Don't call me Master, call me Director

"How many?"

According to Paramount's calculations, the North American box office of "Godzilla" should be between 325 million and 375 million US dollars.

But for Matsuoka, who has already lowered his expectations, as long as he has 250 million US dollars, he will be successful.

As a result, as soon as Guangan Matsuoka had this idea, he was startled by the voice in the receiver.

"It's $168 million...around."

"Around $168 million?!"

168 million dollars!

Also about TM!

How can this be a little lower, it is simply cut off at the waist! !

Guang'an Matsuoka didn't even have the energy to scold the secretary for not doing well in elementary school math, so he hung up the phone.

He sat on the couch in a daze, not wanting to do anything or say anything.

This Dongbao executive had only one thought in his head: it's over, everything about me is over!

In order to forcefully promote the "Godzilla" project, I offended many people in the company.

At that time, the board of directors of Dongbao Company was interested in this project, so it helped him settle the obstacles within the company and pushed the project.

Now that the movie has failed, those people would definitely bite like mad dogs back then.

No wonder that guy Matou Shinji didn't care at all yesterday, after all, who cares about a dead person?

After a long time, Guang'an Matsuoka gradually recovered. He clasped his hands together and prayed devoutly.

Guang'an Matsuoka is not a Christian, but now he really hopes that God can help him.

"Everyone should watch this film!"

Guang'an Matsuoka said so.

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A film released on a large scale, no matter how bad it is, will definitely be watched by some audiences.

Unless Shinji directly hints to people all over the world that they should not watch "Godzilla", this is an inevitable situation in every movie market.

Not to mention whether Shen Er can do it, if he really dares to do it, the clock tower will seal him first.

But, for the audience to watch and watch, no one can guarantee what will happen after watching it.

The sun is shining in Japan in mid-May, and as the summer vacation approaches, various places begin to heat up on a large scale.

Complementary to the rising temperature is the enthusiasm of the film market, because the summer vacation is coming.

Unlike last year's summer file, which didn't have any good movies, this year's summer file can be described as a gathering of talents.

Previously, the experience of "Super Eight" started, and it made a debut, followed by "Godzilla" The Return of the King

In the future, there will be "Mission Impossible" by the well-known male movie star Diarmuid waiting for everyone.

It can be said that those who were able to watch movies in the summer vacation in 06 were definitely much happier than those in 05.

But how to choose a movie is a problem.

"I said, what movie should we go to see?"

In a McDonald's in Tokyo, a group of young students sat on a bench and discussed the upcoming activities.

One of them drank Coke and said, "Anyone want to watch a low-budget horror movie?"

"I'm not going!"

The immediate objection expressed by someone: "I'm timid and don't want to watch it."

"Okay, then choose between "Super Eight" and "Godzilla."

The other party shrugged his shoulders and threw out two proposals to his companions to solicit everyone's opinions.

"Chai Song, tell me first."

"Me?" Chai Song raised his eyebrows, "I choose Super Eight."

"Come on, it's still "Godzilla"? I've already watched "Super Eight."

"I've watched it twice, so let's choose Godzilla."

"Ultraman is childhood, and so is Godzilla! It's been so long since I've reappeared on the big screen, so I have to watch it no matter what."

""Super Eight" must watch the IMAX version, but now there are no good seats to buy tickets."

"But......"

A girl raised her hand: "Didn't the newspaper say that the appearance of Godzilla was changed to be ugly?"

Another boy joked directly: "I think you just want to see the male idol of J's family, right?"

"Hit you!"

The boy smiled and dodged the girl's little fist, tilted his head and confirmed to Chaisong: "Chai Song, haven't you watched "Super Eight"? If not, we can accompany you to watch it."

Chai Song ate french fries, and replied indifferently: "It's okay, I'll go to see "Godzilla" with you."

Of course he would not say that he has watched "Super Eight" three times, and all of them are in the IMAX version.

The first time was watched by members of the magician club together, the second time was his personal second brush, and the third time was to analyze the glasses-free 3D technique according to the family's request.

Therefore, Cai Song really doesn't mind watching "Godzilla" to change his eyes.

As for why he proposed to watch "Super Eight" just now...

"This is the basic political correctness of being a magician!"

After unifying their opinions, these young people hastily ended their lunch at M and went straight to the cinema.

Then they regret it.

It is not clear whether the others regretted it later, but Chaisong himself regretted it anyway.

It's not that the movie "Godzilla" is ugly, but there is definitely a gap between it and "Super Eight" that is visible to the naked eye.

Anyway, Chaisong himself found the movie so boring that he yawned most of the time.

The plot of the whole movie is very old-fashioned, so old-fashioned that Chai Song can guess it casually.

Aside from the lengthy and boring human scenes, the heroine’s existence is to scream meaninglessly, and the shrill voice makes Chaisong often cover her ears.

These are nothing, and more importantly, Godzilla's shape is too ugly.

