Chapitre 59: Chapter 59 – Ripping Apart Sunspots
The third day's box office broke 1.2 billion!
On the third day after the release of Black Clouds, the crew held a grand celebration. Rong Xu and Yu Siyu were both present. Together with Director Liang, they held the small hammer and smashed the huge ice sculpture that was carved into the shape of "1200000000".
At the celebration party, Director Liang did not skimp on his praises. He first thanked each member of the crew, and then said with a smile: "Those songs? Of course, they were all sung by Rong Xu himself. When he auditioned, he already sang very well. This was one of the important reasons why I chose him."
Although this statement did not exactly state all the facts, it was also not a lie.
Soon, media reporters began paying more attention to Rong Xu, and some reporters stood up to ask aloud: "Excuse me, Rong Xu, do you have any intention of releasing "Lost Wings" as a CD single? Will this song be first introduced in the movie[1], or did you only want to sing it for the movie?"
With the release of Black Clouds in the past two days, the audience had become more and more concerned about "Lost Wings".
Songs like "Black Clouds", "Heaven's Marquee", and "Norwegian Canyon", Ling Xiao had sung them all before and had released albums for them. But "Lost Wings" was a novel song.
Huaxia has done a great job of protecting copyrights and combating piracy. At present, any fan who wanted to hear the song "Lost Wings" had to go to a movie theater and watch the movie. No sources could be found on the Internet.
Additionally, Zhao Chuyun had also started the "Lost Wings" promotion. She didn't tell fans at first that "Lost Wings" would be released as a CD single. Clearly, even the MV had been made and the CD was already in the process of being finalized. But, Zhao Chuyun still patiently waited, provoking the audience's strong interest in this song.
This was a method of controlling promotional supply and demand. If it was said at the beginning that this song would be available as a CD, then no one would take it as a big deal. But now that there was no news about this song's release, people would be nervous and seek it out.
Desiring but unable to obtain, it was that kind of mentality. The more you are unable to obtain it, the more you would desire it. Zhao Chuyun had a good grasp of the music enthusiasts' psychology.
Rong Xu naturally had private communications with Zhao Chuyun since long ago, and now that three days have passed, it seemed that it was also time to add fire to this wave of promotions.
Thus, everyone saw the youth raise the microphone and say with a smile: "Recently, someone really did discuss with me about this song's release, but the specific details of the situation cannot be announced yet."
The reporters were immediately excited and asked one after another about Rong Xu's news on "Lost Wings".
The celebration party ended successfully, and Director Liang invited everyone out for a meal. At 8:30 in the evening, Luo Zhentao drove Rong Xu home.
The bustling neon lights rendered most of the sky a charming rose-red. Now that it was almost May, Rong Xu opened the car window, and the oncoming night breeze scattered the hair on his forehead to reveal a delicate and beautiful face. He squinted slightly, quietly watching the obscure lights outside the window while at the same time sobering himself up.
He was already an adult and naturally couldn't use the excuse of being underage to deny drinks anymore.
Rong Xu's birthday was spent with the crew of Ambush. At the time, it happened that the movie was in its final stages of completion and everyone was extremely busy, so they didn't have time to celebrate his birthday. Rong Xu also didn't care too much. After eating cake together with everyone, it could be counted that he had completed his coming of age ceremony.
He also received several text messages sending blessings from Tang Menglan, Ye Qiao, and Dong Zheng, as well as from Madame Qin and Qin Cheng. Uncle Rong naturally did not send him a message, but the Steward Duan had called to wish Rong Xu a happy coming-of-age.
However, tonight, Rong Xu only drank half a glass of red wine. Director Liang knew that he had finished recording "Lost Wings" and was about to release it, so of course, he would not let him drink more. Drinking hurts the throat, it is better for a singer to drink less.
"Recently, my head and hands have been very busy and I won't have much time to spend with you and the crew. How about hiring an assistant for you? It just so happens that your fan club and Weibo both do not have anyone managing them. You can let the assistant help you manage them."
Rong Xu withdrew his sight and said: "Okay, Brother Luo."
"Sure, then I will go to the company tomorrow to find you a good seedling."
After a pause, Luo Zhentao hesitated before saying: "Recently, many teams have sent me notices, including TV dramas and movies. There are also lots of advertisements. At present, I think you can take on an advertisement endorsement and then a drama. Do you want to take a TV drama series or a movie? "
Rong Xu replied without hesitation: "Then, a movie."
Luo Zhentao nodded: "Okay. There are several movie notices that were very good, I will send them tomorrow for you to look at."
"You don't need to send me artistic films."
Hearing this, Luo Zhentao was stunned. Coincidentally, it was a red light, and he stepped on the brakes before looking back at Rong Xu in surprise. The visual in the back seat was a little dim, so he could not see the youth's expression, only a pair of calm and gentle eyes.
"Why do you not want artistic films?"
Looking at the world of film, there has always been the saying: artistic films are for professional judges, commercial films are for common audiences.
