This director only makes bad movies.

Chapter 438 Who Wants to See Aliens

Inside a hotel.

The "Western Story" cast members who just came out of the promotional event are all sitting on the sofa.

The atmosphere at the scene was dull and breathless.

The box office of "Western Story" just broke [-] million on the first day. This poor result made the crew members very depressed.

The most depressing is Spielberg.

He couldn't figure out how the film's grades could be so low!
impossible.

There is no reason.

His film was so wonderful that it ranked first on the rating website. After watching it, everyone generally praised it and thought it was a rare classic film.

He himself feels that this is the best movie of his career, the absolute pinnacle of production.

But the box office hit the street on the first day.

Although it is said that there have been many movies in the history of Hollywood that exploded in the middle and late stages, those movies were not strong enough in the early stage of publicity, and the theaters did not pay enough attention to them, so the box office in the early stage was not high.

But "Western Story" is not like this. The theater chain attaches great importance to it, and squeezes out theaters and film scheduling as much as possible.

The early publicity is also very good, although not as good as "Area 51", but the popularity is definitely not low, and with Spielberg's name and the fans he has accumulated over decades of persistent filming, the film's early results are doomed Impossibly low.

However, his movie was crushed by Hua Xia's "Area 51".

This is completely different from the scene he imagined.

In Spielberg's imagination, when his movie is released, with its good reputation and accumulated fans, even if the popularity of "Area 51" is high, the box office cannot be less than 6000 million.

This is because he overestimated Xu Nan as much as possible. After all, this Huaxia director is indeed a bit evil. Many famous directors have been defeated by him. Otherwise, Spielberg would be sure to take 80.00% of the box office.

Then, when the audience realizes that Xu Nan's movie is a hoax, a bad movie, and the word-of-mouth of his movie ferments, "Western Story" can step on "Area 51" and take the entire schedule.

But what is the situation now, the person who was crushed became him!
Obviously his movies have a better reputation and higher evaluation, but the movie box office is still suppressed.

This situation is completely beyond the scope of his common sense, and he doesn't understand why?
Spielberg sat on the sofa, calm and composed on the surface, but there was a kind of panic before the disaster in his heart.

This world seems to be a little different from what he used to know.

If there is only one day of poor box office results, he can barely bear it, but if the results are like this for the next few days, then he really doesn't know what to do.

At this moment, the producer of "Western Story" walked over quickly, and everyone's eyes were on him.

"The investigation results have been obtained." The producer took out a stack of documents and handed it to Spielberg.

As soon as the single-day box office statistics came out, Spielberg specifically found several related research companies to investigate why the box office results of "Area 51" were so high, and the box office results of "Western Story" were so high. so low.

Jiang is still old and hot. Spielberg can have such a high status. Naturally, there are two brushes. If other directors encounter this situation, they will probably have to wait for death.

But he immediately thought of investigating the reason to see if there was a chance to reverse all this.

After receiving the investigation results that were expedited by spending a lot of money, Spielberg took a serious look at the first time.

This survey was jointly conducted by several companies. The main reason is that the survey results of one company are not objective and true enough. Only when several companies work together can the authenticity and accuracy of the data be guaranteed.

Ask: "Why did you choose to watch this movie?"

60.00% of the audience answered because aliens were photographed, 20.00% heard from friends that aliens were photographed inside, [-]% because of Brown's disappearance, and the remaining [-]% were other.

Q: What do you think of this movie.

60.00% of the answers are shocking, there are aliens in it, 20.00% of the answers are that there are aliens in Area 51, [-]% is that it is a pity that Brown died, and the remaining [-]% are other answers.

There are still a lot of questions, basically including all the factors of the film's success, and the audience's answers all focus on aliens.

The results of several survey companies were similar.

The success of the "Area 51" movie is inseparable from the factor of aliens. The reason why most viewers watch "Area 51" is simply because they heard that this movie filmed aliens, and they want to come and see aliens real look.

Could it be this reason?

Spielberg is a little unbelievable, more absurd.

The masterpiece he shot with all his painstaking efforts was actually lost to a piece of rubbish for such a ridiculous reason? ? ?
Simply. Let him not know what to say.

The producer's expression was solemn: "We have found the reason why our movie was suppressed. The main reason is that the audience heard that Xu Nan's movie was filmed with aliens, so they went to watch all of them."

