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Chapter 572 [137] Nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards again!
"Hahaha!"

When Chen Yu heard Wang Zhonglei say on the phone that Chen Kaige had called him, he actually laughed.

Small-minded and petty.

There is really no hope for this kind of person.

He has a kind of persecution complex and always lives in his own world. When others scold him, he thinks it is premeditated and they are just throwing dirty water on his opponents. He never reflects on himself and asks himself whether what he did is right or not.

"I feel that if he saw our video 'A World Without Thieves' made by Hu Ge, he would be even more certain that it was us who did it!"

"It's okay, let him think it was our good deed!"

Anyway, on the big screen right now, it is indeed "A World Without Thieves" that is competing with "The Promise", and "The Promise" is undoubtedly no match for "A World Without Thieves" in terms of reputation or popularity. In terms of tomorrow's screenings, "A World Without Thieves" has already taken the lead.

Cinemas are not fools, they certainly know which movies to show to make money. Although China's cinema market has many unspoken rules, it is still the most fair in the world. If your movie is good, you will be given a screening.

If the movie is not good, the market will teach you a lesson. The cinema chain will not schedule more screenings for you just for your sake. They will definitely give priority to whoever can make money.

In the capital market, no one can go against money.

Tomorrow, the 22nd, the screening schedule is indeed crucial; "A World Without Thieves" ranks first with 40%, and "The Promise" only has 35% left!

If the final attendance and box office of the two are still very high, then on the 23rd, the screening schedule of "The Promise" will be reduced.

On Christmas Eve, the 24th, the screening schedule of "A World Without Thieves" was completely secured.

Until the 25th, the weekend, and New Year's Day, "A World Without Thieves" will dominate the world, and "The Promise" will have no chance of making a comeback; in its previous life, "The Promise" had no rivals, so even though it was a terrible movie, it still grossed 1.75 million yuan at the box office.

In this life, Chen Yu estimated that even one hundred million was at stake.

With 35% of the screenings scheduled for tomorrow, the pre-sale box office of "The Promise" is just over 100 million; on the other hand, "A World Without Thieves" has already reached nearly 500 million.

What kind of disparity is this? !

“Basically, it can be carried away!”

After Chen Yu hung up the phone with Wang Zhonglei, he took a look at the screening schedule and box office, then washed up and prepared to go to bed.

In the past two days, "A World Without Thieves" has earned nearly 2000 million yuan at the box office, and the total box office has exceeded 2.3 million yuan. If nothing unexpected happens, with the support of the next few festivals, it will be easy to break the 3 million mark. As for whether it can break the records of "Kung Fu" and "House of Flying Daggers", this is not a big problem.

The most difficult one should be the domestic film history record, the 3.6 ​​million of "Titanic".

This is a bit difficult.

The current box office record for domestic films is "House of Flying Daggers" with 3.15 million!
"If we can't crack it this time, we can only wait until the Spring Festival!"

Chen Yu's "The Extraction" will be released on New Year's Eve. It should be possible to promote it after New Year's Day. By then, Bona will have completed all the marketing for the Spring Festival.

This movie is what Chen Yu considers to be his next major highlight.

Without the support of any director or other big-name movie stars, the box office was supported by Chen Yu's fame.

If he succeeds, even breaks some records, Chen Yu will be completely invincible in China, just like Wu Jing in the future "Wolf Warrior"; even Stephen Chow, Zhang Yimou and others will have to give him a leg up.

So this Spring Festival period is particularly important.

"A World Without Thieves" is at most just an appetizer for this movie.

As long as the marketing of the Spring Festival can keep up, the two movies released during the Spring Festival will be the biggest box office beneficiaries. It will not be like the current Lunar New Year period, which has rivals like "The Promise" and even the overseas blockbuster "King Kong".

This year's Spring Festival, apart from Chen Yu who dared to take such a risky risk, no other film and television company dared to do such a risky thing.

"Extraction" has no rival.

Once successful, not only Chen Yu will profit, but also the Chinese box office, Chinese filmmakers, and all film industry and theater participants will benefit greatly.

This is the reason why Chen Yu opened the Spring Festival period.

Of course, as the first person to try it out, Chen Yu is definitely the one who benefits the most.

"If we go one level higher, we'll see the Spring Festival movies!"

Chen Yu thought quietly and fell asleep.

……

Over the next two days, word of mouth about "The Promise" grew worse and worse, to the point where the entire network was boycotting it; not to mention the declining box office, which dropped by 300 million, the video "A Murder Case Caused by a Bun" was indeed becoming more and more popular.

