The star is legit but sick.

Chapter 631 Chinese Kung Fu

Yesterday, the single-day box office of "Justice, My Foot" only broke 200 million yuan, but on the second day it broke 300 million yuan, which was beyond the expectations of the filmmakers.

This year's summer season was already a bit sluggish, and the box office performance of movies varied greatly.

The box office of a movie like "Ancient Gods 2" is already considered quite good. There are several movies whose box office can't even recover their production costs, including some movies starring movie emperors.

In the film market, no matter if you are a movie emperor or a top star, the box office will flop.

A few days before the release, it may be able to attract a large number of audiences due to its fame, but its true colors will basically be revealed after three days.

In April, "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" was released and earned nearly 2 billion yuan at the box office. The public would subconsciously compare the summer movies with "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One".

In the end, no Chinese-language summer movie has surpassed "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One", which is very embarrassing.

"Ancient Gods 2" is still being postponed. If the box office from the postponement is included, it may still surpass "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One", but it has already lost in the box office.

There is no key extension for "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Fragrance".

Now, "Justice, My Foot" has emerged as a dark horse and has immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

"It's Xu Ye who has to take action! Ninth-rank sesame official, charge, and kill the Dragon War Chronicle for me!"

"How come in the end only Xu Ye can defeat Xu Ye!"

"This single-day box office is already the highest in the summer season, right?"

"Let it sell! Let it sell!"

Stupid netizens shouted out some famous lines from the movie online again.

Things like memes require a certain cultural soil. If no one knows the meme, then it will be meaningless if you tell it.

It would be different if most people could understand this joke.

Even some people who don't understand the joke will be motivated and will try to understand it spontaneously or passively.

If everyone finds it interesting, they will spread it spontaneously, eventually forming a meme culture.

This is what "Justice, My Foot" is like today.

Netizens who have seen the movie spread it, arousing the curiosity of many netizens who have not seen the movie.

Is this movie really that good?

Some of these people will buy movie tickets and go into the cinema to watch the movie.

Director Tang Zhirong was shocked after seeing the horrific single-day box office of "Justice, My Foot".

It’s sold over 500 million in just two days after its release, and you made all the money!

He is a filmmaker, so he naturally understands that the cost of making this kind of comedy is not high.

Moreover, the scenes of "Justice, My Foot" are relatively simple, and the cost is relatively lower.

It seems that Xu Ye has earned back the cost of filming the movie in just these two days.

This made Tang Zhirong very envious.

His Ancient Gods series of movies are all big productions, and he hired domestic and foreign special effects companies for the special effects production alone, which cost a huge amount of money.

There are also the actors' salaries and other filming costs, which make the production cost of the film quite high.

Even though the final box office revenue was over a billion, the profit was not that much.

However, facing the strong rise of "Justice, My Foot", Tang Zhirong did not intend to do anything, or he could not do anything.

Faced with the pressure of "Legend of the Dragon King", the Chinese film market needs "Justice, My Foot".

By Sunday evening, it was morning in the United States.

The director of "Legend of the Dragon" Piazza woke up from the big bed, with a wheat-skinned blonde beauty lying next to him.

Piazza attended a banquet yesterday and returned to his residence with an actress.

"Legend of the Dragon Saber" dominated the Chinese film market and earned more than 2 billion yuan at the box office. The film also did quite well at the box office in Europe and the United States, and Piazza's status was also raised to a higher level.

His new film has successfully attracted more investment, and many actors also want to participate in the production of his film.

Piazza's new film has been in preparation for a long time, and it is only until some actors are finalized that filming can begin.

After seeing the potential of the Chinese market, Piazza decided to pay attention to it.

Then add some Chinese elements to the new movie, and add a Chinese actor, and use this as a promotional point. Chinese people will feel valued after seeing it, and this will contribute more box office revenue.

These changes were simple enough for Piazza's team to make, simply replacing an unimportant character.

His team has already begun to do so.

After Piazza stretched beautifully, he patted the butt of the beautiful woman next to him.

The beauty immediately kissed him on the face obediently.

Piazza picked up his phone to check the situation.

But when he saw the message on his phone, the smile on his face disappeared immediately.

Some friends have sent him news that a Chinese movie called "Justice, My Foot" won the single-day box office championship.

Piazza was a little bit unbelievable when he saw the data sent by his friend.

"What kind of movie is this? How could it have such a high box office?"

Even when "Legend of the Dragon" was at its peak, the single-day box office did not exceed 300 million.

Piazza felt a sense of crisis.

After all, the champion and second place of China's summer movie box office are different, and the former sounds better in terms of publicity.

But what makes Piazza speechless is that whose summer movie will not be released until mid-August!
Are you sick?
When he looked up some information about "Justice, My Foot", he discovered that the name of the film's director Xu Ye was a little familiar.

After checking Xu Ye again, Piazza discovered that this was the person who sang Little Apple!

