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Chapter 705: A direct fight, setting a record for Chinese movies

The movie premiere ended successfully.

As usual, a cocktail party was arranged.

Zhou Yutang started chatting with Ren Zhonglun, Han Sanping, and Boss Yang of Yinghuang.

He was in a very good mood to talk, so he left the socializing to Li Shuang and went to the private club for the second session.

Maybe we'll talk until very late.

There is no way, with so many beauties, even if you can enjoy all the pleasures.

Sometimes there is always trouble.

The circle is so small that we will always meet each other in public.

Yijie was transferred to Hong Kong for a brand event, Dameiyuan took a leave from the crew to attend the premiere, Teacher Fan, Reba were all there, and Liu Tianxian was also there.
The women who are around Zhou Yutang are all very sensible and will not disturb men from pursuing their careers.

In fact.

This isn't necessarily an excuse.

That night, there was indeed something to discuss.

Zhou Yutang really talked to Boss Yang about "Operation Mekong" and two future projects in cooperation with Yinghuang.

Boss Yang flew all the way from Hong Kong for this purpose and attached great importance to it. Ren Zhonglun also showed considerable interest.

"Mr. Ren, you are too impatient."

"I can't help it. Your project is in great demand. I have to book it in advance."

Ren Zhonglun said with a smile: "Suzhou and Shanghai are one family. Shanghai Film Group is now in a critical period of listing, so you have to lend a hand."

"Wang Jing's script has been completed." Boss Yang interjected.

"So fast?" Zhou Yutang raised his eyebrows.

"He has a share of it, too."

Boss Yang also laughed: "Of course I am positive."

"Let's talk about it after this busy period."

Zhou Yutang thought about it and didn't refuse.

After internal evaluation by the company, these two projects were not given high priority.

By then the cost is estimated to be quite high, so it would be no problem to allow Shanghai Film Group to enter the market.

"Oh my god, this little girl's smile is so scary, it gives me goosebumps!"

"This girl looks so familiar, she looks like Zhang Zifeng who filmed a movie with the Grand Commander a long time ago?"

"Yes, yes, that's the little girl in The Man from Lone Ranger."

"Haha, Wang Baoqi is so funny."

"It's a bit surprising that Lu Han's acting skills are actually quite good."

"Is Gao Yuanyuan a member of the Q organization?"

After the premiere in Beijing, they flew directly to Shanghai to hold the movie premiere. The enthusiasm of the Shanghai guys was no less than that of the Beijing guys.

After the road promotion ended that day, there was another dinner party with the local boss Ren Zhonglun Group in the evening.

Executives of Shanghai Film Group, including Wu Heru of New United Cinema Line, Lian Tian Ming, and several bigwigs in the Shanghai circle, such as SMG CEO Wang Jianjun and those from Lemon Studios, were all present.

What surprised Zhou Yutang was that Mr. Guo, the boss of Fosun Group, a leading enterprise in Shanghai, was also there.

Governor Zhou has his own sources of information. He heard that Mr. Guo is very ambitious and has already been looking for a Premier League club. He is also making low-key plans to enter the entertainment industry.

"I'll raise another glass to wish Mr. Zhou a big box office success."

During the banquet, the atmosphere was very good. Ren Zhonglun took the initiative to stand up, raised his glass, and his face was flushed.

“Break the record again.”

"cheers!"

"Ding!"

Several wine glasses touched each other again, making crisp sounds.

The wine in the glass ripples gently.

"Boss Ren is such a jerk. He kept urging me to drink so much."

Back at the hotel, Da Meiyuan acted like a good housewife and bent over to help Zhou Yutang change his leather shoes.

Her beautiful hair fell on her snow-white shoulders and neck, but her tone was slightly resentful.

"Maybe I'm happy."

"Why is he so happy about your movie coming out?"

"We discussed two projects last night, and some of them could be shown in movies."

