80 million at the premiere box office
As soon as this number came out, the shareholders of Qunyu Entertainment were almost stunned.
The first day is only Thursday, and there will be Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. No matter how cautious you are, it is safe to get 200 million box office in the next three days.
If the box office can reach nearly 300 million in the first week, where will the film end up? 600 million is just the lowest prediction of the box office platform.
The total investment of "Shit Shoveling Officer" is only 70 million, plus the follow-up marketing expenses, 600 million can still make a lot of money. However, their company only accounted for 1/4 of the film's investment, and the other half was sold at a price of 50 million. The target of the sale was Mei Zihan, who was driven away by them
"Our company may become the biggest laughing stock in the entertainment industry in the next five years, or even ten years." A shareholder laughed at himself.
No, it should be said that as long as Mei Zihan remains active in the entertainment industry and continues to be popular, then this laughing stock will be repeated year after year.
Future entertainment companies and shareholders will use their case as a classic example to warn future generations. For example, how did they drive away a hen that laid golden eggs, and how did they sell the original box office dividends of hundreds of millions at a price of 50 million
Just thinking about it gives me the urge to divest and exit.
"This should only be based on the results of pre-sales. There may not be such a high box office tomorrow." Another shareholder wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained, "After all, this is just an urban romantic comedy. It is normal to start paying attention to it, but its future trend may not be so good."
"Mr. Chen, when you say this, can you first read the evaluations of this movie on major online platforms and self-media, etc.? At least this "Shit Shovel Officer" has already formed a word-of-mouth effect. The box office will only get higher and higher, and it will obviously be a long-term journey.”
The final box office of 600 million, he still thinks it is too low.
Shareholders are silent.
"What's the use of saying this now? Whether it was selling the investment share or rescinding the contract with Mei Zihan, it was all agreed by all of us collectively. What's the use of hindsight? Why don't we think about how we can use this opportunity?" The brand advantage of the movie paves the way for our next movie." A rather steady shareholder said.
Going over old accounts now will only make everyone feel bad. And it's not that they don't make money, they just make less money. As an investor, who can guarantee that every investment he makes will receive benefits? More often than not, it’s actually worthless.
"Do you think it is possible for us to re-sign the contract with Mei Zihan on more favorable terms?" A person asked cautiously, "Although the chairman is still in the hospital, he and Mei Zihan have a very good relationship. If he gets involved, maybe Mei Zihan can rejoin our company."
"You can try it then."
"As for the conditions, Mei Zihan can mention it first, and all the resources of our company can be opened to him."
"It's reasonable, we'll go ask about it tomorrow."
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"Ask me for mercy?" The chairman laughed for three minutes when he heard the news from the secretary, "Could it be that the cooked duck flew away and would fly back again? I have said it a long time ago. I will be discharged from the hospital as soon as the screening is released. As for how much suffering they feel during this period, let them bear it themselves."
Mei Zihan and Liu Tianyi almost rolled their eyes when they saw the final box office on the first day.
"It seems that my 5 million can be multiplied several times." Liu Tianyi couldn't help laughing, "This time you can not only pay back the 50 million with principal and interest, but also the investment amount of "The Great Devil" You've earned it back too, if I didn't know that your kid's dream is just to be a salted fish, I'd fucking think you were reborn."
"Aren't you tired of this meme?" Mei Zihan couldn't help but rolled his eyes. If he is really reborn, he can go with what they say, the key is that he is not at all.
"Not greasy, not greasy, if you can be like this in every movie in the future, don't say you are reborn, even if you are an alien, I don't care." Liu Tianyi took a look at Mei Zihan, serious replied.
"Although our box office on the first day was 80 million, "The Billion Heist" has a total of 180 million!" This gap is directly short of 100 million, okay
"The box office of a small-budget movie and a big-budget movie in the first week are not the same. I think it is already a victory if we can not lose in the face-to-face confrontation of this movie." Liu Tianyi sighed slightly, "If we The schedule is better, and the holiday time is longer, maybe we can still compete with it."
But the schedule of Qixi Festival and Valentine's Day is only four days, and the time of four days is too short.
"I still know this, but I'm not reconciled." Mei Zihan was rather depressed. Either he would make a fortune, or he would lose money and pay off the debt with himself. This hung him up and down, the feeling was simply indescribable.
