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Chapter 151: Box office boom, sensational discussion

"Director Lu! Director Lu!"

The assistant was startled and quickly helped Lu Chuai's limp body to regain its footing.

"I'm fine, Xiao Wang, go organize the information and hold an emergency meeting immediately!"

Lu Chuan waved his hand with a livid face.

soon.

On the projection screen in the conference room, the current box office comparison column chart of the two films "Nanjing" and "Agent" began to be displayed.

If Lu Chuan's box office statistics stand like a bird for South Korean men, then Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" is like a pillar for the sky.

Is this comparable?

His "Nanjing!"Nanjing! " will be released nationwide on April 4.

The future film master's reputation is very impressive, and his 8000 million-dollar production is also very impressive. At the press conference, he claimed that he would hit a box office of [-] million.

It was so frightening that movies in the same period were either moved up or postponed.

Even Wang Jing, a great director in Hong Kong, did not dare to face him head-on. He postponed the release of "Empire of Money" for a week just to avoid his sharp edge.

There are only a few movies I haven’t heard of.

"When Flowers Fall" and "The Other Side" are just films that make up the numbers.

Lu Chuan didn't pay attention at all.

It was released for three days.

The box office revenue was 3050 million.

This result cannot be said to be a surprise, but it can also be said to be quite satisfactory.

but.

Lu Chuan never thought it was the quality of his movies that was the problem. He thought it was the lack of promotion of his movies and the low number of films scheduled.

He always holds the hope of counterattack. As long as the movies of the same period are not so outstanding, then he will definitely be the tall general among the dwarfs, winning by reputation and movie connotation.

Until "The Last Man" was a box office hit on its first day.

My three-day total box office combined is not as high as others' first-day box office.

"It's so unfair to give "The Secret Agent" more than 50 film credits!"

Lu Chuan's teeth were almost broken: "How are the reviews on the Internet? Such an action movie is definitely due to the early hype. The audience should just watch it for a fresh feeling. The good reviews will disappear in a few days, and then the reputation will It will also collapse."

"Director Lu, I extracted some online evaluation data, look at it."

The assistant thoughtfully projects the collected data onto the screen.

Lu Chuan pushed up his glasses, opened his eyes and saw a black eye.

The latest rating on Douban is released, his "Nanjing!"Nanjing! " only scored 6.2 points, while Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" scored as high as 9.1!

There are also professional film review websites such as Time.com, which all have similar scores.

of course.

It's still in the early stages of the movie's release, so the scores are definitely a little inflated.

When the number of moviegoers increases, this score will definitely drop.

But the basic score of "The Lonely Agent" is so high, even if it falls, it is still a masterpiece with a score of 8 or above, and "Nanjing!"Nanjing! 》The current rating is only 6.5. Is there still room for decline?
"Shut it off! I tell you to turn it off!"

Lu Chuan suddenly got angry, and his assistant hurriedly turned off the projection.

The entire conference room was silent.

I spoke eloquently before the release and comforted myself for three days after the release.

Now when the box office of "The Alone Agent" comes out on the first day of its release, there is immediate silence.

As long as you are not mentally deficient, it is not difficult to see that the box office of these two movies is not on the same level at all.

"Nanjing!Nanjing! "Based on the current attendance rate and the ferocity of "The Lonely Agent" in the same period, the film schedule may continue to be cut.

The 6000 million hit that Lu Chuan vowed at the beginning was just a dream. Let alone [-] million, the guaranteed hundreds of millions is not realistic. What we should consider now is whether we can get [-] million at the box office.

On the other hand, Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" had a box office of 100 million on the first day. With such high reputation and popularity, it is not easy to break [-] million in the next three days!

Being hung up and beaten, is there any comparison?

"I really don't know what to say!"

Feeling both aggrieved and angry, Lu Chuan picked up the newspaper on the table and shook it, only to find that the headline on the front page was "The secret of Zhou Yutang and Fan Xiaopang's relationship is revealed, and the result of their love is about to create a box office myth."

boom! ! !
Lu Chuan threw the newspaper aside and slammed the table, grinning in pain.

Seeing how Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" has done so well at the box office, it has received so much attention and critical acclaim.

His body felt worse than ten thousand ants crawling on him.

Originally, he still had about a week's buffer time to accumulate box office revenue.

