Chapter 984 Popularity, Challenge.
"Mr. Zhou, can you tell us about the situation at the recording site of "The Thompson Talk Show"?"
"It's what you see on the show."
"Zhou, may I ask if the kung fu you showed in "The Matrix" is entirely your own? Can you really dodge bullets?"
"My kung fu has been practiced since childhood, but it is impossible for me to dodge bullets. Therefore, "Once Upon a Time" is a kung fu movie, while "The Matrix" is a science fiction movie, not a kung fu movie. Of course, because of the foundation, so it will be easier for me to finish filming than ordinary actors.”
"Mr. Zhou, some people questioned that you are doing false propaganda, claiming that boxing champion Aaron received a huge amount of money and then cooperated with you. How do you explain this?"
"Nonsense!"
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Saturday, July 28, at 7:30 am.
When the "Matrix" propaganda team headed by Zhou Baoshan walked out of the hotel in Chicago, the sun shone on Zhou Baoshan's body, and the cameras of the reporters clicked to take pictures, and countless microphones stretched out. Baoshan's mouth...
Accompanied by his assistant and translator, Zhou Baoshan walked for more than ten minutes from the elevator entrance of the hotel through the lobby to boarding the car outside, and answered at least seven or eight questions. Then, They finally got into a car at the entrance of the hotel and temporarily isolated the reporters.
Looking at the reporters outside who still refused to give up, through the car windows and glass, they were still stretching out their microphones to ask questions loudly, listening to their extremely fast English, the never-fading smile on Zhou Baoshan’s face changed at this moment. It was even more brilliant - in the ten minutes just now, there were more reporters than he had seen in the four or five days since he came to the United States!
The car starts and rushes to the next event location.
Through the rear window, he could notice that many reporters hurried back to their own cars, and then started the cars to catch up!
Zhou Baoshan smiled, suddenly took out his mobile phone, and called Du Yihua who was in another car not far behind, and when the call was connected, he said: "Sister Hua, I want to start learning English, can you help me?" Shall I arrange it?"
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Zhou Baoshan became popular.
Big red and big purple.
"The Thompson Talk Show" was originally a talk show that was enough to rank in the top three in the United States, and its influence is quite large. "The Matrix" was released for seven days, and not only won 50 million US dollars in the box office in the first two days , reached the top of the North American box office chart that week, and in the few working days after the beginning of this week, it also performed quite well at the box office, which amazed all the Hollywood studios and professional film critics in the United States. In North America, it also began to have a considerable number of viewers and fans.
As the main character and actor of the movie, Zhou Baoshan naturally attracted many people's attention.
What's more, the boxing champion Aaron's label is indeed not very watery!
In this way, multiple factors came together, an actual battle that took place at the recording site of a TV program, and both the process of the incident and the final result can be regarded as extremely shocking.
The mysterious Chinese Kung Fu, the Chinese Kung Fu superstar who looks a little weak, directly PKed the American boxing champion on the spot-this kind of news is almost everyone will be interested in.
So Zhou Baoshan became popular in one fell swoop.
Of course, the vast majority of ordinary Americans don’t think too much about it. The live video of the show doesn’t even have the slightest hint of a rehearsal. The fast and terrifying attack power displayed at the time was also very convincing. Therefore, the vast majority of Americans, whether they watched the TV show at the time or watched the rerun later, or saw the show on the Internet After watching the video, the Chinese kung fu superstar with such strong actual combat ability was immediately cast in admiration—however, the public opinion circle in the United States is not jealous!
Fake it!
Aaron took the money and lost it on purpose!
This kind of discussion appeared on the Internet almost immediately after the show was broadcast-in fact, it was almost inevitable!
In front of such a video, countless people will be directly conquered and kneel directly, but some people actually have strong confidence in boxing, the boxing champion, or the boxing champion Aaron.
They didn't believe that the weak-looking oriental face could really defeat boxing champion Aaron so easily. I don't even believe that the so-called Chinese Kung Fu is so magical!
