At 6 p.m. on the 2nd, the box office of "Crossfire: Operation Mekong" has exceeded 100 million yuan, and another 15 million has been collected in the past hour.

By now, most people are convinced that the box office of this movie on the first day will not be less than 150 million.

However, in addition to Tengxun News, other media only hastily reported the news that "Crossfire: Operation Mekong" had a box office of over 100 million.

Most media reporters came to the Huairou Film and Television Base in Huairou District.

Of course, coming here is not a class to explore a certain crew, and at this time, there is no crew worthy of reporters to put down the box office hit "Crossfire: Operation Mekong" to visit the class.

Today, the official premiere of the suspenseful adventure film "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Looking for the Dragon" directed by Li Mu.

The premiere location was not placed in the cinema and gymnasium as usual, and this time Li Mu did a new trick and held the premiere directly in the studio.

This is not the kind of small studio with only a few tens of square meters, and the premiere site that has now been set up was the largest studio in Asia, covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters.

In order to achieve the most ideal effect, this huge 5,000-square-meter studio was used to set up one of the grandest scenes in the movie, which was the underground palace including the Ghost Gate Pass, the Nai He Bridge, and the Lethe River.

It took thousands of people a whole month to build this huge studio of more than 5,000 square meters, which is the most expensive project in the movie "Looking for the Dragon".

Originally, this scene could have been made by computer in post-production, or like many movies with a three-dimensional artificial set, with dim lighting.

This is also a common trick used by many small companies, just like many painting masters draw a realistic sewer on the road, and if you don't look closely, you will think it is real and detour.

This is also common in many low-budget movies and TV series, and most of the grand scenes in it are almost like this, although after post-retouching, by adjusting the lighting, lens, angle and other methods to make the background board appear more realistic.

In the seventies and eighties of the last century, the Shaw Brothers Film Company, which dominated the entire Southeast Asian film market, and TVB and TVB made films like this.

At that time, there was little and expensive land in Xiangjiang, and it was impossible for the film company to buy a piece of land specifically to make a film and television city, even if it was rented, it could not be paid.

At that time, the backgrounds in many film and television dramas were improvised simple buildings, or simply artificial sets, and there were very few on-site shootings.

However, fake is fake after all, no matter how you deal with it in the later stage, there are still flaws on the big screen of hundreds of square meters.

The premiere in the studio is not a last resort, and now the film schedule is lower than expected, and if the box office in the first two days is not ideal, the theater chain will inevitably adjust the film schedule again.

Eight days later, Ofune was released, although the two films are not of the same genre, but Ofuna's audience is still mainly young people, which is still in conflict with "Looking for the Dragon".

In order to attract the box office, Li Mu decided to hold a premiere ceremony in the studio.

However, it is impossible to place 20,000 seats like the gymnasium, after all, this is a built scene, and although the quality is excellent, it can only accommodate about 500 spectators at most.

In the past few days, Li Mu has sent all the employees in the company who have no filming tasks to set up the scene, and the IMAX giant screen and projection equipment borrowed from a movie theater in Berner have also been installed.

Looking at the time, it was already half past six, and it was estimated that there were already spectators and media present, Li Mu said hello to the people at the base, and was ready to start checking in and entering the venue.

At this time, there was a Ming and Qing dynasty building not far from the studio, and there were already many people waiting there.

August is the hottest time of the year, even in the northern part of the capital, where temperatures exceed 30 degrees Celsius even in the evening.

The temperature is high and there are no seats, and a group of people will inevitably complain after standing there for a long time.

And a large number of reporters who arrived one after another around were also talking there.

"What the hell do you think Li Mu is doing this time, it actually premiered in the studio, can so many people sit down?" A young reporter glanced at the more than 200 spectators gathered there.

The general studio is only a few tens of square meters, and it is impossible to accommodate so many audiences, and now more than 200 people have come before the premiere has started, and it is estimated that there are at least four or five hundred tickets sent out for this premiere.

"I can't fit such a big screen in the studio, do you have to sit separately, dozens of people sit in one room?"

"Hehe, you don't know this, I heard that Li Mu used the largest studio in the base for this shooting, and it's no problem to sit a few hundred people!" said a well-informed reporter.

As soon as he said this, someone immediately reacted and exclaimed, "Could it be the 5,000-square-meter studio that claims to be the largest studio in Asia!"

"That's right!" said the man.

Li Mu basically isolated the reporter for the sake of secrecy when he was filming at the base, and the personnel at the base were also required not to leak the news of the shooting, so the reporter didn't know anything about it, and now when he heard that this person had exclusive news, they all stared at him with bright eyes.

"This big brother doesn't know which company it is, and he even knows the news!"

"Yes, yes, to get such exclusive news must not be comparable to a small newspaper like us!"

"Big brother, do you have any other news to share, do you have any photos or something?"

......

Faced with the praise of the reporters around him, the young reporter was a little proud, and inadvertently turned the portable microphone in his hand over, revealing the penguin logo on it.

It turned out to be a reporter from Tengxun News, no wonder there was exclusive news, and everyone thought in their hearts and continued to tout.

One was intentional and the other was unintentional, and under the interrogation of these elites, the young reporters of Tengxun told the news they knew one by one.

Time passed slowly, and at nearly seven o'clock, the audience who came to the premiere was basically there.

In addition to journalists and spectators, only some industry peers entered at a separate entrance.

As for the stars, only a dozen or so people who have worked together a few times and have a good relationship have been invited, and it is not easy to do any red carpet in the base, so it is useless to invite so many celebrities.

And the focus of this premiere is the underground palace as an auditorium, which is the biggest gimmick, and nothing else matters.

At half past six, the audience who arrived at the base first had been waiting for more than half an hour, and even the most loyal fans gradually lost their patience.

In addition, the tourists who came to the base to play and visit the class gathered around and pointed around, which made them even more irritable.

However, at this time, the base staff who were maintaining order received a phone call informing him to organize the audience to enter the venue, and the fans pressed their inner restlessness and began to look forward to this special premiere.