Chapter 654: The Ten-Billion Box Office Club

The fourth day of the Lunar New Year, morning.

Chen Kai, the head of Xindi Cinema Chain, accepted an interview with three media outlets.

Among them was one with a rather unique nature.

For this type of media, when its statements please the people, everyone will lavishly praise it as truly living up to its status as a special media outlet.

But once it is inconsistent with the views of the masses, netizens will mock it as a second-rate newspaper.

Because the year-on-year increase in Spring Festival movie ticket prices is a problem many people are concerned about.

Coupled with the fact that the subject of this interview was Chen Kai, the head of Xindi Cinema Chain.

Therefore, all three media outlets worked with high efficiency, working overtime during the New Year, and released the interview content shortly after.

Once the interview content was released, it attracted a large crowd of onlookers.

Among them were also a large number of industry insiders from the film world.

The other cinema chains were also curious about what exactly Chen Kai had said to the media.

You must know that the cinema chains were the most nervous ones.

After all, if Chen Kai said something in his answers that provoked public anger, netizens might not just bash Xindi Cinema, but bash all the cinema chains.

Because it wasn't just Xindi Cinema that raised ticket prices; all cinemas were raising them.

After reading the interview, the people from the major cinema chains breathed a sigh of relief.

Not only were they no longer anxious, but on the contrary, they felt incredibly refreshed, as if they had vented the pent-up anger in their chests!

Admittedly, cinema chains are one of the culprits behind the rise in movie ticket prices.

However, why should the film production companies be able to stay out of it and each pretend to be a white lotus on the internet?

You film production companies, in the early stages of release, formed a united front and collectively raised the 【Minimum Distribution Price】 by 5 yuan.

Isn't this clearly forcing us to raise prices together?

As a result, the bad reputation is left for us cinema chains to bear, as if it has nothing to do with you at all.

Isn't this a typical case of colluding with each other?

We thought we had a 【Promise】: make money together, and take the blame together!

As it turns out, you say one thing to our faces and do another behind our backs!

Good heavens, a bunch of 【Anti-Contrast Bitch】!

For the cinema chains, taking the blame is fine, even taking the biggest share of the blame is fine, but to let the cinema chains take it all while you pretend to be pitiful, that is just too unprincipled.

Facing the media, Chen Kai directly announced the 【Minimum Distribution Price】.

To be precise, these data are the same on Blue Star and Earth, and they are all accessible.

It's just that, in daily life, no one pays attention to this stuff.

A group of cinema chain peers: "Well done!"

And for the onlookers, they also obtained an additional piece of important information from Chen Kai's words.

——"Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child" did not raise the 【Minimum Distribution Price】!

Its 【Minimum Distribution Price】 remained consistent with the period when "Monkey King: Hero is Back" was released.

Of the six films in this year's Spring Festival lineup, five formed a united front, collectively raising prices, following the so-called "the law does not punish the masses" tactic.

Only Luo Mo, once again "refusing a toast only to be forced to drink," did not accept the solicitation of this small circle, and acted entirely according to his own heart.

In fact, if it were in the past, this would be nothing.

As the saying goes, in the past, in many people's hearts, Animation films were inferior, at the bottom of the contempt chain.

If you didn't raise prices, in everyone's eyes, that was expected.

If you did raise them, then you were the most damnable!

But now it's different.

"Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child" is the best-looking movie of this year's Spring Festival, the work with the best public reputation!

Luo Mo spent money like crazy on special effects, much more than what was spent on Earth.

The stunning visual effects made the audience understand that this film was made with a huge investment.

The audiovisual experience is even better than those live-action films.

Everyone can see the effort Luo Mo put in.

In this way, there was an instant sense of superiority and inferiority.

Others make movies with heart and set a conscientious price.

Your attitude is to secretly grab more money, and that would be fine.

But the film you produced is still a typical cash-grab film!

Don't you think your greed looks very ugly?

And as more and more netizens discussed this, many people left comments in the comment section, reminding the onlookers not to forget one very important thing.

"Luo Mo's works always have a portion of the proceeds donated to charity!"

This matter has long been known to everyone.

On the charity lists published every year, Luo Mo is always on the list.

Some celebrities get cyberbullied and are forced to donate.

As for Luo Mo, he only makes people stare in bewilderment: "How many digits is this?"

In an instant, public opinion was steered.

"The best-looking movie is actually the cheapest to sell!"

