After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 97: The Wild Bouquet

After more than half a month of release, the daily box office of "Bouquet" has been fluctuating around 100 million, neither going up nor down.

Just when everyone thought that the bouquet would remain there until the end of the movie.

Something unexpected happened.

The box office of Bouquet of Flowers on May 5th is released, and it is as high as 16 million!
On May 5th, the box office soared again, reaching 17 million!
In the third weekend, the total box office for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday reached an astonishing 930 million!
After three weeks of release, the box office in the third weekend was even higher than that in the first weekend.

In an age of rampant piracy, no mainland movie has ever achieved this!
"The number of people in the Mainland has exceeded 2000 million..."

Zuoshandiao’s first reaction was to buy box office tickets!
However, upon investigation, it was found that the movie was not about buying box office tickets, but that Dadi Cinemas had given all the prime time slots of its theaters to Hua Zhu.

Every show is packed with people!

Moreover, many theaters under the three major holding theater chains of China Film Group Corporation are secretly showing the film.

"What's going on? The bouquet doesn't have any special effects, and there's no effect from watching pirated copies online!" Zuoshandiao scratched his head, confused.

He called his secretary and asked him to call the managers of the three major cinema chains under China Film Group into the room.

Upon further inquiry, it turned out that the online pirated version of the bouquet had disappeared.

Zuoshandiao didn't believe it, so he opened a few pirated websites and saw that it wasn't that the software was gone, but that the loading speed was too slow and it was freezing.

The broadband he uses is fiber optic!

I haven't been stuck watching pirated movies for a long time...

He asked his secretary to try Xunlei seeds, but all the seeds were invalid...

Not giving up, I searched for pirated copies of the bouquet on Baidu.

If you don't search, you don't know.

I clicked on a pirated website on the homepage and it jumped to a garbled page. I clicked on another one and it still jumped to a garbled page. I couldn't see it...

Then, the regular video websites that usually do piracy don’t have any of Hua Bouquet’s movies, but a search will show you Hua Bouquet’s behind-the-scenes footage.

Zuoshandiao laughed, "Good fellow, this guy is really ruthless! For the sake of good box office, he even united so many investors, and Baidu was even willing to help."

"Mr. Han...have you not seen the behind-the-scenes footage of Bouquet of Flowers yet?" a theater manager whispered.

"What's so good about it!" said Zuoshandiao casually.

"You'd better go to Tudou.com and have a look... the number of hits is too scary..."

Han Sanping frowned slightly, moved the mouse to open Tudou.com, and the homepage was designed to be a behind-the-scenes clip, or a large poster...

“Where can I see this number of hits?”

When the secretary heard this, he said, “We need to search for it.”

Zuo Shandiao searched for a while, and then, with the help of his secretary, he saw the number of hits on the flower bouquet tidbits. There was a long string of numbers, "One tidbit actually had more than 10 million hits..."

"It seems to be 130 million total clicks..." the secretary asked in confusion.

"This is just Tudou... other websites are also very high. Excluding pirated websites, there are probably about 400 million on the entire network," said a cinema manager.

Zuo Shandiao nodded and said, "I have an idea. In order to promote it, I even bought data from video websites. I don't know how much it cost."

The managers of the three major cinema chains looked at each other and without any explanation, suggested that Zuoshandiao take a look.

Zuoshandiao asked his secretary to light the teapot, then he picked up the teacup and started drinking.

ten minutes later……

Zuo Shandiao said, "This is quite interesting and hilarious." Twenty minutes later...

Zuoshan Diao said: "This is a variety show."

Thirty minutes later...

Zuoshandiao waved his hand, signaling his secretary to turn off the behind-the-scenes footage. After pondering for a long time, he looked at the managers of the three major cinema chains.

"This footage is very creative, joyful and relaxing. Young people should like it very much..." Zuo Shandiao shook his head and said, "I still say that if it is not screened, China Film's responsibility is not to make a profit, but to support the entire market."

"Too high a box office is not a good thing... He is too young. If a tree stands out in the forest, the wind will destroy it. If a person is superior to others, the crowd will criticize him..."

Zuoshandiao's words were naturally addressed to the managers of the three major cinema chains.

The managers of the three major cinema chains naturally knew what Zuoshan Diao was thinking. They were paid by the government, so it didn't matter to them. However, many of the cinemas under them were private, and they would do anything to make money...

They didn't want to be scolded, so they came to China Film Group to see Zuoshandiao today.

The managers of the three major cinema chains thought Zuoshandiao had finished speaking and were about to leave.

Zuo Shandiao suddenly asked, "What do you think this film would have earned at the box office if it had not been affected by the scheduling at the beginning and had been scheduled normally?"

"How should I put it? Even if the schedule is normal, Bouquet won't get many slots. There's Nanjing in front and Wolverine in the back."

"The main reason for the bouquet is the good publicity and promotion. Guangguang prepared a thousand copies and paid to send them to the theaters. Li Mingyang was in charge of the publicity. The combination of the front and back punches dazzled people. Especially the road show was really desperate, with three or four shows a day."

"Boss Han, you know that movie theaters now rely on government subsidies to survive, and the attendance rate is very low. Even for popular movies, it's good if there are 20 to 30 people watching each show. Some movies even have only one or two people watching each show... His roadshows are always sold out, and he makes a lot of money..."

"The Dadi Cinema in Shanghai, the Wanda Cinema in Yanbei, the one in Guangzhou... the China Film Star Cinema, these three are all offering half-price tickets, and they also give away T-shirts. A ticket only costs a dozen or twenty yuan. The moviegoers with bouquets of flowers all go to these three theaters. They have been packed since last week, and they make a lot of money..."

The theater manager who was speaking stopped talking immediately when he saw that Zuoshandiao looked unhappy.

"I'm asking about the box office, why are you talking nonsense to me? Speak one by one!" Zuoshandiao said angrily.

"About thirty million..."

"3500."

"I think it probably won't be more than 10 million..." The cinema manager paused, "There is motivation only when there is pressure. If the film schedule was normal, he might not have worked so hard and done so many operations... High-definition piracy swept the Internet. Others would have resigned themselves to their fate and waited for death, but he was different. He directly increased the roadshow from three to four, flew to Guangzhou after Yanbei, and then went to Shanghai after Guangzhou."

Zuoshandiao felt that what his subordinate said made sense. The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. Many excellent films were born under extremely difficult circumstances, just like Ning Hao, whom he was optimistic about.

"Does the road show have such a big effect?" asked Zuoshandiao.

"Others may not be able to do it, but he can. He is very good at controlling the emotions of young people, especially female students... He is very good at playing the victim. His mouth is so talkative that he can even make female fans cry... My scalp tingles when I think of that scene."

"What did you say?" Zuoshandiao frowned.

"It's nothing, it's mainly because of the difficulties in preparing for the filming. It doesn't bring shame to domestic films. I didn't feel anything when I heard it, but those women actually cried... First a few people cried, then everyone cried together, and then they sang. It was so awful that I felt I sang better than them, but those women just liked it. The uniform scene, if you didn't know, you would think it was a solo concert."

Zuoshandiao smiled knowingly, and suddenly felt a little lost and regretful.

If only he hadn't shown the script to Feng Kuazi at that time, good scripts are hard to come by, and good directors are even harder to come by.

But there is no if.

Even if he never does, he will still give the script to the best storyteller in the country.

Who would have thought that a young man could be so capable.

As a student of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, he might hesitate.

But there are not many actors in the acting department of Beijing Film Academy. Can you rely on your looks to make a movie?
(End of this chapter)