Depressive Screenwriter

The box office performance of "Your Name" on Monday was off from the start of the day, and by the evening, it was as expected.

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Just past midnight, the total box office for the day, as calculated by various institutions in Xia, was 212 million.

This result immediately silenced the media and haters who had been superficially lamenting the film's poor release window, while secretly gloating, in their earlier posts.

We were just superficially lamenting that "Your Name" had a bad release window and no chance to surpass "Rurouni Kenshin".

It doesn't mean we actually wanted "Your Name" to surpass "Rurouni Kenshin," does it?

They didn't even want the film to break 2 billion at the box office.

For normal screenwriters and investors in the film industry, it's common to lose money on several investments before making a profit on one.

But Su Yan, as a screenwriter and investor, has never had a film that didn't make money. This would be fine, but he even won the box office champion during the Spring Festival.

A large group of people in Xia are jealous and envious of Su Yan.

These people were hoping that Su Yan would flop once, so they could mock him to the fullest extent.

But after waiting for half a year, "Your Name" was finally released.

Not only did it not flop, but the box office for the first three days of the week was ridiculously high.

And then it broke 200 million on Monday?

Many people broke down that night.

Especially the investors behind those works that had miserably failed in competition with Su Yan's films in the past three years.

Many people posted sour comments that night.

Various media outlets were also affected and began to publish some inexplicable articles with smear-like comments.

Something like, "Although 'Your Name' had a good box office on Monday, it's likely just a flash in the pan. Afterwards, the box office will return to normal, and the total box office won't exceed 2 billion."

But the Xia audience isn't stupid.

Compared to the opinions of these media people they've never met, they certainly trust the direct viewing experiences of the people around them more.

On Tuesday, "Your Name" still broke 200 million at the box office, grossing 201 million, and even on Wednesday, it had 158 million in box office revenue.

This box office data directly silenced a group of people in the Xia film industry.

After all, in Xia, for the vast majority of the time, the single-day box office on weekdays is below 60 million. The box office performance of "Your Name" on weekdays is definitely not due to the short-term enthusiasm of fans or the second or third viewings of Su Yan's die-hard fans, but rather the word-of-mouth effect of the film, which is gradually attracting a large number of casual moviegoers to support the film.

It was precisely because they were in the industry that everyone was silent after seeing this.

They didn't want to admit it, but they had to admit that Su Yan, this screenwriter and investor, this freak in the Xia film industry, had basically no connections or favors with other big shots in the industry. Few people in the film industry knew him. The vast majority of his external collaborations and partnerships were led and managed by his company's second-in-command, Sazaki Ikumi.

But it was this young man, who had no connections in the industry and who everyone saw as just rich and only knew how to throw money at everything, whose works were sweeping the Xia television and film circles, changing the aesthetics of the entire Xia film and television audience.

This kind of thing that a group of film and television practitioners would only dream of was now happening to Su Yan.

If this continued to develop, what would happen?

In a few years, Su Yan would be deified in both the television drama and film circles, completely becoming a benchmark in the industry.

On Thursday, the Xia media's film review articles on Su Yan and "Your Name" had already shifted to this level.

Su Yan didn't spend money on marketing himself in this regard, but the Xia media had already begun to see him this way.

As a young man who is only 26 years old this year, and who would be criticized for his shallow qualifications and need for time to settle down in any industry, not a single media outlet, film critic, or industry big shot in the entire Xia dared to bring this up.

To rely on seniority again would be to humiliate oneself.

While the entire group of people in Xia were staring at the box office of "Your Name."

Su Yan, who had just finished the various promotional work for the early release of "Your Name", while simultaneously paying attention to the box office trend of "Your Name" and the broadcast data of the "Kimi ni Todoke" television series, also began the early preparation work for "Code Geass".

Su Yan was not unfamiliar with "Code Geass". It could be called one of the masterpieces he had seen in his early days when he entered the world of anime in his previous life.

In that era, the anime's male lead, Lelouch, and female lead, C.C., long dominated the top two positions on various anime male and female character popularity charts, and its competitors at the same time were all a series of masterpieces.

Haruhi, FSN, Higurashi, NANA, Death Note...

Many of these works are relatively niche for the anime fans who grew up later, such as the shoujo anime "NANA", few of Su Yan's friends in his previous life had seen it.

But it was able to defeat popular manga such as Bleach and Naruto, which were already popular at the time, in terms of manga sales, and win the single-year manga single-volume sales champion.

As for why it only won for one year, it was because shoujo manga are not long and end quickly.

In that era of frequent masterpiece anime, "Code Geass" was also a popularity king among anime.

Although the work is relatively old, Su Yan knows very well that classics will not fade with time.

Su Yan admits that the plot of "Code Geass" is very chuunibyou and a little outrageous.

But who wants to see reality when they like film, television, and anime? Being detached from reality is not a problem at all. The problem is when the plot is boring and detached from reality, then it will be criticized for these problems.

Regarding the filming of "Code Geass" into a television series, Su Yan didn't even need to think about it. The first and foremost thing was the grand and frequent war scenes in this work, which appeared in almost every episode.

Moreover, it's not an ordinary war, but a city battle with a bunch of giant mecha. The cost of special effects to produce these scenes will definitely be the highest of the television series Su Yan has produced so far.

Even the special effects production of FZ, FSN, and Madoka Magica can't compare to "Code Geass".

However, this kind of thing is not a problem for Su Yan now.

After all, after working hard in the industry for so many years, he can be considered to have a small fortune.

Not to mention that Su Yan hasn't produced a losing work yet, even if "Code Geass" really can't make a profit due to the high production cost, it doesn't matter.

Bringing mecha and Gundam-like war-themed works to the Xia film and television industry is something that excites Su Yan.

In Xia, in addition to being a film and television investor, he is essentially an old otaku who is born to like to promote his favorite works to more people.

Moreover, Dimensional Pictures has basically entered the right track after developing to the present.

"Your Name" is currently in theaters, and the second "Rurouni Kenshin" film is also in production, but since Makoto Shinkai and other manga adaptation films are so popular, Su Yan's sights are definitely set on others.

Satoshi Kon, Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki...

A series of ideas appeared in Su Yan's mind.