Chapter Forty-Eight: Volcanic Eruptions

The reporter finally gave a final decision: ""The Police and the Thief" has a good reputation and strong box office ability, and it is indeed a rare classic. But Yanhuang Film Company is a small company after all, and if it can't solve the distribution problem, the box office won't be able to do much. Again, this has caused a lot of inconvenience to fans, and now it is hard to find tickets, and many fans are squatting in the cinema in the winter, waiting for 12 o'clock to buy tickets three days later. It is foreseeable that "Cops and Thieves" has broken through the double resistance of "Toy Story" and "Detective Plane Nose 2". ”

The Chicago Sun wrote a report on "Directly Attacking the Police and the Thieves": When did a classic film director become a dispensable character? "The Cops and the Thieves" did it. It is a classic film, but this does not mean that Bruce Leung is a successful director, the success of this film lies in a perfect script and Liang Xiaolong's super action directing ability, not Liang Xiaolong's directing ability. It is no exaggeration to say that any director with such a script and such an action director can make the same film, or even better. Of course, this is not to say that Liang Xiaolong failed, on the contrary, he succeeded, and his screenwriting ability and action direction ability made up for the lack of his directing ability, making "Police and Thieves" flesh and blood and a classic.

It is undeniable that this is a very objective report, Liang Xiaolong has nothing to say after seeing it, his directing ability is indeed a little worse, and what supports this film is the classic lines of the Internet and Chinese kung fu. But no matter what, he succeeded, and Shirley called to celebrate at the first time: "Xiaolong, congratulations, look at the reaction of the outside world, I can assure you that the overseas box office is enough for you to recover all the costs." ”

"Shirley, your faith is too inflated, isn't it?" Liang Xiaolong couldn't help but smile bitterly, Yanhuang Film Company can only get 20% of the overseas box office, and the production cost and hidden cost of "The Police and the Thief" are about 40 million, which means that there will be 200 million overseas box office, Liang Xiaolong thinks that it is impossible to achieve such a high overseas box office. However, Shirley is full of confidence: "The quality of the film, the publicity is in place, and the three big names Julia, Rachel and Brandon are already the conditions for box office success, so you just wait to collect the money." ”

Liang Xiaolong smiled bitterly: "Compared with the overseas box office, I care more about the local box office, how many theaters can you Paramount move for us next week?" Shirley smiled: "I just want to tell you the good news, because of the poor box office, "Snowlake" will be painted as soon as the weekend is over, and our Paramount will vacate 520 movie theaters for your company, and it will be shown seven times a day." ”

Liang Xiaolong hurriedly thanked him, and at the same time, he was glad that he chose to cooperate with Paramount in the first place, otherwise Carl would have to continue to have a headache for the theater chain. Of course, it is not enough to add 520 cinemas, the situation in the ticket hall of the cinema has spoken for itself, and countless fans are squatting there, just to wait for midnight to buy a ticket three days later. According to Carr's investigation, unless the number of theaters reaches 3,000, this situation will continue until the craze for "Cops and Thieves" subsides.

And this is what Liang Xiaolong is most worried about, any classic line has a certain cycle, and it usually spreads the craziest in the first month of appearance, and then it will slowly fade away. In other words, "The Cops and the Thieves" must earn enough box office within a month, after which it will enter a period of ratings decline. Carl is also obviously aware of this situation, these two listeners can't take a break at all, staring at the attendance rate and box office of each film all day long, just waiting for that film to suddenly drop or shrink the scope of release, so as to grab theater resources as soon as possible.

However, it is by no means easy to grab theater resources, there are dozens of movies released in the past ten days, and as long as the box office is not too unsuccessful, the film wants to increase the number of theaters. Moreover, at this stage, new movies are released almost every day, and it is really difficult to grab theater resources at such a time. It took Carl and the company two days to grab 260 movie theaters, 100 of which were given up by Disney for many collaborations with Liang Xiaolong.

The crowded ticket halls of various movie theaters once again aroused the media's ideas, and the reporters began a new round of investigation, and the camera focused on a young couple: "How long have you been queuing?" The young man said, "I came here after lunch, and it has been four hours." The reporter asked, "How's the situation?" The young man couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said helplessly: "It's hard to find a ticket, and you can only buy a ticket after midnight." The reporter suggested, "Then you can wait until after midnight, or at 11 o'clock in the evening." ”

The young woman pointed to the long line: "The line will only get longer and longer, and it will be too late to come back in the evening, and we will have to hold on." The reporter thought for a moment and asked: "In the winter, is it worth squatting in the ticket hall for more than ten hours for a movie?" The young woman said: "Other films are definitely not worth it, but "The Police and the Thief" is definitely worth it, he is here for the coolest martial arts, and I am here for popularity." The reporter was curious: "What do you say?" ”

The young man said: "I usually like to watch action movies the most, and my friends say that this is the coolest action movie in Hollywood history, and there is no reason why I should not come." The young woman said: "Adapting lines has become a popular trend, and my friends have been used by these lines in all walks of life and in various situations, creating a special sense of humor, and if I can't see the film anymore, I can only follow the trend and eat dust." ”

