Coquettish Rebirth

After discussing things with Mao Wankang and the others here, such a group of leaders of the Film Association did not accept Jia Hongjian's reception at all.Although there were some things like shopping, lodging and sightseeing, they just asked Jia Hongjian's subordinates to help them book routes and rooms, and they insisted on paying for the rest.For this, Jia Hongjian had to look at Mao Wankang and the others differently—are such a group of people rich, or do they have principles?

But Jia Hongjian didn't care what happened to Mao Wankang and the others.To put it bluntly, no matter how bad Mao Wankang was, it had little to do with Jia Hongjian. Why did he care about who Mao Wankang was and what plans he had?It's not good for him, and Mao Wankang is not a pretty girl, so he can't attract our Jia Hongjian's interest!

Having said that, Mao Wankang and the others have been settled for the time being. When it is confirmed that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will definitely be selected as a film by the mainland to apply for Oscars, Jia Hongjian is relieved.Next, he can finally ask the theater manager to come and watch the film!Soon, after a call from DreamWorks, theater managers on the North American continent flew over to watch the film one by one.Why are they farting?Because they found that the movie released by DreamWorks is amazing, even if they didn't like it at the beginning, who knew that the box office would still be good!For example, the film "Memory Fragments" they bought before, originally they called it 300 million 400 million at the box office, but who knew that as the days passed, "Memory Fragments" that did not have much publicity "The box office is not only getting better and better.And it quickly broke through 400 million!

When the box office broke through 400 million and found that there were still a lot of viewers, the managers started to buy additional copies one by one, preparing to transfer the small-scale limited screening to the opening larger-scale wide screening, and then sold the box office It is expected to set a target of 1000 million US dollars!Then, now it has been changed to almost a month after it was widely released, and the box office has directly exceeded 1000 million US dollars!That's right!Now at the end of October, the box office of "Memento" has officially exceeded 1000 million US dollars!And looking at the momentum, there are quite a few viewers who watch the movie "Memento" every day!Although there is no way to compare with blockbuster films with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, you must know that this is the off-season for movies in North America.Originally, there were no blockbuster films at this time—the two most popular time slots in the United States throughout the year.One is the summer vacation period from late May to the end of August, and then there are various Christmas periods that start about a month before Christmas.Then, in September and October between these two schedules, the box office was dismal, and there were no good movies released at all!

At this time, there are fewer audiences watching movies themselves.So even if the box office only broke through 1000 million.But "Memento" has also become a "hot" movie with pretty good box office figures recently!Even according to the survey of the theater.There are also some viewers who watched this film for the second or even third time!From this point of view, this film can really sell for a long time!Inside the theater chain, they are now beginning to feel that the box office of this film is the most conservative and can reach 1500 million at the box office.It may even be possible to make a box office of 2000 million!Although it may sound like 2000 million box office is not much, but think about it, a ticket of 10 dollars means that 200 million people in North America have seen such a movie.And the United States has a total of more than 2 million people!One percent of the population has seen this movie. Can this movie be considered unpopular?In this unpopular time, must it be considered a small favorite?

Considering that "Memento" itself is a small film with an investment of 500 million yuan, the box office turned out to be so good.And the current so-called Chinese film, on the one hand, has an investment of more than 1000 million U.S. dollars. If it is a mess, it may reach 2000 million U.S. dollars, so will the box office of such a movie be able to reach the 4 of "Memory Fragments"? times?Of course, everyone just thought about this question silently in their hearts, and they didn't really believe it, because no matter how this film is released, it will have to wait until the Christmas schedule, and it will either be covered by various monster movies. Attacking back and forth, or it will be released in the off-season after January.

As for these theater managers, generally speaking, they still want to suggest that this film be released in the off-season, because it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail!Isn't it interesting when Fengwei competes with a bunch of monster movies?The audience has been shunted away, which has led to a drop in the box office here. How can there be a chance for a large-scale release when it is put together with a bunch of monster movies?How could it be released in prime time?Why don't you take the initiative to avoid it and go to the prime time on less popular days? Isn't that good?

