Made in Hollywood

"You haven't looked at the situation of imdb in these two days?"

In a cafe on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Irene Lauder slowly stirred the coffee and said to Duke, who was sitting opposite, "It's really lively."

"What happened?" Scarlett next to Duke was even more curious.

Duke took a sip from his coffee cup before guessing, "Is it because of the imdb ranking?"

Although she has not paid any specific attention, Tina Fei's report this morning also mentioned that fans of "The Dark Knight" are fighting against fans of "The Godfather" on imdb.

"Your fans are giving low scores to The Godfather, and fans of The Godfather are giving low scores to your "Dark Knight."

She deliberately joked, "I also went to imdb and gave "The Godfather" a score."

Scarlett squeezed her chin and recalled, "I remember "The Dark Knight" is still ranked first, right?"

Irene Lauder nodded, "I was ranked first, but the score has been reduced to 9.7 points."

"What about "The Godfather"?" Duke asked.

This movie has also cultivated a large number of fans from the 70s to the present.

"It's down to 9 points," Irene? △ -, Lauder thought about the situation that I saw this morning, and then said, "Your fans are mainly teenagers. They have a strong fighting spirit and a high spirit. Occupying an advantage, "The Godfather" can hardly guarantee a score above nine."

Scarlett suddenly looked at Duke and offered unreliable suggestions, "Why don't you let Pani lead the team to join it? I believe that "The Godfather" will be maxed out."

"You know too much." Duke glared at her, then shook his head, and said, "This is just a dispute between fans. There is no need for a professional team to join in."

Duke is not the only person who has such an idea. There are many people who follow The Dark Knight. David Ellison is naturally one of them.

This kind of disputes on the Internet must not be hidden from the eyes of the caring people. At first, David Ellison wanted to push it behind and take advantage of it, but after careful consideration, he chose to give up.

With the current momentum of "The Dark Knight". It's not just this little entanglement. Instead of distracting one's own strength, it is better to pool all the resources to do a good job in the promotion and distribution of the most critical stage before the release of "I Am Legend".

"I Am a Legend" will be released in North America, and the situation is quite serious. Even on weekdays, "The Dark Knight" still maintains a daily box office quota of more than 20 million U.S. dollars. This figure is only available for many major production weekends. Single-day box office.

The premiere of this film. I definitely chose New York where the story took place. David Ellison also specifically contacted a theater in Washington Square as the premiere venue. He also watched "The Dark Knight". Now I regret not thinking about imax at the beginning. If I use imax Production, presumably "I am a legend" will surely arouse a strong response.

It has been several years since entering Hollywood. Although David Ellison is still arrogant, his ideas are much more realistic. He doesn't ask much for "I Am Legend", as long as it can hit the box office of "The Dark Knight" next weekend. It is enough to win the North American box office chart.

In that way, "I Am Legend" needs to get at least $80 million in the first week.

Although there is no professional team and navy involved, imdb's scoring battle has intensified.

As the scores of "The Godfather" and "The Dark Knight" were declining, their respective fanatic fans deliberately voted for their opponents with a large number of low scores for the top spot, until Thursday. The one-point vote for "The Godfather" has risen rapidly to nearly five percent, and "The Dark Knight" is not much better. The percentage of one-point votes has reached 3%, but it is as high as hundreds of thousands of ten votes. Ensure that the film steadily occupy the top 250 ranking with 9.6 points.

Movie fans often act spontaneously and enthusiastically. Fans of the two films not only scoured each other's low scores, but also attacked in their respective comment areas, and even rose to the level of abuse.

For example, fans of "The Godfather" angrily called fans of "The Dark Knight" "Duke Blow".

But after all, the Internet is the world of young people. If you simply talk about the director, Duke has an unparalleled position in the hearts of young fans. The fans of "The Godfather" are much older. Although there are many fanatics, after all Can't compete with the younger generation on the Internet.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if you attack each other like this, "The Godfather" is a losing situation.

So the fans of "The Godfather" chose to expand the area of ​​war. Some people pretended to be fans of Duke and "The Dark Knight" and began to attack other top 250 films, such as "Pulp Fiction," "The Good, the Bad and the Young" and "Flying Over the Madhouse". Have become their targets.

In only half a day on Thursday, a large number of 1 point votes appeared in the ratings of these films.

