Chapter 186 The Explosive New World

After hearing Liu Zhou's words, poet Chen couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Poet Chen was very happy. It was not that he had low emotional intelligence, but that he was very confident in his work.

In his opinion, it was normal for Liu Zhou, who was so young, not to understand and to be shocked, and it was also normal for him to be so young. It was a very sincere evaluation.

Liu Zhou couldn't help laughing when he saw the silly look on poet Chen's face.

When poet Chen saw Liu Zhou laughing, he couldn't help but laugh even louder.

When the audience in the audience saw the two people laughing so happily, the first feeling that came to their mind was:

Is this the legendary flowing water in the mountains?
Is this movie really that great? Is it just that I am not good enough to understand it?

Everyone left the premiere with deep self-doubt.

The next day, reports about the premiere of "The Promise" flooded in.

In addition to praising the grandeur and originality of the premiere ceremony, people also highly praised the plot of the film.

Liu Zhou didn't know how these people could write these words against their conscience, but he thought it should have been a press release that had been prepared long ago.

There were a few conscientious reports criticizing the movie, but they were quickly drowned out.

However, this kind of publicity is still very effective and has greatly aroused the interest of the audience.

No matter what, Shi Shiren is also a famous director, and as this is a masterpiece that Director Chen spent 300 million yuan on with great effort, everyone is still looking forward to it.

It is difficult for people who are not from this era to understand why many media and movie fans admire Director Chen.

Although "The Emperor and the Assassin" and "Lü Bu and Diao Chan" had a certain impact on him, his divinity was not damaged.

Zhang Yimou's films have had excellent box office results in the past two years, but their reputation is not that good, so in the minds of countless people, Director Chen is the number one director in China.

The reason why his box office performance is not as good as Zhang Yimou's is because he has not made any blockbusters. If he had made any blockbusters, Zhang Yimou would have been crushed to the ground.

Time flies and it is December 15th, the day when "The Promise" officially hits theaters nationwide.

In the past few days, the box office of "Crazy Stone" has decreased due to the influence of "The Promise", and it only barely made 10 million yuan.

After one week of release, the film grossed a total of 30 million yuan.

This result is already higher than its total box office in the previous life.

In its previous life, "Crazy Stone" not only had no selling points for promotion, but also no funds for promotion. In the end, it had to use the name of investor Andy Lau to promote it.

Despite this, the film earned more than 26 million at the box office thanks to its excellent film quality and reputation, as well as spontaneous publicity from the audience.

It could have earned more box office revenue, but such a small production couldn't get the extension key, so it had to be taken off the screen.

But this time, "Crazy Stone" is in the hands of Golden Harvest. Not only is the film production more sophisticated, at least it doesn't have to use DV to shoot, but it can also provide all-round publicity and promotion.

This time, Liu Zhou wants to fully unleash the box office potential of this movie.

However, no matter how classic this movie is and how good its reputation is, when it is competing with "The Promise", the theaters did not hesitate to cut its screening schedule significantly.

So on the first day of its release, "The Promise" raked in 18 million at the box office, breaking the first-day box office record of 15 million set by "House of Flying Daggers".

The next day was Saturday, and the box office grossed 20 to 10 million, seemingly establishing its dominance.

Poet Chen frequently appeared in front of the media, and his demeanor of commanding the country could be clearly felt by everyone even through the TV screen.

However, on the third day, Sunday, the box office revenue dropped and only earned over 18 million.

In its first three days, The Promise grossed over 57 million yuan at the box office, breaking the previous record of over 55 million yuan set by House of Flying Daggers in its first three days.

The box office results are undoubtedly very impressive, but in comparison, the reputation has completely collapsed!

As long as they are normal people, after watching "The Promise", more than 90% of them can hardly hide their disappointment and anger towards poet Chen.

Some people with bad tempers even complained about "The Promise" and poet Chen crazily on the Internet.

This time, even viewers who usually seldom comment could not help but make a few comments online.

"The Promise" was criticized to bits!

In just three days, it went from being highly anticipated to being condemned by everyone. The producers wanted to suppress these negative comments but were unable to do so.

After watching the movie, Yaozhu, a famous film critic in the Tianya Film and Television section, gave a very accurate evaluation of the word "Wuji".

Wuji: Extremely boring!
And at this moment, the biggest highlight of the movie "The Promise", "A Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bun", made its debut.

Once this video was uploaded, it quickly became popular on the entire Internet. Blogs, portals, and Penguin Spaces all reposted this video.

This novel way of complaining caused a huge response.

Everyone said that this video completely expressed their thoughts.

"A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun" became the most popular video in 2005. Even in the following years, no other video could match its popularity.

But this video undoubtedly hit Chen Shishi right in the heart, instantly breaking his defenses.

"People can't be so shameless!"

Poet Chen publicly threatened to sue, which made the already popular video even more popular.

