I was just thinking about taking the arts exam and you said I've been playing supporting roles

Chapter 187: First day box office! Creating a legend!
"Love Is Not Blind" has a pre-sale of 33 million yuan, topping the pre-sale box office in Chinese film history!"

"The low-budget film "Love Is Not Blind" broke three records in one night: pre-sale, midnight screenings, and first-day box office. The movie is a complete hit!"

"A historic day in film history, Singles' Day, Singles' Day or Double Eleven National Shopping Festival?"

《A new era of Internet ticketing! Gewara Online Ticketing is sought after by investors! 》

"Group buying websites have launched online ticket sales business, and the battle between thousands of groups has started again!"

……

It was not until noon the next day that Chen Jin woke up from his sleep and was browsing the news on several major portals.

"Love Is Not Blind" continues to report Chen Jin knows it, which is currently the biggest hit.

Didn't he expect that his marketing this time would make Guevara's online ticketing popular?

Group buying websites also launch online ticket sales?
I have to say that these capitals have a very high business acumen.

"Does this count as a change in the general trend of this circle?"

"The battle for online ticket purchases was launched one year earlier?"

According to normal trajectory, Meituan would not be the first to launch the group buying online ticketing business until next year when the competition among thousands of groups reaches a fever pitch.

Later, this "Meituan Movie" evolved into Maoyan.

Guevara died at the hands of Cat's Eye. The noble and dignified man never beat the vile one.

Although Guevara still has a future, it is completely incomparable to Maoyan.

The company was able to survive thanks to its so-called emphasis on user experience in the beginning. It has always had a good group of fans, which highly overlaps with the Douban group. Maoyan, on the other hand, is a platform for all the people, attracting users with various discounts and promotions.

Just like how Taobao was almost killed by Pinduoduo, the sinking market will always be the largest market, rather than the so-called high-end route.

No matter how good your user experience is, it is not as good as a movie ticket at 9.9. Reality is so cruel.

This is also the reason why Chen Jin’s pre-sale was a huge success this time.

Group buying is cheap and convenient, who wants to go to the cinema to buy tickets?
"Brother Jin!"

"Shall I make you something to eat?"

Hearing the noise in Chen Jin's room, the young assistant Wang Yuanyuan knocked lightly on Chen Jin's bedroom.

"Sure, just make something!"

Chen Jin said.

Wang Yuanyuan walked towards the kitchen. In addition to coordinating Chen Jin's announcements with Pu Lun, she was also responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of her own artists.

She was chosen by Pu Lun because she had more skills than other interviewees.

Not everyone can be an assistant.

In addition to academic qualifications, cooking, being strong, and talking less... the more you know, the more extra points you get.

Wang Yuanyuan is a girl from the countryside who went to college in the capital. She has a lot more "scheming" than city girls. The more popular her own artist is, the more it helps her enhance her self-worth.

She certainly takes this job very seriously.

Chen Jin could sense the changes in his assistant over the past few days. He became more professional and worked harder.

In addition to doing her job as an assistant every day, she also studies recipes, celebrity outfits, public relations... Anyway, she is also charging herself up in order to keep up with Chen Jin's pace.

After a while, a bowl of fragrant century egg and lean meat porridge appeared in front of Chen Jin.

There are also boiled eggs and chicken breast.

The combination of nutrition and fitness is in line with the artist's daily intake.

After saying thank you, Chen Jin started to read the film review of "Love Is Not Blind" while eating. This is what Chen Jin values most at the moment.

He certainly doesn’t need to worry about the box office of “Love Is Not Blind” today, as the pre-sales have broken records.

Currently, the number of views per day has exceeded 5000 million, and as of now, it has reached 5139 million!
But how much the maximum daily box office can reach depends on the reputation of the movie.

The box office on weekdays is obviously not increasing very fast, but the big chunk is at night. The Double Eleven marketing is currently everywhere, and there must be a lot of young couples rushing to the cinema.

Chen Jin's requirements were not high. He just wanted to see if he could break a record in Chinese film history today - over 100 million yuan in a single day, an achievement that neither "Avatar" nor "Aftershock" had achieved.

"Avatar" grossed 3600 million on its first day, with a single-day high of 6210 million; while "Aftershock" set a record for the highest single-day box office for a domestic film with 5250 million.

If nothing unexpected happens, all the records of "Love Is Not Blind" will be broken today.

Not only Chen Jin is looking forward to how much it can eventually achieve, but the media and the entire industry are also paying attention.

"It was so hyped before the release, but this is it? It's just average, watchable!"

"I wasted 29 dollars..."

