Climb To the Top

The day before "Epic" was released, Jiang Ting was also a little worried, worried that she hadn't eaten all day.

This is her first real directing film in this world.

Five months of shooting time, compared to the three years it took to shoot "The Prosperous Dynasty" in the last world, it is simply rough and cannot be rough, but Jiang Ting still tries his best to be perfect .

to true and perfect.

But she was still worried, she asked the specially recruited assistant and said.

"What is the number of films made by the other directors?"

The assistant looked at her upset and didn't dare to disturb her, so she quickly turned on the computer and showed her the schedule of the recent movies.

At present, Lu Qian's "Fighting" has the highest number of films, with 40%, Jiang Ting's "Epic" 30%, and Zhangqiu's "Call of the Warrior" 15% , Qi Lanyue's "Ocean Troll" 10%, other movies add up to 5%.

Because last year's "Director's Plan" announced in advance that the four directors of the program group would release new movies in the summer, so this summer, many directors' new movies were either released in advance or pushed back. Not to mention Jiang Ting's own strength, just relying on the names of Lu Qian, Zhangqiu, and Qi Lanyue is enough to make many unknown directors retreat.

Perhaps Zhangqiu and Qi Lanyue are nothing in front of Qin Xiang and Zhang Feilong, but they are famous, and they are more than enough to crush those little directors.

Except for a few anime movies released this summer, there are almost no new movies, most of which are previous movies, and the amount of movies is still around 0.4% and 0.6%.

Alan Cinemas gave Jiang Ting 30%, which is already the highest.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Ting thought about it, and asked his assistant to turn out the row of whale entertainment.

The assistant soon found out the number of films of Whale Entertainment's major films. It shows that Lu Qian's "Conflict" is 33%, and Qi Lanyue's "Ocean Monster" is 1%. Zhangqiu's "Call to the Warrior" 23%, Jiang Ting's "Epic" 4%, and the other films combined are 9%. Jiang Ting twitched the corners of her mouth when she saw the movie that Whale Entertainment gave her. It would be better to take her movie off the shelves at this point. It would be too embarrassing.

Qintang was arrested, Whale Entertainment fell into civil strife, and after the filming was over, Jiang Ting's men thought about going to Whale Entertainment to try. As a result, the current owner of Whale Entertainment is the second shareholder, and he left "Epic" as the master, meaning that he gave 4% of the platoons, making Jiang Ting even mad and wanting to get the negatives back.

But Qin Xiang persuaded her not to make trouble with money, the quality of the film is good, and the theater chain will beg her to add more films in the future.

The cinema does not say that you can add as many films as you want. Take Alan Cinema as an example, it says that Jiang Ting will be given 30% of the film, and this 30% of the film will be signed The contract is divided into five or five points, but if Alan Cinema wants to re-arrange films in the future, it will have to sign a new contract. At that time, it is not Jiang Ting who is begging the theater line to add films as before, but the theater line begging for Jiang Ting, and the contract accounting will also be greatly improved, and it will greatly favor Jiang Ting, such as six or four points, Six or seven of the seven or three minutes would fall on Jiang Ting's head.

The contract signed by Jiang Ting with Whale Entertainment now is 4% of the film, and the split is 64 points, 60% is still Whale Entertainment, and 40% is Jiang Ting.

Staring at the amount of Whale Entertainment, Jiang Ting narrowed her eyes, hoping that Whale Entertainment would not beg her.

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After the movie was released, word of mouth exploded. In less than a day, most theater ticket offices announced that the online ticket purchase channel had been closed, and tickets were sold out today.

Some people think that it is okay to buy tickets for tomorrow, but they find that the tickets for the next day are also sold out, and they are suddenly confused. What is the situation? Then push it back, and the ticket for the day after tomorrow is also empty? Immediately, the anger rose, and they gave the Alan Cinema ticketing app one star in major app stores to add fragrance.

The irritable netizen: "Fuck, I waited for almost a year, who would have thought that I couldn't buy a ticket? The **** APP, if it weren't for the sporadic, I would like to play the sporadic."

It's too easy: "Aren't you stupid at Alan Cinema? "Epic" has sold out at the box office all over the country, so there are no more films? Some movies next door will only be watched by a few people, right? Settlement? You don't know which one makes money? One-star praise is sent, no thanks!"

The Internet is going crazy, and a phenomenal blockbuster finally came out in the summer, but I can't watch it without tickets. Who can stand it? Immediately, the major ticketing apps became a punching bag. Ignore everything else, and send a one-star praise.

At this time, the theater party is going crazy.

When it was released at 0:00, the reputation of "Epic" was not yet obvious. After all, it was night, and not many people watched the movie, but those who watched it gradually spread on the Internet.

