First day box office

He Yunliang thought to himself, casting his gaze upon the film review he had written overnight. After confirming one last time that there were no issues, he posted it directly to the Douyuan Film Review platform.

Based on his own experience, this movie would absolutely become a massive hit.

At the very least, among the few films currently screening in theaters, this "demon subduing record" was definitely the best one.

Apart from the fact that all the actors were people he had never seen before, he couldn't find a single flaw anywhere else.

Whether it was the acting, the use of camera angles, or the special effects, everything was excellent.

Although he didn't know the reason, this movie hadn't been promoted, which meant not many people knew about it.

If he hadn't been somewhat disappointed by the movie he watched tonight and lacked the desire to write a review, he wouldn't have become curious about "demon subduing record," and thus wouldn't have discovered that it was a good film.

Now that he had published the review, his fans would certainly become curious about this movie after reading it.

Curiosity would drive them to go watch it, and once they confirmed the movie was good, it would definitely be a huge boost to his prestige and credibility in the film criticism world.

After all, based on the current situation, he was the first person to write a review for "demon subduing record."

If "demon subduing record" really became a massive hit later on, then he, as the first to publish a review, would also benefit the most—at least within the film criticism community.

He Yunliang smiled faintly. After confirming that the review had been successfully posted, he yawned and returned to his bedroom to sleep.

Douyuan Film Review.

Not long after He Yunliang posted the review, comments began to appear below it.

"Hmm, 'demon subduing record'? What movie is this? How come I've never heard of it? Since when did Brother Liang start recommending movies that I've never even heard of?"

"Is there nothing left to recommend? Starting to recommend any old movie now."

"And 'demon subduing record'? Not a single famous actor. Not having famous actors is one thing, but I haven't even seen a single name on the cast list."

"'demon subduing record'? I saw it in the theater yesterday. It was the midnight slot. It was scheduled for the midnight slot, so how good could it be? It's probably just a trashy movie."

"Looks like Brother Liang has fallen too. How much were you paid to go against your conscience and write a review for this movie?"

"Exactly. I haven't heard of any of these actors. At a glance, they're clearly amateur actors. They probably haven't even acted in a movie before. For a movie made by people like this, it'd be a miracle if the acting was actually decent."

"I watched 'demon subduing record,' and it's very good. I saw it at Tianda Cinema. It wasn't a midnight slot; it was the 8 PM prime time slot. I was actually going to DM Brother Liang to ask him to write a review for 'demon subduing record,' but I didn't expect him to have already written one."

"The person above must be a paid shill hired by 'demon subduing record.' A movie with a lineup of amateurs—how good could it be? Do you really think we'll believe that?"

"I can testify that it is indeed good. I saw someone promoting it on Tiger Head Livestream and went to see it out of curiosity. I didn't expect it to be this good—better than all the other movies currently showing."

"Heh, another shill appears."

"…"

Shanghai.

Shanghai Theater Academy.

Jiang Xue and Su Tang were paying close attention to the feedback on the Tieba forum.

Ever since they decided to promote the movie within the school last time, they had been taking action.

The movie premiered last night, and many people from the academy did indeed go to watch it.

They were very happy with this result. Although their promotion was limited to the Shanghai Theater Academy, they were very pleased to be able to contribute to the movie and encourage more people to watch it.

After watching the movie last night, they barely got any rest and kept their eyes glued to the campus Tieba forum.

They wanted to see what kind of feedback their fellow students at the school would give the movie.

Although they thought it seemed quite good and had no issues after watching it themselves last night,

those involved are often blind to the truth. Their own perceptions certainly couldn't be used as evidence; the best evidence was to see how others viewed and evaluated it.

They looked at the comments on the Tieba forum one by one.

After some time had passed, Jiang Xue and Su Tang exchanged glances and both let out a sigh of relief.

They had read through every single evaluation of "demon subduing record" on the forum very carefully.

What put their minds at ease was that there wasn't a single disparaging remark about "demon subduing record" among those comments.

This undoubtedly indicated that the movie they filmed had no issues.

To those viewers, they—as first-time filmmakers—were also fine, with no glaring flaws in their acting.

"Tangtang, it seems the movie we filmed is quite a success."

Jiang Xue said with a smile on her face.

She had been feeling anxious about the movie they filmed. Even during the filming process, she had been very strict, often re-shooting a single scene many times to get it perfect.

But deep down, she still had no confidence. She wasn't sure what the effect would be when the movie was edited and screened, or if there were any issues with the acting.

However, after seeing the comments on the campus Tieba forum, she finally felt a bit more at ease.

"It seems so."

Su Tang nodded. Looking at those praises and positive comments, she undoubtedly felt much more at ease.

"By the way, we said before that as long as those who watched the movie expressed their opinions, we would give out some small gifts as a token of gratitude."

"We've already bought the small gifts. We can just contact them later and send them over."

"Yeah, let's send them a DM first."

Jiang Xue immediately found the first comment, clicked into the person's private message interface, and sent a message.

Regardless, they had to fulfill the promise they made.

Mingri Group.

Lanpian Film and Television.

Luo Xiao and Wang Bin were sitting in the office, looking at some data in their hands.

"Brother Xiao, this data looks pretty good."

Wang Bin said with a look of surprise as he looked at the data report in his hand.

"Yeah, it's much better than expected."

Luo Xiao set the data report aside and said in a pleasant mood.

He had predicted that the first-day box office would be around 200,000, which would be about right.

After all, a movie ticket was only about 30 yuan, and the total number of employees at Mingri Group was only a few thousand. With the promotion from Tiger Head Livestream on top of that, a box office of around 200,000 was already quite good.

But what he didn't expect was that the data showed "demon subduing record" had a first-day box office of over 800,000.

Although it was far behind those movies that grossed millions or tens of millions on their first day,

"demon subduing record" didn't have any traffic stars, nor had they actively promoted it. To have a box office of over 800,000 at this point was definitely a pleasant surprise.

"I guess it must be because of Tiger Head Livestream. They've been promoting our movie."

Wang Bin spoke slowly.

Luo Xiao nodded in agreement.

"That's probably it. However, although the 800,000 box office exceeded expectations, we still need to keep a close eye on the growth of 'demon subduing record' going forward."

"By the way, President Chen called this morning asking for last night's box office figures for 'demon subduing record.' Don't forget to submit the data to President Chen."