Chapter 415: Heat and Rumors
The premiere performances of mainstream movies were also full of mainstream flavor, with almost no well-known singers or performance groups invited.

In the opening song, the little girl singing has a sweet voice, but it's a pity that her voice is still that of a Children's Palace style voice that has been repeatedly modified. One can't help but sigh at the current state of children's voice education in China.

At first Liu Zhou thought it was Lin Miaoke, but after looking carefully he found out it was not. However, the two people's voices are very consistent and have no personal characteristics. This is also a feature of education in the Children's Palace.

After the opening song, there were various group dances, piano solos, singing, as well as several skits and stage plays that were more appropriate to the occasion.

Liu Zhou felt a little bored and even wanted to doze off, but many leaders came to the premiere today and his seat was quite conspicuous, so he had to hold on and pretend to be watching with great interest.

After more than an hour, when everyone had finished their performances, the movie began.

The film kicks off with two great men on a plane to Shancheng to negotiate.

The Anti-Japanese War was won, and the people were filled with anti-war sentiment.

Therefore, with the mediation of democratic patriots such as Zhang Ran, the two sides negotiated in the mountain city.

In order to show our sincerity, we took the initiative to give up part of the liberated areas we occupied. However, the other side had no intention of cooperating and instead drove away the democratic figures.

They launched a bloody massacre against democratic figures under white terror, and a large number of patriots were killed.

There was nothing more to talk about after that, and the two sides started fighting.

The film basically follows several major historical events, including the Shancheng Negotiations, the Double Tenth Agreement, the Xiaochangkou Incident, the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign, the Crossing the Yangtze River Campaign, the Capital in Beiping, the Political Consultative Conference, and the Founding Ceremony of the Nation.
More than a hundred actors also appeared one by one. Some of them might have flashed by, but some audiences were quite surprised when they recognized them.

In addition to some historical celebrities, there are also many actors playing reporters, unknown veterans, and National People's Congress representatives.

Although the movie is very mainstream, there are still some touching scenes.

For example, after hearing that the Huaihai Campaign had won a great victory in Yan'an, the teacher said happily that there would be no more major wars north of the Yangtze River.

So, the scene of four men who changed the history of China, four men who changed the destiny of China, drinking together and singing together when they were drunk was very touching.

At that moment, the memories of the suffering they had experienced over the past few decades brought out all the emotions in their hearts.

Five encirclement and suppression campaigns, breaking through the blockade, vast snow-capped mountains, endless grasslands, and countless lives have brought about this moment of revolutionary turning point.

This made them unable to restrain their emotions any longer. They sang, drank, cried, laughed, and danced...

Another thing is that when liberating Shanghai, the soldiers were tired from fighting and did not occupy private houses. Instead, they slept neatly on the streets.

The next day, when the residents of Shanghai saw this scene, they were also deeply shocked.

Finally, from the Tiananmen Gate Tower, the resounding cry of “The Chinese people have stood up!” also indicated that from then on the Chinese people had become masters of their own destiny and a brand new country stood in the east of the world.

In contrast, Wanwan has a lonely and sad back.

"Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa"

When the movie ended, the audience in the venue and in the stands did not hesitate to applaud.

"Boss Han, your skills are still as good as ever."

"Founding of a Republic" is actually quite well-made. The film has a fast pace and is more commercial than other mainstream films. In addition, the acting competition among many veteran actors in the industry is also very exciting.

“Hahaha…that’s too good!”

Hearing Liu Zhou's praise, Han Shanping couldn't help but laugh.

Han Shanping was in a very good mood, especially when he saw some leaders and industry insiders in the front row also applauding.

After a pause in the applause, three hosts, one man and two women, came on stage. They were Wen Pei, Zhu Jun and Tu Wei.

Forget about the two movie channel hosts, it was Zhu Jun's first time ever to host a movie premiere, which shows how seriously they take this movie.

Then the film's main creators Han Shanping, Huang Jianxin, Tang Guoqiang, Zhang Guoli, Chen Shishi, Chen Daoming and others took the stage one after another.

Because there were so many people, we had to go up in batches.

As usual, Han Shanping spoke about some profound principles and the difficulties encountered during the filming period, and then Huang Jianxin, Tang Guoqiang and Zhang Guoli also said a few words.

These words are all prepared in advance and cannot be said casually.

Most of the media in the audience had also greeted each other, so there wouldn't be any discordant issues.