The reporter said to the camera: "From the conversation just now, we can understand that "The Police and the Thief" has begun to lead the trend, and young men and women are even more eager for it, as if you are at the first step of the trend after watching the movie, and you will fall behind if you don't see the movie." Obviously, this sentiment has not been rationally contained, but has spread as quickly as the virus, with countless people entering movie theaters every day to inject the virus and then spread the virus outside. But it has to be said that "The Cops and the Thieves" has successfully taken the first part, and it will reach a full house rate today and tomorrow. ”

"The current situation reminds me of the first action movie in the history of Hollywood films, Mr. Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" in '73, if there was no "Enter the Dragon", Hollywood might be an action movie. That year, Bruce Lee's million-dollar film set off a ratings frenzy in the United States, with long queues in various ticket halls and sweeping a super high box office of $230 million. Today, 22 years later, Bruce Leung has set off a ratings frenzy in the United States with action movies, and the ticket halls are once again overcrowded. Speaking of this, the reporter couldn't help but smile: "Could it be that people named Xiaolong are especially capable of making action movies?" ”

The reporter pointed the camera at a middle-aged man again: "Uncle, young people are chasing the trend, why are you here?" The middle-aged man said, "I'm here for Liang Xiaolong." The reporter had a chill, and the middle-aged man smiled: "Liang Xiaolong is good at writing scripts, I like his first three movies very much, and I believe that the fourth part will not disappoint me." The reporter added: "I can understand that young people are crazy about pursuing trends and squatting here for more than ten hours, but you just simply appreciate Liang Xiaolong's screenwriting ability, is it worth squatting here?" ”

The middle-aged man thought for a while and said with a wry smile: "Do you think I want to?" My wife said when she bought a ticket to touch her, and my daughter said when she bought a ticket to call me dad. Hey, it's hard to be a man, it's even harder to be a man with a wife, it's even harder to be a man with a wife and a daughter. The reporter smiled: "Wow, uncle, you created a classic line before you saw yourself in the movie, believe me, this sentence will soon become popular in North America with the live broadcast of our TV station." The middle-aged man said, "No way, uncle is so humorous." ”

The reporter asked again: "Uncle, through the comments of the people around you, can you tell us what you think of the film?" The middle-aged man said: "The spiritual battle of "The Sun is Like Me" is comparable to a psychology textbook, and teachers and students from various psychology schools have repeatedly watched and studied it; "Never Compromise" portrays a real-life, real-life hero, and Erin is cited as a model of success and has touched countless people; "Tomb Robbery" is a standard commercial blockbuster, not to mention any artistic flavor, but it is the only Hollywood film this year that has exceeded 200 million at the local box office and 400 million at the global box office. It can be seen from this that as an editor, Liang Xiaolong's skills can be called a master and can adapt to various types of movies. Well, I have no reason to doubt the quality of Cops and Thieves. ”

Suddenly, a piece of news came out on the movie theater radio: "At the request of the majority of fans, Yanhuang Film Company will add 780 theaters to release "Police and Thieves" next week, and the number of daily broadcasts will also increase from five to seven." Now, the cinema will start selling tickets for the last two shows of next Monday, and fans who can't afford to buy tickets can go to another cinema to buy Monday tickets. ”

As soon as the broadcast stopped, the ticket hall was full of joy, and the fans in front of the queue finally didn't have to squat anymore and could buy tickets immediately. The people at the back of the queue immediately retreated when they saw that the situation was not good, and they had to go to other movie theaters to buy tickets. The reporter hurriedly followed the fans back to the ticket hall, turned the camera to the street, watched a group of people and then intercepted the taxi: "This is the charm of "Police and Thieves", taxis in Los Angeles will become a rare commodity in short supply at this moment. ”

Backbite...... Trumpet...... Many people have their own cars, and the consequence of going on the road at the same time is that there is a traffic jam, and the reporter said: "This is the oppressive force of "Police and Thieves", and the traffic police have to be busy under its oppression. ”

Increase the number of theaters, increase the number of broadcasts, to a great extent alleviate the difficulty of buying tickets, but the increase of 780 cinemas can not fundamentally solve the problem, it didn't take long for the tickets for next Monday to be sold out again, and the fans who didn't buy tickets were not desperate, so they could only continue to implement the squatting policy.

Seeing that the situation is good, there is bad news that Columbia will release its flagship film next Monday, a $65 million big-budget sci-fi film - "Escape from the Magic Age". Its boss, that is, the one himself, threatened: "Chinese, it is not okay to engage in movies." "Escape from the Magic Age" will definitely be able to block "Cops and Thieves", and comprehensively suppress "Cops and Thieves" at the box office and word of mouth. ”

PS: This chapter was written for eight hours, and even I don't believe it. Wrote and deleted, deleted and wrote, grinding and chirping, it's too torturous! In addition, I would like to thank the book friend "Shuen" for the reward. There are also thanks to the book friends "ozki" and "imaginary colors" to vote for the urging, but the final exam of the white bone school is over, and there is still a month of practical training class, which is busier than usual classes, and I am afraid that I will not be able to complete the feat of 12,000.

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