my time as a director

Chapter 249 New Questions

With the help of a game under Penguin, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds surpassed Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire within two weeks of its release, and became the top box office champion on National Day.

Everyone didn't expect it, and they didn't expect that just one game would have such a big driving effect.

However, it also makes sense, after all, Penguin claims that the number of people online at the same time in this game exceeds 200 million.

In fact, game lovers and moviegoers do not completely overlap. If you have enough time to play games, and where is the time to go to the movies, it is better to have two or more.

And a ticket costs 30 yuan, and the Internet cafe only costs [-] yuan an hour, which is enough to surf the Internet for two days.

Maybe it’s a game lover who hasn’t seen the movie, but heard that there is a new mode, and the movie is quite popular, and the word of mouth is also quite good, but they just went to the cinema to watch the movie, just curious about the airdrop mode.

However, it is a fact that it drove the box office.

The sudden overtake embarrassing Huang Zhongjun who had just finished celebrating.

What's more, it was because of such an absurd reason.

Now Huang Zhongjun can only hope that the popularity brought by the game Crossfire is only temporary. After the popularity is over, the box office will be cut in half, so Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire still has a chance.

As he wished, the enthusiasm brought by the game was only temporary, and it just happened to catch up with the last three days of the National Day holiday. If it was a working day, it would be difficult to see such a big increase.

In the third week, the box office of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds really plummeted. It only got 4400 million in seven days, with a total box office of 2.64 million.

However, Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire, which has a mediocre reputation, only earned 3500 million box office, with a total box office of 2.46.

After 20 days of release, the gap has widened to nearly 2000 million. According to this situation, it is basically impossible to overtake.

The National Day file can be regarded as dusty, and the only suspense is whether PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds can break through the [-] million mark.

But it is a pity that the seven-day National Day holiday has exhausted the box office potential, and after all, it is an action movie. As far as the statistics of the theaters are concerned, female audiences only account for less than 30% of the total audience.

Now the female audience can hold up half the sky, which is already equal to the male audience.

In the past two years, since Zhang Ziyi's "Perfect" has sold nearly [-] million yuan, there have been romance films of average quality that have sold well, relying on female audiences.

In the end, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth weeks, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds won the box office of 1900 million, 700 million, and 300 million.

As of November 11, the total box office of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was fixed at 7 million.

Although it is still being screened on a small scale, it is at most a few tens of 100 million more at the box office, and [-] million is hopeless.

However, with a box office of 2.93 million, it also won the National Day box office champion.

Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire came in second with 2.76 million.

In fact, Di Renjie's box office trend has also stabilized since then. Big stars have increased their directors, and the film itself is not bad, and it is still relatively strong.

Further down is Fist of Fist: Chen Zhen, which earned 1.2 million at the box office, and its box office also exceeded [-] million.

As for Jian Yu, the box office is fixed at 5200 million.

The bustling National Day file is over, some people are happy and some are worried.

No, it should be that Li Qian's family is happy and the others are worried.

Li Ming, Xiao Ma's boss, now has the idea of ​​jumping off a building. Since the transfer of the company's core industry to the film industry, it can be said that there are two worlds of ice and fire.

The joy is that Ning Hao, a potential director of the new generation, was first signed, and then the international director Wu Baige was recruited, one old and one young, two trump cards in hand, but it made Li Ming happy for a long time.

However, before the release of No Man's Land, there was an accident in Xijiang unfortunately. After several walks and all the connections were used, there was still no way to release it.

Jian Yu, produced by Wu Yusen, only earned 5000 million at the box office during the National Day holiday, but this film was mainly paid for by Zhangjiazhen and Huanya, and Xiao Ma did not contribute much.

The failure of two of the most valued movies caused a lot of damage to Li Ming, who was just starting out.

However, if you lose money, you lose money. Are there still few people who lose money making movies? I chose this industry because of the high return rate behind the high risk.

The production cost of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in the National Day file was only 3000 million, and the publicity and distribution together topped 1000 million, but it earned nearly [-] million at the box office.

The money earned from this movie was as much as Xiao Ma's net profit last year.

With such an obvious role model here, this loss can't hurt Li Ming.

Not long after, Xiao Ma's general manager Zhong Lifang and Ning Hao came to Li Ming's office together, and Ning Hao also brought his new movie.

"Mr. Li." Ning Hao handed the new script to Li Ming.

However, Li Ming didn't open it directly, but asked with a smile, "How much does the new film cost, and when will it start preparations, so that I can get people to prepare to put the money into the crew's account."

Li Ming doesn't even read the script, and just asks for money immediately. Li Ming's style of doing things is also the reason why Ning Hao chooses to join.

Compared with other film companies, Li Ming seems to be more sincere and direct.

"The background of this play is during the Anti-Japanese War. The sets and props cost a lot of money, estimated to be 5000 million."

Ning Hao reported a not-so-low figure, and he did not make a false report. No Man’s Land could not be screened, and Xiao Ma lost 2000 million in a short period of time. He was also a little embarrassed.

"5000 million is no problem!"

Li Ming agreed without even thinking about it. The ban on screenings in No Man's Land did not affect his respect for Ning Hao at all. If Ning Hao didn't deserve the 5000 million investment, there weren't many directors in the industry who would.

Ning Hao opened his mouth, wanting to talk about his movie, but Li Ming didn't ask, he really can't cheer up recently, so that's all.

Even the script of this film was a little careless when discussing with several screenwriters.

Changing the style of the Crazy series, it has become a single-line narrative, and there are a lot of bloody plots, neon soldiers who lie down when they shoot, heroes who are always unkillable, villains who are resurrected after being shot, lovers After exchanging heart and soul, he was suddenly killed.

A cheesy movie, this is Ning Hao's definition of a new movie.

I was also angry in my heart, so I didn't allow it to be filmed, so I just made a cheesy and vulgar movie.

Even after receiving 5000 million funds, Ning Hao didn't cheer up and left directly, still looking listless when he left.

After Ning Hao left, Zhong Lifang was not as proud as Li Ming, and she had some doubts about this new project.

"Li Dong, this kind of anti-Japanese action comedy, the production cost risk of 5000 million..."

"Don't say that."

Li Ming shook his head and stopped Zhong Lifang from worrying, "Don't worry about the subject matter, did you think that war movies would sell well before Assembly? Did you think spy movies would sell well before Fengsheng? Or did someone think that a modern action movie would be a hit before PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds? Sell ​​nearly [-] million?"

A series of rhetorical questions made Zhong Lifang speechless, but many people in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds thought it would be a hit, after all, Li Qian is a golden signboard.

However, no one really thought that it would be able to sell nearly [-] million yuan.

Li Ming believed in Ning Hao, so he naturally believed in his movies.