Chapter 501: Box Office Growth Against the Trend

What Yu Hua couldn't understand was still behind.

That is, the day after CCTV reported this incident, the box office of "Space Traveler" suddenly increased against the trend.

Although Zhou Yan and the others did not get specific box office data that day, according to feedback from movie theaters in various places, the number of people who came to the movie theater to watch "Space Traveler" suddenly increased sharply that day.

In some movie theaters in some cities, tickets for several shows on the same day were even sold out.

This can be called a miracle for a movie that has been released for twenty days.

There can only be one reason for this miracle, and that is that many people saw the news on CCTV and then ran into the cinema to watch "Space Traveler".

Originally, the promotion of "Love Traveler" in second- and third-tier cities was not as strong as that in first-tier cities such as Yanjing and Shanghai, and its box office performance was also slightly worse.

However, this CCTV report directly gave "Space Traveler" a huge popularity in second- and third-tier cities.

Movie fans actually don't care about why Han Shaogong sued Zhang Yiwu, nor why Zhang Yiwu scolded Zhou Yan and Han Shaogong. They just saw "Space Traveler" on CCTV and knew that such a movie has attracted a lot of attention recently.

It was impossible for them not to pay attention to a movie that attracted so much attention, so a lot of people came to the cinema just to join in the fun.

On January 11, when Han Sanping called Zhou Yan, his tone was a bit confused.

"Having been in the film industry for so many years, I have never seen such a battle. I thought "Love Traveler" was about to wrap up, but I didn't expect another climax. According to incomplete statistics, on the 9th, "Love Traveler" The box office of "Traveler" reached more than 5 million, which is more than twice the box office of No. 8. Moreover, the box office of No. 10 should not be worse than that of No. 9, which means that the box office has increased by one thousand in these two days. "More than ten thousand."

"So, the box office of "Space Traveler" should now exceed 50 million?"

"Well, it must have been exceeded. I thought it would be difficult to surpass the goal, but I didn't expect it to be achieved so easily. Fifty million has been achieved, and now we have to look forward to 60, 70 or even 80 million."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Sixty million is probably no problem, seventy million is also possible, and eighty million is probably unlikely. This time, because of the CCTV report, it was a gust of wind. When this gust of wind blows, the heat will Come down."

It’s not that Zhou Yan wants to be negative, the market potential is so huge, and it’s not easy to achieve the current results.

"It doesn't matter. Our goal has been achieved, and the rest is all earned. You can now talk to Mr. Xu about donating pianos."

They had agreed when they had dinner together that for every two million more Mainland box office sales of "Space Traveler", Tomson would donate a piano to Yangyin.

Now "Space Traveler" can basically exceed 60 million, which means that Tomson has to donate at least 30 pianos.

Although thirty pianos cost a lot of money, Xu Feng must be very happy to donate. "Time Traveler" can achieve such a box office, and the profit it brings to her is not comparable to that of dozens of pianos.

"Haha, I don't need to mention the piano. Sister Feng will never forget it."

"That's true. Now that the mainland's box office has been successful, the rest depends on Hong Kong and Taiwan."

Zhou Yan doesn't pay much attention to Xiangjiang and Taiwan Island. He pays more attention to neon. After all, compared to Xiangjiang and Taiwan Island, the market for neon is much larger.

"Sister Feng and the others have made arrangements. All that's left is to wait for the release."

"Well, it's a good start now, and everyone will be more confident later." Han Sanping said with a smile.

"Yes, it's a reassurance."

This is not an ordinary reassurance, but a reassurance that can fill people up.

The cost of "Space Traveler" was only 30 million yuan, and now they are almost paying back the money from just one ticket office in the mainland.

The box office income from other ticket warehouses, as well as the subsequent income from copyrights, video tapes, and CDs, are basically pure profits.

Han Sanping has been making movies for so many years, and he has never fought such an easy battle.

Thinking about the subsequent copyright of the film, Han Sanping smiled and said, "There are so many songs in "Space Traveler" that can make you a lot of money later. When are you going to release the soundtrack?"

"Let's wait for the release to end in various places."

"How about it comes out in China first? I think there are already a lot of pirated tapes on the market, and they are getting better and better."

