The Strongest Animator [Rebirth]

At the same moment, in a meeting room inside Yunsu Group's head office.

Gareth, who was dressed in a gray suit, was holding a goblet full of wine in his hand, shaking his right hand slightly, and even the liquid in the glass was shaking slightly, and he was facing the invisible sky outside the window, revealing With a faint smile, he said calmly:

"Mr. Lin, tell me, does this look like the last dying struggle of Huaying Animation?"

He spoke vaguely, but it did not affect the other party's understanding of what he meant.

The man called Mr. Lin frowned slightly. His expression was not as relaxed as Gareth's. There was even a bit of undisguised tension between his brows and eyes. Fen hesitated and said: "Are you sure that the appearance of these people will not affect the situation?"

"Of course." Gareth gave him a surprised look, as if he was baffled by his thoughts, and the man took it for granted: "Business and art have always been two worlds, and the aesthetics of the two are almost completely opposite. , can get a high box office, so how did those popular literary films hit the street all these years?"

Mr. Lin was not easily persuaded, he frowned and said: "Don't forget, even among ordinary people, the audience popularity of "Harry Potter" is not bad."

Gareth calmly said: "That's why we need such excellent commercial films as "Respecting the Mountain and River" and "The Madhouse" to encircle and suppress "Harry Potter", isn't it?"

"Respecting Mountains and Rivers" and "Mad Asylum" are the two works arranged by Yunsu Group to encircle and suppress.

The former is adapted from a popular IP and starred by top traffic stars.The latter is a talented director who is well-known in the field of commercial films.Any of the two films, which could compete for the monthly box office title in other time slots, was placed in the Lunar New Year file as cannon fodder for the siege of "Harry Potter".

In fact, this is exactly the reason for Mr. Lin's uneasiness.

"It's not your work, of course you don't care, but "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" is the hard work of our company!" Mr. Lin rubbed his temples. If it wasn't because the vice president of Yunsu Group was standing opposite him, he would almost I can't control my anger anymore.

The fan of the traffic star, after hearing that the movie "Jing Shanhe" starring his brother was put on the Lunar New Year file as cannon fodder, became angry. These days, it can be said that there is no shortage of tearing up the company. Two days ago, they even tore up a valued partner of the company abruptly!

If it wasn't for the IP of Huaying Animation, who would want to use "Jing Shanhe" as cannon fodder after Huaying fell apart and hoped to get the live-action TV series and movie copyrights of some of the animations!

He still wanted to say something, but when he looked up and met Gareth's suddenly cold gaze, he was stunned and didn't dare to speak for a moment.

Anyway, Gareth is the vice president of Yunsu Group after all, so it's okay to say a few words, but if he really wants to offend the other party, he dare not.It is also because of this that even Mr. Lin is so angry now that he has no choice but to suppress it in his heart and stay silent.

"Okay," Gareth said indifferently, with a somewhat impatient tone: "This is only the first batch, no matter how good "Harry Potter" is, can it still withstand the pressure of more than a dozen movies? If everyone is like Huaying and sells badly to fans, they can get a high box office, so why don't the film industry make good movies in the future, and just compare who can sell badly."

Mr. Lin said dryly: "It's best like this."

"This is a deadly situation," Gareth said lightly, "Just watch."

This conversation, which only happened between two people, was naturally not known to outsiders. As the release time of "Harry Potter" approached, the atmosphere in the entire Blue Star movie circle became more and more tense.

In order to welcome the upcoming Lunar New Year file, some people simply analyzed and sorted out the first batch of "Harry Potter" encirclement list-in terms of time schedule, there are seven or eight movies that happen to have a similar schedule to "Harry Potter" Among them, there are only two that are most likely to have an impact on the box office of "Harry Potter".

An ancient strategy movie, "Respecting Mountains and Rivers", starring popular traffic stars and adapted from the IP of a well-known online novel.Before signing the copyright of the film, the original novel had a very high popularity on the Internet. With the joining of popular traffic stars, the popularity of the film will only increase to a higher level.

Another movie is called "The Crazy Asylum". The director is recognized by the film industry as the most talented director of the new generation. It's not scary.

The most important thing is that even these two films are only the best of the first batch of siege films.

