Chapter 788 (Jin Yiwei) Box Office
The next day, "The King of the Uniform Guard" was released on the big screen in hundreds of cinemas across the country and was officially released.
The advantages of multiple co-productions were finally fully revealed when they were officially released. Shanghai Lianhe Cinema, China Film Stars, Southern Film Shinkansen, Beijing Wanda Cinema, four of the eight major cinemas in the country, hundreds of cinemas, and thousands of large screens were released at the same time.
This is the advantage of co-production of major film companies!
In March, there was a lack of high-quality movies in the film market. With the efforts of major film companies participating in the investment in "The King of the Uniform Guard", they were screened together in four major theaters on the first day of the release of "The King of the Uniform Guard".
It's a huge momentum.
In addition, the report of the movie's premiere yesterday afternoon to this morning, the reports from major media have been to the audience, the praises of the critics and the audience attending the premiere, as well as the box office of the movie's film can exceed 500 million, which can be imagined.
If the positive reviews of film critics and audiences, as well as Wen Chou’s 500 million box office predictions, are not enough, then let’s take a look at the investment scale of this movie—more than 100 million, star lineup—Donald Zenzhang, Zhao Wei, Hong Jinbao, Wu Ya, Wu Zun, Dao Xinyi, Chen Guanqi…
Let’s take a look at the director-Li Rengang.
With such a strong star lineup, coupled with a well-known director and a big investment of over 100 million yuan, at this time, the reputation of film critics and premiere audiences, as well as Wen Chou’s box office prediction of 500 million yuan.
In this off-season market, how many movie fans who are eager to see good movies can sit still? Don’t want to go to the cinema immediately for a sneak peek?
Of course, if you say you are poor and can't afford to buy movie tickets, or are reluctant to buy movie tickets to go to the cinema, then you should do whatever you should do! Anyway, no matter what movie you are like, you probably won't go to the cinema.
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That morning, Lu Yang sat in front of the computer holding a small purple clay teapot, looking over and over again at the new script "The Manuscript of Li Bo" he wrote last night, to see what else needs to be modified.
Relaxed and comfortable.
It is his habit to retype the text on the document from time to time. He doesn't like his works to be densely arranged, and a paragraph can make people's eyes blurry. This is not a historical work, and there is no need to use this type of layout to make the writing look heavy.
When he wrote last night, he just wanted to write this story as soon as possible, but he didn't care much about the layout. Some paragraphs had too many words. Today, I looked back and felt uncomfortable, so I just split the paragraphs into several paragraphs.
As for whether such a segmentation method complies with the norms of conduct? He never considers this aspect. He only pursues himself and his readers to be comfortable.
The q`q on the online online sounded Didi's message prompts from time to time. Lu Yang only glanced at it at most, but did not use his mouse to click on the message to read it.
It was not that he was posing as a great master. But this morning, his q`q kept ringing, and authors or book fans kept sending messages to him about "The King of the Uniform Guard". At first I read some and replied some, but later Lu Yang saw that there were too many people sending similar messages. He simply ignored it and planned to wait for the afternoon or evening to reply uniformly.
An author sent a message and asked him if yesterday's premiere was really predicted that the box office of "The King of the Uniform Guard" would exceed 500 million?
Some authors also sent messages and asked him in a teasing tone if he could give them a few movie tickets.
Some book fans sent a message to congratulate him on the release of another movie, and some book fans sent a message to say that today, or tomorrow or a few days later, they would go to the cinema to buy tickets to support him...
There are just these kinds of things. At about 9:00, Wang Lin suddenly called. As soon as the phone was connected, Lu Yang heard the noisy and noisy voices and the sound of cars driving there.
Wang Lin's voice was very pleasant. He said to Lu Yang on the phone: "Wen Da! I have just visited four cinemas in our Shanghai to tell you good news! There are many movie fans queuing up to buy tickets in the four cinemas and ticket offices I just visited, most of them bought tickets for our "Embroidered Uniform Guard"! Not to mention the tickets for the first show were sold out, the tickets for the second show were almost sold out! Looking at this trend, as long as the audience who have watched our movie today can give a good review, we can make a lot of money this time! Haha! Wen Da! We have to hold a celebration banquet this time! Haha!"
