Chapter 336: Peerless Swordsman
"Yesterday's box office statistics are out. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
After Du An heard Shu Yu on the other end of the phone say this, he had a faint premonition.
After all, he has been working together with this comrade-in-arms for several years, and there is almost no "frank relative" between the two sides, so he knows whether Shu Yu's tone has changed or not, and what this change represents. And now, from the tone of Shu Yu's speech and the order of the content of his speech, he got a lot of news.
So he interrupted Shu Yu's words, and didn't let her follow her train of thought, but said directly: "Let's talk about "Baby Plan" first." ”
As their biggest opponent this time, he believes that the relevant situation of "Baby Plan" may be more clear than the publisher of "Baby Plan".
Shu Yu was cut off by him, and his tone was stagnant, but he immediately returned to normal, """Baby Project" was released simultaneously in 3,280 theaters in China, with a single-day box office of 98.32 million. ”
"Baby Plan" is the same as "Liberation Day", it is released simultaneously around the world, and here Shu Yu only talks about the domestic situation and does not talk about foreign countries, because there are various factors such as time difference, complex channels, and diversity of settlement methods in overseas box office statistics. Generally speaking, domestic companies that release films simultaneously around the world only do daily statistics in China, and overseas box office statistics are all done for a week, which is time-saving and labor-saving.
"98.32 million ......"
Du An's recitation of this number twice, "Look at Cheng Long or watch the fight, this dozen, the ticket score is higher than the myth." ”
He still remembers that when he faced Cheng Long last year, the box office of "Myth" on the first day was less than 80 million, but this year it has gone straight to 100 million, I believe this is related to the news that the publicity of "Baby Plan" revealed that Cheng Long has a lot of plays in it and has returned to play stars.
He slackened and leaned back in his chair, his eyes looking out through the study window.
The weather is not very good today, it is cold, there is no sun, it is not gloomy outside, but it is not brilliant, blue-gray tones, it makes people feel not so good.
Duane was in a good mood.
He stood up from the computer desk with his mobile phone in his hand and walked to the window, pushed open the window, looked out, and could see that there was a girl standing by the window on the seventh floor of the opposite building and closing the curtains.
Duane sometimes stands at the window and looks out when he is idle, and once saw the girl in the opposite building forgetting to draw the curtains, wearing a China Eastern Airlines uniform at night and facing the mirror to tidy up her appearance, and often not at home, probably a flight attendant.
Where will she fly to this time, Beijin Chengdu?
Duane didn't know, just like the flight attendant didn't know that the director and lead actor of the movie she had seen yesterday was standing by the window across the street from her house looking at him.
The curtains had been completely drawn, and a word came out of Duane's mouth.
"If I'm not mistaken, our first-day box office should be above 100 million. ”
After analyzing all the information he has received since he woke up today and combined with what he knows about the pomp and circumstance of "Liberation Day", he gave such a rough guess result.
Shu Yu on the other end of the phone was silent.
After a long time, she said: ""Liberation Day" was released simultaneously in 3,988 theaters in China, and the single-day box office yesterday,"
"119 million. ”
119 million ......
After hearing this number, Duane held his phone and looked at the opposite side, looking at the curtain that had been drawn.
The people inside are probably already out of the house, right?
He didn't speak here, and Shu Yu didn't speak on that side, and the two of them just spelled each other's language barrier levels, and in the end, it was Duane who broke the silence.
He looked at the opposite building and suddenly smiled, "Han Sanping is still powerful." ”
Shu Yu said "um".
119 million to 88.32 million, "Liberation Day" won 20 million, which seems to have won a lot, but when combined with the theaters released, you can see some clues: 3988 against 3280, the first day of "Liberation Day" won in terms of circulation. If you go deeper, there will be more things that can be mined in terms of distribution -- the number of screening halls in each theater, the size and equipment of the theater, the number of screenings, the time schedule, and so on.
In these aspects, the advantages they took advantage of standing with Han Sanping this time cannot be said to be too much.
