"Tell me a specific number!"

"Why ask this?" Overtime-Gozmann's words were puzzled, a little surprised, as if he was saying "What are you crazy? Small-scale release?"

"Tell you the truth, I need money! A lot, a lot of money! Tell me the truth, how many first-week box office will my movies receive before they can continue to move forward? There will be more than 100 screening theaters in the second or third week?"

Looking at the dark night sky, Ye Wei said very seriously, "Tell me!"

Gary Gotzmann was silent for a moment before saying, "You know the truth, we don't have a theater release plan for "The Wedding Day is Coming". The screening is to create momentum for its DVD sales and to increase your fame. With your current popularity, it is not impossible to release a small scale, but it really needs to be performed well.

Pretong does not have a distribution system. We cooperate with IFC movies. They will also hold this screening, and the future DVD sales will be the same."

"Well, I know..." Ye Wei responded.

IFC-Films is a subsidiary of AMC Network, and its main business is to release independent movies, and "My Grand Greek Wedding" is released by it.

But it mainly does DVD and VOD (video on demand) business; in terms of theater distribution, there are less than 4 movies released every year since its establishment in 1999. In addition to the largest scale of the commercial miracle "My Grand Greek Wedding" has reached more than 2,000 (108 on the opening week), and the average maximum scale of each movie is only about 50 (the average opening week is less than 3 on the opening week). It is considered a small amount of money that can be made sure to make sure.

"How much box office can I get the IFC to arrange 100 theaters for me in the second week?"

"According to the latest plan, your screening week will be one theater. If you can get a box office of 10,000 US dollars in one week, it will continue in the second week and expand to 3-5 theaters. I think with your popularity... it should be OK."

Gotzmann was still not blindly optimistic, and was vigilant about this result. He said: "If you want to have more than 100 theaters the next week, the box office on the screening week will be more than 60,000 US dollars, and it will be more than half of the three days on the weekend, and the reputation is very good! Sixty thousand US dollars... Do you know how high this is? The screening ticket is priced at 7 US dollars each, which will require nearly 10,000 audiences to support it."

VIY is now some fans, but it does not mean that I only spent time to go to a designated theater in Los Angeles, and spent $7 to buy tickets to watch. After watching it, I still agreed that there are so many fans. Who knows? Is VIY really attractive? I still don’t know what the quality of the video will be.

"But this is not easy at all. In fact, it is already great to receive ten thousand dollars."

Listening to Gozman's words, Ye Wei's brow moved, and his heart calculated the result and said, "To be precise, it is 8,572 viewers or moviegoers. Of course, it is not easy, but Gary, every step I take is not easy, so I go to it, 30,000 weekend box office and 60,000 first week box office, this is my goal!

Please tell the IFC people that if "The Wedding Time is Coming", they will not be in a hurry and seize my strength. There are 100 stores in the second week and 300 stores in the third week!"

I thought of my father on the hospital bed, my mother who was smiling and Duoduo who was carefree. There was a fire burning in his eyes.

"That's a bit old-fashioned. I have confidence in creating another miracle!"

...

Ye Wei's phone call made Gary Gotzman really confused and funny. It was not that he was watching VIY, but that young people didn't know much about movie releases, so he couldn't dream of having fun with them.

But there is a reason why VIY is too confident, and the popularity continues to explode!

The film version of the Los Angeles Times has had a side tip that the "VIY said" column will be opened on the 26th, a 16-year-old movie column! It will be very popular, which is really news. No matter what, Ye Wei has proved to the world that he has extraordinary writing talent.

Some even put him and Christopher Bollini together to talk, thinking they were incredible.

Bolini is a novel genius. He created the magical masterpiece "Iralong" (1998) at the age of 15. After being published in 2003, he was very successful and was named "one of the world's most outstanding publications in 2003". People were amazed by his age and talent. The teenagers regarded him as a super idol. The film company competed for the adaptation rights of the novel and could not wait to predict that he would become the most successful best-selling writer after J.K. Rowling...

Now he is only 21 years old! Bollini's light is shining around the world.

So the media compared Ye Wei with him, which is to be scolded. As expected, Bolini's millions of fans cursed everywhere on the Internet: "Who is Ye Wei?", "He is worthy of comparing with Bolini!", "What did he write? How many comments?", "He is a fool!", "Isn't he a movie? Can't he continue to shoot the movie?"...

No, there is also new situation in the movie promotion.

