Chapter 152 The box office soared, and it was a sensation
"Lu Dao! Lu Dao! ”
The assistant was startled, and hurriedly helped Lu Chuan's paralyzed body to stand firm again.
"I'm fine, Xiao Wang, go sort out the materials and hold an emergency meeting immediately!"
Lu Chuan waved his hand with a pale face.
Soon.
On the projection screen in the conference room, the current box office comparison column chart of "Nanjing" and "Agent" began to be shown.
If Lu Chuan's box office statistics column chart is a South Korean man's bird, then Zhou Yutang's "Lonely Agent" is a pillar of optimus.
Is this comparable?
His Nanjing! Nanking! was released nationwide on April 22.
The fame of the future film master is very bluffing, and the 80 million big production is also very bullish, and he announced at the press conference that he would hit the box office of 200 million.
scared that movies in the same schedule were either raised or postponed.
Even Wang Jing, a great director of Xiangjiang, did not dare to face him head-on, and postponed the release of "Money Empire" by a week just to avoid its edge.
There are only a few movies that I haven't heard of.
What "Flowers Fall Season", what "The Other Shore", is just a number of films.
Lu Chuan didn't pay attention to it at all.
Three days after its release.
cut the box office 30.5 million.
This achievement cannot be said to be a surprise, but it can also be said to be decent.
But.
Lu Chuan never felt that it was the quality of his films, but thought about the reason why his movies were not promoted enough and the number of films was low.
He always holds the hope of counterattack, as long as the movies of the same period are not so outstanding, then he is definitely the tall general among the short ones, and he wins by word of mouth and movie connotation.
Until "Lone Agent" exploded on the first day of the box office.
The total box office of his three days is not as high as the box office on the first day.
"It's so unfair to sit on the mountain, and give "Agent" more than 50 films!"
Lu Chuan's teeth were about to crush: "What about the evaluation on the Internet?" Such an action movie, definitely because of the hype in the early stage, the audience should just watch a novelty, and the praise will drop immediately after a few days, and then the reputation will collapse."
"Director Lu, I have extracted some online evaluation data, you see."
The assistant intimately projects the collected data onto the screen.
Lu Chuan pushed his glasses, opened his eyes and looked, and his eyes were black.
Douban's latest score is out, his "Nanjing! Nanking! only scored 6.2 points, and Zhou Yutang's "Lonely Agent" scored as high as 9.1!
There are also professional film review websites such as Time.com, which also have similar scores.
Of course.
It's still in the early stages of the movie's release, and the score is definitely a bit inflated.
When the number of moviegoers comes up, this score will definitely go down.
But the basic score of "Lone Agent" is so high, even if it falls, it is a masterpiece with more than 8 points, and "Nanjing! Nanking! The current rating is only 6.5, so is there room for decline?
"Turn it off! I told you to turn it off! ”
Lu Chuan suddenly became angry, and the assistant was busy turning off the projection.
The entire conference room was silent.
Before the release, he made bold remarks and comforted himself for three days after the release.
Now when the box office of "Lone Agent" comes out on the first day of release, he is directly silent.
As long as you are not a person with intellectual deficiency, it is not difficult to see that the box office of these two movies is not a level of existence at all.
Nanjing! Nanking! According to the current attendance rate, as well as the ferocity of "Lone Agent" in the same period, the film schedule may continue to be cut.
Lu Chuan swore that the impact of 200 million was a dream, let alone 200 million, and the guaranteed hundreds of millions are not realistic, and now what should be considered should be whether it can get a box office of 60 million.
On the other hand, Zhou Yutang's "Lonely Agent", with a box office of 41 million on the first day, is not too easy to break 100 million in the next three days!
Being hung up and beaten by others, is there any comparison?
"I don't know what to do!"
Lu Chuan was both aggrieved and angry, picked up the newspaper on the table and trembled, but the headline on the front page was "Zhou Yutang and Fan Xiaopang's love affair is revealed, and the crystallization of love is about to create a box office myth".
Bang!!!
Lu Chuan threw the newspaper in his hand aside, slammed the table, and grinned in pain.
saw that Zhou Yutang's "Lonely Agent" was so fierce at the box office, and the attention and praise were so high.
His body was worse than 10,000 ants crawling.
Originally, he still had a buffer of almost a week to accumulate box office.
