Chapter 118 The box office celebration banquet

As time comes to the end of February, "Ball Lightning" has been released for one month, and the box office has reached 960 million, breaking the highest box office record of Chinese-language movies. "Journey to the West" released at the same time finally reached 700 million.

Many results are offline.

I have to say that Zhou Xingxing's signature is really tough. With the complete collapse of the male lead's house and the attack of "Ball Lightning", it still scored more than 700 million yuan, although it was 500 million yuan less than the 1.2 billion box office in his previous life.

, but it is enough to prove its influence.

In order to sprint to the 1 billion mark, Zongheng Film and Television applied for an extension of the movie key. Finally, in early March, the total box office officially reached one billion more than a month after the movie was released!

This is also the first Chinese-language film in mainland China's history with a box office of over 1 billion yuan. It is of great significance. Whether for production companies or the film market, many people in the industry exclaim that it is difficult for anyone to surpass this achievement within three years.

But only Gu Zhongyu knows that this record will not last long. A movie called "Lost in Thailand" in the second half of the year can break it, and countless movies above billions will appear later. The domestic film market is developing too fast!

It is worth mentioning that the Douban score of "Ball Lightning" also reached 8.5 points, which is already very high for commercial movies. After all, "Let the Bullets Fly" released in the previous two years is only 8.8 points now.

According to Douban's evaluation rules, if foreign movies add one point and domestic movies reduce one point, his movies are enough to get 9 points in classic work!

The movie has achieved such great results, so we naturally have to celebrate it. Since Gu Zhongyu was filming in Chang'an, he simply invited everyone here to hold a celebration banquet.

Except for Yang Mi who was unable to come in filming in other places, the original crew of "Ball Lightning" was all here. He found a five-star hotel in our store and invited the main creators of "Twelve Hours of Chang'an" to come over. Anyway, most of them

They are all employees of Zongheng Film and Television, so they are considered team building of the company.

At the dinner table, Gu Zhongyu was squeezed between Wan Qian and Nazha. After the filming of the past three months, the relationship between the two women has not eased. They are still jealous because of some things. However, they are basically Nazha with a worrying IQ every time.

At a loss.

Now that I don’t stop eating, both women often pick up food for Gu Zhongyu’s bowl, and soon a hill was piled up in front of him.

The others looked envious. This blessing of all people is so enviable and jealous!

I don’t know what they would feel when they saw the three people under the table making small moves. Anyway, Gu Zhongyu feels a little too exciting now!

"Mr. Gu, Zhou Xingxing promised to take over "The Mermaid". He chose the first plan, get a high salary + dividend." Gongger persevered and followed Zhou Xingxing for more than a month, and finally convinced him.

"Zhou Xingxing? Isn't he a competitive relationship with our movies? How could he help us direct it?" Zhou Yiwei asked curiously. Both movies have been typing up in the Spring Festival. Is it a good thing to laugh at me so quickly?

Gu Zhongyu smiled indifferently: "Because we gave him an irresistible number."

"How many?"

Then Gogel stretched out three fingers.

Thirty million?

No wonder Zhou Xingxing turned enemies into friends so quickly, and gave him 30 million yuan to direct a movie. If this were changed to himself, let alone acting in a movie, it would be impossible to consider making a third-level film!

At this time, Gu Zhongyu noticed that Guo Fan, as the director, has been wandering around since the start of the banquet, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

"My Director Guo, do you think the food is not satisfied with it or do you think the wine is too bad? I've been so distracted. Why? Spring is here and there are seedlings?"

"No, I'm thinking about whether to go abroad."

"Do you go out for a trip? Take me with you!" Gonggeer and Guo Fan have been going to become conjoined babies for a while, and they wish they only ordered one young lady in their health care!

"No, I want to go to Hollywood to study."

It turned out that the Radio and Television Bureau had a plan to invite public students to study abroad some time ago, allowing young domestic directors to study and observe at the US Paramount Pictures Company. Guo Fan, Chen Sicheng, Wuershan, Ning Hao and others received invitations.

But if you study, it will take several months to return to China as long as a year, and the sequel to "Ball Lightning" will definitely be postponed, so Guo Fan is still hesitating whether to accept this invitation.

"Why did you suddenly think about studying in Hollywood?"

“Because I don’t have confidence…”

Guo Fan admitted that although the first part of "Ball Lightning" successfully broke the box office record, the pressure that followed suddenly increased. He was worried about whether the sequel could continue its glory and lacked confidence in his directorial ability.

He has seriously considered that the movie "Ball Lightning" has the original work of Liu Cixin, the carefully improved script by Gu Zhongyu and Gongger, the complete and efficient Xiantao digital special effects team, the film plan that has been planned for two or three years, everything

Everything has been prepared long ago. As a director, I am more like a tool person. I just need to follow the program and be foolproof.

"Frankly speaking, even if Teacher Gu doesn't look for me this time, he can find a director with strong execution and good-level skills, and he can make this movie, but it may not be worse than me..."

"So I kept thinking, what's so great about me? Unfortunately, I don't seem to have much heads than other directors, so in order not to let down the trust of the company and Mr. Gu, and to continue to direct science fiction movies in the future

, I want to study abroad for a while and settle down."

After hearing Guo Fan's thoughts, Gu Zhongyu was very happy. He was originally worried that he would be able to become famous in advance and would be at risk of helping him grow. But now it seems that he has been worrying too much. He has always been sticking to his original intention and has not been confused by fame and fortune.

.

To be fair, if it were Gu Zhongyu himself, he might have learned from Uncle Liu and continued to play music and dance!

"Then go! I'm not in a hurry to shoot the sequel. It doesn't matter if I'm two or three years late. Just go to the Bai Lao's side to steal the skills. It's better to get all their movie skills clean!"

"This is what Mr. Gu mentioned, then I'm really going!" Guo Fan was overjoyed. He was also worried that Gu Zhongyu was eager for quick success and must finish the sequel!

"Just leave. I'm not your girlfriend. It's so stingy! Look at Gongger, when he hears you're leaving, he can't bear to let go, and he's crying."

Gongger, the fat man, hugged Guo Fan very well, and said in his ears, "Fanfan, you can't leave me! Every night without you, I have to be alone.

Have you been alone in the empty boudoir?"

"Good, brother~ Get out!" Guo Fan kicked the disgusting Gongger away with one kick.

"Hahahaha!" A cheerful laughter came from the hall.
Chapter completed!