It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1080: The movie was a failure? This is retribution!
"Yesterday Friday, the military-themed blockbuster "Wolf Warrior 2" once again earned 1.5 million yuan at the box office. The current total box office of the film has accumulated 42.87 billion yuan - Maoyan app!"

"On its first day of release, the fantasy film "Zhu Xian", produced by Feiyue Films and starring Hu Ge, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan, Mao Xiaotong and others, earned 1.58 million yuan at the box office.

However, what is puzzling is that although the film has successfully achieved high box office, its reputation has fluctuated violently, and its film review data has shown an extremely huge split trend..."

It's a new day, and everyone in the entire film and television industry has their eyes on the movie "Zhu Xian".

In particular, the film review channels and rating mechanisms of major platforms have attracted the attention, reports, and heated discussions of many netizens and a large number of media!
Yesterday at noon, just as topics such as "Feiyue Films, only producing high-quality products? Haha, ridiculous" and "The myth of high-quality products! Officially shattered" were on the Weibo hot search list, the word-of-mouth score of "Zhu Xian" was soon released.

The score of 4.7 shocked everyone in the film and television industry!
After all, since its inception, Feiyue Films has either directly participated in the investment or co-produced nearly 100 films!
However, looking around, among so many movies, some are box office hits, some are well received by word of mouth, and some win major awards.

This is the first time that a movie like "Zhu Xian" has an opening score of only 4.7 points!
Coupled with the emergence of topics such as "The myth of quality products is shattered", it undoubtedly attracted a large number of people to watch.

At first, everyone thought that this movie was probably "badly made", so it was criticized by marketing accounts and some media.

After all, the data of only 4.5 to 4.7 points on platforms such as Maoyan, Douban, and Tao Piaopiao cannot be faked.

However, when everyone actually clicked in to take a look, they found that something seemed to be wrong.

There are so many people who gave this movie low scores or even one star, and there are so many people who curse and criticize it without any reason, even to the point that it feels very "weird".

Whenever someone posts a good review, a large number of bad reviews will follow, and they will not stop until the good review is overshadowed.

Some netizens may not feel that there is anything wrong. After all, many people are not actually clear about the operations of public relations and water armies.

But as practitioners in the industry, everyone noticed something was wrong in a very short period of time.

A conclusion spread in a very short time, namely: someone hired a large number of internet trolls to discredit "Zhu Xian"!
Giving bad reviews to movies, discrediting the leading actors, guiding public opinion, criticizing the producers... these methods are too routine and too old-fashioned.

At first, everyone was wondering who came up with this operation and why it was so controversial with Feiyue Films.

After a little inquiry, the words "Ali Pictures" appeared in front of everyone.

Considering the fact that "Eternal Love" has exhausted its box office potential, its reputation has plummeted, and the bet between Zhang Wei and Chen Fei, many people instantly figured it out.

This is because Alibaba Pictures was afraid that the box office of "Zhu Xian" would exceed that of "Eternal Love", so they hired a large number of Internet trolls to discredit the other party on the first day of the movie's release, hoping to make its box office suffer a disastrous failure!

After realizing this, everyone suddenly became excited!
Are Feiyue Pictures and Alibaba Pictures in a fight?

This is a big news! Don’t miss it!
You know, both companies are "leading" companies in the industry. Once a war breaks out, the momentum will definitely be huge!

Besides eating melons, maybe you can also fish in troubled waters and make some money from it...

~

Li Li, the chairman of Helichuang, was sitting in the office waiting to eat melons, but suddenly, the mobile phone on the table rang.

He withdrew his eyes from the computer screen, picked up the phone and looked at the caller ID first.

When he saw the words "Wanda-Liu Xiaobin", he quickly pressed the answer button and stood up from his seat.

"Hello? Mr. Liu?"

"Mr. Li, are you busy?"

"I'm fine. What can I do for you?"

"It's like this." Liu Xiaobin said in a deep voice: "Wanda has a lot of free prime-time screenings. I saw that the box office of "Psychological Crime" on the first day was quite good, more than 6000 million, so I plan to use the extra screenings for this movie. You can arrange for the film company to follow up on the promotion in the next few days..."

"Hey! Okay! I'll contact them right away!"

Li Li hung up the phone happily, and then quickly called director Xie Dongyan, asking him to lead Li Yifeng, Liao Fan, Wan Qian, Li Yu and others to do more publicity in the next few days.

After he had given the order, he finally reacted belatedly.

"Huh? That's not right? Why did Wanda allocate the prime time slot to "Psychological Crime"? What about other movies? Don't they need it?"

As he was muttering to himself, he saw the website page automatically refreshed and a brand new media report from the cinema came out.

"The movie version of Eternal Love, the box office plummeted by 1416 million yesterday, closing at only 116 million - Pan Asia Cinemas."

"What the hell? So cruel!"

Li Li jumped up from his seat instantly.

You know, on Thursday, "Eternal Love" still had a box office of more than 1500 million, and the overall screening rate was as high as 18.2%.

But now?