Yunsu Group's plan is simple and brutal:

As we all know, the box office of a movie tends to be the highest in the first week or two of its release, and as time goes by, the box office will gradually decline.The so-called encirclement and suppression took advantage of this law.In other words, "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" and "Mad Asylum" were just chosen by Yunsu Group to fight against "Harry Potter".

A week later, when "Respecting the Mountains and Rivers" and "Mad Asylum" experienced a conventional box office decline due to lack of stamina, the second batch of siege films arranged by Yunsu will also be released as scheduled.

The entire Lunar New Year file will be analogized until "Harry Potter" is released.

After realizing this, whether it is a melon-eating netizen or various media newspapers, they all sneered at "Jing Shanhe" and "Mad Asylum":

"It's a pretty good movie, but it's not good to put it on a certain schedule, but it's going to be used as cannon fodder in the New Year's Eve. Is it so cool to be Yunsu's dog?"

"The fans of the original "Jing Shanhe" are crying. I was really looking forward to this drama, but now it's alright. The operation of the film and television company is too intimidating. Whoever wants to watch it should watch it. I won't go to the theater to watch it anyway. I’m going to go whoring on video sites for nothing after it’s released, anyway, I have VIP members on any site.”

If the appearance of "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" has caused countless complaints from netizens, then the focus of media reporters and film critics from all walks of life is on "Mad Asylum".

"If the cannon fodder of "Respecting the Mountains and Rivers" can be regarded as excusable, the schedule selection of "The Madhouse" is beyond my comprehension anyway." Facing the upcoming Lunar New Year file, one of the film critics This is what he said: "As the best young director of Blue Star's new generation, director Ryan could obviously refuse this schedule, but he didn't."

"Why? I guess, maybe Yunsu Group offered him an offer he couldn't refuse, so that he was willing to be a member of the sniper "Harry Potter". Frankly speaking, I once thought that Director Ryan was the future One of the most promising young directors to become a great director...I'm sorry, I can't say any more, he disappointed me so much..."

……

However, for the clamor of netizens, whether it is the Yunsu Group behind the scenes, or the film and television company that is a part of the Shura field, they all chose to turn a blind eye.In the face of absolute benefits, the so-called word of mouth can be ignored.At times like these, no response is the best response.

Of course, not responding does not mean that these film and television companies have done nothing.

Although from the moment they arranged these movies to the same schedule as Huaying, it was equivalent to treating these movies as cannon fodder in their hearts and sentenced them to death.But even if it is cannon fodder, it is not an easy task to be one of the cannon fodder that can drag the "Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets" to death.

Therefore, as early as a month before the movie was released, various companies started to spread the publicity and marketing!

On February [-]st, within one night, the teaser video of "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" appeared on the bulletin boards of every subway station in Blue Star.

On February [-]th, Ryan, the director of "The Madhouse", announced that before the official release, his new work "The Madhouse" will be broadcast in advance in the form of on-demand screenings. All senior film critics in the film industry are welcome to come and watch the movie .The next day, the movie "Madhouse" ended successfully,

Although many people are dissatisfied with the schedule selection of "Madhouse", when it comes to the plot of "Madhouse", even the pickiest film critics have to admit that despite this special schedule selection, "Madhouse" is indeed An impeccably excellent film.

On February 100th, "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" opened for advance booking, and within half an hour, the first batch of [-] million movie tickets were sold out!

In the afternoon of the same day, it was rumored on the Internet that fans of "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" planned to raise funds together and try to rent several movie theaters.He also claimed that every qualified traffic fan should swipe at least [-] times, and news that less than [-] swipes is unqualified.

On February 0.1, "Mad Asylum" ranked second on the list of the most anticipated movies of the year, with expectations second only to Huaying Animation's "Harry Potter" series, and the actual support rate was only 9000% lower than Huaying Animation.At the same time, "Respecting Mountains and Rivers" has not yet been officially released. In just two days, its pre-sale box office has reached [-] million!

In contrast, it is the promotion of Huaying.

When the promotional advertisements of film and television companies are flying all over the sky, intentionally or unintentionally letting fans go crazy, Huaying Animation shows a completely opposite attitude——

It’s okay to watch N, but the premise is because you want to watch it, not just for N, and don’t morally kidnap passers-by because of the company’s position.

The fans were both gratified and helpless to see it.

