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Chapter 144: Dark horses create movie stars

"I've been wondering why it's called "Lost". When it comes to the ending, I saw Chu Yue die in the play for a very dramatic and extremely turning point. After seeing him die, the relaxed smile hanging on the corner of his mouth when the camera is pulled in, I understand it a little. From a regular life, to a dangerous and exciting escape, to the protagonist's smile, it tactfully implies that urban people are all in the law and follow the law. Sometimes, trying to break the law will be more exciting!"

"From this perspective, the beginning and ending of "Lost" can be explained. This story can exist or not. It is more like a person who tries to resist the law. It may not be real in urban life, but it must be the desire of this person. This person describes the helplessness under the laws of all urban people and the impulse to resist the laws!"

The above is Xie Sihao's comment. He was also puzzled by the beginning and the ending. After thinking about it, he got such a view and was widely agreed upon. God knows that Chu Yue didn't think so deeply at all, he just wanted to shoot a money-selling action movie. The beginning and ending were a little bit black, but that was his style.

In such praises of the oral sex, Chu Yue's wonderful performance in the play was almost ignored. Xie Sihao saw his performance and praised it in the article: "Lost" is a very exciting action film, which made people nervous from the beginning until the end. But this did not hinder Chu Yue's performance in the play. From the beginning of lifelike urbanites to the transformation in the escape process, all of which were impressed by his performance. Especially in the ending, his smile was deeply charming and impressive! This is destined to be a classic role of Chu Yue!"

Most film critics have praised this drama incredibly gorgeously. In fact, if there is no such a dark start and ending, this drama is at best just a very exciting pure genre film. But once you have it, then the drama itself has gorgeous elements.

Although a few critics believe that the beginning and ending are completely mysterious, Chu Yue did not give up Long Qumai itself, which is the biggest weakness of the film. But they cannot refuse to admit that removing these two points, the film is still the most exciting genre action film in the past five years!

In the eyes of film critics, Chu Yue suddenly became a popular celebrity, not because of his actor status, but because of his director status. As a director, Chu Yue does have a lot to learn. However, there are some things that cannot be learned. Just like the beginning and ending, the critics almost unanimously praised Chu Yue, believing that he would fill the gap in Hong Kong films in CUTL-type films. Although there are CUTL films in Hong Kong, there is a lack of a CUTL director group that is as personal and so popular as Hollywood!

CUTL refers to cult, extreme or religion. In movies, it usually refers to films that are fanatical and determined, with their most loyal supporters. However, to this day, the definition of CUTL is becoming increasingly difficult to define. Usually, as long as the film has enough personal style, it is a CUTL video.

Obviously, just for the dark start and ending, Chu Yue has a considerable number of supporters, and he is now also known as the CUTL director and author.

Even if "The Legend of Heaven and Earth" has a luxurious star lineup, it can't resist the frenzy caused by "Lost". It hasn't been seen in many years that an ordinary Hong Kong film can be made into a wonderful action film that is both black, full of personality, and has the international A-level production level?

Six days after its release, "The Legend of Heaven and Earth" had a box office of 13 million. From the seventh day, the box office of this drama has dropped a lot. After the feedback from "Lost" gradually spread over the past three days, it greatly impacted the box office of "The Legend of Heaven and Earth" - they are all action movies, how can it not be impacted!

On the fourth day, "Lost" single box office was still as high as 2.5 million. Because the drama was not released on the weekend, the fifth day was the weekend. The box office of "Lost" rebounded to a great extent on the first weekend, and the box office in two days of the weekend was as high as more than 6 million. It was not until the eighth day that the film's box office fell to 2 million. Even so, "Lost" also exceeded 20 million in seven days, achieving a rare achievement in recent years.

In the mainland, which has a wider population base of a hundred times larger, the word-of-mouth spreading effect is undoubtedly much stronger. The highest single-day box office rebounded to 10 million, and the cumulative box office exceeded 40 million in a week. Even in Taiwan, there was a small rebound, and the box office exceeded 20 million in a week, which was a surprise. At this time, the Light and Shadow Company began to vomit blood.

Just after Chu Yue and the main members of the crew were invited by the publisher to attend the premiere, they were surprised to find that the film reached the top ten box office list in Japan and South Korea, and even reached the top three in Japan. In the end, "Lost" was painted at 37 million US dollars in the box office, while in South Korea it was painted at 11 million US dollars. This time it was the black and white company's turn to vomit blood, and they sold it for how much money. If they were to share the profit, Japan and South Korea could make at least 80 million to 120 million yuan in total! This deal was a big loss!

Fortunately, the distribution companies in Japan and South Korea still counted the best. After making nearly 200 million, they took out 10 million to the crew. But when Zhu Xiaotian and the others were still so angry that they vomited blood. The loss was too great that they could not make up for it even if they had 10 million.

However, light and shadow companies are also depressed as they were. "Lost" was released in the mainland for a total of 37 days, with a strong box office of over 120 million, which was the 160 million yuan of "Kung Fu 2". In Taiwan, "Lost" has not been very strong in the box office, and it only reached 33 million yuan and then fell into the painting.

However, in Hong Kong, this film, which exceeded 20 million in a week and 30 million in fifteen days, was finally successfully exceeded 40 million on the 33rd day, and was released in a total of 47 days, with a local box office of 43 million. It defeated "The Gambling Saint" in one fell swoop, which was 800,000 lower than "The Stories of the School", and squeezed into the eighth place among the top ten top-notch films in Hong Kong film history.

The director's debut ended with such a vigorous box office and effect, which was unexpected by everyone. At first, everyone who thought Chu Yue could not be a director shut up, Mel; Gibson won an Oscar for the first time as a director! Since 1998, except for Stephen Chow's films, this is the first time that Hong Kong films can squeeze into the top ten historical top-notch list!

