The star is legit but sick.

Chapter 684: "Kung Fu" is scheduled to be screened in theaters (please give me your monthly ticket!)
After Pi Dan finished listening to the whole song, he came out of the bathroom. He immediately ran to the computer and opened his material library.

As a professional UP host in the film and television area, he naturally has his own exclusive material library.

In his folder there is a category called Kung Fu Movies.

What he collected here are some of the more classic fighting scenes from Chinese Kung Fu movies.

Although the plot of some kung fu movies is not very good, the fighting scenes are still quite exciting.

Pidan put on his headphones, opened the Penguin Music app, added the song "Xu Daxia" to his playlist, and started playing it on repeat.

He listened to the song while searching for the right material.

Watching the fight between the group of Kung Fu masters on the screen, Pi Dan was also excited.

He even felt like he was a hero.

Listening to music brings me confidence.

But I have to say, this song sounds really exciting and seems to have improved his work efficiency.

When Pidan was making the video, the internet was also buzzing with the song "Xu Da Xia".

As a promotional song for "Kung Fu", "Xu Da Xia" achieved the desired effect.

"How dare Xu Huohua, he actually wants to transform into Hero Xu, impossible!"

"Listening to this song, I feel like the dean has become more handsome!"

"You upstairs either have problems with your eyes or your brain."

"Everyone, please pay attention. This is all Xu Ye's conspiracy. He wants everyone to think he is handsome!"

The patients in Huohua Hospital said that the song was okay, but the title was not good.

This song title is too narcissistic.

At this time, a netizen who was listening carefully heard a little easter egg in the song.

"Did you notice that at 1 minute and 5 seconds into the song, there is a conversation in which a female voice says welcome, and then Xu Ye says, wait a minute, I'm going to the third floor, no no, not the second floor, I want to ask something, what is the second floor for, why not go there?"

After he said this, a large group of people went to listen to this song again.

It turns out that there really is such a passage.

"As an experienced driver, I said I had no idea what the second floor was for."

"Please hold on to your slippers and cards and go up to the second floor!"

“This second floor is very meaningful.”

Whether it is the second or third floor, it provides some topics of conversation for veteran drivers.

The song "Xu Daxia" also became a hot search thanks to Xu Ye's own strong traffic.

Many netizens also said that after listening to this song, they wanted to watch a kung fu movie.

The next day, some internet celebrities appeared on Douyin and sang a cover of this song.

Internet celebrities covered this song to take advantage of Xu Ye's popularity, but it was also equivalent to promoting Xu Ye's new movie.

On the third day, Pidan finally finished making his location-checking video.

It is very troublesome to make this video because there are too many sources of video materials.

In order to make the video exquisite, he found more than 20 movies and edited the exciting fighting scenes in them into this song of more than two minutes.

Although it was very troublesome, Pidan was very satisfied with the final result.

"This video is worth at least one million views!"

After Pidan checked the video one last time, he posted it on the Xiaolan website.

His fans clicked on it and saw that they were stomping along to the song, which looked really exciting.

It's more than two minutes long and I can't stop watching it.

"It's awesome! Our Chinese Kung Fu looks awesome. It even cured my constipation."

"Listening to this song, I feel like I can hit ten right now!"

"Danzai, did you take Xu Ye's money to advertise Xu Ye's new movie?"

At the end of the video, Pi Dan left a few seconds for everyone to go to the cinema to support the movie "Kung Fu".

Pidan now has more than three million fans, so an advertisement is worth a lot of money.

Pi Dan also responded to this fan in the comment section: "I didn't charge any money. The dean has brought us so much happiness, so what's wrong with promoting him for free? Without his song, I couldn't have made this video."

This video of Pidan quickly became popular on Xiaolanzhai, and the number of views exceeded 500,000 in less than a day.

At night, Pidan looked through his private messages in the background.

When you have more fans, you will definitely receive a lot of private messages.

Some were recommended to him by fans, who hoped that he would make certain videos, while others were created by fans on their own initiative.

"Dan Zai, when I was sleeping yesterday, my roommate sneaked into my bed and kissed me. What should I do? I'm a boy."

Pidan was speechless when he saw this private message. This was just the tip of the iceberg of private messages in the background.

