Chapter 380: Industry shock and hot summer season

"Nanjing Nanjing" has been controversial since its release. Then China Film Corporation cut the screening schedule. Later, Lu Chuan angrily criticized the audience for garbage and scolded Golden Harvest and Liu Zhou for being domineering, which triggered a climax of public opinion.

The audience's reaction was within everyone's expectations. In fact, no one in the industry expected Lu Chuan to be so stupid as to publicly curse her bread and butter.

No matter how angry you are, just complain about it in private. You are not the only one who has such thoughts, but you are the only one who scolds the audience in public.

So you deserve the abuse from the whole network.

However, compared with the criticism from netizens, people in the circle are more concerned about the reactions of Jiahe and Liu Zhou.

And Golden Harvest’s response did make some people in the industry feel the power of the mainland’s largest film and television giant.

A movie that could have potentially grossed over 100 million yuan was pulled from the screen just like that. Many people even thought that the cancellation of "Nanjing Nanjing" was also the work of Golden Harvest.

Although the movie "Jinling Jinling" has a lot of problems and deserves to be cut from the screening schedule and removed from the shelves, it also shows the powerful influence of Golden Harvest.

This made everyone intuitively feel the power of Jiahe, and the dignity of the giant cannot be challenged.

In fact, what most of them don’t know is that Golden Harvest’s approach is not just to remove “Jinling Jinling” from the shelves, but also to ban Lu Chuan in the industry.

Ordinary people are not aware of this situation, only those who have sufficient status in the circle know this news.

Therefore, people with high status in the circle are even more in awe of Golden Harvest.

They thought that Jiahe's tactics of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys in response to Lu Chuan's provocation should have stopped here, but they did not expect that Jiahe's methods would be more ruthless than they imagined.

Not only was Lu Chuan beaten half to death, but his father was also brought down. Lu Chuan's career as a director should be completely over now.

Although Lu Chuan is being targeted by Jiahe, as long as his father still has power, he will have a chance to make a comeback after a few years when the storm has passed.

Now that Liu Zhou is dealing with his father Lu Tianming, Lu Chuan will be of no value at all. Who will care about him?

However, compared to Lu Chuan, they were more concerned about his father Lu Tianming.

The bosses of film and television companies and people with relatively high status in the circle, such as Jiang Wen and Feng Kuzi, are very clear about how powerful Lu Tianming is.

Even they had to treat Lu Tianming with courtesy when they saw him.

They didn't expect that in just a few days, Lu Tianming was forced to stand aside by Liu Zhou.

Although the announcement from the Film Bureau stated that Lu Tianming had resigned, such a statement is only intended to deceive outsiders, or it may be a last-ditch effort to give Lu Tianming some face.

Without the identity of a member of the review committee, Lu Tianming is just an ordinary writer and screenwriter. His value and energy are greatly reduced.

To be honest, Lu Tianming's downfall had a huge impact on them.

Everyone knew that Liu Zhou's influence should not be underestimated, but he had always behaved in a friendly manner, so there was no clear understanding of his power and influence.

Now they have it. Through the Lu Tianming incident, they also understand that there are differences between film and television giants and their bosses.

In their opinion, the person was not an ordinary person, but he was knocked down with just a slight move.

This made them feel that they were not on the same level at all.

But on second thought, they are not on the same level as Liu Zhou.

Liu Zhou is the second richest man in mainland China and has considerable influence in the entire business community, but they can only bully others in the entertainment industry.

Apart from Liu Zhou, there is no one in the entertainment industry who is on the rich list.

Now, not only the celebrity artists in the circle, but even the bosses of their film and television companies couldn't help but feel in awe of Liu Zhou.

Otherwise, if he had angered Liu Zhou like Lu Chuan did this time and then attacked them, he would never have been able to maintain his current position.

As for Feng Kuazi, the instigator, he dared not say a word at this time. He just wanted to keep a low profile and shoot the movie quietly.

I am even more glad that I didn't act impulsively at the time.

Some time ago, they spent a lot of effort to discredit Zhou Xingxing, but in the end they didn't expect that Zhou Xingxing was protected by Liu Zhou.

This also caused them to fail.

At that time, he was very angry and wanted to fight with Liu Zhou, but I advised her to endure it.

Otherwise, if they really fight with Liu Zhou, given Liu Zhou's current power, they have no chance of winning at all and will completely lose the mainland market.

So when she saw the fate of the Lu father and son, she couldn't help but admire her husband's wisdom.

He signaled to his wife not to make a fuss, but he was actually equally shocked.

Although Yongsheng had just entered the mainland market not long ago and was not familiar with some of the mainland's situations, the public opinion surrounding Lu Chuan's case was so strong this time that he also went to get an in-depth understanding of Lu Chuan and the relationships behind him.

