Chapter 180: The First Day Box Office (Big Chapter)
Gently put down the form, and was about to leave quietly, Li Ammonium woke up.
Seeing Chen Jiayao beside him, he rubbed his eyes and asked, "When did A-Yao come over?" β
Chen Jiayao said: "I just arrived. β
Li Ammonium smiled, reached out to take the coffee powder next to him, and said, "Judging from the current situation, the box office situation is good." β
Chen Jiayao smiled: "I saw it, it's better than expected, thank you Director Li." β
Li Ammonium said: "Everyone's credit is just that, I hope to double it next." "He had a lot of hope.
"Today is Saturday, and it will definitely rise exponentially during the day."
Li Ammonium nodded, the cup had already been poured with ground coffee, ready to make hot water.
Chen Jiayao said: "Next, it's up to me, you need to rest like this." β
Li Ammonium yawned, looked at the sky that was not very bright, and the overnight box office reached the projection, his nervous heart finally eased a lot, and he was able to sleep well.
"Okay, remember to call me after 7pm...... No, I think I'll wake up at seven o'clock. β
Chen Jiayao smiled and nodded.
Li Yan yawned two or three more times and walked out of the house very tired.
Chen Jiayao sat down and looked at the box office number and time, each theater had a phone number.
Now that the six o'clock show should be a third of the way through, she was about to call one by one to inquire about the box office, thinking that this was the time to be tired, she put down the phone and might as well go over and ask after eight o'clock.
It will be counted so complicated on the first day, and then it will be counted once a day. This is also based on a weighty crew, if there is no weight and no fame of the crew, these movie theaters will not be impatient to count once a day, if it is good, give a count of jΓΉ once every three or five days, if it is not good, you may have to wait for the next painting to know the number jΓΉ.
After all, this is not the information age of the future, and computer ticket sales are automatically counted on the official website.
When the crew asks about the box office, as long as they call the theater headquarters, they will know how much box office that theater has sold. You don't even need to calculate.
Drop the form. Chen Jiayao had already made preparations, took out the script and original work of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" from her bag and began to ponder.
It was only seven days after the start of the film, and there was not much time, although her role was concentrated in the back. But this was not the case when shooting. From the very beginning, it was necessary to shoot in the group.
The undefeated role of Dongfang is finally attributed to an old actor named Jiang Yi.
Chen Jiayao opened the script. Dongfang Undefeated is completely a soy sauce role, and even some necessary scenes have been reduced, such as the scenes in the last scene of Dongfang Undefeated and Yang Lianting have also been simplified.
Take a closer look. Chen Jiayao found that Li Tiansheng was ready to work the kung fu of this drama.
There are many vacant places for martial arts, and it is indeed a good way for martial arts TV series to start with kung fu, which can save money and improve some reputation accordingly, but it is just a pain for the actors and action directors. The most important thing is that sometimes martial arts are well designed, but they seem cumbersome in TV dramas.
Chen Jiayao sighed, began to take the pen and began to take notes.
How should the role be played, and what is the mentality of the characters in the play? It all requires the actor to figure it out for himself.
The director has a picture in his heart, and the actor also has it in his heart.
Looking carefully, Ren Yingying's role has increased. This is expected, after all, Chen Jiayao is the only big name in this TV series, whether it is in terms of Chen Jiayao's status, or in order to increase ratings, she must be added.
After analyzing it slowly, before I knew it, it was already dawn.
It wasn't until the phone woke Chen Jiayao up from the script that she put down her pen.
"Hey."
"A-Yao, it's me."
Chen Jiayao shouted with a smile: "Brother Fa, good morning." β
Zhou Yanfa also said good morning, and then asked nervously: "Ah Yao, have you come out with the box office statistics last night?" β
Can't blame Zhou Yanfa for being so nervous, he drank a lot at the banquet last night, although he slept when he went home, he didn't sleep well, he got up early in the morning, and he was afraid of disturbing Li Ammonium's rest, so he finally endured it until dawn, and he immediately called over.
has been in the film industry for several years, and the box office is really not good, although this movie won him the title of actor, but he also takes the box office very seriously, and he needs a good box office so that he can continue to work hard in the film industry.
Speaking of him taking this movie, in addition to the challenging role and Chen Jiayao said that this movie is going for the award, there is also an important reason that he wants to touch Chen Jiayao's blessings and create a good box office.
As we all know, Chen Jiayao has starred in many movies, whether it is a commercial film or a literary film, and none of the movies has a box office of less than 10 million.
A movie with a box office of 10 million is definitely a high box office in Xiangjiang, and many actors can also be self-appointed first-line actors in movies as long as they have a movie starring more than 10 million.
