Chapter 198: Rising against the trend! Four thousand-word chapter!)
While everyone thinks that Lu Yuan must be enjoying his box office results and celebrating with a beer, Lu Yuan is actually living in dire straits.
Noon on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
It's sunny.
The sun shines on the earth, bringing a little bit of warmth to this cold earth.
Lu Yuan woke up from his sleep in a daze and suddenly felt a pain in his head when he looked at the familiar room and furnishings.
The clock on the wall has jumped to 12 o'clock.
Originally, during the Chinese New Year, he wanted to take a good vacation for himself and not care about other things. But yesterday, after watching a movie and returning to the company, he just lay down and soon after he started to have a fever. He quickly found anti-fever medicine and took it.
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Although I felt a little better after taking antipyretics, I fell into a deep sleep.
I caught a cold on the second day of the Lunar New Year, which is really not a good sign.
After getting up and seeing the empty lobby of the company, Lu Yuan felt a sense of powerlessness all over his body and his nose kept running, so he simply ran to the nearby hospital to see a doctor.
The middle-aged doctor on duty is a middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman recognized Lu Yuan, but she did not go around and ask Lu Yuan for his autograph like other little girls. Instead, she looked at Lu Yuan's doctor very dedicatedly.
Finally, she came to the conclusion that Lu Yuan had a bad cold.
She gave Lu Yuan two choices, one was to take medicine well, and the other was to have a diaphragm injection.
One is better and a little faster, the other is better and a little slower.
Lu Yuan chose the faster method.
After all, who can tolerate a runny nose every three days? A runny nose is often followed by a stuffy nose.
Lu Yuan really couldn't stand the feeling of breathing through his mouth when sleeping at night.
When the needle was halfway hung, Lu Yuan felt bored, so he took out his phone and adjusted the flight mode to normal mode.
After answering Zhang Tong's call yesterday, Lu Yuan set his cell phone to airplane mode in a daze.
As soon as the signal was connected, Lu Yuan's cell phone rang.
Lu Yuan looked at the phone...
It was Zhang Tong calling.
"Hey, congratulations."
"Congratulations for what?"
"You are still pretending to be confused. I don't believe you are not happy now..."
"Director Zhang, why am I so happy... I have a bad cold and a runny nose... I can't even cry."
"Tsk, tsk, pretend, you are still pretending. I know your acting skills are good, but you should put away your tricks in front of me. I think your box office trend today may surpass "Killing Aliens"."
"Director Zhang, what are you talking about..."
"Tsk, tsk, Xiao Lu, do you need to be so pretentious?"
"Director Zhang, I'm really not pretending, I'm feeling dizzy right now... By the way, what do you mean by box office?"
"Oh, you must let me cooperate with you to show off? I don't believe you don't know how much your box office is..."
"Director Zhang, I really don't know this..."
"Really or not?"
"Really, Director Zhang..."
"You don't know if the box office has broken a record?"
"I don't know, how much is it?"
"Haha, you want me to be the backdrop for your pretense? No, I won't accompany you..."
"Director Zhang, I'm really not the kind of person to show off. I really don't know what my box office is. Just tell me and don't get excited."
"Tsk tsk, I told you I don't want to be used as a backdrop. Okay, I'm done with it. Let's keep working hard today!"
"???"
When Zhang Tong hung up the phone, Lu Yuan was completely at a loss.
Then he felt very wronged.
He really doesn't know how much the box office is, and he never wants to pretend to be so inexplicable, right?
This made him feel very unhappy.
However, listening to Zhang Tong's tone...
Did your "Wanderer" explode?
Before Lu Yuan could think about it for a long time, his phone rang again. This time it was Wang Jinxue.
"Hello."
"Aren't you at the company?" Wang Jinxue's voice on the other end of the phone seemed strange.
"Not here."
"In the cinema?"
"No."
"Are you and Fatty Wei investigating the box office data of major theater chains?"
"No……"
"Then what are you doing? Don't tell me you're going home for the New Year again..." Wang Jinxue's voice became helpless.
