At midnight sharp.
Almost all crew mbers who had participated in filming "Journey to the West on Film" were staring at their screens, waiting for the first day's box office update.
This naturally included Shao Yichen—although her expectations differed slightly from the other mbers, her anxious feelings were the sa.
As soon as midnight passed, the page automatically updated, and the first day's box office appeared on the screen.
One hundred and eighty million!
Excluding the fifty million in pre-sales, "Journey to the West on Film" had collected a full one hundred million yuan in box office on its first day!
Except for Shao Yichen, all other crew mbers erupted in cheers almost simultaneously.
For a cody film of this budget, this box office performance was absolutely a trendous success! Based on this first day's box office alone, they had almost recovered their costs!
Moreover, given the trend of positive word-of-mouth, in the following days, screening allocations would certainly increase, and box office numbers would only grow, not shrink!
The film's final box office would likely reach one billion yuan! Even higher figures weren't impossible, but that would depend on the performance of other Spring Festival films.
In short, from a box office perspective, the film was already guaranteed to be profitable!
Perhaps the only person out of place amid this jubilant atmosphere was Shao Yichen.
Facing that glaring number on her screen, she sighed deeply.
Ever since she had been reborn and bound to this system, she felt like she'd been sighing constantly...
She had never imagined that this film's performance would be even more outrageous than her previous two!
At least her previous two films had given her a few days of fantasy, creating an illusion that "if this trend continues, maybe it will lose money."
She hadn't expected that this ti she wouldn't be given even a shred of fantasy—it directly recovered its costs on the first day, and the only question remaining was how much profit it would make!
Wasn't her hope for this film to lose money now completely aningless?
Shao Yichen inexplicably thought, maybe she should give up on losing money and start honestly directing films with the goal of making a profit...
After all, both Shao Yichens had now been reborn for a year, so perhaps the other one had already started a new life in her world? And perhaps she should also accept reality and abandon fantasy?
For a mont, she was genuinely tempted, but thinking of the system's harsh requirents, her budding desire subsided.
Regardless, the system's rule of "return to the original world after losing money three tis" still existed. What if she started seriously making films, but ended up losing money repeatedly? By then, if she, having developed feelings for this place, was forced to return to her original world, how would she face her inner self? How would she sort out her emotions?
She didn't dare gamble her fate on the system's tasks, nor did she have confidence in her lackadaisical self.
As long as the system's "lose money and go back" rule wasn't canceled, she would continue to live under a Damocles sword, never finding peace.
Thinking of this, Shao Yichen decided to temporarily stop contemplating the possibility of living in this world.
After all, doing so would require several tis her current effort—and she didn't dare to take that gamble.
Forget it, let's think about sothing else.
With this thought, Shao Yichen started reading the original novel of "The Long Ballad of Immortals and Demons."
—That's right, regardless of what task the system would issue next, she had already made up her mind to complete the film before Fu Lianghui did!
This film was already a lost cause; it was ti to start an alt account and prepare for the next one!
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The fact that Shao Yichen had begun a hands-off policy toward the film didn't an others would do the sa.
Especially Li Qianqian, whose performance was closely tied to the film's success. It could be said that she was the person most concerned about the film's box office.
Every ti she refreshed the box office results, her smile would grow even brighter.
It's increasing! It's increasing again!
One hundred million! Two hundred million! Three hundred million!
As a seasoned head of distribution, she imdiately followed up with promotional activities—actor interviews, companion variety shows, crew interviews—accepting everything possible.
The film's actors naturally had no objections. Even Qi Gelong, the most senior and biggest star in the crew, had been idle at ho with nothing to do before filming this movie. Now with his career suddenly experiencing a second spring, it was ti to capitalize on this opportunity to consolidate his popularity, keeping him busy as a spinning top.
Moreover, Qi Gelong had indeed successfully made a coback through this film. Not only did he now have a high-grossing representative work and firmly established himself in the film industry, but his acting had also received very high praise, with many dia outlets describing him as "a buried talent finally revealed" and "successfully proving himself to be more than just 'Qi the Stutterer' through his acting."
He felt grateful toward the entire film and crew—Qi Gelong knew clearly that even if another lead actor had fild this movie, it might have achieved the sa heights. That he got this role was purely because of his good luck in catching Director Shao's attention.
He couldn't help but feel grateful for Director Shao's appreciation of his talent!
With this mindset, Qi Gelong fully cooperated with the film's promotion, even turning down so endorsents that conflicted with his variety show appearances.
With Qi Gelong being so actively cooperative, the other young actors naturally had no reason not to cooperate.
After appearing in this film, although the actors playing Xiao Sun, Xiao Bai, and others didn't receive as much attention as Qi Gelong, they still substantially boosted their popularity and gained fans.
