Chapter 493 Remember You Forever
After the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, the film market is slowly recovering from its hectic state.
[Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back] suffered from poor word of mouth and after taking in a super high box office of 588 million yuan in the first two days of its opening week, its performance gradually weakened.
Everyone can see that this movie will have no problem surpassing its predecessor "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", but it is impossible to reach the level of "The Mermaid".
[The Demons Strike Back] was a reputational Waterloo for Stephen Chow, but the person who received the most criticism in the film was the top young actor Li Jiaheng, who had poor acting skills.
This person never imagined that what he thought would be a big pie in the sky that would help him ascend to fame would become the poison that ruined his film career.
Since "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back", Li Jiaheng has lost the favor of the mainstream film industry. Due to the poor impression of his film acting by the general public, no film and television company dares to invite him to star in their own movies even though he has a base of fanatical fans.
However, this does not prevent Li Jiaheng from making money. If he fails as an actor, he can continue to be a singer. Under the planning of his agent, he has entered the field of music variety shows and is still doing well.
Unlike "The Monkey King 2", "Kung Fu Yoga", which also has a bad reputation, did not seem to be affected by the bad reviews. Its box office performance remained strong in the later period, and it even caught up with "The Monkey King 2", which had a much higher box office than it in the early stage of its release.
All I can say is that Cheng Long's kung fu comedy still has a large audience in the country.
Han Han's "Sisters Who Make Waves" relied on its high reputation to make a comeback during the Spring Festival period. Although it is unlikely to surpass the top two in box office, it is expected to break 1 billion judging by the momentum.
The producers and cast and crew of "Sisters Who Make Waves" are very satisfied with the film's performance. Director Han Han's second film has achieved such good results and has been sought after by many people inside and outside the film and television industry.
Compared with the three-way competition in the film market during the Spring Festival, since the release of "Eternal Love", the domestic TV drama market has been completely dominated by one company.
This highly anticipated annual fairy tale romance drama, co-produced by Gu Wei and Yang Mi, has ignited a viewing craze as soon as it was released, thanks to its ups and downs of the plot and excellent production standards. It can be said that "the ten miles of spring breeze are all covered with peach blossoms."
The premiere not only achieved over 100 million viewership on Blueberry Channel and Dragon TV, but also on the Youku video platform, Eternal Love broke 100 million views in 10 hours, 500 million in 3 days, and 1 billion in 7 days. At its peak, it accounted for 42.43% of the total views on the entire network, breaking many records.
Gu Wei and Yang Mi once again conquered the audience with their excellent acting skills, and even triggered praise from netizens: "There is no Ye Hua after Gu Wei, and there is no Bai Qian after Yang Mi."
Of course, when the original TV series was released, the topic of netizens praising Zhao Youting's "plastic surgery-like acting skills" did not appear.
There is definitely no problem with Gu Wei's acting skills, and his image is completely in line with the setting of the number one male god in the world in the play. He is handsome, cold and majestic, so he doesn't need to rely on acting skills to "reshape" himself.
Since its first broadcast, Eternal Love has been on the hot search almost every episode, dominating the Weibo hot search list and becoming a regular.
The plots in the drama have also penetrated into the daily lives of netizens and become a must-have for everyone's daily chats and exchanges.
After the Spring Festival holiday, workers returned to their jobs.
At this time, you will find that the topic everyone is chatting about is all about the TV series "Eternal Love".
If you don't watch TV series, you will have no common topics with the people around you, and you won't be able to join in the conversation when others are chatting.
On February 7, just 9 days after its launch, the TV series' total online playback volume exceeded 3 billion, and the subsequent momentum was unstoppable. After 15 days of launch, the total online playback volume officially exceeded 10 billion.
[Eternal Love] has triggered a widespread craze, with more and more people following the drama, and hot discussions on Weibo are endless, occupying major entertainment headlines, and its fame has risen rapidly.
Gu Wei flew from Beijing to Shanghai's Oriental TV to record an interview program with Yang Mi, to contribute to the currently popular TV series.
"Miss Mi, you're very popular recently."
In the dressing room, the two people who had already finished touching up their makeup were chatting without any scruples.
"Come on, how can I be more angry than you?"
Despite saying this, Yang Mi couldn't suppress a smile on his face.
The series of achievements of [Eternal Love] after its launch really shocked even her, who had seen a lot of the world.
This drama is so popular now, even more popular than the first drama "Gu Jian Qi Tan" she and Gu Wei collaborated on three years ago.
Of course, the current popularity of the two is not comparable to that of three years ago. In addition, "Eternal Love" far surpasses "Gu Jian Qi Tan" in terms of investment, script and actor performance, so it is not surprising that it can achieve higher results and popularity than it.
“How’s the TV series going?”
Gu Wei asked as he looked at Yang Mi who was sitting opposite him with his legs crossed.
The other person was wearing a denim jacket today, and her plump upper body made the white T-shirt inside bulge out. She was wearing a pink miniskirt, and her pair of white legs were thin and long. Her long wavy hair was spread out, and she casually reached out to lift her hair, looking very charming.
