Chapter 0020 - Crazy Box Office

　　After a short exchange of pleasantries, Guan Shirt took them and left, leaving Zhang Bingqian and the two of them on this second floor corridor. 　　Looking at her daughter and Yin Jun, who stood under the faint light, like golden children, Zhang Bingqian's heart could not tell what kind of emotion she felt. 　　She had never looked down on Yin Jun, on the contrary, she also felt that Yin Jun was so young and so worldly and sensible, and that he would definitely achieve a lot when he grew up. 　　But Zhang Bingqian had never thought that her daughter would be cheaper than Yin Jun. 　　What she wants is a mature and stable elite who is five or six years older than Guan Zhilin, and it doesn't matter if he is from a rich family, so that her daughter, who has been pampered since childhood, will live a happy life and not have to worry about the trivialities of life such as oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, and will be able to carry her younger brother by the way. 　　But Zhang Bingqian is very distressed to find, do not know Yin Jun this kid cast what magic, the daughter is like to stick to him, simply to the point of being obsessed. 　　I really don't know if it's the first time a child falls in love, will be because of the age is too small, and don't know how to stay a few points it? 　　Of course, today Zhang Bingqian but also did not deliberately think about these things, anyway, in the future she will, as always, let her daughter and Yin Jun less contact. 　　Even if Yin Jun had already written a good script that made his family ironically make money, it was still the same. 　　"Mommy~" 　　Waiting for the outsiders to leave, Guan Zhi Lin delicately ran over and took Zhang Bingqian's arm, excitedly yelling; "I watched the movie written by Brother Jun, it's so good! ...... Is it a box office hit this time and make lots and lots of money?" 　　"Well, the response was very good." Zhang Bingqian smiled and said to Yin Jun who walked over, "Thank you, Jun!" 　　"Don't be polite, Auntie, this is Uncle Guan's good filming and acting." Yin Jun jawed, "Now the attendance rates of those theaters have come out as well?" 　　"Two shows down, the average attendance rate is 65%, due to the very good word of mouth, the movie tickets for the third show are sold almost 75%." Zhang Bingqian said, "According to this calculation, for the three shows today, we should be able to get 100,000 dollars in ticket sales!" 　　Between words, Zhang Bingqian couldn't help but show a hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth. 　　Guan Zhilin looked just like his mom, so Zhang Bingqian, who was close to forty years old, was still very attractive and good looking. 　　Over the past few years, with the continuous development of Xiangjiang's economy, the price of movie tickets has also been increasing, rising every year. 　　The year before last, the average price of a movie ticket was $4.8, last year the average price was $5.3, and at the beginning of this year, during the Chinese New Year, it went up to $5.6. 　　Next year will be even more exaggerated, it will go straight up to about 7 dollars. 　　Only, this is only the average price, it also depends on the factors of the production company and the big stars to finalize the price. 　　Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table doesn't have any big stars and it's a romantic literary film, so the movie ticket is only sold at $5, which is a moderately low price, so that it can also attract more people to come into the cinema to watch it. 　　According to the 65% attendance rate on the first day, this is really not low, and with the good word-of-mouth spreading out, tomorrow night's weekend break, as well as Sunday's rest day, there will definitely be a box office explosion. 　　Oh, by the way, until 2020, Hong Kong doesn't have a double holiday, their normal holiday is just one day on Sunday, plus some daily legal vacations. 　　So even if today is Friday, it's not going to start blowing up like the North American box office, it won't be until tomorrow night when it is. 　　The opening day box office is $100,000, so tomorrow you can expect $180,000 from seven showings a day; Sunday will be $250,000 at least. 　　A three-day box office of $430,000 would definitely be a great result, so that it wouldn't be forced to demand anything like three days down or one week down, but at least it would have to be released to the standard time of 15 days. 　　By then, a 1.5 million box office is really not a dream! 　　No wonder Guan Shirt was so happy today, directly inviting those theater owners to a celebration banquet. 　　Then again, if today's box office could really break through $400,000, then Golden Harvest would definitely be willing to open a few more theaters for Seven Days of Love. 　　After all, April and May have always been the off-season for movies, and there aren't many good movies being released. 　　Movies that can make money will of course be given preferential treatment. 　　Yin Jun had just heard Guan Shirt talking about "Mr. Choi of Golden Harvest", placing him ahead of several bosses, so this person should be Choi Yong Chang, one of the three giants of Golden Harvest. 　　This usually very low-profile giant, in fact, is one of the important promoters of Golden Harvest's prosperity in the 80s and 90s, he is in charge of the film's project, planning, as well as the most important arrangements for the cinema, etc., in the Golden Harvest's position is only second to Zou Ronghuai and He Guanchang. 　　It's basically up to him whether or not "7 Days of Love in the Wrong Table" can be expanded to theaters again. 　　...... 　　The next morning, Zou Zhenhuai just came to work at the company and met Cai Yongchang who was waiting at the office door. 　　"Yong, what's so urgent?" Zou Zhenhuai opened the office door while smiling. 　　