The heated discussion about "Happy Graduation" lasted for a whole day until the next night, when the heat died down because of the exposure of a male star's illegitimate child.
For Zhou Yiyang, this level of popularity was much higher than he had expected.
At least the graduation party he planned has become a project that many people look forward to. Some teachers even encourage their students to watch it.
Zhou Yiyang was naturally happy. Sponsors for the graduation party alone were already lining up to come to him, and as for the title sponsor, some even offered a sky-high price of over 100 million.
Of course, this title was reserved for the Ning family. After hearing the name of the title sponsor, those bosses quietly withdrew from the competition.
"Mr. Zhou," Guan Fei had walked up to him at some point, "Should we shift the focus of our publicity to the movie?"
"Of course," Zhou Yiyang nodded. "As long as the box office exceeds 200 million, we'll make a profit, so you should have everyone work hard to promote it. As for the theaters, the first three days of screenings should be guaranteed, right?"
"Yes, most theater managers have signed contracts to guarantee first-week screenings. Furthermore, our schedule isn't particularly popular, and there aren't many competitors during the same period. Our top spot will be guaranteed for at least two weeks."
Although Guan Fei knew that if the quality of the movie was not good, the attendance would be low and the number of screenings would gradually decrease.
But "Léon: The Professional" received rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, and she doesn't think the film will fail in terms of word of mouth.
Ning Mang has been very happy these two days. He didn't expect that Zhou Yiyang would reserve a title sponsor position for him.
At first, when some people in the circle heard that he sponsored the graduation party held by Moonlight, they all thought that he was going to fail this time.
After all, it’s not a holiday, and it’s not broadcast on TV. The graduation party also seems to be targeted at students, so it’s not a high-quality investment project in any way.
But no one expected that Zhou Yiyang would once again rely on a short film to achieve a series of unexpected publicity effects.
At this moment, when they wanted to compete for the sponsorship rights of the graduation party, it was already too late.
People are in high spirits when good things happen. Ning Mang waved his hand and gave the whole company two days off, and decided to organize them to go to the movies in a private theater this Friday.
The movie I watched was naturally "Léon: The Professional".
On the day the movie was broadcast, Zhou Yiyang also booked a private theater to watch the movie.
"Brother Yang," Tang Yue asked curiously, "When you rent out the entire theater to watch our own movies, does that count as buying the box office?"
Su Yin, who was standing by, laughed out loud. "Yeah, why didn't I think of such an interesting question? If you ask me, it should count, but it's too small, so no one cares."
"I have multiple identities," Zhou Yiyang said seriously, "When I was making a movie, I was the director. When I was distributing it, I was the boss. Now, when I watch movies, I'm just a fan."
"That's well-founded," Lin Xuan'er said with a smile, "Brother Yang, you're quite the talker."
"Why does it sound like he has multiple personalities to me?" Wang Xingrui clicked her tongue. It was obvious that she had read some novels of this kind recently.
Although the other staff members couldn't get a word in, they were still very happy following behind.
A two-hour movie is already long for a theater.
Nowadays, many movies are compressed to around 90 minutes in order to grab screening time. This way, more screenings can be scheduled in a day, and the audience will not be bored.
However, when the movie started, the previously noisy audience in the theater suddenly became quiet.
I originally thought that "Léon: The Professional" should be an art film, but I didn't expect the beginning of the movie to be so exciting.
Ning Mang sat in the cinema, listening to the shocking visual and sound effects, and couldn't help but sigh that Zhou Yiyang really spent his money wisely.
Those employees who were originally not interested in the movie were now piqued.
The story continues to advance, and the audience's hearts are so captured by the plot that they don't even have the slightest thought of going to the bathroom.
Ning Mang raised his eyebrows, feeling that Zhou Yiyang had become more mature in shooting commercial films. His rhythm was really first-rate, and he wouldn't give people any chance to get out of the show.
And in such a mature mode, he also told a very touching story.
When the killer finally died, cries of grief were heard at the same time in movie theaters across the country.
Even after watching it for the second time, Su Yin was still deeply moved by the plot.
"No, I have to give it a five-star review. The second time I watched it, it was a completely different experience than the first time."
"Indeed," Tang Yue answered her seriously, a rare moment. "When I rewatched it, I discovered a lot of details and foreshadowing. No wonder Brother Yang's film received so many positive reviews at film festivals."
If "Léon: The Professional" missed the Palme d'Or at Cannes because of its overly commercial shooting techniques and story template.
Now that it has returned to its own battlefield, it can truly kill anyone who stands in its way.
The first batch of audience reviews came out, and the Yunpiaopiao and Miaoyan scores both reached 9.4, which can be said to be a very rare high score.
"Mr. Zhou," Bai Yangyu analyzed, "Judging from the ratings data released so far, this time the score is very stable and has room to rise. I even think it could reach 9.5."
"So high?" Zhou Yiyang was surprised, but then he thought again and felt that this really seemed to be a commercial movie that appealed to both men and women without any shortcomings.
"Yes, the tragic ending did not cause disgust, but instead elevated the story. Therefore, the film's score on Douban is not low, reaching 8.9 points."
"Yeah." Zhou Yiyang nodded. He wasn't surprised by the Douban score. After all, the original work also had a high score in its previous life.
After the word-of-mouth came out, it completely shocked all major box office prediction agencies.
At first, they all imagined "Léon: The Professional" as an art film like the ones directed by Zhang Yingyuan and Chang Tiesheng, which had a high reputation but was not well accepted by the audience.
Who would have thought that this movie would actually be a standard commercial film.
The original highest prediction was only 500 million box office, but in one night, it shot up to 1.5 billion like a rocket.
This doesn't even include the popular release period. If the movie were to be released in July, I'm afraid these organizations would raise the box office price even higher.
The first day box office came out, and as expected, it reached over 100 million, which is a very impressive result.
Zhang Yingyuan was also shocked. He now felt more and more that his student really had an amazing talent in controlling the audience's preferences.
If the film was shot according to his original script, he estimated that the cumulative box office might not even exceed 100 million.
Zhang Yiling, who was studying in seclusion, had no idea that her first and last movie as an actor would become a huge hit.
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