Certainly, it's true that every year there would be some high box-office artistic films that could receive both awards and win the box office. But, those were ultimately few in number. For example, during the previous year, Huaxia's artistic film market bombed. The highest box office artistic film then was Hope, directed by Pang Huang. It's total box office was only 900 million, which wasn't even as good as the three-day box office for Black Clouds.
However, it is difficult for commercial films to win awards because most award committees enjoyed good content and depth. For some difficult judges, they even felt that the more the audience disliked a movie, the more they should be awarded because a real movie was only appreciated by a small number of people.
Regardless of how much scolding this sort of viewpoint received, the overall situation was still like this. Basically, good-selling movies rarely won awards, and most award-winning movies didn't sell well. Huaxia only had Qin Cheng, Wen Xuan, etc who could obtain both awards and win the box office, but they only accounted for a small percentage of people.
Listening to Luo Zhentao���s words, Rong Xu smiled slightly and calmly said: "I'm still young, it's too early to win awards, I need the box office more."
Glancing at a neon sign outside the window, Rong Xu's sight dropped as he said lightly: "I need the box office in order to prove myself. There is nothing bad about making commercial films, I enjoy it very much."
Luo Zhentao was dumbfounded for a moment.
He could not say the words "the box office for Black Clouds is already so terrifying, is that not enough to prove yourself" because everyone knew that though the box office number for Black Clouds may have been related to Rong Xu, but even without Rong Xu, the box office would definitely still not be bad.
Rong Xu performed well and could push the box office of this film higher, but even if Rong Xu had performed poorly, the box office of this film would still definitely land in the top five of this year.
Thinking of this, Luo Zhentao laughed aloud: "Then, I will send you the scripts of the three commercial films. But Xiao Xu[2], don't mind those sunspots. You definitely have credit in allowing this movie to obtain such a high box office number. Your performance was spectacular, and many film critics have given you a high score. I think you can get a few award nominations for this role."
The corner of his mouth slightly lifted, and Rong Xu raised his eyebrows: "Best Newcomer?"
Luo Zhentao joked: "How is best newcomer enough, only the Golden Phoenix Award Best Male Lead is proper!"
At the same time, in B City at the top floor of a high-end apartment.
The cold and handsome man sat on the sofa with his head down looking down at his cell phone, gently swiping through the pages. The more he read, the slower his reading became, and when he saw a certain post, he directly picked up his phone to start typing.
[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Of course, Rong Xu should go to the celebration party. He is the male lead and he acted very well. The 1.2 billion box office in three days is a result! ]
Not long after ——
[Replying to Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: HaHaHa, laughs to death. Even if you let a piece of roasted meat to act, Black Clouds, this film, still wouldn't fail! Can't fail, understood? None of Liang Chao's films has had a box office lower than one billion yuan, Yu Siyu's worst artistic film also got more than 600 million at the box office! There's so many big-name guest stars and also Qin Cheng. Qin Cheng's worst artistic film also got a box office of three billion yuan. Let alone having Rong Xu play the male lead, perhaps even if I performed, the box office for three days would still be 1.5 billion. 23333] [3]
Soon, some sunspots swarmed over to support this lz's [4] point of view: [Exactly, three days and only 1.2 billion, does this do right by Ling Xiao's more than 200 million fans? Does it do right for the tens of big-name guest stars? Even having Qin Cheng Co-star with him, the fans still have the shame to say you family's bias [5] has a high box office. This year, I will live off of this joke.]
The more this was said, the more intense the sunspots became.
[I feel it was not worthwhile for Qin Cheng, If he took on a commercial film himself, within minutes and seconds, it would match the three day box office of 2 billion! Ai, Rong Xu was too rushed. If any other star played Ling Xiao, don't know how hot this move would become.]
Qin Cheng: "…" He thought it was very worth it! Very worthwhile! Super worth it! ! !
These sunspots didn't necessarily dislike Rong Xu. There was a high probability that they were part of the water army bought by competing films. They attacked Black Clouds indiscriminately. Some mocked that the film only had a good lineup, too overrated; some mocked Director Liang for not making any progress, the film was boring; some mocked Rong Xu as being too young, his acting skills are poor; and others scolded Yu Siyu for failing to change styles, her performance was embarrassing.
When one movie was extremely hot, it would naturally infringe on the breathing space of other films of the same time frame.
For example, when Black Clouds first premiered, it started with 5000 theaters. Then, the results of the premiere were so good that many major broadcasting companies quickly increased the number of playing theaters. By the third day, the number had increased to more than 6000 theaters.
Huaxia only had so many movie theaters. If you wanted to increase playing theaters, other movies would definitely have to decrease their playing theaters. Also, movie enthusiasts also had a limited amount of free time over the weekends. After watching Black Clouds, they would have no time to watch other movies.
There was a commercial film that was released the day before Black Clouds. Originally, its first day's box office was also more than 90 million, which was considered pretty good. But on the second day, its box office dropped to around 20 million! That it had dropped by three-fifths of the box office on only the second day after it was released was because the release of Black Clouds had a strong impact on it.
Rong Xu 's fans, upon meeting these sunspots, would all argue for their family's Rong Rong. At the same time, Ling Xiao's music fans, Black Clouds movie fans, Yu Siyu's fans, and Qin Cheng's fans all sneered at these sunspots who always found something to pick at.
