Chapter 389
If we only count the mainland box office, she is only third in the overall list
"As Easy as Pie" was released simultaneously in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. On the day of the premiere, Director Teng gave Jing Xinyi a day off.
He knew that she was eager to see Ling Sui's new work. If he didn't have to stay in the crew and the filming couldn't stop, he would also want to go and see it!
Jing Xinyi was very surprised. She initially declined the offer because she didn't want to delay the crew's progress.
However, after learning that this day off was originally deducted from her vacation time and that the coordinator had already made arrangements, and Director Teng also saying that this was a reward for her hard work on filming during this period, Jing Xinyi accepted the kindness and calmly prepared to book the tickets.
...Wait, the tickets have just been released for a short time, how come all the seats in the golden venue are sold out!
Jing Xinyi thought that the cinemas might not schedule too many screenings for "Easy As Pie". After all, this is Hong Kong, not the mainland, and Mandarin + art films have no advantage at the box office.
But she never expected that the reason she couldn’t buy tickets was not because there were not enough screenings, but because there were too many competitors!
The movie hasn't even been officially released yet and it's still pre-sale time, but the best viewing areas in the first batch of golden screenings have all been sold out, leaving only the corner seats in the front row.
Jing Xinyi: I’m so stupid, really. I only knew that Ling Suisui was extremely popular in the mainland, but I forgot that she was also a legend in Hong Kong...
In fact, Hong Kong has made a lot of contributions to the global box office of many of Ling Suisui's works. However, due to its large population, it is not as high as North America, Europe and other places in the box office ranking, so it is often overlooked.
But to be honest, Ling Suisui is one of the actors with the most box office appeal in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong audiences also have high expectations for "Easy As Pie".
Unable to buy the golden court, Jing Xinyi could only settle for the next best option and choose the lunch time court.
The fierce ticket purchasing situation did not allow her to be picky. Even if the cinema will add more showtimes later, Jing Xinyi feels it is safer to buy the tickets first. What if there are many people competing with her for the tickets?
It is hard to say what the subsequent box office trend will be, but in the first few days before Ling Suisui’s new movie is released, there will definitely be a large number of fans watching the movie.
Damn it, don’t force her to go back to Pengcheng to see it!
Because she bought the ticket during lunch, Jing Xinyi could only surf the Internet in the morning and read the audience's feedback in real time to satisfy her craving.
What she never expected was that Ling Suisui actually went to Pengcheng for a roadshow... If she had known, she would have returned to the mainland to watch it! How close is this!
Jing Xinyi, who missed the surprise roadshow, confirmed through keyword search that all her scenes had been cut.
Although it wasn’t there at the Venice premiere…but what if it’s adjusted when it’s released? I heard that the version approved in mainland China is two minutes longer than the premiere version.
Now, Jing Xinyi’s heart is finally at peace.
She originally wanted to watch the roadshow video, but then she thought that some viewers might ask questions related to the plot, so she put down her hand that was about to open the video.
It doesn't matter a moment anyway, I'll watch it when I come back.
A few hours later, Jing Xinyi came out of the cinema, still looking a little dazed.
Like many viewers who watched the premiere, she was still immersed in the shock of Qian Lan stepping on the accelerator and directly knocking Chen Hui away. At the same time, the Easter egg at the end of the film made her thoughts go up and down. She wanted to say something, but hesitated when the words came to her lips.
Jing Xinyi opened the memo and had already written the title on the page reserved for the film review of "Easy As Pie". But when the cursor appeared on the first line of the text and the keyboard appeared on the screen, she suddenly didn't know what to write.
Those universal movie review phrases flashed through her mind, but she couldn't remember any of them.
She thought for a long time, but nothing came to her mind, so she could only say:
"It's so easy, it's so beautiful!"
**
As the saying goes, the most vulgar is the most elegant; Jing Xinyi's simple sigh is exactly the voice of many viewers.
If before watching the movie, some people still had doubts about the fact that this work won two awards in Venice, wondering if it was because of Ling Sui's superstar halo, or if the jury had some kind of vested interest in her...
However, these questioning voices were blown away by the wind after everyone went to the cinema and watched this film.
Of course, with the size of top-tier star Ling Sui, it is definitely impossible to achieve “zero negative reviews across the entire network”. But what are the individual voices of disapproval compared to the vast ocean of genuine love from the audience?
By ten o'clock in the evening, the first-day box office of "Easy As Piece" in mainland China exceeded 100 million yuan.
Taking into account Ling Sui's box office appeal, and the fact that this is a cold period with no particularly strong works before, theaters gave it 30% of the screenings, and "Easy As Piece" took 60% of the box office.
Judging from the box office pre-sales situation for tomorrow and the day after, Tang Bing’s previous expectations will most likely be realized.
In "Easy As Pie", Ling Suisui plays two roles, and it is also her and Chen Yuening's first screen collaboration. How could it be the worst at the box office? No way.
Tang Bing moved the box office target forward again. If he could secure the second place, could he strive for the third place?
Anyway, "The Great Swordsman" is also an award-winning work of the European Union. If we were to rank the box office among the art films starred by Ling Suisui, why couldn't "Easy As a Piece" be ranked first?
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" grossed 1.5 billion yuan in mainland China and 300 million US dollars worldwide. In the year of its release, it broke the box office records for both martial arts films and Chinese-language films exported overseas.
