Compared with the previous months, the box office battle in April lacked a bit of gunpowder.
Everyone's expectations and expectations for the box office are not very high.
The box office of the first show was also quite different...
Although "You and My Future" only earned 9 million yuan in its first release, it still surpassed the second place "The Stray Pigs" by 7 million yuan. The 2 million yuan in its first release of "The Stray Pigs" directly surpassed the 1 million yuan of "The Alien"...
There is no harm without comparison. In a sense, "Youth in the Future" is far ahead of others and ranks first in the box office list, while no other domestic films can compete with it.
If nothing unexpected happens, this will be another ending where a Hollywood movie beats a Chinese movie.
There's really no way to change it.
The total investment of "Stray Pigs" was over 10 million yuan, and the box office of 2 million yuan at the premiere was actually acceptable. Basically, as long as there are no major problems, this movie will have no problem breaking even at the box office, and if you're lucky, you can even make a small profit...
The third place, "The Alien", had a terrible box office, only one million, but compared to its five million investment, it's actually not bad. At least according to this trend, this movie can still make money.
As for the other art films with box office revenue below one million, they are really disappointing.
The box office performance of the first release did not even break one million, and the word of mouth was very average, so what do you want to do next?
As long as you don’t lose money to the point of ruining your family, you should be thankful. How can you still expect to make money?
What a joke, making money is like pie in the sky, okay...
Hollywood was actually very dissatisfied with the premiere performance of "Your Future Self" in China. In their impression, the box office performance on the first day of the premiere should have exceeded 15 million, right?
But your first day box office was only 9 million...
Nine million...
This was really beyond their expectations. Director Thomson thought that China might not have done enough in terms of publicity or something, so he made a special call to Tianyu.
The person in charge of Tianyu felt a little aggrieved.
In fact, "Youth in the Future" has done a very good job in publicity. In the past two months, major variety shows, forums, and many film and television portals have had special promotional topics for "Youth in the Future" by Tianyu. At the same time, major stars also assisted in the premiere of "Youth in the Future", which has generated enough popularity. In addition, major theaters are also working hard to promote "Youth in the Future", so the resources have been completely sufficient.
But……
But the hot topic of this headline never makes it to the top.
No matter how they create topics or gossips, they can’t make the headlines. At most, they can only occasionally appear on the front page and then be pushed down...
This is a sad story.
The headlines are something that sometimes really depends on luck. Some bastards can easily make the headlines, while some people work diligently and conscientiously to create topics and follow various hot topics but still can’t make the headlines...
Who can you tell about this grievance?
After waiting for so long until March 31st, when "You and My Future" was about to be released, the publicity department of Tianyu even specially came up with a series of preferential policies and activities, preparing to make the box office of "You and My Future" explode at the premiere...
Then……
Some shameless bastard suddenly appeared on Weibo and announced that his movie will no longer be released on April 1st but will be released on April 5th.
While this bastard received a lot of criticism, he also attracted the attention of fans of "Your Future Self".
Do you think this is the end?
No!
It seems like God is blessing this bastard...
In the early morning of April 1, when Tianyu was preparing to announce the free ticket discount for "Your Future" on its official Weibo and website, a mysterious person suddenly appeared and exposed the shameless behavior of that bastard again in an instant...
Tianyu really wanted to block that bastard. They really didn't want to see any news about this bastard anymore. However, after seeing the passionate curses from netizens and fans, Tianyu found that no matter how they promoted it, they couldn't attract anyone. Even the free tickets couldn't attract the attention of a few fans, let alone create any new topics.
Where did the heat go?
It's all on that disgusting guy!
Everybody is scolding that guy!
That bastard took away most of the criticism in the entertainment industry and also took away the traffic as well.
It's so similar to the plot from the previous two days.
They are so angry!
They really had never seen such a coquettish person. This coquettishness had penetrated deep into their bones, and the people in charge of Tianyu were completely unable to resist...
They watched helplessly as that bastard was forced by netizens to hold various half-price activities.
The bastard's behavior was extremely astonishing. He actually bargained with them, acting like he had gotten a good deal, as if I had suffered a great loss.
This aggrieved look makes people want to slap him.
Don’t you have any idea?
Can you please stop pretending to be pitiful?
The point is, these netizens thought they had made a fortune, and they were posting on Weibo everywhere to show off how awesome they were...
So, on April 1st, the headlines were full of news about "This Man From Earth", while their "Future You" had no popularity at all...
What’s even more infuriating is that this “This Man From Earth” was promoted spontaneously by netizens.
In a sense, this film "This Man From Earth" didn't cost much money on publicity, while my publicity expenses have already reached a million in the past two days...
Oh my god!
This is also propaganda, but why is the gap between the two so big?
Faced with Thomson's questioning, they had no choice but to pass today's hot news headlines to Thomson.
When Thomson saw the Chinese youth above his head, he felt familiar for a moment, but he couldn't remember who he was.
After hesitating for a long time, Thomson took a deep breath.
Really familiar.
"No, this Chinese man, could it be..."
