Chapter 24 Heaven and Earth are all together
November 5th, another Monday, the day when the weekly box office rankings were released.
Early in the morning, the publicity team of "Peking Holiday", which recorded the show until late at night last night, got up early and gathered in Wang Wei's suite.
The smoke in the suite was very heavy, and the ashtray was full of cigarette butts - Zhou Lin and Xu Daoxing couldn't help but smoke as soon as they came, until they were all driven to the balcony to smoke.
Shen Zhenyi and assistant Xiao Wang opened the window to disperse the smoke, and chatted about something.
Wang Chuanqi walked back and forth, kept looking at his watch, and made a phone call from time to time, and answered another phone.
Everyone is patiently or anxiously waiting for the weekly box office results.
It stands to reason that this is not the case.
In the first three days, "Peking Holiday" achieved a box office of more than 50 million, and everyone should not need to worry about anything.
But, it's very different.
The situation of "Peking Holiday" is too special.
Everyone knows that its box office explosion in the first week mainly relied on the hype of the wealthy melon.
Although they are confident in its quality, in the hearts of many people in the crew, when the first wave of melon-eating people is unloaded, the box office explosion of "Peking Holiday" will come to an abrupt end.
Unexpectedly, in the second week of release, the situation was completely different.
Accidentally becoming a Ru in the melon field of the Guo family's wealthy family is certainly a wave of strong thrust.
But the praise from the critics, the fanatical support they came out to witness for themselves, and the fact that they crushed strong opponents on all fronts...... all made them realize that "Peking Holiday" is already a phenomenon!
Everyone finally has a sense of participating in the creation of miracles, instead of the feeling of nothingness floating in the sky and not knowing when to land.
Naturally, there is anxiety.
The weekday box office trend is exciting, but it's not enough, and the real hit is definitely on the weekend.
How far can it explode? Can it work miracles?
Including Wang Wei is the same.
He stood silently in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, the scenery outside was picturesque, but his eyes were empty, and he was not in the mood to appreciate the scenery at all.
God knows, at the beginning, his box office expectations for "Peking Holiday" were only about 50 million.
Yes, the reference template "Roman Holiday" is a classic, and it also achieved an amazing box office at the time of its release.
But the time and space are different, the times are different, the directors, actors, and even many plots are different, making the box office results of the two movies almost completely useless.
- He chose this movie to help Shen Zhenyi create a classic screen image, and by the way, pay tribute to another time and space where memories begin to blur.
Now, the princess played by Shen Zhenyi is more charming than the princess in Rome.
According to his original intention, this thing is done!
- He chose this movie because he also wanted to break the curse of Dunhuang's "difficult to make a film" in one fell swoop and reverse the downward trend of Dunhuang.
By his original standards, this thing was done!
But why is there still pressure?
Because there's more to look forward to.
Because he knows that no matter how many classics he brings out in the future, it will be difficult to gather all the favorable factors like "Peking Holiday".
If he can't create some miracles with such help, how dare he want to create more miracles in the future?
Therefore, this is related to the degree of recognition of his magic reform classics in the current time and space, and it is also related to his own positioning in this era.
Wang Wei is both sure and unsure.
Especially at such a time, when you can only wait patiently for the results to come out, waiting for the market to give you a judgment.
So my heart burned.
In the anxiety, he thought again: In fact, there is no need to worry.
Regardless of the popularity of the roadshow feedback, or the data from multiple dimensions such as the theater scheduling rate, attendance rate, and audience word-of-mouth, it all shows that the box office of "Peking Holiday" will continue to explode in the second week.
It's just that I want to think so, but my eyes are still unfocused.
The atmosphere in the suite was still tense.
Finally...... At 9:31, Wang's mobile phone rang rapidly.
Wang Weihuoran, who was standing in front of the window in a daze, turned around.
Lao Zhou and Lao Xu rushed in from the balcony without even extinguishing their cigarette butts.
Shen Zhenyi and Xiao Wang also stared at Lao Wang.
Wang Chuanqi quickly connected the phone, and when he heard the first sentence inside, his eyebrows raised.
The hearts of the people were relieved.
I saw that the more he listened, the higher his eyebrows raised, and finally even his mouth opened wide.
Lao Zhou was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and couldn't help but say: "How to say, how to say, you turned on the speakerphone!" ”
Lao Wang did not respond until the end of the phone call.
He hung up the phone mechanically, his face flushed, and suddenly swung his fist fiercely: "Yay! We've broken records! ”
"We were the first in the box office list last week, with a total of 156 million yuan, breaking the box office record of domestic films in the second week!"
"The highest single-day box office is 36.59 million on Saturday, breaking the domestic single-day box office record!"
"We're number one!"
"Oh my God! Breaking the record? ”
When everyone heard this, they were first shocked.
Then he clapped his hands and cheered: "Yay, we really did a miracle!" ”
Wang Wei also clenched his fists fiercely, "Awesome! ”
His mind flashed through the data of various records.
The weekly box office of 156 million should be ranked fourth on the weekly box office record list.
But the top three are all first-week box office - "Peking Holiday" did break the domestic second-week box office record!
If this is not remarkable, the single-day box office record is even more worth mentioning.
Previously, the single-day box office record was 36.09 million set by director Ye Shuhua, and "Peking Holiday" was only 500,000 higher.
But to exceed is to exceed, and "Peking Holiday" has trampled all the past masterpieces under its feet in this single item.
God, this is just a romance movie, or a low-budget romance movie.
Miracles, miracles without a doubt!
All the pressure is released at this moment, and all the expectations come true at this moment.
Everyone involved in this miracle was honored, yelling, jumping and jumping like a child.
And before Lao Wang could join the celebration, a call came in.
He is the distribution manager of China Media Group, one of the five major companies of China Entertainment, Zhao Zhihou.
"Chuanqi, it's good, this time you can be regarded as fighting for the old man." Zhao Zhihou had a good relationship with Wang Wei's grandfather.
"Leave the overseas distribution of "Peking Holiday" to me, the conditions are easy to say, I will definitely not let you suffer......"
Lao Wang suppressed the excitement in his heart, politely greeted a few words, and knocked on the specific negotiation time.
As soon as I hung up the phone, someone called again.
He is the International Distribution Manager of Asia Entertainment.
"Mr. Wang, the overseas distributor of "Peking Holiday" has not yet been decided, let's talk about it......"
“……”
As if an appointment had been made, executives from several film giants called one after another.
Even Tangyu Media, one of the Big Five, is no exception.
The vice president who called never talked about his own disgraced "Speed Moment", praised "Peking Holiday", and then also said that he wanted to win its overseas distribution rights.
Lao Wang agreed on the negotiation time one by one, and then put down the mobile phone that was already hot.
At this time, his excitement had gradually calmed down, and his expression was a little complicated.
"What's wrong? Isn't that a good thing? Wang Wei, who couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, asked him.
"Nothing." He shook his head, paused, and suddenly sighed: "I just think that heaven and earth are really working together!" ”
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