In fact, regardless of whether "The Devotion of Suspect X" surpasses "Murder on the Orient Express" at the box office in the end, this movie has already made Zhang Zhong a lot of money.
Because the film cost only tens of millions of Chinese dollars at the time, it has already made a profit now.
Even if the box office is set at 1.69 billion, the net profit this movie brings to Zhang Zhong is more than 500 million Chinese dollars.
This film is wholly owned by Zhang Zhong, so the income is all his.
Now the movie has only been released in one country in China for ten days. When it is released in other countries later, the box office will definitely increase a lot.
Even if the box office is not as good as "The Shining" by then, the money earned by Zhang Zhong will definitely be more than "The Shining".
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"Today is our celebration party for "The Devotion of Suspect X". Teacher Zhang, let me toast you first."
At the dinner table, Lin Song raised his wine glass and said with a happy face.
Today is the twelfth day of the first lunar month. Lin Song, Lin Fei and several other film creatives came to the company to attend a meeting. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Song proposed to wish Zhang Zhong New Year's greetings.
Hearing that they wanted to wish him New Year greetings, Zhang Zhong readily agreed and set up a table in the restaurant.
Because the movie was a hit, Lin Song was in a good mood. If nothing else happens, this movie will become his highest-grossing movie.
When he took over the movie, he knew that the movie would not be bad at the box office, but he didn't know exactly how it would be.
Later, when the movie was bumped up against "Murder on the Orient Express", to be honest, Lin Song was a little uneasy. After all, "Murder on the Orient Express" was significantly better than "The Suspect" in terms of production cost and creative lineup.
"The Devotion of
But what I didn't expect was that not only was the box office not affected, it now seems to be significantly better than expected.
It is basically a certainty that the global box office of this movie will exceed 5 billion Chinese dollars. If the North American box office performs well, it may not be impossible to imagine tens of billions.
Of course, tens of billions is just something you can imagine, and is highly likely to be impossible.
But no matter what, there are not many movies in China that have a box office of billions, and they only appeared in the past few years.
Except for Lin Song, several other actors are also very happy. After all, this movie has earned them reputation and fame.
Especially Zhao Xinyue, she is only sixteen or seventeen years old now, but she already has billions in box office. This is a very good start.
Moreover, Zhao Xinyue has been confirmed to play the protagonist Sophie in "Sophie's World", and the movie will start shooting in the middle of this year.
However, this matter has not been publicized to the outside world yet.
Therefore, Zhao Xinyue was very lucky. She encountered two top scripts, "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "Sophie's World" at the most suitable age.
She also collaborated with movie stars and top directors, which laid a solid foundation for her future growth.
Seeing Lin Song toasting, Lin Fei also stood up with a smile, "I also respect Teacher Zhang Zhong."
They both stood up. It seemed inappropriate for the others to sit down, so they all stood up with their cups in hand.
Zhang Chong said with a smile, "Stop standing still. It puts me under a lot of pressure. When it comes to toasting, I should be the one to toast you. Because of your efforts, "The Devotion of Suspect X" is now possible."
It’s a big hit. I hope we can have the opportunity to cooperate in the future and make Huaxia Films better and better.”
After saying this, Zhang Zhong drank the wine first, and everyone else drank it down as well.
After drinking, everyone started talking about work again.
Lin Song said, "I was chatting with Mr. Xu in the company today. He said that now is not the time to relax. The promotion of the movie still needs to keep up, especially the overseas market. We must try our best to expand. This is consistent with my thoughts.
As for Hehe, I also think we should take advantage of the victory and spread the reputation of the movie overseas. And I am confident that I can do it. Now the movie has been released in North America and will be released in European countries starting tomorrow. What I want is to let Lin Fei run.
A trip to France. He has received the French Order of Knights before and is also popular in France. It would be best for him to promote it."
Lin Fei nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go for a run. My popularity in France is not bad, but I will work hard."
Hearing that they were going to France, Zhang Zhong suddenly thought of something and said, "Well, we can't rely entirely on you for publicity. I will go to France with Lin Fei this time. After all, I have to compete with the French knights."
A medal can be regarded as a bit of fame."
Lin Song was surprised and said, "You want to go too?"
Zhang Chong smiled and said, "Why, is there anything wrong?"
"No, no, there is nothing wrong at all. I believe everyone knows your reputation in France. If you can do publicity work, of course it will be more effective with half the effort, but what I am curious about is that you also have to do this kind of thing yourself.
Huh?" Lin Song said.
Indeed, Zhang Zhong's fame is not as simple as winning a knighthood.
He is the only Asian winner of the Prix Goncourt for Literature in the history, and his book sales in France consistently rank first in the country.
Paris once wanted Zhang Zhong to be their tourism ambassador, not the kind to China, but the kind to the whole world, but Zhang Zhong rejected it at that time.
A few days ago, France released a list of the world's sexiest men. Zhang Zhong ranked second on the list, second only to the famous French football star Antoine. This shows Zhang Zhong's status in the hearts of the French.
This incident was in the news before, with some netizens jokingly saying that Zhang Zhong single-handedly changed the public aesthetics of the French people.
Although in the eyes of Chinese people, Zhang Zhong is a standard handsome guy, in the eyes of French people, Zhang Zhong is a bit too weak.
Now that it was better, they no longer felt that Zhang Zhong was weak and gave their votes to Zhang Zhong one after another.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Zhong went to France to do publicity. He didn't have to do anything. He just showed his face and showed off.
But what is strange to Lin Song is that with Zhang Zhong's current status, does he still need to go out to promote a movie?
And he doesn't make a living from movies.
Facing the doubts of Lin Song and others, Zhang Zhong smiled and explained, "I just want to visit France recently."
Lin Song and the others suddenly realized that they wanted to travel.
However, what they didn't know was that Zhang Zhong went there not for tourism at all, but because he had something to do.
He almost forgot about it at first, but it was only when Lin Song and the others suddenly mentioned France that he remembered it.
He had promised others before that he would definitely go there if he had time, but now he is indeed not too busy.