tips screening weekly film???

[KANTIL]

how much is a weekly screening?

[greifental]

That depends on many things: Quality and public rating of the movie, holidays, the films you compete against, advertising... I'm still doing it by feeling.

If you have a cheap trash film with little advertising your own cinemas will be enough. On the other hand I published quality script "Rotten Fate" on a holiday and as one of the three films where you can go full advertising (because it's already paid) I did 10,000 screenings in the first two weeks (3,185 own and 7,000 rented) and it wasn't enough. And I casted Wendy Carpenter in the main role so the ratings had dropped significantly during production, still all people wanted to watch the movie.

For "normal" films you'll be somewhere in between. But viewing figures seem to drop by approximately half on third week and another half on fourth week. So plan your screenings accordingly.

And if you do advertising, you should start at least 5 weeks before the screenings start for the best effect.

[󠀡󠀡Dicklet]

Originally posted by greifental:

For "normal" films you'll be somewhere in between. But viewing figures seem to drop by approximately half on third week and another half on fourth week. So plan your screenings accordingly.

I actually made a chart with my films to understand the logics. You're right sir. Half the total in the 3rd week and half the third week in the 4th. Usually, it drops around half again in the next weeks till 7. 8-12 is more.
It's in portuguese as I'm brazilian, first is the week, second is total cinemas i took, third is the percentage, forth is the cinemas used, fifth is the percentage it dropped from the last week and sixth is the real dropped number from views.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qDFyizCgaanjJ6M7gq1VkjNJRTGMsmZqguzFGTOeuwQ/edit?usp=sharing
Also, a good speculation of how many cinemas your going to need is the number of public in the film. 5,8 film? 6k cinema would be a good guess if you market it well. I'm still trying to grasp the marketing options. I usually go for the second.
1st: Old and Adult people.
2nd: Everyone (?)
3rd: Teens
4th: Kids

[greifental]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡Dicklet:

I'm still trying to grasp the marketing options. I usually go for the second.
1st: Old and Adult people.
2nd: Everyone (?)
3rd: Teens
4th: Kids

I tested it in the first demo with two films (a drama/comedy and Rotten Fates). The more advertising the better, because all four added up. If you want to take only one marketing option the 4th (Comics, Spice Mice) was the one with the most increase in viewing figures. Followed by the 3rd (Vien Pascal), then 1st (radio) then 2nd (Ross & Ross).

But it may have changed in the second demo.

[Frank River]

Generally, a 7-8 film without strong competitors can gain 1.2M in the first week, the same in the second week, 500k third week, and 200k fourth week. You can assume that per screen price is 100 dollars. So 13k in the first and second, 6k in the third, 3k in the fourth should be enough. Lower rating film should reduce but I'm not sure about the exact number.
The issue is that your advertisement is still not strong enough. Gerstein and Evergreen can make sure that their movies can still have 1M revenue in the third week while their first two weeks revenue is around 1.5M, while the fourth week their revenue could be still 700k or even higher. I used to have rate 9 movie and tried their strategy, but revenue in the third week will drop faster than their movies. So the best strategy is 4 weeks only, and mainly focusing on the first 2 weeks.

[󠀡󠀡Dicklet]

Originally posted by greifental:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡Dicklet:

I'm still trying to grasp the marketing options. I usually go for the second.
1st: Old and Adult people.
2nd: Everyone (?)
3rd: Teens
4th: Kids

I tested it in the first demo with two films (a drama/comedy and Rotten Fates). The more advertising the better, because all four added up. If you want to take only one marketing option the 4th (Comics, Spice Mice) was the one with the most increase in viewing figures. Followed by the 3rd (Vien Pascal), then 1st (radio) then 2nd (Ross & Ross).

But it may have changed in the second demo.

Not too pricey, though? I usually go for 10 weeks, 4 before movie and 6 ongoing (already paying half market for next week) so it's 100k each. That would be 400k only on marketing.

[greifental]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡Dicklet:

Not too pricey, though? I usually go for 10 weeks, 4 before movie and 6 ongoing (already paying half market for next week) so it's 100k each. That would be 400k only on marketing.

If you rent enough cinemas it had always a positive effect on profit in the first demo.

And in comparision 6 weeks before + 2 weeks while running was better than 4 weeks before and 4 weeks while running.

[󠀡󠀡Dicklet]

Originally posted by greifental:

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡Dicklet:

Not too pricey, though? I usually go for 10 weeks, 4 before movie and 6 ongoing (already paying half market for next week) so it's 100k each. That would be 400k only on marketing.

If you rent enough cinemas it had always a positive effect on profit in the first demo.

And in comparision 6 weeks before + 2 weeks while running was better than 4 weeks before and 4 weeks while running.

Will definitly try next game. Finished my first game yesterday, played twice before that, but figured out i researched wrong and not changing research is a big problem in the game right now. Or you choose good research first, or you doomed.