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Chapter 730 Large Feature Film "Prison Storm"

In mid-July, after the total box office of "Mystery Superstar" broke through the one billion mark in just six days after its release, the situation of the summer vacation became clear instantly.

After "Transformers 4" exploded to 19 million in three days, its word of mouth collapsed. The total box office was only 17.23 billion in 1000 days of release, and the single-day box office was only in the early 20 million. It is basically hopeless to break [-] billion.

Meanwhile, the new film "Old Boy: Way of the Dragon" is just an ordinary vulgar comedy, selling a wave of feelings without any competitiveness.

"Mysterious Superstar" made great progress all the way. In the next three working days, it won 1.01 million, 1.06 million, and 1.28 million box office respectively, and the total box office reached 13.63 billion in nine days of release.

Moreover, "Mysterious Superstar" once again created a series of records for breaking one billion and 11 billion the fastest, and it is also the only movie in the history of mainland movies that broke [-] million for nine consecutive days.

And the next two days are weekends, this record will definitely continue.

Breaking through 20 million in [-] consecutive days, at a time when it is rare to see a single day breaking [-] million in a year, the record of breaking [-] million in a row is even rarer than breaking through [-] billion

Five working days, except that the box office will be a little higher near the weekend on Friday, there is not much fluctuation in the other four days, which is scary.

This at least shows that the high box office in the early stage was not due to Tang An's fame and large-scale publicity overdrawing the box office potential.

The unlucky thing was the films of the same period. There was an extra "Old Boy: Raptors Crossing the River" and I could have a drink of soup behind, but two films were released in succession on Thursday and Friday in the second week.

"Tiny Times 3" was released on Thursday, and reached No.2 in the single-day box office that day, leaving "Transformers 7000" far behind with a high box office of 4 million.

And "Little Times 3" also got 28% of the high-ranking films on the first day, second only to "Mystery Superstar" with 43%.

On Friday, another new film "Beijing No. 81" was released. It was a horror film and got a high box office of 3400 million on the first day.

"Little Times 3" still had 6000 million on the second day, and 1.3 million in two days. Even with two previous works with poor reputation, people in the circle had to lament the spending power and madness of Guo Jinming's fans.

"Tiny Times 3" is a series with a bad reputation, and all major theaters have given such a high ranking to the film.

This is just the theater's strategy. Don't they know that the reputation of this film is rotten, and the follow-up box office will definitely plunge.

They are all sensible people, but this kind of movie only makes money in the first two weeks, or even the first weekend.

Most of the movies that fans want are like this. In the first week, the theater arranges as many films as possible, even if the film schedule of some well-known movies is compressed.

Because once these few days have passed and word of mouth spreads, no matter how many films you arrange, no audience will go to the cinema to watch it.

But some high-reputation movies are different, and even theaters will deliberately squeeze the release of high-reputation movies.

This increases the attendance rate and the average number of people per game, and at the same time makes the movie more popular.

The word of mouth is good, and it will not affect the film schedule two days later. On the contrary, it will cause the situation that there are no tickets in the prime time, making the film more scarce and attracting more attention.

Therefore, it is often seen that bad movies occupy the high-ranking movies in the early stage, because more viewers will be lost if they are scheduled one day late, and there is no need to worry about good movies.

The two newly released movies have achieved good results, completely driving "Transformers 4" out of the top three at the box office.

The success of "Little Times" is not particularly unexpected, after all, there are fans supporting it, and some viewers also like to watch this kind of scenes where sisters are fighting.

However, "Capital No. 81" is a low-budget horror film without a famous director. The two leading actors Wu Zhenyu and Lin Xinru are well-known, but in the past ten years, there have been almost no box office successes. The multi-million box office was also a bit unexpected.

At this time, Yu Dong was in the worst mood. In the summer, Bernard had two movies, "The Future Will Be Unexpected" and "The White-haired Witch: The Moon Paradise" released.

The former signed a guarantee, and the latter is a martial arts film produced by Xu Ke.

He hadn't doubted that the summer vacation would be "Transformers 4" and "Mystery Superstar", but both films were released at the end of July, and the most recent "There Will Be No Date" was 14 days apart.

I thought that "Transformers 4" would be released for a month by then, and "Mystery Superstar", which had been released for half a month, would be left in the summer file. These two films, Bernard, would be able to bite off a piece of cake in the middle of the summer file.

However, it is true that "Transformers 4" withered ahead of schedule, but "Mystery Superstar" was stronger than expected.

Forget it, here are two more blockbuster movies, which are bound to cause quite a shock.

Yu Dong also sighed secretly, if he had known it would have been moved to August, he would have nothing to do to join in the fun.

The major companies basically have a lot of things to do, and after confirming that there is no hope of attacking Tang An, they put this matter aside completely and went to their own business.

Guang Xian made a fortune in "You at the Same Table", and then there are two small and medium-budget youth films, of course, they have to work well.

Hua Yi and Yao Lai co-produced Cheng Long's new film, several films will be released in the second half of the year, and they are also very busy.

Even the targeted negative marketing of China Film and Ah Li on the Internet has gradually withdrawn.

