Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 526 Record Broken!

How packed is Liu Yifei's schedule?
Since the premiere of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" in Beijing, Liu Yifei has spent three and a half days traveling to eight major box office cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu, and Hangzhou.

On the premiere day of the 18th, she was still in Wulin in the morning, and in the afternoon she and Li Qiutang appeared at a fan meeting event in South Korea.

Liu Yifei is quite popular in South Korea, and more than 200 fans came to support her at the fan meeting.

Unlike domestic fans who felt that Li Qiutang "tarnished" Liu Yifei's image, South Korean fans generally believed that Liu Yifei's marriage to a director like Li Qiutang was a "perfect match between a talented man and a beautiful woman."

"Liu Yifei really married for love. I thought she would marry a Chinese tycoon or something."

"It's really amazing. Compared to other actresses who are determined to marry into wealthy families, Liu Yifei's marriage to her childhood classmate seems more like true love."

For the first time, Li Qiutang found Koreans to be quite pleasant to listen to. Even when the Korean distributor gave them a jar of kimchi as a gift, Li Qiutang didn't feel it was stingy.

Li Qiutang and Liu Yifei rarely come to South Korea for promotional activities.

The Korean production company's tagline for "Mojin: The Lost Legend" during its trip to South Korea was: "An ancient tomb, the adventure begins!" It's fairly standard and has a certain appeal.

The event lasted for two hours. After it ended, the two took a car from the event venue to the airport.

In the evening, we returned to Yanjing and met up with the other lead actors to participate in a joint movie screening event held in the Yaolai Thousand-Person Hall.

On the 18th, along with "Mojin: The Lost Legend," another big movie full of bizarre plot twists, "Unexpected," was also released.

The reason this movie is considered to have used an unusual tactic is because it employed a large-scale preview screening.

Perhaps knowing they wouldn't last more than two rounds against "Mojin: The Lost Legend," the production company opted for large-scale preview screenings, which were essentially early releases.

The film began large-scale preview screenings over the weekend, grossing over 100 million yuan in just two days, becoming the "highest-grossing preview screening film," much to the director's surprise.

With its preview screenings grossing over 100 million yuan, "Unexpected" is much more relaxed about facing "Mojin: The Lost Legend" today.

Today, all the movie news is about "Mojin: The Lost Legend".

Early in the morning, the media reported that "Mojin: The Lost Legend" broke the record for the highest midnight box office in mainland China, set by "Furious 7" in April this year, with a gross of 51.7 million yuan.

It wasn't even noon yet, and Liu Yifei and Li Qiutang were on a plane to South Korea when the official Weibo account of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" announced that the film had grossed over 100 million yuan nationwide in 10 hours and 47 minutes.

When the two returned from South Korea, preparing to attend a screening event for a thousand people, they were informed that "Mojin: The Lost Legend" had already surpassed 2 million yuan at the box office, breaking the record for the highest-grossing opening day for a domestic film, previously held by "Lost in Hong Kong," in just 16 hours.

Breaking 3 million is a certainty. Today is Friday, and the box office will see its first major surge tonight. There is still a box office record to be set in front of "Mojin: The Lost Legend".

"Furious 7" set a record for the highest opening day box office in Chinese film history – 3.93 million yuan.

The bosses of the production companies were all grinning from ear to ear, especially Ye Ning, whose mouth never stopped moving. He wasn't originally going to come to today's screening event for a thousand people, but the success of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was just too good, and it wouldn't be right not to come.

In the backstage dressing room, Ye Ning held Li Qiutang's hand and kept laughing: "I knew I hadn't chosen the wrong person. Only you in the whole country can handle a movie of this scale."

Li Qiutang joked, "An overspending of 8000 million, is it worth it?"

Ye Ning smiled and said, "Don't bring that up. I have no complaints about the 8000 million, so here you go."

That's true; Wan Da never made things difficult for Li Qiutang financially.

