Depressive Screenwriter

Both Spring Festival movies grossed over one billion in cumulative box office within the first three days of release, a significantly better result than last year's summer档.

Although the film 'Po Zhen' didn't receive as good reviews as 'Rurouni Kenshin,' its cast was undoubtedly much more star-studded.

Although Su Yan was willing to spend money on 'Rurouni Kenshin,' when the movie was being filmed, his reputation in the Xia country film industry was generally ordinary. Many well-known, highly popular superstars didn't consider working with Su Yan at all.

Even if Su Yan's offers to them were 20% higher than other directors and investors, they still chose to go to other film crews.

This was a manifestation of Su Yan's shallow connections and lack of foundation in the film industry.

Although 'Rurouni Kenshin' found a bunch of Xia country celebrities to participate, they were mostly well-known villain actors, so compared to the all-star lineup of 'Po Zhen,' the appeal was undoubtedly much smaller.

Therefore, although 'Po Zhen' had lower reviews, it was still able to get high screening percentages in the first three days of release, thus suppressing 'Rurouni Kenshin'.

But from the fourth day onwards, even a movie with a large network of connections would have exhausted them. Cinema owners aren't running charities; they'll definitely screen whichever movie has a higher rate of return.

And the fact was that in the first three days, 'Rurouni Kenshin' had high occupancy rates and a shorter movie length than 'Po Zhen.' This subtle difference, coupled with the screening bias on the fourth day.

Allowed 'Rurouni Kenshin' to take the daily box office champion with 305 million, as for 'Po Zhen,' it felt a bit deflated, with a daily box office of only 274 million.

Although it reduced the screening ratio, it was clear that the rate of decline in 'Po Zhen's' box office was much higher than the level of screening reduction.

The staying power is not enough!

This was the first reaction of most practitioners in the Xia country film industry.

It's easy to get high box office in the first day or two of release with publicity and hype.

But a movie release is a long-term thing, and word-of-mouth determines the staying power of the movie.

Although the total box office of 'Rurouni Kenshin' is still slightly behind 'Po Zhen'.

But based on the current situation, if 'Po Zhen's' staying power still doesn't pick up, it's likely to be overtaken by 'Kenshin'.

This situation directly triggered an online fight between 'Kenshin' fans and 'Po Zhen' fans.

Both movies had a large group of well-known stars joining, and Su Yan, the king of TV dramas, crossed over to the film industry for his fourth movie, thus forming a battle between TV drama fans and the film fans of 'Po Zhen's' group of veteran movie stars, which had been accumulated for many years, began.

"What a garbage movie, you guys are hyping up the action scenes so much, I don't feel anything, that Su Yan is just good at parkour, just find a few parkour experts in reality to shoot, and you can easily shoot this effect."

"I'm not talented, I was the fifth place in the city parkour competition held in Shanghai three years ago. I can't be called a great god in the country, but I'm definitely not garbage. I don't know how casual you're talking about finding a parkour expert, but anyway, among the parkour experts I know, everyone in the group called it awesome after watching the movie. When you were still typing 666 online, a group of people in our parkour group were already trying to figure out how to do Su Yan's moves with their bare hands. But now it seems that even if you don't take a sword, just gesticulating with your bare hands, almost no one can do it standard, and the speed is so fast!"

"The person above was miserably slapped in the face, laughing me to death."

"Some things, everyone's eyes are not blind, don't you know if the work is good or not after one look? What's the use of you guys bashing it here?"

"Actually, I also watched the movie 'Po Zhen', it's pretty good, but it doesn't give me the kind of passionate feeling that 'Kenshin' brings. It's not that 'Po Zhen' is bad, it's just that 'Kenshin' is too strong!"

"Su Yan, you old thief, is awesome, I said, I thought Su Yan, you old thief, was going to do another depressing masterpiece for the Spring Festival, but it's obvious that his head is clear."

"You guys just keep bragging, time will prove everything, the 'Rurouni Kenshin' movie is only good-looking in action, the plot is just so-so."

