The First Thousand and Thirty Chapters Fight Again

When Xiao Yunhai was being interviewed, he was in a very good mood and said, "To be honest, I didn't expect "Battle of Chibi" to achieve such impressive results under the sniping of "Assassin". I did the math. , together with the network download fee, "Battle of Chibi" has earned 2.5 billion US dollars in Europe and the United States, and the profit is almost 1.2 billion US dollars."

"Mr. Xiao, what do you think of "Assassin"?"

Xiao Yunhai said with a smile: "Mr. Hanks is too self-motivated, this time he obviously chose the wrong enemy. We have a saying in China that the right time and place are right for people, and "Assassin" does not occupy a single one. Especially "Black Humor" is popular. The world was caught off guard by "Assassin", which greatly reduced its box office. Otherwise, I estimate that more than 3.5 billion US dollars should be no problem."

"Then in your opinion, in the duel between "Battle of Chibi" and "Assassin", who wins and who loses?"

Xiao Yunhai said in high spirits: "It goes without saying, of course, our "Battle of Chibi" won. Together with the online video revenue, our "Battle of Chibi" earned 4.6 billion US dollars, and its production cost is only a meager amount. At $300 million, compared to "Assassin," the profit is much larger."

At Paramount headquarters, after watching Xiao Yunhai's interview video, Hanks was furious and his face was ugly and scary.

"Assassin" is a movie he has high hopes for, otherwise he would not dare to use it to snipe "Battle of Chibi", but he didn't expect that the boat capsized in the gutter and only made a profit of 400 million US dollars. Although there was no loss, the profit It was too far from his estimate of a billion dollars, not even half of it.

The culprits are naturally "Battle of Chibi" and "Black Humor", which happened to be filmed by two of his own enemies, and Hanks was almost mad.

At the same time, there was also a strong sense of unease in his heart. "Assassin", which he thought was a sure winner, became like this. Will "Operation Hurricane" and "Resident Evil" end like this?

Seeing Xiao Yunhai's young face and full of self-confidence, Hanks felt a little bit of fear for him for the first time, this is definitely a terrifying enemy.

after awhile,

Hanks took a deep breath, forced the fear out of his mind, picked up the phone, and called out.

"How's the publicity for Operation Hurricane?"

"Well, it must be done well."

After the conversation, Hanks opened the trailer of "The Lord of the Rings" and looked at the vast, vast and charming Middle-earth world, and a faint unease hit his heart again.

Can you win this time?

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, July 20th, just after the showdown between "Battle of Chibi" and "Assassin", "Lord of the Rings" and "Operation Hurricane" collided again.

Hollywood's $1 billion-plus big-budget movies last year were no more than ten, but now it's better. Two movies were released at the same time, and they had to fight to the death. The behavior of Xiao Yunhai and Hanks is simply in the eyes of some movie bosses. Stupid.

They were all overjoyed one by one. If two Big Mac movies with more than one billion dollars were released in a row, it would have a great impact on them, at least it would affect the 20-day schedule.

But now that the two movies are being released at the same time, it is equivalent to the time of one movie, which is absolutely beneficial to them, so everyone is happy to sit on the sidelines and watch the tigers fight.

Since Xiao Yunhai is no longer a shareholder of the North American theater chain, the "Lord of the Rings" movie was arranged to be released in the Yanhuang Theater.

Since it is a typical big Hollywood movie, the best actors and actresses are gathered, unlike "Battle of the Red Cliff", there is no foundation, so Xiao Yunhai held a grand premiere, and invited many Hollywood superstars, film critics, filmmakers People come to watch.

The same is true for Paramount. When the two sides were promoting it, they were already in full swing. Now that it is officially released, of course, the momentum cannot be weakened.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, "The Lord of the Rings" and "Operation Hurricane" premiered in European and American theaters at the same time.

Xiao Yunhai had already watched "The Lord of the Rings" once, so he didn't focus on the movie, but on the fans' reactions.

At the beginning of the movie, everyone exclaimed when the vastness of Middle-earth appeared in front of the audience.

"Really handsome."

"Is this the Middle-earth from the "Lord of the Rings" novel? Awesome."

