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Chapter 44

10月13号。国庆假期已经过去了5天，11、12号两天《鲨滩》再度收获140万票房，总票房达到1960万。

There are still three days until the next weekend. In order to maximize the box office, China Film Group helped Tang An arrange a variety show, "Everyday Film and Television Circle" on Beijing Satellite TV.

This program can be regarded as the longest-lived and most popular variety show on Beijing Satellite TV. It was founded in 1993 and has gone through eleven years.

The recording time was in the morning, and Tang An took Yang Mi and Xu Manyun to the Beijing Satellite TV building at 8 o'clock.I met the host Xiang Zhen in the background.

"Hello host!"

"Hello Director Tang!"

"Hello, Yang Mi!"

Xiang Zhen is almost 30 this year, and she is also an old host. She has short, crisp hair, and the villain makes people feel a sense of spring and harmony.

"Three please sit down!"

Xiang Zhen made a gesture of invitation and sat down.

"This is Director Tang's first time participating in a show, right?"

"Yeah, I'm still a little nervous now!" Tang An said with a smile.

"What about Yang Mi, you have been filming since you were a child, have you participated in similar programs before?" Xiang Zhen turned to look at Yang Mi again.

"I've been on the show twice before." Yang Mi said obediently.

"Then Director Tang, you don't have to be nervous. This time we are just talking about the movie, from the preparation to the final release, so that the audience can intuitively understand how the movie was made!"

Next, after discussing the issues that will be involved in the meeting, Tang An and Yang Mi first prepared the draft in their hearts.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the recording of the program officially began.

There was no audience at the scene, it was just a show like an interview, the three of them sat and chatted.

After an opening speech, Xiang Zhen first expressed her views and opinions on the movie, and complimented her a bit.

"Then Director Tang, you are 23 years old this year, right?"

"That's right, it's the year of birth soon!" Tang An nodded.

"Then what made you want to make a movie by yourself at this age?" Xiang Zhen asked.

Tang An thought for a while, and then said, "Actually, I have been working as an assistant director, and I never thought of directing on my own at first. After all, it is not easy to manage a crew with hundreds of people!"

"It's really not easy being a director. It's not like the audience thinks that you just sit in front of the monitor and watch the actors perform!" Xiang Zhen nodded in agreement.

"But then Xu asked me to be an assistant director, because she herself is the heroine, and Jiang Wen is the actor, and sometimes I let me shoot some unimportant scenes, and I didn't know what it's like to be a director. From then on, I had the idea of ​​being a director myself!"

"Then where did the inspiration for the story of "Shark Beach" come from? Director Tang, why did you choose such a story?" Xiang Zhen continued to ask.

"Because I didn't have much money at the time, I wanted to write a one-man show story, but it would be too monotonous if there was only one actor, so I added an animal!"

"So the shark was chosen?"

"No, in fact, it was lions and tigers at the beginning, but the special effects of such animals are far more troublesome and costly than sharks, so we chose sharks in the end!"

"It can be said that I thought about the two protagonists first, and then arranged the plot!"

"So the shark is the hero in the movie?" Xiang Zhen asked curiously.

"That's right. Think about it from another angle. Why does that shark insist on chasing the heroine? After all, there are still a whale carcass on the sea, enough for it to have a full meal!" Tang An said with a smile.

"Actually, that shark stalked Mi Mi because he fell in love with it. This could also be a romance movie, a story about the male and female protagonists falling in love and killing each other!"

Xiang Zhen was also amused by Tang An's interpretation, she smiled and asked Yang Mi again.

"Hi Yang Mi, the director said that you fell in love with a shark in the movie, do you agree?"

"Of course I don't agree, I didn't provoke it, it wants to eat me!" Yang Mi said indignantly.

"Then how did you bring it into the heart of the character when shooting, after all, you have to express your inner fear and fear!"

"I just rely on imagination, imagining that there is a shark chasing me around!"

"Director Tang, we all know that underwater shooting has always been difficult. Did you encounter any difficulties at that time?"

"Of course. After all, it is the first time to shoot, and there is no one around to ask for advice. The shots taken in the first few days were not realistic enough. Later, I tried to place the camera lens on the horizontal line, level with the water surface, and rise and fall with the rhythm of the waves. It makes people feel as if they are also soaking in the water with the actors."

"There are not many shots of sharks attacking humans in the whole film, but I was very nervous when watching the film. Why is that?"

Tang An said with a smile, "In fact, this is all foreshadowed by many inconspicuous lenses and background music. Many times we obviously can't see the real shark, but we can feel the ready-to-move of the killer shark in the surging tide. , from the first moment the protagonist enters the water, this sense of unease is slowly paved for you through the pictures and sound effects, making you unable to calm down!"

Since there were no audience at the scene, the recording of the program went smoothly.

The 30-minute program was recorded in an hour, and there was still time to go to a movie theater.

The show aired in prime time on Fridays, and the ratings were good across the North.

The effect of the program is most intuitively reflected in the box office trend. The three-day working days of 13, 14, and 15 still showed a daily decline trend, and the three-day harvest
180 million, and the total box office broke through the 2000 million mark, reaching 2140 million.

However, there was a big explosion on Saturday, with a single-day revenue of 180 million, an increase of 250%.

This is the necessity of publicity, the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, not to mention that in this era of insufficient information, the audience does not know that there is such a movie, no matter how good it is, it is in vain.

After that, the box office also won 150 million on Sunday, and the total box office reached 2470 million.

On October 10th, after 18 days of steady growth, "Shark Beach" finally ushered in the lowest box office, with only 20 box office in a single day.

In the following four working days, the box office dropped further, constantly breaking the lowest box office record, with a total of 180 million, and the total box office reached 2700 million.

The next weekend, "Shark Beach" returned to its glory days, and won 140 box office in two days, with a total box office of 2840 million.

Until the last day of October, the total box office of "Shark Beach" finally broke through the 10 million mark, and the single-day box office at this time has fallen below 3000.

3000 million!
一部投资不过300万的小成本惊悚恐怖片竟然拿下3000万票房，排在2004年年度国产票房排行榜No.4，仅次于《十面埋伏》的1.56亿，《张思德》的4000万以及《新警察故事》的3800万。

And "2046", which was released at the same time, was under the pressure. The combination of Sunglasses King and Liang Chaowei only won 2700 million box office!
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