Chapter 555 Global Competition in the Battle of Two Heroes (6k)
Robert Downey Jr. immediately expressed his opinion, "Chen, I respect China and the audience here from the bottom of my heart."
He said sincerely, "If I had known these two parts in the film, it might have hurt the emotions of the Chinese people, I would have made suggestions to Mr. Feiqi at the beginning."
Shane Black looked similar to him, "I feel sorry. I didn't know the preferences of Chinese audiences well before."
The term "discrimination" cannot be affected.
"But now the copies have been distributed to various cinemas, and it's too big to make temporary changes..."
Chen Linfeng waved his hand, "This situation is just a reminder from me as an audience. You have to consider how to make a decision."
"If you really want to talk about it, we are still opponents now."
He smiled, "Don't think I'm making trouble."
"That certainly won't."
Chen Linfeng didn't say more, the problem of "Iron Man 3" can be big or small.
The two people in front of him seemed to have sincere apology, but he didn't know whether they really took it seriously.
After the premiere, Chen Linfeng was unable to stay for too long. He only got fucked with his wife for one night. The next day he flew back to London to film.
Shane Black did not underestimate the two questions he raised, and sent an email to Kevin Feige that night.
The next day, I received a reply:
"Maybe we should take action, but we can't do anything."
...
The battle between "The Joker" and "Iron Man 3" during the May Day period has become the most concerned topic in the domestic film and television industry.
Before the premiere, what the media promoted the most was the opposition between the two movies.
There is also the topic of the Marvel Cinematic Universe taking shape, sweeping Hollywood and the world.
“…As it swept through everything, there seemed to be a figure emerging all the time.
From "Hurricane Rescue" in the previous two years to "Infinite World" to last year's "Inception", this year's "Joker"...
Every time, Director Chen’s movies are fighting against it, and there are both wins and losses.
"Inception"'s top five film score was defeated by "Avengers", and only won the second place in the global box office of that year.
Now Director Chen takes "The Joker" again. Whether he can defeat "Iron Man 3" has become something that Hollywood is paying attention to. ”
"Hollywood and Marvel are powerful, and only Director Chen is able to resist. He seems to have become the hope of other Hollywood companies and filmmakers."
"This is a war between Director Chen and Marvel. What a magnificent, Director Chen!"
“…”
In fact, such a topic seems a bit too far away for the domestic film and television industry.
Is Marvel invincible? Is there any one in Hollywood the world?
What does this have to do with them?
But there was a sudden addition of Chen Linfeng in the topic, and it felt different.
Everyone felt that this matter was worth talking about and was very passionate about discussion.
This year's May Day holiday brought a different flavor.
The global box office battle between "The Joker" and "Iron Man 3" is also an important battlefield for the Chinese market.
On May 1st, the two films will be officially launched.
There are many people going out for a trip during the holidays, but the two movies are so popular that there are still many fans who choose to come to the cinema to watch movies.
The reporter of "Entertainment Weekly" is on duty in the cinema to record the grand occasion of the release of two movies.
The core areas of the theater are all posted with posters of "The Joker" and "Iron Man 3".
The domestic "Joker" poster is slightly different from the North American version.
The font of the words "Director Chen Linfeng" is enlarged and is very eye-catching, allowing people to see it at a glance.
In the camera lens, there was a crowd of people buying tickets.
"A ticket to "The Joker."
"Two pictures of "Iron Man 3" Thank you."
"Two "The Joker."
“…”
In another place, there are also visitors who buy tickets online to pick up tickets at the self-service machine.
From a general perspective, the two movies are currently evenly matched.
In terms of publicity, almost everyone has achieved the ultimate.
The rest are all about watching movie quality and audience preferences.
On May 2, the box office on the first day of the May Day holiday was released.
"Iron Man 3" won the first day's box office battle, leading the market with a record of 116 million yuan, and set a single-day box office record for May Day.
"The Joker" was slightly lower, achieving a box office of 108 million yuan.
The two films worked together to push the market to 200 million, far exceeding the level of the same period last year.
The media reported the news of the defeat of "The Joker".
"Shushan" crew.
"Oh, Director Chen didn't win."
"There are too many fans in the series "Iron Man", so it's normal not to be able to compare on the first day."
"Director Chen has many fans, and I thought he would win."
"I guess everyone doesn't like watching art films very much, so I guess I didn't watch it?"
“…”
Jingtian and Liu Shishi were discussing enthusiastically, Hu Ge and Shu Chang listened, and from time to time they even interjected.
Liu Qianqian, who had just finished a role, tilted her head, as if she had heard something.
She walked two steps closer.