After careful checking, he found that the screening rate of this movie yesterday dropped directly from 18.2% to 1.8%, a sharp drop of 16.4%!

This can no longer be called a flexible adjustment, it is a complete cliff drop!

And if the situation continues in this way, "Eternal Love" may not last more than a week before being forced to be taken off the screen by theaters.

"Hiss!" Li Li sucked in a breath of cold air, his heartbeat speeding up uncontrollably, and he muttered to himself, "Is Alibaba Pictures crazy? Why are they doing all these weird things?

You even hired Internet trolls to discredit them? Now you’re getting your comeuppance, right? Feiyue Films owns the largest cinema chain in the country, and they just killed your movie schedule! Are you dumbfounded now?"

Li Li was muttering to himself, while many senior executives at Alibaba Pictures looked devastated!

Especially the manager of the issuing department, whose face was full of resentment.

Pan Asia Cinemas and Wanda Cinemas cut the screening schedule of "Eternal Love" to the lowest level without any explanation. He went to negotiate, but they just said it was a "flexible adjustment" and ignored him at all.

If this continues, the movie may not even last half a month and will be finished.

He was filled with resentment, but he couldn't express it. After all, these were all orders given by Zhang Qiong himself, which led to the current situation.

"What is the current total box office of Eternal Love?"

Listening to the leader's words, the manager of the issuing department responded in a muffled voice: "It just broke 4.5 million."

Zhang Qi's expression changed for a moment, and he turned to look at the PR manager and asked in a deep voice, "How is the situation with Zhu Xian?"

"After a large number of online trolls posted, the film's reputation and ratings have dropped below the passing line. What can be guaranteed is that all viewers and fans who buy tickets online will definitely carefully consider whether to buy tickets to watch the film after seeing this data..."

Zhang Qi felt relieved: "Okay, keep going, we must not stop. We must make sure that by the end of this Saturday and Sunday, the reputation of this movie will completely collapse!"

"Yes, Mr. Zhang."

You know, the most critical period for a movie is the week before it is released, which is the most crucial period for competing for box office.

As a film released on Friday, the most crucial times are undoubtedly Saturday and Sunday!

If we don’t get high box office within these two days, it will be a pipe dream to continue making money!

The solution Zhang Qie had in mind was to strangle the throat of "Zhu Xian" at this critical moment!

In this way, his opponent's failure will undoubtedly highlight his own success, and at the same time, he will not be considered a loser in this bet.

However, before he could be happy for too long, there was a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly heard outside the office!

The next second, the door was pushed open, and the secretary rushed in with a panicked look on her face. The first thing she said was, "Mr. Zhang, something bad has happened!" Zhang Qi stood up from his office chair and asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"

"A large number of posts suddenly appeared online, saying that we were engaging in malicious competition and deliberately smearing other companies' films. There were pictures and the truth... Some of the leaders of the Internet troll army who spread rumors and slandered the actors were also caught and arrested by the local police..."

"What! How could this happen?"

The panic on Zhang Qi's face has been replaced by confusion.

He has been using the Internet with Ma Yun for so many years, but this is the first time he has heard of a leader of an online troll army that spread rumors being arrested by the police.

How is this possible?
"Take a quick look at the public opinion on the Internet. It's out of control..."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qi immediately moved the mouse and opened Weibo.

Looking around, the first item on the hot search list is - "An apology letter to the movie "Zhu Xian"!"

The content was over a thousand words long, but Zhang Qi did not read it all. Instead, he picked out the key points and looked through them.

The publisher of the apology letter is a man who calls himself the "head of the Internet troll army". He said that he has dozens of QQ group chats under him, all of which are filled with "idle people on the Internet."

After receiving the task of "slandering the movie "Zhu Xian"", he immediately spread the task to the group chat, and used his netizens to spread pre-compiled negative reviews on a large scale online, and gave the movie low scores on major rating websites. At the same time, he made personal attacks and deliberately slandered several leading actors in the film.

After being arrested, he deeply felt the wrongness of his actions and immediately wrote this apology letter and posted it online.

When he saw this, Zhang Qi's face had become so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping out of it.

What made him despair was that there was not just one apology letter, but more and more of them appeared...

Moreover, those who issued the apology letters were not only the leaders of the water army from all over the country, but also some film critics, marketing accounts, media, entertainment newspaper screenwriters and many other Internet practitioners!
However, in just ten minutes, all the reports about "Zhu Xian" and negative reviews of Feiyue Films on Weibo's hot search list had disappeared, and were replaced by a large number of apology letters and even apology videos recorded by the rumor mongers themselves.

Seeing this, Zhang Qi turned his head in confusion and stared at the public relations manager.

He almost roared, "I want to ask you, how were these people discovered?"

"It doesn't make sense? It shouldn't be like this? How is this possible?"

The public relations manager scratched his head and pondered for a long time, when suddenly an idea flashed in his mind!
"I know! I know!"

After attracting everyone's attention in the office, he said decisively: "Every Weibo, Tieba, Maoyan, and Douyin platform user's background actually has an IP address serial number. It is very easy for the platform to locate its location through this IP...