Pirated tapes have been around since the movie was first released, but the quality of those pirated tapes was very poor at the beginning. Not only did the recorded sound quality not be good, but even the music was intermittent and incomplete at all.

But as time goes by, piracy is getting better and better.

Although the sound quality of pirated copies will not be very good, at least the integrity can be guaranteed, and some pirated tape covers are also very formal. Just looking from the outside, it is no longer possible to tell whether they are pirated.

Zhou Yan didn't care about this. He knew that even if the original soundtrack of "Space Traveler" was released right now, it would be impossible to compete with the pirated tapes in the market.

Since it can't be stopped, it's better to relax and relax, even if the pirates are helping them promote it.

Among so many people who watch movies, some must have listened to pirated tapes first, and then went to the cinema to watch movies because of the music.

Of course, most of them listen to music and don’t go to the cinema to watch movies.

If we do a statistics now, we will definitely find that the number of people who have listened to the music of "Time Traveler" is much greater than those who have watched the movie.

The popularity of the music is actually much greater than that of the movie.

It's just that many people listened to the music but didn't know it was from the movie.

…

Fumao Records, General Manager's Office, Li Yaming walked in straight from outside, then sat on the sofa and said to Zhang Gengyu, "I have two pieces of news for you."

Hearing Li Yaming's words, Zhang Gengyu put down the pen in his hand, looked up and asked, "One good news and one bad news?"

"No, neither of them is good news, but one of them is slightly less bad."

"Can I choose not to listen?"

"No."

"Then I choose to listen to the slightly less bad news first."

Li Yaming nodded, "Just now a company in Shanghai wanted to invite Kelly to participate in their business activities, and the price was very high, already at the second-tier level."

Zhang Gengyu raised his eyebrows unexpectedly. Kelly Chen had just debuted not long ago. Although her performance was good, she was not at the second-tier level. He knew that Li Yaming's classification of the second-tier was very strict.

And the other party's price was at the second-tier, which meant that there was hope to bid higher.

But this was not really good news for them, because Kelly Chen was a singer of Zhengdong Records, but they were the agent for the business in Taiwan.

Now Kelly Chen is going to Pengcheng for a commercial performance, which has nothing to do with them, and they can't get any money.

"Contact Zhengdong and let them contact it themselves."

Since it has nothing to do with them, Zhang Gengyu doesn't want to worry about it anymore.

"What's the other news?" Zhang Gengyu asked again.

"The other party not only invited Kelly Chen, but also invited Wang Lihong, and the price is not low."

Hearing Wang Lihong's name, Zhang Gengyu was stunned, because Wang Lihong had left their Fumao and went to Huanyin.

The faster and better Wang Lihong develops, the more uncomfortable he will be.

"Why did the other party invite the two of them?"

"Because of the movie "Time Traveler." Li Yaming said.

"Oh, it seems that the movie performed well in the mainland."

The box office situation of "Time Traveler" was reported more frequently and faster in Hong Kong, but Taiwan did not follow up in time.

The current situation reported in Taiwan is still more than a week ago.

So Zhang Gengyu doesn't know much about the box office of "Time Traveler".

"I asked the other party and found out that the box office of "Time Traveler" in the mainland has exceeded 50 million now."

"50 million RMB? Or New Taiwan dollars?"

"Of course it's RMB."

Zhang Gengyu curled his lips, "I remember that the box office of movies in the mainland is not very high, isn't it said that his previous "The Chorus" broke some record, it seems to be only 50 million RMB?"

"Well, this time "Time Traveler" should also break the record."

Zhang Gengyu sighed, "Zhou Yan is really too strong, this movie will definitely not be bad at the box office in Taiwan. He was originally very popular in Taiwan It is very high, and with Wang Zuxian, it can basically guarantee the top position. "

"Zhou Yan's main ticket base is actually in Japan. He probably doesn't care much about the box office in Taiwan. You know, several of his movies have earned more than 10 billion in Japan. "

"Indeed." Zhang Gengyu nodded, and then he was a little puzzled, "It is indeed impressive that the movie got 50 million box office, but Wang Lihong only sang an interlude in it, and his fame can be raised so quickly?"