The good news is that even at such a moment of life and death, Huaying is still the sincere and pure Huaying.The helpless thing is that Huaying can play the pitiful card to attract uninterested audiences to contribute movie tickets, but I don't want to do this marketing, let alone, and refuse fans to swipe for no reason.

Do you want to be so honest?

The fans simply hated that iron cannot be made into steel, so they spontaneously started a navy.Worried that Amway, who was too arrogant, would arouse the disgust of passers-by and audiences, fans simply took out the material from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", added it with BGM, and made various animation clips. Suddenly, It also attracted many people into the pit.

It stands to reason that in the face of such a bloody schedule competition, Huaying fans should not have a good impression of "Respecting the Mountains and Rivers" and "Mad Asylum".

In fact, Huaying fans really didn't like these two menacing movies.

But they don't like it, but it doesn't mean they will deliberately attack these two movies for this reason.Firstly, Huaying's own life is hanging by a thread, and they have long lost the mind and energy to engage in pointless arguments with other people. Second, as the saying goes, there is no need for Yunsu's hatred to harm others. How about it, the crew who passively become cannon fodder are innocent.

If it is said that the low-key of Huaying fans is still expected by many people, then the attitude of the fans of "Jing Shanhe" and "Mad Asylum" towards Huaying animation and "Harry Potter" is touching. Lost my mind.

Maybe it's because the Huaying incident not long ago resonated with too many people, maybe it's because the fans themselves are also worried about the schedule and have no intention of setting off an online scolding war. Respecting the Mountains and Rivers, from beginning to end, the main audiences of these two films are just focusing on themselves, and have no intention of slandering "Harry Potter".

It's as if Harry Potter didn't exist.

However, in reality-

There is only one day left before the official release of the three films. In a certain fan group of the traffic star starring in "Jing Shanhe", someone suddenly asked: "Is it really okay for us to be like this...?"

She was answered by silence.

For the Huaying incident not long ago, of course they also saw it in their eyes, and they were not the least bit moved by what happened to Huaying animation. I am willing to buy a movie ticket for "Harry Potter" to show my support.

but……

"This is my brother's first movie. The film's box office will be directly linked to my future resources. The garbage film and television company is not a good person. They insist on arranging the movie for this schedule as cannon fodder. What else can we do besides supporting it? Did you just watch your brother fail in his first movie?"

"Why don't we buy another "Harry Potter" box office by the way." Another fan suddenly said: "Isn't the rubbish production company using "Jing Shanhe" to consume "Harry Potter"? We Don't let them succeed! In this way, it will not affect our support for brother, but also make the company's idea come to nothing!"

If it is other competitors, in order to compare with their opponents, they may not necessarily have the idea of ​​buying each other's movie tickets.

But shadow animation is different.

As an animation, "Harry Potter" has nothing to do with their older brother.As competitors, the box office of the first "Harry Potter" was as high as 40 billion. No matter how arrogant they are, they are not so ignorant that they can compare with "Harry Potter" at the box office.

Since the box office is destined to be inferior to "Harry Potter", what else do they have to worry about?

Why not support a "Harry Potter" movie ticket by the way to offset the possible negative impact of "Respecting the Mountains and Rivers" on "Harry Potter"!

As the saying goes, if you are unkind and I am unrighteous, their beloved brother will have a hard time, and the stupid company will not have a good time!

While the fans of "Jing Shanhe" were still aggrieved by the treatment of their brother, the fan group of "Mad Asylum" on the other side fell into another awkward silence.

Fans of "Respecting the Mountains and Rivers" can dismiss the sarcasm of the netizen reporter - the fighting power of the star chasing girl is not a joke.But for fans like "Crazy Asylum" who were attracted by the talent of director Ryan at the beginning, the accusations from the media and newspapers were not aimlessly targeted, but what they thought in their hearts.

Movie works that pay attention to quality can attract fans, and naturally fans who also pay attention to the quality of the work.

Before the schedule of "Madhouse" was officially announced, many fans of "Madhouse" even joined the nationwide protest and made the same oath with everyone. What's more, it was Ryan and Shepherd However, the news turned around and told them that one of the directors they had always liked was actually the chief culprit who pushed another director they liked to a dead end!

What is this?

As a talented director, shouldn't Ryan be on the side of Shepherd Star?Or is it really like what the outside media reporter said, just because the Yunsu Group promised him the benefits that made his heart move, so he stood on the opposite side of Shepherd Star without hesitation?

