Chapter 657: Box Office Hit
June 16, Saturday.
Qi Lei, who was resting on the weekend, asked his girlfriend out for shopping and dinner as usual.
They were college classmates. They were boyfriend and girlfriend when they were in school. After graduation, they both stayed in Harbin to work.
Now they have met each other's parents. The next step is to talk about marriage. Their relationship life is very stable.
At noon, the two of them had dinner at a barbecue restaurant in CapitaLand Plaza.
"Husband, let's go to the movies later."
"Okay, there is a movie coming out recently, I really want to watch it." Qi Lei picked up a piece of roasted pork belly and nodded in agreement.
"What do you want to watch?"
"[Jurassic World 2], since the first [Jurassic Park], I have not missed any movie in this series."
"But, I want to watch [A Time Travel Cohabitation], a love movie of Gu Wei and Liu Yifei, I heard it is very good."
"Is that so?
Then I will listen to you today and watch [A Time Travel Cohabitation] first. It happens that there is another day off tomorrow, so we can go out to watch [Jurassic World 2]."
Qi Lei did not hesitate, and his girlfriend's request must be met first.
He had heard of the name of "Super Time and Space Cohabitation". He still trusted Gu Wei's movies. Besides, there was Liu Yifei. It would be nice to support Tianxian.
"Husband, you are the best, muah"
After lunch, Qi Lei booked the tickets on his mobile phone and took his girlfriend to the cinema on the top floor of CapitaLand Plaza.
"Wow, there are so many people!"
The two walked to the door of the cinema. Jiang Li hugged her boyfriend's arm and was surprised at the full flow of people inside.
"It's normal. Today is the weekend. There must be a lot of people watching movies.
When I bought the ticket just now, I saw that our show was almost fully booked."
After Qi Lei finished speaking, he looked around. The cinema hall was full of people. Some people were queuing up to buy tickets and food, some were standing aside chatting, and some were queuing up to check in.
The trailers of the recently released movies were scrolling on the display screens around, and the screen above the ticket office showed the cinema's schedule. At a glance, except for "Jurassic Park 2" and "Super Time and Space Cohabitation", the schedules of other movies were pitifully small.
Qi Lei first went to the ticket machine to scan the code to get the ticket, and then lined up to buy drinks and popcorn for the two.
After everything was ready, the two waited in the hall for a while, and then followed the crowd to check their tickets.
Just as Qi Lei said, the theater was almost full, and most of them were couples like them, and a few were young girls who came together.
After the two entered the theater and sat down, within a few minutes, the lights dimmed and the big screen began to play advertisements.
As the dragon logo appeared, the theater became quiet, and [Super Time and Space Cohabitation] officially began.
"This house was built in 1996, with north-south transparency and sufficient lighting. The first-floor suite faces north, and the second-floor suite faces south."
In the first scene of the movie, Liu Yifei, wearing a professional suit, began her strange blind date, and the result is naturally needless to say.
The camera turned, and Gu Wei, wearing a khaki suit, squatted in a field, chewing corn, changed his previous handsome image and looked very rustic.
A black car slowly drove over from a distance, the window slowly lowered, and inside sat a big boss in a suit.
".We want to build a loft for commercial and residential use. Our general ceiling height is 3.2 meters, so we make it 6 meters, and the owner can freely add a cover in the middle."
Gu Wei held a design drawing and promoted his design to the big boss inside through the car window.
"This is completely different from what we imagined, we can't do it."
".This is the trend of the future. After more than ten years, this loft will be everywhere in the country.
And I have done a survey. This will be a CBD in the future, and it will be connected to the subway, so the transportation is very convenient.
Mr. Li! Mr. Li!
This will really be a CBD in the future"
Gu Wei stood in the mud pit, shouting at the top of his lungs, but he couldn't stop the big boss's car from going away.
Five minutes into the movie, the male and female protagonists appeared respectively, and bursts of laughter rang out in the theater.
"This movie is so interesting. This is the first time that Gu Wei and Liu Yifei play such a character."
"It is indeed quite different from the roles they usually play."
At the beginning of the movie, the life of the hero and heroine was not smooth, and then something even more fantastic happened. The room where they lived had a time-space disorder.
Gu Wei was washing vegetables in the kitchen, and a bunch of bean sprouts inexplicably appeared in Liu Yifei's bathtub. Liu Yifei's facial cleanser could not be pressed out, but it kept spraying from Gu Wei's shower head, making it impossible for Gu Wei to wash it clean.
The laughter in the theater continued, and then the two rooms in different time and space were spliced together. After waking up in the morning, the two hero and heroine Gu Wei and Liu Yifei met for the first time.
