Chapter 935

The middle-aged conductor was a little surprised when he heard that two beautiful asian girls had eight tickets for the movie "black man" at one time. He still dutifully inquired about the information about the appearances reported by the ticketing system. There was just one at 8:15. After reconfirmation, he quickly collected money and issued the tickets.

"Enjoy the movie."

Finally, with a formulaic politeness, the middle-aged conductor saw off the two girls and began to welcome the later guests.

This is a young white guy who is well-dressed and has obviously taken care of a little bit. With the eyes of a middle-aged conductor, he can see at a glance that the other party should be on a date tonight. His girlfriend is probably buying popcorn or something. Based on his recent experience, he thinks that he is likely to watch Romeo and Juliet.

This time I guess wrong.

Or, half right.

Sure enough, the young man asked for two tickets, but it was still black man.

Seeing each other off again, the middle-aged conductor looked at the information on the computer screen and found that 103 tickets were sold in the 8:15 "black man" and 120 people's screening hall, which was quite unexpected. In particular, the conductor cut the same time yesterday's Leslie Nelson's "the ultimate laughing detective", the same 8:15 show, the same medium-sized screening Hall of 120 people, only sold 87 tickets in the prime time of 8:00 on Saturday evening.

Although he is only an ordinary conductor of the multi hall cinema of AMC, which opened two years ago, middle-aged people still know some recent anecdotes in the circle.

Most theaters don't want the movie "black man".

This is a summer camp.

If it's January or February or September, what's the matter with a Hong Kong Island movie that looks very cheap?

Besides, it's not Jack Cheng.

Who is jet Lee?

What's more, there is not even a European and American face in this film, which is bound to make the American audience more repulsive. As for Kung Fu, well, it's really a selling point, but there are not many Kung Fu elements in this film. On the contrary, it's more inclined to be a gunfight film. In a word, if you want to go on the black man, you might as well add a few more screens to mummy.

Although I think so, the major courtyard lines eventually opened a total of more than 1000 canvases for the black man. If you don't want "black man", do you want mummy, mission impossible 2 and 007 ghost party?

All right.

In fact, this is the package sale prohibited by the paramount act in those years, but there are always policies and Countermeasures for many things.

It's forbidden to package multiple films and sign distribution agreements with theaters. Only one film can be discussed, right?

Let's talk about it one by one.

However, if you think "black man" is not good enough and do not want to give me the canvas, then I also think you are not sincere enough not to give you a copy of "Mummy".

Yeah.

It's not appropriate not to give it.

It's easy to get litigated.

It's OK to give less.

You need 200 copies. I'll only give you 100. Let's continue to play evaporation secret order on the remaining 100 screens. The average of others is fifteen thousand, and that of you is fifteen thousand.

Tut.

In a word, "Mummy", "mission impossible 2" and "007 ghost party" are not even distributed by Denise entertainment. However, Denise entertainment can use these three blockbusters as chips. Who dares not follow such power?

Therefore, "black man" not only can't refuse, even can't perfunctorily sneak into the small hall, should give the theater poster and so on also can't be little.

Now it seems that the film is not as bad as it was supposed to be.

However, the middle-aged ticket seller of AMC cinema who keeps sending out movie tickets on a busy weekend night still thinks it's not right. However, if it's not right, it may not be solved for a long time in the future. On the contrary, the major cinema lines are more likely to continue to tilt more resources to Denise Entertainment's films.

Good or bad.

Then.

The stronger, the stronger.

On the other side of the cinema, the eight girls who got the tickets found a screening hall on the third floor and entered directly.

Different from the street outside, after entering the movie hall, some people begin to chat up.

Girls can't help but be fearless when they think of a man. They don't have the Qu Yi Wei Nuo of some new immigrants at all. The two waitresses also play a very good role in preventing them from driving. In addition, they find that the clothes on a group of girls are expensive, but they don't have too much entanglement with the chat up person. After being rejected, they walk away wisely.

When the light in the projection hall is dim, the first is a few pieces of advertising.

The girls sitting in the front and back rows together are also interested in this, although most of them can't understand it.

Soon, the black man feature began.

After the brand logo, there was a fierce action play at the beginning. Jeter Lee had a fierce fight and got out of the siege. The Chinese and English titles of "black man" appeared on the screen.Li Youhu, who sits between Chi Jianjia and a waitress named Katie Roderick, enjoys watching. In China, she is a kind of person who can not only look up to movies, but also has a video recorder. However, there are not many movie sources in China. What's more, this AMC cinema, which has only opened for two years, has far less screen sound effects than China.

As for the film itself.

