New Age Artists

Chapter 622: Barking is useless!

"The Thieves" is Shen Santong's twelfth movie!
Dongtian wants to see the number of people exceed 300 million.

Pre-sales exceeded 200 million, setting a new pre-sale record.

The box office of the midnight show on July 7 was 6 million, setting a new record for the midnight show box office.

As soon as "The Thieves" was released, it topped the Weibo hot search list and made headlines.

#Zhou Jie detective suit kills#
#Marina Red Skirt Tarot# (explosion)

#Do you dare to take a photo of the Gaomo Bank prototype?#
#Shen Santong's magically modified western core#
#Health insurance company CEO deserves to be cheated out of his job#
After the "anti-Shen" incident, Shen Santong resigned from his directorial job. Dongtian.com only added one new project, "Three Gorges", and the release date is tentatively scheduled for 16.

The introduction was perfunctory and movie fans looked up the registration records with the Film Bureau and found only a few sentences of description, which was not enough to reveal anything.

No one knows the specific content of the project, and no one can find out when it will be filmed or released.

After watching all the movies in stock, it’s still uncertain when the next Shen Santong movie will be released.

What was far ahead became far away.

There are only four films left by Shen Santong that have not been released.

"Now You See Me", "The Lost Tomb", "Zhu Xian", and "The Return of the Great Sage", which he served as chief director for many years ago.

From two movies a year, to one less movie a year.

"The Thieves" didn't even have any regular publicity. Shen Santong only showed up at the premiere to indicate that the movie was in production and that he was still alive.

However, the popularity was simply terrifying, dominating the entertainment industry and social pages.

Shen Santong killed people indiscriminately.

All kinds of killing.

Zhou Jie plays a major role in the positive investigation team. As the movie becomes more popular, the incident of "forced kiss" on Lin Xinru comes into the public eye again.

This matter had originally appeared in the "anti-Shen" storm, but it was just some minor information related to Shen Santong.

In the past, Zhou Jie was also popular after the release of "Red Cliff", "Cao Cao" and "Zhuge Liang", but self-media was not well developed at that time.

A few years seem like two eras.

Now that we have entered the era of smartphones, the public is participating in social issues together.

Dongtian Weibo did not take sides and quickly reached a consensus - Lin Xinru was slandering.

Then an old news about Shen Santong came out.

At the opening ceremony of "Red Cliff", Shen Santong refuted this rumor on the spot, and there was a wave of rhythm at that time.

Looking back now, everything Shen Santong said was true.

The more you dig into Shen Santong, the more valuable he becomes.

How to say it, if Shen Santong died now, he would definitely be deified.

Movie fans gave "Now You See Me" a lot of praise.

"The Devil's Creed is by no means simply 'anti-American', but rather a bullet that deconstructs neo-colonialism wrapped in the sugar coating of a commercial film."

"While Western directors were still hypnotizing the audience with the 'FBI saves the world' routine, Shen Santong directly turned the table over - the 'mysterious abilities' of the Chinese agents in the UN investigation team were a metaphor for China's growing wisdom contribution in transnational governance."

"The targeting of the theft at Gao Morgan Bank has torn off the fig leaf of Western financial capital that plunders in the name of rules."

"The best part is that the protagonist Marina is much more complex than a Hollywood hero: she is both a descendant of an oligarch and an anti-capital fighter, she has both the identity of an Anglo-American elite and awakens to her Slavic blood - this sense of rifting precisely reflects the spiritual dilemma of intellectuals in the era of globalization."

"When she said 'magic is the poor man's nuclear weapon', Shen Santong was actually announcing to the world: Chinese filmmakers have mastered the art of using the opponent's symbols to counterattack the opponent's words."

“The Magicians is a model of international cooperation, setting a milestone in cultural breakthroughs and value enhancement! It breaks the hegemony of Hollywood narratives and reconstructs the discourse power on global issues!”

"Shen Santong's most subversive move was to abandon the straight-forward approach of 'Chinese protagonists saving the world.'"

"He let the Chinese agent played by Zhou Jie always hide behind the scenes and give the spotlight to Marina from Russia - this just confirms the deep logic of world peace: justice does not need nationality endorsement, and awakened people have many faces."

“Shen Santong practices what he says, telling Chinese stories, not necessarily Chinese stories, driving the Tarot cards and the Four Horsemen to fight against global injustice, and his unbridled talent is overflowing with absolute confidence.”

When ordinary movie fans see this, they’re like, wow, this review is so well-received, brother, you’re right!
"Now You See Me" once again set off the July summer season, sweeping away the dominance of Hollywood blockbusters and dominating the screen with its bombastic attitude.

The audience feasted on the cultural delicacies and discussed the metaphors in the film, and they were in great spirits.

When the audience is happy, some people are unhappy.

Some people were horrified to find that since the "overthrow of Shen", the public opinion has undergone profound changes.

Gao Xiaosong created a program called "Xiao Shuo" and a big V on Weibo launched a column called "Xia Shuo".

He does fact-checking for every episode of Xiao Shuo.

In the past, this situation would not have happened, and even if it had, the column would not have survived. Now, many big Vs on Weibo earn advertising and writing income by torturing Gongzi.

Many people who couldn't dispel the rumors on Tianya took to Weibo.

Dongtian Weibo does not absorb black traffic, and immediately bans the water army of a certain island if it is found.

