The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 470: Creating the Chinese Mythology Movie Universe

Wang Zhaohui felt that if he could take advantage of the popularity of "The Return of the Great Sage", he might be noticed by more investors. Would he still worry about no one investing then?
Apart from this small selfish desire, Wang Zhaohui also hopes that "The Return of the Great Sage" will continue to be popular and the box office will get higher and higher, so that China's animation industry will become more and more prosperous.

Wang Zhaohui thought about it in his study for a full half hour, and finally, he decided to draw a poster for "The Return of the Great Sage".

Wang Zhaohui didn’t know whether the poster he drew could increase the box office revenue of “The Return of the Great Sage”, nor did he know whether he could take advantage of the popularity.

He only knew that moving was better than sitting still.

Just like that, two days later, Wang Zhaohui finished drawing the poster. He posted it on his Weibo with the caption: "I wish "The Return of the Great Sage" a long-lasting box office success."

The content of Wang Zhaohui’s poster is very simple, which is the scene where the horse-faced monkey melts stones into armor and wields flames into robes.

But Wang Zhaohui's painting skills were so strong that Su Qing had also been taught by him in this area in the past.

"The Return of the Great Sage" is very popular on the Internet. This poster quickly received over 10,000 likes, and many netizens also @炽光娱乐 and 晴天动漫.

Su Qing's own Weibo account already follows Wang Zhaohui. After seeing Wang Zhaohui's Weibo post, she told Chen Junmiao, then went to Sunny Sky Animation's official Weibo to like Wang Zhaohui's post. She also sent a special WeChat message to Wang Zhaohui to express her gratitude.

Wang Zhaohui chatted with Su Qing for a while.

As they chatted, Su Qing found out that Wang Zhaohui was trying to attract investment to make an animated film.

"Brother Wang, what type of animated film are you planning to make?" Su Qing asked curiously.

"It's the same mythological genre as The Return of the Great Sage."

Su Qing's eyes lit up when she saw Wang Zhaohui's response. She asked Wang Zhaohui, "Brother Wang, can I see your script?"

"Sure! You can help me polish it." Wang Zhaohui agreed without thinking.

After Su Qing got Wang Zhaohui's script, she started reading it directly.

Wang Zhaohui didn't take Su Qing's request for the script seriously and continued to make phone calls to solicit investment.

However, what Wang Zhaohui did not expect was that in the evening, an investor who had previously been unwilling to invest in him called him and expressed his willingness to invest 500 million in his animation project.

Wang Zhaohui was very excited and kept thanking him. The 500 million was the largest investment he had received in a year and a half.

With this 500 million, plus the sporadic investments he had raised before, and if he mortgaged his house, he would have 1000 million in his hands, and his animated film could be launched!

Wang Zhaohui was extremely excited and became even more grateful for "The Return of the Great Sage".

In his opinion, it was the popularity of "The Return of the Great Sage" that made investors see the potential of the domestic animation market. The movie "The Return of the Great Sage" is really changing the entire domestic animation market!
"All of us owe Zhuo Guang a huge favor!" Wang Zhaohui sighed.

Time passed quickly, and in the following week, "The Return of the Great Sage" was unstoppable.

Based on 20%, the screening volume has increased slightly every day, and now it has reached 25%. The theaters under Yida and Penguin have given more than 30% of the screenings.

"The Return of the Great Sage" also performed very well, with its single-day box office performance remaining stable at over 1 million!
You have to know that "The Return of the Great Sage" has been released for 12 days. It is already terrifying that it can maintain such data after 10 days.

Of course, the box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" has now exceeded 10 billion, to be exact, 10.75 billion.

Yesterday, which was Friday, after seeing that the box office had exceeded 10 billion, Lin Shuwen accepted the bet and promised to fulfill her promise and make steamed buns with ham for Luo Ming next Monday when the two of them stopped wearing each other's clothes.

The box office data of "The Return of the Great Sage" exceeded 10 billion, which gave the entire animation industry a huge shock.

"The Return of the Great Sage" is a milestone work that is regarded as a masterpiece by countless anime people.

His appearance broke the box office ceiling of Chinese animated films. Capital and animation people saw the potential of Chinese animated films, which is exactly the same as in his previous life.