But Zhou Yutang's postponement of the release was completely based on his painstaking work "Nanjing!"Nanjing! 》The road is blocked.

He now faced his most direct competitor, Zhou Yutang, and was beaten so hard that he couldn't hold his head up.

Because the current number of large screens in domestic theaters is limited.

In other words.

If a movie has a high attendance rate and box office during the same period, then the theater chain will inevitably increase the film schedule. The inevitable result is that other movies released at the same time will have a compressed film schedule.

The discharge volume is low.

This means that there are fewer viewers who can see this movie. Unless it has an incredible reputation, it will easily be suppressed and sink to the bottom.

It's just like the snowball in the game.

The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

And now Zhou Yutang's "The Lonely Agent" is obviously the one with the upper hand. With such a high attendance rate and good reputation, it will take a lot of advantage in the theater arrangement.

Theaters are always the most realistic.

They only look to see which movies will make them more money.

Unless you have the appearance and foundation of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang, there is no use in talking about future masters.

"Director Lu, what should I do? Something doesn't seem right."

The assistant beside him also realized the problem and asked hurriedly.

"What are you panicking about? Hold your breath!"

Lu Chuan rubbed his sore wrist, his tone was weak, and he glared at his assistant with a stern look: "Don't you have confidence in the quality of my movie?"

"Of course I'm confident."

The assistant quickly expressed his loyalty: "But, Director Lu, the momentum over there is really strong now. Should we also think of a way?"

Later, the assistant's tone became weaker and weaker.

Nor is he a fool.

Zhou Yutang's promotional work is in full swing. The early trailers have been edited very well. In addition, the online reputation has exploded. Now even his girlfriend asks him to accompany him to watch "The Lonely Agent". For the sake of sexual happiness, he also agreed. Let’s go see it together then.
As for this movie directed by Lu Chuan.

Alas, hanging out with him is just for work and for food. Watching "The Lonely Agent" is life.
"When he kept his hair short and put on a suit, my blood tank was emptied directly."

"And his acting skills are also super good. When he cried and laughed at the end, I even shed tears."

"Have you ever felt that Zhou Yutang seems to be getting more and more handsome?"

"I have such a feeling that he is worthy of Koto Mishurou, and his appearance is as good as the ceiling for domestic entertainment."

"In the past, Zhou Yutang was a sunny, cheerful and handsome guy, with the feeling of a campus male god. In "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", he was an ancient style male god, but in "The Lonely Agent", he seemed to have an indescribable special temperament. .”

"At the beginning of this year, Zhou Yutang's Jiangdong Film and Television Culture Studio was upgraded to an entertainment company. He is now worth over [-] million. Looking at your bosses and other wealthy people, do you think they have a special temperament?"

"Hold the grass, it seems to be true."

"The key fight scenes were also good. The fight scenes with Tony Jaa made me wet."

As "The Lonely Agent" became a big hit on the first day, discussions in the media and on the Internet about Zhou Yutang, the leading actor, also began to flood the screen.

Action movies are actually an older genre of movies, starting from kung fu movies and flourishing in Hong Kong in the 90s and [-]s.

At that time, Jackie Chan and Jet Li were the leading figures in action films, and both of them entered Hollywood, earning tens of millions of dollars in salary.

In recent years, "Sha Po Lang" and "The Fuse" are also very good-looking action movies.

But these Hong Kong action movies are inseparable from the routine of police and gangster battles.

Good and evil are naturally opposed to each other, and there is a sense of fighting just for the sake of fighting.

There has never been an emotion-driven drama action movie like "The Last Man".

Zhou Yutang is the exiled ace agent of the Chinese dynasty. In "The Lonely Agent", his appearance as a murderer in a suit with a short cut and a cold face also made the audience shine.

If we say Jackie Chan is humorous but also has a thrilling action style.

Donnie Yen is a modern fighting style, with punches and fists going to the flesh.

Then Zhou Yutang is a thug in a suit, with violence revealed in his elegance, and full of rage in the killing.

If you take action, you will kill people, and killing people is like cutting grass.The most important thing is that such a human killing machine also has a handsome ascetic face.

Who can stand this?

There are countless people on the Internet searching for the suit Zhou Yutang wore in the film.

As Armani's spokesperson for Tianchao District, Zhou Yutang's clothes in this movie were naturally sponsored by Armani.

