Chapter 247
Many netizens and movie fans are waiting for the first wave of feedback from the moviegoers. There are two types of reviews for "Legend of Immortals and Demons". One is the overwhelming praise, which is basically from fans of the best actor, actress, and other actors in the film. In their eyes, their idols are perfect in every way, and even if there is something not satisfactory, it is the fault of others.
There are also some rational fans who commented on the pros and cons of this movie. The best actor and actress actually gave good acting skills, but the plot and special effects dragged it down too much. No matter how good their acting skills were, they could still fall asleep in the cinema, which also shook people's attitude towards this movie.
On the contrary, the low-budget movie "Super Boy" has started to gain word-of-mouth within a certain range. No one who has gone to watch it has said anything bad about it. In the special ticketing software, only people who have bought tickets and watched the movie can post comments. Even if the haters want to criticize it, they have to spend their money first.
"I give this movie "The Plan" a score of 9. Although the plot is not super fresh, the director tells the whole story in a complete way. The lead actor Qin Yao deserves praise because his wonderful performance has raised the watchability of the whole movie to a higher level. I can say with confidence that the money I spent on the movie ticket is definitely worth it."
"Perhaps Qin Yao's appearance was so outstanding that people overlooked his acting skills. The public has a fixed impression that it is difficult for actors with outstanding appearances to make people remember their acting skills, and often the actors need to make themselves ugly. But in this movie, without Qin Yao, the soul of the whole movie will be missing. Even if someone else plays the role, it may not be able to achieve the same effect as him."
These obviously thoughtful film reviews touched a portion of movie fans and attracted them into the cinema. After they finished watching the movie, the number of positive reviews online began to increase.
The crew of "Legend of Immortals and Demons" tried hard to maintain the momentum, and marketing was everywhere. However, the more they did so, the more angry and critical it became among some people who had seen the movie.
"What a shitty movie! You only know how to throw money at marketing. Why don't you just make a good movie? Do you really think the audience is stupid and can be fooled by you? You said you cooperated with a first-class foreign special effects studio to make those 5-cent special effects? How much did it cost? The hundreds of millions of investment must have been spent on marketing!"
The higher the expectations, the more disappointed and angry people will be.
"Director Zhang's film this time is really disappointing. The theme of immortals and demons can be very grand and satisfy people's yearning for the world of immortals and demons, but the special effects are too eye-catching. And such a grand background is used to shoot a plot of three people who love me and I don't love you? Oh, and there is also a mistress interfering. There is nothing else to shoot besides these, right?"
"What a loser! I regret giving this movie ticket. I curse Qin Yao for the movie Metamorphosis all day long. I'm going to watch Metamorphosis now."
"I also heard that Qin Yao's movie has a very good reputation. Let's go together and give feedback after watching it."
After watching it, they immediately praised Qin Yao's transformation, saying that he had turned into a water army.
Even the internet trolls spontaneously dug up Xu Zihao's remarks about stepping on Qin Yao to get to the top, and they all gloated over it, thanking Director Zhang for not looking down on Qin Yao's acting skills, which was why Qin Yao was able to get the role in Director Lu's "Super Boy" and have his current success.
Qin Yao's fans also belatedly remembered this incident and rushed to Xu Zihao's Weibo to express their gratitude and seek revenge, which made Xu Zihao's fans very angry, and the two sides had a big fight under Xu Zihao's Weibo.
Xu Zihao felt dizzy when he saw the comments online. Fans scolded Director Zhang and the actors who dragged the show down. In fact, Xu Zihao was the one who was scolded the most. After all, the other two were both best actor and best actress. Although the plot was not that good, these two did contribute their acting skills that were up to par. But the poor plot could not be saved by acting skills. But Xu Zihao was different. With his terrible acting skills, how dare he step on Qin Yao?
Angry fans thought that Xu Zihao was the one holding him back, and that the situation might be better if someone else did the speech. Some fans cursed at him, and fans of the best actor and actress took their anger out on Xu Zihao. Xu Zihao was so angry that he smashed the phone in his hand, and it hit the wall and was immediately dismembered.
As word of mouth spread and word of mouth suffered a setback, the box office results also came out.
On the first day, "Legend of Immortals and Demons", 240 million; "Metamorphosis", 14.5 million.