He didn't know what was going on now. Everyone was getting more and more crazy. It seemed that things started to change after Xu Ye officially debuted.

Obviously, the disease is still contagious.

Pi Dan replied to the fan: "One roommate or all roommates?"

After replying, he exited the window and saw a private message in the background from an account with the ID Xu Huohua.

As we all know, this account is actually Xu Ye's own account, but it has not been authenticated.

"Master, your editing is really good. Can you wait until Xu Ye's movie Kung Fu is released and edit one for Kung Fu as well?"

When Pidan saw this private message, he was speechless.

If I didn’t know you were Xu Ye, I would have almost been deceived by you.

In fact, Xu Ye didn't need to tell him that Pi Dan would definitely go to see the movie after it was released. If it was appropriate, he would definitely edit a video related to "Kung Fu".

Pi Dan replied: "Okay, Dean, I wish your movie a big hit."

Xu Huohua quickly replied: "I am not the dean, I am just a fan of the dean."

Pi Dan replied: "Just pretend."

After a while, a message came.

"Give me your address and I'll send you a gift."

Pidan's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Brother Ye, you are too polite. My address is..."

Pidan quickly sent his receiving information.

Xu Ye wants to send him something, so this thing must be of good quality.

This can be considered an unexpected gain.

It’s up to the dean to handle this!

Three days later, Pidan received a express delivery.

The sender is This is a big studio.

He immediately went to pick up the express, and when he got home he couldn't wait to open it.

After opening it, there was a wooden box inside, which was beautifully packaged.

"It's so exquisite, there won't be any valuables inside."

Pi Dan opened the wooden box, and the contents inside appeared in his eyes.

This is a rolled-up scroll.

He took the scroll in his hand and slowly opened it, and the top picture appeared first in Pidan's eyes.

This is a landscape painting!

"It's actually a painting!" Pidan didn't expect that Xu Ye would send him such an artistic gift.

But when he opened the entire painting, he suddenly found something wrong.

Why are there Tom and Jerry in your painting?

He looked at the text left in the upper left corner, which contained a poem and the painter.

"Ten miles of tung trees are covered with purple moss, sir, come here to try to get drunk and sleep; I have given up the thought of fame and fortune in this life, so I should not have sweet dreams about the ancient locust tree." Painting by Tang Yin.

As for the seal below, it says "Xu Huohua Seal".

Pi Dan was speechless.

This is probably a modified version of a painting by Tang Yin.

You said Xu Ye is not Tang Bohu, but he actually played Tang Bohu.

"There's something wrong!"

Pidan complained a little, but still looked at the painting happily at home. He was determined to hang this painting in the most conspicuous place in the house.

Not only do you have to hang it up, but you also have to invite friends to your house to play after that.

You can tell at a glance that this painted preserved egg is painted, not printed.

The only person who could draw this picture was Xu Ye.

Written by Xu Ye, this is a rare "Tom and Jerry" series of landscape paintings, which is rarely seen in the world.

It doesn't matter whether it's worth the money, the important thing is that it's fun!

This also made Pi Dan decide that he must support Xu Ye after "Kung Fu" is released.

He will definitely watch it himself, and he can also organize a fan lottery and give away some movie tickets.

This gift is not accepted in vain.

On the other hand, Xu Ye also asked the team to continue communicating with the theaters regarding the preview.

After seeing that Xu Ye's song had such a huge impact, these theaters changed their attitude towards the movie "Kung Fu".

What the cinema is worried about is not that no one will watch the movie, but that no one has ever done this before. What if something goes wrong?

When Xu Ye's employees communicated with the people in the theater, the people in the theater were all confused.

"Preview screenings, no problem, we can arrange it anytime."

"What? You said you have more previews? It doesn't matter if there are more. We have been working together for such a long time, it's no problem."

"What!! A thousand screenings a day? Are you kidding me?"

There are more than thirty cinema chains of all sizes in China today. If each cinema chain arranges one thousand screenings, the total number will be 30,000.

No buddy, you call this a preview?
The people in the theaters were very confused. To be able to do such a thing, one must have sufficient confidence in one's own movie.

It's not even sufficient self-confidence, but strong self-confidence.

In the end, the theater chose to believe Xu Ye.

