Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1666 : Once bitten by a snake

After setting a single-day box office record in mainland China on the first day, on Sunday, July 8, the single-day box office of "Kung Fu" hit a new high, reaching 51 million yuan. On the following Sunday, although the box office fell, it still reached a total of 43 million, which is difficult for many mainland films to reach.

It was not until the working day that such a fierce momentum eased. However, the single-day box office on Monday was still as high as 27 million.

Amid the nationwide attention, in the first seven days of the final week, "Kung Fu" won the box office of 236 million yuan in one fell swoop. The same new record, the cumulative box office in one week has surpassed most of the films in the history of Chinese films.

Not only that, "Kung Fu" also set a new record-level box office success in the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions where it opened in the same period.

Among them, it is only Hong Kong. In the same first week and seven days, the box office reached 18 million Hong Kong dollars. It is expected that the total box office of the film in Hong Kong will reach more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars. The highest box office record in Hong Kong.

With Jinshu Media's best efforts to publicize, the box office sales of "Kung Fu" almost created a national grand situation, and the news also spread back to North America as soon as possible.

It is only in mainland China, with an income of 46 million yuan, equivalent to 5 million US dollars. Compared with the domestic market in North America, it does not seem to be much, but it also allows many people to see the huge potential of China's film market at a glance. After all, many people who are concerned about related industries are aware of it , the film market in mainland China has only just recovered for a few years.

On the other hand, the North American release time of "Kung Fu" is July 28, facing the August schedule, which is not far away.

The news that the film first opened in China to create a record-breaking box office has also become an important propaganda point for Daenerys. When the news came back, they quickly followed up and launched the last wave of sprinting publicity before the film was released. In addition to the box office The data also re-operated the media reputation of the film when it premiered in Cannes.

Daenerys also released the latest trailer for the movie.

Although it is only a small marketing combination within the budget, but the Chinese film has accumulated considerable reputation in the hearts of North American audiences a few years ago, for a while, the attention of "Kung Fu" has also increased significantly.

However, compared to "Kung Fu", during the same period, the movie that North American audiences paid the most attention to was undoubtedly "300 Spartans".

Even if the media reputation is only a relatively mediocre pass range, but with novel shooting techniques, this comic-altered classical war movie still shows signs of a dark horse, but it was released on the first day on July 7 at the same time as "Kung Fu". "Spartan 300 Warriors" won the box office of 25.1 million US dollars, equivalent to five times that of "Kung Fu" in the same period. After all, it is the foundation of the world's largest film market.

After the first day, "Spartan 300 Warriors" sang all the way, and finally reached an astonishing $96.28 million at the box office in the first week, not only surpassing "The Hangover 2" the previous week, but even the blockbuster "Charlie's Angels" with a fairly popular foundation. 2" was directly crushed, this summer file, the first week of data is second only to the 3D animation blockbuster "Finding Nemo" with a data of 107.22 million US dollars, ranking second in the year.

With such a dazzling start, "Spartan 300 Warriors" first locks the domestic box office of 200 million, and there is not much suspense. Now the question is whether it can hit 300 million.

You know, after the box office week on July 7, and the next two weeks, Daenerys's main titles are "Magic Mike 2" and "Black Dahlia", which are not too competitive films, even if other film companies There are still blockbusters released, but after all, it is no longer too much internal fluctuations. "Spartan 300 Warriors" has considerable room for box office development.

Los Angeles, Daenerys Studios.

It's July 14th.

Friday.

In the last part of the afternoon, I arranged a video call with Chen Qing on the other side of the ocean again, about Clinton's visit to Vietnam next month and CNOOC's upcoming overseas IPO.

Chen Qing still deviated from the topic again and began to chat with her boss about some trivial matters: "Li's cupping photo, boss, have you received it, how do you feel?"

I'm talking about a set of photos taken by Li Damei for the promotion of "Kung Fu".

Still because of Simon.

In the manor in San Lucas, Mexico, when he saw Li Damei's beautiful back, Simon felt that it was a pity that she was so beautiful and not cupping, and then of course she was happy.

At that time, the woman looked aggrieved and let Simon do it.

Unexpectedly, after returning to China, it is obviously impossible for the cupping scar to disappear in a short period of time. It happened to be promoting "Kung Fu" again. Jinshu Media arranged for her to do the cover of "Movie" magazine, which is directly under the radio and television in the Mainland. This woman is also Very thoughtful, I simply took a set of backless photos directly.

