Chapter 189: Beat the 'Jazz Trail' to find the dragon and break one billion!
Huang Bo only realized after logging into his account that his assistant had been responsible for these things in the past.
Usually he doesn't even manage his Weibo updates, let alone his personal studio account.
After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't figure out how to improvise and promote the movie.
Seeing Lin Yuan concentrating on editing the news, Huang Bo asked with interest: "Lin Yuan, let me see how you promote the movie?"
Lin Yuan glanced at Huang Bo and then handed over the phone.
Anyway, everyone can see it after I post it, so there is nothing to hide.
The update he posted was nothing more than a photo in the cinema, and then briefly explained that he had arrived in the city where the next road show would be held and was preparing for the road show, hoping to meet fans in the cinema.
There is not a word in the news to promote the movie "The Secret of the Dragon", but every step is to encourage fans to go to the cinema to support the movie "The Secret of the Dragon".
Huang Bo understood Lin Yuan's intention at a glance, showed a meaningful smile, and joked: "Good boy, it's a good thing you became an actor. If you were a businessman, you would be a profiteer."
As he said this, he copied the dynamic content Lin Yuan was about to send intact.
"Brother Bo, look at what you said, aren't I thinking about the box office of our movie?" Lin Yuan spread his hands and looked helpless.
There is no way, if the box office performance ranked ahead of them is "Operation Mekong", that would be acceptable. The cast is not bad, and it is a main theme movie. It is released during the National Day period, so it is natural that the box office performance will explode.
But now, the one that is overwhelming them is a movie like "Grand Trail". He has also read the script. No matter how good the special effects are, it will not prevent this movie from being ranked among the top 10 worst Chinese movies.
Not to mention that Lin Yuan was unconvinced, Huang Bo was already busy promoting the movie, didn't he?
Just after the two of them finished posting on Weibo, the notification sounded in the background of Weibo and it never stopped.
Huang Bo has a total of 32 million Weibo fans. Lin Yuan is a bit more exaggerated than Huang Bo, with a total of more than 37 million. The reason why he has more fans than Huang Bo is that Huang Bo rarely operates a personal Weibo.
After the release of "A Thousand Bones of Flowers", the number of fans it brought to Lin Yuan was really exaggerated.
Without taking into account the overlap of fans, the two have a total of 70 million fans in total. With such a huge fan base, the two people's updates quickly attracted many discussions among netizens.
"The crew of "The Secret of the Dragon" is actually doing a road show!"
"Does any sister know which cinema the movie theater in Yuanbao News is at? Is it too late to buy tickets now?"
"Stop talking, I have already bought the movie tickets for tonight. I hope the goddess of luck will bless me!"
"I have a hunch that the crew of "The Secret of the Dragon" will definitely perform in our Changsha road show, hahaha, pre-sale of a poster signed by the cast and starring actors for only 998, please contact us if you are interested!"
"Why didn't the crew announce the road show schedule? If I had known there would be a road show tonight, I wouldn't have bought the morning movie ticket."
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Although it is not sure which city and which cinema the crew of "Searching for the Dragon" will hold a road show in, fans of Lin Yuan, Huang Bo and others rushed to buy the movie tickets that night, hoping to meet "Searching for the Dragon" at the cinema.
Road show of the main creative team of "Dragon Secret".
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A few hours passed in a flash.
The road show schedule has been communicated with the theater as early as yesterday, and it is scheduled to be the last movie at 11:50 tonight.
There were still an hour or two before the movie was screened, but the crew and crew still went through the staff passage and arrived in the theater's staff room in advance to make preparations.
Being idle and bored, everyone was playing with their mobile phones.
Director Wu's attention was basically focused on the real-time box office. Looking at the sudden strong box office results at night, there was finally a hint of joy on his face.
Huang Bo obviously noticed the change in Director Wu's expression and asked with interest: "Director Wu, how are the box office results?"
Originally, Director Wu was just enjoying himself watching the real-time box office data.
Now when Huang Bo asked, he didn't hide it anymore and said cheerfully: "Don't mention it, the box office performance increased quite fast at night. Originally, based on the box office performance in the first half of today, the first day's performance was at best
It is hovering around 80 million, but now the box office has reached 80 million. In other words, if the box office of these two movies in the last hour can reach 20 million, then the box office of our movie on the first day will also exceed 100 million.
