Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 598: The follow-up plan of the Killer Universe

ps: The second chapter is gone. The needle moved while typing and I can’t type anymore. I’ll make it up tomorrow. Sorry everyone.

When Shanhe Company announced the box office of 2.2 million yuan, many people simply could not accept this number.

It’s not because it’s too high.

But it is because of the subject matter of "Students".

How come a movie about campus, study and education can get such a high box office?

It’s not one of your past historical blockbusters, which has accumulated fans over several years and has the support of visual effects of large scenes and special effects.

It’s not the superhero movie you just took over, which has its own IP effect, and it’s also the current era when superhero themes are very popular.

"The Students" is at best just a slightly larger subject matter, telling some "little tricks" for getting into school, and deliberately leading to some conflicts. How can that make so many people watch your movie?
Could it be based on what you call empathy?

What kind of empathy can reach 2.2 million?
gab.

Zhou Mo was actually helpless about such remarks.

This is what the saying "Why not eat meat" means.

It is too difficult for these people who have lived a life of luxury and have had a smooth life since childhood to understand real students.

However, such comments are still in the minority.

As soon as the data was obtained, the vast majority of people in the industry and investors immediately held meetings to study how "Students" achieved this result.

After several days of discussion, the industry has gradually reached some consensus.

Including but not limited to scale, reality, depth, strong contrast, etc...

Zhou Mo also received a related report, and it must be said that the analysis in it is quite brilliant.

Let’s look at the report’s producer.

Okay.

penguin.

Then it's okay.

Penguin's research capabilities are among the best in the world.

There is a saying that goes, you can despise the conscience of a penguin, but you can never discriminate against its profit-seeking nature.

in the room.

After a busy day.

After Da Tiantian finished washing up, she saw Zhou Mo still reading the penguin report.

"You've been watching for two or three hours, and you haven't finished yet."

"Isn't this what others wrote? If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't know I'm so good!" Zhou Mo praised.

In addition to analyzing the elements of the success of "The Students", this report also gave Zhou Mo a lot of praise, perhaps because the author knew that the show would be watched on weekends.

Things like "able to keenly detect the direction of the film market", "directly touch the hearts of the audience", "the ability to balance commercialization and content is world-class", etc., made Zhou Mo blush.

Da Tiantian sat next to him, glanced at the report, and continued, "No, I think the report doesn't praise you enough. The real you is even better than what the report says."

Zhou Mo pretended to say:
"Tiantian, I'll be embarrassed if you praise me like this."

"So do you still want to listen?"

"Please give me more."

Da Tiantian snorted softly: "I really didn't praise you too much. I really thought so, just like this one."

She pointed a finger at the item "more sensitive to the film market".

"I think the film market alone is not enough to describe your sensitivity. You are sensitive in many aspects."

"For example."

"For example, judging the situation."

"Ah? Why do you say that? What happened?" Now it was Zhou Momeng's turn.

"Ah, what? America's Lion King. His actions in the first half of the year exceeded many people's imagination.

At that time, many people did not believe that he could make it this far, but you started contacting him last year. Isn't it that you have a strong judgment of the situation? "

Da Tiantian looked at Zhou Mo and sighed, "A few days ago, when that person's support rate soared, even my family members said that you have good vision."

Zhou Mo coughed lightly.

"Tiantian, if I said that I looked for him last year just because I wanted to work with him to make a movie, would you believe it?" Zhou Mo said.

Da Tiantian asked back: "What do you think?"

"Do not believe."

"That's it. You're still pretending in front of me." Da Tiantian grabbed Zhou Mo's hand, which was becoming increasingly restless, and gently took a bite on his canine teeth.

Zhou Mo shook his head and said nothing more.

These days, no one really believes the truth.

To be honest, the first reason he thought of Achuan was that he really wanted to do business.

After all, Achuan is a man of his word and can be considered a good collaborator in the entertainment industry.

Judging from his attempts on Playboy and WWE shows, this old man has a pretty good sense of entertainment.

If Zhou Mo really wanted to engage in these prediction + speculation activities, he would go to the north to contact Ozawa.

Today, Ozawa is still a star through and through, and he is not even very popular.

Speaking of Ozawa.

Zhou Mo suddenly thought, is it possible to invite this person to film a movie?
As for the role, Zhou Mo thought about it for a while.

'Why not give him the role of head of the Northern InterContinental Hotel?'

In fact, he had thought about making another movie set in the world of InterContinental Hotel in the north a long time ago.

Anyway, according to the InterContinental Hotel's settings, it seems reasonable to have a branch in the north, right?