The next day, "Legend of Immortals and Demons", 120 million; "Metamorphosis", 47.8 million.
Xu Zihao's fans tried to save face by saying that the box office had reached 360 million yuan, but "Super Boy" had not yet broken 100 million yuan, which made netizens and fans laugh.
"Stop embarrassing yourself. All the investors in "Legend of Immortals and Demons" are going to lose a lot of money. It's called a big investment, with a total investment of 500 million yuan. It needs a box office of 1.5 billion yuan to make a profit. Only if it exceeds that can it be considered a profit. I'm just watching to see if your movie can make a profit."
"The total investment in Metamorphosis was less than 20 million. Later, Qin Yao invested a sum of money himself to make Metamorphosis more perfect. Metamorphosis has only been released for two days and it has started to make money. Fans of Xu Zihao, how much money do you think Qin Yao can make this time?"
"Yes, yes, from the third day on, the money earned from Metamorphosis was pure profit. It can't be compared with big productions like yours, Legend of Immortals and Demons."
Xu Zihao’s fans are almost crying with anger. It’s too infuriating. Their brother’s box office performance has exceeded 100 million. How many artists can compare with their brother?
By the third day, the contrast became even more striking.
On the third day, "Legend of Immortals and Demons" earned 73.2 million, while "Metamorphosis" earned 91.4 million. The box office of "Metamorphosis" actually caught up and began to surpass "Legend of Immortals and Demons". At the same time, major cinemas began to adjust the screening ratio of "Metamorphosis". The director and leading actors of "Legend of Immortals and Demons" had to reduce their screening ratio at this time, no matter how prestigious they were. After all, they also have to make money. The big-screen market is so realistic and cruel.
The crew and investors of "Legend of Immortals and Demons" were also getting anxious. If the trend continued like this, they would lose a lot of money. They had to find a way to pull it back a little bit, so the best actor and best actress had to come out and create a scandal themselves, in order to bring some heat back to the series. On the fourth and fifth days, the downward trend slowed down, but anyone with eyes could see that "Legend of Immortals and Demons" was doomed to lose money this time.
On the contrary, on the fourth day, the box office of "Super Boy" exceeded 100 million yuan, and it rose again on the fifth day. Qin Yao's fans couldn't wait to cheer. At this time, that is, on the sixth day of the release of "Super Boy", a large wave of negative information about Qin Yao suddenly appeared on the Internet. The negative information was very detailed, saying how Qin Yao acted like a big shot, how Qin Yao bullied young stars on the set, and even the topic of him playing with female celebrities came out.
However, just as this wave of negative information began to ferment on the Internet, an accident occurred with the most popular marketing account that exposed Qin Yao's arrogance. Netizens suddenly discovered that this marketing account called "Genzhi Ge" suddenly uploaded a new Weibo post. After seeing the content of the Weibo post, netizens were stunned.
Brother Gengzhi is worthy of being Brother Gengzhi. He even revealed the information that he was paid to slander Qin Yao.
Afterwards, the same incident happened to two other marketing accounts that exposed the negative material, and they all provided solid evidence of being paid to release the negative material.
The angry fans were thinking about how to fight back, but when they heard that the evidence had been exposed, they ran to these marketing accounts with murderous intent. Even they were dumbfounded, and then they started to fight back while contacting each other privately.
"What the hell is going on? Something seems to be wrong. We didn't show any fighting power at all, and that invisible guy took care of everything."
"You think so too?"
"Yeah, if someone hadn't hacked these three accounts, how could they have exposed the real information? In the future, these three marketing accounts will no longer be able to make money."
"No matter how much we fight, we can't be as powerful as this brother (sister). Brother Qin doesn't even need us to clean up his name. He is innocent. But who is this guy who bribed the marketing account to discredit our Brother Qin?"
They thought the most suspicious person was Xu Zihao. Who had made Xu Zihao step on Qin Yao when the filming started? This time they stepped on Xu Zihao back. How could this guy bear it? But without evidence, they didn't dare to say anything, lest it bring bad luck to their idol. But the more they talked privately, the more they thought it was him.
"It would be great if we could contact that hacker. He would definitely be able to find out who this person is."
