Disaster Artist

The latest website: At the end of last year, a "raid" was born, reawakening the trend of retro action movies, because action movies have always been one of the mainstream themes in the market, major film companies will consider action-type projects every year, and now they are encouraged, The action of investment production is naturally a lot faster.

In just half a year, related industries such as martial arts instruction, action doubles, etc. have fully recovered, and the noise of the peak period can be seen in a trance.

However, due to the production cycle, the retro action movies produced by mainstream film companies have not had time to complete the post-production period. Therefore, "Quick Hunt" has once again become the second wave of the first wave of works after the return of the retro action movie trend. .

Leaving aside the confrontation between Streamer Films and Blue Whale Films, people in the industry have also cast their attention:

Is "The Raid" a beautiful accident, or is the retro action movie market really back?

result--

"Fast Pursuit" had a box office of 500 million in its opening weekend, which injected a boost for the entire market.

On the one hand, the August summer season broke out again, and the market potential was further tapped; on the other hand, the retro action movie market was completely opened, and this upsurge can be deeply felt from word of mouth to the box office.

Afterwards, the box office drop of "Fast Pursuit" was controlled at around 40% on the weekend of the second week, and the task was completed perfectly. At this time, it can be officially announced that the box office stamina of the movie should not be disappointing.

Facts, too.

On the whole, the word-of-mouth evaluation of "Fast Pursuit" is slightly inferior to that of "Raid"; moreover, lacking a bit of the freshness of "Raid", the subsequent box office trend is also a little less tenacity and persistence.

But this is only a demanding requirement for excellence, because "fast pursuit" is good enough.

In August, when the summer market has fallen into a sluggish state and there is not much energy left, "Fast Pursuit" easily topped the weekend box office chart for three consecutive weeks, becoming the third work in this summer to accomplish such a feat.

It is worth mentioning that in the third week of August, the week following the release of "The Gentleman's Secret Order" and "Fast Pursuit", Lion Pictures' action movie "Code Forty-Three" was released.

However, this work is not a follow-up work, but a movie adapted by Lion Pictures based on the game of the same name. When the project was approved and production started, the "raid" had not yet been released.

However, after the great success of "Raid", "Code Forty-Three" also made adjustments immediately, and designed martial arts actions in a way that brings the game into perspective, hoping to create a "raid"-style real fighting effect.

This release, Lions Pictures also has expectations——

However, the professional level of martial arts design, there is no harm without comparison, and the overall quality is far behind "raid" and "fast pursuit", which also makes people in the industry realize the excellence of Hong Jiaban.

At the moment when retro action movies are fully revived, Hong Jiaban has also become very popular. This time, it is not just Guan Zhou.

The box office of "Code Forty-Three" was only 50 million at the premiere, which was even worse than that of "The Gentleman's Secret Order", but the film investment was only less than 200 million. When the revenue ratio was finally calculated, Lion Pictures was basically the same. There is no profit or loss, which is a small surprise.

Sure enough, the action movie market is indeed picking up.

And this box, after winning three consecutive championships, the follow-up performance of "Fast Pursuit" was also very good. The release cycle continued until December, and then the file was withdrawn.

In the end, the cumulative global box office passed 3 billion, and it surpassed the total box office figure of "Unfriending" and handed over a satisfactory answer sheet.

It is true that the box office results of "Fast Pursuit" are insignificant compared to the 6.6 billion "raid", and even less than half of the latter. From this perspective, it is impossible to replicate the phenomenal level of "raid". performance is still very difficult.

However, the film industry has never pursued "phenomenal works", but a "successful model that can be copied and pasted", because they need to carry out assembly-line industrial production and continuously create more of the same works.

Compared with "raid", "quick pursuit" is more popular with film companies, because the entire production mode template can be copied and pasted, and the entire industry can deeply feel this craze. .

Moreover, taking a step back, the profit and dividend of "Fast Pursuit" has exceeded one billion. Even if Blue Whale Pictures and Damen Pictures are divided up, it easily surpasses "Knight League" and "Jurassic Edge" and becomes this year's The work with the highest income in the summer file——

What's more, this has not yet calculated the income of the subsequent surrounding industries.

In just one and a half years, Blue Whale Pictures only used three works to quickly gain a foothold, and the company's financial report figures were so good that people began to look forward to the "Human Removal Plan":

Can the miracle continue?

As for "Tourists", this is a series of works in the awards season. The expectations are different, and the focus is no longer on the box office. From here, we can get a glimpse of the overall layout of Blue Whale Pictures——

The next thing to see is whether "Tourist" can successfully win the nomination in the awards season.

The vigorous box office performance of "Fast Pursuit" actually has nothing to do with Lu Qian slowly, because what the audience really likes is the person who shows charm on the big screen, and even the director needs to stand back a little bit. And what about the producer?

Therefore, the direct beneficiary of the film's success is Guan Zhou, and the indirect beneficiary is Hong Jiaban. They are indeed very popular in the industry, and they are constantly invited.

Immediately afterwards, the shooting schedules of "Quick Pursuit 2" and "Raid 2" also appeared on the conference table again, and they definitely needed to strike while the iron was hot.

Busy, so busy that your feet don't touch the ground, this is also the current situation of Blue Whale Pictures, and even Blue Whale Pictures needs to start recruiting people, because the staff is already understaffed; moreover, Blue Whale Pictures needs to slowly Establish your own direct line production team, and the tentacles will slowly expand.

It can be felt in every aspect that Blue Whale Pictures has completely entered the right track and is advancing at a high speed.

But the problem is that Lu Qian's attention has temporarily shifted to another project:

"The Disappearing Lover~www.novelmt.com~ Regardless of whether the cooperation is successful or not, Lu Qian hopes that he can learn more from the adaptation of this work, including the inner connection of the entire "Marriage Trilogy", including Tips for adapting a long story, etc.

For Lu Qian, this is a very interesting thing. Even the progress of the "Blacklist Project" has slowed down a little. Anyway, Jiang Haowen and the others are still following up closely. Lu Qian is a little slower here.

Then--

"Who?"

When Lu Qian heard Yu Shao's name on the phone, he thought he heard it wrong.

Yu Shao couldn't help showing a smile, and nodded in affirmation through the phone.

"I was also very surprised when I heard the message, but I confirmed it. I heard it correctly, and you did not hear it wrong. The streamer film industry hopes to have a private meeting with you to discuss a cooperation plan for a work."