Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 87 87. Lock in the top ten box office of the year in advance (it will be released at noon tomorrow, please order first)

After hearing that the box office of "Unfortunate Journey" exceeded one million on its first day, the smiles on Liu Tianxian and Wei Wu's faces basically never dropped.

After his excitement calmed down a little, Liu Tianxian suddenly pressed his chest and said with lingering fear:

"To be honest, when I first heard you say that it would be released on December 29, I even thought you were crazy, you know?"

Wei Wu was secretly proud and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth: "Really? You must not be the only one who thinks so, right?"

Liu Tianxian nodded and said: "Yes, even I, who trusts you so much, think that you are confronting Zhang Yimou, and you also want to compete with "The Promise" at the box office. You are completely trying to beat a stone with an egg and have no chance of winning!

"But I didn't expect you to be able to snatch a piece of meat from their mouths! This is probably God's reward for the brave!"

Wei Wu's expression was a little playful. He was clearly taking advantage of the opportunity to steal the chicken. How could he be considered a brave person?

You people don’t think that I chose this time specifically because I am a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers and wants to have a good encounter with Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, right?

Damn it, you’re not looking for death like this? I am still somewhat obsessed with counting, but I have never thought of it this way!

What is the status of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige in the mainland director circle these days? That was the absolutely unshakable and unsuspicious top two (before "The Promise" was released).

Even if Wei Wu is confident that he can confront them head-on, it will be at least a few years later. Now that he is uncivilized, he certainly does not have the qualifications.

So is this how everyone sees him now?

They all think that young Wei Wu is really arrogant! As soon as he gets started, he directly fucks Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. He is very energetic and energetic!

Is it the brave person who is an expert? Or are young people not experiencing severe beatings from society?

But think about it, this year's Lunar New Year period lasts for nearly four months. There are so many days to choose from, but Wei Wu has to squeeze in with Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.

Other movies avoid it, but Wei Wu insists on getting involved. It seems that apart from this explanation, there is no other reasonable explanation!

It can only be said that it is a pity that this movie is solely owned by Wei Wu. If there were other investors in this movie, they probably would not agree to his doing this.

The risk is too great. This is a complete joke with investors’ money!

Liu Tianxian and Wei Wu happily had breakfast, and later that day, other movie data for December 29 were released one after another.

Ranking first is of course "The Promise": 4.27 million. This movie also has the highest film schedule, still firmly occupying 30% of the film schedule.

Ranking second at the single-day box office is Zhang Yimou’s premiere of his new film "Ride Alone, Thousands of Miles": 2.89 million, which is about 25% of the film schedule.

It's not that the theater chain doesn't give the national teacher face, who made it a literary film? Prior to this, the highest box office for mainland art films was only 10 to 20 million.

Before the release, Zhang Yimou made his own predictions, and the expected box office of this movie was only estimated at 60 million, which is definitely incomparable to "The Promise".

Unexpectedly, in the end, it didn't even reach half of the expected box office, so Zhang Yimou's new film did miss a bit at the box office.

Ranking third is Liu Zhenwei's "The Great Sage", with a box office of 1.7 million on the 8th day of its release, and about 20% of the film schedule.

"Unfortunately" ranked fourth with 1.35 million, with about 13% of the film schedule. After calculating this, you will find that the remaining movies can only compete for less than 12% of the film schedule.

This is actually normal. After all, competition in this Lunar New Year period is fierce. It is impossible for ordinary movie theaters to schedule movies, and they will directly ask you to choose another release date.

Liu Tianxian bumped Wei Wu with his elbow:

"Hey, what do you think the final box office of our movie will be?"

Wei Wu shook his head and said: "To be honest, it's hard to say now. It depends on the box office growth after the film schedule is improved.

"And the most important thing is to see how much the box office will increase during the New Year's Day holiday starting the day after tomorrow?

"If we can get a big hit this holiday without missing a beat, our box office data should be much better."

The movie "Unfortunately" was released on Thursday (December 29). Generally speaking, aren't movies released on Friday? Why are they on Thursday this time?

Of course there is a reason, that is because there is no holiday on Saturday and Sunday this week.

Due to the New Year's Day holiday adjustment, the public holidays that were supposed to be December 30 (Saturday) and December 31 (Sunday) were moved to January 2 (Tuesday) and January 3 (Wednesday).

In this way, New Year's Day plus the following two days form a three-day New Year's Day holiday!

Therefore, Wei Wu's release this time is aimed at this small holiday. Whether the box office is good or bad in the first week basically depends on this small holiday!

Generally speaking, the box office on holidays may be 2 to 4 times that on non-holidays. The greater the reputation and the higher the reputation of a movie, the greater the increase.

