An ordinary working day.
"Ah, I don't want to go to work. Please take a leave."
Three days ago, Yang Ruoqian's fragile heart was deeply hurt by his own brilliant operations, and it took him a long time to recover.
In the past, regardless of whether the company made a profit or a loss, Yang Ruoqian would at most make a little more or less money, but he actually did not make a loss.
But this time, he actually spent real money from his own savings, and ended up earning the company more than one million in profits.
According to the profit-payment ratio of 1:10,000, Mr. Yang spent several thousand yuan and finally got back more than one hundred yuan.
I feel numb.
Yang Ruoqian decided to take a day off, turned off the alarm clock, continued to stay in bed, closed his eyes and went to sleep.
In fact, these days, Yang Ruoqian didn't just give up and lie down. He still continued to read comments and film reviews.
The result is that the popularity is getting higher and higher, and the comments are getting more and more.
It was as if Yang Ruoqian had a special ability: whenever he observed something he cared about, it would inevitably develop in a direction that was out of control.
So Yang Ruoqian put aside the film project that had been causing him so much trouble recently and turned his attention to the project.
As for live streaming e-commerce, due to business contraction and a surge in after-sales costs, revenue finally entered its first round of decline.
Other businesses also seem to have entered a bottleneck period of development. Although profitability is still strong, growth has gradually slowed down.
Departments related to international business and legal affairs are under emergency preparation and are currently burning money.
The record company currently sees no signs of improvement and is in a state of burning money.
E-sports club...haha, let’s not talk about it.
Yang Ruoqian thought about it and realized that although he kept suffering setbacks and making money, the profits on the accounts were not particularly shocking because there were many new projects.
The situation is not hopeless.
But the problem is that the new movie is about to be released today, but Yang Ruoqian has no idea what to expect.
Although judging from the comments, people have mixed opinions on the content of the promotional video, only Yang Ruoqian knows that most of the criticism is due to him and Yue Fu.
In fact, Chengyu Group had originally planned to do an advance screening of the film, but before making the decision, they actually contacted Yang Ruoqian in advance to ask for his opinion.
If advance screenings are allowed, we can get some real reviews and predict the approximate box office of the movie in advance, so we can get reassurance sooner...right?
Bullshit! Don’t let the reassurance pills fail and you end up taking heart-saving pills instead.
Mr. Yang, who knows that the more he does, the more mistakes he makes, learned his lesson this time and suggested that Chengyu should not allow advance screenings.
What if the movie's box office soars due to word of mouth? Just schedule it as normal.
Yang Ruoqian, who originally wanted to fall asleep, kept thinking about the trivial things at work, and tossed and turned for a long time without being able to fall asleep.
Chang Zhiqing didn't ask for leave... She was quite concerned about the company, so after complaining a few words, she drove to work by herself.
"Oh, I can't sleep." Yang Ruoqian sat up from the bed, "How about going to the cinema to watch a movie?"
However, the cinemas in Jinhai's first-tier shopping malls have a large flow of people and cannot be used as a reference sample for box office results.
It is normal for even a very bad movie to be packed.
As the body was lying there, there was a knock at the door.
Boom boom boom…
Shang Qianyu's crisp voice came from outside the door: "Is anyone there? Is the landlord here? Is the landlord here?"
Wen Ruoxiu's helpless voice came at the same time: "You want to contact Mr. Yang, but you can't use WeChat? What time is it now? He has already gone to work, okay..."
It seemed that for some reason, Wen Ruoxiu's tone was helpless almost every time he spoke to Shang Qianyu.
I can only say that this girl was born with certain qualities.
Shang Qianyu finally woke up from his dream, and he uttered a long "Oh". His voice was immediately filled with disappointment that he could not hide: "I wanted to watch a movie with the landlord. It just came out today."
For this reason, Shang Qianyu took a day off today.
"Let's wait until he gets off work." Wen Ruoxiu's voice had already faded away. "He's the boss of the group. He has a lot of things to deal with every day. He's not like you who does nothing all day."
Shang Qianyu retorted unconvincedly: "How can I be idle? I work very hard, very diligently, very seriously..."
Bang! Before the girl could finish her words, Yang Ruoqian opened the door.
"What are you doing?" Yang Ruoqian was dressed in casual clothes and looked sleepy. "Did you guys take a day off today too?"
After all, they were outside the door, and the sound of the two people talking just now was intermittent. Yang Ruoqian's mind was a mess, so he didn't hear much useful information.
Shang Qianyu, who was a little disappointed just now, immediately showed a pleasantly surprised expression on his face, ignoring the elevator door that had already opened behind him: "Landlord, do you want to go to the movies together?"
That’s what I meant…
Although it is impossible to tell whether a movie will be a box office flop or a hit in theaters in such places, one can at least tell how popular the movie is from the various reactions of the audience.
