At the same time that "The God of Medicine" was released, Lin Yuan was waiting in the hotel with Xu Zheng and Ning Hao, the film's main creative staff, to wait for the movie's box office and reputation to come out.
Although they will attend media interviews tomorrow, no one will be able to sleep until the results come out.
While waiting for the major theaters to compile the premiere data of "The God of Medicine", Lin Yuan was not idle. He looked at netizens' reviews of the movie online and found that less than ten minutes had passed since the end of the first movie.
There are already tens of thousands of viewing topics about the movie "The God of Medicine" on Weibo.
"The biggest scam of 2018! It was a promised comedy, but in the end my girlfriend and I walked out crying. We were no longer in the mood to book a hotel. Lin Yuan, please pay me for a date!"
"Friendly reminder, remember to bring tissues when watching the movie. Jimeis who are afraid of crying and wearing makeup must not watch this movie!"
"The best movie of the year is booked in advance! In my opinion, the movie "The God of Medicine" can be regarded as one of the best movies in recent years. Lin Yuan has proved with the movie that in addition to being a qualified actor
, is also a director with humanistic sentiments!”
"I give this work 99 points. The reason why it is not a perfect score is because I am afraid that Lin Yuan will be proud. This is the movie that today's society needs, and this is what a real movie should be like!"
"After watching the movie "The God of Medicine", all the more than 300 people in our theater cried. It's hard to imagine that the first time we cried this year would be in a theater."
"Although I really want to scold Lin Yuan for deceiving the audience, I have to admit that this movie is not deliberately sensational, but it can resonate with all viewers. There is no doubt that this is a good movie and the best movie I have ever seen.
One of the most touching domestic movies!"
Lin Yuan flipped through several pages on related topics, but did not reach the end.
However, there is no long-winded feeling in these netizens' comments. They are just a few simple sentences, but they seem more authentic than any professional film review.
After all, immediately after the movie was released, there were a lot of long-form reviews, analyzing and praising the movie from various angles. Such reviews have no reference value for the film's creative team, because basically 90% of them are fake.
The probability is that they are all film critics who are paid to do their job.
At least judging from the current audience comments, the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" still has a pretty good reputation.
Lin Yuan understands why these directors like to surf intensively on their mobile phones after the movie is released. For directors, movies are equivalent to their children. Now that their children have been recognized by netizens, as a director who is a parent, he naturally feels the same in his heart.
Full of indescribable pride.
"Brother Zheng, have you read the comments from netizens?" Lin Yuan asked, looking at Xu Zheng who was staring at his phone.
It's okay not to ask. When asked, Xu Zheng's face suddenly became more serious.
He turned his head, looked at Lin Yuan, and asked very seriously: "Lin Yuan, tell me the truth, did you buy some trolls to send you posts?"
As soon as these words came out, not to mention Lin Yuan, even Ning Hao and others in the room looked confused.
If you didn't invite the navy, don't they still know their own people?
Besides, even if they have to hire a navy team for their movie "The God of Medicine", this is also the responsibility of their producers. It is not the director Lin Yuan's turn to do such a thing, so they don't know what Xu Zheng is doing.
Questions like this are suddenly asked.
"Brother Zheng, we are basically together these days. Didn't you know that you didn't invite the navy?"
"Hmph, then you should tell me, what are these posts about?"
Xu Zheng snorted coldly, took his phone to Lin Yuan, and showed him the comments from netizens.
At first, Lin Yuan was wondering what was going on, but when he saw the comments from netizens, he immediately became happy.
I saw a post in which an audience member asked: "The leading actor's acting skills are good, and he looks a bit familiar. Who is he? I forgot about him."
Immediately afterwards, netizens started to comment.
"Isn't this Xu Zheng?"
"Isn't Xu Zheng bald? Why does he have hair all of a sudden?"
"Did he go for a hair transplant just to make this movie?"
"I thought it looked familiar. It turned out to be Xu Zheng. With his long hair, he was really unrecognizable."
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Seeing Lin Yuan covering his mouth and snickering, Xu Zheng exited the post directly, then found a post about Lin Yuan and clicked on it.
