Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 618 New Type of Web Drama

The time came in the afternoon of the next day.

Zhou Mo had just finished his roadshow during the day and was eating in the lounge.

The company called.

The statistics are out.

1.6 billion.

Zhou Mo looked at the actors and staff who had gathered around him and turned on the speaker of his phone.

"How much? Tell me again."

"Director Zhou, 'Business Tycoon' grossed 1.6 million yuan on its first day."

The next second, the entire crew started cheering.

A large group of people were dancing and clamoring, not even having time to eat.

Zhou Mo hung up the phone and looked at Da Tiantian beside him. At this moment, she was sitting in the chair in a daze and didn't even react when her chopsticks fell.

Zhou Mo reached out and gently pinched her face.

"Stop being in a daze, it's time to celebrate."

Da Tiantian finally woke up from her dream.

"The box office is out?"

"Ah."

"How many?"

"Two billion."

Da Tiantian immediately started crying again.

Zhou Mo had already prepared tissues, which were soft and silky and did not hurt the skin at all.

This iron-headed kid is almost becoming a five-year-old recently, and he cries from time to time.

The others cheered for a while, then seeing the state of the two largest Buddhas in the crew, they immediately stopped talking and walked out of the lounge with great enthusiasm.

Before leaving, he gave Zhou Mo a wink.

Zhou Mo also gestured back to them, meaning that the place had been booked for the evening and asked them to please notify them to go for dinner.

Shen Teng immediately gave Zhou Mo an "OK" gesture.

After a while, Da Tiantian stopped crying and felt a little embarrassed.

"I've made a fool of myself again."

"It's okay, they're already used to it." Zhou Mo "comforted".

Da Tiantian rushed over and punched him.

"Uh!"

Zhou Mo immediately slid to the ground: "Murder, the famous director Ms. Jing Tian murdered her collaborator."

Da Tiantian looked at him with disdain and didn't want to pay any attention to him.

Zhou Mo twisted on the floor for a while, felt bored, stood up and patted his clothes.

"Why don't you help me?"

"I'm a well-known director, how can I do this kind of work?"

Ding.

The sound of the mobile phone recording the video ended, and Zhou Mo saved the thing with satisfaction.

Da Tiantian was stunned.

"What are you doing?"

"Collect evidence of your sweet princess being a big shot." Zhou Mo looked at the video on his phone and kept clicking his tongue: "The new big director of Chinese-language films openly acted like a big shot, beat up crew members, and refused to help them. What do you think of this title?"

Da Tiantian is drunk.

"No, you must be poisonous."

Zhou Mo didn't respond, but continued talking.

"Sweet director, you don't want this video to be leaked, do you?"

Da Tiantian: ...

Zhou Mo stopped joking, put his phone away, and then sat back in his chair.

"Okay, let's be serious. What do you think now?"

Da Tiantian did not express her excitement immediately. Instead, she thought for a while before looking at Zhou Mo and said hesitantly, "If I say that I'm scared now, would you find it strange?"

"Then you have to tell me why you are afraid?" Zhou Mo guided her.

"That's it... On the one hand, I feel that this thing can't be true and I'm afraid of losing everything. On the other hand, I feel that today's box office is likely to be just a flash in the pan. It looks high, but in fact, the audience is just curious. Tomorrow, it will be reduced to millions, or even hundreds of thousands..."

Da Tiantian said a lot in a disjointed manner.

Zhou Mo didn't interrupt until she finished speaking, then he took her hand.

"Don't worry……"

Before he could finish his words, Da Tiantian suddenly said, "Are you going to analyze for me from the perspectives of the script, actors, lineup, and publicity, like you did in the past? Is our movie a sure thing?"

Zhou Mo shook his head.

"of course not."

"what?"

Zhou Mo took out his mobile phone again and opened his own app, Little Blue Book.

Find the box office data section.

Pointing to "Business Tycoon" which ranks first, the number behind it is exactly the box office revenue the movie has earned so far today.

1.2 billion.

Next comes prediction.

According to predictions, the box office of "Business Tycoon" is estimated to reach 1.8 million yuan in the end.

Zhou Mo looked at Da Tiantian's somewhat conflicted expression and spoke slowly.

"Times have changed, Tiantian, whether the movie is good or not, we can just watch it directly."

Da Tiantian was silent for a while.

“I don’t even know when this feature was launched.”

"In the first half of the year, the functions were not yet mature at that time, so we were still debugging."

Da Tiantian took Zhou Mo's mobile phone and operated the Little Blue Book for a while.

Don't say it.

The functions are indeed quite complete.

But she also saw that the first day box office of "Business Tycoon" was a little over 1.5 million in the Little Blue Book, which was less than the data reported by the company. "What about the accuracy?"

"There is a certain deviation. If there is no fraud, it is probably only 5%." Zhou Mo explained.

There are so many cinemas across the country, so it is normal to have some errors.

