Chapter 190: Rivalry
"The Matrix" broke into the domestic film market, and Huayi and Columbia, which were in charge of domestic distribution, couldn't sit still.
Huayi Company, as an upstart in the domestic entertainment industry, has invested in several movies this year, Feng Xiaogang's "Mobile Phone" can only recover the cost, and the expenses are calculated, but it doesn't actually make much money, and other movies also have profits and losses, and the results are not too ideal, and "Kung Fu" starring its artist Fengyuxing can be said to be the company's top priority, so I expect this movie to make money.
Columbia Pictures, as one of the eight giants of Hollywood, is the first film company to enter the country, in recent years, actively cooperate with domestic film companies, make movies together, and are quite interested in promoting kung fu movies, "Kung Fu" is produced in this context, for this film, the person in charge of the company's Asian side is very optimistic, thinking that it has the strength to compete with Hollywood blockbusters, and now facing the challenge of China Film and Huaying, of course, it is impossible to tolerate.
As soon as Huayi and the person in charge of Columbia discussed, they immediately sent people to negotiate with major domestic theaters on the issue of film scheduling, because "Kung Fu" performed very well in the first two days, beating other films, and breaking various domestic records, the theater chain party that made money naturally did not refuse, so the negotiation went smoothly, and the two sides quickly finalized the plan. In order to protect small and medium-cost films, the political axe stipulates that the maximum number of commercial films cannot be higher than 40 percent, and literary films are slightly higher, and they can have 45 percent of the film schedule, of course, those main theme films are not in this range.
Forty percent of the film schedule makes Huayi and Columbia very satisfied, even if the box office of the film will drop every day in the second week, the increased film schedule can also slow down the process, plus there are other arrangements, it should be enough to deal with "The Matrix", after solving the problem of film scheduling, the two companies sent people to send hundreds of copies to various theaters, just waiting for the release tomorrow.
Compared with the calm handling of the distribution company, the reaction of domestic fans is much more complicated, since the release of the movie "Kung Fu", it has been welcomed and praised by the audience and has been floating around on the Internet, information about this movie, now "The Matrix" is coming, and "Kung Fu" is bumping together, like Mars hitting the earth, the movie has not yet been released, the gossip has been flying all over the Internet, and people can be seen talking about the two movies in every corner, chat rooms, social forums, and stick-bars, all arguing about kung fu and hacking, In the end, who is better and who is inferior, and which movie is better at the box office.
"You know what? The Matrix's third "Short Revolution" will be released tomorrow"
"Nonsense, who doesn't know now, this kind of outdated news dares to bring water, does your family know?"
"The last "Reloaded" was very good, I don't know how this one is?"
"I think "Kung Fu" is good-looking, like Bruce Lee's movie, it's hot-blooded, ahhhh
"What's the fight, is it good to be in the wind and rain, have you ever seen it?"
"Hey, you're crooked, we're discussing which movie is better and rejecting topics that have nothing to do with the theme"
"The Matrix" is a movie series, belonging to the future science fiction category, I have watched the second part, and it is not as amazing as I imagined, the third part may not be as good as the second part, this is a common problem of the series of movies, the front has used up the creativity, and most of the plots in the back are not new, it is better to watch "Kung Fu".
"Upstairs is jealous, who stipulates that the series of movies, the latter one is not as good as the previous one?"
"I only like kung fu movies, which means that I have no love for science fiction"
"Yes, support domestic films, and to hell with foreign blockbusters"
"Watching movies is entertainment, please don't get involved in patriotic complexes, angry youth or something is the most annoying"
"The plot of science fiction movies is hard, and the special effects come and go, like children's toys, it's too fake"
"I bet five cents, and the box office of kung fu is higher than that of hackers"
"A dollar, the history of hackers is there, there is no reason to lose to Kung Fu"
"I decided to go watch both movies once, post a comment at that time, and everyone will go and cheer for it."
Some movie websites that see business opportunities compare the two movies "Kung Fu" and "The Matrix" on the homepage, betting on which movie has a high box office on the 25th, and those who win can get some small prizes, and those who lose don't have to pay any price.
This move made the boring people on the Internet very excited, and they didn't have to lose anything if they lost anyway, and they ran to vote one after another, so that the traffic of the website exploded, and the advertising cost or something naturally went up.
With such a hot topic, the media in the entertainment industry will certainly not let go of the opportunity, and on the evening newspaper of the same day, speculation about the two movies made the headlines of major entertainment newspapers.