So far, through the settings of "John Wick", "Cold Wind" and "JW", the subsequent plot direction of InterContinental Hotel has been gradually revealed by Zhou Mo——

Break away from the rule of the High Table, achieve independence, and even seek to reversely control and destroy the High Table.

This can be seen from the plot of the original version of "John Wick: Chapter 11".

In addition, in "Cold Wind", Lao Lan directly supports Cold Wind to open Wushuang in Sakura's oblique base. And Sakura's cult base has actually been revealed many times in the movie, and it is considered one of the bases set up by the High Table in Sakura.

One subordinate agency takes action against another subordinate agency.

This is one of the signs that the High Table is gradually losing control over its subordinate institutions.

Coupled with the plot direction of "JW", even America, the most basic area of ​​the High Table, has begun to be planned, so one can imagine what will happen to other Intercontinental Hotels around the world.

Therefore, it seems reasonable to arrange Ozawa to be the person in charge of an InterContinental Hotel.

In addition, given Ozawa's current status, it is reasonable to invite him to star in a work.

Zhou Mo thought about this and decided to ask the company to start contacting people.

If things go well, we should be able to arrange everything in ten days or half a month.

During this period, the company can complete all behind-the-scenes preparations such as script writing and character setting.

There is no need for Zhou Mo to stay up late to write the script himself.

Anyway, in the world of killers, if you retire and then find a job, your life won’t be disturbed. Just follow the routine and everything will be done.

"Hehehe, what are you thinking about? Why are you daydreaming again?"

Zhou Mo blinked and saw Da Tiantian's little hands waving in front of him.

He held it gently and explained:

"Nothing much, I just plan to open a movie at the InterContinental Hotel in Europe."

"Oh, so it was Luc Besson who contacted you?" Da Tiantian asked.

Among the cooperation between the two sides, there has been cooperation on film projects.

"almost."

"But doesn't he still have to shoot 'JW'? Will he be able to make it in time?"

"There's no need to worry about this. He's not the only one in their company. Besides, this guy is actually a quick shooter. As long as he still wants to make money, let him figure it out on his own."

Da Tiantian bit her lip.

"That's true, but..."

"but what?"

"But can you, when you are doing serious work, just do serious work?" Da Tiantian reached out and knocked on Zhou Mo's head.

Zhou Mo paused, then stopped what he was doing.

"You're right. We really shouldn't let some messy things affect our business."

Da Tiantian was confused.

yeah?
What happened today?

Is this guy transgender?

However, the next second, Zhou Mo immediately threw the documents on the bed onto the bed, flipped over and jumped onto the bed.

"Watching movies and stuff is just taking up too much time. The most important thing is to do the real work!"

"..."

……

The time came to the end of June.

"The Students" experienced box office results of over 1.7 million for five consecutive days, and finally on the sixth day, the box office dropped to million.

Day 1.5, million.

Day 1.3, million.

Day nine, 1.2 million.

Just when the movies released at the same time were feeling relieved, thinking that "The Students" would finally calm down for a while and leave some audiences for them, the situation took a turn for the worse again.

On the tenth day of its release, "The Students" achieved a big reversal at the box office.

The single-day box office once again exceeded 200 million.

The reason for this is very simple.

The results of the June exams have been announced.

Some are happy and some are worried.

Some people begin to imagine their expectations for the future, while others fall into anxiety about the future.

All these situations have corresponding parts in "Students".

As a result, "The Students" once again received a wave of traffic and its box office soared.

However, what was beyond Zhou Mo's expectation was that the group that really reacted the most to this plot might not be the students who had just received their grades, but the audience around 30 years old who had just entered middle age.

The proportion of these people has increased significantly in this box office reversal.

After the investigation, the company concluded that although the student group has experienced the exams and started to think about the future, it is ultimately just an expectation.

These audiences who have just entered middle age are the ones who truly experienced the movie.

Therefore, when they see the plot in the movie that is somewhat similar to their life experiences, they are deeply moved.

But anyway, this is enough.

On the crew side, Zhou Mo and his team also completed their initial roadshow.

According to the original plan, the initial roadshow was supposed to end in a week and then move to other places.

But because the movie was so popular in several places, Zhou Mo simply changed his plan and stayed in those places for a few more days.

When I returned to Yanjing, it was already July.

As soon as he returned to the company, Zhou Mo received a call.

"Hello, who are you?"

"Hello, Director Zhou, I'm Xia Donghai."

Zhou Mo reacted instantly.

It turned out to be this person.

(End of this chapter)