"Is the box office okay?" Bai Yangyu rubbed his hands as he stood beside Guan Fei. The breath he just exhaled seemed to be freezing.
"Yeah," Guan Fei nodded, not trying to hide the joy on her face: "Today's box office has exceeded 100 million, not bad."
If this were a normal release period, breaking 100 million would definitely be an achievement worth celebrating.
But Bai Yangyu is also an insider, and he knows that the top box office during the National Day holiday is over 300 million.
Moreover, the initial publicity of "Magic City Fortress" was very large, coupled with the golden lineup of Zhou Yiyang and Moonlight Girl. Now it has only broken 100 million, and the results are not ideal.
"It's probably due to the subject matter," Bai Yangyu began to analyze calmly. "And I just took a look at the professional film reviews on Weibo, and they actually gave it quite high scores. If you search in real time, you'll hardly find any well-founded negative reviews. In other words, the audience still recognizes the quality of this film."
"There aren't enough screenings," Guan Fei said sensibly. "It's still too long. Compared to those two hour-and-a-half comedies, the scheduling manager will definitely prefer the latter. And judging by the first day's box office, people are still quite cautious about science fiction films, fearing they'll be a dud."
Compared to the two of them who were worried, Zhou Yiyang was the one with the best mentality.
In his opinion, the first day's box office doesn't mean anything.
Although "Fortress of Devil" only ranked third at the box office, it was discussed much more in public forums than any other movie.
This shows one thing: netizens are still passionate about science fiction films.
However, several fraudulent science fiction films in the past few months have made the audience suspicious of this genre.
This is the same as when he made "Moonlight Girl". At that time, everyone thought that youth films were unrealistic, melodramatic and illogical.
Later, everyone discovered that there were actually passionate youth films, and the reputation was reversed.
Since you plan to be the first to try something new, you must be prepared to face this kind of prejudice.
Zhou Yiyang was well prepared. He calmly replied to all the WeChat messages that concerned him, and found some WeChat messages full of positive energy among these complaints.
Due to the time difference, it is still morning in America, but Liu Fenfang still sent Zhou Yiyang an exciting message.
At present, the pre-sale of "The Fortress of Devil City" has far exceeded the expectations of their professional institutions, and it is very likely to win the box office champion of the day.
If this comes true, then "Fortress of Devil" will make history.
In addition to America, box office data for Asia and Australia, which are not greatly affected by time differences, have also been compiled.
Goryeo uses the number of moviegoers to rank films, and "Fortress" broke the record for Chinese films in Goryeo. Some media even predicted that "Fortress" might even break the one million mark, becoming a member of Goryeo's million-dollar club.
The response from Japan to "Magic City Fortress" was much better than Zhou Yiyang expected, but the direction they liked was rather strange.
He saw from the screenshots of Twitter sent to him by his staff that many Japanese people liked the plot of aliens impregnating humans on Earth, and even many artists started to create related fan works.
At that moment, Zhou Yiyang felt that it was worthy of being the Japan he was familiar with.
"What an unexpected trend," Zhou Yiyang thought before going to sleep. "This movie is actually quite popular overseas."
However, he is still very confident about the domestic box office, and he believes that domestic audiences will definitely accept this movie.
In the following two days, the box office growth rate did meet Zhou Yiyang's expectations.
"The Fortress of the Demon City" has been recommended by these big bloggers on Dilidili, Weibo, and Douyin, and all of them are spontaneous.
Even a stingy person like Zhou Yiyang was somewhat moved and wondered if he should give them some token of his appreciation.
"Brother Yang," Guan Fei excitedly called Zhou Yiyang, but Zhou Yiyang guessed what she wanted to say: "Our box office has actually made a comeback! It seems that we will have no problem making back our investment!"
Zhou Yiyang's expression was quite complicated when he heard this. He glanced at the box office predictions for "Magic City Fortress" on those ticket purchasing websites and couldn't help but remind her:
"The cost of our film shouldn't be as high as you think. Even if we follow the conservative projections of the agencies, with a box office of 2.5 billion, after deducting various costs, we should still be able to make a profit."
"I'm really excited!" Guan Fei chuckled, "But Brother Yang, is there any chance this movie will win an award?"
For Guan Fei and many of Yue Shao’s fans, they have always believed that domestic film festivals do not like Zhou Yi Yang.
In their opinion, the quality of "The Godfather of Shanghai" is definitely worthy of winning awards, but in the end it still failed to win any of the three major awards.
Zhou Yiyang naturally knew what Guan Fei was implying and said with a smile:
"It's not as complicated as you think. Luck in the awards is unpredictable. Maybe it just wasn't the judges' cup of tea."
"It doesn't matter," Guan Fei shrugged. "We all have our own first film festival, so awards are not important. At worst, Brother Yang, you can give yourself a Lifetime Achievement Award."
"Pfft," Zhou Yiyang was immediately amused. "That's great, I decided to give it a try!"
The four members of Yue Shao did not track the box office at all. For them, how could this rare day off be related to work?
However, they will subconsciously see related news when they check Weibo every day.
Tang Yue saw it. When she saw the news that "Magic City Fortress" won the Spring Festival championship, she was shocked.
"Hey, Mom, did our movie win the Spring Festival box office?"
Compared to Tang Yue, Tang's mother wasn't surprised at all: "Isn't this normal? All those good sisters in my circle of friends have brought their families to see it."
"Really?" Tang Yue was still reeling from the fact that the box office had been outperformed by comedy films on the first day. "I didn't even know that."
"So you don't care about your job," Tang's mother said with a smile, "What good would winning the championship do you?"
"You can earn more money, and if you're lucky, maybe even get nominated at some film festivals?" Tang Yue didn't care. "Well, none of this matters. It would be great if I could stay for another month."
Wang Xingrui, Lin Xuaner and Su Yin have all said this in the past few days.
In fact, they were so busy with work that they didn't realize it. It was only when they really returned home that they felt the warmth of home.
But they also knew that their vacation was almost over, and they were about to embark on their third and first serious world tour!
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