The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 480 "Little Red Flower" was released, and the film market sounded the clarion call for recovery!

Long skirt, straight black hair, and glasses.

It must be said that Li Lili felt that the girl who called her looked a bit like herself, and they should be about the same age.

Unfortunately, the girl didn’t continue the call, apparently the caller hung up.

This makes it difficult to determine whether I heard it correctly.

Wang Yu???

Huh~
She called again.

Li Lili lowered her head and looked at her hands to disguise herself, then slowly moved closer.

"Sister Xin, are you really not coming either? Oh! I'm not coming. I'm preparing for both situations. If she comes, I won't watch Little Red Flower. If she doesn't come, I will definitely watch it. Okay, I won't mention it in front of her anymore. Oh! Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll go back after the movie. I won't eat dinner, you guys eat."

Li Chenxi hung up the phone helplessly and prepared to go upstairs and wait for a while to enter.

When I turned around, I almost bumped into a girl who was playing with her cell phone.

Long skirt, straight black hair, and glasses.

A bit like me.

Li Chenxi smiled at her, and it seemed that she wanted to say something but didn't say anything.

Then go upstairs!

I had just taken a few steps when I heard a voice behind me.

"Hey, are you here to watch "Send You a Little Red Flower"? "

It was that girl.

"Yeah," Li Chenxi nodded with a smile, "You too?"

"Yeah, I'm mainly here to see Xu Xing. I'm the starry sky, and my name is Li Lili, which means every grain of rice is hard-earned. But in fact, I've disappointed my parents. I've never worked hard. What about you?"

Li Lili decided to borrow Inawen's identity of Starry Sky to introduce herself.

"Really?" Li Chenxi's eyes lit up immediately. "I'm also a starry sky. My name is Li Chenxi! Chenguang, which means sun with the character "xi" from Wang Xizhi on the side. I wanted to watch the first show in the morning, but my girlfriend - unfortunately I'm not free until the afternoon."

"Who isn't?" Li Lili said with a smile. "I finally got my mom to let me go out. I wanted to find my bestie to watch it with me, but she had something urgent to do and couldn't come. I finally found a baby's breath!"

"How can it be so hard? All the people who came to the theater today are full of stars!"

"Uh, yes! Hahahaha! The sky is full of stars shining brightly!"

"…The stars in the sky will live forever!"

"Haha...by the way, how about your best friend——"

"Hey, it's almost half past five, we need to hurry in, are you in this show?"

"Yes! I'm row 7, row 13."

"I'm in row 8, row 17. It's a pity that we're not together."

"Let's add each other as WeChat friends, so we can talk about our feelings after the show is over?"

"it is good!"

After adding WeChat friends, the elevator has reached the upper floor and people are already queuing for ticket checking.

Get the ticket quickly.

Li Chenxi glanced at the hall and saw that there were indeed some Starry Sky members coming with banners to identify themselves. Everyone was separated into groups of three or four and all wore masks, but the atmosphere was very lively.

There are also many huge posters and standees of Xu Xing in the hall, and some star-shaped colored lights are hung on the ceiling, all of which were prepared in advance by the cinema.

...If it was the Wang Yu from two years ago, she would have been extremely happy to see these.

“Hehehe! This is the influence of Xingsheng! Your cinema is doing a great job! When I go back, I will tell all the Mantianxing that this is a cinema that especially respects Xu Xing, and let everyone come here to watch!”

…And now, she would feel particularly sick?

How come...

The arm was touched.

Li Chenxi came back to his senses.

Li Lili urged with some concern.

"Why are you in a daze? Come in quickly."

“Oh, oh, that’s what happened just now, uh…”

Check your tickets!
Enter the screening room!

Because there is a strict requirement that the occupancy rate cannot exceed 30%, therefore, everyone sits farther away and wears masks, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

However, after looking at each other, even though they were strangers to each other, their eyes were full of smiles and impatience.

This is the meaning of being a fan of a star... Even if the movie is ugly, everyone will think it is good - uh, no!
Seek truth from facts!

It just looks good!

Whenever Xu Xing's face appears on the big screen, it can never be ugly!

