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Chapter 585 [12] A major event that will go down in the history of Chinese cinema!
January 2006, 1, New Year’s Eve.

Outside the house, firecrackers were set off one after another, and looking out the window, all you could see was the festive red color.

You may not be able to feel the New Year atmosphere before the New Year arrives, but when the day comes, that New Year feeling will surge into your heart.

“Another year has passed!”

Chen Yu was reborn just after the Chinese New Year in 02, and this is the fifth Spring Festival he has experienced since his rebirth.

After waking up from his sleep, Chen Yu did not wash or get out of bed immediately. It was still early and Chen Yu could not sleep because of something else, so he slept for more than 5 hours. He was still worried about the reputation and box office of the movie.

Even though "Extraction" has broken many records in Chinese film history.

For example, the pre-sale box office records and the midnight show records are about to be broken, namely the first-day box office records and the single-day box office records.

But those in power are confused.

The more popular the movie is, the more anxious Chen Yu becomes. He is afraid that the movie will have a bad reputation and that the subsequent box office won't keep up, etc. This is not Chen Yu being pretentious.

But they attach too much importance to the box office performance this time.

The more you care, the more anxious you will become; the more you will want to accomplish better.

After Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2" became a hit, he didn't sleep well for many days. After Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth" became a hit, he felt too much pressure and went to consult a psychologist. This is a stress response after the results exceeded his expectations.

Chen Yu did not underestimate his own movie. He was confident that it would be a hit, but confidence and certainty are not the same thing, so he still had some worries in his heart.

At this moment, Chen Yu was reading the film reviews on Star Network.

Chen Yu had indeed never interfered with this website. The most he did was when The Promise was released, and Chen Yu asked the technical department to make some adjustments so that the ratings came out faster. Now, he was also going to ask the technical department to release the ratings for the opening of Extraction earlier.

But the prerequisite is that Chen Yu has to read the reviews.

[Chen Yu is so handsome! So cool! ]

[What should I do? I fell in love with Chen Yu after watching this. I really want to have a boyfriend like him who gives me a sense of security! ]

[There are fifteen highlights in this movie, Chen Yu's face shape, temperament, fighting, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth and eight-pack abs! ]

……

The most popular comments are all praising him for being handsome?
"Oh no, are the fairies all moving into the Starry Sky Network ahead of schedule?"

This is not a good sign.

Of course there are also praises for the movie itself.

[Fight violence with violence! I just like watching such straightforward action movies! ]

[Awesome! A super awesome action movie with real swords and guns, hardcore action! ]

[The movie is great, many people say the fighting is exciting, but I just think, is that little girl pretty? ]

[This movie is not an ordinary action movie. I was actually moved by the ending! ]

……

There was a barrage of praise, some saying that the action scenes in the movie were great, some praising her for being handsome, some praising Jiang Yilang for being pretty, and some saying that the plot was very interesting... In short, all the praise that Chen Yu wanted was received.

Of course, there are also a few harmless negative reviews mixed in.

[2 points, no explanation! The hatred of stealing a wife is irreconcilable! ]

[+1, all films starring Chen Yu are rated 0! ]

[The story is actually very ordinary, borrowing from "Léon: The Professional", but it's not as good as that one, and the emotional foreshadowing is too trivial! ]

[Does Liu Yifei have a one-minute plot? Chen Yu, is this how you treat your girlfriend? ]

"Let's start the score!"

Chen Yu sent a message to Lao Yao, the person in charge of Star Network.

By the time Chen Yu finished his shower and had breakfast, the rating of "Escaping the Dark Knight" had already come out - 8.8 points, a score that even Chen Yu was somewhat surprised by.

Although Star.com is similar to Douban, Chen Yu did not adopt the same method as Douban where individuals can give ratings.

Users must register, and there are some review and movie requirements when registering.

Therefore, the ratings of some movies on Star Network are more stringent than those on Douban in the previous life!
However, the ratings of good movies are higher than Douban in the previous life.

The polarization is very serious.

Bad movies, like "The Promise", now only have a score of 3.5, while in 06 it had at least a score of 5.1; but good movies, like "Farewell My Concubine", have a score of 9.7, while in its previous life Douban had a score of 9.6.

So Chen Yu’s new film directly reached 8.8, which is incredible.

There are a lot of people who gave it five stars and four stars. Of course there are also two stars, but they are really few. After all, water armies are not popular now.

“This is the highlight of my life!”

This should be the movie directed by Chen Yu, and the one with the highest opening score.

Of course, this score is also the highest among all his films.

"Blind Shaft" currently has a score of only 8.6, which was already Chen Yu's highest-rated film before.

"House of Flying Daggers" rose to 8.1!

