my gilded age

Chapter 246 Lunar New Year Battlefield, Alexander

The overall box office situation in our country in 2005 is still good, but there is still a lack of a super blockbuster, and there are no films with over [-] million yuan. Of course, if we count the release at the end of last year, "The World" was quite popular at the beginning of this year. "No Thieves", then over [-] million can be said to be available.

"The Promise" shoulders this mission. There is no doubt that this blockbuster is highly anticipated. All means have been used before, and various publicity methods have been tried. There are even some very arrogant means, such as the one in Cannes. Sometimes, he simply walked away and looked superior.

The latest news is that the investment in this drama has exceeded 3 million.

Director Chen is not making a movie here, he is just burning bundles of money.

But when it comes to the money, there is also some question about who provided the capital behind it. This is indeed quite messy, with more than 3 million yuan, and Director Chen’s original backer Xu Feng really can’t invest anymore. Besides, This is the time when people are making a lot of money from real estate. The former golf course and now Tomson First Class are about to be sold. Who would participate in this money-losing movie business?

There are rumors that funds from island countries are the main force, which is almost certain. In addition, South Korea is also indispensable. After all, a Korean big shot will be the leading actor in the future.

Obviously, this movie has great ambitions and is targeting the global market. At least in East Asia, island countries and South Korea will definitely be included.

The Lunar New Year holiday is here, and the publicity for this blockbuster has reached its final stage, which is the most ferocious, almost carpet-bombing stage. But unexpectedly, something unexpected happened.

There are a lot of people online who don't seem to care much.

"Let me tell you, the ape father-in-law played by Bao Qiang is quite naive when Ah Qing plucks his beard, but have you ever thought about the origin of this white ape?"

"Well... I thought you were asking questions about humans and beasts."

"Don't be crooked. We are discussing more serious myths and legends. I have heard about the white ape. It seems that this white ape is unusual. Its hands, feet and face are all red. When this thing appears, it means that there is something wrong. The disaster of war occurs.”

"Is it true or false? Isn't it too mythical? Is there any basis for it?"

Many netizens are still discussing "Yue Nv Sword" at this time. That's right, "Yue Nv Sword" is still in the second round, and at the end of the show, Fan Li and Xi Shi change boats to tell the story behind the ending. , a subtitle appeared, which contained some legends about "Yue Nu Sword".

"After the king of Yue ruled Jiangdong, he missed Xuannv's previous achievements and sent envoys to search for her, but there was no trace. He built a fairy temple on Nanshan and sacrificed it every year."

"There is another legend that the Xuannv of the Nine Heavens was traveling to the land of Yunmeng. She saw a white cloud cave in the mountain, where the fairy spirit was lingering, so she went to take a rest. The white ape in the cave transformed into Duke Yuan, worshiped the Xuannv devoutly, and picked flowers and offered fruits all day long. , and enshrined him. Xuannv saw that he was cautious and cultivated the Tao, so she taught him all the sword skills. After he succeeded, he took the white ape to the heaven to meet Tianyan. The Jade Emperor was very happy to see him, and he named Yuan Gong the Lord of Baiyundong. He is in charge of Jiutian Secretary."

"Some people even speculated that A Qing was Xuannv, and the white ape was Zhu Yan, the ancient ferocious beast. There were many legends. Later, many contemporary novelists became interested in them and created the book "Yue Nv Sword" based on this."

This was the last subtitle that appeared, and when the subtitle came out, the audience thought it was funny when they saw it.

This is how Master Jin's novel was written, which caused a lot of heated complaints. But not long after, the trend changed. After "Yue Nv Sword" was broadcast, it was Master Jin's work. Naturally, I wanted to ask Master Jin for his opinion. , Master Jin finally said something.

"Qiuzai is really my close friend."

Just such a sentence, still very old-fashioned, the old man just laughed after he finished speaking, is there any more.

Now it’s interesting. The sentimental Bai Shiqiu has understood Master Jin’s meaning. Now look at the last subtitle. Is this really how the book was written?
Ever since, everyone started to study it. Besides, Bao Qiang had already gained a lot of fans because of his role as the ape father-in-law, which only increased the popularity.

In fact, this is all to better hide the core.

But netizens' attention is now focused on these things. Generally speaking, it is still around the popular drama "Yue Nv Sword", which makes the promoters of "The Promise" feel a little uncomfortable.

With an investment of 3.4 million yuan, a lot of it has been spent on publicity. Now that we are seeing a critical moment, why can't it gain popularity?

And there is another thing, that is, a Red Star movie, "Chow Tai Sin" that the third master was optimistic about before, will be released on the last day of this year.

There is also "The Great Sage" between "The Promise" and "Chow Daxian", and before that there was a film by Lao Mouzi, "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles". Fortunately, this is a literary film , this year Lao Mouzi did not really fight on the battlefield during the Lunar New Year period.

It looked very peaceful, but the smell of gunpowder smoke was very strong.

On December 12, "The Promise" was the first to be released on a large scale.

This film was screened on the 14th. This screening was very interesting. The time was very close. Usually, screenings are done to listen to the audience’s response and see how the reputation is, but this film was screened on the 14th. Screening, which means no time for response at all, will be scheduled on a large scale on the 15th. Obviously there is something going on.

I guess the theater chain knew something was wrong with the film, so they decided to take action like this. Anyway, your investor Xuanfa has done a good job and will definitely be able to trick movie fans into watching it in the early stages.For such a blockbuster film, our theater chain can just get the money back.

The scale of the screening was very large, and it immediately broke the domestic box office record of 800 million, and this large-scale screening also immediately broke the record for midnight screenings. The previous record was set by "Kung Fu".

On the first day, it exceeded 2000 million, which even broke the first-day box office of "Titanic".

