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Chapter 160 Another box office miracle?

Perhaps it is because the audience is tired of those older generation directors, or the era that God is destined to be a new generation is coming. "Love Unfinished" has touched countless people with excellent reputation and pure love. After the word of mouth has been completely spread, the local box office has reached a maximum of more than 4.7 million per day, breaking a new record and becoming the new single-day box office record for Chu Yue. In the mainland, it also reached a maximum of more than 13 million per day.

Ten days later, the local box office was 26 million, the Taiwan box office was 25 million, and the mainland box office was more than 50 million. On the surface, the box office of this drama was slightly less than "Lost", but the momentum of this drama was endless. It was released locally for 56 days and 51 days in Taiwan. Under the impact of piracy in the mainland, it took 48 days to fall into the painting.

In twenty-nine days, the local box office of "Love Unfinished" exceeded 40 million. In thirty-one days, the box office of Taiwan also exceeded 40 million. In thirty-two days, the box office of mainland China exceeded 90 million...

In the end, the local box office of "Love Unfinished" surpassed "Love Unfinished", and with its stamina, it rushed to 48 million, pushing "Love Unfinished" to ninth in the historical record. In Taiwan, where the population base is larger, the box office exceeded 50 million. In the mainland, "Love Unfinished" bravely broke through "Love Unfinished"'s achievement, reaching 140 million.

But these achievements are nothing. The results of this drama overseas are surprising. It was released in Japan for 69 days, and the box office was terrible to reach 60 million US dollars. Although it did not have the top ten box offices in Japan last year, it was the most popular Chinese drama in Japan of the year.

In South Korea, this drama also reached a box office of 36 million yuan, and the light and shadow were heartbroken! It sold for more than 30 million US dollars in box office, which was so bloody.

This drama was bought by European and American distribution companies, and the results in the United States were not very good. Americans seemed to be difficult to understand the implicitness of this Oriental approach. However, in Europe, the box office of this drama was surprising, and it also became the highest box office of Chinese-language films in Europe - 30 million euros!

"Love Unfinished" Asia's total box office relied on its outstanding performance in Japan to defeat "Kung Fu 2" and "Lost" in one fell swoop, becoming the most popular Chinese film of the year with a box office of more than one billion Hong Kong dollars! And this drama, including the pay, has a total investment of only 20 million...

However, when it comes to global box office, "Kung Fu 2" still beats "Love Unfinished" with the accumulated 60 million box offices in North America and Europe. After all, "Love Unfinished" will be released in North America and Europe next year, and those box offices cannot be calculated to this year's box office. But even so, it still defeated "Love Unfinished" and became the runner-up of the top ten Chinese box offices in the world, and forced "Love" to third.

Chu Yue is really unlucky. He was already suppressed by "Kung Fu 2" at the beginning of the year, but he didn't expect to be suppressed by "Love Unfinished" at the end of the year. However, the results of this drama must be counted on him, after all, his box office appeal in Japan is quite strong.

In 2009, it was a year when Hong Kong films were booming. This year, three films with global box offices exceeded 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is really rare (don’t take the 1 billion box office too much. Japan’s local box office champions usually have 200 million US dollars in box office every year. However, Hong Kong films used to never count box office data outside Hong Kong, and this book only added such data)!

With the achievements of these three dramas, some film critics or filmmakers from other film companies were a little proud and threatened: "The era of Hong Kong film recovery is coming!"

Of course, such remarks were sneered by those with knowledge. "Kung Fu 2" relies on Stephen Chow's strong appeal, "Lost" and "Love" rely on the inspiration of new skills of two new directors, and rely on the sense of freshness. One of the important factors is that there is Chu Yue's strong box office appeal, and the film itself is very suitable for internationalization, and then it can achieve such results.

Of course, according to this method, the Asian box office appeal of superstars such as Liu Dehua can reach hundreds of millions. Moreover, their box office is very stable, just like Hua Zai. In recent years, no drama has a local box office below 10 million. As for Chu Yue, it is hard to say...

