1990: Starting from Baojia Street

After hanging up the phone with Xu Xiangjie, Zhou Yan pulled the box next to him in front of him.

This box is filled with Zhou Yan’s personal music albums, from "Piano Boy" to "Rain Bells", totaling more than a hundred.

There are more than a dozen such boxes in his office now.

These dozen or so boxes contain a total of 15 million music albums, all of which are Neon-language versions shipped from Neon. Zhou Yan's task is to sign these albums.

Liu Hang also suggested to Zhou Yan that he should find a special "ghostwriter" to help him sign the albums, but Zhou Yan disagreed and insisted on signing all the albums himself.

If he signs himself, there is no way to increase production, as he usually has no time to sign.

These more than one thousand Japanese versions of the album were specially signed to Yingfeng Company for promotional activities.

For these more than one thousand signed albums, Yingfeng communicated with Zhou Yan several times and finally succeeded in convincing Zhou Yan.

Since he happened to have some time today, Zhou Yan took the time to sign the album.

Although "Time Traveler" has been released in Japan for more than 20 days, Yingfeng's promotional activities have not stopped, and are even more powerful than before.

The reason why Yingfeng worked so hard was that the results really exceeded their expectations.

Before the movie was released, Yingfeng was very confident about "Time Traveler", otherwise they would not have gone to so much trouble to get the distribution rights of this movie in Japan.

However, they estimated that the revenue of "Time Traveler" would be around 2 billion, and they never expected the current situation.

After the last data on ration income of more than 1.9 billion came out, the data was updated to just over 2 billion the next day.

Although the difference between more than 1.9 billion and just over 2 billion is not that big, the significance is completely different, because the highest-grossing movies in Japan so far this year are the co-produced movies "Doraemon: Nobita and the Clockwork City" and "Doraemon Family: The Mysterious Challenge of the Phantom Thief Doraemon".

These two movies were released side by side on March 8th, and their box office revenue has just reached 2 billion yuan so far, and there has been almost no increase in the following period.

If nothing unexpected happens, these two movies will be released for two months before their box office revenue increases any further.

"Time Traveler", which has been released for more than 20 days, came from behind and became the number one in this year's Japanese movie box office rankings.

Two Chinese-language films have achieved the number one spot on Japan's box office rankings. One was "Project A" released in 1984, and the other was "Enter the Dragon" released in 1973.

Among them, "Enter the Dragon" occupied the top spot on the list for a relatively long time, because it was released in December 1973, and according to Japanese rules, the rationed income should be counted into the second year.

In other words, "Enter the Dragon" was one of the first films released in 1974, and it eventually won the second place that year, second only to "The Exorcist" which won the first place.

"The Exorcist" was released in July 1974, which means that from December 7 to July 1973, "Enter the Dragon" was ranked first on the Japanese box office rankings.

This shows how strong Bruce Lee's influence was in Asia at that time.

Therefore, when "Time Traveler" topped the Japanese box office rankings, everyone began to pay attention to whether this movie could break the record of "Enter the Dragon".

Most people think that is unlikely.

Times have changed. Now, Hollywood blockbusters dominate Japan's box office rankings. In July, Japan will release a very powerful Hollywood movie - Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World.

The previous film, "Jurassic Park," was released in Japan in July four years ago, and it won the first place in Japan's box office rankings that year, earning a distribution income of up to 83 billion.

Themes such as dinosaurs and monsters are very popular in Japan. Japan also has series of movies such as Godzilla, which have very good box office performance.

For a movie with such great performance as the predecessor, the box office of the sequel will usually not be bad either. The industry predicts that "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" has the hope of getting a distribution income of to billion.

With the current performance of "Time Traveler", it is basically impossible to reach the distribution income of 6 billion, let alone 8 billion.

Now the distribution income of "Time Traveler" has just exceeded 2 billion. If it performs well in the next few days, the distribution income in the first month can reach a very considerable 2.5 billion.

