Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

"Inception" ignited the audience's enthusiasm in just one night and caused a sensation on the Internet. Naturally, the TV stations would not miss this opportunity to ride on the popularity and sent film crews to the theater to interview.

Kyoto TV has the advantage of being at home, and the Stars Grand Theater is not too far away from their TV station. It only takes about fifteen minutes by car, so after the interview team gathered in the morning, they immediately set off towards the Stars Grand Theater.

After all, as the top and most famous movie in the country, it has now even become a must-visit attraction for many foreign tourists when they come to Kyoto. It seems that it would be a pity not to go to the Stars Theater to watch a movie in Kyoto. Same.

So despite the fact that the Stars Grand Theater itself can accommodate tens of thousands of people watching movies at the same time, the daily shows are also fully booked. Even for some literary films, the attendance rate here will be much better than that of ordinary theaters, not to mention Those five super theaters with IMAX giant screens. If you want to buy tickets, you have to book many days in advance to get a seat.

The interview team knew that the Stars Grand Theater was doing very well, and all of them had actually gone there to watch movies, but when they arrived at the venue, the excitement at the venue was still beyond their imagination.

Because the interview team arrived early, there were still about ten minutes before the theater officially opened when we arrived.

But at this time, there was already a long queue outside. Seeing this situation, Lei Xiaomiao, the leader of the interview team, made a prompt decision, let the camera follow, and trotted all the way to the front of the long queue.

They were not trying to jump in line, but were preparing to interview the people in line.

"Hello, sir, we are from Kyoto TV station. What is our name?"

"Ah, hello, my surname is Ma."

"Mr. Ma, I see you are at the front of the queue. What time did you get here?"

"Me? I came around six o'clock in the morning." Mr. Ma replied.

This answer was completely beyond Lei Xiaomiao's expectation. Seeing such a long queue, she originally thought that Mr. Ma had been waiting in line all night, but she didn't expect that he arrived more than an hour earlier than them?

"Now there is an online ticket booking system on Fanxing Weibo. There is no need to queue at all. Just buy online." Mr. Ma saw Lei Xiaomiao's surprise, took out his mobile phone and opened Fanxing Weibo, entered the ticket booking system, and then showed Show it to Lei Xiaomiao.

"Look, not only can you buy tickets, you can also choose seats. You can even get discounts when buying tickets online. For example, I won a small bucket of popcorn this time." Mr. Ma showed off happily.

Although a small bucket of popcorn only costs 12 yuan in the theater, for moviegoers, this is an unexpected little surprise and can even make them feel happy for a while.

After listening to Mr. Ma's introduction, Lei Xiaomiao felt that he was just a bumpkin.

Fortunately, Lei Xiaomiao has excellent professional quality and quickly adjusted his mentality. With a professional smile, he continued to interview Mr. Ma.

"Mr. Ma, I see that what you just showed me are the movie tickets for "Inception". How did you become interested in this movie?"

"Of course it's Weibo. When I found out that Nie Wei's new movie was about to be released, I knew I had to go to the cinema to watch it as soon as possible. After all, Nie Wei's production must be a high-quality one."

"Originally I wanted to book tickets for the 3D version of the movie at midnight, but all the tickets for that show were sold out just five minutes after the pre-sale started. The ticket I have now cost me a full 500 yuan. Since then, Bought it from an acquaintance."

Lei Xiaomiao quietly made a scissors gesture to the photographer behind her. Of course, she was not cheering to celebrate, but telling him to remember to scissor this section. After all, this acquaintance in Mr. Ma's mouth was probably a scalper in her opinion. .

Lei Xiaomiao then visited a young couple who looked very excited.

"We came from a mountain city. This time we came to Kyoto specifically to watch "Inception" because the IMAX-3D equipment at the Star Theater is the best in the world. We all felt that since we wanted to watch "Inception", As a science fiction blockbuster, we naturally have to pursue the best effect.”

The couple happily greeted the camera, and then answered Lei Xiaomiao's questions cooperatively.

Lei Xiaomiao then interviewed a woman who looked to be in her thirties. She also came to watch "Inception", but she was not a fan of Nie Wei, but saw "Inception" online. promotional video, and bought movie tickets because I thought it was interesting.