Got it!"
Despite the rapid development of the movie market, there are still only a few movies that can exceed 100 million in box office on the first day.
Take "Painted Skin 2" that he filmed before as an example. Regardless of the cast, the amount of investment, or the movie IP, if you just take it out, it can be regarded as a big-budget movie at the time. But it is such a movie.
The box office on the first day barely exceeded 70 million at the time.
Now, the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" has already exceeded 80 million in box office four hours before its first-day box office release. It is just one step away from breaking 100 million in its first-day box office. How can he not be excited by this?
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However, compared to Director Wu being so excited, Shu Qi on the side pursed his lips and said very casually: "Director Wu, you are making too much fuss, and you don't even look at who is in our cast."
After hearing this, Director Wu, Angela and others still didn't react.
I thought what Shu Qi was saying was that their cast was luxurious enough and it would not be a problem to exceed 100 million at the box office on the first day.
But the next second, Shu Qi was heard to add: "Don't you think Lin Yuan has starred in any of his movies that didn't have a box office of over 100 million on the first day?"
As Shu Qi finished speaking, everyone present couldn't help but turn their attention to Lin Yuan.
At first they didn't pay much attention, but after hearing what Shu Qi said, it seemed that this was really the case.
Starting from "One Man's Martial Arts", which was the first starring Lin Yuan, to "Scorching Sun" and "Tang Detective", and even "Mermaid", a collaboration between Lin Yuan and Xing Ye during the Spring Festival, will undoubtedly be the first day
A movie that broke 100 million.
Thinking of this, even Director Wu couldn't help but gasp in surprise.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, Lin Yuan was just lucky, and the movie he stumbled into happened to have a good script, otherwise he would be like in "The Heart of the Sun", where his achievements depended entirely on the other leading actors.
But only directors like them know best. Lin Yuan now undoubtedly has a certain box office appeal.
Moreover, "The Secret of the Dragon" took a total of thirteen hours from early morning to afternoon, and the box office was only over 40 million. However, after Lin Yuan and Huang Bo posted an update on Weibo, the growth rate of the box office in the evening could only be increased by a sudden amount.
Fei Meng came in to describe, doesn’t this have anything to do with Lin Yuan and Huang Bo’s box office appeal?
Now that the real-time box office has reached 80 million, Director Wu feels a lot more confident.
With a big wave of his hand, he said boldly: "Well, if the box office of our crew exceeds 100 million on the first day, I will invite everyone to a restaurant tonight!"
Everyone present is a well-known star in the industry, so it is impossible for them to care about such a meal, but the atmosphere is set here. If it really breaks 100 million on the first day, the celebration must still be celebrated.
Everyone also applauded one after another.
"good!"
"Director Wu, this is what you said. When the time comes, don't blame us for attacking the rich!"
"Looks like I have to think about something to eat tonight."
A burst of laughter suddenly erupted in the theater staff room.
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Everyone chatted in the theater staff room for a long time before theater staff came over to inform everyone to prepare to go to the theater.
After the experience of the first road show, everyone was obviously much more familiar with the road this time. Wearing masks and hats, they lowered their heads all the way into the theater where "The Secret of the Dragon" was about to be screened.
Just like the first movie.
After a few minutes of commercials, as the theater lights dimmed, the movie officially started.
After watching the movie for half an hour, Lin Yuan suddenly yawned. He was really bored.
As an audience, you won't get bored after watching a commercial movie like this once or twice. Of course, if you watch it every day, even the most profound literary and artistic films will probably scare away the audience like a swarm of ferocious beasts.
But the problem is that Lin Yuan, Huang Bo and others have not only watched the movie once, but they are also participants in the filming of the movie. After seeing their performances on the big screen, they can all think of the next direction of the plot. Others are the actors in the movie.
To tell the story, they read the entire script directly, and it didn’t bring anything new to them at all.
Lin Yuan turned around and saw that Huang Bo, who was sitting next to him, had fallen asleep at some point.
He suppressed his sleepiness, turned the light of his mobile phone to the lowest level, lowered his head and played with his mobile phone.