"Oh, Sister Xixi, you're over,"
When Jingtian saw her, he immediately reached out to say hello,
"Yesterday's box office data came out, and the box office of the Joker was a little lower than that of Iron Man, which is a pity."
Liu Qianqian was shocked and asked hurriedly, "Why, how much is the box office of "The Joker"? How much is the difference?"
"108 million, almost eight million lower."
She breathed a sigh of relief, "That's fine."
If you lose too much in your own territory, it will be unfavorable.
Liu Qianqian sat on her chair and Zhang Xin handed her water cup.
She waved her hand, not caring about drinking water at all, and hurriedly asked about the specific situation.
The two movies are not much different, which means that the media is very popular and the hype is very good.
In fact, "The Joker" has a much better reputation on the Internet than its competitors.
The passers-by in "Iron Man 3" has a good reputation, and the armor sets off fireworks, making it lively enough.
The special effects are also good, and the audience is quite satisfied.
But fans of the series don’t like it very much, and there are some criticisms.
A certain rating gave this film 7.9 points, which was lower than the previous two.
But overall, it is considered a qualified commercial film and an orthodox Hollywood blockbuster.
Liu Qianqian held her chin and learned Chen Linfeng's posture, and analyzed, "So, "Iron Man 3" is pretty and there are not many surprises, but the quality is not bad, so should the box office be stable?"
Shu Chang nodded, "It should be."
"He is a strong opponent." Everyone sighed.
Everyone unconsciously stood on Director Chen's position. After all, almost everyone here has something to do with the Qilin Group.
And as a Chinese filmmaker, he will be a little more biased towards his own people.
"But there is no need to worry. Director Chen's movies have won too much reputation, and maybe they will make efforts in the later stage." Hu Ge said.
Although the overall reputation of "Iron Man 3" is not bad, the series has enough influence.
But in contrast, the reputation and evaluation of "The Joker" is still much higher than that of it.
After reading the online reviews, many viewers' first reaction was to vocabulary such as "classic" and "art".
Hu Ge paused and said, "Actually, no one feels boring, difficult to understand, or not good to watch. These literary and artistic movies often have evaluations."
Indeed, there are almost unanimous praises on the Internet for the viewing of the movie itself.
"No wonder I can win so many box offices in North America, I am really convinced."
"Chen Linfeng's director and picture level are obvious improvements to the naked eye, and his master's work."
"Little Lizi can act so well, completely breaking through my previous impression of him."
“…”
The only voice that is a bit different is that it is a doubt that such a movie can be released in the country through review.
Netizens’ comments on this are, “That is, Chen Linfeng, if you change the director, don’t expect to appear in China, even your name will be harmonious.”
"Why don't we go to the movie together after filming today?" Jingtian suggested.
"I have watched both movies, so I won't go." Liu Qianqian refused. She would still have to chat with Xiaofeng video tonight.
"Ha, there is only my husband's silly girl in my eyes," Shu Chang glanced at her sideways, "If she doesn't go, let's go."
Liu Qianqian glared back and said, "Who told you not to find a boyfriend yet."
The next day, "Iron Man 3" had a domestic box office of 131 million and "The Joker" had a 130 million box office.
The gap between the two has further narrowed.
Both sides bit each other very hard.
The media were completely excited, one-sided and boring, and the fierce fight was the topic.
"The battle between the Joker and Iron Man is fierce, and the Joker is still defeated by Iron Man 3 on the second day."
"The current situation is very anxious, and the two sides are completely evenly matched opponents."
Many media outlets all joined forces to exaggerate the battle of the two heroes in May Day into a war of the century.
"Shushan" set.
Several people are discussing the war between the two movies again.
This time is different from yesterday. Everyone who watched all two movies in one night has greatly increased their confidence in "The Joker".
"The quality gap is too big. One is a popcorn movie that you forget after watching it, and the other is a movie that will become a classic." Hu Ge made a swearing decision.
Liu Shishi nodded, "Indeed, "The Joker" is really a movie that looks very artistic when you look at it."
Shu Chang and Jingtian agreed.
Their views are consistent with the public's evaluation.
After two days, more than 50,000 people on a certain petal scored "The Joker", and the current score has reached a high score of 9.3.
V station is almost the same, it is 9.1 points.
At this score level, almost every movie is in the classic category.
Only Liu Qianqian looked depressed.
Alas, it's a little bit worse, it's so uncomfortable.
Even if she is not obsessive-compulsive, she can't hold back when she sees the box office gap of only decimals and ends.
...
Kevin Feige, who is far away in Hollywood, received box office data from China.
He sighed in relief, "It seems that what Chen said is not accurate, and there is no situation he said." However, the turning point had already happened.
Most of the movies watched the previous two days were core fans, and the opinions of ordinary audiences were often ignored by the subjective public opinion.
