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Chapter 44 Incredible Box Office (Part 1)

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Now is the information age, cinemas use computers to count votes, and every time a ticket is sold, they will be entered into the computer immediately. Therefore, after the last screening of the night, the box office statistics for the first day of the movie were released.

60,000 yuan, this is the box office statistics on the first day of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years". This box office figure is undoubtedly not ideal. Excluding the total box office, the ticket price of each movie ticket and the number of screenings that day, the result is that the average attendance rate of each cinema is only about 30%, which is similar to the result estimated by Chen Ping after watching the movie at Shanghai New Century Cinema.

Although this movie is a small investment movie, from the early shooting to the post-production, plus the attendance subsidies for the screening theaters and various promotional expenses, the total box office must reach at least five million to recover the cost. The box office of 60,000 per day is obviously a task that even all the screening theaters make exceptions for consecutive screenings that cannot be completed for two months.

Li Jupeng and Le Qingyun were obviously very frustrated about this result, and Chen Ping said: "What kind of expression do you guys do? Didn't I tell you before the release? We are not a Hollywood blockbuster, we are just a small investment movie, and we can't have too much expectations for the first day's box office. We are potential films, and our box office blowout is in the middle and late stages!"

Le Qingyun nodded and said, "I believe you, Chen Ping, and I am more optimistic about the future of our movies!"

On the other side, Li Jupeng also said: "Your boss Chen Ping has never disappointed us. Of course, I believe that the same is true this time. But the box office results on this first day are really too ugly. Now the cinema bosses who have received subsidies may be smiling behind their backs!"

"After this week, you can see if they can still laugh or not." Chen Ping said with confidence.

The box office result on the next day was 65,000 yuan. Although it increased a little from the first day, that little money was still a drop in the bucket.

But starting from the third day, the box office suddenly began to grow in a strange way, reaching a height of 110,000 yuan, and the attendance rate exceeded half. In other words, as long as you can maintain this result and find a way to sing some screening time in the cinema, at least there is no problem in guaranteeing the capital.

Regarding this result, Le Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that I am not a bad box office poison."

Chen Ping kissed Le Qingyun's lips and said, "Not only is you not a box office poison, but you will also be a big box office dark horse! Let's see, his potential has just begun to explode in those years. When this potential is fully revealed, I'm afraid that the starring actor you, as the star, will be shocked!"

On the fifth day of the movie's release, it was like to prove Chen Ping's prediction. The box office of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" suddenly increased to 200,000, and the average attendance rate of more than 20 cinemas exceeded 90%, and this was pulled down by too many screening tasks assigned by Jiangyin City, Wuxi. If the attendance rate of each cinema alone reached almost 100%, this is a miracle of the Chinese film industry. It can be said that if this movie can keep moving forward, then a small profit will be made in one month. And with this result, the theaters are willing to extend the screening time. Then when all the screenings are over, the box office of this movie will be basically no problem.

Of course, maybe this first day might be a coincidence, but the box office results of the sixth and seventh day even went one step further on the basis of reaching the full point, reaching a terrible height of 210,000. In other words, the attendance rate of the cinemas of each screening reached an incredible 100%, which is a stronger momentum of money grabbing than some foreign commercial blockbusters.

Although it was the second week of the screening, it was a bit less popular than the weekend, but it was still hovering at the box office of 200,000 yuan per day and the attendance rate of more than 90%.

Maybe I don’t think it’s just looking at the data, but in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou, cities where there is only one cinema screening in the city, the popularity of the movie is not something that ordinary people can imagine. There is a long queue of ticket waiting in the ticket hall of the cinema.

"Why are there no tickets? Sister, it's only five o'clock in the afternoon now!"

"Sorry, the tickets for the movie you mentioned were sold out before noon. Otherwise, you can consider other movies, such as Xiyouji and the Seven Little Luohan, which are also very good."

"I have never been interested in domestic movies. I want this movie. So today's nothing, what about tomorrow?"

"Sorry, tickets for tomorrow will not be released until 9 a.m. tomorrow."

"Can't you guys be there one day in advance? My wife forced me to buy it. She said that her colleagues in her unit have watched this movie, and the movie they discuss every day at the unit, so she must watch it. If she doesn't watch it, it's like a rural person. If I can't buy a ticket today, she will not let me have a meal!"

"Sorry, sir, this is our rule, and I really can't do anything about it."

...

In addition to the farce at the ticket counter, there were many people sitting or standing in the cinema hall and outside the cinema gate, as if they wanted to ask if other cinemas had tickets, but the result was that everyone was stunned, because in these three cities, only one cinema had screenings, so all kinds of shouts and scoldings were heard.

"Damn it! What a broken cinema? There is not even such a classic movie as the girl we chased together in those years, June 2!"

"I'll give you my lungs! Isn't this movie? This movie is very classic and very good, and other domestic movies are trash! I'll take your mother!"

...

It is precisely because there are not many cinemas in these three cities that a strange phenomenon has been created. Since Hangzhou is also in the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone, many Hangzhou people have grouped together to watch Shanghai and Jiangyin, which have many screening sites. The tickets, which were not too nervous in these places, suddenly became in short supply. Due to the popularity of the movie, many ticket sellers immediately started to think of scalpers in the movie. Because they don’t have to go to work, they would queue up early in the morning. When the cinema started selling tickets, they snatched the tickets for the movie and sold them to other viewers who wanted to watch at a high price.

In response to this, Chen Ping said self-deprecatingly: "I didn't expect that our movie actually gave birth to the development of an industry. I'm so proud!"

Le Qingyun snuggled in Chen Ping's arms intimately. She looked at Chen Ping's side face, with a sweet smile on her lips. In fact, this scene was something she never dreamed of. When Chen Ping told her that she wanted to help her realize her dream of making a movie, she thought Chen Ping was just saying that, but later she didn't expect that Chen Ping really wrote a script for her.

Although the script looks more like a novel, Chen Ping firmly told her that the script must be very popular after it becomes a movie.

Later, Chen Ping called his friend Li Jupeng from Jiangyin to Shanghai. He first formed a film and television company, then formed a crew, recruited actors, and found a shooting venue, and then used the method of subsidizing the attendance of the cinema to seek the release of the movie, and so on. Until the release of the cinema later, and now the popularity of the cinema, Le Qingyun felt that all this was like a dream, too incredible and too unreal.

Chen Ping seemed to feel the mood of the woman in his arms, lowered his head and said to her: "How is it? Do you admire me?"

This time, Le Qingyun did not stubbornly sing the opposite tune with Chen Ping, but nodded gently, then raised her head and looked at Chen Ping with a blurred look. Chen Ping also looked at Le Qingyun, looking at her delicate face that was almost dripping with water, slowly attracted by her, and finally kissed her lips involuntarily.

Le Qingyun closed her eyes the moment she was kissed by Chen Ping, and actively stretched out her tongue to cooperate with Chen Ping's invasion. Chen Ping's big hand skillfully cut from Le Qingyun's white and elegant neck like a swan to her just-small chest, and then went downward until Le Qingyun let out a moan that made people feel lustful and enlarged.
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