Even if the performance was better, the rationed income in the first month would probably not reach 3 billion.

Even if the first month's rationing income can reach 3 billion and is successfully delayed to May 12, it is impossible for the rationing income of the next month to be the same as the first month, right?

Therefore, most people believe that "Time Traveler" will sit on the top spot for more than two months, which is far from the seven-month record of "Enter the Dragon".

Of course, it’s a bit regrettable that this record cannot be broken, but it doesn’t matter. After all, this era is very different from the past.

But gradually, people found that the situation was not what they thought.

The rationed income in the first 17 days was more than 1.9 billion yuan. After that, it took only a day and a half for the rationed income to exceed 2 billion yuan, successfully surpassing the two Doraemon movies produced by Pianying and topping the box office.

Then, more than five days later, the ration income data for the previous 24 days came out, and it actually reached 2.5 billion.

Five days later, the distribution revenue of "Time Traveler" reached 2.9 billion.

This figure still did not exceed 3 billion, but the problem is that from the 18th day of the movie's release to the 30th day of its release, a total of 13 days, the distribution income of "Time Traveler" increased from 1.9 billion to 2.9 billion, a full 1 billion increase.

On average, the daily increase in ration income is as high as 77 million Neon coins.

Let's trace the data back to the ninth day of the release. At that time, the distribution income of "Time Traveler" was 1.3 billion Neon coins. By the seventeenth day, the total increase in eight days was 600 million, and the average daily increase in distribution income was 75 million Neon coins.

This data is very scary. Some professional research institutions have published reports saying that no Japanese movie has ever experienced such a decline in box office.

It seems that the increase from an average of 75 million Japanese Yen coins per day to an average of 77 million Japanese Yen coins per day is only an increase of 2 million Japanese Yen coins. However, this statistical method has never been used in previous movies. If any previous movie uses this survey method, it is impossible to reverse the decline.

Not to mention a reversal of decline, according to this statistical method, it would be good if the data did not show a halving.

Generally speaking, after a movie is released, the data from the tenth to the seventeenth day is much higher than that from the eighteenth to the thirtieth day.

Compared with these two stages, the attendance of many movies was cut in half, and then the screening schedule was cut in half again. After the two cuts, only one-fourth of the box office was left, so it would be considered good if they could maintain half.

This situation shows that the box office of "Time Traveler" in Japan has not declined and will be able to remain strong for a while.

At this time, most people still believed that even if "Time Traveler" could remain strong in Japan for a while, it would start to fall in the first half of the second month.

At this time, Yingfeng Company is still stepping up its publicity efforts.

They sent so many albums to Zhou Yan for him to sign because they also wanted to use them for promotions.

Yingfeng had used albums for promotions before, and at that time, it used more than 200 signed albums. After final evaluation, these 200 albums directly brought 10 million neon coins in income to "Time Traveler", and the indirect income to the movie may be five to twenty times higher.

Since the album promotion was so effective, Yingfeng decided to strike while the iron was hot and continue along this route.

They will not only use signed albums for promotions, but also various things related to Zhou Yan.

For example, the violin that Zhou Yan had played on stage before was officially certified and then used for activities, and music fans were surprisingly very fond of it.

Scarcity makes things valuable. There are very few Zhou Yan-related and officially certified peripheral products circulating on the market. Many times, even if music fans want to spend money, they don’t have the opportunity. When something comes out at this time, they don’t care what it is and they all rush to grab it.

Yingfeng’s publicity work was not in vain, and Zhou Yan’s signed albums were not in vain.

Originally, "Time Traveler" was very popular in Japan, and this time Shadow Wind gave it a boost in the middle, raising its popularity again.

Starting from the second month, the single-day box office of "Time Traveler" not only did not show a significant decline, but it even reached the peak on some days.

From May 13th to May 20th, a total of eight days, the distribution income of "Time Traveler" reached more than 600 million, which is basically the same as the average distribution income of the previous stage.