Thomson suddenly turned on his computer and clicked on the Goya Awards ceremony video. After watching it, Thomson's pupils shrank and he subconsciously shuddered!
This man was the one who had won four consecutive Spanish Goya Awards and scared him.
Seeing the Chinese people gnashing their teeth to describe this man's attitude...
This man seems to have caused some serious trouble in the headlines of the Chinese entertainment industry?
…
The weather in April is gradually getting hotter.
It is no longer the cheerful March.
The bargaining on Weibo made Lu Yuan feel like a failure.
Failure naturally brings some frustration. Lu Yuan always feels that he will fall into an unlucky state in April.
But today is not my zodiac year, right?
Is it good that my zodiac year will be next year?
He originally wanted to think of something happy, like he would soon be the man who owned two buildings, and he would soon be a very impressive figure in Hangzhou...
But when he thought about the fact that he was about to become a pauper from a wealthy man with hundreds of millions, and even had a high probability of becoming a negative asset, he felt a little upset.
Other time travelers can fuck up the world in a year, punching the richest man and kicking the big guys in the circle, but I...
Why is my life so miserable?
Lu Yuan thought a lot, and finally suppressed his slight speechlessness and started to devote himself to his work.
He went to film during the day as usual, and at night, when he finished filming, he came to the office to write his book "The Legend of Sun Wukong" and remember those damn English words.
If Lu Yuan didn't want to restore those English songs in his memory, he really didn't want to learn English.
Learning English is really painful.
But he managed to survive. After several months of hard work, he finally restored the song "As Long As You Love Me"...
Just one song?
What's wrong with a song? This is an English song! It's already quite impressive for Lu Yuan, okay?
As for the other songs...
Well, Lu Yuan can only sing, but it is still a long way to go to restore dictation...
At least you should learn English well first, right?
After learning English and writing a few hundred words of "The Legend of Sun Wukong", it was basically ten o'clock. At ten o'clock, Lu Yuan would call Wang Jinxue.
The content of the call was very simple. Basically, Lu Yuan told Wang Jinxue about the company's situation, and Wang Jinxue told Lu Yuan about the situation in Hangzhou and the progress of the work. As for the rest...
Well, that's all the others.
After finishing his phone call with Wang Jinxue, Lu Yuan would log into "Magic World" and play a few rounds, but he basically wouldn't stay up all night like before.
He found that he was gradually losing interest in the game...
Two more days passed like this and nothing unexpected happened.
On April 4, all revisions to "This Man From Earth" were completed and samples were sent to major theaters.
The major cinema chains decided to increase the number of screenings for this film according to the original plan, and then they could do whatever they wanted after the increase...
You mean publicity?
Major cinema chains have no interest in promoting this film, and considering the current popularity of this film online, do you think it still needs to be promoted?
All the moviegoers and fans are rushing to enjoy their spoils.
What propaganda method can compare with word of mouth?
Lu Yuan sighed and signed ten movie tickets. After signing, he remembered that all movie tickets today were half price.
Okay, Lu Yuan felt wronged.
The picture was so beautiful that he didn't even want to look at the box office performance of the premiere.
…
There is really nothing to look forward to in movies in April.
"Your Future Self" grossed 9 million on its premiere, and basically maintained around 7 million for the other three days, and the rate has been gradually declining.
There really isn't anything explosive about the movie...
It's very common. You can't tell what's wrong with this movie, and you can't tell what's good about it either.
Most of the fans who have seen the movie just nodded and moved on.
I don't have any impression, no so-called good or bad reviews.
People in the industry made a rough estimate and they felt that the movie would end up with a final box office of around 130 million.
This result is pretty good compared to the investment cost, but after adding the four signs of Hollywood movies, it seems a little bit decadent, which easily reminds people of last year's "Alien Killer", but...
In terms of word of mouth, it is slightly better than Killing Aliens.
As for "Stray Pigs", this follow-up to "Vagabond", it ushered in a small peak in the box office after the 2nd, breaking through the 3 million box office on the same day, but it has been going downhill in the next two days...
This movie is not bad, but with the excellent "The Wanderer" before it, "The Stray Pigs" seems pale and powerless.
As for the movie "Alien", the word of mouth was surprisingly good. The box office gradually increased from one million at the beginning to two million, three million...
On April 4, the box office of this movie had exceeded 4 million in a single day, and it began to counterattack "Stray Pigs" to become the second-ranked movie in April. It is a model of counterattack...
As for the two youth art films "Lost Paradise of Youth" and "Flowers of That Year"...
Well, go wherever is cool.
The two films combined only made a little over 100 yuan a day, which is really...
It was a terrible failure.
April 5th, morning.
"This Man From Earth" suddenly joined the battlefield in April...
It was supposed to be released in theaters in a low-key manner, but after the Internet sensation, the popularity of this movie has become unusually high...
All the netizens are waiting for this movie.
While enjoying the fruits of their victory, they also wanted to know what this movie, which cost less than $200,000 to make, was about.
All right.
This is a kind of curiosity...