Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 831 If this continues, we will lose to Bear Haunt (4k)

More than an hour later, Zhou Mo returned to the backstage and saw Guo, Wu and Xie standing together and chatting.

"Yeah? Why are you two still here?"

Wu Jing laughed: "Didn't you say that if you come to show your support, you'll get food? What? You don't want to leave any food for us?"

Zhou Mo said "Oh", "I'm sorry, others can stay, but you two can't. Or Director Guo can stay, but you can't."

"Why?!"

"You eat too much, and I don't have enough budget."

Wu Jing:......

When Xie Nan heard this, he covered his mouth and laughed happily.

When Zhou Mo speaks nicely, he is as gentle as spring breeze, but when he teases people, he can also make people angry to death.

Guo Fan was also laughing. After he finished laughing, he said to Zhou Mo seriously, "Director Zhou, thank you very much for promoting The Wandering Earth just now..."

He had waited for so long for no other reason than to thank Zhou Mo in person.

Otherwise I will feel guilty.

Zhou Mo waved his hands: "They are all our own works, there is no need to thank them. If The Wandering Earth performs well, I, as the boss, can earn more...

Besides, I know you are busy tonight, and The Wandering Earth must be waiting anxiously for you two, so I won’t keep you for dinner. We can have a celebration party after the results of the two movies are released.”

When Guo Fan heard this, he didn't say anything polite. He said sorry to Zhou Mo and prepared to leave.

Only Wu Jing muttered: "They said they don't provide meals, and they really don't provide meals..."

Xie Nan blinked and smiled, "You can stay if you want. You can help me do more work tonight."

Wu Jing felt that there was something wrong with her ears.

"Aren't you going back with us two?"

Before Xie Nan could say anything, Zhou Mo spoke up, "Of course I'm not going back with you. Sister Nan hosted our crew for such a long time this afternoon. We want to thank Sister Nan and treat her to dinner tonight. How can I go with you?"

Wu Jing was stunned. He was supposed to host a show for you, but he was detained by your crew, right?
But before Wu Jing could say anything, Da Tiantian came over.

"Zhou Mo, Sister Nan, let's go, everyone is ready, now only you two are missing."

When they got closer, Da Tiantian noticed Guo Fan and Wu Jing who were standing closer to the inside.

Her first reaction was similar to Zhou Mo's: "Yeah, you two too... No, you two should come with us. We're going to be busy soon, so it's a good opportunity to have a meal and recharge our batteries before we get busy."

Guo Fan smiled and shook his head, "No, I have to go back to the crew first, and Brother Jing..."

As soon as the word "Brother Jing" came out, Wu Jing interrupted: "No, you go back first. I have to get a meal from Director Zhou anyway..."

As he said that, he walked towards the direction where Da Tiantian came from, leaving Guo Fan alone, disheveled in the wind.

"Fine……"

……

That night.

While Zhou Mo and others were having dinner, news about "Eastern Han Dynasty" was strongly inserted into major entertainment platforms, and the film and television industry section was already very lively.

In terms of time, among the four favorites to win the Spring Festival this year, the news about "Eastern Han Dynasty" was the latest to appear, but it is indeed the one whose popularity is rising the fastest.

At seven o'clock in the evening, "Eastern Han Dynasty" was still ranked sixth on Lizhan Entertainment. At 7:30 in the evening, it soared to third place, and twenty minutes later it jumped to first place.

A large group of old fans of the "immortal and mortal" worldview did not need any reminders or calls at all. As early as the moment the news of the movie came out, they turned into tap water and began to cheer for "Eastern Han Dynasty".

"The sweet princess will rule the world for thousands of years!"

"Oh my god, who is this Zhang Jiao? So handsome!"

"Wang Mang's head has been hidden? What's going on? Is it waiting for Illidan to pick it up and then transform?"

Such a big fuss about "Eastern Han Dynasty" would certainly attract the attention of the other two companies.

In other words, the other two companies have actually been paying attention to "Eastern Han Dynasty".

The crew of "Crazy Alien".

Huang Bo was deeply moved to see that the popularity of "Eastern Han Dynasty" in just over an hour surpassed what they had accumulated for most of the day.

"They are worthy of being the Zhou Jing duo. There is no comparison. There is no comparison at all."

Xu Zheng's mentality was pretty good: "Hey! Isn't this normal? Besides, although we can't compare to "Crazy Alien", our popularity is at least second among so many movies, and the money spent is not that much.

