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"Iron Man 3" continued to be a hit in mainland China the next week, still grossing 255 million, and the total box office in the mainland reached 705 million. The box office exceeded 700 million in 11 days, which shows Li Donglai's appeal in the mainland.
Disney is even more happy because with the addition of new forces in the Chinese market, the global box office of "Iron Man 3" instantly exceeded the 1.3 billion mark.
¡°In just one place in China, it took in more than 100 million U.S. dollars in box office in ten days. There is nothing more powerful than this.
"Iron Man 3" is an imported film released by Phantom. If it is also counted as a Phantom movie, then Phantom has won the championship for thirteen weeks.
However, the box office potential of "Iron Man 3" in the mainland is about to be exhausted. It has fallen too fast and it is almost impossible to exceed one billion.
But it doesn¡¯t matter, this time slot is still occupied by Phantom.
"Partners in China", a collaboration with director Peter Chan, has been released again, with more than 80,000 screens scheduled for the first week, which is only less than the 100,000 screens for "Iron Man 3".
This film lineup also shows the Phantom's expectations and optimism for "Partners in China".
Taking advantage of the nostalgic craze of "To Youth", Peter Chan has produced a nostalgic masterpiece of higher quality.
In "Chinese Partner", Chen Kexin regained the same feelings as when filming "Sweet Honey" and solidly depicted the memory of an era. Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, and Tong Dawei also gained recognition from the audience through their unremitting efforts. "Partners in China" has also become a rare movie in recent years that has audiences spontaneously standing up and applauding in theaters. This is really a blessing for the Chinese film market.
Although "China Partner" had a mediocre performance of 24 million on the first day, it successfully exceeded 100 million in the first week due to word-of-mouth fermentation with almost zero negative reviews. In just one weekend, the box office surpassed the weekly box office of "Iron Man 3" and became the No. 1 movie this week.
With the film's rave reviews, Phantom continues to expand the theater schedule of "Partners in China". The schedule has gradually surpassed "Iron Man 3" to become the number one in the country. Currently. The film's screenings accounted for 37% in the top 20 ticket-rich cities across the country, and its prospects are bright.
When the weekend box office results were released, the CEOs of all film and television companies across the country had dark faces.
¡°Another weekly champion!¡±
Winning the next week¡¯s championship with a box office of 105.8 million naturally lowered the market, but it is still the Phantom himself who is playing.
Phoenix Entertainment, Sina Entertainment. Tencent Entertainment has been reporting heavily this week that Phantom has won the box office championship for the fourteenth week this year.
"It's only been twenty-two weeks, and Phantom has won the championship for fourteen weeks. What are other film companies doing?"
The good media intends to interview Wang Changtian of Guangwang, Wang Zhongjun of Huayi and others. They all avoided seeing him. On the other hand, China Film¡¯s Uncle Han is more active, but when faced with this situation where one family dominates, he laments again and again, ¡°This is a miracle. Before this, who could have imagined that Phantom¡¯s sudden power would be so scary. But looking at the current box office successes, Movies are all well-known. Regardless of publicity, film scheduling, and response work after the movie is released, they are all arranged in an orderly manner. It is very scientific and worthy of reference by peers. After two years of careful foundation building, Phantom China Company has now The hardware is very solid. This allows them to operate very efficiently and is very unlike a state-owned film and television company. Of course, the most important thing is that the quality of every movie released by Phantom is very high. This is the most critical thing. I think movies across the country should learn from the Phantom model. The most important thing is to make a good movie first and achieve good results. It is not difficult."
He can stand and talk without pain in his back, so how can he understand other people¡¯s efforts.
??This time, Director Feng. Big names like Director Zhang were silent.
The sudden outbreak of Phantom this year really scared a group of people.
This week Iron Man 3 earned 83.33 million, a huge drop. But the total box office also reached 788.3 million. "To Youth" continued to earn a small revenue of 22 million, and its box office potential is only around 800 million. Subsequently, it gradually withdrew from the mainstream market.