He didn't know how long it took, until a burst of cheering sounded in the theater, which brought him back to reality from the Internet.
When I looked up, I realized that the audience was booing purely because of the kiss scene between Lin Yuan and Shu Qi in the last scene of the movie.
However, when the plot of the movie reaches this point, it means the end of the movie "The Secret of the Dragon".
Lin Yuan woke up Huang Bo, who was sleeping next to him, and got ready to go on stage.
The movie ended and the lights in the theater came back on.
This time, the audience did not leave immediately, but sat in their respective seats, looking left and right, as if they were watching behind-the-scenes footage.
After seeing the theater staff carrying tables and chairs in, a burst of fierce cheers suddenly erupted in the theater.
"Lin Yuan, Huang Bo and the others are really coming to Changsha?!"
"Fortunately, I bought three movie tickets, and it actually happened to me!
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"On stage, on stage!"
"Why are you standing there? Hurry up and take pictures!"
The audience in the movie theater were talking a lot and their excitement was palpable.
Even though they all knew that the crew of "The Secret of the Dragon" would launch a road show in various theaters, they never thought that they would be so lucky. When "The Secret of the Dragon" was screened simultaneously in tens of thousands of theaters across the country, they happened to be selected.
This is the show they bought tickets for!
You know, for fans, they can go out to watch movies during the National Day holiday.
However, just for this one in ten thousand chance, they dragged their exhausted bodies to the cinema after get off work.
Of course, fortunately, the quality of the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" is of excellent quality. If they had to go to the cinema to watch a bad movie after get off work, I am afraid that the good mood of the entire holiday would be ruined.
The entire roadshow was limited to twenty minutes, and included a question and answer session, autograph signings by the leading actors, and a final group photo session.
After waving goodbye to the fans, the creative team members of "The Secret of the Dragon" hurriedly left from the theater staff passage.
Back in the car, almost everyone's eyes were on Director Wu.
The last movie screening ended today, which means the final box office results on the first day have been determined.
It was during their road show that the first-day box office results of the three movies could basically be calculated.
Director Wu naturally understood what everyone meant, took out his mobile phone and checked the real-time box office of "The Secret of the Dragon".
""Operation Mekong" had a box office of 42 million on its first day."
"The box office of "The Legend" on the first day... was 110 million."
After hearing the box office sales of two other movies released at the same time, several people in the nanny car were stunned.
Even though they already knew that the movie "Legend of Legends" could gross over 100 million at the box office on its first day, they were still somewhat shocked after hearing this data with their own ears.
Huang Bo couldn't help but ask: "Director Wu, where is our movie?"
Director Wu's eyes swept around in front of everyone, and there was no trace of sadness or joy on his face, making it difficult for those present to guess whether the final box office result of the movie would be good or bad.
"Our movie's first-day box office result was... 160 million!"
As Director Wu's voice fell, Huang Bo, Xia Yu and others couldn't help but be shocked.
"One hundred and sixty million?!"
"Director Wu, you're not kidding us, are you?"
"In other words, from afternoon to evening, we got a total of more than 100 million in box office?"
Judging from the box office results this morning, the box office results on the first day were still a bit worrying. To break through the 100 million box office, you need to rely on some luck.
However, now I learned from Wu Dao that the first-day box office of their movie not only exceeded 100 million, but also directly broke the first-day box office record of Chinese-language movies, becoming the Chinese-language movie with the highest first-day box office!
What surprised them even more was that the box office performance on the first day had already set a new record. If the film's release period is over, wouldn't there be a great chance that the final box office could hit the highest box office record for a Chinese-language film set by "Charlotte"
Record?
How can you not surprise everyone after learning this news?
Even Lin Yuan was a little stunned by this first-day box office result. His previous highest first-day box office result was the first-day box office record of 110 million set by "One Man's Martial Arts".
And now, the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" has directly surpassed the box office of "One Man's Martial Arts" by nearly 50 million!
Director Wu also found it a bit unbelievable, but the box office data for the first day was sent to him by the theater. There can't be box office theft on the first day of the National Day. Besides, it is true that their movie stole the money from other movies.
As for the movie box office, as a director, he can't be without any news, right?
