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Chapter 184 New Year's Release! "2012" Sends Chills Down Audiences

Chapter 184 New Year's Release! "2012" Sends Chills Down Audiences (Third Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets!)

After Song Hao finished filming "2012", many directors and artists in the entertainment industry sent their congratulations.

The reason everyone is celebrating this time is simply to grab attention.

If this movie really becomes a hit during the Lunar New Year season.

Then, there may be opportunities for cooperation in the future.

Of course, they were also worried after learning that Song Hao's film was a large-scale disaster science fiction movie.

Because of the current market situation in China.

There are almost no truly Hollywood-style science fiction movies.

You can even remove "almost".

There isn't one at all.

They don't know how well Song Hao's new movie will perform at the box office during the Lunar New Year season.

Soon, the films scheduled for the Lunar New Year season were being promoted extensively.

Director Zhang's historical suspense thriller "Jiang Hong" is coming soon to the Lunar New Year season! Please stay tuned!

[Director Chen Kai returns to classic form after more than 20 years with "Farewell to the Makeup," featuring a major focus on female roles!]

[Highly recommended: "My Sunshine," starring Yang Mi and top stars, is set to premiere this Lunar New Year!]

Song Hao's film was also featured in the promotional materials.

[2012 is said to be the first large-scale disaster science fiction film in Chinese history. Song Hao's latest masterpiece is set to reignite the competition. Who will emerge as the ultimate champion this year's Lunar New Year film season?]

The internet is full of promotional advertisements.

As the festive atmosphere of the Lunar New Year approaches, a silent war of attrition is gradually breaking out.

All the major investors have pulled out all the stops in order to grab better publicity opportunities.

Director Zhang even led his team to personally conduct roadshows in major cities.

Director Chen Kai also encouraged many veteran opera singers to actively promote the art form.

The slogan they were using was to revitalize traditional Chinese culture.

Yang Mi, on the other hand, goes live every night to encourage her fans to support her romantic dramas and movies.

As for Song Hao...

After filming wrapped, he immediately began post-production on the finished film.

Although there was still some time before the Chinese New Year, he wanted to ensure that the entire film was flawless.

Therefore, in terms of film promotion, they can only rely on Wu Jing and others.

Netizens started commenting online.

"Director Zhang takes his team to promote the film every day, which shows how much he cares about it."

"Yes, and there's also Millennium, I want to see both."

"Director Chen Kai is making another classic after more than 20 years. I think it should be pretty good."

"No, no, no, I think Yang Mi's romance dramas are the best."

"Wrong! Director Song's movies are the best!"

"Yes, Director Song is the best!"

Many netizens have expressed that they will definitely support Song Hao's movie.

However, Song Hao has not yet come forward to promote the film.

Only the lead actors are constantly promoting it.

You should know that Song Hao is the biggest draw for this movie.

If Song Hao doesn't personally promote it, the chances of the film becoming a hit will be greatly reduced.

However, Song Hao himself understands that if he ignores the film's special effects and focuses on promotion instead, he would be putting the cart before the horse.

Even if the box office is high on the first day, it will gradually decline due to word-of-mouth.

Therefore, his current focus must be on ensuring that all the special effects for "2012" are completed.

It wasn't until half a month later.

The film "2012" has finally been completed.

Song Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He then joined the propaganda team.

When he was promoting it on Douyin live stream.

Many netizens even made fun of it.

"Hahaha, Director Song, I thought you were aloof and unwilling to promote it."

"Director Song, what brings you here for a promotion now?"

"Quick, quick, tell us what the main story is about?"

"Director Song, your promotion is probably already a step behind others, after all, Director Zhang and the others have been promoting for a month straight."

Seeing these comments, Song Hao chuckled and said, "It's okay. True gold fears no fire. Good works always rely on word-of-mouth promotion from everyone. It's useless for me to promote them alone."

Song Hao's confidence ignited the passion of everyone in the comments section.

"That's right, that's the kind of confidence we need."

"Lao Tzu's works are the best in the world, hahahaha."

"As expected, Director Song is capable; his words are a sign of good fortune."

"But are you serious about releasing a disaster movie during the Lunar New Year season?"

