The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 608 Four Billion

"Brushing good reviews?"

Lu Yuan put down the cup: "Who is it, a fan?"

"No, most of them are navy."

Lu Yuan frowned. Generally speaking, videos with decent content would not initially use internet trolls.

The use of Internet trolls is more concentrated within three days to one week after the film is released.

If the reputation is not good, they will try to find emergency support from "water army".

But "New World" does not have this worry.

Lu Jing closed the door and was about to explain.

Lu Yuan's cell phone suddenly rang, and the caller was Zhang Bowen.

He pressed the answer button and roughly understood the whole story.

"New World" grossed over 300 million in three days. As soon as the news came out, many positive reviews suddenly appeared on Douban and Time.com.

Zhang Bowen had been sending people to keep an eye on the online ratings and received the notification immediately.

"What kind of trick is this?" Liu Shishi listened for a while, looking confused. "I've heard of people giving bad reviews to competitors, like "The Banquet" and "1942", giving bad reviews to each other, smuggling in private goods, confusing the audience, so how come there are still people helping to give good reviews?"

Lu Jingzhi opened Douban on his phone and handed it to her while explaining, "Sister-in-law, this is not actually a good review. Generally speaking, in order to make the effect look more realistic, the film company will arrange a group of online trolls to praise it and another group of online trolls to criticize it.

Today, a large number of positive reviews appeared under "New World", and they were all one-sidedly praising it, which is no different from negative reviews.

Instead, it will disgust those fans who use the ratings as a reference to decide whether to buy tickets, and those who are playing tricks behind the scenes can also take the opportunity to lead the rhythm. "

Liu Shishi looked at the high score of 9.3 for "New World" on Douban, as well as the short human-computer reviews that all read "New World is really good!" and "New World is better than Infernal Affairs," and she instantly understood.

This was different from what she thought. After hearing what Lu Jingyi said just now, she thought the comments were sincere, talking about the plot and the characters.

"This is not going to ruin the popularity of New World. What a despicable move."

She got angry and looked at her boyfriend: "Has Zhang Bowen found out which family is behind this?"

"How can you find out?" Lu Yuan shrugged. Seeing that she was angry, he smiled and tried to comfort her.

"Okay, don't worry, it's not a big deal. Zhang Bowen has already contacted the officials from Douban and Time.com, and they will solve it."

"What if it can't be solved?" Liu Shishi asked back.

"Hu Zongxian once said, 'I am in you and you are in me. This is where all the bad things in the world go wrong. How can these two websites be so clean?'"

Lu Yuan curled the corner of his mouth. When did this girl start watching "The Ming Dynasty"?

“You have a point, but Douban and Mtime will not sit idly by and watch the ratings mechanism they have worked so hard to establish and the credibility it brings to the table go down the drain. Besides, we will not sit idly by and wait.”

"How to do it?" Liu Shishi was very curious.

Lu Yuan said, "There are only a few people behind the scenes. Zhang Bowen suggested that several movies released in the same period, including "The Great Devil" and "The Chinese Zodiac", should be given good reviews and all scored 9 points. By then, whoever's movie is of poor quality will be embarrassed."

Having said that, he took the phone that Liu Shishi was holding, and between "The Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs" and "The Great Devil City", he chose to search for the latter.

As soon as the interface appeared, the rating of this movie had risen from 5.3 to 7.2.

He raised his eyebrows and handed the phone back: "Look, Zhang Bowen has already started the operation."

Liu Shishi took a look and then took out his cell phone from his pocket.

"what are you doing?"

"I'm going to log in to my secondary account and farm for 'The Banquet'! Let Lu Chuan help attract some firepower." Liu Shishi didn't even raise her head.

Lu Yuan: "."

Every time a movie is released, it is like the beginning of a battle without the smoke of gunpowder.

In order to gain more screenings and achieve high box office, various forces racked their brains, used all their tricks, and came up with various strategies, including the Thirty-Six Strategies, which emerged one after another.

In the fierce competition during the Lunar New Year holiday, "The Devil's City", which was released at the same time, suffered the worst defeat.

The market was sucked dry by "New World", and the rest belonged to "Zodiac".

After the two have divided up everything, the piece of cake that "The Great Devil City" can get is very small.

After four days of release, the total box office barely broke the 3000 million mark, which seemed particularly bleak.

Everyone in the industry knows that if this continues, "The Great Devil City" will be completely doomed.

Bona Film Group’s investment of over 100 million yuan will be in vain and it will face huge losses.

But not all viewers can see this.

Even if the box office is not good in the short term, ordinary audiences will not be able to distinguish the quality of the film for a while because of the fancy publicity and film reviews.

"What a rubbish movie! Fuck, it must be a scam."

