It's summer, and the sunshine in Ninghai city is extremely hot

However, just opposite the street less than 100 meters away from Zhongxia Building, at the entrance of a three-star theater, enthusiastic fans have already lined up the team under the sun, attracting several vendors to sell mineral water and parasols there.∽↗

"This is really hot..." Jiang Tianshi took his eyes off the outside and said, "The team has been waiting for two hours, right? When will we also make a theatrical version of "Flame Boy", and then there will be so many people to support us."

He envied the popularity of "The Magician of the Early Century". He also made animated movies in the past, but the popularity of the works at that time was extremely shabby compared to the crazy scene I saw now!

"Don't worry, the company will give you the opportunity to get a job." Dong Ding brewed a pot of tea and invited Jiang Tianshi to drink it, saying: "The popularity of "The Magician of the Early Century" proves that the adaptation of a long animation has a natural advantage in the movie, and we will also use the value of existing animations as much as possible."

The new film of Phoenix Company is released, and it is not a good thing for Zhongxia Company on the surface, especially at the time when "Blue Love Song" is making rapid progress, social attention will inevitably be dispersed by "The Magician of the Early Century".

However, many people in Zhongxia Company were happy to see the success of the movie. In any case, the top spot of "The Magician of the Early Century" will enhance the social impression of animated movies, and Zhongxia Company will also benefit a lot from it.

"If the total box office of this movie exceeds 3 billion, there will inevitably be a trend of animated movies in the second half of the year..." Dong Ding thought to himself. He Xi expanded the market for animated movies for them in front, and in terms of the entry standards for this new market, Zhongxia Company is no worse than Phoenix Company.

If the best way to make an animated movie is to choose a super popular animation adaptation. Then Zhongxia Company has enough long and popular animations. And in terms of directors, voice actors and financial technology, they are also more free to choose than Phoenix Company.

As for the director, Zhongxia already has sufficient resources and connections to use. If "The Magician of the Early Century" is successful, more people will come over, and maybe some ding-level directors will be interested in animated films - and their priority is naturally Zhongxia Company.

Although Phoenix Company has good conditions, their relationship with the film industry is subtle. When directors choose to change jobs, they have to consider whether doing so will offend the traditional film industry. However, they have no worries about this regard with Zhongxia Company, and Zhongxia has a good relationship with the film industry.

The same is true for entertainment companies like Star Dream. When faced with the success of "The Magician of the Early Century", they will appear very angry. When they are angry, they will seek cooperation with Zhongxia Company and even offer preferential treatment - just like in the past, they have allowed celebrities to serve as voice actors and handed over popular TV series to Zhongxia to adapt animations.

"Second Young Master, do you think our relationship with Phoenix Company is a bit like a game?" A thought flashed through Dong Ding's mind and he couldn't help but smile.

After Jiang Tianshi finished drinking tea, he was confused: "What game?"

"Doudizhu." Dong Ding filled his cup again and said with a smile: "Phoenix Company is the landlord, we are farmers. The brutal landlord bullies other farmers, so they have to find us to fight against the landlords!"

Jiang Tianshi understood a little, but he was also a little confused. He wanted to say that the landlords and their companies were real landlords. How could he compare Phoenix Company to a landlord? No matter how powerful Phoenix Company is, its current capital cannot surpass Zhongxia Company!

But Dong Ding did not have the idea of ​​continuing to explain. This topic should be stopped. If shareholders know this metaphor, many people may be angry. However, this is the case. Zhongxia Company has developed so fast in recent years because of "landlords" with Phoenix Company.

Phoenix Company is neither big nor small. It has a prominent personality and erodes the interests of others one by one. Those who suffer losses will naturally cooperate with Zhongxia Company to fight them, and in this process, Zhongxia Company has gained too many benefits.

Looking back now, Dong Ding discovered that Phoenix Company is the parasol on which Zhongxia Company relies for survival. If there were no Phoenix Company, facing the interests of traditional industries, the most painful thing would be Zhongxia Company.

