Chapter 49: The Bomb (Part II) 5/5
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Park Jinyu has always remembered that the editor-in-chief promised him that if "The King's Man" can win the box office list, he will be given a headline position and let him write a film review!
As soon as the box office for "Wang Nan" was announced on the J.H. homepage on the second day of its premiere, he rushed to the conference room where the editor-in-chief was holding a kick-off meeting for intern editors and reporters.
The small conference room was full of people, and the bald editor-in-chief said loudly and impassionedly in the face of the editors and reporters who were still young: "...... In our industry, we must first have a pair of keen eyes, a nose that is smarter than a dog, a brain that can clearly distinguish market trends, and a hard pen that can write dead people alive......"
“…… You are all new employees, I don't have high requirements for you, and this kind of thing is not something you can do to find news materials by yourself, what you need to do now is to learn, master the skills of an editor and a reporter as soon as possible, familiarize yourself with your profession, and adjust your mentality! This month, I will give you the task of keeping a firm eye on the filmmakers, following the seniors of the editorial department, digging out every star who has joined the Rigidity Committee, and writing down every word they have about the film quota......
Someone below raised his hand: "Editor-in-chief, except for filmmakers, don't you need to pay attention to anything else? For example, in the music industry, there are also movie ......"
"No!" said the editor-in-chief nonchalantly, "the film now." Except for "Head Master One 2", there is nothing to report......"
Before the words fell, the door of the conference room slammed open, and Park Jinyu, whose glasses almost hit his nose, stumbled in, and before the editor-in-chief could scold, the editor-in-chief, with an ecstatic expression, trembled and shouted: "Editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief, it's done." Really did it!"
Is this guy crazy?
The editor-in-chief was stunned. "What did you do?"
"The King's Man...... It did it, and at yesterday's box office, "The King's Man" suddenly exploded, with 540,000 moviegoers that day. In one day, he was the weekly box office champion announced by the Film Promotion Committee!" Park Jinwoo's face flushed with excitement. Even his mind is a little unconscious. The editor-in-chief, who didn't notice that his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, said to himself: ""The head master is one 2", which has been released for 4 weeks, has a weekly box office of 300,000. "The King's Man" has exceeded 400,000 people, and there is no suspense about the championship! Editor-in-chief, when will you give me the headline?"
Facing Park Jinwoo, who was looking forward to it, the editor-in-chief was embarrassed and annoyed, and of course, more doubts!
Don't this guy deliberately squeeze me with fake news, right?
How could "Wang Nan" suddenly go so far?
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It's a pity that this box office data is indeed true, J.H released the data first, and the statistics of the Film Promotion Committee were also released on the official website, "The King's Man" topped the box office list in the second week of February with a box office of 730,000 people in two days, and killed the original champion "Head Master 2" without leaving a single piece.
Before the media who suddenly received the news woke up from their stunned, the weekend of the second week of February came, and the word-of-mouth spread on the Internet after watching the two-day movie "The King's Man", coupled with the accumulation of a group of online water armies, ushered in the first big explosion of the bombardment propaganda of 2 billion won.
Originally, according to Mega.Box's estimate, the madness on the second day of the premiere was only temporary, after all, it was the personal action of Ahn Junhyuk's fans, which was irrational consumption and could not be included in the constant calculation.
But the truth soon told them that they underestimated how black this dark horse was.
On Sunday, the third day of the premiere, Mega.Box arranged the screening of "Wang Nan" in 54 multiplex theaters across the country, with 502 screens, 10,340 screenings, and 560,000 viewers!
In three days, the box office broke through to 1.29 million, almost accumulating to 1.3 million.
And this Sunday is also the traditional Lantern Festival, according to the regulations, the Lantern Festival has three consecutive days off, in these three days, the theater will usher in the largest number of 20 generations, 30 generations of main consumers, especially the last day after the Lantern Festival three days of continuous rest, it happens to be Valentine's Day on February 14, this time period of the year, is the most popular time for the theater.
The 1.29 million moviegoers also beat "Master of the Head 2", "King Kong", and "The Chronicles of Narnia" in the monthly box office list in February 2006, and became the champion.
Suddenly broke out such a hot box office, in addition to the fame and fortune of J.H, the happiest is naturally Mega.Box, Minister Hong Sung-woo has long forgotten his pessimism two days ago, in the face of the popularity of his theater, to the headquarters to increase the number of screenings, very readily agreed, and even after talking with J.H, urgently expanded "The King's Man" In addition to the 54 multiplex theaters wholly owned by Mega.Box, 150 Mega.Box franchised theaters and some independent theaters have been added.
After adding theaters, it took less than four days for the second week of the release of "The King's Man", and on Thursday of the third week of February, it broke through the 2 million mark, so that J.H was still able to recover 8 billion investment costs after sharing with theaters and complete the overall profit!