Zhou Yutang sat casually on the soft sofa recliner, Da Meiyuan leaned in his arms, and stood up to pour him a glass of water.

Holding the beauty in his arms and smelling her natural fragrance, he felt inexplicably comfortable: "Ren Zhonglun is really good at this."

"What did he do again?"

"Ren Zhonglun has joined forces with several other companies and is competing with China Film Group."

Zhou Yutang smiled softly and explained to Da Meiyu.

The last time I met Ren Zhonglun, he told me that he wanted to reorganize the Shanghai Film Festival.

However, the interests of all parties involved are deeply rooted and the resistance is considerable, so it is by no means an easy task.

However, Ren Zhonglun has been working in the film industry for decades and has his own network of connections.

This was something that had been painstakingly planned for a long time, and was brought up at an internal meeting not long ago, catching La Peikang off guard.

Da Meiyuan looked confused, and actually she didn't quite understand what was said. However, she felt that Zhou Yutang, who was explaining to her the power struggles among high-level officials in Vanity Fair at this time, was particularly charming.

She couldn't help but lean closer, smelling the scent of alcohol mixed with the masculine scent of the man, and gently kissed Zhou Yutang on the cheek with her thin lips.

The slightly rapid and heavy breathing, warm and fragrant, all breathed on Zhou Yutang's cheek.

Zhou Yutang also raised his hand almost instinctively, and immediately took the initiative, holding her slender waist and bringing that sweet and dreamy body into his arms.

Then, the city was conquered wantonly.
"On the first day of its release, Detective Chinatown grossed 2.85 million yuan, breaking the single-day box office record for Chinese films!"

"The first-day box office of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" was 1.23 million, ranking second in the Lunar New Year box office, but the reputation was not as good as expected!"

"On the first day, the box office of "A Moment in Heaven" was only 3100 million. The production was crude and the jokes were not enough. Shen Teng and Ma Li can't continue the glory of "Charlotte"!"

The long-awaited New Year's battle has begun, and the combination of Shen Teng and Ma Li is the first to be eliminated.

After the online movie "Never Expected" exceeded 300 million yuan, it has been stagnant and can be ignored.

This also includes Deng Chao's "Bad Angels", which earned over 5 million yuan in the first week, but its reputation was affected by negative reviews, and the single-day box office has dropped sharply to 1500 million.

As for Xiao Gangpao's "Mr. Six", the box office has exceeded 600 million, and the growth rate has gradually slowed down.

On the first day of the New Year's Day holiday, the stock market rose slightly before the holiday, and the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies also increased greatly, and they flocked to the cinema to consume.

On that day, "Detective Chinatown" grossed 3.08 million yuan, once again breaking the single-day box office record for Chinese films!

LeTV also carried out extensive marketing for Lu Chuan's "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", and the box office revenue on the same day was reported to be 1.25 million yuan.

The two movies account for more than 75% of the screenings in the market.

"Xiao Zhou, Sister Xun's smoky makeup on the day of the Feitian Awards was too exaggerated."

"She doesn't really suit this look."

Zhou Yutang was chatting with Liu Tianxian.

At the just concluded 30th Feitian Awards for TV Dramas, Kong Sheng won the Outstanding Director Award.

Li Jie's best friend Mei Ting won the Best Actress award for "Parents' Love", while Chen Baoguo won the Best Actor award.

"On the first day of the New Year's Day holiday, every show of Detective Chinatown was packed, with a high attendance rate, far surpassing The Lost Tomb. Governor Zhou's new film is expected to create a new box office record for Chinese films."

Listening to Liu Yifei reading the latest report, Zhou Yutang smiled gently: "Are you and Aunt Liu going to Spain next?" "Yes, it's rare for mom to come out for a trip, Xiao Zhou, good luck on your roadshow!"

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This New Year's Day, Miss Liu took herself a holiday and traveled to Europe with Aunt Liu and her assistant. After shopping in Paris, they went to Liverpool to watch a game.