Before everyone could recover from the shock, the management had already started showering red envelopes in the WeChat group.
The total investment in the movie was only 250 million yuan, and the box office on the first day was 160 million yuan. At this rate, their management will not only be able to make money, but also make a lot of money!
A total of almost 100,000 red envelopes were distributed in the group, and then the person in charge of the producer stopped.
After a while, Wu Dao, Lin Yuan, Huang Bo and other main creative staff also received personal red envelopes from the producer, each of them worth a full 500,000 yuan to express their feelings.
Director Wu was also overjoyed and greeted with a loud voice: "Let's go, let's go! Don't be stupid, everyone, we are open to eat tonight, we can order whatever we want to eat!"
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Just when the creative team of "The Secret of the Dragon" was heading to the celebration banquet.
In a luxurious building, Xiaosi looked at the cold data on his mobile phone with surprise in his eyes.
The box office of "The Legend" exceeded 100 million on its first day. This should be something worth being happy and celebrating.
However, when he saw that the movie with the highest box office on the first day was not "The Legend of the King" but "The Secret of the Dragon", he was stunned.
In terms of the cast, the cast of "The Secret of the Dragon" is obviously not as popular as their "Grand Trail". In terms of publicity, he has already asked so many popular stars in the industry to help promote it, and has also led the creative team to appear in various variety shows
, "Kuaiben", "Tian Tian Shang Shang", I have almost thought of all the ways to attract the audience's attention.
But what about the first-day box office results?
The other party not only surpassed his "Grand Trail", but also exceeded the box office by a full 50 million!
The box office of "Operation Mekong" is between the two movies "Legend of the Lord" and "Secret of the Dragon".
Xiaosi felt uncomfortable when he thought about the post he posted on Weibo in the afternoon to celebrate the box office of "Grand Trail" exceeding 100 million on its first day.
"It would be great if Lin Yuan starred in "Grand Trail". The box office on the first day would definitely exceed 160 million!"
Xiaosi couldn't help but complain in his heart.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that for the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" to have such a high box office, in addition to the influence of the IP itself, the audience basically went to the two leading actors Lin Yuan and Huang Bo.
Huang Bo's appearance obviously does not meet Xiao Si's actor standards. Without exception, the actors who can appear in Xiao Si's movies are almost all handsome men and beautiful women. Of course, this is why his movies can attract a large number of young audiences to watch in cinemas.
A big reason.
He had previously invited Lin Yuan to star in "Legend of the King", but unfortunately Lin Yuan didn't give him a chance at all. He even said that his movie script was terrible. This time he chose to release it on the National Day schedule to try it with "The Secret of the Dragon". Obviously
It also has a part of Xiaosi’s revengeful mentality.
He wanted to prove that the box office of his movie was higher than that of movies starring Lin Yuan.
Firstly, it makes Lin Yuan regret not choosing to star in the movie "Grand Trail". Secondly, he wants to use this box office smash to win the box office championship in the National Day season and invite Lin Yuan to star in "Grand Trail 2" again. By that time,
Lin Yuan had no reason to reject him.
The imagination is beautiful, but the reality is not satisfactory.
Now that the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" has won the box office championship on the first day, it is undoubtedly a slap in his face!
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Early the next morning.
The first-day box office of three movies scheduled for National Day was announced online. Originally, it was rare for a movie to have a first-day box office of over 100 million, but now two movies were released at once, which really shocked many netizens.
However, what these netizens did not expect was that the first-day box office of the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" directly broke the first-day box office record of Chinese-language movies, surpassing the box office of "Grand Trail", a movie of the same period, which had a box office of 50 million!
You must know that among the three movies released at the same time, "Grand Trail" has been firmly at the top of the list in terms of popularity.
If "The Secret of the Dragon" hadn't broken the first-day box office record for Chinese-language films, I'm afraid the movie "Grand Trail" would still be the top topic on the hot search list today.
From here we can see how much effort Xiaosi put into promoting the movie.
But what about now?
Under such crazy publicity efforts, the box office of the movie "Legend of the Lord" was actually beaten by "The Secret of the Dragon". This is something that netizens never thought of.
