Director’s Legend

Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu enjoy the two-person world before the busy time. "Old Boy" is still hot to lead the box office in Asia, and the dream storm has not weakened. While landing in Europe, America and the world, the 2009-2010 awards also started, and a season belonging to "Slumdog Millionaire" is coming.

New York Online Film Critics Society Best Cinematography.

Los Angeles Film Critics Association best director, best soundtrack, best cinematography second place.

Boston Film Critics Society Best Picture, Best Editing.

Washington Film Critics Association Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Breakthrough Performance (Actor Dev Patel).

National Board of Review Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Breakthrough Actor (Dev Patel).

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Performance, Best Drama, Best Breakthrough Cinematography.

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Music.

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

Florida Film Critics Association Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

2009 Online Film Critics Association Awards Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay.

Best Audience Favorite Award at the Austin Film Festival, and the People's Choice Award, the highest award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Golden Satellite Award (Little Golden Globe Award) for Best Original Screenplay, Best Drama Film, and Best Director.

Black Film Awards for Best Actor, Best Breakthrough Performance, and Best Original Music.

American Photographers Guild Awards Best Cinematography...

Almost a hundred nominations. Has won more than 70 awards. "Slumdog Millionaire" can be said to be the "millionaire" of this year's awards season. At the same time, major magazines and newspapers selected annual movies, as well as well-known film critics selected annual movies, and "Slumdog Millionaire" also gained a lot.

"Time" top ten no.7, "Rolling Stone" top ten no.2, "New York Post" top ten no.1, Roger Ebert's top 20 films in 2008, Stephen King's top ten films in 2008 good……

On December 15, 2009, the nominations for the 67th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were announced, and "Slumdog Millionaire" won four nominations for Best Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Soundtrack . "Pounding Heart" also received the first important nomination so far. Best Cinematography Award.

compared with the poor. Heartbeat is the real poor.

In the harvest of the awards season, "Slumdog Millionaire" also experienced its final glory, with a global $360 million, word-of-mouth and box office are both grand slams. Summit Entertainment as an investor. It can be described as a double gain of fame and fortune. A company that only makes blockbusters. Certainly no company has more reputation for collecting awards.

At the same time, "Sherlock Holmes", which has already been drawn in North America, has earned a total of 240 million US dollars in North America and 260 million US dollars overseas. 500 million US dollars worldwide, and some regions are still showing it one after another. For example, mainland China has not yet started showing it. It is expected that the global 540 million US dollars will not be a problem.

The last film produced by Summit Entertainment this year, "The Hangover 2," was pushed back in favor of "Oldboy," so it's set after Christmas. Back in time a few days, on Friday, December 11, "Oldboy" was officially released on its first weekend in North America.

With the title of the most popular film in Asia, "Old Boy" has arranged 3560 theaters in the United States, ranking first in the number of theaters released in this issue. It can be seen how much confidence the old American filmmakers have in Shao Shuaijun's film . After the three-day weekend from the 11th to the 13th, the box office will be released.

"2012", which has passed its peak period, only earned 4.4 million US dollars, ranking sixth this weekend, with a cumulative box office of 150 million US dollars in North America. It has to be said that disaster movies are just fun to watch, and it is easy to cause visual fatigue after the freshness has passed. Pay for death.

Lionsgate's small-budget "Brothers" earned $5 million, ranking fifth. This year, Lionsgate produced a lot of movies and basically didn't lose money, but the only ones that made money were the "saw" series. Overshadowed by old neighbor Summit Entertainment.

Disney's "A Christmas Carol" earned US$6.87 million, Warner Bros.' "It's All About You" earned US$9.08 million, and Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" earned US$25 million, ranking fourth, third, and second respectively. I have to say that Disney's children's line is still very successful. "A Christmas Carol" has accumulated 124 million US dollars, and "The Princess and the Frog" has also achieved good results.

But this week's champion belongs to "Old Boy", with 39.4 million US dollars, which is not a very hot result, but it still broke through the success limit of 10,000 US dollars in a single theater. As long as a single theater reaches $10,000, the film is considered a success, and the number of subsequent theaters will not decrease much.

The score on imdb is not as terrible as Asia, only 7.6 points, and the freshness on Rotten Tomatoes is only 75%. Using the score of 34 from the film critic Ben Taylor of The New York Times: "This is an Asian definition of dreams, which has inspirational elements, but does not have the elements that should be scripted in commercial films. Cultural differences lead us to It was hard to understand the song at the end of the credits."

Most of the reactions of American audiences were that after watching it, they were very warm and touched, but if they had such deep feelings, they really didn’t. The ending of "Old Boy" is sentimental for the whole of Asia. For them, the melody is good and the content of the lyrics is also good. However, the dream is worldwide, and the movie is still loved by the audience.

