuanyuan, the movie's rating was still not saved.

Even because the main actors had fewer complaints and no one shared the blame, people began to question Xu Zheng's directing ability even more.

Wei Yang was also involved.

When filming "Lost in Thailand", Xu Zheng lacked confidence and intended to seek advice from a big shot. In addition, the new director wanted to add some gimmicks.

So Wei Yang served as the producer, and since he participated in the discussion of the script and put forward suggestions, Xu Zheng added his name to the screenwriter column.

It is hard to say how much profit these two names brought to "Lost in Thailand", but they did steal a lot of Xu Zheng's limelight.

At that time, Wei Yang was a popular film and television tycoon, and he had produced countless high-quality hits, while Xu Zheng was just a new director.

"Lost in Thailand" created a box office miracle. Many people inevitably thought that Wei Yang contributed a lot and gave him all the credit. Even if Boss Wei clarified it, it was of no avail. Most people thought he was just being modest.

After all, Wei Yang has always had the habit of supporting newcomers, and often gives the credit to the team behind the scenes.

But this situation was very uncomfortable for Xu Zheng.

But he couldn't say anything. On the one hand, he didn't dare to offend Boss Wei. On the other hand, Wei Yang did help, and he couldn't turn his back on him.

More importantly, Wei Yang's name was added at his own insistence. At first, Wei Yang had expressed doubts and wanted to cross out his name. It was only after he pulled the producer and Wang Baoqiang to plead with him that Wei Yang was convinced.

Therefore, having learned his lesson, Xu Zheng did not have much communication with Wei Yang this time, nor did he mention the issue of the title.

Wei Yang knew that he was ambitious and did not take "Lost in Hong Kong" very seriously, just treating it as a money-making project.

As a result, the reputation of "Lost in Hong Kong" suffered a backlash, and many people believed that it was because Wei Yang gave Xu Zheng too much power and did not participate in the project, and they inexplicably put the blame on Boss Wei.

Regardless of Wei Yang's mood, Xu Zheng was almost becoming autistic.

In addition, although "Lost in Hong Kong" had a bad reputation, its box office data was still good. It ranked first in the film market, so Xu Zheng's popularity continued to rise.

According to gossip, many companies and capitals have extended olive branches. Although Xu Zheng has not said it explicitly, he seems to be in a position to part ways with Wei Yang and Blue Whale.

Boss Wei was not surprised by this and had even been prepared for it. Although he could leave, the copyright of the "囧" series was still in his hands.

Xu Zheng can continue to shoot, but he has to pay! As mentioned earlier, Xu Zheng once cheated the company that produced Lost on Journey over copyright.

But Wei Yang is no pushover. He holds the copyrights to "Lost in Thailand" and "Lost in Hong Kong" and has registered a series of related trademarks and copyrights.

Let me put it this way, if other people shoot the "囧" series, it's fine as long as they don't plagiarize. However, for artists like Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang who are deeply tied to the series, they have to pay even if they don't use the word "囧" as long as the plot has the same structure.

Don’t give?

Then let them see the strength of Wei Yang's legal team known as the "Xuhui Tumbler"...

In sharp contrast to "Lost in Hong Kong" during the National Day holiday, "Charlotte's Troubles" was not favored by the industry before its release, but ended up being a great success in both word-of-mouth and box office.

Before the movie "Charlotte's Troubles" was released, it was very similar to the year's "Lost in Thailand".

Not to mention that the outside world does not take Happy Twist, an unknown team in the film industry, seriously at all, even the film's creators themselves are actually worried about the film's prospects.

Although Shen Teng and others are regular guests at the Spring Festival Gala, and this year they have gained a lot of popularity thanks to "Happy Comedians", skits are just skits, and the film industry doesn't buy it.

For many movie fans, the biggest gimmick of "Charlotte's Troubles" is actually the two directors.

Yan Fei and Peng Damo!

These two names, which were still unknown a year ago, became the champion directors in film history after "Detective Chinatown". Even if Wei Yang gets more glory, it is enough to make them newcomers in the director world.

As for the drama "Charlotte's Troubles", it is also quite popular, which also does not bring much help to the movie.

Not to mention that the two art forms seem similar, but in fact there is a thick barrier between them. More importantly, the drama market is too small. Even if it is very popular, it may not be able to make a splash across the boundaries.