The Weibo posts of these three marketing accounts were in chaos. Some were mocking, some were quarreling, and some were just there to watch the funny jokes. Especially that honest brother, who was the first to say that he was worthy of being called an honest brother as he even dared to expose his own black material. This sentence was almost going viral and attracted many people to come and see what kind of honesty this honest brother really was.
The owners behind these three marketing accounts are going crazy. Their accounts have been hacked and they can’t get them back, which means they can’t delete the Weibo post. They have no choice but to send a request to the backend, but they don’t get a response for a long time.
They knew that they had run into a ruthless person this time. Who could have thought that there was a hacker expert behind Qin Yao? If they had known this, they would not have dared to take this business and make this money. It would be impossible to make up for it afterwards.
They tried to find a hacker for help. The hacker came, but after a while he said that the other hacker was more skilled and they were no match for him, so they asked for help from someone else.
These three guys lost a lot of hair because of worry.
They lost their hair, and Xu Zihao smashed a new phone. His manager pushed the door open and saw the dead phone on the ground. He asked, "Did you buy it to discredit Qin Yao? Stop it now before it exposes you, and don't argue with Qin Yao again."
He originally guessed that it might be done by his own artist, because Xu Zihao's path was similar to Qin Yao's, but one level lower than Qin Yao. This led to Xu Zihao regarding Qin Yao as a thorn in his side, wishing to discredit Qin Yao so that he could never get up again. This time he was able to participate in "The Legend of Immortals and Demons", thinking that he had seized the opportunity, but who would have thought that Qin Yao's luck was so good that a small-budget movie actually became a dark horse.
If there wasn't that mysterious hacker, Xu Zihao would have been blacklisted, but now that there's a hacker standing on Qin Yao's side, he's afraid that he'll be implicated if he continues to do so.
Xu Zihao gritted his teeth and said, "Is there no way to deal with him? Are you going to let me watch him take off?"
The agent also watched the show Metamorphosis and had to admit that his artist was much worse than Qin Yao in terms of acting skills, but he was Xu Zihao's agent, so he advised: "Forget it this time, there will always be opportunities in the future. I've got you a TV series, so shoot something relaxing first to catch your breath."
Xu Zihao nodded. In his agent's opinion, he listened to his advice, so he left the script with confidence.
Who would have thought that Xu Zihao would never let it go so easily. He was not a broad-minded person to begin with, and this time he was in sharp contrast to Qin Yao. So he waited until the evening and asked someone to expose Qin Yao's black material on a popular forum. Unfortunately, as soon as the information was exposed, someone on Weibo put forward evidence, and this time the evidence pointed directly to the person behind the scenes.
"Wow, it's really Xu Zihao! I was right. How deep is the hatred and resentment that he keeps harassing our Brother Qin?"
"Haha, of course the hatred is deep-rooted. When Xu Zihao took over the Immortal Demon Legend, he was so proud. Not only did he use marketing to step on Brother Qin, but during the interview with reporters, this guy even said that he was sorry for stealing Brother Qin's opportunity. Qin Yao ignored him at that time, but now he has lost miserably and is taking his anger out on Qin Yao."
"Tsk, he picked the script himself. He had poor vision and lost. How can he blame Qin Yao for that?"
"According to inside information, Qin Yao was originally invited to play the second male lead in Legend of Immortals and Demons, but unfortunately Qin Yao chose Transformation Plan first and rejected Legend of Immortals and Demons. Later, Xu Zihao was given the opportunity to take over Legend of Immortals and Demons, and it was not like he said that he stole the role from Qin Yao with his own ability."
"Oh my god, I didn't expect the truth to be like this. My brother Qin really has good taste, haha."
At first Xu Zihao was still unaware of the situation and was staring at the forum excitedly. Then his agent called him and asked him to go and watch the video. After clicking on the link and seeing it clearly, Xu Zihao's face turned pale.
"I told you not to do it, but what did you say? Then you turned your back and forgot what I said. I can't save you this time. Where on earth do you get the confidence to deal with the hackers around Qin Yao?"
The level of the forum was also exposed on Weibo, so it was impossible to continue to criticize it. It even attracted a lot of mocking people to come and watch.
Xu Zihao's agent and many fans wanted to know who the powerful hacker behind this was. Even Pan Jun and Xiao Chen, who witnessed these unexpected dramas, were stunned. This time, God was on Qin Yao's side.
