Don't call me Master, call me Director

In fact, just as Cloris guessed, after the stock market opened on Monday, with the help of the premiere of "Super Eight", IMAX's stock immediately began to rise.

Unlike China's red up and green down, the North American stock market where IMAX is located is green up and red down.

Of course, green doesn't have any bad connotations for North Americans.

On the contrary, the appearance of the same color as the US dollar bill in the stock market is to tell people that they have more green bills in their hands.

Anyway, the members of IMAX's board of directors felt that their future was bright when they saw this green and glowing upward line.

At this time, everyone felt that Shinji Matou, a director who likes to use new technologies, was really lucky to be able to join the board of directors of IMAX Corporation and bring them together to make money.

Although Shinji himself has no interest in Zimbabwean dollar with IMAX Corporation on the surface, in fact, everyone understands what is going on.

Anyway, what this young director said in the IMAX company is better than the current chairman and CEO.

Fans see movies they like, investors make big bucks, and everyone has a bright future.

The only exception is Matou Shinji himself.

After all, earning too much, but never being able to save money, this kind of inner pain is only known to Uncle Shen himself.

Fortunately, the Matou family made a lot of money, so Shen Er was depressed, but he didn't complain much, and he even greeted others with a smile when they congratulated him.

"Congratulations, Director Matou, the global box office of "Super Eight" has exceeded [-] million US dollars!"

At the "Super Eight" promotional scene in Tokyo, Mr. Kitagawa, Johnny's boss, congratulated Shinji.

"You have achieved such results in less than five days after the release, your talent in the field of commercial films is unimaginable!"

Although it was a deliberate compliment, to a certain extent, this can also be said to be what Mr. Kitagawa said in his heart.

He now knows the mentality of those Qianlang who were shot to death on the beach by Houlang.

After all, breaking [-] million in two days and breaking [-] million in a week was only a legend in the film industry in the past.

If only the Japanese market is counted and only the yen is counted, there are quite a few people who can do it.

But the achievements of "Super Eight" are in the global market, and the money earned is repaid in US dollars, but it really made the old man look up to him.

Even the idols under Johnny's can't make as much money as Shinji Matou's movies.

Moreover, because of the current scarcity of 3D naked-eye screens, the box office curve of "Super Eight" is very stable.This means that the high box office revenue of "Super Eight" will last for a long time in the future.

If that's the case, the overall box office revenue of "Super Eight" can only be described as horror.

In this case, even Mr. Kitagawa, who used to be dismissive of naked-eye 3D technology, has to show a little admiration to Shinji, the creator of "Super Eight".

Of course, to a large extent, it is also because Mr. Kitagawa really wants to form a [Johnny x Xingyue] boy group, so he specifically wants to have a good relationship with Shen Er.

In the Japanese entertainment industry, Mr. Kitagawa's admiration can be said to be very valuable, so valuable that the boss of the firm can brag about it.

It's a pity that Shen Er and the Japanese entertainment circle are not playing in the same system, so there is no disturbance in his heart, and he even wants to laugh a little.

"Old man, you have won the prize."

Afraid of being regarded as deliberately provocative by the other side, Shen Er still held back his laughter.

"Speaking of which, the premiere of "Godzilla" seems to be the day after tomorrow, and the location is in Tokyo, right?"

After chatting with the old man for a few words, Shen Er asked casually.

"Yes."

Mr. Kitagawa nodded.

Johnny's and Dongbao are regarded as key cooperative customers, and the two parties are relatively clear about each other's situation.

One of them is the largest male talent agency in Japan, and the other is the largest film company in Japan. It is difficult to think that there is no intersection.

In fact, the old man himself also received an invitation letter to attend the premiere of "Godzilla" the day after tomorrow.

However, now Shen Er asked this question.

[What does this kid want to do? 】

"Don't think too much, old man."

Shen Er could tell at a glance that the old man with severe conspiracy theories was thinking too much again, so he quickly explained:

"I just received an invitation from Toho through Tsuburaya, planning to attend the premiere of "Godzilla"."

