Chapter 493 Chapter 493 A Terrible War
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This message with awesome content made netizens who saw it couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow...... Cow man, this is amazing~" "This must be from Harvard." "That's amazing!!"
In the eyes of excited netizens, this is definitely a victory for the online community, what if Jobs wants to play tricks~ There is still a folk master to control him! Civilian Liliang defeated the high-flying Jobs! It's so exciting~~
And no one knows that this so-called folk master is "Jobs" himself, Li Xiaole asked Lei Ting to help him write a set of mathematical formulas, and then wrote that he knew the answer......
Of course, there are many people who suspect that this is fake, it is a scam directed and acted by Luen Mei, and a doctor of physics at Yale University, Knight Philip, replied in a video message: "The above calculation formula is fundamentally wrong, the logic is simply a bit ridiculous, I think this eighty percent is just a clever commercial promotion." ”
Fortunately, in the United States, people generally have a very low level of mathematics, let alone physics, and preconceived notions make everyone pay no attention to these sane voices.
Regardless of people's attitudes of believing or doubting, the official website traffic of "Life Remote Control" and the click-through rate of the trailer on Youtube are rising rapidly, and many people call Lianmei Company to inquire, so that Natasha, the operator at the front desk, is busy from morning to night every day, and he said that he has prepared the Haode set of rhetoric for a long time: "Sorry, it is inconvenient for us to disclose the specifics." ”
Everything is developing in the direction that Li Xiaole expected......
And when Li Xiaole was preparing for the release of his film, in the main battlefield of Hollywood, the battle between Tom Cruise and the film giant Paramount also officially kicked off, on April 1, April Fool's Day, "Lion into the Sheep's Mouth" suddenly opened a week in advance on 783 screens across the United States, and what was unexpected was that almost at the same time, Paramount's commercial blockbuster "Mission Impossible 3" was also released a month in advance without everyone being prepared.
The industry is full of wow~~ How can there be two Tom Cruise blockbusters released in this unpopular time in April!? This is more than a month away from the summer season!? The two rivals are going to go head-to-head!! Everyone knows ~ This time Paramount occupies the absolute initiative, he has completed the strategy of Sony wanting to fight the time difference, Sony is in danger this time ~~
In fact, on the weekend of March 31-April 1, industry critics were expected to be Twentieth Century Fox's animated blockbuster "Ice Age 2" to compete with Universal's Oscar-winning feature film "The Outsider" starring Oscar winner Denzel Washington.
But I never expected Paramount's killer "Mission Impossible 3" to come ahead of schedule this year, and the executives of Fox and Universal couldn't help but scold their mothers loudly, what does it matter to the two of us in the infighting of these people~! They all picked this time to go to the file, and they were innocent pond fish.
On this April Fool's Day weekend, "Mission Impossible 3", "The Lion in the Sheep's Mouth", "The Outsider", and "Ice Age 2" 4 strong films of different genres launched a fierce and abnormal box office war, and the publicity departments of Sony, Paramount, Universal, and Fox were also nervous.
But when the weekend box office was calculated, everyone was surprised, and the number one was "Ice Age 2"? This Fox-released animated film got a weekend box office of 70.5 million, while the well-recognized annual blockbuster "Mission Impossible 3" only got a "measant" box office of 35 million......
What makes people even more unexpected that the star-studded movie "Lion Like a Sheep's Mouth" only got a pitiful $5.19 million at the box office...... is only ranked 5th on the weekend box office list of the box office list, not only is it not as good as the box office of "The Outsider", which is also unpopular, but even "Launch Failure" and "V Vendtle", which have passed the hot period......
In this box office war, although the original wealthy Paramount's calculations forced "The Lion into the Sheep's Mouth" into a desperate situation, they did not have any sense of joy of victory, because their situation was not much better than that of Lian, you must know that the production and publicity costs of "Mission Impossible 3" added up to 250 million......
The second part of the "Mission Impossible" series got more than 200 million box office in the United States, and Paramount expected the box office to be at least 300 million or more, and they themselves didn't expect Tom Cruise's negative news to make his box office appeal drop to such a bleak point......
The happiest thing now is the top management of Fox Company, haha, they actually beat Sony and Paramount to the bottom with a cartoon~~ This is really surprising.
When Paramount and Sony both still had the illusion that "the box office was temporarily unfavorable because it was released too suddenly", as soon as the brutal single-week box office came out five days later, they completely despaired...... "Mission Impossible 3" single-week box office was 62.9 million...... "Lion into the Sheep's Mouth" was only 8.07 million......