I've heard about "The New King of Comedy". They spent a lot of money but it's just a small show. They're not as good as us."

When Huang Bo heard this, he immediately took out his mobile phone and searched the popularity of "The New King of Comedy".

"Wow, this has been reduced to fourth place. The big and small kings are really going to vomit blood now."

"Who's the third one?"

"Our competitor is The Wandering Earth... I saw a report saying that Zhou Mo personally carried the sedan chair for The Wandering Earth this afternoon, saying that the box office of Eastern Han might not be as good as The Wandering Earth?"

"Yes, and more than once. I said it once on stage and again in an interview later. I am more optimistic that The Wandering Earth will win the box office championship this year."

Huang Bo was stunned. "Wow, you're praising me like that?"

"Yes, that's it."

Ning Hao spread his hands and his tone of voice was somewhat fluctuating.

Before, every time he heard about the resources Zhou Mo provided for "The Wandering Earth", he was able to remain calm.

He has been running Bad Monkey for so many years, and has given a lot of resources to help the newcomers.

But this time, Ning Hao was really envious.

As Zhou Mo's performance has become more and more exaggerated over the years, many times, just a word of his optimism could bring in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of movie tickets.

What a concept, a movie ticket costs tens of dollars, and tens of thousands of people would cost millions.

With such an achievement, it is no exaggeration to call him a “golden voice”.

Today, Zhou Mo praised "The Wandering Earth" twice in his home court.

This is not praising someone, this is clearly protecting them.

"I'm so jealous and envious." Huang Bo sighed, "What's the relationship between Director Guo and Director Zhou that makes Director Zhou help him so much?"

Xu Zheng made a joke: "Could it be that Director Zhou was not satisfied with the quality of "Eastern Han" and felt that the box office was not up to expectations, so after private discussions, he chose to promote "The Wandering Earth" instead?"

Hearing this, Huang Bo and Ning Hao fell into deep thought.

That’s an idea.

But... with Zhou Mo's strength, it's unlikely.

Ning Hao said, "I've seen "Eastern Han" before. It's pretty good. It's a very standard Zhou-style movie. It has a tight rhythm, appropriate details, exciting moments at key moments, and interesting plot foreshadowing." Huang Bo smacked his lips and said, "That only proves that Zhou Mo is really optimistic about "The Wandering Earth"... By the way, what is the expected box office of "The Wandering Earth" today?"

Xu Zheng had just looked at the expected data of several movies a few minutes ago, and answered directly after hearing this.

"More than 200 million, from what I can see now it won't exceed 300 million"

"More than 200 million," Huang Bo frowned slightly and compared the data of several movies in his mind.

From the current perspective, among the several movies in the Spring Festival, "Eastern Han Dynasty" is undoubtedly expected to have the highest first-day box office, and the figure of 4.6 million is terrifying.

In second place is their "Crazy Alien", which had a first-day box office of around 3.8 million yuan. There were some fluctuations, but not big.

Ranked third is "The New King of Comedy", with 2.6 million yuan.

Judging from this data alone, the first-day box office of "The Wandering Earth" of more than 200 million yuan is not particularly outstanding. Since Zhou Mo can make such a confident judgment, it can only mean one thing:
"That is, I am very optimistic about the quality of "The Wanderer" itself. I believe that the daily box office of this movie will continue to grow through word of mouth and other means."

Ning Hao nodded slightly, he also agreed with this statement.

Xu Zheng suddenly said, "I really want to watch The Wandering Earth again now."

Huang Bo nodded: "I also want to see the quality of the movie that Director Zhou mentioned can win the box office championship."

After they finished speaking, they looked at Ning Hao together.

Ning Hao was stared at by the two people, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "If you want to go, go ahead. Why are you two staring at me?"

Huang Bo immediately said in a very "serious" manner: "With you as the director here, if we were to go see Wandering, we should at least let you know in advance, so that you don't accuse us of leaving the team without permission."

Ning Hao waved his hands in disgust.

"Go, go, go if you want to go. How can I still trap you two?"

Xu Zheng added: "If you ask me, you might as well go with us. I remember that you haven't watched the entire "The Wandering Earth" either."

Do you want to go watch it together?

Ning Hao fell into deep thought. He was quite familiar with Guo Fan, and Guo Fan had discussed with him about the filming of "The Wandering Earth", so he knew much more about "The Wandering Earth" than Huang and Xu.

But when it comes to the entire content of "Traffic", he indeed hasn't read it.