"It's OK, beyond my expectations. I thought it was a tragedy, but the ending was so touching!"

"Chen Jin is happy to play another classic good man role - Wang Xiaojian!"

“It’s just average…”

"..."

The reviews are mixed, but overall they should be between 3 and 4 stars.

Mtime.com gave it a score of 7.6, but Douban has not yet released its score.

After Chen Jin sent a text message to Guo Xun with the current box office information, he called Chen Su directly, mainly because Guo Xun had been asking about it all morning.

"Brother Jin, what's the matter?"

Chen Su initially called Chen Jin "Mr. Chen", but the address has slowly changed in the past two days.

“What is the approximate value of a score on Douban?”

Douban has not yet launched, but the system actually has a score range for a few comments. Marketing companies can connect with Douban and ask for a backend score.

It’s not that Douban is asking the film company for money. Although Douban really wants to do it, if it does so, it will be exposed in minutes and the website will be destroyed.

Therefore, things like changing the scores can only be controlled by the Internet troll army, and they dare not take official action.

It’s not that I don’t want to.

"7.1 points, Brother Jin, do you want to find someone to help it go up a bit?"

Chen Su was talking there.

Chen Jin heaved a sigh of relief. Although he had just seen the rating on Time.com as 7.6, he had already put his mind at ease about the show.

This is already a very good score.

But Douban is a website with a lot of random operations, so Chen Jin still has to call Chen Su.

"Is the gap with Time Network so big?"

"Well, there are too many 1-star reviews because our movie is so popular. There aren't that many mindless reviews on Mtime!"

"Have you asked someone to deal with the bad reviews?"

Chen Jin clearly didn't see how many there were just now.

"Well, I've dealt with it. The main reason is that there were too many comments criticizing the movie. I just left a few of them there, otherwise it would look too fake!"

"Haha, I thought so!"

With such great popularity, it is impossible that there will not be extreme trolls.

Of course there is, so even if you have to give money to Douban and Time.com, you have to do it in a decent way.

Even Chen Jin couldn't tell the difference, let alone netizens.

Douban allows users to rate movies directly without having to watch them. This has been criticized for years, but the service has never been changed. Therefore, there are many users who simply give 1 star to popular movies. These are the users that Douban likes the most because they can get paid for this.

Later generations even euphemized it as a cleanup mechanism, and some mindless 1-point ratings were not counted in the normal ratings.

This is actually a disguised way of collecting money.

"I can rest assured that!"

"At least for this movie, we don't have to worry about the reputation!"

Douban’s score is 7.1, and it should rise further in the future, perhaps even reaching 7.5.

"It's done!"

After Chen Jin hung up the phone with Chen Su, he clenched his fist and waved it hard in the air.

The only trace of worry in my heart disappeared with the opening of the two websites.

With a score of 7 or above, there is no need to worry about subsequent box office growth.

"Next, we just need to wait for word of mouth to spread!"

Chen Jin finished his meal quickly and rushed to the company.

Starting today, he has to participate in a cinema roadshow in the capital.

Although it is not very popular in 2010, roadshows are still very useful in promoting box office. They can promote the film locally, get to know some cinema directors, and help with scheduling films, etc.

The main reason why it is not popular at the moment is that the film producers do not have such a big budget.

Except for big blockbuster directors who can ask celebrities to help for free, other directors and film producers do not have this ability.

Actors currently earn more than some directors and are more famous than many directors.

Stars now have to pay appearance fees for roadshows, but in the future they won’t have to pay them, and actors will even have to cooperate with the film’s promotion.

But now, it is too normal for celebrities to perform for commercial purposes.

A show can cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. If you ask them to travel all over the place, who will pay for it?
The agency is very arrogant.

However, directors and producers of blockbuster films don't have so many worries; they write the roadshow promotion into the contract before filming, and the leading actors must cooperate, and the agency is willing to do so because blockbuster films mean that the leading actors will gain great fame.

That is why the country has issued salary caps and industry rectification orders. The market is indeed developing in a somewhat distorted way.

If money is too easy to make, people will become complacent.

But Chen Jin obviously didn't have so many concerns.

Apart from him, other actors are not very famous. This kind of roadshow can also gain a lot of popularity, so everyone is willing to participate.

The main thing is to cooperate with Didi Tuan to carry out corresponding publicity, because the group buying website has exclusive flash sales and celebrity meet-and-greets activities.

Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, plus Suzhou, Daqiang and several first-tier cities, such as Shancheng and Wuhan.

Finished in one week.

