Chapter 869: Film actor

For the film industry, the Spring Festival slot is a place where soldiers must fight.

The film *Ten Miles of Fragrance* is Shijin's first big production.

Fairy-tale theme, traffic leads—

This project, which had flopped many big projects several years ago, inexplicably became a head project.

Of course, not everyone is waiting to see the joke.

There are also many people who want to see this model succeed.

Once successful, there are a large number of IPs that can replicate its success path.

However, in front of the absolute national-level IP *Home Alone*, no amount of exposure, topics, and heat can be exchanged for box office figures that can compare with it.

The only sequel film in this year's Spring Festival slot is *Home Alone 4*, and it is the last work of this series.

Final chapter.

This is enough to make it the most watched film in this year's Spring Festival slot, and also the most popular film.

Such a pure comedy film, such a model, the first three parts almost didn't have any changes, just the methods of fighting with thieves changed, but people watched it tirelessly. Even if it is the final chapter, what difference can there be?

It almost has no possibility of being messed up.

It has already detached from the so-called literary expression and plot development.

It just constantly digs out some new scenes, new wisdom-fighting methods, letting everyone continue to be surprised and happy, laughing out loud, and this can make the audience fully satisfied.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Yin Xincheng officially announced that he was getting married.

The news was indeed explosive.

Even if a third-tier star announces that they are getting married, it attracts attention—

Birth, old age, sickness, and death, major life events, these are enduring newspaper headlines.

Not to mention, this is Yin Xincheng.

A first-tier male star who has been popular for six or seven years relying on the show *Friends*.

And this news, because it was sudden enough, really blew Yin Xincheng's fans away—a large number of his girlfriend fans announced they were unfollowing, and even because their emotions were too excited, they said a lot of vicious curses. Such a phenomenon, because it was too negative, caused a wider range of discussion.

Fortunately, the plan of Yin Xincheng's team was successful—

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, no matter how big the matter is, it has to face "the New Year."

Facing the behavior of a large number of fans announcing they were unfollowing, although Yin Xincheng's team was also anxious, there was really no way to do it.

Yin Xincheng got someone else's stomach big, he must be responsible—

Otherwise, that would be a disaster harder to PR than the current one.

Fortunately, no matter what, Yin Xincheng would not fall into silence because of this.

At least, the contract for the next season of *Friends* had already been signed. For an actor, having a highly watched evergreen series is like a pension insurance.

Bai Jin relied on this pension insurance to dare to go to the UK to study for a master's degree.

Yin Xincheng also relied on this pension insurance, so he wouldn't spend this New Year in panic.

Yin Xincheng's girlfriend Huang Yunlan was human-fleshed searched by many people for relevant information.

However, because she was indeed a layperson, and not much information was exposed on the Internet, so, for the time being, nothing too terrible happened.

On New Year's Eve, the focus on social media platforms shifted completely to the Spring Festival Gala.

This New Year's Eve, Lu Yan He was in the crew.

Malaysia also celebrates the Spring Festival.

The *The Original Father* crew also gave everyone a three-day holiday.

Lu Yan He was originally prepared to return to China to accompany Chen Siqi.

Every year on this night, Lu Yan He would accompany her to her grandparents' house.

However, Chen Siqi told him there was no need to toss back and forth. Anyway, for the New Year, she decided to bring her grandparents' family to Malaysia to celebrate the Spring Festival.

Lu Yan He waited for them in Malaysia.

But they wouldn't come until the first day of the New Year, so on New Year's Eve, Lu Yan He still spent it alone.

Lu Yan He's team took holidays in two batches. The first batch had already returned to China to reunite with their families for the festival, while Wang Biao and a few others stayed by his side. By the seventh day of the New Year, the first batch would return, and Wang Biao and their batch could go back, and the second batch's holiday was also five days longer than the first batch—

Everyone was very happy.

Those who could go back on New Year's Eve could catch up with family reunions, and those who couldn't go back could have a few more days of holiday.

Of course, most importantly, the year-end bonus for core members of Lu Yan He's team this year started at 100,000 for everyone, and non-core members also received about 50,000 to 60,000. Lu Yan He has always been extremely generous to his team members. Usually, the salary is high, and there will definitely be red envelopes and gifts for festivals.