In other words, "The Promise" had a great start. Director Chen, all the main creators, and the management behind it, as well as people from the island country of Korea, were very happy. But at this time, an article appeared on the Internet article.

"The biggest scam in "The Promise"!"

The title is very horrifying, and the content inside is even more horrifying. First of all, let's just say that "The Promise" is a super bad movie. The badness of this movie is not just quoted from the fans who have watched the movie in the past two days online. Instead of making complaints, it attracted some foreign comments. This movie was actually shown abroad, such as Cannes. Although it did not have an opening film, some experts have watched it.

Several experts in France directly gave it to Black Star, because this thing is too... I won’t talk about it.

Later, he said that the film's box office was fraudulent. To put it bluntly, how could such a film with a black star rating break the box office record of "Titanic"?
Moreover, he also pointed out that this weird screening time arrangement is obviously meant to deceive everyone and let movie fans enter the cinema, which is simply a money scam.

This article is so sharp. You can tell at a glance that it was written by someone in the industry. Otherwise, it would be impossible to obtain this information. However, this article is not very popular at the moment. Some people have read it, especially movie fans who have been fooled. Of course It's a few words of agreement, it's fun and enjoyable, but it's not hot yet.

On the 17th, the box office of "The Promise" was very impressive, reaching 2500 million in a single day.

This is a record, and it is a super record at the moment, crushing the 2200 million of "Kung Fu" in one fell swoop.

However, something interesting happened.

"Fuck! What kind of bad movie is this!"

"Do you understand?" "Well... I saw Cecilia and said, do you want to see what I'm wearing underneath?"

"I'm going to fucking scold! A Korean, a Japanese, said there, where are you from? Don't you fucking know?"

"I don't understand at all, why don't you use dubbing?"

Countless complaints, countless scolding posts, because it has exceeded 2500 million, even if there is water, it means that many people have gone to the cinema and spent money. This movie has just been released, movie tickets are not cheap, and everyone has a feeling of being deceived. a feeling of.

Can you not scold?
Immediately, that article became popular. When everyone took a look, it turned out that there had been such an article for a long time. If I had known about this article, I wouldn’t have been fooled.

Almost instantly, the Internet exploded. This article was reprinted everywhere, and people scolded it and said they were cheated.

In this case, there was a huge reversal.

This is what everyone used to ask when they met.

"Have you watched "The Promise"?"

Now everyone has met.

"You weren't tricked into entering the cinema, were you?"

The Northeastern version is, "You weren't fooled, were you?"

Starting from the 18th, the box office of "The Promise" began to plummet. It was 2500 million before, but it was only over 1000 million, and even less after that.

Bai Shiqiu probably did this article and this method by Jiang Zhiqiang, but Bai Shiqiu knew in his heart that Jiang Zhiqiang did this not necessarily for him. Bai Shiqiu, the market is so big now, and the competition is very fierce. Without Jiang Zhiqiang, he would have done it. There is "The Murderous Case of a Steamed Bun". Of course, it is not certain whether it was done by a competitor.

At least "The Great Sage" and "Riding Alone" have considerable interests in Jiang Zhiqiang. It would be strange if they didn't take action.

But this also gives us Red Star a chance.

"Chow Tai Sin" has been screened before. In the Red Star base area, the current screening arrangement is to have a premiere on December 12, and then a large-scale release in the early morning of December 30.

This arrangement is quite reasonable, and since this drama was screened very early, many people seemed to have forgotten about it, but they finally remembered it at this time.

The famous film critic Jiang Xiaoyu is here again this time.

"The failure of "The Promise" is regrettable, and "Chow Tai Sin" is the most sincere film I have seen in recent years. I hope it can save this year's Lunar New Year film..."

The word "rescue" was used well. Bai Shiqiu wanted to give him a reward after reading it, but he was indeed not one of our sailors.

Of course, the time has come and our naval forces can no longer hibernate.

"Is "Chow Tai Sin" really interesting? Why don't I want to watch it when I hear the name?"

"What are you afraid of? It's easy to make a living by relying on your reputation. Maybe it will be a good movie."

"That's it! Just watch the introduction of this film."

"The protagonist Baek Shi Qiu is the Best Actor at Cannes!"

"This is still produced by Red Star Film and Television. At least until now, this company has not let us down!"

The direction of the wind is really easy to control. It is so easy, especially when there is a shining ID among them, which is called "Bai Shiqiu's Little Fan Girl". Well, the little fan girl has come out again and keeps posting on the Internet. All kinds of nonsense.

Bai Shiqiu looked at the post posted by this 'little fan girl'. Her advocacy was too obvious, and it was really a bit immature. However, she also knew that this was a sign of good intentions, so she didn't say much.

Before "Chow Tai Sin" was released, this movie became a hot spot on the Internet, and even alarmed traditional media, which broadcast some trailers one after another.

In fact, this is also a normal behavior. The previous "Yue Nv Sword" trend has not passed yet. Let's take another look at the starring role of "Chow Daxian".

Bai Shiqiu, Acridine, Bao Qiang, Huang Bo, Jingdong, Gu Zhixin, Zhang Xiaodai...etc., these are all newly popular, especially Acridine. Many of her fans have said that this drama To read at least three times.

The premiere on the 30th, the midnight show on the 31st, the result...

Not out yet.

But this is not a problem at all. Bai Shiqiu is now facing a huge problem.

Hong Kong, Four Seasons Hotel.

"Sorry, Mr. Bai, we only have one room left in our hotel. I'm really sorry."

Bai Shiqiu listened to what the front desk said, and then looked at the acridine next to him...

Alexander.

　Thank you everyone, so what, black car please support me, thank you very much...

　　Don't worry about this, everyone, let the black cars come slowly. Don't be in a hurry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)