Superstars start as villains

Chapter 146 The best of times was also the worst of times.

Facing the indiscriminate bombardment by the reporters, Ye Weixin had a headache: "Are you crazy? Why bother him when you have nothing to do?"

"So what? Don't forget, [Exile] was released at the same time as us, and we are direct competitors." Zhen Bullet didn't care.

Ye Weixin was so angry that his liver hurt: "Don't think that I can't see your careful thinking. Our main target is the mainland market. [Exile] can't be released in the mainland at all. Where is the competition?"

"I will warn you one last time, don't talk nonsense in the future, I am the director of this movie, you are just a martial arts instructor, that's all!"

"Pujie, let's wait and see!" Zhen Zibao looked at Ye Weixin's back with a cold gaze.

However, it is not so easy to take back the water that is poured out. Under the reports of various media, this matter is becoming more and more popular. The bullets in Xiangjiang Zhen can resist a little. After all, many Xiangjiang media still toward one's own.

But in the mainland, his influence is far worse than that of Zhou Xing. Under the media reports, Zhou Xing's fans are not happy. Isn't this obviously touching the porcelain?

"Who is this Zhendan? I've never heard of it. How can I compare it to Zhou Xing?"

"That's right, why are you still shamelessly saying that the box office is higher than [Huo Yuanjia]? Is this guy here to be funny?"

Over the years, the number of fans accumulated by Zhou Xing has reached a terrifying value, and even if he is not a fan, Zhen Bullet is completely defeated by his popularity alone. Especially in the Mainland, his fan base is really poor. Having acted in the sky, it is estimated that many mainland audiences do not recognize his face.

Zhou Xing is different. Over the past four years, he has contributed too many classic screen images.

For a while, Ye Weixin was fighting fires everywhere, but after extinguishing the east side, the west side burned again, which made him exhausted physically and mentally.

Not only that, Zhou Xing's fans also spontaneously launched boycott actions in post bars, QQ groups, and forums. According to some media statistics, the number of netizens who responded on the Internet alone exceeded 600 million in three days.

For this reason, Huang Baiming, the boss of Dongfang Entertainment, the production company of "Dragon Tiger Gate", was so angry that he scolded Zhen Bullet for not being able to do anything well enough, and for not being able to buy tickets to watch the movie in the first place, but they were originally potential audiences. All offended at once, even if the conversion rate is only one-tenth, it is still several million box office!
Moreover, this boycott did not end, but intensified. In five days, more than 1000 million people participated in and liked posts.

Such a powerful appeal really shocked the circle.

In fact, not only others were shocked, but even Zhou Xing himself was surprised. In fact, the reason why this boycott was so massive was that it had caught up with an extraordinary period.

The Internet in 2006 can be said to be a period of barbaric growth. The most popular term on the Internet this year is called "human flesh search".

For example, the cat abuse video incident: a short video clip of a girl cruelly killing a kitten for fun spread quickly on the Internet and aroused extreme anger among netizens.Afterwards, netizens used their human flesh search capabilities and issued hunting orders to find out the identity of the protagonist who tortured and killed the kitten in just a few days.

Another example is the Warcraft Bronze Beard incident: a "World of Warcraft" player found out that his wife had an affair, and the other party turned out to be the president of the guild he joined in "World of Warcraft".The player announced the matter on a certain forum, and then triggered an earthquake of public opinion on the Internet.Although all the characters use their screen names, the male protagonist who had an affair was still dug up by netizens and stripped of everything on the Internet.

This is the first time that the power of Chinese netizens has dominated the virtual online world and extended to the real world. Netizens are enthusiastic about participating in various new things. They believe that their power can change not only the virtual world.

Of course, this is the best of times, but it is also the worst of times. Netizens insult and attack others, vent their emotions, and even have a huge impact on the normal life of others based on one-sided words and their own likes and dislikes. .

It can be regarded as Zhen Bullet's bad luck, just happened to encounter such a critical node, many netizens actually don't know them at all, let alone understand the grievances between them, just because the post is hot, they flock to follow suit.

This caused the unprecedented influence of this incident. For this reason, the publisher of [Dragon Tiger Gate] urgently stopped the announcement, and changed the release time of [Dragon Tiger Gate] to October.

"Why do you want to withdraw? Are you crazy? Those netizens are just talking. If he really has such a big influence, [Huo Yuanjia]'s box office will not only be [-] million, but at least [-] million!" Zhen Bullet was angry road.

Ye Weixin slapped the table: "Enough, if it weren't for your nonsense to the media, how could we have withdrawn the file? Do you really think the mainland box office is so easy to get? Breaking through [-] million at any time?"

"You!" Zhen Zi burst out angrily.

