Rebirth of the Evil Life

Chapter 2659 Film Critics

In three days, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" will be released in the West. Now the Western film industry is clearly instigating Western journalists to block "Legend of Sword and Fairy" behind the scenes to prevent Lin Feng from continuing to be arrogant. In particular, Sony, Columbia, Paramount and other established film companies that support the Oscars have an undercurrent. They have long bribed newspapers from all walks of life in the West to prevent them from reporting any news related to "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

"Lin Feng is too arrogant, I want him to taste the feeling of being ignored this time!" Deyuki Ibuka, vice president of Sony Columbia Pictures, smiled grimly.

In the past few years, since the establishment of Lin Feng's film company, especially since Lin Feng and Ellison teamed up to acquire 55 Movie Screens in the United States, life for companies like "Sony Columbia" has not been so pleasant. In addition to the well-known blockbusters, the movies they invest in are also low-cost but can make a lot of money, but often no one cares about them, because Lin Feng and Ellison's "Forest Screening Hall" does not play these unknown movies at all. famous movie. Unless it's a super masterpiece that everyone knows, they only show their own movies.

This makes established film companies such as Sony, Columbia and Paramount very depressed. But now the market resources are in the hands of Lin Feng and Ellison, and both of them are not short of money. If they have their own movies, they will show them, and if they don’t, they will show old movies. In short, they will never show movies from companies such as Sony, Columbia, etc., unless they are blockbusters. . The two people's attitude of not being short of money really makes Sony Columbia and other companies depressed. These two guys are not short of money; they are short of money. Although I want to be tough and prevent their movies from being played in the "Forest Screening Room", they occupy 55% of the movie screens in the United States. If you don't play them, not only 55% of customers will be lost, but at least 30% of customers will be lost. This is The revenue is tens of millions of dollars, and if it’s a blockbuster movie, it’s hundreds of millions.

In desperation, Sony, Columbia and other companies had no choice but to increase their efforts to promote movies, let as many Americans as possible know about these low-cost movies, and let the pressure of public opinion force the "Forest Screening Hall" to play them. However, in this way, although they succeeded in getting their low-cost movies to be played in the "Forest Screening Hall", after this advertising and promotion, sometimes the small costs turned into large costs, which was really not cost-effective from a profit perspective.

However, they control the terminal market in the world, and they are not short of money. What can you do! I kept holding this breath. Finally, this time, they got a chance. "Legend of Sword and Fairy", they want this movie to fail in the Western market, and then they can severely humiliate Lin Feng and vent their anger.

"Boss, according to the news from the United States, the major film companies have secretly contacted all the media and are preparing to freeze your movie. This time they will not even criticize, and will adopt a completely indifferent attitude. If you want people to watch it , I’m afraid this promotion will cost a lot of money.” After Lin Chiling summarized the news in the world, she reported to Lin Feng.

"Haha, I didn't expect these film companies to give up.

But it’s no wonder, after being repaired by Ellison and I, if they didn’t retaliate, it wouldn’t be them. "When Lin Feng heard this, instead of being worried, he laughed.

"Boss, what are you going to do?" Lin Chiling asked.

Although Lin Feng and Ellison control the movie screens in the United States 55 and can force the broadcast without paying attention to anyone, the question is, if there is no publicity, will the audience come to watch? Of course, some people will definitely watch it, but the box office may not be good. After all, Americans have always been picky about watching movies. They usually have a movie rating guide based on which they watch movies. After all, there are too many movies in the United States every year, and the posters of all the movies are very attractive, and the audience is numb to it.

How to choose a good movie so that they will not waste so much money to watch it has become an extremely difficult choice for all American audiences. Therefore, some corresponding rating agencies were born. These organizations will rate all movies, and then viewers will choose the type of movies they like to watch based on their tastes, and then select movies based on the ratings.

Now the United States simply doesn't rate or comment on it, so American audiences have no way of knowing whether the movie is good or not. No matter how beautiful the poster is, it’s useless. There are countless better-looking posters, but the content turns out to be shoddy. American audiences were numb to the posters. If you want to promote "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it is necessary to conduct a lot of publicity through television media and other media.