Of course, the managers of the theaters are still planning to say all these thoughts hidden in their hearts after watching the film. At that time, people who want to come to DreamWorks will also agree to match their views on the film, because this is good for each other. Well!You must know that the movies that are confirmed to be released during Christmas are Jim Carrey's "How Green Stole Christmas", Fox's family of five drifting to Huangdao's "Desert Island Survival", and Mel Gibson's new film "I Know Women's Hearts" is a movie in which Mel Gibson finds that he can hear women's hearts after being electrocuted.There are also "Charlie's Angels", "Drug Network", "Beauty Undercover" and other films.According to the rush of the theater managers after watching the films, each of the six films mentioned above has the ability to earn more than [-] million US dollars at the box office!

Needless to say, there are a series of other movies with a box office of about 6000-[-] million to **[-] million still in line!Just the fact that these six films are to be screened in rotation within a month from late November to late December, that has already caused headaches for theater managers, okay?Who will be screened first and who will be released later, how many theaters and how many screens each film can line up for, which films can be screened in prime time, and which ones should be given a little concession... These are all headaches, okay?If "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" still comes here, then don't think about it, the worst time you can get is definitely the worst time!

Soon, such a screening will be over.Jia Hongjian took the initiative to ask the film managers what they thought, "How about it, gentlemen, what do you think of this movie?" Great, not to mention the theme of culture collision is good... but this movie may not have much to compare with the blockbusters in the Christmas schedule..." someone said.

As soon as this person said, the others also nodded. "Anyway, this film is more literary, and it is in Chinese with English subtitles... It's not pleasing to see it released during Christmas... It's still difficult. I think it's better to release it in January..."" That's right, that's how I see it too..." Immediately, voices echoed in the meeting room.

But Jia Hongjian didn't agree with their views!Because it's January, and the Oscars will announce the list after the primary election, okay?Then from the end of January to the beginning of February, there will be the results of the rematch, that is, the final list of five nominations will come out!How can Jia Hongjian expect this film to be released in January?By then the direct registration is closed!Although the Oscars opened in 2, they are going to judge movies in 2001!At that time, Jia Hongjian and his films will be released in 2000. Doesn't it mean that they have to go back to the Oscars in 01 to apply?He didn't want to wait so long for a year!

"No, we want to participate in the Oscar for this film for best foreign language film! It must be released within this year! Let's see if you can spare some theaters and screens for us during Christmas? I can personally assure you that this film The box office will definitely not disappoint everyone, and will never let down the time and confidence given by everyone... So, our Spielberg estimated the box office of this film this time is [-] million U.S. dollars!" Jia Hongjian suddenly Said so loudly.

"2 million dollars?" All theater managers were dumbfounded at that time!Come on, such a Chinese film is still full of dialogues in Chinese, even if it is a Kung Fu film, can it compare to Cheng Long?Cheng Long's film only made more than [-] million at the box office!As a result, such a slow-paced film, which didn't play Cheng Long's wonderful film, but such a tragic film can earn more than [-] million box office, isn't that ridiculous?Do you really think they are three-year-olds?

But when they looked at Jia Hongjian in surprise, they saw that Jia Hongjian was so confident, as if he absolutely believed that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" would definitely reach the box office of 400 million US dollars!Hey, is Spielberg really so optimistic about this film?Many theater managers remembered that when they watched "Memento" before, they all thought it was about 1000 million at the box office, but Spielberg thought it was more than 2000 million to [-] million at the box office, and the result was also It proves that the old man Spielberg is indeed accurate!Could it be that they, the theater managers, were mistaken this time?Is such a film really able to get hundreds of millions of box office?

But the problem is that even if they believe in Spielberg, they are theater managers and are responsible for their own theaters!If they believe that Spielberg is right, it’s nothing, it’s just an extra film worth more than [-] million yuan, but if there is one in a thousand miles, if Spielberg is really wrong... then such a discerning person can It can be seen that movies that can't make a lot of money are put in prime time. Is it the problem of theater managers like them?After all, their theater owners won't trouble Spielberg by then!They will only trouble these theater managers, because they are the ones who made the decision to believe in Spielberg! (To be continued..)