Du Junbo walked out of the Bona Cinema and looked at the promotional poster of "The Devil City" and was speechless.

He is a white-collar worker in the city who graduated just a few years ago. He has a special liking for gangster themes, but the scarcity of good works in recent years makes him feel regretful.

I came here today to watch "New World".

He is not a die-hard fan of Lu Yuan, but the other party's performance on the big screen has always been good, so he is willing to pay for it.

It’s just that the company has been working overtime these days, so I didn’t buy the ticket right away.

I had some free time tonight, so I found a cinema near my company. But when I got there, I found that tickets were hard to get because "New World" is so popular.

But now that I'm here, I don't want to go back immediately, so I plan to find other movies to watch.

"Chinese Zodiac" is mainly a family-friendly film, and Cheng Long's action scenes are not as smooth as before, which lacks appeal to him.

Looking around, I unexpectedly discovered that there were posters of "The Great Devil" in the hall.

A movie with a gang background and adapted from the legendary life of Du Yuesheng.

The director is the king of bad movies, Wang Jing.

Looking at the cast, the leading actors are Chow Yun-fat and Huang Xiaoming, and the supporting actors include Hung Kam-po and Francis Ng.

The participation of Huang Xiaoming in the film made him a little hesitant.

But the joining of Chow Yun-fat and Wu Zhenyu made him look forward to it again.

Fortunately, he checked online and found that "The Devil City" had good reviews and its score on Douban was as high as 8.7.

You know, with more than 9 reviews, "New World" only barely broke the -point mark.

As we all know, Chinese audiences are particularly picky about local works. It is not easy for "The Devil's City" to achieve a score of 8.7.

It was a good movie, so he didn't think much about it and bought the ticket to support it without hesitation.

As a result, I felt very uncomfortable and had something stuck in my throat throughout the whole process, and I almost became depressed.

Because he likes this type of subject matter, he has watched many gangster films privately. The narrative structure of "Big Shanghai" is clearly based on gangster epics such as "The Godfather II".

Borrowing from others in film and television dramas is not a problem. Zhou Xinchi, Ning Hao, and Xu Zheng have all borrowed from others.

But Wang Jing’s reference was too stiff, it was tacky and lacked craftsmanship.

The two timelines are also very twisted, with no explanation of how Cheng Daiqi's character evolved from a gangster to a tycoon, and only a rough account of his career path.

Huang Xiaoming's idol drama-style love plot made him speechless.

The drama part of this film is weak as shit.

As a gangster movie, action scenes are a big selling point, but they are also average in this movie. Since none of them are good, let's look at Chow Yun-fat, but Chow Yun-fat's performance is also not much better.

He maintained his usual domineering style, but the lines he said were so infuriating that he sounded like an idiot. The contrast was huge.

Wu Zhenyu's sinister performance does not have any trace of the warlord's banditry, and has nothing to do with Chow Yun-fat's gangster. Their acting against each other is more like flirting.

It is no exaggeration to say that "The Great Shanghai" has no directing techniques, no acting skills, and no scenes.

After watching it, he felt from the bottom of his heart that this was an organized and premeditated scam.

After returning home, Du Junbo sent a message to his girlfriend who was in another city, complaining about what had happened to him that day.

But I don’t know what the other party is busy with and has not replied yet.

I feel depressed and uncomfortable. No matter how much I think about it, I still feel uncomfortable.

So he wrote an article on Weibo titled "Wang Jing, give me back my money!"

He is not a big V, and he thought that after sending it out, it would fall into oblivion.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a few viewers who shared the same feeling as him.

Many people complained that they bought tickets excitedly because the movie had a high Douban score of 8.7.

But after watching the film, I realized that I had been cheated and cursed so harshly.

"The high score of "The Great Devil" must be deceptive, right? How can such a rubbish movie get 8.7 points?"

"Fuck, I just realized this movie just grossed 5000 million."

"Wang Jing, return the money!"

"Chow Yun-fat, are you worthy of your loyal fans by making such a bad movie?"

"Master Huang, can you please stop ruining the big screen? If not, ask your junior brother to give you a thumbs-up before choosing a role."

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Wang Jing always pays close attention to the development of online public opinion.

He felt mixed emotions, regretting that he had lost more than he gained. He had wanted to take some food from "New World" but ended up getting into trouble.

When one plan failed, he tried to speak out through the media.

He accused mainland theaters of giving "The Devil's City" too few screenings, claiming that this was extremely unfair to the film, and secretly pointed the finger at the popular "New World".

The cinemas turned a deaf ear to this and ignored it completely.

In fact, this is not an isolated case.

Because the box office success of "New World" made its peers in the industry jealous, all kinds of monsters and demons jumped out and tried to get a piece of the pie.

A director took advantage of the issue and used "New World" as a target, publishing an open letter on Weibo criticizing the film censorship system.