"That's enough, this matter ends here. It is the company's decision to withdraw files. No matter whether he has such influence or not, he would rather believe it than believe it. Everything is in the interests of the company. Bullet, you I don't care about any grievances with Zhou Xing, but don't bring [Dragon Tiger Gate] into it anymore." Huang Baiming glanced at Zhen Bullet coldly.

Once the news was confirmed, the entire public was in an uproar, especially in the entertainment industry, no matter how famous an actor was, they were not at the top of the food chain in the entertainment industry, at most they were in the middle. However, this time, Zhou Xing's personal influence was Forcing [Dragon Tiger Gate] to withdraw files urgently, this is still unique in the entertainment industry.

For a while, all the people in the circle had a new understanding of Zhou Xing's influence. Unfortunately, the power of the Internet in this era has not been generally recognized by the entertainment industry. They don't know that in this incident, the most influential In fact, it is just a group of energetic netizens who have nowhere to rest.

As the beneficiary of this incident, Zhou Xing is still making the last effort to promote the "Exile".

"Ah Xing, thank you for your hard work this time." Brother Feng patted Zhou Xing's shoulder, feeling a little emotional. When Zhou Xing played a small supporting role under his hands, who would have thought that he would grow to the point where he is today? ?

"Brother Feng, you are so polite, you won't want me to lose money again?" Zhou Xing teased.

"Bad guy."

Brother Feng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said again: "Ah Xing, you are from the mainland, you should have the most say on this issue. Is it right or wrong for me to give up the mainland market?"

Zhou Xing didn't expect Brother Feng to say such a thing. In his impression, this old guy should be the kind of master who can't even bend his knees with a knife resting on his neck, which shows how confused he is now.

In fact, this also represents the confusion of a large part of Xiangjiang directors, whether to stick to the original Hong Kong taste, or to cater to the censorship system of mainland movies and the tastes of mainland audiences.

So far, some directors have actually made compromises. For example, when Xu Ke shot "Seven Swords", the opening scene was a scene of stumped limbs and broken arms, but in order to pass the review, there was not a single drop of blood left in the entire scene.

However, there are also some Xiangjiang directors who prefer to stick to their original positions. To put it nicely, they stick to the purity of their art.

This is a collision of two concepts, which is inevitable.

Zhou Xing suddenly smiled: "Crazy line? Brother Feng, aren't you? When did you worry about the box office?"

"Haha~~~Shanzi, you're right, I'm so crazy." Brother Feng also smiled, then got up and walked into the distance without looking back.

Zhou Xing looked at his back, and the smile on his face gradually turned into a long sigh. In fact, he certainly wanted Brother Feng to go to the Mainland to film, but he knew that if he would compromise, then he would not be Du Qifeng.

[Exile] The box office on the first day of release was only 150 million. For a film with an investment of 3500 million, there is only one chance to get back the cost, and that is the Oscar, unless [Exile] can win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language However, for a gangster film with such a strong Hong Kong flavor, winning an Oscar seems to be more difficult than making money at the box office.

After only one day of release, [Exile] is already doomed to lose money. Brother Feng almost wants to cry without tears. If [Exile] is a bad movie, Brother Feng will recognize it, but whether it is the audience, or The media gave [Exile] a very high evaluation.

Even three days after the release of "Exile", a high-definition pirated version of "Exile" spread to the mainland. After watching this work, many mainland movie fans said that Du Qifeng has made another classic movie.

Brother Feng is going crazy. He really can't figure it out. The audience likes it very much, but why are they unwilling to buy tickets?
Zhou Xing also didn't understand this very much. The media also praised this "Exile". The acting skills of several leading actors were also highly evaluated, but it just couldn't make a hit at the box office.

In the end, [Exile] was released in less than a month in Xiangjiang, and the total box office was only 570 million. For a film with an investment of 3500 million, it was so bad that he vomited blood. In the case of a salary of 2000 million yuan.

In this regard, the media can only attribute the problem to the fact that the film "Exile" has too strong a personal style, which made it unacceptable to most audiences.

Of course, from Zhou Xing's point of view, this reason is nonsense, but fortunately, Brother Feng is considered a "long-time Jianghu" about this, so he won't be defeated all at once.

When he left Xiangjiang, Brother Feng came to see him off on purpose, and he didn't get angry when he was followed by reporters all the way.

The reason why Zhou Xing left Xiangjiang in a hurry was because the post-production of [Crazy Stone] had been completed. As an investor, he naturally had to go back to sit in charge.

And [Crazy Stone] really doesn't have much publicity. The name Ning Hao is probably unknown to many people in the circle, let alone the audience.

Although Guo Tao and Xu Zheng are well-known, they are not movies, and their box office appeal is almost zero. I don’t know how many movies like this will be screened in theaters across the country every year. They are basically three-day tour experience packages in theaters, and they can be downloaded directly after three days. Don't have any unrealistic expectations about painting, box office and so on.

(End of this chapter)