Chapter 67: The first day the ticket office was crushed in the middle of the market (Ch 67)

At the same time, at Chen Yuwen’s home,

She was talking on the phone to someone, and the topic of the conversation was about “Nobody”.

The other party was a film and television analyst she hired, who called to report to her after watching the movie.

“Manager Chen, overall the quality of this film is excellent, and your artist’s performance in the film is also outstanding.

It’s a pity that the wrong release time was chosen and the publicity was not done well. Otherwise, according to my professional judgment,

It won’t be a problem for the box office to exceed 100 million yuan, and your artist will also be a little popular, but based on my observation today, there is a high probability that it will flop.”

After hearing what the analyst said, Chen Yuwen’s heart was completely broken.

“I see.”

After saying this, she hung up the phone, lay on the sofa and rubbed her temples irritably.

She could already imagine how those villains in the company who loved to take advantage of others’ misfortunes would plot against her after the Spring Festival.

However, she didn’t take the slanderous words too seriously.

What she cared about more was how President Zhao would view her and Qi Jia after this failure.

If even he starts to be disappointed with Qi Jia, then let alone the publicity and promotion costs,

I am afraid that many resources that were originally intended for Qi Jia will be reallocated to other artists in the company.

This is what Chen Yuwen is most worried about at the moment.

“Oh, am I really too impatient? I wonder how Qi Jia is doing now?”

Chen Yuwen reflected on himself, and then became a little worried about Qi Jia’s mood.

I want to call him to comfort him, but when I think about how depressed I am right now, I decide to call him tomorrow.

On the other side,

Qi Jia was in a good mood because his friends and family were very happy after watching “Nobody”.

They all gave unanimous praise for his acting skills.

Zhang Ruonan even sent him a red envelope of 666 to congratulate him on his successful screen debut.

The next day came.

After the movie premiered, Qi Jia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After letting go of his obsession, he relaxed a lot last night.

After all, I have some savings now, so I can spend it appropriately.

I slept until noon, until I was woken up by a call from Chen Yuwen.

“Are you up yet? If you are, come to the company.”

“Okay sister, I’ll be there now.”

Qi Jia quickly agreed, then got up, washed up, and went straight to Jiaxing Company.

In the car, he opened the APP to check yesterday’s box office.

Of course, it failed.

The box office for the first release was only 8 million, less than 10 million.

Compared with the investment of tens of millions, the loss is almost nothing.

But fortunately, everyone has a good reputation.

The character most mentioned in the reviews was a pair of stupid bandits played by him and Zhang Yu, which was well received but not popular.

Arrived at the company,

Although it is the Spring Festival, for a media company like Jiaxing,

It is definitely not possible for everyone to have a holiday, because many artists have announcements and activities during the Spring Festival that require the cooperation of their departments.

Therefore, there are still many people working in the company.

When everyone saw Qi Jia coming in, they all looked at him with curiosity.

As if he was very surprised, after the box office flopped on the first day, Qi Jia didn’t even take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday to hide for a few days and come back after everyone had almost forgotten about it.

Qi Jia didn’t care about other people’s strange looks and walked straight into Chen Yuwen’s office.

Seeing Chen Yuwen’s haggard face, he couldn’t help feeling a little guilty.

“Sister, I’m sorry to disappoint you.”

“It has nothing to do with you. I asked analysts to review it. They all approve of the quality of the movie and your acting skills. This time, you really lost because of the bad timing and poor promotion.”

Chen Yuwen shook his head, asked him to sit down, and comforted him.

“But we didn’t gain nothing. At least your fans increased a lot.”

After saying that, Chen Yuwen turned the computer screen around and showed it to Qi Jia.

Before the movie was released, after the company’s promotion, his Douyin and Weibo followers reached 100,000 and 70,000 respectively.

After the movie premiered yesterday, the number of fans on the two platforms has increased to 210,000 and 130,000 respectively.

And there are new attentions coming in the background one after another.

Qi Jia clicked on the promotional updates for “Nobody” that he had forwarded before.

Most of the people who leave comments below are fans who came to follow the movie after watching it.

“Is this Chun Ai’s TikTok account? You’re so handsome in real life. I’m a fan!”

“Good acting, keep it up!”

“This is love~”

“Upstairs, I love your mahua love!”

“There are so few updates. If it weren’t for the yellow V verification, it would seem like a fake account.”

…

The increase of hundreds of thousands of fans is pretty good for a newcomer.