But Zhou Yutang's release was completely his painstaking work "Nanjing! Nanking! The road is blocked.
He is now facing his most direct competitor, Zhou Yutang, and he can't hold his head up after being beaten.
Because the total number of big screens in domestic theaters is limited.
Other words.
In the same period, if the attendance rate of a movie is high and the box office is high, then the theater chain will inevitably increase the film schedule, which will inevitably lead to the result that other films released at the same time will be compressed.
Low film arrangement.
It means that there are fewer audiences who can see this movie, unless there is a reputation against the sky, otherwise it is easy to be suppressed directly and sink directly to the bottom.
It's like a snowball in a game.
The stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker.
And now Zhou Yutang's "Lonely Agent" is obviously the dominant side, with such a high attendance rate and a good reputation, it will take a big advantage in the next cinema schedule.
The cinema side is always the most realistic.
They only look at what movies are shown to make more money for themselves.
Unless you have a row and background like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang, it will be useless to blow a few words about future masters.
"Director Lu, what should I do? Something doesn't seem right. ”
The assistant beside him also realized the problem and hurriedly asked.
"What's the panic? Keep calm! ”
Lu Chuan rubbed his aching wrist, his tone was very weak, and he glared at the assistant with a fierce look: "Don't you have confidence in the quality of my movie?" ”
"Of course I'm confident."
The assistant hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "But, Director Lu, the momentum over there is really fierce now, should we also think of a way?"
Speaking later, the assistant's tone became weaker and weaker.
He's not a fool either.
Zhou Yutang's publicity work is in full swing, the first few trailers are edited quite excitingly, and the online word-of-mouth is explosive, and now even his girlfriend asks him to accompany him to watch "Lonely Agent", for the sake of sexual well-being, he also agreed to watch it together when the time comes.
As for this film directed by Lu Chuan.
Alas, following him is just work, eating, and watching "Lone Agent" is life.
"When he wore his head and put on his suit, my blood tank was emptied."
"And his acting skills feel super good, and when he cried and laughed at the end, my old men were in tears."
"Do you feel that Zhou Yutang seems to be getting more and more handsome?"
"There is such a feeling, worthy of Jiangdong Meizhoulang, the ceiling of internal entertainment."
"In the past, Zhou Yutang was a sunny and cheerful handsome guy, with a feeling of a campus male god, and he was an ancient male god in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", but in "Lonely Agent", it seems that there is an indescribable special temperament."
"At the beginning of this year, Zhou Yutang's Jiangdong Film and Television Culture Studio was upgraded to an entertainment company, and he is now worth more than 100 million.
"Hold the grass, it seems to be true."
"The key fight scene is also good, and the fight scene with Tony Jia showed me wet."
With the explosion of "Lone Agent" on the first day, the media and online discussions about being the actor Zhou Yutang also began to swipe the screen.
Action movies are actually a relatively old genre of movies, which began with kung fu movies and were glorious in Xiangjiang in the eighties and nineties of the last century.
At that time, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie were both leaders of action movies, and the two even entered Hollywood, with a salary of tens of millions of dollars.
In recent years, "Slaying the Wolf" and "Fuse" are also very good-looking action movies.
But these Xiangjiang action movies are inseparable from the routines of police and bandit wars.
Born with the opposite of good and evil, there is some meaning of fighting for the sake of fighting.
An emotion-driven drama genre like "Lone Agent" has never been seen before.
Zhou Yutang is an exiled ace agent of the Celestial Empire, and his appearance in a suit and a cold-faced killing god in "Lonely Agent" also made the audience's eyes shine.
If Cheng Long is witty and funny, but with a thrilling action style.
Donnie Yen is the number of modern fighting and boxing to the flesh.
Then Zhou Yutang is a thug in a suit, revealing violence in elegance and blooming in the midst of killing.
If you shoot you, you will kill, and you will kill like mowing grass.
The most important thing is that it is such a human killing machine, and it also has a handsome ascetic face.
Who can withstand this?
There are countless people on the Internet searching for the suit that Zhou Yutang wears in the film.
As the spokesperson of Armani's Celestial Empire, Zhou Yutang's costume in this movie is naturally sponsored by Armani.
The movie was released in just a few days.
Baidu's hot search entry "Zhou Yutang suit thug" rushed to the first place on the search list, and the second is "Zhou Yutang's inch-headed look".