"In fact, the interlude of "Time Traveler" is much more famous than the movie. The other party asked Kelly Chen and Wang Lihong to go over, and also specified that they sing the two songs "a thousand years" and "How long will I love you?" "

Zhang Gengyu scratched his eyebrows, "Speaking of which, we haven't heard what these two songs are like."

"Otherwise, I ask my friend to get a tape for us to listen to?"

Zhang Gengyu knew that the tape that Li Yaming asked someone to get must be a pirated copy.

Now that the movie has just been released, it is impossible for the soundtrack to come out.

Logically speaking, they run a record company and shouldn't buy pirated tapes, but he really wants to listen to the interlude in "Time and Space Love Traveler".

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Gengyu finally nodded, "Okay, let's get one and listen to it."

Pirated is pirated, at most he will buy ten or eight copies to make up for it after the genuine soundtrack is released.

"Okay, I'll have someone do it later."

Zhang Gengyu nodded and said, "Contact Huanyin about Wang Lihong's matter."

...

The news that someone asked Wang Lihong to perform commercially soon reached Zhou Yan.

If it was a normal situation, Wang Lihong would not need to ask Zhou Yan for permission to accept a commercial performance.

If every artist in the company had to ask him for permission to accept a commercial performance, he would be exhausted.

However, "How Long Will I Love You" was the first public performance, so Xu Xiangjie decided to tell Zhou Yan.

There are two types of songs in "Time Traveler". The first type is like "all of me" and "How long will I love you", where singers are invited to sing the full version.

For this type of episode, singers can sing it publicly after the movie is released.

There is another type of episode, where Zhou Yan only asked someone to record a little bit, and for this type of song, singers are not allowed to sing it publicly, let alone record singles.

Zhou Yan was also very happy to learn that "I Will Love You For A Long Time" and "A Thousand Years" would be performed publicly. Although the soundtracks would not be released for the time being, the singers' commercial performances would be launched.

Wang Lihong is now the singer of their Fantasy Sound, and it is time for him to take advantage of the big sales of "Time Traveler" to gain more popularity.

"Boss, is this the world premiere of the interlude of "Time Traveler"?" Xu Xiangjie asked with a smile on the other end of the phone.

"No, it will be the world premiere of "All of Me" in the United States tomorrow."

"Hehe, since the world premiere is not available, at least it will be the first in Asia."

"The first in Asia, that's right."

"Where will "All of Me" be performed in the United States tomorrow?"

"New York, Radio City Music Hall, Celine Dion's concert."

"Oh, that's much better than a commercial performance."

"Yeah."

...

In the evening of January 14, Salori and Olivia appeared downstairs of Radio City Music Hall, waiting for ticket inspection.

As loyal fans of Celine Dion, they naturally wanted to support her when she came to New York for a concert.

Because this was an indoor concert, there were only 6,000 tickets, so they had a hard time buying the tickets.

In fact, Celine Dion hasn't had a concert for some time, and this concert in Radio City is the only one in recent months.

"I heard that there will be new songs in today's concert."

A couple was in the front, and the content of the discussion aroused the interest of Salori and Olivia.

Olivia took the initiative to ask, "Excuse me, where did you get the news from?"

The couple looked back at the two of them, and the girl smiled and said, "I also heard it from other fans."

"But she hasn't released any new songs recently."

Usually, the new songs that singers sing at concerts must be songs from singles or albums that have been released.

And Celine Dion hasn't released any new songs recently, so this makes them confused.

The girl shrugged, "I don't know about that. Maybe the new songs refer to the songs in "Falling into you."

"Are the songs in "Falling into you" considered new songs?"

"Falling into you" is an English album released by Celine Dion in early March 1996. Many of the songs in it are songs that everyone has heard before, and there are even three covers.

Even if it is all new original songs, it is already 1997, and it has been almost a year since the release of this album. The songs in it cannot be said to be new songs.

Of course, the couple did not think that the songs in this album were new songs, but they knew very little about this news from other places, and they could not give Olivia and the others an answer.

Originally, Olivia and the others were waiting outside for ticket inspection, and they were still in a relatively relaxed mood, but now they heard a piece of news that they didn't know whether it was a rumor, which made them restless.

Now they are eager to get their tickets checked quickly, get into the venue quickly, and then have Celine Dion start singing quickly, preferably with a new song as the first song to answer their questions. (End of this chapter)