Chapter 81: The Impact of 'Straight Male Cancer' on the Box Office
It's easy for Chinese viewers to be serious and feel offended!
"Charlotte's Troubles" is a clear offense to women's rights.
China's film market has always been dominated by women.
Your movie is full of 'I'm a straight man, I'm proud' from start to finish, and it has offended these people to a large extent.
In fact, these remarks also existed in the original time and space, but they did not form a wave.
After all, by the time most of the 'allies' found out that Charlotte might be a threat to them, it was already unstoppable!
The whole network is 'tap water'!
Of course, it also has a lot to do with the choice of schedule.
In the original time and space, the reason why "Charlotte" was able to sweep the entire National Day file and even the October file and win the box office result of 1.4 billion is that there is no decent opponent.
Originally, the biggest opponent - "Hong Kong Embarrassment", the comedy that was reorganized by Xu Guangtou is not like a comedy, it is said to be a youth film, and there is no shadow of youth at all.
Typical four dislikes, if it weren't for the fact that the 'Embarrassment' series has become a signboard of domestic comedy, coupled with the strong publicity ability of light, do you think this thing can have a box office of 1.5 billion?
To put it bluntly, "Hong Kong Embarrassment" is a failing work, commonly known as a bad movie!
"Nine-Story Demon Tower", don't mention it, it's rotten!
As of October 7th, the box office income was 800 million, and then, in a month's time, only 100 million was not reached, and the total box office was 700 million.
The only significance of "Nine-Story Demon Tower" appearing in the National Day file may be to set off that "Hong Kong" is not so bad, and also, in order to bring out the excellence of "Looking for the Dragon"!
As for "Rescue Mr. Wu", it is a police film after all.
Police films are typical niche themes in the Chinese market!
The restrictions on the subject matter and Liu Tianwang's name as the 'King of Bad Movies' have not exceeded 20 million in a single day since the beginning of the release, except for 40 million on the first day.
Therefore, despite the good reputation, it is useless.
It doesn't pose a threat to Charlotte at all.
"Charlotte's Troubles" is different, with the help of the word-of-mouth effect of twist for so many years and the publicity of Wanda, although its box office take-off is a bit unexpected, it is also a reasonable thing.
But now it's different.
"Carol" announced that it will be released on October 7th!
Directly airborne!
……
The box office trend of "Charlotte's Troubles" is confusing.
won 45 million on the day of the premiere, then the word of mouth spread, and the next day it won nearly 60 million, and then, it has been increasing, but not much.
Until October 5th, the newspaper received 80 million on the same day, setting a record for the highest single-day box office since its release, and pressed "Hong Kong", which has a declining reputation, under him!
The twist executives are very happy, in their opinion, "Charlotte" is stable!
It can have a box office score of at least 1 billion!
Then, on October 6, the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" fell instead of rising by five points when the number of films scheduled, falling below 60 million for the first time!
Liu Hongtao is in a hurry!
Not only is he anxious, but even Wanda Pictures, which is in charge of the film distribution department, is also anxious.
In the afternoon, several people gathered around a small round table to discuss countermeasures.
"Lao Wei, the day before yesterday, we still had 80 million at the single-day box office, and yesterday it was less than 60 million?"
Wei Zhenxing, head of Wanda's film distribution department.
"Is that all Charlotte has at the box office?"
The one who spoke was the director of "Sholot's Troubles", Yan Fei.
"No, the main reason is that there are many people on the Internet who spontaneously boycott our movie, saying that 'straight men have cancer' and 'three views are not correct'. The reputation of our movies on major film and television rating websites has declined significantly!"
Peng Xiaomo took out a manuscript, and on it was a bunch of analysis results.
He is the writer and assistant director of Charlotte.
"These people are just! Comedy movies, it's good to have a laughing fruit, they have to have three positive views, three positive views, they should watch "News Network", go to watch the main theme movie!"
Liu Hongtao couldn't help but curse.
"The same was true of the table tennis the year before last, it was a sketch, and it attracted a bunch of complaints!"
Yan Fei, as a veteran figure of twist, is of course very clear about these.
"Movies and sketches are not the real world, so why do they have to be connected to reality?"
"That's it, then He Shen in "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" is also a bad guy, why don't they resist it?"
"Now the creation of works is really getting more and more difficult, even if all kinds of shackles are forgotten, the audience is still so glassy!"
"Don't be angry, now is the time to discuss what should be the next step!"
Wei Zhenxing looked at this group of rookies and couldn't help but shake his head.
Is this the time to discuss the creation of a work?
"Otherwise, let's learn "Hundred Regiment Battles" and steal the box office..."
"No, if this gets out, we won't have to mix in the circle in the future!"
Liu Hongtao flatly refused.
Twist movies rely on quality, which is the most basic principle when he founded Twist!
"What should I do? If this trend is allowed to ferment, I believe that within three days, the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" will fall below 40 million, not to mention 1 billion, it would be good to have 800 million!"
"I have an idea,"
Wei Zhenxing looked at Liu Hongtao, "We can make a move at the box office!"
"What do you mean?"
Liu Hongtao was slightly moved, but he still maintained restraint, and asked rhetorically with a trembling voice.
"It's literal, we pay for the box office ourselves!"
"That's... How much are we going to give?"
"According to the current box office trend, we need to spend at least 50 million to push the single-day box office to over 100 million, but as long as the single-day box office exceeds 100 million, we are sure to get the maximum number of films.
Wei Zhenxing looked at the box office trend chart carefully and analyzed.
"Fifty million?"
Liu Hongtao closed his mouth and began to think about the possibility of this matter.
"Lao Liu, if this thing gets out, our twist will be over, not only will it become a laughing stock among peers, but even the audience will no longer trust us!"
Peng Xiaomo couldn't help but persuade.
"Hey, I'm a little bit of a demon!"
Liu Hongtao sighed, and walked out of Wei Zhenxing's 'temptation' with some difficulty.
"In fact, even if "Charlotte" will not have much improvement at the box office from tomorrow, it has already achieved profitability and made a lot of money, from this point of view, the first shot of our twist has been fired!"
Liu Hongtao looked at Wei Zhenxing, and then said: "Moreover, I have watched the new movies released in the past month, and few of them can pose a particularly big threat to "Charlotte", so I am still sure that the box office of this drama can exceed 1 billion!"
“… Mr. Liu, there is something you may not know yet!"
Peng Xiaomo looked at Liu Hongtao, and then glanced at the latest news in his hand.
"What's the matter?"
"Shen Lin announced that "Carol" is set for October 7th, which is tomorrow!"
"What?"