Chapter 190 The person who was offended is not clear

In fact, when Lin Feng made this box office prediction of "over 1 billion", he didn't think too much about it and just said it casually.
But that was it. Lin Feng didn't think it was a big deal. He really thought that the box office of "Old Cannon" could reach 1 billion.
After all, the previous version of "Mr. Six" had a box office of 9.01 million yuan. Now with his own popularity, a box office of 10 billion yuan is not a joke!

What Lin Feng didn't expect was that after he said it, the outside world's reaction was a little crazy, even a little beyond his imagination.

In this era where a movie box office of over 100 million is considered impressive, Lin Feng’s slogan of “box office over 10 billion” is indeed a bit of an exaggeration.

Apart from other things, there are only 10 movies in China that have grossed over 8 billion yuan.
"Monster Hunt", "Charlotte's Troubles", "Lost in Hong Kong", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", "Heart Flower", "The Pancake Man", "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", "Lost in Thailand",
Oh, and this year's "Journey to the West: Hero is Back", this movie didn't make over 10 billion in its previous life, but now it has passed the 10 billion mark thanks to Lin Feng's promotion on Weibo;

Of course, the recently popular "Mojin: The Lost Legend" has already grossed 8.5 million yuan, and it is basically certain to exceed 10 billion yuan.

Even if you include "Mojin: The Last Dragon", among all Chinese movies, only 9 have grossed over 10 billion yuan.

So when Lin Feng shouted the slogan that "Mr. Six" had "over 10 billion box office", it meant that "Mr. Six" had already been included in the top 10 box office movies in film history!

The reporters at the scene were all excited. Now there was a hot news topic. For a moment, the flash lights almost blinded people's eyes, and for a while, the only sound was the "clicking" of the camera shutters.

Almost all the cameras were focused on Lin Feng, and the expressions of the media reporters were as if they had taken stimulants. It was obvious that the bonus for this month was secured again!

The box office of the movie "Mr. Six" has exceeded 10 billion. Not only does Huayi not dare to say it, even the "Little Cannon" Feng Xiaogang, who is always a big mouth, does not dare to say it, otherwise his box office prediction would be 5 million!

Even Jiang Shenglin, a famous film critic who has always admired Lin Feng, said in a rather tactful way:

"Old Cannon is a good movie. Feng Xiaogang's performance is worthy of an award-winning actor, and Lin Feng's acting is on point. I believe this movie will achieve the box office results it deserves."

Wang Hailin, a "black fan" who didn't get along well with Lin Feng, finally found Lin Feng's weakness this time and said with a sneer:

“I admit that Mr. Six is ​​a good movie, but good reputation is just good reputation. As for what Lin Feng said about the movie box office reaching 10 billion, it is unlikely!

I also put this in there: if the box office of Mr. Six reaches 10 billion, I will eat this microphone!"

Wow, there are conflicts, contradictions, and topics. This time, it is not only a hot news topic, but also a hot search topic.

Feng Xiaogang also thought that Lin Feng's move was to promote the movie "Old Cannon". After the premiere, he privately found Lin Feng to thank him.

"Lin Feng, I'm really sorry for your hard work this time. Thank you for your efforts, but you don't need to publicize it like this. It will have a bad influence on you. You are so young and it is easy for you to be seen as arrogant."

"Director Feng, that's too much. There's nothing to thank me for, because this is exactly what I think. I think the box office of Mr. Six can reach 10 billion!"

Feng Xiaogang was stunned. He looked Lin Feng up and down carefully and asked, "Lin Feng, do you really think... our movie "Old Cannon" can break 10 billion at the box office?"

Lin Feng nodded without hesitation, and then asked, "Why doesn't Director Feng believe it?"

Feng Xiaogang nodded and said hesitantly: "Of course I hope so, but I'm not so sure!"

"Don't worry, Director Feng, our film will definitely make over 10 billion."

In fact, the reason why Lin Feng is so confident about the box office of "Mr. Six" is nothing more than the confidence he gained in his previous life.

In the previous life, the box office of "Old Cannon" was 9.01 million. Now nothing has changed, except that Li Yifeng in the previous life has been replaced by the current self.
The current me is not comparable to Li Yifeng in my previous life. Whether it is works or popularity, we are not on the same level.
But Lin Feng himself didn't believe it. He thought that his popularity couldn't increase the box office by 4000 million. He was not bragging, he was confident because his million fans were no joke!

In his previous life, Xiao Zan's 3000 million fans could conquer the world, and his 4000 million fans were no less loyal than him, and in some ways even more loyal;
What's more, Lin Feng had already proved it before, that he increased the box office of "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" by 4 million yuan, and even increased the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" by more than million yuan even though it was taken off the shelves.