In any case, it would be ridiculous to think that Hong Kong films have recovered with such a little results. However, Hong Kong films do have some traces of recovery, but that is because the mainland has introduced a rating system and relaxed some movie censorship conditions. Hong Kong films relying on the mainland have of course shown some good signs, and Chu Yue’s box office is stimulating!

Fortunately, such remarks have not become mainstream. However, after the success of Zhu Xiaotian, Chu Yue and Lin Rui, other companies cannot ignore the serious issue of new blood. Why can Chu Yue and others achieve such results? Are they young? Because they have more in line with the current world's film ideas.

After Lin Rui, major film companies were finally stimulated and made up their minds to start investing in newcomers. These things are always something that someone has to do. Lin Rui's achievements stimulate major film companies and let them do it. That's great. However, before this, black and white filming has attracted a group of experts and it is inevitable to grow!

Of course, what kind of black and white films grow into is not something we need to pay special attention to. Chu Yue’s main identity is always an actor and singer, not a film company boss. Black and white films cannot be distributed, so they can only be another "movie studio" and another company specializing in making good movies!

In 2009, Chu Yue began to be glorious and brought his career to the right track through a series of victories and successes.

After "Love Not End", Lin Rui transformed into a very awesome director, and Chu Yue's value also rose to the next level. His original value was as high as five or six million, and this time the public price reached as much as seven million. No one can deny Chu Yue's box office appeal, which is second only to Xia Zai and Wei Zai's few predecessors.

In this way, Chu Yue’s next three dramas were undoubtedly a loss! However, he didn’t care much. It would be much more exciting to be able to work with Xu Ke. You know, Xu Ke is still his idol!

"The Hidden Hero" has officially started filming. Chu Yue was so happy that he took the big signature book to sign for the crew behind the scenes. Xu Ke once again used his former imperial martial arts commander Cheng Xiaodong. The energy Cheng Xiaodong exerted in Xu Ke was surprising.

"Hidden Heroes" is very different from Xu Keqian's works. Xu Keqian made his fortune in costume martial arts, but this drama is urban martial arts! The story tells that in modern cities, there is still a group, a group with ancient martial arts! This group is deeply hidden in society and unknown to everyone.

To be honest, this is a very attractive story and also has its own imagination. Moreover, this is different from the past dramas. In the past, there were also dramas that were played fiercely in modern cities, but they have never been as exaggerated as flying into the sky. The martial arts presented in this drama are similar to those ancient costume martial arts, as exaggerated as those.

Chu Yue was wearing a black suit and fighting Wu Zhenyu at night. They were fighting between two buildings at the moment, and the wires here were entangled in a mess. Chu Yue and Wu Zhenyu were fighting fiercely on the rooftop! Suddenly, Chu Yue bounced up and avoided Wu Zhenyu with a very vicious move. He raised his palm and blew the strong wind. In the blink of an eye, he fought with Wu Zhenyu several times!

"CUT!" Xu Ke shouted loudly, and was very satisfied with letting others prepare for the next show. He couldn't help but sigh that it was indeed much easier for people with kung fu to perform martial arts dramas.

However, this drama is really not easy to do, and Xu Ke only got a 50 million investment. 50 million, what is enough to shoot? For this reason, Chu Yue even automatically reduced his salary. Even so, this drama still has no extra money to do computer special effects. Otherwise, these fighting backgrounds could be made with special effects without taking huge risks to go to the field to shoot.

"In the next scene, you and Zhenyu jumped off the rooftop and then fought in the air!" Cheng Xiaodong pulled Chu Yue and Wu Zhenyu from the side, gestured with his subordinates, and then asked the two to rehearse!

Wu Zhenyu smiled bitterly and patted his waist: "I didn't expect that I would even have to perform martial arts dramas at such a big age. I don't know if this bone can be held back!"