A considerable number of netizens express their opinions in the comments of major ticket outlets or on Weibo after watching the movie.

Don't be afraid of the rumors: "Has anyone seen "Epic"? I went to see the movie with my friends just now, and I was immediately stunned. This is a special effect made by a domestic movie? I saw that When the silver dragon stared at me, I was almost scared to pee, it was so easy!"

Wang Bu Liuxing: "Same as the one upstairs, there were quite a few people watching "Epic" in the middle of the night, at least one third of them. This movie is really good, I can't tell where it is It's good-looking, that is, it looks good everywhere, in addition, Qiao Nan is so beautiful, she is not popular!"

Yan Que An Zhihong Hu's ambition: "I cried when the elves were destroyed their homes, I cried when the orc priest committed suicide, I cried when Arthur became king, the new king of the orcs I cried a lot when I was born. This movie is really good. There is no urine in the whole process. When I watched it just now, I was fascinated by the plot, and I didn't watch the movie well."

Netizens spread propaganda everywhere like running water, which led to many people watching "Epic" during the day, and then another wave of people were captured by the movie.

This wave of people was captured, and it was different from the first wave of people. The first thing they did was to buy a ticket and watch it again.

The thoughts in my heart are, Damn, I was patronizing and crying just now, and I didn't watch the movie well.

A typical commercial blockbuster, the scene of the Easter egg at the end has become the strongest tearjerker of the film, no matter how hard-hearted people see the baby who symbolizes hope, they can't help but be moved.

Gradually, it was spread by ten, by ten, by a hundred, by thousands, and by thousands all over the country, "Epic" exploded and became a complete hit!

Soaring to the sky with a momentum that smashes all the movies this summer.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, almost all major cinemas in first-tier cities sold out tickets, and more and more people couldn't buy tickets. People posted the ticket stubs, and they looked at the ticket software that said "Today's tickets are sold out".

Jiang Ting's "Epic" was less than three o'clock in the afternoon, and sold out the movie tickets of many theaters in first-tier cities with 30% of the film volume. At present, the box office has accumulated over 300 million on the first day, and the attendance rate is as high as 83.6%; and Lu Qian, with 40% of the film, the attendance rate is less than 50%, and the box office has only broken 200 million in front of him. Who should increase the lineup, does the theater really have no idea?

Netizens scolded the sub-cinemas of Alan Cinemas, and the sub-cinemas were also wronged in their hearts, and they dissed their superiors madly in their hearts. Are you blind? Have you never seen the movie "Epic"?

Love the movie "Fighting", did you collect extra money behind your back?

Because there was a problem with the decision-making and deployment of the top management at the beginning, the sub-cinemas under the subordinate theaters could not be the masters, and there was no way to increase the film arrangement without authorization, and they had to withstand the attacks of netizens. died.

After the major cinemas reported this issue to the senior management of Alan Cinemas, the whole company began to shake.

Qin Xiang's husband Luo Hong, who is also one of the investors in Jiang Ting's "Epic", immediately announced the reconvening of the board of directors.

Jiang Ting's 800 million investment is really not a blow. For Jiang Ting, if you don't spend money on a blockbuster, you won't be able to make a good movie. If you want to attract the attention of the audience, you have to spend money like crazy.

In the beginning of the movie "Epic", Apple TV invested 300 million yuan due to the relationship between Producer Li and the director of the TV station. Immediately afterwards, Jiang Ting ran out of money. She had no choice but to use the new special effects technology in her hand to collect money. She made an appointment with several good directors and investors to sell the one-time use rights of her special effects team. After getting the money, Jiang Ting added more to the "Epic" crew. 200 million investment, however, the investment is not enough.

Even if Jiang Ting has a new special effect technology and does not need to spend money on special effects, there is no doubt that this kind of film not only burns money in emerging special effects technology, but also burns money in other places. For example, in various places such as clothing, props, venues, etc., the more I photographed Jiang Ting, the less money I found.

In the end, seeing that she was out of money, she ran to pull Qin Xiang's husband, Alan, collective shareholder Luo Hong's investment, and pulled in 300 million investment. Moreover, Jiang Ting also has other plans in mind. Although Luo Hong said that he is not the largest shareholder of Alan Group, he is not a talkative person, but as the second largest shareholder, he has a lot of power within Alan. lose money. To a certain extent, it represents the Alan Cinema. Jiang Ting has tied him to the film "Epic". When the film is released, he is one of the investors, and Luo Xian can't help but ignore the film.

As expected, when the senior management of Alan Cinema finally decided to schedule the summer movies, Jiang Ting, a bad director who had only made one big screen movie, won the second only to Lu Qian 30 % of the high volume of films, it is not known how much Luo Hong exerted Jiang Ting behind this, but it is conceivable that Luo Hong is completely standing on her boat.