Chapter 151: Box office boom, sensational discussion
"Director Lu! Director Lu!"
The assistant was startled and quickly helped Lu Chuai's limp body to regain its footing.
"I'm fine, Xiao Wang, go organize the information and hold an emergency meeting immediately!"
Lu Chuan waved his hand with a livid face.
soon.
On the projection screen in the conference room, a column chart comparing the current box office of the two films "Nanjing" and "Agent" began to be displayed.
If Lu Chuan’s box office statistics stand like a bird for South Korean men, then Zhou Yutang’s “The Lonely Agent” is like a pillar for the sky.
Is this comparable?
His "Nanjing!" Nanjing! " will be released nationwide on April 22.
The future film master's reputation is very impressive, and his 80 million-dollar production is also very impressive. At the press conference, he claimed that he would hit a box office of 200 million.
It was so scary that movies in the same period were either moved up or postponed.
Even Wang Jing, a great director in Hong Kong, did not dare to face him head-on. He postponed the release of "Empire of Money" for a week just to avoid his sharp edge.
There are only a few movies that I have never heard of.
"When Flowers Fall" and "The Other Side" are just films that make up the numbers.
Lu Chuan didn't pay attention at all.
It will be released for three days.
The box office revenue was 30.5 million.
This result cannot be said to be a surprise, but it can also be said to be quite satisfactory.
However.
Lu Chuan never thought it was the quality of his movies that was the problem. He thought it was the lack of promotion of his movies and the low number of films scheduled.
He always holds the hope of counterattack. As long as the movies of the same period are not so outstanding, then he will definitely be the tall general among the dwarfs, winning by reputation and movie connotation.
Until "The Lonely Agent" was a box office hit on its first day.
My three-day total box office combined is not as high as others' first-day box office.
“It’s so unfair to give “The Secret Agent” more than 50 film credits!”
Lu Chuan's teeth were almost broken: "How are the reviews on the Internet? Such an action movie is definitely due to the early hype. The audience should just watch it for a fresh feeling. The good reviews will disappear in a few days, and then the reputation will It will also collapse."
"Director Lu, I extracted some online evaluation data, look."
The assistant carefully projected the collected data on the screen.
Lu Chuan pushed up his glasses, opened his eyes and saw a black eye.
Douban’s latest rating is released, his “Nanjing! Nanjing! "Only 6.2 points, while Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" scored as high as 9.1!
There are also professional film review websites such as Time.com, which all have similar scores.
Of course.
It is still in the early stages of the film’s release, so the scores must be a bit inflated.
When the number of moviegoers increases, this score will definitely drop.
But the basic score of "Lonely Agent" is so high, even if it falls, it is still a masterpiece with a score of 8 or above, and "Nanjing!" Nanjing! 》The current rating is only 6.5. Is there still room for decline?
"Turn it off! I told you to turn it off!"
Lu Chuan suddenly got angry, and the assistant hurriedly turned off the projection.
The entire conference room was silent.
I spoke eloquently before the release and comforted myself for three days after the release.
Now when the box office of "The Lonely Agent" comes out on the first day of its release, there is immediate silence.
As long as you are not mentally deficient, it is not difficult to see that the box office of these two movies is not on the same level at all.
《Nanjing! Nanjing! "Based on the current attendance rate and the ferocity of "The Lonely Agent" in the same period, the film schedule may continue to be cut.
The 200 million hit that Lu Chuan vowed at the beginning was just a dream. Let alone 200 million, the guaranteed hundreds of millions is not realistic. What we should consider now is whether we can get 60 million box office.
On the other hand, Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" had a box office of 41 million on the first day. With such high reputation and popularity, it is not easy to break 100 million in the next three days!
Is there any comparison between being hung up and beaten?
"I really don't know what to say!"
Lu Chuan felt aggrieved and angry. He picked up the newspaper on the table and shook it. The headline on the front page read again, "The secret of Zhou Yutang and Fan Xiaopang's love affair is revealed. News that the crystallization of love is about to create a box office legend."
Bang! ! !
Lu Chuan threw the newspaper aside and slammed the table, grinning in pain.
I saw that Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" was so successful at the box office and received so much attention and praise.
His body felt worse than ten thousand ants crawling on him.
Originally, he still had about a week of buffer time to accumulate box office.