But even if the sunspots were beaten badly, some worrisome discussions could still be seen. Luo Zhentao was worried about Rong Xu seeing these comments, but he did not know that Rong Xu had already expected this situation early on and did not take it seriously.
Although he knew that out of 10 people, eight or nine were water army, he still gladly took on a commercial film to prove his worth.
Everything spoke through facts. Later, the moment when he could use the box office numbers under his belt to slap the faces of these sunspots, he didn't know what kind of expression they would make.
Thus, Rong Xu didn't take it to heart, only as a joke. But, a certain man became angrier as he read. When he discovered that these water army actually used "Qin Cheng" as an excuse to poke at the relationship between Qin Cheng's fans and Rong Xu's fans, he frowned and quickly refuted.
[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Qin Cheng is not suitable for the role of Ling Xiao, so he could not possibly play the role. And, Qin Cheng and Rong Xu have a very good relationship, super good, don't even think about provoking an altercation.]
[XiXiHaHaLa replying to Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Hahahaha, If you say can't act, then can't act. If you say their relationship is good, then it's good? Have you opened your Heaven's eye?]
[Small Flowers in Full Bloom replying to Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: Do you Rong powder all like YY that much. Last time, YY said his relationship with Tan Menglan was good. Now, they've even YY'd to Qin Cheng? This touching porcelain is really touching too much, right? [6] An 18-tier little star even dares to touch porcelain with Qin Cheng. Why are your faces so thick, why don't you just directly say that Qin Cheng willingly went to Co-star with Rong Xu?]
Qin Cheng: "..."
You're the one with a Heaven's Eye! You're the one with a thick face! Your whole family has Heaven's Eyes, your whole family has a thick face!!![7]
There are really too many sunspots, even if Qin Cheng had been in the circle for many years, he still couldn't navigate the twists and turns between fans. These sunspots didn't care about facts nor listen to reason at all. Perhaps there was only one way to deal with these people.
Five minutes later, thousands of water army arrived immediately, live broadcasting ripping sunspots apart. The hundreds of sunspots were scolding happily, but was suddenly refuted by a group of sharp-tongued fans until they couldn't differentiate north, south, east, west. They wanted to refute, but the out-numbered them could only gape and finally leave in disgrace.
This group of water army that could have created truths from false[8] didn't stop, but rather continued to fight the other sunspots with Rong Xu's fans.
After waiting for half an hour, finally , beneath the #BlackClouds# tag it was finally clear, there were no more dirty pollutants [9]
The man raised his eyebrows, thin lips slightly hooked, and posted a Weibo–
[Lotus Seed Paste and Orange Stuffing: #BlackClouds##QinCheng##RongXu##ChengRong# really looks nice thatI looked at it again, RongRong Kiss Kiss Kiss =3= [picture]]
Just after posting this Weibo, a rustling sound came from the entrance way. Qin Cheng's eyes flashed and he immediately turned off his phone and put it into his pocket, not knowing the potential impact of his Weibo post. At the same time, he took out another phone and began to read the latest news calmly.
Rong Xu changed his shoes when he entered the house. When he looked up, he saw Qin Cheng dressed in home clothes and looking down at his phone. He froze for a moment and smiled: "I thought you were out too, didn't you have dinner gathering tonight? Have you eaten yet?"
As he was speaking, Rong Xu took off his coat, but before he walked into his room, he heard the man's low-voice say: "No."
His next step faltered a second. Rong Xu slowly turned around and asked in surprise: "You haven't eaten yet?"
Qin Cheng nodded slightly.
Rong Xu thought for a moment, and the corner of his lips hooked up as he smilingly said: "Coincidentally, I also haven't eaten. How about… I make some noodles for you?"
The author has something to say:
Orange Qin: They are saying nonsense! Rong Rong, baby thinks it is especially worth, baby and your relationship is especially good!
Rong Rong: ... Speak, you not eating, is it because you are waiting for me to cook for you?
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[1]Reporter is asking if the movie's song release was only the first step in promoting the song for later
[2] Xiao: 'little' – a term of endearment. I left it as Xiao because Little Xu just felt off to me
[3]23333: text form of Ahhahahahaha
[4]LZ: Lou Zhu: original poster. "Floor owner". On China's forum platforms, netizens use floor numbers to signify the post order. Original poster is thus the "floor owner". First responding post would be called Floor 1 poster or Level 1 poster
[5] 蒸煮: Zheng Zhu: the meaning of this phrase in modern slang has changed quite a few times in the last few years. Some meanings include: bias, child, idol, flavor, taste. Basically, it refers to a preference. Idk what the current usage is
[6] Touching porcelain: conning people to gain advantage – most popular form is people laying down in front of cars to extort money from innocent drivers.
[7] It's so hard to choose words that don't make QC sound like a baby throwing a tantrum…..(QAQ)
[8] Water army could make truths with falses: their numbers were big enough to change perspectives
[9] Dirty pollutants: also: social darkness, negativities
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