On the Internet, Piazza also searched for a video of Xu Ye playing and singing "Nocturne" on a piano kebab cart.

This video was captured from a live broadcast.

Piazza watched the video with his eyebrows furrowed.

When Xu Ye started driving the piano kebab truck, his eyes suddenly widened.

After watching the entire video, Piazza was speechless.

This guy is really sick. He has never seen a singer play like this.

This video is quite popular on the Internet. A piano kebab cart is enough to attract netizens, and adding a song "Nocturne" to it makes it full of highlights.

The comment section was also filled with shock from foreign netizens.

Piazza scrolled down and saw another video.

This video is from the show “Wandering Music”, which shows the inverted shampooing machine invented by Xu Ye.

After watching this video, Piazza was even more speechless.

Foreign netizens also gave Xu Ye the nickname of a great inventor.

Piazza searched around but found no useful information.

But he was already on guard.

Although "Legends of the Dragon" has entered the final stage before being taken off the screen, we can't just sit and watch "Justice, My Foot" catch up. We must take action.

Finally, Piazza decided to release some information about his next movie in China, with the focus on the use of Chinese elements in it.

It just so happened that his team had produced a character concept CG some time ago, so it was just the right time to release this CG.

Monday, April 8th.

Yesterday’s box office for “Justice, My Foot” has been released, totaling 3.5 million.

So far, the total box office in the first three days of its release has reached 8.8 million.

However, today is the working day, and the box office will definitely not be as strong as it was on the weekend.

Generally speaking, after Monday, the box office will be halved compared to Sunday.

But given the current situation of "Justice, My Foot", even if the single-day box office was cut in half, it would still be 100 million.

On the Internet, discussions about the movie have not stopped.

Some netizens were making fun of the memes, while others were analyzing the metaphors in the movie.

At noon, the official Weibo account of Justice, My Foot was updated with a post.

There are emoticons from the movie on Weibo.

There are emoticon packs of Lei Bao, Bao Youwei, Fang Tangjing, and so on.

Netizens cannot get these emoticon packages, and some of the pictures in them are not even available on the Internet.

"Justice, My Foot! series of emojis are now online. Please pick them up if you need them."

As a result, netizens discovered that there was no emoticon pack of Bao Longxing in it.

"Why isn't there any Bao Longxing?"

“There’s not even an emoticon pack for the lead actor. Isn’t that very unprofessional?”

"Add Bao Longxing's emoticon pack to me immediately!"

What no one expected was that Xu Ye posted a Weibo a while later.

"Bao Longxing's emoticons are here!"

There are also nine pictures on his Weibo.

When netizens saw the content of the Weibo post, they were all speechless.

These nine pictures of yours are all handsome photos of you in movies. Where did the emoticons come from?
"roll!"

"Dean, give up. You are a talented person, not an idol. Don't post handsome photos anymore. It's a bit disgusting."

“No one is really interested in your looks.”

Netizens’ complaints were also very sharp.

By the afternoon, a topic became a hot search.

"The director of Dragon Saga said the new movie will have Chinese elements."

After everyone clicked into the topic, they found that this was a video released by a marketing account in the movie section.

In the video, Piazza was interviewed by a reporter.

"I like China very much. The days I lived in China were my happiest days. The food, scenery and people in China made me feel great. I have been exposed to Chinese culture since I was a child, and Chinese culture has deeply influenced me. In my new movie "Guardians of the Galaxy", I will use my understanding of Chinese culture to create a superhero, and this hero will be good at Chinese Kung Fu!"

In the interview, Piazza seemed genuinely emotional.

Afterwards, the marketing accounts also released a CG video of more than 20 seconds.

The video shows a man with black hair and yellow skin. He is wearing a black training suit with the word "Wu" written on it.

The man punches a sandbag with both fists, and then the scene changes to show the man at a crime scene.

He took care of all the criminals with his brilliant moves, and finally left with a dashing back.

This video has sparked widespread discussion online.

"Chinese Kung Fu is really cool! Looking forward to it!"

"It's ridiculous that our Chinese Kung Fu needs foreigners to film it."

"I have to say that foreign countries have done a good job in this regard."

This move of Piazza did win him a lot of favor and also increased the box office of "Legend of the Dragon".

The topic of Chinese Kung Fu has also become hot.

There are almost no real kung fu action movies on the market today, not just movies but TV series as well.

In previous TV dramas, the actors’ fighting moves were more cool than each other, but in current TV dramas, each one is worse than the other.

Kung Fu is one of the representative elements of China, and audiences also hope to see such films on the big screen.

When Xu Ye saw the online discussion, he asked the studio to post a Weibo without any hesitation.

"Xu Ye's next film has already been prepared, and the theme of this film is Kung Fu."

As soon as the Weibo post was released, a large part of the popularity generated by Piazza was transferred to Xu Ye.

Xu Ye is serious about riding on the popularity!

(End of this chapter)