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Chapter 621 [48] Film history record, broken!
"Well... stop making trouble, let me sleep a little longer!"

Chen Yu turned over, rubbed his nose, and continued to sleep.

"pig!"

Liu Yifei couldn't help but lie down next to Chen Yu and pinched his nose.

"what--"

But she didn't expect that the next second, Chen Yu turned her over and held her tightly in his arms.

Early in the morning, Liu Yifei came to Chen Yu's house, after all, it was next door.

Although I knew that Chen Yu didn't get home until after 4 a.m. yesterday, I still wanted to meet him.

Listening to the faint breathing sounds beside her ears, Liu Yifei couldn't help but turn around and look at Chen Yu who closed his eyes and fell asleep again. She originally wanted to tease him with her hair, but finally held back.

She really enjoyed the feeling of nestling in someone's arms.

Looking at the person sleeping next to me, his three-dimensional facial features, from his forehead and eyebrows to the tip of his nose, he looks so handsome no matter how you look at him!
Liu Yifei was almost dazed by what she saw.

This is probably the state of a woman in love. She always likes to stare at her partner. The more she looks, the more she can't help but smile. All the moments of her time with Chen Yu seem to appear before her eyes.

It’s been 4 years. I have known this man for 4 years.

It was so long, yet it seemed to go by so fast in the blink of an eye.

Boys are sometimes like this too.

Women dress up to please themselves, and Chen Yu could look at Liu Yifei's face for a long time.

Meh~~
Liu Yifei moved close to Chen Yu's face and kissed him lightly twice, with a grin on her face.

Although she was very dissatisfied with Chen Yu last night, after a night, she obviously figured it out. Chen Yu did this for her!

2 million yuan was borrowed just like that.

Liu Yifei stayed in Chen Yu's arms for more than an hour, until Chen Yu finally woke up and opened his eyes. She looked at the pretty face so close to her, and the other's beautiful eyes were staring at her without blinking.

Tenderness and sweetness flowed from Liu Yifei's eyes. Chen Yu couldn't help it and went straight up to her.

What came to Chen Yu's mind was the famous scene in "The Return of the Condor Heroes" a few days ago, where Xiaolongnu flew down.

Now such a beauty is in his arms. Such a wonderful moment seems to overlap the TV screen and reality.

The two of them lay in bed for more than half an hour before Chen Yu suddenly picked up his phone.

"Fuck, it's already past 12 o'clock?"

Chen Yu looked at the time on his phone and quickly turned on the airplane mode.

Sure enough, there were a lot of messages and missed calls.

Although the roadshow in the afternoon would not start until after 3 o'clock and then go to Shanghai in the evening, Chen Yu still got up quickly.

"what happened?"

Liu Yifei turned over and looked at Chen Yu.

“Check out the word of mouth and reviews!”

The premiere of "Departures" yesterday received very good feedback.

"I watched it for you this morning. It got all the good reviews. I'm planning on taking my mom to watch it tonight!"

"Of all the movies you've starred in, this one has the best reputation!"

Liu Yifei supported herself on the bed with her hands, looking at Chen Yu's back as he sat there.

Chen Yu opened the homepage of hao123 and was about to click on Star Network when he saw the news column about "Departures".

"The Venice Golden Lion and Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film "Departures" is released today!"

"Chen Yu's "Departures" breaks the pre-sale record and midnight show record of Chinese films again!"

《9012 million! A new record for movie box office pre-sale in Chinese film history! 》

"The midnight show of "Departures" grossed NT$415 million!"

……

Looking at the news headlines, the pre-sale of "Departures" actually came out in the early morning.

9012 million!
Moreover, today is the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday, and the pre-sales have already exceeded 5000 million, which is no problem for it to break the first-day box office of 4289 million of "Escape Plan".

However, it may be a bit difficult to break the single-day box office record of 7120 million set by "Taken".

pat!

Chen Yu clicked on Star Network and the homepage was the news about the release of "Departures". Clicking on it, he saw a familiar interface with short and long reviews!
"Checking in at the midnight screening, this should be the best movie Chen Yu has ever made, bar none!"

"For the first time, I truly felt Yudi's acting skills. It was like they were overflowing from the big screen. He is worthy of being the only Grand Slam in Asia!"

“A very detailed masterpiece that made me understand the special profession of undertaker!”

"It deserves to win the Venice Golden Lion and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It is the best movie I have ever seen!"

“Why isn’t Chen Bensheng’s wife played by Liu Yifei?”

"I cried after watching this. Respect life!"

"This is the first time I have such a direct feeling about death!"

"..."

Looking at the comments, Chen Yu didn't see a single negative one.

The most common ones are 3 stars, but there are more reviews with full five stars.