And Chen Jiayao has reached 10 million in each film, which is already beyond the scope of the first line, although it is not yet possible to be with Hong Jinbao, Xu Guanjie, Cheng Long, and several movie big brothers, but it is also infinitely close.
Looking at the state of Xiangjiang movie actresses, Chen Jiayao was born, with both acting skills and box office appeal, it can be said that she is the eldest sister among movie actors at this time.
Although he was worried that the box office would hit the street again and make himself infamous with heavier poison, but in his heart, he still firmly believed that the box office would not be too bad, so he took this movie.
"By 5:40, the box office has reached 730,000, and when the number of prime-time shows increased the most, there was also an 80% attendance rate, which has great potential. Brother Fa, don't worry. β
"Seven hundred and thirty thousand......" Zhou Yunfa asked again with certainty.
Chen Jiayao said: "Yes, seven hundred and thirty thousand. β
Zhou Runfa's heart suddenly relaxed, 730,000, 730,000 in just one night, he made a lot of paintings, the total box office was only 670,000, and some were only 340,000, and now he has reached the results of many of his previous movies in one night, Zhou Yanfa breathed a sigh of relief, and there was still a sense of unreality.
It's 730,000 in one night, so how can there be 5 million in a week, and this result can be released for at least two weeks. Seven or eight million when I painted it?.
He currently has no movie with more than five million, and five million is already a blockbuster movie in Xiangjiang. Those seven or eight million? Zhou Yanfa smiled.
Chen Jiayao doesn't know Zhou Runfa's psychology, if she knows, she is likely to emphasize Zhou Runfa's ambition well.
Fortunately, Chen Jiayao didn't know that Zhou Yanfa had experienced a lot of blows at the box office, and it was very difficult for him to ignite his ambitions.
"Hang up first, and I'll call you when the box office results come out on the first day."
Chen Jiayao heard the sound of her laptop ringing.
"Good...... Good! Zhou Yunfa said two good words in a row.
Chen Jiayao hung up the phone and took out the laptop.
"Miss Chen."
Chen Jiayao heard the voice and sighed, "It's Boss Xu." β
Boss Xu's voice was a little excited: "I didn't bother you!" β
Chen Jiayao said: "No, am I awake? β
Boss Xu listened. Hurriedly said: "Our three movie theaters keep reflecting "Autumn Fairy Tale". From 8 o'clock last night to 8 o'clock now, the three of us also got a box office of 40,000 and 800,000. β
Their cinema is good if it can win 3,000 box office every week, and sure enough, a good movie is a big profit. One night. has reached their total box office results for more than a month.
Chen Jiayao was a little surprised when she heard the news. You must know that there is only one screening hall in these three cinemas. There are at most 100 seats, unlike other films that have several screenings, and there are still three or four hundred places for the big ones. Plus a rudimentary environment. In a remote place, there can be a box office of 40,000, which shows that the number of viewers is very good.
"Congratulations to Boss Xu."
Xu Quan smiled and said, "Thank you Miss Chen, Miss Chen, I wonder if you can agree that we will release this film to the maximum period specified?" β
There are three months of release in the United States, and at this time, there are countless movies in Xiangjiang, and the longest movie will not be released for more than two months, and the so-called maximum period can be ignored for these small movie theaters without a system, but they put it forward, it can be seen that they want Chen Jiayao to cooperate for a long time and decided to standardize the movie theater.
"You look at it, but Boss Xu understands that the fare and service hope can be maintained, and our side can unilaterally withdraw the contract."
Xu Quanfa listened to it and packed the ticket and said, "Miss Chen, don't worry, I still want to cooperate with you for a long time." β
Chen Jiayao said: "So...... Happy to work with. β
Xu Quanfa smiled and said, "Happy cooperation." β
Chen Jiayao hung up the phone and added the words 40,000 and 80 to the box office.
Thinking that the show at more than eight o'clock also began, Chen Jiayao began to count the theater phones on the table one by one.
By noon, the box office had accumulated to 1.51 million, and Chen Jiayao was very happy, and there was a good chance of breaking 2 million.
Two million on the first day, which is enough to rank in the top three in the few movies she has made.
Sure enough, the movie has good stamina.
Chen Jiayao notified the good news to the main creators of the crew separately, and there was more laughter on the phone, and she could completely let go of Chen Jiayao's words to invite guests.
