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Chapter 241 Competition
The next morning, as soon as Su Yan woke up, he received contact information from various people from the company's partners.

Rurouni Kenshin will be released for more than a month, and the promotion of the film will continue during this process. However, Su Yan has to rush back to deal with the filming of Your Name and I Want to Tell You, so his stay in the Shanghai area is limited to seven days at the beginning of the year.

Seven days later, when the company and crew members who had been on vacation returned to work one after another, Su Yan also had to stay in Tokyo.

Not long after Su Yan finished handling the related work, the meal delivery service personnel he had booked arrived. After the doorbell rang, the staff placed the ordered dishes in the restaurant of Su Yan's villa. At this time, Su Yan called everyone who was still sleeping upstairs to get up.

Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, Shi Peihua, and Shinozaki Yumi have been living in Su Yan's house since the Chinese New Year while in Shanghai.

After all, the hotel is not as comfortable as the big house that Su Yan spent 80 or 90 million to buy. Besides, they are big stars, and appearing in crowded areas can easily attract fans to gather and watch.

"The first day's box office was 3.09 million. Ranked second." As soon as Shinozaki Ikumi sat at the table, she unconsciously picked up the dishes with her chopsticks, with a somewhat unwilling expression on her face.

"Second one"

"It's just the first day." Gu Qingyuan said softly.

“Word of mouth is our highest priority.”

"No matter what, the movie Breaking the Array brings together the most well-known people and capital distributors in the Xia country's film industry. Even if we are willing to pay, we don't have as strong connections as the other party, and our conditions and treatment will always be worse than theirs." Shen Liqian also said hurriedly.

“I feel like we still have a good chance of overtaking today.”

For Shen Liqian, this result was enough to surprise her.

The first movie he starred in, Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers, was a huge hit at the box office.

The second movie in his life in which he starred was a huge hit during the Spring Festival.

Not winning the first-day box office championship doesn’t mean you are a failure.

A movie that grossed over 300 million on its first day can definitely not be called a failure, no matter what. It can only be said that it was not a complete success.

"No matter what, since we have come this far, our goal must not just be second." Su Yan looked at everyone and said.

The first-day box office and word of mouth of Rurouni Kenshin also made Su Yan feel relieved.

Su Yan actually knew very well that there was a gap between the plot of the movie version of Kenshin and the plot of Conferred Gods in Memories.

But the fighting scenes in the first movie are much more numerous and exciting than the small-scale fighting scenes in the reminiscences.

It can be said that each has its own strengths.

The fact is, the plot of the TV series Reminiscence is very selective for the audience, and requires the audience to use their brains and hearts to appreciate it.

But the fighting scenes in the movie version don’t have so many requirements, and people of all ages can enjoy it.

His performance in the movie version can be said to have conquered the audience during this Spring Festival.

In that case
Then you must strive for higher results.

"I have already notified the company's finance department to work overtime during the Spring Festival, and then make additional investments in publicity," said Su Yan.

Of course, Su Yan also understood that the investors behind the two works, The Fake Detective and Breaking the Array, would do the same.

But if everyone's publicity efforts are similar, the quality of the work will ultimately determine its performance.

And this point.
Whether it is Su Yan’s old fans or passers-by, the highest ratings given to Rurouni Kenshin can reveal clues.

The quality of the other two movies was equally high, and Su Yan watched both movies in one day yesterday.

But it is obvious that for the people of Xia, works like Kenshin bring them a much greater shock.

The second day of the Spring Festival is also the day when the sixth episode of fz is broadcast.

Although the Spring Festival movies are extremely popular, the topic discussion of fz is not affected.

Because this episode is the extremely important meeting of the three kings in the original work.

Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, Alexander, the King of Conquerors, and Altria, the King of Arthur.

All three of them have their own persistence.

The Hero King and the Conqueror King conquer the world, and each has his own persistence in dictatorship and tyranny.

But only Altria, her wish is to use the Holy Grail to save her destroyed hometown.

How could the king regret it?
Gilgamesh and Alexander's rejection of Altria's wish and the scene in this episode where Alexander's mental image materializes and summons an endless army.
It has become the most classic scene since the show started airing.

After the episode was aired, Alexander became the most popular character in the show. As for Jin Shanshan, played by Su Yan, he was criticized by fans for his pretentious attitude.

Su Yan’s fans don’t care who plays the role. As long as the character makes people feel uncomfortable, they will criticize it.

