Chapter 220: A group of crocodiles share food, breaking 100 million (asking for a monthly ticket!) )
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In 2002, the number of screens accurately counted in China was 2,581; In 2003, China's film industry reform was fully implemented, and the number of screens increased to 3,296 at the end of that year, an increase of 715 in one year. It's still growing this year, but it's much more rational. It will take about a year to increase by 100~500 yuan.
So far this year, the number of screens available for screening in the country should be about 3,900, more than double that of last year. These new cinema chains, except for a small number of second- and third-tier cities, are basically among the big cities.
The movie "Source Code" has been called so good from the beginning, the hype is very hot, and many hot topics have basically not left the audience's sight recently, but in fact, there are very few people who have really seen it.
Fortunately, Hu Yifei's reputation has always been good, which is especially important today. In this already green backwater, it looks so different. Audiences who had not been able to see the movie before finally got their wish and met to enter the cinema.
Fortunately, Hu Yifei did not disappoint, countless people spread it everywhere after watching the movie, and a good reputation was formed inadvertently, just like his previous two movies.
Compared with the disorder of theaters across the country last year, this year is at least much more standardized in terms of box office statistics.
35% of the films, how much box office can be created on the first day, it is really exciting.
Early the next morning, Hu Yifei and his entourage were still in Changsha Station, where the whole crew was still publicizing, and the main creators of the entire crew came. When the hotel was gathering for breakfast, Hu Yifei received a phone call and then burst out with irrepressible excited laughter, "Hahahahahaha......" The voice was small at first, and then it became an exaggerated laughter.
"How's it going, how much is the box office?"
Lin Zhiling and Fan Binbin both looked at him with bright eyes, and even Ni Dahong on the side smiled and waited for information.
Hu Yifei opened his palm, then slowly converged his three fingers, and opened five fingers.
The three of them were stunned for a moment, and Fan Binbin said with some uncertainty: "Twenty million? ”
Lin Zhiling said: "Twenty-five million? ”
Ni Dahong said: "It should be Lin Zhiling who said it." ”
Hu Yifei gave him a thumbs up, "You've hit!" ”
Lin Zhiling cupped her cheeks in her hands and said in surprise: "Wow, it's really twenty-five million." Then my first big-screen movie, isn't it going to break 100 million! ”
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This box office figure is a bit too eye-catching, the box office performance of "Source Code" on the first day reached 25 million, and the box office of 25 million is still generated on the basis of only 35% of the national films, which is a miracle.
If it continues according to this box office figure, the box office in the first week will be able to break 100 million, which is still the result of the box office declining all the way, this is just the box office in the first week! The summer vacation has just begun, even if it passes in July, the entire domestic box office market begins to collectively slide when the Olympics comes, and there will still be a box office of more than 100 million yuan.
This time, Hu Yifei's title as a billionaire director is well deserved.
He is also a little foggy, you must know that "Ambush on All Sides" has been swaying for more than ten days before breaking 100 million. In order to make sure that no one was shaking him, he specially found a lot of today's national newspapers. Previously, when "Ambush on All Sides" was released, the entertainment pages of these newspapers were almost unanimously bad, but now, these reviews are completely in stark contrast to "Ambush on All Sides" ten days ago.
"Xinmin Evening News": "The implantation of the sci-fi concept at the beginning was very successful, and the train began to throw out small hooks, which firmly hooked the hearts of the audience. The plot seems to be a bit repetitive, but it has become the most talked-about wonder of Hu Yi. He successfully explained how to make an excellent science fiction film at a small cost. It's been a long time since I've had such a tense opening. As a commercial film, a good opening is important. Especially after watching "Ambush on All Sides", the box office of "Source Code" won 25 million on the first day. There is still hope for domestic movies, and domestic movies can still be watched! ”
"Chutian Metropolis Daily": "No one has ever thought of making science fiction films, especially now that martial arts films are in charge. Hu Yifei went against the grain. He knew that he lacked experience and couldn't make martial arts movies, so he went to Zhang Yimou's movies to play the leading role. There is still a new path in his own films. After watching "Source Code", do you really doubt that this is a domestic film, it is really not a Hollywood output? There are too many plots to explore, and the exquisite structure and bright rhythm make people see the connotation from the monotonous plot. ”
Youth Daily: "This is a typical Hu Yifei-style movie, which has been opening up a new path for domestic films, but everyone's eyes are still on big-budget martial arts films." That's unrealistic, show sincerity, the audience will buy domestic films. ”
"Ringing ring" Hu Yifei's phone rang again, it was Han Mi, and as soon as she was connected, she couldn't wait to speak: "Hey, do you know, the box office on the first day?" ”
Hu Yifei smiled: "Brother Bo told me just now." ”
"Got it, this old Wu, why is his mouth so fast."
"Smack", as soon as the words fell, the woman hung up the phone in a hurry.
After a while, Han Sanpin also called, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said, "Congratulations, congratulations". The enthusiastic tone almost made Hu Yifei think that he was going to get married.