Zhongxia company has strong capital, but this strong capital is also their weakness. Many shareholders are closely related to the interests of the traditional film and television industry. The changes in animation to film and television will always bring resistance from those stakeholders. When the interests of animation conflict with traditional interests, Zhongxia's shareholders will definitely not be so easy to talk to, and internal strife is indispensable - they want a new industry but do not want to destroy past interests.

But now, Zhongxia Company basically has no such confusion, because Phoenix Company has attracted hatred before.

In fact, whether it is a star company like Zhongxia Company or a Star Dream, it is precisely because everyone's eyes are staring at Phoenix Company. This has reduced the conflict between Zhongxia Company and others - Speaking of which, Dong Ding believes that Zhongxia really has to thank Phoenix Company very well.

"If there were no Phoenix, Zhongxia would have to reach its current scale at least six years..."

Dong Ding thought about it, and then he was more excited about the box office of "The Magician of the Early Century" - he hoped that the higher the box office, the better, so that others would be more nervous, and the more benefits Zhongxia Company would be.

Maybe when they make animated movies, the companies of Star Dream will do their best to help them.

"But speaking of this, how long can this hot scene outside last?" Jiang Tianshi's voice interrupted Dong Ding's thoughts. Dong Ding couldn't help but smile when he heard his question: "I don't think there is a sign of weakening yet. There should be no problem for a day."

"One day, isn't it possible?" Jiang Tianshi was a little disbelief. If it were so lively every day, the box office of "The Magician of the Early Century" would be without any suspense.

However, that afternoon, the theater opposite Zhongxia Building maintained the hot scene as Dong Ding said. Until Jiang Tianshi got off work, there was no sign of the decrease in the audience entering and leaving the theater.

"Is it that good-looking?"

Jiang Tianshi sat in the car back to the apartment, holding his mobile phone and reading the comments on "The Magician of the Early Century" online.

"Good. Super good!", "I've heard of He Xi. After watching the movie this time, I'm not an ordinary person! The first time I've watched this kind of teenage mystery movie, although it's an unfamiliar animation style... but unlike the boring reasoning I imagined, this movie has a youthful and a bit touching. There is no doubt that "The Magician of the Early Century" is a good movie!"

Although the movie has been released for less than a day, there are already many topics on Weibo. In addition to brand new audiences, the first to watch the previous few movies were old audiences who were mainly "Detective Conan". After watching the movie, many viewers' enthusiasm for "Detective Conan" returned, and they discussed the time for the return of animation in a passionate way.

Some people even couldn't help but buy all the single-books of the "Detective Conan" comic after watching the movie, intending to revisit the plot of the comic. Of course, there were many girls shouting, "Kidd in the movie is so handsome!"

Although comics with the theme of the monster thief are not uncommon now, there is still no monster thief who can surpass the monster thief Kid. The handsome monster thief written by He Xi has plundered the hearts of too many girls, and other cartoonists are difficult to challenge.

"I don't know what the box office will be today."

Jiang Tianshi also saw many people discussing the box office of movies today, but they are generally speculations of tens of millions of box offices. Those who are smarter will say "Safe. One or two hundred million is indispensable!", but this kind of person is rare.

"They underestimate the popularity of Teacher He Xi and "Detective Conan" too much." Jiang Tianshi looked at a theater that drove outside the car. It is still very lively now, and it is estimated that it will be more lively at night. Such a scene, coupled with the high screening rate of the movie, is not difficult to reach 400 million.

According to his past experience, Jiang Tianshi predicted that "The Magician of the Early Century" has a great chance of achieving a first-day box office of more than 400 million yuan. The main reason is that there are no popular movies recently, and each theater has frequent episodes of "The Magician of the Early Century" and as long as the audience is enthusiastic enough, 400 million is definitely not a false statement.

"But, the specific number will be known tomorrow morning!" Jiang Tianshi put down his cell phone, stretched, no longer thinking about this matter.

