In October 2014, "Titanic", which was still in the stage of crazy filming at that time, ran north to Canada and south to Monterey, although Cheng Xiaoyu was very low-key, it still made the media jump up and down, because he not only spent the estimated 400 million US dollars in silver, but also added the budget to the company's additional budget, which increased the company's allocation to an unprecedented 600 million. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

What's worse is that the film is facing difficulties in the later stage, and everyone thinks that the original Christmas schedule is basically hopeless.

On January 28, 2015, Staven Bell announced that the release date of "The Shawshank Redemption" would be postponed from July 2 to December 9, and said: "It's hard to make this decision, it means that our relationship with Xichu is no longer balanced, but we still hope that the competition is benign." ”

But the "uneven" part of "Universal" is just a small head, their "The Shawshank Redemption" only invested 70 million US dollars, and "Xichu" has now thrown in 12 times the number......

At that time, Wall Street experts made a special calculation, and concluded that this move would lead to a sharp decline in the film's revenue, loss of capital, and the bankruptcy of Xichu, and Xichu International was also likely to be dragged into the abyss.

In July 2015, most filmmakers openly shouted that they would bet everything on 3D and IMAX, and the film's box office prospects would be "a disaster no less than the sinking of the Titanic itself".

In October, the media revealed that the publicity and public relations expenses were increased to 250 million, and the controversy about the uncontrolled spending of the failed director Cheng Xiaoyu was still in full swing.

On December 9th, the battle for hegemony in the Christmas schedule began, and three heavyweight films will appear one after another: "Black Swan", "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Titanic".

On December 22, the premiere of "Titanic" was unveiled, and AMC's IMAX viewing hall was gloated by some media as "deserted and crowded".

Everyone thinks that Cheng Xiaoyu's Xichu entertainment empire is about to sink, the United States is the world's largest ticket warehouse, and if you can't conquer the United States, you can't conquer the world, not to mention that Cheng Xiaoyu also insisted on going against the historical trend by pressing 3D and IMAX and dying by himself, why didn't he die?

In addition, there has never been a miracle of reverse box office growth in the United States, and the box office forecasters have calculated that "Titanic" will lose more than 500 million US dollars, and "Xichu International" will lose because of the construction of so many IMAX and 3D theaters......

Wall Street banks can't wait to announce the downgrade of Cheng Xiaoyu's entertainment empires "Xichu" and "Sound of Rain", Hollywood's six major schadenfreude is one less competitor, and many capital predators have begun to sharpen their knives and prepare to divide the losers......

Wall Street doesn't believe in tears......

Hollywood doesn't believe in miracles either......

Beginning on Monday, "Titanic" and "The Shawshank Redemption" launched a dragon battle on IMDB, and the ratings of the two will rise and fall at a time, and not long ago, the media reported that "The Shawshank Redemption" opened with a full score imdb and ascended to the altar", "The Shawshank Redemption" opened with high praise, and a new IMDB first was born", "The Shawshank Redemption" was a crazy opening with a super high evaluation, and Staven Bell performed the return of the king"

With the movie's hit rating, although declining, it still firmly occupies a super high rating of 9.6, 0.4 points higher than the second-place "Godfather of New York", IMDB's rating system seems to be the most democratic way, but a simple score often does not represent the whole story.

IMDB uses the "Bayesian statistical method", and the TOP250 final score = (V÷(V+M))XR+(M÷(V+M))XC. In short, in addition to the user's rating, the number of voters, active user votes, etc., will affect the TOP250 score, which ensures the fairness and relevance of this ranking to the greatest extent.

This also means that although "The Shawshank Redemption" will decline, it will be limited, and it is very likely that IMDB's No. 1 movie will be born.

But that changed a week later, "Titanic" was released, and although the initial score of 9.7 was far less exaggerated than the perfect score of 10.0, it was surprisingly strong and unusually strong.

As time progresses, the two movies alternately get the first place on IMDB's TOP20 list, and the funny thing is that winning the first place is not to see whose score increases, but who falls less......