"I see!"

The old man nodded and said nothing more.

No matter what Shen Er thinks, since he explained it that way, the old man will take it for what he really thinks.

"It seems that the old man is very smart!"

After the old man left, Cloris leaned over and put her arm around Shinji's shoulder and commented.

"Before, I just heard that he started from scratch and made his brokerage company the number one in Japan. Seeing him complimenting you today is completely different from before. This attitude of being able to bend and stretch is really well-deserved."

"Those who can make a name for themselves in the entertainment industry can still control the industry for so many years, how many of them are simple?"

Shinji shook his head disapprovingly, then glanced at Cloris again,

"What do you say, Lissie?"

"Are you implying that I am scheming, or are you implying that I am blind to money?"

Cloris gave Shinji a charming look.

"Talk about me, aren't you also full of bad water, a big liar who can't even believe in punctuation?"

After hearing this, Shen Er laughed: "That's right, I'm an old fox, and Lissie, you are a little fox."

【You want to show that I am eaten to death by you, right? 】

Cloris thought depressingly in her heart.

[But I have roughly figured out your routine, and I have made progress, Xiaoerer. 】

"Shinji, you're definitely not going to the premiere of "Godzilla", are you?"

"Why do you say that?"

"You are not interested in this movie at all, and you don't have the idea of ​​slapping Dongbao in the face."

Cloris rubbed against Shinji's arm, guessing in a coquettish tone.

"Combined with the gambling between you and the old men on the board of directors, you should probably be manipulating behind the scenes, trying to find a way to make "Godzilla" collapse at the box office, right?"

Speaking of this, Cloris looked at Shen Er curiously: "So, how do you plan to crush this movie that is fighting with you?"

Cloris knew Shen Er very well, this man usually had a good laugh, but if he really wanted to be serious, he was very competitive.

Otherwise, the other party will not keep rejecting his overtures because of concerns about whether he will be manipulated by the Times Group after marrying him.

During this period, Dongbao tried every means to discredit "Super Eight", and used various film reviews and publicity to promote its own "Godzilla".

If he, Matou Shinji, was not angry, Cloris would dare to belly dance in front of this man, and she would only wear the tulle version.

"Hey, it's too much to say that you will be crushed to death."

Shen Er rubbed his nose with a wry smile, and complained, "I have been a member of the Tong family for 500 years, how can I be so rude~"

"So you are not going to crush to death, but to [suppress]?"

Cloris asked with a smile.

Coming and going has never been Shinji's style.

Regardless of [suppression] or [crushing to death], Cloris believes that Shinji will definitely do it.

In fact, now Xingyue Company has begun to fight back against Dongbao's public opinion offensive.

In addition to continuing to stir up topics and promote "Super Eight", those sailors who were previously regarded by Shinji as fishing for money, began to suppress "Godzilla" from all aspects without hesitation.

After all, once the box office of "Godzilla" breaks out, not to mention the audience's choice, the screening rate in theaters alone will have an impact on "Super Eight", which in turn will affect the box office of "Super Eight".

This is a very simple truth. The film scheduling rate involves the upper limit of a movie's box office.

Without film schedules and screens, no matter how good a film is, it is impossible to see explosive box office growth.

"Most of the theaters in North America should not cut our screen count."

Cloris dragged Shinji along and said, "But when the new movie is released, the schedule of "Super Eight" will definitely be affected. Not to mention Japan returning Toho's home court."

This is inevitable. Although under the influence of Shinji, the number of screens around the world is constantly increasing, but the number of screens cannot be too many in a short period of time.

After all, it takes 10 months to have a baby, and it takes at least a few months for a movie screen to be installed and used.

"So, Shinji, have you thought of a suitable way to counterattack?" Cloris asked.

No matter what the old men on the board of directors think, anyway, Miss Lissy is firmly on the side of the young and handsome Mr. Director in this bet.