Now, the American media is not unwilling to publicize it, but the price has increased tenfold. This time Sony Columbia and other companies didn't do anything, and they didn't ask the media not to help Lin Feng promote it. They just wanted to promote it, at 10 times the price. You, Lin Feng, are rich and want to promote this movie, then pay 10 times the price. And if this is the case, Lin Chiling has calculated that if she wants to promote a movie to everyone in the United States, she will need at least about US$70 million in advertising fees. And now at 10 times the price, that's $700 million. Lin Feng could get this money, but if he was blackmailed like this, wouldn't Lin Feng be too stupid?

Therefore, Lin Chiling is really distressed at the moment. Even if Lin Feng owns "News Corporation", the main markets of "News Corporation" are in the United Kingdom and Australia, and are already European mayors. Although there are several heavyweight newspapers and TV stations in the American market, they are not as dominant as Europe. Compared with the influence of "News Corporation" in the United States, it is much smaller. What's more, "News Corporation" has many newspapers, but not many TV stations. There is only one Fox TV station in the United States. Although the ratings are high, it still cannot help Lin Feng promote "Legend of Sword and Fairy" to everyone.

"Haha, don't worry. Publicity is necessary, but you don't necessarily need to go to the TV station to advertise." Lin Feng smiled slightly and said confidently.

"Boss, what are you going to do?" Lin Chiling asked expectantly.

"Haha, it's very simple, invite celebrities!" Lin Feng laughed.

On the first day, Ms. JK Rowling, the author of "Harry Potter", wrote an article about her review of "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

I was honored to be invited by my Chinese friends to China to watch "Legend of Sword and Fairy: The Demon Locking Tower". I was originally very skeptical about such a movie that is hailed as a masterpiece of Eastern fantasy movies. After all, I have watched some movies like this in order to find the feeling of "Harry Potter", but to be honest, those movies were all exaggerated, devoid of any logic, and impossible to understand at all. And this time, watching "Legend of Sword and Fairy: The Demon Locking Tower", I had a feeling. Regarding the simple, even a bit vulgar (compared to "Legend of Sword and Fairy") magic system in "Harry Potter", And feel ashamed. After watching "Legend of Sword and Fairy", I thought I should reset the magic system in "Harry Potter" to make it more complete and logical. Here, I recommend everyone to watch "Legend of Sword and Fairy". There are already two movies. I believe everyone's trip will be worthwhile! "jk-Luo Lin talked eloquently in his column.

The "Harry Potter" of the East, this was JK Rowling's final slogan for "Legend of Sword and Fairy". Lin Feng was dissatisfied with this, thinking that "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was both story-driven and content-heavy. Magic system, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" both completely beat "Harry Potter", but this time it was Lin Feng who asked JK Rollin to write his review of the movie, so JK Rollin's personal wishes must be respected, not Lin's. The wind imposes its will. Therefore, Lin Feng could only feel dissatisfied with JK Luo Lin's comments, but he could not show it on his face.

But no matter whether Lin Feng feels comfortable or not, JK-Law Lin's evaluation, at least in the West, there are many more people who have ordered this movie in advance. It only starts in two days, and already more than 500,000 people have ordered it in the entire West. Although this number is not large, a ticket is only 5 US dollars, and the total amount is only 2.5 million US dollars. But this is also good news for Lin Feng.

After all, JK Luo Lin is not the only celebrity invited by Lin Feng.

After JK Rowling started a small wave of reservations for "Legend of Sword and Fairy", Lin Feng invited a second celebrity - John Phillips, the former president of the American Film Institute.

As for John, he is old and has retired long ago, no longer caring about the world. This time, Lin Feng came to him, making himself useless as a taxi driver. Originally he didn't want to give Lin Feng any help, but after carefully watching "Legend of Sword and Fairy" at Lin Feng's request, the former president of the American Film Institute suddenly changed his original intention. He was willing to help "Legend of Sword and Fairy". "Legend of Sword and Fairy" wrote down my thoughts after watching it. But it's just this once, it won't happen next time.

Lin Feng naturally agreed to this. Now Lin Feng is also cultivating his own film critics, establishing his own film review channels, and providing viewing guides to hundreds of millions of viewers. It's just that it's not a climate yet, but in three to five years, when it becomes a climate, Lin Feng won't need to look at anyone's face anymore.

John Phillips's film review was much more detailed, and he wrote it after carefully watching it three times. However, compared to JK Rowling's straightforwardness, John's film reviews are much more profound. Although his words are a bit blunt, his praise for "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is very high. Coupled with his popularity and prestige, it can be said that he played a vital role in the promotion of "Legend of Sword and Fairy".

And Lin Feng invited more than just these people, he also had bigger names.