Of course, the kind with cupping marks.

Therefore, it caused a small sensation in the whole Chinese-speaking area. After all, Li Damei's beauty is well known, and two series of cupping marks suddenly appeared on her supposedly flawless back. But under the strong contrast, it still caused a lot of heated discussion.

Especially on the open Hong Kong Island, a TV station specially invited an old Chinese medicine practitioner to comment on them one by one. The final conclusion was that this cupping was very, very unprofessional.

In any case, it has become quite a successful marketing.

It's just this set of photos that brought the popularity of Li Damei, who did not have a lot of scenes in "Kung Fu", to a new level with the trend of this movie.

Simon can only say, a very smart stunner.

After chatting a few words with the opposite Nizi, he also stated that he would also help her to pull out a set next time, which caused a burst of coquettish anger, and the topic turned to business.

Clinton's visit to Vietnam, the exact time is set for August 10, plans to stay in Vietnam for four days, which shows the importance.

As Simon's personal representative in Asia, Chen Qing will join in the fun and reach some cooperation by the way. The project has been discussed in advance. However, considering the reaction from China, this time it is mainly based on Korean capital. , the investment amount is only more than 200 million US dollars.

It's an initial contact.

Follow-up is the big one.

Then there is CNOOC's IPO again.

The second overseas IPO of CNOOC was completed in early 2001. This time, it was advanced to October this year.

It is mainly the opinions given by the consulting team here.

The federation has officially entered a new round of interest rate hike cycle. The two major North American stock indexes are at high levels. The time is delayed until next year. It is difficult to say whether there will be another bear market, so it is ahead of schedule.

Furthermore, what caught Simon's attention the most was the financing scale and valuation level of this IPO.

Compared with the previous estimate of a price-earnings ratio of more than 20 times, after re-inserting more high-quality assets, CNOOC only dared to report a price-earnings ratio of 4 to 5 times this time, which is a big show. At the same time, the amount of financing has also been adjusted from the last level of 20 billion Hong Kong dollars to about 8 billion Hong Kong dollars this time.

Frankly speaking, Simon is a little blind.

Even if he was bitten by a snake, he wouldn't be afraid of the rope.

However, Simon didn't say anything in the end. After all, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and he can probably understand that this time there is only one result, and the others can't care too much.

Chen Qing was in high spirits, and after talking about the business, she continued to stray from the topic: "Boss, Zheng and Yang, who just returned from the United States a few days ago, are here, and the big movie star Chen, this time also came together. , said that he hopes to sign an agency agreement with Jinshu and consider opening up some businesses in China. Wait for us to have breakfast together, do you have any explanation? "

Simon was rarely surprised that Joan Chen could let go of the air and return to China for development, but he didn't have any more opinions, he just said: "You can try Yang's high-end interview idea. China just lacks such programs right now. Choose a good platform, after all, ordinary people often don’t have much interest in similar interviews, and more attention is paid to elite groups.”

Chen Qing nodded: "I have already read the plan she gave. It is planned to be produced by Jinshu and put it in Beijing or Shanghai. In addition, it will cooperate with some Chinese-language media in Southeast Asia. Boss, is this the way of thinking?"

"Exactly."

After being praised, Chen Qing laughed, and suddenly turned: "The boss still prefers women like us."

Simon also laughed: "You're that kind?"

Chen Qing deliberately sneered slightly, and even made a pun: "The kind that is very capable."

After talking about it, he was about to start racing. Simon stepped on the brakes in time: ""Kung Fu" is another opportunity to take Chinese movies to a new level. Please operate carefully and don't waste it."

When Chen Qing heard the words, she obediently restrained her expression and said, "I'm already doing it. This month, starting from "Kung Fu", there will be new films every week. Yesterday, Sunglasses King's "Linlang" was released. There are a lot of people, and the box office is not bad. It can get at least 30 million, which is very powerful. Next, there is Jet Li's "Hurricane Rescue 2", which will be the finale at the end of the month. Hey, it is not easy for this project to pass the trial. Ah, on the China Film side, Mr. Han personally went to the film bureau several times, and finally someone above personally gave a message to let it go."

Simon nodded in satisfaction.

In the past few years, China's Lunar New Year files have been developed and have formed a habit of watching movies. This time, with a month of fanfare, the summer file will be basically formed. The key is to maintain continuity in the future, and there will be several movies every summer. Mainly, deepen consumption habits.