[Super Time and Space Cohabitation] There were many laughs at the beginning, and laughter came from the theater from time to time. Everyone was also curious about what the two people who could travel between 99 and 18 would do.
Later, as the relationship between the hero and heroine developed, and some truths were slowly revealed, the movie also turned from a simple comedy to sensationalism and life reflection, but generally speaking, the transition was relatively smooth, without too many bugs.
Moreover, Gu Wei and Liu Yifei's performances were very good, and there was a strong sense of couple feeling between the two. The audience in the theater went from watching the show for fun in the beginning to slowly immersed in the relationship between the male and female protagonists.
In 2018, Lu Shiyi appeared, and Gu Xiaojiao was deceived into leaving Lu Ming. In the end, Lu Ming found out that his boss was Gu Xiaojiao's father, so he prevented the car accident and changed the ending of Gu Xiaojiao's father's death in the future.
At the end of the movie, the audience watched the Easter egg of the earthy love words and gradually stood up and left.
"Do you think Lu Ming and Gu Xiaojiao can still be together? Gu Xiaojiao doesn't even recognize him anymore."
Jiang Li walked out with her boyfriend's arm, asking uncertainly.
"Since the director let them meet at the end, of course it will be a happy ending. Lu Ming and Gu Xiaojiao will be together smoothly, and lovers will finally get married."
"Hehe, I think so too.
The last Easter egg is so sweet, can you also say some earthy love words?"
Qi Lei was a little embarrassed to hear his girlfriend's request and thought about it.
"I am 9, you are 3"
"What do you mean?"
"Besides you, it's still you"
"Husband, you are great!"
Qi Lei smiled and thought that it was a good thing that he had seen similar jokes on Douyin before.
The first two days of the weekend passed quickly. Just as Xu Zheng had guessed before the movie was released, "Super Time and Space Cohabitation" failed to beat "Jurassic World 2" in the first week.
"Big Dinosaur" relied on a 42% screening and the popularity of the classic IP to get 730 million yuan in the first three days of the weekend.
"Super Time and Space Cohabitation" followed closely behind, with a box office of over 500 million yuan in the first weekend, and a total of 563 million yuan including the box office of the preview.
Since the premiere on Friday, the box office of the two top movies has accounted for more than 95% of the total daily box office in the country, and the remaining movies can only get some leftovers between the fingers of the two movies.
After the first week, the reputation of several popular movies has gradually spread.
"Jurassic World 2" Douban score is 6.6, which is much lower than the 7.8 points of the previous work "Jurassic World 1".
The freshness of the movie on Rotten Tomatoes in North America is 62% (21 fresh and 13 rotten), which is also lower than the 76% of the previous work.
Of course, as a sequel to the big IP "Jurassic", it is still good from the perspective of visual effects and excitement. It is a qualified popcorn movie.
Relatively speaking, the reputation of "Super Time and Space Cohabitation" is better.
The movie Douban scored a high score of 7.2, which is very good in the romantic comedy genre.
In addition to fans, most passers-by also recognized this movie and believed that "Super Time and Space Cohabitation" was a surprising romantic movie in 2018.
The comments on the Internet are even more one-sided, with few negative reviews.
[Funny and warm, a fantasy romantic comedy with a big brain and unconventional, Gu Wei and Liu Yifei's appearance is really top, worth the ticket price! ]
[This is the best romantic movie I have seen this year. To be honest, it is better than Gu Wei's "Ex-Files 3" last year, and I think Liu Yifei is more suitable for Gu Wei than Ni Ni! ]
[A rare domestic love comedy that is not awkward. The male and female protagonists are both funny and good-looking. The scene where Xu Zheng stretched noodles made me laugh so hard, and I was moved by the ending.
PS: A great tribute to "Sweet Honey"! ]
[The story is very interesting, and the goddess is still so beautiful. Great! Teacher Xu Zheng's guest appearance is a very eye-catching performance. I want to watch it again.]
[To be honest, Gu Wei's acting is really good, especially the two roles of Lu Shiyi and Lu Ming. They are obviously the same person, but through the changes in clothes, makeup, and demeanor, you can't see the shadow of the other character at all. I hope Gu Wei will shoot some movies with depth. Your acting skills can fully grasp it.]
[The movie is good, and it is more realistic. Even if you know the winning number, it is completely impossible to get rich by buying lottery tickets. It's not that the time and space in the movie don't allow it, but the winner has been arranged by the "director", which has little to do with the number.]