However, some film critics are very wary of this video because they see the voices of grassroots rise.

In the past, the right to speak on whether a movie was good or not was in the hands of professionals such as film critics and the media. But now this video has made them realize that their right to speak has been challenged and affected, so they have also stepped down.

He accused Brother Hu of copyright infringement and publicly supported poet Chen.

However, the majority of netizens and some media outlets who like to watch the fun stand on Brother Hu's side.

For a while, the two sides quarreled fiercely.

Afterwards, CCTV, which was also involved in "infringement", publicly stated that such secondary creation was very interesting and would not sue Brother Hu.

This makes poet Chen seem even more narrow-minded.

The reputation of "The Promise" has plummeted, and the one that has benefited the most is undoubtedly "Crazy Stone".

At this time, a comment on the Internet attracted great attention:
"I have discovered a treasure movie. If you have watched The Promise, you can go watch Crazy Stone to refresh your eyes."

As a result, many viewers and fans who were poisoned by "The Promise" rushed to watch "Crazy Stone".

Faced with more and more audiences who wanted to watch "Crazy Stone", the cinema chain decisively increased the number of screenings of the film again.

In just one week, "Crazy Stone" once again raked in 30 million at the box office, and this was achieved even though it had only earned a few million at the box office in the first three days of this week.

In other words, in the last two or three days of this week, the box office revenue exceeded 20 million.

The traffic brought by "The Promise" was fully utilized by "Crazy Stone".

After one week of release, the total box office of "The Promise" has just exceeded 80 million, and that's after it earned 58 million in the first three days.

But Liu Zhou thinks that the reason why "The Promise" was able to earn more than 20 million yuan at the box office in the next four days was mostly because they were curious about how bad the movie could be and wanted to challenge their weak points.

After watching "The Promise", they all walked out of the cinema cursing.

Seeing this situation, some media predicted that it would be difficult for the movie "The Promise" to break 100 million yuan.

Because at this time, Liu Zhou's new film "New World" is about to be released in domestic theaters.

As a director, Liu Zhou's status in people's minds may not be as high as that of Chen Shishi and Zhang Yimou, but his popularity is not inferior to these two.

Since his debut, none of the movies Liu Zhou has made were bad, and their box office results were very good.

So even without the work of poet Chen "The Promise", everyone is looking forward to Liu Zhou's new film.

What’s more, now that “The Promise” has given such a strong buff, everyone is even more looking forward to Liu Zhou’s new movie.

During this period, apart from those who criticized "The Promise", most people on the Internet were looking forward to "New World".

At that time, Zhang Zhao was surprised to find that it seemed that there was no need for any promotion, as the expectations for "New World" had already been raised to the maximum.

However, despite this, Zhang Zhao still carried out large-scale film promotion according to the established plan.

After all, this is a Hong Kong movie, so Liu Zhou did not hold any premiere in Hong Kong, but directly released it in theaters nationwide on December 21st.

Although the film's promotion had been very thorough, Liu Zhou still took the main creators on a roadshow when the film was released.

Liu Zhou's diligence was still very useful.

On the first day of its release, "New World" grossed a crazy 20.8 million at the box office.

Not only did it break the first-day box office record just set by "The Promise", it also officially pushed the first-day box office to the level of 20 million.

Before the outside world had time to be shocked, "New World" grossed more than 21 million and 22 million in the next two days.

In the first three days, the box office grossed a total of 64 million, breaking the first three-day box office record just set by "The Promise".

Unlike the completely ruined reputation of "The Promise", the reputation of "New World" is booming.

Not only did the media praise it as a classic that was no less than "Infernal Affairs", netizens also commented online and called it an excellent work.

The Hong Kong media even praised this movie to the sky.

"An undercover masterpiece that rivals "Infernal Affairs"!"

Li Zicheng, a more realistic undercover

"Touching brotherhood, "New World" has a great reputation!"

"Liang Jiahui joked about the elevator war god, which was filmed several times! "

……

Of course there are positive reviews, but there are also people who criticize and question it.

But all these complaints can only revolve around two points.

One thing is that "New World" is somewhat similar to "Infernal Affairs" and is suspected of plagiarism.

Another point is that the plot has a distorted outlook on life. The protagonist actually becomes a gangster boss in the end, and there is no punishment for killing people.

Of course, there are also some people with bad intentions who exaggerate and say that the villains in the film deliberately sabotage the plot of the return, and that they are suspected of smearing friendly people in Hong Kong and affecting unity.

Liu Zhou suppressed these malicious comments one by one, and even secretly wrote down the names of these people and would settle accounts with them in the future.

What he hated most was people who were full of malice and wanted to kill others.

As for the negative reviews on the other two points, Liu Zhou ignored them. These comments would soon be drowned out by countless positive reviews.

(End of this chapter)