Unconsciously, they talked for an hour, and finally chatted for a few more words, and the two of them closed the line.

BJ.

Ending the video call with my boss, it's still 7 o'clock in the morning.

The time is Saturday, July 15th.

Leaving her room in the West Courtyard, Chen Qing went to the boathouse on the lake in the Garden of the Intermediate Court as usual to have breakfast.

Walking into the Fanglou, there were already three women waiting here. They were Zheng, Yang and Chen who had just been mentioned by Chen Qing and her boss.

The three girls were flipping through the newspaper while chatting, and when they saw Chen Qing come in, they quickly got up to say hello.

Chen Qing also greeted with a smile. After everyone sat down again, they looked at the newspaper in Miss Yang's hand: "Is there any interesting news today?"

"It's still 'Kung Fu'." Compared with the other two women, Miss Yang was more able to understand Chen Qing's identity. Hearing this, she leaned forward slightly and said with a bit of humility, "I got another 37 million yesterday, it seems, The final box office may break 500 million yuan, which makes people a little unbelievable."

When Chen Qing had a video call with her boss before, she had actually seen the materials prepared by Jiang Shanwu in advance.

The next Friday, it made another 37 million yuan, and it is expected to collect another 180 million yuan in the second week of its release. Counting 230 million in the first week, the total is 410 million. According to this trend, even if the box office shrinks rapidly, another 100 million yuan will be collected. It's not a big problem, and eventually a new record was created.

Listening to Miss Yang's words, Chen Qing also nodded, but said: "This is called a phenomenon-level movie in the West, and it is very good to have such a big-selling movie every two years. In most cases, such as the one released yesterday. Wang's "Linlang" is expected to have a box office of 30 million, which is normal."

Da Shuangzi also interjected at this time: "The domestic piracy is too rampant. I just saw that "Kung Fu" has been pirated and started to flow out, which is a pity. Otherwise, this film will be 600 million. It can also improve a lot.”

Chen Daxing echoed: "So, Chinese films should pay more attention to developing the international market. After all, the Western film industry is very standardized, and there is an advantage of exchange rate appreciation."

Chen Qing smiled and listened without refuting.

However, she remembered that her boss had spoken to her in private about the completely opposite concept to Chen Dayingxing.

For example, Zhang Guoshi's "Chu Han" trilogy is already in the later stage. According to the attitude of his own boss, this series should focus more on the Chinese market itself, rather than overseas. The boss's private attitude is to hope that the "Chu Han" series can recover the cost only from the Chinese market.

Now it seems that the total investment of the "Chu Han" trilogy is 500 million yuan. Even if the future publicity expenses are included, if the fare level of "Kung Fu" can be reached, it will only be possible to recover all the investment and realize profits by virtue of the domestic market. Really hopeful.

Of course, Chen Qing is not so optimistic.

According to the current situation, "Kung Fu" is really a phenomenal work, a 500 million box office film created by combining various factors, the next "Chu Han", in fact, as long as each film can stabilize 3 The mainland box office of 100 million is very successful. After all, Zhang Guoshi's personal reputation is there, and there are so many overseas markets. If you play it casually, it will be a big profit.

Although it was Saturday, I had breakfast with the three women and arranged for them by the way. In the following day, Chen Qing also arranged a full work schedule for herself.

First of all, just after breakfast, before leaving the house, I have already dealt with one thing.

About the other three women, the Big Bingbing sisters and Ma Pretty trio.

Ren Jingxi mentioned a few words to her last time, and Chen Qing let Jiang Shanwu know about it, only to find out that in the name of her own boss, and Jinshu just matched a very 'motivated' agent, For a time, the three girls were running amok in the circle.

After all, Simon Westeros, the backer, is beyond heaven.

It doesn't matter if you can eat it or not.

The result of Chen Qing's treatment is to take away all the resources that the three girls have grabbed during this period of time, one girl, and then send them to Suzhou. Now that she is studying at Jinshu Performing Arts School for a year, don't think about anything else.

However, Chen Qing appreciates the young female agent named Tong Yuelin of the three girls.

After all, it is not wrong to be motivated.

Although I didn't get a good measure, but after a little training, I would be a very effective assistant, so I simply transferred from Jinshu and arranged it in my assistant team, planning to train it.

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