Chen Yu took some time to look at the score before the painting started. The backend of Starry Sky Network actually calculated it - 9.3 points!
This should be the highest real-time score for a movie released since the launch of Star.com. It is different from the scores of previous releases, such as the 9.7 points for "Farewell My Concubine".

"Departures" is a movie that is currently in theaters and has a high score of 9.3.

Although Chen Yu didn't know whether the score would be lower than 9.3 or higher than 9.3 in the future, the current score was enough to explain everything.

It is indeed the film with the highest reputation that Chen Yu has starred in in recent years.

"9.3 points... Such a high score?"

Liu Yifei also walked behind Chen Yu, put her arms around his neck, leaned on his shoulder and looked at the rating on the movie screen.

Such a high score really scared her.

She knew the ratings on Star.com. A score of 7 or above was considered a good movie, 6 was the passing line, and 5 was a mediocre movie that you could watch or not.

Below that are bad movies with a score below 5 and really bad movies with a score of 2-4.

The film scored above 9 points, and there are only a few films with such high scores on the entire Star Network.

"This rating makes me itchy. How about I go and watch it this afternoon?"

Liu Yifei was smiling, but Chen Yu stood up and said to her, "There are fewer people in the afternoon, but there will definitely be more in the evening. We may not be able to buy tickets!"

With such a good reputation, there will definitely be many audiences who will rush to the cinema to buy tickets as soon as possible. These people are different from Chen Yu’s fans. They are more rational in waiting and watching, but a score of 9.3 can indeed attract them to the cinema.

Just like the 9-point masterpiece "Dying to Survive" in its previous life, the success of this movie is entirely based on hard word-of-mouth marketing.

No frills or promotions.

To use a line from a martial arts novel: In the world of movies, the only thing that cannot be broken is division.

Before the release, both online and offline, there were rave reviews, and some even claimed that Pixian could get a score of 9+. In the end, "Dying to Survive" lived up to expectations, with a Douban score of 9.0, which shocked many movie lovers.

So they went to the cinema and bought tickets to watch the film, a commercial film with a realistic theme, which eventually grossed 31 billion yuan at the box office.

Now, "Departures" is clearly following this trend.

The Venice Golden Lion, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, plus an extremely high score of 9.3, no other marketing is needed to prove the excellence of this movie.

"It is very likely that the price will fall again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!"

The first wave of audiences on the first day today will definitely be Chen Yu’s fans.

The Qingming Festival tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are also holidays, so the number of audiences buying tickets is uncertain. After all, there are 13 billion audiences in the country, and Chen Yu cannot please everyone. He only has a basic base of less than million people.

The only way to create new box office records is through passers-by.

The largest group of moviegoers are those who have expectations for Chen Yu's movies but are not the ones who rush in blindly.

Chen Yu was eating while holding his laptop and reading the comments.

Even with his achievements, he would still read the movie reviews first.

This is probably the professional quality of an actor.

……

In the afternoon, after the routine roadshow, Chen Yu took a bus to Shanghai.

Jiangnan Province is Chen Yu’s base, so Chen Yu also has to do a one-day roadshow, then Zhejiang Province, then all the way south to Guangdong City and Shenzhen, and then to Hong Kong.

These are currently the largest ticket bases in China, accounting for half of the country's box office.

Chen Yu spent the past few days in such a bumpy journey.

And just as he predicted, the box office of "Departures" fell on the second and third days due to word of mouth.

On April 4, the day of the premiere of "Departures", the first-day box office was 3 million, which significantly broke the first-day box office record of 6490 million set by "Extraction" on New Year's Eve during the Spring Festival.

Then on April 4, "Departures" set a new single-day box office record of 4 million!
April 4th, 5 million!
It took 2 days to break the 3 million box office mark and 2 days to break the 2 million box office mark. This speed is also the fastest in Chinese film history, and it is the fastest film to break the million and million box office mark in history.

At the same time, the 1.1 million yuan first weekend box office record set by "Extraction" was directly broken by "Departures" in two days.

Although "Extraction" had only 2 days in its first weekend, others such as "House of Flying Daggers" had 4 days, and "Departures" had a full week. Everyone in the industry knew that the box office could not be maintained in the first weekend.

However, many people did not expect such a strong box office growth of "Departures".

Everyone thought that the Spring Festival period was just a phenomenon, but Chen Yu proved with the Qingming period and his best-reviewed masterpiece that he is now a well-deserved box office panacea in China.

It was just that on April 4, a weekday, the box office saw a significant drop, but even so, it still earned 6 million in a single day.