The movie was released in just a few days.

The hot search term "Zhou Yutang suit thug" on Baidu ranked first in the search list, followed by "Zhou Yutang's short-haired look".

Just these few days.

Even Armani's sales in Tianchao District have increased.

Armani's suits are expensive, but China's population base is here, and there are many rich people.

Zhou Yutang has a large number of fans, and a small number of them have considerable spending power.

At this time, Zhou Yutang was chatting with Fan Xiaopang on the plane.

"Yu Tang, everyone compliments you on how handsome you are."

Fan Xiaopang had several newspapers in front of him. He was flipping through them happily. He saw the scandal story between himself and Zhou Yutang. He laughed so hard that he was so happy.

Zhou Yutang calmly closed his eyes and rested his mind, which made Fan Xiaopang speechless. He reached out and poked Zhou Yutang's abdominal muscles: "Can you give me some reaction?"

"What's the reaction?"

"So hard"

Fan Xiaopang exclaimed: "Do you really have 8-pack abs?"

When Zhou Yutang was filming the scene where she was pushing her hair, Fan Xiaopang had already completed her guest role and left the production, which she had always deeply regretted.

"Don't move your hands or feet on the plane."

Zhou Yutang slapped Fan Binbin's hand away angrily: "Would you like to come to my room to watch tonight?"

The two of them have become familiar with each other, and their movements are much more casual, and they even joke around occasionally.

"Okay, okay, remember to hold the door open for me."

Unexpectedly, Fan Xiaopang nodded repeatedly, with an expectant look on his face that said "there is such a good thing." Zhou Yutang couldn't stop it.

On the other side, Li Yao, who was following Zhou Yutang on the roadshow promotion, heard these words of tiger and wolf, and trembled like a frightened little white rabbit.

Bringing in the old and bringing in the new is also a routine practice in the entertainment industry.

Last year, Zhou Yutang took Zhao Liying on publicity roadshows, which helped her gain a lot of fans.

Li Yao is also one of the leading ladies of Jiangdong Company, and is also a fan of Zhou Yutang. Of course, he has to be exposed to both rain and dew.

So Zhou Yutang brought Li Yao out for this road show and asked her to do some assistant work.

As for Fan Xiaopang, he took the initiative to join the publicity road show team.

In addition, Tony Jia will attend road shows in two important cities, Beijing and Shanghai, but will not participate in other places. After all, he is an internationally famous star, and this Waiguo friend is also very busy with business.

Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Andy On and others will also participate in the road show.

However, they had to finish their activities in the Xiangjiang area first, and then take the route from Shencheng to Huadu.

Flying was quite boring, so Zhou Yutang simply accompanied Fan Xiaopang while watching entertainment reports and chatting.

"In three days of release, "The Lonely Agent" directly took home 1.25 million at the box office, hahahaha!"

"Hey, look, look, some media are hyping up your bi-weekly battle again."

"The previous first-day box office record for a domestic film was 3300 million in the first day of "The City of Gold" directed by Guo Shi, starring Jay Chou. Jay Chou's "Slam Dunk" last year encountered "Those Years", and the box office was strongly suppressed by Zhou Yutang. , now that the first-day box office record has been broken, Zhou Tianwang can be said to have been defeated by Zhou Yutang once again. A reporter photographed him getting drunk alone last night, looking haggard."

Fan Xiaopang was extremely lively. He turned around and said, "Zhou Yutang, look at you, you have done all kinds of bad things."

Zhou Yutang: "."

He has a really good relationship with Jay Chou. Around July or August, they both agreed to be classmate Zhou's tour guest.

"These media have been reporting nonsense all day long. Jay Chou is only one of the leading actors in the movie "The Golden Jacket", and Fa Ge and Gong Huang have higher rankings than him. Our movie is a male lead, and you are definitely the leading actor."

Fan Xiaopang flipped through the newspapers and saw that there were many reports about him. He laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

She was excited about her wise decision from the bottom of her heart.

The first-day box office of "Alone" exceeded 4000 million, directly setting a domestic first-day box office record, and the box office exceeded [-] million in three days.

I am the heroine!

Don't talk about whether there are many scenes or not.

On the movie's promotional poster, Fan Xiaopang is shown as the heroine.
Anyway, this time I didn’t get paid for my role, so I really made a profit.

of course.

