Actor: I picked up attributes on the set

Chapter 139 It's time to show your connections!
It's a 27-degree day outside the window.

The numbers in front of him are so cold.

Chen Desheng never imagined that the box office of a movie released after six years was only 300 million on the first day.

What is the concept of 300 million box office?
For example, in the millennium, there was an anti-corruption movie called "Life and Death".

There is not a big star in the whole movie, and it is not even an exaggeration to say that there is not a single actor who can be named.

But this movie with a niche theme has become the box office champion of the millennium and the first domestic film in the history of domestic movies with a box office of over [-] million.

The total box office in the two days of the premiere weekend was 330 million!

You know it's the millennium!
It has been more than ten years now, whether it is traffic, the number of theaters, or the consumption level of ordinary people, there has already been a qualitative improvement.

Under such circumstances, the box office of "One Man's Martial Arts" was only 300 million on the first day. It is conceivable how much it exceeded Director Chen Shengde's expectations.

However, the pessimism has not stopped.

With the second day, the third day, and even the fourth day, when the box office of the fifth day appears.

Chen Desheng almost passed out.

He thought that his movie might hit the street, but even if he killed him, he never thought that his movie would hit the street.

The cumulative box office for five days did not exceed 1000 million. This is no longer a miserable word to describe it, but a miserable three words to describe it! ! ! !
From being ambitious at the beginning, I wanted to take advantage of the decline of "Charlotte Annoyance" to emerge as a new force, but now I see all hope after seeing the box office.

There are only two words to sum up his mood at the moment.

Finished!

It's all over!

Calculated in this way, even if the movie is released for a month, it will only have a box office of 4000 to [-] million at most.

Thinking of this, he didn't even have the energy to speak.

When Chen Desheng was disheartened by the box office hit, other members of the crew also comforted him.

"Director Chen, don't worry, isn't this not released in the Mainland yet?"

"We have only so many Hong Kong Cinemas, and the box office of 300 million on the first day is understandable. If it is released nationwide, maybe it will become popular?"

"That's right, we're going to release it in the mainland. With Lin Yuan's popularity, we might be able to save it."

"As long as the film's reputation is good, the box office may still have the possibility of turning around."

"Director Chen, I think we can try releasing it in the Mainland."

After listening to the comfort of the crew, Chen Desheng still felt hopeless.

He has been a director for so many years.

I have made a lot of movies, big and small.

Do movie reviews work?
It may be useful to outsiders, but for their directors, they know very well whether word-of-mouth is useful or not.

If word-of-mouth has an effect, the quality of my movie is not bad, why didn't the follow-up box office rise?
And without the box office, so what if the word of mouth is good?Could it be that the management who lost money would come over and say, "It's okay, come on, although I didn't make any money, I enjoyed watching this movie very much!"

Is this realistic?is it possible?
With my toes, I can imagine that the attitude of the management is absolutely angry. I dare not say that I will not be able to receive plays in the future, but it will definitely be much less than now.

They have actually invested money, and there is no box office, which means they are losing money.

They don't care about any so-called word of mouth at all?They only care about how much benefit you can bring him.

If the investor has such a good heart, domestic films won't be nominated in Cannes.

But thinking about it, what the crew said reminded Chen Desheng.

Although he was in the street in Xiangjiang, he still had to find a way to give it a try, not for any reason, just to be worthy of the investors' hard work. In his opinion, now it counts as much as it can help investors earn back.

Although in his opinion, this "One Man's Martial Arts" is probably a fluke, but if he manipulates it, maybe it can make investors get back some blood.

"Book a ticket and go to the mainland!"

After contemplating for a moment, Chen Desheng gritted his teeth and said with the thought of making a last-ditch effort.

In his opinion, if he can make investors return their capital, he still has a chance to turn around. After all, he is also a director who has won an Academy Award. , but it is not so easy.

After making a decision, Chen Desheng immediately contacted his assistant, planning to go to Lin Yuan together to discuss it and see how to remedy it.

the other side.

The crew of Hua Qiangu has just returned to Hengdian after the live-action filming in Daxin County, Guangxi.

Just as Lin Yuan got in the car and went to the hotel, he was about to close his eyes and rest for a while, when the phone rang.

"Sister Xia, what's the matter?"

Lin Yuan was somewhat surprised that Sister Xia called at this time.

