Over 40 days since its release, the revenue-sharing box office has exceeded ten million. iQIYI, Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A (IQ.US) "Soul Ferry" series AI feature film continues to be a hit.

On October 3, the cumulative revenue-sharing box office of the "Soul Ferry" "Floating Life Dreams" series of AIGC online story films, produced by iQIYI, Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A (IQ.US) and Changxin Media, officially exceeded 10 million yuan! The first two films in the series, "Soul Ferry: Butterfly Dream" and "Soul Ferry: Dream of the Heavenly Maiden," were exclusively launched on iQIYI, Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A on August 22 and were widely loved by audiences. Within the first week of release, they recouped the production costs of both films, and in the first month, their cumulative revenue-sharing box office exceeded 8 million yuan. As the third film, "Soul Ferry: Dream of the Princess," launched on October 1, the series' popularity rose further, driving continued growth in both film buzz and revenue-sharing box office. As of October 3, the cumulative revenue-sharing box office of the "Floating Life Dreams" series exceeded 10 million yuan. As a new serialized online story film development of the classic IP "Soul Ferry," the "Floating Life Dreams" series continues the original work's creative core of Chinese-style supernatural tales, using ghosts and monsters to write about the human heart, and further expands the characters' backstories and the IP worldview through new stories. The three works enter from different stories and gradually reveal the past lives and destinies of the "Soul Ferry Iron Triangle" - Zhao Li, Xia Dongqing, and Ya. "Soul Ferry: Butterfly Dream" unfolds around the Eastern philosophical imagery of Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly; "Soul Ferry: Dream of the Heavenly Maiden" explores fateful choices and the true meaning of life through multiple layers of dreams; "Soul Ferry: Dream of the Princess" uses a bizarre case to draw out a century-old vigil and obsession, and the story of the three soul ferriers continues to unfold from there. Since its launch, the "Soul Ferry" "Floating Life Dreams" series has continued to attract audience attention and praise. On social platforms, many new and old fans have discussed plot details, character backstories, and series foreshadowing. The audience's emotional resonance with classic characters, as well as their anticipation for subsequent stories, has also continued to drive the popularity of this series of online story films. The continuous release of the "Soul Ferry" "Floating Life Dreams" series also demonstrates the application potential of AIGC technology in content development for classic IP. On the one hand, relying on AIGC production methods, the works can present scenes with high visual imagination, such as fantasy and supernatural tales, in a more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective way, expanding new visual expression for classic IP. On the other hand, through the creative method of "AI technology + live-action performance transfer," the works can break through limitations such as character age and linear time, allowing classic characters to enter new stories and narrative time-spaces, giving IP serialized extension more possibilities. At the same time, during the production of the three works, nearly 500 character assets, nearly 800 scene assets, and nearly 200 core prop assets were accumulated. These digital assets can be reused in subsequent content development, further improving the production efficiency and production flexibility of IP development while maintaining consistency in character appearance and performance style. On September 23, at the iQIYI, Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A iJOY Autumn Enjoyment Conference, Gong Yu, founder and CEO of iQIYI, Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A, said that over the past three or four months, AI has begun to be applied "explosively" in live-action content, significantly improving audiovisual experience, shortening production cycles, and reducing costs. He also emphasized that AI is a bonus for content, not a tool for building assembly lines or producing industrialized, standardized products, and that content quality must not be sacrificed. Judging from the audience reputation and commercial performance of the "Soul Ferry" "Floating Life Dreams" series, these works have indeed achieved expanding the boundaries of expression with AI technology and responding to audience expectations with quality storytelling. They fully demonstrate the application value of AIGC in production efficiency, digital asset accumulation, and commercial returns, and also provide a reference path for AIGC film and television content to move from technical exploration to serialized quality creation and achieve commercial returns.