For North American fans, they can see the rich style of cheap B-class movies at a glance, but Li Youhu doesn't think it's wrong. After all, he is used to these.

It was the following drama that made Li Youhu lose his mind very quickly.

Because I can't understand it, I can't guess the counterpart because the original version is Cantonese.

I can only roughly understand that the black man played by Jeter Lee has become a librarian in disguise. He has a good relationship with his colleagues and a police friend.

So I couldn't help looking around.

Chi Jianjia took it very seriously.

All right.

I hate Xueba.

Li Youhu knows that Chi Jianjia's family background is also good. Before he got the job, he was a senior in the Academy of drama and dance. He is 21 years old. He has not only danced for more than 10 years, but also has excellent other cultural skills. Although he has now gone abroad, he has locked up his diploma for acting in advance.

In fact, none of the 100 girls selected from the original hundreds of thousands of resumes is simple.

Excellent basic knowledge of dance.

Others, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, can be found everywhere.

In private, Li Youhu even feels that she and Chen Xingwei are probably the bottom two, as if they got the job through the back door.

Yeah.

There's a problem.

On the other hand, Katie Roderick certainly understood, but she was not interested in the film.

Seeing that Li Youhu looks at her, Katie takes her eyes back and smiles at her.

Katie is Li Youhu's designated maid.

Li Youhu also smiles. He leans over and asks in Chinese, "Katie, what do you think?"

The maid guards in the manor have received Chinese training, and their daily conversation is basically OK.

"It's OK. I don't like it very much. Maybe Ellie is more interested."

Katie replied that her name is Eliza Camus. She is the designated female guard of Chen Xingwei. To be exact, she should be the standard match of Li Youhu and Chen Xingwei. Eliza is a very tough girl who comes from MCSs training base in Ohio. She is very proficient in fighting and firearms.

This time, besides Katie, the other one who was escorting the six girls was also a female guard.

However, because she had been repeatedly told in advance to pay special attention to the safety of girls, Katie, who had also received professional firearms training before, also brought a gun.

Li Youhu, listening to Katie's concise and obviously accented Chinese, knows that it's impossible to have a deep conversation, so he has to turn back to the big screen and pay close attention to the reaction of the audience around him.

After all, as a girl said before entering the theater, it's a great honor for the country that Jeter Lee's film can be shown in the United States. Li Youhu shares the same feeling. She doesn't understand the twists and turns in the schedule of the film. She doesn't even understand what it means to have more than 80% attendance in this theater at this time.

However, she was able to be sure that these foreigners probably enjoyed the film, noting the sound of comments or exclamations in the movie hall as the plot progressed.

So it's hard to avoid a little bit of pride.

At the end of the movie, Li Youhu continues to walk out of the screening hall with Chi Jianjia in his arm, listening to the heated discussion of people around him. Even though he didn't understand a few words in the last 90 minutes, he is still quite satisfied.

Several other white youths passed by the girls. They chatted with each other before the movie started, but they didn't get entangled after they were rejected. At this time, they still looked at them without concealment, and deliberately raised their voice, obviously to attract attention. Unfortunately, they didn't make a difference until they went away by mistake.

Li Youhu disdained these young people's show off. Seeing Chi Jianjia's face with a smile, he asked, "what did they just say?"

"They say" black man "is better than Arnold Schwarzenegger's" evaporation order. "

"Schwarzenegger, I know that I've seen both terminator and the order of evaporation, his latest movie?"

Chi Jianjia pointed to a poster on the inner wall of the cinema: "this is it. In fact, they also said that the production cost of "evaporation secret order" is 100 million US dollars, and that "black man" may be less than 10 million US dollars. "

Li Youhu glanced at the poster on the wall. It was obvious that Schwarzenegger's picture was unknown in other English, but he was also proud: "10 million beat 100 million, that's really amazing. However, making movies with 100 million US dollars is equivalent to more than 800 million RMB. It's too luxurious. "

Chi Jianjia said with a smile: "in fact, the box office of" black man "is certainly not as good as" evaporation secret order ". However, this film can be shown in North America, in short, it has been very powerful.""Anyway, I must be on the side of black man."

Li Youhu and Chi Jianjia are chatting like this, but they don't know that their topic just coincides with a rapidly rising argument in recent days.

It's spreading rapidly on the Internet.

Generally speaking, black man from the other side of the ocean is better than evaporation secret order, which costs 100 million dollars.

A famous film critic of the New York Times said on his Facebook: the same popcorn commercial, "black man" may be rough, but the scenes of gunfight and fighting have a lot to be worth mentioning. By comparison, "evaporation secret order" is like a dull giant, clumsy and boring.

This view has been recognized by many people for a while.