"A big company is a big company, and the heritage is deep, this resource is not a big problem to make a movie improve the box office of a grade. ”
Duane sighed, and then turned to the topic, "But we can't let our guard down yet, the first day can only be said to be won by quantity, the real battle has just begun, our propaganda work not only can not relax, but also have to work harder......"
After listening to it for a long time, Shu Yu finally caught a Duane catch a breath and said, "You are really weird." ”
The fact that "Liberation Day" won the first battle and directly defeated the biggest opponent "Baby Plan" made Shu Yu's mood seem to be very good, not only took the initiative to call to report the good news, but also did not take it seriously in the face of work for the first time, and shifted the topic to daily gossip.
"When others think that the situation is good and that it is OK, you are not at ease, you must be careful and careful, and you must be careful and careful, and it seems that you will step into the air and fall into hell in the next second, such as now, and when the situation is sinister and others feel hopeless, you are bigger than anyone else, more optimistic than anyone else, as if you have seen the dawn of victory in advance, for example, our previous movies have been released. ”
"Are you born rebellious, do you have to be uncomfortable with others?"
Du An was resting to drink water, and when he heard Shu Yu say this, he said "yo", "You're in a good mood?" After a pause, and without waiting for Shu Yu to respond, he threw out six words.
"Steady with the wind, against the wind and waves. ”
Regardless of whether Shu Yu heard it clearly or not, he continued to talk after taking a good break:" Although the information age has arrived, the exchange of information is very fast, but it is undeniable that the information exchange at this level between countries is still a little lagging behind, so I think you can make more fuss in this regard, try to use all kinds of resources to establish a fairly smooth channel, the time is not long, one month is enough, use the domestic to pull the foreign, and then use the foreign to stimulate the domestic, we now occupy the advantage, we have to find a way to transform this advantage into a power ......"
After learning the information of the box office comparison, Du An suddenly came up with a lot of ideas, chased Shu Yu and talked for a long time, muttering like a Tang monk, and making Shu Yu, who was in a good mood but just came to report the good news, lose his mood, which was very disappointing.
After chatting about work, he put away his mobile phone, and Du An's glanced at the time only to find that it was already past ten o'clock, and it was nearly eleven o'clock.
Su Jin didn't know when to get up, and the sound of stir-frying was coming from the kitchen.
After learning about the box office comparison, Duane lost interest in continuing to browse on the Internet for a while, and sat in his chair in silence, without saying a word, in stark contrast to the image that had just gushed.
His eyes are looking at the monitor screen, his eyes are not focused, and his thoughts are flying in time and space: from "Chainsaw" to "Terminator", he, a former newcomer, seems to be born a "big director magnet", and every time a movie is released, he always encounters some directors whose appeal and status are higher than him at that time, which also leads to his every film screening journey is difficult, and he always has to be the second in 10,000 years for a period of time before he can turn over and catch up. The only exception seems to be "Pretty Woman", but it's not a good exception, but a very painful exception - "Pretty Woman" was directly crushed by "Kung Fu" on the whole, and Duane didn't think it was very glorious and didn't want to mention it.
But on Liberation Day, that situation finally changed.
From the first day, he directly defeated the combination of Chen Musheng and Cheng Long, Xu Guanwen, and Gu Tianle.
The main creators of "Baby Plan" are all at the level of big guys, among which Cheng Long is needless to say, Xu Guanwen is not simple, he is a legendary figure in the history of Xiangjiang film, before Zhou Xingchi, he was the king of comedy in Xiangjiang, and frequently refreshed the box office records of Xiangjiang; Gu Tianle, a young student, has also developed well in recent years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the current "first student in Xiangjiang", director Chen Musheng has directed "New Crane Divine Needle", "The Sky of Mong Kok", "Two Heroes" and many other popular works, he is also a big name, but the two actresses are a little inferior, one is Gao Yuanyuan and the other is Cai Zhuoyan, but this "inferior" is only relative to the male creators, in fact, these two women are also first- and second-tier.