If Mei Zihan's current mood is to be cheap and good-looking, then Xiao Qian and others are almost in a bad mood.
What a joke! With such a high ranking of their movies, the growth rate is actually not as good as a small urban comedy romance
"Friday's pre-sale, now the pre-sale speed of "Shit Shovel Officer" has surpassed before, and its rating has quickly risen to eight points, and the long and short reviews on the movie have exceeded 10,000." The statistics assistant counted Data, I was also secretly amazed in my heart.
Don't look at the box office of "One Billion Heist" far exceeds that of "Shit Shovel Officer", but the degree of topic and discussion is completely incomparable.
"One Billion Robbery" is a commercial blockbuster that is qualified in all aspects. After the audience walked out of the cinema, they almost forgot about this movie, probably because there was nothing to talk about, and few audiences watched it repeatedly. But "Shit Shovel Officer" is different. To use a comment on an online platform, "Watching this movie for the first time, you will see its comedy, and watching this movie for the second time, you will see its tragedy; When I saw this movie for the third time, I realized that it is actually a tragedy with a comedy in it.”
A film that can be watched repeatedly by the audience has actually succeeded in a sense.
"At least there is no problem with the word-of-mouth of our movie." The company representative in charge of the film's marketing said, "I will hire some trolls and try to remove the rating of this "Shit Shovel Officer" without any trace."
"What's the use of scoring down? This film can achieve such a high attendance rate, relying on its subject matter and plot."
Now the market is too short of comedies such as Love and Love, not to mention the conception and creativity of this comedy itself are first-class. Mei Zihan's performance pushed the film to a higher level.
"Even if it's useless, we have to watch it." The film producer replied, "Our box office is still far higher than it, and we can further squeeze its film schedule. Tomorrow we will change another marketing point, please A few marketing accounts and film critics are off, try to make our film as tall and compelling as possible, and then we will see the effect after a multi-pronged approach."
Xiao Qian is just the lead actor of this movie and not the investor of this movie, even as the best actor, he doesn't have that much right to speak.
Forget it, since they think this method can be successful, let them go.
Friday, Tanabata Valentine's Day.
Since the morning, the streets and alleys seem to be full of couples. Single dogs almost stay at home alone on this day.
"Let's watch "The Shit Shovel Officer". I heard it's very good."
"Okay, listen to you."
"I don't like cats, let's go to Billion Heist."
"Is "Three Days of Love" released? Why do I feel like I haven't seen tickets sold yet?"
…
Near the movie theater, couples can almost be heard discussing which movie is better to watch.
Mei Zihan took Jiang Ying, and the two disguised themselves and sneaked to a movie theater run by a friend Jiang Ying knew.
That's the benefit of being rich.
Jiang Ying didn't tell her friends why she wanted this VIP room, and they didn't ask much. If Mei Zihan hadn't said that Chinese Valentine's Day was a special day, and the two of them needed to do what ordinary couples do, Jiang Ying and Mei Zihan would not have risked being found out by coming to the cinema.
"The film schedule of "The Shit Shoveler" seems to have increased. Today, the box office has reached 50 million." Mei Zihan looked down at his phone, "It seems that there is hope to break through 100 million."
"Don't worry." Jiang Ying smiled, "Your investment is impossible to lose."
If there is a real loss, he can make up some of the loss with his own money.
I'm not worried about losing money, I'm just afraid of not losing money!
Mei Zihan screamed in his heart, but he couldn't say such words directly and clearly.
"Then what do you think? What do you think of my performance?" In the final edited version of the movie, Mei Zihan looked even better at acting. Because Mei Zihan is the core of this movie, when editing this movie, some excellent performances of Mei Zihan were also highlighted, and some scenes with slightly wrong performances were cut out.
Mei Zihan didn't know why she asked this sentence. In fact, Jiang Ying had already said a similar answer a long time ago, but maybe it was because there were only the two of them in the entire movie theater, and Mei Zihan could boldly express herself Ask the questions in your heart.
He wanted this "Shit Shovel Officer" to be a huge success, so he didn't want to show Jiang Ying what he meant.
You see, even a small budget movie, I can afford the box office. With me like this, in your eyes, is the performance acceptable
Jiang Ying froze for a moment, then laughed.
"You are already a person who can be called an excellent actor wherever you put it."