It is not unusual for Staven Bell's film to occupy the first place, but it is strange that Cheng Xiaoyu's "Titanic" can be inseparable from his "The Shawshank Redemption.....

Many online media have reported this phenomenon, and there is no doubt that "Titanic" is also a classic, and the soaring votes of the two parties and the fanaticism of fans determine who will be the first in the TOP250.

It is often the viewer who has only seen one of the movies to give the other party a low score, and this practice is especially high among fans of "Titanic".

A fan of "Titanic" said: "After watching such an epic movie, other movies can't be seen at all, I don't care how much feelings "The Shawshank Redemption" sells, this night I only care about why the sincere love of "Titanic" can't get a good result......"

And the female fan said: "Although I really want to give a low score to "Titanic", because the ending made me cry all night, but when I think of the handsome Leonardo and the beautiful and extraordinary Catherine, I still feel that I must support ......."

Eddie, a fat man who has always only watched horror movies, made a short comment on IMDB: "When I watched this movie on the giant screen, you were surrounded by a huge surprise, maybe my judgment was not sober and rational enough, but who cares? Such a movie deserves me 10 points!"

Then the battle for the top spot between "Titanic" and "The Shawshank Redemption" began, and immediately, the long-term top of the list "The Godfather of New York" also joined the battle group, and the scores of the three kept changing, and the fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" voted a lot of points for "Titanic", and the fans of "Titanic" immediately replied.

And fans of "The Godfather of New York" voted for both...... But after a Chinese fan of Cheng Xiaoyu issued a call order, there were so many Chinese fans in units of 100 million that they brushed "Titanic" back to the all-time high of 9.7 points overnight with a huge base, and "The Shawshank Redemption" to 9.3 points......

IMDB, which found out about the change, had to ban Huaxia IP.

But this battle is just beginning to be protracted, IMDB officials said that they will try their best to ensure the fairness of this battle for the top spot, and the first score for a while does not mean anything, nor will it bring more box office to the two movies, I hope that fans on both sides will remain calm and restrained.

As for the future outcome, it is difficult to predict, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Titanic" are both classics in film history, sometimes the score is not the truth, but the support of the box office is!

All this is a small episode that happened in the first week of the release of "Titanic", no filmmaker takes this dragon fight seriously, and you have to hear a little water sound when you throw 800 million US dollars into the sea, right?

Under the strategy of Harvey Weinstein, the media offensive did not stagnate, Catherine Blanchett and Leonardo Dane DeHaan participated in various talk shows non-stop, and the reputation of the soft, wide and hard moviegoers and the gimmick of the largest investment in history urged the audience to enter the cinema and enter the IMAX theater to feel what is called real visual shock.

More and more people know through social networks and forums that this movie is not at all what they imagined, and more and more people know that this movie has to be watched at least twice, once in 2D to cry to their heart's content, and again to watch IMAX to experience shocking and immersive visual effects.

After this week, "Rotten Tomatoes" included 370 film reviews of "Titanic", and the freshness of popular film critics is still 98%, and the freshness of well-known film critics is also 98% (105/103).

This week, the war of words between the media continued, and the debate about "Titanic" and "The Shawshank Redemption" was everywhere, and the media dubbed "World War III".

"Freedom" and "faith" are more important than "love" and "disaster," and they deserve to be remembered! -- The Washington Post.

"The greatness of Titanic is not in special effects and new technology, but in the incomparable appeal and praiseworthy love!" - The Hollywood Reporter

"Titanic" can be called a great commercial film, but Cheng Xiaoyu's conceited pressure on 3D and IMAX dug a grave for himself, and "The Shawshank Redemption", there is no doubt that it has a deeper artistic connotation, and it is a classic movie worth carefully interpreting and tasting and exploring the intentions and ideas behind its lens!" - Los Angeles Times

"Titanic" is a seemingly old-fashioned and simple but extremely profound epic masterpiece, it is as shocking as the iceberg of the historical 'Titanic', and the Chinese Cheng Xiaoyu has made a special effects movie that will make the whole of Hollywood feel ashamed! Only when you sit in the movie theater and cry can you understand how great he and his movie are!" -- The New York Times

The famous film critic Roger Albert published an article in "Film Review" called "The Hollywood Film Industry at a Crossroads", which described in detail that "Titanic" may become the most important IMAX movie and will also be a milestone for Hollywood films.

