At the same time, the box office statistics for the opening day in Huaxia were finally released.
The data looked very worrying. In the beginning, Big Beard Deng and everyone else were aiming to reach the top of the premiere, but now, it seemed that they had been affected by external factors.
The box office on the opening day was more than 30 million yuan, the third place in the country.
As a film directed by Deng Xiaogang, it had Jiang Yage, Jin Shiyue, Ren Chong, Zhou Ya, and Zhao Yueling. More importantly, the super Internet celebrity Chen Guang's first electrocution was used as a gimmick. It had been popular in China for half a year, and it had too many hidden advantages over ordinary films in terms of publicity. However, it fell to the third place on the opening day, which was a heavy blow to them.
In Europe and the United States, they also paid close attention to the box office of Women in Huaxia. After they got the statistics, they finally let out a long sigh of relief, and then gloated and wanted to celebrate.
"You deserve it, you shameful Huaxia people. You deserve it."
"Even your own countrymen don't like you. In your own words, you are trapped in a cocoon of your own making!"
At this time, Chen Guang, who was writing in his room, also heard the "bad news" from Huaxia, but he did not panic. He comforted the four masters with a few words, and then continued to concentrate on writing the monograph.
He was so calm that Yue Hong thought that he might have met a fake boss.
Because he knew that from now on, the reputation of his film should be like ten years old wine suddenly opened, and the fragrance should spread ten miles away.
At 12: 30 noon, the North American audience who had finished watching the film in the morning began to share their experience on their social media or in front of their colleagues, classmates, and even neighbors.
Even if they were unwilling to say it, others would take the initiative to ask if they knew that they had watched the film.
Although there were countless negative rumors about Women in North America, and it was almost boycotted by the whole people, the side benefit was that the film had a wide popularity that was completely disproportionate to the box office.
Few people watched it, but almost everyone knew about it.
This was a strange phenomenon that had not happened in 20 or 30 years.
After all, when the box office of other movies completely collapsed, it was mostly because the publicity was not good enough, and their popularity did not increase. They were quietly released, and then quietly went on a three-day tour. Even if they died completely, they would not be able to make a comeback.
The popularity of Women had been boycotted by many big stars in the entertainment circle, but it had become known by everyone.
This was also Chen Guang's initial goal. The more people who resisted, the more people would know.
It was better to be boycotted than ignored.
Everyone was curious. Regardless of whether it was those who had participated in the boycott or those who had been indifferent, they all wanted to know what this movie that had been scolded like.
The result was that, at 1 pm, the movie's reputation had completely achieved the effect of "Fragrance Wafting Thousands of Miles".
It wasn't that there were no people to nitpick, and it wasn't that there were no thorns to nitpick.
In the movie, the scenes in which Chen Guang did not participate in were indeed not amazing, and there were even a lot of flaws.
But she couldn't resist the fact that her beauty covered all her ugliness, and she couldn't resist the fact that everyone applauded her.
If you disagreed, you either had a wrong aesthetic view, or your worldview was skewed.
When others searched online, they would see that the movie had a Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating of almost 100%, and a full score of 10 on IMDB!
Even if they really saw the bad parts, in the eyes of the world, the flaws could not obscure the beauty, because no one could really deny the incredible acting skills that Chen Guang had shown in the movie.
Even though they knew that it was a scene through the screen, the audience still felt like they were in the scene!
It was completely different from the experience of watching a normal movie. When watching Women, even though they knew that there was nothing amazing about the plot, they still could not help but be completely immersed in the whole process of watching the movie.
It was as if they had become the male lead, the stubborn retired boxing champion who would never admit defeat.
Every time he was happy, the audience would giggle with him unconsciously. When he was angry, the audience would be furious. When he was knocked down in the boxing ring, the audience would also feel the pain in their cheeks.
Because of the hasty production and the limitation of the theme and positioning of the movie, although Women used an IMAX screen, it did not provide a 3D source, but an ordinary 2D movie.
But even so, the experience that the whole movie brought to the audience was completely above that of a 3D movie.
Although the audience was in the theater, their hearts were completely dragged into the movie by Chen Guang's world-class acting skills!
It was as if they were standing in the world of the movie, watching the story happen and advance with their own eyes. The audience's mind was completely integrated with the characters in the movie!
This was also the reason why many older academic giants and piano masters who had more experience in life looked a little absent-minded when they walked out of the theater.
The more understanding and the more knowledgeable people were about life, the deeper they were immersed in the movie, and the deeper their feelings were, the harder it was to get out of the movie when they walked out of the theater!
At 1: 30 pm, when the number of ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes reached 20,000, the rating was still as high as 9.9, and the freshness was still as high as 99.9%, the media, film critics, and even people in the European and American entertainment circles began to panic.
Their curiosity stimulated them crazily. Even in their dreams, they wanted to go in and see what kind of incredible movie this was.
But their rationality kept waking them up. This was Chen Guang's conspiracy, a complete scam. If I go into the theater, I will be falling into his trap, and I will provide him with the box office!
I can't go!
I absolutely can't go by myself!
Even if I encourage the people around me to go, I can't go!
