Tokyo Literary Godfather

On Saturday, just as Taniguchi Uchiki had predicted the day before, many Kyoto University students flocked to the cinema.

And most of them came for the movie "Confession". This movie is very popular among the students now. This popular trend was blown from the schools in Tokyo at the beginning. The students in Kansai always I heard the name of this movie, so on this free weekend, I also thought about going into the cinema to find out.

What's more, the theme of the movie is really attractive: juvenile crime, extrajudicial sanctions, excessive punishment...

Most of the people who come to watch the movie are young people. In contrast, the audience of another movie "Black Rock" seems to be older on average, and the theater where this movie is played is empty compared to "Confessions" a lot.

At the end of the day, half of the audience came to watch "Confession."

Seeing this situation, Taniguchi Uchiki increased the proportion of "Confessions" to be scheduled on Sundays.

As expected, the box office performance of "Confession" on Saturday was no accident. On Sunday, the market response was still very good.

According to the statistical report of Matsunichi Pictures Distribution Department, the movie "Confessions" experienced a reverse decline in the average daily box office during the two days of the weekend, from a slow decline to a rapid increase.

The box office on Saturday was 140 million and the box office on Sunday was 160 million.

The box office was twice as high as Friday's.

Although there is no professional filmmaker software such as "Maoyan Professional Edition" in Japan, which can observe real-time data. But the news still spread quickly. When they learned that the daily box office of the movie "Confession" was nearly twice as high as the previous day, the industry felt a little excited. Sure enough, Kei Fujiwara's work started again. Halfway through.

This kind of thing has happened many times, and everyone is not surprised, but many people think that Kei Fujiwara directed a movie for the first time, and maybe he can't make much progress at the beginning. As a result, after the weekend box office statistics were released, people in the film industry quickly became alert - something was wrong!

It's really unexpected that it dropped after a week of screening.

A reversal of decline is actually a saying that the box office has risen against the trend. It was originally going down, but suddenly it turned around again because of a certain opportunity.

In fact, although the average daily box office of "Confession" has been falling for five consecutive days, it is not considered low. I did not expect that it will go down again on the weekend, and the increase is not small.

Many people in the broadcast industry, especially those who originally released the show at the same time as the Yuejiu drama, couldn't help but applaud, this is right, this is Kei Fujiwara.

It seems that Fujiwara-san is quite talented in making movies. In that case, just stay in the film industry! Don’t come back to make TV shows with no future! Many prayed from the bottom of their hearts.

Eiji Shirai was very happy to see that "Confession" finally showed its power, and the theaters reported that most of the audience who watched this movie were young people, which also shows that this movie still has great potential. So I once again made a request to President Nobi Shisuke at the meeting, hoping to significantly increase the film schedule.

Nobi Shisuke was no longer easy to refuse this time, but his expression was inevitably a little awkward.

Because whether it was the beginning of the filming of the film "Confessions" or during the screening, Nobi Maosuke showed an unfavorable attitude towards this film. This was true from the initial refusal to increase investment to the later refusal to increase film schedules.

In contrast to him, Eiji Shirai has always been very optimistic about the future of this movie. To be precise, he is optimistic about Kei Fujiwara. But no matter how you say it, Eiji Shirai has repeatedly persuaded the club to trust the box office performance of "Confession", hoping to increase investment, increase the number of films, etc., but was rejected by Mosuke Nobi.

But now "Confession" has suddenly reversed, and it has reversed after nearly a week of screening, and the increase has been large. According to the experience of the film industry, this seems to be a harbinger of a good box office...

But for Mosuke Nobi, this is both good news and bad news... The good news is that this movie is invested and distributed by Matsunichi Pictures, and if the movie sells well, they will naturally make money; can earn more...

However, Nobi Shisuke can be considered a business elite after all. He has been a film investor for many years and has been immersed in the industry for many years. Things like mistaking things also happen from time to time... Didn't Eiji Shirai also misunderstood "White Night Journey"?

So Nobi Mosuke pretended to be calm and said: "From the current situation, the market response of "Confession" is good, and it is worth looking forward to. We observed carefully for a period of time in the early stage, and it seems that we can forget the failure of "White Night" and regain trust. Kei Fujiwara made a point... The distribution department will improve the schedule of "Confession" on the basis of the original, and arrange more screenings during prime time... But "Black Rock" should not be ignored. After all, this movie is our main movie. A movie ticket for "Confession" is not as profitable as a movie ticket for "Black Rock"."

After finishing speaking, Nobi Shiosuke seemed a little embarrassed and started talking about other topics.

"President Nobi." Eiji Shirai suddenly suggested, "This year our production department wants to increase investment in homemade films..."

Mosuke Nobi frowned and said: "I have discussed this issue with you many times. The current market performance is not suitable for increasing investment in self-produced films. At this stage, we still focus on distribution."

As he spoke, he paused: ""Confessions" is indeed doing well at the current stage, but we still don't know what the future holds. Even though this movie is doing well, it is still an isolated case. It doesn't mean that the movie market has become active, so we still have to It's better to be cautious."

Eiji Shirai said: "So I hope that our department can cooperate deeply with Mizuwa Production, sign a co-creation contract for works, and bind them in advance before we talk..."

Mosuke Nobi couldn't help but frowned and said, "Mizuba Productions...is that the small production company that Kei Fujiwara just acquired?"

"That's right."

Nobi Mosuke said: "Fujiwara Kei came from the broadcasting industry, and his production company must also focus on TV drama production, which has nothing to do with your film production department. I will urge Fukuyama TV to get in touch with related cooperation, you don't have to worry about it. "

"I talked with Fujiwara, and movies will also be their main business. After "Confession", Kei Fujiwara will launch more movie projects. Rather than just being a distributor, I think it is better to become a partner, let us film production The department is also involved in the production of their next film project..."

Nobi Mosuke listened to Shirai Eiji's suggestion, but felt that the other party was a little noisy, and he didn't want to listen to it anymore. "There are many film studios and small production companies with Matsuri Films. Mizumi Production has no obvious advantages, and there is no need to give special treatment. Kei Fujiwara is indeed a person with remarkable achievements in history, but any investment is just before seeing the detailed plan. It is not advisable to invest blindly because you trust an individual..."

Again declined. After the meeting ended, Eiji Shirai left the meeting room somewhat disappointed.

Further reducing the investment budget for self-production is the development path that the company has established last year.

I thought that moving Keira Fujiwara out and proposing cooperation with Mizunami Productions would make Nobi Shisuke change his mind, but unexpectedly it was still rejected.

In fact, it’s not that Nobi Mosuke doesn’t trust Kei Fujiwara. This guy is obviously better than other filmmakers of the same generation. Nobi Mosuke is not a fool. How can he not see it? Mosuke will definitely ask the distribution department to get in touch quickly.

It’s just that he still wants to focus the business of Matsuri Films on “distribution” rather than “production”. It’s not that he doesn’t trust Kei Fujiwara, but he doesn’t trust the future of theater movies...