Chapter 71: The Angel Returns
Two days have passed since the trial, and although there has been no official verdict yet, the result is already obvious, and those two people will definitely not end well.
On Friday afternoon, everyone sat around Tang's office, talking about the box office and what's next.
At this time, William was briefing everyone on the box office situation in the past few days, "This incident has caused us a lot of losses. ”
"Due to the intervention of the media, our box office has been greatly affected. ”
"On Monday and Tuesday, there was only 4.7 million at the box office, and on Wednesday it was reduced to 1.85 million. ”
"However, fortunately, the box office has begun to pick up, and yesterday it finally broke through the 2 million mark. ”
"I've just contacted the heads of several cinemas, and they said that the situation was fine today. Because it is a weekend, it is likely to exceed 3 million. ”
Tang Feng nodded thoughtfully, and then asked Harvey on the other side, "Is there no news from the three major theaters yet?"
Harvey replied: "Not yet, I tried to contact them, although they didn't explicitly refuse, but they didn't mean to follow up. ”
"Smack!"
Tang Feng slapped the table heavily, and said unwillingly: "In this way, the situation is still not optimistic." ”
"In just three days, several theaters have reduced 150 screens, and this loss is too great!"
"Fortunately, we won the lawsuit, otherwise, I am afraid that we will really lose......"
Hearing his words, Harvey's expression became ugly, and he said regretfully: "It's all my fault, if I wasn't too arrogant and reached an agreement with the three major ones earlier, it wouldn't be the current situation." ”
"Sean, I'm sorry, I'll find a way to make up for this loss. ”
It's already like this, what else can Tang Feng say, complain about his partner?
Although it seems that it was indeed Xavi's mistake, he should not have delayed the negotiations with the three major theaters when the form was good.
But Tang Feng knew in his heart that although he did not express his clear support and persuaded him to stop in moderation, he did not resolutely oppose it.
There was even a moment in his heart when the ridiculous thought of wrestling with them arose, which showed that it was not only Harvey who had misestimated the form at that time, but even he was a little blindly optimistic.
Not to mention that the root cause of this situation is still on his side!
So in any case, he has no reason to blame Xavi for his mistakes.
"Harvey, it's really okay with you, stop dwelling on that. ”
As he spoke, he walked up to Harvey, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a firm tone: "Now is not the time to discuss responsibility, the most important thing for us is to break the current embarrassing situation as soon as possible!"
His words were immediately echoed by Wilton: "Sean is right!"
"That's the most important thing!"
"Although several theaters have not done a desperate job, and most of the screens that have been removed are small theaters, this is also very bad for the box office of the movie. ”
"I think we should try to talk to them a little bit more and see if we can get back to the same level we had before. ”
Harvey said frustratedly: "It's useless, the theater has withdrawn our movie, and immediately made a new film schedule, and all the movies that are being released are being played." ”
"If they were playing an old movie, it would have been possible to change it to 'Killer's Tragedy,' but that's obviously not possible now. ”
After Harvey finished speaking, he fell silent, and everyone had nothing to do, and the atmosphere became a little silent and depressing for a while.
At this moment, Anne interjected, "Gentlemen, don't be sad, okay, I don't think the current situation is as bad as you think!"
"At least we won the case, we weren't crushed, aren't there still more than 300 screens playing our movies?"
"And at the box office, we've already won, haven't we?"
"Sean, do you remember what you said at the beginning, weren't you planning to make an abridged version and try your luck at Sundance?"
"Look at it now, even if there are only so many, it is almost 30 million at the box office, isn't it worth celebrating?"
Although he was still unwilling, Tang Feng also knew that what Anne said was the truth!
"Yes, I not only finished the movie, but also got a good reputation and box office, is there anything not satisfied?"
"I'm not the kid I had three months ago, as the boss of the company, I should cheer up, everyone is watching me!"
Thinking of this, Tang Feng cleared his throat and said in a high-spirited manner: "That's right! Consider that three months ago, I only had a script and a $30,000 sponsorship I got from Robin. ”
"At that time, my biggest wish was to make this story into a movie, and I didn't even dare to have too extravagant hopes for it to be released. ”
"But now, with the help of all of you, the original extravagant hope has become a reality!"
"We had some minor setbacks, but it wasn't a big deal!"
"Our movies have a good reputation and a good box office, so what else do we have to be frustrated with?"
"Even with the current data, we can make tens of millions of dollars at the box office every week, and this achievement should indeed be celebrated. ”
"And it's still a long time coming, and maybe there will be miracles. ”
"Let's go, let's call everyone and have a celebration together!"
With that, he opened the office door and shouted to Cooper, who was doing nothing, "Cooper, call everyone to the studio, we want to celebrate!"
Tang Feng knew very well in his heart that it was impossible for "Killer Tragedy" to have a long screening cycle.
But in order to boost everyone's morale, they still called everyone and held a small celebration party in the studio next to it.
As a leader, he had to do that, and if he couldn't pull himself together now, let alone anyone else.
Although there was little preparation, the celebration was a success.
Tang Feng praised everyone fiercely, and he promised to give everyone a big red envelope when the box office was shared.
And also gave an impassioned speech, "As a new company that has just been established, I am proud of what we have achieved, and I am proud to have each and every one of you!"
"Although the box office results are not too good for the time being, it is not a big deal. ”
"Because we are not just making this film, I believe that in the days to come, we will be united and work together to make more and more blockbuster films!"
"Now, I announce that our next movie will be made is 'Deadly Romance'!"
"This is Quentin's original script, please encourage it, haha. ”
As Tang Feng said his next step, everyone's eyes looked at the excited Quentin, and warmly applauded him and congratulated him.
suddenly became the focus of attention, Quentin was obviously not used to it, but he trembled his hands vigorously and kept saying: "Thank you, thank you, thank you Sean, you are the best boss!"
Is it hard to be a director?
Tang Feng doesn't think so, he thinks that being able to manage the company well is the most difficult!
The director only needs to make a good movie with his heart, but as a company leader, he must not only maintain the normal operation of the company, but also always put himself in the right position, even in the most frustrating moments, he must be confident and lead everyone through the difficulties.
Fortunately, at the most critical time, Tang Feng did what he should have done.
With a simple celebration party, everyone's emotions were aroused, and they became more confident in the company's future, and they were ready to do a big job.
After the celebration party, Tang Feng and William went home early.
Mary had prepared a sumptuous dinner and was waiting for them to return for the weekend, supposedly to surprise him.
His company wasn't far from William's house, and Cooper drove the car as fast as he could, so it didn't take long for them to get home.
As soon as Tang Feng pushed open the door, he found a black shadow screaming and rushing towards him, this voice was too familiar to him, "It's Angela!"
"Is she back? What a surprise!"
Due to the legal process involved, Angela was not allowed to visit during the time she was at the orphanage.
I haven't seen her for more than a month, except for missing her, Tang Feng's heart is still very guilty. Because he didn't live up to his original promise to protect her and not let her get hurt in any way.
But when he held Angela hanging on his body in his arms as usual, the expression on his face instantly became strange.
"My little angel, you're finally back!"
"But how did you become a chubby girl?"
"Tsk, I'm afraid I'll have to gain at least twenty pounds. ”
"Oh my God, even my face has become round!"
"Tell my brother, what did you eat there, how did you gain so much weight all of a sudden?"