The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 323 Box Office Miracle
Wu Zhaoxian, the president of Tianrun Pictures, paced back and forth in his office. Although his face was calm and expressionless, he could feel his anxiety and an unspeakable...fear.

Just when Wu Zhaoxian was completely immersed in his own thoughts, there was a knock on the door.

"Enter!"

The secretary pushed open the door and Wu Zhaoxian stared at him closely, paused, and read the number in his hand: "The number just counted, "Your Name" was added to today's forecast half an hour ago. The box office sales have reached 2770 million, surpassing "I'm Waiting for You in Memories", today it is estimated to exceed 3600 million, and...according to the current pre-sales and tomorrow's film schedule, tomorrow..."Your Name" It is very likely that it will surpass "Gravity" and win the Sun Crown."

"Tomorrow will surpass "Gravity"?!" Wu Zhaoxian broke through the deepness of the disguise, and his emotions leaked: ""Gravity" can get more than 5000 million box office every day on weekdays, "Your Name" can count as a box office today. If you get 3600 million, you can increase it to more than 5000 million tomorrow?"

"I'm afraid it's not enough. Today's attendance rate of "Your Name" has already doubled us. The pre-sale growth rate is too fast, and the theaters are frantically arranging films." The secretary replied affirmatively: "From the current Internet public opinion From the looks of it, the word-of-mouth communication of "Your Name" has skyrocketed, and the entry of 'Animation Masterpiece' has already been on the hot search list."

"A masterpiece? Isn't "Gravity" just like that? It's endless?"

Seeing the boss's rare gaffe, the secretary couldn't help cursing in her heart: "You really want to blow it up, can you blow it out?"

Wu Zhaoxian waved the secretary out of the office, and sat weakly on the large chair. Although he had a hunch since this morning, when the boots really fell to the ground, all he had left in his heart was frustration.

"Gravity" only got a box office of 1236 million on the day of its premiere, ranking No.5, behind "Gravity", "I'm Waiting for You in My Memory", "Tomb Notes" and "Xia Youqiaomu Yawang Paradise ".

This result relieved him a lot of the annoyance that he didn't lift "Gravity" from the throne of the sun. "Gravity" is a magical film. It is time for the factory to stumble.

For him, who is jealous of the box office revenue of "Gravity", letting DreamWorks lose 5000 million can be regarded as a relief for a while.

As a result, the box office of "Your Name" rose to 2200 million the next day, but this didn't make him vigilant. After all, it was Saturday, and the market was rising. Tianrun's "I'm Waiting for You in Memories" also reached 9000 at the box office. It is less than 500 million away from the daily crown of "Gravity". Obviously, the combination of top-tier and top-tier actors has exploded with extraordinary box office appeal.

But on the third Sunday, the box office of "Your Name" rose to 3500 million, surpassing "Tomb Raiders" and "Xia You Qiao Mu" in one fell swoop, and followed "Memories", but "Memories" still had 8000 million. It only made him a little nervous that the box office had entered the account.

But on the first working day after the first weekend, "Your Name" has been clinging to "Memories" at the box office since the morning, and the gap is narrowing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wu Zhaoxian believes that not only he is paying attention to the real-time box office rankings of the two films, but the outside media and other colleagues must also be paying attention to the catch-up of "Your Name".

Those media are a bunch of idiots, hyping DreamWorks' box office failure all weekend long, and analyzing things like "DreamWorks is making a mistake when it gets involved in animation", "Chen Jingxing's betting on animation films has failed", "The first box office failure What impact will it have on the IPO that DreamWorks is pushing forward" bullshit article.

Let him also lose his vigilance. The media should be as dumbfounded as he is now, right?
If it wasn't for the handwriting of Tianrun in this wave of "adding insult to injury", he would have thought it was planned by Chen Jingxing.

If according to the forecast, "Your Name" can get 3600 million today, what does it mean?

On weekdays, the box office has not decreased but increased on Mondays and weekends!

This is not a counterattack that can be described, it can be regarded as a miracle!The box office curve of the Spring Festival "Mekong" is not so exaggerated.

Tomorrow he can even unseat "Gravity", which he has been tired of watching in the box office daily.

It's a pity that it was "Your Name" that pulled "Gravity" down!Still a DreamWorks movie!

Was the Huaguo Cinema opened for him, Chen Jingxing?

A cartoon staged a counterattack script here?This can't be a parallel universe, can it?

Of course, he knew that "Your Name" had a good reputation, but no matter how good the reputation was, he still had to talk about the Basic Law, right?This kind of triple-jump counterattack, even if it is also a DreamWorks movie, "Fatal Identity" and "The Mekong River", which have also staged counterattack scripts, will be far behind.

