Chapter 908: Mutual Blackness

When the reporter checked the film schedule, he found that the market share of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" reached 25% on the 15th, but the Golden Harvest Cinema Line, which is owned by the peak of the century, was given a cold reception, and the current first day of the film schedule is only 2%. Similarly, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" has only 2.2% of Wanda's film schedule. According to people familiar with the matter, Wanda's headquarters has issued an order to block "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", and Century Summit has also decided to block Wanda's films. โ€”โ€”"Peking Daily"

"This year's Chinese New Year and Spring Festival, Wanda Pictures in addition to "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", "Intimate Enemy", "The Great Magician" and many other films were released, and the peak of the century also held "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "Chasing and Killing K Star People", "Tears of the Alluring City" and many other films were released. The confrontation between Century Summit and Wanda has only just begun. How long will this dark war last, and whether the banning rumors are true, can only continue to be seen on the film schedule. โ€”โ€”Wen Wei Po

"The peak of the century and Wanda have a lot of grievances, and it is foreseeable that after the short-term confrontation between "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", there will be more opportunities for head-to-head confrontation in the future, and the show has just begun. โ€”โ€”West China Metropolis Daily

"The peak of the century and Wanda blocked each other, and the hard work of Zhang Yimou and Tsui Hark became cannon fodder in business wars?" - "Yangcheng Evening News"

Although the media could not determine whether Century Summit and Wanda really blocked the opponent, everyone knew the contradiction between Century Summit and Wanda, and no one thought it strange that the two sides were at war, so the next day, major domestic media reported the news for the first time.

However, both Century Summit and Wanda have denied the claim of blocking their opponents, and there are things that can be done, but they can't be said.

Zeng Maojun, the boss of Wanda Cinemas, said: "In business, Wanda will not be unable to get along with money. Even if Wanda is willing to block the peak of the century in vain with profits, investors who point to Wanda's dividends will not agree. โ€

Gao Jun, the person in charge of the Century Summit Cinema Line, also said: "We don't have a so-called ban on Wanda, and we have all of their films scheduled. It's just that the quality of Wanda's movies is average, and we are not very optimistic about the box office performance, so there are fewer films scheduled. If "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" does well at the box office, we will definitely increase the film schedule according to the programmatic process!"

Just when the media was talking about the war between the peak of the century and Wanda, the supporters of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and the fans of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" also launched a vigorous tearing war on the Internet, Zhang Ran and Zhang Yimou's fans faced fans of Tsui Hark, Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Li Yuchun and others, and the two sides were crazy about each other. The whole war has swept the entire network from meager to sticky bar, from cat pounce to tiger pounce, from Tianya gossip to Douban gossip.

Of course, because the movies of Century Summit and Wanda blocking each other's opponents have also brought inconvenience to some fans to watch the movie, some fans have complained on the Internet.

"I charged my membership card in Wanda, and now I don't even release "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", I have to go to other movie theaters to watch it, how can there be such a thing? When will the country take action to rectify the film industry? Will it really become a row in the future, what will we watch?"

"Why is the war at the studios affecting us? You're kidnapping the audience!"

"It is an unreasonable offense to the audience to let the film company decide to schedule the film because of selfish interests, rather than the audience's preferences, and in the long run, it will hurt the entire Chinese film industry. I just hope that this farce will end soon, and the General Administration will pay attention to this matter soon!"

For the audience, they don't care what contradictions there are between Century Peak and Wanda, they only know that Century Summit and Wanda blocked their opponents so that they couldn't watch movies nearby, which caused them trouble.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the time quickly came to December 15th.

The publicity and secret war of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" have already made the audience impatient, although it is a working day, there are still many viewers who can't wait to experience the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" was officially released, and the attendance rate remained high, sweeping away the downturn of the previous few days, and the theater presented a lively scene. At 6 o'clock in the evening, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was launched on time, and the audience who came to buy tickets was endless. Basically, the venue was full, movie tickets were sold, and the sporadic vacant seats in the screening hall were also for the audience to come.

"Dragon Gate Flying Armor" was released at 2 o'clock, with 11,500 films scheduled nationwide, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" started at 18 o'clock, and the number of films scheduled nationwide was 7,600, and after 18 o'clock in the evening, the number of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" was only 4,800. "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" was released 4 hours ahead of schedule, and finally won the box office slightly better, winning the first-day championship with 31 million yuan, followed by "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" with 23 million. However, judging from the attendance rate and audience response, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is undoubtedly the biggest winner, according to an online survey, 66% of the audience believes that "The Thirteen Hairpins" exceeds their expectations.

With the official release of the movie, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" sparked heated discussions on the Internet, Zhang Yimou, Tom Cruise, and the heroine Ni Ni were all sent to the hot search list by netizens, and #้‡‘้™ตๅไธ‰้’—#ๆ›ดๆ˜ฏ่ขซ้€ไธŠไบ†ๅฎžๆ—ถ็ƒญๆœ็™ปไธŠ็ฌฌไธ€, the Internet was overwhelmingly praised.