"Conscientious works sell at a conscientious price, black-hearted works sell at a black-hearted price!"

"Whether to consume or not, whether to watch a movie or not, is indeed a matter of personal will, but at least it should be worth the price, right?"

"Haha, the movie with the lowest ticket price is now having the highest single-day box office!"

On Earth, many people know that the box office for *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child* is insane, but they don't know that its ticket price was considered low for the same period.

But on Blue Star, after such a stir, many people have gradually begun to realize this point.

"This is truly Ox!"

"Nezha, charge!"

"I would rather go for a second viewing of *Nezha* than go watch these trash movies."

"Can those going for a second viewing wait a bit? I can't even grab a ticket!"

"The showtimes are still too few, increase them for me!"

Just like that, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the single-day box office of *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child* reached 369 million.

Since its release, this movie's box office has been higher every single day.

In other words, it is creating a new single-day box office record for Huaxia Animation movies every day!

At the same time, its cumulative total box office has also officially broken through 1.1 billion!

Quite a few people no longer feel that this movie is at the 2.5 billion level.

They keep feeling it is going to dash towards over 3 billion!

In other words, this Animation film has a chance to charge into the top ten of the Huaxia film history box office rankings.

"This is too crazy!"

……..

……..

The major cinema chains will not go against money.

The performance of *Nezha* is truly too good, causing everyone to increase its showtimes one after another.

Although the ticket price is a bit cheaper, the occupancy rate is high!

In Beijing, Section Chief Zhong Lin of the Review Department has been closely monitoring the box office of *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child*.

To her, all of this is too bizarre and too surprising.

Is *Nezha* good?

In her eyes, naturally, it is good.

But an Animation movie has never had such terrifying data before.

Therefore, among these three 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】 films, regarding the movies related to Luo Mo, she personally was also more optimistic about the data of *Deadly Resentment* and *The Grandmaster* at the beginning.

But who would have thought, after *The Grandmaster* finished its run at 1.6 billion, everyone felt that Luo Mo was going to get slapped in the face this time and couldn't complete the 8 billion goal; as a result, *Nezha* stepped on its Wind Fire Wheels and went straight to the sky!

"If this Animation movie can reach 3 billion, plus *The Grandmaster*, that would be 4.6 billion!"

"In this way, if *Deadly Resentment* gets another 3 billion-plus in box office, Luo Mo might really complete his boastful words!" Zhong Lin said in her heart.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of those expert judges of the 【Fan Hua Award】.

A few days ago, when *Nezha* hadn't truly exerted its strength, due to the grudges from the previous awards ceremony, these expert judges didn't have a single good word for *Nezha*.

What they praised wantonly were *Monster Hunt 2*, *Journey to the West: Six-Eared Macaque*, and *Hidden Dragon in the Abyss*.

Luo Mo had already clearly stated before that he would not attend the 【Fan Hua Award】 ceremony from tonight onwards, yet this group of expert judges were still using the awards to make a point, saying that from the perspective of judges, they would not let this kind of movie be nominated.

Heh, they insist on turning the fact that he isn't coming into us not letting him come.

Zhong Lin couldn't help but think: "These years, for these few major awards, they have been a bit too tolerant."

"Occasionally splitting the cake internally is one thing, but now that the credibility has dropped so severely, they still don't reflect."

"Having a bit of power, they really use it hard. As if they would be at a loss if they didn't use it right now."

"After the New Year, it is time to give them all a good knock."

In her view, Luo Mo's works should all receive Fairness.

As for whether he himself comes to receive the award...

Who ever stipulated that one must come in person to receive it?

Isn't receiving it by proxy very normal!

When a person's work, if not nominated or awarded, becomes a loss for an award, then everything becomes different.

——He can choose not to want it, but you cannot choose not to give it!

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……..

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, with the further increase in showtimes, the single-day box office of *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child* broke the 400 million mark, reaching 418 million!

This terrifying number made filmmakers feel their hearts tremble.

The most important thing is, looking at the trend on the internet, the audience's enthusiasm doesn't seem to have any intention of cooling down.

On the contrary, everyone's enthusiasm is getting higher and higher!

Many "secondary creations" have started to appear online.

There are also netizens starting to draw pictures or write fan fiction.

Looking at this year's period, which is called the 【Most Anticipated Spring Festival Slot in History】, most movies have shown a trend of starting high and ending low.