Of course, Lin Feng himself has now shouted the slogan "Old Cannon has a box office of over 10 billion", which is indeed a bit arrogant.
If the box office of Mr. Six fails to exceed 10 billion, he will definitely suffer some backlash and be labeled as "arrogant";

Similarly, if the box office of the movie "Mr. Six" exceeds 10 billion, it will be a reflection of his confidence and will also gain him a certain number of fans.

In fact, whether it is successful or not, it is definitely a success for Lin Feng. If the box office fails, he can abuse his fans; if the box office passes, he can attract more fans.
Besides, at least he has attracted a lot of attention now, so even if he fails in the end, he won’t suffer any loss.

However, no matter how well Lin Feng spoke, and no matter how good the reputation of "Old Cannon" was, the market was not optimistic about "Old Cannon" at the beginning, and the screening rate for it was not high.

On the first day of the official release of "Old Cannon", on the road show, Lin Feng also asked his agent Zhang Jing about the film's first day of release:

"Sister Jing, what is the current first-day screening rate for the movie "Old Cannon"?"

Agent Zhang Jing replied without hesitation: "25.5%."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but blurt out: "25.5%? How come it's only this much!"

Even though the competition in this year's Lunar New Year box office is a bit fierce, the investment and cast of "Old Cannon" are very impressive.
If a big company has big productions, a big director, an actor, traffic, and word of mouth, it shouldn't be necessary to arrange so few screenings, right?

And with the participation of a top star like himself, according to Lin Feng’s estimation, it would be at least lower than 30%, right?
Otherwise, you are not taking your status as a top star seriously enough!

In fact, Lin Feng may not know that the screening rate of "Mr. Six" was only 22.5% in its previous life, but now it has reached 25.5%, an increase of 3 percentage points, which is mostly due to his face.

So Zhang Jing explained to Lin Feng: "The pre-sale box office results of "Old Cannon" are not very ideal, so the screening schedule is low!

Besides, isn't this movie just an art film in a commercial coat? The genre itself is not so appealing. BJ has too many cultural and regional characteristics.
During the previous promotion period, the focus was on Feng Xiaogang, who had just won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, and not on you and Wu Qian.
And we didn’t actively promote it, so it wasn’t that attractive to fans, and even fewer people bought tickets in the first place.

Another point is that it is said that Feng Xiaogang offended someone, so the theater chain deliberately did not schedule "Old Cannon" very high! "

Feng Xiaogang always complains about everything and everyone, and has offended many people. Lin Feng has also heard about this, but he did not expect that it would affect "Mr. Six". He also wondered: "Although Feng Xiaogang is quite arrogant, the power of Huayi behind him is not small. Which theater chain dares to deliberately reduce the screening schedule for them?"

"Who else could it be? It must be Wanda Films. They have a bad relationship with Wanda, and the investor behind Deng Chao's "Bad Angels" is Wanda Films.
Wanda Films will definitely arrange its own movie "Bad Angels" first, and then the movie "Old Cannon",
Of course, if Old Cannon performs well and the box office picks up, the cinema chains will certainly increase the number of screenings accordingly. After all, who would be reluctant to give up money? "

"The low screening rate is caused by the cinema chain. But the pre-sale box office of "Old Cannon" is so low, isn't it a bit too low? The fans of me and Wu Qian alone can't raise the pre-sale box office!"

"In fact, it is also related to the previous promotional focus of "Old Cannon". Their previous promotional focus was on Feng Xiaogang, who had just won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, and they did not promote you and Wu Qian too much.
And they only ranked you and Wu Qian as fourth, so fans must be a little unhappy about that!"

In fact, in the movie "Mr. Six", besides Feng Xiaogang, the two most important characters are Lin Feng and Wu Qian.
However, in the ranking of the movie "Mr. Six", Lin Feng and Wu Qian were ranked fourth in no particular order.
First place is Feng Xiaogang, second place is Xu Qing, third place is Zhang Hanyu, and fourth place is Lin Feng and Wu Qian, but Lin Feng is on the left and Wu Qian is at the back;
At that time, Lin Feng had just become famous, and his popularity was only slightly higher than Wu Qian who had just returned from Korea, so this ranking was reasonable.

In the actual ranking, Lin Feng was ranked ahead of Wu Qian, and Wu Qian even had a fight with Hua Yi over this.
However, as Lin Feng's fame grew, Wu Qian didn't dare to say anything, and even wanted to keep the "equal" ranking order, which seemed like he was trying to get some attention.

From the previous "fighting for the role" to the current "freeloading on the role", the change in Lin Feng's popularity can be seen from the changes in Wu Qian.

Lin Feng doesn't care about the ranking, because the role in the movie is placed wherever it is, as long as your role is outstanding, it has nothing to do with the ranking;

Of course, Lin Feng will definitely fight for the interests that should be fought for. Other seniors can rank ahead of Lin Feng, but you, Wu Qian, don't even think about it.

