After turning on the computer, I was shocked, the box office has always been low on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and this year is no exception, the midnight show sold a total of more than 40 million, but "The Wandering Earth" actually won 12.8 million and won the championship.

Today, that is, on the first day of the new year, five films have won 670 million pre-sales, and the earth is temporarily ranked fourth, 77.5 million, which is higher than the prediction of director Guo Fan in the early stage.

Compared with the 187 million of "Crazy Alien", the position behind the decimal point of "The Wandering Earth" has not been reached, but this is a Spring Festival file, and comedy has a natural advantage, and many people drag their families to watch this type of film.

If Zhou Xiao hadn't been because of business problems, he would definitely have chosen Brother Bo first!

In the afternoon, I took my parents to the cinema, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the crowds, there are many people who watch several movies, and the three and a half times he chose also have an attendance rate of more than 60.

After reading it, it's shocking! Big pants, the Oriental Pearl has become a post-apocalyptic scene of minus 89 degrees Celsius, which is both curious and embarrassing, the architecture and pattern are called magnificent, and the special effects do cost a lot of money, which is not inferior to Hollywood blockbusters.

Zhou Xiao felt that the box office was stable, and after calling Wu Jing and Director Guo Fan to congratulate him, when he got home, he posted the small video in the theater on Weibo, and now, he has more confidence to shout.

Unexpectedly, all the fans' attention is not here.

"Brother Xiao, why are you playing a hooligan!"

"It's too much for you not to watch a cameo movie. ”

"The opening didn't make me laugh to death, obviously there is no your name in the promotional poster, and suddenly a friendly cameo appeared, where is the dialect spoken?"

"It feels like a chicken head with a sister, hahahaha!"

"It's enough to have a wedding with a monkey. ”

"I wanted to play the big brother, but it turned out to be Erha. ”

"I know that my brother is so unplayed, he didn't even have a name and played soy sauce. ”

"6666, for Brother Xiao, I specially gave the movie one more star. ”

In normal times, Zhou Xiao may interact with everyone, but now he is not in the mood, the cauldron has been coming over, and finally, at half past twelve in the evening, he received the news.

415 million, the box office ranking of the day temporarily ranked sixth, the most critical, word-of-mouth bursting, the cauldron laughed wildly, praised Zhou Xiaoshi for hammering the lucky cat, shouted that when the dividends arrived, he would give Zhou Xiao a big gift.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, it was more than 400 million, and on the third day of the Lunar New Year, it was more than 400 million, and it was released for four days, not to mention 1.6 billion, and it defeated several other movies by word of mouth, ranking first, and making money is inevitable.

Zhou Xiaodu was about to laugh, and just wanted to say that there was no money, but the lottery opened and won the jackpot, as for how much money the prize pool will have, it will be waiting for the time being.

Then it's easy, go to relatives, eat, be complimented, greet, transfer, continue to walk relatives, eat, be complimented, greet... The family's itinerary was almost the same, and the father and son took turns driving the car, and it took five days to run all the close relatives.

Especially when he returned to the village where he had lived for more than 20 years, he was warmly welcomed, and the village actually put up a banner with Zhou Xiao is proud on it, which made him feel very embarrassed.

On the afternoon of the eighth day of the new year, I finally returned home, my mother didn't care about resting, took some souvenirs obtained from relatives as a thank you gift, and went downstairs to pick up Xiaobai and Xiaoguo.

The cat didn't have any special reaction, just didn't see it for a few days, to the familiar territory, just lazily went to his own cat nest, and lay down comfortably, the dog was so excited that he couldn't, jumping up and down, as if he hadn't seen it for a few years.

The family ran for several days, and they were tired, so after simply ordering noodles to eat, their parents were ready to sleep, and Zhou Xiao didn't stay long.

He didn't actually sleep well, and he didn't know why, obviously his body was exhausted, but he tossed and turned, and he didn't feel sleepy until midnight, and he didn't recognize the bed, so he couldn't figure out the reason.

After seeing the big bed that belonged to him, he yawned unconsciously, quickly went to take a shower, changed his pajamas, closed the curtains, turned on the air conditioner, turned his mobile phone on silent, and lay on the bed.

Zhou Xiao has been reading this book recently, it's quite interesting to call "The Great Director of Variety Show", I don't know how to write more than two million words, and I am currently seeing the protagonist Su Yan and Yun'er falling in love, which is quite sweet, but I didn't read it for five minutes, and drowsiness hit.

Ku Bang!

Fell asleep.

I slept soundly, I didn't dream, no one disturbed me, and I was so comfortable that I couldn't do it.

