TVB's decision does not actually affect the overseas release of "Kung Fu". After all, under the system created by Li Changsheng, TVB was split into several branches and operated independently, and there is no real subordinate relationship between each branch. To some extent, this is also reducing decision-making risks.
Simply put, TVB Film invests in the release of Kung Fu movie, but the distribution area is mainly in the China, South Korea and Southeast Asian markets. Only TVB theaters can directly determine the screening situation. Other theaters can only recommend negotiations, and others can also have their own choices, just meet the minimum screening requirements.
Overseas distribution has nothing to do with TVB Pictures. As long as the partner publisher performs the contract requirements according to the contract, there is no abnormality. The quality of the distribution is someone else's business. If you choose to cooperate with, the subsequent risks will naturally be borne by you.
Then there is the income from overseas broadcasting rights and domestic streaming paid on-demand streaming. This does not have the focus or screening, but at most it is the advertising space and the promotion space of the website itself. These are decided by TVB Video Network. TVB Pictures is not allowed to interfere in the openly. The other party does not need to listen to your instructions and can make decisions on its own.
So Zhang Min's decision doesn't affect Kung Fu, it's just an attitude. Although there will be some box office losses, it is still the biggest beneficiary of the movie overall, which is also the reason why Li Changsheng agreed to her for a while.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year on January 31, 2014, Kung Fu was released in 56 countries and regions around the world, and a total of 7,300 screens were obtained. Although it was far inferior to the previous "The Richest Tomatoes", it was definitely very powerful in pure Chinese movies, almost the highest number of screens in history.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Spring Festival is an unpopular period in countries outside China and South Korea. The current European and American markets, including Japan, do not have enough movies to be released, so it has left a lot of screenings for Chinese movies. This is the first year of the century when pure Chinese movies really go abroad. The Spring Festival is not only domestic, but also a very good attempt for Chinese movies in the overseas market in the future, because there will be no enough competitors to exist during the same period.
In order to promote his movies, let more people go to the cinema to contribute box office and expand his overseas influence, Stephen Chow is also very hard to promote various programs in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Instead, he neglects mainland movie fans. After all, he and the team behind him are very confident in the basic markets of the mainland, and he is a little jealous of overseas markets such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, which have no foundation before.
The Hong Kong circle's evaluation of Kung Fu is actually a bit average, even extreme, and the polarization is very serious. When "Kung Fu" came out, everyone said that this was a tribute from Stephen Chow to past kung fu films, and it was a stitching monster that integrated various traditional Hong Kong kung fu film elements.
Because this movie uses the labeled actors Yuan Hua, Yuan Qiu, and Liang Xiaolong in Kung Fu movies, they also summarized all the well-known Chinese martial arts, such as the Six-Fingered Piano Demon, Tathagata's Divine Palm, Southern Fist and North Leg Bagua Stick, Lion Roar, Tai Chi, Toad Fist, etc., which are completely a hodgepodge, so it is a tribute to the title, because such a tribute is a major feature of Hong Kong movies. Everyone likes to copy and learn from it like this, and is called a tribute.
However, there are many people who appreciate it. At least many viewers like it very much and are very satisfied with it. There are many supporting actors who have long been outdated and outdated. Some newcomers who have signed with Stephen Chow have also become popular one after another, becoming a newcomer in many variety shows in the mainland. In terms of popularity, they are indeed stronger than the city hunter and Macau.
However, after the first day of overseas box office was officially released, the result was a bit surprising. Kung Fu is naturally not bad, and the box office in Europe and the United States is OK. In addition, the first day of the release was over 10 million US dollars, which is not bad. As long as the attendance rate drops significantly, the box office in Europe and the United States with a total of more than 50 million US dollars is not a big problem, and it is definitely a very successful Chinese-language movie.
The most important thing is the Japanese market. It exploded unexpectedly. The box office on the first day exceeded 5 million US dollars, becoming the box office champion in the same period. Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland markets are also box office champions, creating a new first-day box office record.
But compared with the overseas box office of Macau and the city hunter, the gap is a bit big. Jackie Chan's overseas box office appeal is really terrifying. Europe and the United States actually won the first-day box office of US$21 million, South Korea topped the top for 4 million, Japan only had less than one million US dollars less than Kung Fu, West Asia topped the top for the first time, and Southeast Asia was also the first in the same period.
The most bizarre thing is that the box office of Macau's European and American trend is even higher than that of Kung Fu, reaching 13.8 million US dollars. The logic of the main gambling movie is very simple, and the picture is indeed very textured. Normal European and American audiences can understand and substitute this kind of movies more easily than Kung Fu. They all think that the movie is very interesting, but overall, they naturally prefer the style of the city hunter. After all, Jackie Chan is indeed very famous overseas, which is almost a box office guarantee, and there are many movie fans all over the world.
So in the end, if we calculate the first day of the world box office, the city hunter is the first, the second, the second, and the third, and the first is the first, and the actual gap between the second and third is not big. The three Chinese films have become the absolute protagonists of the world's film industry recently. All three have the potential to enter the top ten of the annual box offices in the world. This is the first time that the world has truly appreciated the charm of what Chinese films are, and made Chinese films famous overseas.
This year, Li Changsheng, who celebrated the New Year in Hong Kong, was here in Macau to accompany his fiancée and his second sister-in-law to watch the Macau storm. He didn't go to the movies on the first day of the New Year, and mainly visited temple fairs. Although there are similar celebrations in South Korea, it is still very different from China. The faith alone is different. For example, Macau is the Mazu who is believed in. During the Spring Festival, the temple fairs at Mazu Temple were not ordinary lively, while in South Korea is a shaman of faith, which is very similar to the immortal of the horse.
