Chapter 621: Breaking the Jar
"Good morning."
The next morning, Liu Yifei woke up and found herself lying in Gu Wei's arms.
The other person looked at her with a smile on his face. The sunlight from the window shone in, and his smile was refreshing and handsome.
"Good morning."
"It's getting late. We should get up and pack up to go to the crew. We still have filming tasks today." Gu Wei lowered his head and kissed Liu Yifei on the forehead. He lifted the quilt and got out of bed. After putting on two pieces of clothes, he walked out of the bedroom.
Liu Yifei, lying on the bed, watched all this in a daze, but she had to say that Gu Wei had a really good figure. She couldn't help but glance at him a few times when he was getting dressed.
Only after Gu Wei walked out of the door did she come to her senses. She looked down at the quilt, recalling the fierce battle last night and her unusually active cooperation. Her expression was a little complicated.
"Drinking will lead to trouble."
To be honest, Liu Yifei had never actually thought about having a real relationship with Gu Wei.
Although she did have a good impression of Gu Wei.
But how to say it, the two of them knew each other too early, and they knew each other very well. Since they knew each other too well, even if she had feelings for him, she never planned to take a step forward.
Because she knew very well that if she didn't take this step, they would still be close friends, but if she took this step, they might not even be friends in the future.
This is a bit like the relationship between "Wang Ying" and "Yang Cheng" in "Zeng Shao Nian". Even if they like you, because you are childhood sweethearts and because they know your playboy personality too well, they choose to remain good friends.
But all the previous plans were shattered last night. The increasingly intimate contact and the gradually deepening affection while filming the movie together all erupted violently under the catalysis of alcohol last night.
Liu Yifei never thought that she could achieve that level.
At this moment, her heart was in turmoil, but lying down would not solve the problem, not to mention that she had to film today.
She sat up slowly, and the aches and pains in her arms, waist, legs, and other parts of her body made her grimace.
"Is this guy a cow? He doesn't know how to be gentle with women at all."
After a while, Gu Wei prepared some simple breakfast. Liu Yifei got dressed and washed up, and then they sat together to eat.
"Last night, we"
Liu Yifei took a bite of bread and didn't know what to say.
"What's wrong with us, Sissi?"
Gu Wei looked at her with a smile on his face.
Liu Yifei rolled her eyes when she heard this name.
"I think it's better to call me sister, after all, it's been so many years. When I hear you call me Xixi, I feel a little numb."
"Xixi, so you like this tone of younger men. I can satisfy you, Sister Yifei." Gu Wei deliberately prolonged the last word.
Liu Yifei looked at him with a smirk on her face and raised her hand to pat him.
"You like younger people!"
The somewhat awkward atmosphere between the two of them was resolved because of this joke, and they returned to their original relaxed way of getting along.
"How's the box office performance of your cartoon? Today is the first day of its nationwide release." The two of them playing and joking around made Liu Yifei relax and start to care about Gu Wei's movie.
"I checked this morning. It opened at midnight last night, and its current real-time box office performance ranks second among the films released that day, second only to Monster Hunt 2."
With the development of the domestic film market and the popularity of online ticket purchases, by 2018, real-time box office data for all released films can be checked online, which is very convenient.
Audiences can clearly see detailed data such as the filming percentage, attendance rate, box office trends, etc. of a movie currently in theaters on apps such as Meituan and Maoyan.
"Competition during this year's Spring Festival box office was particularly fierce. Although Nezha had very good pre-promotion, it is ultimately an animated film and inherently weak, unable to compete with other big-budget, big-star films.
But I have confidence in the quality of the film. Once it gets through the first few days and word of mouth spreads, it will definitely be a runaway success in the later stages!"
Gu Wei looked confident.
"I hope it's what you wish for."
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, while the whole country was still immersed in the joyous atmosphere of the New Year, the crew of "Time Raiders" in Shanghai had already started filming as normal.
Arriving at the crew early in the morning, Gu Wei and Liu Yifei received a red envelope from Xu Zheng and Su Lun respectively. Everyone got one, and there wasn't much money in it, but it was just for good luck. After all, it was Chinese New Year, so a sense of ceremony was still necessary.
"Cut! It's done, not bad, not bad, it feels better and better!" The filming went smoothly, and Su Lun became more and more satisfied with the performance of Gu Wei and Liu Yifei.
She originally thought that everyone would be a little slack when working during the Spring Festival, and she was prepared for many NGs.
