Chapter 91: Swimming against the current, box office limit
On May 2, Li Mingyang continued to perform in Yanbei Road.
After the road show in the morning, Wang Changtian called Li Mingyang and told him that the box office on the first day was 1.1 million, 700,000 in the mainland, and 400,000 in Hong Kong.
The box office is okay, and there will definitely be no problem in getting back the money. The only question is how much money can be made.
On May 3, the mainland box office of "Love Like a Bouquet" was released the next day, with a total of 900,000.
Steady but rising.
Compared with the mediocre box office, Douban scored 9.0 with more than 200 people!
Although there are not many people who rate it, Douban, as the vane of movie reputation, has a great influence on the mainstream movie-goers.
With a score of 9.0, in this era when moviegoers are demanding about movies, a high score of 9.0 is undoubtedly a movie worth watching.
Many film critics began to buy tickets to see this high-scoring movie.
However, what is confusing is that Love in a Bouquet is only shown in Wanda Cinemas and not in other cinemas.
I had no choice but to post a movie review early to show off, so the film critic had no choice but to go to Wanda to grab tickets.
Big cities are better. Wanda Cinemas in small cities only have one show a day. You can't get the ones on the same day, you can only get the ones a few days later.
On this day, Uncle Wolf's "The Wolverine" was ushered in on May 1st, and all the movies in the same period had been cut.
The film schedule of "Love Like a Bouquet" was cut by one-third.
On May 4, Bouquet was fully screened in theaters owned by Shanghai Film Group Corporation. The film schedule for Flower Bouquet not only returned to the original number of screenings, but also included 100 more screenings.
Because the box office of Bouquet reached an astonishing 1.4 million on the third day.
With 10% of the film schedule on the first day, 9% on the second day, and 6% on the third day, the mainland box office reached 3 million in the first weekend!
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Behind the movie box office and film schedule, there is actually another "front" hidden.
This "front" is - the production and distribution of film copies.
Most viewers don't understand this link, but it is very important and directly determines whether the theater can normally show the movies that the audience wants to watch during the movie's release.
In 2004, domestic film copies began to be digitized, gradually getting rid of the original film copies.
As of today in 2009, almost all mainstream cinemas have completed digital cinemas. The size of movie copies has become smaller, only the size of a mobile hard drive, the cost is lower, and transportation and storage are more convenient.
Copies are not distributed randomly, but the distributor is responsible for making copies, scheduling them, and sending the copies to theaters.
There was no distributor for "Bouquet of Love" at the beginning. Wanda was responsible for the copying, and then scheduled the copies to be sent to Wanda Cinemas' theaters.
After Enlight participated in the distribution, Li Mingyang was fully responsible for the publicity, while the distribution was handled by Enlight.
Shanghai Film, Dadi, and China Film all have copies, but they just don’t release them.
Shanghai Film suddenly released Bouquet, not only took out all the copies, but also lined up many prime venues.
All because, after Bouquet was released in The Wolverine, the box office of the originally released films was almost halved on that day. Only Bouquet, despite a lower film schedule, still bucked the trend and reached an astonishing box office of 1.4 million.
Almost every venue was packed.
This is almost the box office limit that can be achieved by arranging films in the Mainland of the Flower Bouquet.
Lao Ren is too lazy to abide by the agreement. The most important thing is that the theater manager here in the Magic City is very resistant.
You can’t eat the meat in the front. Even if you arrange the next slices, the market has already slowed down, and there is nothing to eat.
Yanbei. After finishing the promotion work of "Sword and Sword 3", the creators of Sugar Man came to Wanda Cinema and went to the screening room reserved by Liu Shishi.
“Fortunately, Shishi bought it in time, otherwise we wouldn’t even be able to get tickets now.” Hu Ge said jokingly after sitting down.
“With such a low film schedule, we can still reverse the decline. We should be able to make a lot of money this time, right?” Huo Jianhua asked with a smile.
"We will definitely make a lot of money. The box office in Xiangjiang is similar to that in the mainland. The total box office is more than 6 million. We have already recovered our capital and the rest is earned. It has only been three days. I I did some calculations on the way here, we can earn at least three times." Hu Ge said excitedly.
Uncharacteristically, Huo Jianhua frowned and said, "Will this kid trick us?"
"No, we have signed a contract. I showed Mr. Cai a copy of the contract, and there is no problem!"
"They are making so much money, and they don't even call us to cheer him on. I always feel like he’s trying to trick us!”
Hu Ge also murmured in his heart, Li Mingyang was obsessed with the road show every day, and no one else called out except Yang Mi!
He and Lao Huo Ke are much more popular than Yang Mi.
"Shishi, Li Mingyang won't trick us, right?" Hu Ge turned to ask Liu Shishi beside him.
Master Liu shook his head, thought again, raised his hands, and shrugged. I don't know what he meant.
Hu Ge hid his face in pain. He used to be worried about not making money, but now he is worried about not getting any money!
He secretly decided to wait until the movie was over to talk to Mr. Cai about the hundreds of thousands of dividends! No need to pay taxes!
At this time Yuan Hong and several assistants walked in with popcorn and drinks.
Yuan Hong sat next to Master Liu and handed him a bottle of mineral water.
"Thank you, Brother Hong." Master Liu took the mineral water, smiled, unscrewed the cap, and took a sip.
Seeing this, Huo Jianhua nudged Hu Ge with his elbow and whispered: "You haven't given up yet?"
"If you don't listen, the contract will expire next year, let yourself go, Mr. Cai can no longer tolerate him.”
“It’s different with my own daughter!” Huo Jianhua laughed softly.
Huo Jianhua and Hu Ge joked for a while, and the bouquet-like love finally began.
Liu Shishi straightened his body and looked at the screen expectantly, watching Li Mingyang's movie "Love Like a Bouquet".
As time went by, the smile on her face disappeared, and her heart became more and more depressed...
Liu Yifei in the bouquet, even though she had lost the halo of ancient costume, she deliberately kept her bangs, Still so beautiful.
The beauty was so dazzling that she couldn't be confident or happy.
After all, Mr. Cai’s plan for her was ‘Little Liu Yifei’.
"You are so good at photographing women! Liu Yifei is not so beautiful usually!" Hu Ge sighed.
"The filter is used well." Huo Jianhua touched his chin and said professionally, "Why does it not feel like a mainland-style movie? It's a bit Hong Kong-like, but also a bit Japanese drama style."
< br>Hu Ge held it in for a long time. He really didn't know what to say, so he said "so bright" and shut up.
The movie is halfway through.
Looking at Li Mingyang’s bare upper body and shaving his hair, Master Liu couldn’t help but swallow his saliva, and his eyes were covered with a layer of mist.
So handsome!
It turns out that this is how he got his crew cut.
Sitting in the third row, Cai Yinong, Li Guoli, and other directors of Sugar Man began to discuss.
Even without Liu Shishi’s reservation, Cai Yinong and the others are ready to take a look at "Bouquet", which will make the mountain eagle change its mind.
(End of this chapter)