China Entertainment Times

Chapter 781 No Point B Number

With the overall expansion of the domestic film market, the annual total box office and number of moviegoers have increased by at least 25%. Even if the rise of the Spring Festival stalls makes the Lunar New Year stalls no longer the first in the country, they are still firmly in the top three.

This year's Lunar New Year, the most popular movies are "Detective Chinatown 2", "Taiping Wheel", "One Step Away", and "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom".

These four films all have huge potential, no matter which one, it is normal to sell one billion at the box office.

However, it is too difficult to accommodate four box office movies in the Lunar New Year file. It would be almost the same if they were released in November and December.

It is inevitable that a certain film does not meet expectations. At first, some professionals in the industry believed that Xu Ke's "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom" was likely to fall behind.

After all, the previous work of "Detective Chinatown 2" took a billion yuan at the box office, and the lineup remains unchanged. It is still the most suitable comedy for the Lunar New Year.

"One Step Away" is Jiang Wen's movie. After Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige hit the street one after another, Jiang Wen, the director of the older generation, still maintains a high reputation.

For a director, if you bring your own fans, just like Guo Jinming, you will always have fans to support you no matter what.

Otherwise, it has to have a good reputation. For the audience, the quality of a director's previous films determines whether they will go to the cinema to watch his films.

After all, movies are the art of directors. In the past ten years, more than 90% of the best-selling movies, the audience knows the director's name.

If it's a TV series, even if it's a big hit, half of the audience can remember who the director is.

Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly" has exploded in word-of-mouth, and it is the kind of killer, unlike Feng Xiaogang, in addition to ordinary audiences and friends, there are also a small group of people who dismiss him.

"Taiping Wheel" is a disaster love blockbuster, the lineup is not weak, and the director is still very famous.

As for "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom", a movie that has been changed from a model Peking opera with the main theme, it's hard not to be skeptical to be honest.

However, to the surprise of the major companies in the circle, it was "Taiping Wheel" that did not reach the first laggard, and it completely missed the one-billion box office from the first day of its release.

Not only one billion, judging from the data of 3200 million on the first day, plus a large area of ​​negative comments, it is considered a success to have five or six billion.

Looking at the string of numbers on the screen, Wu Yusen felt extremely dazzling, as if the numbers were laughing at himself.

3200?

Wu Yusen couldn't accept it for a while.

Even "Red Cliff" six years ago had a box office of more than 2700 million on the first day, and it was still the same figure six years later, which made Wu Yusen feel suspicious of life.

The first day of "Detective Chinatown 2" was 1.56 million, and the difference between the two is nearly five times.

But it was only the first day of box office, Wu Yusen comforted himself, maybe the future trend will be very good, after all, the current movie also needs publicity, and the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.

An anxious day passed, and Wu Yusen's expected word-of-mouth was very good, but the box office did not appear to be falling. On the contrary, word-of-mouth gradually spread as time passed.

But it's not the good word-of-mouth that I originally thought, but the complaints and abuse that can be seen everywhere on the Internet.

On November 11th, the second day after "Taiping Wheel" was released, the single-day box office barely reached 2000 million, and a total of 5200 million in two days.

The box office of "Detective Chinatown 2" is still rising all the way, outperforming all movies in the same period.

The newly released "The Year in a Hurry" pushed "Taiping Wheel" to the third place in the daily box office list with a super high box office of 6100 million, and the dark horse capital has been highlighted.

It is another popular youth movie. Guangxian is very familiar with the publicity and distribution of this kind of movie, and newly won the Maoyan, and launched an in-depth cooperation with Fujixun, which is even more powerful.

For such a youth film, the box office on the first day was almost twice that of "Taiping Wheel", which can be said to be stunned.

If "Where in a Hurry" can be said to have borrowed the popularity of youth films, it can be sold well before the audience is tired of aesthetics.

What makes Wu Yusen even more unacceptable is that the love movie "The Best Life of a Coquettish Woman" starring Zou Xun and Wang Xiaoming earned 1300 million at the box office on the sixth day of its release, compared with 2800 million on the second day before. "Peace Wheel" was high the next day.

Wu Yusen couldn't understand, a low-budget romance film with an unknown director, starring Zou Xun and Wang Xiaoming.

And his movie is an epic blockbuster with a famous director, and the lineup of Zhang Ziyi, Wang Xiaoming, Jin Chengwu, and Song Huiqiao is also more luxurious.

