In fact, even if there is no promise with Wang Changtian, Li Mo plans to greet Ye Ning and ask him to give "Hong Kong" a high-ranking film.

This is not only out of human considerations, but also out of the company's business strategy.

Although it is indeed an upstream industry for theaters in the Celestial Empire, compared to the producers, don't forget that the upstream industry does not mean that there is no competition.

…… Even from a certain point of view, the competition between theaters is far more fierce than the competition between film and television companies.

The reason is very simple, when film and television companies encounter a bad external environment, they can completely shrink their scale and wait for the time to come, but cinemas can't do this.

Rent, utilities, equipment maintenance costs, employee salaries......

As soon as the managers of each cinema chain open their eyes every morning, they will habitually calculate in their minds how much they cost so many cinemas every day, how much income they need to make a profit, and what kind of movies to choose to schedule more films for them to attract audiences to their own cinemas......

These are all commercial considerations of Chiguoguo, and they are judgments that cannot bring any human factors at all.

And throughout August, in addition to Xu Zheng's "Hong Kong", are there any movies with better quality and more able to attract audiences?

On August 21, "Hong Kong" premiered, and the box office at midnight reached 10.86 million, surpassing the previous midnight record for mainland 2D films set by "Mission Impossible 5".

On Friday, the box office on the first day was 198 million (excluding zero-point screenings), and in addition, "Hong Kong" accounted for nearly 60% of the country's first-day screenings, becoming the second mainland film to have more than 90,000 screenings in a single day after "Fast and Furious 7".

The "Embarrassment" series of comedies reappeared after more than 2 years, and the audience's expectations for it were almost overwhelming.

Xu Zheng once again became a momentary figure.

In three days of release, "Hong Kong" has a cumulative box office of 676 million.

Looking at this posture, it is definitely going for a box office of 2 billion!

For a time, the topic of "Detective Chinatown" not being the top of the domestic box office list was very loud.

Li Mo didn't pay attention to it at all.

With the development of domestic cinemas and the film market, the box office of nearly 1.7 billion cannot be regarded as a small amount, but even without the appearance of "Hong Kong", the position of the champion of the box office list will not be maintained until the Spring Festival next year at the latest.

Zhou Xinchi's "Mermaid" is definitely not vegetarian.

Under the publicity strategy of 'returning a movie ticket to the star', I don't know how many emotional fans have entered the cinema to contribute to the box office for Zhou Xinchi......

Not to mention that there will be that strong wolf in the future.

With a box office result of more than one billion, Li Mo has been able to sit on the throne for more than a year, and Li Mo already feels very satisfied.

However, in contrast to the hot box office, "Hong Kong Embarrassment" failed to receive as well as its predecessor "Thai Embarrassment".

From the first day of the movie's launch, Hudou's online reputation has fallen.

The opening score of 5.7 points set the worst record for the comedy series of "Embarrassment".

The friendliest comment is: "Compared with the previous works, it is very average." ”

From Zhao Wei to Du Juan, from Bao Bell to Xu Zheng......

All the leading actors have received a lot of complaints.

With the continuous expansion and development of the film market, the impact of word-of-mouth on a movie has become more and more important.

What's even worse is that word-of-mouth also has a great impact on the future development of directors.

Taking advantage of the roadshow, Xu Zheng called Li Mo.

On the phone, Li Mo didn't feel the spirit of a film director who was about to set a record, only a thick tiredness.

"To be honest, Li Mo, I really didn't expect everyone to look forward to my movie so much. Even if he didn't see Xu Zheng's iconic bald head, Li Mo could hear that Xu Zheng's mood was not high now, "I think this time "Hong Kong Embarrassment" is a mess. ”

"Brother Zheng, it's not like that," although he almost knew that most of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" didn't have a good reputation, but since Xu Zheng chose to pour bitter water on himself, Li Mo could only talk nonsense with his head down, "Don't you think the current box office trend is not bad?"

"The box office numbers don't mean much to me now," Xu Zheng seemed to have drunk something, "When everyone saw me after watching "Thai Embarrassment", they all said it was so fun, and they laughed from beginning to end in the screening room, and they all shrank under the chairs, but after watching "Hong Kong Embarrassment" this time, I saw that I had a fake terrible smile on my face, and I almost vomited when I listened to 'Congratulations' in the past two days, I actually wanted to hear their true thoughts, even if it was to say a word to me directly——' What did you Tamar shoot this time, the labor and management are almost disgusted to death', I listen to this kind of talk much better than listen to them pretending to be there. ”

"That'...... Why don't I tell you that now?"

"Get out!"

After making a joke, estimating that Xu Zheng's mood was a little better, Li Mo was silent for a while, and asked: "Brother Zheng, since you think you have messed up this time, have you summarized what went wrong?"

"I've really thought about that. Contrary to Li Mo's expectations, Xu Zheng almost picked up the conversation as soon as Li Mo's voice fell, "The success of "Thai Embarrassment" lies in the fact that it is very pure, it is a pure road comedy, everyone happily goes in and laughs for two hours and it is over, but when it comes to "Hong Kong Embarrassment", I always want to make something different from "Thai Embarrassment", I don't want to change places and do it again according to the established model, so I added a lot of things I want to express in it, such as mid-life crisis and marriage itch...... As a result, "Hong Kong" has become less pure. ”

"The audience wants to watch comedy, but I always insert some serious topics when they are halfway through the laugh, everyone can't laugh if they want to, and we are desperately squeaking the audience if they want to be heavy, high or low, two ends can't reach the shore, such a thing, if it's me, I will also scold......"

After listening to Xu Zheng's words, all Li Mo could do was be silent.

Being able to say these words shows that Xu Zheng's mind is still very clear.

can have this insight, even if the reputation of "Hong Kong" is really rotten, even worse than "Dream Building Showbiz", Xu Zheng is not considered to have paid the tuition for nothing.

"Brother Zheng, what you can say shows that you already know your mistakes and problems, I believe that "Hong Kong" will not be the focus of your directorial career, and you will definitely have better movies in the future. ”

"Accept your auspicious words, I just hope that the performance of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" will not drag down Mr. Wang and their company. ”

"You can rest assured that even if "Hong Kong" stops at the current box office data, Guanglu Media will not go bankrupt. ”

"Shut your crow's mouth, how can my movie not even have a billion, and labor and management can't afford to lose that person. ”

Yo, isn't that quite scrappy?