After getting Ning Hao's consent, the corners of Li Xiaole's mouth rose slightly, patted him on the shoulder, and secretly said in his heart, brother, you have worked hard, and immediately turned on the computer and wrote an email to the new screen:

"Mr. Zhang, I will publish an article in the "Chuzhejiang Daily" in the personal name of screenwriter and assistant director Ning Hao, bombarding "Hero", is it okay?"

A few hours later, in the office of the new picture company, the male secretary of the tiger head was looking at the box office report of "Hero", clicked on an email casually, and shouted angrily: "This little director, it's too annoying~!?" ”

"Didn't Erhu tell you, do things calmly, what's the matter, shouting?" Zhang Weiping, the chairman of the new picture, is now holding his feet slightly together, holding a golf club, and practicing putting in front of the 3-meter-long indoor putting exerciser.

Mr. Zhang...... I'm sorry. Secretary Erhu turned his head and saw a trace of displeasure flashing on Zhang Weiping's underworld boss-like face, and his head shrank in fright, and he hurriedly walked over with a laptop and said angrily:

"It's not like I'm just excited, you see, the little director of "Crazy Stone" is so arrogant that he even said that he would publish an article in the newspaper to bombard us!? What is he? They dare to openly threaten us. Mr. Zhang, who has always been hot-tempered, saw this email and didn't jump to scold the street.

"Show me~" Zhang Weiping laughed when he heard this, put the golf club aside, walked over with the computer to take a look, but nodded with a slight smile:

"I really didn't misread him, this Li Xiaole does have a bit of business acumen, unlike the rigid thinking of the leadership teams of those film studios, and he can understand it at all." After speaking, he patted Erhu on the shoulder: "Go, give me an email back to him." ”

“haode！” With a strong fighting mood, Erhu went back to his bench, jumped on the keyboard with both hands, and turned back to ask Zhang Weiping, who had always had a hot temper: "How can Mr. Zhang get back to this kid!" ”

"That's it, 'but'." Zhang Weiping said in a deep voice.

"But?" Erhu was stunned and didn't understand.

"But, can't you type a word? Yes, yes. Zhang Weiping glared at him and shouted loudly, so frightened that Erhu shuddered and said "yes" and replied to Li Xiaole's email.

The film and television industry relies on strength, and the entertainment industry relies on wrists, but there are not many people in China's entertainment industry who know the rules of the game, and the game needs opponents to play, Zhang Weiping suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and finally someone could play with him, I hope this Li Xiaole can play more intensely......

Immediately, on December 25, the film and television page of the "Chuzhejiang Evening News" published an article "Dare to hit heroes with stones", and the report recorded an interview with Ning Hao, the screenwriter and assistant director of "Crazy Stone", the film newcomer said:

"Chinese movies should be diverse, every year in December, the New Year's stalls, either Beijing-style comedies, or "Hero" This kind of big production, movies, there are no movies that really reflect the life of ordinary city citizens, "Crazy Stone" box office is good, I have long expected it, our crew is deliberately released with "Hero", just to let everyone know that Chinese movies are not dead, and now there are finally comedy movies that depict realistic themes and describe the lives of ordinary people."

Of course, this report did not cause much repercussions, but on the 26th of the next day, on the same film and television page of "Chuzhejiang Evening News", an article was published as "Zhang Weiping pointed out that "Crazy Stone" has a bad box office.

The text describes:

Yesterday, when expecting the movie "Crazy Stone" to be released at the same time as "Hero", Zhang Weiping finally couldn't help but say to reporters: 'I don't even bother to take care of him, isn't he just a director who shoots MVs? The music of "Crazy Stone" is good, but the music of our movie is composed by Tan Dun, and the music that has won the Grammy Award is all left over from our play. ’

Then Zhang Weiping, who was excited, continued: "I want this kind of newcomer to keep his mouth shut, and if he has the ability, let the audience watch his movies" Then, he wanted to remember the news, "Crazy Stone" is distributed by China Film Group, and the theaters in Chuzhejiang City are all controlled by China Film, Zhang Weiping also emphasized that China's ticketing system is not perfect, and it is likely that there is a behavior of stealing the box office, stealing the box office of "Hero" to "Crazy Stone" invested by China Film, and Ning Hao has a relationship with the deputy general manager of China Film. ”

On the third day, December 27, Ning Hao quickly issued the following response to the media:

Response 1: Mr. Zhang has the freedom to make this testimonial.

Response 2: Mr. Zhang has no right or ability to order me to stop expressing my views, remind Mr. Zhang that this is the era of democracy, and you should pay attention to cultivating your sense of democracy! Don't speak foul language, remind Mr. Zhang that this is a civilized shijie, and pay attention to cultivating your civilized habits!

Response 3: Our crew did not have any 'greasy' at the box office, I have no blood relationship with the deputy general manager of China Film Company, please don't insult the leaders of the company, please Mr. Zhang work hard to investigate and come up with evidence, I have no obligation to clarify to you, when I solemnly declare that your remarks have infringed on my right to reputation, I am considering solving it through legal means......

Response 4: If you are redundant, I believe that you can become a producer with a modern spirit by cultivating your own sense of democracy, civilized habits, and legal concepts, and I hope that your works can also obtain this modern spirit. ”

On December 28, Zhang Weiping, on the one hand, clarified to the reporter who interviewed him that the "cat greasy" referred to in the "Chuzhejiang Evening News" was the result of taking it out of context, and on the other hand, issued a written statement:

First, I'm too lazy to pretend to be Sven to deal with a person who can't pretend to be Sven.

Second, to repeat (Zhang) Yimou's words, his failure was not due to our existence.

Third, there are many films and people hyped up by "Hero", and we don't care about one more screenwriter and his film.

