After walking out of the Tianxia Building, Liu Shishi was so excited that she wanted to call Mai Chong and express her gratitude to him. Such a generous contract must be due to his efforts, but he didn't expect that a leading male star would be so prestigious.
Of course, the reputation of a leading male star is not so great, but the reputation of the boss behind the scenes can be so great. Because Owen's mistake was understood, classmate Liu Shishi took a big advantage in vain.
After calling for a long time, Liu Shishi got impatient and the call finally got through.
At this time, Mai Chong was taking Mu Weiyu and Duoduo at the amusement park, and had just stepped off the roller coaster. Vice Mayor Lai might really have something to do, so Duoduo wanted to stay with him for two days. In order to make Duoduo feel at home, Mai Chong skipped classes and focused on keeping Duoduo company with Xiaoyu. , and at Duoduo's request, he accompanied her to the amusement park. When Liu Shishi called him, their "family of three" were screaming on the roller coaster.
After coming down, he answered Liu Shishi's call. Mai Chong knew that the contract should be settled, and Sister Wen was quite generous. However, when he heard Liu Shishi proudly talking about the contents of the contract, he knew that Owen must have misunderstood him and Liu Shishi. relationship, because this contract seems to be comparable to Liu Yifei's, which is superior to Jiang Yiyan, Wang Luodan and others.
But the contract has already been given to Liu Shishi, what else can he say? Should Huo Wenxi want it back? Forget it, if you have the chance, you must let her treat you to a nice meal. She now has 50,000 in cash.
On Sunday, "Lanling Mask" came to the Central Academy of Drama. Before that, China National Theater had already carried out publicity work. Today, circles have begun to circulate about the grand screening of "Lanling Mask" at Nortel, and many well-known media reprinted it. The news article appeared in the Nortel school newspaper and became a hot topic for a while. Therefore, the Chinese drama students were also eager to see this movie, and at the same time they were dissatisfied with the different treatment of Tianxia Pictures. Why should Nortel premiere it, while the Chinese drama could only be released later? Chinese drama people like to compete with Nortel. This has always been the case, just like Peking University and Tsinghua University, they are destined friends and destined enemies. But think about it, we won¡¯t be able to see it until next week. I felt a little more comforted.
Mai Chong does not have such a strong sense of family. He also came to the Central Theater before when he was not too busy in his freshman year. He also has some friends here, such as Tang Yan and Wen Zhang, and they are more or less acquainted with their classmates.
The attendees at this screening basically included the lineup of Nortel last time. Chen Kun did not come this time, but Chen Hao and Jiang Wen, both of whom had backgrounds in Chinese dramas, came to support them. As the main male supporting actor, Wen Zhang was also on the list. Tang Yan sat below and winked mischievously at Mai Chong. Sitting next to her were her beautiful female classmates. Tangtang had introduced him, Guo Zhenni, Bai Jing, Liu Dong, Mai Chong, he could also name a few people.
Mai Chong looked at the Duoduos in the second row and couldn't help but smile. To be honest, Duoduo was not very interested in movies like "Lanling Mask". In her heart, cartoons were more attractive, but she was still dragged here by Mai Chong, and her heart was filled with resentment. //**// I plan to make Brother Wheat sleep poorly at night and let him tell me stories. But after coming here, she became happy again because she saw Teacher Xiao Liu, whom she hadn't seen for a long time.
Liu Shishi did not expect to see her former student music prodigy Lai Duoduo here. The two chatted and laughed before the movie started. Even Xiaoyu was left out, but Xiaoyu would not be jealous. , she wished that someone would take care of Duoduo, a problematic girl. But when Duoduo asked Liu Shishi why she came here, and Liu Shishi replied that Mai Chong invited her here, Xiaoyu looked at Liu Shishi a few more times, with her small face and small mouth. She is quite pretty, but I was wondering where did this green onion appear from? ¡.
