Chapter 44: 30 million
October 13th. Five days have passed since the National Day holiday, and "Shark Beach" on the 11th and 12th has once again received 1.5 million box office, with a total box office of 17.6 million.
There are three days left until next weekend, in order to maximize the box office, China Film helped Tang An arrange a variety show, Beijing Satellite TV's "Everyday Film and Television Circle".
This show can be regarded as the longest-lived and most popular variety show on Beijing Satellite TV, founded in 1993 and has gone through eleven years.
The recording time was in the morning, and Tang An took Yang Mi and Xu Ruoyun to the Beijing Satellite TV building at 8 o'clock. met the host Xiang Zhen backstage.
"Hello host!"
"Hello Director Tang!"
"Hello Yang Mi!"
Xiang Zhen is almost 30 years old this year, and she is also an old host, with neat short hair, and the villain makes people feel a sense of spring breeze and harmony.
"You guys, please be seated!"
Xiang Zhen made a gesture of please and sat down as well.
"Director Tang, this is the first time to participate in the show, right?"
"yes, I'm still a little nervous now!" Tang An smiled.
"What about Yang Mi, have you been filming since you were a child, have you participated in similar shows before?" Xiang Zhen turned his head to look at Yang Mi again.
"I've been on the show twice before. Yang Mi said obediently.
"Then Director Tang, you don't have to be nervous, this time we are just talking about the movie, from the beginning of the preparation to the final release, so that the audience can intuitively understand how this movie was filmed!"
Next, after looking at the issues that will be involved in the meeting, Tang An and Yang Mi first prepared the draft in their hearts.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the recording of the show officially began.
There was no audience at the scene, it was a talk-like show, and the three of them sat and chatted.
After an opening remark, Xiang Zhen first expressed his views and opinions on the movie and complimented him.
"Then Director Tang, you are 23 years old this year, right?"
"That's right, it's going to be a natal year soon!" Tang An nodded.
"What made you want to make a movie on your own at this age?" asked Xiang Zhen.
Tang An thought for a while, and then said, "Actually, I have been working as an assistant director, and I didn't think about directing independently at the beginning, after all, there are hundreds of people in a crew, and it is not easy to manage it well!"
"It's really not easy to be a director, unlike the audience who think they just sit in front of the monitor and watch the actors perform!" Xiang Zhen nodded in agreement.
"But then Lao Xu asked me to be an assistant director, because she herself is the heroine, Jiang Wen is the hero, sometimes some less important scenes let me shoot, I know what it's like to be a director, and since then I have had the idea of being a director myself!"
"Then where did the inspiration for the story of "Shark Beach" come from, and why did you choose such a story, Director Tang?" Xiang Zhen continued to ask.
"Because I didn't have much money at the time, I wanted to write a one-man show, but it was too monotonous to have only one actor, so I added an animal!"
"So you chose Shark?"
"No, in fact, it was a lion and a tiger at first, but this kind of animal is far more troublesome and more expensive to make special effects than sharks, so I finally chose sharks!"
"It can be said that I thought about the two protagonists first, and then arranged the plot!"
"So the shark is the hero of the film?" said Xiang Zhen curiously.
"Sort of, think about it from another angle, why does that shark have to chase the heroine, after all, there is still a whale carcass on the sea, enough for it to feast!" Tang An smiled.
"Actually, the shark fell in love with Mi Mi, so he stalked him, this can also be a romance film, the story of the hero and heroine falling in love and killing each other!"
Xiang Zhen was also amused by Tang An's interpretation, smiled and asked Yang Mi.
"Hello Yang Mi, the director said that you fell in love with the shark and killed each other in the movie, do you agree?"
"Of course I don't agree, I didn't provoke it, it wants to eat me!" Yang Mi said indignantly.
"How did you bring it into the character's heart during the shooting, after all, you have to express your inner fear and fear!"
"I just rely on my imagination to imagine that there is a shark chasing me around me!"
"Director Tang, we all know that shooting in the water has always been difficult, did you encounter any difficulties at that time?"
"Of course there is, after all, it was the first time shooting, and there was no one around to ask for advice. In the first few days, the shots were not realistic, but then I tried to place the camera on a horizontal line, at the same level as the water, and the rhythm of the waves made me feel like I was also in the water with the actors. ”
"There aren't many scenes of sharks attacking humans in the whole film, but I was very nervous the whole time I watched the movie, why is that?"
Tang An smiled, "In fact, this is all through a lot of inconspicuous shots and background music to make a foreshadowing, many times we can't see the entity of the shark, but we can feel the killer shark in the surging tide, from the first moment the protagonist enters the water, this sense of uneasiness will slowly pave the way for you through the picture and sound effects, so that you can't calm down!"
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Since there was no audience on site, the recording of the program went smoothly.
The 30-minute show was recorded in an hour, and there was still time to run a movie theater.
The show aired in prime time on Friday, and the ratings were decent throughout the North.
The effect of the program is most intuitively manifested in the box office trend, 13, 14, 15 three days of working days are still declining day by day, three days of harvest of 2 million, the total box office of 19.6 million, only one step away from the 20 million mark.
However, Saturday ushered in a big outbreak, with a single-day collection of 2.45 million, an increase of 400%, and only 500,000 away from the single-day box office record on the 7th.
This is the necessity of publicity, and the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, not to mention that in this era of insufficient information, the audience does not know that there is such a movie, and no matter how good it is, it is in vain.
After that, the box office on Sunday also won 2.1 million, and the total box office reached 23.25 million.
On October 18, after 20 days of steady trend, "Shark Beach" finally ushered in the lowest box office, only getting 650,000 box office in a single day.
In the next four working days, the box office was further reduced, and the lowest box office record was constantly refreshed, with a total of 1.9 million and a total box office of 25.9 million.
The next weekend, "Shark Beach" returned to the light, and the single-day box office returned to more than 100, with a box office of 2.35 million in two days, and a total box office of 28.25 million.
Until the last day of October, the total box office of "Shark Beach" finally exceeded the 30 million mark, and the single-day box office at this time had fallen below 100,000.
30 million!
A small-budget thriller horror film with an investment of only 3 million won 30 million box office, ranking fourth in the domestic box office list in 2004, second only to the 156 million of "Ambush on All Sides", the 40 million of "Zhang Side" and the 38 million of "New Police Story".
and also pressed "2046", which was released at the same time, under his body, the combination of Sunglasses King and Liang Chaowei only won 27 million box office!
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