Don't call me Master, call me Director

You must know that when the old man was young, he often beat people with his own hands.

Moreover, movie fans in North America are not interested in a Japanese star. No matter how handsome Hiroshi Nagano is, he is just a passer-by in their eyes, and he is not as recognizable as Tiga after his transformation.

Compared with actors, director Shinji Matou is more recognizable in Europe and the United States, and is more likely to be attacked.

While Shen Er made a lot of money in Europe and America in the past two years, he also offended many people.

Among other things, there are quite a few filmmakers who were in the same schedule as the two Fates, but were robbed by Shinji at the box office.

They don't think about whether there is a problem with their own movie, they just worry that if there is no Matou Shinji, then their own movie will definitely not be so miserable.

These people may not be successful, but it is still possible to beat the side drums and cheer.

For Dongbao, attacking Matou Shinji can not only divert the attention of movie fans, but also curb the hot momentum of "Super Eight", which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

What Dongbao didn't expect was that Paramount's reaction was much more intense than they expected.

Originally they thought that Paramount was just going to have some gossip at most, but the snow mountain was going to use an avalanche to bury Shinji Matou alive

Soon, a lot of negative news about Shen Er was published on the Internet and in many paper media.

"Matou Shinji, a fraudster director, a criminal in a delicate package! "

Under such a horrifying title, there is a series of descriptions that are difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The writers invited by Paramount used this article as a starting point to discredit Shinji from all angles.

Starting from Matou Shinji's young age, they questioned Shenji's past achievements.

For example, Shen Er's diplomas were unreliable. They recruited several Oxford University Ph.D students who graduated at the same time as Shen Er "theoretically".

Let fans know one thing through their interviews-Matou Shinji's Oxford diploma is strange.

This is of course nonsense. During those years in England, Shen Er studied at the Clock Tower, and his understanding of Oxford was not much better than that of outsiders.

He may know where the gates of Oxford open, but if he wants to ask how many gates Oxford has, then he will be GG.

Not only the issue of Shen Er's diploma, Dongbao also caught some small mistakes and omissions of Shen Er when he was studying in the United States.

One of them was that Shen Er was obviously underage at the time, but he was able to drive around the streets and alleys of Los Angeles.

Another example is his abnormal relationship with Times Group, which even implies that there is an abnormal business cooperation between Xingyue Company and Times Group.

In order to pour enough dirty water on Shen Er, these people even maliciously speculated that Matou Shen Er had seduced the senior executives of the Times Group because of his good skin—they even maliciously did not specify the gender of the executive.

If Shen Er hadn't discovered that the content described in the article had nothing similar to his own experience, he would even suspect that this article was actually written by a female executive herself.

Under normal circumstances, it is not a big deal for Shen Er to really find a senior executive of the Times Group to fall in love.

It doesn't matter even if it's a man. In this era, although the "freedom of love" organization with [a long list of letters and constantly increasing] is not so strong yet, signs of "correctness" are already growing.

But the problem is that Shen Er's age is very problematic. If the py deal between him and a certain executive is really established and it is pushed forward for another two years... Haha.

It can only be said that Paramount's pens are really vicious, and all their moves are aimed at the direction of Shen Er's ruin.

However, Shen Er has long been used to the disgusting behavior of Paramount, after all, it is not the first time that the other party has done such a thing. [-], [-]? [-] [-]? [-] [-]

In his previous life, when Tom Cruise's divorce, beliefs and other scandals were the hottest, it was when he and Paramount fought a lawsuit over the ownership of the "Mission: Impossible" series.

When the two parties reached an agreement to promote "Mission: Impossible", the black material disappeared immediately.

To say that there is no relationship between the two is to treat people as fools.

Shen Er and Xingyue Group have already predicted Paramount's smears.

Relying on the media company under the Times Group, Shen Er is not afraid of these methods within the rules, and continues to counterattack, and the counterattack is always firmly focused on one point.

"Godzilla turned out to be a big lizard!"

They keep using this to remind the audience, although it may attract some good people or passers-by to watch.

But Shen Er believes that as long as this content is used to influence the core fans and pull down the film's evaluation, then "Godzilla" will definitely lose more audiences.

So the two sides took the Internet and entertainment newspapers as their positions, and the war of words completely escalated before the release of "Godzilla".