The reason for this is not only that Lu Yan He himself is kind and good to those around him, but also because he knows very well, sometimes, why does a team collapse from the inside? Because everyone works in the same circle, you stars earn so much, and we can only take so little money to live? Living tightly and stingily?

It is difficult for anyone to accept this gap for a long time, so, in order to prevent his team members from stealing some of his information to make money, or being lured into some side paths, on the one hand, Lu Yan He definitely gives money generously, letting them live without worry, not being stretched for basic food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and on the other hand, also gives them visible promotion paths.

Except for core members like Wang Biao and Zou Dong, other people, as long as they work diligently, are down-to-earth, and their character is not bad, basically after three to five years, they can be promoted to a middle management in Linghe or Shi Huo, and excellent ones might be faster.

Letting people have immediate benefits and a long-term future, under normal circumstances, will not be blinded by those petty gains.

Lu Yan He's team is famous in the industry for being an iron bucket, and famous for maintaining his interests.

Many people think that it is because of Lu Yan He's team. The team of such a top artist and top big shot, just relying on Lu Yan He's personality charm is enough to make the team members loyal to him, how could it not be an "iron bucket." In fact, it's really not like this.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

Just like some people's first reaction when hearing that someone has achieved success in their life is that this person must have someone supporting him behind him—their life logic has been firmly welded to the iron pillar of "this is a world where the possibility of achieving success by one's own struggle has been blocked."

In this world, you cannot expect everyone to still believe in those most basic, most simple things, just as you cannot expect everyone to still believe in the word virtue, which is already too strange, as if it is about to be put into a museum.

On the first day of the New Year, the Spring Festival slot started hotly.

*Home Alone 4* premiered globally simultaneously.

Lu Yan He, as the screenwriter, did not appear in any promotional occasions, only released relevant information on various social media platforms.

This didn't hinder everyone from mentioning him at the same time when discussing this film.

Overseas box office statistics are far less real-time visible than domestic ones.

However, just in China, it achieved a first-day box office of 370 million RMB.

The box office forecast for *Home Alone 4* in China has exceeded 2.5 billion. But the box office trend of the first three *Home Alone* films is often weak and fast, not as firm as some other films, so even for the fourth part, the market doesn't think it can achieve a particularly record-breaking box office result.

However, on the second day of the New Year, the second day, this film still achieved a box office of 360 million, almost the same as the first day, without falling.

For the *Home Alone* series, after the accumulation of the first three parts, it already has the largest audience group in the current Chinese film market, but, inversely proportional to the large audience group, the loyal fans of this film are actually not that many.

The so-called loyal fans are the audience who truly think that this film must be watched in the cinema.

This group is very small.

This is a film that focuses on the passerby market.

When on the third day, the box office of *Home Alone 4* was still 350 million, everyone suddenly realized that the box office of *Home Alone 4* this year is probably going to a very high position.

The promotion of *Home Alone* series final chapter seems to have even greater power than many people imagined.

If it were just one of the series, perhaps it wouldn't have such great box office appeal.

When overseas box office statistics were gradually counted, it broke the records of the first three parts.

This film was released overseas simultaneously with China. But such a day is neither a weekend nor a holiday overseas, originally no one thought that the first few days of the premiere would achieve a good box office, however, in the three days of two working days plus a Friday, *Home Alone* opened a box office of 43 million US dollars in North America, and in the entire overseas market, in three days, the box office directly exceeded 100 million US dollars.

The best global box office performance of the first three *Home Alone* films reached nearly 700 million US dollars. And *Home Alone 4*'s explosive box office performance suddenly gave it the potential to impact a 1 billion US dollar box office.

This film was already highly watched, and because of such box office performance, it was even more so.

Many people couldn't help but wonder, does Lu Yan He really intend to let *Home Alone* end like this?

Not filming anymore?

So profitable and still not filming?

Even Schmidt Loli came to ask Lu Yan He, does he really want to let *Home Alone* end like this?

Lu Yan He didn't hesitate and said: "Yes, it should end."

Schmidt Loli was very uncomfortable.

Watching such a big-selling film series end, this is no different from cutting blood from the heart.