Zhou Yutang greeted the club director Eduardo and sent someone to pick her up. Aunt Liu liked this style.

Someone took street photos of the mother and daughter, which have become a hot topic in the domestic entertainment industry.

A pair of sunglasses covered half of Miss Liu's face. Her long hair fluttered in the wind, making her look both fairy-like and beautiful.

Aunt Liu, who has rarely appeared in public in recent years, has maintained herself in excellent condition and is surprisingly eye-catching.

A woman in her fifties is still so graceful and charming, leaving countless passers-by dumbfounded
The box office of the Lunar New Year holiday has been brought to a climax by Zhou Yutang.

On the second day of the New Year's Day holiday, the box office of "Detective Chinatown" closed at 2 million yuan.

Number three, 2.49 million.

"After the New Year's Day holiday, including the preview box office, the total box office of Detective Chinatown has accumulated 17.12 billion!"

"Commander Zhou reigns supreme during the Lunar New Year season, unrivalled in his dominance!"

"Another money-making beast after the Magic Thieves. A sequel is being planned. Governor Zhou has already created the Magic Thieves detective universe!"

"After setting a series of records including the Chinese movie box office record, first-day box office record, and fastest box office to break 1 billion, Detective Chinatown has also broken the Chinese movie's fastest box office record to break 1.5 billion."

"General Zhou's battle to become a god is aimed at the highest box office record in the Celestial Empire!"

The New Year's Day holiday is over. The current news headlines in the domestic entertainment sector, apart from the finale of "The Princess Weiyoung" and the continued popularity of "The Journey of Flower", the ratings of both channels exceeded 2%.

What remains is the exaggerated box office data of "Detective Chinatown".

As well as the photos of Governor Zhou, Lu Han, Da Meiyuan and others doing roadshows in various places, they were posted on the headlines of major portals.

The strong performance of "Detective Chinatown" is like dropping a bomb on the Chinese film and television industry!
It exploded with a bang!

This exaggerated box office growth rate directly boosted the entire Lunar New Year box office.

The entire film and television industry was in an uproar.

Not only was the industry shocked, but even passers-by found it incredible: "Oh my god, this box office is too outrageous!"

"Boss is awesome, keep going, I'm going to take sister number two to the cinema to show support! Movie tickets JPG"

"Lu Chuan, Lu Chuan, even if I give you a chance, it's useless!"

Industry media have already begun to make conclusions about the Lunar New Year films in advance.

Even "Mr. Six" and "Bad Angels" combined are not good enough to beat Zhou Yutang.

The worst was "The Lost Tomb", which was released in the same period as Zhou Yutang. Under the siphon effect of the film market, all the audiences were sucked in, and the tomb robbers had no room for resistance.

On the second day of the holiday, it had already fallen below 100 million, and on the last day of the holiday, the single-day box office was only 60 million.

Lu Chuan hoped that this movie would allow him to make a comeback and return to the ranks of major domestic film directors, but in the end he was slammed underfoot by Zhou Yutang.

"Mr. Zhou, congratulations on winning the record for the fastest movie to break 15 billion box office. What do you think of Director Lu's attempt to challenge the box office record of tomb-raiding movies like Mojin: The Lost Tomb?"

"I'm not familiar with him, so I can't comment on him."

During the roadshow, Zhou Yutang was nonchalant when facing media interviews: "But from a realistic perspective, it's a little unrealistic."

His indifferent attitude made the reporter excited. "What do you think of Director Lu's previous Weibo post? He said he wanted to challenge Detective Chinatown to a fight. Now the box office gap is a bit big. What do you think of The Lost Tomb?"

“Grave Robbers’ Chronicles is a mature IP. The popularity of the TV series is enough to show that it has a large audience. Now that the box office and word of mouth are not ideal, there must be something wrong with the person at the helm of the project.