"Most media people are discussing the artistic value of "Titanic" and "The Shawshank Redemption", but ignoring the fact that "Titanic" uses the world's most advanced IMAX camera, which dedicates the audience not only a classic movie, but also an unparalleled visual experience. As a truly groundbreaking IMAX movie, it will go down in history forever!"

Peter Kophera scoffed: "Even Mr. Roger, who has always been fair, can't withstand the silver bullet offensive, 3D and IMAX who don't know what the future trend is, but maybe it will take ten years, maybe twenty years, anyway, it's not now...... It seems that Cheng Xiaoyu is desperate, the box office is hopeless, and he plans to make a desperate gamble on the Oscar? He won't even get a nomination! Okay! Forgive me for forgetting that he still has special effects and the best screenplay ...... for "The Shawshank Redemption"

No matter what the public and the media think of the movie "Titanic", box office data is the key to measuring success or failure.

Everyone released the data for the first week of the release of "Titanic", and on Sunday night, the editors-in-chief of the "Washington Post" and the "Los Angeles Times" had even written a press release that "the 800 million ship "Titanic was completely sunk", and they were ready to publish the article in the newspaper as soon as they received the data at 8 o'clock on Monday morning.

All filmmakers felt that no miracle would happen, just as "Titanic" was destined to sink.

However, a miracle really happened.

The editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times immediately called the statistics department of the Film Association to ask if the data was wrong, and the answer was very affirmative: "Yes!"

The editor-in-chief of the Washington Post even called and bluntly asked if "Titanic" was a box office?

And the Motion Picture Association of America didn't bother to respond to such an unreasonable question, and hung up the phone directly.

"Titanic" collected $86 million in the second week after two days of release on the weekend, while "The Shawshank Redemption" in the second week of release was only $45 million, and "Black Swan" was even worse, occupying the most golden Christmas slot but only getting $10 million at the weekly box office.......

"Titanic" earned almost twice as much at the box office as the word-of-mouth "The Shawshank Redemption", and when this data came out, the industry was in an uproar, and when box office analysts pointed out that all this was thanks to the ultra-high prices of 3D and IMAX, all the media fell into a collective silence.

The media that supported Cheng Xiaoyu did not expect such a big surprise, and those who opposed Cheng Xiaoyu did not expect such a big blow.

When the media had not yet come up with a rhetoric, and then the storm came more violently, "Xichu" early in the morning, President Duanmu Linsha announced the box office of the overseas market in a high-profile manner, thanks to the strong performance of the Chinese market, "Titanic" received a super high box office of 110 million US dollars a week outside the North American market.

The global box office has always been divided into North America and others, and the total box office of other regions has always been less than half of the North American box office......

"Titanic" was the first film to complete this data..... and "Titanic" won $200 million at the global box office within a week, but 200 million a week is still far from the goal of 2 billion......

At this time, no one thought that this was just the beginning of the miracle of "Titanic"!

(Some people propose that the Internet also requires an ID card, but the fact is that many Internet cafes can be used without ID cards, as long as they are regular customers, especially near schools! This kind of classic movie has nothing to do with appreciation and taste, the reason why it is called a classic is that it is a classic in any era, and some people say that they like Carl, Carl saves the little girl to save himself, not to save people, what he shows in the whole movie is only the selfishness of human nature, and his feelings for Ruth are only possessive, but the truth is real enough. It's not against everyone liking Carl, whoever you like is the result of everyone's independent thinking, this is not critical, the point is that "Titanic" is indeed a great movie)