But Zhou Yutang’s decision to schedule the release was completely based on his painstaking work "Nanjing!" Nanjing! 》The road is blocked.
He now faced his most direct competitor, Zhou Yutang, and was beaten so hard that he couldn't hold his head up.
Because the current number of large screens in domestic theaters is limited.
That is to say.
If a movie has a high attendance rate and box office during the same period, then the theater chain will inevitably increase the film schedule. The inevitable result is that other movies released at the same time will have a compressed film schedule.
The film output is low.
This means that there are fewer viewers who can see this movie. Unless it has an incredible reputation, it will easily be suppressed and sink to the bottom.
It’s just like the snowball in the game.
The strong become stronger and the weak become weaker.
Now Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" is obviously the one with the upper hand. With such a high attendance rate and good reputation, it will take a lot of advantage in the theater arrangement.
The theater side is always the most realistic.
They only look at which movies will make them more money.
Unless you have the appearance and background like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang, it is useless to just brag about future masters.
"Director Lu, what should I do? Something seems wrong."
The assistant beside him also realized the problem and asked hurriedly.
"Why are you panicking? Calm down!"
Lu Chuan rubbed his sore wrist, his tone was weak, and he glared at the assistant with a stern look: "Don't you think I'm interested in this movie?" Not confident in the quality? ”
“Of course I am confident”
The assistant quickly expressed his loyalty: "But, Director Lu, the momentum over there is really strong now. Should we also think of a way?"
Afterwards, the assistant's tone became weaker and weaker.
He is not a fool either.
Zhou Yutang’s promotional work is in full swing. The early trailers have been edited very well. In addition, the online reputation has exploded. Now even his girlfriend asks him to accompany him to watch "The Lonely Agent" for the sake of sexual pleasure. Life, he also agreed to watch it together then.
As for this movie directed by Lu Chuan.
Alas, working with him is just for work and for food, and watching "Lonely Agent" is life.
"When he kept his hair short and put on a suit, my blood tank was emptied directly."< br>
"And his acting skills are also super good. When he cried and laughed at the end, I shed tears."
"Have you ever felt that Zhou Yutang seems to be getting more and more handsome?"
“There is such a feeling that he is worthy of Koto Mishurou, and his appearance is as good as the ceiling.”
"In the past, Zhou Yutang was a sunny, cheerful and handsome guy, with the feeling of a campus male god. In "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", he was an ancient style male god, but in "The Lonely Agent", he seemed to have an indescribable special temperament. "
"At the beginning of this year, Zhou Yutang's Jiangdong Film and Television Culture Studio was upgraded to an entertainment company. He is now worth over 100 million. Look at your bosses and other wealthy people, do you think they are special? Temperament?"
"Zhou Cao, it seems to be true."
"The key scene is also good, the scene with Tony Jia made me wet."
As "The Lonely Agent" became a big hit on the first day, discussions in the media and on the Internet about Zhou Yutang, the leading actor, also began to flood the screen.
Action movies are actually an older genre of movies, starting from kung fu movies and flourishing in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s.
At that time, Jackie Chan and Jet Li were the leading actors in action films, and both of them entered Hollywood, earning tens of millions of dollars in salary.
In recent years, "Slaying the Wolf" and "The Fuse" are also very good-looking action movies.
But these Hong Kong action movies are inseparable from the routine of police and gangster battles.
Good and evil are naturally opposed to each other, and there is a sense of fighting just for the sake of fighting.
There has never been an emotion-driven action movie like "The Last Man".
Zhou Yutang is the exiled ace agent of the Chinese dynasty. In "The Lonely Agent", his appearance in a suit with a short cut and a cold face also made the audience shine.
If we say Jackie Chan is humorous but also has a thrilling action style.
Donnie Yen is the master of modern fighting, fist to flesh.
Then Zhou Yutang is a thug in a suit, with violence revealed in his elegance, and full of rage in the midst of killing.
If you take action, you will kill people, and killing people is like cutting grass. The most important thing is that such a human killing machine also has a handsome ascetic face.
Who can withstand this?
There are countless people online searching for the suit Zhou Yutang wore in the film.
As Armani’s spokesperson for Tianchao District, Zhou Yutang’s clothes in this movie were naturally sponsored by Armani.
The movie was released in just a few days.
The hot search term "Zhou Yutang suit thug" on Baidu rushed to the first place in the search list, followed by "Zhou Yutang's short-headed look".
