1990: Starting from Baojia Street

It’s a pity that there is no regret medicine in this world. Now the producers and distributors of "Sleeper" can only swallow this bitter fruit, completely abandon the Japanese market, and turn to other ticket bases.

The overseas performance of "Sleeper" is still good. The loss of a Neon does have an impact on them, but it is not fatal.

But now, they have to pay attention to the release schedule of "Time Traveler", especially in several box office areas in Asia, so as not to have it conflict with other release schedules.

Mainland China is now in a batch film mode, and "Sleeper" failed to get a share of the batch film market. Now in Asia, they only have two relatively good box office bases: Hong Kong, China and Korea.

As for these two box office successes, the release date of "Time Traveler" in Hong Kong has been confirmed to be next month, while the release date of "Sleeper" is the month after next. There is a gap of more than a month between them, so there is no conflict in the release dates.

In Korea, the release date of "Sleeper" is scheduled for June, while the release date of "Time Traveler" has not been determined yet. Now "Sleeper" is also keeping a close eye on the developments of "Time Traveler".

If the release date of "Time Traveler" in Goryeo is close to that of "Sleeper", they will immediately make adjustments to avoid it. They will not make the same mistake a second time.

Because the Japanese market has suffered such an exaggerated blow, the producers and distributors of "Sleeper" are already a little frightened.

At least in Asia, the distributor of "Sleeper" no longer has any idea or intention to compete with "Time Traveler".

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For "Time Traveler", "Sleeper" is just a small episode. Even after half a month, its box office performance in Japan is still strong.

In just half a month, the distribution income of "Time Traveler" reached 1.47 billion Neon coins. With this achievement, it successfully squeezed into the top five of the Neon distribution income ranking list of Chinese-language films. Ahead of it are "The Sixth Sense", "Project A", "Shaolin Temple" and "Enter the Dragon".

Although there are still four movies ahead of it and it seems like the road to the top of the list is quite long, everyone knows that "Time Traveler" is destined to take the first place, there is no suspense at all.

Moreover, it doesn’t take too much time to take the first place. It shouldn’t take too long before "Time Traveler" will reach the top of the list.

Because the distribution income of the first four movies is very small, the fourth place "Enter the Dragon" has an distribution income of 16.42 billion Neon coins, the third place "Shaolin Temple" has an distribution income of 16.5 billion, the second place "Project A" has an distribution income of 16.9 billion, and the first place "Sixth Sense" has a distribution income of 17.6 billion so far.

The gap between the fourth place "Enter the Dragon" and the first place "The Sixth Sense" is less than 120 million.

Now "Time Traveler" still has tens of millions of allocation income every day, which means that as long as it exceeds the 16.42 allocation income of the fourth place "Enter the Dragon", it will be able to rush to the first place in two or three days.

Many media outlets have already prepared their record-breaking articles and are waiting to release them as soon as the data comes out.

The distribution income of "Time Traveler" is about to surpass "The Sixth Sense" to become the first place. Most fans are very happy, but there are also some fans who are not very happy, that is, the loyal fans of "The Sixth Sense".

The box office of "The Sixth Sense" is very good even among a bunch of local Japanese movies, so it has many fans in Japan.

The best performance of "The Sixth Sense" was not the box office, but the video revenue.

The videotapes of "The Sixth Sense" were only put on sale at the beginning of last year, and it has only been a year, but according to statistics, the revenue from the videotapes has reached 7.8 million Neon coins, which is close to % of the distribution income and about % of the box office revenue.

In just one year, the revenue from videotapes reached 20% of the box office, which is a very impressive result. The key is that the revenue from videotapes is still good now. Many videotapes released later are not as good as it.

According to predictions, it won't be long before the video revenue of "The Sixth Sense" exceeds 30% of the box office, a result that no Chinese-language film has ever achieved before.

Of course, even some Hollywood blockbusters may not be able to achieve such results.

Thirty percent is obviously not the end of "The Sixth Sense". As time goes by, if the revenue from videotapes can continue to be strong, it is not impossible that the revenue from videotapes will cover the box office.