*Hidden Dragon in the Abyss* actually had a bit of a low start and high finish.

And *Nezha*, as an Animation movie, its opening day performance was already considered unprecedented.

But the subsequent explosion directly made netizens create a term for it—high start and crazy finish!

Anyone who takes a look at the data can know that tomorrow, the total box office of *Nezha* will definitely surpass *Monkey King: Hero is Back*.

In other words, it is about to become the new Animation movie box office champion.

Others are single-mindedly wanting to defeat Luo Mo, but they just can't do it.

Sure enough—one must use Luo Mo to defeat Luo Mo!

Only Comrade He Yuanguang has been in pain and joy lately.

"Nezha" is too crazy; it is breaking records every day.

Therefore, celebration posters have to be released every day, and there is barely enough time to make them.

However, once a person gets busy, the plan for a second child can naturally be postponed again.

"Making a person is not as easy as drawing a picture." — He Yuanguang.

No wonder many people say that after the age of 40, it is a man's golden period for his career.

Especially for a life-risking player like Guang Shu who worked his liver to the point of exhaustion in his early years.

It simply couldn't be more focused!

By the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the single-day box office of "Nezha" began to "stabilize," no longer growing too rapidly, and it rose to 433 million.

How useless, it has only been rising for five or six days and it can't rise anymore!

Over 400 million is also about the box office Peak Value that "Nezha" can reach during this year's Spring Festival slot.

The point is how many days this movie can hold at this peak.

For movies in the Spring Festival slot, once the Lantern Festival passes, the single-day box office will drop significantly, and the growth rate of the total box office will slow down, requiring day-by-day accumulation.

It's just that, looking at it now, it seems that "Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child" breaking 3 billion is already a certainty.

This makes Director Tian Ou, who also participated in the 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】, feel incomparably envious.

Nowadays, "Car King 3" has already passed the review, and some preliminary promotional work is already being followed up.

But these past few days, the promotional work for all movies has to stand aside.

"Nezha" is too hot, so hot that the entire internet is buzzing about it.

If you throw money into promoting a new film now, the effect won't be good; it's equivalent to throwing money into the water.

Tian Ou originally thought that Luo Mo's claim of three movies breaking 8 billion at the box office was just wishful thinking.

But looking at it now, it is not impossible.

"Why, why is every movie of his such a hit!"

Jealousy makes me hideous.

Jealousy makes me undergo plasmolysis.

Jealousy makes me talk nonsense.

Suddenly, Tian Ou seemed to realize something.

He took out his phone and started searching for the specific box office data of "Monkey King: Hero is Back" and "Dying to Survive".

"For the movie 'Be Somebody', Luo Mo was only the screenwriter and investor, not the director; the director column only wrote Guan Fei's name," Tian Ou thought to himself.

What he is doing now is calculating the current total box office of all the movies directed by Luo Mo.

"'Monkey King: Hero is Back' and 'Dying to Survive' added together, the box office is less than 6 billion."

"'Nezha' currently looks like it will break 3 billion easily."

"These three movies added together make 9 billion!"

"And he still has a 'Sheep Without a Shepherd' this year, which should be released in the Shuji Dang."

"Luo Mo's current reputation and influence are terrifying, and 'Sheep Without a Shepherd' is starred by Wang Rong and Tang Shiyu, which is basically restoring the team of 'Dying to Survive'."

"In this way, the Box Office Appeal is absolutely terrifying!"

"Even if the quality of this movie is average, it shouldn't be hard to break 1 billion at the box office."

"If added together like this..."

Tian Ou sat dejectedly on the sofa, and he couldn't help but gasp.

You must know that actors have the so-called 【Ten Billion Box Office Club】 and 【Twenty Billion Box Office Club】, and directors have them too.

In fact, it is far harder for directors to achieve the same box office success than actors.

Just like on Earth, there are already quite a few so-called 【Hundred Billion Box Office Actors】, but it wasn't until '21 that the first 【Hundred Billion Box Office Director】 appeared.

Up to now, directors with a personal directed box office exceeding 10 billion are also few and far between in Huaxia on Earth!

At this moment, Tian Ou was jealous to the point of almost going crazy!

The reason is simple: to this day, Blue Star Huaxia has yet to see a director whose personally directed movies have a cumulative box office exceeding 10 billion!

However, does Luo Mo really have to wait until the release of "Sheep Without a Shepherd" this summer to achieve this feat and create history?

(End of this chapter)