Chapter 558: The Struggle Between the Two Sides

On the day when "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" was about to be released, the eight major theaters in the mainland made huge changes in their gears, and people were surprised to find that "Iron Man", "Kung Fu Panda", and "Hancock for All" were all lowered by 300 screens, and "The Chronicles of Narnia" was directly downgraded. [No pop-up novel network]

Only the newly released "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" still remains at 1,400 screens, while "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" has risen directly to 2,000 screens.

For a while, theaters across the country seemed to have Hollywood propaganda companies torn their faces.

The offices of the heads of all theaters are closed, and they do not receive any Hollywood publicists, and all film critics and fans are surprised to find that this vigorous movie is also sweeping the country.

The Hollywood studios, who have always been high and commanding in their posture, are suddenly stupid, they don't understand, in the past, when they were on a second-tier film, the managers of the eight major theater chains begged their grandfathers to tell their grandmothers to come to their doors, asking them to transfer a few young actors from the United States to carry out a promotional campaign to raise the box office.

Why are these theaters ignoring Tom Cruise, Spielberg, and Harrison Ford now that superstars are coming to China?

How can these Chinese who see money turn their faces overnight?

Ed Wharton and these people didn't understand the situation at all, in the past, only Hollywood movies were giant cash cows, and domestic films were just small shrimps, of course, the theater chain could only beg them, and any American star came there to be fragrant and sweet, and fans were crazy.

But now the situation is completely different, there are so many things that have happened this year, the Sino-US relations are so tense, the two sides are fighting in the international political economy, China has stood firm after several attacks, and the national fortunes have risen all the way.

On the contrary, the United States has exhausted all means, but it has begun to show defeat, and the previous torch ceremony in San Francisco has changed the mentality of the Chinese people, and American movie stars are no longer invincible money-making machines.

We have our own hero, and this hero also happens to be the leader of the film industry.

And this torch hero came up with a magnificent male film and swallowed the entire Chinese film market.

In this case, you still put on a posture of being high and invincible in the world, who is willing to take care of you?

At this time, Hollywood studios can only count on their final killer feature, and the legendary series of movies "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" debuted.

No matter how difficult the situation, Americans have an optimism that they believe that "God bless America." ”

And if there was a god in Hollywood, who would it be? For this reason, "Hollywood Letterman" once did a poll.

In this survey, James Cameron, who filmed "Titanic", only received 17.6 percent of the votes, ranking only third.

The result was not surprising, as 34.7 percent voted for the highest-grossing director Steven Spielberg, and 37.9 percent voted for George Lucas, the legendary director of the Star Wars franchise.

And these two Hollywood "gods" teamed up to create the most successful "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series in the history of cinema, which swept the world in the 8 and 90s.

And this time the "gods" are back, George Lucas is the screenwriter and producer, Spielberg is the director, and Harrison Ford is the starring role in "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4".

Since its release at the end of May, this Hollywood masterpiece with an investment of 180 million US dollars has swept the global market, beating the previous upstart "Iron Man", and has won an astonishing 7.5 billion box office before its release in China.

Today, this film, which has entered the 25th place in the history of film, has finally landed in China.

What reason do Hollywood studios have to think they might fail?

No matter how good "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" is, it is just a movie made by China's strongest filmmaker group, but "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a masterpiece carefully created by Hollywood's once top filmmakers.

Will Spielberg lose to Gu Xiaofan, who has been in theaters for a week?

No matter how bad it is, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Iron Man" teamed up, and they should not lose to the movie "Outwitting Tiger Mountain".

The current situation is very simple, "Red Cliff" is about equal to the daily box office of the powerful "Kung Fu Panda" and "Superman Hancock" combined.

And "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" has to face it with all its might, and the attack between "Iron Man" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

This is a duel that all Chinese filmmakers are looking forward to and feeling suffocated.

After a month-long war of attrition, Chinese filmmakers and Hollywood forces have both taken out their last hole cards, and there is no way back for either side, just a pure box office battle, and the audience votes to decide the final winner.

Every participant in the middle of this struggle is waiting in front of the computer for the box office of these two films.

A new week has begun, with both sides staring at the box office figures that are released daily.

On the first day, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" won 33.29 million box office, "Iron Man" won 21.89 million box office, and "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" won 35.78 million box office.

Although "Raiders of the Lost Ark" lost to "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" shocked Hollywood studios, overall, Hollywood won by nearly 20 million.

The next day, the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" fell to 31.87 million, "Iron Man" remained firm at 20.79 million, and "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" rose slightly to 36.53 million.

It is still Hollywood that has the advantage, but the gap between the two sides has begun to narrow.

On the third day, the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" was 29.27 million, "Iron Man" finally fell below the 20 million mark and received 19.37 million, while "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" rose by 37.28 million.

On the fourth day, the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" dropped to 27.89 million, and the rebound of "Iron Man" to 2079 seems to be good news, but look at "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", this red movie bucked the trend and climbed directly to 39.78 million, which is close to the 40 million mark in a single day! It's close to the sum of the other two films.

At this moment, Ed Wharton and other people on the six major Hollywood studios were dumbfounded and couldn't believe it at all.

How is this possible? It's been 10 days since the movie was released, why hasn't his box office dropped? Why are you still ascending higher and higher? Isn't he going to stop......

Is there a mistake in the box office statistics? Is it that in order to win this box office reputation, China has put some black hand behind it?

Wrong! They must have done something, the best thing the Chinese are at is behind the ghost, Ed Wharton finally can't bear it!

Both Columbia and Paramount have issued legal documents from their U.S. headquarters to formally apply to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to check this week's abnormal box office data in the mainland, and they do not believe that this time "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" is a natural anti-market surge.

And this time, they directly skipped the Distribution and Projection Association and the Film Bureau, and appealed directly to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television