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Chapter 709 "Infernal Affairs 2" released!
Time turns.

Three months later, it's summer.

The second part of "Infernal Affairs" avoided the peak period of May 6st, and was selected to be released on June 2.

Because this day is also Little Cherry's birthday.

A week before the release of the second part, Li Zhifan posted a picture of Zhou Ke through his Isr, and his lower abdomen was obviously bulging. Although there were no words, it was enough to explain everything.

Isr is the second largest social platform in foreign countries, second only to Renrenshu, with [-] million users worldwide. However, because this software is separated by a wall in China, only a small number of Chinese people download and use Isr, just to watch their favorite The content posted by idols.

There are too many domestic celebrities who have opened Isr social accounts, and Li Zhifan did not open it because of the influence of the general environment, but because he works in California. Everyone uses Isr to send files. He can't always use email, so he also opened an account.

On the day when the account was opened, many domestic fans overcame the wall to download to follow Li Zhifan. In addition to foreign fans, his number of followers also exceeded 600 million.

This number is a real and effective number of followers. It is different from domestic fast blogs. Those fast blogs with 9000 to [-] million followers seem too scary, but the higher the number of followers, the higher the proportion of zombie accounts.

For example, a Kuaibo account with 1000 million followers posts a new content that is moaning without illness, leaving more than 1 comments in one day, and more than [-] followers. Occasionally, there will be big actions to be tall and huge. Under the following base, the number of comments, reposts and likes has not increased, which is enough to explain the problem.

The news of Zhou Ke's pregnancy was quickly spread back to China.

Celebrities in the circle posted blogs of congratulations and congratulations, and the fans were in a carnival. They had been waiting for this news for too long, and they seemed to be more excited than Li Zhifan and Zhou Ke.

After this news was hotly discussed for a week, it was followed by the arrival of "Infernal Affairs 2".

"Infernal Affairs 2" is the prequel of the first part, but no young actors were found, it was still Li Zhifan and Chen Guanjun, but the two shaved their beards, shaved their heads, and lost weight. They were originally young men, designed by a stylist Afterwards, she looked even more youthful.

Although the two films were filmed together, the audience couldn't tell at all, and even found that both Li Zhifan and Chen Guanjun had become handsome.

In fact, when filming the first part, in order to show maturity and quack spirit, the two of them had some manipulations on their faces, especially Li Zhifan. In addition to hairstyle and beard, there were also some small stickers on his face that were invisible to the naked eye. Details, but in the second part, Li Zhifan's face is clean, coupled with lighting effects and post-production, at first glance he still looks like fresh meat from an idol.

Needless to say, Chen Guanjun is known as the beauty of the prosperous age in Xiangjiang. In the first part, he even had his eyebrows done. After the stylist worked hard on his face, it looks like the pores are very thick, and there are even blackheads on the nose.

This time, no one is betting against Li Zhifan, and there is no pressure from the New Year's blockbusters when the first movie was released, but there are still competitors.

The biggest name in the same period is the new film "SWAT Pioneer" brought by Xiangjiang director Wang Quan.

Among all the directors who have made money in the north, Wang Quan is the strangest one. Other directors are getting higher and higher. Although their works are not very good, there are also bad films, but they are still seeking new ideas and changes.

However, Wang Quan is different. In his early years, he also made amazing films and won the best director of the Hong Kong Film Awards many times. However, after the age of 35, the films he directed were not as good as one, and the ratings declined step by step.

After entering the mainland, Wang Quan seemed to be more unscrupulous, and became a symbol of shooting bad movies.

No matter how vulgar it came from, no matter how low-level it was, it still managed to pass the audit of the radio and television station.

A few years ago, he had a movie called "Picture of Beauty". He thought it was an ancient movie, but it was a modern movie. The content of the story was also very confusing. Come and take away stories.

If the story is told well, it is also an interesting subject, but Wang Quan directly gave up telling the story, and used handsome men and beautiful women to attract attention, and there are many nude scenes to fill it in.

Over the years, we have continued to eat our old money. Old movies and old stories from the 80s have changed actors and backgrounds, and the story has not changed at all. The old movie name has a year added to it, and it becomes a new movie.

