Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 343 Liu Yifei won the MVP!

"She is just a pendant heroine. How can the domestic achievements be attributed to her?"

"She only appears 20 minutes into the movie. How can she be called a heroine?"

"Charlie Hunnam was the first in the movie, Idris Elba was the second, and she was the third. It's really ridiculous to attribute the credit to a third-place actress."

As expected, after the release of Pacific Rim, although it reaped considerable box office revenue, too many people did not want Liu Yifei to become popular.

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This kind of thing cannot be stopped.

But the achievements of Pacific Rim are real.

Following its opening weekend revenue of 2.88 million, Pacific Rim continued its momentum, with revenue exceeding 4000 million in the first two working days of the new week. It even reversed the trend on Tuesday, earning 300 million more than on Monday.

As we all know, Liu Yifei is the only one who is running around for the domestic promotion of Pacific Rim.

Liu Yifei and the company took the initiative to propose increasing roadshow meetings and interview invitations.

Liu Yifei's efforts were supported by the theater manager.

"Many viewers came here for Liu Yifei. The ratio of Liu Yifei's fans to blockbuster fans is roughly 50:50."

"This is Liu Yifei's second Hollywood movie. So far, I think it is very successful. After all, she represents Chinese actors appearing in Hollywood."

"Pacific Rim is having great attendance in our theaters and is the hottest movie of the summer season so far."

On the sixth day of the release of Pacific Rim, the box office exceeded 4 million. On that day, director Li Qiutang's new film The Invisible Guest was quietly shut down on the rooftop of a building in Hong Kong.

When Autumn Pictures purchased the mainland revenue rights of Pacific Rim from Legendary, it estimated the box office to be 4 million yuan, but it did not expect that figure to be broken in just 6 days.

Huayi’s profit point is 8 million, which seems not impossible now.

But no one knows how many times Huayi's half of the share has changed hands, and it is still unknown which film company holds it now.

But this does not prevent Huayi from using half of the share to tell stories. Does the opening credits of Pacific Rim have Huayi’s logo?

Wang Zhonglei is as active as Liu Yifei. He has talked a lot about Huayi's overseas business in various interviews and even said that he would establish a wholly-owned subsidiary in North America.

It is a listed company, so it has to advertise itself like this, which is understandable.

The first thing Li Qiutang did after finishing the film was to sell 41.66 million shares of Huayi stock at an average price of 100 yuan.

The next day, another 42.34 million shares were sold at an average price of 100 yuan.

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Li Qiutang's sale did not require an announcement. He could be said to be the last star shareholder to cash out, which was enough to repay Huayi.

"Pacific Rim" is still in theaters. Perhaps because the stir it caused was too great, the media have already said that Liu Yifei's salary has skyrocketed. Now you can't hire Liu Yifei without 2000 million - the highest level of actresses in the Chinese film industry.

Something like celebrity status is illusory, while film pay is more realistic.

At a fan meeting at a cinema in Chang'an, Liu Yifei was asked about the issue of pay increase.

But Liu Yifei has been so busy these days that she didn't even know that people were saying that her pay had increased: "It's not that expensive. Not many people are looking for me to begin with, and even less people will if I increase it, haha."

How tough have Liu Yifei's fans been this week?
Any dog passing by that doesn't salute will be slapped twice.

Do you understand the value of the heroine in a Hollywood blockbuster with a $2 million investment?

Do you understand the value of 2.88 million in the first week and over 4 million in six days? You said she is the heroine of the pendant, so who do you think is responsible for the domestic promotion?

When Liu Yifei was busiest, she went to five cinemas and gave seven interviews a day.

Now that her grades are good, they say she is the pendant heroine, but when her grades are bad, they say it is all her fault, right?
Even Huayi, which "banned" her, came out to praise her: "Yifei works very hard, thank her for everything she has done for Pacific Rim."