The popularity of "black man" has increased again.

Moreover, in the final battle between black man and evaporation secret order, the villains used pulse weapons. Due to the cost, the pulse weapons in black man look like toys, while the pulse weapons in evaporation secret order are much more professional. However, compared with the two plots, the pulse weapon battle in the black man is both thrilling and exciting, and the evaporation secret order, except Schwarzenegger pulling the steel bar from his thigh with a big grin, doesn't leave much impression.

The sudden rise of this discussion, of course, is the result of the operation behind the scenes of the "black man" distribution team.

Later, that's the standard heat.

It's officially announced that a small film with a cost of only $7 million is pulling a big one with a cost of $100 million. How can I say that? I'm weak and I'm reasonable.

After all, it's only 7 million.

As a result, all the highlights of the weak have been repeatedly magnified, and the strong just failed, so all of them have become shortcomings.

All in all, starting from the release on Friday, the first weekend was three days, because this fast-growing hot discussion once again brought the publicity effect of "black man" worth at least millions of dollars.

The weekend passed in a flash.

May 27, Monday.

East Hampton.

After getting up in the morning and getting the box office report of the past weekend, even Simon himself was a little surprised.

In the first three days, with 1276 screens, the black man grossed $6.56 million at the box office in the first weekend, with an average of $5141 in the three days. Simon's initial expectation was that the film would reach $5000 in the seven days of the first week, even if it was a success.

Now, the average price of the three-day Pavilion is more than $5000, and the average price of "black man" may reach about $8000 in the first week.

This is already a hot sale.

Although it's still a little short of the $10000 sales threshold, it's a small miracle that the average volume of "black man" is $8000.

It's not obvious by itself.

By contrast, the success of black man is more obvious.

Also released on Friday, Leslie Nelson's new movie "the ultimate laughing detective" grossed $10.45 million in three days over the weekend. It seems to be more than "black man", but the number of opening screens of this film is 2286, which is close to twice that of "black man". The three days of the first weekend of the film are only $4570, which is lower than "black man".

Just like the comparison between "black man" and "evaporation secret order" on the Internet platform.

At first glance, there is no comparison.

After all, the box office of "secret order of evaporation" may exceed the total box office of "black man" in North America in the first week, and the volume of "the ultimate laughing detective" is much larger than that of "black man". The production cost of the film only reaches 18 million US dollars, which is equivalent to two and a half "black man", not to mention that new world pictures only spent 2 million US dollars to get the European and American distribution right of "black man" It's only three million dollars.

As a result, in terms of returns, only three days after the first weekend, the black man recovered a large part of the total cost of $5 million. Maybe the whole first week will bring back the cost and start to make a profit. On the contrary, whether it's "evaporation secret order" or "the ultimate laughing detective", it's impossible for the cinema to make a profit at the stage of distribution with the box office trend they show at this time.

Moreover, it seems that the volume is very small, and the profit of black man is absolutely not dispensable.

In the first weekend, the box office of the film in North America is expected to exceed 20 million yuan, which means that the total investment in production and publicity of the film is expected to exceed 5 million U.S. dollars.

What new world pictures gets is the full copyright of European and American market.

Such a small film, of course, will not be distributed separately in Europe. It must be sold out directly. With the popularity of North American box office accumulation, it is not a big problem for the film to be sold out directly in Europe and recover another $5 million.

And then there's video and TV.

The black man video in my memory is very popular in North America, but the income in this area is more than 50 million US dollars. This time, even if it is equal to what it used to be, it will be 20 million US dollars based on 40% gross profit. The gross profit of the video is actually the net income of the film project, which is mainly different from the calculation of the overall after tax profit of the follow-up studio.In fact, the box office and other aspects are the same.

Finally, with the TV broadcast, it's another stroke.

Another five million dollars.

Not to mention the long-term operation, this is actually the expected return in the next two years or so.

The total is $35 million.

By calculation, the overall revenue of a small film that new world pictures bought for $2 million is higher than that of many blockbusters.

Just like the evaporation secret order, with the current overseas slow box office statistics comparable to that of North America, the global box office of this film may only be about 160 million US dollars, mainly because the evaporation secret order is also attacked by mummy overseas.

The total cost of the production and publicity of "evaporation secret order" has reached 130 million US dollars, the global box office is 160 million US dollars, it is expected to recover 70 million US dollars, and the loss of the cinema line in the release stage is 60 million US dollars.

The failure of the film's reputation and box office will inevitably affect the follow-up channels.

In the next two years, the combined revenue of the video and TV channels of "evaporation secret order" may not be able to make up for the loss of $60 million, let alone generate revenue.