Therefore, most people regard "Charlotte's Troubles" as a foil to "Lost in Hong Kong".

Only Wei Yang was different. He once again overcame all objections and persuaded many senior executives who were optimistic about "Charlotte's Troubles" to give "Charlotte's Troubles" publicity and promotion resources that were no less than those of "Lost in Hong Kong".

Even in private, Wei Yang quietly contacted some resources for the "Charlotte's Troubles" crew in his own name.

Wei Yang's strong support gave "Charlotte's Troubles" the confidence to play to its strengths and did not disappoint Wei Yang's expectations.

It was released at the end of September and only grossed 45 million on its first day.

It is lower than "Lost in Hong Kong", which has been released for nearly a week, and "Nine-story Demon Tower" directed by Lu Tailang and starring Gao Yuanyuan's husband and Yao Dazui.

The latter is also a popular movie in this National Day. It is directed by a famous director and has an impressive cast. The most important thing is the super IP of "Ghost Blowing Out the Light".

In theaters on September 30, "Nine-story Demon Tower" and "Lost in Hong Kong" accounted for nearly 70% of the screenings.

Next are "Charlotte's Troubles" and "Saving Mr. Wu". In the previous life, the latter with King Liu in the role had more screenings, but now the former is backed by Blue Whale, and even though it still has a shallow foundation, it has also secured some screenings.

Although the box office performance of "Charlotte's Troubles" seems to be "unworthy" of the screening schedule.

It is normal for an original movie from a "new team" to start slowly. Even the explosion of "Charlotte's Troubles" in the previous life was due to word-of-mouth fermentation.

Dark horses always make efforts in the middle and late stages! However, Wei Yang miscalculated this time, because "Charlotte's Troubles" now has the promotion and support of Blue Whale.

Previously, because there were too few points to promote "Charlotte's Troubles", many plot details needed to be kept secret, and the budget was not enough to promote it indiscriminately, the publicity team's strategy was relatively conservative.

But after the movie was released, realizing that it had excellent word of mouth, the publicity team immediately realized where to start.

Based on the positive reviews from the first wave of moviegoers, they immediately invested all their funds and began to promote the film crazily across the entire Internet. In order to make the film famous, they even did not hesitate to attack their own people.

The funniest comedy movie during the National Day holiday

"Can you believe this movie is much better than 'Lost in Hong Kong'?"

Come on, this is the real way to pursue your first love on campus

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Read the original text at Liu#9@书/吧!

That's so weird!

The "Lost in Hong Kong" team was so angry that they took the lawsuit to Wei Yang, which finally calmed them down a bit.

But even if there is no slander or copycatting of "Charlotte's Troubles", the popularity and exposure of the movie are growing rapidly, especially the comprehensive spread of word of mouth, which has attracted a large number of audiences.

I have to say that the quality of the movie "Charlotte's Troubles" is really good. It can be considered a masterpiece among Chinese comedy movies, and can even be said to be a classic.

Based on the big gimmick of time travel, coupled with a large number of excellent characters and continuous jokes, it is enough to make people laugh continuously, and the main emotional line of "the prodigal son's return", although some viewers do not quite agree with it, but overall it is still a happy ending that is generally liked by the public.

There is actually a side criterion to measure the excellence of a comedy film, and that is its ability to create memes.

This is the strength of Happy Twist's hit movies. In "Charlotte's Troubles", there are lines or scenes such as - teachers don't bear grudges, Dashachun, what are you doing? What kind of Dongmei is this? The background music of snowflakes is falling, and your name is Charlotte. I call you brother and you call me dad.

Later, they all became famous memes. Not only are there many of them, but they have also lasted for a long time, and even become the memory symbols of a generation. This is quite remarkable.

Shen Teng later became extremely box office appealing, and the term "Shen Teng content" even came into being. The goodwill and national popularity accumulated by these memes were also crucial.

At present, the power of these memes has not yet been demonstrated, but they have also brought great convenience to the promotion of the film.

On the second day of the release of "Charlotte's Troubles", the number of screenings increased and the box office also increased significantly.

60 million+!

In addition, the attendance rate of "Charlotte's Troubles" was as high as 48.4%, and its share of the overall box office was also higher than its share of screenings.