Huayi's stock price has risen to over 40 yuan, and Huayi's shareholders have had a feast. Do you dare to say that Pacific Rim has no contribution to this?

"Pacific Rim" was so powerful that it overwhelmed two other highly anticipated blockbusters released the following week, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Kung Fu Hustle".

Among them, "The Great Ming Ape" was a film invested by Huayi, but under the impact of "Pacific Rim", Huayi failed to keep its screening schedule. Its first-day box office was only tens of millions, and "Kung Fu Hero" only earned a little over 10.

"Pacific Rim" chose a very good release date. In early July, there were basically no films that could threaten it, neither domestic nor Hollywood.

Its biggest rivals are "Fast and Furious 26" released on the 6th and "After Earth" released on the 31st.

The 14-day gap was left for Pacific Rim.

Some viewers said that Qiu Tian and Huayi have great connections and control the market scheduling.

But this year's summer season is also strange. Several big directors are absent, and there is indeed a lack of domestic blockbusters. Only in July did they have to release a large number of Hollywood movies.

"Pacific Rim" has been released for 10 days and the box office has exceeded 5.5 million yuan, but Liu Yifei is still happily promoting it.

"Pacific Rim" has already surpassed North America in performance, but unfortunately, Warner's publicity and promotion is still not biased towards the mainland, and Liu Yifei is still running the publicity alone.

Even the other main creators of the film did not come to China, because China was not included in the original promotion and publicity plan, and they are not considering adding it now.

Of course Liu Yifei was emotional, but now was not the time to lose her temper. She had to suppress her dissatisfaction with the crew and the publicity and promotion department.

Knowing that Liu Yifei was busy, Li Qiutang continued to work on her own after finishing the filming and returning to Beijing.

The script for "Mojin: The Lost Legend" is still being worked on, but Wan Da wants to sign the director contract with Li Qiutang as soon as possible.

Li Qiutang is a trump card of Wan Da Promotions. As long as he doesn't sign the contract, Wan Da can't play this card.

But Qiu Qiu put forward more stringent conditions to Wan Da in Li Qiutang's contract.

Li Qiutang wants a share of the box office!
After "In Time", Li Qiutang officially became a famous director on par with Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and others - big money can be made by putting his name on the film.

Even a movie like "The Ordinary Man" that died halfway and was pessimistic by the whole industry was able to be pulled by him to over 200 million yuan. Li Qiutang's ability has never been doubted. Because he was helping Huang Xiaoming, Li Qiutang received a salary of less than 200 million yuan for "The Ordinary Man". Although "The Invisible Guest" was a company project, Li Qiutang personally received a profit-sharing contract, 10.5 million yuan in salary + % of the box office share.

The cost of producing "The Invisible Guest" was not high, so Li Qiutang chose the low pay + high profit sharing model.

For "Mojin: The Lost Tomb", Qiu Tian proposed a plan of 1000 million fixed salary + 14% box office share.

This is simply unacceptable in Wan Da's opinion!
It’s not that Wanda is unwilling to give a share. A big director like Li Qiutang deserves to get a share, but the proportion of 14% is so high that Wanda feels that Qiutang is being unreasonable.

The director's share of the box office is the investor's money! In other words, it is Wan Da's money!

Wan Da would rather pay Li Qiutang a fixed director's salary of 3000 million yuan in one lump sum - Wan Da believed that the three words "Li Qiutang" could bring in an additional million yuan in box office revenue - than accept a profit-sharing contract with such a high proportion.

This is why we need a brokerage team. It is impossible to negotiate your own price. It is so embarrassing.

Li Qiutang didn't know that the company had quoted him such a high salary. He didn't care about the negotiations. He was currently having a creative meeting with Zhang Jialu, the screenwriter of "Mojin: The Lost Tomb", Ba Chang, the original author, and Chen Guofu, the film's producer.

At the meeting, he rejected another draft of Zhang Jialu's script.

(End of this chapter)