The sense of crisis in Mu Weiyu's heart made her pay more attention to Liu Shishi, and she even went over to join in the conversation between Duoduo and Shishi. The two gradually got to know each other's basics, but Xiaoyu kept entangled. Chatting with Liu Shishi made her unable to even watch the movie. Originally, I only showed my face for a few moments, but I missed them all, and I didn't know if I would be on camera.
"Lanling Mask" of the School of Drama also won the love of the student party. Students in the audience stood on the aisle to watch if they had no seats. It was as grand as the School of Film. I believe that the students of these two schools will show "Lanling Mask" to the audience. The reputation of "Mask" has spread to Beijing's university circles. The millions of avant-garde college students in Beijing who follow the trend are one of the important sources of the movie's box office.
On the third day, Duoduo finally occupied Mai Chong's bed and slept. The next day, Mai Chong sent her to school. Her grandfather would send someone to pick her up after school. Seeing Duoduo bouncing into the school with her schoolbag on her back, Xiaoyu in the car sighed: "I found that Mai Mengmao has lost a lot of weight in the past two days."
Mai Chong said nothing and just waved to Duoduo.
"And I noticed that you haven't slept very well in the past two days. You have dark circles under your eyes.""" Xiaoyu said again, glancing at Mai Chong with ambiguous eyes.
Mai rolled his eyes at her, "What are you thinking about? Duoduo is only eight years old, so dirty."
"What did I say? You must have misunderstood. How shameless!"
The two of them returned to Tianxia Building noisily.
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At the Tianxia Building, Mai Chong saw the latest Zhongtiao.com data from Owen. No surprise, "A World Without Thieves" continued to top the box office list, with a box office of 45.36 million this week, plus 37.83 million in the first week, ten days after its release. The total box office has reached 83.19 million! It has surpassed the 5,600 of Feng Xiaogang's "Mobile Phone" and the 68.6 million of last year's annual box office champion "Seven", and is infinitely close to the box office runner-up so far this year, "Lord of the Rings 3" (86.3 million).
This is the best result in Feng Xiaogang's career as a director, and it is also the best result since the opening of Huayi Brothers. And it is not over yet. It has only been released for ten days. "A World Without Thieves" still has a lot of residual heat. It is only a matter of time before it exceeds 100 million. , Wang Zhongjun and Feng Xiaogang have held a celebration ceremony in advance. Starring Andy Lau, Li Bingbing, etc. all attended the celebration party. Wang Zhongjun originally planned to release the DVD two weeks after the movie was released, because under the anti-piracy crackdown of the three company alliance, it is now impossible to find it on the market. There are pirated discs of "A World Without Thieves" and some secretly filmed versions of the movie have appeared on the Internet. However, this is not a cause for concern. Taking advantage of the gap in the disc market and saturating this part of the market as soon as possible will definitely make a lot of money. However, looking at the current trend of box office growth , it seemed that the profit from the DVD was not enough, so Wang Zhongjun postponed the release of the DVD by a week so as not to affect the raging theater box office.
Mai Chong looked down again. Because there were no new movies released during this period, the films following "A World Without Thieves" were almost unchanged from the previous week. They were still the same films, but the rankings had changed a bit. Moreover, the box office of each film has dropped a bit, and the gap with "A World Without Thieves" has become wider. However, the box office of "Kekexili" has rebounded, with a weekly box office of 140,000, ranking eighth. This should be The golden horse effect is revealed.
Owen told Mai Chong that the box office revenue of "A World Without Thieves" accounted for more than 80% of the country's total box office share in the past two weeks, making it a unique company. And because of the popular film "A World Without Thieves", the national box office in early December this year has exceeded the box office in December last year. It is roughly estimated that the national box office has exceeded 1.3 billion, reaching the annual figure of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. It is expected that China Film Group, one of the distributors, is also very pleased with the performance of "A World Without Thieves".
"We are not jealous of his "A World Without Thieves". Our "Lanling Mask" will definitely be more eye-catching when it is released." Mai Chong said confidently. ¡.