"Shinji Matou has an ambiguous relationship with the executives of the Times Group. Now that he is going in and out of luxury hotels in Tokyo, it seems that there are unclean internal exposures..."

Regardless of whether they have it or not, Paramount is casting a wide net anyway, as long as they can blackmail Shinji Matou's place, they will be black, and they will not easily let go of anything that can be used to create momentum.

But Shen Er always kept a tight grip on this side.

"Godzilla turned out to be a big lizard!!"

"When Shinji Matou was studying in the United States, he was suspected of driving without a license..."

"Godzilla turned out to be a big lizard!!"

"Matou Shinji suspected of diploma fraud..."

"Godzilla turned out to be a big lizard!!"

"Deciphering Matou Shinji and Xingyue Company, which recruited so many good-looking actors, their purpose is to satisfy their unknown hobbies..."

"Godzilla turned out to be a big lizard!!"

Different from the opponent's widely distributed attack, Shen Er concentrated his power on one point and kept passing through his own navy to remind the audience not to forget that Godzilla's appearance is problematic.

In fact, why didn't Paramount want to focus on attacking Matou Shinji on one point.

But the problem is that many of Shen Er's black spots are plausible. If they dig deeper, they may be sued by Shen Er for spreading rumors.

The only black spot that can be regarded as certain is that Matou Shinji's diploma is really problematic.

However, they couldn't check this line at all, because Oxford University directly informed them that if they dare to continue to say that Shen Er's diploma is problematic, they will let Paramount know how many awesome alumni Oxford has.

It stands to reason that Paramount, an American company, does not need to deal with a British university at all, but Oxford's name is indeed resounding enough. Even in the United States, there are many elites who graduated from Oxford or are honorary alumni of Oxford.

The higher-ups at Paramount discussed it. It wasn't because my mother was harassed by the principal of Oxford, Bidong. It really couldn't be against this school, so I had to give up.

But Paramount did not stop discrediting Shen Er, and began to look for other breakthroughs, trying to make Shen Er completely dead.

Shen Er sometimes doesn't understand Paramount's mad dog. He is just hindering them from making money, so why should he be desperate?

What a hatred, have you greeted your mother yet?

Anyway, no matter what Paramount thinks, Shinji already holds a grudge against Paramount.

It's just that now, in order to ensure the promotion of his own movie, he can only choose to deal with it coldly because he doesn't want to cause trouble, and then settle the score when there is no heat afterwards.

In fact, the current Shen Er is not making Paramount embarrassed. Under the tireless slander of the Xingyue Shuijun, despite the fact that the film "Godzilla" has only held a few trial screenings and has not yet been officially released, word-of-mouth on the Internet It fell completely.

Among other things, the audience score on IMDB is 8.1 points at the beginning, which can only be regarded as barely passing for a major commercial production.

In stark contrast, the online word-of-mouth of "Super Eight" has always been strong, even after the first weekend, the word-of-mouth is still strong, and the IMDB score...

Ahem, I understand everything.

The excellent word-of-mouth has brought about the extremely stable box office trend of "Super Eight". Although the box office of the five-day weekdays is not as good as the first weekend, it is not far behind.

It has not yet entered its second weekend, and the North American box office of "Super Eight" is almost reaching the $1 million expected by the company.

The excitement of Xingyue and the executives of Time Group can be imagined, this is likely to be another FZ-level movie.

With the excellent box office bonus, the attitude of Time Group executives towards Shen Er and "Super Eight" is also quietly changing.

Originally, their attitude towards "Super Eight" was a bit lukewarm because of the bet.

Despite efforts to promote the film, it was merely routine.

Now they are starting to support Matou Shinji in the war of words, and spontaneously strive for a positive image and traffic for him, helping Shenji clean up.

Echoing the box office, there are also peripheral products with increasing sales—especially Ultraman’s various transformation props, from rough soft rubber sticks to Bandai’s boutique DX and UR, which have become a favorite of many movie fans. essential items.

Even though Shinji and Bandai didn't agree on the Fate series peripheral agency, Bandai's hand speed in pushing Ultraman toys is not slow at all.

Since the beginning of this year, various versions of Bandai's transformation devices have been selling very well.

