Chapter 1080: Pressure on the Spring Festival Slot; Willing to gallop a thousand miles, send the child back to the hometown!

"After two days of public screening, Director Lin Nan's sci-fi film work *The Wandering Earth* has strongly broken through 1 billion RMB at the box office, closing at 1.005 billion.

Its daily box office growth trajectory of 484 million on the first day and 521 million on the second day prompted the cinema side to significantly increase the comprehensive screen allocation rate again today, with a screen share of 48%!"

"Director Han Han's *Pegasus* follows closely behind, with 221 million on the first day and 242 million on the second day, entering the third day of the Spring Festival slot competition with a total box office of 463 million."

"Director Zhou Xingchi's *The New King of Comedy* has already collapsed in word-of-mouth, but it still ranks third in the Spring Festival slot with a first-day box office of 231 million, a second-day box office of 88.2 million, and a total box office of 391.2 million."

"Jackie Chan's film work, *The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang*, is destined for Waterloo; its daily box office performance of 33.27 million on the first day and 14.45 million on the second day indicates that the film's total box office will most likely stop before the 100 million threshold."

"Directed by Teng Huatao and starring Lu Han and Shu Qi, the sci-fi film *Shanghai Fortress* has encountered ridicule from the whole network;

Especially in the stark contrast with Director Lin Nan's *The Wandering Earth*, the film collapsed across the board. After a first-day box office of 35.54 million, the second-day box office dropped directly to 6.86 million, and the bad reviews and scolding of the film on the whole network are still fermenting violently..."

"China Film regrets failing to get its wish: The meeting of *Shanghai Fortress* and *The New King of Comedy* in this year's Spring Festival slot not only failed to successfully replicate and reproduce the grand occasion of *Operation Red Sea* and *Detective Chinatown 2* sweeping all the way after joining forces in last year's Spring Festival slot, but instead exposed the weak points of the shoddy production of the two films, negative and negative!"

"According to many senior cinema managers in the industry: Under the siphon effect, the situation of the Spring Festival slot has become clear, and it will become more realistic, incomparably bloody and cruel;

*The Wandering Earth* is bound to swallow the Spring Festival slot box office market to its heart's content with the posture of a whale sucking a hundred rivers and a cow drinking a pool;

And *Pegasus* only needs to misplace the track and strive to keep its word-of-mouth; at present, it is the only film that can get a relatively ideal box office result under *The Wandering Earth*.

As for all other films in the same slot, I am afraid they will all lose their capital and become cannon fodder on the Spring Festival slot battlefield; their public screening cycle and potential will stop before the number of half a month."

In just two days, the development trend of the entire Spring Festival slot was nakedly placed in front of the film and television industry;

There was no entanglement of multiple films fighting inextricably in a short period of time like in previous years' Spring Festival slots, and this year was at least five times faster.

And the reason for this situation is undoubtedly that *The Wandering Earth* has achieved "pressure" on the entire Spring Festival slot.

"Although China Film is still on Spring Festival holiday, it is certain that Chairman La is definitely paying attention to the box office market at all times. I can't imagine what his mood is these two days?

"

*Mulan* crew, Liu Yan and Shu Chang were sitting not far behind Lin Nan, discussing noisily.

And the great Director Lin was staring at the last war scene, that is, Mulan, played by Liu Yifei, leading hundreds of cavalry to chase the group of the Rouran Queen, played by Gong Li, with light equipment.

In the lens, the cavalry escorting the Queen turned around one after another, trying to intercept Mulan's team and drag time for the Queen's group.

But their desperate struggle was completely futile, without exception, all were cut off their horses in just one encounter...

On the back of the warhorse, Mulan's eyes showed a piercing light, staring dead at the woman who was nearly a hundred feet away, with gorgeous armor, wearing a cloak, and about to disappear from her field of vision.

As long as she caught her, or at least left her corpse, she could go home, go home immediately...

As for the cavalry guards around the other party, they were all insignificant, all battle achievements of her subordinates.

"The height of all aerial drones continues to rise, camera position 2 gives a close-up of Mulan's face, camera position 3 follows Teacher Gong Li, camera position 5 gives me a large-angle lens..."

Holding the walkie-talkie, Lin Nan stared at the monitor and commanded in an orderly manner.

At a certain moment, Mulan led the army to kill all the intercepting Rouran cavalry, finally gradually caught up, and surrounded them.

"Cut!