April 4th was also a working day, and the box office was 7 million!
Less than a week later, the total box office of "Departures" is close to 3 million. With the pre-sale of more than 4 million tomorrow, April 8th, the total box office has exceeded 2000 million!
It only took 6 days.

"Unfortunately, the single-day box office record will probably never be broken!"

Yu Dong said with some regret in the text message.

The single-day box office record of more than 7200 million set by "Extraction" could indeed only be achieved during the Spring Festival.

According to pre-sales for the next two days of the weekend, there is no chance of reaching 2 million!
Whether in terms of release date or film genre, it is completely incomparable to "Taken". Even though it has a high rating, its audience is limited!

Yu Dong had not expected the three-day reversal of decline during the Qingming Festival. He thought that the box office would be the highest on the premiere day, but he did not expect that the word of mouth with a score of 3 would push the Qingming Festival box office to around 9.0 million.

At present, the score of "Departures" has dropped slightly compared to the opening score, which is of course within the expected range.

9.0 points!
Because the people who watched the movie in the beginning were definitely Chen Yu's fans, so of course the scores would be biased and would definitely be on the higher side.

Now that passers-by are coming in, bad reviews and negativity are inevitable, but there is still this score, which is enough to prove the excellent quality of "Departures"!

And in the future, the rating of this movie will rise accordingly.

It is not impossible to return to 9.3 points.

"The single-day and total box office records are definitely unbreakable!"

“But the forecast for Departures went from 3 million to 5 million now!”

“The entire industry probably didn’t expect this!”

Chen Yu and Yu Dong were texting each other, they were about to arrive in Hong Kong.

Although the box office of Hong Kong's "Departures" cannot be compared with that of "Extraction", it has earned 3212 million Hong Kong dollars in less than a week, which is also a very good result.

The country where "Departures" had the most impressive box office was, of course, Japan.

It set a new record for art films on the first day, earning 10.3 billion yen at the box office. In less than a week, the total box office has reached 53 billion!
Chen Yu and "Departures" have become phenomenal elements in Japan.

In Japan, Chen Yu is even more popular than in mainland China. The news they promote is that Chen Yu is the reincarnation of Bruce Lee, but he can act much better than Bruce Lee.

Therefore, relying on China and Japan, the two largest markets in Asia, the total box office of "Departures" in Asia has exceeded 1.4 million US dollars.

It’s just that…the European and American markets are a bit cold!
The concept of life and death in Asia still cannot resonate with other races, especially the funeral culture!

The total box office in Europe has barely exceeded 3000 million euros, and in North America, it has only taken in more than 2500 million in less than a week after its release in theaters across the country!

The siege of many commercial blockbusters such as "Ice Age 2" still had a certain impact on the North American box office of "Departures"!
Fortunately, there is good news about the upcoming film "Extraction"!
The total box office exceeded 2 million US dollars, and this is also Chen Yu’s first film to date with a North American box office exceeding 2 million!

Moreover, the total global box office of "Extraction" has reached 6.3 million US dollars, which can definitely rank among the top ten global box office of the year, and may even challenge the top three!
Legendary Pictures is already anticipating the subsequent audio-visual and on-demand markets for this film, which will definitely earn a second wave of huge profits!
"Brother Yu, you really have a rhythm of releasing movies one after another. Next month, Mission: Impossible 3 will have its world premiere!"

There is also "Fast and Furious 7" in early July!
If we talk about the star who rose and became the fastest in the world in the first half of 06, it must be Chen Yu!
Many people in North America watched "Departures" in theaters because of his fame.

Europe is influenced by the Venice Golden Lion.

buzzing-

While Chen Yu was chatting with the crew of "Departures" and the translator, the cell phone in his trouser pocket vibrated.

Mei Yanfang's phone number.

"Hey, Sister Mei!"

Chen Yu secretly pressed the answer button, and Mei Yanfang's familiar voice rang out: "Brother Yu——"

"Sister Mei, just call me Yuzai!"

Chen Yu was a little amused and said, "Whenever I am in front of you, I am always Yuzi!"

"It's different now. You're the Asian Grand Slam actor now. It's only been a few years. I know you can do it. Hahaha!"

"That's Yuzai too!"

"It's because of your support that I am where I am today!"

"Don't talk about this..."

Mei Yanfang waved her hands and smiled, "Are you free the day after tomorrow? Would you like to attend the Academy Awards?"

Anita Mui is currently also the president of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Association, so she is also one of the persons in charge of the Academy Awards!

"Okay, sure, I'll be there in a minute!"

"Ah? Xiangjiang?"

"Yes, my new movie is out, come and promote it!"

"Oh, now I remember, it's 'Departures', hahaha, do you need any actors to help you out? I can introduce a few to you!"

(End of this chapter)