Huayu Entertainment, all I can do is make bad movies.

"We want to see the foreign version of 'Titanic,' what are you showing?"

"It's Titanic, but it's a domestic production. You can't blame the cinemas for not making it clear."

.......

"Isn't this a lie?"

"How is that a lie? The promotional poster clearly states 'Titanic 2,' and the movie shown is 'Titanic 2.' How can that be considered a lie?"

"You bastard, your movie theater wrote the '2' so small you can't even see it without a magnifying glass, how are we supposed to know if it's 1 or 2?"

"Say what you mean, but don't swear!"

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"We're showing Titanic. The two movies have the same title. What can the cinemas do?"

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In late June, nearly 30 copies of "Titanic 2" were released in the Chinese film market.

Surprisingly, the attendance rate was exceptionally high.

Often, a movie theater with several hundred seats is not only completely full.

They even had to sell standing-room tickets to satisfy the public's strong desire to watch movies.

All of this is thanks to the cinema owners who have a particularly strong sense of initiative.

Wang Hai made "Titanic 2" merely to make a quick buck by piggybacking on Hollywood blockbusters and incidentally gain some negative emotional value.

However, his ingenious idea led cinema owners to discover a huge business opportunity.

This completely opened Pandora's box.

In an attempt to mislead audiences, Red Star Cinema took the lead by separating the "2" in the film title "Titanic 2" from the preceding five characters with an ellipsis, thereby attracting a large number of viewers to the theater.

The box office revenue was nearly 2 yuan.

Hongxing is a private cinema. Good movies can't be booked, and bad movies have low box office returns. 2 yuan is a huge income for the cinema.

The consequence was that other cinemas that got copies of "Titanic 2" began to follow suit.

Initially, these cinemas had little hope for this terrible movie.

As the saying goes, the truth cannot be hidden, and falsehood cannot be made true.

A bad movie is always a bad movie; nobody cares and nobody wants to watch it.

Some agreed to screen the film because of favors from the distributors, while others, lacking new film copies, thought that even a small amount was still valuable.

Red Star pulled off some questionable moves.

The copy of "Titanic 2" received real attention, leading to the emergence of all sorts of bizarre film promotion methods.

Some cinemas have written the word "2" for "Titanic 2" in a corner.

Some deliberately shrunk the number 2 to the size of a mosquito or fly.

Some cinemas even directly removed the number 2 and then used excuses like "forgot to write it" or "missed to write it" to brush off the audience.

Another boss had a brilliant idea: to leave the title of "Titanic 2" unchanged, or to change it to "Titanic Sequel," blatantly deceiving the audience into thinking it was a sequel to "Titanic," which attracted quite a few viewers.

There are many benefits to doing this.

The box office revenue was not small at all.

The audience had nothing to say.

Because most people come here specifically for the sequels to Hollywood blockbusters.

Although the sequel is clearly unrelated to the original, and it doesn't show Rose's life after losing Jack.

But if the cinemas insist on calling it a sequel, the audience has nothing to say.

It doesn't even qualify as a lie.

Business is all about mutual consent.

With a sequel to Titanic, a prequel is naturally inevitable.

In just two days, more and more versions of "Titanic 2" have emerged, with all sorts of variations, leaving audiences completely bewildered.

In July 1998, the Chinese film market became noisy because of one person and one domestic film.

The deceived audience argued loudly with the cinema, and some even came to blows.

Some viewers who had been fooled repeatedly asked the ticket seller at the cinema counter, "Is it a foreign version of 'Titanic'?"

"Is it 1, not 2?"

"Is this the main story, not a sequel or prequel?"

"Are the main characters Jack and Rose?"

"Is there a scene where the male lead holds the female lead at the bow of the ship, braving the waves?"

There was no way around it; I was terrified.

A perceptive person who is fooled once may be able to distinguish the real from the fake the second time and buy a genuine Titanic ticket.

People with careless personalities are in trouble; they're likely to be fooled two or three times.

You can't really blame these viewers with personality flaws, because this is truly a unique case, one of a kind after another.

Many people developed a fear of buying tickets.

Tickets are so expensive, I can't afford it.

Being constantly ridiculed by friends and family for having a low IQ is something no one can withstand, both financially and emotionally.

Titanic 2 was not rejected by all viewers.

A small number of people who watched the movie from beginning to end gave it high praise.

They don't understand what a one-shot film is.

Judging solely from the storyline of the play-within-a-play and the message conveyed in the film, they believe it surpasses many domestic films.

As for the director of this film.

Reputation is another matter entirely; this B is absolutely terrible!

The film's title lured thousands of viewers into the cinema.

The praise for Titan 2 was drowned out by the insults and no one cared.

Two strange things also happened in cinemas throughout Beijing.

1. Audiences who saw the real Titanic praised the movie highly.

I accidentally watched Titans 2, and the swear words that came out of my mouth were like popping beans, just kept coming out.

2. The box office of Titanic, which was originally booming, suffered a major decline.

This is partly due to the fact that the film was released in the country for several months.

But it is very clear to anyone with eyes to see that Hollywood's "Titans" has been met with strong resistance from the domestic "Titans 2".

It's not a box office stunt.

The terrible movie "Titans 2" doesn't have that ability.

This disruption is in the viewing environment; many viewers were scared off by Titans 2 and automatically gave up on watching it a second or third time.

People preferred not to watch the film a second time rather than buy the wrong ticket, which indirectly lowered the box office of "Titans 2".

Titans 2 gave audiences a real sense of what it means for a toad to jump on their feet; it doesn't bite, but it's disgusting.

Titan 2 truly achieved a lose-lose situation.

Beijing cinemas, as well as large cinemas that had copies of "Titanic," were extremely dissatisfied, as the release of "Titanic 2" affected their interests.

Theaters had to negotiate urgently with smaller cinemas, occasionally supplying copies of Hollywood blockbusters, but immediately abandoning "Titans II".

The small cinema persisted for a week, but seeing the sharp decline in box office revenue for "Titans II," it finally agreed.

But Titans 2's box office conquest has only just begun.

Even if we lose the Beijing market, there is still a larger northern market, and even a national market.

This terrible movie is destined to leave a deep and lasting impression on many movie lovers this summer.

[Ding, host has gained 10086 negative emotion points]

At Haiwang Film and Television, outside the door, Wang Hai, who was supervising Huayi employees installing the doorplate GG for free, raised an eyebrow.

Titan 2 just finished its run in Beijing, and it's already showing its power elsewhere!

His feelings lately are hard to describe.

One good thing is that Titan 2 is so popular, and as the producer, he can get a significant share of the profits. With money, his business can proceed steadily.

I'm a little sad. Titans 2 is a pretty good movie, so why are so many people having negative emotions and criticizing it? Why not just watch it a few more times and see the ending?

There's another concern: they've gone too far and acted too ruthlessly.

And since he'll continue like this in the future, he's a little worried about his personal safety.

But that's for the future.

Wang Hai firmly believes in Wang Yangming's concept of the unity of knowledge and action, and his worries about the future are fleeting.