Huayu’s ex-husband

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" is 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, at that time, its film schedule had been raised to more than 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 itself 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, I'm afraid this matter is 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 famous directors, so that the probability of making mistakes 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", 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 it was true, could Wei Wu really make it up to him? How is that possible?

Ning Hao's laughter became even more hearty: "Okay, I'll lend you some good advice. I'll really have 30 million by then. If you don't come to the celebration banquet, we won't be able to use our chopsticks, okay?"

Wei Wu also smiled and said: "Okay, it's settled then! If I don't come then, I'll see if any of you dare to open the banquet!"

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

Wei Wugang put down his cell phone, then thought about it and called his secretary Zhang Wenwen again.

He has to ask Bad Monkey Pictures to start preparing for a press conference. After the filming of "Painted Skin" is finished here and Wei Wu and the others return to Yanjing——

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

In addition, the recruitment of students for the Bad Monkey 72 Transformation Plan here should also be accelerated. Don’t let the conference be held at that time, and the first batch of students haven’t been gathered yet.

At present, Lu Yang has been taken care of by Wei Wu, and Chen Sicheng has also signed. With Ning Hao, there are three people. Wei Wu plans to recruit three more people, and the first batch will be enough for six people.

Then 6 people are promoted in each issue, and one issue is released every two or three years, with a total of 36 people in six issues. This is actually a lot of people!

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

There are currently three spots left in the first phase. Wei Wu plans to give one to Guo Fan and then one to Wu Jing.

Wei Wu has basically found out about the situation of the two of them. After graduating from Hainan University Law School in 2003, Guo Fan currently works at the Travel Channel under Hainan Satellite TV.

As for Wu Jing, his career is currently tepid and he is currently looking for investors to invest in preparing to film his first directorial film "Wolf Fang".

These action actors all want to imitate Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao and others who direct and act. Donnie Yen has already tried it before, and the company went bankrupt after only making two movies. Now it's Wu Jing's turn!

The result is of course foreseeable. Who will invest in him? So Wu Jing had no choice but to spend his own money to shoot!

Not even Wei Wu could vote for his movie.

In the previous life, the production cost of the film was 4 million. After its release, the box office in the mainland was 4.23 million and the box office in Hong Kong was 2.31 million. This totaled only 6.5 million. It can be said that it was lost to grandma's house!

It was not that Wei Wu couldn't afford to lose the money, but he couldn't afford to have a reputation as someone who couldn't read movies, so he could only provide all support except help.

Then the first issue can’t be all male, there has to be a female to show support for the female director!

However, there are not many female directors in domestic entertainment who are successful, and even fewer are young. After counting, it seems that the only ones are Xue Xiaolu ("Ocean Paradise", "Beijing Meets Seattle") and Su Lun ("Cohabitation in Time and Space") .

However, Su Lun has just been admitted to the Chinese Opera this year, and he is too young, so he should wait for the next few episodes. Then let’s find Xue Xiaolu first for this episode!

It just so happened that Xue Xiaolu was still their teacher at Nortel, so it was easier to find someone to communicate with.

At this time, although Xue Xiaolu had not officially taken over as director, she was already considered a famous screenwriter.

The previous film "Don't Talk to Strangers", which was filmed by Wei Wu's mentor Zhang Jiandong, was written by Xue Xiaolu. Another director, Jiang Wei, is also a teacher from Nortel. This can be regarded as a team building for teachers from Nortel!

However, even so, among the three leading actors in this movie, Mei Ting and Wang Xuebin are from China Opera, and Feng Yuanzheng is from People's Art. Anyway, none of them is from Nortel.

These two directors are both Nortel teachers! They didn't even mention taking care of their own students. It can be seen that the school spirit of Nortel does not include solidarity and mutual assistance!