They are particularly superstitious and worship absolute power!
Of course, even though many reporters later captured Boxing Champion Aaron's agent like Zhou Baoshan, and then blocked Boxing Champion Aaron himself - the scars on the corner of his mouth are still there, which proves that the fight was really a fight, not a real one. It was completely acting, but in the face of the reporter's interview, boxing champion Aaron chose not to respond!
In fact, they are also dumb eating Coptis chinensis, unable to tell what they are suffering.
The matter of receiving the money is of course true. Originally, this was indeed a matter between a real fight and a fake fight, but boxing champion Aaron was indeed very upset about being knocked down so quickly by the opponent at the time. Angry, so, then he broke away from the pre-planned script and started improvising!
If you just follow the script, how to deal with it and guide public opinion in the future, in fact, Colombia already has an absolutely complete plan. Following that plan will not only make Zhou Baoshan a hit, but will not affect the reputation and status of boxing champion Aaron.
As for boxing champion Aaron's temporary change of the script, if he wins, resulting in the complete failure of Colombia's plan, of course he will lose money. It is estimated that there will be lawsuits at that time. After all, you took the money, but in that way, Anyway, it will not damage his reputation as a boxing champion!
But the depressing thing is the depressing one, he never thought that he would lose, and lose so thoroughly!
At this time, of course, you can tell about the fact that you took the money, but in that case, the dirty water will be poured on Columbia and China Zhou, but he will face lawsuits, and he will definitely lose a lot of money It may not be all over, and secondly, his career will definitely be greatly affected.
And, after all, if you say it was a fake fight, well, do it again, do you dare?
Therefore, weighing the pros and cons, after calming down completely, boxing champion Aaron had no choice but to accept the advice of the management team behind him: keep silent on this matter!
After communication, Columbia also promised that it will not carry out targeted publicity on this, and China Zhou will never deny his strength on any occasion. Instead, he will unify the rhetoric into "Aaron's strength is actually very strong. Maybe I’m not familiar with Chinese Kung Fu.” Go up.
Therefore, boxing champion Aaron shut up, and Chinese Kungfu was hotly discussed in the United States.
The popularity of China Week in North America skyrocketed overnight like a rocket!
And this kind of influence, of course, was immediately fed back to the box office of "The Matrix" - in the first week of its release, "The Matrix" won a box office of 50 million US dollars in two days, and in the first five days of this week, five jobs According to normal market logic, on Saturday and Sunday, this movie will earn another 12 million to 15 million US dollars at the box office, which is no problem at all! In other words, the box office exceeded 40 million U.S. dollars in the second week of its release, so it was not a big problem. The total box office exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars, and it will be in the next week!
However, because "The Thompson Talk Show" was broadcast on Friday night, it got the highest viewership of 12.63 million at that time. In the following 24 hours, not only the rebroadcast of this show won an astonishing 10.45 million viewers again. The number of viewers and the number of clicks and plays on the Internet are as high as more than 20 million!
As a result, "The Matrix" suddenly rebounded against the trend at the box office on Saturday!
Or it can be said that the audience in North America, it seems that it was only at this time that they suddenly recognized the face from the East——Zhou Baoshan!
And with such a familiar fulcrum, all of a sudden, everyone began to re-examine such a sci-fi movie from the East—at this time, when everyone began to pay attention, the series of promotions that Columbia had launched for this movie Only then did the combined punches on the top really start to enter people's sights, and even began to enter the hearts of many people.
This sci-fi movie is said to be the most outstanding movie about the brain and the end of mankind in history?
It is said that this movie has an extremely good doomsday setting?
It is said that this movie has extremely exciting fighting scenes? China Week also staged the scene of an artifact dodging bullets?
It is said that the worldview and world structure of this movie are full of oriental philosophical thinking? Especially brain-burning?
It is said that the heroine is also from the East, with a particularly sexy figure?
It is said that the picture of this movie is extremely unique, full of color aesthetics?
