I have to play it out loud for my wife to listen to. Let her see where I am now. Pressing the speaker button, Suzuki Takashi answered the call. "Suzuki Takashi, what the hell is going on at today's preview?!" The angry curse made Suzuki Takashi dumbfounded. "The preview was fine, it was a success, what's wrong?" "Very successful!? You tell me it's very successful!? After the preview, the questionnaire response rate was only 31%, the favorable rate was less than 80%, and the overall rating was B+. Is this what you call very successful?" "Impossible! Today's preview was held with only selected guests, all of whom were Saint Seiya fans. I even gave them allowances and red envelopes in advance. It's impossible!" "Haha, you can say this to my brother-in-law later, but I have to tell you that because of this result, our screening schedule at the cinema has dropped by 3 points, and Battle Royale has taken 15% of the screening schedule." "Why? Even if there were mistakes along the way and I only got a B+, that's not a bad grade."
"Because the other party's questionnaire response rate was 75% and the favorable rate was 90%, the overall evaluation was A+." "Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! How is it possible to have such a result!?" Suzuki Takashi exclaimed. The questionnaire response rate refers to how many people fill out a questionnaire after the preview of a movie. Normal people will just leave after watching the preview even if they come to watch it. A recycling rate of 75% is already an astronomical figure in the eyes of Suzuki Takashi, not to mention the frighteningly high rate of positive reviews. "The other side also bought people. This is definitely the case. They cheated." "Okay, stop nagging me and come here quickly. My brother-in-law wants to see you." After hanging up the phone, Suzuki Takashi felt completely depressed. He just felt a splitting headache. Family members know their own business, and he also watched the internal screening before the movie was previewed. It was indeed a bit strange, but he thought that was because he didn't know how to appreciate it. After all, it was an adaptation of Saint Seiya, and he had never watched Saint Seiya. However, there were many problems after the internal preview, so Suzuki Takashi cheated directly during the preview and first recruited a group of hardcore fans. Then each of these die-hard fans was given a "red envelope" for watching the movie. Even the preview screening was only shown in one cinema. The purpose is to get a good review from the theaters and ensure their own screening schedule. The so-called cinema chain evaluation refers to an evaluation system jointly launched by several large cinema companies, which mainly evaluates based on audience reputation, attendance rate, and so on. Before the official release. No one knows how the films are scheduled.
In addition to industry practices and experience, the rest naturally depends on word of mouth. However, in Japan, such word-of-mouth reviews can only change the screening schedule by a few percentage points in recent years, and the rest still depends on the game of capital. But as something that has been tested through marketization. The theater reviews are still very real. It’s also hard to fake. "I invited die-hard fans of Saint Seiya, how come the voter turnout is so low?" Suzuki Takashi put on his clothes dejectedly and rushed to Dentsu as if he was going to the execution ground. He couldn't understand why this result happened. ---Small dividing line--- "It's actually very simple, because they invited die-hard fans of Saint Seiya." At the same time, a small celebration was held at an izakaya outside the Sony building. It's called a celebration party. In fact, it was more like the main creative team of "Battle Royale" went to an izakaya together to celebrate after working overtime late into the night to analyze the data. "That shouldn't be the case. Shouldn't fans be more tolerant of low-quality movies?" "Hehe, I remember that your favorite anime is One Piece, right?" "Yes." "If there is a One Piece movie, just let a woman play Luffy..." "Is the Saint Seiya live-action movie so outrageous?" "That's pretty close. It's because Suzuki Takashi hired die-hard fans that these fans took the money but didn't buy it and gave bad reviews." Ping Qingshan was drinking and chatting with everyone, looking very calm. However, it was obvious that the other people in the izakaya were not as calm as Pingqingshan. Today's preview of "Battle Royale" received very good word of mouth, which is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for them. Although the screening schedule is still less than 15%. Although these 15% are not all good times, Generally speaking, for example, the prime time on weekends is usually between 14 . and 16 ., and the prime time at night is between 20 . and 21 . During this prime time, Saint Seiya even talked about the time period share and forcibly raised the screening schedule for these two time periods. This actually forces others to schedule less favorable time slots. However, the good reputation of this movie still makes everyone look forward to the box office of "Battle Royale" tomorrow. Now is the most tense time for both Oze and Nakamura.
