Chapter 258: Reversed Box Office
Not only did the New York Post and Cooper hold the banner of "4.2 million box office" to attack Leila, but some newspapers also waved their flags and shouted. 13579246810
Listening to their tone, it was as if Leila had made the worst movie ever.
There must be other film companies behind this, especially the few films that were released with the rush hour, and I wish everyone thought it was a bad movie, so that they wouldn't compete with them for the box office.
But some authoritative newspapers have praised Leila's films, saying that her filming and editing methods are very interesting, and can even be said to have pioneered a new style. The slow motion and surround method used in the fight, as well as the extraordinary visual enjoyment brought by the rapid switching of pictures in the fight and chase, are all worth learning from other directors.
But more newspapers don't think so. They only saw that the box office at the peak moment was "miserable", and it can be seen from the box office on the first day that the film has weak stamina, and if they want to make back their capital, they can only hope for the box office of the East, and the release of D.
Looking at the tone in the newspaper, Leila just thought it was funny.
After the movies she made created one box office dark horse after another, many people are saying that the movie is not good if the box office is high, but more importantly, the connotation. And now her box office is not high, and those people can't wait to stand up and say that the box office is very important, and if you can't even get that box office, it's too much of a failure or something.
Is it really good to publicize such an obvious double standard in a grand manner? Is it considered to be a slap in the face?
What makes Leila even more speechless is that she has received many phone calls since the morning, from her grandfather to her mother, from Zeni to Roy, from New Line Company to Chen Long, it seems that everyone has come to comfort her, saying that the movie is actually not that bad, but the audience will not be able to accept the relationship between the oriental kung fu film genre for a while and so on.
Of course, there is a reason for this, and Leila did not take on the job of directing without understanding the dangers at all. But no matter how she explained that "the movie is very good, the box office will be good in the future, and she is not worried at all that she can't make money", the people on the other side of the phone thought that she was comforting herself because she couldn't accept reality.
In the end, she simply stopped explaining, and let the facts answer everything.
And the box office on the second day of the rush hour also made many people shut up, because they got more than 800,000 box office, nearly double the previous day!
Now, the newspaper that was still attacking Leila yesterday suddenly became silent. There is no reason why the box office will rise so high all at once! Even if the next day is a weekend, it doesn't mean that so many people will come out to watch that movie at once, could it be that the Moran family is operating in the dark, so they buy the box office themselves in order to look good?
Not to mention, there are really not one or two media with such thoughts. If that's the case, you'll have fun watching it, it's definitely a big scandal! There is a first time, there is a second time, who can guarantee that the box office of the previous movies will not be brushed out?
The genius director, the Wonder Witch, may just be an illusory bubble piled up with money!
Journalists and paparazzi who think they have mastered a huge news use their own channels to find relevant "incriminating evidence". They know that if their speculation is true, their newspaper's sales won't have to worry about it. As for whether Leila Moran will be finished or not, what does it matter to them? Earning money is the most important thing!
However, no matter how they searched and searched, and how they picked out word by word from the box office records, the final results were all innocent records. Not only that, but they found out that other companies had stolen the box office at rush hour!
In other words, the box office on the first day can be higher, but it has been moved to the box office of other movies. Although it has moved more than 100,000 yuan, it is not high, but it is still a very bad thing.
The United States has a strong level of regulation over films, and the penalties for such things are usually severe. Theater owners and companies that have been fascinated by money will presumably be punished as they deserve, while reporters can only resent that they have been misled, and can only turn to studying why the box office has suddenly become higher.
Not to mention, they have really researched some of it.
After conducting some random interviews, the reporters found that it was not unreasonable to cause such a result.
First, the premiere was on Friday night, and it was only screened for half a day. The next day's box office was a full day. And it's a Saturday, which is a good time for people to come out on dates and watch movies.
Second, word of mouth spreads very quickly. The movie is very exciting, the fights are very exciting, the story is also very exciting, and similar words have been spread through the phone and the Internet and various ways, so that many people who originally didn't like kung fu tickets couldn't help but ask, is it really that good?
When it was affirmed, it made some people curious about the movie. Usually this curiosity is one of the driving forces for the audience to go to the cinema, especially when they hear that people around them are complimenting the movie on how good it is, and someone will want to go to the cinema to find out.
Thirdly, and very important, is the relationship between Leila herself.
When the news came out that she was going to continue making action movies, fans who liked her even organized a sit-in outside her company, hoping that she would change her mind and continue to shoot horror movies instead of action movies.
Fans felt that she was wasting her time and talent, that there were so few horror movies that she could make into classics, and that she shouldn't have squandered this God-given talent on boring action movies. Although some people are in a wait-and-see position after Leila made an agreement with the fans' representatives, they want to see what happens.
There are also many people who secretly organize fans not to watch rush hour in order to allow Leila to continue making horror movies, as long as the movie is bad at the box office, then Laila will come back as agreed to continue shooting their favorite horror movies.
So after the release at the rush hour, many of Leila's fans didn't go to see it in the first place. Not only did they not come, but they also told their families and friends not to come.
You must know that Leila's fan base in Hollywood in the United States is very large, some of them like her own character, some like her achievements, and the group of people who like her horror movies are also quite a part of the total number.
These people called on the people around them not to cheer for the rush hour, which made the box office results on the first day look a little ugly.
But the next day, when some people saw the praise on the Internet and friends who had watched the movie, they finally couldn't resist the charm of the movie, and still bought tickets and walked into the theater.