Director’s Legend

Time flies, time flies. Good times are always short-lived. This week belongs to "Painted Skin" and Shao Shuaijun. Then a new week, another change.

The mainland box office is still moving towards the 300 million mark. People don’t care about "Painted Skin" breaking 300 million in a few days, but whether it can break the sword hanging over the head of Chinese movies. "Titanic" 3.595 billion yuan at the box office. Although there are various factors of the times that created the unparalleled box office of "Titanic", its existence is reasonable. It is undeniable that it has enveloped Chinese movies for eight years.

As long as this record is not broken for a day, Chinese films will not be able to hold their heads up.

Two months ago, "33 Days of Broken Love" was expected, but after all, it didn't have much connotation and lack of stamina, and finally fell at the 310 million mark. Now "Painted Skin" has made persistent efforts and launched a mighty offensive. In the second week, it continued its efforts and won a box office of 75 million. According to the current signs, it has the momentum to pull "Titanic" down.

In various parts of Southeast Asia, and in South Korea, "Painted Skin" is also still popular, once again sweeping the box office of nearly 30 million yuan, overwhelming "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Poseidon".

In Japan, "Painted Skin" unexpectedly exploded with unparalleled momentum. With a super box office of 858.41 million yen, it overtook the first week's box office and achieved consecutive success. It has to be said that the Japanese are very curious about monsters and ghosts, and they are also very capable of paying to watch movies.

In the past two weeks, in Japan. It reached a box office of more than 100 million, which is amazing, Japan is a huge box office. And the whole of Asia got a total of 450 million. In short, Asia is the world of "Painted Skin"!

From May 19th to 21st, the third weekend of "Painted Skin" in North America will come.

This week, a new blockbuster movie "The Da Vinci Code" was released, which also means that the summer vacation has really started. In the tone of everyone exclaiming, it will take three days. The Da Vinci Code looted $77.5 million. "Poseidon" continued to slump. It only won 15.4 million US dollars, ranking third at the weekly box office. "Mission: Impossible 3" also exhausted its potential, with 13.2 million US dollars. Ranked fourth at the weekly box office.

"Painted Skin" has high expectations. Withstood the pressure of "The Da Vinci Code". It won the box office of 20.54 million US dollars, ranking runner-up. The 15-day box office adds up to a total of 68.55 million US dollars, although it is not as good as the three-day box office of "The Da Vinci Code". But it also successfully took over the throne of "Hero" and became the highest-grossing mainland movie in North America.

At the same time, the combined global box office of "Painted Skin" exceeded the one billion yuan mark, becoming the second mainland film to enter the 100 million US dollar box office club.

"If there is one director in China in a hundred years, this person must be Shao Shuaijun. We can call him the king of Chinese language!"

""Buried Alive" was just a fledgling in North America, "Source Code" was a small test in North America, and "Painted Skin" was a tiger in North America. In two years, Shao Shuaijun completed the dream that many Chinese directors failed to achieve in their entire lives-conquering North America. He has more More time, more energy, to conquer more people!"

"He will be the king of the next generation of the world, he will be the leader of the rise of Chinese films, he is Shao Shuaijun, he just turned 20 years old this year!"

"For Shao Shuaijun, please call him a great Hollywood director!"

Domestic newspapers are even more excited than the success of the Olympic bid. The news during this period is all about the Olympic Games. Since Zhang Yimou directed the opening and closing ceremonies, the Chinese have never stopped paying attention to this feast, and the reporters have also tried their best. Reporting relevant news in a timely manner, readers are not tired and reporters are also tired.

So when "Painted Skin" went crazy, the reporters also went crazy, and finally they could change their taste. So all kinds of compliments came one after another. In China, it seems that if you don't know Shao Shuaijun, you will be left behind. What is the youngest world-class director, what is the next generation king of the world, what is the only director in the world who entered the $100 million club at the age of 20, what is a talent that cannot be produced in a hundred years.

How to exaggerate how to brag.

When Shao Shuaijun in the United States saw this, he couldn't help but blush and feel ashamed, wishing he could find a crack in the ground and sneak in.

Can't you keep a low profile? This made Americans see a funny joke. No matter how good "Painted Skin" is, the 15-day box office can't match the three-day box office of "The Da Vinci Code", so how dare you brag about it. If it wasn't for him, Shao Shuaijun, who came from a mysterious China with a population of 1.3 billion, if it wasn't for him, Shao Shuaijun would only be twenty years old this year.

The United States is probably reporting on "Painted Skin" as a matter of routine.

This is good, and the people of the country have boasted that he has become the successor of James Cameron.

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Whether you brag about it or keep a low profile, the "Painted Skin" campaign has passed, and the third and fourth weeks, the downward trend is obvious. Southeast Asia, including South Korea, has begun to release paintings one after another, with a total of about 120 million yuan in box office, because In some regions, such as Brunei, the rights are purchased directly, and the box office is just a random number, and the specific number cannot be precise.

Now only China and Japan are left in Asia, which are still showing, plus North America.

At the box office in North America, it has also passed its peak, and only received 4.5 million US dollars in the fourth weekend. From June 1st to the arrival of the World Cup, and the North American summer holidays ignited, blockbuster movies were released. After the fifth weekend of "Painted Skin" once again received 1.3 million US dollars, all paintings were sold.

In the end, the total box office in North America was 73.56 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to 610 million yuan.

At the same time, Japan's box office data also came out, with a total box office of more than 4.5 billion yen, equivalent to RMB 310 million, making it the best-selling Chinese-language movie in Japan.

In other words, the overseas box office of "Painted Skin" has accumulated to 1.04 billion yuan.

In the mainland, the box office of "Painted Skin" at the end of the fourth week was 340 million yuan. By the fifth week, the box office was so weak that it was estimated that 10 million would be difficult. At this time, in order to fulfill the wish of surpassing "Titanic", fans of "Painted Skin" began to organize spontaneously, watching the movie for the second and third times.

The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television also began to contact various units to organize a unified arrangement to go to the cinema to watch movies.

Finally, at the end of the fifth week, "Painted Skin" won 20.23 million yuan in a single week, successfully accumulating the total box office to 360 million yuan, surpassing "Titanic" to become the highest-grossing movie in mainland film history. exceeded.

With a global box office of 1.4 billion yuan, it topped the global box office champion of mainland movies.

But this will not be the final box office of "Painted Skin". "Painted Skin" is a big hit and has already attracted many European businessmen. Some distributors have already come to contact us. By the end of the year at the latest, "Painted Skin" is expected to land in France, Spain and other places . With this shareholder wind, the release of "Source Code" will also start to restart.

"We have no way of knowing how long the road of "Painted Skin" is, but we can plan the road of Shao Shuaijun! The short-term goal is to surpass the global US$546 million of "Mission: Impossible 2" directed by Wu Yusen and reach the top of the Chinese language The world box office champion of the film!"

Some media have already started planning for Shao Shuaijun's future. (To be continued..)

ps:  Thanks to Wu Yuxin and Nicholas Tse for the rewards, and thanks to Tong Mu for the monthly pass!