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Chapter 583 [10] Pre-sale, breaking the record!

The next morning.

Imperial Capital Huaxing Cinema.

Yan Mingxiu and Luo Jia arrived at the entrance of the cinema together. Looking at the people queuing up to buy tickets, they were obviously frightened by the scene in front of them.

“Are these all for movie tickets?”

Yan Mingxiu pointed, and Luo Jia nodded: "Of course, let's go, let's get in line!"

"No, let's go to another one. There are so many people. How long will it take to queue?"

Yan Mingxiu had obviously never experienced such a scene before, and looking at the many people queuing up, most of them were young people like her.

"If you change to another one, it might be the same!"

Luo Jia pursed her lips: "Don't you see that there are so many of them, they are all fans of Super Girl?"

"Jia Jia, let's go to another one. There's a movie theater right next to my house!"

“That house is too small!”

"Let me tell you, when I went to Changsha during the summer vacation, there were more people lining up to buy tickets for the Super Girl live show. This is nothing!"

"All right!"

In the end, Yan Mingxiu and Luo Jia had no choice but to follow the crowd and start buying advance tickets for "Extraction". As Luo Jia had expected, many first- and second-tier cities had people queuing up to buy tickets in movie theaters.

The cinemas in the city center gathering areas have the longest queues.

Last night's premiere of "Taken" attracted many of Chen Yu's fans to the cinema, but even more of them were Super Girls fans, as well as high school and college students.

In their minds, although they have to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, watching movies is also a good opportunity to spend the holiday.

After waiting in line for more than an hour, it was finally Yan Mingxiu and Luo Jia's turn.

Yan Mingxiu hurriedly said: "Hello, I want a ticket for the second night of the Chinese New Year!"

"No more, there's one on the third night of the New Year!"

The ticket seller said without even raising his head, "His hands were cramped from all the ticketing today."

"Ah? No more?"

"Yes, there are still some during the day on the second day of the New Year, or tomorrow, on New Year's Eve, there are also some!"

Many people want to watch the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve, but Yan Mingxiu glanced at Luo Jia, and the last two people said directly: "Then how about New Year's Eve?"

Young people don’t really like watching the Spring Festival Gala, so it doesn’t matter.

Soon, two tickets for tomorrow night at 8 o'clock were printed out, and the two little girls happily took the tickets and walked out of the cinema.

"I don't know what to make of it. This is my first time going to the cinema to watch a movie!"

"Chen Yu's movies should be pretty good. I've seen his Initial D, and he looks so cool when driving!"

"I've seen that movie too, but I watched it on the computer!"

"I went to the cinema!"

The two little girls walked towards the commercial street while chatting.

……

At this time, Chen Yu had just woken up from his sleep.

We partied until late last night. After everyone dispersed, Chen Yu treated Wu Jing, Ye Weixing and other main creators of "Escape Plan" to a midnight snack. They didn't get home until 3 a.m.

"Hmm~"

Chen Yu stretched hard, then got up and turned on his cell phone.

Lots of incoming call reminders and unread messages.

"exploded!"

"The premiere was a great success. All the best theaters across the country are lining up to buy tickets today!"

“Pre-sales are about to hit a new high!”

Looking at the text message sent by Yu Dong, Chen Yu could feel his excitement, and Chen Yu himself also smiled slightly.

Facts have proved that Super Girls’ fans are still rich and can still call on a group of young girls to go to the cinema; the main reason is that this film has roles for girls, so they are interested.

And this is exactly the audience group that is most lacking in the current film market.

In other words, this part of the market was originally blank in the country, but now Chen Yu has started marketing it.

These groups do make contributions at certain times.

Youth films like "Gone Girl", "Hot as Hell", etc., will all receive box office revenue contributed by this group in the future.

But at present, they are just boys and girls who are simply chasing stars, but in the future, they will develop into fan clubs, and then accelerate in the future, and become heavy topic users of certain apps, such as Weibo, Douban, and a certain book, etc.

Super topics and Douban groups are just abnormal. The most extreme ones are boxers, colonizers, and haters of the country...

But it must be said that the current consumption capacity of this group is very high.

Only if you have money can you chase stars, but your future will be ruined.

Now they are the "little ancestors" and money bags in the eyes of Mango TV.

And it's very simple and pure. I just like to chase stars without any purpose. The threshold is actually very high.

The threshold for accessing the Internet is also high now.

