In view of this situation, Zhou Chen decided that it would be better for the income from the box office to be based on the company's revenue.

He also doesn't have much place to spend his money, which can be paid from the company in other ways.

For example, the director's salary, bonus dividends, etc., so that less money is used, and the personal tax deducted will naturally be less.

And Chenjia Film and Television is controlled by his Zhou Chen Studio, or it is a domestic company, and if you want to make a movie, the company can invest directly at that time.

Let's not talk about that for now.

Just after the box office of "Witch Elisa" declined and word of mouth fell, on August 14, "This Man is from Earth" was finally released on a small scale in 1023 theaters after targeted publicity.

"The new sci-fi genre movie, a self-report of an eternal, the real charm of sci-fi is irreplaceable by special effects. ”

"Anything is possible, 14,000 years of prehistoric cavemen were Jesus. ”

"Simple scenes, simple themes, not simple inspiration, let you learn to think and question. ”

"If you have watched "This Man is from Earth" first, you will not be deceived by the propaganda of "Alyssa the Witch"!"

Various promotional titles on the Internet have rubbed the popularity of "Alyssa the Witch" as much as possible, which has attracted a lot of attention and popularity to this movie.

But even Lionsgate's Dan Jeffrey opened his mind to add a lot of heat to the movie, and after the film screening, theaters and theaters were still not very optimistic about the movie, and only so many theaters were willing to try to screen the movie under the stimulus of the high box office share in the first week.

The facts also confirm the opinion of most theater and cinema managers.

In the first three days of screening, the film only received 3.52 million US dollars at the box office, which is less than half of the box office of "Alyssa the Witch" in the first week.

This box office result is actually okay for this soft sci-fi movie with a thin story, relying on lines to drive the plot, and no big scenes, barely passing.

Given the good word-of-mouth of the movie, it has a rating of 8.7 on IMBD and a freshness rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.

In the second week, the number of theaters increased by 1,000, reaching 2,128.

However, the box office of the movie did not increase because of the film schedule, and the word-of-mouth of the movie spread, showing too much upward trend.

The box office performance in the second week was still very flat, with only 12.28 million US dollars, ranking fifth in the weekly box office in North America.

This made Zhou Chen quite puzzled.

He couldn't help but be skeptical of the data given by the system, the film received 350 million US dollars at the global box office.

Because after the filming of this movie was completed, he gave the system a score, which exceeded the original by 0.2 points and reached 8.6 points.

Even if the time and space are different now, this box office performance is still unacceptable to him: it is much worse than the box office of "Alyssa the Witch".

According to the current one, even if word of mouth spreads in the future, it is estimated that it will still be in this tepid situation.

After all, this movie is indeed too bland and does not belong to the genre suitable for cinema viewing.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Chen had no choice.

He originally thought so, but the system had an actual box office, so he had a little more expectations.

Now it seems that there may be something in it that he does not understand.

Lionsgate is such a professional company, and the investment in publicity and distribution is not small, and it invested 5 million US dollars in publicity in the early stage.

Now the movie is still performing like this, and he is an inexperienced newcomer in the film industry, what good way can he think of.

I can only hope that the follow-up movie will perform better, or the performance of the movie in the videotape market, cable TV, and the Internet will be better after the movie is released.

The news of the two movies being released in North America has also been transmitted back to China over time.

But at the beginning, because he was worried that the false publicity of "Witch Elisa" would affect himself, Zhou Chen did not indicate himself in the name of the film director, but only represented it by the producer Chenjia Film and Television, so even in North America, few people knew that this movie was shot by him, and it was impossible for people in China to know that this movie was directed by him.

It wasn't until mid-August that "This Man from Earth" was released in North America, and some domestic industry insiders and film and television news media knew that this was his director's work, and gradually people in China knew his name.

But it is all spread in a small circle in the industry, and if the movie is not released in China, not too many people will know about him.

As the time came to the end of August, Zhou Chen's work visa for extension expired, and the release of the two films was almost over, plus he had to participate in the Venice Film Festival in early September, Zhou Chen finally returned to China.

August 24, Capital International Airport.

Coming out of the international passage on the right side of the 2nd floor of the terminal, Zhou Chen saw Gu Xiaojiao at the exit at a glance.

She was wearing a white shirt with a roll-neck, a white pleated skirt, and her hair was tied into balls at the back of her head, and the whole person looked extremely pure and clean, like the innocent and beautiful study committee member who spoke on stage in every boy's memory.

"Zhou Chen, this way, this way. Gu Xiaojiao waved his hand from afar.

Such a beautiful girl beckoned to him, and immediately attracted the attention of a group of people around her.

Zhou Chen suddenly felt honored, sped up a few steps, overtook the person in front of him, and walked in front of Gu Xiaojiao.

"Xiao Jiao. ”

Zhou Chen shouted, and as soon as he stretched out his arm, Gu Xiaojiao had already thrown himself into his arms, raised his head and kissed him on the lips.

Happiness came too suddenly, without the slightest warning.

Zhou Chen was stunned.

He was thinking just now that Gu Xiaojiao would not give her face and not hug him at all, but he didn't expect it......

"Okay, let's go, what's the fuss. ”

Gu Xiaojiao quickly left Zhou Chen, saw the surprised eyes of the people around him, quickly took Zhou Chen's hand, and walked towards the stairs.

"Xiao Jiao, wait, did I miss something just now. Zhou Chen came back to his senses and asked in disbelief.

He didn't salute much, only carried a shoulder bag, let Gu Xiaojiao pull it with one hand, and touched his lips with the other, feeling a little regretful.

"What did you miss? If you continue to stay in the United States, you will miss me! You say, in the world of American imperialism, for such a long time, have you done anything to be sorry for me?"

Gu Xiaojiao turned around and looked at Zhou Chen fiercely.

"Absolutely not, I swear to God, I've been so busy losing four pounds, thinking about coming back to see you all the time, where do I have time to do other things. ”

"It's strange to believe you, I said that I would come back in twenty or thirty days, but it took two months to come back, and I thought you were happy, I didn't want to come back, and I wanted to find a blonde and blue-eyed girl to be my girlfriend!"

"Hehe, you're exaggerating, okay, it's all my fault, I won't leave for so long in the future. ”

Zhou Chen smiled helplessly, stretched out his hand to wrap his hand around Gu Xiaojiao's shoulder, tightened it hard, and comforted.

He understands how much Gu Xiaojiao misses him in the past two months because he has encountered many things when he goes out to film, and no one relies on him.

"Hmph, you go to the security check, you actually took the opportunity to take advantage of me, who allowed you to hug me like this. ”

Gu Xiaojiao saw the security exit in front of him, quickly got rid of Zhou Chen, and said insincerely.

"Hehe, you only allow the state officials to set fires and not allow the people to light the lamps, what did you do to me just now, I didn't say anything. ”

"It's cheap and good, hurry up the security check. Seeing the serious border inspection in front, Gu Xiaojiao stopped making trouble and hurriedly persuaded him.

The two quickly passed the security check and came out, and took a taxi to rush back.

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