If the box office is to be covered, the videotape revenue will have to be around 30 to 40 billion Neon coins.

This data may seem impressive, but many videotapes of well-known movies can achieve this sales data. However, most of the movies that reach this data have box office revenue far exceeding this data when they are released.

Such good videotape revenue shows that The Sixth Sense was not only popular with audiences when it was released, but its quality has also stood the test of time.

Even as word of mouth spreads, more and more people like this movie.

Some fans of "The Sixth Sense" believe that the box office performance of "The Sixth Sense" was not good enough when it was released.

The rationing income of more than 1.7 billion is completely unable to reflect the excellence of "The Sixth Sense". The rationing income of this movie should be at least 4 billion.

In Japan, ration income of 4 billion is a huge amount, which means the box office is close to 10 billion.

Just one piece of data can tell you how difficult it is to achieve this result. From the 90s to the present, in the six years, only six movies have achieved a box office revenue of billion in Japan.

These six movies are "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "Jurassic Park", "The Bodyguard", "Clarks in the Mountain", "Die Hard 3" and "Speed". Without exception, they are all Hollywood blockbusters.

But for some fans of "The Sixth Sense", no matter how difficult this result is, "The Sixth Sense" is worth the box office.

This time, seeing that "Time Traveler" is about to surpass "The Sixth Sense", these movie fans are a little unhappy. Although the box office of "The Sixth Sense" was not particularly good, it still held the title of the most popular Chinese-language film in Japan. Now it has even lost this title.

But the movie that surpasses "The Sixth Sense" was directed by Zhou Yan, so these fans can't just expect "Time Traveler" to not get good box office results.

Therefore, some movie fans made a request, hoping that the cinemas in Japan would allow "The Sixth Sense" to be re-screened, so that they would have a chance to keep "Time Traveler" as the number one movie.

There are many people who have made such demands, and they have even formed a considerable force.

Asahi TV also followed up the report and interviewed several fans who made the demands, and gradually, the matter fermented.

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It is not easy to re-screen a movie, and even if someone is willing to do it, it cannot be done in a short time.

The key point is, "The Sixth Sense" is not an old movie. How can a movie be re-released within two years of its release?
What’s interesting is that some fans of “A Time Traveler” think that these fans of “The Sixth Sense” are unreasonable. “The Sixth Sense” is indeed good, but it is a horror film after all, and its audience is relatively narrow. How can the box office be compared with that of a movie like “A Time Traveler”?

Even if you say that Japanese moviegoers like horror movies, that's only compared to other markets. Japanese horror movies don't have very impressive box office results. "The box office of Time Traveler is bound to create miracles. Even if The Sixth Sense is re-screened a hundred times, it won't be able to catch up with it."

When a reporter from TV Asahi was conducting a random interview at the entrance of a cinema, a fan of "Time Traveler" said this.

It must be very painful for fans of "The Sixth Sense" to hear these words.

Soon, fans of the two films began to attack each other.

Fans of "The Sixth Sense" say that the movie "A Time Traveler" is made for brainless female audiences, while fans of "A Time Traveler" say that the tone of "The Sixth Sense" is too dark and it is a niche carnival for movie fans.

As soon as the term "niche carnival" came out, the discussion between the two sides became completely irrational, and they began to attack each other's favorite movies without logic.

From the storyline to the characters, and from the camera movements to the music, we have picked out all the thorns that can be found. Even if we can't find any thorns, we will still dig out a piece of meat.

After the release of "Time Traveler", the word-of-mouth and box office performance were quite good, there were basically no black fans, and most film critics also gave very positive reviews.

Even if some film critics were not satisfied with the movie, they were very tactful in their comments and gave the film enough face.

So the quarrel between fans of the two movies "The Sixth Sense" and "A Time Traveler" caught many people by surprise.

The black organization in "Time Traveler" was actually created by Zhou Yan himself?