[It's actually the best theater movie so far this year. Logic is not important. The most important thing is... It's too sweet, too sweet! 】
【I went to the cinema alone to watch the movie. To be honest, it was a good experience. But what was the last Easter egg? Can you consider the feelings of us singles! 】
【Woohoo. Gu Wei and Liu Yifei are too good a match. It's not enough. Can they work together on a love TV series? The longer the episodes, the better.】
【This movie is too sweet. The cheesy love words in the last Easter egg made me giggle. I'm a cheesy person. I just love to watch these two people being affectionate! 】
【.】
【Super Time and Space Cohabitation】has a very good reputation after its release. Although the box office of the movie ranked second in the first week, the attendance rate exceeded 【Jurassic World 2】 and ranked first.
On Monday of the second week, the theater adjusted the filming ratio. 【Super Time and Space Cohabitation】 increased to 41%, while 【Jurassic World 2】 decreased to 36%.
The single-day box office of both movies has decreased. "Super Time and Space Cohabitation" surpassed "Jurassic World 2" with a box office of 115 million on weekdays, surpassing the 87.24 million of "Jurassic World 2", and successfully counterattacked and won the single-day national box office champion.
Beijing, "Zhen Le Dao" company.
Xu Zheng looked at the box office results of "Super Time and Space Cohabitation" in the past few days and smiled from ear to ear.
The production cost of the movie was 120 million, and another 50 million was invested in publicity and promotion after the release, with a total cost of 170 million.
Now that it has only been released for 4 days, the total box office has reached nearly 700 million yuan, not only has it recovered its investment, but it has also achieved a net profit close to a small goal.
"According to the current box office trend, our movie will surely break 1 billion.
The box office forecast of the Maoyan platform is 1.6 billion yuan.
Su Lun, your first independently directed film has such a high box office, it seems I will have to call you Director Su from now on."
Xu Zheng's face was red and he was joking with Su Lun, who was tall and short-haired next to him.
“To be honest, from the first day the movie was released, I felt like I was in a dream.
I thought our film was good before, but I didn’t expect the box office trend to be so good. It grossed more than 500 million in the first three days, and the box office exceeded 100 million on weekdays.”
"Haha, the most important thing is that the movie has a good reputation. By the end of this week, you will firmly enter the 1 billion box office director club.
Tsk tsk, when "囧囧" was released, I was in the same state as you. I didn't expect that my movie would be such a hit. I was completely confused.
But now it’s no better than before. The general environment is getting better and better. The domestic film market is developing year by year. It’s much easier for a movie to break 1 billion than before.”
Su Lun nodded.
“That’s what I say, but in fact there are only a few big-selling movies every year, and most of them would be good if they can make back their money.
This time [Cohabitation in Time and Space] has achieved such good results, I feel it is because of everyone’s support in many aspects.
Director Xu You helped control the filming, and the actors were joined by Gu Wei and Liu Yifei.
Mr. Gu's box office appeal is truly amazing, and he is indeed recognized as the "King of Box Office" in the industry!
I also feel something from this cooperation.”
It was rare that Su was sober now, and did not forget about it just because the movie he directed was a box office hit.
"This movie is a perfect one at the right time and place. If I were to make another movie without so many good conditions, I would probably have to go back to my original shape."
"No~
You are still good at it, but judging from the current box office, the popularity that "Cohabitation in Time and Space" has achieved after its release is indeed a reflection of Gu Wei's box office appeal.
We took this into consideration when we recruited him to join the partnership, otherwise we would not have given him such a high investment share.
Last month, the movie "The Player Behind the Scenes" that I produced and starred in had a final box office of just over 300 million. Although there are restrictions on the subject matter, the gap in box office appeal can also be seen."
Xu Zheng touched his chin.
"It's a pity that I'm good at comedies. In fact, I don't fit in well with Gu Wei. It will be difficult for us to have the opportunity to work together in the future."
As happy as Xu Zheng is Wang Changtian of [Enlight Media].
The three producers of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" are [Zhen Le Dao], [Wei Tian Xia], and [Enlight Media].
Moreover, the company is also one of the promoters of the film.
Now that the film is a hit, Guangguang is naturally making a lot of money.
When Xu Zheng recommended Su Lun to make this movie, Wang Changtian didn't really care. It was just a small-budget movie with an investment of 40 million, and he didn't think about making much money. He just wanted to save Xu's face.
Who would have thought that things would turn around later and this project would actually be chosen by Gu Wei.
As a result, Wang Changtian also became energetic. After re-dividing investment shares and making additional investments in the later period, he was very much looking forward to the final results of the film.
Now it turned out to be exactly what he expected.
Judging from the current trend of movies, this movie can bring at least a net profit of more than 100 million to Raytheon.
"Mr. Gu, congratulations on the box office success
I have long said that the results of Mr. Gu’s project will definitely be the same.
When we have time to have dinner together later, I will call Director Xu and Director Su.
Okay, work is important, let’s make an appointment later.”