"Wow, this little trick is quite a lot!"
Zhou Yiyang raised his eyebrows and showed a playful expression.
Bai Yangyu hummed, "Yes, Mr. Zhou, I've never seen a movie with so many gimmicks. So what do you think we should do?"
Zhou Yiyang, standing by, immediately laughed. "Didn't I tell you to just wait and see? If we get involved now, everyone will think we're taking advantage of someone's misfortune. They might even think we were the ones who issued all these press releases."
"Even if we want to speak out, we have to wait until we have all the evidence. Of course, if 'Whale Sea Chronicle' points the finger at us and wants to steal our box office to add glory to itself, I will be the first to disagree."
After saying this, Zhou Yiyang stretched lazily, but his expression was firm.
Bai Yangyu was completely relieved. The power behind Zhou Yiyang was definitely no less than the capital behind "Whale Sea Chronicle".
As long as Zhou Yiyang is willing to provide protection, "The Lotus Lantern" will definitely not suffer any loss.
The spread of word of mouth also occurs gradually.
After the evening show, the attendance rate of "The Lotus Lantern" began to rise continuously, and voices appeared again online saying that tickets were not available and calling on theater managers to schedule more screenings.
"No way, don't these theater managers have internet access? Don't you know that the reputation of 'The Lotus Lantern' has been skyrocketing, and there will definitely be a lot of people coming to see the movie today?"
"Yeah, I'm really speechless. I had dinner tonight and was ready to go to the movies, only to find out that there were no tickets for 'The Lotus Lantern' again. Then, during prime time, all the movies were showing was 'Whale Sea Chronicle'. Is this movie really that good? How can there be so many screenings? It's obviously a terrible movie!"
"I don't understand. 'Whale Sea Chronicle' had such poor attendance, everyone around me who saw it was raving about it, yet they still have so many screenings scheduled. Are theater managers hell-bent on feeding us ordinary audiences shit during the Spring Festival?"
"No, did 'The Lotus Lantern' irritate your theater manager? Or did you finally realize that your shabby big screen is completely incapable of supporting the viewing experience of 'The Lotus Lantern'?"
"Can you schedule more screenings? It looks like there are more screenings of 'The Lotus Lantern,' but when I turned around, they were all daytime shows. Do you really think we in the anime world only watch movies during the day?"
"Add a prime-time slot for 'The Lotus Lantern'! If you still don't react, I'll conclude that your theater doesn't want to make money anymore!"
These online comments received a lot of likes from people. Even Tang Yue, who was still staying at home eating ice cream, couldn't help but log in to her second account to like the comments.
"Hey Tangtang, aren't you cold at all? Why are you suddenly eating ice cream?" Wang Xingrui opened her eyes wide and looked at Tang Yue, who was video chatting with her, in disbelief.
As a southerner, Wang Xingrui's imagination of the Northeast is a world of ice and snow.
"Because there's heating!" Tang Yue smiled and said, "I'm almost dying of heat now! Ruirui, what have you been doing these days?"
"As for me, I went to see 'The Lotus Lantern' today. It really had so many good reviews yesterday for a reason. I didn't expect the finished film to be so good!"
Upon hearing this, Tang Yue immediately curled her lips and laughed, "Of course, a lot of people around me are praising it. And they really didn't go to the cinema for me, they were just interested after hearing the reputation."
After saying these happy things, Tang Yue paused, and her expression suddenly turned dark:
"But the filming schedule hasn't increased accordingly. You should have seen the online discussions, right?"
Wang Xingrui hummed. "I never thought that 'Whale Sea Chronicle' would have so many screenings today. It's as if the online reputation has had no impact on the film at all. It's quite strange."
Tang Yue chuckled lightly, rolled her eyes, and then said:
"Of course, anyone with a discerning eye can tell there's something fishy going on here. So I don't know what the crew was thinking. They'd resort to such an obvious tactic."
Wang Xingrui on the other side was silent for a while before saying:
"I guess they just want the gimmick of being the Spring Festival box office champion? After all, for many audiences, this title is enough to deceive those who are unaware of the truth into entering the theater."
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Tang Yue thought for a moment, "But his mistake this time was that he was too blatant. If he simply locked fans of the ticket purchasing app to make the ratings look better, most people wouldn't take it too seriously. It would just be a rather shameless marketing tactic."
"But stealing box office revenue, forcing film schedules, and even deliberately discrediting films released during the same period—this has infuriated the public. Do these investors really think that our Moonlight Girl fans are easy to mess with?"
Wang Xingrui nodded repeatedly at Tang Yue's words: "Yeah, it's a pity that the four of us are not together right now, otherwise we could still complain face to face and discuss things at the same time."
"Why aren't they online yet?" Upon hearing this, Tang Yue remembered that Su Yin and Lin Xuan'er had said they would video chat, but she didn't expect the two of them to suddenly disappear.
The reason why Su Yin hadn't come online yet was simply because she was so comfortable lying in bed being fed by her mother that she completely forgot about this matter.
"Mom," Su Yin saw her mother bringing her food from the kitchen. While holding back her saliva, she said, "If you keep doing this, I'll really get fat, and then your daughter will become a has-been star."
After hearing this, the mother burst into laughter and said, "How can it be so exaggerated? Your acting skills are still there. Even if you are really fat, you can still win the award. Mom believes in you."
"That won't do either," Su Yin shook her head. "If I really get fat, I can imagine Tangtang mocking me at any moment. Oh, I can only say that Tang Yue loves to spread anxiety!"
Ye Kongjing on the side didn't say anything, she knew that Su Yin was joking.
"By the way, hasn't Mr. Zhou spoken out? I see a lot of people are already questioning and speculating about 'Whale Sea Chronicle'. Now's a good time to come out and add insult to injury."
"Impossible." Su Yin shook her head. She trusted Zhou Yiyang very much.
Although this man likes money very much, he is not the kind of person who can give up everything for money.
If this is true, Su Yin believes that Zhou Yiyang will never make an animated film with such a huge investment that may not even make a return.
When Su Yin opened her phone, she found that the official Weibo account was calmly promoting peripheral products, seemingly ignoring the controversy on the hot search.
At this moment, Lin Xuan'er was sitting in a relative's house, listening to their flattery with an embarrassed look on her face.
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