In MGM's president's office, Foudy looked at the box office report with trembling hands, and looked at Tom Cruise with blank eyes, and Tom Cruise was also holding his hands with a blank expression.
"Cruise...... Can you tell me what the hell is going on? Foudy's chubby face trembled as he looked at Tom Cruise.
"I don't know......" Tom Cruise's expression was more painful than his, but he still squeezed out a smile to comfort him: "Don't worry, we still have overseas box office." ”
"Overseas box office!! How much can the overseas box office have? 20 million!? Or 10 million!? Foudy slammed the report on the table hard, raised his leg and kicked his desk like a crazy "dong", shouting uncontrollably:
"Didn't you expect at least $50 million at the box office!! Now it's impossible to have even 20 million!? You are a narcissist whose popularity is declining and there is no cure~!! Do you know that I was miserable by you~!! ”
"Please calm down, Mr. Foudey." Tom Cruise's female agent, Wagner, frowned and said unhappily, but was stopped by Tom Cruise's dim wave of his hand.
Let him scold, let him scold, so that I can feel better...... Since 2000's "Mission Impossible 2", he has had six consecutive movies with a box office of over 100 million, Tom Cruise once thought that he would be the eternal darling of Hollywood, fans would always favor him, even if he left Paramount, he would always be the top star, but now, ...... He suddenly felt himself at the pinnacle of his career and fell into the abyss...... There is only endless darkness around you.
The rapid fall from a high place gave him a huge sense of panic...... It's over, it's all over, he's no longer the invincible Hollywood darling, he's just a disgusting middle-aged actor now......
Wagner looked deeply at Tom Cruise, whose face was full of pain, but did not know how to comfort him...... Luen Mei carries too many hopes and dreams for them, and this situation makes her feel extremely desperate, but if she falls, then Tom will be even more depressed, and can only laugh and joke as much as possible: "Doesn't our company still have a movie, or there will be surprises." ”
Foudy and Tom Cruise turned their heads to look at him in unison, with a wry smile on their faces, "Life Remote Control"? That small movie with only one-fifth the publicity cost of "The Lion in the Sheep's Mouth"? In the current brutal box office war, I am afraid that it will be immediately shattered by other blockbusters...... It only made them fall worse into another abyss.
At this moment, the only victor in this dispute, MGM's executive vice president Canon is sitting on the outdoor balcony of MGM Daxia, sitting on a recliner, leisurely drinking red wine, feeling the comfortable feeling of the sun shining on his face, the corners of his mouth unconsciously Xiangshang, showing a satisfied smile.
"That's what happens at the box office now......" Seaberg, the head of MGM's Green Light Committee, closed the folder and smiled at Canon, "It seems that we won't have to worry about Tom Cruise anymore, his popularity is declining much faster than we expected." ”
"Well, he's really not as troublesome as he thought." Canon gently touched the delicate stamens of the white orchid on the balcony with his fingers, turned his head and asked, "How about that Chinese side?" How much does the theater chain estimate his box office? He also recently heard that there is a lively discussion about "Life Remote Control" on the Internet.
"He only laid 498 screens in the first round, and he probably had a box office of 20 million." Sieberg shrugged his shoulders disapprenousfully and smiled:
"The Internet is the Internet, the reality is the reality, I haven't heard of what advertising on the Internet can do, this kid's self-righteous cleverness is really ridiculous."
"Chinese, only good at mathematical calculations." Canon made a "dead brain" gesture with his hand at the door of his head, stretched his waist, walked to the balcony, looked at the location of Lianmei Company on the floor below, and let out a contemptuous "snort" with his mouth.
It's ridiculous that an outdated star, coupled with an unknown Chinese director, wants to make waves at MGM.
Just when Luen Mei and Sony were in mourning, on the evening of April 10th, Li Xiaole finally completed his Zuihou Jihua deployment, stopped updating on Facebook, and now as long as he remains silent and waits for the movie to be released, he can finally watch an NBA game and relax with peace of mind.
And Lei Ting was not at home this night, and Scarlett came again as usual, and this time it was even more excessive that she found a friend who looked very dull and said to know a lot about computers...... Jeremy Renner, a handsome middle-aged man of Russian descent.
Well, although the future Hawkeye of "The Avengers" is now 35 years old, he still looks very dull, as a third-tier actor, Reina smiled stiffly when he shook hands with Li Xiaole, for fear of offending the big man of Lianmei Company.