This man knows how to hype

Chapter 693: Opening (6K chapter thanks to the leader of Midnight Lanz)

#12 European countries including Britain and France announced the release of "Wandering Blue Planet"#
#"Wandering Blue Planet" North American theaters advanced#
#"Wandering Blue Star" won the box office championship in 21 countries#
#MOSS-550B download volume ranks first in many countries and regions#
#A well-known equal rights influencer blasted "Wandering Blue Planet" for saying that MOSS's dubbing was a male voice, which was suspected of discrimination. Dixing Culture did not respond to this#
#A mysterious Hong Kong master said that businessmen should avoid watching "The Wandering Blue Planet" and using MOSS because the background it describes is unlucky#
#The first MOSS-shaped government affairs robot was put into use in Pengcheng#
It must be said that when movies and real-life technology reflect each other, the power of public opinion that emerges from their concentrated burst is enormous.

When MOSS-550B was released, everyone had a feeling that "the environment seemed to have changed."

Now with the continued outbreak of "Wandering Blue Planet", this feeling is even stronger.

Even older people who don’t usually pay much attention to new things feel that the “AI era” seems to have really arrived.

In such an atmosphere of public opinion.

More and more people are beginning to pay attention to the box office performance of "Wandering Blue Planet".

Especially the performance of the upcoming North American film, as well as the box office performance of the "complete European and Middle Eastern market".

This level of attention exceeds that of "Nezha 2", which had a similar experience on Earth.

Because, Xu Xiyu's version of "The Wandering Blue Planet", due to a series of coincidences and intentional operations, carries so much content and meaning.

At the same time, its overseas channels are much broader than those of Nezha 2.

Even the opponent competing with "The Wandering Blue Star" at this time couldn't be more coincidental.

One is called Captain America: The New Order. Look at the name.
Another one is "Snow White", which is the culmination of DI concept.

If "Wandering Blue Planet" can beat these two films in the North American and European markets, then the room for interpretation will be enormous.

Many people in the United States are aware of this.

Inside a conference room in Los Angeles.

A bald man sat on the sofa, holding his forehead with his hand and said in a deep voice: "I think our judgment is wrong. We should not rely on this movie to continue to prove the failure of Tru's AI policy.

We should ban this movie and not allow it to enter the US market..."

Before he could finish his words, he was rudely interrupted by the man with his hands on his hips opposite him: "What are you thinking about? Wandering Blue Star is so popular, and audiences all over the world are looking forward to it. Why are you banning it?"

"Perhaps, through..."

"Through what?" The bald man was interrupted again. The man with his hands on his hips said angrily, "In the past, when Chinese films entered the American market, we could say that the culture was different and the audience's aesthetic taste was different, so we quietly suppressed them.

But Wandering Blue Planet is different, it is too popular. Moreover, that damn Leo has proved with his previous movies that his works can be appreciated by audiences all over the world.

Now, if you want to ban "Wandering Blue Planet", China can announce a reciprocal countermeasure tomorrow and completely ban Hollywood movies from entering the Chinese market.

Oh my God, open your eyes and take a look, that is a supermarket where a single movie in a single day can generate 1.69 million US dollars in box office, which is much higher than the current United States!

In other words, if there is a reciprocal ban, we will definitely lose, because it is not possible for a Chinese movie to be released on a large scale in the United States in a year.

However, Hollywood can import more than a dozen movies to China every year. Do you understand the calculations here?"

After these words were spoken, there was a moment of silence in the meeting room.

After a long while, the bald man finally spoke: "What is the current market forecast for the first-day box office of "Wandering Blue Star" in the United States?"

"The forecast is $4300 million, much higher than the $1600 million for Snow White and the $4 million for Captain America 1200."

“Shit, is the market so confident?”

"You have to know that the original forecast for Snow White was $5000 million. The performance of The Wandering Blue Star at the global box office was much stronger than that of Snow White. $4300 million is already an understatement."

"According to this, the first-day box office of 'The Wandering Blue Star' in the United States may exceed 4300 million US dollars?"

"Maybe. According to the analysis given by Disney, the actual result will most likely be close to 5000 million US dollars, setting a record for Chinese films in the US box office and becoming the 15th or 16th on the US single-day box office list in film history."

Good guy.

These words put the conference room into silence again.

I don't know how long the silence lasted, but suddenly someone smiled and said, "I think you are too nervous. Maybe the box office of "The Wandering Blue Planet" will exceed "Captain America 4" and "Snow White".

