Chapter 2659: Film Critics

Chapter 2659 Film Critics

In three days, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" will be released in the West. Now the Western film industry is clearly instigating Western journalists to block "Legend of Sword and Fairy" behind the scenes to prevent Lin Feng from continuing to be arrogant. In particular, Sony, Columbia, Paramount and other established film companies that support the Oscars have an undercurrent. They have long bribed newspapers from all walks of life in the West to prevent them from reporting any news related to "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

"Lin Feng is too arrogant, I want him to taste the feeling of being ignored this time!" Deyuki Ibuka, vice president of Sony Columbia Pictures, smiled grimly.

In the past few years, since the establishment of Lin Feng's film company, especially since Lin Feng and Ellison teamed up to acquire 55 Movie Screens in the United States, life for companies like "Sony Columbia" has not been so pleasant. In addition to the well-known blockbusters, the movies they invest in are also low-cost but can make a lot of money, but often no one cares about them, because Lin Feng and Ellison's "Forest Screening Hall" does not play these unknown movies at all. famous movie. Unless it's a super masterpiece that everyone knows, they only show their own movies.

This makes established film companies such as Sony, Columbia and Paramount very depressed. But now the market resources are in the hands of Lin Feng and Ellison, and both of them are not short of money. If they have their own movies, they will show them, and if they don’t, they will show old movies. In short, they will never show movies from companies such as Sony, Columbia, etc., unless they are blockbusters. . The two people's attitude of not being short of money really makes Sony Columbia and other companies depressed. These two guys are not short of money; they are short of money. Although I want to be tough and prevent their movies from being played in the "Forest Screening Room", they occupy 55% of the movie screens in the United States. If you don't play them, not only 55% of customers will be lost, but at least 30% of customers will be lost. This is The revenue is tens of millions of dollars, and if it’s a blockbuster movie, it’s hundreds of millions.

In desperation, companies such as Sony Columbia had to increase their efforts to promote movies, let as many Americans as possible know about these low-cost movies, and let the pressure of public opinion force the "Forest Screening Hall" to play them. However, in this way, although they succeeded in getting their low-cost movies to be played in the "Forest Screening Hall", after this advertising and promotion, sometimes the small costs turned into large costs, which was really not cost-effective from a profit perspective.

However, they control the terminal market in the world, and they are not short of money. What can you do! I kept holding this breath. Finally, this time, they got a chance. "Legend of Sword and Fairy", they want this movie to fail in the Western market, and then they can severely humiliate Lin Feng and vent their anger.

"Boss, according to the news from the United States, the major film companies have secretly contacted all the media and are preparing to freeze your movie. This time they will not even criticize, and will adopt a completely indifferent attitude. If you want people to watch it , I’m afraid this promotion will cost a lot of money.” After Lin Chiling summarized the news in the world, she reported to Lin Feng.

"Haha, I didn't expect these film companies to give up.

But it’s no wonder, after being repaired by Ellison and I, if they didn’t retaliate, it wouldn’t be them. "When Lin Feng heard this, instead of being worried, he laughed.

"Boss, what are you going to do?" Lin Chiling asked.

Although Lin Feng and Ellison control the movie screens in the United States 55 and can force the broadcast without paying attention to anyone, the question is, if there is no publicity, will the audience come to watch? Of course, some people will definitely watch it, but the box office may not be good. After all, Americans have always been picky about watching movies. They usually have a movie rating guide based on which they watch movies. After all, there are too many movies in the United States every year, and the posters of all the movies are very attractive, and the audience is numb to it.

How to choose a good movie so that they will not waste so much money to watch it has become an extremely difficult choice for all American audiences. Therefore, some corresponding rating agencies were born. These agencies will rate all movies, and then viewers will choose the type of movies they like to watch based on their tastes, and then select movies based on the ratings.

Now the United States doesn't rate or comment at all, so American audiences have no way of knowing whether the movie is good or not. No matter how beautiful the poster is, it’s useless. There are countless better-looking posters, but the content turns out to be shoddy. American audiences were numb to the posters. If you want to promote "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it is necessary to conduct a lot of publicity through television media and other media.