Besides, there are no stars in this drama except Chu Yue, only second- and third-tier actors. With such a lineup, such a first time, it is like playing football for the first time, and playing football in the World Cup, and scoring the goal for the first time! Apart from excitement, there is only excitement left!

At this time, no one doubted Chu Yue's ability anymore. Similarly, if Chu Yue's previous dramas were popular, people thought that there was a lineup and reasons for all aspects, and had little to do with Chu Yue. However, from this day on, Chu Yue's strength was recognized, and he was no longer just a first-line singer, but a first-line actor! From this day on, no one dared to ignore Chu Yue's box office appeal. If Chu Yue had only won recognized proud achievements in music, then after "Lost", he would still have an indelible position in the film industry.

Unfortunately, in the eyes of Chu Yue and Lin Ling, such a box office is actually not a big deal. According to the audience count, the "Best Partner" in that year had a total of 2 million viewers, which was equivalent to half of the population of Hong Kong citizens back then. If calculated based on today's prices, the actual box office was around 140 million.

Compared with 43 million and more than 100 million, what else is there to be proud of? Even 120 million in the mainland is nothing. The number of mainland audiences in "Shaolin Temple", which invested 1.2 million in that year, was at least 500 million. Based on today's ten yuan ticket price, it is still a box office of 5 billion. Even if it is not considered the global boom of this drama, the box office in the mainland is enough to win the global box office championship that year. In comparison, 120 million is nothing!

Although Chu Yue and Lin Ling didn't agree, Lin Ling still felt relieved. The box office of 43 million means that the agreement between her and her father has been completed. The most important thing left now is whether Chu Yue can win the Best Actor in the next two years!

They don’t care, and they don’t mean others don’t care. “Lost” alone reached 600 million in China and Japan and South Korea. In addition, Singapore and Malaysia and other places, the total box office in Asia finally stopped before the threshold of 700 million. In the end, “Lost” became the second box office runner-up in the Asian Chinese film of the year. “Kung Fu 2” in Japan was lower than “Lost”, and the total box office was only 110 million higher than “Lost”, and became the annual Chinese film box office champion with an 800 million box office.

What is depressing is that "Kung Fu 2" is overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelmingly

However, this also made the veterans in the industry very glad. Fortunately, "Lost" did not kill "Kung Fu 2". Otherwise, the media and the public would think that the era of newcomers has arrived. After all, "Kung Fu 2" has saved them a little face, proving that the seniors still have the strong appeal of their seniors.

For this drama, Light and Shadow held many celebration banquets. They held ten million every time, twenty million every time, and they simply stopped coming to thirty million. When the final result came out, everyone happily came to a comprehensive celebration banquet.

At this time, everyone suddenly realized that the black and white film company had several very popular dramas shortly after it was founded. From the entrepreneurial work "The Strong One" to the comedy film released by Zhu Xiaotian two months ago, to "Lost", all three dramas were quite popular!

In this time when making movies is getting harder and harder, such companies are undoubtedly very attractive. So some companies try to invest. Unfortunately, black and white films are now lacking in everything, but they are not short of money.

Black and White Film has four major shareholders, Chu Yue is 35%, A Hao is 25%, A Lan and Zhu Xiaotian are 20%. From last year to this year, the three dramas have earned tens of millions for the company and all the dividends have been lenient. Especially since "Lost" was sold well in Asia, Americans enthusiastically came to contact us to negotiate the distribution rights, and then sold the copyrights of Europe and North America for a total of 12 million US dollars.

Although Ning Fei was in jail, her investment still had to be rewarded. After giving Ning Fei a share of the profit ratio, Black and White Film still made 50 million in the drama "Lost". However, Ning Fei had handed over her assets of 230 million Hong Kong dollars to Chu Yue and a lawyer to handle it.

Unexpectedly, "Lost" has a box office in North America and Europe, with a total box office of 60 million. This obviously added a new result to Chu Yue.

With the big sale of "Lost", Chu Yue's net worth has been soaring. Chu Yue, who used to have no merchants to invite actors, is now a lot of invitations. Now his pay as an actor has reached 6 million, and he accidentally turned over and still has more to do so. He participated in any event, starting from 200,000 yuan. The endorsement of print advertising is basically no talk of 2.5 million yuan, and the minimum TV advertising starts at least 4 million yuan.

According to this calculation, if Chu Yue participated in more than ten commercial activities and more than five concerts per year according to the standard of three dramas per year, and then did three print advertising endorsements, as well as more than two TV advertising endorsements. Without calculating record income, his annual income could reach 30 million.

Of course, with Chu Yue’s current popularity, any celebrity who wants to make a lot of money will definitely take on advertising and do activities, and their annual income will at least be a few times. Compared with Chu Yue, what is Tu Jianyuan?

However, Chu Yue became the reason why some manufacturers were depressed. Chu Yue gave Lin Ling the indicator that he only participated in purely commercial manufacturer activities at most five times a year. He only received one print advertisement at most every year, and it would be better not to answer them. There can be two commercial advertisements on TV!

With such indicators, Chu Yue, a guy who was extremely difficult to invite, quickly soared to 300,000 yuan for the event, but it was still difficult to invite him. Even if it was an advertising endorsement, Chu Yue was holding the endorsement contracts of famous companies such as Pepsi and Keku. If Lin Ling hadn't always explained to people, Chu Yue might have been considered a big shot.

Chu Yue was not in a hurry. During these days, he filmed two endorsement advertisements carefully selected by Lin Ling for him. Then he continued to be busy with his new works, new albums, or new films!
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