Peninsula: I'm the Top Streamer

Chapter 277 Taiwan Box Office Champion
Let’s end this here first, but the following is the follow-up of the movie "Innocence".

After more than a month of release, the box office potential of the movie "Innocence" has been basically exhausted. It finally broke through the one million mark, and then the number of viewers increased by several thousand per day. There is no potential for further rapid growth.

Because the international blockbuster Tenet was released in South Korea, it swept the entire Korean film market.

As the domestic box office comes to an end, the next step is to release the film in overseas box office.

Basically, they are the countries in Southeast Asia, including Taiwan.

Originally, the plan was to wait for the distributor to arrange for the film to be released directly, but because Taiwan is an important box office, and Quan Xuanhe himself can speak Chinese and is quite popular in Taiwan, they arranged for him to make an interview promotional video.

Quan Xuanhe naturally supported this activity wholeheartedly.

After arriving at the place, the staff had already set up the scene in the conference room. There was a large poster of innocence in the background, and a series of filming equipment such as cameras in the front. Then a host was arranged to warm up the atmosphere.

Quan Xuanhe checked the script with the host, and after confirming that it was correct, he started the interview directly.

"Hello everyone, we have invited the lead actor Quan Xuanhe from the show to have a discussion with you."

"Excuse me, what specific story does Qingbai tell?"

"Innocence is actually talking about one."

The host nodded and began to speak in Chinese, "Please greet everyone in Chinese."

Quan Xuanhe nodded. This was his forte. "Hello everyone in Taiwan. I'm Quan Xuanhe. I'm very happy that the film can be released in Taiwan. I hope everyone will give us good feedback on our film."

The focus of the program interviews is Chinese, which is a perfect gimmick for publicity.

Then, the program team interviewed some questions, and then played some small interactive games, and finally it came to an end.

Not long after the interview, the movie "Innocence" was released immediately in various Southeast Asian countries.

It was released by Sony Taiwan on August 22, 2020, and was shown on more than 100 screens in Taiwan. It won the Taiwan box office championship that week and ranked first.

Taiwan's film market has basically collapsed, and local films have almost no ability to resist and have completely become a box office.

The representative website "Yahoo!" has a rating of 5 stars (out of 4 stars), and "Line Movie" has a rating of 9.4.

It can be said that it has received rave reviews.

There are also many personal fans of Quan Xuanhe in Taiwan. Most of them were attracted to become fans through "One Day at a Time" or "Dr. Lang 2". This time, they took advantage of the opportunity to support the movie with real money and went to the cinema.

After seeing Kwon Hyun Hyuk's vivid and somewhat neurotic performance, I exclaimed at the contrast and was shocked by his performance. His charming yet contrasting performance made people unable to help but fall into it and unable to extricate themselves.

Compared to similar South Korean crime films, "Confession" (Taiwanese translation) falls somewhere in the middle of the pack, performing at a mediocre level. The film focuses more on ethical and family explorations, with the case involving overly clichéd scenarios and the villain's face clearly portraying a villain. The first twist fails to truly provide a moment of epiphany, while the second feels unconvincing and lacks groundbreaking excitement. —FA Film Appreciation Review.

The reason why Innocence was able to win the box office championship among the recently released movies is that it has no recent rivals. The only rival that came out is Train to Busan 2 which was also released in South Korea.

The two together occupied the top two spots on Taiwan's domestic box office chart, accounting for more than half of the Taiwan domestic market.

From this aspect, we can clearly see how desolate the local film market in Taiwan is.

In the discussion about the actors in this movie, it is obvious that Kwon Hyun-hyuk is mentioned more. The reason is simple: he is very popular. There is nothing wrong with viewing him as a traffic star.

"This is your boyfriend's movie, it's really well acted!"

"Thank you~ I will pass it on to him (love)"

"It was really awesome, the acting was superb."

"I know! (shy)"

"The confession is super nice, and your boyfriend is super handsome."

It was only after seeing messages from friends one after another that Zhou Ziyu noticed that the movie starring Kwon Hyun Hyuk was released in Taiwan. She didn't expect it to be released in Taiwan.

She had searched online for relevant content and was surprised to see the Taiwanese response to "Clear Innocent." While it wasn't exactly positive, it was quite good. It grossed 8 million in its first week, then reversed course in its second week, earning 10 million. At this rate, the total could reach 50 million.

It is indeed a very impressive result under the epidemic, and it is an outstanding result even without a big-name lineup.

"Many of my friends have watched your movies."

Zhou Ziyu took a screenshot of the chat record and sent it to Quan Xuanhe.

“They all liked the movie and said your performance was great.”

"I can understand it, albeit the traditional Chinese is a bit difficult. (Laughing)"

The overseas performance was unexpectedly impressive. According to professional statistics from the distributor, the final number of moviegoers reached 250,000, which was a better result than in the previous life.

Adding the box office revenue from more than a dozen countries in Southeast Asia, and finally selling the film online to Netflix, the total investment can be recovered.

This is considered a great success.

The film's producers were pleasantly surprised by this achievement and are basically ready to celebrate. By the way, because the number of viewers in South Korea exceeded one million, the crew also took a special celebratory photo.

It's a classic Korean photo of people holding hydrogen balloons with numbers on them to celebrate when the box office reaches a certain point.

"Did Mom and Dad go to see it?"

Quan Xuanhe asked at this time.

"I forgot to say it"

Zhou Ziyu was speechless and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

"You will be punished for this, severely."

Quan Xuanhe was busy, so he stopped talking to her after chatting for a few words, while Zhou Ziyu was still thinking about what he said.

Just as she was thinking about it, her mother sent her a photo. It turned out that what she thought came true.

"Guess what movie we saw?"

Seeing this, Zhou Ziyu knew without a doubt that her parents had gone to the cinema to support her boyfriend's movie.

"Is it innocent?"

"He recanted his confession."

"Yes, yes, he recanted his confession."

Zhou Ziyu immediately became complacent as if she had found confidence, and sent the photo to Quan Xuanhe again.

"Look! My family also went to see it (hum)"

Unfortunately, Quan Xuanhe didn't have time to look at his phone at this time because he was busy turning it on.

A few days after the script reading, the filming of "True Beauty" officially started, and the opening ceremony is currently being held in the studio.

There should have been a huge crew of dozens or even hundreds of people standing behind the main creators, but due to the epidemic, it was cancelled and only the more important crew members and main creators attended the opening ceremony.

A table full of offerings was placed in the open space in front of the crowd, candles were lit to worship the gods, a big pig's head was placed in the middle, and the creators knelt down and kowtowed to pray.

The moment Quan Xuanhe bowed down, he prayed in his heart that the Goddess's Descend project would be a big success.

Kim Ji-soo beside him learned to pray with him, and her inner wish was almost the same as his.

This is a project that can affect the emotions of many people and also determines the future development prospects.

(End of this chapter)