At the beginning, fans of "The Sixth Sense" were very restrained. After all, they also hoped that Zhou Yan's new movie would achieve good results. But later the quarrel between the two sides escalated, and many fans had lost their minds and didn't care about anything else and started cursing.

Later, some extreme fans of "The Sixth Sense" even called on everyone not to go to the cinema to watch "Time Traveler".

Such an outrageous plot stunned many normal movie fans.

The key is that the media also likes to see such bizarre events. They even add fuel to the flames and continue to add fuel to the fire.

It is very easy for the media to fan the flames. They don't even need to fabricate anything. They just need to publish what some extreme fans say, and it will naturally stir up opposing emotions.

Some unscrupulous media outlets, in order to add fuel to the fire, have begun to intensify gender and class conflicts.

But in fact, the gender ratio of fans of "The Sixth Sense" and "A Time Traveler" is similar, close to one to one. It is not like what some people say that the fans of "The Sixth Sense" are mostly male, and the fans of "A Time Traveler" are mainly female.

In addition to gender and class conflicts, the reason why this quarrel has become so popular is also related to the recent discussion in Japan about the grading system.

The Film Ethics Committee is preparing to implement a new rating system, changing the original three-level system to a four-level system, and this rating system is obviously closely related to "The Sixth Sense".

When Zhou Yan saw the news, it was already the end of April and he was making preparations for a performance in the Temple of Heaven.

Zhou Yan was also very surprised to hear such outrageous news.

He even asked Zhang Youan next to him, "Old Zhang, this wasn't done by you, was it?"

In Zhou Yan's opinion, such an outrageous thing is likely to be pushed by someone behind the scenes.

Most people might think that if there was someone behind the conflict between fans of the two movies, it must be Zhou Yan's opponent.

But Zhou Yan believes that if there is a pusher, he is more like their teammate.

Because such an incident happened at this point in time, it is beneficial to "Time Traveler" and has no harm.

Even if some extreme movie fans call on people not to go to the cinema to watch "Time Traveler", the box office of the movie will not be reduced even a little bit.

On the contrary, the quarrel between the two parties increased the popularity of the movie, allowing more people who had not originally paid attention to the movie to walk into the cinema out of curiosity.

In addition, the quarrel between the two parties will not have any bad impact on Zhou Yan. Everyone will only think that Zhou Yan's movies are good, otherwise he would not have such loyal fans.

Zhang Youan shook his head and said, "This matter has nothing to do with me. You should know me. If it was planned by me, The Sixth Sense would have been re-released by now."

Zhou Yan nodded. Indeed, according to Zhang Youan's character, he would definitely not miss such a good opportunity.

Fans of the two movies are now arguing, and fans of "The Sixth Sense" are clamoring for the movie to be re-screened. If a cinema really re-screens "The Sixth Sense" at this time, it will definitely attract a large number of fans to watch it.

In order to save face, fans will go to the cinema with emotions and support the box office of "The Sixth Sense" at all costs, and fans of "Time Traveler" will most likely respond as well.

That way they can eat both ends in the middle.

"So this is really a coincidence?"

Zhang Youan said with a smile, "It's probably an accidental incident. I paid attention to it in advance. There are a lot of fans of The Sixth Sense, and they are quite vocal, but they are not organized, and there doesn't seem to be anything behind it. If there must be a promoter, it should be the media. Because the media saw the topic and deliberately guided it, which ultimately led to this result."

Zhou Yan nodded, "The media did play a big role in this matter."

"Anyway, this matter won't do any harm to us, so let's not take action for now. Let's wait and see how things develop. If the wind blows in the wrong direction, we can intervene."

"It's okay, just do whatever you want, I'm just asking."

In fact, even if Zhang Youan was the one who pushed for this, Zhou Yan wouldn't say anything.

As for propaganda, it is quite normal to use more varied methods, as long as you are careful not to get backlashed.

Zhou Yan was not worried about this. Zhang Youan was very familiar with this kind of thing and was very good at handling it. (End of this chapter)