Moreover, pirated resources of "The Promise" were also leaked.

Many people would rather watch this bad movie online than go to the cinema, which is the reason why the box office is getting worse and worse; although "A World Without Thieves" also has pirated sources, but with the appeal of actors such as Chen Yu and Ge You, as well as the film's reputation, many people are still willing to go to the cinema to support it.

This resulted in the box office of "A World Without Thieves" being okay, with the number of screenings increasing every day, while the box office of "The Promise" was shrinking.

The video of "Blood Case" is setting new download records every day.

It's not just any kind of fire, but the kind that spreads across the entire network.

Countless movie fans were already filled with deep resentment towards "The Promise". Even those who had watched the pirated version also joined in the crusade against Director Chen.

Whether a movie costs money or not has nothing to do with whether it is bad or not.

Watching pirated copies did not prevent the audience from criticizing the film; now that "Blood Case" has come out, everyone seems to have found an outlet and is downloading it like crazy.

As of the 23rd, the download volume of Hu Ge's video has exceeded 800 million, all of which were downloaded from Fanqie.com.

At the same time, the number of his followers has reached more than 30, and he has become an expert on Fanqie.com.

The entire Internet is spreading this 20-minute edited video. Chen Kaige has threatened to sue to the end. Even on his list of prosecutions are Chen Yu, Star Network, Yuxin Pictures, Huayi and others, which makes netizens laugh.

The movie was bad, but people actually blamed it on their competitors, so people from all walks of life came out to take sides.

The reporter began to ask other people, what would be your reaction if someone spoofed your work?
The first person to be asked was, of course, Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou: "I don't mind, I will have fun with the people!"

Zeng Zhiwei: "Adapting movies online is very exciting, fun and entertaining. We should take this group of young people seriously and create more good works!"

"Infernal Affairs and Jiang Hu were both very popular in Hong Kong back then, and there were many funny versions of them. Why would Director Chan use this little thing to hype it up?"

A famous director said: "The film and television industry is the career of young people and should be supported. Chen Kaige cannot accept criticism and is not tolerant of newcomers. He even makes a mountain out of a molehill and maliciously hypes up small things, showing his 'arrogance' of not allowing others to say bad things about him. The chaotic current situation of the Chinese film industry is because directors like Chen Kaige only want to make money and hype, which has brought the Chinese film industry to the most dangerous moment."

Even Lu Tailang couldn't stand Chen Kaige's defense breakdown this time.

"No matter what Director Chen's motives are, it is an unwise move. What era is this? Only a crazy person would suppress other people's comments..."

The entire network almost unanimously supported Hu Ge, and some even felt sorry for Chen Yu.

This is like being shot while lying down.

What was originally just a video joke has now turned into an extremely bad social incident.

And it is spreading across the Internet in a direction that even Chen Kaige would find terrifying; some websites even opened a special topic on "The Mantou Blood Case". That's right, it's you, NetEase!
It may be that Kaizi’s PR company did not give money to NetEase, but gave it to Sina Sohu and Tencent; so NetEase can be said to be a shady company to the end.

It reported the incident in full, so the bloody incident was reported in all major newspapers.

There are even countless groups on the Internet that support Hu Ge. Chen Kaige's behavior of bullying the weak, lack of tolerance and vision, and narrow-mindedness have indeed made many people "look at him with new eyes."

Netizens on Tianya, Tieba and other platforms basically all stand on Hu Ge's side.

As one of the earliest websites for spreading videos, Fanqie.com has seen a huge increase in the number of users during this period, and Hu Ge's fans are also increasing day by day.

Most of them are uncomfortable with Chen Kaige suppressing an ordinary netizen like this.

After all, there are still many netizens in China's Internet who uphold justice, and bullying the disadvantaged groups is already despised by people. Hu Ge is now a member of the disadvantaged group who is suppressed by Chen Kaige in the eyes of everyone.

On the evening of December 12, when many people had finished making fun of "The Promise" and Hu Ge's video, Hu Ge actually uploaded another video in his personal space on Fanqie.com for the first time.

"What you see below is made for my own amusement..."

"Welcome everyone to watch the second episode of the Rule of Law Scene - "A World-Class Robbery Case Triggered by 5 Yuan"!"

It opens in the same way as "The Mantou Murder Case" and has the same painting style, but it is extremely comfortable.

"Fuck!"

“The second episode is out!”

"Hu Ge is awesome!"

“Are they going to take action against A World Without Thieves?”