The public opinion clarification from the perspective of public intellectuals is seen as "online exposure" in the eyes of Gong Zhi.

The harder Shen Santong's movies are to make, the more they want to make them.

Many of these people do not take money, but do so to defend their privileges.

"Wolf Fang 2.0! Shen Santong is engaging in ideological kidnapping again!"

"Shen Santong is simply treating the audience as fools with this move! UN investigation team? It's so funny. Who doesn't know that the United Nations is the market where you and Citibank are playing games?"

"And they even force a Chinese detective with 'mysterious powers' into it - isn't this just a disguised way of saying 'China's superpowers lead the world'?"

"Zhou Jie wearing a suit and reciting a few lines of classical Chinese is called cultural export? The Transformers next door blew up the White House (it didn't actually blow it up) but they weren't as straightforward and licking the boots as you!"

"What's even more disgusting is that Marina, a descendant of a Russian oligarch, is anti-American?"

"He cursed the United States, but his whole family immigrated to the United Kingdom and the United States. He is a typical hypocrite! He also talked about the bloodline of Empress Catherine. Why not just say that she is the illegitimate daughter of a traitor? This kind of patchwork plot can only fool the 50 cents, Wolf Warriors, and Patriots!"

"Goldmore Bank? They are so stupid that they don't even have the financial capability to scam people!"

"Setting the villains to be a combination of 'Goldman Sachs + Morgan' simply exposes Shen Santong's junior high school political level!"

"Do you really think that Wall Street tycoons would watch such a stupid movie? They are busy harvesting leeks around the world, who cares about your fantasy of stealing safes? And 'the CEO of a medical insurance company should be stolen' - according to this logic, traditional Chinese medicine should have been bombed eight hundred times already!"

"The funniest part is 'there are no bad guys on both sides'. Is that a lie? If you don't criticize the United States, you are a bad guy. If you don't praise China, you are insidious. Even commercial films have to use black-and-white thinking these days. No wonder Chinese films are never as good as Hollywood ones!"

"Chinese stories? This is clearly a case of late-stage cultural inferiority complex!"

"They don't dare to film a Chinese protagonist, but insist on praising a white Russian as a hero. This is essentially worshipping foreign things in their bones! They say 'you don't have to be Chinese to tell a good Chinese story' - then why don't you film an African chief fighting against the Japanese? Oh, right, you're afraid of being accused of racism!"

"Using Western symbols like tarot cards and the Four Horsemen, and calling it 'cultural breakthrough'? Isn't it just kneeling down to lick the feet of foreign masters, and then secretly inserting some 'you're awesome' notes? Do you really think the audience can't smell the rotten smell of this patriotic leek stuffing?"

"Dong Tian scored 8.9 points? Even the Internet trolls don't dare to brush it up like that! Everyone knows that Dong Tian belongs to Shen Santong. I'll give Dong Tian three points for no reason. Just look at Douban next door. It just barely passed!"

"How can this crappy movie get an 8? It must be a group of cents using sewing machines to brush up the score! Just look at the comments of 'normal humans': 'The plot is more embarrassing than the skits on the Spring Festival Gala', 'Marina's British accent sounds like she came from a Russian English training class', 'Zhou Jie's acting skills are not as good as any Hollywood actor'"

"The most magical thing is the boasting of 'anti-hegemony'. Even such a term has come out. Last year's 'Wolf Tooth' was at least openly patriotic, but this movie is simply full of weird and advanced black!"

“I suggest that the relevant departments directly issue a martyr certificate to Shen Santong. After all, he successfully proved through his movies that the Chinese audience’s money is easier to cheat than the Russians’ vodka!”

Howling like crazy.

Unfortunately, the dog's barking is useless.

7 month 9 day.

First week box office results are out.

Domestic sales exceeded 3 million in the first 8 days of the weekend!
"The Amazing Spider-Man", which was released on the same day, just broke the 100 million mark in its first weekend, completely crushing the competition.

It crushed Chen Kaige's "Search" and beat the 2 million yuan of "Painted Skin 2.4" in its first weekend.

"Painted Skin 2" was released during the protection month for domestic films, with a week specifically set aside for it to absorb box office revenue.

Santong Entertainment can be abandoned, but other film and television companies need protection.

In the previous life, "The Amazing Spider-Man" was to be released in August, colliding with "The Dark Knight Rises" on the same day, and in this life, it is colliding with "The Martian".

The score of "The Thieves" rose to 9.0.

It was purely the siege by the spiders and the internet army that annoyed Shen Santong's fans.

Besides, how should I put it? For normal audiences, the spider's howling is an advantage.

At first the audience didn't notice so many advantages, but once they were called out they realized they had ignored them.

The most terrifying thing is the performance of the Russian film market.

Moscow cinemas urgently increased their screening schedule to 58%!

The box office in the first weekend converted into rubles was about 1.2 million yuan.

The total box office of the Russian film market in 12 was only about US$1 billion. Based on the exchange rate at the time, 6.3 US dollar ≈ 72 RMB, which was approximately RMB billion.

"The Martian" broke the record for Chinese-language films in the Russian market, and judging by word of mouth and popularity feedback, the first weekend is likely just the beginning.

The 7:30 o'clock slot was devoted to reporting on the box office performance of The Marauders, especially in Russia.

As if it was a signal, the official media, which had remained silent until then, conducted a series of reports.

(End of this chapter)