Tokyo Literary Godfather

After the screening of "Black Dress Killer", even though it received good reviews, it still only achieved a box office of about 30 million on the day of its premiere.

No way, non-animated, non-special photography, non-theatrical, non-famous original movies are treated like this. Not all original movies are "Confessions".

However, 30 million is not too low. In view of the low cost of "Black Dress Killer", if the box office can maintain 30 million yen every day, it will be 890 million yen in a month. Recovering the money will definitely not be a problem. You can still make a small profit, and there will be more investment in Yamazaki Naoki's next work.

Naoki Yamazaki was certainly dissatisfied with this situation, and the film's distributor seemed to be optimistic about the film's future, so they increased their film schedule, and the box office began to soar from the second day. A week later, the cumulative The box office revenue actually reached 700 million, making it a well-deserved dark horse film.

And the dark horse level is even better than Kei Fujiwara's "Confession". After all, on the day "Confession" was released, many die-hard fans of Kei Fujiwara expressed their absolute support. The box office on the opening day was hundreds of millions.

Kei Fujiwara is no exception to this achievement. This movie is indeed good. Based on Kei Fujiwara's understanding of the market and professional vision, the total box office of this movie will reach around 3 billion. If they are lucky and there are some positive accidents in the middle, it may be even higher.

What does an accident mean? It’s hard to say, there are many.

For example, some real-life events occurred during the movie screening, which coincided with the plot of the movie and attracted many viewers to the cinema;

For another example, because of the popularity of the movie, a certain leading actor of the movie gained popularity, and the accumulation of popularity reached a certain threshold and exploded, making the actor directly become a national idol and a lover of the public, and the newly added fans crazily reciprocated Movie Box Office;

Also, during the screening of the film, the supervisor of this film suddenly won a certain heavyweight award for his last film (the film’s screening time and award time are often separated by a long time, and it is normal for more than a year), and it turned out that because of this award Once again aroused the audience's interest in watching movies.

The media also used a very positive attitude to report that this movie was never expected to be a box office hit, which is another exciting counterattack story.

Such counterattack stories have often happened to another person in the past few years, but now the person involved has finally changed.

And that person also attended the screening of this movie-many media specifically mentioned this point, but at the same time, he also teased Kei Fujiwara in a joking tone: You should hurry up with your movie. You see, this Yamazaki-kun is gradually catching up, and may overtake you... If you don't speed up, you may be caught up by others and left behind...

It's not just the movie "The Killer" that's popular, but also Kei Fujiwara's "Young Shop". However, the popularity of this book has little to do with Naoki Yamazaki's recommendation at the screening meeting. This book has attracted much attention, and countless readers are waiting for the day when it will be completed and published as a booklet. Since the first chapter was serialized, this novel has been ranked first in the survey of "Most Favorite Works by Readers".

In less than two months, the serialization of this novel will end, and it will officially enter the stage of publishing single volumes. For the publishing house, it is time for the big scale to divide the money. The entire publishing house regards the publication of this book as the most important issue in the future. It is required that on the day when the serialization of the novel ends, the single volume of "Jieyou Grocery Store" should be placed in the most conspicuous window display of major bookstores.

Kei Fujiwara is not too worried about the sales of his books. In the book market, Kei Fujiwara's position is so solid that it is difficult to shake. Not to mention that he only publishes some classic works, even if he doesn't behave like Keigo Higashino, he always uses some bad works as perfunctory, as long as he occasionally sweetens the readers, his works will also gain sales. There is no way, the throne under the butt of the famous writer is difficult to shake.

What Kei Fujiwara is most concerned about now is the reaction of the film market.

Not only is he not like some media deliberately provoking, he is worried that Naoki Yamazaki will come from behind and surpass himself, and he even sincerely hopes that "The Black Dress Killer" can win the box office and exert some stimulation in the film market.

Japan's local film market has indeed been cold for too long, and it needs a work that can revitalize the entire market.

For the film market, a good commercial film can often have an adrenaline effect. With one injection, the half-dead person suddenly becomes alive. If the treatment is done properly, the whole body can recover to health.

There are many such examples. Chinese-language films include "Hero" and "Tai囧", and foreign-language films include "Avatar" and "Avengers 4". After that, the film market returned to prosperity.

Although last year's "Confession" had a good box office and temporarily revived the market a little, this status quo lasted for less than a year. The main reason was that during that year, his peers were really disappointing, and several bad movies were produced, many of which were impromptu movies with the theme of "Young Criminals" to catch the popularity of "Confessions". As a result, audiences who were slightly interested in local films lost their enthusiasm again.

This also made Kei Fujiwara realize that it is not the film market that is cold, but local films. Hollywood movies have always been big sellers, and are extremely sought after by Japanese audiences. Many Japanese viewers even bluntly said: Only when Hollywood movies are released will they go to the cinema, and Japanese movies are only interesting for cartoons.

It is precisely because of this concept that Kei Fujiwara decided to use some strong medicine to shoot five movies at once.

As long as all five of these films are successful, they will at least leave a deep impression on the audience: Although Japanese films are not very good, Mizuha's films are trustworthy.

If it can lead to the development of the entire film industry, it will be even more meritorious. By then, Kei Fujiwara's status as the godfather of the entertainment industry will really be established.

Judging from the current box office performance of "Black Dress Killer", this movie can indeed heat up the entire market. In this case, Kei Fujiwara plans to launch their first movie while it is hot.

The later stage of "My Sassy Girlfriend" is also progressing very rapidly, and now it has completed 90% of the work. The senior executives of Shuibo Production decided to finalize the file and announce the screening time.

After some discussion, the movie was selected to be released in mid-July. Although there were many movies released in the summer, there were also many audiences. Moreover, after Kei Fujiwara watched it, most of the works in the same period were cartoons, and they were subtitles. It would create too much competitive pressure on My Sassy Girl.

As soon as the news of the scheduled release came out, the film industry was eagerly anticipating it. Although Kei Fujiwara did not personally supervise the director's work, the script was written by him after all, and the film was released just after "The Killer in Black Dress".

After "The Killer in the Black Dress" was released, the film was released, so that the industry could intuitively see which of the two films was better.