Chu Yue had a thought and smiled at Wu Zhenyu: "Brother Zhenyu, it's not too difficult, it's okay to have a steel wire hanging! Moreover, martial arts films have been in decline for so many years, maybe they will become popular again because of this drama? At that time, you will be indispensable!"

"It's not that easy!" Wu Zhenyu looked around and couldn't help but lower his head and leaned towards Chu Yue: "Tell you, Director Xu is in a bad situation. It is said that the company that invested in this drama said that if the box office of this drama is smashed again, there will be no need to film..."

Chu Yue sighed softly. These things were something he had expected. Xu Ke did have a very status and status in the entertainment industry, but without box office or award, he would not be able to get investment from others. Without box office or award, he would have nothing, and the entertainment industry sometimes was realistic.

This may also be the reason why Chu Yue is willing to reduce his salary to join. For Xu Ke and for his idol, he will use his box office appeal once. The only thing he hopes is that Xu Ke will not make any mistakes again this time.

Xu Ke was very confused before, maybe it was better to say that he was too innovative and breakthrough. He tried action movies from practical to other categories. But Chu Yue believed that the problem of how to fight was not too big, and there was no need to create another one completely. The focus of the action movie was not the action, but the plot. This time, Cheng Xiaolong was a martial arts finger, proving that Xu Ke figured out this point.

However, this script is indeed too simple, and it is too natural! After thinking for a moment, Chu Yue's movements slowed down and was kicked by Wu Zhenyu, and he quickly shook his hand to say that he was fine. He immediately rushed to Xu Ke and looked at Xu Ke who was a little surprised. He hesitated for a moment - Xu Ke has always been arbitrary in his style, can he accept other people's opinions?

After thinking about it, I still hoped that this drama could be taken to a higher level. I gritted my teeth and decided, looking at Xu Ke and said, "Director Xu, I have an idea, I don't know if I should say it!"

Xu Ke's eyebrows stood up, then calmed down and looked at Chu Yue quietly. Chu Yue felt relieved when he saw Xu Ke like this, and talked freely, and said his thoughts: "I think this drama seems to be a way to express chivalrous spirit, but it may not have too many effects every time it is expressed through the male and female protagonists, or people with strong martial arts skills in the drama. Why not try it and use other characters to convey chivalrous spirit?"

Xu Ke's eyes lit up suddenly. Both sides had ideas. Just a little mention of it, you can click it. He kept pondering. Chu Yue meant that chivalrous spirit should not be only possessed by martial arts. If a character is added to convey chivalrous spirit, a chivalrous spirit that makes the characters played by Chu Yue give up the disadvantage, the effect will definitely be better!

"Then what kind of character do you think should be added?" Xu Ke was surprised that he actually discussed such a topic with Chu Yue.

"If you are an ordinary person, your persuasion is not strong enough. If you are a policeman, it will be much better. If you are a policeman of a certain age, it may be better!" Chu Yue thought about it and carefully put forward his own suggestions!

Why are policemen of a certain age? Xu Ke understands that if there are soldiers, of course there are policemen. Policemen of a certain age can undoubtedly have a more contrasting effect in this regard. He smiled at Chu Yue: "I'll go back and think about it!"

Is it really not hard to film? That may not be possible. Chu Yue and Wu Zhenyu jumped down from the rooftop with steel wire hanging on the wire, and fought in the air, and burst into a low sound of internal force collision. However, Chu Yue has experienced some experience and with Cheng Xiaodong's guidance, he can already accurately control his move direction and strength. Wu Zhenyu can actually do it, but now he has no place to leverage the force in the air, so he can't control it, and he hit Chu Yue in the face with a punch.

Chu Yue was under the force of this punch and swung his body. The back waist suddenly hit a steel bar that was poking out of the window. He groaned on the spot, gasped in a cold breath, and sweated coldly, and quickly stopped.
Chapter completed!
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