This star is going to the moon

Chapter 43: Call "Brother Lu Yun" from now on

August!

The box office performance of "Wolf Warrior 2" after its release was almost beyond everyone's expectations.

Before it was released, many people predicted that it would flop or even break even, and their respective analyses made sense.

After all, domestic military action films with modern backgrounds have always had their ups and downs, and the earliest one may be traced back to "Escape from the Amazon" 15 years ago.

There really was no corresponding market in the country at that time, so even though it was of passing quality, the cost of nearly 2000 million only earned a few million at the box office.

However, the situation now is different from the past. Not to mention that last year's "Operation Mekong" took nearly 12 billion at the box office, even the previous "Wolf Warrior 1" took more than 5 million at the box office and had good ratings.

With the success of "Wolf Warrior 1" as a precedent, many people feel that "Wolf Warrior 2" should not have any problems in breaking even, so the distributor dared to sign an 8 million yuan "guaranteed release" agreement.

It is called "guaranteed release", but in fact it is "box office betting", and there are also considerable risks here.

After all, there are many cases where the previous work was successful but the sequel failed.

What's more, Wu Jing used the funds that were not enough to make a blockbuster to increase the investment in making a blockbuster. He is the director, leading actor and screenwriter three in one. Can he control the plot without collapsing?

result……

What will it take to make back the investment at the final box office of 6 million?
Box office of 3 million in 6.3 days!
Not only did I get my money back, I also started making money!

What box office guarantee is 8 million?
The box office exceeded 4 billion in 10 days!
The most important thing is that this is not the end, but the beginning!
The box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" is still increasing at a rate of to million yuan per day! It's increasing rapidly! It's increasing dramatically!

At the same time, the final box office forecast for "Wolf Warrior 2" has also changed.

I had originally predicted that its box office would double that of the first film, reaching 10 billion, but I didn't expect it to break that mark in just 4 days. It's crazy!

[Wow, you're quite bold to predict a 10 billion. I only predict 6 million to break even.]

[Ghost, this trend is incredible. Will it eventually break through 40 billion?]

[Ah, the highest-grossing domestic film in history was last year's "The Mermaid," which grossed over 33 billion yuan. Can "Wolf Warrior 2" set a new record?]

Whether it will set a new record is hard to say, but it will definitely surpass the 8 billion yuan of "The Fate of the Furious." This year's domestic box office champion throne will have to be our own film.

[That's true, but "The Fate of the Furious" grossed over 8 million yuan on its first day and reached 4 million yuan over the weekend, while "Wolf Warrior 4.8" only grossed 2 million yuan on its first day and only 1 million yuan over the weekend. That's a bit iffy, right?]

[No, I remember it clearly. "The Fate of the Furious" was only strong for four days. On the fifth day, its single-day box office dropped to over 8 million yuan. Within a week, it had dropped to tens of millions per day. "Wolf Warrior 4" has been maintaining a single-day box office of over 1 million yuan for a week. Obviously, "Wolf Warrior 2" will be strong for a longer time!]

【没错，搞不好《战狼2》单日2亿的时间能撑两周，可能上映10天就能超过《速激8》的26亿！】

[Just wait, it's going to be a carnival feast! ]

While the audience who thought "Wolf Warrior 2" was good were cheering, another group of people were also taking action.

Because the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" is so strong, theaters are increasing the screenings of "Wolf Warrior 2". The screenings of other movies will naturally be reduced, and the box office growth rate will also slow down.

For example, movies such as "The Monkey King", "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", "Secret War" and "Eternal Love: The Movie".

Among them, "The Monkey King" doesn't matter. It has been released for three weeks and the box office has reached 6.8 million. Its potential has been basically tapped out. The daily box office is only tens of thousands. It doesn't matter whether it is scheduled for screening or not.

However, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", "Secret Wars" and "Eternal Love: The Movie" were all released within ten days, and there was originally a lot of potential box office to be tapped, but this time it was directly taken away by "Wolf Warrior 2"!

In addition, the male lead and Lu Yun did not get along well, and they found that there were many voices in the market calling "Wolf Warrior 2" rubbish, so the people in charge of joint distribution and promotion began to add fuel to the fire.

As long as they criticize "Wolf Warrior 2" to death, their movie box office will go up again!
"Wolf Warrior 2" is rubbish. It's so boring that I fell asleep for two hours in the cinema!