When I opened my eyes, it was already dark outside, and I looked at the time, half past five, and slept for three hours, but I didn't want to get up, and it was warm in the bed, and it was good to be in a daze.

After ten minutes, his confused head became sober, took his mobile phone, and called Director Liu Daqing back, I don't know what he was doing, and made several calls.

"Director Zhou, Happy New Year. "The call went through quickly.

"Happy New Year, you won't make so many phone calls for New Year's greetings, right?" Zhou Xiao sat up, leaned on the head of the bed, and took a sip of water by the way.

"No, no, there's a problem. ”

Zhou Xiao can't understand that the only connection between him and Liu Daqing is the movie "Exercise", and he has a problem?

What does it mean.

The editing is done, and the post-production hasn't started yet, so what's the problem?

"You say. ”

"Didn't we book the May Day release?" Liu Daqing was a little anxious: "But there was a big news in the afternoon." ”

"What?"

"Avengers 4" is finalized, and it will premiere in China on April 24. ”

"Shhh Zhou Xiao suddenly felt a toothache, MMP is really fake: "You wait." ”

He couldn't lie down, got up and turned on the computer, searched casually, and saw the news, good guy, it was still two days earlier than North America.

As a loyal fan of Marvel, he has watched all series of movies, among which the Avengers is the most ferocious, in 2012, many audiences are not familiar with this IP, these superheroes, have been able to cut 568 million box office.

Three years later, in the second part, after the warm-up of films such as the American team during the period, the box office exceeded 100 million on the first day, with a cumulative box office of 1.464 billion.

Another three years passed, that is, last year, the third part was launched, Thanos appeared, and the box office of 2.388 billion was breathtaking.

As for Avengers 4, many professionals have asserted that it may surpass "Avatar" and become the box office champion of the first round of public releases in global film history.

That's it, such a behemoth, it was actually set at the end of April, Zhou Xiao said that he was very unhappy!

He understands the reason, compared to the first two parts, the 3-4 in the back is huge, Thanos snapped his fingers, not only ordinary people, but even superheroes such as Spider-Man have turned into dust, obviously, all the audience is eager to know the content of the back, after too long, the impression will fade, which is not conducive to the box office, so it is launched quickly, and it is equivalent to a global release, although Huaxia is a big box office, but it can't be deliberately postponed to eleven or other holidays because of this, it's unrealistic.

But!

Why!

Why do you want to go against yourself?

No, it's not right, it's going to be crushed, and the pants that lose are gone.

He's just a rookie director, he finally mustered up the courage, deceived the investment, found actors, and went through a lot of hard work to make a good movie, don't ask for more popularity, I gave up the Spring Festival stalls, went to May Day, but I didn't expect that there would be a... Shocking news, fate is nothing more than that.

"Director, what should I do?" Liu Daqing was also very discouraged.

For other movies, I guess everyone will think about how the box office is, but "Avengers 4"?

I'm sorry, it must be a big hit, saying that the box office of three billion is considered small, let's just say that Zhou Xiao Benxiao, when he saw the news, if there was no competition, his first reaction would be to cheer,! There is another wonderful audition feast coming, and it must not be missed.

Don't even think about this, it's absolutely invincible in the same period.

"What do you say later, when will you go to work?" Zhou Xiao swiped the web page.

Okay, it's going to be released when it's released, why Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, Thor, and Black Widow all come to promote... I really want to meet!

Zhou Xiao shook his head violently, what do you think!

They are not idols now, they are opponents, they are opponents, bastards, hurry up and put this dangerous idea behind you.

It's not that Zhou Xiao doesn't have confidence, comparing "Exercises" with "Avengers 4", it's like a group of authors who fight with capital, the result is already very clear, the loss is not unjust at all, it is not on the same order of magnitude.

I believe that not only him, but many movies around the world are estimated to avoid it appropriately, but if they can't beat it, they can only dodge, and it is a fool's thing to do if they are hard, not to mention that some people are hard, some people are lasting, and some people are so long.

"I'll go to work tomorrow, we don't actually have much content about computer CG," Liu Daqing didn't wait for him to ask all the questions to make it clear: "The most important thing is the subtitles, which can be done in ten days at most." ”

"Ten days. Zhou Xiao groaned, that is, around March 7th, there is no problem with the release in early April: "You find their person in charge, and they will all go to Qinghe for a meeting tomorrow afternoon." ”

"Got it, director. ”

Zhou Xiao immediately gave the cauldron again, and the vice president and several people went to the phone to inform them of the situation, and everyone understood the seriousness of the situation, and the cauldron directly changed the ticket and flew back in the evening.

That's a big deal.

After a series of phone calls, Zhou Xiao's good mood suddenly disappeared.

