Chapter 667: First Day Box Office
After finishing the American propaganda, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu returned to their hometown in Jingyang, which was already the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Seeing Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu come back, Huang Ying and Zhang Zhimin were undoubtedly very happy.
Huang Ying took a closer look at her son, the whole person seemed to be thinner, and her son obviously looked very energetic, but she always felt that this spirit was pretended, and there was a lot of exhaustion hidden under this spirit.
At this moment, Huang Ying saw that Zhang Ran had a white head on his head, and his heart hurt, and his eyes turned red: "Son, you have white hair, you are now very rich and famous, don't work so hard!"
Zhang Jingchu sighed softly, I saw it a few days ago, the burden of the chief director of the Olympic Games is too heavy, and it is really not something that ordinary people can bear.
Zhang Ran hurriedly comforted his mother: "It's okay, Mom! When the Olympics are over, I won't be busy! When the time comes, I'll be happy to make movies, and if I'm not happy, I'll travel everywhere and live a happy life!"
The thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve may be the most important day of the year for Chinese.
Zhang Ran's family was busy from morning to evening.
Originally, Zhang Ran hoped to go to the hotel to order a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, saving time and effort, but Huang Ying firmly disagreed, she thought that no matter how good the hotel's meals were, there was no taste of home, only by making Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home, that was the New Year!
So, Huang Ying was the head chef, Zhang Zhimin and Zhang Jingchu started and were busy for a whole day;
In the evening, the family sat together and had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which was really happy.
At this time, Zhang Ran began to talk about his own arrangements: "Mom, after the New Year, Jingchu and I are going to her house on the third day of junior high school. ”
Huang Ying hoped that her son would stay at home for a few more days, but she was a mother, and knew that Zhang Jingchu's parents would definitely hope that their daughter would be able to accompany her more during the Chinese New Year, so she said, "You should go back." Your dad and I bought some gifts for Jingchu's parents, and you brought them with us when you went over. ”
"Okay!" Zhang Ran looked at Huang Ying and Zhang Zhimin and said, "Mom, I have discussed with Jingchu, this year's Olympic Games in Beiping will be very lively, and Jingchu will come to pick you up after the New Year, and then you will live in Beiping for half a year and see the Olympic Games." ”
The year before last, Huang Ying and Zhang Zhimin went to live in Beiping for a while, but after staying for less than two months, they returned home. Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were very busy and had no time to accompany them. And they have no acquaintances in Peking, let alone friends, except for going to tourist attractions, or they can only stay at home and watch TV. The old couple was very bored, and they stayed for two months and then went home.
Zhang Ran knew that if his parents continued to live here, they would be more relaxed, but this time when he came back, he would let them live in Beiping for half a year anyway, because after three months, Jingyang was an earthquake zone.
Although Zhang Ran's parents have now moved to a new community, the house has good earthquake resistance, and it is some distance from Wenshan, the epicenter, and the problem is not very big, but he is not afraid of 10,000, just in case, Zhang Ran hopes that his parents will stay away from the earthquake area.
Zhang Jingchu looked at Huang Ying and said, "Auntie, I'll pick you and your uncle up when the time comes!"
Huang Ying was very moved when she heard that she went to Peking to watch the Olympic Games, after all, China had waited so many years for it to be held once, and her son was the chief director of the opening ceremony, she really wanted to see it, and her son is too hard now, Zhang Jingchu is very busy, if she and her husband go to Beiping, they can take care of their son's life, she looked at Zhang Zhimin and said: "Then let's go to Beiping to live for a while, right?"
Zhang Zhimin also felt that the opportunity was rare: "Then go to Beiping to live for a while!"
Zhang Ran thought it would take a lot of talk, but he didn't expect it to be so easy, it seems that the charm of the Olympics is really great.
On the afternoon of the first day of the new year, Zhang Ran's family came to the cinema in the city center, ready to watch "Tangshan Earthquake". As some viewers said, "Tangshan Earthquake" is a movie that can be watched twice, once by yourself and once with your family. Zhang Ran rarely goes home on weekdays, but now that his own movie is released, he must bring his parents with him.
Entering the ticket hall, Zhang Ran asked Zhang Jingchu and her parents to sit in the seats and wait, and then queued up at the ticket window to buy tickets. Because it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, there were not many people queuing up in the cinema, and soon it was Zhang Ran's turn. The conductor saw that Zhang Ran was wearing sunglasses, a mask, and dressed like a spy, so he couldn't help but look at him twice before handing him the ticket.
Zhang Jingchu looked at the audience waiting for the opening of the movie, and found that it was mainly middle-aged and elderly, and was a little surprised: "Zhang Ran's fans in China are mainly young people, why are all the people who come to watch the movie today?"
Huang Ying said with a smile: "During the Tangshan earthquake, there was also an earthquake on our side, and we slept in the earthquake shed every day at that time. As long as you are forty or fifty years old, you have memories of the Tangshan earthquake. Many elderly people in our community have not been in the cinema for many years, and when they heard that "Tangshan Earthquake" was made into a movie, they all said that they must watch it!"
Zhang Jingchuqi said: "Tangshan is so far away from Xichuan, why do you sleep in the earthquake shed?"
Huang Ying explained: "It's not because of the Tangshan earthquake, it's like this, since July 76, Rongcheng and our side have issued earthquake forecasts, that is, there will be a big earthquake in Xichuan, and many units have begun to build earthquake sheds." We also set up a large earthquake shed in the family area of our school, and each family sent people home to cook food and bring it to the earthquake shed to eat, and then took the dishes and chopsticks back to wash and clean up after eating, and everyone slept in the earthquake shed at night. ”
Zhang Jingchu didn't expect such a thing, and said curiously: "Then is there an earthquake here in the end?"