I never considered it as a rival, I only compared myself with my past self to see if I have improved a little. I am glad that everyone likes the movie "Detective Chinatown". This is a new attempt. As for whether the box office can break the record, I will leave it to fate."

Generally speaking, Zhou Yutang simply ignores the media's criticism.

This time he said some harsh words and stepped on Lu Chuan, directly stepping him into the mud.

"Is the gap so huge!?"

Boss Jia frowned and looked at the report submitted by the film department with a complicated expression.

I was shocked by Zhou Yutang's strength.

Some are unwilling to accept this result.

The atmosphere in the entire conference room was a bit low. The senior executives of LeTV Pictures were dejected and silent.

The single-day box office of "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" dropped by 40 million. Boss Jia is not an expert in the film and television industry, but he also knows what this means.

He spent such a huge price to take over "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" from Zhou Yutang, with the purpose of taking full advantage of the popularity of the tomb-raiding genre created by "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

This will drive the entire LeTV ecosystem layout forward.

If the project doesn’t become a huge hit, it’s considered a failure.

It is not yet known whether the costs can be recovered at this moment.

Excluding the 1.5 million yuan in production costs, the publicity investment will not be less than million yuan.

The most important thing is that the big picture has already been drawn, but now the project has not met expectations.

What should he do with his PPT next?
Of course, the defeat in this battle could not be his fault.

But someone has to be held accountable.

There was already a cold look in Boss Jia's eyes when he looked at Zhang Zhao.

After the New Year's Day holiday, everyone returned to work one after another.

The box office of "Detective Chinatown 1.72" has obviously dropped, with a single-day box office of 20 million yuan, and the billion yuan mark is just around the corner.

At noon the next day, Wang Baoqi saw Zhou Yutang rubbing his waist from time to time, and asked with concern, "Yutang, is your waist okay?"

"I twisted it in the shower last night, but it's not a big deal."

Zhou Yutang waved his hand, took the bag of Chinese medicine handed to him by his assistant, inserted a straw and started drinking.

"What is this?" Lu Han asked curiously.

"Nutrients, replenish your strength."

"Oh, I know this. There's something called red ginseng soup in South Korea." Lu Han suddenly realized.

"Good eyesight."

Zhou Yutang nodded approvingly.

There was nothing wrong with what Lu Han said, there was indeed ginseng in it.

This time he drank the PLUS version of the Imperial Medicine prepared by Gao Yuanyuan.

It has been upgraded based on the first version, with stronger medicinal strength and better efficacy.

After checking and finding no problems, Zhou Yutang agreed.

After all, Hua Tuo once said that the older you get, the more you need to replenish yourself.

He is almost 30 years old now, so it is reasonable for him to take some supplements.

During the days when the crew and main creators were on roadshow to promote the show, Da Meiyuan looked radiant and her signature bright smile was often seen on her face.

No more vixen will come to snatch her men.

Living together and flying together, how happy.

However, the crew of "Dangerous Wife" is still filming in Taiwan Province, and Da Meiyuan took four days off from the crew to participate in the film promotion.

Roadshow promotions are very tiring, but Da Meiyu is full of energy. Zhou Yutang doesn’t know where she gets the energy from, but she communicates with fans enthusiastically during the day.

After a long journey, WeChat counted more than 30,000 steps, and I could still sit back and move around by myself in the evening.

She left the roadshow team this morning, and Huang Xiaoming from the Taiwan Province crew immediately took another leave, waiting for her to return to start filming.

The night before leaving, he was particularly crazy. Governor Zhou was too proud and arrogant to avoid a fight. Although he killed Da Meiyuan and forced her to beg for mercy, he himself suffered heavy losses.

Zhou Yutang finally understood.

In the snow, why did the prince enter the fairyland on land and still have to hold the wall to get out when he met Pei Nanwei?

Governor Zhou is not really invincible, there are still great beauties in the world.
(End of this chapter)