Now, let alone 80 million, even if Li Qiutang exceeds 80 million, Wan Da is willing to give it.

Jing Tian sat next to Liu Yifei, feeling that everything that had happened today had gone by too fast, making it seem unreal.

It broke the record for the highest-grossing opening day for a domestic film in 16 hours.

How could such a thing happen to her!
Who would believe it!

She was criticized from the very beginning of her film career, and now she's being praised instead, which is a bit unusual for her.

She secretly read the comments from netizens. There were negative reviews, but most were neutral and some were positive.

"Jing Tian's educated youth look is actually just average, but her Princess Augu look is stunning." "Li Qiutang must have put in a lot of effort to make Jing Tian look like this, and Jing Tian's performance is actually quite good."

"Jing Tian deserves a breakthrough performance award; I hope she maintains that."

Having been criticized so much, even the slightest praise can make Jing Tian happy for a long time.

The movie had already started playing, and the cast and crew were still chatting in the lounge.

The cinema manager said that today, 14 out of their 17 screens were showing "Mojin: The Lost Legend," with no more than 10 minutes between each screening, and each screening was at least 70% full.

"Your film is the most popular since the start of this year's Lunar New Year film season." This affirmation comes from a frontline cinema manager.

As they were talking, someone told Li Qiutang to take a look at Liu Yifei, who was sitting a few steps away.

Li Qiutang looked over and saw that Liu Yifei was dozing off, propping her head up with her hand.

"She's been too tired these past few days." It would be a lie to say that Li Qiutang didn't feel sorry for his wife, but there was nothing he could do. It was work, and no one could help her share the burden.

The cinema manager said, "We have a special lounge with beds inside. Let Yifei go there."

Before waking Liu Yifei, Li Qiutang took a picture of her, which was laughed at by people who said, "Only you would do something like this." Then he gently woke his wife. Liu Yifei was very embarrassed. She was backstage at an event, and she was the leading lady. How could she have fallen asleep?

“It’s okay,” Li Qiutang said. “Go to the lounge and sleep. The movie just started and it won’t be over anytime soon. I’ll wake you up when it’s finished.”

Liu Yifei was too proud to go, but Li Qiutang and others persuaded her to go and rest.

"You've been working too hard these past few days. Go ahead, it's okay. We'll call you when things are ready up ahead."

Liu Yifei then obediently went to the rest room to sleep.

After Liu Yifei left, everyone continued chatting.

Li Qiutang asked the cinema manager how well the merchandise for "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was selling, as the revenue from popcorn and cola was irrelevant to him.

The cinema manager had something to say about this.

"Keychains and pendants sell well. They're not expensive, but the volume is large, so the income is quite good. Plush toys are a bit more expensive, so they don't sell very well."

Li Qiutang laughed and said, "Is it because your prices are too high?"

The dolls' factory price is definitely not expensive, but the cinema needs to make money, so they sell them for five or ten times the price, which is something Li Qiutang can't control.

The manager smiled and said, "We need to eat too, and we have employees to support."

At this point, Ye Ning had to admit the foresight and professionalism of the Qiutian team.

Today alone, he received many calls from theater managers and distributors, asking him to release more merchandise.

The initial stock was too small, and the distributors started cursing on the very first day.

Ye Ning sipped her hot tea, looking incredibly happy, and boasted, "I think the box office on the first day can break 4 million. Tonight is the peak period for the box office. It's only 2 million short, which is entirely possible."

He then said to Li Qiutang, "Your company is going to skyrocket in value."

The arrival of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was indeed very timely.

Li Qiutang ignored this and instead said, "Your Wanda Films are the biggest beneficiaries, you should take this opportunity to go public."

Wanda Pictures said it would go public last year, but there has been no progress.

Ye Ning didn't respond to that.

Two hours later, the movie was about to end, and the assistant woke Liu Yifei up. Everyone prepared to go on stage to interact with the audience.

(End of this chapter)