Ma Xiaoyang is twenty-six years old and is the front-end of an IT company.
Last month, he just broke up with his girlfriend of three years. The reason is that they have reached the age of marriage, but the girl's parents are not satisfied with him, so they refuse to marry their daughter to him.
And his girlfriend had no determination to spend her life with him, so she chose to obey her parents and leave Ma Xiaoyang.
The sad Ma Xiaoyang resigned and locked himself in a rental house, playing games, drinking and living in a state of confusion every day.
Today, he was playing a TFT game as usual, drinking wine to relieve his worries.
When people are unlucky, they can easily be bullied even when playing games. The dealer won't give you the cards you want.
The eighth hand was sent away, basically losing one section in three rounds, one section falling in three rounds, which made people's mentality explode.
Angry, Ma Xiaoyang uninstalled the game directly and opened Weibo to read some "Heart (Poison) Spirit Chicken Soup" to nourish the wounds in his heart.
However, today’s Weibo headlines are dominated by new information related to the entertainment industry.
First of all, the shocking promotional video for "The Sword" is coming. Eight well-known directors strive to innovate and integrate eight styles into one movie, ushering in the era of "fusion style" in movies.
Secondly, the plot of the movie "Mood Inn" reflects reality, and topics such as "Who is the final winner between the prophet and the witch" have aroused widespread discussion among netizens.
Ma Xiaoyang first took a look at the promotional video of "Ling Sword".
He was looking forward to this movie when it first started filming, because Zhao Guan, one of the eight great directors, is a new generation director he likes very much, so he usually supports any movie directed by Zhao Guan.
After watching the three-minute promotional video, Ma Xiaoyang felt that this movie was great. The whole movie was full of strong martial arts style. It was exciting to watch. I wished I could transform into a knight in the movie and wield a sword to the end of the world.
The movie is a good movie.
It's a pity that the person who watched the movie with him left.
With a sigh, Ma Xiaoyang turned off the trailer and clicked on the hot search about "Mood Inn".
With the movie being released in three days, "Mood Inn" also released their trailer and promotional video, but unlike "Ling Sword", the trailer of "Mood Inn" is a bit bad.
There is not a single fight in the three-minute trailer. Either a wealthy businessman comes to Xiuhua Town for real estate development inexplicably, or the villagers of Xiuhua Town wave their money and run to Hexi to buy a house, or the sisters in the Mood Inn are fighting with each other on a daily basis.
Throughout the entire film, except that the costumes, backgrounds and props belong to the category of ancient martial arts, there is no trace of martial arts flavor in it.
"What the hell were you filming?"
Ma Xiaoyang complained, then drank a glass of wine and was about to close the web interface. However, he accidentally scrolled the mouse and pulled down the interface to see some comments from netizens.
"I always feel that it may not be the prophet's prediction that comes true. It is very likely that the witch spread the poison and helped a wave of prophets."
"Your topic is not valid. If the witch exports poison, then why have house prices increased?"
"But the rich blood-sucking businessman is dead? Didn't the trailer show Tong Xiangyu cursing the rich blood-sucking businessman that he should die?"
"That's right! I think I saw a wealthy businessman hang himself just now, but I don't know if he committed suicide."
"It's definitely not the witch who spreads the poison. The prophet's prediction is true. You see, the first wave of people prayed for noble people to come to Embroidery Town, but the next day rich businessmen came, thinking that housing prices would rise, and cows would rise. As a result, housing prices and cows were both
It’s gone up.”
"I think too, but don't forget that in this movie, the younger sister is the heroine, and the older sister is just the second female lead."
"Yes, and don't you see that the price of beef in Azure City has also been predicted to increase?"
"Do you know that it's not because the witches exported poison that poisoned the cattle that caused the shortage of cattle and the increase in beef prices?"
A lot of inexplicable comments made Ma Xiaoyang a little confused. How could he be a prophet and a witch? Are they talking about a movie?
Confused, he watched the trailer again, and then he understood it based on the comments from netizens.
It turns out that the reason why netizens discussed the topic of "prophet and witch" under this movie is because there is a plot in the movie that happened to come true in reality, which attracted widespread attention and discussion.
What can my sister really achieve if she says anything?
Is your sister really cursing something to bring bad luck?
Ma Xiaoyang didn't believe it.
Movies are movies, fake and magical.
"It's the beginning of winter in three days, and two movies will be released, so why not watch them both."
Thinking of this, Ma Xiaoyang took out his mobile phone and bought movie tickets for two movies on the Tao Cinema app, preparing to watch these two works.
…
Time flies.
As the beginning of winter is approaching, netizens are full of expectations for these two upcoming movies.
Of course, the data shows that although "Mood Inn" is not inferior to the movie "Lingjian" in the discussion topics on Weibo, Tieba, and forums, the public's expectations for "Lingjian" are far higher than "Lingjian".
Mood Inn》.