"You talk as if the plot of 'Po Zhen' is very good? Isn't it all about watching those war scenes and star lineup that were smashed out with money? The plot is just a story about a fallen prince restoring his country, it's so cliché."

"The story of a fallen prince restoring his country, I'm laughing so hard, this netizen is really talented! A word summarizes the essence of this movie."

"Just watch, this rotten movie 'Rurouni Kenshin' still wants to win the Spring Festival box office champion, dream on!"

"Then just watch, see how many days the box office advantage of two or thirty million of 'Po Zhen' can last?"

The fans of the two movies 'Rurouni Kenshin' and 'Po Zhen' were arguing fiercely on the Internet, but in reality, just on the sixth day of the movie's release, the total box office of 'Rurouni Kenshin' exceeded 'Po Zhen'.

And after a week of release, the two movies ranked first and second in the Spring Festival box office with 1.817 billion and 1.802 billion respectively.

As for the third place, 'The Fake Detective', the total box office has not yet exceeded 1 billion.

But neither the production team of the movie 'Po Zhen' nor Su Yan has made any bigger moves in the publicity market.

To put it bluntly, the current box office results of these two movies can only be said to have made a small profit after recovering the cost. What's the point of spending a lot of money to invest in the publicity market?

Under the premise that Su Yan has clearly stated that he wants both parties to compete for the box office crown based on the quality of their works, mutual infighting and spending money will only benefit GG merchants.

The investors behind 'Po Zhen' also knew very well that although it was a pity that the box office champion was taken away, the current box office of this movie has exceeded the initial expectations at the beginning of the release, so they don't want to cause any more trouble.

As for Su Yan, he was also relieved after confirming that his competitors had not secretly engaged in any petty actions.

It's good that things like swiping the box office, midnight screenings of ghost soldiers, and stealing the box office didn't happen.

However.

"It's still the first time to only temporarily take the lead with such a slight advantage" Su Yan looked at the box office data of both movies.

In the TV drama circle, once Su Yan gained an advantage, the pursuers behind him would definitely be desperate.

But in the Xia country film circle, there are too many factors that determine the box office results.

It can be affirmed that if Su Yan didn't have the system to transform and could perform those outrageous action scenes when filming the Kenshin movie, the results of Rurouni Kenshin in this year's Spring Festival would definitely not be better than The Fake Detective.

"Alright."

Su Yan got up from the sofa in his home and greeted Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan and others behind him to start going out.

The Spring Festival holiday is over, and today they are going to take a plane back to the Tokyo area.

Tokyo.

The group walked off the plane.

It was still snowing lightly here, and the weather was gloomy.

And at the airport, Su Yan found that many employees of his company were also walking out of the airport gate.

After all, people have to come back to work after the Spring Festival.

"Hello boss!"

"Hello boss!"

"The boss is handsome again."

"Congratulations to the boss, Rurouni Kenshin is fighting for the Spring Festival box office champion, and if nothing else happens, it will be the box office champion in the Xia country film industry this year."

"Not necessarily, maybe the Your Name that we are filming now and will be released in the summer may exceed the box office of Rurouni Kenshin."

"The schedule can't compare to the Spring Festival!"

Looking at the two female employees from the company's administrative department who were chattering around him, Su Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He felt a bit that he was too friendly in the company on weekdays, which led them to be too active in front of him. He was thinking about whether he should be stricter in the new year and cultivate the prestige of a leader.

Shinozaki Ikumi quickly walked up from behind. The two employees shrank their necks when they saw Shinozaki Ikumi, quickened their pace, and hurried forward.

"The company's employees are very afraid of you!" Su Yan smiled when he saw this.

"That's for sure, they were recruited by me..." Shinozaki Ikumi said.

"So they also know very well... I can let them go without reporting to you, because you don't care about the specific work of the company's internal affairs."

"Of course, they also know that I am a person who is fair in rewards and punishments."

"But forget it, it's the first day after the Spring Festival, I still have to maintain the image of an amiable leader." Shinozaki Ikumi suddenly smiled.

"Tonight, I have arranged a place, and everyone in the company will have a dinner together, and then welcome the new year and... start work."