If people keep getting up to go to the bathroom while the movie is playing, it means that they may not enjoy watching it.
Otherwise, the box office will be in danger...
"Are there any tickets left?" Yang Ruoqian checked the time. "Which time do you want to book?"
Shang Qianyu smiled proudly: "Mr. Landlord, I have already grabbed the tickets. Everyone related to our crew has the right to grab tickets in advance! I have ten spots for myself! And they are free."
"There are still two hours left, but we can go over there and have some morning tea first."
Yang Ruoqian nodded slightly.
There are ten places for each person, and Yang Ruoqian’s should be one of them.
"It's still early, wait for me for ten minutes." Yang Ruoqian thought for a while and decided to rinse his mouth, change his clothes, and pack his things before setting off.
By the way, let's take this opportunity to check out the screening rate of "The Black Robe Inspection Team".
If there were highly anticipated competing products and very capable movies released at the same time, they might have suppressed the box office of "The Boys".
It just so happened that Chengyu acquired Qianda Group and also gave several senior executives of Kui Guang the authority to view the backend data of the film.
I can only say that I really trust him very much.
After opening the enterprise APP, Yang Ruoqian took a look at the various real background data.
Then I saw that among the various movies that are "about to be released", "The Boys" ranked first, with a screening rate of up to 35%!
Moreover, various data, including traffic statistics, show that the attention received by "The Boys" and the speed at which movie tickets were sold out were the fastest during the same period.
It almost crushes all other movies.
Needless to say, it must be the work of Chengyu Group.
This damn 35% screening rate, no one would believe that no one had used any connections or money to achieve this.
"..." Yang Ruoqian silently closed the mobile phone APP.
It turns out that I am the best fighter.
It turns out that I was suppressing the box office of other colleagues.
That's okay.
But after all, he had suffered from backstabbing for a whole year, so Yang Ruoqian quickly adjusted his mentality and started checking out these movies that were suppressed.
The reason they are ranked below may not necessarily be because they lost to "The Boys", but it is also possible that the quality of the film itself is not good enough.
However, Yang Ruoqian was disappointed again.
He took a closer look and saw that they were all urban-themed, small-scale art films, comedies and romances.
The cost won't be too high and the performers aren't very famous.
The name of the movie is very old-fashioned. Looking at the movie poster, there is only blue sky, white clouds and a small lawn, which makes people have no appetite to go to the cinema.
"Oh, what a pity! If a Superman movie is released at the same time, won't my movie be completely suppressed?"
"Won't the show be so good that it'll explode?"
Yang Ruoqian finished watching the upcoming movies, then exited the interface and glanced at the "Currently Hitting" column.
If the box office, ratings and attendance are not good, even if there is a 35% screening rate in the early stage, major theaters will lower this number later.
Of course...if a blockbuster movie comes out in the same period, the screening rates of other movies will also be squeezed out.
After all, there is only so much time in a day. If the screening rate of one movie increases, the screening rates of other movies will be squeezed out.
Yang Ruoqian hopes that a film like this can appear in the same schedule.
"...There are quite a few movies. Let me take a look."
"Legendary Yesterday", a period film, looks like a love story disguised as a period film at first glance, and the box office performance is not that high.
"The Strange Case of Longxi" is a traditional horror film... It doesn't look like the quality is very high. Judging from the introduction, it's the kind of movie that's full of surprises and scares people with the sudden appearance of monsters. It probably won't have much of a box office.
Yang Ruoqian sighed - he usually hated this kind of scaring method that relied on monsters suddenly appearing on the screen.
It’s not that this method can’t scare people, but this method of scaring people is really too low-level.
There is an old lady hiding in the corner, and when someone passes by, she suddenly jumps out and screams, and the person will still be scared.
It's impossible for a horror movie like this to have a high box office.
"Is there no one who can fight?" Yang Ruoqian complained and continued to look through the film schedule.
I have to say that although Chengyu Group has been fooled by me all day long and has imagined myself as some elite who can plan and strategize, the hard power is still there.
This film schedule is really good, with very few competitors.
Yang Ruoqian watched without expectation, when suddenly, a movie caught his eye.
"Green Lantern".
This is a movie produced by a big American company, and the theme is...superheroes! It conflicts with "The Boys"! Having found a life-saving straw, Mr. Yang immediately clicked on the movie details of "Green Lantern".
Production company, top in the industry.
Well-known director, well-known leading actor.
Current rating: 7.5.
The most important thing is that the total cost of this movie is as high as 100 million US dollars, which is a full 700 million RMB!
It was definitely a big-budget production! After reading the introduction, Yang Ruoqian felt relieved.
With such a competitor in theaters, what is there to be afraid of? At least it is a well-established big company with countless fans, produced by Haolaiwu, and the lineup alone seems to be much more reliable than "The Boys".