Li Chenxi was thinking in a mess as the lights in the theater dimmed and the movie began to play.

A long list of film and television company logos were skipped.

Skip credits.

The screen lights up, and a blue-green brain CT image fills every inch of the screen. This is the first shot of the movie.

There was an immediate cry of surprise in the screening room.

In the CT room, a patient is undergoing an examination.

Hospital gown, medical record card, IV tube on the arm, and what seems to be a small part of the bald face, this is the male lead played by Xu Xing, Wei Yihang.

"Insomnia, amnesia, hemiplegia, low intelligence, schizophrenia, there are many possible sequelae after the operation. If I'm lucky, I will continue to live with one of them."

Emotionless mumbling.

Wei Yihang's upper body was completely exposed, with a world-weary face and a big bald head!

There was another exclamation.

In fact, everyone had watched the trailers and spoilers online before coming here, so they knew what the movie was about. They also knew that Xu Xing shaved his head specifically to play this role well, and they had also seen the leaked bald stills.

But when I saw it on the big screen, I was still shocked.

Wei Yihang, played by Xu Xing, was lying quietly on the huge screen, as if he was lying in front of himself. It was an extremely subversive look, but he still looked extremely handsome.

Unfortunately, his expression was numb, with a hint of fragility and loneliness.

He has a tumor in his brain.

The operation begins.

Wei Yihang fell into a dream. In the dream, he came to the lakeside and saw a figure in the distance, but the light was so dazzling that he could not see the person's face clearly.

The screen switched, and the words "Send you a little red flower" popped up.

When the organ was cut back, they were already in the treatment room. The doctor told his mother and Wei Yihang that the results of the reexamination were good and told Wei Yihang not to worry about the hallucinations in his mind.

Wei Yihang went out and waited without getting tired of it. Outside he saw a father feeding a sick child. Such a young life, yet he also suffered from cancer.

Wei Yihang was in a daze, and self-mockery gradually appeared in his eyes.

When leaving the parking lot, the mother had a battle of wits with the security guard because she was unwilling to pay the five-dollar fine for parking five minutes overdue.

Wei Yihang, who was watching coldly, felt embarrassed and at a loss. He laughed at himself, but when he lowered his head, the half of his face that could not see his eyes was filled with sadness.

"This is my mom, a finance clerk who failed to get a promotion because of me, and has devoted half her life to saving money."

After leaving the parking lot, the mother was very happy for having "earned" five dollars.

When they got home and had dinner, his parents chatted and joked with each other, but Wei Yihang just ate a few bites and went back to his room to play with his phone.

The plot was told smoothly and the screening room was unusually quiet.

All the stars were sighing in their hearts that Xu Xing's acting was exaggeratedly good, but such a lonely brain cancer patient, who was trying hard to maintain a warm family, was like a bow that was getting tighter and tighter, with a big rock on it, which could fall down at any time.

When watching Xu Xing's movies in the past, Li Chenxi would often look at her best friend Wang Yu's extremely devoted profile when Xu Xing was not on the screen, and sometimes she couldn't help laughing at the obvious changes in her facial expression.

But after watching the first movie of "The Wandering Earth" without Wang Yu last year, Li Chenxi has become more and more focused when watching movies.

Wei Yihang's life soon began to brighten.

He met Ma Xiaoyuan at a cosplay event invited by the main members of the patient group.

A girl who looks like she has no cancer at all, full of energy, enthusiasm and extreme optimism.

With Ma Xiaoyuan's encouragement, the withdrawn Wei Yihang slowly began to become positive.

The two of them talked freely about everything, shared each other's secrets, imagined games... and danced in the square, just like normal people.

In the square, in the yellow light that illuminated half of his face, Wei Yihang even began to imagine growing old like them.

During the more than half an hour, the extremely bright colors of the film gradually made everyone in the theater relax.

Until Wei Yihang, who had just found the lake in his dream, fell headfirst onto the table.

He relapsed.

The rocks are about to fall.

"God always tells me in different ways: You deserve nothing except pain and pity. The distance and hope have nothing to do with me."