"Kung Fu" scored 8.3, and the recent "A World Without Thieves" scored 7.8!
However, none of Chen Yu's films had a rating lower than 7.8. "A World Without Thieves" and "Kara is a Dog" both had the lowest score of 7.8, and "Initial D" had a score of 8.0.

Therefore, on the rating website Star Sky, Chen Yu has many loyal fans.

“I wonder if “Departures” can set a new record!”

While Chen Yu was thinking about it, he closed the computer and ran next door to call Liu Yifei to wake up.

The two of them stayed together for a while, then drove towards the cinema where they were going to hold a road show today.

In the evening, they also have to participate in the Spring Festival Gala.

After it’s over, I may not even have time to go home and celebrate the New Year with my family. I have to meet up with Ye Weixing and others in Jinshi, do a roadshow in TJ City tomorrow, and then go to the next destination at night.

This year, I basically spent it on the road.

"Hey, next year during the Spring Festival, we can release a movie that fits the occasion!"

Chen Yu suddenly thought of the travel during the New Year holidays, and a movie immediately appeared in his mind - "Lost on Journey"!
This movie is absolutely suitable for the Spring Festival period.

Chen Yu didn't even need to act in the film himself. He could just invest and let Baoqiang be the second male lead and bring in Xu Guangtou.

Then the囧 series can be made.

"Ok, Ok!"

Chen Yu even decided on the director - Lu Xuechang.

He is very suitable for this kind of family and daily life movie. He is currently recuperating from illness and should be almost recovered.

Chen Yu plans to ask after the New Year, and during this period of time when he has nothing to do, he will write the script for "Lost on Journey".

……

4pm, Chaoyang Wanda Cinema.

Since Wanda was approved to establish a cinema chain at the beginning of last year, this is a large cinema newly opened by Wanda Cinema Line in Chaoyang District this year, with many new screens and facilities.

The reason why the route to the last stop in the imperial capital was chosen here was of course decided by Chen Yu.

The current Wanda is certainly not as awesome as it will be in later generations; the cinema subsidiary was only established in 05, and there are only three cinemas in the country; Wanda Plaza has not yet been rolled out across the country, with only a few in Tianjin, Liancheng and other places.

In Yu Dong's opinion, the reason why Chen Yu chose such a small cinema chain is probably to capture as many audiences as possible.

The big cinema chains have China Film Group for distribution and promotion, so they don’t need to worry about the box office at all. Only these unknown small cinema chains need more maintenance.

Yu Dong thought so and felt that Chen Yu was very forward-looking.

In fact, only Chen Yu knew the real reason; he was trying to establish good relations with Wanda in advance.

This will be the number one box office in China in the future!

Companies like New Film Association, Golden Harvest and Orange Sky, etc., will all be little brothers in front of Wanda Cinema in the future; especially after the introduction of 3D and IMAX film technology, they will be even more powerful than other cinemas.

At this time, Chen Yu is here to make his presence felt, so that the box office and screening schedule will be guaranteed in the future.

However, Chen Yu still underestimated the strength of the "small cinema". When he rushed downstairs to Wanda Cinema, he was frightened by the large crowd of people at the door.

He was really scared and flinched. Even in Hong Kong, Chen Yu had never been so scared.

Because Hong Kong has security guards, and China's security measures are not in place yet, it is obvious that these people are coming for him.

This was the first time in all the premieres that Chen Yu had attended that the entrance of a shopping mall was already crowded with people wanting to go in.

Chen Yu felt a little overwhelmed, and his intuition told him that this journey might not be smooth.

"..."

He quickly pulled down his baseball cap and mask, asked Liu Yifei to separate, took out his cell phone and called Ye Weixing.

"I'm here, downstairs. What's going on? Why are there so many people?"

Chen Yu sat in the car and looked at the flow of people in the mall.

Ye Weixing didn't know what was going on either, and said helplessly, "I don't know either. There's a huge billboard hanging on the wall of the mall. Didn't you see it?"

"No, what billboard?"

"It may have been removed. They said you were coming. The mall was in riot. It was full of people!"

"..."

Chen Yu still somewhat underestimated his popularity among the people across the country.

Moreover, it happened on New Year’s Eve.

"The mall is newly built, and they say there aren't many people there on weekdays, so they put up an ad!"

"I don't have any experience either. All the security guards at Wanda have been reassigned, but we still don't have enough manpower!"

"Okay, then you ask the theater to send a few people downstairs, and I'll go in through the back door!"

Chen Yu was really scared. Looking at the situation, it seemed like it was going to eat him!
When it comes to chasing stars, domestic fans are willing to risk their lives.

Thousands of people asked for autographs. The scene was so beautiful that Chen Yu couldn't even imagine it.