"I'm in the hospital."
"Hospital? What's wrong with you? Which hospital is okay? I'll be right over..." Wang Jinxue's voice suddenly became nervous.
"The hospital is right next to it. It's actually not that big of a deal. It's just..."
"Dududu."
Wang Jinxue hung up the phone quickly and came over quickly. When Wang Jinxue came to the hospital and saw her hanging up, with a look of despair on her face, she immediately became confused whether to laugh or cry.
She thought something had happened to Lu Yuan just now. She even thought that Lu Yuan had a car accident. After arriving at the hospital, she discovered that Lu Yuan had a severe cold.
She breathed a long sigh of relief, and then the worry in her heart disappeared.
"You have a cold again?"
"Cough, cough, yes..." Lu Yuan was embarrassed.
"It seems you need to exercise. I didn't expect your physical condition to be so poor... You've caught two colds in less than a month."
"Ahem..." Lu Yuan continued to be embarrassed.
"The celebration party can be held after you recover from the cold."
"What celebration party?"
"What a celebration party for breaking the box office record."
"By the way, how much is our box office?"
"you do not know?"
"I really don't know, and I'm not pretending. Well, I'm really not the kind of person who pretends to be pretentious. Do you believe me when I say these things..." Lu Yuan looked at Wang Jinxue and said it all at once.
"I didn't say you were a show-off... Do you need to be so allergic..." Wang Jinxue suddenly laughed after seeing Lu Yuan's aggrieved look.
Lu Yuan's aggrieved expression was so funny for some reason.
He looked like a weakling who had been bullied and misunderstood but couldn't fight back.
"Okay, okay, can you guess how much the premiere box office of "The Wanderer" was?"
"I can't guess..."
"Eighteen million."
"What!" Lu Yuan was stunned when he heard this number.
Eighteen million?
So strong?
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The box office rankings for the premiere have come out.
The top four box office debuts are "Planet Age" with 35 million, "King Kong: Origins" with 32 million, "Alien" with 20 million, and "Nomad" with 18 million.
There is no doubt that the appearance of "Wanderer" has given Chinese films a very good start during the Spring Festival.
Netizens have very high hopes for this part of "Wanderer". Not only has it received rave reviews online, but its popularity on Tomato has completely surpassed "Aliens" and is close to third place "King Kong 1"
.Origin”.
Of course, the first-run box office is only a temporary figure and does not mean anything. Some movies have a poor first-run box office, but there are many movies that counterattack the next day. The representative movie "Buried Alive" is a blunt example.
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No one was optimistic about "Buried Alive" at first, but "Buried Alive" finally slapped everyone in the face with its box office results!
So even if Shen Lianjie's "Blooming Pinellia" is at the bottom, not many people are stepping on the movie.
The key still depends on subsequent development...
Many directors refuse to admit defeat.
Li Mingrui is such a person who refuses to admit defeat.
He is waiting for the results the next day.
To be honest, he doesn't have Chinese movies in his eyes, he only has Hollywood movies in his eyes.
He felt that his "Blood" was not poorly shot, and was full of action elements, and even incorporated countless passionate science fiction elements.
These elements are what young people love to watch most.
After considering the ratings of the movie on the Internet, he felt that he was completely confident in counterattacking.
Early in the morning on the third day of the Lunar New Year.
"Come out?"
"Come out."
"How are the results?"
"We broke 18 million!"
“How much is Alien Killer?”
"It's the same as us, eighteen million."
"Haha, it seems there is still a chance to counterattack. By the way, where is Zhang Tong's "The Age of Blood"?"
"The box office dropped to 15 million."
"Oh, then it looks like we are firmly in third place."
"No, the third one is not us."
"Who is that? Has anyone else counterattacked?"
"That..."The Wanderer" has exceeded 24 million, and is currently ranked third."
"What, third place? Is the gap so big?"
When Li Mingrui saw the box office results of "The Wanderer" on the second day of the Lunar New Year, he felt a little unbelievable.
This movie…
Exploded again?
