Chapter 87: Blockade, Chinese People Are Not Worthy of Doing Science Fiction? (The Third Update)

The box office exceeded 100 million, which is already among the top five in the history of domestic films.

The key is that it took only 12 days to achieve such a result!

"Source Code" will be released for at least 18 days. If the scheduling and piracy can remain the same, a box office of 200 million is not a dream!

That's 200 million!

It is absolutely unprecedented!

Guo Rong opened the champagne on the spot and poured it directly on Lu Ping'an's head.

Then he shouted: "Ping An, happy birthday!"

At this time, the rest of the main creators realized that today was Lu Ping'an's birthday!

So a group of people didn't need to sleep in the middle of the night, pouring champagne! Give Lu Ping'an a bath!

That night, the accompanying reporter Feng Ke posted the celebration photos on the Internet.

Then it attracted many blessings from netizens.

"Source Code" is so good!"

"Director Ping An is only 20 years old?!"

"Brother is so gentle, he even remembers other people's birthdays."

"Director Ping An is actually super handsome!"

"Happy birthday Director Ping An, I wish you peace every year!"

"They have a good relationship, I really want to join them."

"..."

Source Code set a record, and the crew members have a warm and harmonious relationship.

These are all ways to gain favor and increase popularity.

For a time, people in the industry envied and envied.

As the news spread, more people knew the report card of Source Code.

What? 12 days to break 100 million!

What? 20-year-old director? !

What movie is so awesome? !

At this time, the audience had never seen such a momentum.

12 days to break 100 million, wow.

This movie must be very good!

So more people went to the cinema.

Then, everyone went through the same journey of watching movies.

Wow, it's so hot? !

Well, it's dead and alive!

Guorong is so handsome!

This movie is awesome!

It's good to watch!

Word of mouth, fermenting again!

The box office also remained strong during the off-season after the Golden Week.

On October 20, the box office of "Source Code" in mainland China exceeded 160 million.

At the same time, after three weeks of screening in Hong Kong, "Source Code" also officially exceeded 35 million, and there is basically no problem in breaking through 45 million in the future.

Public opinion unanimously believes that "Source Code" will have no problem breaking through 200 million in the future, and the suspense is whether it will break through 250 million.

And this depends on the control of piracy and whether there is an extension key.

The latter is actually not a problem at all, the problem is the former.

Fortunately, it seems that piracy is well controlled at present. Although there are pirated copies on the market after 20 days of screening, the disc dealers have gone crazy and stared at them tightly, suing them one by one, not only suing, but also arresting them.

You have to know that this is the era of blockbusters.

It is an important moment for domestic films that are being watched by the top.

To borrow the line from "Out of the Blue": The history of Chinese films will be divided into two parts in the second half of this year!

At such an important time, the movie is still in the release period, and those who dare to act rashly will end up with one end!

And many pirates could never have imagined it.

Didn't they turn a blind eye in the past?

How did he get caught?

"Brother Wang, please be kind, I am also a first-time offender."

"Go away, how many times? If you really want to do it, you don't choose a good time, you are blind!"

The police car sirens, and a song of iron bars and tears is sung

. . . . . . . .

At this time, at the Beijing New Picture Company, Zhang Weipin looked at the reports on the Internet with a frown.

He had just been out for a short time.

How did the situation change when he came back?

My goodness, 160 million!

This is more than the third-tier expected target he set for "Hero".

The media are all praising the quality of "Source Code", which makes him very confused.

How good does it have to be to be praised like this?

It cost a lot of money?

It doesn't seem likely.

He thought he should go and see it in person.

The next afternoon, Zhang Weipin wore a baseball cap and entered the cinema.

He spent 50 yuan to buy a ticket and sat in the last row of the theater.

He felt that the money was wasted, and many people in the theater thought the same.

However, when the movie started, everyone didn't think so.

Death and life, 8-minute loop, explosion, and super classic freeze-frame shots.

9 times of time travel, each time it can hook the audience's heartstrings.

Until the happy ending of the movie, everyone felt like drinking sweet rain in summer, and it was refreshing.

"This movie is good."

"The special effects are not inferior to Hollywood at all."

"Lu Ping'an is really amazing."

"Guo Rong is really handsome..."

Listening to everyone's discussion, Zhang Weipin felt like he was facing a great enemy.

To be honest, he didn't think much of this movie at first.

He thought that no matter how good domestic science fiction movies are, what can they do?

He had seen some of Lu Ping'an's movies before.

How to say it, short films have no reference value.

There are only two long films.

One is a drama, which is okay, and the other is boring.

But now it seems that Lu Ping'an gives him the feeling of a sudden explosion.

Such a stylish technique, such a wonderful script, can this really be done by a Beijing Film Academy student? !

Very cool, very impressive!

This is the truth.

Zhang Weipin admitted.

But.

We still have to do something!

He knows that in his opinion, the quality of "Heroes" does not actually exceed "Source Code" by much. Even after it is released, fans will even feel that "Heroes" is not as good as "Source Code".

But he also knew it.

Reputation is actually not the most important thing in the context of this project.

The most important thing is how to use the various resources at hand to push "Hero" to the "number one" position!