What's wrong with the audience now?
Wu Yusen, who couldn't figure it out, didn't check himself first, but began to doubt the eyes of the audience.

Many people did not expect that "Taiping Wheel" hit the street. The investors and publishers are not much better than Wu Yusen at the moment.

Wang Zhongjun, Jin Yan, and Kang Pei didn't expect "Taiping Wheel" to hit 15 billion. Their goal was [-] billion.

However, if the word of mouth is not good, about [-] million is barely acceptable. After all, there are three strong opponents, and it is better to find a popular star to be more insured if a big director hits the street these days.

However, they never expected that the first day of "Taiping Wheel" was only 3200 million. If this followed the trend of general commercial blockbusters, the final landing point would be around [-] million.

If the trend is stronger, it will top the sky with a box office of [-] million.

But the next day, only 2000 million at the box office hit several of their investors again.

Generally, if it is released on Thursday, the box office on Friday and Saturday will gradually rise. After all, Friday is close to the holiday, and there are many people watching movies at night, let alone Saturday. will fall back again.

It was 3200 million on the first day, but only 2000 million on the second day, which already explains the problem.

The word-of-mouth collapsed, not only the word-of-mouth of the film, but also Wu Yusen's own word-of-mouth.

If it's just a movie problem, then with blockbuster movies, big directors, and big stars, the box office will not be bad in the first few days, and it will affect the box office after word of mouth spreads in a few days.

The only possibility is that most audiences don't plan to go to the cinema to watch Wu Yusen's movies at all.

Wang Zhongjun and Kang Pei had committed a difficult situation, and this situation almost sentenced the film to death.

Although they have already sold the minimum guarantee, they will not lose money, but they still have a large income beyond the minimum guarantee, so naturally they will not see this situation like this.

So the three main investors, as well as Wu Yusen himself, got together on Saturday to think of a way to see if they could find a way to recover.

If Wang Zhongjun and Kang Pei only wanted to fight for more benefits, then Zhang Zhao would be in a hurry to go to the house now.

The [-] million minimum guarantee for the upper and lower two films was originally a great business that can make a steady profit without losing money. If the two films together have a box office of [-] million, they will not lose money.

In other words, 3.5 million yuan is enough. For "Taipinglun", it is not a matter of closing your eyes. If it goes well, it may be enough for a week.

But now, it's 5200 million in two days, and there was a sharp drop the next day. According to this situation, if it falls again, let alone 3.5 million, whether there will be a box office of [-] million is a big problem.

Zhang Zhao now has the thought of scolding his mother, this Wu Yusen is an international famous director, what kind of shit is the result of the filming, Guo Jinming's few fiddled films are all higher than this box office!
But now he doesn't have the time to scold his mother anymore, the current priority is to save the box office, otherwise it will really make things worse for Leshi now.

It's just that there is no such simple thing, otherwise the big directors would not rush to the street one after another.

The more he talked, the more irritable he became. Wu Yusen got excited and blurted out, "Nowadays, the comments on the Internet focus on actors, and the one who gets the most complaints is Wang Xiaoming. If it was Zhang Zhenlai, it wouldn't be like this."

Nima coins!
Wang Zhongjun cursed inwardly, he was the one who stuffed Wang Xiaoming in, so it's just blaming him around the corner.

It doesn't matter if the movie is a big hit at the box office, as long as he doesn't say it outright, Wang Zhongjun can give him a smile.

But now, a director who has suffered so badly still dares to BB in front of him, since he doesn't have any B number at all.

Wang Zhongjun didn't need to give face to a street director, with a trace of disdain on the corner of his mouth, he said immediately, "Director Wu is wrong, "A Coquettish Woman is the Best Life" is also starring Wang Xiaoming, and he got 1.2 million in six days The box office is enough to show that Wang Xiaoming's acting skills are at least qualified."

Wu Yusen's expression changed slightly, and he became a little embarrassed.

It's normal for a director to criticize the actors in his play, but Wang Zhongjun's words clearly mean something.

It is also starring Wang Xiaoming, how could a small-budget movie succeed, and the acting skills have also been recognized by the audience.

On the contrary, when your blockbuster hits the box office, he still has to be scolded by the audience. Isn't that because you are a bad director?
(End of this chapter)