“Filming will be completed at the end of the month.
Haven't you joined the group recently?"
"I signed a contract for a variety show on Mango TV. It will be aired at the end of this month. I have to finish filming the variety show before I can join the crew again."
"return?
It's just a variety show, where are you going?"
"Have you seen [Flowers and Youth]? I'm filming the third season, which is about a 20-day global trip across three continents."
"[Flowers and Little Flowers]"
Yang Mi murmured, and it was obvious that she had heard of the name of this variety show.
And the most important thing is that Shuangzi, who had given up on love in the second season, doesn't get along with her. The two of them became enemies in "Gu Jian Qi Tan".
She was a little worried at first, but she felt relieved when she saw Gu Wei smiling across from her.
"If any other friend of mine had been on that show, I might have given them some words of advice, but you're totally fine.
I wish you a pleasant journey.”
Yang Mi knew that with Gu Wei's current status, if he participated in this kind of variety show, the production team would support him and would not let him have any dissatisfaction.
"Thank you, Sister Mi. I'll bring you a gift when I come back from my trip. I'll get some local specialties from other countries."
The corners of Yang Mi's mouth curled up slightly.
"I'm waiting"
Not long after, the two entered the studio under the arrangement of the staff and started recording the program.
Host: "I'd like to ask Gu Wei, in Eternal Love, your character Ye Hua was nicknamed a wife slave by netizens. Can you explain to us how this is reflected in the drama?"
"I don't deny this title, because Ye Hua only cares about Bai Qian in his heart and mouth. He doesn't want the whole world, he only wants Bai Qian."
Host: "Then what kind of feelings do you think Bai Qian has for Ye Hua? Will she also ignore everything and only care about Ye Hua?"
"I don't think Bai Qian is like that. She loves Ye Hua, but that's because of their experiences together."
"You're saying that about Ye Hua, isn't it really a disadvantage? It seems like he loves Bai Qian more!"
Gu Wei looked at Yang Mi and interrupted with a smile.
"Shouldn't it be like this? Bai Qian is so miserable. In recent days, netizens who follow the drama online have been calling for Su Su to jump off the Zhuxiantai as soon as possible. I thought I was playing a fake heroine. I've never seen the audience want the heroine to be offline so quickly!"
"Uh~ They want to get the mortal Su Su offline, and then return to show off and get slapped in the face by the big Bai Qian."
The two of them started chatting back and forth, leaving the host aside.
"You two, stepping out of your roles in the drama and returning to real life, wouldn't you feel bored if you only loved one person for three lifetimes?"
The host also noticed this situation and quickly spoke up, trying to get the interview back to its own pace.
The two looked at each other, and Yang Mi responded first.
"I don't think so. Loving only one person for three lifetimes is such a romantic thing!"
Host: "What does Gu Wei think?"
"Back to real life, it's hard for many people to love only one person for their entire life, let alone for three lifetimes.
Of course, if there really is someone who can be loved for three lifetimes, I think it would be a very beautiful thing."
Yang Mi listened to Gu Wei's answer with a smile on his face, but he was complaining in his heart.
“You’re the one who can’t do it.”
Host: "As we all know, this collaboration on Eternal Love is already the third time you two have worked together on a drama.
Is your collaboration this time different from before?"
The two smiled at each other.
"Yang Mi and I are indeed old friends. The first drama we filmed together, Swords of Legends, was also the first TV drama I filmed since I entered the industry.
It was the first time we worked together and we were not familiar with each other.
When filming on the set, we can only get used to each other bit by bit.
Yang Mi is a very nice person and taught me a lot. After the filming was finished, we became good friends."
As Gu Wei was speaking, Yang Mi beside him turned around and looked at him with a smile.
"I taught you a lot, and in the end, it all ended up in bed~"
Speaking of which, the thing Yang Mi remembers most about Gu Wei was when they were filming "Gu Jian Qi Tan".
The two of them were very affectionate during the filming, their emotions were in place and their bodies were in tune with each other. However, after the filming was completed, Gu Wei's gentle yet firm attitude exposed his scumbag nature.
Yang Mi admitted that at the beginning she only saw Gu Wei because he was young, handsome and rich, and she didn't take it seriously. She just got into the mood during filming.
But she is a girl, shouldn’t you, Gu Wei, pretend to be nice?
Of course, these are just the things that happened when the two first met. After knowing each other for so many years, collaborating several times, and becoming shareholders of a company, the connection between their resources and interests is no longer as simple as the relationship of just looking at each other's appearance and having sex.
Their current partnership has made Yang Mi no longer care about love. After all, nothing is more important to her than her career.
Making money and staying famous are what Yang Mi really wants.
"We have worked together several times now, and our mutual understanding was a great convenience when filming Eternal Love.
It saves the time of running-in.
Coincidentally, our crew's director Lin Yufen had worked with me and Yang Mi on a film before.
This way, we can quickly understand the director's meaning and work together tacitly, which also increases the speed of filming."
(End of this chapter)
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