Chapter 143: Box Office (3/5)
Yang Qing's face was a little flushed, much like he had just experienced a self-congratulation...
But he's not supposed to be that kind of person...
And when the debut film is released, it won't be celebrated by jerking off!
"What are you doing?"
"I'm checking the box office!"
“… After 12 o'clock, the distribution will send us accurate box office information, besides, where do you go to check the box office?"
Yang Qing picked up the chaos and explained while eating: "The efficiency of the distributor is too low, and we have to wait for the collection of theaters in various places, and you can find the box office information directly at the box office bar!"
Xu Zheng hurriedly asked: "Then is our box office out?"
It must be said that Xu Zheng attaches more importance to "Nightclub" than Lu Xiaoran, for this movie, he turned down the film contracts of two TV series, just for "Nightclub"!
“… Accurate information hasn't come out yet, because some cities have arranged a game at 11:50..."
"What about the current box office?"
Yang Qing smiled, and before Lu Xiaoran and the others made a move, he hurriedly said: "It's already 3.5 million, the great god of Tieba said, the box office of "Nightclub" will be 3.8 million on the first day, and he also predicted that the total box office will be at least 30 million, and maybe even 50 million!"
“… Which god?"
"Film Information Office, don't underestimate them, their box office predictions are very accurate!"
In order to increase his own persuasiveness, Yang Qing directly gave an example of "Border Storm": "They said that the box office foothold of "Border Storm" is likely to be around 68 million..."
At the beginning, the outside world was very optimistic about the box office results of "Border Storm", and a bunch of people said that it was likely to break 100 million, but as a result, as soon as "Vote for Fame" was released, "Border Storm" was directly dumbfounded...
Lu Xiaoran was thoughtful...
Yang Qing: "... Aren't you happy?"
Huang Bo said everyone's questions: "The box office of the movie you said, it... Is it accurate?"
"How can it be inaccurate? Theaters in major cities will upload the box office revenue of the day to the bar and add it together, isn't it?"
"Let's wait!"
I can't communicate with you post-70s!
Yang Qing continued to concentrate on dealing with Chaos...
"Eh, how is "Ten Perfect" over there?"
Xu Zheng waved his hand: "I don't think it's good, how much money did you spend to smear Li Xiang?"
Lu Xiaoran was 'angry': "Who smeared it? Rumors are responsible!"
"Then how do you explain that there are still a bunch of tabloids on the Internet during this period of time, so many things about Li Xiang's black material?"
Lu Xiaoran was calm: "It may be that "Ten Perfect and Nine Beautiful" is about to be released, and the media feels that readers are interested in Li Xiang, so they reported a lot of unknown things!"
Huang Bo was stunned: "Can you explain it like this?"
"What do you think... Yo, Zeng Guangxian called!"
Lu Xiaoran hurriedly answered the phone...
"That's right, the results on the first day are out, close to 4 million!"
……
The box office of "Nightclub" on the first day was 3.8 million, far less than the 27 million of "Red Cliff".
Of course, no one will compare the first-day box office of these two films together!
Except for some people with a heart: Tut, I thought Lu Xiaoran had a lot of ability, he didn't even get a fraction of others, and he was embarrassed to touch porcelain?
But anyone with a normal IQ knows that "Nightclub" was successful, with 3.8 million on the first day, the reputation is not very bad, and the popularity is very high, breaking 30 million is expected.
Indeed, August 1 was Friday, and "Nightclub" was released and won the runner-up at the single-day box office;
Then, on August 2, he won 6.7 million in a single day, successfully surpassing the 5.6 million of "Red Cliff";
On August 3rd, take another 6.4 million...
16.9 million in the first weekend, beating "Ten Perfect" and winning the runner-up at the box office...
In the third week of its release, "Red Cliff" successfully achieved three consecutive championships with a box office of 32 million...
There's no way, there's still a volume of people scheduling films...
There is nothing more exciting than box office results to stimulate the enthusiasm of the main creative team.
Everywhere I went to publicize, several leading actors couldn't stop smiling on their faces...
……
On August 4th, the working day was ushered in.
Judging a movie's box office is based on a weekday slide!
Therefore, Lu Xiaoran ran non-stop, ran to six theaters in a row, and returned to the hotel to accept an exclusive interview with "Watching a Movie"...
This time it's Ah Lang...
His first question: "Why invest in Nightclub because you see market value?"
"We do see the hidden market value of this book, and the story takes place in the opinion supermarket, the investment is very small, and it is easy to achieve a return on investment..."
"So, you're investing?"
"Yes, even if you lose money, you won't lose much, so you should support the new director!"
"Then why comedy?"
“… Why can't it be a comedy?"
Lu Xiaoran smiled: "Actually, we don't have any good choices, there are many types of low-cost and big-selling movies, check the film and television information, you will know, either horror films, or blue films, but these two types are not allowed to be done in China, Yang Qing is the executive director when I was filming "Border Storm", he took this book and said that he wanted to be a director, we evaluated it and decided to invest!"
"Then why do you want to act?"
"You have to make sure there's an audience to watch... I acted, and the audience bought tickets!"
"But many people say that this movie is plagiarized!"
"I know that there are many people who say that the movie has no connotation, the content is rough, it is all copied, it is just funny, and nothing else. ”
Lu Xiaoran changed his words: "But if you think about it carefully, this is actually a surprise." In other words, isn't this the place that this kind of film should have in the market? There is a type of film in the United States called spoof comedy, and in the process of creation, it is clear that they know that they will be scolded, and even if they are scolded, they will shoot what they want, and this is the style of this type of film. ”
"Recently, a lot of people have been talking about the industrialization of films and the genre of films. Looking back on the so-called Chinese commercial films in the past ten years, except for those hysterical blockbusters, the rest of them really sit down and talk about something, only the small-scale comedy directed by Feng Xiaogang remains!"
"It's the same with this film, funny is its value, whether this film is useful to you, just depends on whether you laugh or not, if you laugh, everyone is happy; if not, maybe this film is not right for you, maybe you are very happy in life, you don't need to laugh, maybe you are not funny. ”
"As for following the trend and plagiarism, it is actually a very good sign, which shows that there are things worth following and plagiarizing in this market. The low-budget horror films, which were popular for a while in the past two years, are now disappearing largely because there are no samples on the market that can be copied. ”
Ah Lang nodded, and then asked, "Do you have an opinion on "Red Cliff"?"
“… I haven't watched this movie yet, I just said it casually that day, in fact, our whole team admires director Wu Yusen very much, many lines and dialogues in "Nightclub" are direct quotations from the lines in "The True Color of Heroes"!"