Apart from being excited, Fan Xiaopang still admired Zhou Yutang more in his heart.

Looking at the entire entertainment industry, this is really something that no one has ever been able to do.

It was Zhou Yutang who single-handedly took on the entire box office of this movie, and this gold content directly boosted it.

With random thoughts in his mind, Fan Xiaopang crossed his legs, swayed slightly on his toes, and gave Zhou Yutang a flirtatious look.
Zhou Yutang had already developed resistance to the charm of this female temptress, and turned to communicate with Li Yao: "For the crew of "To Youth", I helped you ask for leave from Director Yang. You will join the crew later, and come out this time." Also read more scripts and try to understand the character thoroughly."

Zhu Yilong is the scumbag male protagonist in "To Youth", and Li Yao plays the second female lead in it. The filming of this drama has already started.

Li Yao pursed his lips and looked at Zhou Yutang hesitantly, as if he wanted to say something, but ultimately lacked the courage.

Zhou Yutang glanced at her: "What's the matter?"

"That, boss."

Li Yao's voice was a little awkward: "Can you tell me the script? I'm not sure how to play the role of Ruan Wan?"

"Don't use honorifics in the future."

Zhou Yutang rubbed his forehead and took the script from Li Yao's hand.

In fact, after he asked his screenwriting department to finish the script, which was adapted from Xin Yiwu's original novel, he himself reviewed it and made suggestions for revisions.

The original story clues are messy. Zhou Yutang fixed the main plot on the male and female protagonists and the two male and female protagonists, and deleted some irrelevant branch content, so that it appeared more layered, and the protagonist's behavior and lines were also slightly different. Changes have been made to highlight the more reasonable character design.

The leading actor played by Zhu Yilong is a test of his acting skills, but in terms of excellence, the role of Ruan Wan played by Li Yao can definitely leave a deep impression on the audience.

First of all, her first scene.

It was very shocking.

Ruan Wan is wearing a white dress, her long hair is loose, and she smiles, pure and beautiful.

She seemed so beautiful that her whole body shone, and all the boys on campus looked at her sideways.

To put it simply, she is Bai Yueguang in the eyes of boys.

"Let's talk about your understanding."

Zhou Yutang crossed his legs and smiled inadvertently, but Li Yao's heart jumped for no reason.

"Well, I think Ruan Guan may be the school belle in the school, the type that is very popular among boys, and she is also the heroine Wei Wei's classmate and roommate. At the same time, she seems to be different from these students."

Li Yao thought carefully and then expressed his thoughts.

Fan Xiaopang put down the newspaper in his hand, held his chin in his hands, and listened to Zhou Yutang's lecture with great interest.

Nowadays, people on the Internet call Zhou Yutang the godfather of youth films. This is a bit of a joke, but the youth films he has made are indeed classic hits.

"let me see."

Especially this script was written by him. Fan Xiaopang was very interested. He took the script from Zhou Yutang and watched it while listening to how Zhou Yutang would tell Li Yao the play.

"Yes, I have done a lot of homework."

Zhou Yutang glanced at Fan Xiaopang, but didn't care, and continued to analyze Li Yao: "You remember, the seemingly important qualities of the character Ruan Wan are beauty and maturity, because from the character setting of this film, She is perfect, not only beautiful, but also mature beyond her years."

"You will find that she is living and learning communication patterns with Weiwei, just like adults getting along with children. When Weiwei and others encounter problems, they all come to Ruan Guan to solve them."

"Boss, but I don't seem to be mature enough."

Li Yao lowered his head, looking slightly embarrassed.

"It's not easy to mature."

Fan Xiaopang interjected: "Don't express emotions easily. From what I see in the script, the heroine Wei Wei seems to be cheerful and lively. Then you should be quiet and gentle when you get along with her."

Zhou Yutang glanced at Fan Xiaopang in slight surprise.

The acting skills of the four major actresses all have something special.

Fan Xiaopang has been acting for more than ten years, so he has rich experience.

compare.

Li Yan and Zhao Liying are still too immature.

The main reason is that the basics are not very good. It is obviously not enough to rely on the company's acting instructors to teach them. Zhou Yutang plans to find a way to send them to the film school and follow them to learn systematic basic acting knowledge.

They also have to make progress.

(End of this chapter)