The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 556 Urgent
The audience noticed the two men standing up and were stunned for a moment.

Perhaps they had not yet come out of the role of Gao Yuan in the play, and when they saw Lu Yuan appear, some people smiled uncontrollably on their faces.

"Hahaha."

"Gao Yuan, is your neck okay?"

Lu Yuan laughed along, and instantly adjusted his facial expression and body movements. He stiffened his neck, raised his chin slightly, and looked at people through his nostrils.

In the eyes of the audience, the mean Gao Yuan in the play seemed to have walked out of the screen.

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed even more happily when they saw this.

This was not the first time that Lu Yuan secretly watched a movie with the audience, but he had never been recognized during the previous previews.

It was also because of the extremely good feedback and constant laughter from the audience during the preview that gave him confidence, and he decided to add 1500 million in publicity expenses on top of the original ones.

Amid the laughter of the audience, Lu Yuan and Liu Shishi walked along the aisle to the big screen and lined up with Xu Zheng and others.

In the front row of the audience were Huang Xiaoming, Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin and others.

Today's host is guest star Chen Zhixi.

After introducing the director, actors, producers and other main creators, she held the microphone and asked loudly to the audience: "Do you think Lost in Thailand is good?"

Many audience members had already stood up, holding up their phones and taking pictures.

"nice!!"

"I'm almost laughing like an idiot."

"The trio is so funny, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt. I'm going to bring my family and friends to watch it again tomorrow. The more people there are, the merrier."

“Strongly request a second film!”

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"Thank you all for the likes."

Xu Zheng, Lu Yuan and others on the stage looked at each other, stepped forward and bowed to express their gratitude.

After the noise from the audience subsided a little, Chen Zhixi continued to ask: "Why did you come to see this film?"

"Trailer! I accidentally saw the elevator version of the transvestite trailer while browsing Weibo, and then I saw Wang Baoqiang giving Lu Yuan a spa treatment."

"I came here for Lu Yuan. Ahhhh, Lu Yuan, look here. I miss you so much."

"Shi Shi, stop staring at Lu Yuan. Look at me. I grew up reading your works." A girl in her twenties joked.

Liu Shishi was very embarrassed. She covered her mouth and seemed to be laughing.

"Xu Sanduo, I like your role as Wang Baoqiang!"

Huang Xiaoming put his hands together, making a trumpet shape, and said, "Brother Xu Zheng, I really like your Zhu Bajie!"

"Hahaha."

The corner of Xu Zheng's mouth twitched and he smiled back politely. This guy really wanted to get rid of the label of Bajie.

After the warm-up, Chen Zhixi began to follow the procedures.

"OK! Now let's hear everyone's feelings about the movie. This is what our creators are most looking forward to."

"Everyone raise your hands enthusiastically, and the staff will pass the microphone to us!"

She scanned the audience: "The one wearing glasses in the middle of the fourth row."

"Hello, everyone." Zhang Xiaobei greeted them and asked, "Director Xu Zheng, why did you want to change your career to become a director and shoot this subject?"

"These are two questions." A smile appeared on Xu Zheng's lips.

"I became a director because no one wanted me to act in movies. As an actor, once a role becomes popular, similar roles will come flooding in. I am not as good as Lu Yuan in this aspect. There are too few roles for me to choose from, which is very restrictive."

He patted his head and hesitated: "As for why I chose this subject."

"Like Lu Yuan said at the Shanghai Film Festival Forum, I believe that making movies is to serve the people, and my greatest effort is to make the audience laugh, so every joke or gag in this movie was strictly calculated. When I was shooting, I was thinking that I must do my best to make the movie well."

Zhang Xiaobei sat down, and Chen Zhixi pointed to another girl: "Five rows to the left...a girl with a peach on her clothes."

The female college student stood up excitedly, took the microphone from the staff, and couldn't wait to ask: "I have a question. There was a scene in the film just now where Wang Baoqiang sucked drugs into Xu Zheng's buttocks. Did Wang Baoqiang really suck it?"

"Well, this." Wang Baoqiang bared his teeth and hesitated. Xu Zheng smiled and said, "If you think it is true, then it is true."

The female college student was not satisfied with the answer and looked at Lu Yuan again.

"The cobra is real, Xu Zheng's butt is real too, and as for the rest, just use your imagination." Lu Yuan added with a smile.

"Lu Yuan, how does it feel like when Wang Baoqiang gives you a massage?"

"Baoqiang's technique is pretty good. I learned it on purpose." The guy put his arm around Wang Baoqiang's shoulders and said, "But he was really making scallion pancakes. After he did that, I felt like my neck was really bad."

Wang Baoqiang also laughed and said: "I used all my strength. Lu Yuan's back feels so good to the touch!"

"Ah~" The whole audience burst into laughter, and Liu Shishi stared at the two of them with a strange look on her face.

"Lu Yuan, why did you invest in this play?"

