Chinese entertainment industry in disarray? Hollywood goddess welcomes strict father!

Elizabeth Olsen's protest, aside from eliciting laughter from the audience, served no purpose whatsoever.

Because the male protagonist Xu Wenqiang in the movie publicly killed the police chief of the Shanghai International Settlement, he had no chance of returning to Shanghai and could no longer contact his foreign girlfriend, played by her.

The appearance of Scarlett Johansson perfectly replaced her, and the two quickly entered into marriage and became husband and wife.

The male protagonist has clearly settled in Hong Kong and has lived there ever since, and the two have begun to enjoy married life.

Meanwhile, a full-scale gang war broke out in Shanghai, resulting in a series of violent vendettas!

Unfortunately, Huang Xiaoming's character, the domineering eldest brother of the Xu family, was enraged by the domestic violence his younger sister, played by Li Lin, suffered at the hands of her husband. In a fit of rage, he led a group of men to beat up his brother-in-law in the street. Harboring resentment, the brother-in-law secretly colluded with a rival gang. After returning home, he beat up the pregnant younger sister of the Xu family again. This was used to set up an ambush, luring the impulsive and domineering eldest brother of the Xu family out of the heavily guarded old Xu family mansion, where he was shot dead by machine gun fire on the way.

The tragic death of the eldest brother of the Xu family was just a signal. The hostile forces even went to Hong Kong and planted a bomb in the protagonist's car, causing the newlywed wife, played by Scarlett Johansson, to be blown to pieces on the spot. Although the protagonist escaped by chance, he was left with only the thought of returning to Shanghai for revenge.

The old master of the Xu family was still recovering from his gunshot wound and had lost his eldest son. His second son was too slick and incompetent to take on the responsibility. In order to protect the family, he had no choice but to compromise and take the initiative to make peace with the major families in Shanghai. He gave up part of the family's territory in exchange for a pardon and brought his youngest son, Xu Wenqiang, back from Hong Kong to inherit the family business.

The much-anticipated revenge plot was about to begin, and the audience in the hall were completely engrossed, not even noticing that two hours had already passed!

Ok.

A movie, including the opening and closing credits, is usually around an hour and a half long, with some being up to two hours.

Only a very small number of blockbusters dare to extend their runtime to more than two hours, since keeping moviegoers sitting still for two hours is a real test of their patience.

Moreover, cinema scheduling is also a problem. Cinemas can screen shorter films more often and thus earn more box office revenue. If a film is longer than two hours, a day will be gone after only a few screenings, which will purely delay box office profits.

But today's "Shanghai Bund" is undoubtedly an exception. The original "Godfather" was 175 minutes long, and Lu Lin's adaptation into a Chinese-language film added another five minutes, making it a full 180 minutes and three hours.

The most obvious contrast is that at the Dolby Theatre, which is not far away, the premiere of Martin Scorsese's film had already ended, and even the Q&A session after the screening was over. After the media and film critics left the Dolby Theatre, they found that the China Theatre was still quiet, and even the security guards at the door were nowhere to be seen.

The scene was incredibly bizarre!

"Young man, when did the premiere at the China Theatre next door end?"

In the ballroom on the top floor of the Dolby Theatre, Martin Scorsese was about to relax with the film crew over a drink when he inadvertently noticed the eerie silence in front of the China Theatre not far away through the panoramic glass window. He grabbed a waiter serving drinks and asked, "Or is it not over yet?"

The waiter shook his head and explained, "I haven't seen any people leaving yet; it seems like it's not over yet."

Martin paused for a moment, then exchanged a glance with De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio beside him, and all three of them gradually frowned.

The fact that premieres often take a long time usually indicates that the film is of excellent quality. The Q&A session after the screening is also a result of the media and film critics asking questions enthusiastically, which causes the screening to drag on indefinitely.

This is really not a good thing for their new movie!

"Let me search..."

Leonardo DiCaprio, being a young man, was still quite quick-witted. He immediately pulled out his phone from his pocket and searched for reviews of the movie "Shanghai Bund" next door.

Generally speaking, a movie is not released after the premiere; rather, it is released simultaneously in theaters from the moment the red carpet begins at the premiere.

Especially on Friday nights, the weekend box office, which is often mentioned in movie reports, refers to the two or three days from Friday evening when people start to get off work until midnight on Sunday. The middle-class group with weekends off and spare money can contribute a lot to the box office, and no distributor will be willing to waste even a minute.

So even if the premiere of the movie "The Bund" next door hasn't ended yet, there will be the first batch of ordinary movie fans who have already seen the movie and will post some movie reviews online while they still remember it, so it won't be difficult to find them.

"Oh my god, the whole movie is 180 minutes long..."

Leonardo DiCaprio had only been fiddling with his phone for a moment when he exclaimed in surprise, "Three whole hours! Is this an epic production?"

Upon hearing this, both Martin and De Niro were startled, their expressions turning even more grim.

All three of them are filmmakers with epic masterpieces to their name, and they know what a three-hour movie length means.

Such epic productions require the director and production company to have absolute confidence in the quality of the film itself. If they lack even the slightest bit of confidence, they would never dare to make it three hours long.

Even with good reviews, it's easy for a film to flop at the box office!

Both Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have had similar flops in the past. They were full of confidence and made them into epic blockbusters. After their release, they received good reviews, but their box office performance was a complete disaster.

Of course, if it succeeds at the box office, it will be a box office bomb that will shock the world!

"I'll go take a look..."

Old Martin, no longer in the mood for drinking and relaxing, strode quickly out of the banquet hall, his eyebrows twitching.

De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio didn't waste any words and quickly followed Martin.

This made them anxious. They had failed to bully Lu Lin today, but instead were bullied by him. This had already caused their new movie to lose China, a huge box office market, so they couldn't have been happier.

If Lu Lin's epic new movie is another box office bomb that can shock the world, then things will be completely messed up.

The three of them are likely to become a laughing stock in Hollywood, and be ridiculed and talked about by their peers for the rest of their lives!

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Later.

The trio exited the Dolby Theatre through the back door and went straight to the back door of the China Theatre, which was not far away.

Fortunately, the back door was open and unattended. The trio found it strange, but didn't have time to think about it. Once inside, they easily found their way to the theater backstage.

Ok.

This China Theatre often hosts Hollywood events, so the three of them are quite familiar with it.

To be honest, the China Theatre is the premier venue for Hollywood blockbusters and movie premieres. Compared to it, the Dolby Theatre next door is a piece of trash in terms of history and representativeness.

Martin Scorsese's previous films almost always premiered at the China Theatre, and the premiere of his new film was originally intended to be held there as well.

However, the operators of the China Theater inexplicably refused to give him face. They agreed on Monday morning, but when it came time to sign the venue contract on Monday afternoon, they suddenly went back on their word and rejected him. It wasn't until Friday that he learned that the reason the operators rejected him was because they had given the venue to Lu Lin's movie.

In response, Old Martin could only conclude that the China Theatre was inherently biased towards the Chinese.

After all, it's all China!