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April 5th, Qingming Festival.

As an ancient poem says, it rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the travelers on the road are heartbroken.

This is absolutely true in today's capital. What kills people is not anything else but the yellow sand all over the sky.

In the afternoon, at the Wanda CBD Cinema in Beijing, a group of college students on vacation walked quickly into the cinema.

After they went in, they patted their clothes in unison, and there was a lot of sand on them.

"If Zhang Yang's movie isn't good, it would be a waste of our time braving the wind and sand to come to the cinema." A boy complained after patting the sand off his body.

"Puh, phuh, phuh, indeed, it feels like there's sand in my mouth." A girl kept spitting and looked very uncomfortable.

After they finished talking, they went to the cinema counter to exchange the movie tickets they bought from Douyin, and then walked towards the screening room.

More than two hours later, they walked out of the screening room.

"Zhang Yang really loves Liu Yifei. He still likes her even though he knows she's a murderer. He still likes her even though she might kill him."

"Yes, look at how many sets of clothes he prepared for Liu Yifei in this movie. Putting aside the movie, I can actually watch it as Liu Yifei's winter wear show."

"Don't get too involved, they are Zhang Hai and Song Rui."

"It's all the same. To be honest, the plot is a bit bland."

"From a commercial perspective, it's watchable as a suspenseful romance film, not to mention it won the Golden Bear. We haven't analyzed its artistic value yet."

After watching the film, the college students walked back in the wind and sand.

Sometimes, some unintentional words from people around you can have a great impact on others.

For example, the middle-aged white-collar couple who just walked in had originally planned to watch "The Piano Tuner" during the holiday. It was said to be an Indian suspense comedy, and they like watching suspense films.

But after hearing what the college students said, the female office worker immediately said to her husband: "Let's watch "Decision to Break Up". I thought it was a romance movie, but I didn't expect it to have suspense elements.
Zhang Yang's "Her" handled the suspense well. "

"Okay." The middle-aged man has always been particularly obedient when it comes to listening to his wife.

Beijing, Zhang Yang’s courtyard house.

After lunch, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei leaned on the sofa and opened their scarves for a rare time.

They basically don't read this stuff. If there is any valuable news, their assistants will tell them that they opened Weibo today to see what the first batch of moviegoers thought of "Decision to Die".

"You're going to be scolded badly this time." Liu Yifei said to Zhang Yang gloatingly while opening her Weibo.

"Just scold me, what's the big deal? Can it hurt me?"

In fact, any excessive comments about Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei cannot be posted on Weibo.

Liu Yifei opened the entertainment hot searches, and the number one one was indeed #determination to break up#.

Ranked second, the third is more interesting, #Determination to fall in love with Liu Yifei#, #Love until death#.

Regarding the determination to fall in love with Liu Yifei, the netizens' interpretation is easy to understand.

What they saw in the movie was Liu Yifei in a flowery dress, Liu Yifei in a fairy dress, Liu Yifei without makeup, Liu Yifei with full makeup, Liu Yifei with a sneer, the beautiful Liu Yifei, and the vicious Liu Yifei.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that this was not a determination to break up, but a determination to fall in love with Liu Yifei.

This topic is also filled with beautiful photos of Liu Yifei starting from "The Story of a Noble Family".

"Tsk, this is my wife, does she need their love? My love is enough." Zhang Yang looked at these remarks and put his arm around Liu Yifei with a look of disdain.

Liu Yifei was delighted to see Zhang Yang's stingy look.

She clicked on the topic of "I'll Love You Until I Die" to see what was inside.

Netizens' interpretations are as interesting as ever. They believe that Zhang Hai suspected that Song Rui wanted to kill him but still loved her.

Even though he knew she was a murderer, he still loved her. Even when he was scattering her ashes, he was prepared to be killed by Song Rui. This means he must love her until death.

This was beyond Zhang Yang's expectations. He thought many people would not be interested in this role.