But so what? I must remind you that the top 17 in the global box office list are all American movies, and Leo's best-selling work, Coco, is only ranked 18th. "

It’s no wonder that as soon as this concept was put forward, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became much more relaxed.

Soon someone answered, "Yes, even if we give him 4600 theaters, what will happen? Can "The Wandering Blue Planet" still be among the top ten in film history?"

"Hahahaha, 4600 companies. It's useless to give him 6400 companies. Hahahaha..."

happy.

Happy now.

The meeting room was soon filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Also celebrating is the Hollywood China Theater, which will host the first screening of "Wandering Blue Star" in the United States.

Of course, Xu Xiyu and the distributor also knew that it would be impossible for fellow artists to come to support the event.

So, just don't bother with that god to create a red carpet.

It’s just a simple opening and a simple screening.

However, even with such a simple structure, Xu Xiyu's past fans and players of "Journey to the West: The Sequel" have turned this place into a sea of ​​joy.

There are people checking in, taking photos, and shooting videos.

In addition to these audiences, many film critics also rushed to the scene.

The purpose of their coming is simple.

Watch a movie, write a review, and then rate it.

Score hard!
Try to reduce the Rotten Tomatoes index of "The Wandering Blue Planet" to below 60%, and then label "The Wandering Blue Planet" as a bad movie.

Just like the previous scoring for "Journey to the West: The Sequel".

Speaking of this, we have to mention the opening score of "Snow White".

"The Rotten Tomatoes freshness index is 43% (focusing on media ratings, 100% system), and the IMDb score is 2.2 (focusing on audience ratings, 10 points system)."

In the office of the chairman of Dixing Culture, Shan Xinbao introduced while holding a tablet.

Xu Xiyu was immediately amused by this rating: "Wow, isn't this equivalent to a Douban rating of 2.2? It's directly on the list of 'masterpieces'."

"The next door 'Captain America 4' still has an IMDb score of 6.1. 'Snow White' has already made history as the second worst rated Disney film." Shan Xinbao couldn't help laughing.

"Wait, the second worst from the last?" Xu Xiyu was shocked. There is still a master?
"Yes, the last one is the previously released "Sleeping Beauty 2." Shan Xinbao couldn't hold back when talking about this. She had never thought that there would be a score lower than 2.2 before she checked.

After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Xu Xiyu's reply and continued, "The female lead of Snow White, Al, broke down and cursed in the media. She thought she could succeed with "New Snow White"."

"What's there to be afraid of? Has she ever thought about why she could play Snow White?" Xu Xiyu stretched lazily in his chair.

If it were him, he would never break the defense.

Just like in the past, when he did many things, he knew he would be scolded. But these things were done with the intention of getting scolded.

"This Al, I'm afraid he doesn't know himself well." Xu Xiyu commented again.

"Boss, what do you think our rating will be?"

“Rotten Tomatoes is definitely not going to be high, but I would like to see high box office and low ratings, like Journey to the West: The Sequel.

If this happens a few more times, everyone will be subtly influenced to believe that the scores given to us by the American media are of no reference value.

Once their ratings lose their meaning, we can push out meaningful ratings, which is equivalent to them handing over the right to judge.

But these idiots still don’t realize this, and are still complacently thinking that they can influence public opinion as before. They are just as stupid as the media in China that make ratings.”

As Xu Xiyu spoke, he sneered.

When Dixing Culture grows bigger and produces more works every year, perhaps the awards given within their group will be more valuable than those outside.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiyu continued: "Don't worry too much about the ratings, and the awards don't matter either. Our focus should be on the box office."

Speaking of box office, Shan Xinbao also asked curiously: "Boss, how much box office do you think we can get in North America?"

"What do you think?" Xu Xiyu asked back.

"Like the media predicted, 4300 million?"

"Maybe. In any case, our goal of 10 billion global box office should be achievable." Xu Xiyu set the box office target for "Wandering Blue Planet" at 10 billion RMB.

It turned out that his goal was too conservative.

Time flies by.

the next day.

Los Angeles.

The bald man who called for a ban on "Wandering Blue Star".

Holding a set of U.S. box office statistics for "The Wandering Blue Planet" that had not yet been released to the public and had not even been fed back to Dixing Culture, he hurriedly pushed open the door of an office.

There were a few people sitting sparsely in the office chatting.

Seeing him coming over, I was about to ask him something, but the bald man spoke first: "The box office data is out."

"How much?" someone asked quickly.