Next, Chen Jin can join the crew to film "The Founding of a Party" with peace of mind and wait for the final box office of "Love Is Not Blind".

These 7 days are definitely the most important.

Especially the next four days of this weekend.

"That's amazing! 5500 million!"

"It's only half a day, the evening peak hasn't arrived yet!"

Guo Xun saw Chen Jin talking excitedly. At present, the leading actors of "Love Is Not Blind" were all sitting down in the company. They would go to the China Film Association Anle New Dong'an Cinema in Wangfujing later.

As you can tell from the name of this cinema, it is opened by China Film Group and Emlo.

The boss of Anle is Jiang Zhiqiang, the investor of "Under the Hawthorn Tree". Chen Jin just had dinner with him a few days ago.

"Brother Jin, do you think today's box office can break 100 million?"

What Guo Xun said is actually something that everyone wants to know.

Over 100 million in a single day!

There has never been a film like this in the history of Chinese cinema.

What's more, it's a non-working day.

"has hope!"

"But don't get your hopes up!"

Chen Jin called everyone and prepared to set off.

"How to say?"

"Although today's pre-sales have reached 5500 million, many of these pre-sales are for evening tickets!" "That is to say, many couples have already bought their tickets for evening!"

“You have to consider this factor…”

Chen Jin got in the car and analyzed the situation with everyone.

"Yeah, that's what I thought, actually!"

“But many people probably haven’t bought it yet. Today’s screening is 49%. Tonight, theaters across the country are basically showing our film Love Is Not Blind!”

"That's right, that's why I said there is hope, because I don't know how lively the Double Eleven tonight will be?!"

This depends on the promotion of the group buying website and Taobao.

At present, the media is indeed reporting on this extensively, and the national and local governments are obviously looking forward to the increase in consumption, so they are also promoting it in disguised ways.

For many group buying websites, orders today have reached an all-time high in half a day, or even exceeded it several times.

Taobao transactions exceeded 15 billion, far exceeding last year's 5000 million!
When it comes to national consumption, cinemas are of course the most important part.

"Chen Jin!"

"Chen Jin..."

The theater was crowded with people, all shouting Chen Jin's name.

Chen Jin is indeed famous for this week's pre-sale promotion.

“The Hawthorn Tree” only made his screen image known to everyone, but “Love Is Not Blind” made many young girls know the name of this leading actor for the first time.

So subversive.

This character is completely different from the one in "The Hawthorn Tree". He is a bit mean and sissy, but many girls like this type of character.

Many people think that Lao San is just a good man, but the 70s are too far away from young people, so this character only exists in imagination; but Wang Xiaojian is different, he is like a common career man in life, but his personality is very popular with girls.

Who doesn't want to have such a confidant and best male friend by their side? These two words are very popular among women at the moment.

In fact, female audiences are not averse to him becoming a boyfriend.

Therefore, Chen Jin's role is actually more popular than the third brother.

Even though many people have only watched the trailer, "Love Is Not Blind" has been very popular recently. It was released today and many people on the Internet are discussing it.

People who have seen it are also talking about this movie.

Many of the fans who came to the scene now are actually enthusiastic female fans who are watching the movie for the second time, so the theater is quite popular.

"Why do I feel like I, the leading actress, have such a low sense of presence?"

Wan Qian was wearing a plain white wedding dress and was preparing to appear on stage with Chen Jin in hand.

She deliberately wore the costume that Huang Xiaoxian wore in the poster of "Love Is Not Blind" today, and she and Chen Jin beside her looked like they were getting married.

Of course, Chen Jin was wearing Wang Xiaojian's suit and white T-shirt.

This is all for publicity purposes.

Logically, she should be the one who became popular in "Love Is Not Blind" because, just like in "The Hawthorn Tree", Huang Xiaoxian is the absolute female lead.

Wang Xiaojian’s role is not even half of hers.

But now, 90% of the cheers from the audience came from Chen Jin.

“Because the movie is coming out!”

"Before, they mainly promoted me..."

"Just wait a few days and see!"

Don't you have any idea?
After all, Chen Jin was famous in the early promotion. If Wan Qian was the main character, it wouldn’t have made any waves.

"Then I'll take your good words. If I don't become famous, I'll just stay in your company!"

Wan Qian held Chen Jin's arm and smiled sweetly.

Listening to the background music outside that sounded like a wedding, she suddenly felt an urge to get married.

This made her, who had been determined not to get married since childhood, very scared.

Is it because of the man next to her?

That's impossible!

There is a huge age gap between her and Chen Jin. Although they both like to joke around whenever they have nothing to do, Wan Qian really treats him as a younger brother. It's not that she doesn't have any thoughts, but it's just because of age!

