Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 292 Box Office Failure
The story of the second theatrical version of "Dragon Ball" tells the story of the adventures of young Goku.

Wukong and Xiaolin had a misunderstanding because of Kamesenren's words, so they went to the Demon City to rescue the Sleeping Beauty inside and give it to Kamesenren.

At the same time, Bulma, Yamcha, Pu'er and Wulong came to play with Teacher Wutian. After learning the news, they also rushed to Demon City to find Sun Wukong, but were attacked by demons on the way. Bulma was even attracted by the seemingly handsome In fact, he was captured by the brutal Castlevania Lord Lucifer.

And this Lucifer is actually a vampire, and he is planning an evil plan in Castlevania at this time.

It turns out that the so-called Sleeping Beauty in Demon City is not a person, but an energy crystal.

After gathering enough energy, it is used to destroy the sun and plunge the world into eternal darkness.

Lucifer and the others even almost succeeded for a time, but because today is the day of the full moon, Wukong turned into a giant ape and wreaked havoc. Finally, with the joint efforts of his friends, Wukong was able to recover.

In this way, with everyone's efforts, we finally successfully stopped the bad guys' conspiracy and saved the earth again.

To be honest, this plot is really not interesting. After watching it, everyone was uninterested.

Sure enough, although the movie's box office exceeded the 100 million mark that day, within a week, it barely exceeded 500 million, and its reputation plummeted.

Several newspapers and media outlets criticized the film.

"Just to make money?"A piece of work without any sincerity! 》

"Extremely mediocre, no highlights!" 》

"A movie that can even curse a passing dog!" 》

Faced with such a reputation, Cai Zhizhong took Acan to Li Wannian's studio on the third day after the film's premiere.

"Boss, I'm sorry, I take full responsibility for this box office failure!"

"Boss, it has nothing to do with Mr. Cai. This time it's mainly my responsibility. I didn't do a good job!"

Acan heard what Cai Zhizhong said and quickly apologized.

The main person in charge of the second part of the "Dragon Ball" theatrical version this time is Achan. However, the current failure in both word-of-mouth and box office has really hit him hard, and at the same time he is also worried.

Seeing the two people's appearance, Li Wannian put down the pen in his hand and stood up.

"Stop standing, sit down and talk!"

After leading the two of them to sit on the sofa in front, Li Wannian continued to speak: "You said you did something wrong, so where did you go wrong?"

Seeing Li Wannian's question, Cai Zhizhong and A-can looked at each other. A-can was about to say something, but Cai Zhizhong said first: "The main reason is that I did not focus all my energy on the movie. It was wrong to let A-can take full responsibility too early." Estimated market reaction..."

"Mr. Cai, how can you blame you? It should be my fault! It was my lack of ability and failure to produce works that satisfied the audience. I betrayed Mr. Cai's trust and ruined the classic IP of "Dragon Ball"!"

This time Acan was really anxious and said a lot in one breath. In summary, he had one idea: it was all my fault and had nothing to do with Mr. Cai.

Seeing Acan's appearance, Li Wannian waved his hand.

"That's not what I want to hear! Have you listened carefully to the opinions of the audience? Instead of reading the hype written by film critics in the newspaper!"

"This one……"

The two of them looked at each other and stopped saying anything, obviously not.

"Fa Zai, Po, you two come in!"

At this time, Li Wannian stood up, opened the door, and shouted downstairs.

"is teacher!"

Yuan Jiabao and Ye Mingfa, who were concentrating on their work downstairs, suddenly became excited and stood up quickly.After a while, the two came to Li Wannian's office.

"These two are my new assistants. You can listen to what they have to say. Have you both watched the "Dragon Ball" movie? How do you feel about it?"

Li Wannian was very surprised by the arrival of Ye Mingfa and Yuan Jiabao, because both of them will be famous cartoonists in the future, which is why Li Wannian chose them.

In the original time and space, Ye Mingfa was the chief writer of Yulang Agency. He was not only responsible for "Chinese Heroes Gaiden", but also created famous comics such as "The Immortal Crazy Sword".

As for Yuan Jiabao, he has worked for many comic companies. In addition to his debut work "Black Panther", the most famous comic is "Heroes of China" that fell into his hands after Ma Rongcheng left Yulang International and changed hands many times as editor-in-chief. .

He gave "Heroes of China" a new lease of life!

"pretty good!"

"Yes, very good!"

Before the two of them could continue, Li Wannian interrupted them with a wave of his hand: "I want to hear the truth!"

Li Wannian couldn't bear to listen to the two people's flattery.

At this time, the two of them glanced at each other, and then Ye Mingfa seemed to have made up his mind and said: "Teacher, I think there is indeed nothing wrong with the movie, but it is not very attractive!"

"Tell me carefully!"

"As for me, I can be considered a loyal reader of "Dragon Ball", but, I am more concerned about the battle between the earth warriors and the Saiyans in the current comics. The movie also tells the story of Goku as a child, so I have no interest!"

Ye Mingfa shrugged, looking a little helpless.

"Yes, Goku has a child now, and I care more about Gohan's story than when Goku was a child. The movies and comics feel a bit disconnected!"

Yuan Jiabao on the side also added at this time.

"Okay, you continue to work!"

After listening to what the two said, Li Wannian did not comment, but asked the two to leave.

The two of them were a little confused after hearing this, but they left obediently.

After the two left, Li Wannian said to Cai Zhizhong and Acan: "Did you see it? In fact, this matter has little to do with you two. There is no problem with the quality of the film production. It is mainly due to my error in judgment! The film is produced I didn't take into account the progress of the real-life comics, which is why the movie failed at the box office, so why are you two so anxious to hold me accountable?"

Obviously, Li Wannian's words directly put the blame for the entire movie's box office failure on himself.

This moved Cai Zhizhong and Acan.

"Boss, this..."

"President Li, I..."

"Okay, don't say any more, this is settled, you can work hard from now on!"

With Li Wannian's golden words, the matter was over, and no one else within Shenlong Company was held accountable.

In the end, nearly a month after the second movie of "Dragon Ball" was released, the box office on Hong Kong Island exceeded 1000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Just when everyone thought that Shenlong Company had finally suffered a defeat this time, news came from Neon. The box office of "Dragon Ball: Sleeping Beauty in the Demon City" in Neon exceeded the [-] million mark. Obviously, The movie still made a fortune.

This news instantly silenced all film critics in Hong Kong.

Can this movie, this box office, be called a failure?
(End of this chapter)