After hastily going to his parents for dinner, he came back, his mother saw that he was a little wrong, Zhou Xiao didn't want to burden them, so he found an excuse to prevaricate at random, thought about it until eight o'clock, drove to the airport, and connected to the cauldron.

In the car, the two looked solemn.

"So there's no way to fight Iron Man, right? "The cauldron broke the tranquility.

"Nonsense. Zhou Xiao gave him a blank look.

"I read the news, the American team is coming to the magic capital, are you going to see him?"

"I want to go!" Zhou Xiao unconsciously said the truth.

"You traitor. The cauldron shouted angrily: "I want to shoot you on behalf of the country and the people!"

Zhou Xiao: ......

This dead fat man, a drama spirit.

"Actually, I figured it out. Zhou Xiao drove slowly and came out with his thoughts.

"There is no need to fight hard, it will only be an egg hitting a stone, so the schedule must be changed, there is no doubt about this, as for everyone is a little panicked now, because the established plan has been disrupted.

But if you think about it carefully, in fact, we have enough time, and we will start promoting it immediately at the beginning of the year, and we can even release it at the end of March, and there is no problem in the post-production, and we can definitely keep up with the rhythm.

May Day is actually a one-day holiday, and the impact is not as big as imagined, otherwise why do those big productions have to squeeze into the National Day summer vacation and the Spring Festival stalls!

Therefore, it is absolutely feasible to release it in advance, and I have also watched it, and there are not many movies released in March at the moment, but it is not ruled out that there will be temporary changes like us.

It's good that we didn't announce the date before, otherwise it's a little hard to get over on the face, but it's nothing, it's better to lose face than to lose money. ”

The cauldron touched his chin and listened very seriously: "Then according to what you say, there is no problem?"

"Yes, and it's the biggest problem. Zhou Xiao shook his head: "The matter of guarantee." ”

"Ah yes!" the cauldron slapped his thigh: "May Day is a festival anyway, and they must attach great importance to it, and they will definitely have to lower the price again when negotiating." ”

"I made an appointment with all the investors to have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, first talk about what the situation is, you should also talk to those issuing companies as soon as possible, today is the 25th, the first must be the result, if you can't talk, give up the guarantee, on your own. ”

"Understood. ”

The guarantee has always been an alternative, not a mandatory option, among many investors, in fact, a small part is very protesting against the guaranteed release, especially after watching the film, there is no other reason, the money will be divided, or the big head, after a few months of hard work, it is not as much money as people make in a month, it is definitely unbalanced.

Along the way, the two basically reached a consensus, that is, based on the release in early April, there is no point in postponing it any longer, the film market will never be idle, and there will be opponents if only one film is released.

What we have to do is to convince many investors that if the guarantee cannot be negotiated, it is good to release it directly, or it is not a matter if it is not delayed, and it is always right to be prepared with both hands.

Back home, Mencius sent a video.

"Hello, why are you smiling so shyly? ”

The cauldron squeezed over: "Hello brother and sister!"

"Eh, didn't you come back on the ninth day of the cauldron?" Meng Ziyi was surprised: "Ah, you are fat again, it seems that you are very nutritious for the New Year." ”

"Yo, you know so much about my itinerary, what's going on?" he selectively ignored the latter sentence.

"Guess. ”

"Ziyi, there's really something, you can bring Sister Hua over in a few days. Zhou Xiao said.

"Huh?" I heard that I was going to bring an agent, and Meng Ziyi also knew that it must be a serious matter: "What's wrong?"

Zhou Xiao briefly said the incident: "When will your new drama start?"

"Oh, don't worry, don't delay, it's going to be around May, I'm absolutely fine here. Mencius said affirmatively: "I'll call Sister Hua later." ”

"Well, what are you going to say?"

"I was going to surprise you tomorrow..."Mencius confessed directly.

Zhou Xiao glanced at the cauldron, and he consciously returned to the room: "There are new people and forget the old people." ”

Quite loud, quite plaintive.

Meng Ziyi was amused: "He has a lot of plays. ”

"I've been used to it for a long time. ”

"By the way, does this matter have a big impact?" Meng Ziyi was very concerned about whether it was from his boyfriend's perspective or himself: "Is there anything you need my help with?"

is not only the first movie directed by Zhou Xiao, but also the first big-screen work she starred in, she definitely doesn't want to say what happened, so far, she can only take the initiative to solve it.

"It's hard to say," Zhou Xiao didn't hide it: "The current situation is not very clear, if there are not many movies to change in advance, it is actually still advantageous, you have a good rest during this time, it is estimated that the next will be very, very busy." ”

"Okay, I'll do it. ”