"It's not impossible...but I guess we'll have to wait until the early morning."

"It's okay to have the show in the early morning. It's quieter there. Let's go. It's a good opportunity to take a look at the content of our competitor." Xu Zheng said, helping Ning Hao make the decision.

The three of them had just finished their busy work and were going to eat something.

Since I have decided to watch "The Wanderer", I decided to finish all the work on hand and then go out for dinner and watch a movie to finish it all at once.

A few hours later.

After dinner, the Audio-Technica went to the cinema to watch a movie.

On the way, Huang Bo suddenly joked, "By the way, I just saw a popular post saying that with the current performance of The New King of Comedy, it might be defeated by Boonie Bears one day in the future. Do you think this will come true?"

"Hmm? Who killed him?"

"Boonie Bears" is the cartoon that is known as the gatekeeper of first-tier movies."

Xu Zheng suddenly realized and shook his head: "'The New King of Comedy' is a classic work by Stephen Chow after all. It's a bit ridiculous that it's surpassed by an animation. It's not 'The Return of the Great Sage'. The upper limit of animation movies is limited after all."

Xu Zheng’s attitude is actually the mainstream view of the film and television market towards animated films.

There is some box office potential, but not much.

The upper limit is locked, and it is difficult to break through 1 billion.

Xu Zheng has actually studied the animation market. From a global perspective, the box office ceiling of animated films is actually no lower than that of ordinary films.

A box office of one billion US dollars is only in the top ten.

But that is an animated film with a world ranking.

Or the animated film America.

As for the domestic situation, up to now, the only animated film that has really made a lot of money is "The Return of the Great Sage".

The box office of over 1 billion yuan even ranked among the top 20 domestic movie box offices at the time.

However, every time the industry discusses this matter, more credit is given to Zhou Mo and Shanhe Company.

Even the director of "The Return of the Great Sage" himself thinks so.

It’s just that “The Return of the Great Sage” was released 15, and in the following years, there hasn’t been even one animated film that made a lot of money.

In 16, there was a very famous movie called "Big Fish and Begonia". Many people in the market were optimistic about it, and the production team even claimed that they had spent twelve years honing their skills and three years of hard work to produce the result.

But in the end, the box office was less than 600 million yuan. What left the most impressive was not the content of the movie, but the theme song.

When it comes to box office predictions, Xu Zheng certainly doesn't think that Boonie Bears will beat The King of Information.

Huang Bo had a similar idea. He read it to others mostly for fun, to liven up the atmosphere and then it would pass.

Coincidentally, Huang Bo was not the only one who saw this message.

The crew of "Eastern Han Dynasty" and Da Tiantian also saw the news.

"Zhou Mo, look, some people online are imitating General Fan's classic quotes and complaining about the plot of The New King of Comedy, saying that the movie lost to Crazy Alien on the first day and now it's losing to The Wandering Earth in popularity. In the future, I'm afraid the total box office will lose to Boonie Bears."

Da Tiantian smiled and wanted to see Zhou Mo's reaction. However, after turning her head, she saw that Zhou Mo was not smiling. Instead, his expression was thoughtful.

"Zhou Mo, Zhou Mo?"

"Ok?"

"Why are you reacting like this?"

Zhou Mo smiled but didn't explain too much.

He vaguely remembered that in his previous life, during the 19th Spring Festival, "The New King of Comedy" did not seem to have defeated "Boonie Bears"...

Since then, Boonie Bears has further consolidated its position as a first-line goalkeeper.

Don’t think that this “first-line goalkeeper” is a joke. You should know that the “Boonie Bears” series is an annual series.

Producing a first-line goalkeeper-level work every year is enough to prove the combat effectiveness of the "Boonie Bears" production team.

From a sitcom at the beginning, it developed into the only annual animated film in the entertainment industry. In the middle, it was also required to make rectifications due to reports... This growth process is truly legendary.

Seeing that Zhou Mo didn't say anything, Da Tiantian thought he was thinking about the animated film of his own company. After thinking about it, it seemed that he really hadn't heard any news recently.

"How is the recent situation of our company's "Nezha"?"

“It should be released in the second half of this year.”

"Ah, aren't you going to hit the Spring Festival box office?"

"Well, Director Jiaozi insisted on releasing the film in the second half of the year. He felt that the competition during the Spring Festival was a bit fierce, and a hasty release during the Spring Festival might not be worth the effort."

(End of this chapter)