It’s not that they believe Xu Ye’s films are not bad movies, but they believe in Xu Ye’s box office appeal.

In this case, you will make a profit if you get it, and the movie tickets will definitely be sold.

During these discussions, "Kung Fu" was finally scheduled to premiere on August 2nd, with previews starting on July 27th.

Although the film did not get 30,000 screenings nationwide on the first day of the preview, Xu Ye still got more than 10,000 screenings nationwide.

You know, under normal circumstances, the number of screenings of popular movies in a day is at most hundreds of thousands, and Xu Ye’s preview alone is equivalent to only one-tenth of that.

Some movies don’t even have so many screenings after their official release.

After these things were confirmed, the promotion and publicity of "Kung Fu" proceeded in an orderly manner.

When it came to the end of June, Piazza's "Guardians of the Galaxy" was officially released.

As mentioned before, Piazza once said in an interview with a reporter that Kung Fu elements would be used in the movie.

The only kung fu film in this summer's schedule naturally became the object of comparison for marketing accounts.

On the first day of its premiere, the box office of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" reached more than 300 million.

This box office directly became the number one box office on the opening day of the summer season, and it is also the single-day box office champion.

In the next two days, the box office of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" still remained above 200 million.

It was only at this time that word of mouth for the movie started to spread.

The Chinese character Aaron that Piazza added to the movie is not a main actor, but just an insignificant supporting role.

As for the Chinese Kung Fu that Piazza mentioned, it is indeed reflected in the movie, but the total duration of these moves is less than one minute.

Some netizens have already complained about this incident on the Internet.

But as we all know, where there are people who complain, there will always be people who defend them.

"Director Pi is not lying. We have everything we need. What else do you want?"

"Although Aaron's screen time was short, he was very handsome. His fighting moves were exactly like our Chinese Kung Fu."

"Why are there so many things to watch in a movie? Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 is a superhero movie with its own characters. The fact that they gave us an exclusive role shows that Director Pi cares about us a lot."

"We Chinese people love to be extreme and we don't have the sense of relaxation that Westerners have. We live our whole lives criticizing others and being criticized. It's too tiring."

A war of words broke out on the Internet.

Piazza had already anticipated this situation. Part of the film's publicity and promotion costs was used to maintain its reputation.

The film’s publicity and promotion team immediately stepped down.

According to the current momentum, the box office of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is obviously heading for more than 3 billion, and no one in the entire film interest chain will allow any accidents to occur.

What's more, Piazza's promise has actually been fulfilled and it is not a lie.

It's just that when Piazza described it, he gave the Chinese audience too high expectations, making everyone think that Chinese Kung Fu occupies a large part of the movie.

For the publicity and promotion team, these are all minor problems. As long as the money invested is sufficient, the water army can naturally turn black into white.

And the die-hard fans of the movie will also spontaneously promote the movie and engage in verbal battles with netizens.

Those netizens who were dissatisfied with "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" turned their attention to "Kung Fu".

"The United States is still the same as always, using Chinese Kung Fu as a propaganda tool. If you want to see real Kung Fu, you have to watch the movies made by us Chinese people ourselves."

"It's really infuriating to watch. It feels like they are making a fool of us."

"What a pity! This summer, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 is still the highest-grossing movie."

"I hope Xu Ye's kung fu can help us vent our anger!"

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" has already topped the summer box office, and none of the other movies currently released can compete with it.

Faced with such outstanding results, Piazza also brought the main creative team to China to promote the film.

At the promotional conference, Piazza was in high spirits and said that he would continue to contribute to the Chinese film market. He also mentioned that he regretted not getting the first place in the summer box office last year and hoped to get it this year.

This made a group of Chinese filmmakers indignant.

But the problem is that the box office of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is really too impressive.

It's been less than a week and the box office is already close to 1 billion.

The box office of other movies in the summer season was less than 1 billion yuan.

Xu Ye also saw the situation of "Guardian of the Reverse World".

To be honest, this movie is pretty good, especially some of the big scenes, which look very sci-fi.

But these were not within Xu Ye's consideration at all.

He has full confidence in "Kung Fu".

You didn’t get number one at the summer box office last time, and you won’t get it this time either.

In July, the trailer for "Kung Fu" was officially released.

(End of this chapter)