Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 200 First Weekend Box Office

Soon, the time came to April 2003, 4, and "Taken" was officially released in 4 theaters across the United States today!
Chen Hao, who had nothing to do, also walked into the cinema himself to contribute some box office for himself.

After Chen Hao walked into the theater, he specially observed the ticket buying situation of the audience, and found out how many tickets were sold for the 4 new films released, among which "Taken" was the most.

For some unknown reason, "Special Agent Bean" is scheduled to be released on Sunday, so there are only 4 new films released today.

But it's also a good thing, this week's North American weekend box office rankings, "Taken" is considered to have one less competitor.

After entering the movie hall, Chen Hao saw that the number of people in the hall he was in was almost half over. This was still the Friday of the peak movie viewing season, so it seemed that the spring file was indeed the off-season.

"Is this movie good?"

"I don't know how to watch it, but this is the new work of the director who made "Saw", it should be very exciting!"

"Is that the Chinese man?"

"Yes, have you watched "Chain Saw"?"

"Of course I watched it. I suspect that the director should be a murderer! And he used the method in the movie to kill people!"

……

Chen Hao was quite happy to hear that someone mentioned him and "Saw". It seems that he still has some reputation in the United States.

I just heard the last sentence, tomato!

Soon, the theater went dark and the movie officially started.

The beginning of the film was a bit unexpected for the audience, because the screen mainly shows the family relationship between the hero and his daughter, which is different from previous Hollywood action movies.

Hollywood action movies with traditional routines generally have a "wonderful 3 minutes" opening, using a wonderful action scene to get the audience excited first, and then turn to the main plot.

Then, the film was pushed to a climax with a rhythm of urgency, action scenes and emotional scenes adjusted to each other.

However, the opening of "Taken" was smooth and messy, which made North American audiences a little bit novel.

Of course, Liam Neeson's daughter was actually a Chinese, but after seeing that her mother was also a Chinese, she understood.

Then when Xiaohu was kidnapped, and Liam Neeson went to Longtan alone and went to the meeting alone, the audience was excited.

It's just that what the audience didn't expect was that the scenes after coming to Huaxia have always been the climax.

Liam Neeson showed the strength of an agent, he is good at tracking, fighting, and chasing cars, and the hot action scenes also made the audience hooked.

In particular, Liam Neeson's clean and deadly fighting style is different from the hard bridge and hard horse style of Hollywood in the past, which makes movie fans feel refreshed and refreshing.

Pursue a fatal move, this is the real agent!
Although I knew it was a happy ending, Liam Neeson directly led everyone to fight for 10 minutes.

The rhythm design of this kind of action scene is so tense that there is no room for rest. It can also be said to subvert the traditional way of Hollywood action movies.

In the second half of the film, there is no slow plot adjustment at all, and the audience has been stimulated for four or ten minutes, and the last touch is cool!

By the end of the film, the audience was a little tired, but they seemed to be reminiscing.

When the theater was lit up again, everyone sat for a while before they started to leave the venue one after another.

"I knew the director of "Saw" had it right, and this "Taken" is absolutely brilliant."

"Yeah, the following has always been intense pursuit and fighting. The hero's various skills are so handsome. I don't know if the agents in reality are also so awesome!"

"The film is good. The director named Chen is very good. You can watch any of his films in the future."

……

Chen Hao listened to the fans' comments and nodded with a smile, but after walking out of the theater, he was stopped by someone.

"Hello, sir, may I trouble you to do a survey?"

Hearing this, Chen Hao looked at the questionnaire handed over. He was not interested in it at first, but when he saw that it was "Taken", Chen Hao looked at it.

Is this the Sony Columbia investigation into Taken?
I have always heard that Hollywood likes to do various research work to promote or evaluate the effect of publicity, but I did not expect to encounter it.

I saw a few questions on the questionnaire.

"Please select the channel through which you heard about this movie?", trailers, TV commercials, theater posters, other people's announcements, etc.

"What made you choose to watch this movie?", starring, director, action genre, kids like, reviews, others.

"What type of movie do you like?" Action-adventure, serious drama, suspense thriller, action comedy, dialogue comedy, documentary, etc.

"your age?"

"Your gender?"

"Would you recommend this movie to others?"

……

This is an off-site test. If it is found that the film has a good reputation or has the opportunity to attract a wider audience, the film studio will often invest more in advertising and marketing activities.

Of course, because today's film release schedule is too short, it is often too late to adjust the marketing plan after the film is released.

The more practical use of the off-site test is to provide information for the film company to evaluate the marketing effect and the marketing of the film on subsequent distribution platforms (especially DVD distribution), so as to improve in future practice.

Obviously, Sony Columbia is evaluating the marketing effect of "Taken" and preparing for subsequent releases such as DVD and video rental.

Chen Hao looked at this simple questionnaire and shook his head helplessly. The longer he stayed in Hollywood, the more he could feel the gap between the mainland and North America.

After Chen Hao filled out the questionnaire, he returned to his newly bought villa.

At the end of March, Chen Hao moved in. Anyway, he moved in with his bags.

For this reason, Chen Hao also invited Davis, Downey, Captain America, Wen Ziren and others to hold a party in his new home.

According to Davis, this is enough for the United States.

Because the United States is a party country, everything can be solved at the party. He also invited a lot of models and hot girls to come. At first glance, he looked like a veteran of flowers and an old driver.

At the party, there were quite a few people who made eye contact with Chen Hao, but Chen Hao was not sensitive to these professional models, and he was afraid that they would be dirty.

And he hasn't reached the point where he can't choose to eat.

The next two days are the peak season for movie viewing. Although it is the off-season, there are still many movie fans or couples entering the theater.

And several movies are looking forward to the favor of fans.

Chen Hao is naturally very concerned about the first weekend's box office, but now he can't do anything, he can only continue to stay in the villa and wait for Davis' call.

In this way, after two days of suffering, Chen Hao finally received a call from Davis on Monday morning.

"The first weekend box office is out!" Davis said.

"How much?" Chen Hao asked anxiously.

　Thanks to "God's Harvest" for the 500 tip!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)