Chapter 418 Mr. Meng is really serious, I'm crying!
"Boss, the last show is all arranged."
Hua Yan walked quickly to Meng Bai in the last row of the theater, greeted Li Qin on the side, and then reported in a low voice.
"Okay, I got it."
Meng Bai nodded and waited for a while. Seeing Hua Yan still staying beside him, he asked in confusion: "Why, are you going to stay here with us too?"
"Ah, no, no." Hua Yan waved her hand hurriedly, "I want to say that there is something in the company that requires me to go back, so I won't watch this movie today."
"Huahua, don't you stay and watch it together?" Li Qin's somewhat muffled voice came from behind the wide mask.
Hua Yan glanced at her boss carefully and forced a smile on her face: "No, Sister Qinqin, you guys just watch it. In fact, I'm not very interested in Marvel."
Haha, anyone who has watched the same movie three times in a row should not think about watching it for the fourth time in a short period of time.
Really, it is obviously the cause and effect of her "scumbag" boss, why do I have to bear it together!
Of course, she only dared to complain about this in her heart. Seeing her boss looking over, she still showed a flattering smile.
Perhaps moved by her pitiful expression, Meng Bai finally said: "Okay, since the company has something to do, you can go back first. As for this missed show, I will arrange a few days of vacation for you later."
Hearing that there was vacation compensation, Hua Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, and her complaints against Meng Bai disappeared instantly: "Thank you, boss! Then I'm going back. Goodbye, Sister Qinqin."
"Goodbye, Huahua."
Looking at Hua Yan's back as she left happily, Li Qin couldn't help but say: "Don't you usually give Huahua a vacation? Why does she look so happy?"
"Normal, who would complain about having too many vacations." Meng Bai said casually.
He naturally knew what was going on. In the past three days, he had accompanied Li Yitong and others to watch "Avengers 4" three times. As his "number one lackey", Hua Yan took on the important task of helping him to check for omissions at any time, and naturally watched the same movie three times.
Fortunately, Meng Bai had a change of heart today and finally didn't let her watch it for the fourth time.
In fact, it was mainly because today was the last show, and it would be the same with or without her.
"Forget it, don't worry about Huahua." Meng Bai changed the subject and looked at Li Qin on the side: "There are no outsiders here, isn't it hot to wear a mask? Or take it off."
Li Qin looked at the empty seats in the first few rows and the full seats of Arc Light Film and Television employees in front, and took off her mask while smiling and said: "I'm glad you can come up with such a way to book the whole theater." Meng
Bai spread his hands: "It's just watching a movie, it's not expensive, just treat it as a team building."
As a popular actor, it is actually quite inconvenient to go out to watch a movie. It is easy to be discovered if you buy a passerby's theater. Two people booking a theater alone is both eye-catching and a bit stupid and rich, so Meng Bai waved his hand and booked the theater to invite Arc Light employees to watch together.
In this way, he and a few girls can hide in the crowd and are not so conspicuous to the outside world.
All employees who signed up to participate were divided into four shows according to their business groups, one batch per day. As for why their boss is at every show...
the explanation given by Arc Light's leadership is that President Meng expressed that he would value every employee in all departments and treat them equally. Since it is a company team-building event, he will accompany everyone to every show.
In order to express his sincerity to the employees, he can actually watch a movie four times.
Arc Light employee: President Meng is really serious, I am crying!
Since she knew that the theater was full of Arc Light staff, Li Qin naturally did not need to be so careful. She took off the mask and hat that could cover most of her face, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
Since she became famous, she really rarely had the opportunity to watch movies so openly in the cinema.
After taking off her coat and putting it on the empty seat on the side, Li Qin stood up and saw Meng Bai staring at her.
"What are you looking at?"
"It feels like you've lost a little weight." Meng Bai raised his hand and pinched her thin shoulders, "There's no fat at all."
"Really! Is it obvious?" Li Qin was instantly happy when she heard that, "Huh, I said that the training in the crew was so hard, how could you not lose weight at all."
After that, she looked at Meng Bai's frown again: "Why, don't you look good after losing weight?"
"It looks good..." Meng Bai grabbed her white and tender little palm and laughed softly: "But it's not as comfortable to hug as a chubby one."
"Tsk, who wants you to hug me!"
