Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 401 Holy crap, it's really going to break one billion! (34)

I heard that Yan Fei and Peng Damo invited Na Ying...

Shen Teng took the two of them there…

Unfortunately, I was rejected!
The reason was simple: she thought it was unreliable—she asked about box office predictions, and they said, "At least two billion!"

You should know that when "Goodbye Mr. Loser" was first conceived, the highest-grossing domestic film was "Lost in Thailand" at 12.7 billion yuan...

At least two billion…

That's such a boast!

"A young man with no experience is unreliable," so I rejected him outright!
However, this time it's Shen Yan, so it's different.

Even though Shen Yan mainly works in the film and television industry, he is also a musician…

In the end, Shen Yan invited Na Ying to sing "It's Not Easy to Have Someone Who Loves You" in exchange for a song…

It's perfect for the theme song of "Charlotte"...

As for the songs "Goodbye Mr. Loser" and "I'll Be By Your Side," Shen Yan plans to have Jin Zhiwen and Jike Junyi sing them respectively…

Oh, filming for "Goodbye Mr. Loser" will begin in December, with the original cast returning, including Yuan Hua and Qiu Ya...

Yuan Hua and Shen Yan planned to go themselves, while Qiu Ya... invited Yang Mi...

Actually, Zhao Yihuan could also do it.

But Zhao Yihuan's influence is definitely not as great as Yang Mi's!
That's good. After "Goodbye Mr. Loser," five film contracts have ended...

No, we're still missing one...

Telephone, Seattle, More Than Blue, Goodbye Mr. Loser...

Let's make "Your Wedding" then...

"Your Wedding" is a melodramatic and clichéd love story.

……

The film crew of "The Big Shot" arrived in Chongqing on October 3rd.

As soon as he got out of the car, a group of reporters surrounded him.

All the questions were about box office performance...

Starting on the 29th, "The Big Shot" grossed over 8000 million yuan per day for three consecutive days!
—On October 1st, the box office reached 95 million.

After 7 days of release, the cumulative box office has exceeded 4.5 million yuan.

"Breaking the single-day box office record? No way... I remember Transformers made 1.04 million in a single day... I don't think we even reached 100 million..."

"Tell me about the record for the highest single-day box office for a domestic film... then explain it more clearly..."

"I'm quite happy, but not too surprised. After all, I said from the beginning that the box office target for 'The Big Shot' was to break 1 billion... To break 1 billion, it needs to gross at least 700 million during the National Day holiday..."

"The plot is clichéd? Who said that?"

"...Online opinions..." Shen Yan smiled, "...are quite cliché, but commercial movie plots all over the world are quite cliché; it's nothing more than good triumphing over evil..."

Oh, "The Big Shot" accounted for 85% of the total box office with only 43% of the screenings...

That's right, the audience's first choice was only "The Big Shot," while "Tai Chi," "Double Exposure," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Assassins," and even "Looper," which squeezed into the National Day release window... these five films could only share 15% of the market...

That is, less than 2000 million in box office revenue.

《太极》，9月28号上映，单日票房是780万、650万、520万、410万、350万以及310万…

After six days in theaters, the cumulative box office is nearly 3000 million yuan…

This result clearly fell short of expectations.

Huang Zhonglei was almost going crazy and directly cursed Chen Guofu...

Actually, "Tai Chi" wasn't the worst off. "Dangerous Liaisons"... was released on the same day as "Tai Chi," but its opening day box office was less than 500 million yuan. It fared even worse afterward, with daily box office sometimes falling below 200 million yuan... After 6 days of release, its cumulative box office was less than 2000 million yuan!
The other characters' situations are largely the same.

Such a terrible ordeal deserves a few curses...

As a result, marketing articles accusing "The Big Shot" of plagiarizing "Police Story" flooded the internet...

It's useless. When it comes to marketing, they can't compete with Shen Yan at all—Shen Yan had his PR team buy a trending topic: 'I suggest you look into Shen Yan; he doesn't seem like an actor!'…

It exploded immediately…

A group of people started discussing Young Master Zhao…

Of course, Wu Jing wasn't forgotten either. During Shen Yan's promotional tour, an audience member asked, "Who's a better fighter, you or Wu Jing?" Shen Yan told Wu Jing to answer honestly, but Wu Jing just smiled and didn't say anything...

Shen Yan said, "Although Afei is effeminate, he's really hard to fight! If he doesn't hold back when he fights me, I'll be beaten to death!"

Then 'effeminate man' became a trending topic...

In "Little Li Flying Dagger", Li Xunhuan teaches A Fei: "A Fei, you must act like a man, not a sissy!"

By the way, there are a lot of memes about this: "Tian Yangsheng, don't be effeminate, if you can kick someone to death, don't kick them a second time!"
"The True Colors of Men"...

He kicked Xie Tingfeng away and then kicked Yu Wenle away!
If it weren't for the fact that good triumphs over evil, Tian Yangsheng could have killed them both.

We definitely need to shift our attention to Wu Jing, since "The Big Shot 2" still needs him...

In comparison, Zhao Tai is a one-off villain.

……

"I think the audience hates the rich and heartless. Recently, there have been too many scandals involving the children of the rich and powerful. The audience is also looking forward to a hero, not the Iron Man fighting aliens, but the kind of person who, for the sake of justice, perseveres no matter how many setbacks he suffers, and still yearns for the light... Sun Wukong is that kind of person!"

"The character Zhao Tai is pure evil. In the animal world, tigers eat sheep for survival. It is a cruel but necessary evil."

Zhao Tai did it purely for entertainment. His abuse of women and breaking of bodyguards' legs were, for him, a form of mental amusement and relaxation, not a means of survival. It was an evil that should have been avoided and should never have occurred.

"Actually, I originally planned to add a scene where Zhao Tai kicks his own dog to death... but that dog was so cute, I was worried I wouldn't be able to control my strength and would actually hurt it..."

At the Chongqing roadshow, Shen Yan was once again the main focus, answering many questions…

"He felt insulted by the 3800 yuan... He shouldn't have come to the company to display a banner for such a small amount of money, causing the company's stock price to drop..."

He felt fooled and that his time had been wasted.

So they artificially added a boxing match as leverage to demand unpaid wages…

"The director initially wanted to show the illegitimate child and his upbringing, but I felt it was unnecessary. Zhao Tai is a bad guy; as for why he turned bad, that's for criminal psychologists to study. We're just making a movie..."

"The original ending was that the passersby didn't intervene... But we talked to the hotel staff and some local guys in Chongqing, and they said that they would definitely lend a hand in this situation... So, we changed the ending at the last minute!"

Then it became a predictable sequence: a group of audience members chanting, "One billion!"

—Starting in Guangzhou, during a roadshow, the audience chanted in unison, "A billion yuan at the box office!"

This thing became a regular feature!

Initially, outsiders thought it was just a publicity stunt—in their view, claiming a billion-yuan box office was equivalent to selling merchandise…

Filmmakers selling merchandise?

What a price!

Ahem...

If they knew the saying "the ultimate goal for actors is live-streaming e-commerce," I wonder what they would think...

They kept shouting like that for several days...

Then, on October 3rd, the eighth day of its release, "The Big Shot" achieved a new box office record—97 million yuan in a single day!
Cumulative box office of 5.4 million...

Theaters and media outlets have all changed their tune—"The Big Shot" really has a very high chance of breaking one billion!
　One more chapter... just a moment.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)