In this era, the calculation of movie box office is very convenient. In fact, the number of tickets sold in theaters in various places will be updated simultaneously on the central computer of theaters. Therefore, the box office results on the first day can be quickly determined after midnight.

And this night, Meng Huo was also paying attention to this matter. After dinner from Director Sasaki of Tokyo TV, he returned to the apartment, took a shower, and then played the piano in the room for a moment, waiting for the news to arrive.

"Have you not sleep yet?"

However, at 11 o'clock in the evening, Shen Jie took the lead in calling.

"No." Meng Huo replied with a laugh: "It may take another hour or two."

"I guessed it, to wait for the box office report? By the way, I haven't congratulated you on your success in the movie yet!"

"Well, thank you." Meng Huo walked out of the balcony and blew the evening breeze and said, "I can't go to bed early even after the movie premiere. Even if I fall asleep, I think they will make me quarrel in the middle of the night..."

"That's sure...but the box office of the movie shouldn't be bad. My parents liked it very much after watching it." Shen Jie said: "There are Han Xuan and the others. The four of them went to the premiere and they all said it was good after watching it."

"I know this."

Meng Huo nodded. Shortly after the premiere, the little guys sent him a text message and mentioned his views on the movie.

"Then the news will be optimistic tonight, right?"

"Of course, I didn't say it wasn't optimistic." Meng Huo nodded. After seeing the situation for the whole day, he and other directors were optimistic. Bai Yan was not in a hurry at dinner. "The Magician of the Early Century" had no big problems on the first day, so she just waited for the specific numbers to come out.

"You called tonight for this?"

Meng Huo asked curiously.

"No, this is one, and... another one." Chen Jie hesitated for a moment, but said: "It will be a carnival in the middle of next month. I have discussed it with Alice before. After the movie is released, I have to go and help her."

Meng Huo was stunned. Speaking of the carnival, it was not long before. Alice told him that Chen Jie wanted to help prepare the carnival on Comic Island. It seems that this is not a joke!

This matter is of great importance. Meng Huo rubbed his brows and smiled bitterly: "What, are you suddenly scared?"

"How could it be... I was so scared that I wasn't, but I was suddenly a little nervous." Chen Jie sighed: "Can I really do it?"

She wanted to help Alice, which means that she was going to start as Alice's secretary. Although she would not be publicized for the time being, and Chen Jie would still maintain her job as a voice actor. But this incident was a turning point in her life. From then on, her life and work style may become different from before.

How to take into account the work of voice actors and secretary is also a big challenge - it is normal for Chen Jie to have a worry at this critical time point.

However, Meng Huo was not too worried. He comforted Chen Jie and said, "Don't worry, believe yourself, you were in poor health two years ago and could become a star. Now that you are healthy, how can you be a mere secretary's job be rare?"

He believed in Chen Jie, and what Chen Jie wanted was Meng Huo's words - with this sentence, she felt at ease.

"Thank you, I'll be much more calm when you say that." Chen Jie breathed a sigh of relief, and then said happily: "We will meet again in a while."

"...Yes." Meng Huo was slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly - after a while, he had to face the competition between these two women closer? This... is a very difficult thing to deal with...

However, when the soldiers come to block the enemy, the water comes to cover the enemy. Since the matter has developed like this, Meng Huo can only put it aside for the time being and make adjustments to the actual situation in the future.

He chatted with Shen Jie for half an hour, and Meng Huo drew a comic in the room for a while. When he noticed, a few minutes had passed.

"How long will it take for the box office to be released?" Just as he was thinking this way, a few minutes later, a phone call came over.

"Meng Huo, prepare to hold a celebration banquet! It's so amazing!" Alice's excited voice came from the phone: "As of midnight, the box office of "The Magician of the Early Century" was 530 million, which is the second-ranked movie box office this year, exceeding all of us expectations!"
Chapter completed!