"Hackers are coming, are you ready for kung fu?" It is reported that the Hollywood blockbuster jointly introduced by the domestic film giants China Film and China Film, the third "Short Revolution of the Matrix", will land in major domestic theaters tomorrow, which is not a good thing for the "Kung Fu" that is being released today, although "Kung Fu" has been released for two days, it has achieved a box office of more than 60 million, but in the face of hackers' sniping, it is still not to be taken lightly, past experience tells us that any act of despising foreign blockbusters will pay a heavy price, I hope that "Kung Fu" can defeat "" Short Moment Revolution", for my Chinese film prestige---- China-China Youth Daily
"Kung Fu PK Hacker, Who Can Take the Lead", when the hacker enters the domestic film market, the collision with Kung Fu is inevitable, one is a Hollywood blockbuster, the first two box office exceeded one billion US dollars, and won numerous awards, its strength is very strong, and Kung Fu can not be humiliated, as soon as the painting opens, it will refresh the box office record of Chinese films, and the strength is also very considerable, this time the two powerful opponents are close to each other, when the results do not come out, no one can predict who wins and who loses---- City Entertainment News
When domestic films are still complacent in order to achieve tens of millions of box office, they don't know that a number of Hollywood blockbusters have already left with hundreds of millions of box office trophies, and this status quo has not changed to this day. Can you get out of the woodwork and defeat the hacker's incursion? Let's wait and see---- Southern Metropolis Daily
When the outside world paid attention to the two movies, the main creators of the "Kung Fu" crew. Gathered in a hotel room, Feng Feng Xing and Yuan Hua sat in a circle in the living room, Zhou Xingxing in the middle, his eyes swept over the faces of several people, and he was the first to speak, "Everyone knows the current situation, the release of the Hollywood blockbuster "The Matrix" is a threat to our movie, and we must make some preparations for the box office of Kung Fu."
Feng Yuxing sat on the sofa opposite, his right hand supporting his chin, listening and thinking about what Zhou Xingxing wanted to express.
"Just now, the distribution company has faxed the distribution area of the movie, the theater distribution of "The Matrix" to me, mainly distributed in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, we have exactly five people here, each responsible for a city, go to the local theater to promote on-site, okay, you start to choose."
After Zhou Xingxing finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on a few people, waiting for them to choose.
Go to the scene to promote? Fengyuxing, Yuanhua, Yuanqiu, and Huang Yiyi were all stunned, in the past few days, their publicity method has always been on entertainment programs, after all, the coverage of TV stations is relatively wide, and they have not tried to go to the door of the theater, but they also know that the situation is different now, in the face of the challenge of hackers, the publicity effect of one theater is better, but this workload will definitely not be easy, because there must be more than one theater in a city.
Huang Yiyi's brows were twisted together, she was a weak woman, she was at a disadvantage in physical strength, she ran down like this, and she didn't know if she could eat it, but she didn't want to refuse, she just didn't say anything, her eyes looked at Yuanhua and Fengyuxing, and saw what they said.
Yuanhua and Yuanqiu are thinking about which city to go to, and it is best to be familiar with it.
Among the few people, the wind and rain were the least worried, and they smiled faintly, "The propaganda of Beijing is handed over to me, and you can go home and have a look by the way."
Fengyuxing's home is in Beijing, Yuan Hua and Huang Yiyi did not put forward the meaning, and then after a round of distribution, including Zhou Xingxing, each person is responsible for a major city, and goes to the local theater for on-site publicity, so it is necessary to suppress the arrogance of hackers.
In the end, Zhou Xingxing took out a stack of air tickets and distributed them to the four of them, "The ticket is at 11 o'clock tonight, you rush to the target city overnight, and you can start publicity early tomorrow morning, let's go."
Feng Fengxing looked at the ticket in his hand and joked to Zhou Xingxing, "Director Zhou has been prepared for a long time, could it be that he is an unpredictable prophet, and he expected that there would be today's event?" ”
Zhou Xingxing shook his head, "The issuance company arranged it, Gu said that it was bought from the passengers at a high price, and the time is not early, let's go quickly."
Wind and rain a little bit, waved goodbye to Yuan Hua, Yuan Qiu, Huang Yiyi, turned around and walked out of the living room, outside the door with the agent Wu Na, as well as Hou Zheng, Lin Feng two bodyguards, and rushed to the airport, fortunately, the distribution company was very well prepared, there were five tickets for the same flight, so that the wind and rain would not go in batches.
At one o'clock in the morning, the four people who were covered by sunglasses appeared outside the capital airport, because the time was too late, the wind and rain did not go home, but stayed in the hotel next to the airport, and then went directly the next day, and the major theaters in Beijing did publicity.
(I was shocked that I couldn't enter the writer's backstage just now, and I thought my book was locked because of a problem, but fortunately I can now)
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