Chapter 701: Winning People's Hearts
"Police Detective School" has entered the third week of screening, and it inevitably ushered in a slow decline in the box office. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In terms of the normal box office of a movie, it is already very good, and the second week of a movie will be less than the first week, and the third week will fall sharply.
"Police Detective School" is naturally better, and the box office of Xiangjiang fell to 6.3 million, down about 16% from the second week.
The overseas box office is similar, closing at $32 million, down 18% from the second week, a very healthy decline, and it can even be said that the performance is extremely dazzling and excellent.
But Yin Jun was still a little dissatisfied.
In the previous life, "Police Detective School" won a super high box office of more than 80 million US dollars in the United States alone, and when Yin Jun did the editing in this life, he also edited a version for the American market according to the movie clips of his previous life, but in this life in the United States, it only took three weeks to win the box office of 40 million US dollars, which is less than half of the total box office.
This is still because Yin Jun cooperated with Universal Pictures in "E.T.", and then made a big concession, and Universal and Lei Shidong contacted together, and they arranged more than 400 screens in the United States.
Fortunately, "Police Detective School" is a very good movie, and the plot is more in line with American values, so in the first week, the box office reached 10 million US dollars, so that theater companies actively increased the number of screens to about 800, and then ushered in a bumper harvest.
Originally, the films that performed eye-catching for two weeks in a row, if they were according to the normal situation, they could still add a little more screen in the third week, and they did not decrease until the fourth week.
However, the bad luck of "Police and Detective School" hit the blockbuster "Heaven's Gate" created by United Arts this year, so the screen of the third week of "Police, Detective School" has long been set for "Heaven's Gate", and there is no way to add more.
"Heaven's Gate" is produced by United Arts, one of the seven major Hollywood companies, and the Oscar Best Director Michael Simino of "Deer Hunter" was invited, spending $38 million on production, $5 million in publicity, and 1,788 screens premiered.
But Yin Jun inevitably gloated a little in his heart.
He is the only one who knows that the Oscar director may not be able to master every play, especially the one who has just won the Oscar, it is easiest not to know what his surname is.
As expected, on Wednesday, November 19, after the grand premiere, early the next morning, everyone at Lianyi was stunned, and so were all the media reporters.
The North American premiere box office was 330,000!?
What the hell is this!?
1788 screens!
There were two screenings last night!
Even if there are only 30 people in each screening hall at a time, it won't be 330,000 yuan, right? This is a big production of Oscar directors!
Is there a statistical error?
Everyone hurried to each theater to inquire, and after summarizing the results, they didn't make any mistakes at all, and even a few even miscalculated the movie tickets sold this morning.
I forced a call to the European side, and their real-time box office was slightly more - $750,000.
All right.
It's been completely pounced.
You don't have to wait for the next day, you don't have to wait for the weekend to know that "Heaven's Gate" is completely finished.
Over the next few days, through the weekend, the five-day North American box office totaled only $1.6 million, setting a record for the lowest grossing blockbuster in a decade.
The theater chain has been notified, and it will be released directly in the second week without any discussion.
Hearing the bad news, Michael Simino locked himself in his room and did not come out for three days and three nights.
Lianyi Film Company is even more cloudy.
They invested more than $43 million!
Even if they add a share of Shanghai's overseas box office, they will have to lose 40 million US dollars!
At this time, which film company can pay $40 million in one go?
Originally, the recent situation of Lianyi Film Company has not been good, the film has repeatedly lost money, and various diversified investments have also suffered a lot of failures.
They originally wanted to rely on Michael Simino to regroup, but they didn't expect that it was Michael Simino who gave them the heaviest blow.
The entertainment media in North America did not let them go, and turned on the mockery mode, comparing "Heaven's Gate" to "Cleopatra" in 1963.
"Cleopatra" almost caused the collapse of Fox in the 20th century, which shows how optimistic they are about United Arts.
However, after all, Lianyi is one of the seven major Hollywood companies, and there are still three catties of nails in the rotten ship, and most of the media think that Lianyi will definitely be deprived of vitality, and it will not be able to slow down for several years, but that's all.
However, there is a giant company hidden in the depths, but with their eagle-like gaze, they firmly target Lianyi Company.
"Didn't that Xiangjiang man ask us to help buy a Hollywood company some time ago?