Just these few days.
Even Armani’s sales in Tianchao District have increased.
Armani's suits are expensive, but China's population base is here, and there are many rich people.
Zhou Yutang has a large number of fans, and a small number of them have considerable spending power.
At this time, Zhou Yutang was chatting with Fan Xiaopang on the plane.
"Yu Tang, everyone praises you for being so handsome."
Fan Xiaopang had several newspapers in front of him. He flipped through them happily and saw the scandal story between himself and Zhou Yutang. He smiled. The flower branches are trembling, very happy.
Zhou Yutang calmly closed his eyes to rest, which left Fan Xiaopang speechless. He reached out and poked Zhou Yutang's abdominal muscles: "Can you give me some reaction?"
"What's your reaction?"
"So hard"
Fan Xiaopang exclaimed: "Do you really have 8-pack abs?"
Zhou Yutang patted and pushed his hair During the filming, Fan Xiaopang had already completed her guest role and left the crew, which she had always deeply regretted.
“Don’t touch the plane.”
Zhou Yutang slapped Fan Binbin's hand away angrily: "Would you like to come to my room to watch tonight?"
The two of them have become familiar with each other, and their movements are much more casual, and they even joke occasionally.
“Okay, okay, please remember to leave the door open for me.”
Unexpectedly, Fan Xiaopang nodded repeatedly, with an expectant look on his face that “there are such good things”, which shocked Zhou Yutang. It won’t happen anymore.
On the other side, Li Yao, who was following Zhou Yutang on the road show promotion, heard these words of tiger and wolf, and shivered like a frightened little white rabbit.
It is also a routine operation in the entertainment industry to introduce old people to new people.
Last year Zhou Yutang took Zhao Liying on publicity roadshows, which really gained her a wave of fans.
Li Yao is also one of the leading ladies of Jiangdong Company, and is also a fan of Zhou Yutang. Of course, he has to be exposed to both rain and dew.
So Zhou Yutang brought Li Yao out for this road show and asked her to do some assistant work.
As for Fan Xiaopang, he took the initiative to join the publicity road show team.
In addition, Tony Jia will attend road shows in two important cities, Beijing and Shanghai, but will not participate in other places. After all, he is an internationally famous star, and this Waiguo friend is also very busy with business.
Also Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Andy On and others will also participate in the road show.
But they have to finish their activities in the Xiangjiang area first, and then take the route from Shencheng to Huadu.
Flying on a plane is quite boring, so Zhou Yutang simply accompanied Fan Xiaopang while watching entertainment reports and chatting.
“In three days of release, “The Lonely Agent” directly took home 125 million at the box office, hahahaha!”
"Hey, look, look, some media are hyping up your two-week battle again."
"The previous first-day box office record for a domestic film was "The City of Golden Armor" directed by Guo Shi and starring Jay Chou. "33 million on the first day. Jay Chou's "Slam Dunk" last year encountered "Those Years", and the box office was strongly suppressed by Zhou Yutang. Now that the first-day box office record has been broken, Zhou Tianwang can be regarded as defeated by Zhou Yutang once again. Some reporters He was photographed drunk last night, looking haggard."
Fan Xiaopang was extremely lively, turning his head and tutting: "Zhou Yutang, look at you, you have done all kinds of bad things."
Zhou Yutang: " .”
He has a really good relationship with Jay Chou. Around July or August, they both agreed to be classmate Zhou’s tour guest.
"These media have been reporting nonsense all day long. Jay Chou is only one of the leading actors in the movie "The Golden Jacket", and Fa Ge and Gong Huang have higher rankings than him. Our movie is a male lead, and you are definitely the leading actor."
Fan Xiaopang flipped through the newspapers and saw that there were many reports about him, and he smiled so much that he couldn't close his mouth.
She was excited from the bottom of her heart for her wise decision.
The box office of "The Last Man" exceeded RMB 40 million on the first day, directly setting a domestic first-day box office record for a movie, and the box office exceeded RMB 100 million in three days.
I am the heroine!
Don't talk about whether there are many scenes or not.
On the movie's promotional poster, Fan Xiaopang appears as the heroine.
Anyway, I don't need to be paid for my role this time, so I'm really making money.
Of course.
Besides being excited, Fan Xiaopang still admired Zhou Yutang more in his heart.
