director of the millennium

Chapter 24 Flowers bloom outside the wall and fragrance inside the wall!

The box office performance of "The Night the Comet Came" on the first day of its release can be said to be mediocre.

Because of the small cost of production itself, plus the film era, a copy would cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Therefore, "The Night the Comet Came" was said to be a national premiere, but in fact it was only screened in more than 30 major cities. The first batch of copies was only 200 copies, and there were only [-] screenings on that day!
Therefore, the box office on the day of the premiere was only 30, which was not even a fraction of the box office on the day of "A Sigh".

This box office report card was naturally placed on Director Han's desk, but he was not dissatisfied with this result at all, and was even very satisfied!

Not to mention that the film's copyright has been sold for more than 200 million US dollars outside. Just the first-day box office of 30 can be sure that the mainland box office will not lose money. It is just a matter of making more or less!

Wu Yuan is not Feng Xiaogang, he is not well-known in the mainland film industry, the most famous actor hired is Zhou Xun who has acted in "Daming Palace Ci", not the heroine!
Just relying on the posters and the promotion of some local newspapers, the premiere can have a box office of 30, which is enough to celebrate with champagne!
Moreover, there were not many screenings scheduled on the day of the premiere, and not many copies were prepared, so it created a box office of 30, which shows that this movie still has a lot of profit potential to be discovered!

So, Director Han immediately issued the order!

"Increase the number of screenings! Copy more movie discs!"

The next day, "The Night the Comet Came" added 300 performances, and 50 newly recorded copies were also distributed across the country.

At the same time, the audience who watched the premiere on the first day quickly spread the word of mouth of the movie among their circle of friends after returning.

All praise!

God is sorry, mainland directors have never made a movie with the theme of "The Night the Comet Came" before!
Suspense, fantasy, and science fiction are all mixed together, but they are well integrated together.

It tastes like a Hollywood movie!

To be honest, young people nowadays have a wider field of vision, and have seen many Hollywood movies through various means.

Precisely because they have seen Hollywood movies, they really look down on mainland movies.

Hollywood is already fighting the Terminator vs. the Predator, and domestic movies are still focusing on rural areas, in spring and snow, or else it is a vulgar comedy, can they interest them?
Although "The Night the Comet Came" is not a science fiction blockbuster like The Terminator, at least the setting of this movie does follow the Hollywood trend and plays with parallel worlds!
So what else is there to say?

It must be blown up!
The first to respond were the students and teachers from major domestic colleges and universities, especially the three major film academies. interested.

On the second day after its release, the daily box office of the movie jumped from 30 to 60, a full double!
By the third day of its release, new copies of the show had arrived in major coastal cities one after another. The number of screenings of "The Night the Comet Came" increased again, and the daily box office hit a new high, successfully surpassing one million!

On the fourth day of the show, Director Han once again ordered to increase the number of copies. Every city with cinemas must be allocated at least 5 copies, and first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen must have at least 20 copies for each city!
At a time when there are less than 2000 screens nationwide, such a screening scale is really not small!
It was on this day that the news that "The Night the Comet Came" won the Best Screenplay Award in Sitges came back from Europe thousands of miles away.

This year's Sitges Fantastic Film Festival did not have Huaxia reporters participating, but with Chen Yuan present, he was of course the first to send the news of the award back to China!

Director Han, who has worked in Beijing Film Studio for half his life, of course understands the importance of publicity!
Although the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival is almost unknown in China, it is a foreign film festival, so it will be more prestigious if it is known!

The domestic film market is currently in a sluggish state and is in the cold winter season. Now that a mainland director has won an award abroad, it must be vigorously promoted!

The next day, which was the fifth day after the release of "The Night the Comet Came", relevant news was published in some local newspapers across the country!
[my country's 18-year-old young director Wu Yuan won the Best Screenplay Award at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain! 】

[Three International Film Festival Award Nominations! The 18-year-old rookie director is doing wonders! 】

[Won the International Film Festival Award!Huaxia's young directors are famous overseas! 】

【Genius or Miracle? Students from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy spread their wings overseas! 】

"..."

