[Epoch Times October 11, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Li Jing’s comprehensive report) At a time when Sino-US relations continue to deteriorate, the “anti-American” film “Changjin Lake” has received great publicity by the Chinese Communist Party. While the film’s box office is constantly breaking new records, the producer’s profitability from “doing a patriotic business” has become the focus of public opinion, and “Wu Jing was forced to donate again” also appeared on Baidu’s hot searches.
According to real-time data from the Beacon Professional Edition, as of 3 pm on October 10, the movie “Changjin Lake” was officially released on the 11th day, with a cumulative box office of 4 billion, ranking seventh in the box office list of Chinese film history.
“Changjin Lake” is a war movie directed by three famous directors Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Lin Chaoxian, starring Wu Jing and Yi Yang Qianxi.
According to upstream news reports, after a movie is released in a movie theater, after excluding the two fixed expenses of 5% of the National Film Development Fund and 3.3% of the business tax, the box office of the remaining movie is divided between the producer (including the distributor) and the theater (including the theater). Line) is divided according to the ratio of 43:57, that is, the net revenue of the producer and the theater accounted for 39.4% and 52.2% of the total box office respectively.
In the 4 billion box office of “Changjin Lake”, the theater received 2.088 billion yuan and the producer received 1.576 billion yuan.
According to Jiang Defu, CEO of Bona Group, previously disclosed that the investment scale of “Changjin Lake” reached 200 million US dollars (about 1.3 billion yuan).
However, it is reported that the cost of 1.3 billion has already included the sequel of “Changjin Lake” “Water Gate Bridge”. On the well-known social media Douban, the entry for “Water Gate Bridge” has been set up and is expected to be released in 2022. And if estimated with an investment cost of 1.3 billion, the producer of “Changjin Lake” made a profit of 270 million yuan from the first part.
In addition, the profit of the film will be shared by 2 leading production companies, 5 main production companies and 10 joint production companies, and Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communication Co., Ltd., with Wu Jing as the boss, is only one of the 5 main production companies.
The producers behind “Changjin Lake” also include Beijing Bona Film Group Co., Ltd., Bayi Film Studio of the Chinese Communist Party, China Film Distribution Co., Ltd., China Film Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd. Company, Alibaba Pictures, Chongqing Film Group, etc.
Some media revealed that after the release of “Changjin Lake”, the official organization organized a collective viewing. According to Shandong Zibo Daily, Jiang Duntao, secretary of the Zibo Municipal Party Committee, led the leaders of various large groups and organized party members and cadres to watch collectively. In addition, in Hebei and Guangdong provinces, officials have arranged for party members and cadres to watch collectively.
Negative comments on “Changjin Lake” have been blocked or deleted under the CCP’s censorship mechanism.
WeChat public account “Deep Focus” published a commentary article “Who is it dedicated to the crude theme? “, commented that the overall quality of the film is shoddy and unsatisfactory. In the way of narration, “Changjin Lake” and “Kingangchuan” are in the same line, but the production is rougher and the traces of rush work are obvious. Inferior special effects of the film, filled with a large number of special effects shots. The movie lasts for 3 hours, but most of the pen and ink is still concentrated on the tragic battle scenes.
The article was deleted the day it was published. The next day, the official account was banned for 15 days for “violating relevant regulations.”
It is worth mentioning that netizens have recently called for tickets not to be collected if the film “Changjin Lake” is used to promote anti-American patriotism. If it is positioned as a non-promotional film, then all the box office income should be donated to the volunteers’ families, because this is the consumption of the heroic sacrifices of the volunteers and soldiers, which rudely tore the scars in the hearts of the victims’ families for many years. The initiative received a positive response on social media.
Cai Xia, a former professor at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, tweeted on October 7 that the Chinese Communist Party intended to use the film to deceive the world to incite hatred for the United States, but unexpectedly triggered an upsurge in exploring the truth about the Korean War.
Cai Xia said that a “second generation of red” angrily rebuked, and suddenly understood why they ignored the facts to make such a film, “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, and we also know they know. We know that they are lying, but they are still lying”, as long as their political/money collecting goals are achieved.
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