Now Lu Chuan and his son were both crucified.
He felt that he had paid enough attention to Liu Zhou before, but he didn't expect that he still underestimated him.

If you want to make a living in the mainland, you really can't offend Liu Zhou, the local tyrant. No, they are all local tyrants. It can be said that through this incident, Liu Zhou and Jiahe have thoroughly demonstrated their power in the entertainment industry, and no one will dare to provoke him casually in the future.

Liu Zhou was not aware of other people's complicated feelings, nor did he care.

This time it was just a small way for him to establish his authority. Lu Chuan and his son were nothing in front of him.

Now that his goal of establishing his authority has been achieved, Liu Zhou has shifted his attention away from this matter and turned his attention to the current mainland film market.

On July 2, Transformers was released in mainland China, and it was still full of crackling, banging, banging, da-da-da.
It is definitely very enjoyable to watch, with almost no boring moments throughout, and the special effects are really amazing.

The first-day box office was worthy of the special effects, with a huge box office of 3400 million on the first day of release.

This first-day result is second only to "The Martian".

Such a high box office also shocked the entire entertainment industry.

With the hot release of "Transformers 2", everyone has begun to turn their attention to this year's summer movie season.

For people in the circle, the storm caused by Lu Chuan has been completely settled and there is no need to continue to care about it.

Maybe it's just that people on the Internet are feeling aggrieved and are still criticizing Lu Chuan.

However, if no one is specifically guiding the topic, the popularity of this matter will gradually decrease. Moreover, now that we have officially entered the summer season when competition is the most intense, those blockbuster movies will be the focus of media reports.

"Transformers 2" is undoubtedly a movie that everyone is paying close attention to throughout the summer.

Transformers already has a strong fan base in mainland China, and the first movie in the series also exploded the domestic film market.

Therefore, since the release date of "Transformers 2", a large number of fans have been keeping a close eye on it.

Michael Bay did not disappoint everyone. The quality of the sequel did not decline and was not inferior to the previous one at all.

With a box office of over 30 million on the first day and strong word of mouth, the movie was destined to be a hit.

However, despite being mentally prepared, the subsequent box office of "Transformers 2" still far exceeded everyone's expectations.

The movie was released on July 3000nd. After earning 1.6 million on the first day, the average daily box office for the first five days of the weekend was over million, with a total of million.

5 million in 1.6 days, this result is almost 3.6% certain to surpass the ​​million box office of "Titanic", and there should be no problem in breaking million.

Although the box office record of "Titanic" has been broken, this movie, as a huge pressure on the mainland for nearly ten years, still has a special status in the mainland film industry.

If there is a blockbuster movie, especially a Hollywood movie, the box office performance of "Titanic" is usually used as a comparison.

Historically, it was "Transformers 2" that broke the box office record of "Titanic" in mainland China.

It can be said that the release of "Transformers 2" officially set off the summer movie-watching craze.

Previously, "No Man's Land" and "Twilight" also had good box office, but they were not as popular as "Transformers 2" where tickets were hard to come by.

At this time, in most cinemas across the country, tickets for shows after 5 p.m. are basically sold out in the morning.

There were long queues at many cinemas, and even scalpers selling movie tickets appeared again.

Especially for the rare IMAX shows, although the ticket price is as high as one hundred yuan, movie tickets are even harder to buy. If you want to watch the evening show, you can't buy tickets unless you go one day in advance.

Even in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it is scalpers who contribute more to the box office.

Organized and disciplined groups of scalpers appear in movie theaters in busy commercial areas, selling dozens or even hundreds of movie tickets at a time and then reselling them at high prices.

You can imagine how popular "Transformers 2" is.

Moreover, the movie was not only a big hit in mainland China, it was also very popular in Hong Kong, where it earned 2000 million Hong Kong dollars in just five days.

In one book, it earned nearly 500 million US dollars on the first day of its release.

In South Korea, the number of moviegoers on the first day reached 50, and the box office was nearly 300 million US dollars, breaking the South Korean first-day box office record set by "The Host".

In terms of momentum, "Transformers 2" is even bigger than the first one, and it looks like it's going to sweep the world.

At this time, "Ice Age 3" and "Harry Potter 6" were also released one after another, but the mammoth and the little wizard still could not stop the Autobots.

Having said that, the sequels of these two well-known IPs have achieved good box office results. Only the domestic film "Headstrong" released in July has completely become cannon fodder.

As for "No Man's Land" and "Twilight", which were released earlier, they were hardly affected.

The former has already grossed 2.8 million yuan at the box office, and it is not far from breaking million yuan.

The latter also received 1.3 million, which was also an outstanding result.

As for the Hollywood blockbusters that are currently in a big fight, Golden Harvest can just watch the show quietly, while also preparing for the release of "The Sound of Wind".

(End of this chapter)