This score is enough for Zhao Wei to graduate successfully. At the same time, it also raises the threshold for graduation works of their graduate students in directing to an eye-popping level.
Next week, "Star Trek Into Darkness" is coming. This is purely China Film's attempt to contain the Phantom. At a time when domestic films are showing their prominence, such a blockbuster film is included in the film to compete with domestic films at the box office.
Isn¡¯t it Domestic Film Protection Month?
"Many people have seen that under the leadership of Phantom, domestic films are on the rise, but China Film Group is holding them back. This has attracted a lot of abuse and criticism on the Internet, which is just not good for others. What kind of peace of mind do you have?Many state-owned entertainment company bosses breathed a sigh of relief. The pressure on Phantom to win consecutive weeks was too great. Even a Hollywood blockbuster hopes to curb the Phantom's arrogant momentum.
"Star Trek" has achieved good results of nearly 100 million US dollars in its first weekend of release in North America. Although there are not as many "Trek" movie fans in China as there are in the United States, it is still enough for it to achieve a high proportion of film schedules.
So at next week¡¯s box office, many people are not optimistic that Phantom will continue to win the championship.
But they were obviously disappointed. However, "Partners in China" relied on its high reputation and the enthusiasm of the audience cultivated by Phantom. It visited hundreds of theaters across the country for one week, appeared on many variety shows for promotion, and returned the next week. With a revenue of 250 million and a cumulative death rate of 360 million in two weeks of release, it continued to be the champion.
"Fifteen crowns!"
There is no need for the Phantom to do its own statistics. The media has already done a lot of publicity for the Phantom's fifteenth weekly championship.
Real domineering!
On Li Donglai¡¯s Weibo, young fans come to ¡°pilgrimage¡± every day, and they keep saying adoring words such as V587.
Of course, "Star Trek Into Darkness" also performed well this week, achieving a super high box office of 160 million people. It was not a problem to win the weekly championship, but unfortunately it happened to encounter the Phantom who was going crazy. time. 160 million, a score of nearly 50 million US dollars. Even in Hollywood, it was the weekend champion, but in China it could only be temporarily ranked second.
CEOs of film and television companies across the country are wailing, looking at next week's film schedule. The American spy film "Black Orchid", the Hong Kong comedy "Rival" starring Eric Tsang, Nicholas Tse, and Bosco Bosco, and a mainland film "The Ring" simply cannot shake the popularity of "The Chinese Partner". They are bound to have to endure it for another week.
It was no coincidence that the sixteenth crown appeared.
In the third week, "Star Trek" ranked second with 80 million, and "China Partners" continued to win 136 million. With a cumulative box office of 496 million, another 500 million blockbuster was born.
It is worth mentioning that this week, "Iron Man 3" exceeded 9 million box office viewings in South Korea, giving Phantom Korea a good start in the second half of the year.
"Compared with the popularity of Phantom in the Chinese and Korean markets, Phantom America's popularity seems to have come a bit late.
Fortunately, this summer, thanks to "Fast and Furious 6", Chinese-American director Lin Yibin has achieved a global box office of over 700 million so far. The first new film since joining Phantom is finally about to be released.
The highly anticipated "Now You See Me" has entered its final promotional period.
At this time, Li Donglai rushed from "World of Warcraft" to Cannes, France, to prepare for the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Street.
"Gravity" has been nominated for many awards, and its reputation is very good. It is very hopeful that it will win the award. As the world's three largest European film awards, the Palme d'Or is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated awards in a director's life.
It¡¯s no less important than the Oscars.
Because the Oscars also consider commercial aspects. But the French are purely interested in art films.
¡°Perhaps on the beautiful French beach, Li Donglai is about to win his second important award as a director besides the Golden Globe Award.
During this period, not only "Gravity" has been well received, there are many good movies this year.