The bald man did not answer directly, but said to everyone with an indescribable complex expression: "Guess."

“Did it really break through 5000 million?”

"More than 5000 million." The bald man took a deep breath and shook his head.

"6000 million? That's within expectations." The person who just made the guess reported another number.

"It's not 6000 million either." The bald man shook his head again.

When the people present heard this, they couldn't help but put down what they were doing.

"It's actually more than 6000 million? Could it be 7..." The guess of 7000 million was not finished yet.

The bald man threw the report on the table and yelled, "F**K, that damn yellow monkey, his movie grossed $1.17 million in the U.S. yesterday!"

"No freaking way!!"

"Holy cow!!"

Exclamations like "What the hell!" were heard one after another in the office.

Everyone screamed and came closer to the "statistical data".

Pick it up and take a look.

Damn it?

There is a surprise! It is specially marked that the $1.17 million [not including advance tickets] is included.

The so-called advance screenings are actually similar to the advance screening box office in China. When the first-day box office is calculated in the United States, the advance screening box office will be included.

For example, the $1600 million for "Snow White" included the advance screenings.

In addition, the historical ranking of the first-day box office is also marked, ranking third in US history.

This is not over yet.

Because this data also includes statistics for other movies.

"Captain America 4: The New Order" grossed $1539 million yesterday;
"Snow White" grossed $1642 million yesterday.

"Hou! Li! Xie! The box office of these two movies is not even a fraction of that of "The Wandering Blue Planet"? " Looking at the data, one of them covered his mouth and murmured.

"What are you surprised about? They don't even have a fraction of the price of "Wandering Blue Star" in China."

“But this is in America!”

"F**K!!"

"What about the box office data in Europe?" someone else asked.

"I don't know." The bald man shook his head. He really didn't know because he hadn't gotten the statistical data yet.

However, we soon found out.

Because, half an hour later, the official account of Dixing Culture announced the box office data online.

Then the hot search exploded.

#The total box office of "Wandering Blue Star" yesterday was 6.24 million US dollars#
Click on this entry to see detailed statistics.

[Total box office in China yesterday (including box office in Hong Kong and Australia; Taiwan did not obtain a release permit): US$1.71 million]

[Total box office in Asia Pacific (excluding China) yesterday: US$0.79 million]

[Total North American box office yesterday: $1.35 million]

[Latin America’s total box office yesterday: US$0.88 million]

[Total box office in Europe and the Middle East yesterday: $1.51 million]

[Total box office on the fourth day of release: US$13.25 billion (about RMB 92.75 billion, ranking 24th in the world)]

Liquidation.

Severe settlement.

When this data was presented to everyone.

The Weibo of the person surnamed Gao Gongzhi was immediately filled with netizens who were just waiting to watch the show.

After all, two days ago, he was still saying something like "Chinese audiences' aesthetic taste has degenerated to the extreme" and "truly developed countries would never like a movie like "The Wandering Blue Planet"".

Now that the results are right in front of them, how could netizens let him go?

【say!!】

[Why don’t you say anything? Don’t you like to make profound comments?! ]

You know what, this guy really started to get tough.

He replied in the comment section: [The box office success of "Wandering Blue Planet" in Europe and North America proves that European and American audiences are more tolerant and open-minded than domestic audiences, doesn't it? ]

[Damn, you are really good at licking. The box office of "Captain America 4" and "Snow White" in the United States is not very good. How can you explain this? ]

[Who cares? America has to win! ]

【Win, win! 】

[The United States is good at winning! One win is better than six wins! ]

[Here is the shit-eating brother? He has come out to settle accounts. You have made money again. Are you making farmyard manure? ]

[Shit Eater: Don’t spread rumors. Eating shit is purely a hobby, not mixed with interests. When a shit-sucking truck sees me, it’s like an ant seeing the sky.]

[You’re crazy. You made me laugh.]

[I don’t know what you are so excited about. Even if the box office of “Wandering Blue Planet” is sky-high, what does it have to do with you? Will it affect your monthly salary of 3,000 yuan? ]

[Ah? Are you so anxious that you have to use the old-fashioned rhetoric of 3000 yuan a month? ]

[Cold Fact: The Rotten Tomatoes score of "The Wandering Blue Planet" has just been released, and it's only 70% fresh. It's a bad movie, and the critics are about to lose their defense again. The North American box office will be cut in half tomorrow.]

I don't know if the defense was broken or not.

Anyway, the data from "The Wandering Blue Planet" silenced the bald man and others.