"Well, the scale of Lianyi must be very large, but I don't know if the people of Xiangjiang can afford it?"
"Don't worry about him, the dozen or so Transformers toys your son plays with are made by his company. Jensen's annual profit valuation of Transformers toys has reached $200 million. If he is willing to sell all the rights to Transformers, someone will be willing to buy it for $1 billion. ”
"Also, I can see that he has great ambitions! Now that he has bought a TV station in Xiangjiang, does he want to learn from Warner, Paramount, and Universal?"
"I don't know if his abilities can match his ambitions. ”
"Why do you care so much, hurry up and make an evaluation report for Lianyi, if we can make more money because of this, we will recommend Lianyi to him!"
"I see. But there is another point, Lianyi is not necessarily willing to sell itself. ”
"It's very simple, put a little more pressure on them, or just let them go bankrupt, won't that make them sell?"
"Hehe, that's a great idea!"
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The fiasco of Lianyi Company was expected by Yin Jun, so he didn't put more energy into paying attention.
As long as Goldman Sachs is not a fool, he will definitely recommend Lianyi to himself.
At that time, his first goal in Hollywood was successfully achieved.
What he has to be busy at this time is to deal with the arrangements of the two actors.
"Police Detective School" has been screened for three weeks, and it is an undoubted thing that it is a box office hit and its influence has swept the world.
Therefore, Li Xiuman, who stayed in Xiangjiang for more than a month, is ready to return to South Korea.
His agent has called him 75 times in the past week, asking him to hurry back to China for events, film performances and small concerts.
Before Li Xiuman came to Hong Kong, he was not well-known in South Korea, just a newcomer in the singing and hosting industry.
Don't say it's him now, even if he is a famous Korean actor, he only feels second- or third-rate in Xiangjiang.
Before 2000, the Korean entertainment industry couldn't raise its head at all in front of the Xiangjiang entertainment industry.
So Lee so-man came to Xiangjiang to make a movie, and to participate in such a big production, it was definitely a very good gilded trip for him, and it was also promoted as a glorious trip in South Korea.
The result is the same as everyone imagined, "Police Detective School" became a global hit, and Li Xiuman's role as a squad leader, although a bit wooden and silly, can be regarded as showing his face in front of fans all over the world with the film.
In the eyes of Koreans, that means something even different.
With "Police Investigation School", Li Xiuman became popular all of Korea at once, and vaguely became the number one star in South Korea, so the agent was so anxious to let him return to South Korea, and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot to consolidate his fame.
The overall situation of "Police Investigation School" has been completed, and Li Xiuman feels that it is meaningless for him to stay in Xiangjiang, so he came over to say goodbye to Yin Jun.
Later mainlanders, no matter how dark Koreans, but for their kind of etiquette between superiors and subordinates, seniors and juniors, elders and juniors, they still agree with it, this kind of ancient etiquette passed down from China has been well inherited in Japan and South Korea, but it has gradually disappeared in China, which is really a bit embarrassing.
Li Xiuman, 28 years old this year, is 10 years older than Yin Jun, but Li Xiuman admires Yin Jun's genius very respectfully and admires him from the bottom of his heart.
"Jun Shao!" This title is the standard Xiangjiang dialect, and next, Li Xiuman spoke English, "I will go back to South Korea tomorrow, thank you for taking care of me this time, thank you! After I return to South Korea, I will definitely work harder! Welcome to come to South Korea to play when you have time!"
"Oh, that's right. Yin Jun nodded, took out a document from his drawer, and handed it to Li Xiuman, "Brother Man, there is nothing for you, you can take this song!"
Li Xiuman was pleasantly surprised, "This ...... Jun Shao, the song you wrote for me?!"
He is a singer, so he naturally knows that Yin Jun is not only a genius script writer, but also a genius songwriter.
He has listened to and studied all the Chinese, English and Japanese songs sung by Zhang Guorong and Deng Lijun.
As a result, Li Xiuman admired Yin Jun so much that he felt that there was no more powerful songwriter in the world than Yin Jun.
Because a songwriter can write popular songs in his own Chinese language according to the influence of his own culture, it is relatively easy, but it is not so easy for you to cross one language and write songs in other languages.
