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Chapter 158 157. Can only provide all support except help

"Hey, Brother Hao, how are you? How much is it?"

Ning Hao's slightly excited voice came from the phone:

"It's not bad, at least it's a little better than I thought, but of course it's definitely incomparable to you!"

"Don't say that either," Wei Wu said with a smile:

"I read the newspaper before, and it seems that the box office of "Crazy Stone" exceeded one million on the first day, right?"

Ning Hao said happily: "That's right, 1.05 million, the card just broke!"

This result is actually quite good. You must know that the first-day box office of "Awkward" was only 1.35 million.

Of course, "People on the Road" are not exactly the same thing. The main reason is that the first day of release of "Unfortunately" is not a holiday, so the box office will naturally be lower.

On the first holiday, New Year's Day, the box office of "Awkward" was 4.86 million.

Of course, by that time, its film schedule had been raised to over 18%.

"Crazy Stone" achieved this result with 10% of the film schedule. The theaters will definitely increase the film schedule appropriately in the future.

Not to mention that this movie is distributed by China Film Group Corporation. Even if outside theaters do not raise the price, China Film Group Corporation will probably raise the price appropriately.

"Congratulations," so Wei Wu continued to inquire:

"It's Monday today, so the first week's box office should be out, right?"

Ning Hao answered in detail: "On the second day, August 9th, Saturday box office was 1.41 million, and on the third day, Sunday box office was 1.64 million. As of yesterday, the total box office for the first three days was 4.1 million!"

In the previous life, the box office of this movie in the first three days was only 2 million. Now it has doubled. It has really taken off!

Don't tell me, this matter is probably directly related to Wei Wu.

After all, there are basically no obvious changes in the promotion of this movie from its previous life. The only variable is that it was vigorously promoted under the banner of Wei Wu's recommendation.

If it weren't for the fact that the production cost of this movie was too low and the cast lineup was too poor, then maybe his box office in the first week would not have just doubled!

But even if it is 4 million, Ning Hao is already very satisfied!

After all, according to the general final box office, which is 2.5 to 3 times the first week's box office, the box office of "Crazy Stone" will definitely exceed 10 million!

Don’t think that it’s easy to achieve a box office of over 10 million. In fact, among the movies released in the mainland last year, there were only 30 in total that had a box office of over 10 million.

In other words, based on the current box office trend of "Crazy Stone", if it were placed last year, it would definitely be among the top 30 of the year!

Of course, Wei Wu must be more optimistic than him. After all, this movie in his previous life had a box office of 25.34 million.

Now that Wei Wu is helping to promote it, the attention is already higher than in the previous life, so how can the box office be satisfied with just over 10 million?

Wei Wu estimates that there should be no problem if the final box office exceeds 30 million, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to reach 35 million.

Although the overall quality of this movie is definitely not worse than "The Journey". But the problem is that "Journey on the Road" reaps the dividends from the "Steamed Buns" video, which is almost equivalent to 100 million yuan in advertising fees.

How can this "Crazy Stone" compare with it? That's nothing compared to that!

Then again, if this movie was made by Wei Wu, then he would definitely have made over 100 million yuan.

But it was only filmed by Ning Hao, who is now unknown, and the box office was only over 30 million at most!

Is it mainly because information is not yet developed these days? There is not even a credible film and television drama rating website, similar to Douban.

Therefore, it is difficult for ordinary audiences to distinguish whether a movie is good or bad, so they will become more superstitious about authority and great directors.

After all, the economy is not that developed now, and watching movies is originally a slightly luxurious consumption.

Therefore, people will be more conservative when spending money to buy tickets, and they will naturally be more inclined to choose movies directed by A-list directors, so that the probability of being cheated will be smaller.

If your salary is 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, and you spend 40 to 50 yuan to watch a bad movie, the most you can do is curse.

But if your salary is only one or two thousand or even eight or nine hundred yuan, and you spend forty or fifty yuan to watch a bad movie, it is no exaggeration to say that you will be really upset for several days, and you may even think about it after two or three months. Still grudged!

"Then the film schedule must have increased now, right?"

"Well", when mentioning this, Ning Hao's happiness was beyond words:

"It has now increased by six percentage points, and the film schedule is close to 17%!"

"Don't worry, it will definitely rise again. Your movie has a lot of stamina, but it hasn't even started to show its strength yet! I think it will most likely buck the trend and rise again, and it shouldn't be a problem for the box office to exceed 30 million in the end!"