Li Qin turned her head and replied proudly, but then she pretended to look at her thin arms and palms casually - well, it seems that she is indeed a little too thin, it seems that she should take advantage of this rest time to eat more.
Of course, this is to have physical strength so that she can better shoot the next drama later, not for some people to be comfortable to hug!
The opening time has not yet arrived, and advertisements and trailers of other movies are being played on the big screen in rotation. Li Qin gently leaned on Meng Bai's shoulder, looked up and asked, "Will "The Silent Truth" start filming next month?"
"Yes, it is scheduled to start filming in early May. What's the matter?"
"Nothing, I just suddenly remembered that Yi Xin's wedding is scheduled for June, and I'm afraid we won't be able to finish filming by then."
"It's okay, just take a few days off." Meng Bai said, "You are the boss's wife, is there anyone who dares not to let you take a leave?"
Hearing the word "boss's wife", Li Qin's face was first happy and then embarrassed: "Don't say it, I've been so embarrassed in the crew of "Assassination of Novelist" these few months."
"What? Is there anyone who is bullying you?"
"No, no, Director Lu Yang and the others are very polite."
"Isn't it good to be polite to you?"
"The key is that they are too polite. Every time I finish filming my part, they ask me to go over to see how this shot is shot." Li Qin smiled bitterly and said, "I haven't studied directing, how can I tell how that shot is, I can only say it's pretty good every time."
"Haha, this can't be blamed on Director Lu. It's mainly because he was scared by some big-name actors when he was filming other movies before." Meng Bai smiled and said, "But it will only be like this in the beginning. After filming for a while, he should know that our teacher Li is very professional."
After that, he joked, "Director Lu is so polite. I will definitely reward him later."
Li Qin rolled his eyes at him, "Do you really think you are the emperor? Do you want me to find seventy-two courtyards of concubines for you?"
"Oh, seventy-two are too many. Three palaces and six courtyards are enough."
"You really chose her, didn't you!"
Li Qin sat up in a rage, then raised her hand and wanted to pinch his arm and pinch it hard. Unfortunately, Meng Bai was well prepared and tightened the muscles on her arm, so her little hand couldn't pinch it at all. After trying for a long time, her fingers were sore instead.
"You are not allowed to tighten your arms." Li Qin shouted angrily.
"No girl, why don't you allow the victim to resist as an abuser?" Meng Bai retorted.
However, seeing the girl puffing her mouth in dissatisfaction, he held her little hand and helped her knead her fingers, whispering: "Okay, at worst, I will let you bully me when I go back at night."
"Bah, it's obviously you who bullies me every time!"
Li Qin replied with a blushing face, but feeling the warmth wrapped in Meng Bai's broad palm, she slowly calmed down and leaned on him again.
After laughing for a while, the movie finally started, and Li Qin also quieted down. But she was really not very interested in Marvel, and she hadn't watched many of the previous single-player movies, and she didn't recognize many of the characters.
The reason why she wanted to watch it was simply because she had heard Meng Bai mention this series before, and she also heard that this was the "last one", so she wanted to accompany him for a sense of ritual.
So now she was also watching the screen intermittently, and most of her energy was still on the man next to her. Seeing him staring at the screen intently, she couldn't help but feel a sense of happiness.
Well, I am such a good girlfriend!
Alas, purple potato spirit, we meet again. Meng Bai looked at Thanos on the screen with empty eyes. This was the fourth time he had seen this "ecologist" in the past few days.
When he watched the first show with Li Yitong, he was indeed very interested in the movie. Although Marvel's plot has been the same over the years, and you can guess how it will develop in the future, it does not affect everyone's cheering for "On your left" and being excited for Captain America's silky little combo.
But when he watched it for the second time, Meng Bai couldn't watch it anymore. After one show, most of his energy was spent thinking about the movie's visual effects, scene layout, etc.
By the third time, he had completely lost interest in the plot. I started to think about how to maintain the development of MCU after the first stage if I were the head of Marvel.
Today, for the fourth time, the only thing I can think about is how much box office "Avengers 4" can get in China, and whether it will surpass the runner-up position of "The Wandering Earth".
In fact, judging from the current data, it is not without a chance. As the final work of "Ten Years of Marvel", the pre-sale box office of "Avengers 4" is as high as 400 million. The number of viewers at the midnight show was more than 3 million, and the total box office on the first day of release exceeded 500 million, and the popularity did not decrease in the following days.
