Chapter 431: Chapter 409 Fairy Tale Story_1
It was now December 8th.
The online discussions about “May We Forever” were still ongoing.
However, with everyone’s focus on the lyrics, the popularity of the song was gradually being peeled away.
The discussions had gradually converged on the lyrics themselves—
Namely, “Song of Water”.
The song has now become so popular that many people have memorized it.
At the same time.
The film “Hachiko” had been in theaters for approximately four weeks.
Unexpectedly, the box office trend of the movie was stable, even remaining steady for an impressive four weeks!
This was rare.
Typically, movies rake in the highest revenues within the first two weeks of release, with a sharp drop in the third week.
The stronger blockbusters may occasionally maintain high revenues for three weeks.
But even they could not escape the inevitable slump in the fourth week.
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So movies that manage to hold steady at the box office for four weeks are truly few and far between!
Of course, saying that “Hachiko” held strong for a complete four weeks might be stretching things a bit.
To be precise, it stayed strong for three and a half weeks.
Because by the middle of the fourth week, the movie’s box office inevitably started to decline rapidly.
By now.
This movie, which cost around 50 million to make, had maximized the power of word-of-mouth.
When the fifth week rolled around, “Hachiko”, just like all movies, faced the fate of being gradually phased out in theaters due to a decline in box office revenue.
However, by now, “Hachiko”‘s box office had already stumbled past the 2 billion mark!
This result was not only beyond the industry’s expectations, but also greatly exceeded Lin Yuan’s estimations.
Based on the trend in the first two weeks, the movie’s box office was projected to be a little over 1 billion.
But who could have expected it to double that and reach 2 billion?
Such is the remarkable nature of the film market.
The market pattern applies to around eighty percent of movies, but there are always a few that can defy these norms.
For example, “Hachiko” has managed to slightly break these market norms.
For this, the film and television circle couldn’t help but marvel once again at Starlight’s good fortunes, thanks to the phenomenal presence of Xian Yu.
As for Starlight, they must be extremely pleased, willing to break company tradition, and specially promote Xian Yu’s music contract to the level of Maestro. Who can deny Xian Yu’s influence in the film industry?
“Exactly double that of ‘The Tuner’.”
Lin Yuan was very satisfied when summarizing at his home.
As expected from a top-rated movie.
The elasticity of the box office is great, it may be low, but it can also be high.
Overall, producing movies has a great potential for profit.!
However, a drawback of movie production is its lengthy cycle and higher risk; the effort required is far greater than producing a song.
From this perspective, the difficulty of making money from releasing new songs is much lower than making a movie.
“I must not become arrogant.”
Having read so many books about the film industry, Lin Yuan knows very well that the film market is the most unpredictable.
Though several of his small investments have reaped big rewards, it doesn’t mean he can always be successful.
This was why Lin Yuan insisted on casting Zhang Xiuming as the male lead when he was preparing to shoot “Hachiko”.
Given Lin Yuan’s character, why use an A-lister when there are cheaper actors available?
A-listers command such high paychecks.
But sometimes there’s just no choice.
Some films simply require an A-lister to hold up the sky.
In fact, it’s proven that while Zhang Xiuming’s price tag is steep, Zhang Xiuming’s acting skills and popularity have been crucial to the box office success of the movie!
If Lin Yuan were to produce a drama film and not hire any A-list actors, that would indeed be being too out of touch with the market.
“If the male lead wasn’t Zhang Xiuming, but instead a good actor with little fame, the box office could potentially be halved.”
Lin Yuan has this understanding and absolutely does not harbor any illusions of luck.
Just then.
His sister’s knock on the door came: “Time for dinner.”
“Okay.”
Lin Yuan stopped thinking and left the room.
Upon reaching the downstairs restaurant, Lin Yuan surprisingly discovered that today his sister and mother were cooking together, preparing an array of delicious dishes.
“Is it New Year?”
But that wasn’t right; the New Year holidays hadn’t started yet.
There were still more than ten days until the New Year.
Lin Yao said, “Our sister got promoted today, so we’re celebrating.”