Owen nodded: "That's natural, and we have to pursue full bloom. Although "A World Without Thieves" has a good reputation and box office in the mainland, it is not satisfactory in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Although there are two Hong Kong actors, Andy Lau and Rene Liu, It¡¯s a major brand in Taiwan, but the box office in Hong Kong is only around three million. In Taiwan, it¡¯s only a few hundred thousand, which is far from their expectations.¡±
"This is what Director He Ping said about how to identify the movie-watching tastes of different countries and regions. Feng Xiaogang has identified the pulse of mainland audiences, but his tricks are not effective outside the mainland circle." Mai Chong said with a smile.
"Oh, by the way, one more thing," Owen, who had just wanted to laugh along, suddenly frowned, ""House of Flying Daggers" is currently being screened on a small scale in the United States. Because there is no such golden brand as Jet Li, the United States The theater chain did not dare to arrange too many theaters for this movie from the beginning. In fact, it is okay to be small-scale. Our "Seven" also changed from small-scale to medium-scale. Mainly because Americans had high hopes for Zhang Yimou's film 's 'mature work' did not receive as much praise as his 'experimental work' "Hero". American audiences and critics generally thought the film was terrible, and many viewers said they were purely for the beautiful Zhang Ziyi. For those who have just watched the entire movie, I¡¯m afraid the final release will not be too big.¡± Irving paused and then said, ¡°Do you think these Americans are tired of watching Chinese costume blockbusters? From ¡°Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon¡± to From "Hero" to "House of Flying Daggers", each one is worse than the other." He is worried about the prospects of "Lanling Mask" in North America.
Mai Chong also frowned after hearing this, but he had a good attitude and quickly recovered, "Compared to "House of Flying Daggers", it can be said that "House of Flying Daggers" is indeed worse. The evaluation given by the Americans is quite fair. As for whether it will be good or not. If it will affect "Lanling Mask", then we can only do our best and listen to fate. Be optimistic, at least we also have the beautiful Miss Zhang Ziyi in our movie."
"Haha", after saying this, Mai Chong and Irving looked at each other and smiled.
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Mai Chong will leave Beijing for a long period of time. He will first go to Shanghai to deliver "Lanling Mask" to the door of Shanghai Theater Academy to complete the publicity work of Nortel, China Theater and Shanghai Theater, the three major art schools in China. Then he began to participate in various groups in the South?Some TV programs on TV stations and TVB TV programs to promote the movie. At the same time, five days before the movie is released, he will conduct on-site promotion in theaters in several cities with trial screenings such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing, until the movie is officially released on the 23rd. Only then can he return to Beijing.
Mai Chong planned to finish his work first and then find Luo Qingqing. Now he has arrived at the Shanghai Theater Academy. The students who were going to watch the movie were very enthusiastic and kept discussing issues related or unrelated to "Lanling Mask" in the audience.
"Hey, Dahu, is the Liu Yifei sister you know here?" Level 01 Yuan Hong asked his buddy Hu Ge.
Hu Ge said: "Why are you here just for a guest appearance? Hey, are you here to see the beauty or to watch a movie?"
"You can have both beauty and movies, of course you can watch them both. Hey, look at that junior sister over there, she's very upright."
"Isn't that Han Xue?" Han Xue is the star of their class and has a good relationship with them.
"I'm talking about the one behind Han Xue."
Li Jinming, grade 04, touched his classmate Zhao Ji and said, "Hey, there is a senior over there who is staring at you. He is really handsome!"
Zhao Ji looked around, then pointed at her other classmate Lan Yan, "I'm looking at the sexy and hot Yan Yan."
"Wow, Mai Chong, my idol!" Chen He, a grade 04 student, said excitedly, hugging his classmate Wang Chuanjun's neck.
Wang Chuanjun grinned and said, "Don't think that because my neck is long, you can treat it like this. It will break."
Sun Yizhou, a level 02 senior who came with them, smiled and said, "Please be more reserved. Isn't your uncle Chen Kaige? How could he be so excited after meeting a celebrity?"
"That's my cousin, and I've never seen him before." Chen He said depressedly.