Looking at the entire entertainment industry, this is really something that no one has ever been able to do.
For this movie, Zhou Yutang single-handedly took on the box office of the entire movie, which directly boosted its gold content.
With random thoughts in his mind, Fan Xiaopang crossed his legs, swayed slightly on his toes, and sent a winking look at Zhou Yutang.
Zhou Yutang had already become attracted to this female seductress. Losing resistance, he turned around and communicated with Li Yao: "For the crew of "Youth", I asked Director Yang for leave for you. You will join the crew later. This time you will come out and read more of the script, and try to win the role." Take it all in."
Zhu Yilong is the scumbag male protagonist in "Youth", and Li Yao plays the second female lead in it. The filming of this drama has already started.
Li Yao pursed his lips and looked at Zhou Yutang hesitantly, as if he wanted to say something, but ultimately lacked the courage.
Zhou Yutang glanced at her: "What's the matter?"
"Um, boss."
Li Yao's voice was a little awkward: "Can you tell me something? I'm not sure how to play the role of Ruan Wan when I read the script."
"Don't use honorifics in the future."
Zhou Yutang rubbed his forehead and took the script from Li Yao's hand.
In fact, after he asked his screenwriting department to finish the script, which was adapted from Xin Yiwu’s original novel, he himself read it and made suggestions for revisions.
The original story clues are messy. Zhou Yutang fixed the main plot on the male and female protagonists and the two male and female protagonists, and deleted some irrelevant branch content, so that it would appear more layered, as well as the protagonist's character behavior. The lines and lines have also been slightly changed to highlight the more reasonable character design.
The male protagonist played by Zhu Yilong is a test of acting skills, but in terms of excellence, the role of Ruan Wan played by Li Yao can definitely leave a deep impression on the audience.
First of all, the first scene where she appeared.
It was very shocking.
Ruan Wan is dressed in a white dress, with long hair disheveled, smiling, pure and beautiful.
She seemed so beautiful that her whole body shone, and all the boys on campus looked at her sideways.
To put it simply, she is Bai Yueguang in the eyes of boys.
“Let’s talk about your understanding.”
Zhou Yutang crossed his legs and smiled inadvertently, but Li Yao's heart jumped for no reason.
“Well, I think Ruan Guan may be the school belle in the school, the type that is very popular with boys, and she is also the heroine Wei Wei’s classmate and roommate. At the same time, she seems to be with these students. It’s different.”
Li Yao thought carefully and then expressed his thoughts.
Pang Fan put down the newspaper in his hand, held his chin in his hands, and eavesdropped on Zhou Yutang's lecture with great interest.
Nowadays, people on the Internet call Zhou Yutang the godfather of youth films. It is a joke, but all of his youth films are indeed classics and hits.
"Let me have a look."
Especially because this script was written by him, Fan Xiaopang was very interested. He took the script from Zhou Yutang's hand and listened to how Zhou Yutang would tell Li Yao's play while watching it.
"Yes, I have done a lot of homework."
Zhou Yutang glanced at Fan Xiaopang, but did not pay attention, and continued to analyze Li Yao: "You remember, Ruan Wan, this On the surface, the most important qualities of the character are beauty and maturity, because from the character setting of this film, she is perfect. Not only is she beautiful, but she is also mature beyond her peers."
"You will It was discovered that she was living and learning communication patterns with Weiwei, just like adults getting along with children. When Weiwei and others encountered problems, they all came to Ruan Guan to solve them."
"Boss, but I don't seem to be mature enough."
Li Yao lowered his head, looking slightly embarrassed.
“It’s not easy to be mature.”
Fan Xiaopang interrupted: “Don’t show emotions easily. I see the setting in this script. The heroine is slightly You seem to be cheerful and lively, then you are usually quiet and gentle when we get along."
Zhou Yutang glanced at Fan Xiaopang in slight surprise.
The acting skills of the four major actresses all have something special.
Fan Xiaopang has been acting for more than ten years, so he has rich experience.
In comparison.
Little beauties like Li Yan and Zhao Liying are still too immature.
The main reason is that the basic skills are not very good. It is obviously not enough to rely on the performance guidance from the company. Zhou Yutang is going to find a way to put them into the film school and follow the class to learn systematic basic acting knowledge.
They also have to make progress.
(End of this chapter)