"You also make mistakes sometimes?" Liu Yifei said to Zhang Yang with a smile.

"Maybe in some ways, society's tolerance has increased." Zhang Yang thought about it and could only interpret it this way.

Zhang Hai thought many women would not like the scene in the movie where he smelled Song Rui's scent, but he didn't expect that they were quite tolerant in this regard.

"In the final analysis, it's because you look okay. If an ugly person played the role, they would shout that you were a pervert." Women also look at faces, and this is the same for both men and women.

"Needless to say, no one will refute me when I say I am the most handsome man in Asia." Zhang Yang touched his face and was very confident.

"How many more years can you remain beautiful?" Liu Yifei stabbed Zhang Yang.

"The older a man gets, the more popular he becomes. Young girls like older men the most."

"You know a lot about this." Liu Yifei looked at Zhang Yang with a half-smile.

He got up and went to the study. No explanation was needed at this time.

The next morning, the assistant came to the courtyard to report to him the specific situation of the box office. Liu Yifei heard the noise and walked into the study to listen together.

On the first day of its release, "Decision to Part" had a 47% screening schedule and earned 2.9 million yuan at the box office.

"Including pre-sales?" Liu Yifei felt that the box office was too high. The Qingming Festival period was not a very popular period. If the pre-sales of 1.1 million were added, it would seem normal.

The assistant nodded.

"How about some other movies?"

When the assistant heard Zhang Yang's question, he gave a detailed introduction.

《反贪风暴4》排片20%拿下6800万的票房，《雷霆沙赞》排片21%获得6200万的票房。

"The Piano Tuner" earned 4.5 million yuan at the box office with 1300% of the screening time, and "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" earned 4.5 million yuan at the box office with 900% of the screening time.

There are 3 films in the remaining 10% of the screening schedule, and none of them are worth watching.

"No one can compete!" Zhang Yang was relieved after hearing this. The two so-called commercial blockbusters were both lousy. "Boss, Avengers 24 will be released on the 4th. The time they chose was obviously inspired by our film Her Last Year. The schedule of our film will also be affected."

Last year, "Gone Girl" had 85% of its daily screening schedule, which shocked the industry and also gave other filmmakers a lot of inspiration. This time, "Avengers 4" obviously wants to copy this strategy.

"It's okay. Our movie had already been out for 20 days. How big of an impact could it have?

Besides, it can affect the screening of other people's movies, but can it affect mine?" Zhang Yang waved his hand with domineering attitude.

After he finished his domineering speech, he thought for a moment and pointed at his assistant to remind him, "I don't care about the rest. After the release of Avengers 4, our screening schedule cannot be less than 20% before May st.

If it’s lower than this, please let me know and I’ll take care of it.”

The assistant nodded and stood up to say goodbye. He walked out of the study and did not forget to close the door.

"Clap clap clap."

Liu Yifei applauded Zhang Yang and gave him a thumbs up: "Master is so domineering."

"Madam, you are too kind. This is just what I should expect. If I can't even do this, then I am in vain as the movie emperor," Zhang Yang waved his hand modestly.

"Yes, who are you? Is there anything that can stump you?" Liu Yifei saw that he was out of breath after she praised him, so she couldn't help but glare at him.

"Actually, there are some." Zhang Yang said shyly.

"what?"

"Which emperor doesn't have three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines? Look how much of a failure I am." Zhang Yang sighed and felt that his life was such a failure.

"Then go find it." Liu Yifei said unhappily.

Zhang Yang hugged Liu Yifei and said mysteriously: "It's so boring to look for it. It would be interesting if you could become the concubine of three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines."

After he finished speaking, a longing smile appeared on his face. In Liu Yifei's opinion, it was a gradually perverted smile. One person became three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines? It was amazing that he could think of that.

In a blink of an eye, it was the 8th, around ten o'clock in the morning, and the assistant came to Zhang Yang's house again to report to him about the film.

