Chapter 185 The box office myth created by Tai Jiǒng
"I watched the award for Best Newcomer slip away from my nose at this time last year. I came again this year, but I was indeed an award presenter. Judging from my previous experience, it seems that it will be difficult for me to be the Best Newcomer in the future. This is a sad story!"
Wang Xu showed a pitiful look when he spoke, which made everyone laugh with gloating. However, he turned around and said, "But I am happy now, because when I saw my senior brother, Brother Hua, sitting down, and I feel happy again when I saw him."
The camera switched to Liu Dehua, and I saw that Liu Tianwang had a smile on his face. He was in a good mood when he saw it. No, he was a big hit in this year's movie "Tao Jie" and won the award last year.
"Why do I say that?" Wang Xu continued: "I grew up watching the movie of Senior Brother. I remembered twelve years ago, in 1999, and I learned that Senior Brother got the first little golden man. At that time, I felt so strange and complained to Senior Brother. Why is my Senior Brother so awesome superstar who has been in the movie for almost twenty years before he won the first Golden Image Award? This is very unscientific."
"Thinking about the past 12 years that the senior brother has gone from being rejected by the Golden Horse Awards to becoming a regular customer of the Golden Horse Awards. I am ruthless in my mind. I am still young. If I don't have this year, I will come back next year. If I don't have it next year, I will be able to do it next year. If I don't have it, I will be a role model for the senior brother. Do you want to encourage me? "
The last sentence Wang Xu shouted at Liu Dehua from the audience, and Liu Dehua stood up, shouted in a trumpet-shaped manner with both hands: "Come on!"
After seeing the deep friendship between the two, everyone couldn't help but give them a round of applause and encouragement.
After the applause stopped, Wang Xu stopped playing tricks and started doing serious business. The award was revealed, and the winner Xiao Jingteng won the grand prize when he was electrocuted for the first time.
The best actor at this Academy Awards was nothing unexpected and won by Liu Dehua.
The next day, Liu Dehua invited dozens of friends in the circle to celebrate, and Wang Xu brought his wife Zhuang Xiaodie to participate. When Wang Xujing was drinking, the two good friends agreed to help each other.
Liu Dehua agreed to attend the premiere of "Tang Bohu's Lotto Autumn Fragrance" on May 1st. Wang Xu agreed to be the guest singer of Liu Dehua's Taipei concert on June 15th.
After attending the celebration of senior brother, Wang Xu started to travel around the country to promote videos. During this period, there were three important activities that need to be mentioned.
The first is March 20, the 19th College Student Film Festival.
Wang Xu was shortlisted for the most popular male actor award among college students. He was confident that he could win the award, but he returned in a disappointment. In 2011, his classmate Wen won this award for his popularity with "The Age of Naked Marriage" and "Thirty-Three Days of Love Break".
Wang Xu felt that he really had no chance to win the award. He comforted himself that the box office and trophy were like fish and bear's paws. Zhuang Xiaodie encouraged him. He was full of confidence in him and said that her hammer would definitely be recognized and would win the actor Xiao Jinren.
The second event was the Golden Hammer Mobile Game Studio celebrating that the Fruit Ninja's installation machine exceeded 300 million, and achieved a monthly profit of 8 million. You should know that this game is conservatively estimated to have a lifespan of ten years. This is really a hen that lays golden eggs.
Wang Xu's purse suddenly became bulging, and he generously sent more than 3 million red envelopes. Even the company's cleaning lady got 10,000 red envelopes.
The third important event is the premiere of "Lost in Thailand" on March 28.
Before this, the promotional activities of "Lost in Thailand" were even more powerful than "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance". The three trailers were broadcasted on Youdou.com more than 10 million times on demand, which was much higher than the 8 million on demand of "Tang Bohu".
Wang Bo, Wang Baoqiang and Xu Poe are known as the three fools who make trouble in Thailand, which is very funny.
On the same day, Wang Xu attended the premiere of the film as a film investor. It is inevitable that a reporter asked him to predict the box office of the two movies, "Lost in Thailand" and "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance".