After interviewing this lady, the cinema was opened to the public. A large number of people poured into the cinema. Just as Lei Xiaomiao was preparing to move to the next cinema and collecting more materials, he suddenly saw a familiar figure in the crowd. figure.

"Sister Dong Jie, are you also here to watch "Inception"?" Lei Xiaomiao took three steps at a time and quickly ran to a woman and asked.

"Ah, yes." Dong Jie, who was wearing a mask and no makeup, obviously didn't expect that anyone would recognize her like this, but she couldn't hide it anymore after being recognized. She just answered while speeding up, preparing to hurry up. Enter the theater to escape the chase of the camera.

But Lei Xiaomiao was obviously unwilling to let the female star go so easily.

The key point is that Dong Jie collaborated with Nie Weiwei in "The Family", but unlike Shu Chang who played a small supporting role in the past and is now the Golden Horse Best Actress, Dong Jie has been declining since "The Family". Currently we can only hang around at the second-tier level.

Although Dong Jie is not as famous as before, Lei Xiaomiao thinks that it is still worth reporting that she came to watch Nie Wei's movie.

"Sister Dong Jie, did you come here today to support your old friend Nie Wei?"

"I guess so. The main reason is that the theme of the movie is very attractive to me. I thought I would take advantage of my break to come and watch it."

"After watching the movie, will you give Director Nie Wei some suggestions?"

Dong Jie frowned, feeling a little unhappy. She felt that this female reporter was really annoying. You know, she hasn't worked with Nie Wei for many years, and she hasn't contacted him in these years. She doesn't even know Nie Wei's mobile phone number. Is she going to give suggestions through Weibo private messages?

Of course, she could only complain about such things in her heart, but she still had to maintain a smile on the surface and answered to the camera: "I will talk to Nie Wei about movies if I have the chance, but forget about giving suggestions. If I can give Nie Wei suggestions, I can become a director. Nie Wei's movies are always so good, and I really can't find any fault with them."

After answering this question, they just walked to the door of the cinema. Dong Jie said "goodbye" and immediately rushed into the cinema. Lei Xiaomiao wanted to chase her, but suddenly a woman who looked only in her twenties blocked them. With this obstruction, Dong Jie disappeared.

Lei Xiaomiao glared at the woman who blocked them with dissatisfaction, and the latter glared back without showing any weakness. The two glared at each other for more than ten seconds, and then the latter snorted and turned away.

"Xiaomiao, that should be Dong Jie's assistant." Looking at the woman who left, the photographer judged.

The blocking was so clever, as if it had been prepared long ago. The photographer suddenly remembered that the woman had been beside Dong Jie from the beginning. It was unreasonable to say that the two had no relationship.

"Forget it, let's go to other cinemas." Lei Xiaomiao sighed and prepared to go to other cinemas to interview more materials. After all, the Star Cinema alone could not represent anything. Interviewing more cinemas and actually investigating the situation would make the report more convincing.

Two kilometers away, there is another cinema in the Star Cinema line.

Lei Xiaomiao did not interview the audience this time, but directly interviewed the cinema manager of this cinema to learn about the situation of movie ticket sales.

"The best-selling movie at the moment is definitely Inception. So far, the 3D version of the movie has already sold out all the tickets for next week."

"What about the 2D version?"

"Yes, after all, the national screening rate of Inception is now over 60%. There are 2D movie tickets available, but not many. At some good time slots, even 2D shows, the attendance rate of Inception will be as high as 80%, and those shows with bad time slots can also maintain an attendance rate of 50%."

"Thank you for the data you provided." Lei Xiaomiao thanked the manager and took the interview team to the next target. They visited five theaters in the morning and got similar results.

In the eyes of the audience, Inception has a great reputation. Except for a few audiences who raised objections, basically more than 95% of the audience gave the movie a high evaluation.

Of course, there are also many complaints at the same time, not against the movie itself, but against the movie tickets. The difficulty in getting 3D version tickets is the most unsatisfactory thing for the audience at present.

But there is no way, which reminds Lei Xiaomiao of "Avatar" in 2009. At that time, there were audiences complaining like now at the entrance of cinemas across the country, and the situation was very similar.