Fu Su brought Chinese food to Chen Jiayao, and seeing that Chen Jiayao ate well, she put down the statistical table and said with a smile: "How can you also tell many people the good news, why the newspaper still hasn't gotten the news, but my portable phone has been blown up, and I want to know the exact box office results?" β
Chen Jiayao said while eating: "Don't worry, I asked them to keep it secret for the time being." I thought it wouldn't be too late to announce it after the statistics were finished at seven o'clock. At this time, it is better for them to be in a hurry. β
Fu Su smiled, her portable phone turned off when it came, and said: "When I came, I deliberately let the car go to many movie theaters, and it was really crowded, all clamoring to watch "Autumn Fairy Tale". β
Chen Jiayao was interested and said, "Come and talk to me." β
Fu Su said: "At first, there were more girls, but later there were more boys, and they all said that it was very memorable. Those reporters couldn't get the box office, so they went to interview the audience, and they also squatted in the cinema, but they got a lot of box office results in a single cinema. β
Chen Jiayao smiled and guessed that it would be like this, but there were only a few of them that they could get, and there was no way to know the real box office.
The box office number jΓΉ is more or less watery, and it will always be higher than the actual results, just like "Myth", which claims to be 33 million, but in fact it is only in the early 31 million, and the Shaw Brothers wanted a good number jΓΉ, so they superimposed two million.
Two million is more, but it is more than 30 million. Relatively not.
The movie starring Chen Jiayao is falsely reported, but the numbers are not much different, which is a common situation in the film industry to sell at the box office, and it is a kind of table to stimulate the market.
But this time she wasn't going to make a false report, she was going to have as many as she wanted, this was her first film to produce and direct, and she wanted to remember that number if she could call the shots.
Halfway through the Chinese meal, Li Ammonium and Zhou Yanfa rushed over.
Chen Jiayao put down her chopsticks: "Why are you here, Brother Fa, you don't have filming." Brother Li, you have only slept for less than six hours. β
"Stimulated by your good news. Where is there still the mood to sleep. β
Chen Jiayao said that she was a little aggrieved, she called Lin Huijia and asked her to sue him after Li Ammonium woke up. He's sleeping, how do you know?
Zhou Yanfa smiled: "There is a break at noon. Took a two-hour vacation. Take a look at it to rest assured. β
As he spoke, he took the statistical table from Fu Su's hand. Li Ammonium leaned over to look.
"According to the historical viewing index, watching movies in the afternoon is the climax, and now it is 1.51 million. After the afternoon, it can break through 2.1 million at the lowest, and if it is better, it may be able to exceed 2.5 million. β
Li and Zhou Yunfa couldn't help but be surprised when they looked at the soaring number of performances and attendance in the morning.
Chen Jiayao relaxed, she was also scared when she counted, and sometimes asked the statistics department of the movie theater to avoid making mistakes.
"By 11 o'clock, there were four more than planned, and I guess there would be five more by the afternoon
Seven. β
You know, at 10 o'clock, many of the shows are full, reaching 100% attendance.
Zhou Yunfa wanted to wipe his sweat a little, he felt that his thoughts this morning were too conservative, and looking at this situation, it seemed that he would continue to continue Chen Jiayao's box office myth.
After Li Ammonium and the two put down the statistical table, after glancing at each other, they felt that they had to be prepared for surprises when they cooperated with Chen Jiayao.
After the two-hour vacation, Zhou Yunfa didn't want to leave, because during this period, Chen Jiayao counted again, and the box office was only 110,000 to reach 2 million, and the time was only more than two o'clock.
For Saturdays, the peak is at 3 or 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
This peak has not yet come, and he really wants to see the two million number jΓΉ arrive.
His heart was beating violently many times today, and he didn't mind beating a few more times.
It's just that despite this impulse, at the urging of his agent, he can only leave.
Of course, Li Ammonium was reluctant to leave, and waited for the time, with nothing to say in the middle, but he didn't feel the slightest boredom.
Lu Songxian and other main creators also came over in person, after all, the news of Chen Jiayao telling them had a great impact on them.
Time passed minute by minute, and by the time of the statistics at half past four, the box office soared to 2.59 million, a trend that was even bigger than they imagined.
At this time, not only did the number of movies increase crazily, but the person in charge of Shaw Brothers personally came over and asked to increase the number of movie theaters, and the manager of Princess Jin and Golden Harvest Cinema also called Shaw Brothers later.
This made the three get their theater statistics on today's "Autumn Fairy Tale", and they had the feeling of seeing last year's "Mythology".
The average attendance rate is 95 percent!
Last year, the first day of "Mythology" was 4.4 million, which was based on the fact that there were countless shows, and the number of "Autumn Fairy Tales" was much worse than "Mythology", but achieving this result did give them an illusion.
For theaters, movies that can make money are the object of their stitching, not any hatred in principle, as long as the movie is a big hit and strives for the interests of the company, some people's words will be scrapped.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, all 20 Shaw Brothers movie theaters hung up the trailer of "Autumn Fairy Tale".