The family was in a far more difficult situation than I had imagined. My father had a gastric ulcer and had been unwilling to see a doctor. In order to treat him, I even had to sell my house...

Wei Yihang was also unwilling to contact Ma Xiaoyuan again before his illness was cured.

However, he found that he was blocked by Ma Xiaoyuan. In the rain, Wei Yihang found Ma Xiaoyuan and told him all his emotions, and even confessed his love.

Ma Xiaoyuan is still the brightest color in his heart.

It was not until they were on the car ride to the lake in their dreams that Ma Xiaoyuan suddenly had a relapse.

……

Ma Xiaoyuan is dead.

Ma Xiaoyuan, who is always positive, optimistic and sunny, admitted that she was also afraid of death and would shed tears out of weakness.

But she died.

Obvious sobbing could be heard in the screening room.

However, the light in Wei Yihang's heart did not disappear from then on. Ma Xiaoyuan made him understand the meaning of life, and he became more positive.

Not only did I get into university, but I also finally went to the Qinghai Lake of my dreams.

There, he discovered that the figure in his dream was Ma Xiaoyuan.

In that world without illness and pain, without separation and death, everyone lives a simple and beautiful life, and the radiant sun illuminates the smiles on everyone's faces. "And you and I, we run together in time, in the moment, and in eternity. We cherish every moment. We rarely talk, but often smile. We run, jump, and live recklessly. We will never be separated, and will never be disturbed, forever, forever."

Wei Yihang turned and left the lake.

He walked on the land, crossed the shallow river, climbed up the hillside, and a group of sheep with red flowers appeared in front of him.

Someone once said on the train where Ma Xiaoyuan and he failed to reach their destination together: Sheep are gregarious animals, and if you don't mark them, no one will know whose they belong to.

Wei Yihang faced the sunshine and shed tears in the wind.

The screen went black and director Han Yan’s name popped up.

The video is over.

[Send you a little red flower.]

I'll give you a little red flower.

Blooming on the new branches you grew yesterday.

Encourage you to have courage,

Take the initiative to talk to me.

O mortal enemy,

The strong liquor that has no regrets,

What a difficult day.

You have overcome it.

I'll give you a little red flower.

Cover the new scars you've got today.

[…]
The song was being sung softly, and the lights in the screening room had been turned on, but no one got up and left.

Li Chenxi has watched every movie of Xu Xing, except the first one "My Girlhood", and at the end of each movie, the extremely excited Stars would cheer and applaud.

Only this time, everyone was crying silently.

It wasn't until the end of the song that people started to leave.

"The audience next to me was crying so hard. I wanted to comfort her, but I didn't know how to say it. Why do people have to suffer from illness and separation?"

Li Lili sighed.

"Yeah," Li Chenxi nodded. "In fact, I didn't like watching this kind of movie before. I haven't even watched "Dying to Survive". But this time, I was really touched. Why did Ma Xiaoyuan die in the end? Wouldn't it be better for her to live with Wei Yihang?"

"Xu Xing said in an interview that since it is unavoidable, we should live a positive and optimistic life. This was his thought when he decided to take on this film. This year has been very difficult for everyone, and this film should be an inspiration to everyone."

Li Lili said.

"Well, I plan to watch it again tomorrow." Li Chenxi paused and said, "I'm here. Do you live nearby too?"

"No," Li Lili shook her head. "The theater near where I live doesn't have good seats, so I took a taxi to come here to watch the movie. It's getting late, and I have to go home too. Let's keep in touch when you have time."

"Well, okay."

Li Chenxi was about to say something else, but Li Lili smiled, waved, and turned away.

And his feet are quite fast.

Li Chenxi was a little confused, because the two of them had been walking and chatting all the way here, and he got along quite well with Li Lili, and he didn't feel that she hated him. So why did she avoid him so much when saying goodbye?

...Do you feel like you didn't invite her up?

But this is Sister Xin’s home, and there is Wang Yu who hates Xu Xing in the house.

Turn around.

hiss~
Li Chenxi immediately felt that Li Lili was walking faster.

Because Wang Yu was looking at this side not far behind, as if he had just finished dinner and came out for a walk.