It's not that people lack confidence in Song Hao's work.

They simply felt that releasing a disaster film during a festive period like the Lunar New Year was extremely unlucky.

Many people may not choose to watch it during the Lunar New Year holiday season.

This inevitably makes people worry about Song Hao's box office performance.

Song Hao also set a goal for himself.

He looked at the camera and said to everyone, "Don't worry, this movie will definitely exceed your expectations. It's a Hollywood-style sci-fi movie, a large-scale production that combines disaster and science fiction."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone started making fun of them.

"No way, you're exaggerating your Hollywood-style sci-fi movie analogy."

"Yes, Hollywood science fiction movies are of the highest quality in the world. Our Chinese market doesn't have that kind of strength."

"Director Song, stop bragging."

"Hahaha, Director Song, don't think that just because you made a movie with special effects like 'The Captain,' you can dominate the science fiction genre!"

at the same time.

After a day of promotional tours, Director Zhang's crew all gathered together for a meal.

During the conversation, the topic of movies to be released during this year's Lunar New Year season was also mentioned.

One of the actors said, "The competition for Lunar New Year films this year is much fiercer than last year."

Director Zhang's assistant director, Liang, waved his hand and said, "Of course! Director Zhang didn't direct any of last year's Lunar New Year films, but this year's Lunar New Year films are sure to sweep the box office."

After hearing this, Director Zhang calmly shook his head: "Don't be too sure of yourself. Although the quality of our films this year is not bad, don't forget that there is also Director Song this year. His films have never been released during the Lunar New Year season. Nobody knows what will happen to him this year."

"His disaster-themed sci-fi movie?" Assistant Director Liang said with a smile, "Although Director Song is indeed amazing, having directed so many TV series and movies, and even produced an animated film for him, it's too difficult to compare with Hollywood-style sci-fi movies."

"Not to mention releasing disaster movies during the Lunar New Year holiday. Everyone wants to have fun during the New Year, who would watch movies of this kind?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone nodded in agreement.

Although his subordinate's words made Director Zhang feel comfortable.

But he is still worried about Song Hao's box office appeal.

Director Zhang had previously had two films released at the same time as his, but both were completely overshadowed.

This time, it's happening in the same Lunar New Year film season again.

This inevitably made Director Zhang somewhat anxious.

Director Chen Kai is the same.

So this time he's returning to the genre of female roles, but with so many strong films being released right now, he's not confident he can achieve good box office results.

However, the investors of "My Sunshine" were full of confidence.

Mr. Chen is the producer of the movie "You Are My Sunshine". He had already spent a lot of money to invite Yang Mi to play the female lead, determined to win the box office champion of this year's New Year's film season.

He also spent a lot of money on publicity.

The movie is advertised in prominent places such as subway entrances, bus stops, and electronic projection screens.

When he saw many people online commenting on Song Hao's disaster film, he sarcastically remarked, "Releasing a disaster film during the Lunar New Year holiday? What were you thinking?"

Six months ago, Mr. Chen was worried that Song Hao's New Year's film would have a certain impact on his film, but after learning that he was going to make a disaster film, he felt much more at ease.

During the Chinese New Year holiday, given the choice between a romance film starring a top-tier celebrity and a sci-fi disaster movie, any rational viewer would choose "My Sunshine".

Time passes day by day.

Song Hao has already sent all the employees of Guoteng Media home for the Chinese New Year.

Only a few colleagues who volunteered to work overtime remained.

To express his care, Song Hao specially booked a five-star hotel to treat his colleagues who volunteered to work overtime to a New Year's Eve dinner. During this time, some of the people who came to eat saw Song Hao.

They immediately exclaimed, "Director Song, are you that director Song Hao?"

Song Hao smiled and nodded.

"Ah! I saw a real person!"

Wow, he's so handsome in person!

"Director Song, can we take a photo together?"

Song Hao then left autographs and photos with his fans.

They all agreed to Song Hao's request to go see his film "2012" on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Just after midnight.

Firecrackers were set off in some areas.

The new year has officially begun.

And the war for movie theaters has officially begun.

Many young people rushed to see the premiere.