People I knew before either sent a text message or called to congratulate you on getting off to a good start. Although his movie is popular and there is a suspicion of squeezing his other movie "Ambush on All Sides", he basically participated in all his previous promotions except for Taiwan, and he can't blame him for the bad box office of the movie.
Before, many people thought that it was not a good choice for Hu Yifei to release "Source Code" in the same issue as "Ambush on All Sides", but now, everyone suddenly found that the original death match turned out to be an excellent release time.
Especially when word-of-mouth forms a contrarian contrast, it is simply cheating to help fans make choices.
"Do you want to see Hu Yifei when you go to the cinema, or do you want to see Hu Yifei?"
The difference is only that one has a good reputation and the other has a bad reputation.
One breakfast time, he was stunned to answer more than a dozen phone calls, put down the phone and said with a long sigh of relief: "Let's go, Mango Station is here to pick up people." ”
Although he won a big victory, he still had to do a second promotion for his film. Fan Binbin and the others also put down the newspaper, and only then did they react, they were also happy too early. If the secondary propaganda can't keep up, it is also very likely that there will be a landslide.
Here, all the staff of "Source Code" came to Kuaiben again to start the first leg of the second promotion, and on the other hand, almost all the media in the country spontaneously began to carry out a comprehensive report on this box office miracle...... The good reputation of the audience on the Internet has also spread one after another.
"Hu Yifei's good reputation continues, "Source Code" has set a first-day box office record for three-part films, and the first day's 25 million results have taken the first step. - National Television News.
"25 million! From "Prison Break" to "Source Code", from Mi Shuai to Hook, Hu Yifei has reached new heights and used "Source Code" to crack the box office secret! This small-budget sci-fi film that does not use too much post-production allows us to see the process of deciphering the whole world with the acting skills of several protagonists, which is Hu Yifei's ambition. Since then, domestic films have also had science fiction masterpieces. —Southern Weekly.
The next day, the number of films across the country also skyrocketed, directly reversing the first day's "Ambush on All Sides", reaching 58%, while "Ambush on All Sides" dropped sharply by 30%. This is what the majority of cinema operators told Hu Yifei that they took action to redeem their mistakes.
At this time, no matter how hard Zhang Weiping tried to say good things to the theater dealers and pull relationships, it was useless. Who told him not to take the cinema operators as people, when "Hero" tore open the box office account, he had already buried the nail, and now it is just a timely outbreak.
At this moment, almost everyone praised the box office of "Source Code" on the first day, but they all ignored one thing, that is, the 25 million is only the box office results of the mainland, and the box office results of Xiangjiang, Baodao, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, Japan, Europe, and North America have not been fully reported. The North American and European distributions of Source Code were given to Warner Bros. When so many achievements are added to everything, the 25 million is no longer the first step of "Source Code", maybe it is just the height of the sole when you just lift your foot.
"Source Code" is being released in Hong Kong, and the media is almost unanimously good-mouthed: "Rare hard science fiction in Chinese films, especially such a wonderful story achieved by small cost, is even more rare." ”
Hu Yifei's previous works have been released in Hong Kong, and the reputation is not very good. Hong Kong people are too proud to watch mainland movies. Fortunately, "Prison Break" is unique in Hong Kong, and it quickly gathered a huge fan base for him.
Hong Kong people like to watch movies, but they are just confused, and they have also been successfully baptized by Hollywood movies. Now many viewers can't help but want to take a look after seeing the comments and reports in the media, and even the Internet is full of discussions discussing the plot.
The same situation appears in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other places.
Time passed quickly on the way of publicity, "Source Code" took four days to break the domestic box office record set by itself when "The Great Exercise", 25 million on Thursday, July 18, and the next Friday, the movie-watching boom has subsided, and only 26 million has been won in the case of increased cinema scheduling.
But on Saturday, July 20, word of mouth suddenly began to explode, not only the student party at home, but also office workers on vacation, all flocked to the cinema. After the end of the day, the box office directly collected 32 million, which shocked everyone's eyes. "Is this still a domestic film, even when "Hero" was released, it was not so majestic. If it goes on like this, is it going to break the record of "Titanic"?! ”
It's a little scary.
On the last day of the first week of release, the box office fell back to 19 million yuan.
Even so, in the first week of release, the total domestic box office successfully exceeded 100 million, reaching 104 million box office, creating the fastest record of breaking 100 million. And this week's "Ambush on All Sides" only received 35 million box office, with a total of 140 million in 18 days of release.
Domestic films also successfully absorbed more than 200 million box office by virtue of their crazy performance this week.
As far as the eye can see, it seems to be a scene of recovery.
But the opportunity for "Source Code" to dominate is probably going to stop there. The summer file has never been the best time for Chinese movies to grab food.
Next week, Hollywood blockbusters "Troy" and "King Arthur" will be released, and "Spider-Man 2" will dominate the world in August, followed by the release of Hollywood's disaster masterpiece "The Day After Tomorrow", and "New Police Story" by Brother Chenlong in September. This summer, with the Olympics to grab meat to eat, it depends on whose fangs are fierce enough and whose endurance is tenacious enough. (To be continued.) )