hollywood melon man

Chapter 531 A world of difference
Of course, there is also good news. On the search list of banana's competitor Google, "Kingdom of Heaven" also ranked second in hot searches.

The second most searched topic is still about Orlando Bloom. The hot search term is about Orlando Bloom's appearance, saying that fans were conquered by Orlando Bloom's handsome face after watching the movie.

From this perspective, this Google hot search term seems to have the same look as the hot search terms on the Weibo and Baidu search lists in the past.

In fact, they are exactly the same. This is the latest trending search model launched by Google Search in order to make profits.

Of course, this kind of buying of hot searches is an unspoken rule, and most people don’t talk about it.

As for why Google was able to come up with this thing, it actually has something to do with bananas.

You have to know that in the original history, if there was no banana, the largest search engine website in the United States would be Google.

But now it’s different, banana has taken the largest market share, Google can only share some with other search engine sites.

But this was unacceptable to Google, so in addition to copying the banana model, they also created a hot search algorithm, which attracted a lot of customers with their own high website traffic.

At least many Hollywood stars who need popularity have realized the role of buying charts and paid a lot of money to Google.

After this model comes out, Banana will immediately copy it and use it for itself. With Banana’s size, Google’s ranking-buying market will be squeezed out immediately.

But this behavior was stopped by Gilbert Jr. In his words, if we want to be an Internet company with a conscience, the list must have real data.

In fact, the deeper reason is to maintain the website's style of telling the truth, at least to make netizens believe that the information on banana is true.

As for why netizens think it is real, Gilbert Jr. has not yet figured out its purpose, but he thinks it will be useful in the future.

Back to the movies, the two films are also very different in terms of audience reputation.

The results of theater survey data show that the audience approval rating of "Batman Begins" is 85%, with an average score of A-.

The audience approval rating for "Kingdom of Heaven" is only 53%, with an average score of c, which is far inferior to "Batman Begins".

The gap between the two films is multifaceted, which is why the outcome of the first-day box office is clear.

"Batman Begins" opened in 3600 theaters and took in $2354.8 million, a pretty good first-day total, and unsurprisingly won the first-day box office championship.

"Kingdom of Heaven" opened in 3860 theaters and grossed $867 million, an unbelievably low box office.

But the bloody facts were placed on the table of the top executives of 20th Century Fox, and even the most confident executives had to admit that there was a huge gap between the two films.

Although it was already early Saturday morning, the conference room at 20th Century Fox in Century City was still filled with smoke and the atmosphere was silent.

Ridley Scott sat at the end of the conference table, observing the reactions of Fox Film executives. Seeing that most of the executives did not seem very dejected, he sneered in his heart.

He knew why the top executives at Fox Film had this reaction, because the main source of funds for the production of "Kingdom of Heaven" came from several film funds on Wall Street, and Fox Film's investment was the least.

Therefore, Fox Films did not put much effort into the promotion of "Kingdom of Heaven" and seemed very perfunctory.

But when it comes to film production, they were meddling and interfering with the production, causing the film to become unrecognizable and laying the groundwork for today's failure.

What made Ridley Scott even more angry was that he lost to a junior, to young Gilbert, in such a humiliating way.

Now when everyone talks about epic movies, they always think of Gilbert Jr. and his "The Lord of the Rings", and completely forget about his own Gladiator. Ridley Scott thinks this is unfair.

Compared to Ridley Scott's idea, Fox's top management had a much simpler idea. Scott, the head of the distribution department, suggested to CEO Rodman: "The box office performance on the first day was not good. I suggest reducing the investment in resources for Kingdom of Heaven."

Rodman did not make a hasty decision, but asked, "What did the theater chain say?" Scott replied, "The theater chain said that starting tomorrow, he will follow the contract and reduce the number of theaters showing the film."

Rodman nodded. Once the number of screenings began to decrease, there would be no need to rescue this film.

Fortunately, Fox Films robbed a sum of money from the Wall Street Film Fund, which covered its capital and caused almost no losses, so it stopped struggling.

But Ridley Scott disagreed. He said: "We can do some work for the theaters, at least we have to ensure the scheduling of the films!"

“How to do it?” Scott said in a bad tone, as if Ridley Scott was one of those young directors who had just entered the industry and was being manipulated by him at will: “Didn’t you see that the theater chain conducted a survey on audience reputation?

How can we win the support of theaters when the reputation is so bad now? "

"This..." Ridley Scott finally understood that Scott, who had the same name as him, was putting all the blame on himself.

Ridley Scott suddenly felt suffocated and didn't want to talk anymore.

If he had read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he would probably say the same thing as Cao Cao: "I am not worthy of being your advisor!"

In just a few words, the fate of "Kingdom of Heaven" was decided.

Inside the Cantaloupe studio, everyone was also very happy to learn about the first day's box office results. Ivanka looked at Gilbert with admiration for the director and said, "We won, and it was easy."

"Of course," Gilbert Jr. took the tea made by Ishihara Satomi and continued, "From the premiere to the midnight show, and then to the word-of-mouth spread throughout the day, it was natural for us to win."

Cameron Diaz also lamented: "Yeah, I didn't expect that we would win so easily. I thought it would be a tough battle!"

Little Gilbert turned to Ishihara Satomi and asked, "Satomi, which movie do you think is good?"

"I haven't been there yet," Ishihara Satomi replied, "but I know your movies must be the best. My sisters all say so."

"Hahaha, okay, I'll take you to the movies tomorrow, quietly." Little Gilbert said.

"Yeah!"

Satomi Ishihara has not gone to the movies with Gilbert Jr. alone. Does that count as a date? Probably!

Warner, due to the outstanding performance of "Batman Begins", has begun comprehensive public relations with theaters, at least to increase the number of screenings of the film.

The theaters are naturally not fools. Theaters led by Emperor Cinemas and AMG Cinemas have begun to reduce the screenings of "Kingdom of Heaven".

All these reduced screenings were eventually added to "Batman Begins".

On Saturday, the busiest day, Batman Begins had one or two more screenings per day, which was reflected in the box office, which earned $2733.4 million on Saturday.

However, its rival "Kingdom of Heaven" saw a decline in box office performance on Saturday, earning only 527 million US dollars, which can basically be said to be hopeless.

The hottest Saturday schedule is like this, not to mention Sunday.

The screening schedule of "Kingdom of Heaven" continues to be cut, with 20 percent of the screenings already cut.

Of course, it is impossible to give all these screenings to "Batman Begins", so other films also benefited and received a lot of screenings.

This is the cruelty of the film market. If a film does not work, it will be abandoned immediately, even if it is a film by Gilbert Jr.

(End of this chapter)