A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 442 Aviation and Space Museum

"Boss, should we hurry up with the promotion now?" Liu Tingting asked.

"Promotion? Who cares about that right now? Let's hurry up and talk to the theaters about the film schedule."

Chen Jinnian really didn't expect that the higher-ups would use him as a plug to plug a hole. Even if the film was withdrawn from the schedule, how much box office revenue could his film earn?

In fact, the urgent bringing up of Chen Jinnian was the result of private communication among relevant agencies.

The profitability of cinema chains is closely related to the total domestic box office. The number of cinema halls is expanding rapidly. If the box office growth cannot keep up, everyone will be in trouble.

The box office miracle of the summer vacation period made theaters attach great importance to the upcoming National Day and Spring Festival periods. They were all trying their best to make the strongest National Day period in history, but they didn't expect it to turn out to be a mess.

They want to urgently advance the release date with other movies, but looking back at October and November, all the movies that can carry the box office are Hollywood movies, such as "Geostorm", "Coco", "Justice League" and "Thor: Ragnarok".

According to the rules, the National Day period, which is a particularly good time period, can only be reserved for domestic films. This is a matter of principle and cannot be compromised.

However, there are no domestic films with the hope of breaking the 12 million yuan box office in October and November. They are all in the Lunar New Year period in December. You can't just rob Peter to pay Paul, and it is still unclear whether the producers want to take the blame in the National Day period.

Cinemas are having a headache, and so are radio and television stations.

Finally, after searching around, everyone found that Chen Jinnian’s new movie was of just the right length and size, and it was already popular without any publicity.

Bad Genius will be released from June 6th to August 8th

"Wolf Warrior 7" will be released from July 27 to October 10

During the long five months, as long as you go to the cinema, you can see Chen Jinnian on the screen. Add in "Ballet Revenge", and it will naturally attract a large number of audiences.

After all, in the eyes of passers-by, the three words "Chen Jinnian" are a guarantee of the quality of the movie. With his name, the movie's release is guaranteed, and there is no need to spend two hours opening a blind box and get a terrible movie.

As for whether the video of Feng Kuazi will be an allusion to it, the cinemas no longer care about it. It's their own fault. They messed up the black-and-red marketing.

However, whether it was a deliberate black-and-red marketing campaign or not, not only were the heads of the various theater chains unaware, but even the two CEOs of Huayi were only suspicious but could not be sure. The only one who knew the inside story was Feng Kuazi that night.

In order to complete the bet, to achieve profitability, and to surpass Mahua in terms of topic popularity, it can only be said that any excessive marketing methods are possible.

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Having been cheated, Chen Jinnian had no choice but to accept the arrangement. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television used the green light from the censorship in exchange for an early release, and he had no room for bargaining.

The only problem was that Shen Teng was fooled.

What Shen Teng cared about most at the time was that Hua Yi and Chen Jinnian were the two people who disrupted his schedule. As a result, after going around in circles, the two of them were still mixed up.

He immediately called Shen Teng, but the other party was filming street scenes for "Crazy Alien" in Changsha and had no time to answer the phone, so a staff member from Shen Teng's team helped answer the phone.

Chen Jinnian notified the staff of the release date and asked them to convey the news.

After Wang Yidi saw Chen Jinnian put down his phone, he sighed deeply and immediately asked with concern, "Did you have an unpleasant conversation with Brother Teng?"

"No, it was answered by a staff member."

"Then why are you sighing?"

"When I agreed not to appear in the National Day holiday, Brother Teng was very happy and promised to treat us to a meal when he returned to Beijing. But judging by the current situation, I don't think I will be able to have a meal there."

Chen Jinnian said regretfully, Brother Teng is a good person in every way, except that he is too lazy and stingy, completely different from Sister Ma Li.

After hearing this, Wang Yidi punched him in disgust and warned him, "After you sign, we still have to go to Beihang University. Yingzi just sent me a message asking why we haven't arrived yet."

Chen Jinnian slapped his thigh after hearing this, "Yeah, how could I forget that Yingzi still owes me a meal."

"Didn't she invite you?"

"Did she treat me? I don't remember it." Chen Jinnian looked puzzled.

Wang Yidi was so angry that she turned around and walked out of the office and went outside to chat with Liu Tingting. She felt that her boyfriend was really stingy and would remember even if she owed him a meal.

The film's release date was temporarily advanced, and Chen Jinnian did not need to handle the specific matters himself, but there were still many processes that needed to be gone through by him, especially those involving funds, such as advance payment of materials, red envelopes for film critics, etc. Although it was very small compared to the production costs, the specific amount was still around hundreds of thousands, and all had to be signed and confirmed by Chen Jinnian.

By the time Chen Jinnian and Wang Yidi finally arrived at Beihang University, the sun was already setting.

"I think it's too much trouble for you two to go out."

After Qiao Yingzi met the two at the school gate, she said with resentment.

She waited for the two men in the dormitory at noon, but after waiting for three hours, they finally showed up.

"You ask him." Wang Yidi gently pushed Chen Jinnian.

"It can't be helped. Celebrities are always a little busy. I'm always busy with things, and they need my autograph all the time."

Chen Jinnian used a servile tone, which drew unanimous contempt from the two girls.

"Let's go, you two will visit our Beihang University. And you should take off your sunglasses and just wear a mask like Didi. Wearing sunglasses is too eye-catching." Qiao Yingzi said, pointing at his face.

In fact, there were not many people wandering around the campus of Beihang University at three or four in the afternoon. After all, it was Friday, a school day, and most of the students were either attending classes in the teaching and laboratory buildings, or resting in the dormitories.

Apart from a few cars passing by occasionally and groups of students, there is really no such long, winding crowd during get out of class time.

"Let's go to our school's aviation and space museum first. It's open to the public, and even non-school students can buy tickets to visit at a low price," said Qiao Yingzi.

"There is also a museum? Are there any airplanes in it?" Wang Yidi asked curiously.

"Of course, our museum has four exhibition areas, covering nearly 10,000 square meters. We will of course put them on the plane for everyone to visit."

Qiao Yingzi then listed them like a treasure: "One of the only two P-61 night fighters in the world, China's first light passenger aircraft, the Beijing No. , and the world's first vertical short take-off and landing aircraft, the Harrier vertical take-off and landing fighter."

"Any new ones?"

Chen Jinnian has been extremely interested in fighter jets since Sha Yi came to see him last time. Asking him to shoot only the J-10 or J-11 is obviously not enough to satisfy his ideas. He wants more.

"The new ones are all in the front-line troops. Even if the models are to be eliminated, as long as they can still fly, they will be assigned to the second-line troops. How could they appear in a museum?" Qiao Yingzi felt that Chen Jinnian was daydreaming.

"Then tell me about the types of aircraft in the army."

"Why are you asking this? Aren't you never interested?"