At the beginning of the National Day season, Maoyan APP predicted that the total box office of "The Law of the Hunt" would be 3.8 billion. However, as the box office plummeted, the predicted box office continued to decline.

From 3.8 billion at the beginning, it dropped to 3.2 billion, and then to 3 billion.

In the end, it couldn't even hold on to 3 billion, and dropped directly to 2.8 billion.

The situation for "Infernal Affairs" is exactly the opposite. At the beginning, Maoyan APP predicted a total box office of 2.4 billion.

This data does not come out of thin air, but is calculated based on investment, starring lineup, and the director's past box office.

Fang Xing's last movie "Crazy Stone" had a box office of 2.4 billion.

This time, the Maoyan APP initially gave a box office forecast of 2.4 billion.

The predicted box office of 2.4 billion is actually very high.

Even the most famous director in the film industry would not be dissatisfied with this figure.

Although there are a few movies every year that can exceed 2.4 billion at the box office, it is something that only happens once in a while.

Even for big directors, their initial psychological expectations are not that high. They would be satisfied with 2.4 billion.

Therefore, many people in the industry believe that as long as "Infernal Affairs" can reach a box office of 2.4 billion, it doesn't even need 2.4 billion. If it reaches 2 billion, others will wake up and say it is a huge success.

Even if the box office can reach 1 billion, it will be enough to recover the cost and make a considerable profit.

However, "Infernal Affairs" still taught people in the film industry a hard lesson.

It was initially predicted that the box office would be 2.4 billion, and then it continued to rise.

In the end, the predicted box office on the Maoyan APP reached 3.2 billion.

By late October, only a few million, or even hundreds of thousands, of movies released during the National Day holiday were left at the box office, and they were about to be released.

And this time.

The box office of "Infernal Affairs" is still very good. As the reputation gets better and better, the reputation has a long tail effect. 25 days after its release, the single-day box office on the weekend is still 30 million.

Immediately afterwards, "Infernal Affairs" was postponed, and its release date was postponed by one month.

After this news came out, the predicted box office on the Maoyan APP suddenly changed from 3.2 billion to 3.5 billion.

However, the potential of "Infernal Affairs" is still underestimated.

Before the end of November, "Infernal Affairs" finally won a box office of 3.6 billion.

Unless a group of dark horses emerge at the box office in December, this year's box office championship will fall to Fang Xing.

Because as of November, among the movies released this year, the highest box office is the special effects blockbuster "Monster Hunter" during the Spring Festival, with a box office of 3.5 billion, which is stuck on a very subtle number.

If "Infernal Affairs" had not been postponed, the final box office would have been between 3.2 billion and 3.3 billion. After being postponed, it relied on high ratings to form a long-tail effect. In the month after the delay, it took in more than 300 million in box office.

, the final box office reached 3.6 billion, becoming the highest-grossing movie released this year.

There is only December next, and there are no special movie schedules in December.

Popular movies are squeezed into three schedules: Spring Festival, Summer, and National Day. At worst, they will be arranged in the May Day schedule.

A movie scheduled to be released in December will definitely not be a popular movie.

If it were released in December, a movie with a box office of over 3.6 billion would not be a problem if it were put in the Spring Festival period.

Therefore, this kind of thing is simply impossible to happen.

As expected.

After December ended, industry insiders were stunned that "Infernal Affairs" topped the annual box office championship without any suspense.

Originally, according to the predictions of Maoyan APP, "The Law of the Hunt" was the movie that surpassed "The Monster Hunter" and won the annual box office championship.

However, the result was beyond everyone's expectation.

"Infernal Affairs" is the movie that overturned the film market, bucked the trend and won the box office championship this year.

Fang Xing's name was once again pushed to the forefront.

Last year.

"Crazy Stone" won the summer box office championship. At that time, Fang Xing's name was already widely circulated in the film industry.

However, at that time, Fang Xing was only the director, not the starring actor.

