Qin Xiaobao picked up the phone tremblingly, and could even hear Xiang Yang swallowing behind him. The two of them were in exactly the same mood, that is, they were nervous.
Damn it, Liu Minghua didn't say anything about the results, he just gave a routine notice.
"I saw it!" Xiaobao said.
"Well, look!" Xiang Yang nodded repeatedly.
Click on the file, there are only four data:
"Blooming Heart"-12.37 million,
"Liu Laosan Next Door" - 590,000,
"Early Summer"--4.53 million,
"This Man is from Earth"--20.86 million.
Qin Xiaobao rubbed his eyes and counted. It was indeed eight digits. Look at the first number again. It was very 2, 2.
Damn it, he and Xiang Yang looked at each other.
"You really made me talk."
"Really!" Xiang Yang also forgot what Qin Xiaobao said about him just now. First his shoulders twitched, his eyes widened, and his eyebrows rose. Then he couldn't control himself: "Hahahahahaha!"
"Twenty million. The premiere exceeded 20 million. How much is Xu Zheng's? One thousand and two? It's almost twice as much! Xiaobao, we succeeded!"
The two grown men didn't feel disgusted, so they held hands and started spinning around.
Kiwi's expectation was 14 million, and theaters estimated 11 million. Now it has obviously exceeded expectations.
Sure enough, the effect of the golden lineup is extraordinary.
After dancing around for a long time, the two finished the remaining half of the bottle of wine, picked up their mobile phones and started calling to announce the good news.
Qin Xiaobao naturally called his brother immediately, and they were on the phone several times in a row. It is estimated that both of them knew the news.
It was Wang Bingbing who called first.
The young lady was very excited: "Brother Xiaobao, brother Xiaobao, the midnight show exceeded 20 million."
"I already know, why aren't you sleeping yet?" Qin Xiaobao knew that she was not as relaxed as he was today.
"I've been waiting for the data. If I don't see it, I won't be relieved."
"Hahaha, I'm interested."
"Brother Xiaobao, where are you now?"
"At home, I'm with Xiangyang."
"Oh, I wanted to say..."
Beep beep beep, Qin Xiaobao took it away and looked at it: "Ms. Wang, what, my brother called, let's not talk about it for now!"
"Hey...well..."
"congratulations!"
"Same joy, dear Director Qin, 20 million, are you still satisfied?" The brother's side was in a mess, and the voices of Brother Hua and others could be vaguely heard.
"Satisfied, definitely satisfied." Qin Xiaobao couldn't help smiling: "I feel like the fat director is right."
"It's estimated to be more than 50 million." My brother was also laughing: "I can expect more than 100 million."
"The more, the merrier," Qin Xiaobao said in a Hong Kong and Taiwanese accent, "I can finally have a good night's sleep."
"Well, go to bed early and stop calling other people's phone calls. We are all together."
My brother just finished speaking, and there was a lot of chatter over there. I couldn’t understand what was said. Is the meaning very clear? I’m happy.
Hang up the phone? Sit on the chair? Only then did Qin Xiaobao realize? His right hand was trembling slightly.
"Xiaobao? We're about to go crazy!" Xiang Yang punched the air.
"Not necessarily!" Qin Xiaobao gradually calmed down: "Midnight show? It just means that the audience is giving face, but what exactly? We have to wait and see tomorrow."
"No problem!" Xiangyang picked up a bottle of wine: "How about another one?"
"Forget it!" Qin Xiaobao wanted to drink: "We have a trip tomorrow? If you drink too much, you will be in trouble."
"Yes, okay? I won't disturb your rest? See you tomorrow."
"Well, stop driving and take a taxi back."
"knew."
...
In a hotel in Beijing, Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, and several men and women were also having a meeting.
"Twelve million? It's less than expected!" said a man with gold-rimmed glasses, taking a puff of cigarette.
"Within a reasonable range, Wanda, Dadi, and the three larger theater chains, the film schedule of "The Man from Earth" is higher than ours."
"There is nothing I can do about it. Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Sun Li...any one of them comes out, and the box office is guaranteed."
"Who knows!" Ning Hao rubbed his temples: "Our movie has been prepared for three months. It was filmed last year and this year. It has been scheduled for a long time. He came out of nowhere and was not prepared at all."
"Yeah, it took twenty days of filming and one month of post-production. Who would have thought that it would be a science fiction film." Someone swore: "I thought it would be released next year."
"Then Qin Xiaobao is not honest. When he participated in the show, he also said that he would do it next year, but he ended up competing with us."
"I now suspect that the temporary schedule adjustment of Lao Chen's movie is because I received the news in advance."
"We are really too late, so we can only go head-to-head. The difference is only eight million, which is acceptable." Xu Zheng was open-minded: "Hey, which of you watched the premiere?"
Two people raised their hands.
"How is it?" Ning Hao also raised his head.
The two looked at each other.
"Tell it like it is!"
"The hall I was in, there were three hundred people, the attendance rate was about fifty, the movie..." One of them hesitated for a few seconds: "It's very interesting, completely different from traditional science fiction movies, the investment of eight million should be justified.
."
"Tell me carefully." Ning Hao and others became interested.
"Probably a group of highly educated professors, covering humanities, history, religion, etc., went to see off an old friend. The identity of this old friend is the focus of the movie. He lived for 14,000 years."
"Huh???" Everyone didn't quite understand.
"So he has superpowers?"
"Still have special powers?"
"Still indestructible?"
"No, not at all. Qin Xiaobao is indeed a genius. There are no superpowers or high-tech elements in the whole movie. It's just dialogue. There are all kinds of foreshadowings, all kinds of high-energy, and a lot of professional knowledge. I can't understand it, but I feel
It's very interesting. I watched it again and didn't realize how powerful it was. And when the secret was revealed at the end, I realized that a certain line of dialogue or a certain object in the front might be foreshadowing.
and..."
"And what?"
"And I suspect that Qin Xiaobao deliberately set up too much information that is easy for people to ignore, but is very important, because I myself have the idea of second brushing and feel that too many things have been missed, and I am always thinking about it."
The other one didn’t say anything about the plot, but just said: “After watching it, the audience applauded.”
Ah...
This is awesome.
If it were at a premiere, it wouldn't be strange for the audience to applaud, but my colleagues just went to a random movie theater.
Today's audiences are no longer easy to fool. It doesn't mean that if you just make a movie, you will support it.
If you don't look good, it's normal to spray you with bloody spray.
In the same way, if your photos look good, they will spare no effort to help promote them.
"It seems that we have met a strong enemy."
"There is no other way. Being able to win a prize shows that Qin Xiaobao is still capable. How about we take some time tomorrow to take a look and learn?"
"Okay, let's see if there is such a big difference."
(Thanks to the two bosses Erma Leading and Huizi for their rewards)