Tang Bing doesn't compare her overseas box office with Wuyou. She just hopes that the mainland box office of "Easy As Pie" can also reach 1.5 billion.
Chen Yuening had a better idea. He thought it would be best to go straight to 2.4 billion and secure the fourth place from the bottom - or he could just go straight to fifth and kick out Only the Moon.
He said to Ling Suisui very seriously: "According to the current exchange rate, the global box office of your work is already 47.608 billion RMB. Add another 2.4 billion and it will exceed 500, making it an integer."
"Although you are already first place, this result can be even better."
Yes, if the global box office is counted, Ling Suisui has long been the undisputed number one in the box office rankings of Chinese-speaking actors' works.
Everyone acknowledges this achievement, but the haters are the ones jumping up and down, saying that domestic entertainment stars should be compared with the mainland box office, and what's the point of borrowing Hollywood's global distribution channels? If we only count the mainland market, she is only over 170, and can only rank first among female stars and third in the overall list.
...Well, the word "just" is used very cleverly. I don't know what the black fans are thinking. Is this meant to be a slander or a praise?
Chen Yuening’s idea is beautiful, but Ling Suisui thinks it is impossible.
"It would be great if it could reach 1 billion," she said. "The premiere is on Friday, which is also the peak box office period for half a weekend. After this week, it may reach 400 million. Then it will be a working day on Monday. If it can maintain 50 million, it will be a victory."
Chen Yuening thought so too. It seems that the small goal of breaking 50 billion will have to wait until the release of "Kung Fu Master 2" to be achieved.
He also calculated for Ling Sui that if everything went well, after the release of Kung Fu 3, the box office of her first movie would exceed 10 billion US dollars.
The two were talking about this on the phone, and Ling Sui couldn't help but want to laugh when he heard him mumbling on the other end.
They chatted until half past ten, then Ling Suisui hung up the phone and went to wash up. Her daily routine has always been very regular, and she went to bed late tonight in order to witness the box office breaking 100 million yuan.
Chen Yuening also told her that he was going to sleep, but after he hung up the phone, he continued to lie on the bed and browse his phone.
He even switched to the login page to confirm that he was logging into a secondary account before he could confidently continue watching the video and clicked the likes and collected them.
This account has probably been identified by big data as a fan of the Sui Yue CP. He has watched ten videos, and at least five of them are related to "Easy As Pie".
In addition, there are clips of various works that he and Ling Suisui have collaborated on in the past, and even videos such as graduation dramas and group assignments that were unearthed during the popular period of "Perfect Life" were pushed to him.
Chen Yuening was happily browsing when suddenly a clip with #slash# popped up. He rolled his eyes and added the topic to the blocked words.
It’s really outrageous, how could anyone say Yingnian is “Chun Yuan”? How could he steal Qin Xian's white moonlight persona!
Moreover, if we really want to trace back who knew Ling Suisui first, it was obviously him.
Chen Yuening continued to watch videos, and this time he saw a clip of today's roadshow.
He kept his fingers still and focused on the video.
An audience member asked: "Chen Hui did not separate Qian Lan and Jia Ming. Is it true, as Qian Lan said, that Chen Hui does not care about Jia Ming, her fiancé?"
"I have a guess. Could it be that Chen Hui wanted to use Qian Lan to test Jia Ming? If it was someone else, would he still recognize his lover? It was because Qian Lan realized this that she hated Chen Hui and ran her over with her car in the end?"
Ling Suisui paused obviously, and Chen Yuening next to him was also stunned.
Does this audience think that "Easy As Piece" is still a work full of melodramatic emotional entanglements and that war songs may be played at any time?
Even if there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers, you can't read it as Harry Potter.
Ling Suisui answered tactfully: "In fact, Chen Hui is a very self-centered person who always considers things from her own perspective. She only thinks about how I should do it, what I want to get, and what you should give me. As for whether the other party is willing, it is usually not within her consideration."
"She is also very arrogant and believes that everything will eventually go as she planned."
——Therefore, it is impossible for Chen Hui to think of giving Jia Ming any "test" at all. Chen Hui will never understand this kind of thinking of worrying about gains and losses in relationships and worrying that the other person doesn't love her enough.
She didn't deliberately stop Jia Ming and Qian Lan from meeting. In fact, she had no other intention. She just didn't think of him when she made the arrangements. In her subconscious, Jia Ming had never been an important person and was not worth her concern.
Qian Lan is actually right on this point. In the process of "playing" Chen Hui, she already knew Chen Hui better than Jia Ming did.
As for Qian Lan bumping into Shen Hui in the end...
Ling Suisui's answer was: "Qian Lan did not deliberately plan the car accident. She drove the car and hit people because she was out of control. There were many straws that broke the camel's back, and her feelings for Jia Ming were one of them."
This sentence is worth pondering because the measure word used by Ling Suisui is "one".
The last straw is very famous, but what if it is in a pile of straw... Chen Yuening thinks that this is a high EQ statement of "light as a feather".
The movie has been completed and the premiere has been watched. Chen Yuening has long understood that for these two female characters, men are not something worth mentioning at all.
But in reality, Ling Suisui seems to be developing in this direction... or has she already thought so?
Chen Yuening sighed and opened the five express boxes in front of him one by one.
Recently is a good time to eat jelly oranges, so he chose those with the best reputation. He planned to try them one by one and then pick out the best one to send to Ling Suisui.
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Chen Yuening: A little trick for being virtuous every day (*^▽^*)
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