For the audience, it is easiest to remember the actors whose faces they can see. As for who the director is, they don’t care that much.

If it is a well-known director who has made many excellent films, the audience may still remember his name.

However, last year Fang Xing was just a new director in the film industry.

Therefore, last year, the audience didn't pay much attention to Fang Xing's name.

This year it's completely different.

"Chen Yongren", the first male lead in "Infernal Affairs" played by Fang Xing.

Liu Han translated and played the second male lead "Liu Jianming".

The two people's rivalry scenes have been edited into various versions of videos by various entertainment UP hosts, and are posted everywhere on short video platforms.

At the celebration party for "Infernal Affairs" box office exceeding 3 billion.

When Fang Xing was being interviewed by a reporter, a question from the reporter accidentally became a hot search topic again.

Reporter: "Fang Xing, did you take Qianqian to the cinema to watch "Infernal Affairs"?"

Fang Xing shook his head: "No."

Reporter: "Why?"

Fang Xing: "Because 'Chen Yongren' died in the end, Qianqian still can't tell the difference between the father in reality and the character in the TV series, so until she can understand, I will try my best to prevent her from seeing similar scenes."

Reporter: "Did you and your wife go to see it?"

Fang Xing nodded and replied, "That's true. Xiaoxiang and I went to the cinema to watch it."

Reporter: "Were there many viewers at that time?"

Fang Xing: "It's okay. It's an afternoon show. It's not full, but it's still half full."

Reporter: “Did you get recognized by the audience?”

Fang Xing: "Probably not. I was wearing a mask at the time, and no audience came up to me to ask for my autograph."

After this interview was posted online.

Some netizens began to use magnifying glasses to investigate when Fang Xing and Lu Xiang'er went to see the movie.

Then, I was really found by netizens.

On October 3, during a 3 pm show at Times Cinema in Donghai Century Building, an audience member took a video, and happened to capture two people wearing masks in a relatively back seat.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If you don’t look carefully, it is actually difficult to tell who the two people in the video are, but after you already know the answer, you can tell them carefully and find that they are indeed very similar.

Moreover, some netizens found out that the clothes Fang Xing was wearing in the video were the same ones he wore during the interview not long ago, which is equivalent to a real beating.

So a new hot search appeared on Weibo:

[Fang Xing and his wife went to the theater to watch a movie secretly without their daughter.]

Under this topic, all netizens are making fun of or complaining about Qian Qian:

[Qianqian: Why don’t you take me with you? My parents are bad. 】

[Fang Xing: Why do I bring you a small light bulb? 】

[Outrageous, Fang Xing actually left his three-year-old daughter at home and ignored him! (dog head.jpg)]

Originally, netizens were joking about this topic.

However, the Internet is a huge forest, and sometimes some weird birds will pop up and start to criticize Fang Xing and Lu Xiang'er for leaving their daughter at home alone, thinking that they are not worthy of being parents.

[A three-year-old child dares to be left alone at home? Can anyone really be a parent now? 】

[What's going on upstairs? You didn't bring the dog head, are you serious?]

[Click on her profile to see what the ingredients are. Maybe she really thinks so.]

[It makes it seem like Qianqian really doesn’t take care of her at home.]

[That’s it, I often leave my son at home with my mother, and then take my wife out to hang out, am I going to be criticized too?]

[Yes, the child will be sent to an orphanage directly.]

Although some very outrageous comments have appeared, most netizens' IQs are still online.

Therefore, these weird remarks will eventually be treated as the butt of jokes and posted on the front page.

…

Time has entered December, and the nomination time for the 43rd Golden Bottle Awards has begun.

The nomination list for the Golden Bottle Awards has arrived as promised, and the list of nominated films participating in the selection has been announced.

As predicted by most film critics, "Infernal Affairs" indeed occupied a large space in the nomination list.

In addition, movies such as "The Law of the Hunt" and "Monster Hunter" were also nominated.
To be continued...