Depressive Screenwriter

The next morning, Su Yan woke up early and received contact information from various personnel from the company's partners.

Rurouni Kenshin's screening time would last for more than a month, and the promotion of the movie would continue throughout the process. However, Su Yan had to rush back to handle the production affairs of Your Name and From Me to You, so his stay in Shanghai was limited to the first seven days of the new year.

After seven days, when the company and the crew on vacation gradually returned to their jobs, Su Yan also had to be stationed in Tokyo.

Su Yan had not been dealing with related work for long when the delivery service he had booked arrived. After the doorbell rang, the staff placed the ordered dishes in Su Yan's villa restaurant. At this time, Su Yan called the people upstairs who were still sleeping to get up.

Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, Shi Peihua, and Ayase Ikumi had been living in Su Yan's house from the New Year until now during their stay in Shanghai.

After all, how could a hotel be as comfortable as Su Yan's big house that cost eighty or ninety million to buy? Moreover, they were also big stars, and appearing in densely populated areas could easily cause fans to gather and watch.

"The opening day box office is 309 million. Ranked second." Ayase Ikumi said as she picked at the dishes with her chopsticks unconsciously, with a slightly unwilling expression.

"Second, huh?"

"It's just the opening day," Gu Qingyuan said softly.

"Our word-of-mouth is the highest."

"In any case, the movie 'Breaking the Formation' has gathered the most well-known group of people and capital distributors in the Xia country's film industry. Even if we were willing to spend the money, we wouldn't have the same strong network of connections as them, and we would always be at a disadvantage in terms of conditions and treatment," Shen Liqian quickly added.

"I feel like we still have a good chance of surpassing them today."

For Shen Liqian, this achievement was already enough to surprise her.

Her first starring movie, 'Like Falling in Love,' was a huge box office success.

And her second starring movie was a huge hit during the Spring Festival.

It's not to say that not winning the opening day box office champion is a failure.

A movie with an opening day box office of over 300 million, no matter what, has nothing to do with the word 'failure'. It can only be said that it was not a complete success.

"In any case, now that we've reached this point, our goal is definitely not just second place," Su Yan said to everyone.

The opening day box office and word-of-mouth of Rurouni Kenshin also relieved Su Yan a little.

Su Yan himself knew very well that the plot of the movie version of Kenshin was different from the God-tier plot of the Reminiscence arc.

However, the fight scenes in the first movie were much more numerous and exciting than the small-scale scenes in the Reminiscence arc.

It can be said that each has its own strengths.

And the fact is that the plot of the Reminiscence arc of the TV series is picky about the audience and requires careful taste with the brain and heart.

However, the fight scenes in the movie version did not have so many requirements. Men, women, young and old, can watch it very enjoyably.

His performance in the movie version can be said to have conquered the audience during this Spring Festival.

Since this is the case...

Then he definitely had to seek higher achievements.

"I have already notified the company's finance department to work overtime temporarily during the Spring Festival, and then increase investment in publicity..." Su Yan said.

Of course, Su Yan also understood that the investors behind the two works, 'Fake Detective' and 'Breaking the Formation', would do the same.

However, if everyone's publicity efforts were similar, the quality of the works would ultimately determine the success of the works.

And this...

Whether it was Su Yan's old fans or passers-by, the highest rating for Rurouni Kenshin could show a clue.

The quality of the other two movies was also very high. Yesterday, Su Yan also went to see both movies in one day.

However, it was obvious that for the people of Xia country, the shock that Kenshin's works brought them was obviously greater.

The second day of the Spring Festival was also the day when the sixth episode of FZ was broadcast.

Although the Spring Festival movies were extremely popular, the discussion about FZ was not affected.

Because the plot of this episode was the extremely important Three Kings' Meeting in the original work.

The King of Heroes Gilgamesh, the Conqueror Alexander, and the King of Knights Artoria.

The three all had their own persistence.

The King of Heroes and the Conqueror's conquest of the world, dictatorship and domineering, each had their own persistence.

But only Artoria, her wish was to use the Holy Grail to save her destroyed homeland.

How can a king regret?

Gilgamesh and Alexander's denial of Artoria's wish, and in this episode, Alexander's visualization of the scene in his heart, summoning an endless army...

Became the most classic scene since the broadcast of FZ.

After the broadcast of this episode, Alexander's popularity jumped to the highest character in the show.

As for Su Yan's Gilgamesh, because of his pretentious posture, he was angrily criticized by fans.

Su Yan's fans didn't care who played the role. As long as you made people feel uncomfortable, they would criticize you.

So, a strange phenomenon appeared in Su Yan's fan base that night.

