Chapter 450: The Ten-Billion-Box-Office Mr

Hengdian World Studios.

Inside a hotel.

The entire core creative team of "Lost in the Stars" had arrived.

Including director Wen Muye, leads Zhu Yilong, Ni Ni Xiaoni, Sister Liu Yan, and Du Dajiang, among others.

This film had been shot to a very high standard.

But as for how much it would earn at the box office, no one had any idea.

After all, film investment carried extremely high risk and extremely high return.

Hit it big once, and you could pack the money away in sacks.

But lose big once—

and the money really burned faster than you could blink.

Too many factors influenced a film's box office.

It depended on the right timing, the right place, and the right people.

For a film to be a smash hit, none of the three could be missing.

Or one factor had to be overwhelmingly outstanding.

Take the previous-life film "Hi, Mom" as an example—

it had simply caught a special period.

Almost no other films were being released; there were very few competitors.

On top of that, audiences hadn't been to the cinema in ages and were all itching to spend.

Besides, there was the contrast thrown up by the competitors.

That was how it racked up those terrifyingly huge box-office numbers.

But in truth, that film's quality was pretty mediocre.

It wasn't worth fifty billion at all—chop off a zero and you'd be about right.

There were also films with rock-solid quality.

Yet because of a "three-sixty" subject matter, or an actor becoming a scandal-ridden celebrity, and the like, the box office ended up mediocre.

Some couldn't even get released.

So a film's box office was very hard to predict.

It really had to be left to the heavens to decide.

Before "Wolf Warrior 2" was released—

you couldn't have beaten it out of Wu Jing that it would pull in 5.6 billion at the box office.

It was more than ten times the first film.

Where on earth do you go to argue with that?

They were all waiting in the private room for Su Chen.

Don't be fooled—Su Chen hadn't taken part in this film.

He was only the screenwriter and investor.

But he was the absolute soul of this film.

Without Su Chen writing the script, there would have been no such film.

Without him pouring money into it, there would have been no such film either.

During the publicity period—

Su Chen's popularity and reputation were even the key selling points the film was pushing.

Even though Su Chen hadn't acted in it.

Yet there was no part of it that didn't revolve around Su Chen.

Su Chen hadn't arrived yet—not because he was throwing his weight around.

It was because he was currently with Hengdian Group Chairman Xu Wenrong.

Xu Wenrong was eighty-five years old this year, with a personal fortune of several hundred billion.