You promised to make a bad movie, but your box office exceeded 10 billion?

Chapter 69 Please sit down, Arthur
In Beijing, there are countless deep houses and compounds hidden in seemingly old alleys.

Walking in the alley, you will not feel that once you open the iron gate, you can see the luxurious scene in the courtyard.

Directly in front of the compound is a one-and-a-half-story house with a semi-basement below. This old house should have been renovated. Go up the stairs to the main house.

There are big trees with red lanterns hanging on both sides of the stairs, which looks very festive and full of old BJ style.

This is one of Chen Kaige's many mansions. It is located in the core area of ​​​​the capital. With a semi-open basement and spacious front yard, it has an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters. The valuation should be in hundreds of millions.

But this is the ancestral home. Brother Chen Kai doesn't usually live here. There is a lot of dust in the yard and rooms.

The reality is like this. Some people can leave thousands of square meters of luxury houses to gather dust, but some people can only squeeze in 84 square meters of space with [-] other unlucky people, living in misery.

However, the landlord who provided them with accommodation was caught for violating the rules.

The landlord is really nasty.

But no one cares about them living on the streets. Do they want to live in such a place?
Is it because you like it?

Brother Chen Kai cannot see such a scene. Like most directors in today's film and television industry, they no longer know what the real poor look like.

He is in a good mood today. It is a rare occasion to come back today because of the Chinese New Year.

Servants had already cleaned the courtyard and room in advance, and Brother Chen Kai, who was in a good mood, even cooked a table of dishes himself.

“A little bit of mince is nothing, but when it comes together you can tell they’re a delicious treat with great flavor.”

At the dinner table, Brother Chen Kai and his wife Chen Hong were having a good conversation.

"Just like the popcorn we had when we were kids, it's such a small kernel of corn, but it can burst into such a big flower. I think it has huge energy."

There are scholars who talk and laugh, but there are no white men in their dealings. His wife Chen Hong is also well-spoken, and every word she speaks seems to be rich in philosophy.

At this time, their son Chen Feiyu opened the door and walked in.

"Arthur, please sit down!"

Brother Chen Kai said calmly.

Arthur is Chen Feiyu’s English name.

He said he wanted to sit down, but unfortunately, there were only two chairs in the restaurant. What Arthur meant by sitting was actually half-kneeling next to his mother.

"My son is back!" Chen Hong was very happy. He took a spoonful of the delicious minced meat that Brother Chen Kai said and fed it to his son.

"Here, pick up some meat with chopsticks!"

Brother Chen Kai was equally happy and handed Chen Feiyu a pair of chopsticks.

"Well, okay, that's it!"

Seeing his son put a piece of meat into his mouth, Brother Chen Kai praised him with satisfaction.

The meal seemed to be "enjoyable".

Some people may feel that it is embarrassing to pick their toes, as if they are acting in a TV series, but this is the most common life scene in Chen Kaige's family, and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

After eating, Brother Chen Kai saw the message on his phone.

Because according to family rules, you are not allowed to look at your mobile phone while eating, so your mobile phone has been placed on the coffee table in the living room just now.

After seeing the message from his subordinate, Brother Chen Kai's original good mood suddenly disappeared.

The results of "Nonsense" came out two days before its release.

The Douban score is 3.5, the box office on the first day was 4800 million, and the box office on the second day was 1300 million...

Seeing this data, Brother Chen Kai turned blue.

He is very confident about this film, which is one of the reasons why he has been in a good mood these past two days. It is precisely because of this confidence that he did not look at the results until two days after the film was released.

This is a big production that he has invested a lot of money and effort in, and is preparing to win an Oscar!Brother Chen Kai blinked, thinking that he might be hallucinating.

However, when he opened his eyes again, the data on his phone remained unchanged.

He still didn't believe in evil, so he started searching online.

But the result was that his face only became more and more ugly.

"What's wrong with this world?"

He is a little skeptical about life now.

The box office result of 4800 million on the first day is not too bad. As long as the reputation can be improved in the future, the performance is likely to take off.

However, the box office fell off a cliff the next day, and the reputation has also collapsed. The subsequent box office results will probably be even more ugly, and the total box office may not even exceed [-] million.

Brother Chen Kai couldn't accept this result.

Logically speaking, even if the reputation collapses, the impact of the first day of release should not be that big. In addition, he invested a lot of resources in publicity, which should be able to confuse the public and prevent everyone from reacting so quickly.

In other words, the box office on the second day should not be so low!
After all the trouble, Chen Kai didn't even call his subordinates. He went directly to several mainstream ticket purchasing websites such as Maoyan and Taopiaopiao to check.

At this glance, I immediately discovered something fishy.

The first day of "Wuji" screenings was normal, but on the second day, "Wuji"'s screenings in all Wanda Cinemas dropped sharply, from the original 27.3% to 4.3%.

Even if the box office share and attendance data of "Wuji" are not good, it is normal to lower the film schedule, but this cannot be considered a cut in half. It is a direct cut off the upper body, leaving only a pair of feet.

Did you adjust the film arrangement like this?

And most of this 4.3% of movie schedules are in the early morning, or 25 or 42 in the morning. You must know that Wanda Cinema owns [-]% of the country's theaters and accounts for [-]% of the box office.

If they don't schedule movies, it will directly lead to many viewers who don't know the truth. Even if they want to buy tickets, they can't find a suitable time, so they can only watch other movies.

This is the main culprit for the sharp drop in the box office of "Funny" on the second day.

Brother Chen Kai suddenly became angry. He picked up his mobile phone and wanted to contact the person in charge of Wanda Cinema to ask him why he was targeting him.

Although he also understands that even without Wanda Cinema's targeting, "Nonsense" is already hopeless. At most, it will only earn tens of millions more at the box office, which will not have much impact on the overall situation.

For a movie with an investment of 3.4 million, the box office needs to be at least 12 billion to avoid losing money. A box office of tens of millions is really a drop in the bucket for him.

But people are like this. It is often difficult to admit their own mistakes and they like to find reasons in others, which is commonly known as blaming others.

As a great director, Chen Kaige is no exception.

"Xiao Zhao, help me contact the person in charge of Wanda Film and Television. They must give me an explanation!"

When the call was connected, Brother Chen Kai roared angrily.

To be able to make him, who usually pays so much attention to his literacy and speaks slowly and slowly, make such a sound, it is obvious that he is really anxious.

"I just wanted to call you too."

Xiao Zhao's voice on the other side of the phone was a little twitchy. He was actually hesitating how to tell Brother Chen Kai about this just now, but he didn't expect Brother Chen Kai to call him right away.

"Wanda's Mr. Li said... that you bullied his daughter and he wants to ban you."

"?"

Brother Chen Kai was confused.

Of course he knew who the assistant was talking about, Mr. Li. In Wanda, there was only one Mr. Li.

However, this also made him sober up a little. Thinking about "Wujiless" being cut down for no reason, he became suspicious, "Is there any misunderstanding in this?"

(End of this chapter)