Chapter 790: First Week Box Office Breaking Records (4100+ Chapters~)
The classmates next to Jiang Kui looked at Jiang Kui with envy. Although Wu Jianye had just said that he was just a supporting role in his movie and could not be a starring role, but even so, being able to participate in this movie,
It is still the envy of countless people.
Even though Huang Xiaochu has already starred in Chen Kaige's "Walking and Singing"!
They just heard that this movie requires an investment of 100 million!
What does one hundred million represent now?
Although I dare not say that he is already the richest man in China, he is at least one of the top few. Now he is only using it to invest in a movie. Although there was a precedent in "The Last Emperor" before.
But that movie was invested by a Hollywood film company, and the payment was in US dollars, so it didn't sound that domineering.
Now that Wu Jianye directly announced the investment of 100 million, this kind of shock is different from "The Last Emperor".
It's like if someone tells you that there are five million in this card, it will bring the same shock as if they took out five million in cash and put it in front of you.
"Monitor, yes, you have to treat me tomorrow!" shouted other students at Jiang Kui's table.
They are still students in the college, and the desire to compare is not that serious. Now that they know that Jiang Kui can star in a movie directed by Wu Jianye, apart from envy, they are more happy for him.
And Jiang Kui is also the monitor of their acting class.
Jiang Kui showed his signature honest smile at this time and said: "No problem, I will buy a bun for each of you tomorrow!"
"Cut!" Everyone raised their middle fingers.
When Wu Jianye returned to his seat, Jiang Xiu came over. He had just heard that Wu Jianye invited Jiang Kui to star in his movie.
"Director Wu, thank you!" Jiang Xi said seriously.
Jiang Qian and Jiang Kui's relationship has always been very good. Jiang Qian also takes great care of her younger brother. Now that she sees Jiang Kui starring in Wu Jianye's movie, she is very happy for him!
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "I also feel that Jiang Kui is more suitable for the image of a character in my movie. Besides, I have taught him before, and he is a good prospect!"
Jiang Xun smiled and nodded, saying: "This guy is lucky!"
At this time, some other actors were also looking at Wu Jianye, and the burning look in their eyes could not be concealed.
A movie directed by Wu Jianye!
100 million investment!
With these two conditions alone, not to mention domestic films, even Hong Kong and Taiwan films, there is no investment of this scale at this time.
Many close friends also came over to ask about Wu Jianye's new movie, such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Pants and others.
However, Wu Jianye’s answer is that the script of the new movie has not been written yet, so there is no need to ask about the plot. I can only tell everyone that it will be a fairy tale drama!
The banquet ended under such circumstances.
By the time Wu Jianye returned to the courtyard, it was already past twelve o'clock at night.
After a quick wash, Wu Jianye rested.
When he came to Tangting Culture the next day, Huang Jianxin had been waiting here for a long time!
After seeing Wu Jianye, Huang Jianxin immediately showed an excited expression: "Director Wu, last night's box office statistics have been released!"
If it were a domestic distribution company, it would be impossible to know yesterday's box office statistics so quickly, but Fengge Cinema Line is different. When the domestic Fengge Theater Line was first established, a supervision department and a statistics department had already been established.
Although we have not yet entered the era of computer office work, after yesterday's premiere, Fengge Cinemas in various cities used calculators to calculate the box office situation in their respective cities, and reported it to Huang Jianxin over the phone, and then Huang Jianxin
Convene the statistics department at the headquarters to start accounting.
They worked overtime all night last night.
"The box office results for last night have been released. Nearly 200 theaters in 25 cities were all full, and the box office was as high as 1,544,000!"
In other words, Fengge Cinema currently has a total of 193,000 seats in China, a box office of 1,544,000 yuan, and a 100% attendance rate.
Huang Jianxin is naturally very happy to achieve this result!
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "This is because there is a bonus for the prize. How was the prize redemption yesterday? Is there any problem?"
It is almost impossible for any movie to achieve an attendance rate of 100%, but it happened with the movie "The World of Chu Xing".