Actors rest on the spot, the production team will rush over immediately to prepare to take over the aerial photography. Director Yuan Heping and I will also come over immediately, everyone prepare for Teacher Gong Li's wrap-up scene."

"Production team received."

"Logistics team received."

"Martial arts guidance team received."

"Props team..."

A series of replies sounded in the walkie-talkie, and Lin Nan stood up from the director's chair.

"The fight scene between Xixi and Sister Gong Li, do you want to go and see it on the spot?" Lin Nan looked at Shu Chang and Liu Yan, who were still sighing about the film market box office results behind him, and invited them jokingly.

"That definitely can't be missed!" Liu Yan stood up immediately.

"Let's go, I haven't seen Teacher Gong Li's battlefield fight scene in armor and halberd yet!" Shu Chang was also eager to try.

Ten minutes later, seven or eight off-road vehicles stopped in a vast mountain col.

Looking up, under the blue sky are high mountains, and white snow is clearly visible between the mountains... Nearby, it is a mountain stream gathered after the snow melted... The grass is lush and green...

The cavalry led by Mulan had already blocked the Queen of the Rouran royal court at the foot of the hillside.

Taking advantage of the production team setting up cameras, Lin Nan and the others wandered to the side of the actors.

The great Director Lin joked: "Sister Gong Li, this location is not bad, right?"

"Hmm, it's very good. The last battlefield cold weapon duel between a woman and a woman will definitely be a highlight." Gong Li took the conversation, smiled and gave a thumbs up.

"Are the cameras specially recording behind-the-scenes and materials ready?" Shu Chang looked at several camera positions and asked.

"Ready. The behind-the-scenes footage of our film has already been more than 10 hours." The photographer on the far side replied.

"You two should mount your horses first, I'll talk about the horse battle scene between you two." Yuan Heping handed the mineral water in his hand to his assistant, and then looked at Liu Yifei and Gong Li.

"Okay."

"No problem."

Liu Yifei and Gong Li mounted their horses again, and the soldiers from the troops on both sides who played the cavalry also entered the state immediately.

Nearly an hour later, with Lin Nan's "action", Gong Li's final wrap-up scene began.

In the lens, her expression was murderous, she pulled off the cloak on her shoulders and threw it to the ground at will;

Her eyes were sharp, looking directly at Mulan opposite, her tone was rarely peaceful, but full of determination and firmness:

"Every woman in the Rouran royal court is a born warrior. Since you are chasing relentlessly, then we can only fight to the death!"

"Just what I wanted."

Mulan, played by Liu Yifei, tightened the reins in her hand, the warhorse stepped and neighed on the spot, her expression was surging and arrogant, and she instructed her subordinates: "Leave her to me, you deal with the others."

"Yes!" The unison response exploded in the biting wind.

Gong Li and Liu Yifei shouted the word "Kill" at the same time.

Sitting behind the monitor, Lin Nan was very relaxed at this moment.

Because professional things are left to professional people, he only needs the lens effect, and the process is fully guided and completed by Yuan Heping.

"Handsome, Sister Gong Li!"

"But the protagonist is Yifei, Gong Huang can only sacrifice domineeringly." Shu Chang stood by her best friend.

The crew filmed for a while and stopped for a while, after correction and guidance, then continued...

Until three o'clock in the afternoon, Mulan and the Rouran Queen, who had changed from horse battle to close-quarters fighting, finally had the final result.

The Queen played by Gong Li was surrounded by dead cavalry, and she was pierced through the chest by a sword, falling in front of Mulan, who was also covered in scars.

Mulan's subordinates were all far away, the first merit was General Mulan's, they were all watching and waiting.

"You are the only woman I have met on the battlefield, I will give you the respect you deserve..." Liu Yifei leaned over and whispered in Gong Li's ear.

And the latter's originally scattered eyes suddenly focused, and she wanted to make some sound in her mouth, but blood kept pouring out, and she didn't say anything in the end.

"Take her complete corpse back, give her the respect and etiquette that the Rouran royal family deserves."

"Yes!"

"Cut.

Let us congratulate Sister Gong Li, wrap up successfully." At this moment, Lin Nan also felt a lot more relaxed and cheered with applause.

"Wrap up successfully!"

"Tomorrow morning we can fly to Xiangyang Tang Cheng Film and Television Base, Liu Yan and I will also go to join the fun..."

"Director Lin, are you sure you don't need me to reshoot?" Gong Li asked while cleaning the "bloodstains" on her mouth with wet wipes and mineral water handed to her by her assistant.

