"Sue me for a specific number!"

"Why do you ask this?" Overtime - Gozman's voice was confused, with a little stunned, as if to say, "What are you crazy about?

"Tell me the truth, I need money! A lot, a lot of money! You tell me the truth, how many first-week box office does my film have to receive before it can move forward?

Looking at the pitch-black night sky, Ye Wei said very seriously, "Sue me!"

Gary Gozman was silent for a moment before he said: "To tell you the truth, we don't have a plan for the theatrical release of "The Wedding is Coming", the screening is to build momentum for its disc sales, and to improve your fame. With your current popularity, it is not impossible to release on a small scale, but it really needs to be screened with a good table.

Pretong doesn't have a distribution system, we are working with ifc films, and they will also run this screening, and the DVD sales will also be in the future. ”

"Well, I know......" Ye Wei responded.

IFC-Films is a subsidiary of the AMC network that distributes independent films, including My Grand Greek Wedding.

But it is mainly engaged in DVD and VOD (video on demand) business; in terms of theatrical distribution, since its establishment in 99, the average annual distribution is less than 4, except for the commercial miracle "My Grand Greek Wedding" with a maximum of more than 2,000 (108 in the opening week), and the average maximum size of each film is only about 50 (less than 3 in the average opening week), which is a small amount of money that can be determined to make some money.

"How much box office does it take for ifc to arrange 100 theaters for me in the second week?"

"According to the latest plan, you will have 1 theater during the screening week, and if you can get 10,000 US dollars at the box office in one week, it will continue in the second week, expanding to 3-5 theaters, I want to ...... with your popularity I guess so. ”

Gozman was still not blindly optimistic, and was vigilant about this result, and said: "If you want to have more than 100 theaters the next week, the box office must be more than 60,000 US dollars in the screening week, and more than half of the three days on the weekend, and the reputation is excellent! 60,000 US dollars...... Do you know how high that is? Tickets for the screening cost $7 a piece, which cost nearly 10,000 people. ”

VIY has some fans now, but that doesn't mean that there are so many fans in Los Angeles who spend time to go to a designated theater, pay $7 to buy a ticket to watch it, and say yes after watching it?

"However, it's not easy at all, in fact, it is good to receive 10,000 dollars. ”

Listening to Gozman's words, Ye Wei's brows moved, and he calculated a result, and said: "To be precise, it is 8572 viewers or people, of course it is not easy, but, Gary, every step I take is not easy, so go to it, 30,000 weekend box office, 60,000 first week box office, this is my goal!"

Please tell the people at ifc, if "The Wedding is Coming" does it, they don't rush around when the time comes, grab my strength, 100 in the second week, 300 in the third week!"

Thinking of his father in the hospital bed, his smiling mother and the carefree Duoduo, there was a fire burning in his eyes.

"It's a bit old-fashioned to say this, but I'm confident that I will create another miracle!"

......

Ye Wei's phone call made Gary Gozman really confused and funny, not that he watched Bian VIY, but young people don't know much about movie distribution, and he can't follow the crazy dreams.

There is a reason why viy is overconfident, and the heat continues to explode!

The movie edition of the Los Angeles Times has a small reminder on the side for several days that the "viy said" column will be opened on the 26th, and the movie column for 16-year-olds has been very popular, this is really news, no matter what, Ye Wei has proved to the world that he has extraordinary writing talent.

Some even put him and Christopher Paolini together and thought they were incredible.

A genius for fiction, he wrote his magical masterpiece Iralong (1998) at the age of 15, which was published in 2003 and was so successful that it was named "one of the most outstanding publications in the world of 2003". k。 Rowling's most successful best-selling author after ......

At just 21 years old, Paulini's light is shining all over the world.

So the media compares Ye Wei with him like this, which is looking for scolding. Sure enough, Bolini's tens of millions of fans scolded everywhere on the Internet: "Who is Ye Wei?", "He also deserves to be compared with Paulini!", "What did he write? How many broken comments?", "Isn't he making movies? The movie can't be made?", "He's an idiot!......

No, there is also a new situation in the movie promotion, the official website of "The Wedding is Coming" has updated the latest news of "VIY-VS-GIA", this 5-minute promotional film showdown will start at 8 pm on May 5th, and the promotional videos of the two will land on the official website!

