The Best Director

"This movie was so good! Oh my god, hundreds of us danced straight in the theater yesterday! Man, that feeling is indescribable, cool! Now I know, I love dancing too, I I'm ready to sign up for a dance class. (The update is the fastest to read the novel)"

"Anyone know when the movie's soundtrack is coming out? I'm gonna buy one! Yeah - some songs

sounds amazing. "

"I'm going to watch it again at the school cinema because I've found out I've fallen in love with Tello

Yi, he is so handsome when he plays basketball!"

Sitting on the chair, Wang Yang looked at the computer screen with a smile, and browsed: The latest fan comments on the official website of High School Musical. The comments were basically all praises. Songs and dances, actors, Dongfang High School, etc. all became objects of praise. He I am very satisfied and happy, which means that students from all over the world have accepted and loved "High School Musical". Whether the movie-watching craze can be set off depends on their word-of-mouth, and in reality, the movie will go viral for free. publicity.

He dragged the hand holding the mouse again, and saw a comment that made him smile and frown: "Jan, baby, I love you, I want to date you, I want to marry you!" Brackets: "" He shook his head and muttered, "I'm obviously a person behind the camera..." As a result, now, he has become an "idol" director with many fanatical female fans. He should be happy Still helpless?

Of course, it wasn't just student fans who commented on: High School Musical, film critics and the media who attended the premiere also gave their own comments.

The latest issue: Los Angeles Times entertainment section, not the headlines, but it also takes up a lot of space, they typed the title: "Novel school song and dance movie." In the detailed review, they commented on the style of the film It is very novel, including bright camera images, simple and beautiful stories, and singing and dancing integrated into the campus environment and life, all of which deserve people's attention.

"This movie is not as bad as everyone imagined before, it is not bad at all; for a 19-year-old director, it is a very good movie." Although the newspaper did not explicitly say it, but its subtext is, : High School Musical's performance will make everyone look sideways.

Compared with the conservativeness of the Los Angeles Times, the attitude of the California Film News has changed drastically. Before that, they questioned Wang Yang a lot, saying that he was "hot-headed and blindly confident". Make up for previous mistakes: "This movie is beyond expectations. I believe that before watching the movie, many people would not think that it is so good! It has a magical power that can make young people dance and sing along with it. Unleash his youthful energy. This 19-year-old director knows very well what it takes to make a good school musical, and he did it all, very well."

"In this movie,

He proved to us his screenwriting ability, directing ability, and production ability, 'I'm not just a dv kid, I can also play on film. It is already a bit pale to describe him as promising, maybe we can look forward to more, let's quietly see what kind of achievements he can make!"

:Chicago Sun Search" commented a bit run-on: "Is Fantastic Young atonement? His: Ghost Story" scared too many people, and a poor little girl was scared to death, thank God she is still alive Live well, but if she leaves any shadows, you can watch this: High School Musical, youthful sunshine, positive. It's a bit unbelievable, this is really a horror movie with 310 million The director's work at the box office?"

Some people praise and some criticize. Kevin Thomas, who once said bad things about Ghost Story, is currently a freelance film critic. A gossip tabloid published his review: "I haven't seen this movie because It's only showing at the campus movie theater and I've obviously left campus early. But it's conceivable that it's going to be a new disaster, a kid director trying to figure out how to get the candy, and he's going to shake it up with that nasty hell Lens? Stop kidding!"

But obviously Kevin Thomas was thrown aside, he wanted Candy Girl, shouted loudly, but no one heeded.

』The box office results of the first day of High School Musical were obtained by Flame Film Company in the afternoon. There were 500 schools participating in the first week of the screening. On average, each school had 300 seats, and the ticket price was uniformly 40% off. 3, q US dollars for a movie ticket, two shows every day, and the overall attendance rate of the two shows last night, unexpectedly reached 75%, and received 877,500 box office! This result made the Flame Film Company and all the crew of "High School Musical" Everyone cheered, and Wang Yang clenched his fists and shouted "yes!" several times, and then let out a sigh of relief.

The production cost of the film is 8 million, the publicity cost is 10 million, and the cost of copying and transportation is expected to cost more than 10,000. After the tax is paid, the cost is recovered. In fact, for Wang Yang, this is already a 23-year-old investment. His big money was also questioned by the media before: "Is this young man amazingly courageous or stupid?"