Because strictly speaking, it is still filming time.

During filming with a group like this, sister Xia usually only calls him after dinner.

Therefore, after receiving the call, Lin Yuan immediately realized that the other party must have something important to tell him.

"Lin Yuan, are you in Hengdian now?"

"Yes, not long after getting off the plane, I'm about to go to the hotel."

"It's like this. Director Chen Desheng may come to you later to talk about promoting the movie. I told him your position." Sister Xia spoke concisely and pointedly.

"Okay, then I'll wait for Director Chen to come over at the hotel later."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Yuan was still a little curious.

Why did Director Chen suddenly think of talking to him about promoting the movie?

However, he didn't think too much about these things. Anyway, there was no scene to film today. After Director Chen arrived at the hotel, these things would naturally become clear.

Chen Desheng and his assistants bought the latest flight.

Lin Yuan had just returned to the hotel for half an hour, when Chen Desheng and his party took a car to the hotel where Hua Qiangu's crew was staying.

After arriving at the hotel, Chen Desheng directly called Lin Yuan.

As soon as the phone was dialed and he expressed that his group had arrived downstairs in the hotel, Lin Yuan quickly said that he would come right away.

In less than 3 minutes, Lin Yuan quickly came to the hotel lobby.

After seeing Director Chen and his team, Lin Yuan walked over politely and said, "Director Chen, long time no see. I've been too busy filming recently, so I haven't contacted you much, sorry!"

"What are you talking about, the busier you are, the happier I am, which proves that my vision is correct." Chen Desheng came here this time to ask for something from him, so he lowered his posture a lot while speaking, and took the initiative to boast.

Lin Yuan was very curious about the purpose of the other party looking for him, but after thinking for a while, he guessed that it must be related to the movie, and it is not convenient to stand downstairs in the hotel, so he quickly replied with a smile: "Haha, Director Chen Then let me borrow your good words, let's talk upstairs?"

Director Chen didn't hesitate, and quickly replied: "Okay, okay!"

Soon, several people came to Lin Yuankai's executive suite, sat on a coffee table, and everyone began to chat together.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Yuan also brought the topic back to the main topic.

"Director Chen, what's the matter with you talking about movie promotion on the phone?" Lin Yuan asked straight to the point.

Speaking of this, Chen Desheng couldn't help but sighed.

Immediately afterwards, he told about the release of the movie "One Man's Martial Arts" in Xiangjiang during this period.

After listening to what the other party said, Lin Yuan didn't think it was a problem for Chen Desheng to release the movie in advance when the popularity of "Charlotte" gradually declined.

Although Charlotte is a hot mess, it has been released for 20 days, and basically interested audiences have already seen it.

In this case, this is just a good opportunity for other movies to make a move.

This is a complementary phenomenon of movies, just like a reader who reads a novel. He enters a platform because of a book. After reading the book on this platform, he will find other novels to read on the platform if he still has more to say.

The same goes for moviegoers. Originally, he didn’t intend to watch a movie, but suddenly he entered the movie theater because of a good movie. After watching it, he found that there were other new movies released, and he couldn’t help thinking about it.

In the words of the industry, it is not afraid that there will be dark horses in the movies of the same schedule, but all the movies of the same schedule will be pulled.

If there is no good-looking movie, the audience will not even enter the movie theater. Isn't it shooting yourself in the foot when it is released at this time?

Therefore, in Lin Yuan's view, director Chen Desheng's idea is correct at all.

It's just that there was something wrong with his judgment.

I just thought about how to take advantage of Charlotte's finale to enter the theater to reap the box office, but forgot to make full preparations for the movie's announcement.

If the film's publicity is strong enough, the box office on the first day will not be only 300 million with the help of the assistant, a kung fu superstar.

However, Lin Yuan did not speak out about this issue, he listened carefully, and keeping silent is the golden attitude.

And after director Chen Desheng poured out the bitterness in his stomach, he also quickly expressed their reason for coming.

"Lin Yuan, you, Brother Chen, don't want to say some false words. I came here to find you today, but I just want you to help me. The market in Xiangjiang is rushing, and the mainland market can't be rushing. You are very popular on the Internet now. No way, so I would like to ask you to spare no room to help promote this movie. If you really help, you will be my best brother from now on. If you ask me for help in anything in the future, I, Chen Desheng, will never frown !"

