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Chapter 97 "Cut in Half"

Back in the room, after taking a shower and resting for a while, Tang An took out the computer.

After reading the news published by several local entertainment media in Shanghai, he turned off the computer.

Even if it's an extra topic of hype, the recent news about Huayi's departure of a group of celebrities has not been a little hot.

After he stopped caring about that matter, Tang An took out a folder and continued to perfect the first draft of the script.

But it wasn't long before the phone rang.

"Hey, Man Yun!" Tang An propped his left hand on the table, holding a pen in his right hand and writing and drawing from time to time.

"It's okay, don't worry about it!"

"I know what's going on, go to bed early if you have nothing to do!"

"Well, bye!"

Tang An shook his head, how could he go to Chengtian, a Japanese company.

It's just that Chengtian has an actor that he needs, and he has a big reputation, and he is not sure to persuade him alone.

In a five-star hotel in Beijing, Wang Zhongjun, chairman of Huayi Brothers, met with Chen Guofu, Director of Production Department of Columbia Media Asia.

"Old Chen, what do you mean by Tang An? I chatted with Wang Jinghua for a long time in front of so many reporters. Who is it for?"

Wang Zhongjun is not an idiot either, it is impossible to conclude that Tang An will join Chengtian just from a few photos.

But Chengtian is rich and famous, and he just complements Tang An, so he can't help but worry.

Regardless of Chen Guofu, he was not worried at all, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, Wang Dong, Chengtian doesn't even have experience in filming, Tang An is a smart person, it is unlikely that he will go to Chengtian!"

"Most of the time he did this for hype!"

"I think so too, but I can't figure out what he's thinking!" Wang Zhongjun said with a frown.

Tang An accepted his repeated gestures of favor, but he never intended to join Huayi.

Even if he tried to insinuate things differently, he didn't get any response.

"Maybe it's up for grabs. It's impossible for one person to do it alone. China Film has to take care of the promotion of imported films. His best choice is to cooperate with other companies!"

Wang Zhongjun didn't think too much about it for the time being, and turned to the real business, talking to Chen Guofu about the progress of the overseas distribution of "The Banquet"
On July 7, Tang An got yesterday's box office data early in the morning.

323 million, which is the result of "Terror Cruise" on the first working day.

Compared with 788 million the day before yesterday, the drop was as high as 59%.

As soon as this data came out, they were stunned.

Word of mouth is so high, the audience applauded, unexpectedly there will be such a sharp decline.

Immediately afterwards, the media's comments also turned sharply downward, and some film critics also jumped at the wind, and a large number of negative reviews appeared on various forums, expressing conclusively that the potential of "Terror Cruise" was approaching.

"This review contains a lot of spoilers, reading the review can save you a movie ticket!"

This is a long review published by Mtime.com just this morning, and the title is quite arrogant!

Tang An opened it with great interest and continued to look down.

"This movie, to be honest, if you haven't seen a movie with the same theme, you may feel surprised when you watch it for the first time, and then you will make a high score by mistake. But if you have seen many movies that require brains to understand, watch it again. This movie, you will feel that this movie is ugly!"

"There are many illogical places in it. If you are a careful person, it doesn't matter. If you don't look carefully, there will be many places that will make you feel sore.

"Why do you kill people as soon as you get on the boat? At this time, a bunch of people with average IQs started to say, because, that, before the heroine came up, she was already in reincarnation. Look at the vent under the cabin, there are so many Necklace, so, let’s kill someone!”

"For this answer, I just want to say that I bought a watch last year! Even if it is reincarnation, there will always be the first person to board the boat. How did the heroine who boarded the boat cleverly think of killing all of them? How can people come out?

"Is it true that as a higher animal, the first thing on board is to kill? This gave me some clues. Maybe this film was made for a B-grade bloody film at the beginning of production, but in a pile of With the support of the masses with average IQ, this film has become a magic film about logic, life, and IQ! Of course, it is not ruled out that the producers intentionally lure the audience, and the large number of comments and soft articles on the Internet are likely to be written by them themselves!"

"Excluding this setting, when the heroine chased and killed another heroine, did she realize that this was exactly the same as what she had experienced before? Knowing that she would be killed, she kept chasing her!"

Following the long-winded analysis, there are a lot of trumpets calling 666.

"666, the big brother's analysis is right!"

"Kneel down, why didn't I react when I saw it!"

"Incisive, I just thought there was something wrong, and I understood it when I said it like this!"

"I've already said that this is a bad movie. A bunch of idiot fans insist on bragging about it. There are so many tricks in a movie!"

"There are indeed many places that cannot withstand scrutiny. If you don't think about it carefully, you really can't understand it!"

"Nonsense, the director didn't say anything about the movie. He clearly said that it's just a story. It was made up by you so-called high-IQ people!"

"The host has a high IQ? Why are you so bull-nosed?"

Looking at these comments, Tang An didn't have any idea.

There are people who show superiority everywhere. In the past, everyone was boasting, which didn't show how powerful they are. Now that you've been sprayed as useless, you seem very wise.

The box office of 323 million was actually within Tang An's expectations. After all, it is a niche movie, and the box office of 3000 million in the first four days can no longer be described as an explosion.

This is almost considered to be an overdraft of potential, and the current decline of nearly 60% is considered normal. If it can still maintain 500 million a day, there will be ghosts.

But after another day or two of decline, it should bottom out, and then rely on word of mouth to slowly reap the box office.

And those media had been praising Tang An for several days, and they just took the opportunity to turn their guns around and start to badmouth Tang An!
""Horror Cruise" encountered Waterloo, the first working day fell as much as 60%, and the box office was weak in the later stage!"

"The box office of "Horror Cruise" may be cut in half, Tang An is no longer amazing!"

"Exclusively revealed the reasons for the box office failure of "Horror Cruise" and the eight factors that led to the miserable box office"

The ability to adapt to the wind is still as high as ever, and it can't be seen that he was still trying his best to tout a few days ago.

Then, when Tang An went to a film selection road show again, there were more than twice as many reporters as usual.

Not only the local media in Shanghai, but also several major portal websites from nearby provinces and cities.

"Hi everyone, welcome big"

Before Tang An finished his opening remarks, the voices of dozens of reporters in the audience drowned him out, and he could only see his mouth opening and closing.

"Director Tang, the box office of "Terror Cruise" plummeted by 500 million yesterday, what do you think is the reason?"

"The drop was as high as 60% on the first working day, are the audience tired of watching it?"

"The success of the box office is weak. Is there really no market for horror films?"

(End of this chapter)