What's more, this is just a cartoon, there are many cartoons with good reputation, and the animation movies imported from Dongying are not without good reputation, so what?No matter how good the word of mouth is, it is still an animation, right?
When did anime fans have such a strong purchasing power?
And tomorrow is August 8th, which is the day of Qixi Festival. As a result, on Valentine's Day, the box office champion is likely to be a cartoon...

Aren't other love movies released for Qixi Festival, including "Memories", just like jokes?
Wu Zhaoxian couldn't even feel angry at this time, only a deep sense of powerlessness.

If it's "The Mekong River", it's fine. It really took the main theme movie to a new level, not to mention "Gravity". "Gravity" regained the crown, but he was also convincingly defeated. A movie with a box office of 20 million US dollars in North America surpassing the North American box office record set by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is naturally not a romance movie that can compete.

But "Your Name" He De He Neng ah.

"I'm Waiting for You in Memories", but he spent a lot of money to invite two top stars Wu Tingxuan and Lu Feifei to star in the adaptation of a well-known novel, Wu Tingxuan even gave his first screen kiss, such a strong announcement, so many Fans supported it, but it was overwhelmed by a two-dimensional hand-painted animation film without any IP blessing, and there was no resistance.

DreamWorks really so special?Totally invincible?

"Di——Secretary Cao, make arrangements... No, order a movie ticket... "Your Name", just for tonight... You heard it right, it's "Your Name"!"

Wu Zhaoxian pressed the button, blocking the secretary's surprised voice.

Normally, he wouldn't do such a thing. During the Spring Festival, even if "The Mekong River" performed brilliantly, he didn't go to the cinema to watch it. He did watch "Gravity", but it made a theater under his banner free up. An IMAX theater, which he and the company executives booked together to watch.

But he has completely lost his composure today, or broke his defenses, and he can't wait for his subordinates to arrange a movie theater, and he doesn't care whether it is a bit inappropriate for him to go to the cinema to watch cartoons at his age.

"Your Name", as a domestic two-dimensional animation film, can surpass many live-action films, and winning the box office champion at the Qixi Festival is already a slap in the face of the film company including him, and of course the media. , What face has long been slapped away.

He would like to see what kind of magical power this animation has.

……

""Your Name" staged a shocking reversal, and took over the throne from "Gravity"!"

"The spring of animated films has come? "Your Name" will create an animation miracle!"

"Can you believe it? The best love movie on Chinese Valentine's Day - a cartoon"

"Chen Jingxing's investment in animation is full of harvest, revealing the secret of the strongest animation company in China - Mo"

""Your Name" has set a box office record for [-]D hand-painted animation films!"

"Maoyan predicts that the box office of "Your Name" will exceed 6 million!"

"The Douban score of "Your Name" is 8.9, and the animated movie deserves its name!"

"Dreamworks Animation Films Are Likely to Create Box Office Miracles!"

"Film critics lament that "Your Name" is an animation for adults"

Even the boss of a film company like Wu Zhaoxian can lose face, and the media who are good at slapping their faces is of course not a problem. Even if they were chasing the news of DreamWorks' encounter with "Waterloo" the day before, they even analyzed the "Chen Jingxing Investment" in a serious manner. Which move did the animation industry go wrong", "Dreamworks' expectations for the animation film market are wrong and too optimistic" and so on.

But a day later, he immediately turned the tide and began to sing praises for the foresight of DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing.

Supporters of Natural DreamWorks were also elated, and even launched a "counterattack and reckoning" on social platforms.

Even those who eat melons were shocked and excited by the triple-jump counterattack of "Your Name" within a few days-the counterattack itself is a plot that netizens love to hear.

The shock of the media and the melon-eaters was not feigned, but genuinely surprised.

"Your Name" not only took over the title of Sun Crown from "Gravity", but also according to the box office curve, the final box office will surely exceed 6 million.

What is the concept of 6 million?Most live-action films can reach 6 million box office, which is an unprecedented success at the box office, and in the field of animated films, it can be said to be a real box office miracle. Usually, an animated film with a box office of more than 1 million is considered a success.

Moreover, the box office forecast of the ticketing platform is still rising by a small margin every day, which means that the box office record of animated films created by "Your Name" is still rising.

This kind of box office miracle is no less shocking than those movies with a box office of over 20 billion.

And this also made many people start to analyze how "Your Name" can break through the shackles of the ceiling of animation themes, and surpass the ceiling so far.

The final conclusion surprised many people. Many of the audience who watched "Your Name" were watching an animated film in theaters for the first time, and the main audience of "Your Name" was in the age group of 20-25. years old, but there is no children's audience in the usual sense.

This makes the impact and significance of "Your Name" on the film industry exceed its own expected box office of [-] to [-] million, and it can even be said to have epoch-making significance for the domestic animation film market.

(End of this chapter)