This star is going to the moon

Chapter 28 Double happiness!

January 28th, Spring Festival.

After going out to pay New Year's greetings early in the morning and then visiting the graves, there was nothing else to do for the day.

Lu Yun's house was very lively on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

All the relatives came, and the younger generation came to wish Lu Yun's mother a happy new year, and then excitedly took the autographed photo of An Fangfei that she had kept for a long time from her.

Lu Yun was playing mahjong with his elders, chatting about some interesting things during filming.

At the same time, he acted without mercy and kept winning big!
The upgrade of aerospace engineering is comprehensive, including the level of mathematics, so Lu Yun’s computing ability is now very strong.

And his brain was stuffed with a lot of information from time to time. He found that his brain seemed to be working better and better. At least his memory was much better and he could remember things quickly.

Putting aside other things about this change, it is really convenient for playing mahjong. Lu Yun won a lot by adding up the pieces.

Someone originally suggested going to the movies, but Lu Yun said there were no good movies this Spring Festival, so no one went.

After all, Lu Yun himself is a movie star. If he says it’s not good-looking, how could it be false?

In fact, this is indeed the case.

The most popular star in this year's Spring Festival is Wu Fan, who has become a rival of Lu Yun. The movie "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" starring him has been widely promoted and can't wait to be called "the second domestic film to break the 30 billion box office."

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many people did go to the cinema to watch it, and it also had the highest screening schedule of any movie during the Spring Festival, exceeding 30%, so it directly raked in 3.5 million yuan at the box office on the first day, which was even more impressive than the first-day box office of "The Mermaid" during last year's Spring Festival.

But the audience started cursing as soon as they left the theater.

As a result, its box office performance dropped a lot today, and many forecasting agencies estimated that today's box office would be just over 2 million at most.

Tomorrow there may be only a little over 1 million.

The daily box office is dropping too fast, so don’t even dream of reaching 30 billion yuan in the end. It might even be cut in half.

Around 15 billion is enough.

Another movie with the same box office trend as "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" is "Journey to India", which has a screening rate of over 20%, so the corresponding daily box office can be divided by two.

These two occupied the most screenings at the beginning, but after their daily box office performance was not good, they started to lose screenings. "Kung Fu Yoga" and "The Mermaid", which had slightly better reputations, took up the screenings, and the box office began to grow against the decline.

If Lu Yun remembers correctly, the final box office of "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" was only 16 billion, while "Kung Fu Yoga" eventually surpassed it and reached 17 billion.

As a result, the fans signed by Wu Fan were only cheering at first. On the fourth day of its release, the daily box office of "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" was surpassed by "Kung Fu Yoga".

But they didn't dare to confront the leading actor of "Kung Fu Yoga" because that was Uncle Lung who just won the Hollywood Lifetime Achievement Award last year.

What makes them even more uncomfortable is that the variety show "Longing" in which Lu Yun is participating is becoming more and more popular. Not only does it always rank first in the ratings in the same period, but the online discussion is also getting higher and higher.

Another person excluded by them was An Fangfei, but she didn't care at all because she was on vacation.

During this period, she had no plans to take on any acting roles. Instead, she was concentrating on learning and improving her acting skills, and only appeared twice in variety shows.

During the Chinese New Year, the two talked a lot on the phone. Unlike Lu Yun who stayed in Shimen, An Fangfei traveled to many places during the Spring Festival.

After all, her home is in Jiangcheng next to the Yangtze River, her father's hometown is in Hengshui, Jizhou next to the Yellow River, and her mother's hometown is in Erbin next to Heilongjiang.

Among them, Hengshui is only more than 100 kilometers away from Shimen where Lu Yun is, so they can be considered half-fellow villagers.

Generally speaking, no matter how fashionable handsome men and beautiful women are in the city, they will become unsophisticated guys and girls when they return to their hometown.

An Fangfei's clothing taste was... average to begin with. After returning to the Northeast, she put on a flowery cotton-padded jacket...

