Chapter 160

The first-day box office of "White Snake" was as high as 560,000.

This is not the first-day box office in the whole country, but the first-day box office in Beijing.

When Director Yu heard the box office results, he excitedly waved his fist in the air.

The Internet today is not as developed as it will be in the future, the speed of information communication is not as fast as it will be in the future, and the national box office statistics are not as fast as they will be in the future. At present, all he can know is the first-day box office in Beijing.

This box office was a complete flop 20 or 30 years later, but in this era, it was already a very high box office.

It is now January 1998.

At present, the box office of "Party A and Party B" is over 20 million, which is already a blockbuster movie with a very high return rate. The box office contributed by Beijing accounts for one-third of the national box office.

If calculated based on the box office of "Party A and Party B", the first-day box office of "White Snake" was approximately 1.5 million.

Many people have no idea about this number. Let's take "Party A and Party B" as an example. The current box office of this movie is about 21 million. It has been released for 27 days, and the average daily box office is about 900,000.

The box office of "White Snake" in Beijing alone on the first day was 560,000.

The total investment of this movie is seven million. If the box office can be maintained at this level in the next week, then their investment in this movie can be recovered in just one week, and the subsequent box office will be the profit of their movie.

Compared to the 28,000 yuan they paid for the copyright of "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality", this profit can be said to be huge.

Of course, the first-day box office of "White Snake" was so high because it was released during the winter vacation, which is the time of the year when traffic is the best and the number of moviegoers is the highest. In addition, the publicity of "White Snake" was good, so almost all the people who watched the movie yesterday were divided between "Party A and B" and "White Snake".

"Party A and Party B" was released a month in advance. At that time, students were in the final semester and were facing the most stressful exams. Who would watch a movie at that time? At this point it had been released for 27 days, and the audiences who should have seen it had basically already seen it. The only ones who hadn't seen it were some students who had just started their winter break.

However, more than 70% of these students chose "White Snake", which is currently the most discussed and hottest drama online and stars a combination of handsome men and beautiful women and has a very good reputation on the Internet. With the previous masterpiece "Green Snake" and the TV series "Legend of the New White Snake" as a foundation, the audience is much more interested in the theme of "White Snake" itself than the theme of "Party A and B".

The rest, on the one hand, are because the word-of-mouth of the movie "Party A and Party B" has fermented, and there are audiences willing to pay for it. Another part is not the readers of "White Snake Cultivation" or the fans of Ningmeng, but the readers and fans of the creator of "Party A and Party B", who support this great author.

There is also a part of them who just have a rebellious mentality. If you all go to see "White Snake", then I will go to see "Party A and B".

But no matter what, the opening of "White Snake" was a huge success, overshadowing all the other movies of the same period except "Party A and Party B".

When the film's investors heard the good news, they called Director Yu and asked him to go out for a drink to celebrate. However, Director Yu was afraid that the film would start off strong but end weak, so he kept an eye on the box office performance of "White Snake" and rejected the idea of ​​celebrating right away. The investors were not angry, but instead increased their publicity and promotion efforts.

"Wuxia" magazine and the publishing house worked so hard to promote the movie "White Snake". Of course, they were not just doing good things. They also received publicity fees, but they just happened to promote their own magazines and books, so the GG fees were slightly less. After all, it is a win-win situation for all parties.

The publishing house naturally took advantage of the movie's release to frantically promote the physical book "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality". Hundreds of thousands of new collector's editions have already been stocked in major bookstores across the country, just waiting for the movie to be released.

The publishing house also sent 50,000 beautifully crafted bookmarks to Jiang Ning for him to sign. These 50,000 bookmarks were not prepared for a single book, but for three books: "The Great Song Dynasty", "White Snake" and "Jinyiwei". The signed book of "White Snake" is enough for now, and the books most in need now are "The Great Song Dynasty" and "Jinyiwei".

The sales volume of "Da Song" is nearly 10 million, but there were only 5,000 signed copies at the beginning. The readers who bought these 5,000 signed books were going crazy on the Internet. Countless readers of "Da Song" cried out that it was unfair. Giving so many signed copies of "White Snake" was too shameless for "Da Song"!

They not only asked the publishing house to publish a collector's edition signed copy of "The Great Song Dynasty", but also to hold a signing event.

They also saw discussions among readers of "White Snake" on the Internet, saying that Ning Meng is a beautiful woman or a handsome man. Who doesn't like to look at beautiful women or handsome men?

Jiang Ning hadn't even returned home from Beijing when she received such bad news, but what could she do? It was written in the contract that for every tens of thousands of copies published, the author had to provide the publishing house with a certain number of signed copies. She had never imagined that her book would be so popular. You know, in her previous life, the sales of her published books were only 200,000 or 300,000, which was already a bestseller.

Who has made it so that physical books in this era have not yet been replaced by e-books? Now the entire market is dominated by physical books.