"No need, all of Teacher Gong Li's shots are fine. Just come to the capital on the 15th on time to attend the crew's wrap-up banquet. You are the female lead number two of our film."

"That's fine, I'll fly to the capital tonight." Gong Li smiled and nodded. She was finally liberated, and after that, she would rest for two months, preparing to join the crew of *Leap*!

At this time, Liu Yifei also simply cleaned up the "bloodstains" on her face and walked over with a smile.

"Sister Gong Li will wait for us in the capital first. According to the filming plan, we can go back at noon on the 13th."

"You should lower your voice, the crew is not completely confidential. If you say this, do you believe that the media will know the specific filming progress and return itinerary of the crew this afternoon?" Gong Li hurriedly interrupted Liu Yifei and laughed with disgust.

"Ah, miserable! Lin Nan?" Liu Yifei looked at the great Director Lin with annoyance.

"It doesn't matter, the media has been staring at us anyway, we can't hide. Not to mention the situation of the Spring Festival slot right now, *The Wandering Earth* has already gone crazy, hahaha..."

Lin Nan couldn't help but wave his hand, whatever. Being blocked at the airport is something that will definitely happen!

On the morning of the 8th, *The Wandering Earth* handed over the box office of the 7th, which is the third day of the Spring Festival slot—530 million!

The entire Chinese film circle was red-eyed and swallowing saliva.

1.535 billion box office in 3 days, this momentum, this battle, this box office potential, is it really going to be against the sky?

At the same time, the creators of the *Mulan* crew, Lin Nan, Liu Yifei, Shu Chang, Liu Yan, and some extras had already boarded the plane to set off.

Of course, the route everyone chose was to fly directly to Liu·Mulan·Yifei's hometown, and then transfer to the high-speed rail from there to Xiangyang, Tang Cheng Film and Television Base.

Bad Monkey Film Industry, Ning Hao hung up the phone from the staff at Huanxi.

"Dong Ping and Director Zhang, the father and daughter Zhang Mo, and the creators of the *One Second* crew boarded the plane half an hour ago."

"Hmm, I've already seen the news. Director Wang Xiaoshuai and the *So Long, My Son* crew are also on this morning's flight, taking off even earlier than them."

Xing Aina replied without raising her head, in front of her was the distributable box office breakdown sent by Enlight. That's right, *Crazy Alien* has already started to settle the distributable box office.

"Aren't you curious about what the first thing Dong Ping left for me is?" Ning Hao looked at Xing Aina speechlessly.

"What?"

"It's about the *Leap* crew. The one surnamed Chen is openly eating money, is it necessary to send someone to supervise the capital flow?"

"Why is it not necessary? Sending someone to join the crew to supervise the capital flow is not to save him money, nor is it really to supervise how he spends money;

It is to tell him our attitude openly, he can only spend this 500 million, and it is best not to ask for additional investment in the future!"

Xing Aina's words really made Ning Hao enlightened, "Hmm, makes sense. This old thing, it's really possible that the human heart is not enough to swallow an elephant..."

"By the way, isn't *Mulan* starting filming at Tang Cheng Film and Television Base this afternoon? Who is the actor playing the Emperor? Yifei and the others haven't revealed it."

Hearing Xing Aina's question, the great Director Ning's face immediately rippled with a mean smile of ill intent: "You absolutely can't guess who it is."

"If you know, just say it!" Xing Aina glared at him angrily.

"According to the realistic historical background, the story of Mulan should have happened during the Northern Wei Dynasty's expedition to Rouran.

But in reality, the Northern Wei Emperor at that time was Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao, he was only 16 years old; even after fighting for 6 years and defeating the Rouran Khanate, he was only about 22 years old.

So when creating the script, Lin Nan asked people to modify it, and could not use such a young emperor role. Because first, it is not easy to find actors, and second, the most important point is that it will steal Mulan's halo; after all, this person is a fierce man, who went to the battlefield in person."

"So who is it?"

Xing Aina glared at him angrily, she hated Ning Hao's behavior of selling suspense the most. Just like sleeping at night, always dragging and pulling, looking left and right.

Lin Nan originally wanted to visit his mother-in-law on the way, which could be considered as taking his wife back to her mother's home during the Spring Festival.

But Liu Qianqian denied his proposal, so after the group of people got off the plane, they transferred directly to the high-speed rail.

Of course, after getting on the high-speed rail, the two still called back.