You know what, An Fangfei sent Lu Yun several photos. The flowery cotton-padded jacket looks different on different people.

An Fangfei managed to hold up her flowery cotton-padded jacket with just her face!

Lu Yun could only say, "Awesome!"

Before the Lantern Festival, Wu Jing finally returned from Africa, having wrapped filming on Wolf Warrior 2. Before the Lunar New Year, he called Lu Yun to get together. Lu Yun was still in his hometown, and the high-speed train from Shimen to Beijing took just over an hour.

Lu Yun said that he belonged to Qimingxing Company, but he didn’t have to punch in for work every day.

When he saw Wu Jing, he found that he had lost weight, become several shades darker, and looked drained and haggard.

"I'm never going to film in Africa again!"

Wu Jing drank as he said, "You don't know, the crew was robbed several times. Not only were they robbed in the slums, but the photography team also had a close encounter with a robbery gang."

"Being robbed is even considered a good thing. They only want money, not lives. One of the crew's photographers was even bitten by a local poisonous spider and became paralyzed on one side of his body..."

Listening to Wu Jing's complaints, Lu Yun laughed and said, "Brother Jing, this is 'God has given me a great mission'. The injuries and hardships I've endured this time are all prerequisites for the movie to become a huge hit after its release. I think it's possible to break 50 billion!"

Wu Jing laughed when he heard Lu Yun's words, pointing at him and saying to everyone, "Did you see that? Lu Yun is even more confident than me as a director. He even mentioned 100 billion and 50 billion during the initial audition."

"But my brother Lu's vision is absolutely flawless. No one was optimistic about the 'Longing' show before, but look at how popular it is now. Maybe our movie can really make 50 billion!"

"Come on, have a drink!"

"cheers……"

After the New Year, what Lu Yun had been waiting for finally arrived, and they arrived together.

Double happiness!

One is that the movie "Time Raiders" has started casting.

The other is that senior student Yu Xingchen did not return to work at Deep Blue Arrow, but confirmed his resignation.

In his previous life, Lu Yun won the leading role in "Twenty Years Old" with the "help" of Liu Chun, and later received the audition invitation for "Time Raiders". At that time, "Twenty Years Old" had already started filming, and the shooting schedules of the two conflicted.

In addition, the director of "Time Raiders" was making a feature film for the first time and was also serving as the screenwriter. It was obvious that he had no experience, so he refused.

As a result, both films were released in 300. "Twenty Years Old" was filmed first and released later, with a box office of only 9 million, while "Time Raiders" was filmed later and released first, with a box office of million!
In this life, Lu Yun rejected "Twenty Years Old" first, but he must get "Time Raiders"!

It just so happened that An Fangfei had rejected four movies in a row according to Lu Yun, so it would be great to introduce her to play the female lead.

The box office and reputation of "Time Raiders" surpassed those four films. Even the box office of those four films combined was less than half of "Time Raiders".

Thinking of An Fangfei's "repayment of gratitude" in the previous life, Lu Yun had to let her see what the correct way of repaying a favor was.

"Hey, Sister Fei, what are you doing? I have a new script that's perfect for you..."

On the other side, the preparation team of "Time Raiders".

"I don't know how many people will come to audition. With a budget of 3000 million, we can't afford to pay high salaries. We don't even dare to invite famous people."

"Yes, we originally wanted to ask Liu Haoran to play the male lead, but we couldn't afford his salary, so we had to give up."

"Is Lei Jiayin suitable? He's already in his thirties and looks a bit old. Can he play a 25-year-old?"

"Well, let's audition first and see what happens."

"I wonder if Lu Yun will come. Although he has few works, his fame is rising rapidly. I wonder if he will..."

As everyone was discussing, the phone suddenly rang.

"Hey, ah, are you sure you want to audition?"

"What? He even recommended An Fangfei to play the female lead?!"

"Still, still, still don't want the pay?!!"

(End of this chapter)