Da Tiantian heard another meaning from Zhou Mo.

"If we don't fake it... then it means that if we fake it, there will be a lot of errors, right?"

"Of course, we won't talk about stealing the box office, at least there will be records in the system. But for ghost shows, the kind that last 30 minutes, there's no way to record them. After each show, tens or even hundreds of thousands of W worth of vacancies are left.

When the statistics are finally compiled, the published data will definitely not match the real data.”

Theatrical screening is a very complicated matter.

Once things become complicated, there is more room for manipulation.

Da Tiantian stared at Zhou Mo: "Why do I feel like you're going to cause trouble?"

Box office statistics software has actually been available on the market for a long time, and most of them only count domestic figures.

The Little Blue Book can cover a wider range of statistics, including box office in some regions in Europe and the United States.

But half a year is still too long to adjust the test.

Zhou Mo smiled.

"It's not really a problem, I just hope the data from the software can be more accurate."

He put emphasis on the word "accurately".

Da Tiantian understood Zhou Mo's hint again and was a little surprised.

"You want to use software data to investigate things like box office theft? Is this function possible?"

"It's ok to be calm. Don't underestimate the current level of technology. This is not America's election. If you really want to investigate, it's actually not difficult. It's just a matter of whether you want to do it or not."

A certain ticket selling website has been criticized by its users for not being able to ban scalpers.

But is it really impossible to ban it?

Of course not just that.

It's just a matter of thought.

This can also be considered a kind of fan economy.

"But this function requires the cooperation of theaters. Do theaters agree?" Da Tiantian raised another question.

"Hey, big stores bully customers, big customers bully stores, isn't this a rule that has always existed? Besides, no matter what the cinema does, it will make a profit."

If you want to fake the box office, it requires the joint efforts of everyone on the same line.

In other words, the crew, investment company, theater chain, publicity agency, etc. all have responsibilities.

But when news of "fake" comes out, the main targets of attack are the directors and actors of the crew, and at most the investment companies behind them.

There are basically no attacks on cinemas.

So, under normal circumstances, theaters will make money no matter how they operate.

It’s just about how to make money.

……

That night.

"Business Tycoon" banquet.

The dishes had just been served when Da Tiantian was booed by the crowd and left her seat to say a few words.

Zhou Mo was replying to the company's messages below.

After a while.

Da Tiantian came back and saw Zhou Mo concentrating on clicking the screen, so she asked.

"What are you doing, so focused?"

"I came up with an idea some time ago. After submitting it to the company for evaluation, they just sent me the evaluation results. I'd like to take a look."

Da Tiantian was a little curious.

"Which idea?"

I leaned over to take a look at the screen, and saw a line of big words at the front.

"If a historical figure travels through time and space and xx is in xx's position, is it possible?"
"So this is it."

Da Tiantian realized that Zhou Mo had once told her the idea behind this.

The main content is that if the soul of a historical figure becomes another historical figure, will the established history still happen?

For example: Li Shimin traveled through time to become Liu Chan.

Whether the Northern Expedition will succeed.

For example, Li Shimin traveled through time to become Zhao Gou.

Whether the Northern Expedition will succeed.

The selling point of this kind of idea is that it satisfies a regret and fulfills one's ambition.

China's history is too long and the materials are too rich.

There are many heroes, but also many bears.

There is a lot of passion, but even more regrets.

As Zhuge Liang once wrote in "The Memorial to the Emperor on Leaving the Capital", "I have always sighed and hated Emperors Huan and Ling".

Historical figures all have such regrets, let alone the modern cyber princes who enjoy fighting crickets on the Internet every day.

Therefore, taking out these classic historical nodes and transforming them into online dramas may not fail to attract a large number of audiences.

Da Tiantian asked: "Is this the plan you and Penguin are going to cooperate on?"

"Well, this is considered the third stage of cooperation in film and television dramas."

The first phase of the cooperation between Shanhe Company and Penguin Pictures is the cooperation on InterContinental Hotel and Film and Television City.

The results are undoubtedly promising.

The second phase of cooperation, after "The Invisible Guardian", was to adapt some novels into video games.

This one is currently done pretty well.

In July this year, Shanhe Company launched another video game, the original work of which was a spy novel published on Zhongdian Novel Network.

After the game was launched, although its performance was far behind the tens of millions of sales of "The Invisible Guardian", its excellent quality also achieved sales of millions of copies.

"Film and television adaptations are a huge treasure trove. Compared to dramas like The Legend of Zhen Huan, the audience group is basically determined, and the cost is high and the shooting time is long.

The audience for historical short dramas has basically never been discovered, but these people do exist and have high purchasing power.

Penguin has been coveting these people's wallets for a long time, but has never been able to find a project to develop.

It just so happens that we are the only company in China that has achieved self-operated and profitable paid channels, so let’s try to cooperate.”

(End of this chapter)