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

Chapter 490 First Day Sales Reach 6200 Million (24)

"Tiny Times... is a fan film. If we don't like it, we shouldn't discuss it or give it too much media exposure... Look, I don't pay attention to it..."

"I went to see it yesterday... It wasn't as bad as I imagined. Great eras can produce great works of art, but our current era is a hurried, chaotic, materialistic, and shameless little era. It's good that there's a work like 'Tiny Times' to record this!"

"So what do you think of the materialism promoted by 'Tiny Times'?"

"Is this what you call materialism? I really think the materialism in 'Tiny Times' is extremely superficial, full of fantasies about personal wealth. The whole movie's presentation of consumerism and class differences is extremely superficial..." After a pause, Shen Yan waved his hand: "Let's not talk about this movie anymore, let's talk about something else!"

"Your box office prediction for 'Fame and Fortune' is over 7 million, while the distributor of 'Tiny Times' said their prediction is over 15 billion... What do you think..."

Shen Yan was stunned: "What the hell? 15 billion? Who said that?"

"As many people in the industry say..."

The reporter explained...

Okay, that's true, but they're saying the two parts together will gross over 15 billion!
It is said that at the national cinema conference before the release of "Tiny Times", a group of cinema managers praised "Tiny Times" as a movie of the Internet age!
I am very optimistic about the market performance of "Tiny Times"...

The claim that the two parts together would gross over 15 billion also originated around that time…

"Fan-driven films... their opening weekend box office usually accounts for more than half of the total box office... there's data on this, why don't our industry professionals refer to it?"

"Are there precedents for fan-made films?"

"There are tons of fan movies in North America, like Twilight, Divergent, and The Maze Runner... I urge everyone to check the data before you speak, otherwise, we'll look like amateurs!"

Is it possible for "Make a Name for Yourself" to break one billion?

Shen Yan thought for a moment, then said, "...It depends...we'll see how much enthusiasm people have for watching movies after being tortured by a series of bad films...but with 'Fast & Furious 6' and 'Pacific Rim' releasing at the end of the month, we only have about 20 days of release time..."

The reporter pointed out: "Blind Detective is also directed by Johnnie To, and stars Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng!"

Shen Yan nodded: "Yes, I know..."

……

Du Qifeng's *Blind Detective* is a grafted comedy—an attempt to package *Mad Detective* in a comedic style…

They leveraged the golden combination of Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng to attract audiences.

This duo's films, including "Needing You...", "Love on a Diet" and "Dragon and Phoenix", all performed well at the box office. Among them, "Needing You..." grossed HK$3521 million in Hong Kong, making it the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong that year.
In 2001, "Love on a Diet" grossed HK$4043 million, second only to Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Soccer".

Then, in 2004, "Dragon and Phoenix" grossed HK$1548 million in Hong Kong, ranking sixth on the annual chart;

In 04, besides "Dragon and Phoenix," they also collaborated on "Magic Kitchen," which grossed HK$2023 million and ranked fourth on the annual chart!

However, after 04, Andy Lau moved to the mainland to develop his career, and Sammi Cheng suffered from depression during the filming of "Everlasting Regret," leading to a two-year hiatus from the entertainment industry...

We don't know if it's true or not... but that's what the publicly available information says!
But for mainstream audiences at this stage, Sammi Cheng is in an awkward position; she is neither currently at the peak of her career nor a representative figure of Hong Kong cinema's golden age…

As for her songs, most of her representative works are covers of Lee Jung-hyun's songs...

However, on its opening day, "Blind Detective" still received 20% of the screenings, totaling over 19000 screenings; "Tiny Times" received 18000 screenings.

The rest were basically given to "Make a Name for Yourself"—32000 performances…

Then, "Fame and Fortune" grossed 6200 million yuan on its opening day!
"Blind Detective" earned 1400 million, "Tiny Times" earned 1380 million... Logically speaking, "Rise to Fame" already had a pretty good opening day performance of 6200 million, but "Tiny Times" had an opening day box office of 7300 million!

Then, fans of "Tiny Times," including Guo Jingming's fans, were overjoyed. On Weibo and Baidu Tieba, they left all sorts of comments saying that Shen Yan was no match for Guo Jingming...

……

"Tiny Times is a fan film. Do you even know what a fan film is? The Twilight series, except for the first one, all grossed over $6500 million on their opening day... Go check the opening day box office of the Twilight series... The second one grossed $7270 million on its opening day, setting a record at the time..."

"The Dark Knight only grossed $6700 million on its opening day, Iron Man 2 $5130 million... Ours is an original film with no established IP, so $6200 million on its opening day is already very good!"

In the waiting area, Shen Yan quietly explained the box office situation of the fan film.

The group felt quite aggrieved—they hadn't even beaten Guo Jingming!
In Shen Yan's view, this was a perfectly normal thing.

The "Tiny Times" series all had high box office on their opening day. Even "Tiny Times 2," which was released hastily, still grossed 5500 million on its opening day!
The subsequent films, "The Golden Age" and "The End of the Soul," both grossed over 100 million yuan on their opening day.

Including "L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties", the box office on the first day was 5900 million.

Ji Xiang chimed in, "I feel this situation will affect the normal release of the film..."

"What impact could it have?"

"Even 'Badges of Fury' has been so badly nerved that nobody talks about it anymore!"

Shen Yan waved his hand: "That's because the movie was bad..."

"But the release of 'Tiny Times' took up screenings from other movies..."

"...Why don't you change the release date? I'm already a week behind it!"

"What if we can't separate them?"

"Then let's focus on quality...and watch the movie itself!"

Shen Yan suddenly remembered something: Gao Qunshu's film "A Sentimental Story" was released on the same day as "Tiny Times 2," and then Gao Qunshu started criticizing Guo Jingming...

He publicly stated, "The film 'Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon' is for people with brains; brainless fans shouldn't come." and "Guo Jingming has no shame for money!"

In fact, given the quality of "Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon," even without mentioning "Tiny Times 2," if it were given a month-long gap and theaters only showed this one movie, it would still lose money and be considered a bad film.

There was a rumor that "A Romantic Tale" ran out of money towards the end of filming and was shelved for several years. When the investors needed to get their money back, they simply cut out a version and released it during the Qixi Festival as a last-ditch effort!
There are also rumors that Yinrun Media bought Enlight Media's project because they valued Gao Qunshu's position as the director of the Golden Horse Award-winning film, but ended up losing a fortune as the "white knight"!
As for "Happy New Year," it started as a stage play, but the movie was filmed in just fourteen or fifteen days. They wanted to make it into a slapstick comedy to make money, but it ended up losing a lot of money...

To put it bluntly, it's impossible for a bad movie to make money!

Chen Xu walked over with his phone in hand: "Brother Yan, Director Wang Jing posted on Weibo praising our 'Make a Name for Yourself'!"

"Really? Let me see!"

Sure enough, Wang Jing commented: 'I watched an interesting film called "Making a Name for Yourself." At first glance, it seemed like an Agatha Christie-style suspenseful murder mystery, set against the backdrop of the film industry in the 1940s, but it was full of laughs and had a major plot twist at the end, which was quite unexpected. I predict it will be a big hit!'

Shen Yan nodded: "I'll post a Weibo to thank Director Wang Jing..."

(End of this chapter)