Unexpectedly, the performances of the two leading actors got better and better, and they portrayed the ambiguous and tense feeling between lovers very well.
In addition to filming today, Gu Wei also has a very important job to do, which is to reply to New Year's greetings text messages and make some New Year's greetings phone calls.
Since last night, his mobile phone messages have been at +99, with relatives, friends, colleagues and everyone who has had contact with him sending him New Year greetings.
He didn't have time last night, but today during the break in filming on the set, he took some time to deal with all these New Year greetings messages. He replied to those that needed to be replied, and if some were more important and required a phone call, he would call back and chat for a few minutes.
"You are really busy."
Liu Yifei also needed to do the same thing, but compared to Gu Wei, she received much less information.
“There’s no way, having too many friends is also a kind of trouble.
There are also many work partners and seniors in the industry, so proper etiquette must be observed."
“Haha, I think I have more female friends.”
Liu Yifei curled her lips. If it were in the past, she would have just made a sarcastic remark or two, but now she felt inexplicably sad.
"That's narrow-minded, but there's no gender distinction when it comes to friendship."
A normal day of shooting ends.
"Sister Yifei, do you have anything to do tonight?"
"what?"
"Do you want to come to my room for a couple of drinks when you get back?" Gu Wei asked normally, as if asking if you have eaten.
Liu Yifei looked at Gu Wei and hesitated for a moment.
"Well, that's fine. By the way, we can also review the scenes from the past few days."
Gu Wei couldn't help laughing when he saw her expression, and couldn't help but reach out and touch her head.
"Hey, you're like this again. Do you know that your expression now makes you want a beating?" Liu Yifei slapped Gu Wei's hand away and said angrily.
"Okay, okay, I just think you're cute the way you are.
See you tonight then." After saying that, Gu Wei turned and left.
"You're so disappointing! Why did you agree to it so easily?" Liu Yifei was still muttering to herself after Gu Wei left.
"It's okay, just a few drinks, no big deal." Then he said something that he didn't even believe.
Some things either don't happen at all, or once they start, it's hard to stop them.
In the evening, Liu Yifei came to Gu Wei's room as agreed. She wore a black slim long dress and put on some light makeup. She had a slim figure and delicate features, and looked extremely beautiful.
Women always say one thing and mean another, especially beautiful women.
Compared to her, Gu Wei was much more casual, wearing a set of home clothes, looking relaxed and natural.
The two chatted and drank, and no one mentioned their acting together.
It was another beautiful night. The next day, Liu Yifei woke up from the big bed again and became much more natural. I wonder if she had given up.
The domestic film market had a good start on the first day of the Year of the Dog, with the single-day box office exceeding 1.3 billion yuan, a surge of more than 500 million yuan compared to the same period last year.
This amazing achievement not only far exceeded the outside world's previous expectations for the market on the first day of the Spring Festival, but also helped the mainland market to surpass itself and achieve the feat of "dominating the world".
The domestic film market's box office performance of 1.318 billion yuan on the first day of the Lunar New Year has broken the global single-day box office record for a single market.
Previously, the record was set by the North American market on December 18, 2015, with a single-day performance of US$137 million, equivalent to approximately RMB 871 million.
While the single-day box office record of the mainland film market was rewritten, the single-day box office of a single film also successfully entered the "5-digit" era.
Monster Hunt 2, the box office champion on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2018, finally closed at 550 million yuan on the first day, surpassing Fast & Furious 8, which had topped the single-day box office chart for nearly 10 months with 480 million yuan, to become the new overlord.
Thanks to the excellent box office performance of the previous film and the gorgeous cast consisting of Liang Chaowei, Bai Baihe, Li Yuchun and others, "Monster Hunt 2" performed strongly in the early pre-sale stage.
Pre-sales exceeded 100 million yuan 10 days before the release, and exceeded 200 million yuan in the first 2 days. These data enabled the film to win nearly 40% of the screenings in the fierce competition on the first day of its release. This is also an important reason why "Monster Hunt 2" was able to continue to lead on the first day of the Lunar New Year and eventually set a new record for a single film in a single day.
However, after "Monster Hunt 2" achieved extremely high results on the first day, the word of mouth that spread was not ideal.
The box office of 550 million means that tens of millions of viewers have gone to the cinema to watch the second part of this movie, which was once the domestic box office champion.
Judging from the feedback from major platforms, the overall reputation of "Monster Hunt 2" is average, and it is even defined as a bad movie by many viewers.
