Chapter 396: Record-breaking box office, terrifying movie returns
The movie "Saw" has ended, and the lights in the theater are on, but Wesker still hasn't completely come out of the plot.
He himself actually doesn't like to watch horror movies.
Even Paiki Pictures has very few such small-budget horror film projects.
After all, such a movie, although there is also a certain market on the American side.
But after all, it is a method that some small film and television companies like to use, and for Paiqi, it is completely impossible to invest in this area.
They have more lucrative film and television projects.
Under such a premise, it also leads to the fact that the CEO of Wesker, the company, actually has some disdain for this type of movie.
The main reason is that there have been more than some successful cases of small box office success before.
On the contrary, it is more of a shoddy horror film that cannot be put on the table.
But after watching this "Saw Horror", Wesker's stereotype of horror has basically completely changed.
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"No, I'll have to watch it again!"
In his mind, the scene of the last scene of the movie, the scene of the big boss jigsaw getting up from the ground has been lingering in his mind.
The reversal of the plot is not only shocking to Wesker.
Also, I always feel that I have overlooked too many details before.
Although this horror film also has a lot of scary parts in the process.
But not only did it not persuade people to quit, but the more people recalled the plot, the more they liked it.
What's more, the producer of this movie turned out to be his own son Martin.
Although he is not a director, he was able to observe it from the day he went to see Martin.
The main person in charge of this movie is still Martin.
This makes Wesker even happier than a hit movie under Page's own.
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"Mr. Martin, the box office for the first day is out."
At the same time, in the American branch of Tongji Entertainment, which Martin Mason is in charge of, everyone's faces are not good-looking.
"I have expectations for the box office on the first day, so let's just say how much."
Martin also spoke at this time.
"Chainsaw" did not have any publicity in the early stage, and the leading actors were basically unknown young actors.
So Martin didn't think that he would be able to get too high a box office on the first day.
"Three hundred and seventy thousand dollars."
However, although he had been mentally prepared before, after hearing such box office results, Martin still had an unnatural expression.
Although it is said that there is no publicity and drainage of well-known actors.
But on the channel of the theater, relying on his identity as the second son of Pai Qi, he basically talked about it.
Even if the number of films scheduled is relatively small, so many theaters still only get more than 300,000 US dollars at the box office.
It proves that the attendance rate is indeed extremely low.
"By the way, are the scores on the rating site out?"
Still holding on to a glimmer of hope, Martin asked again.
"The number of raters is not enough, and there is no specific score for the time being."
Hearing this, Martin finally couldn't hold back.
Such a result and a start were something he had never thought of before.
He originally thought that the movie "Chainsaw" was of such high quality, even if it did not have a high box office in the front, but the follow-up would be able to counterattack sooner or later by relying on word of mouth.
It's just that now it seems to be a little difficult.
Of course, Martin is not one to sit still, and has faith in the film.
In fact, the most important thing now is the lack of publicity.
Martin decided to immediately apply for relevant publicity funds from Xu Ji's side.
At least you have to know whether your movie will succeed this time.
And not because of the problems in publicity, the impact
The final box office results.
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Just when Martin was about to put it into publicity, on the second day of the release of "Saw Horror", he suddenly appeared in the hot search of the biggest social media in the United States.
This was obviously something he hadn't thought of before.
"It's the big internet celebrity named Robbie who specifically promoted our movie!"
The director of "Chainsaw" said to Martin with an excited face at this time.
Robbie has more than 30 million fans on the whole network, and his influence is huge.
Specializing in reviews of dramas and movies.
Being able to get his recommendation is basically worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the scale of preaching.
At this time, Martin was unexpectedly silent, but not so excited.
Others may not know, but he still knows.
Robbie, the film critic of this Internet celebrity, has actually always had a cooperative relationship with Page.
The relationship with Paiki is also very good.
If nothing else, this should have been instructed by his father, Wesker.
This made Martin feel quite unhappy.
Originally, he planned not to rely on Patrick to make a career on his own.
Although it was inevitable that he had used his identity as the second son of Pai Qi before.
But almost everything Martin could avoid was avoided.
Unexpectedly, in the end, he was secretly helped by his father.
Of course, although Martin is dissatisfied, he is still happy to see that the box office of "Chainsaw" is soaring rapidly.
The next day, the box office of "Chainsaw" rose from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than 3 million.
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And then it really got out of hand.
Robbie's recommendation was just a fuse, and viewers who had seen this movie began to help spontaneously promote it on the Internet.
The plot of the movie is indeed exciting, and many people who have seen it even if they walk out of the theater, when they think of the ending, they still can't help but scream.
On the third day, the box office of "Chainsaw" completely ushered in an explosion.
directly won more than 10 million US dollars at the box office in a single day.
directly broke the single-day box office record of horror films in recent years.
What's more, on the most authoritative rating website in the United States, the rating of "Saw Horror" is as high as 9.0.
The audience's freshness of the film has reached 98%.
Especially the part of the ending, many viewers couldn't help but call "" on the Internet.
The more this is the case, the more curious the rest of the American masses who have not seen it become.
began to buy tickets and walked into the theater.
And the number of films scheduled has also exceeded more than 30 in just three or four days from the single digits at the beginning.
There was even no publicity for the theatrical aspect at all.
Now he simply placed the movie poster of "Chainsaw" in the most conspicuous place in the theater.
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"Chainsaw" was released for a week, and the cumulative box office directly reached more than 60 million US dollars.
On average, the box office on the day is about 10 million.
And even if a week has passed, the popularity of this movie on the Internet has just begun to ferment.
