On May 2nd, the weather was not very good, and he slept until nine o'clock, and when he woke up after the alarm went off, Duane saw that it was still gloomy outside the window.

He yawned, stared at the ceiling for a while, and finally got out of bed before falling asleep again, and walked around the room with his slippers, not seeing Su Jin's figure, it seemed that he had gone to work.

Originally, he planned to take advantage of the May Day holiday to go out with Su Jin to find a closer place to travel, relax and then enter the post-production of "Terminator", but he forgot that Du Ping Du Ping still has three months to the due date, and now his belly is quite big, like a balloon stuffed in it, so he naturally recuperated at home and became a shopkeeper, and handed over everything to Su Jin to be responsible. Therefore, Su Jin has to be busy taking care of the things in the store, and the May Day Golden Week is even more busy with business, so naturally there is no free time to go out with him, so he can only hand over his Golden Week to the family to squat, and as soon as the holiday is over, he will officially enter the post-production of "The Terminator".

After washing up, Duane went to the study, sat down at the computer desk, and turned on the computer.

Today, I made an appointment for a video conference at half past nine, so he got up so early on his holiday. I also have to work during Golden Week, which is also miserable, but thinking about Shu Yu and they have to go to work in the company, it seems to be a lot easier to work from home, so thinking about it, my heart is somewhat balanced.

finally waited until half past nine, and as soon as the group video started, the faces of Shu Yu and Lu Fanghe appeared on the screen.

"Good morning,"

Duane greeted the two of them, yawned again, and looked out the window.

In fact, he originally planned to go to DreamWorks for a meeting, which would be more convenient. However, thanks to "One Flew Over the Asylum", he has now become a popular figure for the time being, and there are paparazzi ambushes at the entrance of the community every day, so he is too lazy to go out, so he simply holds a remote meeting.

"Good morning. ”

After greeting a few people, they went straight to the topic of the meeting.

"The box office statistics for the first Wednesday have come out, and "Seven Swords" is at the top. Total box office 2. 400 million, "One Flew Over the Asylum" ranked second, with a total box office of 1. 93.4 billion,"

When Lu Fanghe reported this result, his face was a little unpleasant.

Duane couldn't help but speak, "Isn't that good?"

Lu Fanghe smiled bitterly, "The overall result looks quite beautiful." But choosing a single day is not good. He said, reporting yesterday's box office figures, "May 1, the first day of the May Day Golden Week, and the last day of the first Wednesday, Sunday. The box office of "Seven Swords" increased by more than 20 million compared with 76 million on April 30, reaching 98.9 million, almost breaking 100 million. ”

The work of director Xu Keda. gathered so many stars, or on the first day of the May Day Golden Week, they failed to break 100 million, which is also miserable.

Du Anxin thought so.

Then Lu Fanghe continued: """One Flew Over the Asylum", the single-day box office on May 1 was 83 million, an increase of more than 10 million compared with April 30, and the increase was not as good as "Seven Swords". ”

Hearing this, Duane was stunned for a moment. This is why Lu Fanghe smiled bitterly just now.

According to the box office increase on the second day of the first Wednesday, the box office increase on the third day is really small, especially since this is the first day of Golden Week. It was a bit unexpected. What's more, the box office growth of "One Flew Over the Asylum" is not as high as "Seven Swords", which is considered by the media to be in decline.

"What is the reason?" asked Duane.

Lu Fanghe said: "We have summed it up. There are two main reasons for this. ”

"The first point is the particularity of the box office increase on the second day. ”

"Director Du, the media reputation of your first two works during the release was not very good, except for the profit at the box office, the film evaluation can only be said to be decent, but "One Flew Over the Asylum" is different. The media reports after the premiere of this film are unanimously optimistic, and some media even shouted the slogan of booking the best film at this year's Huabiao Awards, and at the same time, it was also praised on the Internet, spontaneously promoted, which induced the herd effect of some potential audiences, plus Director Du's film This is the first time that the film will be released nationwide on a large scale on the first Wednesday, and under the combination of various factors, there will be such an explosive growth, in fact, this is the result of overdrawing a part of the potential audience. The second point is the limitation of the number of theaters. ”

"We only have a total of 2,890 theaters in the country, and although each theater has a high screening rate, the number of theaters is limited, so the box office ceiling is also limited, which is the most important reason. ”

Duane didn't say anything about this: the number of 2890 theaters was also agreed with by him, after all, although he was confident in the commercial value of "One Flew Over the Asylum", his confidence was not particularly large, and the number of 2890 was still appropriate in his opinion.

However, he still asked: "Is it okay to increase the number of theaters next week?"

Lu Fanghe didn't do it or said no, but just said, "It depends on this week's screening."

