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After finishing speaking, the old man hurried home with his little grandson. What he didn't know, after being broadcast on the local TV station, his words were seen by the editor of mme time, and he quickly uploaded the video of this program Posted on Timeline.

And put a bright title on the top of the homepage: "Uncle knows Wan Xiaohu best."

In an instant, just like "Kung Fu Panda", the old man became popular.

0324【To Japan is long】

Midnight show, this is a very old term. To be precise, it is not known when it came to the mainland.In the last century, during the old movie theater period, ordinary people lived on a five-night schedule, while some people, on the contrary, liked to stroll around at night.

So in order to increase the revenue of the cinema, the bosses will always show some eye-catching movies in the cinema after midnight.They're all horror movies, or ethical movies, and you know movies.After the opening of the mainland, midnight shows gradually emerged.

However, in February last year, the State Council promulgated the "Regulations on the Administration of Entertainment Places", which stipulates that entertainment places will close at 2 o'clock in the morning. Movie theaters are not included.

But still affected by the harmonious society, the midnight show slowly began to fade in the mainland.

However, when the old system passes away, the new system will replace it. Gradually, new midnight movies begin to appear.For this midnight movie, I learned the way of North America, that is, the night before the premiere of a movie, one or two halls will be arranged to show one or two movies, and the movies will be watched first.

The movie data of the midnight show also often becomes a reflection of whether a movie is popular or not.

And at 6:1 on June 0, "Kung Fu Panda" arranged a midnight show.Of course, not every city has midnight shows. There are almost no movie theaters in small cities, and they are all big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.A group of well-equipped large movie theaters play midnight shows.

The movie theaters participating in the midnight show all sell tickets online through computers. Therefore, Mmetime.com received box office data feedback from various movie theaters almost immediately.

After the calculation, the editors on duty immediately announced it in red.

"MmeTime.com box office special news: "Kung Fu Panda" hits the midnight show, 350 million yuan. It sets a domestic midnight show time, the best result!"

The midnight shows in China are still very small, and the previous record holders have not made a special statistics, but the data collected by Mtime.com is the record of less than 2005 million held by "King Kong" in 100.Basically, they are some Hollywood blockbusters, and after entering the country, a midnight show is arranged.Domestic blockbusters are seldom arranged in this way. After all, domestic blockbusters have protection mechanisms, and the number of films scheduled is sufficient, so there is no need for additional screenings.

Now, a "Kung Fu Panda".It seems to dominate the midnight market.

The next day, without any publicity, various media outlets reposted Mtime.com's report one after another.

"Wan Xiaohu is about to create a miracle again, "Kung Fu Panda" won the roost with 350 million midnight shows, and the box office broke through [-] million within days!"

"The record of cartoons is ready to be terminated by Wan Xiaohu, "Kung Fu Panda" after the midnight show. Unstoppable!"

"With rave reviews and rave reviews, Panda Po has become a phenomenon. We know that if there are Wan Xiaohu's movies, there will be the focus of public opinion. This is the last word."

In these reports, there are always some discordant voices.For example, the Southern Metropolis Daily's "Panda national treasure is being ruined" and Wangnan's "Show the Westerners the quintessential monkey show" and other arguments, but these voices were quickly drowned in the comments of the first audience after watching the midnight show.

"The best cartoon I watched in 07 is also the best kung fu movie. I like Po!"

"It's a combination of western and western, with a national background and Hollywood's individual heroism. The plot is very simple, but it's very touching to watch. Daddy Duck is my laughing point!"

"Wan Xiaohu is so good at pretending, he dubbed the tortoise master. The part where he transforms into a flying fairy is so fucking beautiful!"

"To be honest, if I didn't know that a lot of technology in this movie was outsourced to DreamWorks, I would definitely give it an extra star. I look forward to more good works from Po Animation!"

"The story about being fat and saving the world is amazing!"

"I hope that pandas will be sold worldwide. There are a lot of ancient Chinese thoughts in it, especially Taoism's inaction. I just watched the video on the homepage of 'My Lord Knows Ten Thousand Little Tigers Best.' People probably don’t even know what Taoism is.”

"Can Daddy Duck give birth to giant pandas? We have noodle soup blood in our bodies, I'm dying of laughter!"

"What kind of daddy duck, it's clearly a goose."

"After watching it, I feel that Wan Xiaohu finished all the directors in the country by himself, Chen Kai got depressed after "The Promise", Feng Xiaogang was still tinkering with the cold humor of the Lunar New Year file, Zhang Yimou's martial arts trilogy was worse than the first, and then went to direct the Olympic Games Now, there is only Wan Xiaohu, let me look forward to it!"

"I've been looking forward to it for so long, and I finally saw it for the first time. It's just for your reference. It can be four stars for technology, three stars for plot, four stars for sound effects, five stars for entertainment, and one star for summary." Yes, it is a star!"