Cheng Long and Donnie Yen both came to Cannes to sell their films.
When Li Donglai was away, Xu Ke also took "Detective Dee: The Dragon King" to the Cannes Film Festival to promote it. Liu Dehua, Maggie Cheung, Fan Binbin, Zhang Ziyi and others all came to support.
Although it is a Chinese film, like "Gravity", it has been translated into English. There is no obstacle for foreigners to watch.
Because the movie stars Li Donglai, the global promotion of the movie started early. The trailer has been translated into multiple languages ??and released globally, and will be released in many countries and regions around the world. The 20-minute clips shown received strong praise from the media.
It is another good 3D movie. Although it is not as brilliant as "Gravity", it is more fantasy and full of Chinese characteristics. Therefore, the promotion of the film in Cannes also attracted film producers from many countries to negotiate.
It¡¯s not all the Chinese who are stealing the show, actually. The performance of Chinese films at the Cannes Film Festival would not have attracted much attention without Li Donglai.
When China¡¯s movie box office has become the second largest in the world, and Hollywood wants to provide special supplies to China, Chinese people will inevitably have the illusion that the scenery here is unique. However in fact. It was Indian films that stole the show at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Yesterday, Cannes officials held a series of activities to pay tribute to Indian films, trying to tell the world that "India?There is only one Bollywood?
On May 19, the Cannes Film Festival held a special screening event to pay tribute to a century of Indian cinema. The special screening "Bombay Films" brought together four short films with completely different styles and types, all from the hands of young Indian directors. Only one of them continued the legacy of Bao The other three short films either focus on the fate of an ordinary family, show a vigorous love story, or describe the same-sex feelings between a young couple. The style of the works gives people a distinct international impression.
"It is a mistake to think that Indian films only have Bollywood." The Cannes Film Festival has also been trying to rid Indian films of the "Bollywood" imprint. In the past few years, Cannes has had Indian films selected every year, such as "U-daan" and " MissLovely" and other films have received favorable reviews in the "Un Certain Regard" category. This year, the Cannes Film Festival has added the famous Indian actress Vidya Balan to the jury team, demonstrating the strength of Indian films in the international market.
Unlike Chinese films that ¡°bloom within the walls¡± and ¡°have difficulty going abroad¡±, Indian films have always gained a lot in expanding overseas markets. Take "Three Idiots in Bollywood" as an example. The film has 400 copies distributed overseas, which is far more successful overseas than "‡å".
The official language of India is English, and India has used this language endowment to accelerate the internationalization of its films.
During the Cannes Film Festival, local media also praised the significant changes in Indian films. "The Indian film industry is gaining more space and attention in the international film world and has successfully attracted international collaborators."
Looking at the Chinese-language films that have been shortlisted or participated in this year's Cannes Film Festival, and even the entire Chinese-language film market, only Li Donglai dares to make science fiction films with great fanfare. Jia Zhangke, who was shortlisted this year, is still trying to represent the feelings of China's sixth-generation directors by choosing sensitive political topics and exposing social scars, while Hong Kong films are still limited to genre-based creations.
Chinese films need more diversified breakthroughs in the international image. Just like the two kung fu stars Cheng Long and Zhen Zidan selling films in Cannes, they understand that boxing and kicking kung fu alone can no longer conquer the world. What everyone wants to watch is people like Nicky For a beautiful woman like Ta to fight, there needs to be a 3D production like "Xia Xia". Therefore, complacent Chinese filmmakers still need to really watch and think more on international platforms.
"Li Donglai, Li Donglai, Li Donglai!"
The Cannes Film Festival is coming to an end, and "Stars" is obviously a lot worse than the opening ceremony. But after Li Donglai appeared, such shouts still kept hearing.
So that everyone knows that the Cannes Film Festival is not only about movies, but also about fashion, food and travel, as well as charity.
Li Donglai arrived in France the night before the closing ceremony. He was specially invited to attend a grand AIDS charity gala held here.