Douban's initial score is only 5.6, and it is still declining as the number of people who rate it increases.
The pre-sale period following "Monster Hunt 2" is not another masterpiece of the Journey to the West series "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", nor the war blockbuster "Operation Red Sea" produced by Bona, but the animated film "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" which broke the circle with the promotion of Gu Wei and many stars.
This animated film attracted the interest of many audiences and successfully secured the second place on the first day of its release, and also took in more than 340 million yuan in a single day.
"Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" and "Operation Red Sea" ranked third and fourth on the box office list, with box office revenues of nearly 170 million and 130 million respectively.
A few days ago on Valentine's Day, "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" held a large-scale preview.
Although this wave of operations helped the film win a box office of 177 million yuan on the same day, the film suffered a reputational setback after the preview because the story was not comprehensive enough and the plot was too drastically adapted from the classic "Journey to the West".
The audience rating on the ticket purchasing platform was 7.7, and Douban even fell below the 5-point line.
The film with the worst box office performance on the first day of the Spring Festival was still the comedy film "19th Generation Ancestors" directed by Guo Degang. Due to the theater chains' pessimism, the film had no competitiveness in screening schedules. On the first day of its release, it accounted for only 3.2% of the national screenings and the box office was a pitiful 17.83 million.
However, the cinemas were not wrong this time. "19th Generation Ancestors" is undoubtedly a bad movie. Even though Guo Degang's favors allowed him to attract more than a dozen big-name stars to make guest appearances, it could not save the movie.
It has a Douban score of only 4.2 and was called the worst movie of the 2018 New Year by the audience.
Guo Degang had nothing to say this time about the criticism from the online audience. He just focused on acting and listened to the director.
Since the facts were such that he couldn't shirk responsibility, he could only keep silent.
Beijing, Enlight Pictures.
In the office, Jiang Zhiqiang was very satisfied with the first day box office performance of "Monster Hunt 2".
The box office revenue of 550 million yuan on the first day of release also exceeded his expectations. He thought the movie would be a big hit, but he didn't expect to get such a high box office in one day.
"The domestic film market is growing bigger and bigger, no wonder Wolf Warrior 2 earned 6 billion yuan.
If the current box office performance can be maintained, 6 billion is not certain, but it is still very likely to surpass the second place "Detective Chinatown 2".
Such an exaggerated box office performance on the first day obviously gave Jiang Zhiqiang great confidence, and he was also extremely optimistic about the film's future box office performance.
"Box office king?
Actors are actors after all, no one is irreplaceable, and the true core of the Monster Hunt series is still Huba."
Thinking of the excessive demands made by Gu Wei, Jiang Zhiqiang was very glad that he did not agree to him at the time, otherwise he would have lost so much profit now.
"Mr. Jiang~" Just as I was thinking about it, Director Xu Chengyi knocked on the door and came in.
"Director Xu, please sit down." The second part of "Monster Hunt" continued to be a big hit, making Jiang Zhiqiang more interested in Xu Chengyi.
"When I invited Director Xu to come here, I had something to tell him. I had already communicated with the Berlin Film Festival that Monster Hunt 2 would be a special screening at the 68th Berlin Film Festival.
The film premiered to the global media on the evening of the 18th, Berlin time.
Director Xu needs to prepare, as he will have to make a tiring trip to Berlin in a few days."
"This is a good thing. Mr. Jiang, you have a wide network of contacts. The trip to Berlin will definitely help promote our film.
Director Xu was very happy to hear the news about the global release of the film.
He is a person who returned from Hollywood. Now the films he directed in China are selling well. If he can break into Hollywood again, it will definitely be an exciting thing for him.
"I'm currently negotiating copyright and release with agents in Europe and North America. The domestic box office is so good, I'm also waiting for a good price."
After Jiang Zhiqiang finished speaking, Director Xu frowned slightly.
"The movie's first-day box office performance was very high, but today I read a lot of online comments, and the public opinion online is not very friendly. I am worried that it will affect the box office trend in the future."
“Don’t worry, I have arranged for the company’s marketing department to take action.
Competition during the Spring Festival holiday season is so fierce right now, and many of these comments are tactics used by rival companies. Enlightenment is no pushover, and we naturally have ways to deal with them!"
Jiang Zhiqiang is full of confidence. He doesn't think his movie is that bad. The box office speaks for itself. He just thinks that the current negative reviews are caused by internet trolls and black fans.
(End of this chapter)
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