If Li Lili hadn't left yet, it would have been difficult to bring her over and introduce her.

Li Chenxi quickly put a smile on his face and walked over happily.

Take out the ticket stub that you had prepared long ago.

"This movie 'Arrival' is so ugly. Lee Heon doesn't look very handsome. I don't know why so many people like it."

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[Is "Send You a Little Red Flower" really that good? Why is it praised so highly online? ? ? ]

[The best of the year has come, what else can save my life? ? ? ?

I've been staying at home for a long time and haven't been to the cinema for half a year. I really want to go see a movie, but now I'm hesitant. ]
"Apart from King Oyster Mushroom, who else would go and see it first? Of course, they all praised it to the sky."

"I am a loyal believer in Xingsheng. Xingsheng is a great man who takes on social responsibilities and no one can touch him. But I must say that this movie is a bankrupt version of The Fault in Our Stars. It's really boring."

"Best of the Year is right, right? How many movies did you appear in this year? [Sweating]"

[The Golden Horse Award winner was actually beaten by the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress…]

[Sister Wenqi is really smart. In comparison, Xingsheng is almost being executed.

It looked okay in the trailer, but the actual acting in the movie was extremely stiff and overdone in every way.

Really disappointed.

But Wenqi was a pleasant surprise, so I still recommend it to everyone. ]
"Isn't that normal? Everyone knows how the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress came to be the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor. [Yawn]"

“Why do all I see are “Signal” and “Little Red Flower”? Each one is more advanced than the last…”

——"If he really has the ability to be a movie emperor, would he still brag about his progress? Hou Minghao can improve his acting skills, but does Emperor Xing have the nerve to brag about his progress???"

"It's a bit discouraging. I wanted to watch it, but I'm embarrassed and can't stand the male lead who overdoes it."

——"Go watch it without worry, it's definitely the best movie of Xing Sheng's acting! It's really as good as it appears in the trailer, he's definitely going to win the Best Actor award! Jinx knew that this movie wouldn't make much money at the box office, so he deliberately criticized Xing Sheng's acting. He even posted this before he went to the theater, and didn't mention any specific parts of his performance that were bad."

[Send You a Little Red Flower is good, but isn’t it a bit too utilitarian for Xingsheng to release this movie at this time? ]

[It’s fine to eat patriotic food at ordinary times, but now you are trying to make money by being sentimental? ? ? ]
"????"

"Not only do they make money, they also encourage society. [Laughing and crying]"

"So who can tell me what this movie is about?"

——"The hero has cancer, and is encouraged by the heroine. The heroine's cancer relapses and she dies, but the hero actively continues to live. This can be called a black-haired man who is invincible and has a bad luck. [Hehe]"

"The evidence has been preserved, and we are waiting for the court summons."

[Is your group now occupied by the Black Water Army and Jinx?]

[Your group is the only one on the entire Internet that criticizes "Little Red Flower" in various ways. As long as you have actually entered the theater, you will feel that "Little Red Flower" is worthy of the fans' suppressed expectations for watching the movie for half a year.

Given the quality of this film and the appeal of the filmmaker, if it were released normally, the box office would definitely be around 20 billion. Now it is being released to save the market and encourage people to go to the theaters, but it is being criticized???]
"A Lucky Saint movie usually easily makes 4 to 5 million yuan in a single day, but yesterday the entire box office was only 1740 million. Many people want to smear Lucky Saint and hope that domestic films will die together."

——"Don't worry, the real-time box office of Little Red Flower is already 7000 million, and it is certain to break million today. The haters are just too anxious because the box office is too good. [Hehe]"

“We need to ask which companies these hundreds of accounts that were suddenly added a few days ago belong to. Pixian (Douban) is making money from everything now, and it needs to be rectified again. [Yawn]”

"The movie Xing Sheng is too perfect. Except for the fact that director Han Yan's rhythm and emotions are still the same old problems, Xing Sheng's performance in the movie is flawless. He is depressed and lonely, sensitive and fragile, but also gentle and sunny. I can't believe that he joined the crew just one week after filming "Signal". Xing Sheng's acting skills are at the peak of his career.