Since then, everyone has understood that this dark horse is unstoppable!
exceeded 1.29 million in 3 days and 2 million in 7 days, such a speed not only left behind "Head Master 2" released at the same time, but even approached the record of the fastest breakthrough profit line ever created by "Tai Chi Flag Flying" and "Shiwei Island"!
This news is like a bombshell that blows up the media and filmmakers, and in just 7 days, many people still think they are dreaming when they stare at the rankings. For the media, this achievement is a naked punch, and they are still satirizing filmmakers and domestic films, saying that Korean films have been corrupted in the hands of a group of selfish silverfish, and such domestic films are not needed. It deserves to be wiped out by Hollywood.
For filmmakers, "The King's Man" boosted morale at the same time, but also made them a little unable to get off the stage, they waved their flags in front of them, listing the data of the overall depression of the film industry from the second half of last year, in order to prove the crisis of Korean films, and then because of this, they were scolded by the media every day and only fought with words and could not take practical actions, and were despised by the people for inaction. If you don't make a hit, you're already a blockbuster. Isn't it true that they only have a verbal evaluation?
But no matter how unhappy the two parties are, the reality now is that after the sudden outbreak of "The King's Man", it has indisputably attracted the interest of the public. Protests by filmmakers sticking to quotas. The media and filmmakers are not only in a wonderful offensive and defensive battle. In the face of this extremely violent bomb, it is no longer possible to dominate the headlines of newspapers, magazines, and television news every day as it did in the first half of the month.
The goal of the entire entertainment industry. Start aiming at this dark horse!
In fact, as early as the first week of the release of "Wang Nan", when the number of moviegoers exceeded 1.29 million, the authoritative film magazine "FILM2.0" reported on it, the magazine in the special issue and online edition, "Wang Nan" was rated as the most worth watching movie in 2006, and an editor named Park Jinyu in the editorial department of the magazine network wrote a long review of up to 1000 words to tell his own viewing experience.
"First of all, I want to explain at the beginning that for the sake of the box office of this film, I am not going to spoil it, so I am just expressing some personal feelings! This film, since the first day of release, I have watched it twice, but unfortunately the second time I watched it, because the screening hall was full, there were some disturbances, and I did not pay deep attention to the plot, so I still have a lot of ...... I don't understand about it."
“…… The biggest question that bothers me is, what exactly is the king's man? I used to think it was Kong Ji, after all, the English title of the film is 'The King and the Clown', after all, it is adapted from 'Er'. But after watching it for the first time, I found that its meaning is not so shallow, Kong Ji is a clown, Changsheng is a clown, and even the king himself is a clown, so where is the king? The second time I watched it, I became more and more confused, because I saw that Kong Ji is the king, Changsheng is the king, and the king is also the king...... These questions bothered me, so I decided to watch them again in a few days!"
“…… The reason why this film is rated as the most worthwhile film of the year is not only the far-reaching intention of the director, but also the performance of the actors. Here I would like to selfishly praise Ahn Jun Hyuk, first of all, thank him for "Kim Sam Soon", let me be attracted by his performance, and then get my current job with a drama review of "Kim Sam Soon", and secondly, thank him Kong Ji...... Before watching it, it was hard for me to imagine how an actor who has played the two pure male roles of a mature man and a rich child can interpret the image of a weak woman?"
"But all my worries turned into admiration and admiration when I saw him appear on the screen for the first time! It was an indescribable feeling, exquisite, beautiful, charming, bewitching, yet pure and immaculate, and the moment he made you see Kongji, you couldn't help but want to protect him, and you couldn't help but want to plunder him...... It's like Changsheng to Kongji, and like the king to Kongji...... As a word of advice, women had better pay attention to their boyfriends or husbands when watching the film, and remember to slap them when they are in a daze at the new Kongji!"
"Of course, this is just a joke, what I want to make clear is that male compatriots should also watch this movie, as for the same-sex tendencies that you are worried about? I'm afraid it's just a gimmick, whether it's Kong Ji or Changsheng, the whole film leaves me with the impression that it is pure and beautiful, the movie doesn't have any unethical plot that the conservative community has ever accused, just a deep, faint sad story......"
On the 7th day, when the box office exceeded 2 million, this film review was reprinted by a large number of sober media, and it also aroused the interest of many people who were originally taboo about same-sex themes and hesitated to watch it.
On the same day, God seemed to feel that the shock brought by "The King's Man" was not enough, and in the afternoon of the same day, the Film Promotion Committee obtained a market research report from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, which showed that the single-week pre-sale tickets of "The King's Man" have surpassed the total number of films such as "Head Master 2", "King Kong", "The Chronicles of Narnia", accounting for 54% of the total pre-sale tickets this week and 57% of the pre-sales this month!
The media is crazy, the filmmakers are crazy, and the fans are crazy! (To be continued......