Many viewers who have watched "A World Without Thieves" obviously understood it at first sight. Is this a complaint about "A World Without Thieves"? !
But, "A World Without Thieves" is not bad, right?
Many people thought so, but still subconsciously clicked on the video.

Once a habit is formed, it will form a terrible acceptance process. Therefore, an opening similar to the first episode will immediately bring the audience into the atmosphere of the bloody case in the first episode. All that is left to do next is to watch.

Regardless of whether this video is well made or not, at least many netizens highly recognize its opening.

It tastes just right.

That’s the taste, that’s the feeling.

Hu Ge did not choose a novel way to produce the second episode, but continued the model of the first episode. This is the safest and most secure method.

It can be seen that Hu Ge also wants to make this series bigger and longer-lasting.

"Last time we talked about 'A Murder Caused by a Bun'. Today, I'm going to tell you another bizarre story. With 5 yuan, he attracted several waves of the world's strongest thieves. They fought wits and courage on the train, and finally sang the story of Tears Behind Bars!"

"Why would a huge sum of 5 yuan appear on a train?"

"Why is it that such a large amount of money is not kept properly, but the thieves know about it?"

"Will justice triumph over evil in the end, or will evil go unpunished? Please watch the special edition of "Legal Online" in early 2006 - "A 5-yuan robbery case"!"

Hu Ge's ups and downs in voice made many netizens laugh.

This opening statement contains all the elements of "A World Without Thieves", which arouses strong expectations.

The subsequent edited scenes made many people who have watched "A World Without Thieves" burst into laughter.

This guy is definitely a genius.

The original version of "A World Without Thieves" was already funny enough, but after this guy edited it, the laughter just couldn't stop.

Many people find it more interesting the more they watch.

This is just like many movie commentators in later generations. They avoid the important points and just pick the exciting parts, plus promotional videos, to make many people interested in the movie; those who have seen it will be more involved, and those who haven't seen it will find it very interesting.

Chen Yu didn’t know whether this kind of publicity was useful, but in later generations, many movies still sought the help of these up-loaders for publicity, so he considered it to be of some use.

It’s only 10 yuan anyway.

Not surprisingly, the video of "The Robbery", which is from the same series as "Blood Case", also became popular.

Chen Yu had no idea how many audiences could be attracted to the cinema, but on the next day, Christmas Eve, Saturday, the single-day box office of "A World Without Thieves" once again exceeded 1600 million in a single day, and this was achieved on the first day of the premiere of "King Kong".

As for "The Promise", with 15% of the screenings, it only earned more than 200 million; and "King Kong" with 40% of the screenings, it only earned 1250 million!
Chen Yu, Liu Yifei + Feng Xiaogang are indeed the first choice for many couples on Christmas Eve.

"This video by Hu Ge should have played a role!"

After Chen Yu and Liu Yifei spent a romantic Christmas Eve, he was looking through the comments under Hu Ge’s second video on Fanqie.com.

As a video expert followed by 38 people, the total views of his two videos have reached more than 2000 million. The traffic in recent days has indeed made Hu Ge completely popular on the Internet.

"Maybe, we can let him do an episode of 'The Lone Rescue'!"

“Just think of it as pre-release publicity!”

If you want to do it, just do it. Chen Yu asked Yang Lu to contact Hu Ge, who was already planning to sign a contract with Fanqie.com. At a time when the Internet, especially video sites, were just emerging, these video editing experts were actually very valuable assets.

They have their own fan base, and if they are poached by other websites, it will definitely be a loss for Fanqie.com.

Therefore, if Fanqie.com wants to become the only dominant player, it must develop a model similar to the future B station up masters and Tik Tok internet celebrities. Hu Ge is a very important benchmark.

If you make him money and make him famous, more people will invest in creating videos.

This is Chen Yu, a reborn person, looking ahead to these masters.

The rise of any website is inseparable from the counterattack of grassroots; and although Hu Ge is not a grassroots, he is also a member of this group.

buzzing-

When Chen Yu finished talking to Yang Lu, another private cell phone began to vibrate.

CAA boss Richard.

"Mission Impossible 4 project?"

Chen Yu guessed and pressed the answer button.

"Chan, congratulations, the shortlist for the 63rd Golden Globe Awards is out, and you've been nominated for Best Actor again!"

""The Embalmer"?"

Yojiro Takita told Chen Yu about this matter. Yu Xin submitted the review for next year's Golden Globe Awards a few months ago.

"Yes, and not only "Departures", "Kung Fu" is also nominated!"

“This year, there’s a lot of drama!”

Richard smiled and said, "Would you like to do some public relations?"

(End of this chapter)