Wang Xu's box office forecast for "Tang Bohu's Tie Qiuxiang" is relatively conservative. He estimated a box office of 800 million to 1 billion yuan, and the prediction for "Lost in Thailand" was a big satellite, and it was unconcealed that the box office would be more than 1.3 billion yuan.
I'm afraid only Wang Xu knows that 1.3 billion is also a conservative number, because in the Earth's space-time "Lost in Thailand", this time and space film market is even more prosperous and exceeding 1.3 billion.
Wang Xu's optimistic estimates should not be said that the reporters were surprised, even Xu Poe, Wang Bo and others felt that it was unlikely. Several film critics couldn't help but post a Weibo post on the scene to mock Wang Xu for making cannons. Of course, fortunately, they didn't say that they would make a joke on the live broadcast, because the box office of "Lost in Thailand" came out the next day, shocked the entire entertainment industry.
"Lost in Thailand" became the first domestic film in the history of Chinese films to have a single-day box office of over 100 million yuan. Previously, this record has been maintained by the overseas film "Avatar".
A week later, the box office exceeded 500 million, until the day it was released on May 1st, creating a box office of 1.5 billion, surpassing the record of "Avatar" by 1.4 billion, becoming the largest Chinese-language film.
The reviews of the films that were listed at the same time as him were in great trouble, and the box office was bleak. All the films planned to be released were adjusted one after another, and even "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was said to be postponed to May in order to avoid being sharp.
This month, the entire entertainment industry has been discussing "Lost in Thailand" like he had taken the medicine. The film has become an image-level film. The so-called phenomenon-level film is usually directed and the starring actors themselves have strong fan appeal. They can protect their capital by relying on fans alone. Coupled with the marketing planning of the professional team, the topicality of the creation is far greater than the movie itself, and it has become a "phenomenon" movie.
The topic of "Lost in Thailand" is much greater than that of the movie itself. Wang Bo, Wang Baoqiang and Xu Poe have all received huge praise, and the combination of the three of them has become a new benchmark for comedy movies.
Director Xu Pear said in an interview with the media: "I just want to make a normal movie and expect it to have a normal result, but it has become an event. I think this event has nothing to do with me."
Before filming "Lost in Thailand", Xu Zheng struggled in the film and television industry for many years, but he never became popular. He kept an impressive bald head and smiled a little honestly. Later, he became famous, but he was never on the front line. Lost in Thailand became popular. He expressed his heart and said: "My value as an actor has always been underestimated, and no one has seen my true value. But when you realize your own value, this value may be overestimated again."
After filming his first movie, he was labeled as the new label of "1 billion club director". Xu Pie mocked himself and said that he was probably the first director who had the less box office the more he filmed.
When asked whom Xu Pang wanted to thank the most during the interview, he said without hesitation that he thanked two bosses named Wang, one was Chairman Wang of Light Media, and the second was Wang Xu.
Why do we thank the two investors the most? Xu Piao said the bitterness of the film preparation for the first time. In fact, "Lost in Thailand" was not Xu Zheng's insistence, and the movie might have been dead. The reason is that Xu Piao held the script and looked for investors one by one, but they were eventually rejected. "Some investors even paid Wang Baoqiang's deposit, but they all withdrawn the investment in the end." The reason for the withdrawal was that they did not believe in Xu Piao's ability as a new director. A boss thought, "How could he direct the show? He is just an actor!"
When Wang Xu heard that it was Xu Peng, the director, he invested 60 million without hesitation. What moved him the most was that Wang Xu once said to him in private: "Let go, I will not make any demands on you, including the box office. I will admit it if I lose. Who told me to believe you?"
This revelation made Wang Xu not only gain a huge profit of 500 million yuan, but also gained the reputation of Bole. Some media people lamented that he is a leader in comedians and has a vicious vision.
Wang Xu also gained the advantage that as the topic of "Lost in Thailand" cooled down and as the release date of "Tang Bohu's Tiger" gradually approached, the media was full of expectations for the first costume drama starring him, the comedy genius.
Will the box office of "Tang Bohu's Tips for Autumn Fragrance" surpass "Lost in Thailand"? This topic has gradually become hyped up.
It was finally five o'clock in the evening on May 1st, and the film "Tang Bohu's Tiger's Autumn Fragrance" held its imposing premiere red carpet in the capital Yanjing.
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