"Bitter Water" has won the favor of most film critics and won the Golden Dragon Award for Best Picture. It is obviously not an illusion. This film is indeed a classic film. As long as you watch it with your heart, you will soon be attracted by the plot of the film itself.

attract.

However, the film's overly depressing plot hindered the film's box office success in commercial theaters.

In addition, the plot is confusing and heavy, making it difficult for many movie fans to understand its meaning.

Therefore, this well-received film was not well-received after being released in commercial theaters, and the box office data was extremely ugly.

In a dark movie theater.

Yang Ming sat in his seat and was quickly attracted by the pictures on the screen. The performance of each actor really surprised him, but at the same time he was not overwhelmed with emotion.

He was so lucky to win the Best Actor for "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff".

At least he thinks that the performance of the male protagonist in "Bitter Water" is not inferior to him, and even from a pure actor's point of view, Yang Ming is inferior.

This takes up the spotlight of "Three Kingdoms"!

Yang Ming couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. At the same time, he also guessed that the Golden Dragon Award organizing committee must have been extremely entangled in giving the Best Actor award to him. If it wasn't for the purpose of balancing the award, it would definitely not have been given to him.

he.

The atmosphere in the theater became dull as the plot of the movie progressed.

This emotion lasted until the end of the film.

After the film screening ended, there was a roar of applause in the theater. Many of the people who came today are professionals in the film industry. They must have certain film appreciation skills. Naturally, they can recognize the film "Bitter Water"

of excellence.

So naturally I won't be stingy with applause now.

Afterwards, Director You Gang took all the crew members on stage to thank all the guests, and specifically mentioned Yang Ming's name, expressing his extreme gratitude to Art Theater for supporting the continued release of "Bitter Water".

In the cinema.

Zhao Jianfeng, who was sitting in a corner, could not help but narrow his eyes slightly when he heard You Gang's speech on the stage.

In his mind, he couldn't help but think of what You Gang said to him a few days ago.

"I chose Oriental DreamWorks not because of the treatment and money, but because of the things I couldn't pursue at Victory Pictures."

You Gang didn't reveal anything at that time, but when Zhao Jianfeng saw the other party's excited expression on stage, he immediately guessed what the other party was that he could not possibly pursue in Victory Pictures.

Art Garden Cinema Line.

An art theater chain that specializes in showing art films.

It's actually for this.

It was impossible to say that Zhao Jianfeng was not surprised at all, but it was a bit difficult for him to understand how You Gang, a famous director in the industry, would be willing to sacrifice so much for an art theater. This was beyond his comprehension.

Although he was not originally engaged in the film industry, this did not hinder his understanding of the film industry during this period.

Commercial films are the mainstream, and this is a consensus in the film industry.

But that Yang Ming spent so much money on a small art theater, what exactly was he trying to achieve?

Is it just to attract a few heavyweight directors?

Zhao Jianfeng obviously didn't think so, but he still didn't know much about the film industry, and he couldn't figure out Yang Ming's intentions for a while.

I quickly put this thought to the back of my mind.

In any case, art films are a niche after all, and even a layman like him knows this very well. Even if the other party spends too much money on it, he won't take it seriously.

Even You Gang refused his offer to stay and didn't take it to heart.

This meritorious director of Victory Pictures does have a high reputation in the film industry, but his performance in commercial films is mediocre and he has few outstanding works.

The reason why he initially retained the other party was mainly because of his reputation in the film industry.

If the other party doesn't want to stay, he won't try too hard to persuade him to stay.

After all, in Zhao Jianfeng's subconscious, commercial interests are still the most important thing.

After the film screening ended and all the guests were sent away, Yang Ming and You Gang did not leave immediately.

Instead, I sat down in an office above the cinema and made two cups of tea.

"Teacher You, I'm sorry, I've been too busy recently and I've been a little lazy." Yang Ming said, "If you have nothing to do tonight, let's have dinner together later."

"Okay, no problem. I'll introduce you to everyone on the crew later. Also, don't be so polite, just call me Lao You." You Gang said with a hearty smile. With his straightforward personality, he doesn't care about these little things.

Didn't pay attention to it at all.

Yang Ming saw that this well-known director was indeed as rumored, with a strong personality and a straightforward temper, and did not mince words anymore. He raised his glass and said, "Then it's settled."

"But I still have to thank Mr. Yang this time. If you hadn't arranged for Yiyuan Cinema to be filmed in advance this time, my film would have been very embarrassing." You Gang said with emotion. At the end,

He sighed heavily, his face full of exhaustion.