If it was someone of the same age as Wan Qian, something might have happened, but at the age of 18... it's easy for something to go wrong.

Besides, this guy already has a girlfriend, and Wan Qian doesn’t want to be the third party.

Some feelings don't need to be revealed, it's better to keep them in your heart.

"Let's go!"

Wan Qian suddenly turned around and carefully helped Chen Jin hold his collar and tidy up his appearance, looking focused and caring.

"how?"

Chen Jin smiled and said, "Are you really treating this as a wedding?"

"Yes!"

Wan Qian smiled gently, looked up at Chen Jin's eyes, and said playfully, "If we can't get married in real life, why can't we get married in a movie?"

Looking at the handsome boy in front of her, the scene of their duet last night kept repeating in Wan Qian's mind.

"How many years have you been signed to Qiong Yao's company?"

Chen Jin asked suddenly, but his hand was already held by Wan Qian.

"8 years..."

“When is it due?”

"December of 12!"

"What's wrong? You really want to sign me? I'll be very expensive if I become famous!"

Wan Qian laughed, and there was actually some anticipation in her eyes.

Although her agent in her current company treats her very well, she cannot get any good resources.

This time, I was actually just lucky.

"It's not impossible!"

Chen Jin thought for a moment and said, "After two years, you should have earned enough from your current company, right?"

After all, this role was given to me by this company.

"Ok!"

"That's definitely enough!"

"Then it's settled. Two years from now, if I have an agency..."

Chen Jin smiled.

"..."

Wan Qian's heart seemed to slow down a beat.

Do you agree?
"it is good!"

She didn't know why she answered so straightforwardly.

A lot of words come to my lips, but this is the only word left.

Chen Jin might have said it casually, but Wan Qian had a lot of thoughts on his mind and answered very seriously.

It's completely different from his usual carefree self.

It seemed that this guy was proposing to me instead of signing with an agency...

"are you crazy?"

Wan Qian felt like she must be crazy and had no idea what was going on in her mind.

She was brought to the roadshow by Chen Jin's hand, still a little dazed.

"Oh oh oh~~~"

The cheers from the entire audience suddenly reached their highest point. Wan Qian’s expression finally came back to normal, and she walked onto the stage with Chen Jin, smiling.

……

After attending the roadshow of the New Dong'an Cinema, the group rushed to Wanda without stopping.

We didn't have time to eat until after 9 o'clock, and everyone was exhausted.

"I don't know if it can be broken!"

Chen Jin looked at the number 9312 million displayed in the system and was still very nervous.

There are still more than 2 hours left, and the most popular Double Eleven in history will be over.

But in fact, many theaters only have 1-2 screenings scheduled tonight, so it will be a bit difficult to get the box office.

However, more than 9000 million is already a very exaggerated number.

"How much is it, Jin?"

Guo Xun asked him eight hundred times a day, and Chen Jin no longer wanted to answer: "I'm also waiting for the statistics from the cinema!"

"Let's go, eat while we wait!"

After everyone found a restaurant and sat down, the dishes had just been served when Han Sanpin called directly.

"Third Master!"

Chen Jin walked to the window and answered the phone.

“We’re still a little short of the single-day box office!”

"I urgently asked theaters across the country to add extra screenings. Many audiences for the midnight screenings should enter 10 minutes early, and it will be counted as today!"

"?"

Breaking 100 million in a single day is not just Chen Jin’s hope.

In fact, it is also Han Sanpin’s hope.

This is no longer just a matter of a movie, but a key node in the development of Chinese film.

China needs a film that can gross over 100 million yuan in a single day to stimulate the entire film market.

Today, November 2010, 11.

If the daily total was just over 8000 million, Han Sanpin might not have thought too much about it; but if it’s 9300 million, then why not go for it if he can?
"Breaking 100 million!"

Although Chen Jin’s system has not yet displayed it, since Han Sanpin said so, this goal will definitely be achieved.

"I said, it's over 100 million!"

Chen Jin shouted to the people in the room who turned around in confusion, his voice extremely excited: "Breaking 100 million in a single day!"

"Ahhh!"

The entire box was about to be overturned.

Guo Xun excitedly jumped from his chair and stood in front of Chen Jin, with a look of disbelief on his face: "Really?"

"real!"

"Third Master, the phone call you just made to me!"

“Breaking 100 million in a single day!”

“We created a legend!”

boom!
The waiter didn't dare to come in. All he knew was that there were a lot of people in the room shouting and yelling, completely immersed in the carnival...

(End of this chapter)