The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 509: The fiercely competitive National Day schedule

The Spring Festival period is undoubtedly the biggest period of the year.

The second period after the Spring Festival is controversial. Some people think it is the National Day period, while others think it is the summer vacation period.

The characteristic of the National Day period is that the box office data in the first three days is very high, and then the box office will drop significantly after three days, and drop sharply after a week.

Therefore, from the perspective of long-term box office, the summer season has stronger box office potential than the National Day season. After all, the summer season lasts for two months, and even several batches of movies can be released.

Of course, confident movies will still be released in the first batch during the summer season. If the box office data is good and the release date can be postponed, they can take up the entire summer box office.

But the summer season also has its disadvantages. It is usually only students who have summer vacation, and working adults do not have such a holiday.

At most, we can have a few days of heat wave holiday when the weather is extremely hot. But since the holiday is due to weather reasons, how many people will go to the movies in such hot sun?
Therefore, the traffic during the summer vacation is actually not as good as that during the National Day vacation.

It can be said that these two schedules have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the box office data are not much different.

This year's National Day holiday is particularly lively.

The first one is naturally Director Zhu’s "Parasite", which just won the Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. The audience also praised it during the preview, and the box office estimate is as high as 25 billion.

The second is Star Entertainment's road comedy "On the Road to Marriage". This movie can be said to be an all-star lineup of Star Entertainment, with 2 movie kings, 1 movie queen, and the queen Qi Suling singing the ending song and interlude. The movie is estimated to have reached 20 billion.

The last one is "Crazy Stone" produced by Zhuoguang Entertainment. Now no entertainment company will underestimate the movies produced by Zhuoguang Entertainment. The two films released have both grossed over 15 billion yuan, and they are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful.

It is said that "Crazy Stone" has received very high reviews within Zhuoguang Entertainment. The only drawback is that the film does not have any heavyweight stars to support it, so the box office estimate is 15 billion.

Seeing these three films being released during the National Day holiday, several big-budget movies wisely chose to withdraw from the schedule.

Therefore, these three films accounted for 90% of the screenings during the National Day holiday.

Among them, "Parasite" accounted for 34.7% of the screenings, "On the Road to Marriage" accounted for 29.3% of the screenings, and "Crazy Stone" accounted for 26% of the screenings.

Of course, the screening rate of "Crazy Stone" in Zhuoguang Entertainment's own theater chain, Zhuoguang Cinemas, must be higher, basically on par with "Parasite". The screening of "On the Road to Marriage" was naturally cut.

The remaining two films are not only low-budget productions, but also have no big capital behind them, so naturally they don’t get many screenings.

Starlight Entertainment did not dare to have any opinion on this.

Are you kidding? Zhuoguang Cinema is originally owned by Zhuoguang Entertainment, so how come Zhuoguang Entertainment has the final say on film scheduling?

It's great that people are willing to allocate some screening time to them.

Besides, which entertainment company would be so blind as to provoke Zhanguang Technology?

With three apps with over 5 million users, as well as two extremely popular games, "Happy Match" and "Clash of Clans", if Zhuoguang Technology can have another national-level app with more than million users, then they will undoubtedly be the fourth Internet giant.

Entertainment companies are slapping Internet giants? Don’t be ridiculous! Isn’t it good to be alive?
To put it bluntly, screening resources are just a cake, and several major domestic cinema chains are the ones who divide the cake. Now, Zhuoguang Cinemas is also qualified to share the cake.

Of course, the goal of theaters is to make money, so no matter which theater it is, they would definitely prefer to show movies that can make money.

However, this requires that you can prove that your movie can make money.

If the money-making potential is similar to that of movies produced by large companies, then theater chains will definitely give priority to large companies in scheduling screenings. Compared with Zhuoguang Technology, Starlight Entertainment is just a small company.

On National Day, Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen slept until 11: am.

The main reason was that both of them drank a little bit last night and lost control of themselves.

The two of them had breakfast and lunch together, then changed their clothes and prepared to go out.

Today, Lin Shuwen wore a black slim-fit sweater on her upper body, which looked ordinary but was actually incredibly expensive. It showed off her proud figure. She wore a knee-length denim skirt and a pair of small leather boots on her lower body. Her ink-black long hair was simply tied into a bun and pinned up with a crystal butterfly hairpin. She looked like a queen.

"What are you doing?" Lin Shuwen was putting on makeup in front of the mirror when Luo Ming launched a sneak attack on her.

"Your outfit really hurts my XP."

"Get out! Don't dirty my clothes. I just changed them and I'm too lazy to clean them up." Lin Shuwen said angrily.

It was broad daylight now and she was about to go out, so she had no intention of having a big fight with Luo Ming.

Luo Ming chuckled and lifted his skirt casually. Lin Shuwen told him not to dirty her clothes, so this should be enough.

