"Fans who leave early during the premiere may not necessarily represent the market prospects of "Hulk", everything has just begun."

In Universal Pictures’ office, Brian Glazer raised his wrist and glanced at the time, and suddenly spoke up to break the dull atmosphere. “Believe me, the exit of several viewers cannot represent anything.”

As he said that, he picked up the cold coffee on the table and drank it all, turned to look at the director of the film with a gloomy face, and made a joking voice. "Bill, "The Hulk" is just a few viewers leaving the stage. Think about Ed Wood, at least we didn't burn the car angrily by the audience, right? Ha..."

Originally, Bill Bakerby's face was ugly. After hearing this metaphor, his face instantly turned into a pig's liver color, and anger that had been suppressed for a whole day appeared in his eyes. "Shit, do you put me and Ed Wood together? Ah? In your eyes, am I similar to Ed Wood..."

"Hey, hey! Bill!" Justin frowned and slapped the table twice, making two thumps. "Bryan didn't mean that, listen, he just wanted to relax you a little, OK?"

Perhaps two roars vented some anger, Bill Bakerby pursed her lips tightly, leaned against the back of the sofa, and returned to silence.

In most Hollywood crews, the relationship between producers and directors is usually a bit frictional, which is an inevitable result of different division of labor, and Bill Beckby and Brian Glazer are no exception.

What's more, since the beginning of the filming, Brian Glazer and Universal Pictures executives have been controlling the shooting direction of Bill Bakerby, and various small frictions in work are even more indispensable.

If the film succeeds successfully, there is nothing to say. Of course, it’s you, I’m good, everyone. Now it’s just released, but the producer’s joke unexpectedly triggered the director’s aggrievance accumulated.

It's a bit too hurtful to say the same joke. No matter which director is put together with Ed Wood, it will arouse the director's anger.

When Ed Wood, the king of bad movies, once premiered, because the movie was so bad, the angry audience rushed out of the theater, chased him three streets, and burned his car to vent his anger. It is conceivable how bad the movie will be.

If you want to say that this director is also a strange god. He has been making bad movies all his life, but after his death he can be famous for his film history.

Ed Wood is the king of bad movies that are most recognized by people in the circle. He wrote forty-seven scripts in his life, directed eighteen movies, and produced twelve movies. What is rare is that none of them did not lose money, which made his name well deserved.

The movie that this great director is most recognized by the outside world is "Alien Project No. 9". This film later dominated the IMDB list with the lowest score. This award has been nearly half a century, and its strength can be seen!

Because filming always loses money, the money was short of funds later. This guy used a fishing line to hang a plate as a flying saucer. The photographer he hired was a color blind, and 90% of the actors were laymen who had not received relevant training. The filming effect was a unique disaster in film history!

But what was very surprising was that after this guy died, he actually won a large number of loyal fans with the title of the King of Bad Movies. For example, the genius director Tim Burton and David Lynch all regarded him as an idol and paid tribute to him in the film many times.

What’s even more surprising is that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, the good friends, produced his biography movie "Ed Wood" together in 1994. After the film was released, it not only sold well in North America, but also achieved very impressive results around the world, winning numerous awards...

As it turns out, even if this director who has been filming a bad movie for life has already been famous for his film history, whoever puts another director with him will attract the director's crazy anger because this is Chilolo's insult.

"Clang, Clang, Clang."

The quiet atmosphere in the office was broken by the knock on the door. The secretary held a kraft paper document bag in his hand and placed it on the table in front of Justin. Then he closed the door and walked out.

"Here you..."

The Universal Pictures distribution director muttered in a low voice, reaching out to circle around the sealing line on the file bag, pulling out a few pieces of paper that were ordered together.

He didn't have the time to read the statistics and survey reports on the first two pages, and turned directly to the last page.

“About $8.75 million.”

"call……"

“Beautiful job!”

The other two people who heard this number breathed a sigh of relief together. The two thousand ahead of schedule in North America were able to achieve a box office of nearly 9 million US dollars, which was a bit unexpected to everyone.

Brian Glazer asked: "The exact number is not very different from this one, right?"

Since the Internet has not been fully popularized and only rely on surveying company statistics, this number usually does have deviations, which is an inevitable thing.