Moreover, the movie has just been released for less than three days, the audience’s novelty has not yet worn off, and the major film reviewers have not yet finished updating their videos, so it is still at the peak of its popularity.
With this obstacle in place, Yang Ruoqian felt much better.
A few minutes later, Yang Ruoqian, who had changed his clothes, walked to the door and glanced at Shang Qianyu who was slapping mosquitoes seriously.
"The landlord is here?" Shang Qianyu tried to take a picture of the mosquito for a long time but failed. Seeing that the mosquito disappeared in the air again, she lost interest and turned to look over. "Will you drive us over?"
As she spoke, she looked Yang Ruoqian up and down with amazement.
Looking at Wen Ruoxiu was frightened.
Only Mr. Yang is easy to talk to. If it were any other leader, they would definitely make things difficult for you! Yang Ruoqian shook his head and said, "Let's take a taxi."
I only have one car, and Chang Zhiqing drove it to work, so I can only take a taxi? It's embarrassing to tell others that a boss of such a big group only has one car at home.
"Okay, I'll call a taxi then." Shang Qianyu's braids trembled slightly as she used her phone, and she asked casually, "By the way, landlord, have you ever thought about entering the entertainment industry?"
"You're handsome and have a lot of resources, you might become very popular."
Girl, you are really outgoing... Can you just talk to your boss about this? But thinking that Shang Qianyu has basically never called me boss, but always landlord... It seems that there is nothing wrong with this identity? Yang Ruoqian kept smiling and shook his head, "What's the use of just looking good? I can't act... Haven't we acted together for a few minutes? Don't you know my level?"
Such a simple cameo role means Yang Ruoqian should play himself, otherwise he would have been cut out countless times.
Shang Qianyu blinked his eyes: "Well, actually President Cheng also made a cameo appearance for more than ten seconds. It would be interesting if both of you made your debut."
"Oh? She also made a cameo appearance." Yang Ruoqian opened the elevator door and walked along the small path in the community to the street. "But our scenes are just a few scenes together. It's basically a fleeting moment. The audience shouldn't notice it."
Yang Ruoqian was not surprised that Cheng Fei also made a guest appearance.
After all, when I first saw her, she was still doing cosplay.
As they were talking, they waited for the online-hailing car. Not long after, they arrived at Qianda Plaza, which was packed with people.
Looking at the grand occasion of this shopping mall, Mr. Yang couldn't help but sigh.
Isn’t it just winning the championship in the world championship of a game? Is it necessary that so many people would stay there for so many days?
Today is a working day, and now is working time.
Just take a day off to celebrate, right? After a quick breakfast, the three of them walked through the crowds to the top floor of the shopping mall. They scanned the QR code at the ticket machine, and three movie tickets were spat out.
Originally, Shang Qianyu wanted to be a sucker and buy two buckets of popcorn and watered-down Coke at a high price, but when she saw the long line, she immediately gave up the idea.
“There are so many people…”
Yang Ruoqian glanced at the dazzling array of promotional posters and the crowded scene in the cinema and nodded slightly.
"Green Lantern" is indeed a masterpiece of the West, and its popularity is high...
Everyone should be here to watch this movie, right?
It's impossible that so many people bought tickets just to watch your own rubbish movie with no famous actors and a pure spoof theme, right?
Absolutely not.
The three of them lined up at the end of the long queue, waiting for their tickets to be checked.
Many people in the queue came to watch the movie with their relatives and friends, and many of them were chatting and laughing while waiting in line.
For example, the few boys in front of them who looked very fashionable were chatting with each other.
"The publicity and distribution company for this movie is definitely a veteran. They are really good at marketing and have created a lot of hype for this movie."
"Yes, when I browse the QQ Small World, I can see it once every two videos."
"That promo was pretty good. I laughed anyway."
"There's a rumor, have you heard it? The boss behind the leading actor of this movie is from the same company as YTG, so awesome."
“Is this true…?”
At first, Yang Ruoqian nodded repeatedly as he listened, thinking that these people were discussing "Green Lantern Man".
But as he listened further, he gradually discovered that something was wrong.
The lead actor and the boss of YTG are the same person?!
Isn't that me?! Are these people not talking about Green Lantern but The Boys? No way!
It should be just an isolated case.
Yang Ruoqian, who was a little frightened, moved back a little, wanting to listen to what the person behind him was saying.
“…”
"Where's your girlfriend?"
"No, can you bring your girlfriend to this movie?"
“Haha…that’s right.”
"You are just inexperienced in online dating. If you dare to bring your girlfriend to watch this kind of movie, I'm afraid you will break up right there when the Homeland Hero appears."
"But the leading actress is so pretty. I think she's much prettier than those big-name actresses... It's amazing that someone from the entertainment industry can have such pure eyes."
"Is this the real reason why you don't bring your girlfriend out?!"
