Chapter 316: I Just Can't Buy a Ticket......
At nine o'clock in the morning on October 1, the results of several films that premiered at zero o'clock were also counted.
As of 8 a.m., eight hours after its premiere, "The End of the World" had earned 53 million at the box office with more than 60 percent of the film.
In just eight hours, it got a box office of 53 million, so it is no surprise that it got a box office of 100 million on the first day of broadcasting. However, it is clear that this is not an ideal goal for the makers of "End of the World".
The cost of the entire "End of the World" has exceeded 100 million US dollars, and in China, their goal is naturally to exceed 3 billion yuan and touch a higher ceiling.
Therefore, for them, the premiere must be at least 150 million before it can finally exceed 3 billion.
Compared with this overlord-level blockbuster, "Farewell My Concubine" got a box office of 29 million.
This has basically met Zheng Rong's expectations.
Even, the eight-hour box office, according to the previous box office full calculations of various theaters, is basically less than 29 million less than 30 million.
In other words, basically, the movie theater where the premiere of "Farewell My Concubine" was scheduled was basically full.
Of course, it makes no sense to count such data at this time.
In the first few screenings, unless it is a special circumstance, as long as the box office of each theater is sold out, it can be full.
In the other films, "The Wanderer" has achieved a box office of 11 million, and the other films, basically the box office within eight hours of their premiere are below 3 million, or even less than 1 million.
Basically, the entire box office distribution is about the same as everyone expected.
However, the evaluation on the Internet surprised everyone.
The evaluation of "The End of the World" is basically a decent Hollywood special effects film.
There aren't too many slots, but there aren't too many bright spots either.
In fact, this is also a direction that several major Hollywood companies, or Hollywood itself, have always had, that is, to make industrial and commercial films.
Industrial commercial films, first of all, are the foundation of commercial films, so watching such films basically means that you will feel very comfortable. Generally, they will not explore any direction, nor will they deliberately arrange some values that do not conform to the recognition of theater audiences around the world.
But because it is also an industrial level, it is natural that I will not consider too many things from the perspective of connotation and art. Most directors in Hollywood are part-time workers, they will only get a script, and then completely follow the content of the script, plus some of their own techniques, to shoot all the materials, and there is no power in post-production and editing.
It is also precisely for this reason that Hollywood commercial blockbusters have been able to sweep the world in the past ten years and decades.
However, it is obvious that at such a point in time, with the development of the Internet, netizens are getting higher and higher in their appreciation and acceptance of movies, and such a decent "End of the World" can only move the audience emotionally.
After watching it, it's just a cool scene and a barely okay storyline.
Douban has a score of 7.1, and the number of netizens who comment is more than 3,000.
Although this is a relatively high rating compared to many other Hollywood commercial blockbusters.
But seeing the current Douban score of "Farewell My Concubine", not only the producers of "The End of the World", but even netizens who got up in the morning to watch the news and decide who the opportunity for the next possible movie to be given were a little stunned.
"Farewell My Concubine", director Lin Bao, score 9.7!
", it has reached a score of 9.7, "Farewell My Concubine" is going against the sky!"
"9.7, only those foreign films shot in the last century can get it! At present, the best domestic film is only 8.9 points! "Farewell My Concubine" actually did 9.7! Director Lin is awesome!"
"The opening is 9.7, except for those who maliciously brush scores, that is to say, most of the viewers who watched the premiere for eight hours basically gave a rating of more than five stars!"
"To be honest, Boss Bao'er's movie is really good! It's worth 9.7! Cheer for Boss Bao'er!"
"Is it 9.7? Just rush to this number, wait and buy one to see!"
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The Douban score of 9.7 exploded on the entire network in an instant.
The audience who has watched it feels that such a rating is well deserved!
Even if I watched it once, it has been nearly four hours now, but many of the pictures in the movie, that feeling, still remain in my mind.
It's a perfect movie.
And the audience who has not seen the movie, when they see such a god-level film rating, the expectations in their hearts are also raised all of a sudden.
According to Lin Bao's tonality, it is naturally impossible to have a brush or other means in the middle.
In other words, such a movie is really worthy of such a god-level score.
Therefore, everyone began to prepare to buy movie tickets for "Farewell My Concubine" on the Internet.
However, at around 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the audience who had not yet bought tickets found that basically all the movie theaters around that day, all the movie tickets about "Farewell My Concubine" at all time periods were sold out!
They had no choice but to start booking tickets for October 2nd, but soon found out that tickets for October 2nd were also booked out quickly.
Even, at seven or eight o'clock in the evening on October 1st, everyone found that because of the beginning of the entire domestic theater chain, only more than 20% of the film was scheduled for the movie "Farewell My Concubine", but on the Internet, with the premiere of this movie, the box office was very good, and the score reached an astonishing god-level 9.7 points, so many people poured into the cinema or the ticketing system to grab tickets, so even the box office of "Farewell My Concubine" on October 3, October 4, and the next three consecutive days was all sold out.