877,500 and 50 million are naturally very different, but what you need to know is that the results of this day were received in the campus cinema, and the ticket price was 40% off! Let's take a look at the attendance and response. "The potential of this movie It doesn't seem to be worse than: Ghost Story.

The film's box office results on the second day further confirmed its potential. The attendance rate of the first screening on the second day was unbelievably 100% for the second screening! This is a campus cinema! But if those who are stunned by this People, knowing the whole publicity plan before and after: High School Musical, he wouldn't be surprised. The online and offline viral marketing is all for harvesting the results at this moment.

Those schools that participated in the premiere screening were overwhelmingly covered with posters of "High School Musical", and they have been bombarded by the "Come Dance" festival for nearly two months. Once the students who watched the first movie are full of praise, a domino effect will be formed, the whole school will be excited, every student will be curious, and there will naturally be many people who go to watch the movie with great interest.

The two screenings on the second day received a total of 1.0822 million box office. Together with the more than 10,000 box office of the Victoria Projector Cinema, the total box office for the two days reached 1.9672 million! At this time, the week of April 23-29 is also over. ,: High School Musical ranked 11th on the North American weekly box office list, relying on 500 campus cinemas, 1 city cinema, and two days; and: The Matrix once again won the weekly chart.

"Yang, many theater companies have started to contact us." On the phone, Mark Slang

Te's laughter sounded sinister.

Ignore them for the time being, now that the momentum of the movie is so good, our bargaining chips will only increase. After the second week of screenings, we will cooperate with whoever has the best conditions. "He will not change the plan to show it in campus cinemas for two weeks. This is to build momentum and cultivate the hunger of the market. This is a new bomb that will detonate on May 14.

"Yes, I think so too, my boss." Mark Slanter chuckled a few times. He has reasons to be happy. Wang Yang has already told him that if "High School Musical" is a big success, After he has fully proved his ability, he can become a partner of the company,

On April 30th, a new week began, and new movies began to be released at the same time. Fox released: The Trap of Stealing the Sky, which was shown in 14 theaters in the first week; Sony and Columbia have high hopes: "Idleness", this movie finally cost tens of thousands of dollars in production. According to the general default ratio, the publicity cost is at least more than 10 million. The cost will be recovered, so its screening theaters reached 1,611 in the first week.

: High School Musical is still showing in those 500 schools, and next week it will be shown in another 500 schools. Seeing the hot discussion on the Internet and asking how wonderful this movie is, many students were so seduced that they went to the schools participating in the screening to watch it, but the problem now is that those schools themselves only watch it every day. After two games, none of us can sit down.

As the only non-campus theater that screened, the Vital Projector Cinema was full of students at this time, even more crowded than when "Ghost Story" was at its peak. At that time, there were at least 5 theaters in Los Angeles showing it, and now Only this one.

"Please, can't you open more movie halls?" In the ticket hall, the students who couldn't buy a ticket were all dissatisfied and shouted, staring at the movie theater owner as if he was an enemy.

A blond white male high school student stood at the front, cursing: "Boss, have you been kicked by a donkey? Why didn't you discuss it with Flame Films? We want to watch: High School Musical!"

The boss is a balding middle-aged white man with a fat body. He looked at the students who supported him and tried to persuade him: "Hey, boys and girls, you can watch other movies first! For example: Steal The Sky Trap, and: The Hands of the Loose, are new releases, wow, it’s so good!” If he could, why wouldn’t he be showing: High School Musical? It's just that the one-week screening contract has already been settled, and the Flame Film Company did not agree to his request for additional screening halls.

": Hands of the Idle"? Oh, please! What horror movie are you watching now?" The blond white boy looked back with a funny expression on his face and shouted: "My friends, will you watch it?" They all curled their lips and shook their heads: "!" A girl standing next to the poster wall looked at the poster of "The Hand of Idleness" with disdain, and said, "It's a mess, I don't want to watch it! Look at this male lead, I'm sick, He can't match Troy with one finger! Oh my god, Troy is so handsome!" Another beautiful white girl shouted: "I'm here to support Jan! He's my idol!"