But! This behavior is illegal! If there is no user consent, this is the platform violating the user's privacy rights! It is absolutely not allowed!

Therefore, Feiyue Films' operation of locking the location of the marketing account by locating the IP is illegal. They are finished. Netizens' public opinion will definitely overwhelm them! Hahahaha..."

The laughter was loud at first, but suddenly it stopped.

The PR manager looked at the people around him with a bewildered look on his face, who were looking at him like a fool, and subconsciously asked, "Why...why are you looking at me like that?"

The distribution manager who was also in the office put down his phone and sighed: "Take a look at the latest reports online. The production team of Zhu Xian and all the actors who were defamed by the Internet trolls have called the police.

All the major platforms were very cooperative and opened up some of their database permissions to the police, which successfully pinpointed the locations of those rumor mongers.”

"What? How is this possible? How can the platform open up data with just a few words? It requires a lot of procedures and permissions!"

"So what if the bosses of these actors who were defamed and slandered are also major shareholders of major platforms?"

Upon hearing this, the public relations manager was struck by lightning!

He quickly took out his mobile phone and looked around, and saw a very "fantasy, magical, and dream-like" scene appeared on the Internet!

Tik Tok, Kuaishou, Weibo, Tieba, Toutiao, QQ, Douban, Maoyan, these platforms that usually compete with each other and almost beat their brains out, have actually cooperated and launched a "Clean Internet Operation" in conjunction with the police.

Those behaviors and operations that spread rumors, disrupted public order, disseminated false information, and caused defamation have all been cleaned up.

When detention, fines, control, and criminal detention are all used, those "black rats" who live on the Internet and never dare to see the light of day are like they have met a cat, and they become incredibly well-behaved!
After seeing this, the PR manager immediately understood that the smear campaign, rumor-mongering, and negative review campaign against "Zhu Xian" had been a complete failure.

Moreover, these actions have made the popularity of "Zhu Xian" soar! And it also indirectly verifies the quality and success of this movie.

After all, how could a bad movie be subjected to so many vicious attacks and smears from competitors?

And the most important thing is that as the mastermind behind the scenes, Alibaba Pictures will also suffer together.

Last time, because of helping "No Other Love" and Daley Ren to get away with crimes, the higher-ups had already warned Alibaba Pictures once, and also forced them to sell more than half of their Weibo shares, causing them to lose a lot of their online voice.

Now, in the matter of "Zhu Xian", they used the same old tricks again and were caught once again!
There is no need to guess, they will definitely not be able to escape easily this time!
"Jingle Bell!"

A shrill telephone ring suddenly rang out. Zhang Qi picked up the phone and his face suddenly changed.

He pressed the answer button tremblingly, suppressed his fear, and asked, "Hello? Mr. Ma?"

"You are in the company, right?"

In the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga", Ma Yun was holding a mobile phone, and the staff around her stayed far away and did not dare to get close at all, just because the strong aura and cold atmosphere made everyone very uncomfortable!
"I'm here... I'm here..." Zhang Qiong responded repeatedly.

Without waiting for him to say anything else, Ma Yun gave a firm order: "Then you just wait in the company. Fan Luyuan, president of the Alipay business group of Ant Financial Group, will come to your office in half an hour. You can hand over your work to him."

"Mr. Ma..."

Zhang Qi wanted to say something, but the phone was hung up.

Hearing the busy tone coming from inside, his right hand fell down weakly, his face full of despair and confusion.

Apparently, because of his failures again and again, he was officially removed from his position!

……

This Saturday and Sunday went by very quickly.

By August 8th, many films that had attracted much attention during the summer vacation had once again achieved new gains and achievements in their box office performance!
"18 days after its release! The top military-themed blockbuster "Wolf Warrior 2" produced by Feiyue Films has grossed a total of 47.04 billion yuan at the box office!"

"As of today, a new box office record has been set in the history of Chinese-language films! With a box office of 2 billion, Wolf Warriors 47.04 has successfully surpassed Operation Red Sea's 46.58 billion, and topped the Chinese-language film box office rankings!"

"The fantasy film "Zhu Xian", produced by Feiyue Films and starring Hu Ge, Liu Shishi, Tang Yan and Mao Xiaotong, grossed a total of 3 million yuan in box office in three days."

"The fantasy romance film Eternal Love, which was produced by Alibaba Pictures and directed by Zhao Xiaoding, has been forced to be withdrawn from theaters due to exhaustion of its box office potential.

The film was released for 11 days, with a total box office of 4.57 million RMB and a net loss of 1.5 million RMB! "

The entire film and television industry, entertainment industry, and even the entire Internet were shocked today!
"Wolf Warrior 2" broke a new box office record in the history of Chinese-language films, "Zhu Xian" earned 5.2 million in three days, and "Eternal Love" was forced to be withdrawn after 11 days of release...

This situation is full of "drama", and netizens are so excited that they can't suppress their desire to "eat melons"!

Many people immediately went to the official website and blog of Alibaba Pictures. There were no other random comments. Looking around, there was only one sentence:

"You lost the bet? Come on, stand up and admit defeat like a man!"

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