In the previous life, also in 2015, "The Return of the Great Sage" was released and earned 9.56 million yuan at the box office. The entire animation industry went crazy, and many investors began to rush to invest in animated films with their money.

Because of this craze, "Big Fish and Begonia", which was delayed due to funding issues in 2016, was successfully released.

The style of "Big Fish and Begonia" is extremely excellent, and with Zhou Shen's song "Big Fish", it can be said that it is very popular. However, the reputation of "Big Fish and Begonia" is actually very polarized. Many people angrily criticized that the three views are not correct, the female lead is a green tea, and Qiu's "God's love" has become an emoticon.

Even so, the final box office of "Big Fish and Begonia" reached 5.75 million.

This has given a shot in the arm to Chinese animated films, allowing investors to see that domestic audiences are willing to pay for animated films.

Even if it is a bad movie, there are still people defending it, which is much better than promoting young and handsome actors to make movies.

As a result, capital became even crazier, and many animated films received investment after 2016.

By 2017, the Boonie Bears series had grossed 5.23 million yuan during the Spring Festival.

In 2018, the "Boonie Bears" series earned 6.05 million yuan during the Spring Festival.

Apart from this, there is only one movie, "Wind Whisperers", which grossed over 100 million yuan.

At this time, many people began to say that "The Return of the Great Sage" was just a flash in the pan. After "The Return of the Great Sage" opened up a new era, Chinese animated films still could not come up with anything impressive and were powerless to follow up.

No one refuted this because the film industry has experienced explosive growth in recent years, with domestic cinemas popping up like mushrooms after a rain and movie box office revenues rising steadily.

There is still a lot of capital willing to invest in Chinese animated films. The result is that when the time, place and people are all favorable, the domestic animated films, which should have made further progress, simply wither.

The enthusiasm of capital also gradually faded.

However, what no one expected was that in January 2019, an animated film that was not initially favored once again shocked the market.

This movie is called "White Snake: Origin". The White Snake did not take advantage of Journey to the West, but instead took the path of adapting traditional mythological stories.

On the first day of its release, this animated film grossed just over 1000 million.

However, "White Snake" was unexpectedly strong, with stable daily box office performance. In this unpopular period before the Spring Festival, it finally won a box office of 4.29 million yuan.

The performance of "White Snake" surprised many people. The lowest screening rate of this animated film was only 6.8%, and the highest rate just broke 20% of the box office.

After winter, the summer season came, and another animated film shocked the market, just like "The Return of the Great Sage" in 2015.

As if destined, this summer belongs to a child playing with fire.

"Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" was released in the summer of 2019. Its approach is just like its title, very weird.

In those years, a set of cool operations became popular in the Chinese film industry. If the director and producer were very confident in their film, but there was a possibility that they would not be able to grab enough screenings when it was released during the popular period, then they would hold a frantic preview just before the popular period.

Other people's preview screenings are really scheduled screenings, and they may schedule a dozen or twenty shows across the country just to test the waters.

During the preview period, the craziest time for "Ne Zha" was when 2.2 screenings were scheduled across the country, accounting for 6.3% of the total daily screenings.

With this weird operation, the reputation of "Ne Zha" inexplicably exploded!
Countless people want to go to the cinema to see this little kid with dark circles under his eyes and riding on Hot Wheels.

Due to the large number of positive reviews online, "Ne Zha" took up an unprecedented 32.5% of the screening volume when it was officially released.

That year, many fans of popular stars were furious and left messages online saying that the cinema did not want to make money by scheduling so many screenings for an animated film.

What surprised everyone was that this movie took 32.5% of the national single-day box office with 63.5% of the screenings.

In other words, the remaining movies accounted for more than 60% of the screening time, but their combined box office was still not as high as that of "Ne Zha".

The theaters are going even crazier now. When the screening volume of "Ne Zha" reached its peak, it exceeded 50%!

Countless people's cognition was directly refreshed.

Luo Ming used "Ne Zha" as the ending easter egg of "The Return of the Great Sage", naturally wanting to replicate the success of the previous film "Ne Zha".

But this is just one of the purposes. Luo Ming wants to create a Chinese mythology universe!
(End of this chapter)