The premiere lasted until after 11 o'clock in the evening, but everyone didn't leave so quickly after it ended because there was also a cocktail party.

China Film Corporation directly decorated one of the indoor venues in the Olympic Sports Center and turned it into a cocktail party venue.

By the time the cocktail party was over, it was already past one in the morning.

Liu Zhou originally wanted to just show up and leave, but Jiahe and Liu Zhou have been too popular recently.

As soon as I arrived at the venue, I was surrounded by people one after another.

Those who could talk to Liu Zhou were not simple people, so he had to deal with them with a smile throughout the whole process and did not leave until the cocktail party was over.

After the premiere of "Founding of a Republic", it will be officially released nationwide on September 26th.

In recent years, although the National Day period has begun to receive more and more attention, it is still not a popular period in China.

The most important periods are still the Lunar New Year and summer vacation periods, and even now the Spring Festival period is more important than the National Day period.

However, in the past, the Lunar New Year period was the territory of big directors such as Feng Kuzi and Zhang Yimou, while the summer period also saw the release of Golden Harvest and a large number of Hollywood movies.

The Spring Festival period was even developed by Golden Harvest, and competition became increasingly fierce, so the National Day period became a period where small and medium-cost films gathered.

However, there are occasionally one or two blockbusters, such as Jackie Chan’s previous films "The Myth" and "Baby Project", which were released twice during the National Day holiday.

This year, with the blockbuster "Founding of a Republic", which was produced by China Film Group with all its strength, other companies have been avoiding it.

Therefore, during this year's National Day holiday, apart from "Founding of a Republic", there was not even a small or medium-budget movie with an investment of 30 million yuan. All of them were movies with an investment of around 10 million yuan.

None of these low-budget films has the potential to be a dark horse.

"Bullfighting", which was released on September 15, grossed less than two million yuan on the first day, and it took a full days for the total box office to exceed ten million yuan.

Huang Bo did become a little famous with "Crazy Racing" and "Crazy Stone", but he only got this much box office revenue.

There is also "My Fair Gentleman", starring handsome actor Sun Honglei and Hong Kong actress Helen Lin, which also grossed over one million on the first day. It was also released on September 11th, and after 15 days of release, it only grossed 15 million.

Another movie to be released in mid-to-late September is "Earthquake," starring Li Youbing and reflecting last year's earthquake. This movie is considered the first domestic movie to reflect an earthquake.

But this movie is a bit similar to the movie "The Storm" which reflects the 1998 flood. Both are produced by August 1st Film Studio. The main theme is too strong and people don't like it. In addition, there is the movie "Wheat Field" starring Li Bingbing. The original time and space movie was starred by Fan Xiaopang.

Also including the comedy "Pirate Cat", the box office performance of these movies is also hard to describe.

The film "Wolf Totem" brought by the fifth-generation director Tian Zhuangzhuang was obscure and difficult to understand, and was criticized by the audience, and only achieved a box office of 400 million.

This movie cost 15 million yuan to invest, so this result is undoubtedly a complete failure.

The only remaining film that had some box office success was the animated film "The Monkey King: Begins", which took in 500 million in two weeks.

But the movie received very bad reviews. When the green thing appeared, everyone thought it was Prime Minister Turtle, but when they saw the two horns on its head, they found out it was actually the Dragon King.

He Jiong voiced the Monkey King, Zhang Yishan voiced Taibai Jinxing, and Xie Na voiced a female monkey. It’s scary to think about it.

Later, the director saw that his work was being criticized, and publicly shouted in front of the media:

"Give me 100 million and surpass Hollywood."

He said it with confidence.

"Founding of a Republic" was released in major domestic theaters facing such a group of competitors.

On the first day of its release, it grossed 28 million yuan at the box office, sweeping the National Day box office without any suspense.

After five days of release, the box office exceeded 1.3 million.

A total of 1,500 copies of "The Founding of a Republic" were produced. While other films were performing poorly, major domestic cinema chains allocated prime time in almost all their theaters in good locations to this film.

The film not only achieved excellent box office results, but also had good reputation. Many media outlets gave it rave reviews and called it a benchmark for mainstream films.

It is undeniable that the quality of the film is indeed acceptable. At least, so many historical events and characters were added in without any confusion, allowing the audience to watch it smoothly, with both laughter and tears.

This is already better than most domestic commercial films.

On Douban, "Founding of a Republic" also scored 6.6 points, which is a high score for a domestic film, especially a mainstream domestic film.

