This director is vindictive.

Chapter 49: First victory, daily audience exceeds one million

This is the first online movie to be created and first broadcasted. It can be said that there has never been any online movie in China before this. Therefore, no one knows whether Chen Mo’s "Mr. Vampire" will be successful until the results come out.

Even Chen Mo himself doesn’t know whether this movie can achieve the expected results.

In fact, Chen Mo underestimated his influence as the "first person to try something new."

During this period, online movies have been promoted through various means. Not only netizens are paying attention to them, but in fact, many people in the film and television industry are also paying attention to them.

After all, the quality of online movies has not yet been lowered to the lowest level like in later generations.

In fact, Chen Mo had no idea about the box office of "Mr. Vampire". After all, it was several years later that he entered the online movie industry in his previous life.

However, the three video websites quickly summarized the first day's data.

Starting at 12 pm on December 3, Sohu.com was the first to announce the good news. In 8 hours, the number of effective clicks exceeded 13, and the cumulative box office revenue on a single network exceeded one million.

Soon, Youku and LeTV also brought good news. It took them 14 hours and 14.5 hours respectively to successfully exceed 20 effective clicks. The three video websites broke the one million box office and the cumulative box office exceeded 300 million.

At 8 o'clock the next evening, the box office statistics of the three video websites were released.

Sohu Video received 24 effective clicks in 38.2 hours, and the box office revenue was reported at 191 million.

Youku Video received 24 effective clicks in 32.6 hours, and the box office revenue was reported at 163 million.

LeTV Video received 24 effective clicks in 30.8 hours, and the box office revenue reached 154 million.

The cumulative box office revenue of "Mr. Vampire" on the three video websites in 24 hours reached 508 million.

This data certainly cannot be compared with the blockbusters released in theaters at the same time, such as "The Laughing Man" or "The Orphan of Zhao", but compared with other theater movies released in the same period, this box office is already eye-catching enough.

You have to know that these days, there are actually not many movies that can gross over 10 million yuan a day.

An online movie like "Mr. Vampire" actually grossed over five million in just one day.

Even Chen Mo was a little surprised. It has to be said that the benefits of being the first to try something new are highlighted here.

Such good news, such a great publicity opportunity, the three major video websites naturally would not miss it. They announced the news very quickly, which also attracted media coverage.

"Mr. Vampire, the first online movie, had a successful debut, grossing five million on its first day! Online movies may have great potential!"

"The online film 'Mr. Vampire' was a critical and commercial success, grossing over five million on its first day and being viewed over a million times, proclaiming the online film project a resounding success!"

"With a box office of over 5 million on the first day, online movies may change audiences' viewing habits! Theatrical movies have a competitor!"

"The Internet miracle reappeared, with a box office of over five million on the first day. Paid online movies were accepted by the audience and may become the biggest catfish in the film market!" If before this, online movies were at most a concept that no one was familiar with and the reports were only incidental, then when "Mr. Vampire" earned over five million at the box office in 24 hours, no one could ignore it anymore.

It seems that compared with those blockbusters that easily make tens of millions a day, a box office of only five million does not seem to be enough. But you have to know that for the online paid on-demand viewing of "Mr. Vampire", one effective click is only 5 yuan. A box office of more than five million is equivalent to more than one million effective clicks.

Don't underestimate this number. It is not free, but paid, so there is basically no such thing as click-boosting. After all, click-boosting is equivalent to buying box office revenue.

Chen Mo will not do this, and similarly, video websites are unlikely to do so at this stage, because they also have to consider the size of the online movie and the audience's acceptance.

In fact, this number is already amazing enough, because it is the first of its kind in online movies, and the three major video platforms have spared no effort in promoting it, which is why such a number has been achieved.

This box office revenue can be said to have made the three major online video platforms all smiles, but you have to know that this is only the data for the first day.

Of course, in terms of the movie screening cycle, although online movies do not have a clear release cycle, Chen Mo knows that the golden box office time of online movies is actually shorter than that of theater movies.

Movies in theaters have a screening cycle of about a month, but for online movies with large-scale publicity like "Mr. Vampire", it is considered very good if the explosive period can be as long as ten days.

Moreover, one ticket for a movie in theaters can only be watched by one person, but an online movie can be watched repeatedly by multiple people by paying once.

But now that "Mr. Vampire" is the first online movie, people still have no idea about it, and subconsciously compare online movies with theater movies.

Many people also overlook the fact that as the first online movie, "Mr. Vampire" received massive publicity resources from the three major video websites. This cannot be normal.

Even so, the five million box office of "Mr. Vampire" on the first day still made people exclaim in surprise. Media reports even shouted that the viewing mode has changed, and filmmakers in the film and television industry have also begun to pay attention to online movies that they didn't care much about before.

In fact, "Mr. Vampire" was able to achieve such results because of the effective early publicity. If it was broadcasted exclusively on a single video website, it would probably only get half of the box office at most. After all, these days, the base of online paying users is limited.

Although the box office on the first day was much lower than that of the theater movie, the box office of 5 million and over 1 million paid viewers still made this movie truly popular.

So when "The Laughing Man" announced that its first-day box office was close to 3000 million, it suddenly became clear that they were not the only ones doing well.

Reports on an online movie called "Mr. Zombie" are even surpassing theirs in popularity.

Although the box office of this online movie was only a fraction of that of "The Laughing Man", it still attracted great attention and coverage.

The first online movie "Mr. Zombie" grossed over 5 million on its first day! Over 1 million viewers!
And today there is another big Lunar New Year production being released, that is "The Orphan of Zhao" by the great poet Chen!
This big production, which was expected to take in over 12 million at the box office on the first day, ended up in a worse situation on December 5th, because not only was it outshined by "The Lonely Man", but there was also a spoiler, "Mr. Vampire".

With the spread of publicity and word of mouth, the box office of "Mr. Vampire" increased significantly on the second day compared to the first day.

In less than two days, it earned over 10 million at the box office!

If the box office on the first day made many people feel that it might just be a flash in the pan, then the box office reported on the second day was even higher than the first day, with more than 10 million box office revenue in two days and more than 2 million people paying to watch it, which is really worth writing about.

(End of this chapter)