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Chapter 75 Sales! The Flames of War! (Second Update!)

8 month 25 day.

Four o'clock in the morning.

【Tianyu】

Deng Hairong sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the dazzling lights in the distance.

At this time of day, he would usually already be in bed asleep.

However, he has been suffering from insomnia for the past two months.

After reviewing the film "Superman II", the censors did not give it a particularly high market rating.

However, he strongly advocated for and secured the project from higher-ups...

He firmly believes that in a place as vast as China, superhero movies have already formed a huge fan base.

Superman's influence was unparalleled during market research...

Therefore, he desperately wanted to get the project, carrying even greater expectations than for "S. Men," even setting a bold goal of grossing over 2.6 million RMB at the box office and selling 3000 million copies of the official DVDs...

Then, to everyone's surprise, after the release of "Superman 2", the response was far below expectations, and it even flopped.

The market doesn't seem to be buying it...

At this moment, his emotions were extremely complicated!
The phone rang.

"Mr. Deng, those who sell pirated copies aren't very enthusiastic about 'Superman 2' and aren't willing to invest upfront..."

"us……"

"..."

On the other end of the phone, the assistant's voice was low and timid.

Deng Hairong did not return the call. After hanging up, he sat down in a chair, his eyes filled with a sense of loss.

On the table are the approximate sales figures for "The Resurrection" from early this morning...

Between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m., during this quiet period, "The Distant Ones: Reboot" had already sold over 5 copies!
Today, the data for "The Resurrection" may reach a new high...

damn it!
..............................

in this world.

Some people felt despair...

Some people, however, shine brightly amidst the dazzling light!
In a rental house.

Director Shen Long, actor Chen Jianfeng, prop master Liu Fang, cinematographer Zhang Yunyi, and a group of people stayed in the rented room without saying a word!
Since the release of the movie "The Longest Nite" on the 20th, they have been suffering from insomnia night after night.

This movie is so important to them!
These days, in order to film this movie...

They stayed up almost every night, revising their work, and almost everyone squeezed out the best talent they had ever had!

"This is 150 million RMB. I originally wanted to keep some for myself, but then I thought, since everyone is holding their breath, I'll go for it with everyone!"

"I've poured all of this 150 million investment into our game, 'The Distant Ones: Reboot'!"

"150 million isn't a lot..."

"But I believe we can make a good film!"

The moment Mr. Zhou secured the investment, he immediately contacted them.

President Zhou didn't spend a single penny; in fact, he left it all to them!
An investment of 150 million to make a movie with special effects is theoretically a drop in the ocean and completely insufficient!
Hollywood's "Superman 2" had a budget of $1.8 million, and I heard that nearly $1 million of that went to special effects...

Even so, everyone was determined to make this movie a success!
Special effects are expensive!

They focused all their efforts on one special effect, making it exquisite and perfect, and then repeatedly using editing techniques!

For example, the laser beams shooting out from the eyes of the Superman played by Chen Jianfeng were created entirely with special effects!

There were also explosions, which were also filmed using special effects...

Of the 150 million yuan investment, nearly 130 million yuan was spent on the special effects and props for this movie!
Although the special effects still don't quite live up to expectations, they've done their best!

During filming, apart from daily living expenses, almost no one in the crew spent a penny, and no one collected their wages.

Everyone was holding their breath!

"The data is out!"

"How many?"

"All six cinemas, including the screening rooms and spare rooms, have been set up to show movies. Today's box office has exceeded 70,000 yuan, and the total box office has already exceeded 400,000 yuan! According to the cinema's revenue sharing, we can get about 160,000 yuan... and after 7 days of release, it is still packed!"

What about the legitimate CD/DVD market?

"We've broken historical records today! In the national CD market, we've sold nearly 15 discs today!"

"In the past few days, our total CD sales have exceeded 40 copies. At 3 yuan per copy, the profit is already 120 million yuan!"

"..."

Shen Long's phone rang.

Everyone stared excitedly at the phone!

When the data was officially released, everyone shouted with excitement!

Chen Jianfeng and Zhang Yunyi even opened a bottle of beer on the spot and started shooting randomly throughout the rented room!
Excited, so excited...

Some people couldn't help but shed tears, laughing like idiots as they cried!
40 in box office revenue is not a significant figure!

A profit of 120 million from DVDs is not exactly big data!

but……

This proves one thing! They won this battle!

