Chapter 682: Three Movies, Ten Billion

A short trailer made many people burst into laughter.

The rebirth genre is a very familiar one to many netizens.

Especially for those who love reading web novels, it couldn't be more familiar.

But just imagine, if you were reborn and returned to your student days, putting yourself in the shoes of the character Xia Luo, and shouted that line: "Stop messing around, wifey!"

Wow, it's enough to make one's Dao heart unstable and one's entire mentality collapse.

But if you're a bystander... hahahaha, this is just too funny!

Liu Gongming's performance in the movie is effectively his first presentation before the audience.

How should I put it?

——Utterly natural!

You have to know, the director of this movie is Wang Rong, one of the most famous Comedy actors in the country.

In Blue Star Huaxia, there are currently only two male actors who have won the honor of 【Best Actor】 through Comedy films, and Wang Rong is one of them.

And when he was directing *Charlotte Troubles*, watching Liu Gongming's performance, he felt a sense of envy in his heart several times.

This person has too many innate advantages.

It feels like the heavens let him be born just to make people laugh!

This has caused those who have been stirring up trouble and writing hit pieces on the internet recently to gradually fall into silence.

On the contrary, quite a few "masterminds behind the scenes" are so angry they are slapping their thighs.

The earlier commotion was so boisterous that many passersby began to pay attention to this movie, and to whether Liu Gongming was "unworthy of his position" and unqualified to play the lead.

This meant that once the trailer was released, huge crowds of people really did flood in to watch it.

How much time has passed? The combined view counts across all platforms on the internet have already easily broken ten million.

Good grief, are we saying that the money we spent to smear you ended up becoming your hype?

It's simply lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own feet.

The so-called battle for 【billing】 is mostly a fight within fan circles.

Ordinary audiences don't care who is the first lead, who is the second lead, or who is a minor supporting actor.

As long as the acting is good and the work is enjoyable, that's enough.

At least for now, everyone is maintaining expectations for *Charlotte Troubles*.

However, everything still depends on after the movie is released.

These days, Comedy films are no longer as glorious as they once were.

For many Comedy movies, the most essential parts are all in the trailer.

You go to the cinema to watch it, and it's practically a prison experience.

As mentioned before, people nowadays have higher standards for humor than before.

Especially some young audiences.

We are in the great era of the internet; what kind of silly content isn't there online?

The joke-tellers who were once extremely popular have basically all fizzled out now.

In the past, when everyone read jokes, it was: "Hahahaha."

Now it's all: "What is this?"

There are too many funny things on the internet, and the silly netizens are all too talented.

The vast majority of Comedy movies might not even be as funny as the top comments written by silly netizens in the comment section.

This is just like how some novels written by web writers might not be as good as the 【Chapter Discussion】 written by the readers.

Therefore, the path of Comedy is actually a bit difficult to tread at the moment.

Many Comedy creators have started copying and using Fusion Plot online.

But in reality, an excellent Comedy is capable of generating a massive amount of memes.

As for *Charlotte Troubles*...

It should count as the king of memes, right?

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The sweltering July has passed just like that, and what follows is—the even hotter August!

In Shanghai, Luo Mo looked at the "maximum temperature of 40 degrees" in the weather forecast and knew deep down that this was total bullshit.

"It's a good thing *The Wandering Earth* finished filming early," Luo Mo couldn't help but remark.

If they were still filming right now, wouldn't people be getting heatstroke?

Life this year is practically given by the air conditioner.

As of now, the cumulative total box office of *Manslaughter* has reached 3.087 billion.

Now, it is already in the 【key】 extension stage.

This movie, which has been released for over 30 days, still has twenty-some days of screening time left.

Even if there are only a few million in daily box office, added together, it is very likely to gain another 100 million.

"Three movies, 8 billion; the target was exceeded long ago."

"Let me see... still missing a little over a million, and added together it will be exactly 10 billion."

"It should be achieved this afternoon, right?" Luo Mo thought to himself.

Today is August 1st, and tomorrow is the premiere day for *Charlotte Troubles*.

It's perfect to create a big news story to build hype for it, so it can take the baton from *Manslaughter*.

By 3:30 in the afternoon, the celebration that had been prepared long ago was released immediately.

The media had also long since prepared their drafts, just waiting for the real-time data to break ten billion!

Once these things were released, they caused a sensation.

"Holy crap, it really broke ten billion?"

"For next year's 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】, why don't we just let Luo Mo participate alone?"

"I'm impressed, isn't this too Ox?"

"Damn, this is just too exaggerated!"

As for those in the industry, they had gradually become numb.

The various capitalists were even more jealous and gnashing their teeth.

When they invest in films, the risks they bear are actually very high.

Over the course of a year, it is often a mix of gains and losses.

Luo Mo's side is completely different.

His side only has two modes: 【Big Profit】 and 【Big Profit and Extra Big Profit】!

Most importantly, of Luo Mo's three films, the investment for *Nobody* was very small, and the production cost of *Sheep Slaughter* was actually not high either.

These two films didn't have any big scenes.

The one that burned the most money was *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child*, but its box office was over five billion!

Many in the industry did a rough calculation to see exactly how much Luo Mo could earn.

Looking at the amount they calculated, many people couldn't help but fall silent.

This was no longer just simply achieving financial freedom; this was earning way too much!

As for the expert judges of the 【Fan Hua Award】 who had previously mocked Luo Mo, they only felt their faces burning for a moment.