By the way, the most important thing is that this movie seems to have an unusually high score on movie rating networks such as IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes at the same time?
It is said that...
All kinds of rumors.
It is not a lie that one person's popularity can drive a movie's box office, or conversely, a movie's popularity can drive a large wave of stars.
For anything to develop from a small number of people to a large number of people, there needs to be a critical point, an opportunity - this is the power of propaganda!
There is no need to doubt that it is entirely possible for the same movie to have a good publicity and a bad publicity, and the box office difference will be doubled or even tripled!
And because audiences in North America are indeed naturally blind to faces from Asia, they will subconsciously look down on movies that are not produced by Hollywood or the United States. Therefore, although Columbia Pictures and Oriental Dream Films have both A huge amount of money has been invested in the promotion and distribution of "The Matrix", and there is the gimmick of director Li Qian, but the overall momentum of the film is still completely incomparable with the top-tier Hollywood super productions!
Even, it is no exaggeration to say that the box office of the movie, which grossed about US$78 million in the first two days of the week and the first five working days of the week, was really entirely due to the name of Li Qian and the distributor. Wave after wave of advertising was smashed up—the audience who were curious-oriented accounted for a considerable proportion.
But until now, "Thompson Talk Show", three-second KO boxing champion Aaron, Chinese Kung Fu, this wave of publicity, Zhou Baoshan was immediately remembered by Americans.
As a result, "The Matrix" suddenly became the hottest topic in the entire North American region from the original only relying on hard advertising to attract a part of the audience!
That is to say, after a full week of release, "The Matrix" suddenly became popular!
On Saturday, this movie, which had already shown a certain decline and was judged by many theaters to start reducing the number of films, suddenly became popular.
In just one day, this movie, which had already begun to cool down, won an astonishing box office of 34.51 million US dollars in one fell swoop in North America. Seeing this data, almost all box office forecasting agencies in North America and major Hollywood film companies, Everyone was shocked from ear to ear!
The box office on Saturday of the following week was actually higher than its first week's box office!
Moreover, on various networks in the United States, discussions about Zhou Baoshan's clip of knocking down boxing champion Aaron on "Thompson Talk Show" and discussions about "The Matrix" suddenly became popular!
Moreover, almost more than 95% of the ratio is full of praise for this movie!
Some praise it as the most outstanding sci-fi film since human beings have movies, some praise it as an extremely outstanding action blockbuster, some praise Li Qian as an outstanding film director, and praise Zhou Baoshan There are also those who are so handsome that they are in a mess!
In short, you are popular. If you go to the movies at this time, you will suddenly find that this movie is just as good as anywhere! Can't fault it at all!
And wait until the next day, Sunday, even though all theaters dare not and are not willing to reduce the film schedule of "The Matrix" at this time, no matter which movie theater you walk into, all about "The Matrix" It is still hard to get a ticket for the number of sessions!
Although in the afternoon of this day, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" held a grand and star-studded world premiere ceremony in Los Angeles, which immediately attracted the attention of media and movie fans all over the world, and according to the release According to Fang Universal Films, the advance ticket sales of this movie after zero o'clock are extremely impressive, and the movie tickets for many shows have been sold out early, but even so, the sudden popularity of Zhou Baoshan and "The Matrix" It is still rising unstoppably, and successfully grabbed a lot of attention and heated discussions from the dinosaurs that are about to land on the world.
And when this day passed, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" became one of the focuses of heated discussions in the film circle because it won an advance market of up to 7.33 million US dollars, but after the release, the second On Sunday, it did not show any signs of decline. "The Matrix", which once again achieved a box office of 36.82 million US dollars, became the first focus of the entire North American film market this Monday!
The box office of the next week was 98.59 million U.S. dollars, and it was released for nine days, with a total box office of 149.16 million U.S. dollars!
It was after the box office came out that many people suddenly realized that "The Matrix" from China is not only sure to become a dark horse in the box office in North America this year, but also has the ability to challenge "Jurassic Park" 2" Such a giant!