This kind of screening rate is quite high for a new movie.
"If the total box office on the first day is less than 3 million, the screening rate will drop tomorrow, and it will be hard to recover afterward," Gu Jiahui said to Sheng Tang.
Sheng Tang: "It should be fine."
"You’re too blindly confident," Gu Jiahui criticized her.
Sheng Tang: "I can’t undermine my own morale."
Gu Jiahui: "..."
The movie premiered at midnight, and Sheng Tang spent the whole day in the gym, letting exercise fill her thoughts so she wouldn’t think about the box office.
Ke Fei didn’t take this movie seriously and was still arranging new jobs for Sheng Tang.
He didn’t hold out any hope.
Gu Jiahui later added another 3 million to the promotion budget, but he really just considered it money down the drain, giving Sheng Tang a chance to struggle, not taking it seriously either.
Qian Zhelin’s new TV series wasn’t finished yet. He took twelve days off during the movie’s promotion period, but now he had to catch up on the filming, busy as a dog on set. He even forgot that the movie was premiering today.
Mainly because Qian Zhelin also believed that the movie’s box office had no expectations, with only a "miserable death" in store.
Director Wang Sheng and producer Luo Yishan agreed to go drinking, so they wouldn’t have to stress themselves by constantly checking the box office and risk a heart attack.
These people with vested interests all avoided keeping an eye on the box office.
However, there were two unrelated people who were very attentive.
One was Ai Xiao and the other was Sheng Tang’s former manager, Ye Yongying.
"Lousy movie, lousy director and actors, even with a 12.3% screening rate, so what? They’ll lose their pants," Ai Xiao cursed resentfully.
After being fired from this movie, her manager threatened her that she would not be given another chance.
But given her good looks and the fact that she was an artist signed by Gu Jiahui, she wasn’t to be wasted, so she was still allowed to audition.
She took a minor role in an idol drama, but she was still dissatisfied, eager to see this movie that fired her completely fail.
Ye Yongying, who was also paying attention, had a similar view to Ai Xiao.
"This is the first movie Ke Fei chose for Sheng Tang, a small insincere production. It would be best if it bombed," Ye Yongying thought.
Although she knew the movie failing was inevitable, she wanted to see it for herself.
When the movie fails, she’d have something to talk about: "Look, even with Ke Fei’s superb judgment, Sheng Tang’s performance is still so bad. She’s just useless."
That way, the termination of her contract with Sheng Tang wouldn’t seem so humiliating.
As long as this movie bombed, even if everyone anticipated it would, Ye Yongying could still rationalize it to others: "It’s President Gu’s girlfriend who can’t be helped."
On the first day of its release, all the relevant people avoided paying attention to it and went about their own business, so they didn’t notice the growing discussions about the movie on forums, Weibo, and social circles.
The first-day box office results came out.
Sheng Tang had gone to bed at 11:30, so when Gu Jiahui knocked on her door, she was fast asleep.
Woken up, she was very unhappy and muttered, "I’m asleep, talk tomorrow."
"Get up, don’t wait until tomorrow," Gu Jiahui said, knocking at the door.
Sheng Tang’s room was not locked when she went out, but when she was at home, she sometimes locked it.
Gu Jiahui had to persistently knock on the door.
Not just Sheng Tang, but Cheng Lichuan next door was also woken up by him.
As soon as Sheng Tang opened the door, Gu Jiahui handed her his phone.
It was the statistics page of the box office app.
Sheng Tang glanced at it hazily, then her eyes suddenly widened, thinking she might have seen it wrong.