Zhang Xiao shook his head and said: "Skills have specializations, Andy, you have to firmly believe that you are the best."

Andy Serkis said: "I learned a lot from you today. After I go back, I will summarize it well. I am very much looking forward to working with you in the movie "Rise of the Planets"."

Zhang Xiao picked up the coffee cup and said with a smile: "It's a pleasure to cooperate."

"It's a pleasure working together!" Andy Serkis said.

The two then had another lunch together before going back separately.

After settling on the lead actor Andy Serkis, Zhang Xiao followed the assistant director Bowen around various studios.

Bowen is an experienced director, and the several studios he provided are all very good. Zhang Xiao only needs to choose the most suitable place among these studios.

Costumes, props, photography equipment, etc. have already been prepared. As long as Zhang Xiao gives the order, the film can start shooting directly.

Originally, Zhang Xiao thought it would take at least half a month to complete the preparations before shooting, but the final result was unexpectedly smooth, and it only took a week to complete.

Zhang Xiao admired Bowen's ability very much. With this assistant director, he could feel much more relaxed.

At midnight on the 24th of the first lunar month, the war blockbuster "Windtalkers", which was given to Monkey King by Columbia Pictures, premiered in Europe and the United States. It took in a box office of 137 million U.S. dollars, but its reputation was extremely poor.

It only has a 57% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Zhang Xiao did not feel any surprise about this.

When I was on Earth, "Windtalkers" was very consistent with Chinese values. It received a reputation score of 7.6 on a certain website, which is already a very good score. However, its freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes was only 30%.

Second, the box office was even more disastrous.

The investment of 115 million U.S. dollars only resulted in a profit of more than 20 million U.S. dollars, which directly caused Wu Yusen's reputation to fall to the bottom, and indirectly caused the bankruptcy of MGM.

The reason is that some scenes in the movie "Windtalkers" conflict with the mainstream consciousness of the Lighthouse Country. No movie fan wants to see a bad scene in the history of the Lighthouse Country during World War II.

"how so?"

In a villa, Wu Yusen looked at the scores on Rotten Tomatoes and was completely stunned.

With 57% freshness and overwhelming criticism from fans, Wu Yusen almost completely collapsed. It was really hard for him to accept that the movie he had worked so hard to produce would have such a result.

"Did someone tamper with it?"

After Wu Yusen thought about the methods used by Columbia Pictures CEO on "Zhu Xian", he seemed to grasp the last straw and immediately called Kate Kenny, the vice president of Columbia Pictures.

After hearing what Wu Yusen said, Kate Kenny pondered for a moment and said: "Wu, we didn't expect that the reputation of "Wind and Rain" was so bad. The only way now is to use your guess to reverse the reputation.

It’s a disadvantage.”

Wu Yusen asked: "What do you mean, I didn't understand."

Kate Kenny said: "Whether or not a hacker broke into Rotten Tomatoes, we have to assume there was,"

Wu Yusen asked: "Mr. Kenny, who do you want to blame?"

Kate Kenny corrected: "This is not a frame-up, it is a hype. Our only enemy at Columbia Pictures is Disney. It just so happens that Zhang Xiao has also come to the Lighthouse Country. Using him to create some hype is undoubtedly a very good choice."

Wu Yusen frowned and said: "Mr. Kenny, Mr. Zhang has no new movies released right now."

"No, there is a movie "Swordsman"!" Kate Kenny said: "Zhang Xiao has always hoped that domestic films in China can rise. In addition, he found out the previous procedural problems on the Rotten Tomatoes website, and he has the ability to do this.

matter."

"Wu, I know that you don't want to conflict with Zhang Xiao because you are compatriots with him, but if your suspicion is true, then the only one who has the motive and ability to do this is Zhang Xiao."

After hearing Kenny's words, Wu Yusen fell silent. In his heart, he obviously agreed with Kenny's analysis.

If you want the outside world to believe that there is a problem with "Windtalkers"'s score on Rotten Tomatoes, it can only be blamed on Zhang Xiao.

But would Zhang Xiao do such a thing?

The answer is definitely not.

Kate Kenny continued: "Wu, I will ask the publicity department to try to push Zhang Xiao as much as possible without naming him specifically. If you don't want to offend him, you can say nothing when facing reporters.

"

Wu Yusen nodded for a while and said, "Okay!"

For Wu Yusen, the first task now is to save his movie. As for Zhang Xiao, he can only say sorry.

Soon, a large number of posts appeared on various well-known forums in the lighthouse country. Most of the contents were the same, saying that there was another problem with the Rotten Tomatoes website's scoring process.

"I gave "Windtalkers" a 90% freshness rating, but I never expected that it would end up with only 57%. What on earth is going on?"

"I just finished watching "Windtalkers". Both the war scenes and the actors' acting skills were very good. It definitely scored more than 57%!"

""Windtalker" can get at least 80% freshness, what the hell is this 57%?"

"Strongly request Rotten Tomatoes to check the rating channel of "Windtalkers". Has it been hacked again?"

"Only Columbia Pictures can do something like Rotten Tomatoes, no other company can."

"Could it be Xiao Shen's fans? It was his fans who discovered that the channel on the Rotten Tomatoes website was tampered with."

"The relationship between Xiao Shen and Suo Li doesn't seem to be very good. It's really possible that he did it."

"Impossible, Columbia Pictures has so many movies. If Xiao Shen really wanted to do this kind of thing, he would definitely not choose a movie directed by his own compatriots."

"It's because he is one of his own compatriots that he does this, so no one can suspect that it is him!"

“···”

The topic of "Windtalkers" immediately exploded on the Internet, and in less than two hours, it was directly on the hot search list.

Although Rotten Tomatoes has made countless guarantees, fans don't believe it now because it has had many problems.

With no other choice, the Rotten Tomatoes website had no choice but to find Columbia Pictures, hoping they would send computer engineers to check the scoring channels with the website.

Columbia Pictures agreed, but not until three days later, on the grounds that the computer engineers were doing a very important job.

Clearly, Columbia Pictures is stalling for time.

At the same time, the movie "Swordsman" was released.

Zhang Xiao secured 17% of the film schedules from each of the three major theaters for this movie. Because "God of War" has just become a big hit, the pre-sale box office of "Swordsman" is still very good, reaching a terrifying 1.8

billion dollars.
Chapter completed!