It's just that when facing the laughing inquiries from the group of people on the other end of the phone, asking if they wanted them to come to Xiangyang Tang Cheng Film and Television Base to visit the crew, Liu Qianqian refused ruthlessly again.

Shu Chang and the others felt that Liu Qianqian was very filial and didn't want to make her mother and grandmother too troublesome and tossing... But the great Director Lin didn't think so.

He knew very well that classmate Liu Qianqian was simply afraid that her old mother and grandmother would ask questions when they arrived at the crew, especially about the progress of her belly...

After three o'clock in the afternoon, outside Xiangyang Tang Cheng Film and Television Base.

Guo Fan was wandering outside the film and television city with people, looking at the road in the distance from time to time.

Many crews and actors in the circle noticed the great Director Guo, but no one dared to come forward to disturb; those with some status and status could only greet and pay New Year's visits from afar.

"Haven't Lin Nan and the others arrived yet?" A full-voiced inquiry came from behind the crowd.

"It should be in these few minutes." Guo Fan turned to look at Han Sanping and answered with a smile.

That's right, the person playing the Emperor was Han Sanping. It couldn't be more appropriate for him to play an emperor who conquered the world on horseback.

After all, that kind of momentum and oppression of being in a high position for a long time is not something that any actor in the circle can easily interpret;

No one can "act" this kind of role better than Han Sanping, even people like Chen Baoguo.

Others are acting, but Han Sanping is not. He only needs to take out the momentum of pointing out the country in the Chinese film world when he was in charge of China Film in the past.

Of course, for the great Director Lin's casting at the beginning, Disney also raised both hands in favor, it was simply a surprise!

Look, the "mountain vulture" who has pitted our Hollywood for so many years, was finally invited by our Disney to act in a movie. Working for us, although the salary is a bit too high.

"Here!" A soft cry from the staff immediately attracted the attention of Guo Fan and Han Sanping, and both of them looked into the distance immediately.

I saw several commercial vehicles driving straight in a single vertical line, and the license plate numbers matched.

A few minutes later, Lin Nan, who got off the car first, saw the crew members who came to greet him at a glance, "Chairman Han, Happy New Year."

"Not happy, have to come out to cameo during the New Year." Han Sanping replied jokingly.

"That's what you said, others cameo for free, but I gave you a big supporting role salary for your cameo. Or, do you want to pay it back?"

"Hehe, don't take Disney's money for nothing."

"Chairman Han, Director Guo."

"Chairman Han..."

The sound of greetings one after another sounded, making the outside of the film and television city lively all of a sudden. The great Director Lin and Producer Liu have arrived at Xiangyang Tang Cheng Film and Television Base!

"Let's go, walk in and wander around. This is my first time here.

Sigh, by the way, how much money did we spend in total for the few days we rented?" Lin Nan asked Guo Fan suddenly while walking.

"Rented from the 5th to the 9th, because we need to clear the scene on a large scale, so they reported an integer to us, 1 million.

As for the two thousand extras and costumes and props tomorrow, this is cheap, a total of 500,000..."

"Actually, my brother wants to ask, how much water will Chen Kaige draw from us?" Shu Chang's teasing made everyone on the scene laugh.

"In public, don't

ask blindly." Liu Yifei held Lin Nan's arm and bent her waist with laughter.

"At most two or three points, mainly long-term water flow. Too much is not appropriate, because the local area will never agree." Third Master Han nodded affirmatively.

On the afternoon of the 8th, the news that the *Mulan* crew moved to Xiangyang Tang Cheng Film and Television Base spread rapidly on the internet.

And the industry also determined without doubt that this Disney live-action blockbuster with an investment of 200 million US dollars is really about to wrap up!

The next morning, another single-day box office of 500 million was thrown in front of the Chinese film industry by *The Wandering Earth*;

The figure of 510 million is so eye-catching, dazzling, and piercing... as if it sets off all other films in the same slot as waste.

At the same time, the *Mulan* crew also officially started filming at Tang Cheng Film and Television Base:

"Returning to see the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven sits in the Mingtang. Planning for twelve turns, rewarding hundreds and thousands.

The Khan asked what he wanted, Mulan did not use the Shangshu Lang, willing to gallop a thousand miles, send the child back to the hometown."

... ===== CHAPTER 1081 =====

"Returning, I see the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven sits in the Bright Hall. My merits are recorded twelve times over, and the rewards are in the hundreds and thousands.

The Khan asks what I desire; Mulan has no need for a ministerial post. I wish to ride a thousand-mile steed, to send me back to my hometown."