"Then I'll announce the real box office of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" first......" Ed Wharton smiled and looked for the location of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" in the table, this time to put it bluntly, this movie is the main one, grab his handle and everything will be over. 【Reading.com】

"Outwitting Tiger Mountain", the box office data announced on July 15 was 35.78 million, and the real box office was ......" Ed Wharton held the report, his hands trembled for some reason, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost, his mouth opened for several seconds, and then rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"What's wrong, Mr. Wharton?"

"Why don't you read it? What is the data? ”

"Is the printing too vague, do you want to change it?"

The people of the four major Hollywood studios were originally waiting excitedly and inexplicably, but they didn't expect Ed Wharton to stop at the critical moment?

As Paramount's president of Asia Pacific, Lindy couldn't help but remind with a smile:

"Mr. Wharton, you don't have to worry about embarrassing everyone by reading out something disgraceful, even if the movie has too much water at the box office, we should face up to this problem, not run away, and find the problem to solve the problem."

Ed Wharton has always been scheming, could it be that he is scrupling at a critical moment? Lindy was not happy with the atmosphere.

Ed Wharton looked frightened and stunned, and there was a panicked look in his eyes.

At this moment, even Director Shen, Han Sanpin, Wang Zhongjun, Yan Chao and others are looking at me, and I am looking at you, but they don't know what happened.

Under everyone's gaze, Ed Wharton heard Minister Lu's indifferent voice before he could say anything.

"Mr. Wharton, don't you know these Chinese numbers, then I'll announce it."

Saying that, a sharp light appeared in Minister Lu's eyes, and he raised his voice, and Lang Sheng announced:

"Outwitting Tiger Mountain", the box office data announced on July 15 was 35.78 million, and the verified box office was 37.89 million.

On July 16, the box office data was announced as 3653, and the verified box office was 38.79 million.

On July 17, the box office data was announced as 3728, and the verified box office was 40.78 million.

On July 18, the box office data was announced as 3978, and the verified box office was 42.19 million......

The last three-day box office results that were not announced were 45.71 million, 48.71 million, 50.13 million, and the actual box office in a single week was 300.4 million. ”

What the!?

Over 50 million in a single day!?

More than 300 million in a single week?

The entire conference hall of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television was boiling with hula! Everyone looked at the people next to them, unable to believe their ears.

No way! Absolutely impossible - this is what some people take for granted!

The box office of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" is already so perverted and high, if there is a box office problem in the theater, then it must be "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" that stole the box office! Then his box office will definitely be lower than announced.

But the actual statistics of this box office are not only not decreasing, but also millions more every day? On the last day, it reached 50 million in a single day!? How is this possible? This attendance rate is over 95%!?

No one present believed what they heard, including Gu Xiaofan himself.

Lindy became inexplicably angry, looked at Minister Lu and said, "You guys are mistaken!?" ”

Ed Wharton didn't believe it either, and exclaimed, "It's impossible! "I took a look at this box office statistics table again, except for "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", the others are almost the same as those previously announced, if it is stealing the box office, then there should be fewer other movies!?

Lindy also slapped the table and said in a deep voice: "This must be a problem with the statistics." ”

Ed Wharton blushed even more, and said in a low voice: "I don't admit this result, you bring me all the data, and I will count it myself now." ”

Hearing these words, Han Sanping, Wang Zhongjun and others were all angry, and Bao Lidong, who had a hot temper, slapped the table directly and scolded:

"What do you mean? If you want to check the box office, you also check it, and now that you don't admit the results, don't you want to think that the box office of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" is less, and only the box office of your Hollywood movies is considered less? ”

Wang Zhongjun also said with a cold face: "You question the audit department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, so why did you write a letter of appeal to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and why didn't you go to the court to prosecute commercial fraud?" ”

In fact, they all vaguely felt that there might be something wrong with this box office statistics, and they all wondered if Director Lu really supported their domestic film company this time, and acted in such a play, which would make it difficult for Hollywood studios like Ed Wharton to retreat.

Now when they saw that Ed Wharton was going to tear his face and check the data in public, everyone immediately became vigilant, united one by one to uphold the authority of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and resolutely did not give Ed Wharton a chance to turn the tables.

Ed Wharton also knew that he had made a few gaffes just now, but he still insisted to Minister Lu:

"Minister Lu, this statistic doesn't match, how can you make us believe it? If there are no problems, why can't they be checked for us publicly? ”

Minister Lu seemed to have expected this result a long time ago, and said calmly with an unexpected face: "You can check, we have brought all the data, Xiao Jiang." ”

At this moment, Han Sanpin, Wang Zhongjun and others were a little surprised, how dare Director Lu let the Americans check it themselves? Is this data real? How could the box office of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" not fall but rise?

Just looking at Xiao Jiang, he brought out a large stack of data, but Ed Wharton waved his hand directly, gritted his teeth at Minister Lu and said:

"Can I pull up the raw stats if I want to?"

He now doesn't even believe Minister Lu, thinking that these Chinese are collectively pitting them.

Minister Lu has obviously made sufficient preparations, otherwise how could he have prepared the materials a long time ago?

"Please, Xiao Jiang, take them to the archives." Minister Lu raised his hand, meaning that you are free.

Ed Wharton took Paramount and the American technicians from Columbia straight upstairs to the archives to find the original statistics.

Everyone looks at me, I look at it, and I feel that this Ed Wharton is a little vexatious.

As soon as Ed Wharton left, Minister Lu continued to read out the final actual box office data, and when everyone listened to it, they all found that except for "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", the gap between the box office data of other movies and the announcement was very small, and everyone in the hall couldn't help but start whispering.

"What the hell is going on, how come the more statistics are counted, the more box office of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" will be?"

"Yes, if the theater operates "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" to steal the box office of other movies, then the box office of other movies should be less?"

"What the hell is going on with all this extra total?"

Han Sanpin couldn't help but walk over to Gu Xiaofan's side, and asked him in a low voice: "Director Gu, what's going on?" ”

Gu Xiaofan also shook his head blankly: "I don't understand, the number of screens has not increased, why does the total box office increase?" ”

In the film industry, there are many times in order to promote and build momentum, in public opinion, everyone likes to falsely report the box office, and the number of theaters reported is very high, but after the fact, the box office is reported more. The theater will say that there is a mistake in the statistics, and the data will be corrected when the movie is released.

This not only cooperates with the promotion of the movie, but also does not operate illegally, so it is common for the actual box office to be lower than the reported one.

This is also the reason why Ed Wharton is so confident that he dares to appeal to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television