However, in front of everyone, Ping Qingshan looked as if he had everything under control. In fact, deep down in his heart, Hira Kiyosugi has no idea about tomorrow's box office, but he is very confident about the quality of Saint Seiya, so he is not afraid at all. And up to now, he has done everything he should do. To put it bluntly, all that's left is for the bullets to fly. The others looked at Ping Qingshan's calmness and had nothing to say except to admire his big heart. ~~~ next morning Mai Sakurajima took a shower and it was already past ten o'clock when she came out of the bathroom. Last night, Kasumigaoka Utaha suddenly asked her on LINE, as a colleague from the same crew, if she had time and whether they could go watch "Battle Royale" together. This surprised her. After all, the two of them actually have no intersection, but deep down, both she and Kasumigaoka Utaha actually vaguely feel each other's presence. Therefore, Mai Sakurajima did not refuse. As soon as the two met, Kasumigaoka Utaha acted very familiar and took the initiative to ask about Sakurajima Mai's recent schedule. Seeing that Sakurajima was not wearing a mask, she took out a mask from her bag and handed it to her. "Why don't you wear a mask when you go out?" Mai Sakurajima felt a little strange. “Why do we need to wear a mask?” Kasumigaoka Utaha took out her cell phone and waved it in front of Sakurajima Mai. "You are more or less a public figure who has been in the news, so you still have to be careful." Mai Sakurajima was stunned for a moment. "Me? I'm on the news." Kasumigaoka Utaha pushed the phone in front of Sakurajima Mai. "Look! Isn't this your name?" 【From amateur to actor, she did it! 】 Mai Sakurajima took the phone and looked at the words on the screen, feeling a little surprised. Her name was indeed mentioned in the news. Chapter 70 Fan Club "Look at this." Kasumigaoka Utaha pointed to the video play button on the mobile phone screen.
The video started playing, and the scenes that appeared were exactly what she looked like in the audition and the movie. The content of the news was simple, it just introduced Mai Sakurajima and roughly described that Battle Royale had held an open audition across the country at the beginning of this year. Then Sakurajima Mai successfully passed the audition and got the role. From a passerby to the big screen. This story of an ugly duckling turning into a white swan seems very attractive, and in the news, the author also found the announcement and news released by "Battle Royale" at the beginning of the year. To prove that Mai Sakurajima was indeed selected through the audition. At this time, there are already quite a few comments below this news, most of which are likes. [The acting is very good. ] 【It turns out that as long as ordinary actors are given the opportunity, they can also shine. 】 [What kind of movie is this? It looks interesting.] Some people also asked what movie this was because of the scenes in the video. Below this comment, there are many similar news in the related recommended news. The sharp-eyed Sakurajima Mai also saw some such as 【A passerby actor? The acting skills of new actors are revealed. 】 [Can an amateur act well in a movie? Ridiculous. ] It seems that not all news has good things to say about her. But in any case, this topic seems to be quite popular. For a character with only a few minutes of screen time, it is already very good to arouse so much discussion. "Now I'm looking forward to the movie even more. I think you should act well." Kasumigaoka Utaha's sigh this time was sincere. The two of them didn't have much contact, but as the saying goes, outstanding people will always be attracted to each other. If we don't consider the other party as a potential rival, Kasumigaoka Utaha quite likes people who have their own persistence and dreams. "Thank you." ~~~ The Japanese film market is very strange. Well-known local directors rarely make blockbusters, and they rarely even make commercial films. On the contrary, most of the animated theatrical versions and TV drama theatrical versions are commercial films, relying on their fan base to take up most of the Japanese box office. Taking 2022 as an example, the Marvel movie Spider-Man: No Homecoming grossed billion yen in Japan. In the same year, One Piece: The Red-Haired Diva grossed billion yen, Suzuya's Journey grossed billion yen, and Detective Conan: Halloween Bride grossed billion yen. Japan's box office revenue for the whole of 2022 was 2131 billion, of which animated theatrical films accounted for 1467 billion, or 68%. Although in 2010, the box office of animated films was not so exaggerated.
But there are already some signs of a downturn in live-action movies. However, despite the massive marketing spending of the live-action version of Saint Seiya, many people still went to the cinema to see what this movie, which cost 80 billion to make, looked like. "It seems like there are quite a lot of people watching movies today?" "really."