The reason why the future will be infinitely accelerated is that the threshold has become lower and anyone can access the Internet, so there will obviously be more monsters and demons.

Chen Yu has experienced the changes of this era. He understands that at this stage, a group of entertainment users, the creators with the strongest consumption power, definitely need targeted marketing.

"Taking Action" is a story about a handsome guy rescuing a girl. Apart from his own fans and many passers-by who like him, the only ones left are some boys and girls.

They obviously like movies like this too.

In addition, during the special period of the Spring Festival, the elderly group may also be attracted, so Chen Yu can basically achieve a universal hit.

Movies like "House of Flying Daggers" and "Kung Fu" actually didn't achieve the level of universal success.

The reason why the Spring Festival box office sales are so good in later generations is because this time can take everyone into consideration.

Even though "Wolf Warrior 2" was released during the summer vacation, there should be very few young girls, which is the future fan circle; but this "Escape Plan" really achieved full coverage of the 15-60 year old age group during the Spring Festival!

The more people watch it, the higher the box office will be.

This is the basis of film marketing.

Chen Yu washed up and had just finished his lunch when good news came again.

The pre-sale of "Extraction" finally broke through the 6000 million mark.

The day before its release, it achieved the best pre-sale box office record in Chinese film history.

Moreover, this number is only temporary. There will be another wave of people buying tickets in the afternoon and evening. Because the midnight show of "Escape Plan" is held, Chen Yu has to take Ye Weixing and other main creative staff to the New Film Association in Wangfujing for a roadshow.

This was Chen Yu’s first stop, and it was also the theater where he performed his first film, “Kara is a Dog,” on the roadshow.

There was obviously a reason why Chen Yu chose that as the first stop.

The premiere of his first film was held there, and now it is his first independently produced and starring film, so of course the premiere will also be held there.

It's a tribute and a unique idea.

Hope it brings good luck.

……

Time passed, and before we knew it, it was night.

Chen Yu and Liu Yifei came to the backstage of the New Film Association Cinema Chain, where makeup artists and prop masters hurriedly put makeup on everyone.

The stage for the premiere has been set up. At 9 o'clock, Chen Yu and a group of main creators will attend to answer questions from reporters and many fans. Of course, there will also be some interactions and performances. It is certainly not comparable to last night's premiere, but it can be regarded as a small warm-up.

"Brother Yu, I just heard from a reporter from Sina that our movie's pre-sales have reached 8000 million?" Ye Weixing was shocked by the number.

Chen Yu took out his phone and handed him the message Yu Dong sent him: "How can it be so much? The media hypes it up every day. 7000 million is just over. If it's better, it should be 7500 million, right?"

"Isn't that about the same as 8000 million?"

"Wow, the mainland market is really huge. How can they sell so much in pre-sale?"

Ye Weixing obviously couldn't think of anything.

This pre-sale result is indeed far beyond "House of Flying Daggers", but Chen Yu also saw the difficulty of breaking the 100 million mark.

Later, "Detective Chinatown 3" had pre-sales of nearly 10 billion yuan before it was released, a record that is truly unmatched.

“I hope I can give it a try after it’s released!”

Chen Yu felt that at the time in 06, 7500 million should be the limit.

Because he has actually done all the marketing he can.

Now we can only hope that tomorrow’s first-day box office can reach a new high. However, it is New Year’s Eve and everyone is watching the Spring Festival Gala at night, which will definitely have an impact.

Although there are still 8 days of holidays after the New Year.

There is no other way around this. Since this is the first time that Chen Yu is opening the Spring Festival period, he has included the New Year's Eve holiday, trying to use as many holidays as possible to boost the box office. If he wants to set a record again during the Spring Festival period next year, it would definitely be better to release it on the first day of the New Year.

This year, it’s just a trial run.

Let the industry feel the shock of the Spring Festival period; now, Chen Yu’s pre-sales have been noticed by the entire industry.

It turns out that the Spring Festival, which has always seemed to be ignored, can actually sell so many tickets?

Many people in the industry are keeping an eye on Chen Yu's Spring Festival schedule.

"Let's go, come on!"

“It’s time to truly verify the box office!”

Pre-sales are crucial to whether a movie sells well, but the midnight show is also very important.

The midnight show sold well and word of mouth spread, so more people will go to the cinema to buy tickets tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Chen Yu brought the main creators of "Extraction" to Hall 1 for the premiere.

"Oh oh oh!"