The days of waiting for the daily box office results to be released are undoubtedly a bit grueling.

Fortunately, Wei Wu could put his mind on work for the time being. In this way, he would just sleep on the pillow after a tiring day, and he wouldn't be so anxious. He would be thinking about the box office from morning to night.

Even after the movie was released, Wei Wu still led Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng, Liu Tianxian and others in the past few days to continue roadshow promotion in one city a day.

Their road show has been scheduled for a long time and is ready to last until the end of the three-day New Year's Day holiday. At that time, it will depend on the situation and whether it is necessary to extend the promotion period and visit a few more cities.

Finally, on January 3rd, their last roadshow in Sanya ended. Xu Zheng asked him during dinner in the evening:

"Director, are we still running tomorrow?"

Wei Wu waved his hand and said, "No more running away. Congratulations on your release!"

"Yeah", everyone cheered in unison.

After all, the road show promotion is really tiring and boring. Most of the time is spent on transportation every day, and the food and accommodation are just mediocre.

And it’s completely different from traveling. Every time my butt is not even hot, I have to leave again.

To put it bluntly, even if I had time to appreciate the scenery along the way, to be honest, I would be exhausted physically and mentally and not have the energy to do so.

"Come on, director, let me toast you."

Liu Tianxian, who was sitting on the right, helped Wei Wu fill up the beer. Then Wei Wu touched him, raised his glass with a smile, looked around and said to everyone:

"Everyone has worked hard these days, so our road show ends here!

"Go back tonight and have a good sleep. When our movie is released and we have a celebration party, everyone will come. Then everyone will get a big red envelope!"

"Thank you, Director Wei!"

"The director is awesome!"

"Director, I love you!"

Wei Wu waved his hands in disgust and said, "Go, go, love your wife!"

Then everyone stood up and toasted Wei Wu to express their gratitude. After all, who doesn't like a holiday? Not to mention that if you go home and rest for a while, you can get red envelopes later.

To be honest, although he was running around everywhere these days and was so busy that he didn't even have time to drink water, Xu Zheng didn't feel tired at all and was full of energy and motivation every day.

If not for anything else, the daily rising box office of "Unfortunately" is the best stimulant, allowing him to work energetically all day long.

It's not like Xu Zheng has never tasted the feeling of becoming popular, but he didn't expect that his first step in the film industry would go so smoothly.

His first cross-border movie will almost become his early masterpiece in his acting career!

Accepting Wei Wu's invitation is definitely one of the most correct choices in his life, and "Unfortunately" will undoubtedly become an important booster for his career.

At least from now on, he can proudly claim that he is a movie star, and at least he already has a movie masterpiece!

In recent days, Ning Hao has become more attentive to him. He even called him yesterday to ask him when he was going to film "Crazy Stone".

It's not hard to tell that both inside and outside the words, I feel a little worried that he has changed his mind and will no longer star in zero-pay roles, and suddenly wants to raise his salary.

In the final analysis, isn't it just because "Awkward" was a box office hit!

It can be said that this small-budget road comedy that almost no one paid attention to before its release, no one expected that it would become so inexplicably popular because of an online video!

Since the film was released on December 29, it has successively earned 1.35 million, 1.47 million and 1.5 million box office. After entering the New Year's Day holiday, the film schedule was increased to more than 20%, and it has been out of control since then.

The day before yesterday and yesterday, that is, New Year's Day and the next day, the box office was 4.86 million and 4.18 million respectively. Today, as expected, the box office was around 4 million.

As a result, its cumulative box office in the six days since its release has been close to 18 million, which means that the box office in the first seven days will definitely exceed 18 million.

Generally speaking, the final box office of a theatrical feature film is about 2.5 to 3 times the first week's box office, which means that this movie has a high possibility of breaking through 50 million in the final box office.

What is the concept of 50 million box office? "Hancheng Strategy", currently ranked ninth, only has 41 million. It means that "People on the Road" has basically locked in a top ten spot of the year in advance.

Xu Zheng's heart became even hotter when he thought that he had also signed a contract for the sequel to "Unfortunately"! Glancing at Wei Wu who was toasting, he couldn't help but be convinced:

I have to say, this man is really talented and bold!

A new director's debut film can directly enter the top ten of the year, and it was won even though Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige blocked it.

Even if you don't like this movie, you have to give him a thumbs up for this!

This chapter is the last free chapter before it goes on the shelves. It will go on the shelves at 12:00 noon tomorrow. At that time, I also hope that all the big guys will use their little hands to make a fortune and place an initial order. I am very grateful. I will add some comments about the release later.