From May 20th to May 25th, in six days, the ration income was 420 million Neon coins.

By this time, it had finally declined a bit. During these six days, the average daily increase in ration income was 70 million Neon Coins, which was 7 million Neon Coins less than the previous stage.

Based on this single-day box office, it is definitely impossible for the box office to reach 6 billion in two months and 61 days.

And even if it remains at 77 million neon coins per day, it will only increase by 2.3 billion in 30 days a month.

But there is a key question: who said that a movie can only be released for two months?
Although "Time Traveler" has been released for more than a month, the film still maintains a daily distribution income of more than 70 million and a box office increase of more than 100 million.

With such results, it can be basically concluded that the next drawing will be delayed.

Movie theaters are not stupid. Since they can make money, why not continue to show the film?

The distributors are not fools. As long as the cinemas are willing to continue showing the film, they will not withdraw voluntarily.

Generally speaking, the longer a movie is released, the more it will sell in the future, including DVDs and television broadcasting rights.

However, the more popular a movie is, the more expensive the DVD and TV broadcasting rights will be.

Therefore, there is a balance between the two. When the increase in box office revenue is small to a certain extent, even if the cinema does not take the film down, the distributor will still have to take the film down while there is still some popularity, to ensure that the DVD products and TV broadcasting rights can be sold at a high price.

Given the current situation of "Time Traveler", both parties are certainly unwilling to take it off the screen. My goodness, even a new movie that has just been released doesn't have this result, so how could it be taken off the screen at this time? It will definitely continue to be released after two months.

It is basically impossible to expect the distribution income to reach 6 billion Neon coins after two months of release, but what if the release time is extended to three months? Is there hope to get the distribution income of 6 billion Neon coins?
If the distribution income of "Time Traveler" can reach 2 billion neon coins, is there a hope that it will be higher than "Jurassic Park : The Lost World"?

Then the time that "Time Traveler" spends at the top of the Japanese box office rankings will surpass "Enter the Dragon" and set another record.

By that time, breaking this record doesn't seem to be a very important thing, because in this case "Time Traveler" will have a chance to win the box office championship in Japan this year.

As for Japanese local movies, the previous highest Doraemon box office has been surpassed by "A Time Traveler". The currently released "Paradise Lost" has performed well, but judging from the situation after being released for half a month, the gap with "A Time Traveler" is huge, and it is basically impossible to even reach the 3 billion allocated revenue.

The performance of "Neon Genesis Evangelion: 3.0+1.0" to be released in July may be good, but it probably won't be too high. The performance of this type of movie will not be too bad, nor too high, and will be stable within a range.

The most anticipated local film, "Princess Mononoke", has not yet announced any news on its release, and it is unknown whether it can be released this year.

As for Hollywood movies, "Sleeper" has been forced to be withdrawn from theaters early by "Time Traveler". The "Star Wars Special Edition" to be released at the end of May may perform well, but it should not be too high.

Other films such as "The Fifth Element", "Speed ​​2: At Sea", and "Independence Day" are all strong competitors, but it would be difficult to allocate income exceeding billion Neon coins.

It is normal for the 6 billion allocated income to win the annual box office ranking championship. After all, the allocation income of "Mission Impossible", which ranked first in the Neon box office ranking last year, was only 3.6 billion Neon coins.

If "Time Traveler" can really get the first place, it will break many records. It will become the first Chinese-language film to win the Japanese box office ranking championship, and it will also be the first non-Hollywood overseas film to win the Japanese box office championship.

In the past ten years, the only time that the top-ranked movie in Japan's box office rankings was not a Hollywood movie was in 1992.

In a sense, "Time Traveler" is expected to break Hollywood's monopoly in Japan.

Therefore, many of Zhou Yan's fans in Japan shouted a slogan: Keep the championship in the East! (End of this chapter)