This is naturally because the prizes are attractive enough!
Huang Jianxin knew that what Wu Jianye was asking was whether anyone was enriching his own pockets and using some operations to take the prizes for himself.
"The general manager of the Shangdu branch did do this, but our supervisors discovered it. At that time, in front of all the audience, his position was canceled and the winning audience was re-drawn at the same time!" Huang Jianxin said
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Regarding this point, Wu Jianye also nodded. This kind of thing is impossible to avoid, but as long as it is discovered, Fengge Cinema will definitely not let it go.
"That's good. If you encounter such black sheep in the future, you will never let them off lightly!"
What Wu Jianye is doing now is to bring those moviegoers who have passed away back to the cinema. Naturally, it is impossible to tolerate the existence of such people.
This is also the reason why the supervision department of Fengge Cinemas had so much power when it was first established.
Huang Jianxin said: "We are pretty good, but the new joint cinema chain established in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai is too much. I heard many people say that their lottery draws are done in secret, and many of the winners are their internal staff or leaders.
Relatives!"
Wu Jianye shook his head helplessly. He had absolute rights over Fengge Cinemas, but he had no choice about those cinemas established by domestic distribution companies. He had previously instructed Standard Chartered Bank to give them loans in the hope that they would
Being able to learn the business methods of Fengge Cinema Line, it seems now that they still cannot give up some bad habits!
"Don't worry about them. Since someone is seeking death, there is nothing we can do!" In the end, Wu Jianye stopped paying attention to their behavior.
This kind of thing is not something that can be solved overnight. Only when the people above can't bear it anymore, is the most correct way for them to take action.
"Make an internal document of what happened in Shangdu and send it to the general manager of each branch, warning them to be prepared to be dealt with even if they want to reach out!"
"Understood!" Huang Jianxin said with a smile: "Then our screening plan will remain unchanged today?"
"Well, go ahead!"
Before the distribution of prizes is completed, all theaters in the domestic Fengge Cinema chain will screen "The World of Chu Xing" around the clock.
This is not a decision made by Wu Jianye deliberately to increase the number of "Chu Xing's World", but if Fengge Cinema does not release "Chu Xing's World" at this time, it will really cause dissatisfaction among movie fans!
One less show of "Chu Xing's World" means one less lottery event for them.
Nowadays, the theaters under the Fengge Cinema Line will show "The World of Chu Xing" seven times a day.
Yesterday, the biggest prize drawn in the Yanjing area was the first prize Tunan mobile phone, which appeared at Fengge Cinema in Haidian District. The winner was an ordinary middle-aged man who went to watch the movie with his wife and children.
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The moment he won the award, the middle-aged man was so excited that he roared several times in the hall.
It is precisely because of this situation that Fengge Cinema's lottery has also attracted a lot of media attention.
Just today, many newspapers and media found Tangting Culture and Fengge Cinema and wanted to interview this matter. Even Wu Jianye received a few calls and several familiar TV stations wanted to get some information.
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However, considering today as a special day, it is impossible for more TV stations to report this news today, but they will still choose to report it tomorrow.
Today, a total of 8 lucky viewers were selected from the four theaters in Yanjing.
But it is a pity that the highest prize drawn by the lucky audience today is a Tunan computer as the third prize.
But even this can't stop the audience's enthusiasm.
On October 2, Huang Jianxin once again reported yesterday’s national box office to Wu Jianye.
10.808 million!
It was still 100% sold out. Although some viewers just bought tickets and did not go to see it, they were still there during the lottery!
This ticket sales situation lasted until the fourth day before it was considered over.
But then there was news from Quancheng that someone had won a special prize and drove away the 149,999 Tesla car on the spot, and the attendance rate in other areas picked up again.
However, the attendance rate at Quancheng is not 100%!
As of Monday, October 5, "The World of Chu Xing" has already achieved a box office record of 41 million yuan nationwide!
This box office record was also informed by Tangting Culture to "Popular Films". When the box office came out, studios and distribution companies across the country, as well as radio, television, China Film and other departments were shocked by this box office!
