On the morning of May 1st, even the bustling city of Jiangdu seemed exceptionally quiet.
Most people would choose to have a good sleep on the first day of the short holiday.
Occasionally, a few poor office workers would come out of the subway in a hurry, chewing buns in their mouths and holding soy milk in their hands.
Looking at the beautiful movie posters in the advertising columns at the subway entrances and exits, I wondered how I could get off work early today, and then make an appointment with someone, or go see a good movie alone.
As of this morning, the box office of "The Untold Story" has exceeded 10 million, but in contrast, it has received a lot of negative reviews. On the ticketing platform, it only scored 5.8 points, which has not yet reached the passing line.
"Forget Me Not", a traditional love movie created by classic love movie director Ai Jia, grossed 5 million at the box office, but its reputation was mixed. Some said it was good, while many people felt that the movie did not break through Ai Jia's usual style. To put it bluntly, there were no surprises.
"The Best Days Under the Clouds" has received good reviews, reaching a score of 8.6, but it is actually an art film with limited commercial value. The premiere box office reached 900,000, and the creative team can already prepare to celebrate. However, the May Day box office battle is destined to have little to do with it.
As for the movie "Liu Li Shang", it has a reputation of 8.0 and a premiere box office of 3.4 million, which are both considered lukewarm.
"Racing Girls" starring Yan Zi ranked third with a premiere box office of 4 million, but its reputation was as high as 9.0 points, and the comments below were almost all recommendations.
The headquarters of Donghuang Entertainment, the investor of "The Unforgettable Story", is also in Jiangdu. Lao Sun, the director of the investment department, is one of the office workers mentioned above. He came to work early and took a look at the box office of "The Unforgettable Story". He was quite satisfied. If the premiere could make 10 million, then the box office on the first day would reach more than 100 million and close to 200 million.
As for word of mouth, haha. This film boasts a 500 million yuan budget, and it stars one of the most popular young actors in the industry, Dong Renyu. They also invited two renowned film stars to co-star with him and support him.
Based on the box office appeal of these three people, he knew from his experience that the box office of this movie would be at least 2 billion.
By 10 o'clock, all the major cinemas had already opened for business, and Lao Sun refreshed the real-time box office.
"The Untold Story" is far ahead of several other films in terms of total box office and box office growth.
The box office growth of "Racing Girls", which has the best reputation, is not as good as that of "Forget Me Not".
When this movie came out, the industry naturally paid attention to it, but after analysis, everyone agreed that the movie was a joke.
Although I don’t know where they got the 200 million yuan investment, but look at the people in the main creative team of the movie?
Director? Haha, a marginal director who has only shot music videos and campus short plays, if anyone dares to call him a third-rate director, it is an insult to the word third-rate.
Lead actor? The male lead is okay, An Feiyu, he has acted in some popular dramas, his acting skills are pretty good, and his traffic is also okay.
But don’t forget, what is the name of this drama? Just look at the name and you will know that this is a female lead drama, and their female lead is neither a top-tier young flower nor a big-name actor.
But he is a new singer. Yes, last year, the singer named Yan Zi won the Golden Disc Award for Best Newcomer, but singing and acting are two different things.
This newcomer named Yan Zi played an inconspicuous little role in a TV series. This can be said to be her second role in a film and television drama, and she directly became the female lead.
Although I don’t know who is supporting her behind the scenes, aren’t you afraid of forcing her to grow too fast?
As for the other actors, although they are all veteran actors, they have no traffic or popularity at all. So if you add up all their salaries and multiply it by 100, it will not be as high as the salary of Dong Renyu, the male lead of "The Unfortunate One".
Why? This is the market. Dong Renyu's box office appeal in the film market determines his value.
Therefore, after analyzing the main creative team of "Racing Girls", Donghuang Entertainment no longer regards this movie as its rival.
Looking at the current box office and box office growth, Lao Sun can conclude that at most tonight, "Racing Girls" can only compete with the costume love drama "Liu Li Shang" for the third place in the box office.
Many colleagues in the entertainment industry share the same idea as Lao Sun.
At noon, "Racing Girls" was still in third place with a real-time box office of 14 million, but the growth rate was slowly catching up with "The Untold Story".
At four o'clock in the afternoon, most theaters had already played five rounds of movies, including the premiere. "Racing Girls" was still in third place with a real-time box office of 28 million, but it was only 2 million away from the second-place "Forget Me Not".
What is surprising is that at this time, the box office growth of "The Untold Story" has slowed down significantly. Although the box office of 40 million still occupies the leading position, the attendance rate has obviously begun to be lower than "Racing Girls" and "Unforgettable".
It is even slightly lower than "Liuli Shang" by 1 point.
Only then did Old Sun feel that something was wrong.
Before they could increase their promotion efforts, the real-time box office at 6 pm had already surpassed "Unforgettable" by 500,000 to come second, and the gap with the first place "The Untold Story" was further narrowed.
"Racing Girls" 36 million: "The Untold Story" 43 million.
Such growth naturally made people in the industry smell something unusual.
They bought tickets and went to the cinema to see the magic of this box office dark horse.
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