A large group of Fate fans scolded Su Yan's Gilgamesh, praised Alexander, and then felt sorry for Artoria. After that, they joined the public opinion melee of several Spring Festival movies and cheered for Kenshin.

At twelve o'clock in the evening...

The box office results of all the Spring Festival movies on that day were released.

'Breaking the Formation' had 336 million, 'Rurouni Kenshin' had 331 million, and 'Fake Detective' declined instead of rising, with only 221 million.

This box office data made a group of people in the Xia country's film industry aware of something.

Although 'Breaking the Formation' still won the single-day box office champion and achieved box office growth, it seemed that 'Rurouni Kenshin's' growth was much higher than 'Breaking the Formation'!

Moreover, the work rating was also changing in real time.

The rating of 'Breaking the Formation' dropped from 9.0 yesterday to 8.9. It was obvious that after the number of moviegoers increased, there were more people who gave lower scores in the later stage.

However, looking at 'Rurouni Kenshin', as the number of scorers increased, the rating rose again to 9.7.

Now, a group of people in the film industry became lively.

"It seems that the growth momentum of 'Rurouni Kenshin' is a bit scary!"

"Something's wrong, with this word-of-mouth, 'Breaking the Formation' is in danger."

"That's right, just looking at the single-day box office, 'Breaking the Formation' still has a slight lead, but this lead is all obtained by scheduling. Tomorrow, on the third day of the Spring Festival, the film schedules of major theaters in Xia country will be adjusted again, and the scheduling ratio of 'Breaking the Formation' and 'Rurouni Kenshin' will be 24%."

"If 'Breaking the Formation' can't hold onto the box office champion tomorrow, then on the fourth day of the Spring Festival, the box office scheduling ratio of the two movies will be completely reversed."

"With such a high reputation, it shows that this movie will have extremely high stamina! It has a trend of being a long-term hit."

"Won't it break 3 billion box office?"

"There is such a possibility, or rather, judging from the current trend, both 'Breaking the Formation' and 'Rurouni Kenshin' have the opportunity to break 3 billion total box office, but 'Fake Detective' can be forgotten, it would be a blessing if it can break 2 billion."

"On the second day of the release of 'Fake Hero', it still experienced a reverse decline in the box office during the Spring Festival. Maybe it won't even surpass the 1.4 billion box office of '5 Centimeters Per Second'."

"The highest box office work in last year's Spring Festival was 2.84 billion total box office, which was also the annual box office champion last year. This year, could it be that there will be two movies that simultaneously surpass last year's record?"

In just two days of release, the competition in the Spring Festival market entered a white-hot stage.

A group of people in the film industry paid attention to the box office trend.

And Su Yan and the investors behind the movie 'Breaking the Formation' began to strengthen the publicity offensive of the two movies.

Su Yan has earned so much in the TV drama circle, and he may have weak connections in the film circle.

But when it comes to it, in the Xia country's entertainment industry, not to mention the false things like stock valuations, how many companies can take out 2 billion in cash in one go?

Su Yan didn't really want to fight a money war with the other party, but at least, he wanted to ensure that the movie 'Rurouni Kenshin' would not suffer a schedule disadvantage in the Xia country's film market due to publicity efforts.

If 'Rurouni Kenshin' loses this Spring Festival box office competition because the quality of the movie is not as good as the other party, then Su Yan will admit it.

But if the other party wants to rely on spending money on publicity and creating a public opinion offensive to make Su Yan admit defeat, then they have chosen the wrong opponent.

Su Yan can not make money on the movie 'Rurouni Kenshin', and even lose money.

Anyway, if the first movie doesn't make money, Su Yan can also recover the money from the TV drama circle, or rely on the Kenshin movie sequels to recover the money in the future.

But the other party is different.

Real capitalists always consider problems very simply.

Return on investment and risk!

After realizing that no matter what kind of desperate actions they made in the publicity market, they did not scare Su Yan, and Su Yan responded with the same amount of publicity funds to ensure that 'Rurouni Kenshin' was at the same level as 'Breaking the Formation' in terms of public opinion publicity, the other party asked someone to inquire about Su Yan and got Su Yan's clear idea.

Stopped these meaningless actions.

After all, it's not worth it...

On the third day of the Spring Festival, 'Breaking the Formation' won the single-day box office runner-up with 313 million box office.

And 'Rurouni Kenshin' won the single-day box office champion with 332 box office.

And on the fourth day of the Spring Festival...

The scheduling of 'Rurouni Kenshin' was ranked first on the day for the first time with a ratio of 25%.

The major theaters and media in Xia country have undergone a huge change in their attitude towards Kenshin.