At night, while lying on the sofa in the office and sleeping soundly, Li Xiaole was woken up by phone calls from different people. The black hand hummed on the phone:

"Brother Xiao Le, this movie is really not good. There are no explosions and no aliens. It has no technical content at all. However, the porn man and Cool Dragon both said it was good. After returning to the cinema, he seemed to be mentally ill.

In the dialogue in the school, there was a joke about putting rat poison in bread to trap rats."

"...Damn~ Congratulating someone in the middle of the night, why should I use this tone of voice that sounds like telling a ghost story? Go to sleep~"

As soon as the phone hung up, it rang again. This time it was Kim Jong Min's. I heard him shouting excitedly. From the sound, I knew he was drunk: "Director, your filming is so great. I turned out to be so good at acting."

Good! Everything is great~!" Next to me, I could hear the roaring and screaming songs of Jo Hyun Jae and others.

Li Xiaole was speechless and just hung up the phone. Just as he went to bed, he heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it? It's so late at night! And you don't want anyone to sleep~"

When Li Xiaole opened the door, he saw the cold face of Lei Ting, who was wearing a dark leather jacket. The anger in his heart could no longer be aroused, so he moved aside and let Lei Ting walk in.

"Sister Tingting, why didn't you come to the premiere tonight?" Li Xiaole looked at her with some complaints.

"We went to see your movie, and it was pretty good." Lei Ting sat on the sofa and her voice was still so cold: "But I remember explaining that it was a comedy, so why did Shen Yinhe keep crying while watching it? I checked the seats.

The rate is not very high, just about what I expected.”

"Oh." Li Xiaole touched his head and understood the reason why Lei Ting came: "So you are here to monitor me today... you are afraid that I will run away, right?"

"Of course." Lei Ting looked at him strangely with her eyes shrouded in black eyeshadow, took out a cigarette from her pocket, put it gently on her lips, lit it with a lighter, and puffed out a puff of white mist with her white teeth slightly open.

, said: "Actually, I gave you three hours to pack your things and go back to China. There are two flights to Beijing from Seoul Airport tonight."

"I want to run away." Li Xiaole deliberately made a grimace: "But I'm worried that if I run away, I will never find a girlfriend again. Sister Tingting, you are not responsible for me."

"What responsibility do I bear?" Lei Ting was stunned for a moment, then realized that Li Xiaole was teasing her, so she could only frown and shake her head. He was such a heartless boy, but she was very interested in Li Xiaole joining the rich family in the future.

Ming Company, will he maintain such a calm attitude? Why does he seem not to be afraid at all? It is really unreasonable.

***

In the early morning, Li Xiaole woke up from his sleep, got his head out of the towel and quilt, and saw Lei Ting in a trance, typing on the computer at the desk just like before he went to bed. He didn't know if she had slept at night, so she got up and typed.

Yawning, he made a pack of beef instant noodles and kimchi and brought it to the computer. He looked at Lei Ting curiously and asked, "Have you finished yesterday's box office statistics?"

"Not so fast." Lei Ting shook her head, as if affected by the smell of instant noodles, her delicate eyebrows knitted together.

"Ouch~ Such delicious beef instant noodles~" Li Xiaole took the instant noodle bowl, held it with chopsticks and blew in front of Lei Ting: "It's a pity, it's just one pack~"

"This mouthful of instant noodles contains 0·007 mg of polystyrene, which increases the risk of gastric cancer by 2.5% in the 30s."

"Pfft~~" Li Xiaole spit out all the instant noodles in her mouth, wiped her mouth clean with paper, and turned to glare at Lei Ting fiercely. However, her phone rang. Lei Ting answered the phone and said: "

What's going on?" After listening for a few seconds, his face seemed to become serious.

"What's the matter?" Li Xiaole asked curiously.

"This morning, a doctoral student from the Directing Department of Dankook University accused us of false advertising and has filed a lawsuit with the Seoul Court." Lei Ting made a "chi" sound from her red lips:

"This kind of idiot, even if he can't see the wonderful footage, is not stupid enough to sue. Does he still expect those idiot investigators from the Korean government to find out that the video was circulated from me?"

"Oh." Li Xiaole breathed a sigh of relief and thought there was something wrong. There is data on the originality of this script. In my memory, it should be compiled by director Yin Jijun next year. Who is this Danguo doctoral student? But

It suddenly occurred to me that when "The Promise" was released, a boy made a short video of "A Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" and it went viral on the Internet, which in turn stimulated a surge in box office.

Li Xiaole immediately picked up the phone and called Jin Nan. He coughed twice to make sure his throat was fine, and then said to the phone: "Uncle Jin, we received a lawsuit this morning. Can we post this lawsuit on the forum of the Film Industry Association?"

Okay, well, I’ll send you the specific information.”