Nowadays, Golden Harvest is far from the unrivaled No.1 movie company in Hong Kong in the late 80's and early 90's, they are just the second most famous movie company in Hong Kong relying on Li Xiaolong in the front, and now relying on the Hsu Brothers. 　　The first one is still Shaw Studios, who can earn more than 100 million dollars a year when all the profits are counted. 　　So Golden Harvest's office was not big, just a rented two-story building. 　　"Brother Huai." Cai Yongchang followed him into the office, took out a piece of paper from his bag, put it on the table and said, "Take a look." 　　Zou Zhenhuai hadn't sat down yet, picked it up and looked at it, his eyes couldn't help but freeze a little, "150,000! No statistical error?" 　　"No mistake!" Cai Yongchang nodded his head and said, "But it wasn't the three shows that were released, the audience really responded too well, so it had to be concentrated in five theaters to open another show, counting three and a half shows overall. The attendance for this remaining half was 100%, and there were a good hundred or so people who didn't see it and cursed for half a day!" 　　"The Table Wrong Seven Days of Love ......" Zou Wenhuai tapped his fingers on the table and said suspiciously, "When did Guan Shirt have such a skill? Didn't you guys only give an expectation of a million dollars at the box office as well?" 　　Before a movie was released, there was a preview, and the theater managers would use their scores and evaluations to decide exactly how many venues and how many screens to arrange for this movie to be released. 　　Cai Yongchang was in charge of this. 　　In the past, Ho Kwan-cheong had to be present to watch it, but just some time ago, during the production of a movie, he took a liking to a young man and came back saying that if he cultivated him with all his heart, he should be a good actor not inferior to Hung Kam-po, so he has been running around all these days to see if he can poach him. 　　As a result, Cai Yongchang looked a little embarrassed. 　　Zou Wenhuai smiled at the situation, "Yong, I'm not blaming you, it's just that I can't figure out how Guan Shirt, a person who's almost past his prime, could possibly shoot himself and act in such a good movie out of the box?" 　　To gross 150,000 on the first day and then force the movie theater to open another one out at 11:00 to satisfy the need was something rarely seen. 　　This already fully demonstrated that the box office potential of 7 Days of Love in the Wrong Table should be looking towards 2 million. 　　And if it reaches 2 million, then it's a big seller, enough to attract Golden Harvest's attention. 　　Last year, there were only 8 movies in Hong Kong that grossed 2 million! 　　Tsai Yong Chang smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know, when I first watched '7 Days of Love in the Wrong Table', I just saw it as a simple romantic comedy, I didn't expect that those viewers liked it so much, after the theater owners asked about it, the positive reviews were very high, everyone, except for some criticisms about the ending, felt that if they had the time, they could watch it for a second time. " 　　Saying that, he briefly talked about the content of "Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table" again. 　　Zou Renghuai was also an old movie person, and listening to it, he also felt as if there was nothing special about it. 　　But the audience liked it, and liked it a lot, so that was a foregone conclusion-this movie would definitely be popular! 　　"Wasn't 'By Any Means Necessary' released the day before yesterday? It's empty anyway, so add 3 ...... no, 5 more theaters to them, and add Old Lei's Li Sheng Theater as well." Zou Wenhuai commanded, "In addition, you find someone to carefully check how exactly 'Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table' was produced, what are the wonders." 　　"Good!" 　　Cai Yongchang nodded his head. 　　...... 　　On this day, many filmmakers knew about the meteoric rise of "7 Days of Love in the Wrong Table" and its great popularity. 　　It made sense that Golden Harvest announced that they would add another 5 screens to it. 　　That makes 16 cinemas for "7 Days of Wrong Table", which is a really big scale! 　　However, people still didn't realize how hot '7 Days to the Wrong Table' would be. 　　On April 29th, Saturday, "7 Days to the Wrong Table" grossed 270,000 in a single day, almost doubling. 　　On April 30th, Sunday, 7 Days of Love with a Mistaken Table grossed $470,000, surpassing the previous year's box office champion Half a Catty's first day debut of $450,000, setting a new record for a single day in Hong Kong's box office ever. 　　On May 1st, Monday, the box office of "7 Days of Love in the Wrong Table" dropped back to $320,000, but on the same day, Golden Harvest announced that a total of 8 more cinemas had been added and contacted to screen the film on the next day, thus giving "7 Days of Love in the Wrong Table" yet another record for the most number of cinemas to be screened. 　　In the face of such a great success, newspapers and TV stations have been reporting and commenting on it, and "7 Days of Love" has almost become a cultural phenomenon. 　　If young people and couples don't go to see "7 Days of Love", they are totally outdated. 　　According to an interview with TVB, there is a couple on this side of Hong Kong Island who have watched it six times in three days in one breath, yet they are still ready to continue watching it. 　　As a result, in the first week of May, the box office of "Seven Days of Love in the Wrong Table" reached a crazy 3.7 million dollars. 　　As of May 7th, the cumulative 10-day box office has reached 4.52 million, once again setting a record for the fastest 10-day box office to break 4 million, just one step away from last year's box office champion Hair Money Chill's 5.06 million!