Shen Er raised a finger and said confidently: "The test screening feedback of "Godzilla" has made it very clear, we only need to grasp a little bit."

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The best way to fight this kind of public opinion war against a certain movie is to seize one of its shortcomings and pursue it fiercely.

Although this will result in too concentrated attack points, if the overall level of the movie is good, it will not have much repercussions.

But how should I put it? Excellent movies often have their own similarities, while bad movies often develop in all aspects.

Dongbao's awareness of secrecy is very good, but the results of several trial screenings of "Godzilla" were still easily obtained by Shinji's side.

This kind of thing is not a secret at all, and the bigwigs in the movie circle basically have a copy.

From the report received by Shen Er, it can be seen that there are few problems in the trial screening of "Godzilla", and the overall sense of the film is not bad, but it is specific to the performance of the actors, the logic of the plot, the details of special effects...etc. When each sub-item is on, the audience and the media will complain about it.

In such an overall environment, Shinji only needs to grasp a point that everyone is not satisfied with, and then use this point as a breakthrough to pursue and fight hard,——Godzilla's shape.

Even though the Godzilla in the script setting has nothing to do with the previous movies, this monster, which can only be regarded as a lizard, has been criticized by countless Godzilla fans.

The most basic audience group of "Super Eight" are fans of Ultraman, and the basic set of "Godzilla" is Godzilla fans.

If you can't even please these people, and the word-of-mouth of "Godzilla" itself is mediocre, it will not be too easy to be led in the future.

A few days before the release of "Godzilla", there was a lot of complaints on the Internet. The complaints can be summed up in one sentence - Godzilla in this movie is a lizard!

Accompanying it is the original draft of Godzilla's movie styling, which was made out of nowhere.

It's not the one that was "accidentally" lost by the director, but the one that was finally used in the movie and the director liked it.

Shen Er didn't know where the people from the Propaganda Department got this design drawing.

But now that you have it, you can just make it public.

Of course, it is to let a certain sailor act as an "ordinary Godzilla fan".

Under the guidance of the sailors, this Godzilla design drawing has caused countless complaints and comments.

"Why did you design Godzilla like that?! Did Toho get water in his head?"

"I really want to throw up after seeing this look!"

"Finding a lizard to play Brother Boss is an insult to Brother Sige, and by the way, our IQ!"

"This lizard is so stupid! I really want to ask, is this a pet of a high-level Dongbao? How dare you want to show it so much!"

Almost everyone is complaining about Godzilla's lizard shape. Even if some people occasionally give positive comments, they just think that the special effects of this lizard are good, rather than agreeing with Godzilla's new shape.

For a film, if even the most basic protagonist's appearance is completely rejected by the audience, the consequences will undoubtedly be disastrous.

After the ruffian's "New Ultraman" started to be released, the propagandist has been emphasizing that the design of the new Ultraman is to return to the original intention, in order to reduce the audience's resistance to this new look.

And now, Dongbao's mood is like those of the moon chefs who saw the shape of the first machine——

Fuck him?!The whole TM collapsed!

Chapter 253 Shen Er: It's All Fake News

In the face of Xingyue's public opinion attack, Dongbao is of course also working hard to reverse the negative impact of Godzilla's appearance, and at the same time use other publicity and hype to divert the attention of movie fans.

Their film distributor in North America is Paramount Pictures, which is the film company whose logo is Daxueshan. I hope they can effectively counterattack through their own media channels.

They took aim at the scandal of Shen Er, who has been the focus of fans' attention since "Super Eight" was released.

Further down is Nagano Hiroshi, but Nagano Hiroshi is an artist under Johnny's.

Although Johnny's has not been as domineering and arrogant as the 90[bā][-]s in the past two years, there is no way to directly block the black materials of his artists.

But the premise is that you have to have real scandals to come out. If you really want to make trouble out of nothing, are you going to be punched by Mr. Kitagawa himself?