After the surprise, the producer immediately became worried about gains and losses, so he involuntarily asked questions.

"There won't be a big difference, this is just a conservative statistics." Justin's face smiled at this time. His affirmative answer also restored the normal atmosphere of the office, which had just become like a stagnant.

“Where is the Matrix?”

After the surprise, Bill Bakerby remembered his opponent immediately. "How many early box offices of the Matrix are there?"

"Don't worry, Bill." Justin leaned on the chair with his upper body relaxed, and a finger lighted the documents on the table. "The Matrix is ​​only about 5.75 million US dollars, and our Hulk is defeated the other side!"

Continuous good news followed one after another, and the three of them no longer had any burden and showed a smile at the same time.

Brian Glazer picked up the files on the table, determined the numbers again, and began to look back from the first page. As his fingers flipped the files, the smile on his face slowly disappeared.

"Why is this happening?" He threw the documents back on the table, muttering to himself full of doubts.

"What's wrong?" Bill Bakerby was about to go back and rest early. After all, he had to catch a plane tomorrow morning to start a nationwide publicity journey. At this time, he saw the producer's abnormal behavior, and reached out to pick up the document.

"Audience's reputation is polarized?!"

As soon as he looked at the statistical report above, he understood why the producer performed abnormally. Including the premiere and early stages, investigators from the survey company and Universal Pictures distributed a total of 4,000 questionnaires and collected more than 3,900.

According to the statistical report collected, 53% of the audience gave the film "Hulk" scores below B, 22% of the fans chose B or B+, and only 23% of the fans chose the score above A, while the remaining 2% of the fans did not score.

It is definitely polite to say that the audience's reputation is polarized. Judging from the results of the questionnaire, "The Hulk" has just begun to be released, and the audience's reputation has collapsed.

"Stop it." Justin took the statistical report and looked at the two of them calmly. "None of these are important than box office numbers. Statistical reports can only be used as reference. Every summer, there are videos where audience reputation collapses, but box offices are rising all the way."

"That's right." Brian Glazer glanced at Bill Bakerby and said: "This is not uncommon. "The Hulk" is a summer popcorn, and reputation will not have a big impact on us. Don't forget Wayne Greenberg's "The Joker Back" was a big box office hit in the controversy?!"

Justin nodded, looked at the producer, and said, "Bill, go back and rest first, don't delay the flight tomorrow morning. The early box office of "Hulk" can already give us a position ahead."

"Okay, if there is any situation, call me."

Nodding, Bill Bakerby greeted the two and walked out of the office with a complicated mood.

The news tonight is mixed. If we only look at the box office that exceeded expectations, the Hulk's first weekend's performance will not be bad, and it may even exceed the 45 million US dollars expected by Universal Pictures.

But the signal of a large-scale collapse of the reputation of movie fans has planted a seed of anxiety in Bill Bakerby's heart.

When there were only two people left in the office, Justin put away his optimism and suddenly spoke while thinking. "Don't forget that "The Matrix" is an R-rated film, and its natural audience is much less than "The Hulk". The box office ahead of schedule does not mean everything..."

Of course, Brian Glazer understood the difference, but no matter what, it was impossible to deny that "The Hulk" was indeed ahead of him. Thinking of what he had prepared before, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the other party.

"Then us?"

"This is Hollywood." Justin's lips twitched and suddenly said with a sneer: "Competition is always everywhere, isn't it? Warner Bros. can throw dirty water on The Hulk in advance, saying that this is just a clumsy imitation, and of course we can't sit back and wait for death."

The two films will officially start on a large scale tomorrow. I still don’t know how much impact Wayne said in an interview. It will have on the fans’ choice of watching movies. Of course, Universal Pictures will not wait.

It has been confirmed that there will be an impact. Since it cannot be restored, we should just mess up together and smear and splash each other. This is a traditional method for major Hollywood companies to release films.

In this period when competition is fierce, either you or me, as long as you can get your competitors to eat less, it means you may eat more. No one will understand this principle.

"Okay, I'll call the PR department now." Brian Glazer nodded and reached to the phone on the desk.

"Notify them."
Chapter completed!