"Brother Pan, did you hire a hacker to help Brother Qin?"
Pan Jun said: "You want to know, I want to know too. I guess only Qin Yao knows the answer."
Pan Jun made a special call to Qin Yao and asked him where he found the hacker. Qin Yao smiled and said, "I didn't find him. He came to me on his own. You can rest assured."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Yao looked at Yuan Jing who was holding a notebook beside him and chuckled: "Are you really not going to tell Pan Jun and the others?" He really found a big treasure.
Yuan Jing said speechlessly: "I think you want to whet their appetite."
Of course, Yuan Jing did all this behind the scenes. Although the original person dropped out of school before graduating from junior high school, after Yuan Jing took over, he often typed on the computer and read some related books. He got the hang of it very quickly. In Qin Yao's eyes, his baby was of course a genius. If he hadn't been delayed by Gao Yuanze, who knows how amazing his baby would be now.
Anyway, Qin Yao, just like in his previous lives, had immense trust in Yuan Jing. No matter how amazing Yuan Jing's performance was, he would at most be surprised for a moment and then accept it. It seemed that something was engraved deep in his soul, making him do so instinctively.
Therefore, Yuan Jing rarely hides anything in front of his lover.
Qin Yao twitched his eyebrows. Yes, that was what he thought. Of course, there was another meaning. He only needed to know how great his treasure was, and outsiders should stay away.
Yuan Jing held his chin in his hand. This Xu Zihao was too suspicious. He suspected that something would happen to Qin Yao in the plot, which was inseparable from Xu Zihao. If he had not come, not only that time when the accident happened, but he was also often attacked online before, resulting in Qin Yao's reputation on the Internet being not very good. He was too lazy to explain, so only fans could tear it apart. However, the more he fought, even passers-by had a bad impression of him.
So after discovering that Xu Zihao had hired people to slander Qin Yao several times and had great hostility towards Qin Yao, Yuan Jing kept his eyes on him and even put something in his mobile phone and computer. It can be said that no matter what Xu Zihao wanted to do, he could not escape Yuan Jing's eyes.
"Be careful next time you run into Xu Zihao. This guy is very petty. If he fails this time, he will definitely have a backup plan. He won't just give up so easily."
Qin Yao came over and took Yuan Jing and his notebook into his arms, and said with a smile: "What am I afraid of? You are here with me. Let's talk about what we are going to do with the money we earn this time. Should we go on a trip or buy something big?"
"You become arrogant because you have money?"
"Why not float? Isn't the purpose of having money to enjoy life?"
"You are right." Although he said this, Yuan Jing did not object. This time, because of him, Qin Yao would definitely make a lot of money.
They were planning how to spend the money. The female lead Su Yurou was furious. Her love for Qin Yao turned into hate. Seeing Qin Yao's movie selling well, she was of course not in a good mood. But she only played the fourth female role. When would she be able to reach Qin Yao's level?
When the marketing account first exposed Qin Yao's arrogant behavior, she also followed suit and said that Qin Yao was indeed arrogant and bullied other actors on the crew. She even wanted to speak out. But then that account was hacked and it was revealed that he was taking money to bully black people. Su Yurou was so scared that she quickly deleted the comments she had posted, fearing that the other party would find out about her.
Fortunately, Yuan Jing did not take this small character seriously, which allowed Su Yurou to escape.
No matter how hard it tried to save "Legend of Immortals and Demons", it couldn't stop the downward trend and finally closed with 680 million yuan. This was only because Director Zhang and the best actor and actress spared no effort to hype up the popularity, which pushed the box office up a bit. The movie was taken off the screen before "Super Girl".
"Super Boy" was released for a full month before it ended. By then, the box office had accumulated to 2.19 billion, nearly three times the box office of "Legend of the Immortals and Demons", becoming the biggest dark horse of this New Year's Day. Before it was released, who could have imagined that this low-budget movie could receive such a high return?
Everyone who invested in "The Metamorphosis" made a fortune, including Qin Yao, who was very happy. People in the industry were very envious of him. You have to know that this guy caught the last train and invested at the last minute, but the money he made increased dozens of times. How could people not be jealous?
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