I don’t know how many people, like Bai Qiquan, spent a sleepless night during this year-end holiday.
When Lu Jian woke up the next day and turned on his computer, his new account "Project Silence" had already exceeded one million followers.
For a small UP like him with barely over 2 million fans, this rate of increase is simply incredible.
After washing up, Lu Tan ignored the two clouds of mist on the bed and read the comments under the account's Weibo post.
[Thank you Silence Project, thank you Lu Jian, I successfully spent a sleepless night. 】
[Is this short film something I can watch for free? The special effects of the bugs are so real that it gave me goosebumps]
[It’s hard not to be touched. Lu Tan actually put so much effort into making a free movie to scare people. Thank you so much.]
[Originally, I was planning to see "The Cry", but I thought it would be free so I watched it. Now that it's better, I don't think I dare to go see "The Cry". The box office is -1]
[Thanks to Lu Jian, I watched it with my girlfriend, and she still doesn’t dare to let go of my hand]
[It is said that "The Crying" is scarier than this? I'm thinking about returning tomorrow's movie ticket.]
[You should be grateful for Lu Jian's last mercy. If the Easter egg he put in the movie was not Halloween but Christmas, I'm afraid you would have spent the most frightening Christmas ever. 】
[Stop talking, I feel PTSD when I hear these three words now, and it feels like it will turn into a trigger switch.]
[I think this short film is on a higher level than the previous ones. In previous movies and videos, the audience would only think of them as stories, but this short film makes people think of the people around them, which is creepy]
[If nothing else, if someone around me suddenly said Halloween to me with a blank expression, I might really be frightened into a coma]
[Perhaps I am just a bug typing this right now, I just haven’t discovered it yet. 】
[Students above, please wake up, you who work hard every day to move bricks are probably worse than bugs]
[The bugs in the short film are really to my liking, I can do it, I have no problem!]
[Although XP varies from person to person, brother, your XP is too weird!]
[On behalf of the Insect Lovers Association, I strongly condemn Lu Jian for killing such cute insects. Don’t you know how well-behaved these insects are!]
Miscellaneous comments like this flooded Weibo. Many people thanked Lu Jian for making him feel that the value of life has been reflected.
The private messages on Weibo have long since been crowded. Some people simply came to express their feelings and experiences, while others started to criticize without saying a word. There were also advertising guys who were promoting the promotion to increase their followers, and some who didn’t know whether it was true or not, asking for cooperation.
According to the price list Lu Tian saw before, he could get tens of millions of investments just by relying on his current account. Of course, he was not short of money.
The first-day box office of "The Crying" has exceeded 5 million in the eight hours so far. Combined with the current data of only the zero o'clock premiere, it is expected that the first-day box office can reach more than 40 million, and his film schedule is not enough
Three percent.
This data means that the attendance rate of his films is extremely high, and the theaters are almost always full.
According to this trend, theaters should gradually increase the number of films scheduled for "The Crying". Later, when word of mouth fertilizes, the single-day box office will soon exceed the first day's box office, and maybe it will reach a cumulative box office of one billion.
You must know that the previous domestic box office record for horror-thriller movies was a movie about the supernatural events of a large family in an old house five or six years ago. It gathered many stars and the final box office was worth 400 million. Since then, horror movies have been released every year.
, but the box office is not high, some are over 100 million, and some are only tens of millions.
In fact, taking into account the development of the film market in recent years, the box office revenue of "The Crying" is one billion, which is still a conservative estimate.
You know, when that movie was released, the box office for the Spring Festival was less than one billion, but now the Spring Festival is heading towards five billion.
This money was divided into Lu Kan's hands. It was a large amount of money, at least enough for him to sleep peacefully for the rest of his life without having to work hard anymore.
However, Lu Tian soon received news from the theater chain.
The theater chain first congratulated Lu on the results of "Crying" and then informed Lu that starting from the next day, Lu's film schedule would increase to about 6%.
"Why only six percent?"
Lu Tan felt a little strange. If he was a theater operator and encountered such a movie with good reputation and high attendance, he would have to arrange it quickly to make money.
Moreover, the duration of "Crying" is only more than 90 minutes, which is within the normal category, and theaters will not reduce the number of screenings because it is too long.
It's very strange.
Lu Tan asked some questions and then got the answer.
Among the movies released around the same time as him around Christmas, there is a light romantic comedy starring many stars, and an idol love drama starring young actors in ancient costumes.
Sandwiched among these movies, Lu Jian's "The Crying" seems out of place.
He took a look and saw that the costume idol movie had the highest box office, with more than 20% of the box office after five days of release. Another star-studded movie also had close to 20%. These two movies took over most of the theaters.
The carrying capacity of the line.
In the middle are some similar sufferers like "The Cry", and the film schedules are all below 10%.
"Is it so powerful?"
Lu Tan searched the Internet for this idol drama. He saw that the actors in this movie were idols from a previous talent show. The rating of this movie has dropped below five points. The reputation is very poor, and the box office is increasing day by day.
It's so low that it's hard to figure out why it can maintain such a high film output.
He immediately called Song Yunyan's secretary Li Zijian and had a chat.
Jiangcheng Industrial has also built commercial plazas in other cities and has its own theater chain. Although it does not account for a large proportion, at least for Lu Jian's sake, it should increase the film schedule of "Crying".
To be honest, Lu Jian doesn't care how much money "The Crying" can make. He has completed the small goal of this movie. However, now Lu Jian needs to establish the world view of the Quiet Place, so the higher the box office of "The Crying", the higher the box office.
The more people who watch it, the greater the impact it will have on his subsequent plans, and the easier it will be to attract attention.
Therefore, we still have to fight for the film arrangement.
"That movie, don't you know, there may be ardent fans who are locked into the movie."
Li Zijian seems to be paying more attention to film and entertainment recently, and he speaks eloquently.
The purpose of locking the movie is to prevent the cinema from canceling the show because no one buys movie tickets. Therefore, only one ticket is purchased. In this way, the movie theater cannot directly cancel the movie and ensures the scheduling rate.
Since current movie reservations can only be booked for more than half a month, fans have been locked in the movie theaters for more than ten days. As a result, although the box office has plummeted, the movie scheduling rate has remained high.
Of course, some cinemas have chosen to directly apologize and refund tickets, but after all, it takes time to react and deal with it, so during this period, the film's schedule is still very high.
"We have to find a way..."
Lu Tan didn't quite understand this kind of real-life business competition. He thought it was easier to face monsters from a foreign land.
"How about opening up a midnight show first, just like during the film festival?"
"That's all we can do. For our own cinema, I will discuss it with Mr. Song and we should be able to increase the number of movies."
Li Zijian replied, and at the end, he mentioned one more thing.
"By the way, that plan of yours feels very powerful. Can you do it by yourself?"
"That being said, it's true that I don't know how to use web pages."
Lu Tan replied.
"...Is it just a problem with the web page?"
Li Zijian is ashamed, can he really finish the other parts in one go?
Even the donkeys in the production team can't do this, right?
"It's okay. If there is any problem, I will definitely trouble you. Don't worry."
Lu Tan added another sentence.
"Then thank you."
Li Zijian twitched the corner of his mouth.
At noon, Lu Jian saw a notification on his mobile phone that "Crying" had added a midnight screening and was specifically showing it between twelve o'clock and five o'clock in the morning.