So that night, a strange phenomenon occurred among Su Yan's fans.
After a bunch of Fate fans criticized Gilgamesh played by Su Yan, praised Alexander, and felt sorry for Altria, they began to join the public opinion war over several movies during the Spring Festival and cheered for Kenshin.

Twelve o'clock at night.
The box office results of a number of Spring Festival movies were released on the same day.

"Breaking the Array" had 3.36 million, "Rurouni Kenshin" had 3.31 million, and as for "The Fake Detective", it decreased instead of increasing, with only 2.21 million.

This box office data made a group of people in the Xia country film industry realize something.

Although "Breaking the Sphere" still won the single-day box office championship and achieved box office growth, it seems that the growth of "Rurouni Kenshin" is much higher than that of "Breaking the Sphere"!
And the score of the work also changes in real time.

The score of "Breaking the Array" dropped from 9.0 yesterday to 8.9. It is obvious that as the number of moviegoers increased, more people gave low scores in the later period.

But looking at Rurouni Kenshin, as more and more people rated it, the score actually increased to 9.7.

Now, people in the film industry are getting excited.

"It seems that Rurouni Kenshin's growth momentum is a bit scary!"

"Something is wrong. With this reputation, it's dangerous to break the formation."

"That's right. If we only look at the single-day box office, The Lost Tomb still has a slight lead, but this lead is entirely due to the scheduling. On the third day of the Spring Festival tomorrow, the movie schedules of various theaters in Xia Country have been adjusted again. The scheduling ratios of The Lost Tomb and Rurouni Kenshin are both 24%."

"If Po Zhen fails to maintain its box office champion tomorrow, then on the fourth day of the Spring Festival, the box office and screening ratio of the two films will be completely reversed."

"With such a high reputation, it means this movie will have great staying power! It has the potential to last for a long time."

"It won't break 3 billion box office, right?"

"It is possible. In other words, judging from the current trend, both Pokémon Go and Rurouni Kenshin have a chance to break NT$30 billion at the box office, but Forbidden Detective will be lucky if it breaks NT$20 billion."

"On the second day of the release of The Impostor, the box office fell during the Spring Festival. It may not even surpass the 1.4 billion box office of 5 Centimeters per Second."

"Last year, the highest-grossing film during the Spring Festival had a total box office of 28.4 billion yuan, which was also the box office champion last year. This year, will there be two films that will surpass last year's record at the same time?"

After only two days of release, competition in the Spring Festival market has become fierce.

A group of people in the film industry are keeping an eye on box office trends.

Su Yan and the investors behind the movie Breaking the Array began to intensify the publicity campaign for the two films.

Su Yan has made so much money in the TV drama industry, so he may not have many connections in the film industry.

But to be honest, in the entertainment industry of Xia Country, not to mention those nonsense things like stock valuation, how many companies can come up with 20 billion in cash in one go?
Su Yan didn't really want to start a money war with the other party, but at least he wanted to ensure that the movie Rurouni Kenshin would not suffer a scheduling disadvantage in the Xia country's film market due to the intensity of publicity.

If Rurouni Kenshin loses the battle for the Spring Festival box office championship because the quality of its film is not as good as that of the other film, Su Yan will admit it.

But if the other party wants to spend money on publicity and launch an opinion offensive to make Su Yan give in, then they have chosen the wrong opponent.

Su Yan could make no money, or even lose money, from the movie Rurouni Kenshin.

Anyway, the first movie version didn't make money, so Su Yan can make back his money through TV dramas, or make a profit from the Kenshin movie sequel in the future.

But the other party is different.

A true capitalist always thinks in a simple way.

ROI and Risk!

After realizing that no matter how they pretended to make a last-ditch effort in the publicity market, they could not scare Su Yan, Su Yan also responded by adding the same amount of publicity funds to ensure that Rurouni Kenshin was at the same level as Po Zhen in terms of public opinion and propaganda. Then the other party asked someone to inquire about Su Yan and got Su Yan's clear idea.

Stop these meaningless actions.

After all, it's not worth it.
On the third day of the Spring Festival, "The Matrix" took the second place in the single-day box office with a box office of 3.13 million yuan.

Rurouni Kenshin won the single-day box office championship with a box office of 3.32.

The fourth day of the Spring Festival.
Rurouni Kenshin was scheduled to be the first on the day with a 25% share for the first time.

The major theaters and media in Xia Country have undergone a huge change in their attitude towards Kenshin.

(End of this chapter)