Chapter Seventy-Six: The Blowout Box Office
In September 1998, water levels in China's Yangtze and Songhua rivers finally dropped.
This year, the great flood that affected the hearts of the whole country finally ...... Got through it.
As the most difficult period passes, the rest of the work is mainly to rehabilitate and rebuild.
At the same time, BJ City is also about to hold a commendation meeting to honor the representatives of heroes who have made meritorious contributions in the fight against floods.
Du Jie, who followed the BJ TV team to the front line of disaster relief in the summer, although it was impossible to go to the commendation meeting to receive the commendation from the national leaders, he was also commended by the school and BJ TV.
In this regard, everyone is inevitably envious and jealous!
It doesn't matter if the commendation bonus is given, the key is the honor, and if you take it out in the future, you will also have the capital to boast - "I have made meritorious contributions to the country!" ”
Although honor cannot be taken out to eat, it can be icing on the cake and add a touch of brilliant qualifications to life.
"Great director, it's just that others are envious, why are you so hypocritical?" Du Jie saw that Wang Qinian was greedy for his honorary certificate, and hurriedly put the certificate away, as if he was afraid that Wang Qinian would rob him.
"Huh, big? I don't think I'm a big director, it's still far from it! Wang Qinian shook his head and said.
"It's not easy, before the age of twenty, to shoot a work like "The Gate of Destiny", what's not to be satisfied with?" Hao Yi said with a smile.
"Everyone has a share in my movie. Du Jie is not authentic, his honor is privately swallowed by himself. Wang Qinian scolded with a smile.
"So what to do?" Hao Yi asked malicely.
"Of course, it's ripping off the bamboo and getting someone to have a treat!" Wang Qinian said with a smile.
"That's right, people who have received thousands of bonuses, if they don't invite guests, heaven will not tolerate it!" Li Xie also helped.
"The fuck of the real Nyima in this world, a group of big dogs, specializing in robbery called Hanako!" When everyone unanimously wanted to "eat big", Du Jie reluctantly went out to buy some wine and food.
Beer should be high-grade, snowflakes are not good, you have to Qingdao.
BJ's special roast duck should be Quanjude brand. And also...... Everyone couldn't think of it, so they just gathered a table and three hundred yuan, which was considered to have slaughtered Du Jie in advance.
"I'm rubbing! In this world, rich people like to rob the poor, rob the poor and help the rich! After the invitation, Du Jie was still chattering.
Wang Qinian ate the fragrant roast duck beautifully, and said with a smile: "Everyone supports me, you bite me?" ”
"Comrades, we can't be oppressed by this local tyrant and inferior gentry all day long, right? When the movie dividends arrive, you must kill him ruthlessly! Du Jie's eyes rolled quickly, and he came up with a clever plan to return the other way to the other.
All of a sudden, it attracted everyone's approval and response.
Wang Qinian couldn't help but show a "wry smile", knowing that he had set himself on fire. The bad habit of eating big people will be infected.
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September.
Throughout the country, the mainstream public opinion is still focused on the flood.
And the direction of attention in the film industry is science fiction movies!
As some movie reviews have said, September is Sci-Fi Month!
"Comet Hit the Earth" and "Gate of Destiny" are two sci-fi films that dominate the Chinese film box office market!
If, say, the second week of September. The box office performance of "Gate of Destiny" is only below "Comet Hitting the Earth", which can be considered luck.
But by the third week of September, the box office was released.
The weekly box office of "Comet Hitting the Earth" dropped to 8.47 million yuan. However, the weekly box office of "Gate of Destiny" increased to 320,000 yuan after the number of theaters screened exceeded 15o.
This already shows a problem - the box office performance of "Gate of Destiny" is actually underestimated!
If at the beginning, "The Gate of Destiny" could be like "Comet Hitting the Earth", making hundreds of copies and simultaneously releasing it in more than 5oo movie theaters, then even if the box office of "The Gate of Destiny" may not reach the height of "Comet Hit the Earth", it will definitely narrow the gap.
At this time, some people in the domestic film critic circle have begun to exclaim: "The domestic low-cost sci-fi film "Gate of Destiny" has become a dark horse in the box office market. Twenty-year-old director Wang Qinian became famous in one fell swoop! ", "The 5o small-cost sci-fi film "The Gate of Destiny" swept nearly 6oo box office in half a month, and director Wang Qinian is reported to be the top student in the college entrance examination! "The success of "Gate of Destiny" essentially relies on an almost all-round genius director. Screenwriters, directors, music, and other jobs are all handled by him. "The success of "Gate of Destiny" is not so much the success of director Wang Qinian, but the soft power of the film school. ”……
The success of "Comet Hitting the Earth" itself has been expected by everyone. After all, this is a typical Hollywood blockbuster, with first-class themes, plots, creativity and topicality. Before entering the 6 Chinese market, it had already harvested all over the world, generating more than 300 million US dollars in box office revenue. At this time, the Chinese market is not yet the world's mainstream market. Therefore, the harvest of Hollywood movies in the Chinese market is only the icing on the cake, and has little impact on its total box office size.
And "The Gate of Destiny" is a purely domestic movie. Because, in recent years, most Chinese directors have made movies with themes such as martial arts, comedy, history, etc., which makes people feel that Chinese directors only focus on the present and history, and cannot make science fiction movies.
This has a certain relationship with the relatively few science students among Chinese directors. Most liberal arts students don't know anything about science, and there are very few directors who like science fiction themes, so it is almost difficult to convince them to make science fiction works.
Although Wang Qinian didn't dare to say that his science level was very high, he had watched a lot of Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters and was influenced by a bunch of sci-fi elements. In addition, the theme of time and space travel is a little tricky. This thing can only be regarded as soft sci-fi, just a setting.
If Wang Qinian really wants to make a more strictly set time travel work, he may have to show timidity.
But I have to say that Wang Qinian succeeded!
challenged the sci-fi theme that many big domestic directors dare not touch, and it was a mess with good box office results. Such a box office is naturally nothing if it is a blockbuster with expensive investment costs.
The problem is that the investment in "Gate of Destiny" is only 5o yuan! Imagine how much investment return will be obtained in exchange for the cost of 5o yuan.
All of a sudden, Wang Qinian and his friends were crazy!
"Hey, big director, your saliva is pouring out!" Hao Yi patted Wang Qinian on the shoulder.
"Really?" Wang Qinian looked embarrassed when he saw this, and wiped his saliva.
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