Chapter 869: "Potential"
The production cost of "The Watchers" is 4 billion won, and the profit and loss point is 2 million viewers. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In other words, within 5 days of release, this movie almost broke through the profit and loss point!
From the studio's point of view, this is undoubtedly the most important, and the answer sheet handed over by "The Watchers" is just as strong!
Word-of-mouth and box office double harvest, is there a better result than this?
"Sure enough, produced by N.E.W, it must be a high-quality product!" Under the company's intentional guidance, such remarks circulated everywhere on the Internet.
The timing of the release of "The Watchers" was very good, and "Iron Man 3" dominated for three consecutive weeks, and the momentum was unmatched, but it was about to turn into a decline. The release of "The Watchers" swept away the decline of local Korean films, pulled "Iron Man 3" off the "overlord" throne, and was suddenly raised to the height of national honor by many people, and naturally spared no effort to praise and publicize.
Of course, there is also the guidance of N.E.W.
Park Zhixun attaches great importance to building momentum and is also good at building momentum - from the past to the present, he can learn a lot from history books, combined with Professor Shen Huiying's officialdom knowledge and experience, as well as his own careful observation in the entertainment industry for nearly ten years, to create what he is now.
However, the foundation of everything is still the quality of the film.
"The Watchers" tells the story of surveillance experts who hunt down hidden criminal organizations, and is a crime-themed action movie.
In the film, Xue Jingqiu plays the role of the "Huang squad leader" of the special crime department's surveillance team, with rich experience, eyes like eagles, will not let go of a minute or a second, and has super concentration; Zheng Yusheng plays the ruthless criminal leader "James", which is also his first time playing the role of a villain. As a mastermind of highly intelligent crimes. He has a great deal of judgment and action. Han Hyo-joo gave up her previous innocent and feminine image, and played the role of "Ha Yoon-joo", a surveillance expert with natural intuition and a super memory, who played a newcomer to the surveillance class, and her acting skills lived up to expectations for the film, and Lee Jun-ho at 2pm......
Not only the movie plot, editing, pictures, etc., but also a group of actors have been praised by the media.
In a word, this is another successful movie!
It seems that as long as it is a blockbuster work launched by N.E.W. There is not a single one that is not successful!
At the beginning of the year, "The Gift of Room No. 7", "New World", plus this "Watchers", no more works will be launched this year, which is enough to ensure the market share of N.E.W!
"The Monitors" is just that, after all, it is a work that N.E.W attaches importance to, but "Catch That Guy" came out as a dark horse, but many film companies were powerless to complain.
With so many movies every year, it is impossible for the theater chain to blindly take care of the N.E.W company, so it is also helpless to arrange the release of "Catch That Guy" on May 16. Even N.E.W itself didn't expect much from the movie, but after its release. It has received overwhelming praise!
The film tells the story of a kidnapping case that occurred 15 years ago, and after the statute of limitations for prosecution has passed, the case is repeated in the same way. The story of multiple victims' families and police working together to track down the real culprit. In the film, Yan Zhenghua played a woman who lived in the shadow of losing her daughter for 15 years, and her gloomy, trance, and almost collapsed, but tenacious acting skills conquered many audiences!
"The most clever thing about the film is that it makes a bold transposition of the 'kidnapper' and the 'victim', and puts the family affection that blood is thicker than water at the most crucial point, revealing the root of the sin - for the sake of the children. Because the process has been very ups and downs, the ending still stunned everyone, plus the skillful performances of Yan Zhenghua, Kim Sang-kyung, Song Yingchang and others, making the film a masterpiece of the same genre!"
"The film has the face shape of "Memories of Murder" and the facial features of "That Guy's Voice". Many characteristics of abduction movies can be seen from the film, but this time a completely new criminal is created, which can be described as an absolute high-IQ crime. ”
Although the box office is not as good as "The Watchers", which only had 650,000 viewers in the first week, the film has received much more praise than the former!
650,000 viewers, although it can't be compared with "The Watchers", but it is already good. Moreover, such a film, especially favored by some award ceremony juries, has a high chance of winning an award!
For N.E.W, of course, it was a surprise, but the competitors were full of bitterness and wanted to ask why God was so partial!
In mid-May, two movies, like two flags, shook out the reputation of n.e.w!
In the second week, "The Watchers" still maintained a daily audience of about 200,000, and won nearly 800,000 viewers in two days over the weekend, with a total of 3,738,671 viewers.
Even the Hollywood blockbuster "Fast and Furious 6" was released, but it failed to shake the championship of "The Watchers".
The cumulative box office of "Catch That Guy" also reached 1,387,865 people.
The fly in the ointment is that the momentum of "The Watchers" is not strong enough, and the number of daily viewers has dropped to about 100,000 since the third week.
