Chapter 531 A world of difference
Of course, there is not no good news. On the Google search list of Banana’s competitor, “Celestial Kingdom” also occupies the second most searched position.
The second most popular search item is about Orlando Bloom. The most popular search item is about Orlando Bloom’s appearance. It is said that fans were conquered by Orlando Bloom’s handsome face after watching the movie.
Looking at it this way, this hot search term on Google seems to have the same look as the hot search term on Weibo’s Baidu search list in its previous life.
In fact, it is exactly the same. This is the latest hot search model launched by Google search in order to make profits.
Of course, this kind of hot search is an unspoken rule, and most people don’t break it.
As for why Google can come up with this thing, it actually has something to do with banana.
You must know that in the original history, if there was no Banana, the largest search engine website in the United States would be Google.
But it’s different now. Banana has taken away the largest market share, and Google can only have some soup with other search engine websites.
But this is unacceptable to Google, so in addition to copying Banana’s model, they also developed a hot search algorithm and attracted many customers with their high website traffic.
At least many big and small celebrities in Hollywood who need popularity have paid a lot of money to Google after realizing the role of buying rankings.
After this model comes out, Banana will immediately copy it and use it for itself. With Banana’s size, Google’s market for buying lists will be squeezed out immediately.
But this behavior was stopped by Little Gilbert. According to his words, if we want to be a conscientious Internet company, the list needs real data.
In fact, the deeper reason is to maintain the truth-telling style of the website. At the very least, it is to make netizens think that the information on Banana is true.
As for why netizens think it is real, little Gilbert has not figured out how to use it yet, but he thinks it will be used in the future.
Back to the movie, in terms of audience reputation, the two films are also very different.
According to theater survey data, "Batman Begins" has an audience favorable rating of 85%, with an average score of A-.
However, "Kingdom of Heaven" received only 53% positive reviews from the audience, with an average score of c, far behind "Batman Begins".
There are many differences between the two films, so the winner of the first-day box office is clear.
"Batman Begins" opened in 3,600 theaters and grossed US$23.548 million at the box office. It was a pretty good first-day box office, and it undoubtedly won the first-day box office championship.
"Kingdom of Heaven" opened in 3,860 theaters and took in a box office of US$8.67 million. The box office is so low that it is unbelievable.
But the bloody facts were placed on the table of 20th Century Fox executives. Even the most confident executives had to admit that there was a huge gap between the two films.
Although it was already early Saturday morning, the conference room at 20th Century Fox in Century City was still filled with smoke and the atmosphere was very silent.
Ridley Scott sat at the end of the conference table and observed the reaction of the Fox Film executives. Seeing that most of the executives did not feel very downcast, he sneered in his heart.
He knew why Fox Pictures executives reacted this way, because the main source of production funding for "Kingdom of Heaven" came from several film funds on Wall Street, and Fox Pictures invested the least.
For this reason, Fox Pictures actually didn't put much effort into the announcement of "Kingdom of Heaven" and it seemed very perfunctory.
But when it came to film production, they were very fickle and interfered with their own production, causing the film to become completely different and paving the way for today's failure.
Ridley Scott was even more angry because he lost to a junior, Little Gilbert, in such a humiliating way.
Nowadays, when everyone mentions epic movies, they must mention Little Gilbert and his "Lord of the Rings", completely forgetting his own Gladiator. Ridley Scott feels this is unfair.
Compared to Ridley Scott’s idea, Fox’s top executives’ ideas are much simpler. Distribution director Scott suggested to CEO Rodman: “The box office performance on the first day was not good. I suggest reducing the allocation of resources to “Kingdom of Heaven.” "Investment."
Rodman did not make a hasty decision, but asked: "What did the theater chain say?" Scott replied: "The theater chain said that starting tomorrow, he will act in accordance with the contract and reduce the number of theaters. "
Rodman nodded. Once the film schedule starts to decrease, there will be no need to save this film.
Fortunately, Fox Pictures robbed a sum of money from the Wall Street Film Fund, which was considered a guarantee of capital, and there were basically no losses, so it stopped struggling.
But Ridley Scott disagreed. He said: "We can do theater work, but at least we have to guarantee the film schedule!"
"How to do it?" Scott's tone was bad, as if Ridley Scott was one of those young directors who had just started in the industry, and he was being manipulated at will: "Didn't you see the theater chain surveying the audience's reputation?
With a poor reputation now, how can you win support from theaters? "
"This..." Ridley Scott finally heard it, and his namesake Scott put the blame on himself.
Ridley Scott suddenly felt stuffy and didn't want to speak for a moment.
If he had watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he would probably have said the same thing as Cao Cao: "A man with a weak character cannot make plans!"
In these few words, the fate of "The Kingdom of Heaven" was decided.
Inside Xigua Studio, everyone was also very happy to learn about the box office results of the first day. Ivanka admired the director and looked at little Gilbert: "We won, and it was easy."
"Of course," little Gilbert continued, taking the tea made by Ishihara Satomi, "from the premiere to the midnight show, and then to word-of-mouth spreading throughout the day, it's natural for us to win."
Cameron Diaz also expressed some emotion: "Yes, I didn't expect that we would win so easily. I thought it would be a hard battle!"
Little Gilbert turned to Ishihara Satomi and asked: "Satomi, which movie do you think is good?"
"I haven't been there yet," Ishihara Satomi replied, "but I know your movie must be the best, my sisters all say so."
"Hahaha, okay, I'll take you to a movie tomorrow, quietly." Little Gilbert said.
"Okay, okay!"
Ishihara Satomi hasn't gone to the movies alone with little Gilbert yet. Is this considered a date? You should count it!
Warner Bros., also because of the outstanding performance of "Batman Begins", has begun comprehensive public relations for the theater chain, at least to increase the number of films scheduled.
Theater chains are naturally not fools. Theater chains led by Imperial Cinemas and AMG Cinemas have begun to reduce the film schedule of "Kingdom of Heaven".
And these reduced film schedules were eventually added to "Batman Begins."
On the busiest Saturday, the "Batman Begins" schedule increased by one or two shows a day. Reflecting on the box office, it took in US$27.334 million at the box office on Saturday.
As for the rival "Kingdom of Heaven" in the same period, the box office fell on Saturday, with only 5.27 million US dollars, which can be said to be basically hopeless.
The most popular Saturday schedules are like this, let alone Sundays.
The film schedule of "Heavenly Kingdom" continues to be cut, and 20% of the film schedule has been cut.
Of course, it is impossible to allocate so many films to "Batman Begins", so other films also enjoyed the blessing and were allocated a lot of films.
This is the cruelty of the film market. Once it fails, it will be abandoned immediately, even if it is a film by Little Gilbert.
(End of chapter)