It was almost noon when Nanaya and Shion left the villa.
This is not only because of exercising early in the morning, but also includes a series of follow-up work such as cleaning up the mess and taking a shower.
So when Nanaya and Shion got into the black car that had been waiting at the door of the house, both of their faces turned slightly red.
Shy.
However, Iioka, the driver, didn't care at all. He put the newspaper aside and spoke to the two people in the back seat.
"Boss, I personally don't mind, but next time if you need to work overtime, please let me know in advance."
Iioka said seriously, "I don't know when you'll leave. It's a waste of time for me to keep waiting like this. It's totally inefficient."
Bang!
Shion simply closed the small window on the baffle.
"Drive for me now!"
Shion's somewhat exasperated voice came from the intercom.
"Okay, boss."
Of course, Iioka would satisfy his boss's request, and the car started driving towards Washimine's North American headquarters building.
"Hee hee—poof!"
Nanaya couldn't help but chuckle when he saw Shion being so shy.
Unfortunately, before he could finish laughing, Shion elbowed him and stifled his laughter.
"Still laughing!" Shion clenched her fist and warned, "If you laugh again, I'll knock out all your front teeth."
Nanaya put away his smile awkwardly, took out his cell phone and started working.
Playing around in the morning was not without cost. Although he did subdue the female fairy Shion, it also meant that he had to complete a day's work in half a day.
Nanaya first called Ori to ask him about the attendance rate of FZ this Saturday.
From the feedback he received from Ori, Nanaya learned that FZ's performance on Saturday was still strong.
With the spread of various emoticons, Washimine's large-scale publicity, and good audience reputation began to spread. Judging from the feedback received so far, the film has maintained a high attendance rate, and it is even a bit of a box office hit.
Because the movie's running time of more than 2 hours is much longer than that of an average movie, all major movie chains can only squeeze out the screenings of other movies as much as possible to ensure the number of screenings of FZ.
Especially the IMAX 3D version, which is the biggest selling point this time, many IMAX theaters across the United States even have 24-hour non-stop screenings.
More importantly, at some special times, such as the 3 a.m. show, tickets are still selling very well.
This is a bit surprising.
You should know that except for the premiere day, cinemas usually do not arrange 3 o'clock shows.
After all, the money from ticket sales is not enough to cover the screening costs.
But the current situation is that the audience doesn't care what time it is, as long as they can watch the movie.
"It's crazy." Ori said to Nanaya in a very exaggerated tone, "I originally thought that IMAX was full, but I didn't expect that scalpers would start speculating on tickets again. And the speculation is even more intense than when "Goblins Slayer" was released."
"I think the people at IMAX will be very happy. They will start building theaters all over the world again."
Nanaya is also very happy, the shortage of IMAX3D tickets will make people feel a kind of desire.
The more you can't get something, the more you want it.
Especially in North America, most audiences do not have the habit of purchasing tickets online and they all buy tickets at the cinema.
When they go to the cinema but can't buy IMAX tickets, they will most likely choose to watch the 2D version first. After all, they can't make a wasted trip to the cinema.
But the IMAX 3D version is so hyped up that you can't miss it.
Therefore, these audiences will definitely book tickets for the IMAX version in advance on site.
This invisibly allows a person to watch the movie twice, which is very beneficial for promoting FZ's box office.
If the movie box office is high, naturally there will be passers-by fans who want to watch the movie, thus promoting a virtuous circle.
It would be great if there would eventually be a nationwide movie-watching craze.
It can be seen that the situation in FZ is absolutely very good.
However, Nanaya and Washimine did not take it lightly.
Although FZ directed by Nanaya is not a pure fan movie like the HF trilogy in the previous life, and Nanaya is also friendly enough to passers-by in terms of plot, so it is not a big problem even if they have not watched FSN.
But FZ's movies still have some unavoidable fan attributes, and it is inevitable that the box office of such movies will start high and end low.
Even though FZ has the support of IMAX3D, the current size of IMAX screens in North America means that this version can only be icing on the cake, not a life-saving solution.
After all, there are only a few seats in North America, you can't sell standing tickets, right?
So, even though FZ's first-day box office was impressive enough, it also set a new North American box office record.
However, both Nanaya and Washimine Entertainment have never relaxed their work on the promotion and marketing of the film.
What they need to do now is to stabilize the box office trend and avoid a diving drop.
After all, Nanaya doesn't want FZ to follow in the footsteps of "Superman vs. Batman" in his previous life.
1.99 times the worst [movie opening box office exceeding 100 million] record in history.