Some couples decisively chose the movie "You Are My Sunshine".

Of course, they watched this movie late at night just for a little bit of flirtatious atmosphere, to kiss and touch each other under the cover of darkness.

Many people also went to see other types of movies in groups.

For example, Director Zhang's "Jiang Hong".

Four female students from Ocean University rushed to the premiere just to see the brilliant acting of the young actor.

"Hahaha! That's hilarious!"

"This plot is quite interesting."

"Yes, it's pretty good!!"

"I'm dying of laughter, Yue Yunpeng's acting is hilarious."

The entire theater was filled with cheerful sounds.

Two hours later.

The first group of viewers has already finished watching.

Director Zhang was still awake at this point.

He asked his assistant, Xiao Liu, "Xiao Liu, take a look at the comments online."

"Okay." Xiao Liu knew that Director Zhang was paying extra attention this time. Usually, he would have been asleep by now, but today he had been waiting.

The purpose was to see what the audience thought after the first screening.

Xiao Liu checked the Douban rating and then said, "Director Zhang, the rating is currently 8.1."

After listening, Director Zhang nodded: "What about your comments?"

"Some people said it was funny, some said the plot was exciting, and most of them were positive reviews, with four stars or more."

Hearing this, Director Zhang stood up and said, "Alright, then have Lao Yuan prepare a car and take me back."

"Ok."

Director Chen Kai also couldn't sleep.

This year's Lunar New Year film is his second work featuring a female lead role.

If the word-of-mouth isn't good enough, it will not only ruin this year's Lunar New Year film, but it may also completely deplete the popularity accumulated in previous years.

He only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the comments online.

Most of the positive reviews were encouraging, which means the film has a fairly good audience.

Thinking of this, he became happy.

At least I didn't ruin this genre of female impersonation.

"I bet none of the directors of this year's Lunar New Year films can sleep at night."

However, Song Hao was already fast asleep at this time.

As for box office figures, let the market decide.

There's no use in worrying.

It's better to go to bed early and get some rest.

Meanwhile, Song Hao's fans were staying up all night.

As a die-hard fan of Song Hao, blogger Free Bird went to the cinema immediately.

He thought not many people would go to the premiere of a disaster movie so late at night.

But just the opposite.

After entering the film, I found that the occupancy rate had reached 90%.

Most of the people who watch disaster movies are young viewers.

It seems that young people are more accepting of watching some shocking disaster movies during the Lunar New Year.

"If it's an elderly person, they might feel it's unlucky."

The free bird then waited for the movie to begin.

soon.

The lights in the movie theater went out.

The giant screen lit up.

"2012" has officially begun.

The familiar dragon logo, along with displays of various investment and production companies, were showcased.

Before long, the first thing to appear was a small portion of the Earth.

Then the screen began to turn red.

Upon closer inspection, everyone realized that this was the surface of the sun.

The sun's surface looked like a flame about to burst forth.

The blogger, Free Bird, was also surprised by the incredibly realistic special effects.

It only lasted for one minute.

Then you see such stunning special effects.

He also heard people around him exclaiming, "What incredibly realistic special effects!"

"The special effects are really good."

"It's clear that Director Song is quite capable."

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have come to support him so late at night, haha."

The film then continues.

A geologist arrived at a copper mine by car.

I was riding the elevator, which kept descending into the ground.

He then went to the underground studio, where the geologist asked him, "You said in the message that the number of these neutrinos doubled after the last solar flare."

"That happened last week, after the largest solar eruption in human history, the highest number of neutrinos ever recorded. They will heat up the Earth's core, and we will be in danger."

This happened in 09 years.

During this period, many countries began to prepare so that they would have enough time to respond should a disaster occur.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

It's 2012.

Rumors circulated that December 21, 2012, would be the end of the world.

When all the Mayans on screen committed suicide, not a single person in the theater said a word.

They've all become completely absorbed in the story.

Although it is now 2023, 2012 is a thing of the past.

But they all know that 2012 is just a number.

It is very possible that the world will end sometime in 2032 or 2042.

In just ten minutes, the audience in the theater were already deeply moved.

Not long after, Wu Jing, the protagonist, appeared on the screen.