He fiercely criticized the current system and called for the establishment of a film rating system as soon as possible.

The Directors Guild followed suit and forwarded the letter, believing that film classification was imminent.

But unfortunately, there has been no official response.

Some colleagues even anonymously accused "New World" of containing violent and bloody scenes, attempting to use this as a breakthrough to once again set off a wave of reporting.

None of these tactics worked.

Because the reputation of "New World" has been fully fermented, no one can stop its progress.

Since December 12, the box office of "New World" has remained at its peak and has stood out from the crowd.

Monday, December 12: 24 million.

Tuesday, December 12: 25 million.

Wednesday, February 12: 26 million

Thursday, February 12: 27 million

After seven days of release, the film has attracted nearly 2300 million viewers and grossed a total of 7 million yuan. It is breaking box office records every day and is unstoppable!

"New World" is undoubtedly the biggest winner during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Even if the movie is only released for 20 days, it is a foregone conclusion that the box office will exceed billion.

The entire Internet is flooded with discussions about this film, with both praise and criticism.

Among them, the flattery of Lu Yuan was particularly exaggerated.

Someone compiled a historical box office ranking of Chinese mainland film actors in 2012, and among male actors, Lu Yuan ranked first.

As a result, all kinds of fancy titles came out.

#Lu·4 billion·far#
#Mainland Box Office No. 1#
Curious fans even compared the leading actors of "New World", "Chinese Zodiac" and "The Great Devil".

Analyze from multiple angles, such as big screen appeal and vision for script selection.

In comparison, the performance of "Chinese Zodiac" seems much more dismal. After eight days of release, the total box office was only 3.66 million yuan.

"The Devil's City", which was released at the same time, was even worse. After seven days of release, the total box office was only over 5000 million, and Bona suffered a huge loss.

Before the movie was officially released, Lu Yuan and Cheng Long had friendly exchanges on Weibo and helped each other promote the movie.

Therefore, fans of both sides behaved quite restrainedly.

But Chow Yun-fat’s fans felt uncomfortable, perhaps because the box office of "The Great Devil" was too low, and they felt a little inferior, always feeling that the other two companies were playing tricks on them.

Thus, a one versus two situation was formed, and fans of the three groups became confused and started a war of words online.

Coincidentally, at this time, "The Great Devil City" caused a backlash due to fake reviews and was ridiculed by fans of both shows.

"Wang Jing's "The Great Devil" is a joke. He also said that he was working with Chow Yun-fat to guarantee a box office of 5 million yuan. Does Chow Yun-fa have box office appeal now? He invested 1.6 million yuan, and the result is just this?"

"Chow Yun-fat is almost like the Chinese version of Nicolas Cage. In the past two years, he has taken any film as long as there is money, and he has no bottom line."

Chow Yun-fa's fans were not to be outdone and retorted: "What qualifications do you have to talk about Chow Yun-fat? The Bund, A Better Tomorrow, and God of Gamblers are all classics, popular throughout Southeast Asia, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon caused a sensation in the United States. Have you heard of Chow Yun-fat and Chow Yun-fat? They are legends in the film industry!"

"What the hell, the original lead of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was Jet Li, but Chili was pregnant and Jet Li was not available, so he got the chance to take advantage of the situation. What's there to be proud of?

Wang Jing didn’t even dare to disclose his salary for the film “The Great Devil”. Is it the same as when he acted like a superstar in “Red Cliff”, but ended up with a box office flop?”

"What's even more ridiculous is that he called Huang Xiaoming his successor at the apprenticeship ceremony, saying that he was one of the best new generation actors in the mainland. Isn't this obviously sarcastic? Don't we know Huang Xiaoming's professional ability? How can he be ranked? What era is it now? He still uses this kind of rhetoric. If you look down on mainland actors, don't come!"

Chow Yun-fat's fans were furious: "So what if New World has a high box office? Does anyone overseas know about it? Chow Yun-fat is a Hollywood superstar. Lu Yuan should first gain a foothold in Asia before he speaks!"

Lu Yuan’s fans probably just waited for this sentence, so they posted several screenshots of “New World” on Korean social media.

In the picture, Korean netizens gave the drama extremely high praise.

"Lu Yuan, Oppa, when you come to Korea again, I will pick you up at the airport."

"Lu Yuan Oppa is from Korea."

"The acting skills of the two actors, Li Zicheng and Ding Qing, are beyond reproach. They are truly talented actors who should not be underestimated even in the Republic of Korea."

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While the outside world was in turmoil, Lu Yuan boarded a flight to a foreign country.

After the release of "New World", everything is back on track. If nothing unexpected happens, it can be released in 20 days.

He had to rush to New York to finish filming the rest of "Partners".

(End of this chapter)