The domestic film with the largest copyright transaction volume.

The first domestic film to exceed 200 million.

The domestic film with the highest box office in domestic film history.

It even wants to be the number one domestic or even Chinese-language film at the overseas box office!

When people in the future think of the first decade of the 21st century, the first domestic film that comes to mind must be "Hero"!

The value of "Hero" lies in being "first". If it cannot be "first", there is no point in spending so much effort!

Now "Source Code" is about to exceed 200 million. After the release is postponed in the next two months, it may exceed 250 million or even 300 million!

The third target of "Heroes" is 150 million, the second target is 200 million, and the first target is 250 million.

Now "Source Code" is directly aiming to exceed 250 million.

How do you want "Hero" to fight?

The film scheduling support is about the same, and the theater coverage of "Source Code" is slightly worse.

The quality of the other party is good, and the original schedule advantage of the Lunar New Year stall may not be able to make a big difference now.

The advantages of "Heroes" are only the ticket price and the remaining ten percent, which "Source Code" does not involve film scheduling and theater coverage.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy for Zhang Weipin to widen the gap at the box office.

In his opinion, since "Hero" wants to become the number one box office, it cannot win by a narrow margin, it must win by a big margin!

So after thinking for a while, he called Lao Mouzi directly:

"Lao Zhang, Lu Ping'an's "Source Code" may break 250 million, we must not let him do it!"

Zhang Weipin spoke firmly.

Lao Mouzi on the other end of the phone frowned after hearing this: "What do you want to do?"

"I have an idea"

After a while, Lao Mouzi sighed and said, "You're going to offend people like this!"

Zhang Weipin disagreed: "Achievements are the most important thing. Lao Zhang, just listen to me. This time I am right! It will be too late if you don't do it!"

Lao Mouzi still wanted to talk, so Zhang Weipin hung up the phone and continued to make calls. He didn't fall asleep until four or five in the morning. A few hours later, he woke up and started working.

. . . . . . . .

On October 25, "Source Code" exceeded 190 million, one step away from 200 million.

On the same day, at the China World Hotel, the domestic audio and video copyrights of the VCD and DVD of "Hero" started at 800,000 yuan and sold for 19.8 million yuan, which was 2 million more than the original time and space, setting a record for the domestic feature film audio and video copyright auction.

For a time, the industry and the whole society were shocked!

The direction of public opinion is highly consistent:

"'Hero' deserves to be the number one blockbuster!"

"It is simply unimaginable that "Source Code" only has 1.5 million, and only "Heroes" can achieve 20 million!"

"Hero is coming!"

"..."

With such popularity in copyright auctions, Lu Ping An noticed something unusual.

Because the auction of the video copyright of "Heroes" seems to be much earlier than in the original time and space.

Is it possible that "Hero" needs to be released?

Without thinking too much, on the 28th, Hero "Origin" was released.

"Origin" is a three-hour documentary that records the entire process of "Hero" from preparation to filming to completion.

And its listing immediately attracted the attention of the whole society.

Because "Origin" was not only released on a DVD, it was also broadcast on TV stations. It is said that the new picture paid 10 million in advertising fees for it!

At this point, the promotional campaign for "Hero" has begun.

There are speculations in the industry that "Hero" may be released in November!

Just as he was thinking about it, Deng Chao from the creative team ran over with the newspaper: "Director Lu, look."

Lu Ping'an took the newspaper, which was a local newspaper in Wuhan.

There is a news article on it, titled: "Chinese face, Western structure, "Source Code" copied Hollywood, how can it be called a domestic blockbuster?"

Obviously this is for evil.

Bao Qiang, who was running the road show together, said angrily: "Brother, they are going too far!"

Before Lu Pingan could say anything, Wu Guohua also called and said that there had been a lot more negative comments about "Source Code" in the past few days.

After looking online, it turned out to be true.

"There is no Chinese flavor. Is the success of "Source Code" the success of domestic films or the success of Hollywood?"

"The significance of blockbusters lies in cultural transmission, not box office"

“A Western-style feast.”

After reading these reports.

Lu Ping'an suddenly felt like he was back 20 years later.

It seems that only at that time did the media pay so much attention to national culture.

Aren’t we all supposed to worship foreign things now?

The key is that these messages popped up all at once.

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.

As for the reason, Lu Pingping knew it without even guessing.

It's definitely the work of the "Heroes" interest groups.

Even if it’s not, you have to assume it is!

"Zhang Weipin is in a hurry!"

The person in charge of lighting, who followed the creator on the road show, laughed.

"Hero" is coming with great momentum. The publicity will not start only on the day of the release. It will definitely start before that. "Source Code" is not good enough in front of it.

But so what?

"Source Code" has now made 192 million!

This has exceeded the highest goal set at the beginning by nearly 50 million!

Even if you ask me to withdraw the film now, we can go home and celebrate the New Year with drums and gongs!

So what's the point of doing all this?

Mr. Wang of Guangguang and Mr. Wang of Huayi looked at each other and laughed.

It's a war.

The purpose of playing a strategic game is to win.

The rest is up to them!

"Ping An, what do you think?"

Guo Rong asked on the side.

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