"What a beautiful place. How wonderful to live here."

A five-star film critic wrote in his notebook: "Beautiful inside and extremely well made."

Next, all major races such as elves, humans, dwarves, and Bits appeared around a ring, which feasted the eyes of fans.

At the Paramount Cinema, "Operation Hurricane" was also being shown, and Hanks sat in a normal theater to see the audience's reaction.

Sadly, tonight he's doomed to be disappointed, as fans don't seem to buy "Operation Hurricane".

"God, I knew I shouldn't watch "Operation Hurricane". It's always handsome and beautiful, and it's always a fight without any new ideas. Can you not be so cookie-cutter?"

"Typical Hollywood popcorn movie, I fell asleep watching it."

"What the hell is Paramount doing for $1.2 billion?"

"It's nothing special. I'm really not interested in anything else except the sex scene of the hero and heroine, which made my blood boil."

The voices of the fans heard Hanks' ears, like needles, and the fire in his chest was like a volcano, as if it could erupt at any time.

His face was ashen, his hands couldn't help clasping tightly together, his joints were turning white.

In fact, "Hurricane Operation" should be regarded as a wonderful and exciting movie, but the problem is that it did not bring too many surprises to fans, and it was far from the expectations of fans.

In the entertainment industry, excessive promotion of movies is not a good thing, because it will raise everyone's expectations. Once there is a deviation, movie fans will feel that they have been deceived, and the original 7-point movie may also be angry and angry. of them scored 6 points.

"How could this be? Don't they understand movies? Such a popular action movie, even planes, tanks, and warships are used, and they even say it's not good-looking."

In addition to Hanks' rage, he suddenly felt a little tired physically and mentally. He felt that his understanding of movies was very far from that of movie fans, which made him full of helplessness... and panic.

Because he thought of the "Resident Evil", if he watched a good movie that was not good in the eyes of fans, wouldn't the $20 billion be lost to Xiao Yunhai.

Thinking of the serious consequences of this matter, Hanks had a cold sweat on his back.

It doesn't matter if Xiao Yunhai loses, because it's all his own money, and he doesn't need to explain it to anyone. But Hanks is different. Once he loses, it will be miserable, even if he is David. Stell's illegitimate son will also be punished the most severely.

The loss of 17 billion US dollars last time has already caused strong dissatisfaction among other shareholders. If it loses another 20 billion this time, then the result will be ． ． Hanks shuddered a little when he thought about it, and at the same time felt a deep regret, regretting that he should not be an enemy of Xiao Yunhai.

An hour into the movie, Hanks quietly left the theater. He really couldn't stand the abuse from the fans.

Fortunately, there were not too many fans in the premiere theater, otherwise the director and actors would have escaped.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the two films ended almost at the same time.

In the Paramount theater, when the director and actors of "Operation Hurricane" lined up and bowed to everyone, the applause also sounded, but it was obvious that everyone was just being polite and perfunctory.

This made the director and actors very embarrassed, and they all left after saying a few words of thanks in a hurry.

On the contrary, in the Yanhuang Shadow Hall, as soon as the "Lord of the Rings" movie ended, the scene burst into thunderous applause and shouts.

"Fantastic. The film is just perfect."

"Beekwen is worthy of being a great director of magic. I thought I had entered another world."

A film magazine editor-in-chief said: "With the help of Xiao's magic special effects company, Beekwen is really like a duck to water. It's the best movie he's made, bar none."

"I heard that Bikwen has withdrawn from Fox Film Company of Twenty-One World and joined Xiao's Marvel Comics directly. Now it seems that he should have made a very correct decision."

"Looking forward to the second Lord of the Rings coming soon."

After sending everyone away, Xiao Yunhai smiled and said to Bickwen, "It seems that our movie was a success."

Bi Kewen nodded and said gratefully to Xiao Yunhai: "Xiao, thank you. Without your full support in terms of funding and special effects, I would never have been able to make this movie with such an effect."

Xiao Yunhai laughed and said: "Don't say it if you are polite, you are making money for me. It's getting late, let's go, let's go to Huaxia as soon as possible, and hope to be in time for the premiere in Beijing."

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