China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 59 Extremely High Arrangement

Manager Huang nodded: "And Cheng Long forced to ask about his daughter's whereabouts, shocked the leader of the kidnapper with electric shock, decisively shot his old friend's wife, and decisively killed the big villain—these places have no exaggerated special effects, no amazing scenes, and no shocking pictures that make people dumbfounded. But these places have left an indelible impression on people without exception-this kind of shock caused by the plot setting may be more aftertaste and shock than the shock created by simply using special effects and big scenes. lasting."

Manager Zhang nodded: ""Assassin" has piled up special effects and scenes to the extreme. No domestic film can surpass it in this respect, but overall it is indeed "Taken" that is even better."

Manager Huang said: "In the end, the fox fired bullets with a circular trajectory, killing everyone except the protagonist Li Lian, even including herself-to be honest, this place is still very shocking, but overall, I still like "Hurricane." Rescue" a little more."

Manager Zhang asked: "Then Manager Huang, do you think the box office of "Assassin" will not be as good as the previous "Taken"?"

Manager Huang shook his head this time: "Not necessarily, in my judgment, "Assassin" will break a series of records in the early stage, with the highest first-day box office, the highest first-weekend box office, the highest first-week seven-day box office, and the fastest box office breaking [-] million movies Wait, wait, "Assassin" will definitely refresh a series of records."

Manager Zhang nodded slowly when he heard the words.

He felt that what Manager Huang said was very correct. This is like "House of Flying Daggers" directed by Zhang Yimou. In the early stages of this film, various records were broken by "Hero" also directed by Zhang Yimou. Was thrown far away by "Hero".

The excellence of the previous work will undoubtedly improve the early results of the subsequent work.

The same goes for Assassin.

The huge success of "Taken" will also push up the early box office of "Assassin"; the peak duel between Cheng Long and Li Lianlian will push up the early box office of "Assassin"; the huge investment and publicity costs will also push up "Assassin" early box office.

All in all, the early box office of "Assassin" will definitely be extremely impressive!

But whether the movie can achieve an extremely impressive long-term box office performance in the later period like "Taken", this time the two of them have no idea.

There is a high probability that it should not be possible!

As soon as they came, the two thought that "Taken" was better.

Secondly, "Assassin" is almost doomed to be very bad in the early stage. If the box office performance in the later period is still against the sky, how can the total box office performance of this film be?
Therefore, there is a high probability that "Assassin" will be weak in the early stage, but the overall box office performance is not bad!

Well, that's probably the case!

After the media watched the film, Deputy Director Han Sanping asked everyone to share their views on the film.

Manager Huang of Xinyinglian: "It was very shocking. I don't know how other people feel. In short, I was dumbfounded and watched the whole movie. Before today, I didn't believe that China can also make this kind of European and American blockbuster style movies. .”

Manager Zhang said: "A top action blockbuster, the peak duel between Cheng Long and Li Lian did not disappoint at all, the shot of Li Lianhua flying a red sports car is so handsome that it explodes, the scene of jumping off a building at the beginning of the movie is thrilling, the bullet turning is the bullet time of the upgrade, right? Ingenious! In short, this is a movie that is not inferior to Hollywood blockbusters. Personally, I think "Assassin" will be a global hit."

Yan Yu, manager of the publicity and planning department of Xingmei Cinemas, said excitedly: "Before I watched the movie, I always thought it was a platter movie, a movie that was put together for Li Lianjie and Cheng Long to fight. I really didn't expect this movie to be so complete! This is a classic movie, a movie that will still be talked about by many people ten years later!"

Mr. Shao, the person in charge of the Propaganda Department of Magic City Studios, said: "Incomparable, unprecedented, extraordinary, reaching the pinnacle!"

Manager Lu of Century Universal Cinemas: "A top-notch film, a good movie, moving people, and the box office performance will never be bad!"

Seeing the movie "Assassin" being highly praised by theater chains and theater managers in unison, no matter whether it was Wang Zhonglei or Yu Dong, or Yan Yiyun and Li Mu, they all felt joyful and encouraged.

However, Han Sanping poured cold water on Li Mu and others in front of several theater managers.

"You guys, don't just listen to people's compliments and be so happy that you can't find Bei. These few are all good people. What they are best at is praising good movies while not arranging good movies. They can't improve the quality of arranging movies. Praise is 0." He turned to look at several managers, "I don't know if what I said is right, how many managers?"

"No way."

"The film is quite good, and the film schedule will definitely increase, but the film schedule of "Assassin" is now as high as 60%, and there is no limit to mentioning it."

"Our theater chain can increase the film schedule for "Assassin" by about 5%, and I will issue guidance to its theaters after I go back."

"We also mention it."

"Such a good movie must improve its scheduling!"

"agree."

The managers of various theaters and theaters expressed on the spot that they would continue to increase the proportion of the movie "Assassin", which even Han Sanping was very surprised.

Scheduling films is the skill of these people. The same theater has different schedules, and the difference in daily revenue may be more than [-], so no one would make fun of film scheduling, especially this group of people!

So what made this group of people let go and continue to improve the filming of "Assassin"?

First of all, it must be because of the high quality of the movie "Assassin", and everyone predicts that multiple films can make money.

Secondly, everyone’s judgment is similar to that of Manager Huang of the New Film Federation, that is, everyone almost thinks that the early box office performance of the movie "Assassin" will definitely be against the sky, and then the long-term box office performance is likely to be inferior to Cheng Long's previous film "Hurricane Rescue". .

In other words, most of the viewers of "Assassin" will be concentrated in the first few days before the release. If this is the case, then of course we must continue to increase the proportion of "Assassin" in the early film schedule!
Try to get a lot of "Assassin" at the box office within a few days, and then if the follow-up box office does not perform well, then cut the film, I believe no one will be able to say "no" by then!

On the contrary, if you know that the early box office of "Assassin" is likely to explode, but you just refuse to line up more films in the early stage, then those who want to see it will not be able to see it, so they will turn around and go to other theaters where they can see it.

Once the movie-watching craze in the early stage is over, there will not be too many people who want to watch it later. At that time, no matter how many "Assassins" you can watch, it will be useless.

You can't get the upsurge in the early stage, and you have more films than others when the later stage is weak, so if you count the inside and outside, you will lose money twice!
It is also because of this that this group of theater managers and theater managers who are as fine as they are people so generously promised to continue to increase the number of films for the movie "Assassin".

In short, after this media screening held at China Film Group, the national pre-screening of the movie "Assassin" has directly increased to about 65%!

At the same time, various exaggerated legends about the movie "Assassin" began to circulate on the Chinese Internet.

"Damn, have you heard? A few days ago, the movie "Assassin" held its first media screening. The theater managers and theater managers in more than 20 cities across the country were all stunned after watching the movie. It's like the second idiot in the village, I heard it took more than 20 minutes to recover!"

"seriously?"

"It's absolutely true! My cousin's neighbor is the assistant of the theater manager. I heard that the theater manager was stunned after watching the movie. The film was already scheduled for 60%. After arriving at the theater, I directly increased the schedule of "Assassin" in my own house to 90%, and basically this theater stopped showing other people's movies during the few days when "Assassin" was released."

"90%? Is it true or not?"

"Really? Let me tell you, it's absolutely true! Just watch it, anyway, this movie is really awesome!"

(End of this chapter)