After the box office of "Super Eight" was released in the first weekend, Bandai also launched various soft rubber dolls of Ultraman and monsters, which are also quite popular.

In a week, the toy products related to Ultraman have brought nearly 1700 million US dollars in revenue to all parties. In addition to the revenue from various other peripheral images, the sales of the peripherals alone have easily exceeded 3000. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

In the film industry, it can be said that there is no more direct and effective way to improve a director's status in the eyes of a film company than box office and peripheral income.

Don't look at everyone talking about "for the art of film", if you really want to run out of money, who the hell cares about art?

Therefore, looking at Shinji Matou is like looking at the US dollar. The phenomenon of human-to-human transmission began to appear in the Xingyue system, and it spread to various companies with IMAX as the source point...

Now, "Super Eight" enters its second weekend.

Its subsequent commercial performance depends not only on itself, but also on its newly opened competitors.

If the competitor is too strong, it will inevitably form a shock.

And now, the opponent of "Super Eight" in various meanings-"Godzilla" is finally here.

Chapter 254 But it's not as good as "Super Eight"

Before the sun rose on Friday, Guangan Matsuoka got up early.

He didn't go directly to the company to work, but paced back and forth around the yard at home.

Originally, he thought that this method could calm himself down, but it turned out that the more he walked, the more upset he became.

In the end, he could only go back to the living room in silence, pour himself a glass of milk to calm down.

At yesterday's premiere, judging from the audience's reaction, the film didn't seem to be as bad as expected.

He made a special observation that there was no audience who left early during the whole screening, and the applause after the screening was warm enough.

Although this is likely to be the most basic etiquette for the audience attending the premiere, Guang'an Matsuoka hopes that these people applaud because they really think the movie is wonderful.

If the other early shows can be like the premiere, "Godzilla" doesn't say that the box office is super hot, at least the numbers won will not be ugly.

At this time, Guang'an Matsuoka didn't realize that his mood had changed from completely defeating Matou Shinji and "Super Eight" a month ago, to winning as long as "Godzilla" succeeded.

In addition to the fact that "Super Eight" is indeed very good, there is also the fact that "Godzilla" has had too many negative reviews recently, which caused him to be overwhelmed and unable to hold his head up.

But people always have a fluke mentality. After all, there are not many movies that have a bad reputation before the release and are not favored by the outside world, but after the release, the box office explodes.

Not to mention, Matou Shinji's FSN was a very typical example.

Isn't "Godzilla" at this time very similar to FSN at that time?

Guang'an Matsuoka felt that "Godzilla" might be such a lucky one.

But Guang'an Matsuoka forgot that FSN is just not favored by the critics and the industry, and the audience's word-of-mouth for its several trial screenings is explosive.

But when it comes to Matou Shinji, Guang'an Matsuoka always feels a little strange.

Shinji also participated in the premiere last night.

Because of the recent war of words, Guangan Matsuoka deliberately observed the opponent carefully.

As a result, after the whole premiere, Shinji Matou behaved very peacefully.

Except when the movie was showing, he would occasionally talk to Cloris Flora who was sitting next to him, other times Matou Shinji did not show any abnormalities.

Even after the movie was over, the other party shook hands with him personally and wished him a big box office hit.

Matou Shinji's performance greatly stimulated Guang'an Matsuoka, it's not that the other party did something, it's just that the other party didn't do anything.

According to Guang'an Matsuoka's understanding, this kind of young and successful young man should have a youthful personality. He has been so discredited recently, so he should provoke and bite in various ways.

As a result, the other party watched the movie in such a well-behaved manner, just like other mature film company owners.

"Could that kid be able to distinguish Dongbao from Paramount who directly smeared him?"

Guang'an Matsuoka felt a little unbelievable, but it seemed that only this statement could make sense.

Just when Guang'an Matsuoka was restless and thinking wildly, his cell phone rang.

Guang'an Matsuoka took a look, it was his secretary calling.

He hurriedly pressed the call button on his phone and put it next to his ear: "It's me. Have you got the box office statistics for the early show?"

"Just got it."

The voice in the receiver was interrupted for a while, and Guangan Matsuoka's heart began to sink.

There was no joy in the secretary's voice, only solemnity, which meant that the news must be bad.

"Boss, the data is slightly lower than expected."

"Where is the data?"

"North America and Japan are still counting."