Then, more fans joined in. While the fans of "The Dark Knight" attacked "The Godfather", they also went to other film areas to pretend to be low scores. The fans of other films were not subdivided, and they became "The Godfather". And "The Dark Knight" score low.

Although imdb was originally frequented by navy forces, the order was still good. The behavior of the fans this time undoubtedly severely damaged the order of imdb, especially on the Internet, where people's self-control is worse, and it is commonplace to leave messages and attack each other.

These struggles even spread to many film and television forums and social networking sites. Even Duke's instant sharing account was not spared. A large number of offensive remarks appeared in his message box.

When things got to this point, they naturally received media attention.

"In the previous mdb rankings, "The Godfather" is the first, "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" is second, and "The Godfather 2" is third."

"Until one day, "The Dark Knight" made its debut, like a bright shooting star across the sky, breaking the otherwise tranquil night sky, countless sleeping fans opened their eyes and cast their eyes on the sky, the gear of fate. It starts to work from there."

"Duke Rosenberg was originally a god. "The Dark Knight" is like a new-born **** he created. It attracted many believers and learned a lot of faith. Fanatic believers vowed to treat their gods. Push to the top of the world."

"In order to defeat the invincible "The Godfather", they used their id to score 10 points for "The Dark Knight" and 1 point for "The Godfather" day and night, and fans of "The Godfather" were doing the same thing..."

The report of Yahoo Entertainment has undoubtedly raised this online battle to the level of the media.

Some tabloids feared that the world would not be chaotic, and began to take advantage of this incident to hype Duke and Francis Coppola about the sharp contradiction...

"Those guys always like to exaggerate."

On Friday morning, Sophia Coppola drank morning tea with Duke and said, "Yesterday there was a paparazzi who went to my father's house to ask him about this."

"The media needs news." Duke looked outside through the glass window and gestured with his eyes. "A lot of paparazzi followed. Believe it, Sophia? There will be a tabloid tomorrow saying that there is something between me and you. Unspeakable relationship."

"They've been talking about it for more than ten years." Sophia shrugged, "Let them just talk about it."

She then changed the topic, put down the tea cup, and asked with interest, "Yesterday, "I Am A Legend" premiered. In an interview, David Ellison said that his film will definitely get the box office this weekend. Champion, statistics should be almost out now, have you got it?"

"Not yet." Duke stretched out his finger and pointed to it. "Tina is waiting. I guess it won't take long."

After the release of David Ellison’s new film, the response was quite good, and for the purpose of publicity, Will Smith almost fought it out. Not only did the pre-screening publicity cause a divorce crisis, he also claimed to be prepared in an interview at the premiere last night Participate in the presidential election and strive to be in the White House within the next ten years.

These eye-catching practices have also attracted many media hype.

"Where is Scarlett?" Sophia changed the subject, "Why didn't you see her?"

"I left New York yesterday." Duke put down his tea cup, looked back from the glass window, and said, "Captain America has begun post-production, and there are many scenes about her that need to be dubbed."

Unlike "Hulk", which is at the end of post-production, which was released this winter, how can "Captain America" ​​have to wait until next summer.

Although this superhero is strictly speaking outdated, the orthodox American spirit he represents can naturally arouse the favor of the audience.

However, the overseas market response of this film will be a bit problematic, after all, he is too American.

"Tina is here." Sophia looked towards the entrance of the restaurant.

Duke also turned his head and glanced, Tina Fei stepped on high heels, walked over unhurriedly, waved hello to the two, and sat next to Duke.

After ordering her morning tea, Tina Fei said directly, "I am a Legend" did not advance the show. The box office statistics of the midnight show have just received $8.82 million, which is basically in line with outside expectations.

Sophia Coppola sighed, "Will Smith's appeal is still very powerful."

"David Ellison made a wise choice."

As he said in the past, superstars are a rare resource for the entire Hollywood, and their status cannot be measured by ordinary actors. "If there is no collapse in the future, "I am a legend" may meet Disney's expectations."

Tina Fei answered, "This will have a certain impact on us."

Duke thought for a while and asked, "I asked you to confirm, have you confirmed it?"

"It's confirmed." Tina Fei pointed to the faint dark circles under her eyes, "I went to watch the midnight show of "I Am Legend" specially."

Duke didn't even think about it, so he said, "Send the news to the animal protection organization and the dog lovers association." (To be continued...)