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Chapter 786 Sitting at the children’s table

When the media reported the performance of various movies during this year's Spring Festival.

"Monster Hunt 2" set a single-day box office record in the mainland, broke the global single-market box office record, and set a new world record. As soon as the dazzling results were released, they immediately attracted angry fans to criticize them.

This IP's previous works have a history of being watered down, which makes it hard for movie fans not to question it.

Another reason that aroused doubts among movie fans was that the single-day box office of 500 million was totally disproportionate to the quality of the film.

This is a terrible movie, not even close to the quality of the first one.

"Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" and "19th Generation of Ancestors" are also bad movies.

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" has no rivals in this Spring Festival period.

In the words of Master Ye, it would be no problem for me to beat ten of them.

Compared with the terrible reputations of these three films, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" has a much better reputation.

"There are lots of easter eggs and laughs throughout the film. A comedy that can keep people laughing is a good choice. Some of the exaggerated satire and absurd plots in the film are also very interesting and really hit my spot. I give it a score of 4. Anyway, my family and I had a lot of fun watching the movie in the cinema."

"Shen Teng and Chang Yuan are really men with their own sense of humor. Everyone wants to laugh when they appear."

"This story tells us that once you have a certain amount of wealth, you will never be able to squander it all in your lifetime, as long as you don't start a business recklessly. There is a second-generation like that around me. His parents saved several thousand yuan for him. He put half of it in the bank to earn interest, and gave the other half to a financial management company to help manage it. The annual interest and financial management income alone can support his daily life of luxury. But he didn't want to be content with the status quo. He wanted to prove himself, and ended up losing all his money."

"Director Li is not fooling people. You can see that he made this movie just to make people laugh. Well, I was really amused in the theater. This is a successful comedy."

There are relatively few fans who gave "The Richest Man in Xihong City" five-star rating, and even fewer who gave it one star. Most of them gave it four stars or four and a half stars, which shows that the movie's score is about 8.2 or 8.3.

There is still room for this score to decline in the future.

That's how commercial comedies are. Rating websites are unfriendly to commercial films.

It is even more unfriendly to commercial comedies, because in order to add a lot of laughs, comedies need to sacrifice some logic and rationality.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

By the next day, the single-day box office of "Monster Hunt" had dropped to more than 3 million yuan, which was a big hit.

The box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" rose, from 2.5 million yuan in a single day to just over 3 million yuan.

It is now clear who has water and who does not.

"Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" is similar to "Monster Hunt 2", which peaked upon its debut and began to decline from the second day.

As for "19th Generations of Ancestors", the single-day box office of this movie did increase.

But the same thing goes, "19th Generations of Ancestors" has no right to eat at the adults' table during this year's Spring Festival, and can only sit at the same table with children.

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This is a fact. On the day when "19th Generations of Ancestors" was taken off the screen, the box office did not even break 200 million.

The box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" and "Monster Hunt 2" exceeded million in one day.

It makes sense to have it sit at the children's table.

By the third day, the single-day box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" still remained above 3 million yuan and was heading towards 3.5 million yuan.

"Monster Hunt 2" was not so lucky. Its box office was cut in half again and again. It did not have the durability of a popular movie that opened with a box office of 5 million yuan.

After "The Richest Man in Xihong City" topped the box office during this year's Spring Festival, there was no suspense about the result.

Li Yu and "The Richest Man in Xihong City" will become the king of this year's Spring Festival. This result makes those fans who have a "prejudice" against "Monster Hunt 2" feel comfortable.

"That's comfortable, that's right. Bad money can't drive out good money. 'The Richest Man in Xihong City' is the well-deserved number one in this year's Spring Festival. From the first day of its release, the box office has been going up every day. This is the real box office without any water injection. Unlike those watered-down movies, they will be exposed within two days."

"I have a feeling that this film will create a lot of hot memes. I'm really good at judging people and this project, which I, Wang Duoyu, invested in, has become popular. I often see comments in the comment section of some whimsical invention videos saying that this project was invested by me, xxx."

“It’s gratifying that The Richest Man in Xihong City has returned to the position it deserves.”

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" was a huge success, and the leading actors naturally benefited from it.

The person who benefited the most was of course Shen Teng, who played the most outstanding role of Wang Duoyu in the movie.

When the movie was first released, Shen Teng had just finished appearing on a certain station’s Spring Festival Gala program and was on his way home.

After returning to his hometown and taking a nap, he woke up and looked at his mobile phone, and found that he had received New Year greetings from countless people.

Some of them are old partners and acquaintances of Happy Mahua, while some of them he has never had any contact with before.

Now these people call you "brother" one by one and congratulate you on the box office success of the movie you starred in, which once again makes Shen Teng feel the fickleness of human nature.

As long as a person is successful, the world will be full of good people. This is not just empty talk.

Shen Teng had experienced the same thing many years ago.

At that time, "Dreaming of the Movie Circle" had just been released, and many people were also enthusiastic about him.

When he was no longer popular, most people left, and some people were unwilling to greet him when they saw him. That was the reality.

After many years, he finally made a comeback in the film industry.

Shen Teng felt that everything was unreal. He didn't go out for several days, mainly because he wanted to be quiet.

However, he dared not refuse Li Yu's call.

"You don't really want to hide and play hide-and-seek, do you? Now is the time to boost the box office, so hurry up and open for business." Li Yu urged him.

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" is unlikely to become the highest-grossing film in director Li Yu's career, but it has a good chance of becoming the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in his career.

Li Yu is going to strive for this achievement.

"Of course I don't dare to lie down and give up now. I just feel that everything is unreal, so I locked myself up to think about it for a few days." Shen Teng explained quickly.

Lie flat for nothing! How can he sleep at his age? He finally waited for the day to become popular in the film industry, and now it is time to seize the opportunity.

After Li Yu informed Shen Teng, he naturally would not forget Liu Yifei.

He asked Liu Yifei to start business on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, just like Shen Teng.

The actors had no holidays, so Li Yu gave them a few days of annual leave, which was already very good.

Shen Teng and Liu Yifei would not have any complaints, they were both so happy that they couldn't wait.

One proved himself in the film industry again after many years, and the other finally got rid of the title of box office poison with this movie.

Even if Li Yu hadn't urged them, they would have seized this great opportunity and worked hard to climb up, unless they really didn't want to be famous.

Anyone who’s in the entertainment industry doesn’t want to be famous. Why would you enter the entertainment industry if you don’t want to be famous?
(End of this chapter)