March 14, early morning.

Suhang, West Lake Hotel.

After the day's road show, Cao Jun returned to his hotel.

After taking a shower, Cao Jun sat in front of the computer in the hotel room and silently lit a cigarette.

Cao Jun looked at Erlang's legs and smoked while opening the ferry website and browsing all the latest information about the movie "A Little Thing About First Love".

After watching it for a while, Cao Jun logged into Douban again and checked Douban netizens' ratings for the movie "A Little Thing About First Love".

The original goal of Doufan.com was to share its own ratings of entertainment works.

As the earliest rated website, the only one that netizens can trust is Douban. No matter how slandered it is later by users of Zhihu, Weibo, and other websites, it cannot change this fact.

Because Douban has a CEO who has a slow sense of business, who puts literature and art first, and who puts fairness first, this leads to the fact that even if fans in the rice circle want to increase their points, they have to go to great lengths to do it manually or buy fake ones.

However, Douban’s algorithm results in the inefficiency of trolls’ scoring. Even if it is effective this month, it will be filtered out in a few months after the algorithm is improved.

In Cao Jun's view, most of Douban.com's ratings of movies or TV series are reliable, but they are not 100% and there are many unreasonable aspects.

For example, the ratings of Korean movies, Indian movies, old movies, and even new movies all have a lot of weight.

But in general, Douban.com’s ratings of movies and TV series are fairer and more reliable than other websites.

If a movie can get a score of 6 or above on Douban.com, it is basically a passing movie and will not be much worse.

If a movie can get a score of 7 or above on Douban, it is basically a very good movie in summer and very watchable.

If a telecom film can score 8 or more points on Douban.com, it is basically an excellent movie.

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Therefore, Cao Jun is very much looking forward to his film "A Little Thing About First Love" not only receiving good box office results in theaters, but also achieving relatively ideal ratings on Douban.com.

Cao Jun's own inner expectation is about 7.5 (out of 10), and it will never exceed 8.5. After all, "A Little Thing About First Love" is the first movie he directed, and there must be many shortcomings.

As a result, Cao Jun didn't know what to do, and was shocked when he saw it!

Netizens on Douban.com actually gave the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" a high score of 8.7!

Netizen Mo Gubuhua gave it four stars and commented: "gb, it's also a secret love. I can only exchange for the fact that you are actually a good person. Sure enough, being handsome is the way to go."

Netizen allyshine gave it five stars and commented: "We in mainland China finally have a youth romance movie that we can watch. The male protagonist is very handsome and the female protagonist has a beautiful smile. We must support it!"

Netizen Liutu gave it a five-star rating and commented: "Youth is a thing that you enjoy but don't know about it. It's full of sadness when you leave it, and it's full of thoughts when you think about it.

Regarding this domestic youth film, I admit that I have no resistance at all."

Netizen Siam gave it three stars and commented: "I think it's very average. It's not as good as you said, but it's not bad. It's barely passing. There are quite a few shortcomings. The heroine is not pretty enough, and the hero is handsome.

But he’s a little bit older, not like a high school student, but more like a college student.”

Netizen Sophie Z gave it three stars and commented: "Why do you all say that Cao Jun is handsome? He is not handsome at all, okay? Also, the heroine Wang Bingbing is just a big-headed doll. I don't know what is cute about it. I think he plays a male

The second Zheng Kai is more handsome."

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Cao Jun read twenty or thirty online reviews. Some were good and some were bad, but mostly they were mostly positive.

Frankly speaking, Cao Jun feels a little ashamed of the score of 8.7, because he himself knows that the movie he made still has many shortcomings.

If Cao Jun were to judge it himself, the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" would score around 8.3 at most, and 8.7 is really a bit high.

At this time, Wang Bingbing came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, saw Cao Jun sitting in front of the computer, and asked doubtfully: "What are you reading, and are you looking at netizens' comments?"

"Yes, let's see what netizens say about our movie," Cao Jun smiled and nodded, and then said, "Bingbing, come here and watch it together."