"It's so clever." Jin Nan laughed on the other end, and immediately understood that this was a good publicity idea. It was obviously a nonsense that the other party was suing, and they still wanted to hang it up. This is a typical example of arousing public outrage.

After chatting for a few words, Li Xiaole ended the call. He knew that Jin Nan had been suffering from insomnia these days and was not in a good mental state. He probably had to go take a nap after finishing his errands.

In fact, even if the film industry ignores this minor incident, it has caused a lot of controversy on the Internet because it has been wildly forwarded by "acting nerds" who have seen it.

Those nerds who originally watched this movie with the intention of writing negative reviews have completely fallen in love with this movie after watching "Color is Empty". Some even called it "completely comparable to the real-life themes of "Friends""

, a vivid and touching life story about college.”

This is not surprising. The director of this movie is a college student like them. He has no background or backstage. The enthusiastic college students are more or less grassroots. They were moved by the movie and have long regarded Li Xiaole as their own avatar.

, working hard to promote "Color Is Empty", of course there are many people who are Ha Ji Won's die-hard fans. During this period, Ha Ji Won was scolded by people on the Internet, and they suppressed it for a long time. Now they finally have the opportunity to vindicate their idol.

, why don’t you vent your anger properly?

Li Xiaole kept browsing the movie page of the Yahoo Korea website. There were many posts about the viewing experience of "Color Is Empty" in the forum. There was no trace of artificiality at all, and they were all real moviegoers.

Most of the people said that the movie was very funny and touching: "The screenwriter of this story must be a college student. It is so awesome and so vivid! I strongly recommend everyone to watch it. Kim Jong Min is so funny in it, and the supporting characters are even better."

"Who the hell said this is a Category 4 film! It's obviously a pure love drama! The heroine."

But what makes Li Xiaole feel helpless is that some people are still replying: "Shit movie, vulgar jokes, I don't know the so-called story, it's so funny. You idiots just like to watch people eat shit, do you think it's funny!?

"

Of course, what makes Li Xiaole happy is that the crazy fans of Ha Ji Won below did not let them go. A large number of replies cursed: "Damn, have you finished watching the movie? As the saying goes, what you see with your eyes is what you think in your heart. Buddha can see

Everyone is a Buddha. If you look at shit, everyone is shit. You really prove this sentence perfectly."

There is also a famous film critic "Ship King Yi Sun-shin" who wrote in the film review: "The whole film is imitating the traces of American commercial films, piling up jokes and sensational elements. Although the technique is sophisticated, it is similar to the style of Korean local films.

Is this kind of movie good or bad? Anyway, I don’t think the jokes in it are funny. Is this how students in universities in Seoul live their lives now?”

Li Xiaole dragged the mouse and thought to himself: Of course, old-fashioned, now is the world of information. I thought it was still as closed as you used to be during the military government period. College students all over the world are the same.

However, Li Xiaole never thought that everyone would like the movie "Color Is Empty". After all, it is aimed at the young market. The audience he wants to win is the 16-25-year-old audience. Those who like literary films or profound themes also

I won't be interested in "Form Is Empty".

The box office statistics for the first day of release came out in the afternoon. The current box office statistics of theaters in Seoul are all internal data and have not been connected to the Internet. However, there is nothing that Lei Ting cannot find. She opened her computer and entered easily.

I checked the database of Chinus Cinemas and checked the box office records, and my eyes revealed a hint of surprise:

"On the first day, 952 people watched the movie in 3 cinemas. Well, this result is quite good. The number of moviegoers on a single screen is more than 70, which is close to the single screen of "Friends", which was released at the same time and is almost offline.

The results of 85 people.”

Li Xiaole glanced at the screen and made an estimate in his mind. Although this result is not very good, it can definitely exceed other people's expectations. After all, although it is a full-screen promotion, there are only 3 cinemas to show it, and the audience is only the small circle of universities.

people within.

"With this trend, it will be difficult for you to recover the cost." Although Lei Ting was a little surprised, she was still not optimistic about Li Xiaole's chances. She kindly reminded him: "The box office in the first week of the movie is very important. I guess if it doesn't happen in the first week,

Winning 80,000 moviegoers means that the movie will definitely not reach the bottom line of 120,000 moviegoers to recover costs."

Lei Ting naturally understands that the key lies in whether the Chinus Cinema Chain will play it in other theaters under its umbrella. They have fifteen theaters. If "Color is Empty" is released at the same time, even if it is only a college theater chain, it can definitely recover its investment, but

The question is, will the other party support Bruce Lee's movie?

"I'm going to write and read the script. You read it slowly." Li Xiaole stretched out relaxedly, walked to his computer, and created a new script called "Let the Bullets Fly". He felt a little excited. Before last night,

He still didn't believe that he had any hope of continuing in this industry, but now he was completely confident. Although he wanted to take it step by step, he couldn't help but write out a rough outline of the movie scripts he wanted to make the most.

Come.
Chapter completed!