The first-day box office of "Swordsman" came out quickly. With its excellent plot and exquisite special effects, Naxi missed the box office by 165 million and received an 84% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This reputation

Still very good.

Zhang Xiao immediately asked people to increase publicity, and the next day he directly increased the film schedule of "Swordsman" by 5%, which made Director Gong Pan very grateful.

On the other hand, "Windtalkers" was not so good, with a box office of only 121 million U.S. dollars. As more and more movie fans watch the movie, the film's freshness score on Rotten Tomatoes has reached 100.

Less than fifty percent.

On the third day after the release of "Swordsman", Zhang Xiao received a call from Wilson, the head of the Rotten Tomatoes website.

The two had been in contact when "Zhu Xian" was hacked.

"Mr. Zhang, this time you and our Rotten Tomatoes website have been slandered by Columbia Pictures." This was Wilson's first sentence as soon as the call was connected.

Zhang Xiao said: "Mr. Wilson, you are saying that this is all a conspiracy created by Columbia Pictures to preserve the box office of "Windtalkers", right?"

Wilson said solemnly: "That must be the case. There is a clear difference between the values ​​of "Wind Talker" and the mainstream values. It is normal for the reputation to collapse and it is not our problem."

Zhang Xiao asked: "Have you checked yourself?"

Wilson replied: "After checking, there are no problems. Unfortunately, the outside world does not believe us."

Zhang Xiao asked: "Mr. Wilson, what did you want to say when you called me?"

Wilson said: "I want to join hands with you to sue this rumor-mongering team."

Zhang Xiao was stunned when he heard this and said: "Mr. Wilson, have you found this team?"

"Yes!" Wilson said: "They did a very stupid thing, which is to leave a lot of posts in the comment area of ​​our website."

"In order to avoid what happened in "Zhu Xian" last time, we spent a lot of money to hire several very powerful computer engineers, and they have now locked in each other's positions."

When Zhang Xiao heard this, he quickly asked: "Did you call the police?"

"Of course!" Wilson nodded: "I guess we have caught them now."

Zhang Xiao asked very puzzledly: "Then why are you still looking for me?"

Wilson smiled bitterly and said: "Because the boss behind our website Rotten Tomatoes dare not offend Soli."

It turns out that the largest shareholder of the Rotten Tomatoes website is Cadiz. Although he is also a rich man worth billions of dollars, his net worth pales in comparison to Soli.

This time Columbia Pictures went too far and directly put the Rotten Tomatoes website on the fire. If the suspicion cannot be cleared as soon as possible, the Rotten Tomatoes website will have no credibility at all.

A film review website without any credibility is not far from death.

It happened that the great master Zhang Xiao was mentioned in the comments, so Cadiz asked Wilson to contact Zhang Xiao, hoping that both parties could jointly bear the pressure brought by the cable force.

Hearing Wilson's words, Zhang Xiao immediately became happy and said: "So you want to use me as a gun!"

Wilson said: "Mr. Zhang, we really have no other way."

Zhang Xiao said: "Mr. Wilson, you are too weak. If you want to be a fair and just film review website, your attitude on Rotten Tomatoes must be tougher. You must let all movie fans feel that you can withstand the criticism from all walks of life."

pressure from all sides.”

"What Columbia Pictures is doing is a great opportunity to reshape the image of Rotten Tomatoes. I'm not afraid of pressure, but I won't block the pressure for you either."

"So, I'm very sorry."

After saying that, Zhang Xiao hung up the phone directly.

The Rotten Tomatoes website did a good job of planning, allowing themselves to be in the front while they took advantage of the situation behind them. Zhang Xiao has no habit of letting others act as a weapon.

If Rotten Tomatoes dares to go head-to-head with Columbia this time, maybe Zhang Xiao will come to help. But if Rotten Tomatoes dies and would rather suffer losses than offend Columbia Pictures, then it will no longer exist in Baguio.

Fortunately, the Rotten Tomatoes website did not disappoint Zhang Xiao. Half an hour later, the Walton police arrested an online gang of 32 people in one fell swoop.

The website Rotten Tomatoes took this gang to court on the grounds that its reputation had been seriously violated.

Perhaps because of lessons learned from the past, Columbia Pictures did not contact the team directly this time, so the police did not obtain any evidence to prove that Columbia Pictures hired them.

But things have developed to this point. Not to mention industry insiders, even just any movie fan knows that this matter must have a deep relationship with Columbia Pictures.

So the Internet is full of posts from fans making fun of it.

"I'll go, this is so fucking embarrassing!"

"Why is it Columbia Pictures again? Can't you just change it to another one?"

"We've been caught twice in a row. Columbia Pictures, please be careful!"

"In order to obtain high box office for the movies it invests in, Columbia Pictures has done this kind of thing one after another. It's so shameful!"

"The filming of "Windtalkers" was actually pretty good. The only problem is that the world view is not consistent with mine."

"Those malicious propaganda teams have been caught, and I feel like there have been a lot more posts criticizing "Wind Talkers" in an instant!"

"For the sake of box office, dragging down Rotten Tomatoes and Xiao Shen, such unscrupulous methods are really shameless."

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Seeing this situation, Columbia Pictures immediately posted a message on its company homepage.

The content is very simple, about the Rotten Tomatoes website and Zhang Xiao's hacking and their facial features, but I still remain skeptical about the score of "Windtalkers" on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

Rotten Tomatoes officials also responded immediately, saying that after the last "Zhu Xian" was hacked, the website spent a lot of money to strengthen network security work, and there was no problem with the score of "Windtalkers".

The two sides were going back and forth, and the quarrel was endless.

Zhang Xiao was speechless about the intelligence of the top management of Rotten Tomatoes. Columbia Pictures obviously wants to continue to promote "Windtalkers" in this way. Although it is not a good thing, it is enough to arouse the curiosity of movie fans.

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After two days, the Rotten Tomatoes website seemed to realize that it had fallen into Columbia Pictures' trap and immediately stopped talking. Unfortunately, it was too late!

"Windtalkers" abruptly used a 47% freshness rating to take in a box office of US$107 million and US$112 million on its third and fourth days respectively, ranking third in the European and American film markets.

The first place is Disney's just-premiered movie "Black Panther", which grossed US$220 million. Its reputation is slightly inferior, but it still cannot hinder movie fans' enthusiasm for watching the movie.

The second place was "Swordsman" also released by Disney Pictures, which took in US$172 million and US$193 million on the second and third days respectively, second only to "Black Panther"!
Chapter completed!