Per reporter: Bi Yuanyuan Per editor: Dong Xingsheng
At 9:02 on October 30, according to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, the cumulative box office of "Changjin Lake" exceeded 5.413 billion, officially surpassing the box office performance of "Hello, Li Huanying", becoming the global box office champion in 2021 and temporarily ranking second in the box office list of Chinese film history.
"Hello, Li Huanying" official Weibo released a congratulatory poster, saying: There is a country to have a home, remember the ancestors to fight in blood to defend the country, do not forget the most lovely people, this prosperous world as you wish.
Image source: "Hello, Li Huanying" official Weibo
While the iron was hot, the sequel "Changjin Lake" "The Water Gate Bridge of Changjin Lake" recently released a pilot poster, officially announced, the film maintains the original team, still co-directed by Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian, Wu Jing, Yi Yanqianxi, Zhu Yawen, Li Chen, Duan Yihong, Han Dongjun, Zhang Hanyu and so on.
The benefits of "Chosin Lake" are also considerable. Jiang Defu, CEO of Bona Film Group, previously disclosed at the Beijing Film Festival that the investment scale of "Changjin Lake" reached 200 million US dollars. According to the box office performance of 5.4 billion yuan, according to the Maoyan Professional Edition, after deducting the special fund for the development of the film industry and related taxes, the film "Changjin Lake" can obtain 39.24% of the account, about 1.98 billion yuan.
According to the calculation of the "Daily Economic News" reporter, even after deducting the publicity fee, the film side still made a profit of about 600 million yuan. If $200 million covers the production cost of the "Chosin Lake" sequel "Chosin Lake No Pratunam Bridge" and is apportioned, "Chosin Lake" will be more profitable.
<h2>"Lake Chosin" became the global box office champion in 2021</h2>
After a difficult file change, "Changjin Lake" still handed over beautiful box office results, breaking 27 records in Chinese film history.
According to Maoyan Professional Edition, as of 0:00 on October 29, "Changjin Lake" has accumulated 29 consecutive days of box office crowns, breaking the record of "To Catch a Demon" and "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" and "Fury And Serious Cases" for 28 consecutive days, becoming the longest consecutive day crown in Chinese film history.
Image source: Maoyan Pro
Foreign media also paid great attention to "Chosin Lake", and they exclaimed: the staggering number of Hollywood movies since the outbreak of the epidemic.
With "Chosin Lake" surpassing "Hello, Li Huanying" at the box office, "Changjin Lake" has ascended to the second place in the history of Chinese cinema and won the current global box office champion this year.
According to Box Office Mojo box office data, as of October 30, "Chosin Lake" grossed $828 million worldwide and "Hello, Lee Huanying" was $822 million. Yu Dong, producer, chief producer and president of Bona Film Group, once revealed that "Chosin Lake" will be released in North America in the future.
As of October 30, the five highest-grossing films in China were: "Wolf Warrior 2" 5.695 billion, "Chosin Lake" 5.414 billion yuan, "Hello, Li Huanying" 5.413 billion, "Nezha's Demon Boy Reincarnation" 5.036 billion, and "The Wandering Earth" 4.688 billion.
In addition to "Hello, Li Huanying", the other four films are all large-scale productions, representing the highest level of domestic films in war films, animation films and science fiction films.
At a previous seminar, Yu Dong had said that the film was "very difficult to make, and it is a major task that two or even three generations of filmmakers want to complete." The film's preparation period alone lasted for two years and overcame the sudden impact of the epidemic. "The Battle of Chosin Lake was tragic enough and strategic, but it is little known compared to the Battle of Ganling, especially today's young audiences who lack understanding of it, and this strengthens our determination to make the film well."
Lead actor Wu Jing also said: "This play, all this I experienced is enough to affect my life, with this film to commemorate these predecessors who sacrificed, so that more people know what they did back then." ”
<h2>"Chosin Lake" brought about 600 million yuan of profit to the filmmakers</h2>
Bona Pictures has completed the upgrading and commercialization of the main theme.