Lin Shuwen obviously didn't expect Luo Ming to be like this.

She subconsciously grabbed the dressing table, and just as she finished, her delicate eyebrows were locked, and her snow-white teeth could not help biting her rosy and moist lower lip. A long nasal sound came out with her breathing.

After a while, Lin Shuwen looked at herself in the mirror with a flushed face and felt a little embarrassed, so she closed her eyes. Luo Ming looked at the crystal hairpin on Lin Shuwen's head. There was a small gilded butterfly on the hairpin, and its wings were almost broken.

For some reason, Luo Ming wanted to see the little butterfly flap its wings even harder, so he increased his strength.

Finally, with his efforts, the whole butterfly hairpin fell off Lin Shuwen's bun under the weight, and the little butterfly on it rolled to the side pitifully.

Lin Shuwen's hair, which had just been done, was also in disarray.

Half an hour later, Lin Shuwen, wearing a black women's suit, came downstairs.

"What should I do if the butterfly on the hairpin falls off?" Luo Ming asked as he handed the crystal hairpin to Lin Shuwen.

"You still have the nerve to say that? Put it down! Let Chuchu send it to be repaired after the National Day holiday."

Luo Ming chuckled, put the hairpin on the coffee table, and then went out with Lin Shuwen.

The two drove directly to Shanghai Zhuoguang Cinema and came to the VIP box.

"What do you want to watch first today?" Lin Shuwen asked.

"Parasite, right? I want to see how you play the role of the younger sister."

Lin Shuwen nodded and asked the store manager to come over and play "Parasite".

The movie "Parasite" was filmed in Seoul, South Korea in its previous life, and in this life it was filmed in a port city in China.

In a sense, these two cities have a lot in common, such as housing prices and the gap between the rich and the poor.
After the Dragon Mark, the movie officially started playing, and the younger sister played by Lin Shuwen appeared in the first scene.

To be precise, the whole family living in the basement showed up at the beginning of the film. The brother and sister stole their neighbor's wifi, which set the tone for the whole film and also echoed the name of the film "Parasite", a creature that can only survive by relying on other living things.

The family has no regular source of income and relies entirely on part-time work packing pizzas by hand to make a living.

But the more unskilled the job is, the easier it is to be replaced. This family is the same, and they face the risk of losing their jobs and going hungry at any time.

Luo Ming didn’t recognize Lin Shuwen in the previous few shots.

"Wenwen, is this you?"

"It's me!"

"Why has it changed so much?"

"Director Zhu is very good at training actors, and I shot almost all of this movie by myself. You didn't participate much, so you definitely don't know how much Director Zhu taught me during the filming of the movie."

Hearing this, Luo Ming glanced at the screen again. To be honest, if Lin Shuwen's face wasn't so familiar, Luo Ming wouldn't have dared to recognize that it was her on the screen.

Director Zhu is indeed quite capable.

The pace of the movie "Parasite" is still very fast. After a few shots, with the brother's friend sending a stone that symbolizes making life and career prosperous, the fate of the family gradually began to change.

His friend's trip abroad gave his brother the opportunity to tutor the daughter of a wealthy family. Relying on his sister's superb skills in forging counterfeit seals, he successfully gained the trust of the hostess, thus making the older brother the first in a family of four to "parasitize" on the wealthy family.

When the brother heard the hostess's deep love for her child's art, he thought of his sister's talent and took the opportunity to introduce his sister to the hostess.

The younger sister also succeeded in impressing the hostess by using the clichés she learned on the Internet, and she also succeeded in "parasitizing" the hostess.

In the previous scene where the younger sister forged the seal, Lin Shuwen's acting was very bad, and Lin Shuwen herself was a little dissatisfied. This scene was NGed many times at the beginning. At that time, Lin Shuwen could not fully get into the role. In the words of Director Zhu, Lin Shuwen just had no similar life experience, so she had no sense of substitution.

After repeated attempts, this part was finally kept. Director Zhu felt that it was not easy to perform like this, and did not force Lin Shuwen to make any breakthroughs.

In comparison, Lin Shuwen's performance in the latter part is much better, especially the way she talks leisurely with the hostess of the rich family, which is a pure and true to her character.

The reason why "Parasite" first introduces the parasitic process of the brother and sister is because these methods are not mixed with obvious negative factors.

When there is a job vacancy in a rich family, the brother introduces his sister to work, and the sister does have the ability and talent, so from the perspective of relatives, this is perfectly normal.

But the following process of mom and dad entering the wealthy family was obviously gained by framing other people.

They first framed the driver and forced him to resign, and the father took over the position.

Then the fake housekeeper resigned due to illness and the mother took over the position.

In the end, this family successfully parasitized the rich family, and their behavior also laid the groundwork for the following plot.

(End of this chapter)