To be honest, being able to get such a result in a non-popular period is enough to prove Marvel's terrifying ability to attract money.
However, this is the disadvantage of this movie. Although it can get a May Day period next, it is definitely less popular than the Spring Festival period. Moreover, as an imported film, it cannot get a key extension, and the release time is only one month.
From this point of view, it is still difficult to surpass the 5 billion box office of "The Wandering Earth".
After three hours of hard work in the theater, Meng Bai finally ended this cycle of travel when he heard Tony Stark shout "I am Iron Man" again.
To be honest, at a certain moment, he even doubted whether he had obtained the Eye of Agamotto.
If he could really go back in time, he would definitely express his hatred for Marvel to everyone from the beginning, and make it clear that he would never contribute a penny to the box office of such Hollywood movies.
"Alas, reincarnation, cycle, it is quite suitable as a film and television creative idea..." Meng Bai muttered in his heart.
Not to mention, there are really a few stories similar to this theme in the fragments of inspiration in his mind.
But now is not the time to think about these. Finally, when the movie ended, Meng Bai and Li Qin, who had put on protective gear again, walked out of the theater.
Back to the courtyard villa, the two ordered takeout by the way, and Meng Bai finally recovered his spirits after eating.
"Teacher Li." He said with a smile: "Next, are we going to do something that everyone likes to see and hear?"
"It's not dark yet." Li Qin pretended to be reserved and declined.
Meng Bai stood up and pressed the control panel on the wall. The curtains in the villa slowly closed and the room darkened instantly.
"It's getting dark now."
He said as he walked to Li Qin's side.
"Wait, I just finished eating. I can't do strenuous activities."
"Just those two bites of yours, can they be considered as eating?" Meng Bai said, "It doesn't matter, take your time, there is still a long time today."
"... Yeah."
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As Meng Bai expected, this year's May Day file, "Avengers 4" almost crushed more than 75% of the box office in the film market. Almost all the movies in the same period became cannon fodder.
The reason why I say "almost" is that there are two movies that survived in the cracks under the huge body of "Avengers 4". One is "Capernaum", which has been well-received overseas, and the other is "The Next: The Ex".
The former has won the Cannes Jury Award and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Many audiences have heard of it a long time ago, and now it has finally been introduced to China.
The latter is a love movie that takes advantage of the popularity of the "Ex-Boyfriend series". The producer also took advantage of the popularity of "Avengers 4" to bet on the audience's demand. Although the movie itself is quite bad, the box office performance is not bad.
As for the rest of the movies, they were basically wiped out.
Many film reports and big V bloggers have said that this year's "May Day" is the most tragic one, and the domestic market is basically contracted by two imported films.
Of course, some people refute that it is because many film and television companies know that they may collide with "Avengers 4", so they chose to change to the summer season. After all, everyone knows that this Marvel movie will inevitably become a big hit, and there is no need to force it.
Just when the Internet was arguing about the performance of domestic films in the May Day period, another piece of news diverted some attention.
"The Wandering Earth", which has won the second place in the domestic film box office since its release during the Spring Festival, has finally been released after three months.
The final box office performance of the movie was fixed at 5.048 billion.
In fact, after the box office exceeded 5 billion, the box office potential of "The Wandering Earth" has basically been exhausted. Although there is still a month of release period, the single-day box office is declining rapidly every day, and the total box office has only increased by 40 million, which has not exceeded "Wolf Warrior 2".
But in fact, such a result is enough to amaze everyone. After all, a few months ago, no one dared to believe that a domestic science fiction movie could reach this level.
For the open market, the biggest beneficiary is naturally director Guo Fan. This director, who had only made a youth film before, has become the top science fiction director in China.
Then there is Wu Jing, who successfully surpassed Shen Teng and Huang Bo and became the highest-grossing Chinese-language film actor with the big hit of "The Wandering Earth".
There are also leading actors such as Zhao Jinmai and Qu Chuxiao, who can also be said to have become famous overnight. A few days ago, he was still a little-known actor, but in a blink of an eye, he has become a new star in the film industry with a box office of over 5 billion.
But if we really talk about the biggest beneficiaries of this movie, it is actually the behind-the-scenes producers such as China Film and Arclight.
(End of this chapter)
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