However, compared to Lin Feng, fans attach great importance to the ranking, and it is even the most sensitive thing that fans compete for!
"Our Lin Feng is only ranked third! How did the ranking order of "Old Cannon" come about?"

"Why is our Wu Qian only ranked fourth? I think he should be ranked before Lin Feng."

"What kind of person is your Wu Qian? Does he have popularity and acting skills? How dare you rank ahead of our Lin Feng? Try peeing too!"

"That's right. You said before that our Lin Feng had no movie work. Now the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" has reached 18.6 billion. What do you think?"

"What else can we say? We just want to say that in "Charlotte's Troubles", your Lin Feng is just a supporting actor, not the leading actor.

And our Wu Qian is always the leading actor in every movie he plays, what can you say?"

"Although our Lin Feng is only a supporting actor in "Charlotte's Troubles", he is able to carry the box office. How much more box office has your Wu Qian carried!"

"I'm not exaggerating or slandering you. Let's put it another way. In the ranking of the actors in Mr. Six, Lin Feng is ranked before Wu Qian. Don't make the mistake!"

...

"Mr. Six" did not play the traffic card well and did not give enough respect to Lin Feng and Wu Qian, so fans certainly won't buy it.
For fans, the focus of your movie promotion is Feng Xiaogang. Whether the final result is good or bad, what does it have to do with our idol?
If the status of Lin Feng and others is further improved, not to mention that others would be unwilling, even if others were willing, Lin Feng himself would not be willing!

One is that Lin Feng's role is not that important. When he appears in the movie, it is already 45 minutes in, so the promotion is untenable.

The second is that if Lin Feng wants to be promoted, it means that a lot of people will have to squeeze out. Feng Xiaogang definitely can't be the male lead.

They are none other than Xu Qing and Zhang Hanyu, all of whom are seniors. They have debuted for so many years but are still outshined by a junior. These people will definitely not agree.

And let alone the ones above, even if it is Wu Qian who has the same rank as him, if Lin Feng really wants to get promoted, even Wu Qian’s fans will not swallow their anger.

After all, it was agreed before that the two of them were of equal rank. If Lin Feng rashly mentioned the rank, wouldn't it be tantamount to making it clear that his idol was outdone?

Even if celebrities don’t care much about their ranking, fans take it very seriously. Otherwise, how can fans prove their love for their idols!
Many celebrities sometimes don’t fight for their roles on purpose, they just do it for their fans.

This is also the reason why Lin Feng’s fans did not support the movie “Old Cannon” at the beginning. On the one hand, the ranking was not equal, and they did not give their idol enough respect.

On the other hand, the focus of the publicity was on Feng Xiaogang, not on Lin Feng at all, so the fans were not very supportive.
Also, there are not many fans who can actually go to the cinema to buy tickets to watch the movie as soon as possible, and many fans don’t even know that the movie is going to be released.

...

However, since the screening of "Old Cannon" is so low, there must be other movies with higher screenings, so Lin Feng continued to ask:

"Whose movie has the highest screening schedule? Is it Deng Chao's "Bad Angels"? Or "Mojin: The Lost Legend" which has been released for a week?"

Zhang Jing nodded and said, "Yes, it is indeed Deng Chao's "Bad Angels". This movie was released on the same day as "Old Cannon", and the screening rate is as high as 42.7%, which is 20% more, almost twice as much!"

"Oh my god, so cruel? Deng Chao is so awesome?"

Deng Chao and Feng Xiaogang have always had a feud. It is said that this time the two films were deliberately released on the same day to compete with each other. This is not surprising at all.

Moreover, there are only so many schedules in a year now. Apart from the Lunar New Year schedule, there is also the Spring Festival schedule next year, and the competition for that schedule is even more intense.
Although he thought that the screening of "Bad Angels" might be relatively high, he did not expect it to reach more than 40%. This was something that Lin Feng had not expected.
Originally, Lin Feng thought that the screening rate of "Bad Angels" would be at most around 30%. After all, this is the most competitive Lunar New Year period this year.

At the same time, "Mojin: The Lost Legend" is also in theaters. Although it has only been released for a week, it is still reaping the box office.
Yesterday, the box office of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was 7336.21 million, with 51.3% of the screenings, accounting for 75.2% of yesterday's total box office, almost all of which was taken up by it.

Since the box office performance of "Mojin: The Last Dragon" is still very strong and its box office contribution rate is still so high, it means that there is no reason for theaters to cut too many screenings on a large scale.

But even so, the cinema still paid enough attention to Deng Chao's "Bad Angels" and gave it more than 42.7% of the screening volume right from the start, which is really exaggerated!

It seems that Feng Xiaogang has offended many people!

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(End of this chapter)