In the original time and space, more than 2.8 days before the release of "Founding of a Republic", its score on Douban had been raised to points.

Later, Douban had to clear these ratings, but more than 20 days before the movie was released, someone had already given it bad reviews. You can figure out what happened with your toes.

Some people may be mindless critics and give bad reviews when they see the main theme, but most of them have other purposes.

This also led to Douban directly closing the ratings of "Founding of a Republic" a year later. Not only did it not display the ratings, it did not even leave any comments.

The same goes for the subsequent "The Founding of a Party" and "The Founding of an Army", which cannot be rated or commented on.

Douban is now in the hands of Liu Zhou, who has also asked Sina to develop a relatively complete and strict rating system.

He also knew that some people would definitely cause trouble, so Liu Zhou specifically instructed Zhang Zhao to arrange people to focus on the movie "Founding of a Republic".

All those who maliciously cheat on scores will have their accounts banned.

Therefore, the current Douban score of 6.6 for "Founding of a Republic" is considered a relatively objective score, 0.2 points higher than the original time and space.

One thing about "Founding of a Republic" that caused complaints from outsiders was that the movie ticket prices had generally risen to 80-100 yuan, which is twice as expensive as ordinary movies.

However, as time enters October, the next eight days will be National Day holidays.

Although the ticket price is expensive, "Founding of a Republic" still set off a movie-watching craze in major cities across the country.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the electronic screens in the ticket halls of many cinemas begin to repeatedly display the words "All tickets for prime show" are sold out.

During the eight-day National Day holiday, "Founding of a Republic" once again raked in 2.3 million yuan at the box office. The film was released for 3.6 days and grossed a total of million yuan.

This result is undoubtedly very impressive. It is certain that the box office will exceed 400 million. If there is the key to extension, it will not be a big problem for the box office to exceed 500 million.

But it should be impossible to break the box office of "The Martian" which exceeded 700 million.

The box office performance of "Founding of a Republic" has also secured the second place among all domestic films.

However, the box office performance of "Founding of a Republic" has also been questioned by some people.

One is that this movie has many private screenings, and the second is that the ticket price is a bit expensive.

If these two factors are removed, they think the box office of "Founding of a Republic" would be just over 100 million at most, and would not even reach 200 million.

Doubts aside, there is no doubt that "Founding of a Republic" is the hottest movie in recent times, and its box office of 3.6 million yuan has also caused quite a stir.

However, along with the popularity of "Founding of a Republic", a rumor also began to ferment on the Internet.

Someone made a list, saying that 23 actors who participated in "The Founding of a Republic", including Chen Shishi, Chen Hong, Jiang Wenli, etc., are no longer Chinese nationals.

It also lists the overseas nationalities that these actors have joined. For example, Poet Chen is already a citizen of the United States, while Jet Li, who plays Chen Shaokuan, is a Singaporean, and Xu Qing, who plays Mrs. Song, has already joined a Singaporean country.

As soon as this list was released, it immediately caused an uproar on the Internet and attracted extensive media coverage. The Beijing News, which always likes to stir up trouble, even published a special feature to talk about this matter.

Previously, Jet Li and Gong Li had a quarrel on the Internet because of their nationality issue, but it was not as hot as it is now.

Now is the time when the movie "Founding of a Republic" is at its most popular, and this movie is a tribute to the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China.

It was suddenly revealed that an important actor in the film was not Chinese, which immediately aroused the anger of some passers-by who did not know the truth, making this "nationality incident" even more heated.

In fact, this list is complete nonsense, and most of the people on the list are not actors from "The Founding of a Republic".

For example, Liu Yifei, Chen Chong, Jiang Wenli and others did not participate in "The Founding of a Republic" at all. Even if they are foreigners, what do they have to do with "The Founding of a Republic"?

But most netizens will not make a serious comparison, and many people have not seen the movie "Founding of a Republic", so the anger of netizens is understandable.

But what is strange is that even though this list can be easily seen as a rumor by simply comparing it with the cast list of "Founding of a Republic", no media outlet has refuted the rumor. Instead, it has been widely reported, and some have even deliberately tried to stir up trouble.

Seeing this, Liu Zhou couldn't help but fall silent.

Without witnessing it with your own eyes and without being in the situation, it is really impossible to imagine how great the influence of those birdmen in the country was at that time.

Unknowingly, they have gained control of so many media resources. No wonder so many people have been led astray.

PS: Guys, let's let the failure take a day off. I also reworked the outline today.

(End of this chapter)