Director Chen would definitely not have said such things before, but now it is different, the situation is threatening, in order not to be "hacked to death" by the investor, he is willing to go all out.

Hearing what Director Chen said, Lin Yuan didn't dare to take it too seriously, and quickly replied: "Director Chen, don't worry, since I have participated in this play, I will definitely promote it without any room for it."

"Thank you, brother Lin, I don't thank you for your kindness. If this matter is done, you can be regarded as my brother's benefactor."

After receiving Lin Yuan's reply, Chen Desheng also spoke sincerely.

Seeing Director Chen's appearance, Lin Yuan immediately felt relieved: "Brother Chen, what you said is that you don't want to be benefactors. It's too alien. Brothers just want to help each other!!!"

"Okay! Good brother!!" Director Chen nodded heavily, and put one hand directly on the back of Lin Yuan's, and his mood was surging.

In his opinion, if Lin Yuan spared no room for publicity, and he entrusted his connections to find someone to help, the movie should be able to exceed [-] million box office when it is released in the mainland. As long as it reaches [-] million box office, then he can be regarded as Made up for it.

After thinking it over clearly, he was so anxious that he didn't stay here any longer. Even Lin Yuan kept asking him to have a meal before leaving, but he didn't eat either.

He bid farewell to Lin Yuan with grateful eyes, and then contacted his old friends as soon as possible so that they could help promote it.

After watching Director Chen and others leave, Lin Yuan in the room took out his mobile phone and looked at the phone number in the address book, feeling somewhat nervous.

The reason why he agreed to Director Chen's relentless publicity was entirely because of two reasons.

First, he was interested in his potential value. Behind Chen Desheng was the shadow of a big brother. If he was in this circle, he might meet his big brother one day.

In this case, if Chen Desheng got a favor once, would he return the favor when he came into contact with eldest brother in the future?

Don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face, just because of his status as the eldest brother, Lin Yuan will definitely buy this face.

As for the second reason, it has to do with his own interests. Strictly speaking, "One Man's Martial Arts" is his first starring role so far.

This means that the box office of this movie is related to his box office appeal.

It is also related to whether he will become a gold medal green leaf like Uncle Da in the future; or he will be able to be alone like Master Xing.

Therefore, in this situation, it is impossible for him not to make a move.

If this movie hits the street, it will be extremely unfavorable to him.

So, after thinking for a moment, he immediately made the first call.

The so-called publicity is actually divided into two types, one is commercial publicity, posting a Weibo, posting a publicity, basically nothing.One is to use one's own contacts to notify all friends in the circle to help out. This kind of publicity is relentless, and this kind of publicity is also the most effective. It can be said that it has an immediate effect.

After the first call was answered, Lin Yuan's breathing seemed to have become a lot heavier at this moment. After all, it was the first time asking for help, and he didn't know if the other party would agree.

"What's the matter, brother, why do you call me when you have time?" Lin Yuan's first call was naturally none other than Deng Chao, and the other party asked curiously as soon as he answered the phone.

"Brother, I have a movie about to be released, and I would like to ask you to help me promote it." As for Deng Chao, Lin Yuan didn't make any detours, and directly asked him for help.

With the current friendship between the two of them, if even this kind of thing has to be hidden, it will only appear to be born.

After hearing the words "vigorously publicize", Deng Chao also realized that the other party's publicity didn't just mean posting on Weibo. If he were an ordinary friend, he would definitely refuse, but Lin Yuan was different. After thinking for a few seconds, Deng Chao said straightforwardly: "That's all, no problem, I will definitely give you a big wave of publicity, and then let your sister-in-law help you too."

Without the slightest hesitation.

Deng Chao agreed directly, and by the way, directly made the decision for Sun Li.

After agreeing, Deng Chao came to his senses and couldn't help asking: "Brother, hasn't the Charlotte you played in been released for a long time?"

"It's not this drama, it's "One Man's Martial Arts" starring Donnie Yen."

"Oh, let me just say, this Charlotte almost broke the box office record of Thai Jiong, I thought you were here to show off on purpose." The relieved Deng Chao also teased Lin Yuan by the way.

"Still showing off, now I am exhausted." Lin Yuan replied with a helpless smile.

"How to say?" Hearing this, Deng Chao became more curious, and his tone was a little worried.