The actor playing Xiao Sun, through his authentic portrayal of a rich second-generation heir, successfully leaped from the BACK position in his boy band to beco the runaway TOP in popularity, even showing a trend of leading the entire group to challenge GG Boy Band's position as China's number one boy band—though he was taking advantage of GG's temporary pause in activities due to their agent change, it was still enough to demonstrate his current popularity;
The actor playing Xiao Zhu was rumored to have been announced as the lead in a cody web series, finally turning over a new leaf after years as an extra;
After completing this film, the actor playing Xiao Sha was revealed online to be a thod acting genius who had once withdrawn from the performance departnt due to psychological barriers caused by getting too deep into character—however, Xiao Sha quickly released a statent saying he could now perfectly switch in and out of character, and would see everyone again when the ti was right, so there was no need to worry;
As for the actor playing Xiao Bai, he was the youngest among these actors and received the most attention. After all, without that waterlon hairstyle, his looks were objectively quite good, and he even sowhat resembled Li Xingyu.
So netizens even speculated based on this that Xiao Bai's character prototype must be Li Xingyu, analyzing with seemingly sound logic—Xiao Bai had followed Old Tang from the beginning of filming, and the only crew mbers in Shao Yichen's first film were just her and Li Xingyu; although Xiao Bai was withdrawn, he could always enlighten Old Tang with a word or two, similarly Li Xingyu didn't talk much but would step up when Shao Yichen needed him; Xiao Bai was admitted to Old Tang's original university at the end of the film, while Li Xingyu was also a junior at the sa university as Shao Yichen in reality...
Building on this theory, various rumors developed, such as "Xiao Bai and Li Xingyu are love rivals both pursuing Director Shao Yichen," "After breaking up with Li Xingyu, Shao Yichen used the Xiao Bai actor as a substitute," and "Xiao Bai used his resemblance to Li Xingyu to beco the third wheel."
Regarding this, Shao Yichen only wanted to say that people's imagination is boundless—even Li Xingyu the master of over-interpretation hadn't imagined things as ridiculously as they did!
If you continue this wild speculation, you'll end up writing a hundred-thousand-word substitute romance novel!
What romance, what breakup, what substitute—none of it is true!
Don't you know that one of the subjects you're speculating about is actually shipping the other two as a couple!
Fortunately, although audiences for these various reasons liked to compare the actor playing Xiao Bai with Li Xingyu, almost to the point where the two fan bases beca hostile toward each other, the Xiao Bai actor promptly made a solemn statent that Li Xingyu was his senior, he himself still had many shortcomings, and he was currently learning from this senior. Then rumors spread that these two actors were about to sign with the sa dia company, becoming real company seniors and juniors, with no current conflicts in resources or career paths. Only then did the comparisons between the two gradually cease.
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"Journey to the West on Film" reached two hundred million yuan in box office on the second day, and on the third day, the daily box office even approached three hundred million at one point, though it fell slightly short in the end.
Afterward, the film's box office gradually declined, but its overall performance remained much stronger than other films released in the sa period. By the ti it concluded its run, the box office had not only broken one billion yuan but had even surpassed 1.5 billion!
Unfortunately, due to various factors—after all, there were still one or two strong competitors among contemporaneous films—the film's box office regrettably stopped short of two billion, freezing at around 1.9 billion.
Looking at this outrageous number, Shao Yichen felt completely unmoved.
Since this ti she had established her own company to manage distribution affairs, there was no need to give a cut to a distribution company like when she was affiliated with Nan Rongyu and Nan Rongzhou's company. After splitting with theater chains and cinemas, all the remaining proceeds went to her and the system!
Although the system hadn't settled accounts yet since midnight hadn't arrived, Shao Yichen estimated that after a 50-50 split with the system, she would still have more than 200 million in pure profit.
This hobody slacker couldn't possibly spend all these funds, so she planned to convert them into capital for Morning Star dia—after all, with the system's supervision, she wasn't worried about any issues with these funds.
So after the company's capital rapidly increased, she finally received a call from Manager Qianqian.
On the phone, she asked—should they take Morning Star dia public?
It was then that Shao Yichen realized her company was about to develop to a considerable scale.
Under normal circumstances, a company with tens of millions in capital could go public, and her company's capital would definitely exceed 100 million after settlent, so going public shouldn't be a problem.
So faced with Manager Qianqian's ambition to take the company public, she didn't stop her, allowing the company to grow wildly.
After hanging up, she finally heard the familiar "ding-dong" sound and perked up.
The settlent report had finally arrived!
Without even checking how much money she had settled this ti, she quickly opened the new task panel.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the task. Please check the settlent interface for the specific settlent amount.]
[Director System upgrade, new round of tasks released: Please complete the filming and release of your next film within one year. System investnt filming funds: 100 million yuan. Upon completion of the task, the Director System will undergo its final version upgrade. Please look forward to it!]
Author's Note: Today's second update!
I'll be officially starting classes tomorrow, feeling a little nervous
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