Just these days.
Even the sales of Armani in the Celestial Empire have increased by a cut.
Armani's suit is expensive, but the population base of the Celestial Empire is here, and there are many rich people.
Zhou Yutang has a large number of fans, and a small number of them have considerable spending power.
At this time, Zhou Yutang was chatting with Fan Xiaopang on the plane.
"Yu Tang, I praise you for being very handsome."
Fan Xiaopang had a few newspapers in front of him, flipping them happily, seeing the scandal story between himself and Zhou Yutang, and the flowers and branches trembling with laughter, he was very happy.
Zhou Yutang closed his eyes very calmly, which made Fan Xiaopang a little speechless, and reached out and poked Zhou Yutang's abdominal muscles: "Is it okay to give a reaction?" ”
"What's the reaction?"
"It's so hard."
Fan Xiaopang exclaimed: "Do you really have 8-pack abs?" ”
When Zhou Yutang was filming the scene where he pushed his hair, Fan Xiaopang had already completed her cameo task and finished from the crew, and she always regretted it.
"Don't move your hands and feet on the plane."
Zhou Yutang slapped Fan Binbin's hand angrily: "Do you want to come to my room at night to see?" ”
The two of them got acquainted, and their movements were a lot more casual, and they occasionally joked.
"Okay, okay, remember to leave the door for me."
Unexpectedly, Fan Xiaopang nodded again and again, with an expectant look of "there are such good things", and Zhou Yutang couldn't fix it.
On the other hand, Li Jun, who followed Zhou Yutang to run a roadshow to promote, heard these words of the tiger and wolf, and trembled like a frightened little white rabbit.
It is also a routine operation in the entertainment industry to bring the old with the new.
Last year, Zhou Yutang took Zhao Liying everywhere to promote the roadshow, which gave her a wave of fans.
Li Jian is also one of the leading flowers of Jiangdong Company, and he is also a fan of Zhou Yutang's fan, of course, he must be wet with rain and dew.
So this time the roadshow Zhou Yutang brought Li Li out and asked her to do some assistant work by the way.
As for Fan Xiaopang, he took the initiative to ask to join the publicity roadshow team.
In addition, Tony Jia will attend roadshows in the two important cities of Beijing and Magic Capital, and other places will not participate, after all, he is a star who is famous internationally, and this crooked friend is usually very busy with business.
and Ren Dahua, Leung Jiahui, An Zhijie and others will also participate in the roadshow.
However, they have to finish their activities in the Xiangjiang area first, and then come up on the route from Shencheng to Huadu.
It's boring to take a plane, so Zhou Yutang simply accompanied Fan Xiaopang to chat while watching entertainment reports.
"Three days after its release, "Lone Agent" directly won 125 million box office, hahahaha!"
"Hey, look at it, some media are hyping up your fortnightly battle again."
"The previous first-day box office record of domestic films was directed by the national teacher, Jay Chou starred in "The City Full of Golden Armor" 33 million on the first day, Jay Chou's "Slam Dunk" last year suffered from "Those Years", the box office was strongly suppressed by Zhou Yutang, and now the first-day box office record has been broken, Zhou Tianwang can be regarded as once again defeated in the hands of Zhou Yutang, a reporter photographed him drunk last night, looking haggard"
Fan Xiaopang was extremely lively, turned his head and said, "Zhou Yutang, look at you, all the bad things have been done." ”
Zhou Yutang: "."
He has a really good relationship with Jay Chou, and he agreed to be a guest on Zhou's tour in July and August.
These media have been blindly reporting all day long, Jay Chou is only one of the leading actors in the movie "Golden Armor", and Fa Ge and Gong Huang have higher coffee positions than him. Our drama is a big male lead play, and you are the absolute starring"
Fan Xiaopang flipped through the newspaper and saw that there were many reports on him, and his mouth couldn't close with a smile.
From the bottom of her heart, she was thrilled with her wise decision.
The box office of "Lone Agent" exceeded 40 million on the first day, directly creating a domestic box office record for the first day, and the box office exceeded 100 million in three days.
I'm the heroine!
Don't say that there are many scenes.
On the movie promotional poster, Fan Xiaopang is the heroine.
Anyway, don't be paid to star this time, it's really earned.
Of course.