On the one hand, it is delicate and gentle, on the other hand, it is flamboyant and brutal, sensational but not tear-jerking, more repressive, and the accumulated emotions have nowhere to vent until the end of the play, and there are still palpitations after watching it. I hope that this work can awaken the people of the country and never forget the national shame. โ€

"So far, the most successful, the most tense, and the most artistic value of the Anti-Japanese War has been filmed. China fought for eight years, but in 60 or 70 years, it did not write a single decent war literature. Similarly, the anti-Japanese war films are overwhelming, but none of them really dig deep and capture the cruelty of war and the beauty of human nature. Today, such a film has finally been produced in China. In terms of the artistic standard of the film, it can be called a perfect film. โ€

"There were no prostitutes, no students, only thirteen people who stepped forward to save thirteen weaker people. They make choices because of human nature, as if the flame polished in the wind and snow, blooming with faint light and heat, may be able to save the match girl from life. โ€

On this night, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", which has not been able to appear on the Weibo hot search list, finally appeared on the hot search list, but for Wanda and the supporters of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", they would rather not be on the hot search list, because "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" is followed by two words in Weibo's hot search: bad movie!

Weibo is a platform where there are thousands of marketing accounts. In the past century, the peak of the century was relatively lenient in the management of marketing accounts, as long as it did not go crazy to brush fans, create rumors, and violate laws and disciplines, Century Summit has always not interfered;

The marketing account is dependent on Weibo to survive, so naturally they dare not offend the peak of the century, otherwise the peak of the century will find an excuse to ban the account, and they will be finished. Therefore, after receiving the hint of the peak of the century, thousands of marketing accounts collectively dispatched and began to hack "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", and instantly sent "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" to the hot search list in the name of a bad movie.

In recent years, Century Peak has controlled Tiger Sniff, 21st Century Media and other media through shareholding and acquisitions, and these media naturally issued articles for the first time to support "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and black "Dragon Gate Flying Armor";

"The plot is verbose, and there are a lot of empty dialogues imitating "Dragon Gate Inn", which is too pale and weak! Do you have to compare with "Painted Wall" whose lines are disgusting, right? In the end, the tornado decisive battle is also, Jet Li and Chen Kun didn't have a few moves, Jet Li threw out a sentence, you have the ability, follow me into the storm to fight! You-Mom might as well say directly, let's go, buddy, go into the storm to fight, so it's easier to do stunts, and it's good to shoot in 3D, and then the two of them began to play with chains, Chen Kun turned and turned, like a nebula chain, and like fancy gymnastics. The kung fu is gone, and it has become a disaster movie. โ€

"There are serious loopholes in the stunts, and I have seen the black edges of your cutouts in those scenes in the desert, okay? Beyond the 86 version of Journey to the West, you are high-tech, aren't you?

"There is really no worst, only worse! The plot of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" has no new ideas, it will only fry cold rice! Director Tsui Hark was quite kind to see you, but you disappointed me this time! In the film, two people were fighting, and they actually started chatting, I damn it! Simply, there was a lot of laughter in the movie theater, and this was actually said to be an occasional joke by the vest movie reviews you paid for! Nima, what do you think, in order to make money, let such a bad Hong Kong drama come to China to cheat the money of the people who like movies and really love movies! Isn't there a department that can supervise such a commercial production and really come out to cheat money?"

Wanda is not completely without backhand, Yu Dong has been operating in the film industry for many years, and he still has some connections in the media, and more importantly, after Huayi was completely defeated by the peak of the century, Wanda incorporated the forces of the Beijing circle, coupled with the media such as "Xinjing News", which is not in harmony with the peak of the century, at least in traditional media, Wanda's power cannot be underestimated.

Under Wanda's control, the media headed by "Xinjing Bao" and the experts and professors headed by Zhu Dake are singing praises for "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", saying that it has become a new benchmark for Chinese-language martial arts movies, and at the same time they have published articles criticizing "Jinling Thirteen Chai" from all angles, what "erotic patriotism", "consumer national difficulties", "why should Chinese let foreigners come to the rescue", "prostitutes save virgins", "why use prostitutes for virgins" and so on; some of them even put the American media on "Jinling Thirteen Chai" 's bad reviews moved over, shouting "Americans are not easy to deceive, and the bad reviews of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" are flooding."

At the same time as the secret war between the peak of the century and Wanda, fans of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" are also crazy on Douban and Time Online to brush their movies with five stars and one star to their opponents. Due to the fact that the number of participants on both sides is comparable, the score of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" has always fluctuated around 5 points, while "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" has been hovering around 7 points. In the end, Yu Dong had to dispatch a water army to maintain the praise of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" on Douban and Time.com.

It's fast forward to Monday, and the latest box office data for the week is out.

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" topped the top with 187.5 million, and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" followed closely with 142.5 million. Although "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" performed well, the blowout situation of the Chinese New Year stalls did not appear, and the two movies did not break any important box office records. Many people in the industry are slightly disappointed with the first week performance of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", and in the case of market expansion, neither film has reached the domineering level of 210 million yuan in the first week of last year's Chinese New Year file "Let the Bullets Fly".

For big productions such as "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", the first week mainly relies on sensational effects, the second week is the key to success or failure, and the second week largely depends on the word-of-mouth of the movie!