In Ryan's personal fan group, when there are fans who are still trying to discuss the evaluation of film critics after the screening and talk about their expectations for the upcoming movie as usual, there are very few people who come forward to respond to him.

After 10 minutes of awkward chatting, someone suddenly uttered a sentence without beginning or end: "This is the last time."

the last time?What last time?

Without waiting for other people to ask, the next second, all the fans who followed the movement in the group got the reason, because soon, the person continued typing: "I will go to see the movie "Madhouse", but It's not because I like Ryan, but because I've made a promise that I'll support all the really good movies I love until the day comes when quality is king."

"So, I will not give up supporting "Harry Potter" because of this. In my opinion, it is also an excellent animation work."

So what about the last time?

What does this so-called last time mean?

No need to ask, when the text [XXX has exited the group chat] was displayed on the screen, everyone understood the unfinished meaning of this sentence.

——This is the last time. From now on, I will no longer support director Ryan's works.Even if his film work is still good, it will no longer be my favorite movie.

No one speaks.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups.Most of the people who can join this group are normal fans who can tell right from wrong, who is right and who is wrong in "Madhouse" and "Harry Potter", no further analysis is needed, everyone knows it well.In fact, this is why they feel hesitant and sad.

As for the director.

On the one hand, Ryan focused on publicity and turned a blind eye to fans' appeals, as if he didn't see them at all.On the one hand, it is to persuade fans to be rational, not to brush N for the sake of N brush, let alone kidnap other people's shepherd stars because of the morality of Huaying's situation.One is in an invincible position, but the other is on the edge of a cliff, and may fall into the abyss at any time.

It is clear at a glance who is better and who is worse.

With such a comparison, the first person appeared again. Fans who had deliberately not mentioned "Harry Potter" also spoke one after another:

"One thing to say, Ryan is really disappointing this time. Is Yun Su's offer so good? So good that he doesn't even have the minimum empathy as a director?"

"Shuangdan has been entangled for several days, and now I don't want to be entangled. I'd better support my Xingxing wholeheartedly."

"A few days ago, I made an oath with my friends who are Huaying fans, but now emmmmm, it's really embarrassing, I don't want to say anything, if you can still be fans, it's because of you, I can't hold it, Withdrew first."

Accompanied by the fast scrolling messages, one after another, the prompts for leaving the group popped up one after another. Until the administrator came out to silence the chat, the message prompts for quitting the group did not stop flashing.

……

As for these things that happened inside the fans of "Jing Shan He" and "Mad Asylum", outsiders naturally have no way of knowing.When the calendar turned over February [-]th and came to the destined extraordinary February [-]th, everyone's eyes were focused on the major theaters of Blue Star.

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is about to be released.

When Shen Nian came to the largest movie theater in Xingning City, the theater was already full of audiences and fans waiting to enter.

There are quite a few little girls wearing scarves in the colors of traffic stars, and there are young audiences who are obviously very young, but look dignified and sad. Some of them are ignorant, so they are not affected by the overall atmosphere. The general audience who come to a movie theater to watch a movie.

and also……

Looking away from the ordinary audience, Shen Nian couldn't help but be surprised when he saw other groups of middle-aged and elderly people who looked normal!

Look at those spectators who are just like ordinary people, quietly lining up in the queue!

The great director Ye Changlin, the writer Wang Chan, the painter Tan Qingyi, the animation master Xin Zongyi...all the mainstays of the cultural circles from all walks of life who have spoken out for Huaying on the Internet before, almost without exception, are all here.

the most important is……

Shen Nian lowered his eyes, and from the corner of his eyes, he was led by the waiter at this moment, and swept past several middle-aged people walking out of the theater.

If she remembers correctly, the leading middle-aged man here is the general manager of this year's Muse Art Festival, and also the director of the official department of Blue Star Culture, Shen Laiming.

Noticing this, Shen Nian subconsciously took a deep breath.

Even compared with all the films released by Blue Star, the ostentation and treatment of "Harry Potter" this time is probably unprecedented, and there will be no one to come after, right?

Thinking of this, Shen Nian didn't know what kind of mood he was in at the moment.

I'm happy that my favorite work can get everyone's attention, but sad that such a seemingly calm and powerful scene is just the last for "Harry Potter" and Huaying Animation to see off.