Sleeping is a very strange thing, sometimes you feel like you've been asleep for a long time, and you've been tossed in your dreams to death, only to wake up and suddenly find that you've just slept for less than an hour; Sometimes, however, when you close your eyes, maybe a day and a night have passed, and the moment you close your eyes and wake up, it seems to be a flick of your fingers.

Shao Yingying didn't feel how long he had been asleep, and he didn't even feel like he had slept enough, and when he opened his eyes dryly, the sunlight coming in from the window of Harry Sloan's office and the qiē in front of him were all the same thing that made him sleepy.

He knew that he slept too hard, how could he fall asleep when the box office was about to come out?

"Harry, what time is it?" Shao Yingying looked up at Harry Sloan behind his desk and asked, he could tell that Harry Sloan should have never moved his place while he slept.

"Six o'clock." Harry Sloan didn't reply.

Shao Yingying hurriedly got up and said, "I slept all afternoon? ”

"What afternoon? You slept from noon yesterday to 6pm today! ”

"And what are you?" Shao Yingying was taken aback by his sleep time, the previous propaganda of playing with his life was indeed not sleeping well, which is why he slept for so long, but after sleeping for so long, Harry Sloan still ......

"I haven't slept yet, how can I sleep if you don't wake up." Harry Sloan stretched his arm, then pointed to the pizza on the table and said, "It's a little cold, you're ordering a takeout to eat, I'll sleep for a while." ”

With the tacit understanding between the two of them, there is no need to explain too much at all. What Harry Sloan meant was that he kept an eye on the box office while Shao Yingying was sleeping, so he didn't dare to rest. Now that Shao Yingying is up, it is naturally his turn to rest. The matter of staring at the box office can be completely handed over to Shao Yingying.

Why should the box office be stared?

In fact, this is a psychological problem, in today's era, it is unlikely that the theater will conceal the box office, but I am afraid that the boss of any Hollywood company will stare at the box office when the movie is released, which is like a small business vendor who has to calculate how much money he makes after a busy day, as long as the day is not counted, there is always an itch in his heart. It's like something's hooked.

When Shao Yingying sat in front of the computer behind his desk, the first thing he saw from the website was the movie review that Harry Sloan was browsing, and after reading only a few comments, he unconsciously cracked the corners of his mouth. Fans praised him too high, so high that he himself felt that this was not his at all.

For example, some fans said: "Or become a god? Die or Die is a surreal film in which everyone is forced by life to do something, you have to make money, you have to support your family, you have to live. Either. You have to die. For today's people, especially for ordinary people at the bottom of the society, changing the quality of life in this world seems to have little to do with most people, ordinary people are trying to catch up with those who have gone ahead, and finally evolved into making money to live, to eat, to improve the quality of life, to make more money. "Or become a god? "Die or Die" makes this point very clear, at the beginning, both Shao Yingying and Fan Yiyi became candidates in order to survive. In this film, they are trying to improve the quality. Fight to become a god. Whenever I see those thrilling shots, and see the candidates in front of the camera in various postures after killing people, I always feel that I have been touched again, and this is a movie that can be touched many times. ”

Some fans said: "This is a typical very philosophical movie, in fact, all the preparations in the movie are to prove an obvious philosophical truth, that is, the trajectory of life is always from the beginning to the end, even if you become a god, you can't avoid this qiē happening." ”

Looking down, Shao Yingying deliberately didn't look at those remarks that praised himself, but spent some time scolding the film review of this movie, which read: "This is a very deliberate movie, the actors' performances have no edges and corners, the sense of the camera pursues contrast, and the story structure is obviously blowing up the balloon, what is pursued is the sound of the moment the balloon explodes, Shao Yingying's actions are all deliberately seeking an answer, it is possible that he himself has forgotten what he is seeking." ”

Seeing this, Shao Yingying smiled, he can indeed pursue an answer, but he knows very clearly what he is pursuing.

It's like there's always some talked-about lines in a movie directed by Woody Allen; Quentin is forever in pursuit of cinematic individuality; Nolan's movies are always changing ways to make you understand something, and Shao Yingying also has his own pursuit of movies.