The number of screenings scheduled in theaters is different, so the attendance rates cannot be roughly compared, but the attendance rate of nearly 50% also shows the popularity of "Charlotte's Troubles".

The attendance rate of "Lost in Hong Kong" was only 34%, and that of "Nine-story Demons" was less than 30%.

Even though they have more screenings, which lowers the rate of increase, this data comparison also makes theaters think a lot.

The comparison of the market box office share data is even more intuitive!

This is equivalent to "Charlotte's Troubles" making 100 million from 20% of the screenings, while "Nine-story Demon Tower" made 120 million from 35% of the screenings.

It seems that "Nine-story Demon Tower" makes more money, but its efficiency is simply terrible.

What the cinema chains are concerned about is profit, so seeing this, they will naturally wonder who can make more money with the same screening rate, and the result is self-evident.

Another very important point is that the reputation of "Charlotte's Troubles" is getting better and better.

The Douban score of 8.1 absolutely crushes "Lost in Hong Kong" which has a score of less than 6, and even beats "Nine-story Demon Tower" which has a score of 4.4.

There are even Douban users who say that the rating of "Charlotte's Troubles" is definitely inflated because it is overshadowed by the latter two films.

But regardless of whether the prices are inflated or not, this sharp contrast reveals to a certain extent the future box office trend.

Bad movies are likely to have a lower box office, and well-received movies will also have a higher box office. This may not be the case, but don't forget that Blue Whale is behind "Charlotte's Troubles".

A simply excellent movie may not be able to become a dark horse, but an excellent movie with a background, once it gets going, will be unstoppable.

On the third day of its release, the screening schedule for "Charlotte's Troubles" soared to 28%. On the same day, the box office exceeded 100 million yuan, surpassing "Lost in Hong Kong" to top the list during the same period.

After this, "Charlotte's Troubles" never came down for more than ten days.

As of mid-October, the Hollywood Marvel movie "Ant-Man" was released, finally pushing "Charlotte's Troubles" to second place.

At that time, "Charlotte's Troubles", which had been released for more than two weeks, had a box office of nearly 1.3 billion.

"Lost in Hong Kong", which has been released for more than 20 days, is about to reach a box office of 1.6 billion. Unfortunately, due to word-of-mouth problems, the latter has lost its stamina, and it is estimated that it will only make a few tens of millions more before being withdrawn from the theaters.

On the contrary, "Charlotte's Troubles" has good stamina, and with Wei Yang's support, its performance is much better than in the previous life.

According to authoritative predictions, if nothing unexpected happens, 1.5 billion will be no problem, and there is even hope of beating "Lost in Hong Kong" and becoming the champion of the National Day holiday, but it may require some luck.

Happy Twist, Shen Teng and others became famous overnight and became the new stars in the film industry, and the two directors were praised to the sky.

However, in the eyes of those who are interested, Boss Wei is more worthy of attention.

As of mid-October, there are six films invested and produced by Wei Yang or his companies this year with box office revenue exceeding 1 billion yuan.

Detective Chinatown

Pancake Man

The Monkey King: Hero is Back

Operation Mekong

Lost in Hong Kong

Charlotte's Troubles

Six of the top seven domestic films on this year's box office list were occupied. "Monster Hunt" alone "escaped from the clutches of the devil", with a cumulative box office of more than 9 billion yuan, if we include some other investment films such as "Wolf Warrior".

The cumulative box office of the film projects that Wei Yang participated in this year is expected to exceed 10 billion! You don’t know until you count it, but you will be shocked when you count it! Boss Wei used to think that there was still some gap between him and Huayi, but now he suddenly thinks Huayi is nothing.

Ask around, besides China Film Group, which other company has an annual cumulative box office of more than 10 billion? Even without counting the Hollywood movies it released, China Film Group has to be the younger brother of domestic films this year! You know, so far this year, the total box office of the entire mainland is less than 40 billion, and Wei Yang and Blue Whale account for only a quarter. The total box office of domestic films is about 24 billion, and Wei Yang and Blue Whale have taken up 40% of it.

The original goal set at the beginning of the year was to accumulate strength and work hard to build a film sector and strive to reach the top level in the industry. In the end, all my efforts came to nothing and I ended up directly at number one.

Wei Yang put his hands on his hips and said, "Let's be frank. I won't pretend anymore. I am the boss of the film industry!"

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