During the three days of the Qingming Festival, "Decision to Break Up" took 2.9 million, 1.8 million, and 1.8 million respectively, for a total of 6.5 million yuan in box office revenue. The online box office estimate for it is around 17 billion yuan.

"It's a little more than I expected. I thought the box office would only be around 12 billion." Liu Yifei said to Zhang Yang beside her as she sat on the sofa.

Zhang Yang nodded calmly. He thought it was around 15 billion. Of course, this was just an estimate and everything was subject to actual circumstances.

"Boss, something interesting happened today." After the assistant finished reporting, he did not leave, but took the initiative to tell Zhang Yang some gossip.

"What?" Liu Yifei looked at the assistant in surprise. He actually took the initiative to mention something interesting to Zhang Yang. How interesting was that?

"Huayi sued the self-media for defamation, but lost the case."

Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei nodded boredly. There was nothing to talk about whether they won or lost the lawsuit.

"This self-media outlet previously said that Huayi paid less money."

"What?" x2
Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei exclaimed in surprise, then they looked at each other and burst into laughter.

Now, the first company in the country that was confirmed to have underpaid has appeared.

You have done something wrong and yet you still don't behave yourself. You even dare to send a lawyer's letter. I guess they didn't expect to meet such a stubborn person.

"Huayi's stock price is going to fall again." Zhang Yang joked.

"What are the two Wangs thinking?" Liu Yifei couldn't understand their train of thought.

"Maybe he drank too much fake wine." Zhang Yang said with a smile.

"Last night the rain was sparse and the wind was strong, and I couldn't sleep off the hangover." Zhang Yang's cell phone suddenly rang.

When he picked it up, he saw that it was a call from Thierry Frémaux, and his eyes lit up.

"It is estimated that there will be Chinese films shortlisted for Cannes this year." Zhang Yang said to Liu Yifei and his assistant, holding up his mobile phone.

Fumao invited Zhang Yang two years ago but was rejected. If there are no Chinese films this year, he will not make things awkward for himself.

Zhang Yang answered the phone and the two exchanged a few pleasantries. Fumao congratulated him and asked with a smile, "Are you interested in coming to Cannes this year?"

"Could it be that this year..."

"It's just what you think." Fumao rarely spoke the truth.

I can only say that Zhang Yang is too popular this year, winning three world-class honors in just two months.

As the most market-oriented of the three major European film festivals, the Cannes Film Festival is very jealous of Zhang Yang's popularity.
Not to mention that there was already a movie nominated, they would have put one in even if it wasn't there.

Although they knew that the film they put in would most likely win an award, Zhang Yang still had to have some dignity. It was impossible for him to give it the Palme d'Or, right?

"No problem." Zhang Yang is most interested in awarding films from his own country.

He also felt that this was God's will. In the original time and space, the movie that won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival was "Parasite".

Now that it's gone, there's a vacant spot, and God has made him fill it.

Seeing that Zhang Yang agreed so readily, Fu Mao boldly suggested: "Why not let Crystal come and serve as a judge." This way, Zhang Yang's popularity can be utilized to the fullest.

Zhang Yang glanced at Liu Yifei beside him and covered the receiver of his phone: "Are you going or not?"

Liu Yifei could roughly guess the content of Zhang Yang's conversation.

"Just think of it as a trip at public expense."

The assistant rolled his eyes secretly, "Boss, where is your artistic pursuit? You actually talk about being a judge so casually."

"Okay." Liu Yifei didn't want to spoil Zhang Yang's fun and gave him face to go to Cannes for some fun.

Seeing Liu Yifei agreed, Zhang Yang loosened his hand and said modestly, "Sir, I don't think anyone will gossip about this."

"Of course not. It's no problem for you to be a judge based on your honor." Seeing Zhang Yang agree, Fu Mao immediately encouraged him.

(End of this chapter)