Chapter 387 Shock Throughout The Entire Industry
‘This data is simply blinding! ‘Not only has it surpassed the daily box office for “Xu Qingling”, it’s even broken the record for most box office in one day for iQIYI’S online movie this year!’
Everyone within the industry who received this data thought that there was something wrong with iQiyi’s data and found it hard to believe.
‘A movie that only had a box office of 290,000 yuan yesterday has actually received 3.13 million yuan today?! 10 times more?! This is unbelievable!
‘There must be something wrong with the data!’
But iQIYI’s Online Movie Department was in a jubilant mood!
Of course they knew that the data was correct!
‘We’ve struck gold!’
Su Yang was the first to know about this. In fact, he knew about it very early because Li Zixuan gave him a call at 6 am.
At that moment, Li Zixuan did not care if Su Yang was asleep. She called Su Yang regardless because she was too happy. ‘Previously, I knew that the box office of our company’s movies would definitely increase after it was greatly recommended online, I even thought that it might have a similar box office as “Xu Qingling”.
‘But! Over three million! We’re placed No. 1 in the annual box office! ‘I never dared to imagine for this to happen!
‘I don’t care if Su Yang will throw a tantrum and get mad at me or not, I need to call him and tell him the good news now!
‘Plus, I reckon that Su Yang will not get mad at me even if I wake him up from his sleep. After all, who could possibly get angry when they’ve earned 3 million yuan in a day!’
Hence, Su Yang was woken up by little bun immediately. His voice was lazy and sleepy. “Hello… what’s wrong?”
Li Zijun said, “Mr. Su! Mr. Su! Our box office from yesterday is 3.13 million!”
Su Yang did not even open his eyes. “Mmhmm…”
Little bun thought that Su Yang did not hear what she said. “Mr. Su, it’s 3.13 million! Not 130 thousand! Not 330 thousand! 3.13 million!”
Su Yang’s voice was hoarse and lazy as he woke up. “I heard you the first time… It’s more than 3 million yuan. It’s not that much, why are you getting so excited? I’m going back to sleep.”
Li Zijun was speechless
‘Why did it turn out so different from what I imagined?!
‘Isn’t Mr. Su excited?
‘How could he be so calm!
‘So… is being a boss different from being a normal employee?’
Li Zijun deeply doubted herself…
Of course Su Yang was excited! But… he was already excited long before she was!
This was because he had been looking at the data from behind the scenes since yesterday and had Little Deeny calculate the figures. The two of them calculated until midnight and when they found out that they had earned more than 3 million yuan yesterday, Su Yang was so excited that he jumped around in glee!
After that Little Deeny, Bubbles and himself celebrated the whole night and did not sleep until 5am.
So when Li Zijun called him at 6:00am, there was nothing for him to be excited about anymore…
However, just because he was no longer excited, it did not mean that others were not. When the people within the industry reported back to IQIYI, the latter quickly made a second confirmation. “Fighting The Buddha” was yesterday’s box office champion with a total of 3.13 million!”
The entire online movie industry was dumbfounded…
‘A movie that only made 1.9 million yuan at the box office in a week had made 3.13 million yuan after just a day! Could this be real?!’
Everyone that had so confidently claimed that “Fighting The Buddha” was destined to fail, that it was the worst S-rank online movie of the year were all slamming their heads against the wall.
On the other hand, iQIYI’s broker had called Li Zijun early in the morning to apologize and admit his mistake. He said that he had actually thought highly of the “Fighting The Buddha” and asked her to look past everything that had happened yesterday. Also, now that “Fighting The Buddha” was so popular, he would definitely do his best for it to get more recommendations.
Li Zijun looked at the people who could not stop scolding her the day before, yet were trying their best to suck up to her the next day. ‘It’s such a pleasant sight to see.’
‘However, I’m not a magnanimous person, so I can’t be bothered to reply to the broker. After all, even though he spoke nicely, he doesn’t have that much authority to increase the amount of recommendations we receive actually. To do that, I still need to talk to the operations manager of iQIYI.
‘Furthermore, now is not the time to gloat. After all, yesterday was only the first day of the movie being recommended plus it doesn’t mean much if the box office for the movie blew up on the first day, what matters is that the box office maintains a steady rate later on.
‘There are many movies like “Xu Qingling” that start out with a high box office but ends low. Things will look ugly when that actually happens to us.’
It was not only little bun who had such thoughts, even the production company of “Xu Qingling” thought so as well.
When they found out that “Fighting The Buddha”, a movie from the same period as their movie, had suddenly exploded at the box office, the production company was left speechless.
They had thought that “Fighting The Buddha” was sure to fail. Furthermore, the producers were a small and unknown company, that’s why they planned to step on “Fighting The Buddha” to improve their results.
Who would have thought that they would end up shooting themselves in the foot with their plan backfiring against them.
However, as shocked as the production company for “Xu Qingling” was, they did not pay much attention to it. After all, “Fighting The Buddha” was only a day’s work so no one knew if it would fail the next day.
After all, too many movies have skyrocketed in the past due to the amount of promotions done to boost their popularity, but started to fall behind when the movies were taken out of the recommendations list.
Those within the industry who were shocked by the box office of “Fighting The Buddha” slowly came back to their senses. After asking around, they found out that the reason why “Fighting The Buddha” had had such bad reception before was because they had not been recommended and was going around on the internet without any reputation.