Fourth, we don't care what screenwriter Ning reports to the leader.

Fifth, the screenwriter Ning wants to fight a lawsuit, and I am accompanied, and I am idle.

For 4 days, Ning Hao and Zhang Weiping appeared in the media This scolding war in the air has escalated, and the national media are like bees smelling pollen, and Zhou Heyang, the entertainment editor of Sina.com, almost squirted out a mouthful of water when he saw this series of reports, and shouted at his secretary:

"Quick, let Xiao Wu and them take a look at this report, and let them write a series of reports~~" A popular filmmaker actually had a scolding battle with his peers, is this the audience's favorite gossip?

Just a few days later, many media, including Baokou Sina.com, have carried out overwhelming reprint reports on this.

The entertainment page of "Yangzhou Evening News" reported with large photos: "Zhang Weiping broke the news that China Film Group is shady, the competition environment for mainland films is bad, "Crazy Stone" improperly competes with "Hero", and mainland films fight viciously, affecting imported films. “

Zhou Chengan, a famous reporter from "Southern Evening News", also commented: "No one could have imagined that when Feng Xiaogang was silent, a comedy called "Crazy Stone" and "Hero" would appear in this Chinese New Year file at the same time, and a seemingly impossible competitor launched a competition with a huge disparity in strength. ”

In the film and television section of Tianya Forum, netizens who saw this scolding war watched the excitement with great interest, and a netizen "bald man washes his hair with Rejoice" is obviously a fan of "Crazy Stone", and posted a scolding of "Hero":

"I went to the cinema to see both films, and I just want to say that "Heroes" is simply a film for Americans!! Lao Mouzi didn't take care of us Chinese audiences at all, "Crazy Stone" is the best movie in this Chinese New Year, everyone with a normal IQ should watch "Crazy Stone", it's just too hilarious~ We mobilized the whole dormitory to watch it, and there was no one who didn't like it~ Except for Zhou Xingxing's movie, the most classic domestic comedy~"

Netizen "Crazy Cool 007" is a fan of Zhang Yimou, and he followed the post unconvinced below: "Landlord, I'm anxious for your eyes and head, a movie with a cost of millions is compared with "Hero"? A shot of a rain of arrows can kill ten streets of "Crazy Stone" in seconds, okay~ You compare Liang Chaowei with Sun Honglei, isn't this nonsense!? ”

"I have always used carved condoms" to the post: "Zhang Weiping and Ning Hao, two fools, don't make movies well, they know that they are scolding, and they have lost the face of Chinese movies, I just went to the cinema to watch these two, they are all garbage~!" The best thing to watch in this Chinese New Year file is "Very Little Spy", let me climb all the domestic films~~"

Although scolding and scolding, everyone was interested in this topic in their hearts, from reporters to netizens, they couldn't wait for this Zhang Weiping and Ning Hao to really meet and fight, then they would have news.

At the same time, the box office of "Crazy Stone" and "Hero" both showed an explosive growth, only in the first week, while "Hero" achieved 11 million per day, a total of 77 million in a single week, "Crazy Stone" also received 1.6 million box office revenue in a corner of Chu and Zhejiang.

On the weekend of the two days in Zuihou, all the movie theaters that broadcast "Crazy Stone" were full, even if it was between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock in the evening, the attendance rate was as high as more than 80%, because it was only screened in Chuzhejiang City, and many film and television students from other nearby provinces and cities even took the train to Chuzhejiang to have a look.

If you only count the theater box office in Chu and Zhejiang provinces, "Crazy Stone" is only less than 30% less than the hero!

The single-week box office result of 1.6 million has surpassed the 630,000 single-week box office of the American movie "Very Little Spy" and the box office score of 1.23 million of international superstar Chen Long's "Tuxedo", but it is only a small loss to the domestic disaster film "Polar Rescue" with great stamina of Shanghai Film Studio 1.62 million, and it is firmly in the third place in the domestic box office list.

Although the box office performance of 1.6 million is very good among domestic films this year, it is not very amazing, slightly inferior to Jiang Wen's "Looking for a Gun" in the first half of this year and Chen Kaige's "With You".

But if you add the premise of "only screening in 12 theaters in Chuzhejiang City", it really scares all domestic film studios, where did China Film Group find such a powerful comedy movie?

The second production company, which has always been deserted, is now busy internally, and the box office in the first week alone allows them to recover one-third of the cost, and more importantly, the theater chain under China Film, because the popcorn income brought by the box office is enough for the second production to celebrate, and what makes everyone extremely excited is that the super market potential shown by "Crazy Stone" is definitely a blockbuster movie that can reach tens of millions of box office!!

So in the second week, in the first few days of January 2003, under Li Xiaole's careful deployment, "Crazy Stone" made 70 new copies, and began to be released in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and several major cities...... ¥5,500~!! The box office increase in a single week is close to 250%!

This figure shocked all those who care about the box office of mainland movies, you know, this is a box office that has not yet been released on a large scale nationwide and has only been released in a few cities......

In the case of several strong new films in the Christmas file, in addition to the hero's single-week box office of 60 million that cannot be shaken, "Crazy Stone" continues to sit firmly in the second place in the box office list by beating other films in the same schedule, and this month's blockbuster introduction film Xiu Jackman's Hollywood romantic comedy "Love in Another World", and Zhang Ziyi and starring in the Korean film "Samurai", under the double blow of "Hero" and "Crazy Stone", they only achieved dismal results of 720,000......

In the last week, everyone's eyes were still completely attracted by the emergence of "Hero", and in this second week, fans, film critics, and even film studios outside Chu and Zhejiang Province have been completely shocked by this black comedy......