Also silent are the creators of "Captain America 4" and "Snow White".

Originally, they were very anxious.

But now I’m not anxious at all.

Really.

When the gap is so big that it cannot be bridged, people will instead keep calm and face it calmly.

This behavior is commonly known as...

Open up!
In addition, Zhou's father and son were also silenced by the data from "Wandering Blue Planet".

pain.

It hurts so much!
Zhou Zhou slapped his legs in pain and said to Old Zhou, "Dad, look at the box office.

Oh my god, it’s almost 10 billion in four days, it must be heading for 20 billion? If we had signed that contract in the first place, how much money would we have made! "

"You are dreaming, right? If the box office really reaches this level, can Xu Xiyu give you 80%? Is he a fool or a moron?" Old Zhou shouted angrily. He felt that Zhou Zhou was too naive.

"According to Xu Xiyu's work style, once the contract is signed, he will definitely share the profits. He was so poor at the beginning, and when "Beginning" had problems and could not be released online, he still took the initiative to compensate Aiqiyi.

Over the years, he has been criticized for many things, but no one has ever accused him of being dishonest and cheating his partners!" Zhou Zhou disagreed with what Lao Zhou said.

When Lao Zhou heard this, he was speechless and just kept clapping his legs.

He was speechless, but Zhou Zhou had something to say.

Zhou Zhou patted his legs a few times, then stood up and said with a distressed expression: "Dad, you make me so disappointed..."

"Hey, hey hey hey, Dad, if you have something to say, just talk it over nicely. Don't use force. Don't..."

Here, Zhou Zhou advised Lao Zhou not to take action.

On the other hand, American audiences who watched the movie couldn't help but comment on the 70% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

On platforms such as Tiktok and Twitter, a bunch of angry men and women began to bombard the platform.

Also following their bombardment.

The entry #“The Wandering Blue Planet” Rotten Tomatoes Freshness 70%# also quickly became a hot topic.

Then, more spectators followed suit and criticized.

A well-known game anchor blasted during a live broadcast: "Shit! I'm f**king fed up with this shitty media.

The public trusts them so much, but they repeatedly use their media resources to maliciously discredit some excellent works.

The reason for doing this is simply because these works do not conform to the bullshit theories they promote, such as "Journey to the West: The Sequel" and "Wandering on the Blue Planet".

They don't care what the audience and players want to see! I will never trust their ratings again. These dirty guys can't make fair reviews!"

In addition to this emotional output.

Some well-known film critics who did not give malicious ratings shot videos and commented: “I express my regret and indignation for the malicious ratings given by many of my peers.

I think they violated the objectivity and fairness that a journalist should uphold.

"Wandering Blue Star" is certainly a very excellent work. It is as excellent as Xu's previous works, and it has a unique spiritual core.

I have always felt that Xu is a person with a very rich inner world, and each of his works is very attractive to me.

I saw the power of friendship and redemption in The Intouchables;
In "Wall-E", we can see the thoughts on environmental protection and love;
In "Coco", we see discussions about family, life and death.

In "The Wandering Earth", what I saw was the words "Love and Peace" that Xu wrote on the ocarina when he was commemorating the victims of the shooting.

That's right, love and peace.

You may find it strange when I say this. This is obviously a movie set against a disaster background, but beneath this disaster, it is the core of unity among people all over the world.

I don't know how to describe to you how I felt when I saw the male protagonist of the movie, Liu, driving the Navigator Space Station towards Jupiter.

Sorry, this is a bit of a spoiler, but I really couldn't help it.

Because, at that moment, it suddenly occurred to me that a satellite carrying the dreams of Weigu Global Members, Navigator One, would enter space in the near future.

Oh my God!

These Easter eggs that are linked to reality are extremely romantic.

If you don’t go see this movie in the theaters, you’ll regret it.”

Obviously, compared with pure emotional output and swearing, this film critic's evaluation received more responses and discussions.

Especially when she mentioned those little Easter eggs, it resonated with the entire audience.

Just keep discussing and discussing.

IMDb, which focuses more on audience ratings, has also started to rate it.

Now comes the fun.

IMDb score【9.5】

then……

Public opinion exploded once again.

At about the same time, the box office figures for "Wandering Blue Planet" on the second day of its release in the United States were released again.

#"Wandering Blue Star" grossed $1.21 million in the U.S. on its second day#
Not only did the data not halve as the haters said, but it actually increased by more than 400 million.

(End of this chapter)