Huang Ying said: "In the end, there was an earthquake, but it was not us here, in August, the Songpan earthquake, 7.2 magnitude, the earthquake center was hundreds of miles away from our side, there was no strong feeling, but the ground was a little shaky." At that time, I had just become pregnant with Zhang Ran, and I lived in the earthquake shed for two or three months, and my memory was very deep. ”
Zhang Zhimin also remembered a lot of past events: "Once a loudspeaker announced that there was an earthquake, and everyone evacuated quickly. I hurriedly hugged Huang Ying and ran outside, everyone ran to the school court, and the earthquake did not come after waiting for a long time. After a while, the loudspeaker informed us that the earthquake had passed around us, and that everyone could go home and sleep. So angry that everyone scolded, can the earthquake be bypassed?"
Zhang Jingchu giggled, the earthquake bypassed, this is too nonsense! She took Zhang Ran's arm and said, "Uncle is so good to Auntie!"
Zhang Ran said with a smile: "If there is an earthquake, I will definitely run out with you in my arms!"
Zhang Jingchu smiled lightly and rested her head on Zhang Ran's shoulder.
Hearing this, Huang Ying immediately asked, "Jingchu, do you have it?"
Zhang Jingchu hurriedly waved her hand: "No, not yet!"
After sitting for a while, Zhang Ran and his family checked their tickets and entered the screening hall. When the movie opened, Zhang Ran glanced at the screening hall and sat almost half, and the attendance rate was really average.
In the first ten minutes of the movie, Huang Ying watched it very happily, but she couldn't do it at the beginning of the earthquake, and she cried a lot. Zhang Ran didn't do anything, so he kept handing tissues to Huang Ying. This scene reminded Zhang Ran of when she was a child, Huang Ying took herself to watch "Mom Loves Me Again", and she was also crying a lot at that time.
When the movie ended, Zhang Ran handed over his pack of tissues to Huang Ying.
In the cinema, whether young or old, the eyes were red, exclamations and discussions sounded one after another, and the audience whispered while walking out, this movie really aroused a lot of people's responses.
"This movie is too real, the earthquake is really terrifying! That year, we were in Xichuan everywhere in the earthquake, there were noses and eyes, and everyone relaxed after the Songpan earthquake, and it has been more than 30 years!"
"Yes, there are a lot of people who have upside-down bottles in their rooms, and once they see the bottle falling, they will run outside. Zhang Ran is not from our side, if he can take pictures of the experience of that time, it would be quite interesting. ”
Zhang Ran was only in his thirties, and he should not have been born at that time, so he probably didn't know that he had such an experience. But Zhang Ran is really powerful, this "Tangshan Earthquake" is really good, much better than Zhang Yimou, the "Golden Armor" filmed by Zhang Yimou last year is simply messy, too ugly!"
Zhang Ran's family didn't rush to get up, sat in their seats, and listened to the words of the departing audience, showing a satisfied smile. Huang Ying and Zhang Zhiming are even more proud, they have such a son for themselves and can make such a movie for their son.
waited until the audience had left, and Zhang Ran and his family got up. When she walked out of the movie theater, Huang Ying said to Zhang Ran with a smile: "Son, you made this movie really well, better than all previous movies!"
Zhang Ran smiled and nodded, being able to pull so many middle-aged and elderly audiences who don't usually go to the cinema into the cinema, and the crowd of moviegoers has expanded a lot, and the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" will definitely explode!
On the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the box office data of "Tangshan Earthquake" was released, with a box office of 19 million on the first day.
This data is not as good as "Assembly", but the investment in "Assembly" is only 80 million, but the investment in "Tangshan Earthquake" is 300 million. 19 million on the first day, this result can only be described as bleak!
The Spring Festival is a relatively cold schedule, visiting relatives and friends is everyone's inherent concept of the Spring Festival, so for a long time, movies are not the first choice for Spring Festival leisure activities, in previous years, movie theaters will be closed on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the New Year is a fixed rest day, the situation has begun to improve in recent years, but it is still not a good schedule, no blockbuster will premiere during the Spring Festival; plus "Tangshan Earthquake" is a touching movie, the media and the audience who have seen it are repeatedly emphasizing one word "cry" , and the audience is very evasive about crying during the Chinese New Year, so it is not surprising that "Tangshan Earthquake" had a bad start.
In fact, many people suggested that "Tangshan Earthquake" should be released during the Chinese New Year, but Zhang Ran insisted on placing it during the Spring Festival. A film like "Tangshan Earthquake" will definitely be screened for two months, from February to April. By May, the audience's tragic impression of the earthquake in the movie had not been eliminated, and they still had lingering palpitations about the earthquake.
After Zhang Jing first heard the box office on the first day, she was a little worried: "Since you became the chief director of the Olympic Games, many people have been dissatisfied with you, especially the southern department is always yin and yang, and now the box office on the first day is not good, and those people will definitely sing about it!"
In fact, since Zhang Ran became the chief director of the Olympic Games, some elites, especially the southern media, have a lot of opinions about him. "Tangshan Earthquake" itself has government investment, and there are a lot of positive depictions of the PLA, these people must be even more unhappy, as long as they have the opportunity, they will definitely jump out to smear.
Now that the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" is not good on the first day, these people will definitely come out to bring the rhythm!
Zhang Ran had enough confidence in his movie, and said with a faint smile: "Don't worry, the box office of "Tangshan Earthquake" will not be bad, and the box office will be warm soon!"
Just when everyone was looking forward to the box office recovery of "Tangshan Earthquake", the box office of the second day gave a heavy blow to all audiences who were looking forward to the movie.
The box office is only 15 million!