Now, the American media is not unwilling to publicize it, but the price has increased tenfold. This time Sony Columbia and other companies didn't do anything, and they didn't ask the media to help Lin Feng promote it. They just wanted to promote it, at 10 times the price. You, Lin Feng, are rich and want to promote this movie, then pay 10 times the price. And if this is the case, Lin Chiling has calculated that if she wants to promote a movie to everyone in the United States, she will need at least about US$70 million in advertising fees. And now at 10 times the price, that's $700 million. Lin Feng could get this money, but if he was blackmailed like this, wouldn't Lin Feng be too stupid?

So, Lin Chiling is really distressed at this moment. Even if Lin Feng has "News Corporation", "News Corporation" mainly faces the market in the UK and Australia, and has already been the mayor of Europe. Although there are several heavyweight newspapers and TV stations in the US market, compared with the dominant position in Europe, "News Corporation" has much less influence in the US. Moreover, "News Corporation" has many newspapers, but not many TV stations. There is only one Fox TV station in the United States. Although the ratings are high, it still cannot help Lin Feng promote "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" to everyone.

"Haha, don't worry. Promotion is necessary, but it does not necessarily require large-scale advertising on TV stations." Lin Feng smiled slightly and said confidently.

"Boss, what are you going to do?" Lin Chiling asked expectantly.

"Haha, it's very simple, invite celebrities!" Lin Feng laughed.

On the first day, Ms. JK-Lowling, the author of "Harry Potter", wrote an article about the review of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

I was honored to be invited to China by Chinese friends and watched "The Legend of Sword and Fairy: Locking Demon Tower". I was originally very skeptical about such a movie, which is praised as the masterpiece of oriental fantasy movies. After all, I have watched some such movies in order to find the feeling of "Harry Potter", but to be honest, those movies are very exaggerated and have no logic, and they are simply incomprehensible. This time, watching "Chinese Paladin: The Devil's Tower" made me feel ashamed of the simple and even a little vulgar (compared to "Chinese Paladin") magic system in "Harry Potter". After watching "Chinese Paladin: The Devil's Tower", I think I should re-set the magic system in "Harry Potter" to make it more perfect and more logical. Here, I recommend everyone to watch "Chinese Paladin". Now there are two parts, I believe everyone will definitely not regret it! "JK-Luo Lin talked freely in his column.

"The Eastern Harry Potter" is the slogan JK-Luo Lin gave to "Chinese Paladin". Lin Feng was dissatisfied with this. He thought that "Chinese Paladin" was better than "Harry Potter" in terms of story and magic system. However, this time, Lin Feng asked JK-Luo Lin to write a review of the movie, so he had to respect JK-Luo Lin's personal wishes, not Lin Feng's forced wishes. Therefore, JK-Luo Lin made such a comment, and Lin Feng could only feel indignant in his heart. But he couldn't show it.

However, no matter whether Lin Feng felt comfortable or not about JK Luo Lin's evaluation, at least the number of people who pre-ordered the movie in the West increased significantly. It was only two days before the movie started, and more than 500,000 people in the West had already pre-ordered it. Although this number was not large, a ticket was only $5, and the total was only $2.5 million. But it was also good news for Lin Feng.

After all, JK Luo Lin was not the only celebrity Lin Feng invited.

After JK Luo Lin set off a small wave of pre-orders for "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", Lin Feng invited the second celebrity - John Phillips, the former president of the American Film Association.

For John, he is old and has retired long ago, and he doesn't care about the world. This time, Lin Feng came to him, making his job as a taxi driver useless. Originally, he didn't want to give Lin Feng any help, but when he watched "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" carefully at Lin Feng's request, the former president of the American Film Association suddenly changed his mind and was willing to write a review of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". But it's only this time, and it won't happen again.

In this regard, Lin Feng naturally agreed. Now Lin Feng is also cultivating his own film critics and establishing his own The film review channel provides viewing guides for hundreds of millions of viewers. It's just that it's not a big deal now, but after three to five years, once it's a big deal, Lin Feng won't have to look at anyone's face anymore.

John Phillips's film review is much more detailed, and he wrote it after watching the film three times. However, compared with JK Rowling's popular and straightforward review, John's film review is much more profound. Although the words are a bit stiff, he praises "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" very much. In addition to his popularity and prestige, it can be said that he played a vital role in the promotion of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

And Lin Feng invited more than just these few people, he also has bigger names.