The film's first official poster, as well as the date and location of the screening, will also be announced.

People's expectations are exploding again and again, and viy's popularity is also exploding again and again!

It's completely out of control! Maybe Lovett and they laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, but Ye Wei's team has changed their strategy, let's fry, let's fry together, rush up, as high as you want! Ye Wei just said: Go up, go up!

At the same time, Chen Nuo, who knows some IT technology, built a simple small website "W. loveviy。 Ye Wei's fan network also has his pictures, news and news, etc., and also made a "I want to watch "The Wedding is Coming" fan registration click that is not available on the official website.

As of April 23, 2004, the number of valid users was 920 after removing duplicate clicks on the same IP.

Of course, this number does not reflect the real situation, because "Ai Yewei" is not an official website, but only in the list of friendly external links on the official website. There will only be a very small number of die-hard followers who will support this part, and they will go to this website and click on it, which can only be said to reflect some changes in popularity.

And this website made Lev and Bard very excited, as if looking at a stock that had been filled by their own positions and soared all the way, "It's gone up again, it's gone up again! It's 926 now!"

"It's 927 on my side...... It's gone up again!"

"We can break through 1,000 people this weekend, that's amazing!"

The negative effects of the explosion of heat have also surfaced, not everyone likes Asians to be in the limelight, and not everyone believes in what kind of talent he is, so Viy is suffering from more and more doubts and attacks.

It's still Chen Nuo, who built another website at the same time." viysuck。 (viy is rotten) observation situation, also set up a "I want viy to disappear" registration click, there are already 136 people!ip from all over the United States, and the message board is also very lively, a bunch of people ridiculed, cursed, and despised Ye Wei, so that Lev They will not come in again after watching it, so as not to be angry with themselves by some boring people!

But there are so many people who hate viy in such an extreme, how many will not be registered?

Perhaps, there are almost as many people who love him as there are those who hate him!

......

Ye Wei ignored this, because his father's condition had not changed, and he only needed to recuperate, so he didn't go to the hospital the next day.

What he needs to do most now is not to accompany his family, not to date, not to play, but to do his best to make the damn remake of "The Wedding is Coming" and do his best!

For several days, he almost lived in the editing room, did not go to the hospital, did not go to school, came home in the early hours of the morning, and came back before the sky was fully bright. I only sleep four or five hours a day, and when my mind is tired, I do exercise, or write columns to change my brain, and the rest of the time I edit propaganda videos and feature films.

Lily called him to hang out, and Lev and they did, and he all responded the same way, not available.

Suzanne Hines came every morning, she would always see Ye Wei sitting there, if it wasn't for the change of clothes, she really thought that he hadn't moved at all, because the progress of the work was completely different from when she got off work the day before, and he was still working at night!

After all, Ye Wei was a terrifyingly energetic young man, even so, he couldn't see any fatigue on his face, but his eyes were clearly a little more crazy, as if he wanted to treat the world and himself fiercely.

This made Suzanne a little worried, her child was about the same age as Ye Wei, and she was more worried than amazed to see such a teenager working so terrifyingly.

On Friday, it was time to get off work in the evening, and of course Suzanne with family children wanted to leave, but she really didn't want Ye Wei to continue like this, and when she left, she persuaded her: "Weige, shouldn't you take a break? Are you going to stay here this weekend?"

Ye Wei's gaze didn't leave the computer screen at all, holding the mouse and clicking on something, and replied casually: "I'm OK, it's okay, I'm OK, you go, I'll stay for a while." ”

"Hey, well, you pay attention to rest, don't get tired too. ”

After I don't know how long, after cutting a scene, Ye Weicai suddenly said, "OK." He turned his head to see that he was the only one left in the editing room, and Suzanne had left at some point. He stretched his hands and feet a few times, and then went on to work on the next scene.

Dinner has not been eaten, his stomach is gradually protesting, he picked up his mobile phone to order takeout, but found that there was no battery, and he forgot to charge it last night......

He patted his stomach, got up and walked around the editing room, ate all the packets of cookies on the coffee table, and went back to his desk. Although he was still a little hungry, he would forget about his work, and after a while, he was completely absorbed again.

The night was getting darker, and the lights in the editing room were always on.