"Xu Zheng and I have worked together many times before. We are also friends in private and often chat about things. In fact, I knew he was preparing for the director a long time ago.

He himself is very clear about what the movie wants to express, which I think is commendable. This commendable thing lies in the correct direction of expression, the strong desire to express, and the sufficient means of expression. He has all the qualities of a good director.

So when he came to me and said he had a good book, I listened to his explanation and agreed without hesitation. "

Another person asked, "During the filming of Lost in Thailand, was there anything you couldn't stand? Or which scene was the most painful to shoot?"

Lu Yuan frowned. Today's protagonists should be Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, but from the moment they asked why they wanted to watch this play, most of the attention was on him.

He groaned for a few seconds and said, "It was all very easy, not painful at all, and I felt really good during the shoot this time.

In this play I am just a supporting role, used to enhance the sense of comedy and make the two of them even more embarrassed. Xu Zheng is the clue and Bao Qiang is the funny one.

I was responsible for putting pressure on them, so they didn’t have to stay on the set from beginning to end. They had time to go out for meals, hang out in coffee shops, etc., so the pressure wasn’t that great. It was them, however.”

He very naturally passed the conversation to Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang.

Wang Baoqiang is a smart man and looked at Xu Zheng.

Xu Zheng continued: "My most painful experience was drifting in the river with Baoqiang. The river was full of elephant dung, and my mouth was filled with it as soon as I opened it."

As he spoke, he also made a look of disgust.

"Hahaha."

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The audience was extremely enthusiastic and asked a wide variety of questions.

After the questions were answered, the audience dispersed in an orderly manner, and Lu Yuan and others returned to the backstage again.

Song Ge had been waiting for a long time. When he saw them, he said, "I just asked Zeng Maojun. According to statistics from the on-site data personnel, the frequency of laughter in each show at the Wanda Cinema in Beijing exceeded 100 times. No one left early. The audience praised it after watching it."

"Director Xu, the box office of this movie is stable, and we should raise our goals." After saying that, he tilted his head and said, "And Mr. Lu, congratulations. After this, the industry may give you a new title."

"what?"

"The Midas Touch!"

"Haha, not really, not really." Lu Yuan shook his head modestly.

Song Ge looked at this guy with mixed feelings in his heart. Judging from the audience feedback of "Lost in Thailand" tonight, it will be another dark horse if nothing unexpected happens.

Looking back at Lu Yuan's previous performances on the big screen, "Love Is Not Blind" earned more than 100 million yuan, "Time Traveler" was close to 300 million yuan, and this time "Lost in Thailand" is expected to make a return in the hundreds of millions.

Every shot hits the target and every time there is a great harvest.

He could already imagine how the media would be in an uproar over the next few days.

The next morning, the audience who attended the midnight show woke up and started to write brilliantly.

There are endless posts about "Lost in Thailand" on social platforms such as Tieba, Zhihu, and Weibo.

Some of them are film critics specially found by Zhang Bowen, some are reporters' reports, but the vast majority are tap water, real feedback from the audience.

Many domestic films have put a lot of effort into publicity and marketing. After they were released, they were constantly criticized, but the first wave of box office revenue was already in the pocket. "Painted Skin 2" is one of them.

What is different about "Lost in Thailand" is that most audiences left the theater satisfied.

Human-to-human transmission began, and word of mouth spread further, becoming even stronger by the afternoon.

The popularity of "Lost in Thailand" is comparable to that of "Time Raiders", and there are long queues at each ticket window.

At 4 p.m., some viewers had already started complaining online that they could not buy tickets and could only buy tickets for the next day.

For this purpose, Sina Weibo set up a special discussion area, and the number of positive comments reached more than 10 in a short period of time.

"Lost in Thailand is so good and so funny! I laughed until my stomach cramped and tears welled up in my eyes. I forgot all the annoying things and laughed like an idiot, but I couldn't stop laughing. When I got home and saw the cactus my husband raised, I laughed for another ten minutes. Oh my god, I can't take it anymore! Thank you Xu Zheng for making such a good movie, and thank you Lu Yuan for investing in this movie, it's awesome!"

"In 2012, when there was a shortage of high-quality domestic films, Lost in Thailand really exuded an awesome aura in all aspects."

"The pace is tight and the laughs are dense. The life lessons learned after a series of bad luck are also touching enough. This is what comedy should be like. It's time to have some fun on the screen these days."

"I haven't laughed like this in a long time. I laughed so hard that I almost fell off my chair twice. It's nothing else. I was too busy, too upset, too miserable. So I just went to watch Lost in Thailand. Even though it's not perfect, it has served its purpose above par. It makes you laugh! No questions asked!"

"The story is good! The theme is good! The acting is good! The directing is good! The audience laughed so hard that they fell over. The reaction was so intense that it is rare to see a movie in a theater in recent years. Not only was the theater full, but there were also extra seats. Some people even stood to watch the whole movie. It's really attractive. The last time was "Time Travel Together"!"