Lin Yuan didn't think much about it, and not long after, he told Brother Chao about "One's Martial Arts" hitting the street at the box office in Xiangjiang. Deng Chao almost grasped the point, knowing that this movie would affect Lin Yuan's box office appeal. .

After knowing this, Deng Chao also replied seriously: "Don't worry, I will find something for you."

"Okay, thank you Brother Chao!" Lin Yuan replied gratefully without being pretentious.

But he didn't chat with Deng Chaoduo either, after all he had to find other celebrities to help promote it.

What moved him was that when he hung up the phone, Deng Chao still didn't forget to add: "Don't worry, this matter is on my brother's shoulders."

With Deng Chao's guarantee, Lin Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, but he quickly continued to search in the address book.

There are many celebrities in his address book.

Like Mr. Chen Daomin, Mr. Li Xuejian, etc., they were all added at the last reception.

Although they said that they were looking for something, they obviously didn't need their help for trivial things like promoting a movie.

Soon, Lin Yuan locked on the second person.

It's just that he dialed the phone twice, but he didn't get through, so he had to focus on the next one.

"Brother Lin, why did you remember to call me, what's the matter?"

Dong Zijian answered the phone very quickly. He just dialed the call, and within two seconds, the other party answered.

Lin Yuan was not polite to others either.

He directly told his own situation, and then wanted to ask him to help him use some connections to help him publicize the matter.

The reason why they approached Dong Zijian was not because of their good relationship, but because Dong Zijian's relationship was wider than many celebrities.

Finding him alone is more useful than finding five first-line stars.

Besides, Dong Zijian, after learning about Lin Yuan's situation, he agreed without any hesitation.

The reason for being so straightforward is mainly to invest in Lin Yuan in a disguised form. If I help you today, will you also help me tomorrow?
Secondly, this kind of thing seems to him to be a particularly simple thing.

When he filmed "Youth School" last year, didn't he also make a lot of hype, or else you thought the movie had such a good score?

"Brother Lin, you should come to me for this matter. Don't worry, my brother will never let you down."

"Thank you very much." Hearing Dong Zijian's words, Lin Yuan felt more confident.

"Thank you, when it's time for us to send people from Wuhei, you just don't have to shirk."

"no problem."

Both of them were of the same age, so it was much easier to talk about it.

After contacting Dong Zijian, Lin Yuan also started looking for a third person, and this third person was none other than Huang Bo.

Called, but the other party didn't answer.

After waiting for a while, Huang Bo called back.

"Hello, Bob."

"Lin Yuan, brother was recording a program just now, what's the matter?" Huang Bo's panting voice came from the phone.

"It's not a big deal, but my first starring movie is about to be released. I want Brother Bo to help me promote it."

"Be good, it's not a big deal, is it?" Huang Bo was surprised at first, and then he said, "It's okay if you want me to promote the movie for you, but it's okay."

When Lin Yuan heard Huang Bo speak Qingdao dialect, he knew that he was playing something wrong again.

Lin Yuan, who sees through and doesn't tell the truth, is still very cooperative and asks along: "Brother Bo, but what?"

"I have to pay more!"

When he heard Huang Bo tease himself with his lines in "Xiu Chun Knife", Lin Yuan smiled knowingly over the phone.

"Okay, you can rest assured about this matter, brother will definitely help you with all his strength, this matter about you is not a small matter, this first drama has many people watching, and it will affect your future. "

As someone who has been there, Huang Bo understands Lin Yuan's situation very well, so he stopped joking and answered seriously with his chest patted. The sonorous and forceful voice made Lin Yuan not know what to say for a while, so he took a few deep breaths and said Cai said: "Brother Bo, thank you!"

"You kid, don't say thank you to me, it's too natural!" Huang Bo interrupted him instead, and said something directly.

"Then thank you for your kindness, Brother Bo!" Lin Yuan knew that Huang Bo was a man of temperament, so he immediately followed the other party's answer.

After the two hung up the phone.

Lin Yuan did not rest, but stared at the address book in the mobile phone, dialing one phone number after another.

Throughout the whole night, Lin Yuan's voice didn't stop, and his voice became a little hoarse.

And his behavior has brought about a miracle that no one expected! !

【Ask for a monthly ticket! 】

(End of this chapter)