Now China Film and Ah Li have free resources. After all, "Transformers 4" will drop below [-] million in a single day after this week, so it's useless to promote it.

But it didn't help much. The two of them had invested most of their resources in the past few days, but the box office of "Mystery Superstar" didn't seem to be affected in any way.

As long as it can cause a little impact, it is fine. The problem is that it is almost useless, so I don’t do useless work.

A large number of sailors began to leave the stage, and some filmmakers and experts in various related industries also stopped their attacks on the film.

After all, I have no money to take, so I might as well pick up a few other orders if I have the time.

However, some people still haven't stopped. Thanks to the hype in the past few days, the traffic and attention of those self-media and Weibo marketing accounts have skyrocketed.

People with vision will naturally not let go of this opportunity, even if they have no money to take it.

They rely on traffic to do this business. Different levels of marketing account charges are different. The price difference between Weibo with 50 followers and Weibo with [-] followers is much different.

Some people are still debating with netizens, and no one can convince anyone across the network cable.

Even in reality, even if you beat someone up, you should not accept it, let alone the Internet.

Moreover, the purpose of these self-media is not to discredit the movie, but only for attention and traffic. Naturally, what topic can attract people to say something.

It has to be said that amidst the applause, those discordant voices also stood out and became a hot topic on some movie forums and Weibo.

Tang An didn't care about these voices, at least it wasn't a bad thing.

When many movies are promoted, they not only have to sell themselves and boast, but also find sailors to blackmail themselves, and then invite another batch of sailors to attack these sailors who blacken themselves.

In many cases, whether it is the promotion of film and television dramas or the personal hype of the actors, basically half of them are like this.

When the time comes, I will see how fierce the hype is on the Internet. The topics are all on Baidu hot spots and Weibo hot searches. The entire Internet is full of noise, and it seems that the popularity is super high.

In fact, it was just some trolls making noise, and it turned into a scene directed and performed by the speculators themselves, and not many ordinary netizens actually participated in it.

Tang An also concentrated on leading the crew to run around the city, from the capital all the way south to several major ticket warehouses and provincial capitals.

He left another city and headed for another city next door.

"Everyone has worked hard during this period, and you can rest after another half a month."

Occasionally, Tang An would cheer them up and say something encouraging.

Xiao Di smiled and said, "Director Tang, this road show is actually relatively easy. I don't feel tired at all, and it's the first time I haven't been followed by paparazzi for such a long time. I feel much more free."

Pick up by private jet, stay in a five-star hotel, eat a big meal, it’s almost like traveling.

Tang An nodded and said, "It's good that you can persevere, and I can't let you get tired halfway."

As for no paparazzi.

Indeed, no paparazzi dared to follow except for the external itinerary.

Peng Yichang asked stupidly, "Yes, I also find it strange that none of us are followed by paparazzi."

Even if Peng Yichang is a newcomer, I still understand this point. With the current popularity of movies, it is normal to have paparazzi monitoring 24 hours a day.

Tang An said, "It's been a long time since I saw the paparazzi. Last year, a team of paparazzi followed me for more than a month, and followed me wherever I went. I was really impatient and didn't listen to the warning. Finally, they left After leaving the film and television media industry and leaving the capital, there will be no paparazzi following me after that.”

Tang An's light words made the actors who were harassed by the paparazzi sigh.

It's easy to say, but it's definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface. Leaving this industry and leaving the capital directly ruined their careers.

But thinking about it again, with Tang An's current status, there are countless ways that don't violate the law, so that the paparazzi can't get along in the country.

The paparazzi team is also short-sighted, and it's fine to follow celebrities. After all, celebrities can't do anything about them, but for people at the top of the industry, it's just a matter of words.

Otherwise, the bosses and executives of major companies have never had any scandals, and even if there are occasional scandals, there is no basis for them. Are they really so clean?

How is it possible, compared with some of them, Cheng Guanxi can be regarded as pure.

In the weekend that followed, "Mystery Superstar" took in a total of 2.55 million in two days, and the total box office in eleven days also exceeded 16 billion.

Breaking through [-] million for [-] consecutive days, another record that people in the industry can't even imagine now has appeared again.

"Little Times 4" and "Beijing No. 81" still maintained a normal trend in the first week, and the follow-up potential will not be clear until the box office comes out on Monday.

"Transformers 4" has already dropped out of the first echelon, and there is no hope of breaking 20 billion. Tang An once again swept the summer file.

However, a major event happened in the entertainment circle at this time.

Cheng Long's son Jaycee Jaycee, a new generation artist in Baodao, Ke Zhendong, the star of "Monster Hunt", Gao Hu, He Shengdong and others were arrested and have been criminally detained.

Previously, Zhang Yuan, Ning Caishen, Zhang Mo, Li Daimo and others were arrested for smoking poison. This time, Cheng Long’s son also made it to Baidu’s hot spots and Weibo trending searches, and is still on the attack. The headline seat of "Mystery Superstar".

The large-scale feature film "Prison Storm" had a few more leading actors, which immediately attracted widespread attention and made this summer file even more lively.

(End of this chapter)