In addition to film critics and audiences, colleagues in the industry have also expressed their views.

Ning Hao wrote on Weibo: "It started from Baoji Bakery. I laughed so hard that I almost choked. In my opinion, this is a very solid comedy! Xu Zheng was very mature in his first film! Wang Baoqiang is the biggest highlight! Lu Yuan's joining is even more powerful. The effect of 2+1 is far greater than 3. I won't spoil it. If you want to have fun, go watch it yourself!"

Fan Bingbing also posted: "Congratulations on the successful premiere of Lost in Thailand, congratulations to director Xu Zheng, congratulations to Lu Yuan. I'm sorry I was abroad and couldn't attend the premiere."

July 7th was the second day after Lost in Thailand was officially released.

"Dududu~"

Huayi, Wang Zhonglei sat on the sofa with his mobile phone on the coffee table. He closed his eyes and tapped the armrest lightly with his fingers.

After Lost in Thailand was released, he did not go to the cinema to watch it, but he watched it throughout. After the film's premiere, there was a huge buzz online.

For a moment, he couldn't be sure whether it was a joint hype by Guangguang and Yuanfang Media or whether it was true, but he couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"Painted Skin 2" has been aired for a week and the box office has exceeded 3 million. The gorgeous special effects can no longer cover up the flaws in the plot.

Even though the marketing team tried hard to maintain it on Douban, the rating has now dropped from the initial 7.9 to 6.3.

If another well-received movie comes out on the market at this time, it is not impossible for the box office of "Painted Skin 2" to be cut in half.

"Ding ding ding."

The cell phone rang, and he quickly answered it: "How is it?"

"Just got the summary data, Lost in Thailand's first-day box office was 7182 million."

The first-day box office of Painted Skin 2 was only over 6000 million. Wang Zhonglei frowned and asked, "Where is our share of the revenue from yesterday?"

"We. We are less than 30 million."

Wang Zhonglei was immediately relieved when he heard this number. "Painted Skin 2" had shared 3200 million the day before, so it seemed that the figure had not dropped much.

To be cautious, he asked again: "How much is less than 30 million? Be specific!"

"2152."

Wang Zhonglei felt his eyes go dark, and he wanted to grab the collar of the person opposite him. How could this be less than 30 million? ?

He began to have a bad feeling.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Enter!"

Yang Zhenjian, the marketing director of "Painted Skin 2", pushed the door open and walked in.

This person was also the one behind the scenes in the production of Painted Skin, and it was also his suggestion to choose the summer vacation schedule this time.

The Lunar New Year holiday includes "2", "Chinese Zodiac", "The Grandmaster" and "The Great Shanghai". If "Painted Skin 5" is added, neither the cinema screening space nor the audience's spending power will be able to accommodate the competition of five blockbusters at the same time.

Faced with this situation, any normal person would know what to choose.

Yang Zhenjian originally did not take Lost in Thailand too seriously because of the different genres, one is a comedy and the other is fantasy.

Although Lu Yuan has joined, Xu Zheng is a new director and the budget is low. In addition, when Lu Yuan was interviewed by the media, he announced a box office target of 3 million yuan, and he stated several times that it would only take a break-even.

This led to a deviation in his judgment of the potential of this play.

But no matter how much deviation there is, isn’t the first-day box office of "Lost in Thailand" a bit too high?
The first-day box office of "Time Raiders" was only 4950 million. Relying on its solid reputation and no rivals in the same period, the full screening rate and strong stamina, it climbed to over 8 million.

He could understand that after this film, Lu Yuan's appeal on the big screen would be taken to a new level.

Nowadays, the audience's trust in him has skyrocketed, and when they learn that he has a film released, they are subconsciously willing to pay for him.

So it’s not surprising that the first-day box office of “Lost in Thailand” was higher than that of “Time Raiders”, but isn’t this a bit too exaggerated?

Yang Zhenjian looked serious. “Boss Wang, almost every screening at Wanda Cinemas in Beijing is full. I inquired and found that Wanda Cinemas has allocated more than 50% of its screenings for Lost in Thailand. The other theaters will follow suit soon.”

On the first day of the release of "Lost in Thailand", Wanda Cinemas gave it a screening rate of up to 40%. Based on Lu Yuan's participation, the screening rates given by several other cinema chains were also between 32-35%.

"If this continues, Painted Skin 2 will be in danger, and we have to take precautions."

"Don't keep me in suspense. Tell me, what are you going to do?" Wang Zhonglei rubbed his temple.

Yang Zhenjian smiled and said, “Before coming here, I contacted Wuhan Huaqi Film and Television and found out some interesting things.”

"Hua Qi? It looks familiar. I think I've heard it somewhere before."

Wang Zhonglei thought for a moment, then suddenly realized and straightened his back: "Are you talking about the copyright issue of Lost on Journey?"

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)