Zhou Yiyang is quite good at taking advantage of popularity. Four stills received over a million comments within an hour, and the number of reads reached 50 million.
Such data made China Channel 8, which had invested heavily, breathe a sigh of relief.
As expected, since Zhou Yiyang produced the show, they didn't have to worry about popularity. It's easy to imagine how much a 15-second commercial would fetch during the show's broadcast period!
Zhou Yiyang glanced at his Weibo and stretched.
It was worth the effort he put into shooting the stills, and the final effect was very satisfactory.
Of course, Zhou Yiyang also directly announced the name of the drama, so that netizens would not always use the long name "Moonlight Girl New Drama" when recommending and promoting it.
Soon, netizens saw the name of this drama - "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
When netizens began to think about what earth-shattering and heart-wrenching things this woman named Zhen Huan had done in ancient times, Zhou Yiyang, Yue Shao and the other three had already focused their energy on filming.
For a whole month, they disappeared without a trace, and were only mentioned in some performance reviews.
For example, "Miss Fish" broke the box office record for art films with a total box office of 1.07 billion yuan, because the agency did not consider "Dying to Survive" to be an art film.
As the female lead, Su Yin's total box office of the movies she starred in also successfully exceeded 10 billion, making her the first 10 billion queen.
It can be said that there is no other female star in the film industry who is as popular with the audience as she is.
The soundtrack of "Miss Fish" continues to create myths. Now if you open any music software, this song will be in the top eight.
Wang Xingrui has become the most popular singer this year thanks to "Big Fish" and "The Lone Warrior". Some people even advocate that Wang Xingrui should sing solo in the next Spring Festival Gala.
The album sales of "Miss Fish" are also very good. Adding the physical album and digital album together, its sales have quietly exceeded five million, becoming the best-selling movie soundtrack in China's history.
As everyone jokingly predicted before, almost all movies now have soundtracks, trying to replicate the commercial myth of "Miss Fish".
The three major film festivals in Europe have already revealed to the media that "Miss Fish" will be a hot topic this year.
Even the president of the Cannes Film Festival last year joked that this year's best film would be an internal fight among Chinese films.
However, when Yue Shao and Zhou Yi Yang disappeared, other artists of Yi Yang Entertainment frequently appeared on the Internet.
For example, Luo Chen and Ling Hu, their new movies are officially released in the summer season.
As soon as this news came out, many film producers who had scheduled their release dates in advance were almost vomiting blood.
They originally thought they could avoid Moonlight Girl's new film and were secretly glad that they could make money during the summer vacation.
As a result, no one expected that Ling Hu and Luo Chen’s new movie would be released without delay.
After "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", Luo Chen and Ling Hu's popularity skyrocketed.
If we only talk about fan enthusiasm and purchasing power, they should be invincible except for Moonlight Girl.
The new movie they collaborated on again this time immediately aroused heated discussion among netizens.
However, when everyone saw the name and subject of this movie, they breathed a sigh of relief.
At the headquarters of Hongtao Film and Television, several senior executives are holding a meeting.
They invested in an epic fantasy film this year, spending 500 million yuan, not even including the cost of publicity and promotion.
They have high hopes for this movie, and even hope that it can wipe out the company's previous decline and bring this veteran entertainment company back to its peak.
"How could Zhou Yiyang suddenly appear in a new film? This is ridiculous!" A senior executive frowned. Just hearing Zhou Yiyang's name made him shudder. It was this man who made them all become supporting roles.
"Isn't this normal? He probably saw that the summer season was relatively empty this year, so he rushed to film it right after wrapping up." Another executive smiled, looking quite relaxed: "I don't think we need to be so nervous. The director of this movie isn't Zhou Yiyang, and the actor isn't from Moonlight Girl. He might just be cannon fodder!"
"But he's still the screenwriter!" The first executive snorted. "Everyone knows that Zhou Yiyang's scripts are all high-quality! And he's not short of money, so the special effects are sure to be gorgeous! Oh, we're so unlucky!"
"But the subject matter this time is, um, a war film. Zhou Yiyang must have gone crazy recently."
The only female executive crossed her arms and shook her head with a disdainful expression on her face.
"As we all know, female users are very important in today's film market. If a good movie can attract women, they will mobilize their boyfriends, husbands, children, and sisters to go to the cinema. This effect is not seen in men."
"War films are inherently unattractive to female audiences. As a woman, I'd rather enjoy the air conditioning at Starbucks than go to the cinema and watch a hail of gunfire. By doing this, Zhou Yiyang has completely abandoned his female audience. And he will have to pay the price for this arrogance!"
It must be said that the female executive's words made everyone present fall into deep thought. Perhaps she was right?
After all, looking at it now, there are almost no outstanding war films.
They even began to suspect that Zhou Yiyang needed to launder money recently, so he deliberately chose very unpopular themes for both movies and TV series. That way, even if the box office flopped, people would only think it was because of the theme, not that he was deliberately making a bad movie.
Of course, these executives still respect Zhou Yi Yang very much. After all, many unpopular themes have been transformed into miracles in his hands and finally became a hit.
"I think we shouldn't underestimate Zhou Yiyang. War films at least have a fixed audience. Perhaps we can change the schedule?"
The female executive shook her head, acting quite forceful:
"No need for that. This is the summer season! Who dominates the summer season? It's the students'! If you were a student, would you be willing to go to the cinema to watch a war film? Isn't the patriotic education you received in school enough that you actually need to experience it in a cinema?"
"Maybe Zhou Yiyang is trying to curry favor with his superiors this time, so he doesn't care about the box office. After all, the actors are just Luo Chen and Ling Hu, not the Moonlight Girl he loves the most. I think we don't need to change the release date, we can just clash directly!"
Similar discussions have been taking place in many film and television companies, and everyone is not optimistic about the movie called "Wolf Warrior".
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