Many domestic newspapers, under the arrangement of China Film, immediately wrote about the news that "The Night the Comet Came" won awards at foreign film festivals.

This news is indeed very exciting news in this era. The current Chinese people need this kind of news to improve the sense of national honor and pride, and reshape their national pride in the new century.

We are no worse than foreigners in any field!

Even when making movies, our directors can still win foreign awards!

As for not knowing what the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival is?

It doesn't matter, the careful editors of the newspaper have fully explained this film festival to the readers.

I don’t need to explain too much, I just need to introduce, the last Chinese film to win this film festival award was "A Chinese Ghost Story 1992" released on Hong Kong Island in 3. The winner was Wang Zuxian, who was the best actress!

Wang Zuxian has won awards from this film festival!

All of a sudden, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival has become popular in China.

Yes, Wang Zuxian now has the ability to improve the quality of a movie award.

Most Chinese people don't know Wu Yuan, but most of them know Wang Zuxian, and they love her Nie Xiaoqian deeply!
Nie Xiaoqian has already won the award, how can it be worse?

The current audience is still relatively simple. They don’t know what the Pheasant Award is, and they don’t know that some film festivals have unlimited numbers.

Fortunately, as one of the three major fantasy film festivals in the world, Sitges cannot be said to be a pheasant award, and the major newspapers are still talking about it plausibly!
Good guy, it's going to be a disaster right now!

Suddenly, like a spring breeze overnight, thousands of families sing my name!

Wu Yuan, an unknown person, instantly ignited domestic public opinion.

Countless young and middle-aged people who have read the newspaper have a curiosity in their hearts.

"Who is Wu Yuan?"

"What movie is 'The Night the Comet Came'?"

Even on the still very immature Chinese Internet, Wu Yuan's name and "The Night the Comet Came" have become popular on major forums!
Countless people are full of interest in this mainland director who has won awards at foreign film festivals!
Reporters from various media, big and small, also sensed it keenly. This is big news!

Soon, a reporter with great powers followed the clues to the Beijing Film Academy and found out about Wu Yuan's details!

The leading actors of "The Night the Comet Came" were also surrounded by reporters. All news about Wu Yuan and the movie were constantly being dug up by reporters!
In less than half a day, Wu Yuan's detailed information appeared on the Internet, including the embarrassing things he did in school, and even the matter of selling pirated CDs!

More coincidentally.

When Wu Yuan and "The Night the Comet Came" were popular and aroused public opinion, the movie "The Night the Comet Came" had just reached the level of reputation after four days of word-of-mouth fermentation. Explosion period!
Countless viewers, either because they saw the movie won an award in the newspaper, wanted to go to the movie theater to watch the content, or were strongly recommended by other friends to watch the movie, all walked into the major movie theaters across the country!

Along with this wave of movie viewing, the movie "The Night the Comet Came" exploded at the box office!

The copying department of China Film Group was so busy that its feet never touched the ground. Countless copy discs were quickly sent to all parts of the country as soon as they were produced, and the supply was still in short supply!The following theaters can make more than a dozen calls a day to urge copies!

The daily box office is 150 million!
The daily box office is 220 million!
The daily box office is 360 million!
When Wu Yuan led Chen Kun and Zeng Li back to the capital from Spain, the national box office of "The Night the Comet Came" had already exceeded 1000 million!

It is not enough for countless audiences to watch it once. Even if they live frugally, they have to watch this movie twice or three times.

In the field of pirated discs, "The Night the Comet Came" became the hottest sales champion of the month!
The video store is full of customers wanting to buy the "The Night the Comet Came" disc!

Regardless of whether it is a manual piracy or a machine-burned pirated film dealer, they are all busy!
In the sluggish and cold mainland film market, whether it is distributors, theaters, or gray industry chains, all have experienced a big boom because of this movie!

Countless movie theater managers, film factory managers, and pirated disc vendors all shouted Wu Yuan's name in their hearts!

This director can do it!
Money is really for everyone to earn together!

Unlike those directors who make art films, they only care about art and sell their films to Europe, regardless of the domestic market!

(End of this chapter)