But for Qi Jia, who spent one million on publicity, it seemed like a complete failure.

“Don’t be discouraged. This is just the beginning. It will continue to rise.” Chen Yuwen comforted Qi Jia.

Although she said so, she actually knew in her heart that the box office of the premiere was not good.

In the future, theaters will reduce the number of screenings of “Nobody”, and the performance will only get worse.

This is common knowledge in the industry, so this is why many movies,

Even if they cheat, they have to make the premiere box office data look good.

If the first film fails at the box office, it’s basically a death sentence.

It was for this reason that the group of villains in the company couldn’t wait to jump out and badmouth her and Qi Jia.

She had heard countless harsh remarks from this morning till now.

“Oh my, the company gave me one million, and I also hired a second-tier artist for the company~”

“What? Only eight million? Yuwen, I suggest you check whether the box office revenue has been stolen.”

“Yes, we invested one million in publicity. How could the premiere be so bad? Someone must have stolen the box office.”

“Yuwen, I suggest you report it directly to the central government.”

“You know what, Manager Zhang is really good at judging people. Fortunately, he didn’t approve her for 3 million, otherwise all our artist’s publicity fees would have been wasted by her.”

Even worse, some people even said that she and Qi Jia colluded to take kickbacks, and that they only spent 20,000 yuan out of the one million yuan in publicity fees.

The remaining 980,000 was divided between her and Qi Jia.

Hearing this, she was so angry that her breast cancer recurred. Although she knew that Mr. Zhao would not believe such brainless words,

But she still hated him so much that she even wanted to slap the bastard in the face with her slippers, then tie him up with stockings and push him into the Huangpu River to drown him.

After calming down, she told him the second reason why she called Qi Jia here today.

“Since you have a lot of new fans now, I’ll record a vlog for you to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year.”

“Okay sis, are you still going to the studio to record?”

Qi Jia nodded and asked.

Chen Yuwen’s face changed and he shook his head.

“No, just stay here. Give me your phone and I’ll record it for you.”

Qi Jia didn’t think much about it. After giving her the phone, he sat on the sofa.

Following what Chen Yuwen taught him, he recorded a 15-second vlog.

After recording, Chen Yuwen edited it for him and then asked him to post it on Tik Tok and Weibo.

“Okay, I don’t have anything to do for you for now. I’ll give you a few days off. Go home and take a look around. Remember to keep your phone connected.”

Chen Yuwen leaned back in his chair and said.

In fact, taking a holiday was just an excuse. Her real intention was to keep Qi Jia away from the whirlpool of public opinion and not let him be affected by the rumors in the company.

During her many years in the industry, she has seen too many new talents with great potential who were unable to withstand verbal violence and ended up in regretful situations. She doesn’t want Qi Jia to be like them.

“Sister, if I leave, can you hold on by yourself?”

Qi Jia didn’t just leave, but asked with concern.

“I’ve given you a holiday, do you think I’ll come back to the company?” Chen Yuwen rolled his eyes at him.

Qi Jia rubbed his nose and thought about it, which made sense, so he chatted for a few words and left the office.

When I passed the artist lounge, I ran into three male artists from the same company.

They are a newly formed Korean boy band by the company, called “Candy Sweet”.

It seemed as if the other party was waiting for Qi Jia on purpose.

At this time, seeing him coming over, Captain Fruit Candy said in a sarcastic tone.

“Wow~ Look, look, who is this? The one who walks with the wind, you must be~”

Seeing the other party making faces and acting like an extremely exaggerated clown, Qi Jia looked at them with disgust and said directly.

“That’s your dad, come on, you bastard.”

“Who are you calling a sissy!”

The three of them didn’t expect Qi Jia to be so arrogant. Although they looked sissy, they hated being called sissy the most.

At this moment, Qi Jia’s rude shout had already touched their sore spot.

“Whoever admits it, I’ll scold him! You bastard!”

Qi Jia was very cunning. Although he cursed, his voice was not loud and was just loud enough for the three of them to hear.

“Captain, don’t bother with him. He lost a million dollars. Please be considerate.”

Milk candy and QQ candy were afraid that the matter would get out of hand and they would be punished by the company, so they quickly grabbed the fruit candy, but they still didn’t forget to say a few words.

“I’ll deal with you later!”

Captain Fruit Candy took advantage of the situation and after saying a few harsh words, he left with the two of them, talking and laughing.