He not only completed the small goal of 8 billion, but also exceeded it by an extra 2 billion.

You say I'm bloated, you say I'm too arrogant?

Then I will use facts to tell you that I am actually a very low-key and humble person.

As for posting a Weibo to retort to them, Luo Mo was too lazy to even do that.

If he had that spare time, he might as well promote his new film more.

Luo Mo checked the Pre-sale Box Office for *Charlotte Troubles*.

It had now broken 50 million.

Looking at it now, it was unlikely to break 100 million in pre-sales like *Sheep Slaughter*.

After all, although Liu Shixiong had been very popular recently and the online discussion index was very high, his Box Office Appeal was still a bit lacking.

*Sheep Slaughter* had the 【Mist Theater】 as a foundation, and was crafted by the original team of *I Am Not Medicine God*, so its early-stage advantage was too great.

On Earth, *Charlotte Troubles* was released in 2015, and data showed its cumulative box office was 1.448 billion.

Its release window was the National Day holiday.

This window was not considered very bad, but it certainly couldn't be considered particularly good either.

After all, the National Day holiday is not long.

And what was the first-day box office for this film?

Its premiere box office was actually very low; just looking at this data, one would never imagine that this film could eventually take over a billion in box office.

On the first day of release, the box office was only 23.24 million.

Back then, whether it was Happy Twist, or Shen Teng and Ma Li, they could be considered *Nobody* in the film industry.

During the promotion stage, this film also went through hardships, letting the Shen-Ma duo taste the warmth and coldness of human relationships.

The final result, naturally, was a counterattack all the way, a turnaround against the wind!

The total box office for the first week of this film's release was only 258 million.

After one week of release, the National Day holiday was effectively over.

There was no help for it; word-of-mouth fermentation and the growth of popularity also take time.

That is to say, most of its box office was earned during the regular release period!

In the environment of 2015, this was a very terrifying thing; it could be said to have caused a huge sensation in the film world!

You have to know, the box office champion in film history at that time seemed to be the 2-billion-plus *Monster Hunt*.

Happy Twist, Shen Teng, and Ma Li could be said to have become famous in one battle!

—Such a Dark Horse had not been seen for a long time.

Just imagine, if this film had been released during the Shuji Dang, the box office it could have taken in 2015 would definitely have been even higher!

Luo Mo held expectations for the box office performance of the Blue Star version of *Charlotte Troubles*.

The current film market on Blue Star is definitely much stronger than the stage on Earth in 2015.

And for the Blue Star version of *Charlotte Troubles*, Luo Mo had made changes; after all, he had to combine it with different historical backgrounds.

At the same time, as a transmigrator from Earth, Luo Mo found it quite exciting that this film with a special theme was being released so openly and aboveboard.

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August 2nd, weekend.

*Charlotte Troubles* and Director Tian Ou's *Car King 3* premiered on the same day.

Wang Rong and Tian Ou had both been on the director-themed variety show *Director Show*, which actually added a bit of gunpowder to the two films being released in the same period.

In Beijing, the female Psychologist Ye Mei was holding her phone, opening a ticketing app to buy a ticket for *Charlotte Troubles*.

She sat on the sofa, her legs in black silk stockings crossed over each other, and finally chose an afternoon showing.

Well, she only bought one ticket, preparing to watch it alone.

After arriving at the cinema, Ye Mei discovered that there were quite a lot of people.

Most of the audience waiting to enter were young people.

Ye Mei sat in the cinema, and with her whole person radiating an intellectual beauty, she attracted the gazes of quite a few youngsters.

——This older sister, I love her so much.

A white short-sleeved slim-fit shirt, with the hem tucked into a black knee-length skirt; the black silk stockings made her already well-proportioned and slender legs appear even more delicate.

The Gold-rimmed Glasses on the bridge of her nose added a touch of aloofness to her.

Putting on a White Lab Coat, this woman would be a typical "Female Doctor Series."

When not wearing one, it was easier to make people think of the "Female Teacher Series."

Ye Mei observed the crowd around her; basically, they were either young couples or friends who had arranged to watch a movie together.

Someone like her, alone by herself, was the minority of the minority.

Because of this, Ye Mei did not feel lonely.

As mentioned before, this person had been single since birth.

She was never lacking in suitors around her, but she had no interest.

Many of Ye Mei's patients were those who had developed psychological problems from dating.

"If you don't date, there's no damn trouble." That was how Ye Mei thought, anyway.

Tsk, this old dirty-minded woman was using a double entendre.

Her legs were pressed tightly together, and her romantic history was like a blank sheet of paper, yet the CP fanfiction she wrote was sweet to the point of being cloying.

As one of the lead fans in the Mo Xu CP, she always felt: how could dating herself be as interesting as watching others date?

At this moment, the ticket inspector began calling everyone to check tickets and enter the hall.

Ye Mei took her movie ticket and went to line up.

After sitting down inside the Cinema, she even took a photo of her ticket stub and sent it to Xu Chujing.

After watching two minutes of commercials, the film officially began.

And just at this time, Ye Mei felt a little bit like going to the restroom.

But she did not want to miss the beginning of the movie.

With a rebirth theme, it wouldn't be good to miss how he was reborn, right?

Therefore, she finally decided to hold it for a while and go to the restroom when the movie content was relatively dull.

(PS: First update, there is more today.

Thanks to Alliance Leader 【Nüē Miē】 for the 5th 100,000 Qidian coin tip, equivalent to half a Silver Alliance; the boss is generous.)

(End of this chapter)