The box office competition between the two movies suddenly became the focus of heated discussion among netizens.
Fans of popular stars such as Chen Weiting, Wu Zhao, Chen Xuedong, etc. have begun to organize second or even third viewing support activities in the group, hoping to contribute to the box office of the movie "Grand Trail".
As for passers-by and netizens, even if they were initially planning to go to the movies to watch the movie "The Legend", they suddenly changed their minds after seeing that "The Secret of the Dragon" surpassed "The Legend" at the box office on the first day.
, no matter how "Grand Trail" fares, since "The Secret of the Dragon" was able to have such an explosive box office on its first day, it obviously has its reasons.
Most of those viewers who were still waiting to see what movie they should watch during the National Day holiday finally chose the movie "The Secret of the Dragon".
As for the other part, they chose "Operation Mekong" or "Ace Funny" which was just released today because they didn't buy tickets.
The holiday time passed quickly, and the box office for the next day was quickly calculated.
"The Secret of the Dragon" still leads the National Day movie box office. The box office on the second day reached 290 million yuan, surpassing the box office of the second-placed "Grand Trail" movie by a full 100 million yuan. Even the box office of "Operation Mekong" ranked second in the box office.
Tianye has reached 140 million yuan, almost catching up with the movie "Grand Trail".
The reason why the movie "Grand Trail" has such slow box office growth is because the quality of the movie is so poor and its reputation has collapsed across the internet.
The more heavily promoted a movie is, the higher the audience's expectations will be.
However, when passers-by and audiences walked into the cinema with high expectations and watched the movie "Grand Trail", they all left the cinema yelling and cursing in the end.
There are also more and more negative reviews about the movie "Grand Trail" online.
In just two days, the Douban score dropped to 4.2 points, which is in sharp contrast to the 7.8 points of "The Secret of the Dragon".
Even though the lead actors in the movie "Legend of Legends" have many fans, the most fans can support is only the second movie. The fans who can really persist in watching the third bad movie must be the "true fans" of the lead actors.
As the reputation of the movie collapsed, the audience who originally planned to watch "The Legend" also switched to several other movies. If it were not for the difficulty of getting tickets for the movie "The Secret of the Dragon", I am afraid that the box office would have exceeded 300 million the next day.
possibility.
Under such circumstances, the main theme movie "Operation Mekong" suddenly became the second choice of netizens.
On the third day of National Day, the box office of "The Secret of the Dragon" has reached an astonishing 530 million!
This means that the average daily box office of the movie exceeds 130 million yuan. With such a terrifying box office growth rate, it can almost defend its position as the box office champion during the National Day period.
On the eighth day of its release, which is the last day of the National Day holiday, the box office just exceeded the one billion mark!
No one thought that a domestic suspense adventure movie with an investment of 250 million yuan would have such explosive box office results. In just eight days, it directly exceeded the 1 billion mark, becoming the seventh domestic film to exceed 1 billion in box office.
's movie.
And judging from this box office growth rate, it is only a matter of time before it breaks the box office record of 1.6 billion set by the movie "Charlotte".
According to the predictions of someone from Director Wu, the final box office of this movie should be around 1.8 billion, which means that the investors spent 250 million in investment, and in the end they were able to make back their original investment and make a profit of one billion!
However, investors' appetite is obviously more than that.
Just two days after the seven-day National Day holiday, a topic on the Internet about the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" quickly aroused discussion among netizens.
[The first domestic film with a box office of over 2 billion is expected to be born! "The Secret of the Dragon": Who said that domestic films cannot carry the banner? 】
At first glance, the topic seems to have been carefully designed by the investors.
In recent years, foreign blockbusters have had a significant impact on the domestic film market.
"Warcraft" has a box office of 1.4 billion, and "Avengers 2" has a box office of 1.5 billion...not to mention "Fast and Furious 7" with a box office of 2 billion, becoming the first domestic movie with a box office of more than 2 billion, and the only one to date.
The only movie with a domestic box office of over 2 billion.
The skyrocketing box office of "The Secret of the Dragon" has undoubtedly given the people a shot in the arm, proving that their domestic films can also be as good as foreign commercial blockbusters. It then gave a subtle hint to the people that they want to break through the second generation.
