Chapter 330: War of words!

"If You Are the One" grossed over 100 million yuan in four days. Although this result is very good, Feng Kuzi can still restrain himself.

After all, there are many movies that started out better than this one.

However, as the movie continued to be screened, by December 1.6, after seven days of release, the box office of If You Are the One reached million yuan.

I originally thought that the total box office would exceed 200 million, but looking at the current situation, 200 million is a foregone conclusion, and breaking 300 million is also very likely.

So this time Feng Pants really couldn't control himself and started shaking.

The main reason is that Feng Kuazi felt too depressed in recent years.

He is the first commercial director in mainland China. He made money with "Party A and Party B" in 1997, and he was the one who heated up the market for the Lunar New Year holiday in the beginning.

But just after entering the new century, Feng Kuzi encountered the challenge of the fledgling Liu Zhou, and was defeated by him head-on.

Later, Zhang Yimou's film "Hero" stole all the limelight with a total box office of 2.5 million yuan in mainland China and 16.5 billion yuan worldwide, making him the number one commercial director in mainland China.

After that, Liu Zhou and Zhang Yimou took turns to come to the fore, with their films achieving higher box office results each time.

The two collaborated on "Red Cliff", which overturned the huge mountain of "Titanic" that was weighing on the shoulders of Chinese filmmakers, and took back the box office record for mainland films.

This made Zhang Yimou's reputation reach its peak.

Liu Zhou is equally successful. Not only did he shine in Hollywood, but after returning to the mainland, his first science fiction film, "The Martian", not only received excellent reviews, but also grossed over 700 million yuan at the box office.

This was an achievement he had never dared to imagine before.

After all, the only film he could show off in recent years was "A World Without Thieves", which had a very good reputation, but the box office was only over 100 million.

As for "Night Banquet", although the box office has exceeded 100 million yuan, the data is not as good as "A World Without Thieves", and the reputation is even more incomparable.

This result is not particularly impressive compared to those big hits, and even pales in comparison.

But let alone Liu Zhou and Zhang Yimou, even Xu Ke and Ning Hao under Golden Harvest did no worse than him, or even better.

After joining Golden Harvest, Xu Ke directed "The Blade of the Immortal 2" and "Painted Skin" successively, one of which grossed over million yuan and the other over million yuan, and his performance was definitely better than his.

In addition, Xu Ke is not an unknown person either. He is also a veteran and famous director in Hong Kong. After these achievements, in the eyes of the outside world and everyone, Feng Kuzi is inferior to Xu Ke in all aspects.

As for Ning Hao, the two "Crazy" movies were both great successes at the box office and word of mouth, and he has been compared with Ning Hao by the outside world. After all, both of them became famous for comedy and have achieved good results in this field.

But Liu Zhou and Zhang Yimou were fine. Over the past few years, although Feng Kuazi said he was not convinced, he was still convinced in his heart.

However, as for Xu Ke and Ning Hao, the outside world has been using them to drag him down, which has made him feel very upset.

In his opinion, most of Xu Ke's achievements were due to Liu Zhou and Jiahe. With the help of external forces, no matter how good the data was, it was an unfair victory.

Didn’t he have any idea of ​​what his achievements were before joining Golden Harvest?

Ning Hao is indeed talented, but his qualifications and achievements are too shallow. When will it be his turn to be compared with me?
However, his previous box office data has not had any significant breakthroughs, and he can only hold it in in the face of external criticism.

Now that "If You Are the One" is expected to exceed 3 million yuan, it has finally entered the first tier of the box office, and Feng Kuzi has suddenly become very excited.

He didn't dare to show his teeth to Liu Zhou. Originally, Zhang Yimou could have criticized him, but since he and Liu Zhou became close, the Beijing circle no longer dared to attack him at will.

As for Xu Ke and Ning Hao, it seemed too deliberate for them to suddenly respond to the reports from the outside world that were pulling them down.

Moreover, both of them are directors under Golden Harvest, so Feng Kuazi didn't dare to target them deliberately.

In the end, Feng Kuzi suddenly realized that although his movie was a big hit at the box office, he could not vent the anger that had been pent up in his heart.

But soon, Feng Kuazi found a target to vent his anger.

That is to say, on December 24th, the costume blockbuster "The Battle of Guandu" directed by Cheng Tian, ​​Wu Baige, and starring superstars such as Chow Runfa, Liang Chaowei, and Jin Chengwu was officially released.

As a director who has achieved success in Hollywood, Wu Baige still has considerable status. Coupled with the many superstars, the attention on this movie has been maximized.

The film was promoted vigorously before its release. When Wu Baige was interviewed by the media, he even said directly that "The Battle of Guandu" was comparable to "Red Cliff".

Breaking 300 million box office is the basic requirement, breaking 400 million is the goal.

But after the movie was released, the box office performance was obviously not as good as they had advertised.

On the first day of its release, it grossed 32 million at the box office, 28 million on the second day, 24 million on the third day, and 23 million on the fourth day, with the box office dropping lower and lower every day.

The result of breaking the 100 million in four days is not bad, but it can't be compared with "Red Cliff".

Not only that, the reputation of "Battle of Guandu" is not very high.

This time Wu Baige did not make it into two parts, the plot is more compact, and the costumes and props are also good.

The overall plot has many big scenes, but Wu Baige still makes the mistake of having a small vision, and there are many stupid plots.

