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Chapter 109 Mi Mi who was choked by the box office
The sound of the phoenix flute moved, the jade pot turned brightly, and the fish and dragon danced overnight!

The next morning, Gu Zhongyu, who was leaning on the bow of the boat, received a call from Guo Fan.

"The box office on the first day is out!"

Hearing Guo Fan's tone of frustration, Gu Zhongyu was not surprised. After all, it is the first domestically produced sci-fi, so we can't hold out too much hope. Thank goodness if there is 1000 million on the first day, let's pay a little bit!
"How much? It should be passable, right?"

"Not ideal."

No way?With such an overwhelming publicity, we can't even get 1000 million?Isn't it difficult for the total box office to exceed [-] million?This time I went to my grandma's house!
Noticing Gu Zhongyu's emotional changes, Yang Mi's movements stopped.

"It's just reached 3558 million, and it's almost 3600 million. It's a pity that we can't break the first-day record of "Tangshan Earthquake"!"

Gu Zhongyu: ...

Labor and management really want to give you a big slap in the face!
The box office on the first day was 3458 million, which means that word of mouth will not collapse, at least 2000 to [-] million yuan will be stable. Last year's box office champion "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" was only more than [-] million on the first day!

If the trend can be reversed in the future, it is entirely possible to exceed the 6.3 million in "Tangshan Earthquake".

This has exceeded Gu Zhongyu's expectations. According to his vision, the first day of the film will be less than 2000 million at best, and the final three to four billion will be no profit or loss.

Excited, he didn't even notice that Yang Mi rolled his eyes.

"Increase publicity efforts, especially the websites commonly used by young people such as Tieba, Weibo, AcFun, Bilibili, etc. If our movie wants to reach 10 billion, we must rely on these people!"

"That will cost a lot of money! We have already spent nearly [-] million in publicity expenses, which is almost catching up with the cost of film production." Speaking of this, Guo Fan is heartbroken, you save this money and leave it to me What a great way to make movies!
"I don't care about these, money is a bastard, if you don't have it, you can earn it! As long as we can sell the movie this wave and promote the concept of domestic science fiction, then it's all worth it!"

After hanging up the phone, Yang Mi coughed a few times and burst into tears: "You're going to die! How much money has made you so excited?"

"3558 million!"

"Really?" Yang Mi suspected that he heard it wrong. The box office on the first day caught up to one-third of his original "Far Cry". Is it so fierce?

"Then there can still be fakes? Now that the 10 million has not gone away, I will increase the publicity and see if it can hit [-] billion."

At present, the highest domestic movie box office is "Avatar" with 13 billion. This record will last until 2015, when "Monster Hunt" made 24 billion at the box office before it was finally broken.

Although Gu Zhongyu doesn't think "Ball Lightning" can break Avatar's record, there is still hope for hitting the billion mark ahead of schedule.

The happiest thing is Yang Mi, this is a turning point in her acting career, and she may become the first female lead in the domestic box office with a billion box office!
She was so happy that she immediately wanted to express her thanks with a good poke on Gu Zhongyu's mouth.

"Don't make a fuss! A tiger's poison doesn't eat its children, so brush your teeth first."

"Hmph! Smelly man, you still dislike me." Yang Mi went to brush his teeth obediently, and was leaving in the afternoon. He wanted to spend more time with this scumbag.

~
Huayi Company Headquarters.

"Mr. Wang, according to the current trend, the first day of "Ball Lightning" was more than 500 million. It is definitely no problem to pay back. How much you can earn depends on the next trend."

Sitting in the office, the Wang family brothers listened to the secretary's report on yesterday's box office situation, with increasingly serious expressions.

"Then what happened to our "Reverse War"?" Wang Zhongjun has high hopes for this movie, and he also hopes to win the box office champion in the Spring Festival.

"It's less than 800 million at present, and the total box office is expected to be less than [-] million."

"How... how is it possible?"

In the view of the Wang brothers, the action scenes of "Reverse War" directed by Lin Chaoxian are hot enough, and it should be the biggest battle seen in Chinese-language police and gangster films this year!The fight started in Jordan at the beginning, with escorts, escorts, biological and chemical weapons, modern prisons, car chases, missiles, and finally went straight to the sky.

In addition, Zhou Tianwang and Xie Biwang were invited to join, and they traveled to Jordan, the Middle East, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and other places to shoot, and the production cost was as high as [-] million!
Even compared with movies such as "Sherlock Holmes 2" and "The Great Magician", they are not necessarily worse. Why is the box office performance so low now?

With a cost of [-] million, it would take at least [-] million at the box office to make a profit. This time, the Wang brothers really lost out.

"It seems that the Gu family boy is going to win this time, damn it! Watching his movies make money is more uncomfortable than I lose money!" The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Wang Zhonglei wondered how he could disgust Gu Zhongyu and completely forget the previous lesson.

~
British Film Company.

Yang Shoucheng frowned and watched the real-time box office changes on the computer. It has been five days since his company's "The Great Magician" was released, but now the box office has barely broken through [-] million. This is a bit far from his psychologically expected results.

"That is to say, this Spring Festival file, will Zongheng Films' "Ball Lightning" be the dominant family?"

"Judging from the current box office trend, yes, in the end, the combined total box office of us and Huayi may not be as much as theirs." Producer Li Jinwen said his estimate.

"Little Treasure! Have you watched that "Ball Lightning"? Do you know where it is successful?" Yang Shoucheng asked Er Dongsheng, the director of "The Great Magician", with a somewhat dissatisfied tone.

In his opinion, "The Great Magician" has Liang Chaowei and Liu Qingyun, two leading actors and actress Zhou Xun, joining in. The lineup is unrivaled. "Ball Lightning" starring Gu Zhongyu and Yang Mi are just It's a TV cafe, how could it have such a strong box office appeal?
He could hear that the boss' tone was blaming himself, but Er Dongsheng knew that losing money was a loss, so he could only honestly give his own analysis.

"This has nothing to do with the box office appeal. It is a real science fiction film. The script, shooting and editing are impeccable, and the special effects are wonderful, but it is not yet at the level of Industrial Light and Magic. It is a replicable success. .”

"Then can you make it?" Yang Shoucheng was fascinated when he heard that success can be replicated. Xiangjiang films have always been good at "learning from".

Er Dongsheng shook his head: "I can't take pictures. In Xiangjiang, I guess only Mr. Xu can do it. If you want to take pictures, boss, you can find him, but I think Mr. Xu may not be interested, and next time there is such a thing." A sci-fi movie may not be a big hit."

Yang Shoucheng just asked casually, and he was not interested when he heard that it might not be a big hit every time. After all, he heard that "Ball Lightning" cost [-] million in the post-production cost, which is too expensive.

During the Spring Festival of 2012, "Ball Lightning" defeated many opponents at the box office on the first day, stepping on the corpses of "Reverse War" and "The Great Magician" and began to rush forward, and this is just the beginning!
(End of this chapter)