As a result, those magical films he made at the beginning were also ruined by these nonsense or low-level remakes.

However, for a director like Wang Quan, people still ask him to make films every year. The investment is still very large, and all the domestic first-line traffic is invited, which has become a veritable fan movie.

This year's "SWAT Pioneer" is still an old-fashioned work. As early as 88, Wang Quan had filmed a police film "SWAT Force". Although the reputation is not as good as his masterpieces, it is still acceptable.

This time "SWAT Pioneer" continues the story of "SWAT Power". The protagonists have become the children of the main characters in the original version. The male protagonist who supports the police in various aspects participates in solving the case.

In the interview before the release, Wang Quan said that there are still gunfight scenes that everyone is looking forward to, but more of them are fighting scenes.

In this way, the audience has already guessed what the general content is based on Wang Quan's past urine behavior, and the case must have been solved while talking about love.

This time he is facing "Infernal Affairs 2", which is also considered unlucky for him. The former has a box office of 22 billion for the first film, and this second film is the long-awaited one. It is not comparable to Wang Quan's bad film.

"SWAT Pioneer" was released eight hours earlier than "Infernal Affairs 2", and gathered a bunch of mainland traffic stars, but only got 700 million box office. This figure is a tragedy for any director of the same status. , but Wang Quan was not ashamed, and instead thanked a group of people on the fast blog, as if he had received a great honor.

"Infernal Affairs 2" was released at 2000 o'clock that night, and the national premiere had won more than 6000 million at the box office. By midnight, it had already won [-] million.

The whole country was shocked to achieve such a result in just six hours after its release.

At this time, Li Zhifan was in Los Angeles, preparing a birthday party for Little Cherry.

This year's birthday party was quite lively. Many DreamWorks employees were invited to come and hold a party at home.

The birthday present prepared by these people for Little Cherry is an animated short film, the protagonist is a girl named Little Cherry, and the content is a bit adventurous.

At this age, Little Cherry can't understand any storylines, but as long as she sees the colorful pictures, she will be very happy. This is a great birthday present for her.

"Dad! Why are there so many people here today?"

After watching the short video, Little Cherry realized that there were many people at home today, so she couldn't help asking curiously.

"They are all here to celebrate your birthday!"

Li Zhifan said with a smile, "Go and play with the children! They are all waiting for you!"

Little Cherry is dressed like a little princess today, wearing a fan bubble skirt and little red leather shoes, with two braids on her head, like a doll.

The children she invited were all from an early education center, and they usually played in the same community, so they were also young.

"Ok!"

Little Cherry stood up, greeted the children who were watching cartoons with her, and commanded, "Let's go play in the yard!"

"OK!"

Seeing a group of children running out of the yard, and then running back and forth among the crowd, Li Zhifan felt joyful.

At this time, the phone rang twice, it was a message from Zhao Yiduo, reporting to him the box office results of "Infernal Affairs 2".

"not bad!"

Li Zhifan was deeply relieved, but he remained calm.

Although this box office result was somewhat beyond his initial expectations, it was within reason.

The main reason is that the release time was selected well, coupled with the word-of-mouth brewing of the first film during this period, it triggered the box office effect of the second film.

Immediately, Li Zhifan called Zhao Yiduo and asked him to use his quick blog to send a message, saying that if the box office can exceed 10 billion within two weeks, then the third part will be released in advance on the National Day file.

In the original plan, the third step was to be released next year, but now Xiaxiao is more and more interested in the acquisition intention of Timeline, so the release schedule of "Infernal Affairs 3" must be communicated with the radio and television and China Film in advance. communicated.

The appearance of "Infernal Affairs 2" set a new box office record for this year, even surpassing the performance of the first film at the beginning of the year.

On the other hand, "SWAT Pioneer" won 700 million at the box office on the first day, and only broke [-] million a week later.

Although the word-of-mouth is too bad and the content is too poisonous, there are still such achievements, which shows that there is a shortage of movies in this time period, and it is impossible for the audience to just watch "Infernal Affairs 2" all the time.