"I suspect that if it weren't because our movie is exciting enough, directed by you, it might not even have a box office of 1000 million."

"Ordinary audiences don't have any preference for what movies to watch, unless there is a reason to watch it, and Xu Nan's movie "Area 51" gives ordinary audiences a reason to watch it, which is also the fundamental reason why we are suppressed."

Spielberg frowned: "But what he made was just a movie, which was false. There have been countless movies about aliens in Hollywood before. Why is Xu Nan's movie such a sensation?"

The producer said in a deep voice: "The crux of the problem is that the audience knew that the alien movies were fake, but the "Area 51" filmed by Huaxia director Xu Nan was believed to be true by the audience."

"Now what competes with our "Western Story" is no longer a movie, but a real video recording the image of aliens. It doesn't matter whether the audience watches the movie or not, but the video of aliens is recorded. to see."

"This is the root cause of our failure. We are not competing with other movies, but with human curiosity about the unknown."

Spielberg frowned: "How could this be? Xu Nan's movie is obviously fake, so why would the audience think it's true?"

The producer pondered: "Xu Nan's propaganda is more subtle, that's why we achieved this effect."

Spielberg took a few steps in the room, and then said: "So, the key to the problem now is to make the audience realize that what Xu Nan is shooting is a movie, and the aliens in his movie are fictional?"

The producer nodded: "From the current point of view, this is the only way to go. Otherwise, if the film influence of Chinese director Xu Nan continues to ferment, we will not be able to compete at all."

"At the same time, I suggest increasing the promotion of our movie. Anyway, the quality of our movie is fine, and our reputation is very good. As long as the promotion is strong enough, we can rely on word of mouth to break the circle."

Spielberg nodded: "Let's do it then."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help muttering: "It's really incomprehensible how the situation became like this."

The producer smiled wryly.

He also found it difficult to understand. He persuaded Spielberg not to advance the schedule before, just out of prudent considerations. In fact, he didn't think that the extremely high-quality "Western Story" would fail, but he just didn't want to take risks.

But he didn't expect that Xu Nan would crush "Western Story" by relying on false propaganda, which exceeded his expectations.

Withdrawal is no longer possible, because they simply cannot bear the loss, the only way is to grit their teeth and stand firm until the day when word-of-mouth ferments.

It is impossible for the audience to be so stupid that after watching the movie, they think it is true, or if they are really so stupid, then he has nothing to do.

The key now is to use publicity to make moviegoers realize that Xu Nan is only making movies, and the aliens in his movies are fake.

Otherwise, letting more viewers enter the theater to watch "Area 51" will consume their enthusiasm and funds for watching movies, which will be a very bad result for "Western Story".

Following this line of thinking, the producers began to communicate with the media, asking them to tell the audience that Xu Nan's "Area 51" is fictional, and the aliens in it are fake.

In fact, the media had already noticed the movie "Area 51" without contacting the producer.

The single-day box office was more than 3000 million, setting a box office record. This is an achievement only for phenomenal movies.

And a phenomenon-level movie will inevitably attract the attention of the whole network and even the whole society, and let everyone notice.

Ordinary hit movies, at most, are just a gust of wind, and everyone forgets after it blows.

But a phenomenon-level movie is a storm, and everyone will be swept away. Even if you are usually immersed in your own small world and don't pay attention to the outside world at all, you will definitely hear related news.

This is a phenomenal movie.

The media reported frantically, and the news poured out like a volcanic eruption.

"Area 51 grossed 500 million on its first day."

"'Area 51' single-day box office breaks record."

"Huaxia director Xu Nan once again created a miracle."

"Why is everyone choosing to watch 'Area 51'."

""Western Story" was an unexpected surprise, and its single-day box office only exceeded [-] million."

"What is the reason behind the rise of the dark horse "Area 51"?"

"Area 51 is a documentary or a fictional film."

"It is rumored that there are aliens in Area 51, is it true or not?"

""Area 51" is scheduled to be the box office champion of the year, hitting the global box office record."

"Huaxia director Xu Nan: No one knows movies better than me."

"Audience flocked to the theater, and there was a rare spectacle in the theater watching movies standing up."

The media is all crazy. 60.00% of the news is related to the movie "Area 51". superior.

Phenomenal movie, so scary!
(End of this chapter)