After a while, Chen Yu arrived at the cinema, surrounded by countless people who were watching the show.

Many people did not come to see the movies, but simply to see the celebrities, and they all came to the entrance of the cinema in the mall.

Chen Yu's disguised behavior can be regarded as a promotion for the mall.

The key point is that Lao Wang is not a decent person. He didn’t pay any money and just did the commercial performance for nothing.

But after thinking about it for the sake of box office, Chen Yu decided to endure it and leave it to the agency to deal with the rest!

He's just here to promote the movie anyway, and you can't get in without a ticket.

The two-hour premiere ended with the audience still wanting more.

"Extraction" is destined to become one of the most iconic films in mainland China's film history.

A movie boosted the shopping mall’s promotion!

Without exception, the Wanda Cinema's afternoon screenings of "Taken" and "The Two of Us" were full with audiences who had bought tickets to enter. The key point was that many people queued up but couldn't buy tickets, so they had no choice but to buy tickets for the evening and tomorrow.

A vote is truly hard to come by.

Countless spectators lined up to buy tickets and wait to enter the venue. This is definitely a rare scene.

After the premiere at Wanda, Chen Yu and Liu Yifei went to the CCTV building to prepare to participate in the 06 Spring Festival Gala.

Chen Yu was still the first show.

At this time, the phone call Chen Yu had been expecting finally came.

"Take it!"

“First-day box office record!”

"We just broke the 2100 million record of The Promise in just over half a day!"

Yu Dong spoke extremely excitedly on the phone.

This battle was not only a success for Chen Yu, but also a success for Bona Distribution.

He was not thanking Chen Yu, but he sincerely admired his courage and determination.

Deep down, I appreciate such "actors" more!
He single-handedly changed the box office structure of Chinese films and even created a special schedule for them.

This is definitely a major event that will go down in film history.

No cinema owner is discussing this matter right now.

The film is secondary. Chen Yu's behavior is what shocked many theater owners.

Why didn’t Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang think of this special period of the Spring Festival?
Or because they don’t dare.

And Chen Yu became the first person to try something new?

"Great!"

"I was just wondering when it could be broken!"

“I didn’t expect it to be so fast!”

It is only 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and the real prime time for movie watching has not yet arrived, but the total box office of "Extraction" has exceeded 2200 million.

However, today is a special day. Chen Yu is worried that the Spring Festival Gala in the evening will affect the box office.

This is definitely a shock.

But Chen Yu did not expect that the record of "The Promise" was broken before the Spring Festival Gala even started.

Although today's pre-sale has exceeded 3500 million!
"We should be able to break the single-day box office record of over 3400 million today!"

This record was created not long ago by the TV series "A World Without Thieves".

Just a few days later, Chen Yu's new film broke again.

And this time, there is no Feng Xiaogang and Huayi in charge, it is entirely a collaboration between Chen Yu and Bona.

"4000 million, I don't know if I can make it!"

Yu Dong was looking forward to it on the phone. Chen Yu actually had the same idea as him, but he was not so optimistic.

"It was beyond my expectation that someone would watch a movie during the Spring Festival Gala in the evening!"

"Yes, I asked the cinemas, and they are all young people. It seems that young people nowadays don't have much feeling about the Spring Festival Gala. Unlike us, we always feel that something is missing if we don't watch the Spring Festival Gala!"

"Haha, get used to it!"

In fact, if Chen Yu was not participating in the Spring Festival Gala, if there was a good movie, the place he would most like to go to was the cinema.

The Spring Festival Gala is indeed getting less interesting every year.

This is not a situation that can be changed by him alone, but by the thoughts and trends of young people; or in a few years, the rise of mobile Internet will change the format of the Spring Festival Gala, and there may be ups and downs and fluctuations again.

The Spring Festival Galas over the past 10 years or so have had the lowest ratings.

"Actually, I think what the movie theater owners said is quite right!"

"The Spring Festival Gala will be replayed tomorrow, but we must go to see your movie first. This is what many young people think!"

"is it?"

Chen Yu had never thought about this, but he admitted that he did have some box office appeal.

"broken?"

Liu Yifei looked at Chen Yu with a smile on her face and hung up the phone.

Chen Yu nodded: "Yes, the first-day box office record was broken. If there was no Spring Festival Gala, it is very likely that today's box office would create a number that many people dare not imagine!"

Unfortunately, there is no if, so we can only wait until next year’s New Year’s Day.

Even if Chen Yu manages the business well, the competition will definitely be fierce during next year's Spring Festival.

Seeing that there is money to be made and box office revenue to be achieved, which film and television company would not want to have a piece of the pie? !
The car sped towards CCTV, and soon, Chen Yu and Liu Yifei saw Liu Xiaoli's car parked there!

(End of this chapter)