"Lin Yuan's performance was so good. I really didn't expect him to play a patient so vividly that I even doubted whether he had suffered from some difficult or serious illness."
"In the past, Lin Yuan played roles with personal characteristics, but this time he took the risk to play the role of the 'patients' group, but I have to admit that he did it."
"Every time I see Lin Yuan smiling on the screen, I feel heartbroken."
"Lin Yuan was able to direct a movie like "The God of Medicine" for the first time. If he turns to being a director, I can't imagine how many masterpieces will be on the big screen in the future!"
When it came to Lin Yuan, netizens basically praised Lin Yuan's role as "Lv Yiyi" for being so heart-wrenching, portraying the patient's humbleness, sadness, and even the psychology of not being able to bear the burden on his family. Apart from that,
In addition, many netizens expressed surprise at Lin Yuan's first film directed, thinking that Lin Yuan's work is the most touching film they have seen in recent years.
In fact, there are many netizens who praise Xu Zheng's acting skills, but in the movie "The God of Medicine", Lin Yuan's acting skills are not bad, plus this is the first movie directed by Lin Yuan.
Under such circumstances, netizens naturally discussed Lin Yuan more.
Xu Zheng knew it in his heart, but he was just teasing him like this deliberately to liven up the tense atmosphere.
However, for the producer of Enlight Media, he doesn't care at all about the comments of netizens. He just wants to know how much the first box office of the movie "The God of Medicine" was and whether he will continue to spend money on publicity.
of necessity.
Everyone waited until half past two for the first box office results of the movie "The God of Medicine" to be tallied.
Looking at the statistical results, Lin Yuan cleared his throat, and then said very seriously: "The first screening was 10,700 times, the attendance rate was 72%, and the total box office of the movie's first show was 2,030
Twenty thousand!”
As Lin Yuan finished speaking, everyone on the creative team in the room was stunned and opened their mouths.
"How much more?"
"Lin Yuan, you kid are not kidding us, are you?"
"The box office for the first show was more than 20 million?"
Needless to say, the producers of Enlight Media, even Xu Zheng and Ning Hao, two directors with very good historical achievements, had such exaggerated reactions, which is enough to show how explosive the film's performance was.
But this is understandable.
We must know that Xu Zheng's highest-grossing movie "Thailand" only had a box office score of more than 30 million on its first day. However, after two screenings of the movie "The God of Medicine", it surpassed his first-day score. This result is enough to
They were shocked.
However, for Lin Yuan, although the first box office performance of the movie "God of Medicine" was explosive, it did not surprise him. After all, the first box office performance of "Mermaid" was even more exaggerated than that of "God of Medicine", let alone
There is also "Wolf Warrior 2" which currently occupies the highest box office.
"How can I joke about the box office results? Besides, we can find out later." Lin Yuan shrugged and said lightly.
After confirming that Lin Yuan was not joking, the producer of Enlight Media could not sit still. He stood up and said: "Lin Yuan, I will go back to the headquarters first and explain the film promotion to the board of directors. It will be hard for media interviews tomorrow."
You all."
Originally, he thought that it would be great if the movie "The God of Medicine" could earn several million at the box office in its debut. After all, there were few trailers for the movie, and there were no screenings, and there were no media or film critics to promote the movie in advance.
In this case, the early exposure is definitely not as good as other movies, and the box office will naturally not be much higher.
But now the box office of the first show is 20 million, which is more explosive than almost all the movies invested by Enlight Media before. How can he still sit still?
After saying that, he took his briefcase and left in a hurry.
Just after the producer of Enlight Media left, Xu Zheng also asked curiously: "Lin Yuan, what do you think the box office result will be on the first day?"
With this question, almost all the eyes of the creative team fell on Lin Yuan.
There is no way, who let them here, Lin Yuan is the only one who has achieved such explosive box office results before.
Lin Yuan made an estimate based on the performance of "Mermaid" and said with some uncertainty: "Conservatively, the box office on the first day should be 150 million."
Hearing this, Xu Zheng and Ning Hao's eyes changed, as if they were questioning Lin Yuan: "Are you sure this is a conservative estimate?"