The rest of the theaters have also added a lot of houses, and at this time, the number of screenings of "Myth" is infinitely close.
It can be seen that the first-day box office and the first-week box office are important.
Seven o'clock finally arrived, and after half past four, Chen Jiayao and Li Ammonium didn't call again to ask about the results, they wanted to do statistics at the last moment, so as not to go up and down.
Li Ammonium asked one by one, Chen Jiayao and Fu Su made statistics, and in half an hour, the three of them couldn't help but smile when they saw the final number.
Three million 120 thousand.
Fu Su smiled and turned on the laptop.
Needless to say, as a broker, almost at the time of booting. It's just a non-stop ringing, and there is no need to dial the phone numbers of the big newspapers at all.
Xu was noisy, so he simply took his laptop and went out to answer the phone.
Li Ammonium also smiled: "I'm going to sleep." β
Chen Jiayao gestured casually, and she felt no need to remind him that there were already many reporters squatting outside Shaw Brothers.
Li Ammonium shared the pressure for him, and she had a better chance of getting out.
At this time, who was seized by the reporter had absolutely no chance to get out, speaking of which, she was also a little sleepy, she didn't sleep well last night, and she has been staying here today. It's really tiring.
Only Chen Jiayao was left in the house. She also turned on her laptop.
As soon as she turned it on, she also heard the sound of a busy call.
Chen Jiayao pressed the answer button.
An exhalation voice came from inside: "A-Yao, you finally answered the phone." β
"What's the matter, Brother Rong, the tone is not very good."
"Of course not. After calling for so long, the phone is turned off. β
Chen Jiayao smiled: "I have to declare this." In the morning, I hit your laptop in Shaw landline. But it seems that someone didn't answer it, and it was turned off later. β
When Zhang Guorong heard this, he sighed and said, "Don't mention it." The portable machine has been gone since I came back from yesterday's banquet. β
When Chen Jiayao heard this, he didn't know what to say, should he really be called the king of losing things?
"Don't talk about it, everyone says that "Autumn Fairy Tale" is full, and the box office is very good!"
Chen Jiayao was completely relaxed at this time, and she also had the heart to show off, and she was not polite to Zhang Guorong, so she said: "Of course, if I go out, the box office must be guaranteed!" β
Zhang Guorong wanted to say congratulations, but when he heard this tone, he couldn't help but change his tone, and said with a smile: "Sell less guanzi, how many are there on the first day, don't forget, I also contributed a lot to you, don't be too light on the red envelope." β
Chen Jiayao snorted lightly and said: "Three million 120,000 yuan, I paid you, and you are not an official actor in the crew, so there is no red envelope." β
Zhang Guorong couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this achievement, and he was a lot quieter for a while, completely ignoring Chen Jiayao's later words.
"Looks like I'm going to have to curry favor with you, the big producer." Zhang Guorong spoke again and said such a sentence.
Chen Jiayao said with a smile: "Okay, no kidding, don't forget to participate in the celebration banquet another day, there are many phone calls." β
Zhang Guorong nodded and said, "Okay." β
Sure enough, as soon as I hung up, the laptop rang again.
It's time to get off work, and it's a lot easier to call.
Liang Chaowei started to play at 7:10, turned off at first, and then played every 10 minutes, and when the news of the busy line appeared at 7:30, the fight was more frequent.
Hearing the familiar voice, Liang Chaowei asked about the box office results very seriously, and then congratulated him very seriously, and when he hung up the phone, Liang Chaowei sat next to the phone in a daze, obviously thinking about a lot of things to say, but as a result, he only said three sentences!
Chen Jiayao received a call from Mei Yanfang, Wang Jin and other friends, and announced the good news.
After being busy for half an hour, it was finally straightened out, and at the same time, the box office results of "Autumn Fairy Tale" have been reported.
The high box office was followed by good word-of-mouth and touting, and "Autumn Fairy Tale" once again dominated the headlines, while attracting more people to the cinema, once again inflating the box office.
Be careful to cover yourself up and slip out through the side door of Shaw Brothers.
Luckily, Chen Jiayao slipped to the parking lot.
Finding his car, Chen Jiayao sat in the driver's seat and drove out, passing by the door of Shaw Brothers Film Company.
Chen Jiayao pulled out a smile, now half an hour has passed, poor Li Ammonium is still surrounded by the crowd of reporters and can't get out.
Chen Jiayao's car has long been familiar to reporters, and at the moment when the car drove away, the reporters surrounding Li Ammonium shouted and pointed out, but how could two legs run over four legs, and they could only hold Li Ammonium harder.