As soon as he came on stage, all the fans and moviegoers who had bought tickets to enter the venue started screaming, as well as some of the invited media friends.

The host was Gao Jun, the director of the cinema, who was quite experienced and an old acquaintance.

He hosted several of Chen Yu’s movie premieres.

"Okay, all the fans, reporters and film critics present here, our premiere of "Taken" will begin now!"

"I think many of you here are as excited as I am, and are looking forward to the release of this action-packed and heartwarming movie that has received rave reviews overseas!"

"Like everyone else, I haven't seen it yet!"

Gao Jun smiled and said, "Because Brother Yu didn't invite me to yesterday's premiere!"

"Haha, just kidding, because I know he will come to our theater today!"

"Speaking of action movies, this has always been Brother Yu's forte. Although everyone is familiar with Chen Yu, director Ye Weixing may be relatively unfamiliar. Let us first welcome Mr. Ye Weixing, the Hong Kong director of the movie "Escape Plan"!"

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
Many people sitting below clapped spontaneously, and there were countless cheers, which was quite respectful.

"Hello everyone, I'm Ye Weixing!"

Ye Weixing waved to everyone in his not-so-fluent Mandarin.

"Today is the official release date of "Taken". In less than three hours, everyone will be able to watch this film, which is the result of the hard work of all our creative staff!"

"As far as I am concerned, I feel that I have done my best to shoot this film to the final effect I wanted to achieve!"

"From the approval of the project in January 05, to the start of filming in March, and then to November this year, it took a full 1 months. The filming, editing, review, and now the scheduling took almost a year..."

"..."

Ye Weixing was narrating the filming process of "Escape Plan".

"Here, I want to thank all our creative staff, especially Brother Yu. Without him, there would be no movie today..."

"He dedicated some of the most exciting fight scenes in his career for this movie, and he didn't use a stunt double from beginning to end, and he got injured many times!"

"The filming of this drama was extremely difficult, and it can be said to be dangerous... Many journalist friends should know that during the early stage of filming, a stunt brother was injured and suffered severe internal bleeding; and in the early stage of filming, an actor injured his foot bone!"

"Many of the stunt doubles even broke their arms..."

At this moment, the big screen behind Ye Weixing also played the behind-the-scenes footage of the fight between Wu Jing and Chen Yu.

The two men fought very quickly, and then Wu Jing fell to the ground holding his foot.

After a while, Chen Yu's arm was scratched again.

In short, both men were injured in many places, but they enjoyed the fight very much.

But as Ye Weixing watched, his eyes turned red and he choked up a little, perhaps thinking about the days of filming.

He pointed to the video behind, and everyone watched this scene and cheered and applauded.

"This is what I want to share with you. Of course, there are many more behind-the-scenes staff who have worked hard and contributed a lot to this drama!"

At this moment on the big screen, Chen Yu made a sprint and jumped towards another building that was more than two meters wide.

boom!
He grabbed the platform with his hands, and you could see some blood on his fingertips.

This is a scene of jumping off a building.

boom!
It was another extremely dangerous car crash, and it was Chen Yu again. His head hit the steering wheel so hard that the airbag popped out. Two streams of blood spurted out of his nose.

scoff!

The wire suddenly broke, and Chen Yu fell freely, hitting the ground hard. A group of staff members screamed.

……

Dangerous stunts were played out on the big screen.

The originally lively premiere became quiet, and everyone looked at the scene on the big screen and fell into an unbelievable silence.

Is this really a movie shoot?

Isn't this playing with your life?
Countless film critics looked at Chen Yu with awe on their faces.

Boom——

Amid the explosion, Chen Yu walked out of the ruins alone. A shard of glass accidentally pierced his neck. He wiped it off casually and smiled: "Director Ye, how is it?"

The picture finally froze here, with Chen Yu's face covered in blood and a smile.

Cruel, difficult, like being reborn in blood.

Pah~ Pah~
I don't know who started clapping first, but then everyone started clapping.

Then, a film critic suddenly stood up and shouted at Chen Yu: "Awesome, Chen Yu!"

"Brilliant!"

"come on!"

More people stood up.

Finally, all the people who were sitting stood up and shouted.

They looked at Chen Yu standing on the stage. Beneath his glamorous appearance was a heart that would never surrender and fight to the death.

How could they not be moved by such actors!

This is an action movie where you risk your life!
Obviously, everyone is looking forward to the upcoming release of "Extraction"!

(End of this chapter)