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The box office results on the second day of the Lunar New Year shocked the industry again.
They thought "Wanderer" had a chance to surpass "Alien".
But they didn't expect that "The Wanderer" would completely surpass it on the second day and open a box office of 9 million.
On the Internet, the popularity and praise of "The Wanderer" continue to rise, while on the contrary, the data of "Aliens" has continued to decline...
After all, Chinese movie fans are not fools. They can at least tell the difference between good and bad movies. It is impossible for your shoddy stuff to beat those finely crafted ones, even if the finely crafted stuff is a literary film. Same thing.
This box office battle has shocked all movie fans!
For the first time, Chinese films defeated Hollywood films during the Spring Festival and ranked third.
Moreover, "Blood" also started to sing at the box office, and it was directly fixed in the fourth position!
This has to be said to be a feat!
This will undoubtedly make everyone happy.
All netizens on the Internet regard this moment as a sign of the take-off of Chinese movies!
They feel like they have seen hope!
Of course, compared with the progress of "The Wanderer" and "Blood", other Chinese movies have begun to show decline.
Zhang Tong could still accept his box office the next day, but after Shen Lianjie looked at his box office, he was stunned.
"Six million?"
"Six million the next day?"
"There was no increase but a loss of three million?"
In Joaquin's office, Shen Lianjie sat heavily on his chair...
He once again had doubts about his directing career.
This blow is not unbearable.
"Look at the third day! Phew, maybe it's just temporary!"
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The fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
People in China have begun to travel around to visit relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings.
Everything looks harmonious and warm.
But the box office war for the Spring Festival has just begun.
All the celebrities began to advertise crazily, canvass for votes, and even launched countless various activities.
"The Wanderer" is more Buddhist.
Lu Yuan has never come out to visit, advertise, or even hold a press conference...
Netizens found it very strange.
Later, netizens suddenly became happy when they saw that someone in the hospital secretly took a photo of Lu Yuan struggling to get an injection, and said that Lu Yuan had been on the injection for two days in a row and had a severe cold that was still not cured.
At this critical moment, when everyone else is busy trying to improve their box office performance, you might as well just stay in the hospital and catch a cold...
This cold comes at the wrong time...
But!
Even though "Nomadland" has no activities and no news, the box office of "Nomadland" has once again exploded.
On the third day, the box office of "Wanderer" exceeded 27 million, which was 7 million behind the second-place "King Kong: Origins" and only 10 million behind the first-place "Planet Age".
Got it!
In fact, on the third day, the box office of almost all movies dropped. "Blood" dropped from 18 million to 14 million, and "Blood Age" continued to drop from 15 million to 1
Twelve million, "Alien Killer" dropped directly to 10 million. As for "Blooming Pinellia", Shen Lianjie almost cried when he saw the box office of 5 million.
The good ones are not expected to come, but the bad ones are just a basketful of things to look forward to...
The only one that bucked the trend and rose was "Wanderer"!
"Wanderer" seems to be so unreasonable that it sucks up all the luck-lucky movies released during the Chinese New Year, and rushes towards the second-place Juhua...
At this moment, everyone was staring at "The Wanderer" and this terrifying dark horse that suddenly emerged!
Maybe……
Can this movie create a big miracle in the history of Chinese movies?
The fourth day came quickly.
The fourth day...
The single-day box office of "Wanderer" reached 29 million, and the box office of "King Kong: Origins" was also 29 million!,
"Isn't it possible? This "Wanderer" can't be so crazy, right?"
"this……"
"It's just a Chinese film. Are you kidding me? Why is the box office of other movies declining, but the box office of his movies is increasing every day? This is unscientific!"
"Look at Weibo."
"Weibo?"
"Well, the relevant departments specifically promoted this movie on their Weibo..."
"What, there is such a thing?"
"Um!"
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"What? I want to reduce the film schedule? Make room for "The Wanderer"?"
"What? Is this what the higher-ups mean?"
"this……"
After Shen Lianjie hung up the phone, his eyes widened.
At this moment, he instantly understood what it meant to add insult to injury.