Li Ammonium was quite happy at first, but as the reporter's interview became more and more detailed, and even the crew had to ask how much pure water they drank a day, and now Chen Jiayao fled again, he immediately understood that he was being used by Chen Jiayao to block the gun.
He was too excited, so he ran out with such a big grin and asked the reporter to catch it.
It is said that although he pays attention, he is definitely not as good as Chen Jiayao, and the reporter is not very clear about his affairs.
If he didn't come out, he was afraid that there would be people guarding the entrance of the film company and the parking lot, but as soon as he came out, Chen Jiayao didn't come out for a long time, so they gave up squatting and concentrated their firepower on him.
Zhou Yanfa and Lu Songxian are not good boys, and they obviously covered up their entry and exit today, and they didn't give him a word of reminder.
Zhou Yanfa and Lu Songxian are innocent lying guns, which really has nothing to do with them.
***
The car drove relatively smoothly, and while waiting for the green light, the portable phone rang again.
Chen Jiayao didn't think much about taking the phone out of her bag.
Because of driving, I pressed the answer button directly.
"Hey, hello."
The sound from the laptop almost made Chen Jiayao step on the brakes.
"Chen Jiayao, it's me, Zhou Huihua."
Chen Jiayao looked at the road in front of her and said gently, "Mr. Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time. β
Familiar music was faintly heard on the laptop, which seemed to be the theme song of "I Have a Date with Spring" she sang.
"Chen Jiayao, congratulations on your big sale."
Chen Jiayao is a little strange, since "I Have a Date with Spring" was completed, she and he haven't spoken for more than half a year, during this period, her movies have been successful many times, and he has encountered many things, he has never called, why did he call this time?
"Thank you, Mr. Zhou." Chen Jiayao said politely.
Zhou Huihua glanced at Chen Jiayao on TV, and his voice was also very flat.
"Don't pass by King's Horn today."
Chen Jiayao was made strange by these headless and tailless words.
"Why is that?"
Zhou Huihua said: "Someone sent you money to make a movie, but if you are interested, you might as well pass by Wang Jiao." β
Chen Jiayao was taken aback, what was going on?
"What do you mean?"
Zhou Huihua said: "If you don't want to be entangled today, change the car immediately, don't go home, and delete this call record!" β
Chen Jiayao was even more confused, put down the laptop, Chen Jiayao couldn't help but look at the surrounding environment from the rear mirror.
After thinking about it, she dialed Zhang Cheng's phone, he sent her to Shaw Brothers in the morning, and then she asked him to go back to rest, after all, she only counted the box office today, and Shaw Brothers Film Company was not far from home, so Chen Jiayao didn't need to pick her up.
"Brother Cheng, where are you now?"
"Where's dinner at home?"
Chen Jiayao said: "I'm on the side of the bridge now, after you have eaten, come and drive my car back, but don't go from the Wangjiao side." β
"Okay." Zhang Cheng should come down.
Chen Jiayao parked the car in the parking garage under the bridge, and then took a taxi to Mei Yanfang's house.
Zhou Huihua's words made her feel inexplicable, but she believed it from the bottom of her heart.
In a short period of contact, although he was a little in awe of him, he also knew that he was a little more complicated, but he was not a bad person, so sometimes, he asked himself to be careful, and she would still listen.
The contact record of the portable computer was deleted by Chen Jiayao after many hesitations, and after deleting it, she held the portable computer in a daze.
The taxi master glanced at Chen Jiayao several times from the car mirror, but didn't say anything.
Chen Jiayao only sat in the middle-aged driver's car because this type of person was less likely to recognize her, and she was not curious.
In fact, she was very thoughtful, and the taxi master really didn't ask anything.
After entering the community, Chen Jiayao rang the doorbell.
After a while, Mei Yanfang opened the door.
Seeing Chen Jiayao, she couldn't help but be surprised, Chen Jiayao heard the sound of mahjong inside, and said with a smile: "What, it's not welcome?" β
Mei Yanfang pushed people in and said, "No one thought that at this time, when you didn't go home and were not surrounded by reporters, you came to my house instead." β
Then he shouted with a smile to the people inside: "The big money is here, everyone will let go of the previous win on her tonight." β
The three people on the table immediately turned around and were surprised to see Chen Jiayao and Mei Yanfang.
Chen Jiayao was also a little surprised, in addition to Zhang Guorong and Mao Shunjun, the other person is Wu Mengda, a good gambling actor who is now known and hidden. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm sorry ~ I went on a business trip, and the 7,000-word chapter was presented, and I was going to write 8,000, but I found that I didn't have enough time