Most importantly, the Battle of Guandu is mediocre because of the success of Red Cliff. Moreover, the trend of ancient martial arts movies has passed, and people are a little tired of this type of movie. In addition, the quality of your movie is not particularly good.

This also resulted in the box office being far lower than the expectations of Wu Kebo, Wu Baige and others.

Moreover, its online reputation is not very good, with Douban only giving it a score of 6.3.

After seven days of release, "Battle of Guandu" only earned 1.5 million yuan at the box office, which is million less than "If You Are the One".

As Huayi has a lot of grudges with Chengtian, it was happy to see this situation and of course did not show any courtesy, and directly issued a press release to criticize Chengtian.

Feng Kuazi is even more rude. He doesn't dare to offend Jiahe, and he doesn't dare to offend you Chengtian. He just happens to be holding a grudge.

At the beginning, Feng Kuazi was relatively restrained and proposed a so-called rate of return.

He did not cite examples like "Painted Skin" and "Curse of the Golden Flower", but instead used "Battle of Guandu".

The investment for "Battle of Guandu" was as high as 300 million, but the box office may not exceed 300 million.

In comparison, the investment in If You Are the One was only 5000 million yuan, including product placement, with an actual cost of more than 2000 million yuan. Now the box office is expected to exceed million yuan, and the net profit has increased several times.

In addition to showing off his ability to make money, Feng Kuzi also achieved super high box office with the lowest cost.

At the same time, people are also implying that the reason why "Battle of Guandu" was able to achieve this result was because it spent a lot of money on marketing and promotion, but the box office value was not high enough.

Not only does my box office performance exceed yours, but my reputation is also better than yours.

Faced with the provocation of Hua Yi and Feng Kuazi, Wu Kebo, who was already full of anger, directly retorted before Wu Baige could say anything.

"Feng Kuzi said that he was trying to make a big splash with a small investment, showing off how great he is. In fact, he has no ability to make big movies. Didn't he follow the trend and make blockbusters? But The Banquet got very bad reviews and was a complete failure. He doesn't have the ability to make blockbusters."

Seeing that Wu Kebo actually responded, Feng Pants immediately became energetic and turned into Feng Dapao, and started to argue with Wu Kebo.

"He said that my filming of The Banquet was a failure, but at least it made money for the investors. Mr. Wu, please tell us how much money you are going to lose from The Battle of Guandu this time?"

Wu Kebo was not a pushover either. He was very angry at the moment and immediately sprayed back.

Feng Kuzi was not to be outdone, and at the end of 2008, the two launched a fierce war of words through Weibo and the media.

At the beginning, everyone was scolding each other, there was a bit of emotional dispute and a suspicion of hype, but later, both sides were really angry.

Wu Kebo said that Feng Kuazi was just Wang Shuo's lackey, who had been flattering him for several years and finally rose to power by stealing scripts. Suffering from vitiligo was his retribution.

Feng Kuazi cursed Wu Kebo as a lackey and traitor of the People's Bank of China. He said he was the boss, but in fact he was just a puppet of the People's Bank of China, using the capital to make money from the mainlanders.

The verbal battle between the two immediately attracted a large number of onlookers.

Even If You Are the One and The Battle of Guandu are not very popular anymore, and everyone is just watching them scolding each other.

The person who was most pleased about the war of words between Feng Kuzi and Wu Kebo was none other than Sina Weibo.

Since its launch at the end of last year, Sina Weibo has surpassed blogs and become the most popular social platform nowadays, thanks to the continuous traffic generated by Sina Blog and the entire group, and with Sina's strenuous operation.

Coupled with its instant news and hot searches, Weibo has become a holy place for first-hand gossip.

Weibo users were also the main gossip-eaters about Fatty Zang, Ni Zheng and Gong Li.

However, although those melons were quite popular, the combined impact they caused was still not as great as this war of words.

It’s not that the influence of this war of words is so great, but that the main battlefield of this war of words is on Weibo.

At the beginning, everyone was still relying on the media to criticize each other. Later, Feng Kuzi directly criticized on Weibo. Wu Kebo responded through the media, but after finding that the efficiency was too low and untimely, he also opened his own Weibo account.

In response, Sina Weibo's backend took less than ten minutes to complete his VIP registration, and then pushed this account to the homepage and made it a hot topic.

With Weibo, there is no need for the media to waste time in the middle. After one side rants, the other side will rant back. It is very satisfying for the spectators to watch. They can even ask questions in the comment section, and the host may directly reply.

For example, Wu Kebo mercilessly confirmed in the comments section of Weibo some of Feng Kuazi's past shameful deeds in currying favor with Wang Shuo and the Beijing circle.

Feng Kuazi was not to be outdone and also exposed Wu Kebo's scandal of being a pimp for someone.

As the war of words escalates, it is no longer limited to just the two of them.

Wang Shuo and some of Feng Kuzi's friends in Beijing also registered on Weibo to clarify for Feng Kuzi while also frantically attacking Wu Kebo.

But Wu Kebo is not alone, he also has friends in the circle who help him fight back.

The verbal battle between the two was exposed in countless news reports, adding nearly one million new users to Weibo, which made Cao Guowei unable to suppress his anger.

This is an effect that they may not be able to achieve even if they spend money.

(End of this chapter)