Disaster Artist

Unbelievable, dumbstruck—

Even with the craziest and most daring predictions, no one thought that "Starfall City" would be able to accomplish such a feat, not only breaking the stereotype of the Golden Kite Award to create a box office miracle, but also making the annual box office champion the most popular "Jedi Knight 8" It's an almost impossible task to get off the horse.

However!

Winner, "Starfall".

Runner-up, "Jedi Knight 8."

Third place, "Jumanji".

…The follow-up is no longer important, because all the focus, all topics, and all the attention are all easily taken away by the "City of Falling Stars".

This situation can't help but remind people of all kinds of history, "Deadpool" broke through the shackles of restricted-rated movies and wrote a miracle in the fall, "Lover" ended the four consecutive championships of "Jedi Knight 7", "Raid 2" detonated the spring box office market, "" "The Raid" turned out to break the box office record...memories, going back bit by bit.

Finally, the memory lit up—

Anyone remember "unfriend"?

It's not about this movie, but about the rough times when it was released.

First, it was rejected by the theaters, but no distribution company was willing to take over. Finally, it was screened in the Dome Theater, but unexpectedly won rave reviews. Then it broke the blockade of the theaters and won the attention of the detached theaters. A crack, set foot on the road to box office success.

Does all that seem familiar?

After going around in circles, it was fulfilled again in "City of Falling Stars". It turns out that destiny is indeed a circle.

Last time, "Unfriending" won 2.8 billion at the box office, and it is still one of the movies with the best revenue ratio, so what about this time?

Even without considering the total box office figures of "City of Falling Stars", just judging from the two weeks of its release, the box office of 1.4 billion has easily achieved profitability.

And again and again.

Although people have been used to it for a long time, from the top of the Golden Kite Award to the continuation of the undefeated box office, the journey of "Starfall City" is still full of incredible things, and once again amazed everyone, so that the mind is in a mess, and I can't even find it. Find an appropriate word to sum up your feelings.

-stay.

Wait, how on earth did "Starfall" do it?

From any point of view, such a thing should not happen. It is obviously a Golden Kite Award winner, it is obviously an art film, and it is obviously a work that the general public has no interest at all. Some people still remember that Lu Qian announced the filming of singing and dancing The reaction of social networks at the time of the movie?

dismissive.

It doesn’t even need to go back, it can be seen from the plight of the two song and dance movies “The King of Drama” and “Pitch Perfect 3” that the younger generation has become more and more picky and troublesome. Lack of interest, even Lu Qian can hardly turn the tide of the times.

However, things happened like this, not the first time, not the second time or even the third time, it happened again and again in Lu Qian's hands.

Everything happened so fast, like a tornado.

So, how does the theater alliance prepare to respond?

One hypothesis, if the sanction order of the theater alliance fails to block the box office of "Starfall City", it also means that their threat has been invalidated. What is the next step?

Perhaps, the theater alliance should put pressure on Chaochao Cinema, Qingshan Cinema, and Xiazhi Cinema to reduce the number of screens for "Starfall City"; Theaters are pressuring to add screens for their own productions.

Perhaps, the theater alliance should show courage to block all works of Blue Whale Films directly; Prepare a new strategy to stifle the resistance of Blue Whale Films as soon as possible.

Obviously, the entire situation has changed significantly, and every second counts, and the key lies in the ability to deal with crises on the spot.

The theater alliance will definitely not let it go, but likewise, Blue Whale Films will not give an inch—

Moreover, the first wave of backlash has already ushered in the social network.

According to the idea, the passers-by who walked into the movie theater because of the New Year's Eve marketing was "deceived" because of the virus promotion, found that "The City of Starfall" was different from what they had imagined, and they all shouted that they were cheated, and then cursed on the social network To vent their anger, the movie will be attacked indiscriminately.

The reality, however, is slightly different.

Instead of attacks, there was a second wave of praise.

The applause was overwhelming.

"Almost missed a classic."

"I wasn't interested in it because of art movies, but I cried so much that my heart hurts. My wife is so beautiful."

"I can't believe this is actually a Golden Kite Award, I like it so much."

"My little friend kept telling me it looks good, but I still didn't believe it, but now I finally know that I was wrong."

"Although I don't know what those literary youths are climaxing one by two, but when the last paragraph came out, I was crying like an idiot in the movie theater by myself."

"Originally, I went to the movie theater with a romantic mood after encountering—of course, I didn't meet, but the movie is really good, and I'm going to do it again."

"Damn it, what era is this? There are still people filming such an old-fashioned romantic love story, and it's so beautiful, it's unreasonable!"

"The happiest and most romantic New Year's Eve in twenty years."

"I even wondered if my account was hacked, but I actually... like it very much."

"I want to go to Lanchuan, I want to go to Esson, I want to go to the road they walked to see the scenery they have seen, I want to go to a jazz bar to listen to music that no one listens to."

"Sure enough, prejudice is the worst thing. The best movie of the year!"

"It's unscientific. The crew didn't remind us to bring tissues."

"Ah, who is going crazy for Gao Silin in the middle of the night, it's me, me, me!"

Screams, cheers, admiration, amazement...the social network is flooded in a blink of an eye.

Of course, it’s not that there are no criticisms. Such a love movie of a small group of literary youths cannot please everyone after all. There are also many voices of criticism and complaints, but they are all drowned in praises and exclamations, which proves once again that the theater rating The power of a+, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com is indeed very popular.

At the same time, Blue Whale Films held interactive screenings for fans in different cities without any haste, and the heated discussions ignited enthusiasm—

As Lu Qian said, good movies can speak.

There is no need for a director's platform, no actor promotion, and no media cooperation. The audience is smart, and they have their own aesthetics and judgments. A really good movie will eventually shine like gold. As long as you give patience and cooperation to promote it, It will be able to shine.

Who would have thought that after the frenzy of praise last week, entering the second week, "City of Starfall" unexpectedly ushered in a frenzy of praise again, and it was more turbulent and wider than the first wave, and it went out of the circle strongly and mightily Sweeping the entire social network wildly, creating the illusion of a national carnival.

Then, the sound of protest followed—

Obviously, the sanctions imposed by the theater alliance have prevented the full release of "Starfall City", which is unacceptable to the general public.

Everything, deja vu.