director of the millennium

Outside a cinema in Beijing.

"Don't tell me, don't tell me, I never thought Lei Datou could act in a romance movie, and act quite well at that!"

"The Lu Shiyi who appears later in the movie has the same face as Lei Datou, but he looks much more handsome than Lu Ming. He looks like a real elite. Lei Datou's acting is really good."

"Indeed, there are very few actors who can play two roles and let the audience feel the difference in personality and momentum between the two characters. The last actor who can do this was Pan Yueming in "Day and Night Chase"!"

"This movie is actually the best movie I've watched so far this year. Logic and other things are not important. The most important thing is... it's too sweet, too sweet!"

"I never thought that Liu Yifei and Lei Datou could be such a good match. This couple is so weird. What's even weirder is that there is no kissing scene in the movie, but it still makes people feel very sweet. It turns out that love movies shot by female directors are more delicate!"

"It's not as mysterious as you say. It's just a pretty good commercial film, enough to relieve boredom."

It was obvious that several audiences had come together to watch "Time Raiders". After watching the movie, they were still discussing the movie enthusiastically after leaving the cinema.

Their reviews are basically the same as those given by most fans on the Internet who have watched this movie.

In this year when there are not many good romance movies, "Time Travel Together" is already a refreshing work. Most fans who have watched this movie gave it a pretty good review.

Even fans who are not very interested in this movie do not think it is a bad movie. At most, they think it is a mature commercial film with no surprises. However, they cannot deny that this movie is at least worth the price of the ticket.

And this kind of evaluation is enough.

In the absence of a lot of negative reviews, "Time Raiders" quickly took off at the box office.

Liu Yifei's popularity itself is enough to attract a large number of fans to go to the cinema to watch this movie as soon as possible. After all, she is really popular.

And since the first batch of movie fans basically didn't give too many negative reviews, the box office snowball got rolling easily.

In just the first week of its release, the box office of "Time Raiders" exceeded 8 million yuan, far exceeding the performance of the original version. In fact, there are not many changes to this movie, except for a new heroine.

This is a success due to multiple factors.

On the one hand, the change in the heroine has indeed brought higher box office appeal.

On the other hand, the release dates are different.

The original version of "Time Raiders" was scheduled to be released in May, and it was not the Labor Day holiday, but just an ordinary weekend. The publicity efforts were far less than that of Light and Shadow Era.

"Time Raiders" by Light and Shadow Era is scheduled to be released during the Lunar New Year holiday at the end of the year. The publicity itself is strong enough. In addition, winter and romance films are a good match. Most audiences have recognized the fact that there are no excellent romance films released this year, so naturally they can only watch this last romance film at the end of the year.

The combination of various factors has made "Time Raiders" achieve much better box office results than the original film.

This also shows that the box office of a movie is affected by many factors. Even if the content of the film does not change, the box office results will be very different when the release period and publicity intensity are different.

Of course, the premise is that this movie can't be a bad movie. A bad movie can't be saved no matter what time it is released or how much publicity it has. "Based on the current situation, the final box office of "Time Travel Together" should be around 1 billion, right?"

Wu Yuan, who was sipping a cup of tea, looked at the box office statistics on his phone and said to the proud Liu Yifei, "Another billion-dollar movie, box office queen, are you satisfied now?"

Yes, Liu Yifei now has a new nickname in the outside world - "Box Office Queen".

She is completely different in this life from the original time and space. Starting from her first movie "Your Name", Liu Yifei's film journey can be said to be full of sparks and lightning.

Not to mention her brilliant achievements abroad, even if we only consider the domestic box office results, she is firmly in the top spot among actresses at the box office!
If overseas box office is included, Liu Yifei is the only actress in China whose career box office has exceeded 100 billion RMB. And this is not the kind of statistical method that includes third and fourth role, in every movie she is at least the second female lead!
Even if Gong Li had the box office support of Wu Yuan's "Gravity" in this life, her total box office would still not be better than Liu Yifei!
It can be said that she deserves the title of box office queen.

Now, with another movie that is sure to break 10 billion at the box office, Liu Yifei's throne has naturally been strengthened by another solid gold brick, which makes her very happy.

"Actually, I'm still a little dissatisfied." However, Liu Yifei blinked her eyes and sighed deliberately, "The box office of Time Travelers will only be 1.7 billion or 1.8 billion at most. I don't think it will even be ranked in the top ten box office in mainland China this year."

"Not to mention compared with movies like Operation Red Sea, Detective Chinatown 2, and Dying to Survive."

"Last year, 'Ex-Files 3' earned billions at the box office. Although it is also a romance film, our 'Time Raiders' only earned over a dozen billion. We are still far behind. We need to keep working hard!"

"Hehe." Wu Yuan chuckled with a forced smile and didn't bother to pay attention to her.

Although he is not very interested in "Ex-Files 3", Wu Yuan still has an objective view. A light romantic comedy like "Time Raiders" can never resonate with the public like "Ex-Files 3".

After all, this is a light romantic comedy with a fantasy touch, and the ceiling is visible. The highest box office revenue is only over a billion.

Even if "Love You at 105℃" is very popular, its influence can never be compared with the killer breakup love songs like "Breathing Pain" and "What I Miss".

"Time Raiders" can be secretly happy that it has a box office of over 9 billion. The original version only grossed million in the end!
"It's okay." Wu Yuan looked at Liu Yifei with a teasing expression, raised his eyebrows and said in a relaxed tone: "It's better for me to win the annual box office championship."

"The Monkey King will be released on the 25th. By then, I will have won the box office championship this year."

"Tsk~" Liu Yifei rolled her eyes at Wu Yuan in annoyance and didn't want to respond to his words. They were already an old couple and no matter how much they liked each other, she wouldn't rush to talk to him and let him show off in front of her. It was boring.

However, although Wu Yuan looked relaxed, he still felt heavy in his heart.

Fortunately, "The Monkey King" was released in December 2018 and will only be included in the 12 box office statistics. If it wants to grab the box office champion, it should be the 2018 box office champion.

Wu Yuan was more or less confident that he could challenge the 3 billion box office of "Operation Red Sea", and he also believed that the Monkey King had the appeal and could do this.

But if he were to work on "The Wandering Earth", a movie with a box office of 2 billion yuan next February, that would be really difficult for him and he wouldn't be able to handle it!

"Fortunately, they finally decided to advance the release date by two months, so it will be released at the end of the year." Wu Yuan murmured in a voice that only he could hear. (End of this chapter)