"Moreover, and more importantly, we surpassed the daily DVD sales of 'Superman 2'!"

"In August!"

"We are the main characters!"

"We, damn it, we, the unappreciated, almost begging people!"

"We're fucking main characters now!"

"..."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Long's chest heaved, and his face flushed with excitement!

He gritted his teeth and, under everyone's gaze, slammed his hand on the table!

He shouted this sentence to everyone!

Immediately afterwards, everyone was slightly startled!
Some people glanced out the window in a daze, and a series of unreal sensations made some people clench their hands!
It feels like the past month has been a dream!
Who would have thought!

These were once marginalized, neglected, and worthless little people!
How could I possibly become the protagonist one day?

but……

Everything, everything, is just the beginning!
A spark ignited, forming a flame...

The flames roared and transformed into a raging inferno, illuminating the distance!
..............................

"Fuck!"

"How did 'The Reboot' actually beat the original 'Superman 2' on the disc?"

"Go check on MovieHome, it's been over several days!"

"Holy crap, is this some kind of fantasy? That's a Hollywood movie!"

"..."

On August 23, the website 【MovieHome】 underwent a rectification.

In addition to maintaining consistency with the original page and enhancing its forum attributes, the rectified section includes the addition of a box office and sales system.

Of course, there's also a leaderboard system!

In August, only three movies were included in this ranking system.

One is "Superman II", another is "Human Reboot", and the third is the terrible "Monkey King vs. Superman II"...

On August 25th, the "Lost in Time: Reboot" page on [Movie House] released a set of data: the total box office exceeded 400,000, and the number of DVDs sold exceeded 400,000!

On August 26th, the daily disc sales of "Superman Reboot" surpassed 180,000, bringing its total sales to 580,000 copies! Meanwhile, according to publicly available data from multiple digital product companies and statistics departments, "Superman 2" saw a daily sales increase of 60,000 copies, bringing its total sales to 1,060,000 copies…

8月27日，《迢人：重启》突破了24万张，而《超人2》维持着6万张的数据，总销量是112万张！

8月28日，《迢人：重启》日销量疯狂到30万张，而《超人2》数据上涨至8万张……

……

As of September 1st, the daily sales of "The Distant Ones: Reboot" stopped rising and remained at around 200,000 copies per day, but the total sales had exceeded 1.7 million copies.

To the astonishment of countless people, the terrible movie "Monkey King vs. Superman 2" actually sold nearly 40 copies even when it was sold at half price!
What's more, this terrible movie is surprisingly popular with kids...

Even worse, some unscrupulous street vendors have gone so far as to publish movie-themed books titled "Sun Wukong vs. Superman"...

9 month 2 day.

An Xiaoshi stared blankly at the sales data in the [Movie House]!
She saw that "The Resurrected" had sold 170 million discs in almost half a month. Although the market enthusiasm had cooled down a lot, the market demand was still huge.

It's even highly possible that they could sell 300 million copies in the future!
Moreover, this is only the publicly available data...

In fact, these pirates are unlikely to honestly report the real data!
The number of people secretly underreporting, not reporting, or concealing information will only increase, possibly by three or four times or more. After all, although Zhou Yang is demanding, he can't possibly investigate each and every one of them. At most, he'll check the publicly available data of his partners...

To get them to make money for him, sometimes, even with a contract in place, he has to turn a blind eye.

She also saw that the sales of "Superman II" were around 1.7 million, which was exactly the same as "Human Reboot"...

The total box office revenue of the six cinemas has exceeded 1 million.

"These people..."

"it turns out……"

After seeing this set of data, she was speechless with emotion!
She never dreamed...

This group of nobodys who were kicked out of the "Love Ferris Wheel" actually did something big!
Just at this time……

Her cell phone rang.

She answered a phone call.

She glanced at it!
They discovered the call was from Zhou Yang!
"Director An."

"President Zhou, congratulations! President Zhou, you really did it..." An Xiaoshi took a deep breath.

"It's just a small achievement, nothing to brag about. Director An, are you free tomorrow?" Zhou Yang's voice seemed very calm as he spoke indifferently.

“Yes!” An Xiaoshi nodded vigorously.

"Then let's all come to our victory celebration tomorrow! I've booked the entire second floor of [A Liang Fast Food Restaurant]..."

"Ok?"

"Director An, this time, I won't transfer money to your account. Let's eat together at the fast food restaurant and split the money!"

"???"

(End of this chapter)