But the problem is still there.
Discussions about the role of Man Man in "Iron Man 3" are gradually rising.
V Station Film and Television Area, many film and television up owners only evaluated the quality of the two movies themselves at the beginning.
Although the evaluation is almost one-sided, when it comes to box office competition between the two, they are more of a lively mentality.
In the comment section of the video, naturally, someone mentioned the issue of "Mandarin".
Subsequently, more and more people were browsing in the comment section.
Many netizens are more sensitive to national emotions.
At the same time, an up owner has released a video to address this problem.
It tells the story of the problem point that includes the character "Mandaren" and his origin in the past Western history.
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The video suddenly became popular and became popular that day.
When other up owners saw that this would have traffic, they hurriedly followed up.
Various popular science videos are emerging one after another.
At this time, public opinion was a little unstoppable.
The box office data of the No. 4 show that "The Joker" overtook the box office with a box office of 120 million, surpassing "Iron Man 3" with a box office of 110 million.
While the media continued to report on the box office, it turned out to be back and forth.
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In addition, the matter about Huaxia special offer was exposed by many media.
Fan Binbin and Wang Xueqin, two well-known stars, said they were starring in a Hollywood movie and only appeared in less than 5 minutes.
As a result, in the "International Edition" released worldwide, Fan Binbin didn't even have a shot, and Wang Xueqin only had about two seconds of shot.
Co-authored, this is still polite in China, it is a "special version".
The film and television industry has had a huge uproar.
Is a movie also divided into "international version" and "special version"?
The people have also gained their knowledge.
But in contrast, the topic of "Mandarin" was obscured and the public's focus was shifted.
VSite, there are still people who post videos, some people watch, and some people comment, but when the entire Internet is talking about Fan Binbin and the special edition topic, the attention to the former is obviously not enough.
It was only then that some netizens noticed that it seemed something was wrong.
Chen Linfeng, who was far away in London, noticed this scene.
He can be sure that the V site has not been affected externally, but looking at the data, the topic of "special version" is still more popular.
The best way to cover up a hot spot is to create a bigger hot spot.
He recalled news from his previous life, and it seemed that the news of the "special version" was the hottest.
It was not until the movie was released that the above did not notice other problems, and the video platform removed the movie.
"I'm really good at it."
However, this kind of thing is not a good thing after all.
Just use a slightly worse news to replace the worst one.
Since then, the box office of "Iron Man 3" has been significantly affected.
It's okay if you don't have an opponent in your previous life, but now the momentum of "The Joker" is so strong, it's difficult for it to maintain its front line.
The box office in a single day fell to less than 70 million, while "The Joker" insisted on a box office of over 100 million yuan a day.
This widened the gap.
Subsequently, the theater schedule was adjusted, and "The Joker" took a lot of the share of "Iron Man 3" and could still maintain the level of more than 80 million.
In the first seven days of the week, "The Joker" won 730 million yuan in box office, and the average daily average was over 100 million yuan.
"Iron Man 3" completely lost with a score of 610 million.
Various relevant institutions in China have given the final box office forecasts for the two movies:
The former is expected to be around 1.4 billion, or approximately US$224 million.
The latter is expected to have nearly 1.1 billion, and the data is actually quite good, and it is expected to become the third imported film with a total of more than 1 billion.
Domestic media are excited and publishing various related reports.
Director Chen is still awesome, another movie that has exceeded 1 billion in the country.
Movie fans and fans were also happy.
Liu Qianqian was in great condition on the crew and finally got smooth in one breath.
At the same time, both Joker and Iron Man 3 competed fiercely throughout the global market.
In the North American market, "The Joker" has been released in the third week, with a box office of 30 million on four days of working days and a box office of 35 million on three days of weekends.
The North American box office officially exceeded 300 million.
In the last ten days, I guess I can still get about 60 million.
As soon as "Iron Man 3" came out, it was very powerful, with a box office of US$180 million in the first three days of the first weekend.
In Europe, "The Joker" is gradually released in various countries, facing the movies that won the Golden Bear in Berlin and set a box office miracle in North America.
The media is incredible.
Most European people know the plot of the Batman movie or comics, so they have great interest in the "most unique clown" in media reports.
Therefore, in the European film market, "The Joker" has an extremely eye-catching box office, which is hard to tell the difference between "Iron Man".
In the UK, the box office of the two ended up being slightly different, both of them were just over 20 million US dollars.
In Italy, "The Joker" won $20 million in two weeks.
At the same time, in the Asian market, Neon, a super British movie cemetery, one of the rare "Joker" has been very popular.
It reached the top in the first week.
In two weeks, it exceeded the 1.97 billion yen record set by similar movies like "The Dark Knight Rises".
