China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 723 Boycott, Tencent, Explosion
"The highly anticipated first domestic air force film, Sky Hunter, had a dismal box office, with only 3000 million yuan on the first day, less than Sewing Machine Band, which was released on the same day."

"Li Chen couldn't help crying during the road show of Sky Hunter, his eyes were red, and fans sent him a VCR to cheer for him!"

"Wolf Warrior 2 had already surpassed the 4 million mark at around 3 a.m., and is expected to surpass 5 million in a single day, leading the market to surpass the million mark."

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The performance of "Sky Hunter" really made those who were optimistic about it in the industry sweat.

You should know that before the release, there was a company willing to spend 1 billion to guarantee the bottom line. After all, "Sky Hunter" is Li Chen's debut work as a director and actor, and Li Chen's girlfriend Fan Binbin is one of the leading actors. The two of them are naturally very powerful with their fame in the entertainment industry and the power of fan publicity.

In addition, the "Li Chen and Fan Binbin's proposal" incident made headlines many times, so it was undoubtedly a good indirect advertisement for his movie "Sky Hunter".

Moreover, it is the hottest military theme in the industry recently. The last naval-themed movie had a box office of 4 billion.

What most people didn’t expect was that the movie only opened with 30 million.

This is definitely not a good sign.

However, Douban promptly issued a rating, which dealt a heavy blow.

2708 people participated in the rating, and more than 38% of netizens gave one-star bad reviews, more than a thousand people, with the rating as low as 4.7 points.

"It's hard to describe the performance of Li Chen and Fan Binbin. It's a real acting disaster!"

"Li Chen is an ace fighter pilot, but he acted like a political commissar sitting in an office, without a trace of vitality."

"Fan Binbin's role is probably just to beautify the room. He seemed to be posing the whole time. It was so embarrassing!"

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There are endless complaints about it, but "Wolf Warrior 2" has a solid reputation, and its "tap water"-style publicity has attracted many passers-by to watch the movie.

"The main reason is that Wu Jing didn't do much promotion in the early stages. It was just normal promotion and the posters were great. I like movies like this. Li Chen and Fan Binbin, I can see them showing off their affection every day on the news. It's annoying that they even drag Sky Hunter into it."

"That's right, sister. It's disgusting. Boycott it. Don't even watch it if it's good."

"It's not that I don't like watching movies about military and patriotism, but I find the publicity and hype by Li Chen and Fan Bingbing really unacceptable!"

"It's not good to watch at all, and what popularity do Li Chen and Fan Binbin have? This movie is probably going to fail, these two people can't support the box office."

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While Wu Jing was at home accompanying Xie Nan, the box office was also frantically refreshing. When she saw the comments from netizens, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?" Xie Nan couldn't help but wonder when she saw Wu Jing's expression.

"It's nothing. I just feel that Director Li really understands the audience. The promotion of "Sky Hunter" was on the hot search every day, and I was a little anxious. Guess what Director Li said?" Wu Jing was filled with joy when he saw that the box office data was still rising wildly.

"Director Li will probably tell you to follow the normal promotion process and not to rush."

Xie Nan thought about it and said slowly.

"Hey, how did you know?" Wu Jing's eyes suddenly revealed surprise.

"You are the one who is in the know. Look at the publicity strategy of Mengying Media. Every time it is done, it is serious and never hyped. It always wins by quality and reputation.

This is the ultimate simplicity. Although Fan Binbin and others are on the hot search list every day, if they are on it too much, it will easily cause people to be disgusted, and it will waste the potential of the movie, which is not advisable."

Xie Nan is also a smart person and can figure things out almost immediately.

"Wife, you are so smart."

Wu Jing hugged Xie Nan and gave her a kiss.

"You stupid guy! Get me some warm water. I want to drink." Xie Nan patted Wu Jing's hand coquettishly. Then she seemed to remember something and looked at the time. It was almost noon.

"Oh, by the way, don't you have to go to the roadshow today?"

"I don't have any plans today. I'll go tomorrow. Yesterday, Iffy asked me to stay home with you more. The boss lady has given the order, so I have to do it."

Wu Jing smiled and then got up to get some water.

Compared to Wu Jing's joy, Li Chen and Fan Binbin were somewhat silent at the moment.

After all, the two of them tried every possible promotional trick for this movie and even rejected the 1 billion guarantee. At this point, Li Chen wanted to slap himself twice for pretending to be so high and mighty.

"Brother Chen, why are your eyes so red? Why don't you take a rest first?"

Fan Binbin felt that Li Chen's eyes were a bit strange, because they hadn't been red for so long, and it looked like he had been wearing makeup.

However, Fan Binbin just suddenly had a doubt in his mind and did not delve into it further.

Li Chen waved his hands, seemingly unconcerned: "It's okay, it's okay!"

He also wanted to gain more sympathy and promote "Sky Hunter" through his pitiful appearance, so the red eyes were very necessary.

But it seems that the makeup is about to be smudged and needs to be touched up again.

Li Chen looked at the box office statistics on Maoyan and muttered to himself.

