Entertainment: The opening and the official announcement of the national goddess

Zhang Xiao shook his head, and said: "There are specialties in surgery, Andy, you have to firmly believe that you are the best."

Andy Serkis said: "I learned a lot from you today. After I go back, I will summarize it well. I look forward to working with you in the movie "Rise of the Stars"."

Zhang Xiao picked up the coffee cup and said with a smile: "It's a happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation!" Andy Serkis said.

The two then had another lunch together before going back separately.

After finishing the lead actor Andy Serkis, Zhang Xiao followed the assistant director Bowen around the various studios for a long time.

Bowen is an experienced director, and the several sets he provided are very good. Zhang Xiao only needs to choose the most suitable place from these sets.

Costumes, props, photographic equipment, etc. have already been prepared. As long as Zhang Xiao gives an order, the movie can start shooting directly.

Originally, Zhang Xiao thought that it would take at least half a month to complete the preparations before the shooting, but the final result was unexpectedly smooth, and it only took a week to complete.

Zhang Xiao appreciated Bowen's ability very much. With this assistant director, he could relax a lot.

At midnight on the 24th of the first month, the war blockbuster "Windtalker" given to the Monkey King by Columbia Pictures premiered in Europe and the United States. It won a box office of 1.37 million US dollars in one fell swoop, but its reputation was extremely poor.

It only has a 50.00% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In this regard, Zhang Xiao did not feel any surprise.

When I was on Earth, "Wind Talker" was very consistent with the values ​​​​of the Chinese people. It secretly got a word-of-mouth score of 7.6 on a certain website, which is already a very good score, but the freshness on Rotten Tomatoes is only 30.00%. It was even more appalling.

The investment of 1.15 million U.S. dollars only resulted in a profit of more than 2000 million U.S. dollars, which directly caused Wu Yusen's reputation to fall to the bottom, and indirectly caused the bankruptcy of MGM.

The reason is that some plots in the movie "Wind Talker" have formed a contradiction with the mainstream consciousness of the Beacon Country. No movie fan wants to see a bad scene in the history of the World War II in the Beacon Country.

"How could this be?"

In a villa, Wu Yusen looked at the scores on Rotten Tomatoes and was completely dumbfounded.

The freshness of 50.00% seven and the overwhelming criticism from fans made Wu Yusen almost completely collapsed. It was really hard for him to accept that the film he worked so hard to produce would have such a result.

"Could it be that someone moved his hands and feet?"

Wu Yusen thought of the methods used by the CEO of Columbia Pictures to "Zhu Xian", as if he had grasped the last straw, and immediately called Kate Kenny, the vice president of Columbia Pictures.

After hearing Wu Yusen's words, Kate Kenny pondered for a moment, and said, "Wu, we did not expect such a poor reputation of "The Wind and Rain", and the only way now is to use your guess to reverse the reputation of the word-of-mouth. disadvantage."

Wu Yusen asked, "What do you mean, I didn't understand."

Kate Kenny said: "Whether a hacker broke into Rotten Tomatoes or not, let's assume there was, "

Wu Yusen asked, "Then Mr. Kenny, who do you want to blame?"

Kate Kenny corrected: "This is not setting the blame, it's hype. The only enemy of our Columbia Film Company is Disney. It just so happens that Zhang Xiao also came to the Lighthouse Country. It is undoubtedly a very good choice to use him to make some hype."

Wu Yusen frowned and said, "Mr. Kenny, Mr. Zhang doesn't have any new movies coming out."

"No, there is a movie "Swordsman"!" Kate Kenny said: "Zhang Xiao has always hoped that domestic movies in Huaguo can rise, and in addition, he found out the program problem of the previous Rotten Tomatoes website in the first book, so he has the ability to do this matter."

"Wu, I know that because you and Zhang Xiao are compatriots, you don't want to conflict with him, but if your suspicion is true, then only Zhang Xiao has the motivation and ability to do this."

Hearing Kenny's words, Wu Yusen fell silent, apparently agreeing with Kenny's analysis in his heart.

If you want to convince the outside world that there is something wrong with the score of "Wind Talker" on Rotten Tomatoes, then it can only be blamed on Zhang Xiao.

But would Zhang Xiao do such a thing?

The answer is definitely not.

Kate Kenny continued: "Wu, I will ask the propaganda department to push Zhang Xiao as much as possible, and will not specifically name him. If you don't want to offend him, you can not say anything when facing the reporter. "

After a while, Wu Yusen nodded and said, "Okay!"

For Wu Yusen, the first task now is to save his movie. As for Zhang Xiao, he can only say sorry.

Soon, a large number of posts appeared on the major well-known forums in the Beacon Country. Most of the content was the same, and they all said that there was another problem with the scoring program of the Rotten Tomatoes website.

"I gave "Windtalker" a freshness rate of 90.00%, but I never expected it to be only 50.00% seven. What the hell is going on here?"

"I just finished watching "Wind Talker". Whether it's the war scenes or the acting skills of the actors, they are all very good. It's definitely more than a 50.00% rating!"

""Windtalker" can get at least 80.00% freshness, what the hell is this 50.00%?"

"I strongly urge the Rotten Tomatoes website to check the scoring channel of "Wind Talker". Has it been hacked again?"

"Only Columbia Pictures can do Black Rotten Tomatoes, no one else can."

"Could it be Xiao Shen's fans? It was his fans who discovered that the channel on the Rotten Tomatoes website was tampered with."

"The relationship between Xiao Shen and Suo Li doesn't seem to be very good. It's really possible that he did it."

"Impossible. Columbia Pictures has so many films. If Xiao Shen really wanted to do this kind of thing, he would definitely not choose a film directed by his compatriots."

"It's because he is his compatriot that he does this, so that no one can suspect that it is him!"

"···"

The topic of "Wind Talker" immediately exploded on the Internet, and within two hours, it was directly on the hot search.

Although Rotten Tomatoes has made countless guarantees, because it has had problems many times, fans now simply don't believe it.

No way, the Rotten Tomatoes website had no choice but to find Columbia Pictures, hoping that they would send computer engineers to check the scoring channel with the website.

Columbia Pictures agreed, but after three days, on the grounds that the computer engineers were doing a very important job.

Clearly, Columbia Pictures was playing for time.

At the same time, the "Swordsman" movie was released.

In order for Zhang Xiao to win 17.00% of the three theaters' schedules for this movie, because "God of War Xingtian" has just exploded, the pre-sale box office of "Swordsman" is still very good, reaching a terrifying 1.8 million US dollars.

Director Gong Pan led the "Swordsman" crew to hold a simple premiere ceremony. Once the box office is successful, the actors can take advantage of this enthusiasm to go to various TV stations to promote it.