Looking at Lu Fanghe's sad appearance on the screen, Du An suddenly laughed and comforted: "Don't be bitter, in fact, the current situation is already very good, isn't it? The costs have been recovered, and the next stage is pure profit, which should be much better than you expected before." ”

The box office on the first Wednesday was nearly 200 million, and the distributable box office income they actually received was more than 80 million, and the cost of making "One Flew Over the Asylum" plus the cost of publicity and distribution was only 60 million, and it was profitable in three days.

Longwangshu, a common disease of people......

However, Duane had to admit that he was also greedy after seeing the box office increase on the second day, so he was a little disappointed after hearing about the box office increase on the third day.

Leaving this topic away, Du An's looked at Shu Yu and asked, "When are you going to release it overseas?"

Shu Yu raised his head from the text, glanced at him through the camera, and said, "In a week, you will take some time to cooperate with the overseas propaganda work, and by the way, you can contact Zhu Qian and Jia Hongsheng again to see if they can find time to cooperate with our propaganda work." ”

"Yo, buddy, are you going abroad?"

Duane was a little caught off guard.

Although he has become a billionaire, he has been busy for the past year, and he has really never been abroad.

He thought for a moment and then asked, "Do you want the others to call?"

Shu Yu thought for a moment, "Zhang Jiayi and Chen Kun also asked, and the others will forget it." "She can also contact the company directly, but Duane has some friendship with those people, and the advantage of contacting Duane through Guò is always greater, maybe she can come if she can't come.

Duane nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Forget if others can't come, Zhu Qian, you must work hard, after "Pretty Woman", her popularity overseas is still quite high, second only to you. ”

Shu Yu continued to advise, "And Jia Hongsheng, it's best to come." ”

"Jia Hongsheng?"

I can't understand this Du An: If these main creative members of the crew of "One Flew Over the Asylum" are ranked from high to low according to their current popularity in the entertainment industry, it is probably Du An, Zhu Qian, Zhang Jiayi, Chen Kun, Jia Hongsheng This kind of ranking, why did Shu Yu skip Zhang Jiayi and Chen Kun directly and jump to Jia Hongsheng? Although he is indeed the protagonist, it is better to attract some fame when publicizing.

Shu Yu explained: "There is always a little time difference between overseas and our domestic information, although the domestic entertainment industry is changing quickly, but overseas is always a little lagging behind. Jia Hongsheng was also a big hit back then, and he was very well-known abroad, and now he is still somewhat influential, which is higher than the popularity of the new generation like Zhang Jiayi Chen Kun. ”

Duane understood and nodded, "Understood." ”

After some more discussion, the meeting ended.

After turning off the video, Duane looked at the lower right corner of the computer, and it was already half past ten.

He was about to go to the kitchen to see what was in the fridge and make a casual lunch, but his phone rang. When I picked it up, it turned out to be a number I hadn't seen for a long time.

Ning Hao.

What's the matter with this guy looking for himself?

Duane picked up the phone while wondering, "Hey." ”

Ning Hao's voice came from the other end, "Hey, Director Du, it's me, Ning Hao." ”

"Well, I know it's you, where have you been messing around lately?" ......

After the two of them chatted for a while, Ning Hao cut to the chase: "Director Du, are you free now?"

"What, what's wrong with me?"

"Hehe," Ning Hao on the other end of the phone smiled and said, "I'm in Nanyang now, I want to invite you to dinner." ”

It seems that he has something to ask for himself, Du An pondered for a while, and he couldn't figure out what he was looking for himself: his movie was released, which is something that the people of the whole country know, and he made a "Terminator" last year, no matter how long it drags on, it should be released, so the fact that he has been busy with the movie at hand recently and has no time to make a new movie should also be well known, and he should not be here to ask for an assistant director to work.

What else could that be?

Duane couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it, and said directly: "Treat yourself to dinner and wait for the next time, if you have something to do, come directly to me, the paparazzi have been blocking outside every day for the past two days, and I am too lazy to go out." ”

Ning Hao on the other end of the phone thought for a while, and seemed to think that it was unreasonable to insist on inviting Du An out like this, so he had to say, "That's okay." ”

"Well, then I'll hang up the phone first, and I'll send you the address later. ”

Du An said, said goodbye again, hung up the phone, and then sent a text message to Ning Hao with his address.

Since there are guests, this lunch can't be too sloppy. Fortunately, there were enough ingredients in the refrigerator, Duane made a black pepper beef tenderloin, fried a scrambled egg with leeks, mixed a cucumber, and made a tomato egg soup, and after more than half an hour, all the dishes were ready, and the tomato egg soup began to cook, when the doorbell rang.

He went over to look at the hallway, and through the cat's eyes, he saw that it was Ning Hao. (To be continued~^~) mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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