A box office of 1 billion proves the strength of domestic films and requires the support of the people.
Under such circumstances, the citizens' emotions have already been aroused, and they are naturally willing to contribute a share of the box office and contribute to the domestic film industry.
Even though the National Day holiday is over, people have returned to their daily work.
However, the box office growth rate of the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" still maintains a leading position among the movies scheduled for National Day.
Whether it is the online crowd, the big bosses in the entertainment industry, or the capital of various film studios, they have all set their sights on the box office of "The Secret of the Dragon".
Everyone is waiting for the final results to come out to see whether the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" can set a new record in the history of Chinese films!
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at the same time.
Yakushima, the filming set of "A Good Show".
After accompanying the crew of "Looking for the Dragon" for seven road shows, the three leading actors Lin Yuan, Huang Bo and Shu Qi also came to the crew of "A Good Show" after two days of rest to make preparations before filming.
Fortunately, we have been setting up scenes these days and don't need to be busy filming. The main actors are quite relaxed.
In addition to discussing the script every day, I went to the island to soak in the hot springs, as if I were on vacation.
However, in his spare time, Lin Yuan also pays attention to domestic news.
When he saw that the box office of "Searching for the Dragon" had exceeded 1.4 billion, Lin Yuan couldn't help but look at Huang Bo and asked, "Brother Bo, how far are you from the box office of 10 billion?"
"I don't think so." Huang Bo replied blurtly: "But it should be four to five billion short."
Although Lin Yuan knew that Huang Bo's cumulative box office was already very high, he was still somewhat shocked when he heard that he was only four to five billion away from tens of billions in box office.
And this is without adding in the box office revenue of the movie "The Secret of the Dragon".
Judging from the current situation, the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" has a guaranteed box office of 1.8 billion. If the investors manage it properly, it will not be a problem to hit a box office of 2 billion.
After this calculation, Huang Bo is only less than 3 billion away from the 10 billion box office.
Judging from Huang Bo's box office appeal, if three more movies starring him are released, he will be the first actor in China to earn tens of billions in box office.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuan couldn't help but ask: "Brother Bo, how many movies do you have in theaters now?"
"There are no movies waiting to be released for the time being, but after this movie is finished, there are still two movies waiting to be shot. I am almost busy every day." Huang Bo sighed and couldn't help but complain.
He has a full schedule for the next year, including "Under the Ice" and "Memory Master".
In addition, Ning Hao said that he is already preparing for the third film in the "Crazy" series, and he will definitely star in it by then. After going back and forth, at least until he gets tens of billions in box office, he will not have much time to rest.
After hearing this, Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
It takes a long time from the start of filming to the release of a movie, and I still have two completed movies that have not yet been released. In this way, I still have the possibility of catching up with Huang Bo.
With Huang Bo's emotional intelligence, he naturally knew what Lin Yuan was thinking, so he joked: "Yuanzi, I remember you have a movie waiting to be released during the Spring Festival, right?"
"That's right."
Huang Bo patted Lin Yuan's shoulder, as if entrusting him with an important task: "That's good, you guys must give me a try when the time comes. No matter what, the box office must be better than the bald Xu Zheng's "囧 in Hong Kong""
Gao, if that old boy gets tens of billions in box office, he might be so crazy in front of me in the future."
At first Lin Yuan thought it was something serious, but when he heard this, he immediately became happy.
Everyone hopes that their movies will get more box office, but Huang Bo would be better off letting Xu Zheng get less box office. But what about the theory of box office relativity here?
However, Lin Yuan also knew that Huang Bo was obviously joking with him. We are all brothers. They all have the ability to win tens of billions in box office. Whoever gets it first just proves that they work harder in filming. If they really want to
My brothers were the first to win tens of billions in box office, and they will definitely send out heartfelt congratulations when the time comes.
Since they both talked about this topic, the two also discussed for a while their respective top contenders for the tens of billions in box office.
It wasn't until the production manager used the loudspeaker to announce that it was time for dinner that the two of them ended the topic.
Seeing that the first-tier actors are getting closer and closer to the tens of billions in box office, Lin Yuan is also looking forward to it more and more, wondering who will win the title of tens of billions in box office in the end!