Wang Bingbing also knew that "A Little Thing About First Love" had a very good reputation, so he walked over happily and sat on Cao Jun's lap, swaying his butt and moving the mouse to appreciate the positive comments from netizens.

Wang Bingbing watched with a satisfied smile on his face. He kept staring at the Internet articles on the screen, as if he couldn't get enough.

However, Cao Jun became interested and said to Wang Bingbing: "Okay, Bingbing, stop looking, it's time to go to bed."

Wang Bingbing was very obedient. He immediately put down the mouse, turned around, stared at Cao lovingly, and said movingly: "Happy Valentine's Day!"

Hearing Wang Bingbing's words, Cao Jun remembered that today is Valentine's Day, and said affectionately: "Happy Valentine's Day."

Wang Bingbing said mischievously: "Take me back to bed, okay?"

Without saying anything, Cao Jun used the "princess hug" to carry Wang Bingbing back to the bed.

Because the road show will continue tomorrow, Cao Jun did not dare to be too tired. He only ran on the highway with Wang Bingbing for 15 minutes, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next day, the sun rose as usual.

Cao Jun led Wang Bingbing and his team to continue the road show to promote the movie "A Little Thing About First Love".

Because this day is Valentine's Day, it is also the day when "A Little Thing About First Love" was released and has the best chance of getting high box office.

Therefore, Cao Jun barely rested and went to more than 10 theaters in three cities, including Suzhou and Hangzhou, to promote the movie.

Efforts are rewarded, Huangtian pays off!

Cao Jun's crazy road show also successfully promoted the movie "A Little Thing About First Love". In addition, this day was Valentine's Day, so the number of people watching the movie was much higher than usual.

Therefore, on Valentine's Day, the single-day box office of the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" reached a new high, breaking through the 10 million mark and reaching a box office of 13 million.

As of February 14, from the first day of release to the sixth day now, the total box office of the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" has successfully exceeded the 5,000 mark, reaching more than 52 million.

In other words, starting from February 15th, every box office dollar of the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" will be profitable for Century Pictures and Huayi Brothers.

However, after Valentine's Day, the box office on February 15th also dropped particularly sharply, from 13 million to 8.5 million.

It is normal for the box office to have ups and downs. Cao Jun is not worried at all and continues to run road shows with his big guys.

Of course, Cao Jun is still a very generous person. As long as more than a dozen staff members run road shows with him, they will receive double their wages.

After the road show is over and they return to the capital, Cao Jun plans to pay each of them a bonus. The least one staff member will receive will not be less than 5,000 yuan.

Cao Jun is not short of money. He works so hard for the movie road show mainly because he wants to realize and prove his own value.

Thanks to the efforts of Cao Jun and others, the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" has become known to more and more people.

On February 16, the 8th day after the release of "First Love", the film schedule accounted for 20%, and the single-day box office was 7 million yuan.

On February 17, the 9th day of release, the film schedule accounted for 18%, and the single-day box office was 7.2 million yuan.

On February 18, the 10th day of release, the film schedule accounted for 19, and the single-day box office was 6.8 million.

In ten days, the total box office of the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" directed and starred by Cao Jun successfully exceeded the 80 million mark!

80 million has been exceeded, is the box office target of 100 million still far away?

Seeing the increasing box office accumulation, Cao Jun became more and more convinced that the box office of the movie "A Little Thing About First Love" could successfully reach 100 million.

At the same time, the theme song "Those Years", which Cao Jun personally composed and sang in the movie "A Little Thing About First Love", also quickly became popular all over the country in just ten days.

Whether it is online or offline, the song "Those Years" has become popular because this song has touched many people and reminded many people of their youthful years and the unforgettable memories of them.

Boy or girl.

"The heavy rain I missed in those years

The love I missed in those years

I really want to hug you and embrace the courage I missed

I once wanted to conquer the world

Only when I looked back at the end did I realize

Everything in this world is yours

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How popular is the song "Those Years"?
Chapter completed!