During the National Day period (from October 1st to 7th), The Battle at Lake Changjin became the box office champion of this year's National Day with a total box office score of 3.41 billion yuan, and set a new record for more than 2 national day box office, one-day box office, war genre box office, one-day box office and one-day movie attendance, making it the biggest winner of this year's National Day.
The Battle at Lake Changjin is a war movie directed by three famous directors, Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Lin Chaoxian, and starring Jason Wu. Against the background of the Battle of Changjin Lake to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the film tells a touching story of a company of volunteers who fought bravely to kill the enemy in extremely harsh environment and made important contributions to the victory of the Battle of Changjin Lake.
it is understood that after a film is released in a cinema, after deducting the two fixed expenses of 5% of the national film development special fund and 3.3% of the business tax, the box office of the remaining film is divided by the producer (including the distributor) and the cinema (including the cinema) according to the ratio of 43:57, that is, the net income of the producer and the cinema accounts for 39.4% and 52.2% of the total box office respectively. In The Battle at Lake Changjin's 4 billion box office, cinemas got 2.88 billion yuan and producers got 1.576 billion yuan
According to Jiang Defu, CEO of Bona Group, The Battle at Lake Changjin's investment scale reached 2 million US dollars (about 1.3 billion RMB). However, it is reported that the cost of 1.3 billion yuan has included The Battle at Lake Changjin's sequel Watergate Bridge. I saw on Douban that the entry of Watergate Bridge has been built and is expected to be released in 222. And if estimated by the investment cost of 1.3 billion, The Battle at Lake Changjin producers will make a profit of 27 million yuan on the first film.
why is the cost so high in The Battle at Lake Changjin? This will start with the production of The Battle at Lake Changjin itself.
As a war movie, the movie has a strong behind-the-scenes lineup. Although the star-studded movie is expected to reap more box office, it also adds extra cost pressure. At the same time, the investment in special effects of the film is huge, and I believe that the audience who have seen it can feel that every frame of the film is "the funds are burning".
Huang Jianxin, the chief producer, once revealed that the working days of the crew reached more than 46 days, and there were more than 7, on-site staff in the early stage of the film crew, with more than 12, staff listed at the end of the subtitles. The special effects in the later stage of the film were completed by more than 8 special effects teams from China, China, Hongkong, South Korea, Britain and Russia. Because of the epidemic, the film preparation period lasted for more than two years. Three directors lead three groups of people, and all the actors coordinate the schedule in the three groups.
A large number of group performances are needed for filming live scenes. It is reported that only 3, PLA soldiers participated in the filming. In addition, during the filming period, there was an epidemic situation, and the cost of nucleic acid testing for all employees alone was as high as more than 8 million. According to the forecast, The Battle at Lake Changjin's total box office is expected to reach 4.5 billion
Cat's Eye has given a forecast of 5.3 billion, which is expected to hit the top three box office positions in China's film history. A "proposal" even began to circulate on the Internet, saying that The Battle at Lake Changjin's starring Jason Wu and his crew should donate all the box office proceeds to the volunteers veterans. Although the final profit of the film exceeds 25 million yuan, the profits will be shared by two leading production companies, five major production companies and ten joint production companies, and Beijing Dengfeng International Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., with Jason Wu as the boss, is only one of the five major production companies.
I noticed that the producers behind The Battle at Lake Changjin also include Beijing Bona Film Group Co., Ltd., China People's Liberation Army Bayi Film Studio, Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd., China Film Co., Ltd., Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd., Alibaba Film and Chongqing Film Group. There are so many companies, it is estimated that each company will not get much.