Chapter 667: Don't Be Too Chen Gang
"Director Chen, I heard that there is a rift in the relationship between Huayi and Suo Li. Is this true?"
"I don't know, no comment."
Chen Gang's interview video was quickly posted online, causing an uproar.
"What the hell, what does Chen Gang mean? What does it mean that Xiao Shen made a correct decision?"
"I'm afraid this is not meant to be funny. Xiao Shen even dared to resist "Thunder Explosion", and would he still be afraid of Chen Gang's "Battle of Red Cliff"? It's so funny."
"It's just a box office of 1.3 billion US dollars. It's nothing special. It's like no one else has ever received it. It's really disgusting to see Chen Gang exaggerating."
"Without the super high film schedule given to him by Xiao Shen, would "Battle of Red Cliff" be able to achieve such a good box office abroad? It's really funny!"
"This is a typical burning of bridges."
"No, no, no, "Battle of Red Cliff" hasn't crossed the river yet!"
"It is strongly recommended that Xiao Shen reduce the schedule of "Battle of Red Cliff" to prevent Chen Gang from showing off his power and talking nonsense every day."
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Naturally, Zhang Xiao also saw Chen Gang’s video about himself.
Yang Mi said angrily: "Husband, I can't bear it anymore. I will ask the theater to lower the film schedule of "Battle of Red Cliff" tomorrow."
"Don't!" Zhang Xiao stopped him: "It seems that we are too petty. If you post a message on the official blog of Qingtian Entertainment Company, you will say that in the future, all overseas theater chains under my control will not be used again."
No care should be given to any of Huayi Entertainment’s movies.”
"Okay!" Yang Mi nodded, turned on her phone, logged onto the official blog of Qingtian Entertainment, and posted a Weibo post:
"Some people are really shameless. They are ready to tear down the bridge before the river has passed. I don't know who called me in the first place and begged me not to lower the film schedule."
"Also, what does it mean that my husband made a right choice? Do you really think that your movie is excellent? I can tell someone clearly that compared to our "Zhu Xian", that movie is just a scumbag, no
If you believe it, you can wait until "Zhu Xian" is released to take a closer look at what the gap is."
"I would like to reiterate that we are adjusting the schedule of "Zhu Xian" not because of how good "Battle of Red Cliff" is, but because we do not want to cause internal friction for domestic films."
"Last point, starting from tomorrow, Disney Cinema, Warner Cinema, Universal Cinema, and Sunny Cinema will not give any favors to Huayi Entertainment. Everything will be based on the box office. The weather is very hot today.
But I feel a little chilled.”
"I hope there will be some darkness and more sunshine in the world."
After this Weibo post was posted, there were more than 10,000 replies in less than ten minutes.
"Well said!"
"If it were me, I would not give any film schedule to "Battle of Red Cliff". Such a white-eyed wolf is really disgusting."
"How domineering! This time girl Mimi is going to tell Chen Gang that "Zhu Xian" is much better than "Battle of Red Cliff"."
"Chen Gang is an ungrateful white-eyed wolf. The identification is complete."
"I begged my grandpa to sue my grandma before the film was scheduled. Now that the box office is good, I have a look of success as a villain. I am really worthy of my grandson."
"Please don't be too rigid as a person."
"If I were Xiao Shen, I would have to kill him!"
"Originally, I wanted to see "Battle of Red Cliff", but now it seems that I might as well forget it and refund the ticket."
"To vent my anger on Xiao Shen, refund the ticket!"
"Refund!"
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Chen Gang's outspoken words directly angered Zhang Xiao's huge fan base. In order to vent their anger on Zhang Xiao, everyone refunded all the movie tickets they had booked.
Hundreds of fans group leaders also called on all fans of Zhang Xiao to stop watching "The Battle of Red Cliff".
Suddenly, there was a wave of boycotts of "Battle of Red Cliff" across the Internet.
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"Crack!"
Wang Jun, who had just returned home from a celebration party, saw the situation online, and his blood pressure skyrocketed, and he cursed: "Chen Gang, I should sew your fucking mouth shut."
You know, the relationship between Huayi and Suo Li is already very tense now. Although Suo Li Cinemas also gave "Battle of Red Cliff" a lot of film schedules, they did it to make money.
Once there is a problem at the box office, Wang Jun believes that Suoli will directly minimize the film schedule of "Battle of Red Cliff".
Now the only "enemy" that "Battle of Red Cliff" can rely on is Zhang Xiao, but now that Chen Gang has made such a fool of himself, "Battle of Red Cliff" is almost dead.
Wang Jun sat on the sofa, forced himself to calm down, and began to think about countermeasures.
After a while, he picked up his cell phone and dialed Zhang Xiao's number with difficulty.
"Sorry, the user you dialed is currently on a call."
Hearing this response, Wang Jun frowned. Needless to say, Zhang Xiao must have blocked him.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Jun dialed Yang Mi's number again, but the result was the same. In the end, he had no choice but to call Chen Ya's mobile phone, but what greeted him was a burst of verbal abuse.
After scolding, Chen Ya hung up the phone directly.
When Wang Jun called again, he could no longer get through.
"Bang!" Wang Jun's face turned red with anger and he smashed the phone on the ground.
Soon, the box office of "Red Cliff Battle" was released on the eighth day. It was US$128 million, which is not bad, but most of it came from overseas, and the domestic box office was only less than US$20 million.
On the ninth day, the domestic box office of "Battle of Red Cliff" was less than 50 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas box office also shrank significantly, with only over 50 million U.S. dollars.
It dropped from 128 million US dollars to 54 million US dollars, and "Battle of Red Cliff" was cut in half in just one day.
Chen Gang was furious. When being interviewed by reporters, he angrily said: "Zhang Xiao is just a villain who is just looking for fame. He keeps saying that for the development of domestic films, he will help companies in the industry promote films all over the world."
"The result? After "Red Cliff Battle" achieved high box office around the world, he showed his true colors and deliberately suppressed our film schedule. It is simply unreasonable."
After hearing what Chen Gang said, a reporter asked: "Director Chen, you are saying that the reason why the box office of "Battle of Red Cliff" plummeted was because Zhang Xiao lowered the film schedule, right?"
"That's right! He is inciting movie fans to boycott at home, reducing movie schedules abroad, and suppressing the box office of "Battle of Red Cliff". This is a typical villain's behavior."
Faced with Chen Gang's accusation, Yang Mi didn't have any excuses and directly published the film schedule and attendance rate of "Battle of Red Cliff" in all overseas theaters in the past nine days. It was over 100 pages long.
He wrote on Weibo: "Open your eyes and see clearly. Starting from the sixth day, the attendance rate of "Battle of Red Cliff" has been less than 15%, but for the sake of domestic movies, we
Still gave this movie up to 20% of the schedule."
"The main reason why "Battle of Red Cliff" has achieved such a high box office overseas is here. Yesterday, its attendance rate was less than 8%. We have lowered its screening rate in accordance with the theater chain's film scheduling standards.
To 5%, this is completely legal, reasonable and compliant."
"One more thing, someone, don't take yourself too seriously. What qualifications do you have for us to deliberately suppress you? Are you worthy of saying something unpleasant?"
Chapter completed!