When Fang Tianyu and Lu Xiaoliang saw such an explosion of praise on the Internet, they finally understood why Chen Guang was so crazy and confident.
Boss Chen was so awesome. Indeed, he planned to show off in a tent, and win the box office from thousands of miles away!
With this attendance rate and this reputation, would those damn theaters dare to not increase the number of showtimes?
You are going against the US dollar, against the working people of the democratic country!
You guys are triangular heads that block the wheel of history with your arms. You will only be crushed into pieces by the torrent of history!
At 3: 30 in the afternoon, the attendance data for the first show of the afternoon appeared. 100%!
This time, it was really full. It was said that some people even asked for aisle seats, but this "rude" request was sternly rejected by the major theaters for safety reasons.
The theaters that had taken the initiative to reduce the number of showtimes for "Women" were also dumbfounded. They felt that the whole world had gone crazy.
The word of mouth on the Internet was still brewing, and it was even snowballing.
More and more people could not resist the forced science or passive seduction of their friends, and took the initiative to go to the theater.
Some people thought, I don't believe that such a movie exists in this world. I don't believe in heresy, I want to find out the truth, and then severely criticize Charlie!
Some people thought, XX has always had a high taste in movies. He said that a good movie would definitely not be bad, and I have to watch it.
Some people thought, I have had enough of the praise on the Internet, I have to uphold justice, I have to see it with my own eyes, and then I will ruthlessly refute those guys.
Some people went to the theater because of the power of their idol, some went to the theater because of the controversy, some went to the theater because of the reputation, and some went to the theater because they heard that the protagonist was a boxer.
But in short, no matter how strange the reasons were, the final result was that all rivers return to the sea.
Now, the outside of the theater was filled with angry people, because they had discovered an extremely embarrassing thing.
A movie that had just been released was actually not able to buy tickets!
They went to check the number of showtimes on the Internet, and only then did they find out that this popular movie actually had a ridiculously low number of showtimes of 0.67%. This was simply ridiculous!
"You bunch of d * mn bastards! You have ten screening halls, but only one screening hall plays this movie every four hours? Are you kidding me? "
"You're wasting our lives! Do you want us to queue for three hours to wait for it? "
"I want to lodge a complaint against you!"
"This is a crime!"
"We demand that you immediately increase the number of showtimes! And apologize to us! "
"'Women' has just been released, and now so many of us want to watch it, but your theater actually has no showtimes at all?"
"A movie is a movie, and this is politics! We want a movie! Not politics! "
"Protest!"
This was the good thing about the land of the free. If they were unhappy with something, they could protest at any time.
The objects of protest could range from Trump's arrogant hairstyle to McDonald's hamburgers becoming smaller. There was nothing in the world that they could not protest against.
Now, the unlucky ones were the movie theaters. There were too many people queuing outside, and people with the same demands were gathered together. It was simply a natural hotbed of protest.
The theaters that originally had plans to show 'Women' were still fine. After an emergency discussion, they immediately distributed the digital source to each screening hall and adjusted the showtimes at the last minute. Only then did they solve the urgent problem.
The theaters that had previously cut the showtimes to zero, returned the digital source, or had no plans to show the movie at all were in trouble.
They had no choice but to call Tang Xiao's distribution company and request to renegotiate the showtimes.
After some internal discussion within the Tianguang Group, they asked for Chen Guang's approval. He slapped his thigh and gave a clear answer.
I'm sorry, you used to be indifferent to me, but now I'm out of your league.
Showtimes subsidy?
I'm sorry, I don't have a single cent.
Share of the box office?
You want us to take 30% of the industry rules?
I'm sorry, when you broke the contract, we re-evaluated your company's credibility and put you on the list of companies that broke their promises. Now that we want to cooperate again, your share of the box office is only 60%, and we want 40%.
I'm sorry, our company invested too much in the initial publicity, but we didn't get the showtimes we expected. Now we need to increase the share to make up for the loss of publicity expenses. That's right, we want 40%.
What? Why don't we rob them?
Alright, it's not wrong if you want to understand it that way. We are indeed robbing, so do you want it?
Are you willing to be robbed by us?
How could the major movie theaters not be willing?
They couldn't, or else they would be torn down.
Moreover, when the monetary loss was within an acceptable range, the movie theater companies would talk about justice with the European and American filmmakers.
Now, the monetary loss was already immeasurable, and the occupancy rate of other movies was already 100%!
We can't talk about justice anymore!
This is the time to do business!
In addition, now that all the movie theaters in the US were showing 'Women', if we were to offend them, we would offend all the filmmakers.
Then I'm sorry, but you still have to rely on us to make a living.
Do you have the ability to not show the movie in the US?
Of course not, so it doesn't matter if we offend you.
When it was past 8 PM, the showtimes for 'Women' officially turned the tables, instantly rising to 36.8%!
Chen Guang had accidentally created another historical record, the strongest rescheduling rate in history!
After one day of screening, it went from 0.67% to 36.8%, an increase of as much as 55 times!
What was even more shocking was that even though the showtimes were already at the level of the top A-list blockbusters, the occupancy rate was still maintained at a crazy 90% and above!
On this evening, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that everyone turned out for this movie.
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