Since 2014, Bona Pictures has launched the "Mountains, Rivers and Sea Trilogy" ("Wise Tiger Mountain", "Mekong Action", "Red Sea Action"), and in order to present the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, Bona Pictures has handed over the "China Pride Trilogy" ("Decisive Moment", "Heroes of Fire" and "Captain China").
With the release of "Chinese Doctor" and "Chosin Lake", because Bona Pictures, which is at the helm of Winter, played the third section of the "main melody movement" - "China Victory", of which "Changjin Lake", "Chinese Doctor" and "Nameless" constituted the main melody upgrade battle in Yu Dong's mouth.
The six films of "Mountains and Rivers And Sea Trilogy" and "China Pride Trilogy" brought Bona more than 10 billion yuan at the box office, and also successfully laid the leading position of Bona's main theme commercial films in China.
In 2019, the main theme movie became the main theme of the market, from the "Wandering Earth" in the Spring Festival file to the "My Motherland and Me" in the National Day file, the main theme movie blossomed everywhere. Homogeneous competition is becoming more and more fierce and difficult, and then do the main theme of the film, Bona to take a new road.
"In fact, Bona wants to do one thing for the industry - upgrade, the main theme of the commercial film blockbuster road we created, and then push forward to achieve genre breakthroughs, aesthetic breakthroughs and visual breakthroughs." Yu Dong once said in an interview with the Daily Economic News reporter.
Yu Dong Image source: Maoyan Pro
In Yu Dong's view, "Changjin Lake" will become a new benchmark for Chinese war films, and its coordinate significance lies not only in pushing the industrialization specifications of Chinese films to a new height, but also in the fact that Chinese films can calmly face large productions and large investments equivalent to Hollywood A-grade productions.
The benefits of "Chosin Lake" are also considerable. Jiang Defu, CEO of Bona Group, previously disclosed at the Beijing Film Festival that the investment scale of "Chosin Lake" reached 200 million US dollars, with more than 70,000 group performances and staff, which lasted more than 200 days to shoot.
According to the exchange rate conversion, the production cost of "Chosin Lake" is about 1.3 to 1.4 billion yuan. According to the box office performance of 5.4 billion yuan, according to the Maoyan Professional Edition, after deducting the special fund for the development of the film industry and related taxes, the film "Changjin Lake" can obtain 39.24% of the account, about 1.98 billion yuan.
According to the data, the first producer of "Chosin Lake" is Bona Pictures, and the main producers also include Bayi Film Studio, Huaxia Film, China Film, Shanghai Film, Ali Pictures, Wu Jing's Dengfeng International, etc. In addition to the production costs, even after deducting the publicity costs, the filmmakers still made a profit of about 600 million yuan. If $200 million covers the production cost of the "Chosin Lake" sequel "Chosin Lake No Pratunam Bridge" and is apportioned, "Chosin Lake" will be more profitable.
Image source: Courtesy of Bona Pictures
While the iron was hot, the sequel to "Chosin Lake", "Chosin Lake No. Pratunam Bridge", sounded the horn. As a sequel to "Chosin Lake", "The Water Gate Bridge of Changjin Lake" is still co-directed by Chen Kaige, Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian, and co-starring Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, Zhu Yawen, Li Chen, Duan Yihong, Han Dongjun, Zhang Hanyu and so on.
Yu Dong once said: "I think the current story of "Chosin Lake" has been told, but the fate of the Seven Company is not over, and the story of thousands of miles and miles will continue. The whole Korean War lasted three years, and we can still shoot a lot of stories in the back, and in terms of Hollywood's production structure, it's about making a sequel. In fact, we buried the story line of 'Watergate Bridge', and seven companies went to reinforce 'Watergate Bridge', which is the continuation of our story. ”
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