In addition to the excitement, Fan Xiaopang still admired Zhou Yutang more in his heart.
Throughout the entertainment industry, this is really something that no one has ever been able to do.
This movie is Zhou Yutang single-handedly carrying the box office of the whole movie, which is directly full.
Thinking wildly in his mind, Fan Xiaopang's legs were folded, his toes shook slightly, and he flew towards Zhou Yutang with a wink.
Zhou Yutang had already become resistant to the charm of this female goblin, and turned his head to communicate with Li Jun: "The crew over there in "To Youth", I helped you ask Director Yang for leave, you join the group later, and this time you will come out and read more scripts, and strive to understand the role thoroughly."
Zhu Yilong is the scumbag protagonist in "To Youth", and Li Jun plays the second female lead in it, and this drama has been started.
Li Lian pursed his lips and looked at Zhou Yutang with some hesitation, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't have the courage after all.
Zhou Yutang glanced at her: "Is there something wrong?" ”
"That, boss."
Li Jun's voice was a little cramped: "Can you help me explain the script, I don't know how to play the role of Ruan Guan?" ”
"Don't say honorifics in the future."
Zhou Yutang rubbed the corners of his forehead and took the script in Li Jun's hand.
In fact, this script adapted from Xin Yiwu's original work, after he asked his screenwriting department to finish it, he also looked at it and put forward suggestions for revision.
The original story clues are messy, Zhou Yutang fixed the main line on the male and female protagonists and the two men and two women, and deleted some irrelevant branch content, which makes it more layered, and the protagonist's character behavior and lines have also been slightly changed, highlighting that the character design is more reasonable.
The actor played by Zhu Yilong is a test of acting skills, but if you want to say that it is brilliant, the role of Ruan Guan played by Li Lian will definitely leave a deep impression on the audience.
First of all, she appeared in the first shot.
It's very shocking.
Ruan Guan, who was dressed in a white dress, had long hair and smiled, pure and beautiful.
She seemed to be so beautiful that her whole body glowed, and all the boys on campus looked at her.
To put it simply, it is the white moonlight in the minds of boys.
"Well, tell me what you understand."
Zhou Yutang crossed his legs and smiled inadvertently, but Li Xuan's heart jumped for no reason.
"Well, I think Ruan Guan may be the school flower in school, the type that is very popular with boys, and then the heroine Weiwei's classmate and roommate. At the same time, she doesn't seem to be like these students."
Li Lian thought about it seriously for a while, and then gave his thoughts.
Fan Xiaopang put down the newspaper in his hand, held his chin with both hands, and eavesdropped on Zhou Yutang's lecture with relish.
Now everyone on the Internet is called the godfather of Zhou Yutang's youth films, which is a joke, but the youth films he makes are indeed classic hits.
"Let me see."
Especially this script was made by him, Fan Xiaopang was very interested, took the script from Zhou Yutang's hand, and listened to how Zhou Yutang would tell Li Li Li while watching.
"Yes, I've done a lot of homework."
Zhou Yutang glanced at Fan Xiaopang, but he didn't care, and continued to analyze Li Lian: "You remember, the very important characteristics of Ruan Guan's character on the surface are beauty and maturity, because she is perfect in terms of the character setting of this film, not only beautiful, but also beyond the maturity of her peers."
"You will find that she is living with Weiwei and learning the mode of communication, just like adults are getting along with children, Weiwei and others have encountered problems, and they are all coming to Ruan Guan to solve them"
"Boss, but I don't seem to be mature enough."
Li Jun lowered his head, his expression slightly cramped.
"It's not easy to mature."
Fan Xiaopang interjected: "Don't easily show joy, anger, sorrow and emotion, I look at the setting in this script, the heroine seems to be slightly cheerful and lively, then you usually get along quietly and gently."
Zhou Yutang glanced at Fan Xiaopang in a little surprise.
The acting skills of the four Hua Dan are all a little something.
Fan Xiaopang has been acting for more than ten years and can be regarded as experienced.
comparatively.
Li Lian and Zhao Liying, these little flowers, are still too immature.
The main reason is that the foundation is not very good, and it is obviously not enough to rely on the company's acting instructors to teach, Zhou Yutang is ready to find a way to stuff them into the film academy and follow the class to learn the basic acting knowledge of the system.
They have to improve, too.
(End of chapter)