This can be seen from the fact that the movie started online pre-sale the day before the beginning of winter.
On November 6, the pre-sale box office of "The Sword" reached 12 million.
The pre-sale box office of "Mood Inn" was only 3 million.
The difference in pre-sale box office between the two is a full 4 times.
The gap in pre-sale box office also directly affects the theater's allocation of its premiere schedule.
On the day of the Beginning of Winter, in addition to "The Sword" and "Mood Inn", there is also a movie "Invincible Youth" released nationwide. In addition to the huge popularity of the two movies for more than a month, theaters allocated most of the movies to
these three movies.
In the end, "The Sword" accounted for 35% of the film schedule on the first day.
"Mood Inn" accounts for 12% of the film schedule.
"Invincible Youth" accounts for 25% of the film schedule.
The remaining 27 percent is divided among other movies released on Halloween.
Judging from the film schedule, "Ling Sword" almost crushed "Mood Inn".
As for whether the final outcome will be the same, we can only know after the box office is released.
…
November 7th, Saturday, is one of the twenty-four solar terms inherited from ancient China. The Beginning of Winter also means entering the cold season. Chinese people should pay attention to wearing more clothes and keeping warm to prevent winter colds.
This day is also the official confrontation between the two movies "Ling Jian" and "Mood Inn".
morning.
Major theaters in the country have received a good wave of movie viewing traffic, which is the feedback income brought by the two previous movies competing on the Internet.
If there was no competition aspect, it would be impossible to arouse so many fans' desire to watch the two movies.
Yunhai International Cinema.
Jiangbei stood in the huge movie theater, watching the small and large groups of movie fans going to the counter to buy tickets and collect tickets from the self-service ticket machine, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.
Liangliang stood aside and stamped her legs, put her hands in her trouser pockets, and looked around with a mask on her face. She accidentally saw that her brother seemed a little nervous, so she comforted him: "Brother, don't worry. I heard everything. Most of them are.
I went to buy tickets for "The Sword" and "Invincible Youth". Not many people watched our movies."
"That's what I say, but as long as the results don't come out, I always feel uneasy." Jiang Bei sighed lightly and said.
After experiencing the last failure, even if he thought he was sure of victory this time, he was a little worried about capsizing. This was probably the so-called 'sequelae of failure'.
"What are you afraid of? How can it be so easy to make a good movie? With so many movies released in China every year, who doesn't want to make a good movie? But don't most of them still fall into the street? What's more, this movie starts from scratch.
We are in control until the end, don't worry, it won't be popular." After Liangliang finished speaking, he pressed his little head against Jiang Bei's back and pushed him towards the theater: "Let's go quickly, the movie will be released soon.
Already."
…
The movie still hasn't premiered.
Very little publicity was done.
The attendance rate for the first game was only a barely 40%.
This is still the popularity brought by the fight. Even though everyone is not optimistic about the movie, there is still a small number of movie fans who will come to watch it despite the huge base.
This somewhat relieved Jiangbei.
"Today's attendance seems to be okay." Li Youqing glanced at the audience seated behind him and said with satisfaction.
"I really don't know where you get your confidence from. The "Ling Sword" next door is now full."
Jiangbei would naturally not miss the opportunity to hit his wife.
"So what? We only invested 8 million in this movie. As long as the box office can exceed 50 million, it will be a big profit. And "The Sword" invested 50 million, and even 200 million would not be a loss for them!" Li Youqing
He retorted harshly.
50 million box office?
It's like a dream.
Perhaps Li Youqing himself found it a bit difficult. After feeling proud, he regained his composure and quietly leaned into his ear and whispered: "Otherwise, our previous agreement will be invalidated?"
"Want to regret it?" Jiang Bei asked with a frown.
"I don't want to irritate you."
"Are you afraid that I will be stimulated or are you afraid of losing?" Jiang Bei sneered.
Li Youqing pouted and looked around.
Director Hai Dapang was chatting excitedly with Producer Li. Liangliang was sitting alone and playing Landlord. Some other cast members were also doing their own things, but except for Hai Dapang, everyone's face was full of smiles.
His expression was more or less nervous.
Obviously, the popularity of "Ling Jian" next door has brought them a lot of psychological pressure.
In fact, Li Youqing himself is the same.
In fact, from the moment the competition between "Mood Inn" and "The Sword" was announced, she was a little worried that the movie would be a hit after it was released. But at that time, the arrow was on the string and she had to shoot, there was no turning back. In addition, she also felt unwilling to admit defeat.
Because of my enthusiasm and blind faith in Mr. Mu Xia’s script, I finally had to bite the bullet and continue filming.
But after the promotional videos for "The Sword" and "Mood Inn" came out, her confidence was gradually shattered.
Because if she puts aside her identity as an actor and looks at the trailers of the two movies, she will also feel that "Ling Sword" is several levels higher than "Mood Inn".
Therefore, she was also panicked at today's premiere.