The box office revenue of over 30 million really made him feel bad.

"What a pity. Tao Piaopiao may not be able to compete with Maoyan during this National Day holiday."

Yu Yongfu shook his head. Judging from the current style of Wolf Warrior 2, it seems that it will dominate the National Day holiday, and the online distributor of Wolf Warrior 2 is Maoyan.

"We can't help it, Mr. Yu. This is a movie produced by Mengying Media, so Maoyan has a natural advantage. But this is also Maoyan's disadvantage. After all, Maoyan already has a natural content producer. For other producers, choosing Maoyan may not have a resource allocation. This is the advantage of our Tao Piaopiao positioning as an infrastructure."

Alibaba Pictures CEO Fan Luyuan has done in-depth research on Maoyan.

After all, Maoyan’s advantages are also its disadvantages, which is inevitable because Maoyan naturally has the attributes of Mengying Media and Light.

"Well, it seems that the entrance to WeChat has been opened to Maoyan. Let's see which other traffic entrances we can get."

Yu Yongfu opened WeChat on his mobile phone and saw Maoyan.

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Yu Yongfu's words made everyone silent.

Traffic entrance is a problem, otherwise there would not be only a few ticketing platforms surviving, and now there are only Taopiaopiao and Maoyan left.

"Wolf Warrior 2 should be a huge success this time, which can be regarded as a satisfactory result for the shareholders after the merger."

At this time, Wang Changtian was happily talking to Li Mu.

Although the success of "Wolf Warrior 2" was foreseeable, the performance seemed a bit explosive. Compared with the first part, the growth is not a small amount.

"Boss Wang, I'm afraid you're not calling me to talk about Wolf Warrior 2."

Li Mu said lightly that Wang Changtian's words seemed to have a hidden meaning.

"Hey, Director Li, you're so perceptive. I can't hide it." Wang Changtian restrained his smile and said, "Tencent is asking us if we have any plans to promote Maoyan's listing."

"Going public?" Li Mu understood. He had long guessed that when there were more shareholders, going public would be a must.

I just didn’t expect Tencent to be so impatient. They had already started planning this as soon as "Wolf Warrior 2" showed some signs of success.

"We have this plan. Let's talk about it slowly when we get back."

Li Mu nodded. Since he had to take this step in the end, he might as well start preparing.

When Wang Changtian heard what Li Mu said, his eyes brightened up. After all, after going public, the liquidity of the market value cannot be compared with the current ones.

"The news is confirmed?" Ma Huateng was a little surprised when he heard Ren Yuxin's report.

"Indeed, Wang Changtian said that Li Mu does have plans to promote Maoyan's listing, but we have to wait until he returns to discuss it."

Ren Yuxin told him everything.

"It seems that our partner is not against the capital market or boycotting the listing. He just doesn't allow anyone to get involved in his Mengying Media."

Ma Huateng immediately analyzed according to his own understanding why Li Mu had not allowed Mengying Media to go public and contact investors.

“Maybe he’s not short of money.”

Ren Yuxin smiled bitterly.

"Well, that's true."

Ma Huateng couldn't help but laugh after hearing this.

It is a consensus in the industry that Mengying Media is not short of funds. Since it is not short of money, there is naturally no need to look for investors, which may also get in the way.

“《战狼2》首日破3亿，以38%的排片擒获58%的票房，顺利带领大盘突破5亿大关.”

"Wolf Warrior 2 won the championship with 3 million on the first day, Sewing Machine Band won the second place, and Sky Hunter's box office was lower than the first day, falling below 3000 million, ranking third."

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This time, Wu Jing really made a big splash, and many directors of Mengying Media took notice of her.

"Oh my god, if I had known earlier, I would have made a mainstream movie."

Ning Hao, who was in Qingdao, also widened his eyes.

"There are so many good reviews online now, I want to go and see it too. Why don't we finish work early today and go and see what's going on together?"

Huang Bo suggested that Wu Jing's box office performance really made him feel a little itchy.

After all, he also has a movie in post-production. Will it have a similar trend? Huang Bo has already started to fantasize about it.

"Let's go, call Shen Teng, and let's go take a look."

Ning Hao nodded, "By the way, where is Shen Tengren?"

"He's still reading the script, saying he'll think about it more. I won't say more. I'm a little stressed too. This guy has a real talent for comedy."

Huang Bo also hurriedly started to study the script, fearing that he would be overshadowed by others.

At this time, Wu Jing had received individual interviews from many media outlets. After all, Wu Jing is very popular nowadays, and everyone wants to get first-hand information.

It is very likely that this is the director of another Chinese-language movie that will gross over 20 billion yuan.

"Which one do you plan to choose?"

Seeing that Wu Jing seemed to be still choosing, Xie Nan couldn't help but ask.

"Well, I've found one. Let's go with Sina." Wu Jing seemed to have made up her mind. "Director Li is a shareholder of Sina's Weibo, so it would be a better choice. Besides, Sina and Mengying Media have cooperated many times. They were the ones we approached for Wolf Warrior last time."

(End of this chapter)