The investment in the movie "The World of Chu Xing" was just 10 million, and it has already received 41 million in box office. In other words, according to the sharing plan announced by Tangting Culture and Fengge Cinemas, Tangting Culture will take away the 41 million box office.
60% of the total, which means 24.6 million, and Fengge Cinema Line will take away 16.4 million!
Of course, this is only the share on the books, and there are also taxes to be paid to the state, as well as film funds, etc. The real share between Tangting Culture and Fengge Cinema is about 90% of 41 million.
According to this book sharing, Tangting Culture will receive 22.14 million, while Fengge Cinema Line will receive 14.76 million!
And that’s just one week’s box office revenue!
When this number appeared in front of everyone, they were all shocked!
Although according to the sharing agreement, the two parties will not implement the first sharing until three months after the release, but now Tangting Culture has recovered the cost in just one week and earned more than 10 million. With such an investment ratio, everyone
So what if I'm not shocked?
"Xiao Wu, you really suppressed all of us this time!" Aibe personally called Wu Jianye!
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Aibu, I have long said that the film industry is an industry with great potential. As long as there is a steady stream of excellent films and in conjunction with our country's policies, the film industry is fully capable of becoming a
An important economic pillar of our country!"
Aibe smiled bitterly and said: "You don't have to tell me these nice things. There are no domestic film companies and distribution companies that can do what you do!"
Wu Jianye knew that Aibe was talking about the movie viewing lottery.
"Ai Bu, you can't say that. For this movie-watching lottery, our Tangting Culture and Fengge Cinemas have only spent a total of nearly 30 million, but now the movie box office for a week is enough to pay for our expenses.
This amount of funds has been allocated for the first time. I believe that as long as this box office performance continues, the domestic film industry will definitely develop rapidly!" Wu Jianye said.
Ai Bu said: "You don't need to comfort me anymore. I don't need to tell you what those theater companies are doing now, and you already know that their reputations are almost ruined!"
Aibu is talking about the new joint cinema chain established in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, which is a cooperation between several domestic distribution companies.
They actually held a movie-watching lottery, but in a series of subsequent lottery activities, the operations were basically the same. All the prizes were awarded to employees of their own company, or to relatives of the leaders.
Once or twice, ordinary viewers may not notice it.
But if all awards do this, then the audience will really be treated as fools.
Audiences in many areas have now begun to protest this matter, and the commotion is quite large.
Wu Jianye said: "Aibu, there are some things that need to be hammered down. Our Fengge Cinema chain is not without such problems, but as long as one is found, he will be fired immediately. Only in this way can this unhealthy trend be eliminated."
Stop the evil spirit!"
Aibe: "It's not that easy. The law doesn't punish everyone!"
If only one or two regions were doing this, Aibe would naturally be able to show off the chicken to the monkeys. But now that all regions are doing this, Aibe doesn’t know where to do it even if he wants to take action!
"To sound the drum, you have to use a heavy hammer. They also took a fancy to the words "the law does not punish the public!" Wu Jianye said solemnly.
Ai Bu did not tell Wu Jianye how they would deal with it. He just asked Wu Jianye to go to the radio and television station when he had time so that the two of them could have a good talk about the matter.
Wu Jianye naturally had no objection to this!
After the two agreed on a time, they hung up the phone.
Then Liu Jianshe called. He was even more angry than Ai Bu because...
"Those people are really becoming more and more lawless. The underreporting of box office is too serious!" Liu Jianshe said directly.
In any case, domestic distribution companies have more theaters and screens than Fengge Cinema. Even if there was an incident in which prizes were given to their own people in the later period, there are still many people who want to go to them.
Fortunately, the attendance rate this week is still good, but the box office reported to China Film Group has shrunk by half...
This made some leaders of China Film and Television very angry. As for others, it was because they had direct interests...
Naturally, Wu Jianye couldn't say anything about this!
I just comforted Liu Jianshe for a few words and hung up the phone...