Depressive Screenwriter

On Wednesday and Thursday, Su Yan and Dimension Pictures intensified the promotion for the movie "Your Name."

Since the female lead of "Your Name" is played by Gu Qingyuan, who also starred in the popular drama "I Want to Tell You" this season, the promotional effect was doubled.

A large number of drama fans have explicitly stated on forums that they will support the movie for Gu Qingyuan's sake.

Now, the Xia country's film media is not only hyping up Su Yan.

But also targeting the screenwriters, directors, and lead actors of the three movies "Three Men", "Bone Temple", and "Summer Night", asking them if they are confident in surpassing Su Yan's new work in the same release window.

Especially adding insult to injury, some rebellious reporters directly asked the producer of "Summer Night" how it felt to run away from the Spring Festival release to avoid being crushed by Su Yan's "Rurouni Kenshin", only to be crushed by "Your Name" in the summer release.

The news of the "Summer Night" investor, with a livid face, ordering security to kick out the malicious reporter even made it to the top five trending topics on the internet on Thursday.

Soon, Thursday evening arrived.

As the movie's release approached, Su Yan also returned to the Tokyo area.

Although promoting the movie was important, the company had three works being filmed and prepared in the Tokyo area, so Su Yan couldn't stay away for too long.

In the evening, Su Yan and the main creators of "Your Name" gathered together for the first time in two months since the filming wrapped up.

Finally, they briefly filmed a video of the crew gathering together and posted it online as the final promotion before the movie's release.

Thus,

Thursday passed, and Friday arrived.

From the early morning, Zhong Qingxuan entered an excited mode.

She had already pre-ordered tickets for "Your Name", but during her work hours, she would always open the ticketing app to view the real-time pre-sale box office data.

After all, the four big-budget movies released today wouldn't have their first screenings until at least 7 PM, so everything now was pre-sales.

"Your Name" pre-sales: 52 million.

"Three Men": 7.7 million.

"Bone Temple": 6.3 million.

"Summer Night": 4.5 million.

It can be seen from the pre-sale box office that, at least in terms of audience expectations before the release, "Your Name" is not on the same level as the other three competitors.

This is not only because "Your Name" has more screenings, although "Your Name" has more screenings, the box office pre-sales obtained by "Your Name"'s screenings are definitely more cost-effective than the other three in terms of the difference in screenings and the difference in box office pre-sales.

As a die-hard fan of Su Yan for three years, she couldn't help but slack off at work during the day and frantically post in the fan group.

"This is the status! Before, when Su Yan's movies were released, we always had to catch up with others, but now, hahaha, we're directly widening the gap on the first day."

"Don't be happy too early, after all, this is just the first day's results. If you want a high box office later, you still have to look at word-of-mouth."

"Word-of-mouth? Does Su Yan's work need to worry about word-of-mouth? He only has niche works, not works with bad word-of-mouth."

"Just don't do something like "Life is Strange", the plot is too depressing. Fantasy romance is quite good, with a high audience, but Old Thief, don't be depressing!"

"Don't worry, Old Thief has at least changed his ways this year. "Kenshin" and "I Want to Tell You" are not depressing, and "Your Name" should be too."

"Damn, everyone, pay attention! Old Thief has released a new update."

"What's the situation?"

Zhong Qingxuan's eyes narrowed, a new update?

She quickly swiped her finger on her phone, opened another app, and found Su Yan's creator account.

There was just a paragraph of text posted on it.

"The regret of "5 Centimeters Per Second" will have a different result in the movie "Your Name"!"

It was another classic cryptic update from Su Yan.

The regret of "5 Centimeters Per Second"?

That is none other than the love between the male and female protagonists eventually dissipating into the sea of people under the erosion of time.

Why did Su Yan specifically mention "5 Centimeters Per Second" today?

Zhong Qingxuan blinked her eyes.

Could it be that this movie, like "5 Centimeters Per Second", is also a story about childhood sweethearts who like each other, separate in the middle, and then meet again after growing up?

But "Your Name" doesn't have an ending like "5 Centimeters Per Second", where the two don't even have the chance to look back at each other?

Thinking of this, Zhong Qingxuan's heart was pounding.

She looked at the time, 3:27 PM.

Hurry up and get off work, I really don't want to work this crappy job for even a second.

Friday afternoon is undoubtedly the most difficult time for a group of office workers in Xia country.

Zhong Qingxuan spent the afternoon like it was a year, then quickly packed her bag and rushed to a movie theater near the company.

As soon as she entered, it was a sea of people.

The movie theater in the city center was full of people.

Half of them were students on vacation, and the other half were almost all office workers like Zhong Qingxuan.

As before, the most eye-catching in the movie theater were undoubtedly those who liked to cosplay characters from Su Yan's past works, especially the male cosplayers dressed as Kenshin, each with a reverse-blade prop sword purchased from the Dimension Pictures official website attached to their waist.

Some directly gestured in some of the more empty places in the movie theater, attracting a crowd of onlookers.

Of course, there were also many cosplayers of other characters like Gilgamesh, Artoria, and Alexander the Great. The entire movie theater was divided into Su Yan fans and others based on movie fandom.

But judging from the number of fans, the number of people waiting for the movie to be released in this movie theater was still more than the number of fans of other works combined.

"We are the majority! No longer a minority."

Thinking of this, Zhong Qingxuan suddenly felt confident.

After all, if the majority of Su Yan fans dressed in strange costumes are not embarrassed in the movie theater, then it is the others who are embarrassed.

The time waiting for the movie to be released in the theater was much faster than working.

Zhong Qingxuan didn't feel like she had been there for long before the hall voice started announcing entry.

The crowd entering the hall to watch "Your Name" formed a long line at the ticket gate.

Walking into the theater, more than 80% of the seats in the large hall with hundreds of people were filled.

Zhong Qingxuan's mood gradually calmed down.

Before the movie was released, she took the time to look at the current real-time box office of "Your Name".

91 million.

It's only the premiere time now.

I don't know how much the total box office of "Your Name" will be before 12 o'clock tonight.

Before Zhong Qingxuan could react to these thoughts swirling in her head.

The lights in the theater suddenly went out.

Then the screen paused, and what first appeared in front of everyone was a bright and dazzling sun in the outer stratosphere.

Below it were white, endless clouds.

But a meteorite suddenly smashed through the clouds, the perspective went down, above the clouds it was still daytime, below the clouds it was night.

A shooting star streaked across the sky, and then spontaneously combusted and split in mid-air due to atmospheric resistance, dragging a long tail flame in the air.

This scene...

Although I don't know what the meaning of this opening shot is, Zhong Qingxuan and a group of viewers in the theater immediately got into the mood.

Like "5 Centimeters Per Second", Old Thief's movies, these scenes...

Are so beautiful!

Don't worry about the plot for now, just for these scenes and art style, the ticket price is worth it.