For a while, Mtime.com was overwhelmed by "Kung Fu Panda", the number of people who rated it increased by 5 people, and the total score remained at 8.5 points.In the old time score, 589 representatives of filmmakers evaluated, 568 were qualified, and the brightness was 96%. In terms of word of mouth, there is nothing to say.

The next thing to look at is the performance at the box office.

……

Wan Xiaohu is very busy, "Kung Fu Panda" has already been released, and the preliminary work is done, so he doesn't need to worry about publicity anymore.He has a lot of burdens on his body now, one is to take care of Jun Ji-hyun, one is to prepare for the wedding with Su Ya, one is to supervise the production of the Marvel Cinematic Universe project, and the other is to screen investment in movies and TV dramas.

The year 2014 is getting closer and closer. Good movies and TV series are about to come out. He must be the first to get as many good works as possible to lay the foundation for his entertainment empire.

More importantly, with the help of Weta Digital's special effects team, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will soon be able to enter the shooting state.

While he was in Hollywood, working with the 2004th Century Fox production team to select actors, a director named Alfonso Cuarón approached him.This person has been in Hollywood for a long time and has made many works. The most famous is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in 7.9, which made a global box office of [-] million US dollars.

Alfonso Cuaron came here for a simple purpose. He fell in love with the script written by Wan Xiaohu, a story about space adventures, and wanted to buy it and direct it.Hollywood's script operating system allows these directors to always choose their favorite stories from thousands of scripts.

Wan Xiaohu received Alfonso very warmly, and also said that Alfonso can be directed, but the film must be invested by Sasha Entertainment.

The scripts he wrote are time-proven absolutely good movies, but his attitude towards good scripts is not monopolistic. In fact, he doesn't have that much energy to shoot so many movies at the same time.Besides, now that he is famous, he also has self-confidence. He is full of confidence in himself and believes that he will be able to make more good movies in the future, so there is no need to copy others.

Therefore, it is the best choice for him to invest by himself and find some talented directors to cooperate with.

But precisely on this point, Wan Xiaohu and Alfonso could not agree.

Alfonso Cuaron came to discuss the script on behalf of Warner Bros. These famous directors are backed by big studios. The director chooses the script, and the big studio invests in the back, or the studio provides the script. Famous directors came to choose.

Xiaohu Wan has encountered such a situation several times. For example, Martin Scorsese wanted to represent Paramount and bought the script of "Shutter Island" to shoot, but was eventually rejected by Xiaohu Wan, so he had to switch to filming "The Departed". .And Christopher Nolan also read a script about Inception written by Wan Xiaohu, and wanted to buy it on behalf of Warner Bros.

Of course Wan Xiaohu wouldn't sell it, and when he offered to invest by himself, the other party couldn't accept it.

Because there is no agreement on the division of accounts.

Sasha Entertainment is an independent studio. It seems to be prosperous, but it is also true that its foundation is not stable.It’s okay to make an art film, but to make a commercial blockbuster, these directors seldom think about it, and the risk of operation is too great.Famous directors don't fight alone, they all have their own director team, and they need to have sufficient interest guarantees.

In this regard, Sasha Entertainment, which is an independent film company, cannot guarantee all interests in their view.Even if you are willing to direct, you must increase the proportion of accounts.

As a reborn person, Wan Xiaohu is reluctant to spend so much money to hire a director. You must know that the scripts he wrote and the movies he produced have all earned hundreds of millions of dollars in the box office. Existence, isn't this the same as sending money to others?

Therefore, the cooperation always fails, and this time is the same. Alfonso said that he has a team to take care of, and he will not direct for Sasha Entertainment if the share is too low.

"Sorry, Director Wan, we don't think the commercial films operated by Sasha Entertainment will have a big box office. Even "Never Ending" directed by you only has a box office of more than [-] million yuan, which still accounts for the explosion of the domestic market. With such operational capabilities, it is difficult to fully exploit the commercial capabilities of a film. This script is not like "The Da Vinci Code", which is guaranteed by the popularity of the original novel, and you are not willing to increase the share. So, I can only say sorry Already." Alfonso finished and left directly.

Wan Xiaohu shrugged. He didn't care much, and he didn't get angry at being looked down upon. It's just that everyone has different positions. He is also a director in Hollywood, so he can understand the other party's explanation.

Besides, no matter how the script is handed out, the movie can't run away, and it will be shot one day later, the same.

Come to Japan for a long time.

……

Alfonso didn't like Sasha Entertainment's ability to operate. Even if "The Da Vinci Code" had a box office of 7.58 million US dollars, he thought it was due to the popularity of the original novel.But in fact, under the leadership of Adam Ferguson, Sasha Entertainment's explosive fighting power is not weak at all.

The release of "Kung Fu Panda" this time is proof.

There are almost no dead ends for distribution in the world, and the distribution capabilities of major studios are only at this level.

Especially in China, with the help of Golden Harvest Entertainment, the fighting power is crazy.