This film will forever go down in film history as a disgrace.
Thanks to the increasingly influential social networks, under Washimine's public relations, one after another FZ's film viewing reports were released.
As the base camp of the world's moon fans, [See Moon] also has many FZ promotional videos.
Although the plot of FZ is a bit complicated, I am not afraid of spoilers.
To be more pragmatic, the entire first half of the movie was actually a super trailer for the second half, and all the clues were paving the way for the subsequent story.
This is the case for casual fans. If they are old fans of Fate, they would have heard about the tragic ending of the Fourth Holy Grail War in FSN.
So they don't care about being spoiled, they just want to know whether the process is exciting or not.
"There are endless action scenes, and the IMAX 3D effect is exceptional!"
"Before this movie came out, you could never imagine what it would be like to have Alexander the Great, Gilgamesh and King Arthur drinking together. The scale of heroes in this movie is much bigger than FSN."
"I just love the emperor so much!"
"Mr. Golden has changed his pure villain image in FSN and has become a little cute."
"The Easter egg trailer at the end of the movie showed me the director's huge ambition. I can't wait to see the servants fighting against the modern army."
Such comments began to spread on the Internet, which invisibly promoted the spread of FZ on social media.
Nanaya nodded after listening to Ori's report: "The current situation is very good. The North American box office of the movie should exceed 100 million US dollars in two days."
In fact, what Nanaya said was still too little. According to the rule that Saturday's box office is higher than Friday's, FZ's two-day box office must reach at least 110 million US dollars to be considered qualified.
If he is a little bit dreamy, Nanaya hopes to reach 120 million US dollars.
However, Nanaya was unable to see the box office results of FZ in the first two days in New York.
Because Nanaya left New York on Saturday night and embarked on a publicity tour.
Not only Nanaya, but the entire FZ crew went their separate ways and began promoting the movie around the world.
Although it was not released simultaneously around the world, FZ was released in as many as 22 countries and regions in its first batch, basically including several box office powerhouses including North America, Europe and East Asia.
The film will also be released in several other regions where box office is relatively important in April.
After all, many blockbuster movies will be released in May, and the distribution capabilities of the Big Six are much stronger than those of Washimine, and many movies will be released simultaneously around the world.
In order to seize the market, Nanaya can only seize this rare window of opportunity.
Although there are many countries and regions that need to be promoted, there are also many FZ crew members.
Nanaya simply split the crew into smaller units, with all the main actors taking their hometowns as priority and each being responsible for the image promotion work of a region.
For example, Lily took the three British friends to Europe, Johnson was responsible for the eastern United States, and Masato Sakai went back to Japan. As for the "spirited young man" Mr. Xu, he went to Hong Kong with the title of "International Superstar".
Because the movie is usually released in Hong Kong one day earlier than in North America, Teacher Xu went there early.
I heard him say on the phone that he was warmly welcomed in Hong Kong. After all, with Hong Kong films already in decline, Mr. Xu is one of the few stars who can still make it to Europe and the United States.
As for Nanaya herself, she went to the western United States with Ori to promote the product.
Of course Nanaya didn't go to the western desert to be a cowboy. He brought his people directly across the United States to San Francisco to promote the product.
In addition to celebrity promotion, FZ also started various promotions on the Internet.
However, this time they will no longer be distributing viral emoticons, but rather announcing some additional settings through official channels.
For example, the scene at the beginning of the movie where Artoria is summoned.
Many viewers were puzzled. According to the setting of FSN, the Holy Grail of Fuyuki City should not be able to have such great power to directly pull people away from the battlefield.
Now the crew has officially come out to say that Artoria actually signed a contract with the restraining force at that time and became a heroic spirit in the flesh.
In other words, Artoria was invited by the Holy Grail and summoned by Kiritsugu after she became a Heroic Spirit.
The Holy Grail was not pulled away from Camlann by her, but the restraining force packed people up from the battlefield and then summoned them to the world.
In fact, when Nanaya was shooting this set of shots, he also thought about whether he should exercise his restraint, but he gave up in the end.
Every frame in the movie needs to be shot quickly, and it is better to keep the setting as simple as possible so as not to affect the plot of the movie, as it will not affect the audience's understanding of the overall plot.
As for the release of these settings now, they are more of a plot supplement, just like Marvel's official explanation of Iron Man's finger snap after the release of "End Game".
This part of the content doesn't matter to casual viewers, as they don't care anyway; but for those fans who like to be more particular, it can be regarded as helping them cure their obsessive-compulsive disorder.