Ning Hao was a little stunned: "30 million, isn't it a bit exaggerated? Let alone 30 million, as long as I can get half of it, I will be satisfied!"

Wei Wu said confidently: "The target of 1,500 is too low, trust me! As long as the film schedule increases, it will definitely be 30 million. If it is not enough, you can ask me to make up for it!"

Ning Hao clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, this is what you said. When the time comes when it is not enough, you must make up for it!

"I suggest you go to the bank to make an appointment now and prepare the money first!"

Wei Wu sneered: "I'm not prepared for anything, it must be 30 million anyway!"

Of course, both sides were joking. Even if there really was no money, would Wei Wu really give him the money? How could that be possible?

Ning Hao laughed even more heartily: "Okay, then I'll borrow your good words. If there is really 30 million, we won't eat unless you come to the celebration banquet, okay!"

Wei Wu also smiled and said: "Okay, then it's settled! If I don't come, I'll see who dares to start the banquet!"

The two joked a few more times, and then Wei Wu hung up the phone.

Wei Wu just put down his phone, thought about it and called his secretary Zhang Wenwen again.

He had to let Bad Monkey Pictures start preparing for a press conference. After the filming of "Painted Skin" was finished and Wei Wu and his team returned to Yanjing-

Bad Monkey Pictures had to hold a press conference immediately to officially announce the "Bad Monkey 72 Transformations Plan" and announce that Ning Hao would be the first contracted director of the project.

In addition, the recruitment of trainees for the Bad Monkey 72 Transformations Plan should also be accelerated. Don't hold a press conference when the first batch of students are not gathered.

At present, Lu Yang has been settled by Wei Wu, Chen Sicheng has also signed, and there are three including Ning Hao. Wei Wu plans to recruit 3 more people to make the first batch of 6 people.

Then 6 people will be promoted in each period, and one period will be released every two or three years. There will be 36 people in six periods in total, which is actually not too old or small!

36 people are enough to include all the young first- and second-tier directors in the domestic entertainment industry. If there are more, the gold content will be reduced!

There are currently three places left in the first period. Wei Wu plans to give one to Guo Fan and one to Wu Jing.

Wei Wu has basically found out about the two people. After graduating from the Law School of Hainan University in 2003, Guo Fan is currently working in the travel channel under Hainan Satellite TV.

As for Wu Jing, his career is currently tepid. Recently, he is looking for people to attract investment and is preparing to shoot his first directorial film "Wolf Tooth".

These action actors all want to learn from Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung to direct and act by themselves. Zhen Zidan has tried it before, but the company went bankrupt after only two films. Now it's Wu Jing's turn!

The result is of course predictable. Who will invest in him? So Wu Jing can only pay out of his own pocket and bite the bullet to shoot!

Even Wei Wu couldn't invest in his movie.

The production cost of the film in the previous life was 4 million. After the release, the box office in the mainland was 4.23 million and the box office in Hong Kong was 2.31 million. The total was only 6.5 million, which can be said to be a loss of money!

Wei Wu can afford to lose this money, but he can't get a reputation for not knowing how to identify movies, so he can only provide all support except help.

Then the first issue can't be all men, there must be a woman to show support for female directors!

However, there are not many female directors in the domestic entertainment industry who have made a name for themselves, and even fewer young ones. It seems that there are only Xue Xiaolu (Ocean Paradise, Beijing Meets Seattle) and Su Lun (Time Travel Cohabitation).

However, Su Lun was just admitted to the Central Academy of Drama this year, and he is too young. Let's wait for the next few issues, so let's talk to Xue Xiaolu first in this issue!

It just so happens that Xue Xiaolu is also a teacher at the Beijing Film Academy, so it is more convenient to find someone to communicate with.

Although Xue Xiaolu has not officially taken the director's baton at this time, she is already a famous screenwriter.

The previous film "Don't Talk to Strangers" shot by Wei Wu's mentor Zhang Jiandong was written by Xue Xiaolu. Another director Jiang Wei is also a teacher at the Beijing Film Academy. This is a team building for teachers at the Beijing Film Academy!

However, even so, among the three main actors of this movie, Mei Ting and Wang Xuebin are from the Central Academy of Drama, and Feng Yuanzheng is from the People's Art Theater. Anyway, none of them is from the Beijing Film Academy.

These two directors are both teachers at the Beijing Film Academy! They didn't even say anything about taking care of their own students. This shows that the school spirit of Beijing Film Academy does not really include unity and mutual assistance!