And compared to the brilliant achievements of *Home Alone 4*, another highly watched film blockbuster *Ten Miles of Fragrance*, the first day's box office was actually very outstanding, relying on the power of fans, as well as very extensive and exaggerated publicity, taking nearly 200 million box office.

And contrary to this, it was the audience's scolding of the film itself.

On the first day of the New Year, the two words "fraud" hit the hot search.

Clicking in, everyone was scolding *Ten Miles of Fragrance*.

The film content was scolded...

How to say it, it was as if everyone's feeling of watching this film in the cinema was as if their intelligence had been humiliated.

In the film, the special effects were made quite beautiful, and the actors were also handsome and beautiful, the problem was, the plot and rhythm of the entire film could be described with the two words "rotten."

In the previous second, the two people still looked at each other unpleasantly, and in the next second, they suddenly joined hands, as if they were close friends for many years, tacitly fighting the enemy.

In the climax battle, it even appeared that the two protagonists were still losing their temper and discord while fighting in the water and fire around them, and then, in the sky full of war, they made up, loving each other.

The next day, the daily box office fell directly to 87 million.

The third day, halved again, only 42 million left.

Word-of-mouth collapsed into pieces.

Despite this, in the first three days, this film still achieved more than 300 million box office.

But the box office forecast has fallen to 600 million.

If this decline is not controlled, this figure will probably be worse.

Then, a magical scene appeared.

The two fans who were fighting fiercely over billing before the release, at this time, suddenly started kicking the ball.

Lang Xia's fans: Isn't this a big heroine film? How come now that the box office trend is not good, it suddenly admits that it is our Lang Xia's first billing? TV drama actor is TV drama actor.

Yan Lingyu's fans: Heh, earlier they were blind and didn't admit that the box office performance of *Those Years* also had the credit of the heroine, saying that *Those Years* was a big hero film, erasing Yan Lingyu's existence, now *Ten Miles of Fragrance* word-of-mouth collapsed, and they started saying this is a big heroine film, who said earlier that this film can only rely on Lang Xia to sell box office?

Lang Xia's fans: Still have the face to say, without Lang Xia starring, this film probably wouldn't even get 300 million box office.

Yan Lingyu's fans: Really funny, at least now you can see that although the film is rotten, Yan Lingyu's acting skills are not being mocked, unlike a certain greasy paralyzed face, it is also the first time in history, seeing greasy and paralyzed face coexisting in one person.

*Ten Miles of Fragrance* faced the fans on both sides scolding each other, while watching its box office unable to stop the decline, collapsing on the sixth day of release, the daily box office fell directly to below 10 million, looking like it might not even get 400 million box office.

This triggered a group of people watching the joke.

On this side, Linghe did not stay in the brilliance achieved by *Home Alone 4*.

The film *My Sassy Girl* is about to start promotion.

The film starring Li Yuefeng and Xiao Yun.

Released on Valentine's Day.

Before, *If Love Has Heaven's Will* relied on a particularly sensational romantic tragedy to take 1.2 billion box office in China, becoming a phenomenal film, breaking the industry impression that romantic films are no longer popular; not long ago, *Love is Not to Win* released in the New Year's slot also continued the myth of selling well, although not as exaggerated as 1.2 billion, however, it achieved excellent word-of-mouth in the critical community. Now, not long after, another romantic film written by Lu Yan He is coming.

But this time it is not a tragedy, but a comedy.

Is it the same comedy as *Love is Not to Win*?

This is everyone's first reaction.

Why did Lu Yan He create so many romantic film scripts consecutively?

This is everyone's second reaction.

And for Li Yuefeng, this is another peak he is about to usher in.

Two years ago, when attending a brand event, because of the dispute over the appearance order, Li Yuefeng's team argued with the brand's docking, why should he be ranked before Lang Xia? Even the inner seat position was worse than Lang Xia's.

However, the brand's reply was that Lang Xia is a film actor, and he is just a TV drama actor.

But since starring in several of Lu Yan He's films, no one dared to say that about him anymore.

The flop of *Ten Miles of Fragrance* is definitely one of the people Li Yuefeng is most happy about.

He can accept that he is not as good as Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and them, but, Lang Xia?

What is Lang Xia?