However, the reason why "Avatar" had such overnight queues and full shows was mainly because there were too few theaters that could show IMAX-3D at that time. In the past two years, China has learned from the lessons of Avatar before, and more than 200 film companies have added IMAX theaters.

But I didn't expect that after the release of "Inception", the theaters were still not enough.

"Do you think "Inception" has the possibility of breaking the domestic movie box office record?" Lei Xiaomiao asked casually while sitting in the car returning to the TV station.

The originally noisy car space was suddenly startled by Lei Xiaomiao's question. Everyone looked at each other, and for a while no one could blurt out an answer.

Seeing that his colleagues suddenly became quiet, Lei Xiaomiao was also surprised. Is this a difficult question to answer?

But when she began to seriously think about her casual question, she fell into hesitation. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her hypothesis seemed to be possible.

Just thinking that the previous record was also created by Nie Wei himself, she felt that this matter seemed reasonable.

After all, Nie Wei's movies always bring surprises and are always improving.

After Lei Xiaomiao returned to the TV station, he immediately made a short news report, reporting Dong Jie's appearance in the cinema separately. After all, Dong Jie is a star and is also well-known. In addition, the relationship between her and Nie Wei is definitely attractive to some people.

As for the video materials of the interview, after an afternoon of editing and post-production, it will be broadcast as a special report in the evening entertainment news.

Lei Xiaomiao found Dong Jie in the cinema, which is not an exception.

In fact, many people found celebrities in the cinema that day, some of whom were recognized by reporters and some by moviegoers.

What’s more interesting is that all the celebrities who were exposed, without exception, came to see Inception.

Of course, some celebrities posted their movie tickets on Weibo to show their support for Inception. As of 7 pm, some netizens who were curious did a statistics. On that day, a total of 152 celebrities were indirectly or directly exposed to go to the cinema to watch the movie.

And there were 86 celebrities who took the initiative to evaluate the movie online and assisted in the promotion. The fans of these celebrities added up to more than 200 million. This wave of spontaneous free "advertising" is even comparable to the power of prime-time advertising on top satellite TV stations.

Of course, more people are still paying attention to how much the box office revenue of this movie will be on the first day.

As the first movie in the country to be screened on 10,000 screens, the screenings are as high as 67%, and the price of movie tickets is not low, 80 yuan for the 3D version and 45 yuan for the ordinary 2D version.

Thinking about all the reports today, how many people went to see this movie, if the final premiere results are not satisfactory, it will be a joke.

Including Nie Wei, he is also waiting for the first day box office results.

However, compared with those reporters who are eager to get the results and report, Nie Wei seems much calmer, because he will receive data reports from the company every once in a while, and he already has an idea of ​​the first day box office. Now he is just waiting for the final data to come out.

During this period of waiting, he was not idle. He looked for those film reviews in the film review section to understand what the advantages and disadvantages of his film are in the eyes of these professionals.

Not to mention, some of the reports written by film critics really made Nie Wei feel impressed.

You should know that there are many hidden props or small actions in "Inception". If you want to find them one by one, you can't do it without watching the movie several times. For some film reviews, Nie Wei only needs to take a few glances to know that the film critics who wrote these reviews did not watch the movie seriously at all. They just watched it once and wrote the film reviews without understanding it at all.

But there are also those who make him feel bright, such as a film critic named "Wen Dao", whose articles have many highlights. Many small actions that Nie Wei thinks are buried deep have also been discovered by Wen Dao.

Just when Nie Wei was about to read it carefully after a quick read, the phone on the table rang.

The caller was a staff member of the statistics department below.

"Mr. Nie, the first day box office of "Inception" is out, 312.35 million, and the data within 1,000 yuan is still being verified."

"Thank you." Nie Wei thanked him and hung up the phone.

The next second, Nie Wei's face was filled with joy. The first-day box office of 312 million not only broke his own domestic first-day box office record, but also gave Inception a good start.

Thanks to TL Tangtang for the generous reward of 1,000, and to Qiu Ye Liang Yue, Fantasy Paradise, and 0773 for their generous rewards.