After transmigrating into the cultivation world, the school topper was reborn - chapter 464

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“So what? Use awards? Lin Dao, are you dissatisfied with the fact that “The Prisoner” didn’t win the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival? Do you think the Berlin Film Festival was shady?” The reporter immediately asked sharply.

Lin Dao glanced silently at the reporter who asked the question, “Of course it’s good for a film to get high box office collection and awards, but the box office and awards aren’t the only criterion to measure a film. When I made this film, instead of pursuing the box office collections, I just asked for no loss.”

Lin Dao’s words were very modest, but in the reporter’s words, it became, “Lin Dao just wants “The Prisoner” to not have any loss.

Didn’t it also mean that Lin Dao had not much expectations with box office collection from the movie?

The headline of the news on the second day was: Lin Dao just expects his movie “The Prisoner” to not lose money!

As soon as this news was released, the online haters jumped even more joyfully, “Lin Dao himself said he isn’t optimistic about the movie’s box office collection. He just wishes not to lose money. Can Su Xingchen’s fans stop boasting her now!”

“I won’t go to watch it, no matter how you boast it! I resolutely won’t watch an art film!”

Then in the third week, the box office exceeded the second week, breaking the 300 million.　

At that time, the Chinese New Year had completely passed, the students had already started school, and the office workers had already gone to work.

Su Xingchen’s personal box office appeal was the only thing that could be useful till this limit and now what box office collection it got would depend completely on what people said about the movie itself. 

It was the excellence of the film itself that had attracted a large audience.

At the box office in the third week, many netizens were stunned. This made netizens who couldn’t go to the cinema to watch the sad art film wonder whether the movie was as good as it was boasted online. They went to watch it due to curiosity.

After watching it…

Those who firmly said that they wouldn’t watch it also entered the theater. Although the box office in the fourth week didn’t exceed the third week, it was also stabilized at 300 million, winning the box office championship for three consecutive weeks.

By the time the movie was released, the total box office had exceeded 1.2 billion.

1.2 billion, which was certainly incomparable with those Chinese New Year blockbuster films. But they were big budget movies with hundreds of millions of investment.  The highest box office record of China’s art films was 1.4 billion. The box office champion of the art film was also shot by one of the top three well-known directors in China. This director had a strong box office appeal.

The box office of “The Prisoner” was already near the biggest box office of the Chinese art films.

The investment in “The Prisoner” was 20 million, the public relations was more than 20 million and the announcement was more than 10 million. The total cost of the film was 60 million. 

Twenty times!

After the tax, the producer and the investor had at least five times the income.

However, the filming took only more than two months, plus the later Berlin Film Festival, domestic release time, only a total of half a year. They earned more than five times the return on investment in half a year.

And the movie, while giving high profits to the producers and investors, also brought high profits to Su Xingchen.

Because the investment in this film was so low, there was another important reason that Su Xingchen herself bought shares for it.

In March, the movie “The Prisoner” was nominated for the Best Screenplay Award at the Asian Film Awards.

At the beginning of April, the film “The Prisoner” won the Best Director Award, Best Film Award and Best Actress Award at the Yanjing University Student Film Festival.

At the end of April, the movie “The Prisoner” was nominated for the Best Asian Film Award and the Best Actress Award at the Treasure Island.

In August, the movie “The Prisoner” won the Outstanding Digital Film Award of the Chinese Standard Award, and Su Xingchen won the Best New Film Award.

In November, the movie “The Prisoner” was nominated for the best film on the Hong Kong Island Golden Horse Awards, nominated for the best screenwriter, and awarded for the best director.

With the increasing number of awards for this film, after the film was released, Fire Media got a lot of movie projects.

Before the release of the movie “The Prisoner”, Su Xingchen did get some scripts but most of them were for supporting roles or second female leads. After the film was released, the scripts they got were almost all with the female lead role. 

Some of these people fancy Su Xingchen’s box office appeal, and some valued her acting and aura, and felt that she was consistent with her role in the film.

However, just when everyone thought that Su Xingchen’s career had reached its peak, and she would devote most of her energy to the entertainment industry, Su Xingchen announced that she was withdrawing from the entertainment industry.