However, it is enough.
Judging from this trend, it seems that it can exceed 5 million moviegoers. I don't know how many film companies are looking forward to their works being able to achieve this result!
"The Gift of Room No. 7", after all, there is only one.
N.E.W immediately decided to tilt its publicity efforts towards the next movie.
"Horror Live".
The film stars Ha Jung-woo, Lee Kyung-young, and others.
The film tells the story of "Yoon Young-hwa", a general news host, who is on the air when he suddenly receives a call from an unidentified listener who claims to detonate the Mapo Bridge over the Han River. "Yoon Young-hwa" thought it was just a prank at first, but the moment he put down the phone, he witnessed the explosion scene of the Mapo Bridge, which made him decide to broadcast the serial bomb attack for nearly 90 minutes.
The whole movie can be said to be Ha Jung-woo's "solo show"!
In order to more realistically portray the scene of the explosion of the Mapo Bridge, the camera crew used a large number of high-end CG technology; in order to reflect the situation of the protagonist, the camera crew arranged 5 cameras to capture the performance of the protagonist in different positions......
put this movie in the summer file, and I have to admire Park Ji-hoon's bearing and self-confidence.
The director of this film, Kim Byung-woo, is a rookie director born in 1980. I directed a work "A Play in a Play" before, but most people have never heard of it, and no work has come out since then, and it is in a state of no one cares. It wasn't until Park Ji-hoon joined N.E.W and recruited talents that he joined the N.E.W company, and after adapting to it for a while, he submitted this long-awaited work.
After Park Ji-hoon saw this script, he even had the idea of directing this movie himself - it was a test of the director's ability and a very good sharpening - but in the end it was handed over to Kim Byung-woo himself.
The work of a newcomer director is unfolded in a closed live broadcast room, a one-man show, not everyone dares to put it in the summer file!
But Park Ji-hoon did it!
As Yang Yuxi said, as soon as he opened his mouth, no one said no!
Although such an arrangement has been known before, when it really happened, the media, filmmakers, and audiences still couldn't help but feel a little stunned, some expectation, and some blood rush.
"The Watchers" and "Catch That Guy" are already so exciting, what will happen to "Horror Live"? What will happen to the subsequent works? How wonderful will the works directed and starred by Park Ji-hoon himself!
Vaguely, an invisible momentum has taken shape.
......
During this period, Park Ji-hoon has been filming with peace of mind on the set.
Day and night.
He still has a lot of work to do to finish as soon as possible. Even on the set, I had to work for an hour or two before resting at the end of the day.
The N.E.W company has already planned, but he doesn't need to worry too much, he is busy with other companies' business.
The career ushered in a blowout period, although it is gratifying, but it is also necessary to be extra cautious.
May 30th.
Afternoon.
Yuli rarely had a day to rest, and since lunch, she has been lying on the dormitory sofa, lazily not wanting to move. The villa is under construction to renovate the compound, so it didn't pass.
Very tired!
But I didn't want to sleep, so I just lay lazily on the sofa, didn't look at anything, didn't listen to anything, and my mind was empty, as if I was isolated from the world, which was good.
None of the members were there, and she was the only one in the dormitory.
Falling asleep unconsciously.
Time passed quietly.
Even when the door opened and a figure walked in, she didn't notice it at all.
The visitor quietly walked to the sofa and playfully brushed a strand of hair on Julie's ear.
However, just after getting it, Yuli's mobile phone suddenly rang, startling her and Yuli at the same time.
"Hey, Yun'a, when are you coming back?" Yuli opened her eyes in a daze, reached out to grab her phone, and was a little startled when she saw Yun'er in front of her.
"Just came back!" Yuna replied with a "I didn't do anything" expression on her back as she hurriedly straightened up.
Today is her birthday, and she held a birthday party with fans in the afternoon.
"Oh. Yu Li had just been woken up, still a little confused, and didn't think much about it, after grabbing the phone, she glanced at the caller ID, hurriedly rubbed her cheeks, coughed lightly, and then pressed the answer button and said, "Hello, director." ”
Yuna glanced at it and found that it was "Director Lee" who called.
"Yuli, you better come over!" A very helpless voice came from the phone, "He became very sensitive again." ”
What do you mean?
Yuna walked away in order to avoid suspicion, but she still heard this sentence.
Who becomes sensitive/sensitive?
Park Ji-hoon?
"Okay, I'll get over here!" replied as she didn't seem surprised at all, as she got up.
"Excuse me, please hurry. Director Li said gratefully.
"Hmm. Yu Li didn't care about greetings, and after ending the call, she went back to her room to change her clothes.
Yuna happened to go back to the room as well.
One bedroom for two.
"What's wrong?" asked Yuna as she couldn't hold back her curiosity. (To be continued.) )