Moreover, after the second week, the box office of "SWAT Pioneer" began to pick up instead, maintaining a stable daily income of around 500 million.

The more this is the case, the more the netizens complain about it.

"This film can still maintain a box office of 500 million?"

"And it's been going on for several days, there must be ghosts in it!"

"Hehe, it should be at the box office, right?"

"Wang Quan's movie is probably money laundering. They, Xiangjiang directors, are the best at doing this kind of thing."

"Investigate! The National Public Security Bureau come out quickly and find out the truth!"

"Don't talk about other things, let's just talk about the acting skills of these actors! It's too embarrassing. It's okay to shoot TV dramas, but the muddy water of movies is also coming. The word "poor money" is completely written on the face!"

"..."

"SWAT Pioneer" was boycotted by netizens because it was too bad.

However, at this juncture, two more films directed by Heung Kong were released on the same day.

Liu Jiawei is a professional romance film. When he moved to the mainland, he filmed a historical blockbuster, but it was a hit at the box office. It sold for 3000 million Hong Kong dollars in Xiangjiang, but the mainland only bought less than 400 million.

However, the mainland movie market was so barren back then, and it was rare for a movie to appear that exceeded [-] million yuan, which could shock both at home and abroad.

Nowadays, the market is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more private theaters, and there are several movie theaters even in the fifth-tier cities, which is long past the era when movie theaters were still government propaganda agencies.

After that historical blockbuster hit the street, Liu Jiawei began to return to his original position, shooting love movies, but unfortunately he could never go back to his original ambition, because there are a lot of domestic investment for him to use, and he has also mastered The mentality of mainland film investors is that as long as they write a few bad checks to them, and arrange more domestic front-line actors for the leading roles, they can gain their trust.

Compared with Liu Jiawei, He Xiaoming was even more unbearable. He was a comedian himself. When he was filming in Xiangjiang, he was looked down upon by all Xiangjiang filmmakers because of his low grade.

But He Xiaoming is like a weed, neither can be beaten nor crushed. Instead, he started his own company and became stronger and stronger in the commercial field. Serve as supervisor.

At that time, many filmmaking techniques and rules were not understood. He Xiaoming took this capital and not only helped many mainland directors in investment, but also helped them in technology.

It is precisely because of this that He Xiaoming has established a good relationship in the mainland film industry. Today, half of the directors in the entertainment industry have accepted his favor in the early years, so he now makes movies very casually, just for fun.

The three directors of Hong Kong's bad films gathered together, but they were all defeated by "Infernal Affairs 2".

In particular, "Infernal Affairs 2" is still a movie under the banner of "authentic Hong Kong flavor", which makes them, the directors from Hong Kong, feel ashamed.

As for whether the three of them felt ashamed, it's hard to say. Judging from their high spirits in public, it seems that this is not a big deal.

……

On the ninth day of its release, the box office of "Infernal Affairs 2" broke through the billion mark.

Li Zhifan didn't know how many times this kind of news headlines had happened, because each of his films had exceeded one billion yuan, and it became a piece of cake for him.

Therefore, Timeline Entertainment also fulfilled its promise, jointly with China Film Group, publicly stated that "Infernal Affairs 3" has been scheduled for October 3, and spoiled a news in advance: "Infernal Affairs [-]" The content is divided into two parts, one part It is the prequel of the first part, and the other part is the postquel of the first part. At the same time, there are many powerful actors from the mainland joining in.

As for the subject matter involving brain burn, it has not been made public. Now it is said that netizens will think too much, and the consequences of thinking too much are very likely to have negative phenomena.

……

California.

"Coco" is still in non-stop production.

It's just that Li Zhifan feels that he is getting more and more idle. Before, he needed to devote himself to the production and supervise in real time.

But with the increase of production time, these painters are more and more like Li Zhifan's own avatar, and the results are more and more satisfactory. In many cases, he doesn't need to say anything, and everyone can give the best result.

Animated movies are like this. When the style is fixed, the painters will show their true skills when they play within this framework, and Li Zhifan is an outsider in many details. As an insider, the production staff can better know how to operate. Meets standards and meets expectations.

(End of this chapter)