From the pursuit of acting skills to the pursuit of high box office, from the pursuit of a little bit of his own in the movie to the pursuit of being able to tell a story of his own, he has not forgotten what he is pursuing, but he can't explain it to everyone, you can explain one, and others don't understand.

closed the movie review interface, Shao Yingying clicked on the box office at the bottom of the screen, and it was written that the box office score of 47.65 million in the first weekend really scared him!

In Hollywood's box office calculation, the box office results of the first weekend are very important, which is related to how far the box office trend can go, because Friday night is the day when Hollywood fans collectively watch movies, just like the Premier League always has to play games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, they have to consider whether the audience can match the movie premiere schedule, if it is placed on Monday, the audience can't go to the cinema to watch a movie for more than two hours after a long day of work. Don't go to work the next day?

So, Shao Yingying's "Or Become a God? Die or Die was a movie that premiered on Friday, so the box office slowly climbed during the day, and it only exploded on Friday night and Saturday daytime.

It's 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, which means that there is at least one night and one day to peak for the first weekend's results, because from Sunday night, "Gods or Gods?" The box office of "Die or Die" is about to decline, after all, not everyone can rest on Monday, and the decrease in foot traffic is the ending that no movie can control, which is an important reason why the box office results of the first weekend are related to how far the box office results can go in the first week.

According to the current shape, Shao Yingying is very satisfied with the 47.65 million results in North America, as long as this momentum continues, the single-week box office will exceed 100 million yuan.

Of course, there is another problem that must be considered here, that is, the box office decline, there are many such cases in North America, such as "Valentine's Day", which has become a rival with Shao Yingying, this movie that has been destroyed by North American film critics has a score of 52.41 million in the first weekend, but the final box office only achieved about 120 million, and its box office decline is unexpectedly fast, which also proves that Hollywood paragraph-style movies have made the audience tired, even if they have countless big names, they can only get a tiger-like ending.

In this way, Shao Yingying and Harry Sloan stared at the computer for the whole weekend, and when the box office results of the first weekend were locked at 65.27 million, he and Harry Sloan couldn't wait to jump up and jump high in celebration.

Shao Yingying was excited that he actually got such a gratifying box office result without the support of the number of jù, according to this box office result, "Or become a god? It's definitely not a problem for "Die or Die" to reach $100 million in its first week.

After the first weekend passed, Shao Yingying finally had a break with Harry Sloan, and after the two rested, they met in the company to discuss whether to change the secondary promotion of the movie, such as Shao Yingying going to Europe, letting Cheng Long and Fan Yiyi come to the United States, and also letting the American audience gradually lead several other leading actors in the movie.

After discussing this qiē, the first week box office results of the movie were released, and in the praise of the United States, in the case of the box office results of the first weekend reached 65.27 million, "Or become a god? The box office results of "Die or Die" reached an astonishing 110 million in the first week!

The box office reached 110 million in the first week, which may not be too difficult to surpass in the eyes of Hollywood directors standing at the top of the pyramid, but Shao Yingying himself knows how he got over this week, he wants to ask about the box office growth almost every minute, and he can't wait to carry a notebook with him to check what the box office is all the time.

"Shao, 110 million, if the decline of our movie in the North American box office is not too big, we are likely to win the annual North American box office championship. Do you know how long MGM hasn't been the North American box office champion? Harry Sloan was excited to walk around his desk around his desk like a child, and Shao Yingying began to relax as they did well at the box office in the first weekend of the second week.

"Harry, before I go to Europe to promote, I want to tell you something, I may not appear in the company too much in the first half of next year, next year's main movie is "007", and I will come back in the second half ......of the year."

Harry Sloan seemed to be shocked in extreme excitement: "What are you doing here?" Why leave for half a year? ”

"Don't get excited, I have some personal matters to deal with, and now the results of our three movies should reassure the bank and our investors for a while, as long as you don't invest in the place where I left, MGM can ...... according to the current trend"

"I'm not asking MGM, I'm asking you." Harry Sloan knew too well the importance of Shao Yingying to MGM, and said, "Do you think MGM and Shao Yingying are still separated now?" ”

Shao Yingying glanced up at Harry Sloan and said very firmly, "There are some things that are important to me. ”

"More important than the box office?"

"Important." (To be continued......)