The students shouted one after another. Some of them came to see the handsome guy Tom Welling; some came to see beautiful girls such as Jessica and Rachel; many were fans of Wang Yang; Because I want to keep up with the trend, I want to be the first person in school to watch: High School Musical. Anyway, they came here to watch: High School Musical.

At this time, the blond white boy shouted: "Guys, what team!?" The students who came here have all seen the trailer, and they laughed and responded loudly: "Wildcats!" This kind of party-like atmosphere , is also the reason why they are happy to wait here, maybe they can meet a friend.

"What team!?" "Yepu\\}team!"

Seeing their agitation, the owner of the movie theater wiped the sweat from his brow, turned around and wanted to get out of the way quietly, he walked a few steps, and suddenly his head was hit by something from behind, he was startled, Looking back at his feet, it turned out to be a piece of satin. He asked angrily, "Who smashed it!?" The students all laughed and whistled, but no one answered his question. The owner of the movie theater gritted his teeth helplessly, and had no choice but to leave in a desperate manner. He rubbed his head and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Magic Yang, I was hurt by you..."

For the week of April 30th and May 6th, there are some movies that need Zhan. Some people are happy and others are worried. The fourth place is: High School Musical, which received 51.23 million box office. Its theaters have not changed. , there are still 500 campus theaters, and the total attendance rate that is close to a stretch in a week has shocked the film industry again. People seem to have seen the reenactment of last year: Ghost Story. If this dark horse is released on a large scale, what results can it get?

There is also a movie that is shocking, "Idle Hands", which shocked many people, not because it was too good, but because it was too poor. It was screened in the first week, and it was released on the first day of 16. By the seventh day, the percentage of the box office has been greatly reduced every day.

Sony was stunned, Columbia was stunned, and Andrew Fryd, the producer of The Idle Hands, was stunned. What happened? Why did it happen!? 2.3 million box office?! On average, each cinema only received 1,400 US dollars! The ticket price is 65 yuan, which means that after a week, only more than 200d audiences in each cinema choose to watch this movie.

why!? why!?

』The Los Angeles Times commented this way: ": Idle Hands" is a failed attempt. It tries to use bloody shots to create a comedy effect. But unfortunately, this is simply a wrong way of thinking. Especially when it targets the youth market, teenagers have no interest in it. What are they interested in? I think: "High School Musical" has taught "Idle Hands" a good lesson. What teenagers need is not black humor, not Bloody scenes, and it’s not funny at all; sometimes, all they need is a simple and beautiful story, like a fairy tale, full of sunshine, and they can release their youth to their heart’s content. When you watch the song and dance "Youth", it is not difficult for you to understand why "Hands of Idleness" faced such a defeat.

However, "Hands of Idle" previously grabbed "High School Musical", grabbed Wang Yang, and grabbed Jessica to create a topic, but now it looks like a joke, and they bring shame on themselves. one

Home gossip tabloid: Entertainment Daily was merciless, commenting on this with a sneer: "Now you know whose brains are in the water, Andrew, Richard paid the price for his self-righteousness; and Jessica Alba is smart Choose to make her future bright."

They also made a special trip to interview Andrew-Richard to ask his opinion. Andrew, Richard was expressionless and did not want to accept the interview. Under the entanglement of the reporters, he said annoyedly: "The younger things, メメメ$w.∩Ё It’s just something for a child, what’s so great about it.

As soon as this remark came out, it did not bring any good luck to "The Idle Hand", but instead made those young people who were even a little interested lose the desire to watch. On the Internet, fans of "High School Musical" cursed: "Idle Hands": "Why let us watch a movie that is so bad that the projector doesn't even want to work? Andrew, Richard, Rhodes wife- Fred's the young ones, they don't even know how they fell into the hole!"

"Yan, thank you!" On the phone, Jessica sincerely thanked her, and then said with lingering fear: "I am really glad that I made the right choice. If I had chosen: Hands of Idleness" , I feel dizzy just thinking about it now." What scares her is not only the performance of the movie, but more importantly, she and Yang may miss it forever.

Wang Yang comforted her and said: "Jessica, now we should enjoy the joy of success, don't think about: Idle Hands", let it go."

