Chapter 998: Getting down to business
When the box office data on the first day came out, it aroused the attention of people all over the world.
This "Titanic" has not only caused a sensation in China, just like the original "Terminator 2", it has become a film and television work recognized by the whole world, not only recognized, but also collectively respected, the whole movie, whether it is from the plot, or the acting skills of the actors, or the sense of the times and some details revealed by the whole movie, are almost perfect and impeccable.
This point is extremely shocking even to Western modern historians, a famous British historian wrote on the Internet: "Director Guo Dalu from the East, he seems to be more familiar with our own modern history than us, the costumes and props in the whole movie and the general behavior of the people of that era are portrayed extremely realistically, it is simply a reproduction of history! Of course, I mean something related to history, as for this movie, I can only say that it is a fictional love story based on real events." But although it is false, it is enough to move people's hearts!"
After watching the whole movie, the most emotionally complicated is the British, which was originally a shipwreck accident in their country, but it was processed into a movie by an Oriental like Guo Dalu, and it is so good that these self-proclaimed gentlemen of the British have a feeling that their own culture has been violated.
Films that belong to one's own country, and people from one's own country are not as good as a foreigner, which suddenly highlights the incompetence of British directors, or the lack of attention to local culture.
This subtle emotion affected a group of Britons, so when the film began to cause a movie-going frenzy in the UK, another person began a campaign against the film, calling on everyone not to watch this British feature film directed by an Oriental.
However, this kind of thinking can't get the support of the public at all, just like when the American "Kung Fu Panda" began to be popular in China, many people in Huaxia also advocated on the Internet that everyone should not watch this movie, because the animals in their own country were actually made into a feature film by Lao Mei, and some Chinese people felt that it hurt their self-esteem a little and wanted to boycott this movie.
Now that "Titanic" is being released in the UK, these British people have the same ideas as the original Chinese, of course, they are also the same in terms of action, and not audiences in all countries are as inferior as Koreans.
The world's first-day box office of this movie, if all countries combined, has exceeded one billion yuan, which is almost catching up with the first-day box office of "Terminator 2", and the reputation is excellent, even several world-class directors who are as famous as Guo Dalu are full of praise for this movie, thinking that this has made a new height of love movies.
This is only the second day after the premiere, and the word-of-mouth is so good, and the public opinion is so hot, it is beyond many people's expectations.
And the popularity of this movie in foreign markets, after being reflected in China, once again detonated domestic public opinion.
Guo Dalu has caused miracles in the history of cinema more than once, and this time is an exception, in the past, it was the story of the Chinese people themselves, but this time it was the first time in the whole of China and even the whole world to shoot Western realistic films as a Chinese director.
Although the previous "Roman Holiday" was a great success, it is after all a romantic adult fairy tale, completely based on fiction, with more fairy spirit and less sense of reality.
But this "Titanic" is different, this movie is a story adapted from real events, with a very strong sense of reality, it can be said that it has a trace of documentary witness to the reality of history, although this sense of reality itself is illusory, but the film work that can create this sense of reality itself represents success.
Since the release of this movie, Ma Cheng has been busy with this movie every day, he has a computer on his desk, and the staff has made a box office curve diagram for him, which can intuitively see the changes in the box office of this movie.
It can be seen from this curve chart that after the release of this "Titanica", the global box office has not changed much, from the premiere to the next two weeks, the single-day box office is very stable, and the box office is stable at about one billion every day, and it is only in the third week that the box office begins to fall, falling to seven or eight billion, and then five or six billion, three or four billion.
I didn't see any change in the curve, and Ma Cheng felt a pain in his flesh.
"It's all money!"
In Guo Dalu's office, there is also such a computer that displays the box office curve, Ma Cheng came to Guo Dalu's side, pointed to the curve on the screen, and looked unwilling: "This line is just going down a little bit, that's millions of dollars!"
He trembled all over his body: "Guo Ye, now the total box office of our movie has reached 17 billion yuan! If this continues for another two weeks, it is estimated that it can reach 30 billion yuan!"
When Ma Cheng said this, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "If it can really reach a box office of 30 billion, then it will be able to buy more than a dozen Titanics! A movie that shoots the sinking of a cruise ship, the box office income can even buy several such cruise ships, which is estimated to be beyond the expectations of many people!"
Nowadays, the most expensive and luxurious cruise ship in the world is only more than one billion yuan, one of which is Guo Dalu's, and the box office of the movie "Titanic" is now more than 17 billion, and it is not much difficult to break two hundred billion, and it is indeed possible to buy dozens of luxury cruise ships.
"30 billion is estimated to be enough, and more than 20 billion is still no problem!"
Guo Dalu excited Ma Cheng like this, and said with a smile: "Now a heart is put down, right? At the beginning, you invested two or three hundred million yuan from the company to make a movie for me, and your pressure was not small, but now that this movie has finally made a profit, you can finally take a breath, right?"
Ma Cheng said with a smile: "Actually, I wasn't nervous at the beginning, when did you let us down! Even if this movie doesn't reach today's box office height, I promise that it will never be possible to lose money, and I still have this confidence!"
Every time Tianxi Film and Television makes a big investment in the filming of a movie, Ma Cheng's pressure will become very great, after all, once the money exceeds 100 million, it will not be a small problem, such a large sum of money, if it can be earned, it is good, if it is lost, the responsibility will be great, even Ma Cheng, the general manager, will also feel anxious.
Especially this time Guo Dalu is shooting a foreign-themed movie, not a sci-fi blockbuster that he is good at, although Guo Dalu is the guarantee of the box office, but there will be a kind of uncertainty in whatever he does, and no one can guarantee that Guo Dalu's movies will always be profitable.
The investment in the filming of this movie alone is already more than 500 million, even if Tianxi Film and Television and Meilun Lion Industry bear half of the investment, it will still need more than 200 million investment, in case of loss, Ma Cheng, as the decision-maker, will also bear part of the responsibility.
Therefore, the box office of the movie will not be released for a day, and he will not be able to settle down for a day.
Now seeing that this romance movie has become so popular, he finally let go of his heart.
Guo Dalu really didn't disappoint him.
"Old Ma, after this movie is over, I'm going to take a two-year break. ”
Guo Dalu saw Ma Cheng looking at the box office curve with a satisfied face, shook his head and smiled: "In the past few years, I have been busy with things in the entertainment industry, and I have delayed a lot of business. Now that the film is finished, I have decided to get down to business, and when I get tired, I'll play entertainment again. ”
Ma Cheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately became nervous: "Guo Ye, what else is more important than engaging in entertainment? Every year, relying on these film and television works alone, you make billions of profits, is there a more lucrative business in the world." ”
Guo Dalu smiled: "Then there must be." ”
He pointed to himself: "I am the boss of these businesses!"