It seems that because of the ups and downs of the film "Bitter Water", this great director was also under a lot of pressure.

When Yang Ming heard these words, he nodded in sympathy.

For ordinary people, the film industry is completely a vanity fair, full of glamorous appearances, but how many of them really understand the pressure that the filmmakers who are engaged in this work face behind it?

Especially a director like You Gang who wants to make a movie at all costs?

It can be said that I am suffering every day.

Yang Ming quickly changed the topic and stopped talking about this rather heavy topic, but neither of them got up and left for a while.

The reason why they still stay with the theater chain is mainly to wait for the box office statistics of the theater chain's first screening today.

After a while, a staff member knocked on the door and came in, bringing over the statistics.

"The data is out."

"Today, a total of 314 screens in theaters showed "Bitter Water". The cumulative box office for the first screening was 1,639,080 yuan. The average box office for a single theater was 5,220 yuan, and the attendance rate was 70%!"

After hearing this statistics, You Gang seemed to let out a big sigh of relief and immediately relaxed.

He was still mumbling: "More than 1.6 million, more than 1.6 million, it's almost the same as when "Bitter Water" was released in commercial theaters. Even if it's different, it's not much different."

Yang Ming took the statistics and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but nodded. Today, "Bitter Water" was released in the Yiyuan Cinema and got off to a good start.

If this data is compared with the data of commercial theaters, it will definitely be as bad as it can be.

But Yiyuan Cinemas is an art cinema chain after all. They are all art cinemas that have renovated and renovated old cinemas.

Both the size of the cinema and the seats are much smaller than those of commercial cinemas.

Generally, the number of seats in a theater in a commercial theater chain is about 500, while the number of seats in a theater in the Yiyuan theater chain is only more than 300 at most.

Some have less than half the number of seats in commercial cinema theaters.

Being able to achieve an average box office of more than 5,000 yuan per theater is considered very good.

Moreover, the previous best box office data of "Bitter Water" in commercial theaters was more than 1.9 million per show. That was the box office result at the premiere. After the premiere day, the box office of "Bitter Water" dropped rapidly. The result was

Horrible.

This is of course due to the fact that the film itself is niche and the audience does not buy into it. It is also related to the fact that commercial theaters quickly lowered their film schedules when they saw that the film did not perform well at the box office.

Those theater companies are more realistic than each other, and they certainly cannot waste too many resources on films that do not perform well at the box office.

Even if Donghai Cinema Line is under the leadership of Li Dongyang, the same situation will be the same.

"There are still more than a dozen cinemas in the Yiyuan Cinema Line that have not been renovated. After these cinemas are renovated in a few days, the box office data will be even better." Yang Ming said with a smile.

"That's thank God." At this time, You Gang was in a state of excitement. According to the box office performance of "Bitter Water" at the Yiyuan Cinema, there would be no pressure at all to recoup the production costs, and it would be possible to make a small profit.

Thinking of this, You Gang looked at Yang Ming sincerely and said: "Without Mr. Yang's help, "Bitter Water" might not have achieved such results. Here, I would like to thank Mr. Yang on behalf of all the members of the crew, and not much else.

I said, let’s drink together tonight and we won’t come home until we get drunk.”

drink wine--

When Yang Ming heard these two words, he couldn't help but get a headache, but seeing You Gang's excited look now, he had to bite the bullet and nod.

After saying this, You Gang hurriedly took Yang Ming to find other members of the crew who were waiting for the box office statistics downstairs. He would not return until he was drunk at night.

Finally, at dinner in the evening, Yang Ming was still drunk by You Gang and his gang.

He also anticipated this situation and did not go back. He asked Huang Tingzhi and others to arrange for him to sleep in a hotel room.

After "Bitter Water" was re-released in the Yiyuan Cinema, the box office performance was pretty good, and it quickly spread throughout the film industry.

Many people were a little surprised when they heard this, but they didn't feel too surprised.

This film is now taking advantage of the momentum of winning the "Golden Dragon Award" to re-release and achieve good box office results. This is what everyone expected.

To be honest, if this was a commercial blockbuster, the box office results would probably be even better.

It's a pity that this is an art film.

Mainstream commercial theaters did not arrange a large-scale re-release of "Bitter Water" just because this film won the Golden Dragon Award. If it were a commercial film, they would definitely not have such an attitude.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that art films that previously won the Golden Dragon Award still failed to achieve good box office results when they were re-screened in commercial theaters.

And it's not like this happens once or twice.
To be continued...