Simply put, TVB Film invests in the release of Kung Fu movie, but the distribution area is mainly in the China, South Korea and Southeast Asian markets. Only TVB theaters can directly determine the screening situation. Other theaters can only recommend negotiations, and others can also have their own choices, just meet the minimum screening requirements.
Overseas distribution has nothing to do with TVB Pictures. As long as the partner publisher performs the contract requirements according to the contract, there is no abnormality. The quality of the distribution is someone else's business. If you choose to cooperate with, the subsequent risks will naturally be borne by you.
Then there is the income from overseas broadcasting rights and domestic streaming paid on-demand streaming. This does not have the focus or screening, but at most it is the advertising space and the promotion space of the website itself. These are decided by TVB Video Network. TVB Pictures is not allowed to interfere in the openly. The other party does not need to listen to your instructions and can make decisions on its own.
So Zhang Min's decision doesn't affect Kung Fu, it's just an attitude. Although there will be some box office losses, it is still the biggest beneficiary of the movie overall, which is also the reason why Li Changsheng agreed to her for a while.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year on January 31, 2014, Kung Fu was released in 56 countries and regions around the world, and a total of 7,300 screens were obtained. Although it was far inferior to the previous "The Richest Tomatoes", it was definitely very powerful in pure Chinese movies, almost the highest number of screens in history.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Spring Festival is an unpopular period in countries outside China and South Korea. The current European and American markets, including Japan, do not have enough movies to be released, so it has left a lot of screenings for Chinese movies. This is the first year of the century when pure Chinese movies really go abroad. The Spring Festival is not only domestic, but also a very good attempt for Chinese movies in the overseas market in the future, because there will be no enough competitors to exist during the same period.
In order to promote his movies, let more people go to the cinema to contribute box office and expand his overseas influence, Stephen Chow is also very hard to promote various programs in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Instead, he neglects mainland movie fans. After all, he and the team behind him are very confident in the basic markets of the mainland, and he is a little jealous of overseas markets such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, which have no foundation before.
The Hong Kong circle's evaluation of Kung Fu is actually a bit average, even extreme, and the polarization is very serious. When "Kung Fu" came out, everyone said that this was a tribute from Stephen Chow to past kung fu films, and it was a stitching monster that integrated various traditional Hong Kong kung fu film elements.
Because this movie uses the labeled actors Yuan Hua, Yuan Qiu, and Liang Xiaolong in Kung Fu movies, they also summarized all the well-known Chinese martial arts, such as the Six-Fingered Piano Demon, Tathagata's Divine Palm, Southern Fist and North Leg Bagua Stick, Lion Roar, Tai Chi, Toad Fist, etc., which are completely a hodgepodge, so it is a tribute to the title, because such a tribute is a major feature of Hong Kong movies. Everyone likes to copy and learn from it like this, and is called a tribute.
However, there are many people who appreciate it. At least many viewers like it very much and are very satisfied with it. There are many supporting actors who have long been outdated and outdated. Some newcomers who have signed with Stephen Chow have also become popular one after another, becoming a newcomer in many variety shows in the mainland. In terms of popularity, they are indeed stronger than the city hunter and Macau.
However, after the first day of overseas box office was officially released, the result was a bit surprising. Kung Fu is naturally not bad, and the box office in Europe and the United States is OK. In addition, the first day of the release was over 10 million US dollars, which is not bad. As long as the attendance rate drops significantly, the box office in Europe and the United States with a total of more than 50 million US dollars is not a big problem, and it is definitely a very successful Chinese-language movie.
The most important thing is the Japanese market. It exploded unexpectedly. The box office on the first day exceeded 5 million US dollars, becoming the box office champion in the same period. Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland markets are also box office champions, creating a new first-day box office record.
But compared with the overseas box office of Macau and the city hunter, the gap is a bit big. Jackie Chan's overseas box office appeal is really terrifying. Europe and the United States actually won the first-day box office of US$21 million, South Korea topped the top for 4 million, Japan only had less than one million US dollars less than Kung Fu, West Asia topped the top for the first time, and Southeast Asia was also the first in the same period.
The most bizarre thing is that the box office of Macau's European and American trend is even higher than that of Kung Fu, reaching 13.8 million US dollars. The logic of the main gambling movie is very simple, and the picture is indeed very textured. Normal European and American audiences can understand and substitute this kind of movies more easily than Kung Fu. They all think that the movie is very interesting, but overall, they naturally prefer the style of the city hunter. After all, Jackie Chan is indeed very famous overseas, which is almost a box office guarantee, and there are many movie fans all over the world.
So in the end, if we calculate the first day of the world box office, the city hunter is the first, the second, the second, and the third, and the first is the first, and the actual gap between the second and third is not big. The three Chinese films have become the absolute protagonists of the world's film industry recently. All three have the potential to enter the top ten of the annual box offices in the world. This is the first time that the world has truly appreciated the charm of what Chinese films are, and made Chinese films famous overseas.
This year, Li Changsheng, who celebrated the New Year in Hong Kong, was here in Macau to accompany his fiancée and his second sister-in-law to watch the Macau storm. He didn't go to the movies on the first day of the New Year, and mainly visited temple fairs. Although there are similar celebrations in South Korea, it is still very different from China. The faith alone is different. For example, Macau is the Mazu who is believed in. During the Spring Festival, the temple fairs at Mazu Temple were not ordinary lively, while in South Korea is a shaman of faith, which is very similar to the immortal of the horse.