On the phone, Wang Lin's good mood was directly conveyed to Lu Yang.
"Okay! If we can exceed 500 million, we will hold a celebration banquet!" Lu Yang said with a smile.
"ah?"
Wang Lin's first reaction was this. He asked in disbelief: "Wen Da! You are not serious, are you really going to have to exceed 500 million? I thought you were just talking about it yesterday!"
"Ha ha!"
Lu Yang was amused by him and Wang Lin continued to ask him if he was serious, but Lu Yang said: "Guess!"
Until the end of this call, Lu Yang did not tell Wang Lin whether he was serious just now.
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In the next few days, the box office data of "The King of the Uniform Guard" was released one after another. As Lu Yang expected and as most people in the outside world expected, this movie with an investment of over 100 million yuan and a luxurious star lineup had a very beautiful box office a few days ago.
The box office data on the first day of release exceeded 20 million, the next day, the box office still exceeded 20 million, and the third day was still the same.
The box office in the first three days was 20.16 million, 21.24 million, and 21.75 million respectively.
On many news on March 10, it was revealed that the total box office of "The King of the Uniform Guard" in the five days after its release was over 100 million.
At around 10 a.m. that day, in the office of the general manager of the Shanghai Film Group headquarters, General Manager Huang, who was over 50, took a few glances with the box office report he had just handed to him by his secretary. He closed his eyes tiredly, let out the report on the desk in front of him, and sighed: "I'm still too cautious! I had known that this movie could be like this, when Li Rengang came to the door to get investment, I should have invested tens of millions more. Now that this movie is selling well, we Shanghai Film Group can just share some soup! Okay! I understand, you go out!"
"Yes! Mr. Huang!"
The secretary dared not express any emotions. He responded softly and quietly withdrew from Mr. Huang's office.
After a while, in the quiet and luxurious office, Mr. Huang's eyes opened again. He picked up the phone on the table and dialed a number.
As soon as the phone was heard, he immediately showed a warm smile on his face and said to the person on the other end of the phone: "Director Li! Haha! What are you busy with now? Are you still in Shanghai now? Do you have time at noon? I'm working on it! How about our brothers having a drink together? The box office of "The King of the Uniform Guard" has exceeded 100 million so quickly. I want to thank you very much on behalf of our Shanghai Film Festival! Haha!"
On the phone, Li Rengang smiled and said, "Well, thank you Mr. Huang for your kindness! I am indeed still here in Shanghai now. Sorry Mr. Huang! Mr. Zhou from Tianxiang has just made an appointment with me. Mr. Zhou happened to be in Shanghai these two days, so he also invited me to have a drink at noon. I have agreed just now. How about tonight? I will invite Mr. Huang tonight?"
"What?"
Mr. Huang was stunned: "Tianxiang's Zhou Yun has invited you? He is also in Shanghai now?"
Li Rengang: "Haha, yes Mr. Huang! I'm so embarrassed!"
Mr. Huang had a look of disappointment on his face, but his eyes turned a few times and his warm smile returned to his heartfelt smile, saying, "It doesn't matter! I want Zhou Yun to invite you to Director Li, to thank you for making such a good film for us! Just so I'll invite you with Zhou Yun at noon! Don't worry! On the other side of Zhou Yun, I immediately called him and told him, I think he will give me this little face!"
Li Rengang: "Oh? Haha. That's OK! As long as Mr. Zhou doesn't mind, there's no problem here!"
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After the call with Li Rengang ended, Mr. Huang's passionate smile disappeared. A shadow seemed to be covered with a layer of shadow. Zhou Yun's purpose of inviting Li Rengang in advance. He could guess because he invited Li Rengang to do this.
Zhou Yun took the lead! This is not a good sign for them.
After thinking about it with a dark face, he still called Zhou Yun. When communicating with Zhou Yun, he regained his enthusiastic smile and attitude. As he expected, although Zhou Yun hesitated for a moment about his request, he still did not give him any face and agreed to him.
After finishing this call, Mr. Huang did not put down the phone number in his hand, and called the inside secretary and ordered on the phone: "Notify the copyright department! Let them send me the two best scripts immediately! Well, the script of the costume action movie! Let them get faster! I'm waiting to use it!"
"Okay! Mr. Huang!"