It's not as simple as finding someone to fill in the lyrics after the composition is completed, the songs that come out like this are just assembly line songs, and they can't be said to be classics at all.
Only when the lyrics and songs are perfectly integrated, and can arouse the heartfelt recognition of fans of this language, is a classic and good song.
Of course, there are talented songwriters who can write songs in two languages, but they are definitely a minority of the few.
Like Yin Jun, who wrote songs in Chinese, English and Japanese, and each song was so moving, there was no second one in Li Xiuman's impression.
A singer like Lee so-man, who comes from South Korea, where entertainment has not yet been civilized, never dreamed of asking Yin Jun to write a song for him - in fact, half of his agent's phone calls this week were to encourage him to find Yin Jun to write a song.
Li Xiuman's agent didn't dare to say that he asked Yin Jun to write a Korean song, he was looking forward to Yin Jun being able to give an English song, just thank God, it really can't be a Cantonese song, anyway, Xiangjiang's TV series and songs are very popular in South Korea, just as popular.
For this kind of behavior that does not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth, and does not have the slightest concept of respect and inferiority, Li Xiuman resolutely stopped it, and he did not tell Yin Jun at all.
But unexpectedly, just before he returned to China, Yin Jun suddenly took out a song and gave it to him, which made Li Xiuman surprised and flattered.
tremblingly took over the song score, and Li Xiuman was even more stunned when he saw it.
"Korean songs?"
"Well, this is the first time to make a Korean song, you can take it and try it, if you don't like it, forget it, I'll give you another English song. Yin Jun said.
"No, no, I didn't mean that......" Li Xiu's face was swollen and red, and he said in fear: "I'm just too excited! I didn't expect Junshao to personally write a Korean song for me, I don't know how to thank you...... Thank you ......."
As he spoke, Li Xiuman's eyes turned red.
In Li Xiuman's view, the difference between his identity and Yin Jun is the difference between heaven and earth.
Not only did Yin Jun not look down on him, but he also changed a more suitable role setting for him in the movie, encouraged him to act well, and now wrote a Korean song specifically for him, what kind of care is this!
Li Xiuman didn't have anything for Yin Jun to watch, and he was about to return to China, because the acting was too poor, there was not much chance, and it was impossible to come to Xiangjiang to make movies again, so it was basically the last private meeting between Yin Jun and him, and it was basically the rhythm of passers-by in the future.
But even so, Yin Jun still wrote a Korean song for him, why don't you make Li Xiuman so moved that he wants to cry?
"Okay, Brother Man, what about the afternoon plane, you take a look at the song first!" Yin Jun smiled slightly, raised his hand and said.
"Oh, yes, yes. ”
Li Xiuman quickly wiped away his tears, sat on the sofa next to him, and watched Yin Jun's song seriously.
The name of the song is "After Love".
Li Xiuman has been singing since 1971, although he is not the most famous, but his musical literacy is absolutely outstanding.
He just hummed the song once, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed, and then hummed it with the lyrics, and the whole spirit was immediately immersed in the song.
Once, twice, three times......
"Good!"
couldn't help it, Li Xiuman slapped the sofa hard, and his eyes were bulging with excitement.
"Great! Great!" Li Xiu stood up with the lyrics of the song in his hand, and bowed to Yin Jun again and again, "Thank you! Jun Shao! Thank you......"
He didn't do anything but shout thank you and bow, and even his whole person hadn't yet woken up from the slightly sad and desolate melody.
Because Li Xiuman is so excited, to get such a good song and such a touching song is simply the luck of a singer's life!
Of course, Li Xiuman should be rejoicing.
This song "After Love" is a classic masterpiece launched by the Korean godfather rock singer Jeon In-kwon, who was born in the same year as him, and it was a sensation in South Korea that year.
The first time Yin Jun heard this song, he heard a female singer sing it on the original Korean version of "I Am a Singer", and then Yin Jun went to look up some information, felt that he liked it very much, and learned it.
After returning to Xiangjiang 42 years ago, Yin Jun wrote some songs from many countries, including a few Korean songs, including this "After Love".
Although it is not as widely sung as songs such as "I beileve" and "GEE", it is the most suitable according to the current level and stage of Korean appreciation.
In order to envelop Li Xiuman, the future wizard of the brokerage company, Yin Junke has also worked hard!