Chapter Forty-Six: Empty-Handed
Sure enough, as Li Qian expected, on the second day of its release, the "box office" of "On the Road" began to plummet - although this box office is just a movie theater, even if the venue is full, it is limited, but as a new work to test the waters, the number of this box office is still very referential. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
On the first day, there were five screenings in a row, the first two were full, the third one began to drop people, and by the fifth one, the attendance rate was only about eighty percent, and on the second day, with more than 2,000 people having seen this work, its audience spontaneously spread among the audiences who came to the film festival to watch the movie, so the attendance rate dropped to less than seventy percent in the morning two shows.
And, one of the factors that has to be taken into account is that this is a film festival!
There are many movie-loving audiences all over the country, but a large number of those who come all the way to Guangzhou to watch movies at the film festival can be regarded as true love fans.
First, the aesthetic level and appreciation interest of this part of the audience are definitely higher than the national average, and secondly, these audiences deliberately came to Guangzhou Mansion, and there are many of them who come with a curious mentality, and even some people come specifically to watch some foreign movies that are destined to be impossible to be released on a large scale in China, so the taste of these audiences is actually more literary and artistic films.
But even this group of viewers is not very interested in "On the Road".
By the time of the three sessions in the afternoon, the attendance rate had dropped to less than fifty percent, and Jin Han's face began to become grim.
Although this attendance level is still slightly better than "The Mountain of Red Stones", which is currently highly rated at the film festival, you must know that it is a foreign film, and it is also a remote Iranian film!
In addition, not to mention the ordinary audience of that film, slightly more high-end literary and art movie lovers seem to be struggling, to be honest, that is, Jin Han and these people, can see some amazing things from the direction of the lens language, for the vast majority of ordinary audiences, you can't understand anything after watching this movie, at most remember the name of the movie, and know that the movie is about a group of sheep herders and children picking up rags.
But there's no way, Iranian movies, we're not afraid if we can't understand them, since we're here, why don't we buy a ticket to go in and take a look, and it's also a capital to pretend to be forced when we go home, isn't it?
How rare, how unpopular!
The Yangcheng Film Festival opened on April 15 and will not end until April 24th, ten days before and after, Li Qian came late and missed the screening period of several opening films, but it doesn't matter, the few films he missed will definitely be released in the future, and Li Qian is ready to go to the theater to watch it then.
On the contrary, in the past few days since he came, some niche films in the competition began to be screened, and he brought a hat and sunglasses, and covered Wang Jinglu tightly, and the two of them sneaked out to watch movies every day.
To be said, this is really a very romantic thing, if Li Qian is an ordinary senior student.
But the reality is that he is not an ordinary person.
In addition to hiding her head and showing her tail, hiding for fear of being photographed by reporters watching a movie together, she didn't even dare to eat together - although looking at Wang Jinglu's attitude, she didn't seem to be afraid of being exposed, but Li Qian didn't want to make any mess in this stall!
The reason is simple, his first solo album is still a few days away from going on sale, and if there is some news at this time, if not hype, it will become hype.
So, the two of them had to keep a low profile and a low profile.
In order to want the two of them to have a quiet meal together, they even had to leave the town where the movie palace was located and run far into the city of Guangzhou.
In the middle, he also took Wang Jinglu with him and had a meal with John Dayce, who was full of emotion, because after filming "Titanic", including the director's salary and box office dividends, James Cameron got more than 300 million US dollars, and then, he actually had no plans for a new film, and was ready to take a two-year break before considering a new film. But he can be willful, but John Days can't, so he took over "Margaery the Witch".
In addition to participating in the production of this movie, he now has an extremely important task, that is, to urge Cameron's new movie - although a "Titanic" costs a lot, so that the two major Hollywood production companies have not been able to bite it down, and finally introduced Wall Street capital to survive until it is released, but with the global box office of more than 2 billion US dollars, all the past has become a cloud in an instant.
With such a huge success, James Cameron is now the most popular person in all of Hollywood, and as soon as he reveals even the slightest idea of wanting to make a new movie, the heads of Hollywood's seven major studios will immediately run over with a checkbook - in the words of John Deits, that is, an investment of less than 100 million US dollars, and the major studios will not even hesitate to write a check!
100 million US dollars, what is the concept in the current film industry?
Don't look at the investment of more than 300 million yuan before and after "Titanic", plus the publicity, more than 400 million, but that is just an example, even if Hollywood has a total investment of more than 50 million US dollars, it is already in the category of blockbusters!
In terms of China, the current exchange rate is that one dollar can be exchanged for 2.05 Chinese dollars, but the cost of various domestic productions is lower, and there is still very little awareness of making blockbusters in China.
At present, the director who can get this production level in China can count on two hands!
Liu Chengzhang's new film is in preparation, and has a cooperation plan with the special effects department of Minghu Culture, so it is closely connected, so Li Qian knows some news in advance, his new film that does not know the story yet, but will definitely use a lot of special effects lenses, and the total investment will be between 60 million and 80 million - if the news is true, this will be the largest investment in the history of the Chinese film industry!
So you can imagine what James Cameron's status in Hollywood is after the release of Big Ship!
Of course, there is more than one James Cameron who is popular in the big boat, in addition to the male and female protagonists who are popular all over the world, like John Days as the main producer, especially a producer who can partner with a weird and irascible guy like James Cameron, and can also hold on to the producer who makes the movie, is currently a well-known upstart in Hollywood - Many production companies have realized that John Days and James Cameron are good production partners, so Cameron has no new film plans for the time being, and he is hiding so that people can't find him, and several major production companies have contacted him one after another to urge Cameron through him.
Therefore, in his words, this time he received an invitation to come to the Yangcheng Film Festival, on the one hand, it was a mission to pave the way for the twentieth Century Fox he worked for to come to China, and by the way, it also meant to promote the new film "Margaery the Witch", but the most important thing is that he actually came for a vacation.
Being chased by the seven major Hollywood studios is, in his words, a happy and distressing thing.
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After watching the movie for several days, the Yangcheng Film Festival finally ushered in the closing day.
The actor of the French movie "The Life of Trump", the famous French veteran actor Trem Reynaud won the Silver Lychee Award for Best Actor, and Zhou Youping's "The Great Wall" heroine Lu Mingli won the Silver Lychee Award for Best Actress with her excellent acting skills.
The biggest winner of this year's Yangcheng Film Festival belongs to the 31-year-old young director from Iran, Lehr Raymond, who won the Golden Lychee Award for Best Director and Best Film in one fell swoop with his debut film "Red Stone Mountain"!
However, "On the Road" was empty-handed.
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One, if I write again, it will be after 12 o'clock, and I don't want to delay it until after 12 o'clock; and second, I will be fine after 12 o'clock, but tomorrow it will be my nephew, and I will be a grandfather with his father, so I have to go over at 5 o'clock in the morning to help...... Gotta go get some sleep!(To be continued.) )