At this point, Mr. Huang relaxed temporarily after he put down the phone, but he still had a thoughtful look in his eyes.
When a movie fans watch a movie, they usually remember that the starring roles of the movie, either the male lead or the female lead, or occasionally they may be a supporting role who plays very well.
But Mr. Huang and his film companies are different. The film companies value most often talented and powerful directors! Because in their opinion, movies are the art of directors! They are the director’s works!
In a movie, the director is the soul! He is the controller of the tone and main line of the entire movie. The same actors, the same investments, and even the same scripts, the works, styles and the focus expressed by different directors will be completely different.
Therefore, a director who can make a big-name movie is what all film companies dream of.
Tianxiang's Zhou Yun wanted Li Rengang to help them make another movie, and the same was true for Mr. Huang from Shanghai Film Group. Li Rengang just made a box office hit "The King of the Uniform Guard". According to common sense, as long as the theme of his next movie is similar to "The King of the Uniform Guard", even if the box office is not as good as "The King of the Uniform Guard", he will not lose money and will make a lot of money!
In other words, as long as you can convince Li Rengang, investing in the next movie can almost be said to be a sure profit without losing money. If there is such a good thing, who will be left behind?
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On the other side of Li Rengang, his cell phone rang again.
The person who called this time was Mr. Xiang of Xinglin Company, and Xinglin Company was also one of the investors of "The King of Jinyiwei".
Mr. Xiang did not invite him to drink this call, because Mr. Xiang is not in Shanghai at the moment, so he simply stated his meaning directly on the phone, expressing his hope that Director Li can help their company make a movie. It is easy to say how much investment is needed and which starring actors they need to hire.
When Li Rengang tactfully stated that he needed to consider it and said that "The King of the Uniform Guard" had just been released and he also needed to take a temporary rest.
Mr. Xiang followed up and said that if Director Li was unwilling to accept shooting a movie for Xinglin Company alone, if Director Li had a new script, they could participate in the investment.
After this call, Li Rengang received calls from the owners of seven or eight film companies, some of which were mainland film companies, and three were Hong Kong film companies.
Some people directly explain their purpose, while others are making contact with him and making friends. Because when Li Rengang answered the next few calls, his heart was as bright as a mirror.
I know that these film company bosses who were once arrogant today are all brothers and sisters, because they saw that "The King of the Uniform Guard" was sold at the box office and wanted to recruit him to make movies for them.
This encounter made him feel very moved.
In the past six months before the filming of "The King of the Uniform Guard", he took the script of "The King of the Uniform Guard" and went to many film companies to attract investment?
What was going on at that time?
At the beginning, almost no one was optimistic about the box office of this movie. It is said that in the current film market, costume martial arts films have long declined.
If Lu Yang hadn't suddenly said he could invest 50 million later, he suggested that he invite Donnie Yen to star in it. And Donnie Yen followed up with the release of "Ip Man" and became famous across the Taiwan Strait and three places, and probably no one would be willing to invest in "The King of the Uniform Guard" later.
What surprised Li Rengang was that the bosses of so many film companies called him personally this morning, but Lu Yang had not made any noise.
He heard that Lu Yang had invited Wu Qi and was preparing to invest in a series of movies, and the investment plan for the first movie was over 100 million.
Don't he want me to direct?
Li Rengang was confused, but he still decided to wait for a while to see!
He now has a good impression of Lu Yang, not only because Lu Yang was the first to like his script "The King of the Uniform Guard" and promised him a 50 million investment as soon as he opened his mouth, but also because of the few suggestions Lu Yang gave him, looking back now, they are all beneficial to the quality of "The King of the Uniform Guard".
Whether it is the candidate he recommends or the modification of the plot of the script, especially Lu Yang, in order to make the end of the movie exciting enough, he actively proposed that he could increase his investment, but he must add a role of Wu Ya and Hong Jinbao's fighting scene.
Li Rengang had never encountered such a thing before.
Investors he had met before were eager for him to compress his investments repeatedly and ask him to delete the characters and plots in the script to save money on the movies. He has also encountered investors who have encountered more than once.
But Lu Yang is not like this. He would rather increase his investment than ensure the quality of the movie. Li Rengang likes such an investor from the bottom of his heart. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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