Lin Yuan spread his hands. If they didn't believe it, there was nothing he could do.
At that time, the movie "Mermaid" had a box office of 280 million on its first day. Lin Yuan knew very well that a large part of the reason was attributed to Mr. Xing. At that time, the slogan promoted by the management companies such as China Film, Hehe Pictures, and Enlight Pictures was "I owe Mr. Xing a piece of film."
Movie Tickets", relying on emotion to achieve such exaggerated first-day results.
In this aspect, the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" obviously cannot be compared with the movie "Mermaid".
However, no one knows what the final box office results will be on the first day until the last movie is screened on the first day.
Xu Zheng, Ning Hao and others originally planned to go to bed early after seeing the box office results of the first show. However, after seeing such explosive first show box office results, I am afraid it will be difficult to sleep today.
When he woke up the next day, Lin Yuan turned on his mobile phone and saw that many entertainment media were rushing to report on the results of "The God of Medicine".
"The reputation of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is booming. The box office performance of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is soaring. It grossed 60 million in the first two premieres. It is expected to break the box office myth of "Wolf Warrior 2"!!!"
"The movie has received good reputation and has a good box office harvest. Lin Yuan's first self-directed and starred movie may sweep the entire Spring Festival!"
"There were two premieres on New Year's Eve, with an attendance rate of 86%, a box office of RMB 60 million, and a first shot at the New Year movie market, with rave reviews!"
"Whether Lin Yuan's first film directed will win the Spring Festival box office championship, or a movie starring him will win the Spring Festival box office championship. The ending is unpredictable, we will wait and see!"
Originally, the thought of having to deal with interviews with media reporters today gave Lin Yuan a headache, but now after seeing the good news reported by these media reporters, Lin Yuan suddenly felt that these media reporters were not so "hateful".
Today is the New Year's Day holiday, and the audience has a lot of free time to go to the cinema.
Of course, Lin Yuan would not miss such a good time. There were two media interviews scheduled in the morning. As for the afternoon and evening, he and the creative team began to be busy with roadshow promotions.
It was night in a blink of an eye.
In addition to the main creative staff of the "I'm Not the God of Medicine" crew, the CEOs of major film studios are also paying attention to the first-day box office results of the movie "The God of Medicine".
For the director and starring actors, they may care about the reputation of the movie, but for these bosses, there is only one kind of data they can see, and that is the movie box office!
After the last movie screening on New Year's Day, the first-day box office data of the movie "The God of Medicine" came to them quickly.
The box office on the first day was 220 million!
Seeing such explosive first-day box office results, these bosses felt mixed emotions for a while.
Film and television companies such as Huayi Brothers and Bona Pictures basically have fixed co-directors, such as Feng Xiaogang and Xu Ke. Even Wanda Pictures has begun to train Chen Sichen since "Tang Detective" became popular.
This emerging director, however, does not have a regular director under Enlight Media.
Therefore, when Enlight Media invested in actors such as Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo, and Lin Yuan to shoot movies, film and television companies such as Huayi Brothers and Bona Pictures did not take any action at all.
If they had interfered at that time, the movie "The God of Medicine" might have been produced with their investment.
And the most important thing is that the box office appeal of veteran directors like Feng Xiaogang and Xu Ke is declining. This can be seen from the fact that "Youth" directed by Feng Xiaogang only took in one billion in box office.
But Lin Yuan is different. After Lin Yuan gained a reputation with the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", the next movie he directs will also have good box office appeal. Unless Lin Yuan makes some bad movies, otherwise Lin Yuan will
Its box office appeal will only get stronger and stronger.
Also regretful is Enlight Media CEO Wang Changtian.
It’s not that he regrets investing in Lin Yuan’s movie, but he regrets moving Lin Yuan’s movie to release on New Year’s Day.
If it is released on New Year's Day, it can earn 220 million at the box office. If it is released on the first day of the new year and the Spring Festival, wouldn't the first-day box office be expected to break the record set by "Mermaid" and even "Wolf Warrior 2"?
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world. Now he can only hope that the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" can continue the momentum of the first day and strive to finally hit the box office record of "Wolf Warrior 2".