The report in the newspaper was not wrong, this is a big ugly lizard.

Compared with it, the Hippolyte star with a long hanging face is so beautiful.

If it wasn't for his partners still sitting here, if it wasn't for Chaisong himself who had nothing to do, he would have chosen to leave early.

If it was Cai Song 5 years ago, he might still have a little interest in this movie.

But now he has long been adopted by Shinji Matou's commercial movies.

The special effects of "Godzilla" are acceptable, Godzilla is ugly, and the degree of fidelity is still acceptable, but it is not as good as "Super Eight";

The scene of destroying the city is not small, but it is not as good as "Super Eight";

The action scenes are well designed, and there are a lot of explosion sparks, but it is not as good as "Super Eight";

The appearance of the protagonist...is still not as good as "Super Eight".

All in all, this movie is more than enough, but it was beaten by "Super Eight" in all directions.

"Ok?"

Feeling a push from someone, Chai Song quickly turned his head.

"Why are you still in a daze? The movie is over."

Only then did Chai Song realize that the movie was over.

"It's over? How do you feel?"

Hearing Cai Song's question, the other party knew that he was distracted.

"It's not good, it's worse than "Super Eight" anyway." The partner frowned and commented, "There is a suspenseful sequel at the end, but I definitely won't watch it."

"I think so too."

Chai Song nodded, got up and walked out of the theater with everyone, only to bump into an investigator head-on.

The other party stuffed a movie version of Godzilla soft glue and asked, "Can you talk about the movie you just watched?"

Chai Song glanced at the small gift from the other party, and said casually: "Yes. The movie is mediocre in all aspects, not comparable to "Super Eight."

Later, when the other party asked about the rating, out of support for Shinji Matou and respect for Sister Youzhu, Chai Song gave a bad rating without hesitation.

When he walked out of the theater, Cai Song happened to come across a trash can, and without thinking about it, he threw the Godzilla doll in his hand into the trash can.

This scene happened to be photographed by a passing reporter, and it was placed on the front page of the next day's entertainment page.

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Chapter 255 Killing...Punishment? !

The Godzilla doll thrown into the trash can, and the back view of the discarder walking out of the cinema without looking back.

From a photographic point of view, this photo is really lacking in beauty, and the composition is also slightly problematic, but the meaning and atmosphere that the photo wants to express are undoubtedly in place.

So once this photo called "The Abandoned Godzilla" was made public, it became a powerful proof that the moon-based navy attacked the "Godzilla" movie.

You see, other audiences don't even want the free toys, which shows how ugly this movie is.

Cai Song himself soon saw the photo, but he didn't feel that his portrait rights had been violated because of it—he didn't show his face anyway.

He regretted that he didn't notice that a reporter was taking pictures at that time, otherwise he would have to design this photo well.

"If I had known there was a reporter, I wouldn't have thrown it in the trash can at the door."

In the Magician's Club, Cai Song shook his head looking at the photos in the newspaper.

"What? Are you still shy?"

Qingzi on the side smiled and teased.

"No, I should buy a movie ticket for "Super Eight", and then throw that toy in the trash can at the entrance of the "Super Eight" theater."

"In this way, what the reporter captured was the back view of me throwing away my toys and walking into the theater of "Super Eight"."

"If you kill people, don't think about punishing your heart." Qingzi complained with a little sympathy, "Dongbao is miserable enough. Because of your photo, the filming rate of "Godzilla" has dropped a lot."

"Whether Dongbao is miserable or not is none of my business, I'm a magician."

Qingzi rolled his eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to this guy.

In fact, Qingzi was wrong in his sentence. Although the photo of Chaisong has a wide impact, the speed of fermentation of the photo must not be that fast.

The drop in "Godzilla" has less to do with photos and more to do with Friday's poor box office numbers.

At the end of Friday, as an old film, "Super Eight" actually beat the new film "Godzilla" with only US$1047 million by US$602 million.

The box office was suppressed so much on the premiere day, and the reputation was not good.

The theater bosses know very well that "Godzilla" is over.

This is the direct reason why the major theater companies immediately lowered the filming rate of "Godzilla" starting from Saturday.

Of course, the major theaters did not go too far. Their schedule for Saturday is at least as good as "Super Eight" and "Godzilla".

But when they saw that the box office of "Godzilla" was still not improving on Saturday, they simply further compressed "Godzilla" and gave up the movie screenings to "Super Eight".

Under normal circumstances, theaters with poor performance in "Godzilla" will not adjust the film schedule so quickly.

But the 3D movie ticket price of "Super Eight" is twice as expensive as the 2D ticket of "Godzilla", and you can make more money by selling one more movie ticket for "Super Eight". Calculate.

When the sun rises from the horizon again, Sunday comes quietly.

Tokyo, Toho Films headquarters building.

Since going to work, the atmosphere in the company has been a little dignified.