"Looking at your attitude, if someone didn't know, I would think you didn't like the movie Wolf Warrior!" Zhou Yiyang couldn't help laughing after hearing what Luo Chen and Ling Hu said.
He glanced at the two of them and continued, "Although 5 billion box office sounds exaggerated, before the last 3 billion movie came out, many people also thought it was exaggerated, right?"
Lin Xuan'er subconsciously agreed with Zhou Yiyang's point of view, but after she briefly calculated in her mind how exaggerated the figure of 5 billion was, she immediately shook her head and changed her tone:
"Brother Yang, I know you're counting the box office. The six of us combined aren't as good as you in business. But I honestly think 3 billion and 5 billion are two completely different concepts. Even the film 'Fortress of the Devil' that you promoted so vigorously didn't make over 4 billion. This proves that the upper limit of our country's film market is probably 3 billion."
After hearing Lin Xuan'er's well-reasoned analysis, Tang Yue nodded and ran over to join in the fun:
"Brother Yang, I think what our Xuan'er said makes a lot of sense. 5 billion, what does that even mean? I've never seen that much money in my life! And a movie costs 5 billion, and a movie ticket only costs around 30. That means over 100 million people across the country will buy tickets to watch the movie. How can that be possible?"
"I think so too," Su Yin said. This time, she didn't side with Zhou Yiyang. The main reason was that the number was so exaggerated that even a normal person wouldn't recognize it. "There are a lot of people in our country, but only a few are willing to pay to go to the cinema."
Speaking of this, Wang Xingrui, who comes from a rural background, cleared her throat. Judging from her appearance, she should have a lot to say about this topic:
"I think so too. Take our village for example. In fact, our village's income has increased a lot in recent years because of me."
"But after getting the money, the first thing people do is save it or use it to buy food to improve their lives. For example, my parents are basically unwilling to spend money to go to the cinema unless it's a movie starring me."
Zhou Yiyang glanced at them and actually knew that they were telling the truth and these phenomena existed objectively.
"I know, but I still believe that our film market is far from reaching its ceiling. As for the final box office performance of 'Wolf Warrior', even if we talk our mouths off, it won't have any impact on it."
"As for the results, we still have to let the data speak for itself."
After this night, the three Moonlight Girls returned to their original peaceful and busy lives.
Filming, dinner together, the four of them were as close as sisters on the set.
Zhou Yiyang watched from the set, leaving most of the filming work to the assistant director, who was in charge of the overall coordination.
But they didn't expect that the discussion about the final box office of "Wolf Warrior" would become a hot topic.
The cause was not due to a certain marketing account, but the box office prediction on Miaoyan.
As a ticket purchasing software, Miaoyan has sufficient movie box office data in its background.
Using this data, it evolved a very intelligent box office prediction program.
Based on the daily box office trends, the program will continuously adjust its forecast data.
Generally speaking, after the box office results of a movie in the first three days are released, the box office predictions of this program will be very accurate.
However, netizens discovered that this program was raising its box office forecast for "Wolf Warrior" every day.
Up to now, this program has predicted that the total box office of "Wolf Warrior" can reach 5.068 billion.
As soon as this data appeared, almost all netizens were excited.
This movie has been very popular on Tik Tok and WeChat Moments recently, and people who often go online will know about it.
The first to speak out were several film practitioners, or what we often call experts.
Expert A: "I've studied movie box office for over a decade, and I'm pretty accurate at predicting a movie's performance. But I just can't imagine what kind of person would think a movie could reach 5 billion? Could this mini-program have been hacked by a programmer from Yiyang Entertainment?"
Expert B is also an internet celebrity, and his comments were much more harsh:
"I was wondering why our marketing genius, Mr. Zhou, hasn't taken any action yet! It turns out he's taking a different approach this time."
"That's impressive! A program predicts 5 billion. Doesn't Mr. Zhou know anything about data? For a movie to reach 5 billion at the box office, have you ever considered how many people would need to go to the theater? Or does Mr. Zhou think that just because your artists get a million likes on Weibo, they're a million living people?"
"Everyone, please disperse. Mr. Zhou is deliberately using a weird number to attract everyone's attention. The movie is good, but the marketing method is somewhat low-brow."
Expert C is a professor at the Film Academy:
"As a film industry worker, I'm very grateful to see that our country's box office is getting higher and higher."
"It's just that I don't want the entertainment industry to be empty and pretentious. The data bubble phenomenon has also affected the film industry."
"I can guarantee with all my years of teaching experience that the figure of 5 billion is absolutely impossible!"
After these experts’ assessments, many netizens also joined this massive discussion.
One netizen in the countryside joked: "There's only one cinema in our county, and nobody goes there normally! Who would go when a ticket is 30 yuan? It's better to wait until it's available on video websites."
Many netizens echoed:
"Yeah, you can even say 5 billion. Do you really think that people from big cities can just go to the movies when they have nothing to do?"
"Hey, it's so easy to make money in the entertainment industry these days. 5 billion is easy to come by. Our city's pillar industries don't even have 5 billion in annual revenue!"
The somatosensory party is never absent at this time:
"It's just a crappy movie. Is it worth so much money? No one around me has ever gone to the cinema to watch it."
"We're in Shanghai, and no one in our company wants to see this movie. It's so hot, why not just go to Starbucks and have a cup of coffee? Why bother going to the cinema to join the crowd?"
"This movie is fake! It's in a third-tier city, and the movie theaters here are about to go bankrupt! 5 billion, what a fantasy!"
Of course, Luo Chen and Ling Hu's fans were definitely not convinced, and they worked tirelessly to fight against the black market and clarify...
Unfortunately, the power of the fan circle is weak in front of the absolute numerical advantage of netizens who just want to watch the show.
On Tieba, there are even several movie-related forum owners who placed bets, predicting whether "Wolf Warrior" can break 5 billion.
Zhou Yiyang also saw it. He clicked on it and took a look, and found that 90% of netizens chose impossible.
He shrugged, thinking that netizens' imagination was still too limited.
But it doesn’t matter. We’ll know who is right and who is wrong once the box office results come out.
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