["Wolf Warrior 2" is just a rubbish movie that uses patriotic slogans to cheat people out of money!]

The low quality of the Chinese people is an indisputable fact. "Wolf Warrior 2," this cheap and sensational spiritual opium, is no different from the Boxer Rebellion!

This movie is only watched by people in China. No one outside China has watched it. They've been used to it for decades. [A kung fu drama disguised as a patriotic war film to make money. It's full of low-brow, childish, and bloody scenes, and it also calls for the suppression of objective comments!]

Not only them, even some humanoid creatures from abroad got involved.

I discovered that Wolf Warrior 2 was released simultaneously in North America, but the box office only took in a few hundred thousand dollars. I'm dying of laughter! Those "little pinks" are so good at making themselves happy!

[Indeed, a movie this bad can make over a billion at the domestic box office. This country is truly hopeless, rotten to the core! I was right to leave!]

However, these tricks of theirs are completely useless. Apart from arguing with people who like "Wolf Warrior 2" online, they basically have no impact on offline movie viewing.

Most people will choose the movie with the most screenings when they go to the cinema. Now "Wolf Warrior 2" has the fastest box office growth, and it is the movie with the most screenings in cinemas.

After all, cinemas also need to make money, unless some movies are directly "paid for release" to allow cinemas to ensure that their screening schedules do not decrease.

There are also some people who watched the online war and are curious about what kind of movie "Wolf Warrior 2" is and have to watch it.

So amidst such noise, the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" exceeded 8 billion in 20 days!
The team in the crew who was making the "Box Office Exceeds XX Billion" poster couldn't finish it, they simply couldn't finish it!

The team leader smiled bitterly: "Perhaps this is a happy worry. I don't know when I can rest..."

Employee: "Team Leader, it's over 21 billion!!"

Team leader: "..."

Employee: "After tomorrow it's the weekend again. Maybe the single-day box office will exceed 4 million by then. Do we really have to draw four pictures a day? Should we discuss this with the director..."

Team leader: "..."

Compared to the male actor's resentment towards Lu Yun, the female lead of "Eternal Love" is much more excited.

An Fangfei called Lu Yun and said, "Brother Lu Yun, you're amazing. The box office has already broken 20 billion so quickly. Can you really reach 50 billion in the end?"

Lu Yun was watching his sister filming her final speech outside the venue. When he heard An Fangfei say this, he teased her, "Before the box office hit 50 billion, you called me 'brother' and I ignored you. But after the box office hit 50 billion, what did you call me?"

"Have you forgotten the bet we made?"

An Fangfei was stunned when she heard this, then she said softly, "If you want me to call you 'brother', wait until your box office revenue exceeds 50 billion!"

"Haha~"

Lu Yun smiled and said, "Then you should just call me 'Lu Yun brother' after two weeks~"

Hearing Lu Yun's laughter, An Fangfei rolled her beautiful eyes and said unhappily, "I even booked a theater to invite people to watch the movie to help you with the box office, and you just wanted to take advantage of me!"

This time it was Lu Yun's turn to be stunned, because it was common practice for celebrities to book out the entire theater to support their good friends who were also celebrities for their movies, but Lu Yun rarely did this after his failure in his previous life, so he had forgotten about it in this life.

After all, the last movie he starred in was "To You" with An Fangfei. There was no such thing as booking a theater to support each other. Now that An Fangfei has booked a theater for him, if he doesn't book a theater for An Fangfei, the media will definitely use it to say that their "friendship has broken down."

Even if An Fangfei doesn't care, this has to be done.

But after that, I just need to tell Xinxin to do it. Lu Yun changed the subject and said, "Thank you, Sister Fei. Actually, I've been preparing a birthday present for you recently. I guarantee it will be better than any birthday present you've received before!"

"What gift is so amazing?"

The next day, Yang Yang fell into deep thought as he watched the news that An Fangfei and Lu Yun had booked a theater to support each other. He also recalled that An Fangfei's first screen kiss would be in the fantasy romance movie that would be released next year.

Logically speaking, Rowoon's booking of the entire theater for "Eternal Love" can be considered as supporting his box office, but it is obvious that everyone knows that Rowoon did not do it for him.

It is even clearer that An Fangfei supports Lu Yun.

But the key point is that An Fangfei is now promoting a couple relationship with him!
The two even have a child in the movie!
"..."

(End of this chapter)