In general, the lineup of "Baby Plan" is not weak at all, on the contrary, it is stronger than the "Seven Swords" and "Mythology" that he once touched hard, which can be seen from the box office on the first day, and has been crushed by "Liberation Day" since the first day, which shows that "Liberation Day" is stronger than "Baby Plan".
"Iron also needs its own hard ......"
Duane suddenly muttered something from his mouth.
The strength of "Liberation Day" is not only reflected in the quality of the film, but also in distribution, publicity, media work, etc., because of the joining of Han Sanping and China Film, all aspects of "Liberation Day" have been promoted to the top.
Duane's films were like a down-and-out peerless swordsman, holding in his hand a rusty sword that he had bought for a tael or two of silver from Lao Li's blacksmith shop in the east of the village—the kind that took a lot of trouble to cut the grass—and now someone had lent him a peerless sword that sharpened like clay, and the force value was immediately different.
Du An is the peerless swordsman, Han Sanping is the peerless sword, and the two work together to create the good news of today's single-day box office, both of which are indispensable.
"It's a pity, it's just this cooperation......"
After Du An's sigh, he repeated the sentence just now, "Iron needs to be hard." But the meaning is different.
Du An nested in the study and sighed for a long time, waited until he shouted outside, and then went to eat, and then played with Su Jin, and the leisurely day passed quickly.
There are many people on National Day, there are more people watching movies, there are more tourists, there are people everywhere, and the highway has become a parking lot, so Du An is too lazy to go out, so he and Su Jin stay at home every day, give themselves a half-vacation, and enjoy the leisurely time of these few days, and the next day, he is holding his waist.
may be stimulated by the box office on the first day of "Liberation Day", although he didn't say it, he was in a really good mood, and he played high without paying attention, without moderation, so that he now feels that his legs are a little soft when he gets out of bed, and his walking is a little floating.
Then he was even more floating after a few hours.
The box office statistics on October 1 came out, and the market was gratifying, exceeding 400 million, of which "Liberation Day" contributed 142 million and "Baby Plan" contributed 106 million.
"Liberation Day" continued to press "Baby Plan", and further widened the gap to more than 30 million in a single day - many movies did not have a single-week box office of more than 30 million!
If at this time, there are still loyal fans of Cheng Long who do not give up, secretly looking forward to the Jedi counterattack of "Baby Project" and start calling on fans and friends to brush it up or twice, then the box office statistics on October 2 shattered their last thoughts.
The single-day box office of "Liberation Day" was 136 million, and the single-day box office of "Baby Plan" was 96.8 million, which is the box office statistics on October 2.
"Liberation Day" once again defeated "Baby Project", and continued to widen the gap, reaching a gap of 40 million in a single day.
In three days, the box office of "Liberation Day" almost crushed "Baby Plan" by 100 million, which is not too much.
Faced with such an unexpected result, the media exploded.
One is the main theme movie, the other is a commercial movie, in terms of subject matter, they were not optimistic about the box office of "Liberation Day" from the beginning, especially "Liberation Day" is also tragically mired in multiple curses: Zhang Yi's tragic fate cycle, "Wuji" took the lead in the charge and ruined the reputation of the large-scale production model and made the audience lack confidence...... On the contrary, "Baby Plan" has been smooth sailing, and there is no unfavorable news, how did it cause the current result?
How can commercial films be completely crushed by the main theme movies from the box office? This is not in line with natural common sense and scientific principles!
This thing is too weird, no wonder the media exploded, and many people have found reasons for this, thinking that "Liberation Day" is "a science fiction movie with the main theme" and "essentially a commercial movie", plus "Liberation Day" itself has a large investment and a slightly stronger lineup than "Baby Project", so it is not so unacceptable that there will be such a result......
In the explosive reports of the media, there is one thing that they naturally turned out again, that is, Duane once said that the box office of "Liberation Day" will exceed three billion, but he washed his hands.
At that time, everyone thought that this guy was too arrogant, and many newspapers and magazines said that the best director was carried away by success, but now I look back......
It seems that this is really possible. (To be continued.) )