In addition to the movie, the cancer fund has been established a long time ago. According to the latest update last week, it has helped more than 500 cancer patients. When Xingsheng took on this movie, he really hoped that the society could give more attention and support to cancer patients. This movie is also made at this time for domestic films and to save those theaters that are on the verge of bankruptcy.

In fact, before the official release of "Little Red Flower", I still thought that it was just marketing by Xing Chu, and that he would definitely withdraw the film temporarily because the market was so bleak. But the facts proved that I, who had been a jinx for almost six years, was just a clown in front of Xing Sheng. Xing Sheng was great, and I was too despicable. I admit that all my hatred for Xing Sheng in the past came from my disappointment in my useless and incompetent character. "

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"The box office has now exceeded 9000 million, and today's final box office should be around 1.1 million. There have been some deliberate smear campaigns online, but they haven't caused any waves. Fans generally gave it good reviews. But it's also true that the vast majority of people who entered the theaters on the first day were your fans. We expect word of mouth to stabilize after the two days of the weekend."

Before the online premiere ceremony of "Little Red Flower" began, Sun Man reported on the box office performance on the day of its release.

Because theaters were cautious about resuming operations, "Little Red Flower" did not hold an offline premiere without an audience, but chose a cloud premiere.

The reason why it is held on the night of the release rather than before is because the current market situation is too bleak. The plan is to wait for the first wave of word-of-mouth to ferment during the day and the premiere to be live broadcast after the topic becomes hot online.

This will attract more people to the cinema.

However, the box office of "Little Red Flower" has obviously far exceeded the initial expectations.

Previously, the industry generally expected that with Xu Xing's strong appeal, the first-day box office of "Little Red Flower" should be able to exceed 5000 million.

After all, many people still have concerns, and there are many restrictions on movie watching, such as 30% occupancy, increased rest time for each show, and daily showtimes reduced to half of usual number, etc.

"Little Red Flower" is not a particularly commercial blockbuster.

As a result, by the afternoon, the box office had already exceeded 5000 million.

This is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the industry!

Facts have proved that even now, the film's attendance rate can exceed 20%, even when the screening rate exceeds 40%.

In the previous eleven days, the attendance rates of films that accounted for more than 10% of the screenings were so dismal that they could not break through 10%.

This is the influence of Xu Xing!!!
Starting from seven o'clock in the evening, after Xu Xing finished work on the set, his phone never stopped ringing. All the calls were from heavyweights in the industry, expressing their gratitude and gratitude for the boost that "Little Red Flower" had given to the market.

There is also an endless stream of messages of exclamation and praise sent on WeChat.

It was not until eight o'clock in the evening, when the cloud premiere began, that Xu Xing finally had some free time.

As soon as the connection was successfully established, Xu Xing heard the host screaming excitedly.

"Just now, the box office of Little Red Flower officially exceeded 1 million! It has set a box office record for the global film market that has recovered!"

The volume of barrage instantly became more explosive, and the live broadcast room collapsed directly.

A single-day box office of over 100 million has been achieved, and the domestic film market has officially sounded the clarion call for recovery!

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There is not much else to say about the online premiere. Originally planned to last an hour, the first half hour was spent on all kinds of expressions of emotion, praising "Little Red Flower" to the skies.

Then the main creators shared the stories of the filming process.

When the host asked Xu Xing how she made up her mind to shave her head, director Han Yan suddenly played a short video of Xu Xing shaving his head in the makeup and hair studio.

Xu Xing was caught off guard.

But fortunately, it’s only half of the face, and the shaving process looks quite handsome, so the screenshot should not turn out bad.

After a sidelong glance at the calm Sun Man beside him, Xu Xing realized that Sun Man had nodded too much.

This should be to counter some voices on the Internet today that question whether Xu Xing really shaved his head.

Because everyone was expressing their feelings at the beginning, the premiere ended 20 minutes overtime.

After hanging up the call, Xu Xing just picked up the phone and saw the message that had just been sent.

[I went to see Little Red Flower! [Yeah]]

Liu Haocun.

(End of this chapter)