Tokyo Literary Godfather

"Fujiwara, people in the company seem to be a little unstable recently. I think it's better to shoot a new work." Yui Mizuhara approached Kei Fujiwara and said.

It has been more than two months since Kei Fujiwara acquired Mizunami Productions. These two months seemed calm, but in fact there were turmoil. First of all, there was a major change in the personnel structure. Kei Fujiwara completely handed over the matter to Kashi Yoshida.

Yoshida Kasumi has dismantled the animation department, advertising department, and artist management department, and merged them all into the special photography department. Although cartoons are amazing at attracting money, the animation production level of Mizuha Productions is very impressive, and there are also It would be better not to.

Moreover, the auditors also caused a stir in Shuibo Productions and solved some long-term corruption problems. Even a small thing like printing paper can be used by some people as a tool to extract the wool of capitalism. The two clerks can earn several million yen a year by purchasing printing paper, ink cartridges, and ballpoint pens. There are countless more things.

After the audit, many people were removed from the company, causing panic. Coupled with the fact that Kei Fujiwara has launched a seemingly idle [Mizuba Award], many employees don't even know what he wants to do. After all, they are a production company, and producing programs is their top priority. Many people in the production team have nothing to do during this period, and their salaries are much less, which makes them feel flustered.

Kei Fujiwara nodded after hearing this, expressing his understanding, and he will come up with a specific project plan within a week. Recently, I really put too much focus on the movie "Confession", and neglected the company affairs.

"By the way, Fujiwara, there is one more thing." Mizuhara Yui said again, "Recently Shibazaki Hideaki..."

Fujiwara Kei stood up suddenly, "What's wrong with Shibazaki, is he willing to come to Mizuna production?"

Mizuhara Yui glanced at him helplessly. There is another problem with Mizuha Productions now, that is, there are really not many mature and professional TV drama directors, especially those with Shibasaki's level.

But it's a pity that Hideaki Shibasaki is now being reused at Fukuyamadai. Especially after Mizuhara Yui ran to Mizuha Productions in a fit of anger, Fukuyamadai's personnel were also panicked and they didn't dare to do those things to make people unhappy again. His little tricks gave Hideaki Shibasaki great preferential treatment. Therefore, it will be even more difficult to recruit this person to Shuibo Production.

Not long ago, Hideaki Shibasaki recommended an acquaintance to Yui Mizuhara. This person was also a director. He and Hideaki Shibasaki were students at the same time, but later they embarked on completely different career development paths.

Shibasaki Hideaki became a TV drama director, but he insisted on independent film production. He has filmed two low-budget films. The box office results were quite satisfactory, but the reviews from critics were not bad.

This person’s name is Odagiri Kōzo, and he is still shooting independent films. He was an independent filmmaker before, and now he seems to be interested in joining Mizunami. Shibazaki Hideaki also spoke highly of him, saying that his creative inspiration and technical ability were superior to his own.

Kei Fujiwara seemed to have heard of this name. After thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that he had seen his movies. After coming to this world, I have watched many movies from this world, both famous and unknown, including a movie that this person has shot before.

This person has certain abilities, not to mention the current lack of director talent in the company, so Fujiwara Kei immediately nodded and said: "You can sign, you decide."

Sure enough, just as the film critic who predicted the box office predicted, on Tuesday, the box office increased again, reaching an astonishing 180 million.

And the reputation continues to ferment. Many people have given their own high evaluations, thinking that this is a rare suspense film, and may even be the best Japanese suspense film in history.

Many film critics have given high praise. Some newspapers and magazines have taken advantage of the situation and dare not say that the movie is bad. Film critics who had previously given negative reviews have also shut up. One of the major tasks of film critics is Act as a mouthpiece for the general audience. If many viewers find that you cannot truly express what you mean, they will question your professionalism as a film critic.

Mainstream reviews are on the one hand, and popularity among young people on the other. Even in the Internet age, the exchange of information between strangers has become very simple. What can most determine whether ordinary viewers go to see a movie is the recommendation of familiar people around them.

In addition, there are many clubs in Japanese schools, and club activities are often held. Sometimes it is common for dozens of people from a club to go to the movies together. "Confession", as a movie that caters to young people's tastes and has novel and exciting themes, quickly aroused popularity in major college circles, so young people rushed to watch it. The box office is also rising day by day.

On Wednesday, the box office reached 250 million; on Thursday, 280 million; on Friday...

In just one week, the movie "Confession" has bucked the trend and achieved an astonishing increase, once again attracting the attention of the media circle.

A few days ago, not long after "Confession" was released, many newspapers and magazines gave their own predictions. Since the movie's first week, the single-day box office was less than 100 million most of the time. The single-day box office on weekends The box office was only a little over 100 million. Therefore, many people's box office predictions at that time gave a figure of around 2 billion. After all, the movie's daily box office is showing a continuous downward trend.

At that time, the entertainment version of "Yomiuri Shimbun" gave a forecast of 5 billion, which made the industry laugh, but another week passed, and the box office of this movie became stronger and stronger. This made many people in the industry suddenly feel that 5 billion is not impossible.

After realizing the astonishing box office performance of this movie, the distribution department of Matsuri Pictures once again increased the promotional resources and schedule of the movie. They were in a hurry, for fear of missing this great opportunity to make money.

Can you not be in a hurry, after all, the screening mode of movies is different from that of TV dramas. TV dramas adopt the mode of broadcasting one episode per week, and a TV drama can be broadcast for three months. Some of it is a time response, and even some TV series that were not popular at the beginning found that they were doing well halfway through the broadcast, and it was too late to start using strong medicine and advertising.

But movies are different. A movie often goes offline after one month of airing, and many movies will be greatly reduced and scheduled in about 20 days to make way for some new movies in less than a month. "Confession" has been released for almost half a month, so time is running out.

Nobi Shiosuke became even more embarrassed. Although he had expected that this movie would exceed his expectations, he did not expect that it would exceed so much.

And the box office of the movie "Black Rock" that he had previously promoted and fully invested in has begun to stagnate or even regress. Many independent theaters even directly gave up all the screenings of this movie during good times to "Confession".

The distribution department also didn't care about the difference between "lead casting" and "following casting", and directly gave "Confessions" all the film schedules in good time, at least they had to earn the money from the distribution.

On another weekend, the single-day box office of "Confession" was 300 million and 250 million respectively.