As she spoke, Lin Yao sneakily adjusted the positions of the dishes, placing the meat in front of her and the vegetables in front of Lin Yuan.
“Antarctica is still outside.”
Lin Yuan casually reminded her.
Lin Yao nodded her head, only to realize when she got to the door that Antarctica had already come inside and was sticking his tongue out from under the dining table, looking sympathetically at her.
Looking up, she found that Lin Yuan had already sat down in the spot full of meat dishes that was in front of her.
Lin Yao angrily said, “That’s my spot.”
Lin Yuan replied, “There’s no name written on the chair.”
Taking off her apron, washing her hands, and sitting down, Lin Xuan resignedly said, “It doesn’t matter where you sit; you both need to eat the vegetables, your nutrition needs to be balanced.”
“Exactly, you can’t be picky.”
Mom also sat down next to the table and said.
Lin Yao resentfully sat in the spot where Lin Yuan usually sits.
“Wait a moment.”
Lin Xuan took out her mobile phone, took a photo of the dishes on the table, posted it in her Moments, and then happily said:
“Congratulations to me on getting promoted today, let’s eat!”
Lin Yuan curiously asked, “What position have you been promoted to, sister?”
Silver Blue Books really liked to nurture young people. In Starlight company, people as young as Lin Xuan were generally ordinary employees.
“Deputy Editor!”
Lin Yao said joyously, being a Deputy Editor at her age could be considered a successful career.
Following up Lin Yao asked, “Which department?”
Lin Xuan’s smile faded a bit, she embarrassingly said, “Fairy Tale Department.”
“Fairy tales?”
Lin Yao enlarged her eyes, appearing extremely interested, “Like ‘Three Little Pigs’?”
The so-called “Three Little Pigs” is a fairy tale by Blue Star, telling the interesting story of a single mother pig raising three piglets, which has been adapted into an animated series, a reminiscent childhood for kids of Lin Yao’s generation.
“Yes…”
Lin Xuan seemed to not want to talk more.
Mom saw Lin Xuan’s disappointment, “Is there something wrong with this department?”
Lin Xuan shook her head, “It’s not bad per se, it’s a newly established department in the company, anything could happen, but there are some rumors in the company saying that our department is specially used to install people with connections.”
Mom was stunned, “Are you connected?”
Lin Xuan scoffed, “How could I be connected? But there are a few high-ranking guys in the department who are indeed connected, their parents are mostly high-level executives at Silver Blue Books, and because there are too many of these connected people, there are as many as three deputy editors in our department.”
While eating his meat, Lin Yuan casually asked, “What about the chief editor?”
Lin Yao helplessly said, “The department is newly established, there’s no chief editor yet, we three deputy editors basically deliberate the matters, the company is considering who among us three will be the chief editor based on our performances, the decision will be made in half a year.”
“Go for it, sister!”
While Lin Yao spoke, she sneakily fed the vegetables to Antarctica, but was discovered by Mom and her hand was hit with chopsticks.
“It’s impossible for my sister to gain any weight.”
Lin Xuan started gnawing on chicken feet, as if to vent her frustrations, mumbling, “I don’t know what the company was thinking, putting me with these connected people, and these connected people all have strong backing, using their family connections, they have contacted some pretty powerful authors of fairy tales, especially the one in the office next to me, who has even arranged a manuscript with Teacher Yuanyuan, the author of ‘Three Little Pigs’.”
Lin Yao rubbed her hand, “Sister, you should also make contact.”
Lin Xuan became even more upset, “I don’t know any powerful fairy tale authors, I did try to contact a few using company connections, but they simply ignored me, who made me the only deputy editor in the department who is not connected?”
“There will always be a way.”
Lin Yuan comforted her, at the same time, he also handed the vegetables to Antarctica, but was tattled by Lin Yao, “Mom, look at him!”
Without changing his expression, Lin Yuan stuffed the vegetable into his mouth.
Mom was helpless.
However, Lin Xuan didn’t notice this and continued chewing on her chicken feet.
Fairy tales…
Lin Yuan thought deeply.