After that, the final box office is expected to exceed 6 billion yen, which is about 40 million US dollars after conversion.
The forecasting agency also reached the top, exceeding one million moviegoers in 3 days and exceeding 2 million in 5 days. The forecasting agency gave the final prediction value of 30 billion bars.
That's another $20 million.
"The Joker" is already in full bloom around the world.
Media from many countries are reporting on this grand occasion.
In comparison, "Iron Man 3" is also in a siege in the global market.
The release of this film is more concentrated, and since its overseas premiere at the end of April, the global box office has increased explosively.
On May 7, 11 days after its release, the global box office reached 660 million US dollars.
The two movies compete in the top spot in movie box office in multiple countries, either first or second.
Media in many countries are either hyping the "Hollywood DC Marvel Contest" or like China, exclaiming, "Only Teacher Chen/Qilin can resist the Marvel tide."
Now, everyone has made one thing clear, that is, "The Joker" and "Iron Man 3", which will probably end up with a box office of more than $1 billion.
These are actually two movies with a size of over 1 billion, competing in the same schedule.
While the whole world exclaimed "Hollywood is unstoppable", it was also shocked by Chen's strength.
This person who can shoot more than $1 billion in succession is not supported by the IP and the previous work, which is really a bit scary.
In mid-May, Chen Linfeng received another call from Pitt.
"I said you have been in contact with each other a lot recently."
"Dear Chen, aren't we good friends?"
Pete began to pretend to be wronged, but because his acting skills were not as good as he sounded more like he was acting pretentiously.
But it is too disgusting for a man to act coquettishly.
Chen Linfeng disliked him very much, "Don't, if you have something to do, just say it."
"Okay," Pete returned to normal, "I want to ask you when will the "Shocking Demons" be completed?"
There was a little more excitement in his voice, "Chen, will this movie also have a box office of $1 billion?"
"No, do you think 1 billion is so easy?"
"I don't think it's hard for you at all."
Chen Linfeng said angrily, "A magic type movie will not have such a high box office, and the post-production is not over yet, wait."
"The Shocking Demons" is a post-production after the New Year. The special effects are simple, and other post-production work can be completed by July.
The summer vacation is too hasty, so he is willing to push it back to the end of the year and even next year's Spring Festival.
"No," Peter was so proud. "It's too late, and there will be a higher ceiling only in the summer."
"What you said makes sense, but you can't affect the quality of production for the sake of schedule."
Pete hesitated and had to agree, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
"In addition to asking about this, there is also the Joker's incident. I heard rumors in the industry that you are going to leave the movie to the Oscars to that fat man Harvey?"
Chen Linfeng frowned, "How is that possible? I rejected him when the premiere in Los Angeles."
"But now he says so, oh, I understand, he wants to dismiss other competitors?"
Pete took a deep breath, "He's crazy!"
Chen Linfeng smiled, "I guess he wanted to threaten me. If he didn't choose him, he would make trouble for me."
Although he was laughing, there was no smile in his eyes.
"This is crazier than offending others."
At a time when "The Joker" is about to reach $1 billion, Chen is the most undeniable person in Hollywood.
What's more, there is Leonardo, who doesn't know his desire for the Little Golden Man.
When Pete wanted to block the two of them, he shook his head even though he thought about it.
At this time, Chen Linfeng suddenly said, "Peter, we worked very well in "Sunset". Now I want to leave "The Joker" to you for operation. Are you willing to take over?"
Peter was stunned. Is there such a good thing?
He didn't care about Harvey's threat at all. What kind of clown is not worthy of touching the "Joker".
"Of course, the pleasure is at your disposal."
"Then let's just say that."
Chen Linfeng is about to hang up the phone now.
"Slowly, there's still something wrong."
Peter hurriedly said, "Mr. Egg asked me to tell you that your cooperation with Warner made him very heartbroken. It would be better for such a thing to happen once, otherwise he would be unacceptable."
"We still have to work together in "The Shocking Demons and Thieves"?"
"Mr. Eiger said he felt even more heartbroken when he remembered."
"I can't promise this, everyone is doing business."
Chen Linfeng won’t give the right words, it’s just because he feels heartbroken.
People always like what they can't get.
Just by hanging like this, his status is more stable.
"Aren't I going to join the crew of "Infinite World" later? I'm still working together. Tell Mr. Eiger that there are many opportunities for cooperation."
"Uh, okay, I hope he will feel better." Pitt felt that it was probably difficult.
The news always comes together.
It seems that a series of reactions triggered by "The Joker" has fermented in a concentrated manner.
Then, Sister Mei told him a message.
The program plan that invited several international leaders to chat together has really started.
(This chapter ends)