"The tickets have been sold out for three consecutive days! I feel that Boss Bao'er's movie is going to explode!"
"On the Internet, not only Douban, but also other platforms, the evaluation of this movie is very high!"
"I'm going, and now I can't even sell out the tickets for the morning of October 5th!"
"There are too few films scheduled in the early stage, so I suffered this loss!"
"There's no way, there are too many advertisements smashed by "The End of the World". However, I feel that the whole direction of "End of the World" is too conventional, and it is already a bit inflated to be able to score 7.1 points. ”
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On the Internet, in addition to discussing the "Farewell My Concubine" movie itself, everyone began to frantically complain and complain about the early schedule of the theater.
Yu Li felt that she was wise.
I booked the first movie on the first day, and after watching it, I felt that the aftertaste was endless, so I bought a movie ticket at seven or eight o'clock that night.
So, after a day at home, she brushed the news on the Internet, and at six o'clock in the evening, she dressed up again and went to the theater.
Compared with the early morning show, the theater at this time is crowded.
It's not a particularly big doorway, it's crowded with people.
Yu Li finally squeezed in front of her, and then changed her ticket, and when she was waiting for the opening of the movie theater next to her, she saw that people kept coming to the scene to ask if there were tickets for the next "Farewell My Concubine".
In such an era when movie tickets can be reserved on the Internet, it is indeed very rare to ask if there are tickets on the spot.
There are even a lot of them, originally hoping to come and get a ticket for the movie "Farewell My Concubine". However, when it was sold out, I reluctantly chose "The Wanderer", which still had some spare seats.
Seeing this scene, Yu Li couldn't help but feel a little anxious for Boss Bao'er.
In fact, on the first day, the Douban score was exploded to this high, and when it was officially going to be publicized, and then attracting more fans, many people were helpless to choose other movies because they had no tickets.
Such a feeling is a very big blow to the enthusiasm and expectation of the audience.
The box office is the core itself, needless to say, and may even be rated on the Internet because of this.
Therefore, it is very important to find a way or use other methods to communicate with theaters around the world.
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In fact, not only Yu Li, but Lin Bao's studio also quickly discovered the news that the movie tickets were sold out.
Therefore, after Zheng Rong's box office data came out in the first half of the day, she began to talk with the group bosses behind various theaters with such data, and she talked about it from noon to evening.
On the theater side, I saw that the popularity of the "Farewell My Concubine" movie itself, including the full seat rate, far exceeded several other movies that did not have too many film schedules.
Therefore, after coordinating with Lin Bao's studio, most theaters decided to further increase the theater schedule of "Farewell My Concubine". However, such a schedule is not split from "The End of the World", but from several other movies.
However, even so, the addition was not too many movie tickets, and they were still sold out in a very short time.
"Mr. Jin, you have also seen the score of "Farewell My Concubine", it is definitely a hit. If you can give another 1% of the film schedule, I think Mr. Lin Bao will definitely thank you in the future. ”
"We can give away a part of the box office share points, not the total process, I need your commitment, at least 5% of the schedule!"
"Mr. Xu, have you confirmed the part of the schedule change that was negotiated before?"
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In the studio, even if there are some Lin Bao and Zheng Rong's "coercion" there, it is still very difficult to negotiate the box office schedule with these theater bosses.
For these theater bosses, they can come up with the box office of several other theater movies with average performance, and even scratch the schedule of "The Wanderer", but in the two movies "Farewell My Concubine" and "The End of the World", they actually don't want to have many scheduling changes.
At present, although it is said, "Farewell My Concubine" is now a bit hard to find on the Internet. But on the side of "The End of the World", whether it is the popularity or the full attendance, the performance on the first day is actually very good.
Because there was an agreement to schedule films before, they also had no reason at all to cut the schedule of "The End of the World" and supply "Farewell My Concubine".
After all, the number of screens in the entire domestic theater is so much, and it is impossible to change a lot in a short period of time. At such a point in time, each theater even tries to shorten the interval between two movies in the same theater.
In this way, the first day of the entire 11th National Day file, whether it is for moviegoers, producers, or theaters, is a very busy and exciting day.
Early in the morning of October 2nd.
Including Han Yiyi, Yuan Koi and a few girls, everyone yawned and went to the barbecue restaurant early, waiting for Zheng Rong and other members of the studio on the second floor above to pass down the statistics of the premiere box office data.
For a few of them, in their hearts, they even pay more attention to the box office of Boss Bao'er's Virgo premiere than he does.
Moreover, standing in the barbecue restaurant, waiting for the final box office data, everyone suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of sacredness in their hearts.
Although, according to everyone's discussion of "Farewell My Concubine" on the Internet all day yesterday, including many people calling on the Internet for not being able to buy tickets, to increase the filming of this movie, so the data reported next may be expected by everyone.
But several people, even Yang Xing and Ike, were looking forward to that data in their hearts.