The official website of "Wedding is Coming" has updated the latest updates of "VIY-VS-GIA". This 5-minute promotional video duel will officially start at 8 pm on May 5. At that time, the promotional videos of both of them will be logged on to the official website!

The first official poster of the video will also be announced, as well as the screening date and location.

People's expectations are bursting again and again, and VIY's popularity is bursting again and again!

It was completely out of control! Maybe Lowett and the others laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, but Ye Wei's team has changed their strategy. Let's fry, let's fry them together, rush up, as high as they are!

Ye Wei said in one sentence: He went up and went up and went up and went up and went up and went up and up!

At the same time, Chen Nuo, who knows some IT technology, built a simple small website "www.loveviy.com". Ye Wei's fan network also has his pictures, news and news, etc., and also created a fan registration click that is not available on the official website.

As of April 23, 2004, repeated clicks with the same IP were removed, and the number of valid people was 920.

Of course, this number cannot reflect the real situation, because "Ai Ye Wei" is not an official website. Although it is on the list of friendly external links on the official website, only a small part of the followers will support this and click on it.

This number can only be said to reflect some of the latest changes in popularity.

And it made Lev, Bard and the others excited, as if they were watching a stock that had been fully stocked up all the way, "It's rising again, it's rising again! Now there are 926 people!"

"My side is 927...it's up again!"

"It'll be able to break through one thousand people this weekend, it's amazing!"

The negative effects of the explosion of popularity are also emerging. Not everyone likes Asians to show off, nor everyone believes that he is a talented man, so VIY is suffering from more and more doubts and attacks.

It was Chen Nuo, who also built another website "www.viysuck.com" (VIY is so bad) to observe the situation, and also set up a registration click on "I hope VIY disappears". There were already 136 people! The IPs are from all over the United States, and the message boards are also very lively. A bunch of people laughed at, cursed, and despised Ye Wei, and let Lev and the others watch it and stop coming in, so as not to be annoyed by some boring bitches!

But there are so many extreme VIYers who hate them, how many will not be registered?

Perhaps, almost as many people who love him and hate him!

...

Ye Wei ignored these things. Because his father's condition was stable and he just needed to take a good rest, he did not go to the hospital since the next day.

The place that needs him the most now is not the hospital, but the editing room! What he needs most is not to accompany his family, not to date, not to play, but to make the damn remake of "The Marriage is Coming" as soon as possible and do the best!

For several days, he could say that he had been admitted to the editing room, did not go to the hospital, did not go to the school, and went home in the early morning, and came back before the sky was bright. He only slept for four or five hours a day, and when he was tired, he would exercise, or write column articles to change his mind. The rest of the time was editing promotional videos and editing regular videos.

Lily asked him to go out for fun, and Lev and the others also called him, and he all responded the same way, sorry, I'm not available.

So, when Susanne Hines arrives every morning, he always sees Ye Wei sitting there, staring at the screen intently.

If it weren't for his changing clothes, she really thought he had never walked around, because the progress of work was completely different from when she got off work the day before, and he was still working at night!

After all, Ye Wei was a terrifyingly energetic young man. Even so, he could not see any tiredness on his face; but his eyes were obviously a little more crazy, as if he wanted to treat this world and himself fiercely.

Susanne's child is about the same age as Ye Wei. Do you admire him when she sees a teenager working so terrifyingly? She is a little worried!

On Friday, it was the evening off work time again. Susanne, who has a family child, had to leave. She didn't go to work for two days on weekends. But she really didn't want Ye Wei to continue like this. Before leaving, she persuaded: "Weige, should you take a break? Are you going to stay here this weekend?"

Ye Wei's eyes didn't leave the computer screen at all. He held the mouse and lit something, and replied casually: "I'm OK, it's okay, I'm OK, you go, I'll stay for a while."

"Okay, please pay attention to rest and don't be exhausted."

After a while, when a scene was cut, Ye Weicai replied again, "OK, go." He could not hear the movement, and turned around and found that he was the only one left in the editing room, and Susanne left at some point.

"Today has just started." He stretched out his hands and feet and moved on, and continued to work on the next scene.

Guru! The stomach without dinner gradually sounded protesting. He picked up his phone and wanted to order takeaway, but found that it was out of power and forgot to charge it last night...

Come on! He patted his stomach, got up and walked around the editing room, and found that there were several packs of cookies on the coffee table, which must have been bought by Susanne. He ate them all and went back to the desk to continue working. Although he was still a little hungry, he would forget about doing things. After a while, he was completely immersed again.

The night is getting darker and darker, and the lights in the editing room are always bright.

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