Jiang Ning spent several days quickly signing all the bookmarks, then quickly sent them to the publishing house and took Song Peifeng to flee the capital.

Now, a week has passed, and the first week box office of "White Snake" has also been counted. The weekly box office is as high as more than 8 million, directly suppressing the box office of "Party A and Party B" and becoming the box office champion in the first week of the winter vacation.

No one expected that the box office of "White Snake" would be so strong.

They thought that the box office of "Party A and Party B" was already the highest of the year, but they didn't expect that "White Snake" was even more powerful and earned back all the investment money in just one week.

This year's winter vacation is a total of twenty-one days, and this is only the first week. If the daily box office of "White Snake" can be maintained between 800,000 and 1 million in the next two weeks, then the final box office of "White Snake" is likely to exceed 30 million!

Thirty million for a movie!

Although there have been movies that have broken 30 million, but for an investment like "White Snake", if this movie breaks 30 million, it can really be said to be a huge profit.

And this is their most conservative estimate at the moment.

Generally speaking, the box office will be higher in the first week of release. If the word of mouth about the movie is not good, it will gradually drop afterwards. But if the word of mouth is good, it will continue to rise in the next two weeks.

This was the case with the box office of "White Snake". By the second week, countless young men and women who had returned from working in the cities had returned to the villages and towns below.

Although it is a village, there are cinemas in the town. The end of the year is the peak period for young men and women to go on blind dates, get engaged, and get married. After the blind date, young men and women choose to date in discos, dance halls, ice rinks, and cinemas.

People who are not particularly fashionable will not choose to take their blind dates or engaged partners to discotheques or dance halls. Most of these people will go to the cinema to watch a movie with young girls.

The overall tone of the movie "Party A and Party B" is somewhat dark, and what is shown in the pictorial are the faces of Ge Daye, Ying Da and other leading actors, which are funny but not good-looking.

Before watching the movie, these young men and women, just from looking at the posters, were willing to choose the combination of handsome men and beautiful women and the fairy-like "White Snake", so they all went into the "White Snake" theater.

While watching the movie, the young couples were laughing so hard that they were bent over with laughter. The staff outside the theater could hear the hahahaha laughter coming from inside from time to time.

When the audience saw that the White Snake, who was afraid to take risks in order to save people, was almost beaten to death by Fahai, they were gnashing their teeth at Fahai and crying at the death of Mingyue, who was so handsome that people couldn't bear to blink. In the end, the whole play reached its climax. Just when Fahai thought that he had finally subdued the snake demon and that he was the true man in the world, a merit from heaven was bestowed on the White Snake, and all the previous injuries on the White Snake were healed.

Previously, the audience had discovered that two small horns seemed to have grown on both sides of the white snake's forehead. Many young men and women working in the factory who had not seen "White Snake Cultivation" did not know what was going on at the time. Now, they saw these two cute white horns stretching outward, and four limbs and five claws slowly growing in front of her body. Then the white snake flew up to the sky, and a clear dragon roar spread throughout the world.

Fahai couldn't stand the dragon's might and spat out a mouthful of blood. He looked at the white dragon in the sky with lightning flashing all over its body and overwhelming power in horror, muttering, "God has bestowed merit on the white snake and it has transformed into a dragon! Even the way of heaven has recognized the white snake. Could it be... that I am really wrong?"

Humans and demons have different paths and cannot coexist. He has subdued countless demons in his life, but has no merit. However, the way of heaven has bestowed merit on the snake demon, helping her to shed her demon body and transform into a white dragon. This makes his life seem like a joke. How embarrassing is it?

Here, the director also used the most advanced special effects technology at the moment, which cost three thousand dollars. A circle of crackling white lightning surrounded the white dragon that was roaring into the sky.

Between the vast heaven and earth, dark clouds filled the sky, and lightning and thunder roared.

Audiences who have watched "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" immediately knew that this was a thunder tribulation! Ascension thunder tribulation!

But those who have not read the book "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" think that the special effects of this movie are amazing.

After a series of crackling special effects thunder, the white snake shed its snake body and transformed into a dragon, looking up and down between heaven and earth. It leaped into the surging flood and sorted out the water veins of the world.

After completely sorting out the water veins in the world, the little white dragon transformed into the image of a dragon girl, so ethereal that the audience couldn't wait to blink.

The dragon girl said goodbye to her friends, and the funny male snake came to the dragon girl with twists and turns. The snake was reluctant to let her go and pulled her sleeve and acted coquettishly.

The audience laughed again.

In this relaxed atmosphere, the guiding light from the sky shone down, and the Dragon Girl slowly ascended to the upper world amid the awe-filled gazes of the crowd.

The audience seemed to be ascending into heaven with the White Snake, feeling refreshed from head to toe, with even the top of their heads feeling tingling.

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