Therefore, the reason why their box office was so high was thanks to the amount of promotions done which was fit for an S-rank movie.
Furthermore, under the scrutiny of people with ulterior motives, they realized that FindMe app has also been putting in maximum effort to boost the popularity of “Fighting The Buddha”.
Based on these factors, the end result for “Fighting The Buddha” seemed to be understandable. It was equivalent to the premiere of a movie’s release, enjoying a huge box office on the first day after it had been heavily promoted with tonnes of resources.
‘Since the box office was gained through recommendations, its result can’t be considered as normal.
‘If we want to know whether “Fighting The Buddha” will fail or not, we will have to wait until the next day. If it still manages to have a stable box office, then it’s enough proof that this movie is outstanding.’
Therefore, the industry fell silent again with everyone silently watching, waiting to see how the box office for “Fighting The Buddha” would turn out the next day.
Then, based on the box office results, they would then decide how they would deal with “Fighting The Buddha” and its crew.
Su Yang only slept for four hours before waking up due to his (Three Days Without Sleep Halo).
When it was 9 o’clock, Su Yang felt refreshed. Then, he realized that the cooldown time for the brick had ended as well. A layer of faint light gradually enveloped the originally ordinary brick…
Su Yang was not in a hurry to operate the brick. Instead, he opened the backstage of IQIYI’s content provider to take a look at the box office of “Fighting The Buddha”.
Perhaps it was because the promotions for “Fighting The Buddha” were still ongoing, its momentum was still rising. Su Yang did some calculations and realized that from 12am to 9 am, he had received over 800,000 yuan in box office. ‘It looks like today’s box office will exceed 3 million yuan again!’
Su Yang was very satisfied.
He opened the system and looked at the Silver quest.
Because the movie had a cumulative box office of 5,830,000 yuan, which exceeded the production cost of 5,000,000 yuan, Su Yang’s Silver Quality Mission was updated.
(Silver Mission: Building Foundation.]
Mission Objective: Earn 10 million.
Mission time: Two months.
Mission Completion State: (6233841 / 10000000)
‘It’s already more than six million.’
Su Yang did some calculations. ‘According to this pace, it seems like… I will be able to complete my Silver quest by the end of the day after tomorrow.
‘Isn’t this too fast?
‘Filming a movie is indeed profitable!
‘We’re able to achieve our breakeven cost in two days for a completed movie. This is just awesome!
With that thought in mind, Su Yang decided to boost his box office for that day again.
‘How should I boost it then? I know, I’ll use the (Lucky Disfiguring Brick).
‘I did think about this previously. According to my understanding of Little Hus’s (Sniffing Potential] ability, coupled with the box office of “Fighting The Buddha” and its momentum, the total box office of this movie should not be lower than 20 million.
‘But… 20 million isn’t enough!
‘I want to win, I want to smack my victory against the faces of those who looked down on my movie. I want… to complete my Bronze mission!!
That’s right, it was the [Post Production Film and Television’s Achievement Mission), The movie that was produced post production needed to accumulate a total box office of more than 40 million yuan.
He wanted to see if he could complete the achievement with his movie!
Therefore, he had accepted the mission at 7pm last night. At the moment, the mission completion status was:
[Post Production Film and Television’s Achievement Mission ]
Mission completion status: 36,10236 40,000,000
‘I’ve already completed 10% of the mission!
‘If I could really complete this mission through this movie, then “Fighting The Buddha” would definitely become this year’s box office champion!
‘If I can manage to get that much box office, my subsequent plans would be filled with cash. Whether it was for Little Deeny’s Artificial Intelligence Research Center or the expansion of my management company, even including my future competition with (In) Company, I’d gain the confidence I need to carry out all of those plans!
‘So, for the sake of the box office champion, for the sake of the Achievement Mission and everything else, I need to use the (Lucky Disfiguring Brick] ability on this movie no matter what.’
With that thought in mind, he browsed through the backstage data in boredom and looked at the new reviews and box office of his movie since he had nothing to do on that day which was rare. Overall, it had a good reputation, and the box office was satisfactory.
When it was 7 pm and the traffic flow on the app was the highest, Su Yang finally stood up from his desk.
He opened the drawer and took out a bag that had 3 pieces of Sanque’s roots. Then he took one out and placed it in a cup filled with water.
The roots entered the water and immediately turned into a clear yellow liquid.
Then he picked up the salted fish mask from the table and wore it on his face. He tried his best to reduce his “mental pain”. He could endure the physical pain, but the mental pain was still quite painful.
Finally, he picked up the shining brick that had been placed on the table for the whole day! Then, he mercilessly hit himself in the face!
Bam! Blood spurted from his nose.
Perhaps it was because he had the mask of a salted fish to lessen the pain in his mind, Su Yang only felt waves of pain on his body, but his mind was actually… calm?
He wiped his face calmly, then picked up the ginseng water beside him and drank it in one gulp.
The moment he drank the ginseng water, he felt a refreshing sensation sweep across his face. This time, he did not feel any physical pain, let alone his spirit.
He picked up the towel that he had prepared, wiped his face, and threw it aside. Looking at the countdown on the brick that showed [29:56), he began his “plan”, pray.