Session 70: Week 3 (Ask for Referral Votes)

(It's Monday, so let's get some referral votes.) Also, it's at least two weeks away from hitting the shelves...... )

31.13 million

After Monday's box office statistics came out, "Please Close Your Eyes When It's Dark", which won the weekly box office for two consecutive weeks, lost his champion six days early in front of this single-day box office figure. And this single-day box office, which is millions higher than last week's box office champion, dropped a nuclear warhead on the entire Chinese film and television industry, blowing up all those who were prepared or unprepared.

This is the single-day box office of "Pretty Woman" in 3,600 theaters on Monday.

Of course, the expansion of the cinema chain means that the average attendance rate can no longer remain at 96%, but the average attendance rate of 40% per game, at least five screenings per day per theater is enough to collect this glorious figure.

"The throne of "Kung Fu" may not be guaranteed" has already been carried out by the media with such a headline: their fears are not unreasonable.

On a day like Monday, when the box office was sluggish, the box office was 31.13 million, and the box office of "Pretty Woman" this week is clearly about to break 100 million, and the only question now is whether it is ready to break 100 million or 200 million.

In the face of such a sudden box office monster, it is indeed ambiguous whether the first week champion of "Kung Fu" can be won, after all, "Pretty Woman" has five more days of box office accumulation time this week than "Kung Fu".

But before facing "Kung Fu", "Pretty Woman" first needs to face its old opponent, "Peacock".

"Peacock" is already so miserable that it can't be worse.

Because of the obvious trend of box office decline in the second week, several theaters that originally intended to renew the contract for screenings closed their mouths and waited and watched, so in the third week, Peacock still only had 1,500 theaters to screen, but the tragic figure of 860,000 in a single day on Monday has told everyone, and 1,500 theaters is too wasteful for this film.

It may not survive this week - as long as the theater and distributor negotiate, then it doesn't have to wait for the contract to end, and it will be released early to free up theaters for more profitable films.

Therefore, "Peacock" has withdrawn from the competition in the third week ahead of schedule.

No one expected such a strange ending now: "Peacock", which was previously favored by everyone, did not even win a weekly box office title, and was about to withdraw early in the third week due to poor box office;

This is crazy!

And when the media put the focus back on this sudden box office monster, there is a term that they can't hide.

Duane.

It is this name that created a global box office of nearly 500 million at the cost of 100,000 yuan last year, changing the name of the highest box office record of a horror film, and this summer, he is back.

The media still remember that it was with their impetus that Duane left the entertainment industry as a wolf bèi who lost his family dog, and returned quietly at the beginning of the year - but at that time, people had lost interest in this meteor-like guy, and the media naturally did not waste their energy on him.

But now, they have to face up to the name.

"The King is back!"

There is a shameless Nanyang local tabloid "Nanyang City Daily" for the sake of sales actually played such a banner, every peer who saw this report was eager to spit on the reporter's face, Duane himself saw the old face red, thinking that the reporter's description was too exaggerated - the last exclamation mark is more acceptable if the exclamation mark is removed.

In this report, the reporter spent a lot of pen and ink to render how Duane was "unwilling" when he left, how he "swore that what he lost must be returned", and how he tried his courage after leaving the entertainment industry, "watching at least 50 domestic and foreign movies every day to improve his artistic cells", "buying 200 professional film books from a bookstore to improve his technical level", "the walls around the bedroom are full of artistic inspiration written by hand", and after getting this filming "Pretty Woman" After the opportunity, how did he thank Shu Yu, who gave him this opportunity, and said to her, "Do your best, and die", "The mountains are edgeless, the heaven and the earth are together, but dare to be with the king"......

Duane didn't know if others could watch it, but he couldn't stand it anyway - this reporter was so special that his brain hole was the size of the moon. And he really wanted to ask that person face to face: The mountains are edgeless, the heaven and the earth are combined, but dare to use it like this with you? Also, a movie is counted as one and a half hours, fifty movies are 75 hours, and normal people only have 24 hours a day, how abnormal is he Duane to watch movies a day for 75 hours?

But I have to admit that the common people like such a strong headline, and prefer the report at the end of the report to say "He came with the anger of blood and fire" and "His return is not to prove that he can do it, but to show that what he has lost will definitely be able to be regained!"

The common people liked this kind of revenge-like pleasure, which also led to the tabloid selling out that day.

But no matter what the newspapers say, time should still flow away.

On Thursday, the theater and the distributor negotiated and "Peacock" was fully removed ahead of schedule.

As of the next grade, it has collected a total of 55.2 million box office, and if the publicity cost is calculated according to 8 million, plus the cost of production is 15 million, it will at least get it back, and there is a little bit of profit, but this little profit is equal to nothing for investors who were full of expectations - they originally decided to invest in the name of Gu Changwei, that is, they expected to use "the master of photography to transform into a directorial debut" 's gimmick and Gu Changwei's connections accumulated in the entertainment industry for many years made a lot of money, but he didn't expect that it took more than half a year to earn hundreds of thousands, which was too different from their expectations.

The only thing that can be happy in the bitterness is that the evaluation of "Peacock" is still very high, and it is very promising to appear in this year's Huabiao Awards and win one or two awards, and its rating on Douban is also good, always 7. 6 to 7. 8 hovers in this range.

As its opponent in the same period, "Pretty Woman" is more miserable.

The rating of "Pretty Woman" has always been 5. 6 to 6. 3, many people think that this film is "empty in content" and "not in the right intention", just a "thing that you can forget after watching it". More people think that the director Duane is depraved: I think back then, although his "Chainsaw" was a little naïve in logic, at least he was trying to tell a theme of cherishing life, and some fancy tricks in it also made lovers of such technology extremely appreciated. But in "Pretty Woman", his skills are gone, those shots are reduced to mediocrity, and his thoughts are even more gone, just talking about how a man and a woman fall in love unrealistically.

"It's a pity that this talented director is falling. "That's a lot of soybean oil rhetoric.

But if you double the record of their speeches, you can see that in last year's false testimony war, these guys who are "lamenting the fall of a director" are the ones who scolded Duane the most.

And it is precisely what they call the "worthless and meaningless things" shot by this "degenerate director" that has maintained a daily box office of more than 30 million for four consecutive days - this is the statistics as of Friday afternoon.

In the past four working days, the total box office of the week set by "Pretty Woman" has reached 1. 300 million.

This "thing with no value and meaning" broke 100 million in only four working days, and it is about to usher in a three-day box office peak day over the weekend, confronting the menacing "Kung Fu" head-on.

"God blocks and kills God!"

This is another report of the "Nanyang City Daily", or was written by the reporter named "Wu Jun", which can be called the sister article of the previous article "The Return of the King" -- this reporter did his best to exaggerate, claiming that "the power of the return of the king of Duane is unstoppable", "God blocks and kills gods, and Buddha blocks and kills demons", "Fengyue" opens a precedent in history, the wheel of history rolls forward, and mortals are unstoppable", and he simply writes the news report as a fantasy novel.

A week ago, everyone would have scoffed at this person and thought that there was a hole in his head, but now they have to face up to the possibility. Even the feature writers of many major newspapers have begun to analyze this issue in their respective columns from various aspects such as the film's technology, audience base, publicity efforts, and theater distribution, but after rational analysis, most people still think that although "Kung Fu" only has three days to fight, the goal is the 3.7 billion box office myth of "Hero", and the three-day box office set for itself on the premiere weekend is about 400 million.

400 million box office, beating four days and only 1. The 300 million "Pretty Woman" doesn't seem to be a big problem.

And Friday, has arrived.