More audiences will enter the theater in the future.
You know, the investment cost of this movie is only less than five million dollars.
The yield is almost 10 times more than terrifying.
At the call of the company's employees, Martin held a celebration banquet.
Although it is not the first time that Martin has held a celebration banquet.
In order to cheat money from Wesker before, in fact, the related movie celebration banquet was much older.
Of course, as for whether there is a need to celebrate, in fact, Martin himself knows it.
So this time and
His previous experience was completely different.
He looked very excited.
I really succeeded.
At the beginning, I always felt that Xu Ji was fooling people.
But now Martin knows that what the other party said is true.
I thought of what Xu Ji once said, to completely conquer the entire American film and television industry.
Even trampled all the eight major film studios under his feet, Martin felt that he was now ambitious and very longing for the future.
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Meanwhile, on the Paige Pictures side, Wesker is on the phone with some of his old friends.
"Saw Horror? I don't know."
"Well, it's just a child's doing, you know, Martin's kid, he won't listen to me."
"It's not clear, I'll have time to ask him."
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Wesker hung up, though it was a no-brainer.
But in fact, the expression is quite proud.
This "Saw Horror" has already created the best result of American horror films in recent years.
Although it's only been a week since it was released.
But according to the current box office growth trend, the box office that can be obtained in the end is at least 200 million US dollars.
Such a result is already a very good result in many feature films.
What's more, this is still an R-rated horror movie.
What's more, the investment in this movie is not even five million dollars.
Proper low-budget film.
In terms of yield, even if it is placed on Pai Qi or other eight major films, it is difficult to see.
Although it is not Paiki's project, the money earned is not his own.
But the film project was in charge of his own son, which made Wesker happier than Page's own money.
"Mr. Wesker, do you need to contact Master Martin?"
"Let him come back."
The assistant asked.
After all, Martin had a good result this time.
And it can also be seen, because this Wesker is also quite happy.
Presumably at this time, the other party is very willing to see his son.
When Wesker heard this, he was also a little moved.
But after hesitating, he waved his hand.
"Forget it."
"Now that kid is getting down to business, I won't bother him."
"Just tell me about him from time to time."
The assistant didn't say anything after hearing this, and nodded silently.
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But not everyone is so happy.
Wesker had two sons.
Martin is the second son, and he has always been recognized as a second-generation gentleman, who does not learn and has no skills.
belongs to the representative of the disgrace to Page.
Unlike Martin, his older brother Kayden Mason is the perfect successor to Page.
Kayden himself graduated from a prestigious school in the United States.
After graduating, he joined Paiqi and started from the most basic work.
Now he is one of the managers of Paiki's headquarters.
At the same time, there have been many quite impressive results, and the final return rate of the film projects he is responsible for is very good.
Among them, there is a commercial film that has won more than 300 million box office.
Basically, the outside world now agrees that Kayden must be the heir of the future Picki.
After all, compared to Martin, the gap between the two is too huge.
If Wesker wasn't stupid, then Patrick would have to be in Kayden's hands.
"It's a box office of 70 million a week, and it's a movie with an investment of less than 5 million."
"How is this possible?"
Kayden was in disbelief.
Especially although the outside world didn't say it, but now the circle is all over the circle, and Martin is the person in charge of this "Chainsaw".
"It's just luck, it's not our project for Paichie."
"Don't worry, Mr. Caydon, Martin won't affect you."
Cayden was followed by a department manager from Page.
Everyone is not stupid, since it has basically been determined that Cayden is the heir to the future Picki.
Then you must take advantage of the fact that you can still get in touch with each other.
At that time, Kayden inherited the company, and he must have been promoted and raised.
Cayden nodded when he heard the department manager's words.
"That's how it should be."
"But that's good luck, why don't I have that luck."
Cayden spoke.
He knew this younger brother of himself too well.
It's completely an unlearned character.,All I think about is how to cheat money from my father.。
There is no other explanation for such a person who is responsible for the film project to get such good results except luck.
It is difficult for him to admit that his younger brother Martin is actually a very powerful person, but he didn't show it before.
Kayden didn't really care about Martin asking for money and drinking or anything.
He just hopes that the other party will not affect his inheritance.
As for the rest, it was actually a trivial matter for him.
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The results of the box office in the first week of "Saw Horror" also came back to China.
Of course, the main concern about this matter is actually the people of Tongji Entertainment.
At present, this film has not been released in China, so basically many people don't know that this is a movie produced by Tongji Entertainment and written by Xu Ji.
Seeing the news that more than 10 million was close to 70 million US dollars in the first Saturday, Xu Ji was actually a little surprised.
Because he remembers that in the last life, although "Saw Horror" actually exploded at the box office, it definitely didn't have such good results.
The final box office should be about $100 million, and it is still a cumulative box office worldwide.
But now, the United States market alone is basically sure to be able to break 100 million.
However, the influencing factors of the market and the times of the two worlds are also very large, and it is not a thing that is completely beyond the understanding.
Of course, in fact, in the last life, what really made money for "Saw Horror" was not the box office of the movie.
It's the value of the subsequent IP, as well as the sales share of the audio tapes in the video hall, and so on.
In this life, it is estimated that there is no chance, and the image halls in the United States and Huaxia have basically been eliminated.
However, it can make another profit on the network copyright.
It seems that that Martin is not entirely incapable, and it was also a correct choice to hand over the American company to the other party in the first place.
Xu Ji had already begun to think about what kind of script to give Martin next.
That guy is also anxious, this "Chainsaw" has only been released for a week, and he has already begun to ask him for the script of the next movie.
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