The results of the second week made the owners of 1611 movie theaters distraught. They deeply regretted the clause that they signed the contract for at least two weeks of screenings. Some theater owners were even more miserable. They signed for a longer time. Only 6.3 million box office was accepted! This can no longer be described as a failure.

On the other side: High School Musical, in the third week of screening, a brand new 500 schools were screened, and the box office continued to amaze, with a total attendance rate of close to 75%, and 6,152,500 received in a week! It is relying on the campus cinema , 13.2427 million box office was harvested in 16 days. On the North American weekly box office list, it continued to rank fourth. This week, the new blockbuster movie "The Mummy" occupied the top spot, and 3210 theaters received 55.724 million box office.

As early as the results of the first week of "High School Musical" came out, the phone of Flame Film Company was already ringing non-stop. All theater companies were vying for cooperation. They certainly regretted the cold treatment of Flame Film Company. But if they can't grab the screening rights of this movie that is bound to sell well, they will be even more heartbroken!

Now it's the turn of Flame Film Company to choose. Mark of70% but 9010's share ratio has increased by one week, and the participating cinemas are all close to the school, with advanced facilities and elegant environment. The attendance rate in the past is very high. high.

』The fourth week of High School Musical’s release, the first week of the actual large-scale screening, there will be a movie theater participating in the introduction, covering the entire North American region, all students are looking forward to the day of the 14th, they have long been anxious to explode Now, under the viral promotion of Flame Films, they can always see things about: High School Musical on the online forums, and they heard that those schools that participated in the screenings are crazy about it, and the songs in it are even more successful In order to become popular, they want to see, want to see, want to see!

As a result, there was only one non-campus movie theater showing it in the entire North American region; but it was fine soon, and they could finally walk into the movie theater and watch this mysterious movie. But even though tomorrow is the 14th, the Vitai Projector Cinema is still full of students at this time, and they seem to regard it as an honor to watch: High School Musical before it is released on a large scale.

"We are in the 'Internet Projector' cinema right now, and we can see that there are young students in the ticket office. According to their introduction, they all came to watch: High School Musical..." On the TV screen, the Caucasian female reporter Holding a microphone, behind her are students who are chatting or playing, she said in a frown: "This situation makes people think: Star Wars, The Phantom Menace" has been released in advance, will this be the beginning of a new wave of movie viewing? Will Miraculous Young give us another miracle? Let's wait and see."

On the sofa, Jessica glanced at Miranda next to her, smiled proudly, and said, "Miranda, did you see that? My choice was correct." After that, she continued to look at the TV screen.

Miranda remained silent, with a bit of embarrassment in her eyes. Now she can't refute anything, "Because the facts are right in front of my eyes, "Hands of Idle" failed in a daze, and "High School Musical" is about to officially take off. If it were someone else , Maybe her agent has been fired a long time ago. Although she and Jessica's mother are good friends and are also Jessica's agent since she was a child, this time it is definitely a serious mistake in her work. If she is fired, her No complaints.

"Jessica, I didn't expect this to happen." Miranda sighed and apologized, "I'm really sorry, I almost got you involved in the whirlpool." In fact, she came here this time to apologize.

"It's okay, Miyoda." Jessica waved her hand and said with a happy smile, "Many people would never have imagined that this would happen. This is a 'supernatural phenomenon'!" She said sweetly, "Sometimes, you It’s about trusting someone, trusting him, supporting him, unconditionally.”

Sitting on the other side of the sofa, Joshua looked a little disdainful, and said, "Hey, Jessica, I remember you were very hesitant at that time. Don't you think you should thank me?" Jessica blushed and turned pale. I took a look at Joshua and hit the update! Said: "Okay, I've always been very grateful to you! Are you okay?" Joshua shook his head and said, "It's just that I can't do it. I want a gift. I've taken a fancy to a sports car!" His eyes lit up and he said: "Wow , if I go out in it, oh my god...all the girls will look at me and I'll be the most popular!"

"Joshua, I won't buy it for you.

Jessica laughed and said: "Jan doesn't need to drive a sports car, he will be surrounded by girls

Well, this is the most popular person. do you understand?"

Joshua shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Ok, ok! You always talk about it, and use him to hit me all day long!"

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