Became this week's box office champion.

It was successful in North America, and it was almost successful in the whole world. Britain, France, Germany, Spain... Although "Old Boy" is not very strong, and has never broken any records for Chinese-language movies, it has also ascended to the throne of weekly champion. It earned a lot of money at the box office.

But in Asia, "Oldboy" remains strong.

South Korea has achieved two consecutive championships, with 1.6 million moviegoers this week and a cumulative 3.7 million moviegoers, surpassing the record of 2.71 million moviegoers for "Under the Red Cliff", and according to this result, it is definitely squeezed into the top ten blockbuster films of the year in Korea ranks.

Japan has also achieved two consecutive championships, earning 2 billion yen this week, and the total box office has accumulated to 3.8 billion yen, which is far from the 5.5 billion yen Chinese film record of "Under the Red Cliff". Getting closer.

Hong Kong once again topped the weekly championship. With a weekly box office of 24 million Hong Kong dollars and a total box office of 56 million Hong Kong dollars, it has reached the top of the Chinese film championship, and the top ten of the year are coming soon.

Baodao also topped the weekly championship. The weekly box office was NT$140 million. The total box office was NT$350 million. The top ten of the year are locked.

Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos... all achieved coherence. According to the statistics, the overseas box office of Asia as a whole has once again received 28 million US dollars, about 191 million yuan.

And the Mainland. After breaking through 400 million yuan in a week, the momentum finally slowed down. The box office dropped a lot in the second week, but it was only compared to the first week's results. The second week earned 190 million yuan! Refresh all the records of the second week again. New records are also added.

Breaking through the box office record of RMB 600 million in 14 days at the fastest!

After the 510 million yuan of "Inception", there is finally a movie that broke the 500 million mark, and broke the 600 million mark like a bamboo shoot! The first film reached 600 million RMB in the mainland market, and it was still a Chinese film! After CCTV's "News Broadcast" introduced this news for the first time, the following "Focus Interview" dedicated a program about "Old Boy".

Explain in detail why this movie is so popular.

"Before the show starts, I first want to introduce a set of data to you." The host Bai Yansong introduced the data in his opening remarks, "The latest movie "Old Boy" by the famous director Shao Shuaijun is currently in theaters, and it has been officially released for two weeks At that time, the domestic box office has reached 613.9 million yuan, the overseas box office has reached 140 million US dollars, and the total box office has reached 230 million US dollars.

On the premiere day in mainland China, it recorded RMB 58 million on Monday, RMB 43 million on Tuesday, RMB 43.5 million on Wednesday, RMB 38.6 million on Thursday, RMB 51 million on Friday, RMB 88.6 million on Saturday, and RMB 88.6 million on Sunday. 100.2 million RMB.

It recorded 422.9 million yuan in a single week and 191 million yuan in the second week.

The fastest to break the 100 million record in 2 days, the fastest to break the 200 million record in 5 days (the same as "Inception"), the fastest to break the 300 million record in 6 days, the fastest to break the 400 million record in 7 days, the fastest to break the 500 million record 12 days, the fastest time to break the 600 million record was 14 days.

At the same time, it broke the box office records of Chinese-language movies in various parts of Asia. The countries that have confirmed to break the total box office records of Chinese-language movies include South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia...

"What kind of charm does "Old Boy" have to achieve such outstanding results? We interviewed the producer of the film, Sloppy, about this issue, and asked him to explain it to us." Bai Yansong finished reporting the data, and the screen switched to the chase Dream film and television base.

The general manager of Chasing Dream Culture Brokerage Company was sloppy, sitting in the office in a neat suit, and said seriously: "We have summed up the three elements of a film's success, the background of the era, the theme of concern, the effect of fame and the scale of publicity.

In terms of the background of the times, during the current global subprime mortgage crisis, both the unemployment rate and the employment rate have reached the most difficult situation at present. After graduation, young students face the harsh social environment and cannot adapt, which has led to many people's dissatisfaction with real life, so they pinned on the "Old Boy" movie in an attempt to relieve stress with movies.

In terms of caring for the theme, the film has three themes, youth, dream and struggle... In terms of fame effect, the reputation of director Shao Shuaijun can be said to be the most famous in the Chinese circle at present, and many films have sold well all over the world. Loved by large audiences. Huang Bo, Xu Zhen, and Liu Shishi are all well-known actors in China. From the very beginning, the film has received widespread attention. With a very bright guest lineup, the star power has a huge impact.

The domestic success has resulted in the film gaining a huge amount of international attention. Coupled with Golden Harvest's strong film scheduling and public relations capabilities in Asia, "Old Boy" was released simultaneously and on a large scale in a timely manner. Such an incredible box office miracle. "(to be continued...)

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