Yang Ruoqian stepped forward silently and stopped eavesdropping.
It’s an isolated case, it must be an isolated case!
How could my crappy movie be so widely discussed?
After checking the tickets, Yang Ruoqian was led into the cinema by Shang Qianyu.
Since she bought the tickets in advance, she was able to get good seats in the middle even in a packed theater.
After they sat down, Shang Qianyu couldn't wait to pull Yang Ruoqian's sleeve: "Landlord, did you hear that? Everyone is discussing our movie."
"I heard it. It must be an isolated case." Yang Ruoqian glanced at the crowded theater and consoled himself with these words.
An advertisement was playing on the big screen at this moment.
"It's better to send flowers than to send flowers to Xizi..."
Shang Qianyu glanced at the advertisement playing on the big screen and lowered his voice: "Landlord, this is a huge number of individual cases, right?"
"Hey, if the box office explodes, will the landlord give everyone a red envelope?"
"This is my first movie! Isn't it full of potential?"
Yang Ruoqian: “…”
If the movie is a box office hit, he can just announce that he is buried on the spot and give out red envelopes?
It’s even a question whether I can afford to buy red envelopes with this quarter’s salary.
Click! Suddenly, the lights in the entire theater dimmed.
The commercials on the big screen also ended.
After playing a section of movie-watching notes, the beginning of "The Boys" finally started playing.
First of all, there are the logos of related companies, including Chengyu Media and Kuiguang Group.
The noisy cinema gradually became quiet.
After all, we are all people who have received new-age education and have high moral standards. We are not likely to make noise in public and affect others.
The company's logo dimmed, and when the screen lit up again, it appeared on a street.
The movie officially started playing.
A man and a woman were walking hand in hand on the sidewalk, talking and laughing. They were obviously a couple.
Many viewers watched the show intently while eating popcorn.
This kind of opening is very common and is considered a popular way to enter a film - starting with ordinary life.
Just as everyone began to try to put themselves in the shoes of the man in their subconscious, a very fast afterimage suddenly appeared on the street, running all the way from the beginning to the end of the street.
Pah! The sound of blood and flesh colliding and forcibly rubbing together was heard by everyone with the help of the theater's surround sound system.
At the same time, the woman who was talking and laughing in the previous second turned into a ball of "ketchup" in the next second and smeared it on the man's face.
The speed was so fast that even the smile on the man’s face didn’t have time to change!
"What the hell?"
"Is it so exciting coming up here?!"
As soon as this scene appeared, Yang Ruoqian clearly heard a very low exclamation from an audience member next to him.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the content on the screen, and they even stopped reaching into the paper tube to grab popcorn.
Yang Ruoqian, who already knew the general plot of the movie and had focused most of his attention on the audience, suddenly felt something was wrong.
broken……
This beginning seems a bit too explosive!
Originally, Yang Ruoqian designed this shot just to speed up the filming for the actress who used backdoors and forced money to get connections.
By the way, spend more on film pay to increase the cost of the film.
Now it seems that the plan has backfired.
The audience seemed to like this! "..."
Soon, the scene changed and in a deserted place, the afterimage, which was moving at an extremely fast speed, stopped in a corner.
The camera shakes slightly to emphasize how fast the afterimage is.
It was not until it stopped that the audience saw that it was not an afterimage at all, but a tall and strong middle-aged man.
He breathed heavily, then looked with a little disgust at the blood stuck on his body and the human tissue that had been squeezed so hard that its original state could not be seen.
"It's such bad luck... you made my clothes dirty."
Along with these words, on a small billboard not far away, his agile figure was being played back and forth on a 400-meter standard playground.
"This is our Sprinter..."
"When an Olympic champion needs more than 40 seconds to run a 400-meter lap, our sprinter only needs 0.89 seconds! He broke the world record, and he didn't give up, he kept challenging himself!"
"Sprint lost both his parents when he was a child, but he was kind, considerate, and hardworking. Finally, at the age of 22, he awakened his superpowers."
"What an inspirational person he is, working hard and diligently, and finally reaching the pinnacle of life!"
"Let's interview such a great man... Hello, Sprinter, I'm a news reporter from Paifeng TV..."
Yang Ruoqian's face turned paler as he watched the continuous plot twists and the gripping development.
"Calm down...don't rush."
"The movie industry has just begun. Aren't there many movies that start strong and end weak? Others can start strong and end weak, so why can't I?"
As a model entrepreneur in Jinhai City, Mr. Yang has been unrivaled in his life.
If others can do it, he can do it too! Yang Ruoqian thought, and subconsciously wanted to grab a handful of popcorn and put it in his mouth to relieve his nervousness, but he grabbed nothing.
Well, I just had to queue up and didn’t buy anything.
Then... I can only rely on trembling to relieve tension. (End of this chapter)
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