Chapter 904 904 Public Apology

When the "Speed ​​of Life" premiere box office appeared, in fact, people already knew that the balance of winning and losing in this box-office gambling game had already tilted, and the 30 million-level premiere data had almost reserved a 100 million box office seat, but everyone No one expected that the day when the victory and defeat would be settled would come so soon.

In just three weeks—or seventeen days to be more precise, "Life and Death" broke through the $100 million box office and achieved a strong victory. The New York Post lost almost without much struggle. This gamble. Whether it is the "wolf" with high expectations, or the "little devil" who is taller than the short one, none of them can snipe at the "speed of life and death". On the contrary, they have achieved the gorgeous reversal of the dark horse of "speed of life and death" in the summer season. attack.

In the past three weeks, the performance of "Life and Death" has been perfect, almost without any loopholes, from the grand premiere, to the enthusiastic response of the audience, to the praise of the film critics, and finally the evolution To become a box office success, the whole process was completed in one go, smooth and smooth, and when the box office broke out, it was a matter of course.

Although the "New York Post" is struggling, the more they struggle, the more powerless they appear, and they can only become clowns in the end.

Colin Myler knows that it is useless to argue, and if you talk hard, it will only embarrass the "New York Post", not to mention, when other media come to ridicule, they will be completely humiliated. Extending your head is a knife, and shrinking your head is also a knife. It is better for the New York Post to be the first to admit its mistakes, but to win the public's favor.

As a result, when the box office rankings for the third week of June were announced, the New York Post already knew that the "Speed ​​of Life" box office exceeded 100 million three days in advance, so their letter of apology was officially published as soon as possible.

"Sorry!"

A huge red apology made the front page of the New York Post that day. There is only this sentence in the entire page, and the bloody red is even more powerful, shocking every reader.

Colin conceded defeat so simply and neatly, which was beyond the expectations of many people. They thought that Colin would entangle for a while, and then fight with Hugo. In the end, under the strong pressure of the media, he reluctantly conceded defeat. After all, bowing to the artist is not an easy task, especially for the uncrowned king, it is more uncomfortable than killing them. It's not about winning or losing, it's about dignity.

But Colin didn't struggle, and even without the urging of other media, he directly admitted his mistake. Although the facts cannot be quibbled, this... is still too weird.

After reading the New York Post article, however, it should come as no surprise that Colin clearly had no intention of bowing his head.

"It's just the success or failure of a movie, and the box-office victory still can't change our view of 'Life and Death', such a terrible work has been so sought after by the audience, which is a step backwards for Hollywood!

What's more, the box office success of this work is not just a win for Lancaster alone, but a terrible case of being a top artist: Lancaster's hubris will only continue to fuel the momentum, and future such The situation will get worse and worse, and with it comes the internal corruption of Hollywood.

We can already foresee another collapse of Hollywood's golden age.

However, this newspaper does what it says. Victory is victory, and defeat is defeat. In this gamble about the box office, 'Life and Death' won, and this newspaper will fulfill its promise and formally express its sincere apologies to Hugo Lancaster. "

The New York Post's lengthy, almost entire page, detailed analysis of the harm to Hollywood from the success of "Life and Death" and the follow-up to Hugo's bad temper as an entertainer's role model Negative impact. It's almost alarmist, it's almost like "Hugo is going to be the beginning of Hollywood's collapse".

However, after consoling from the perspective of a painstaking person who is worried about the future of Hollywood, at the end of the article, the "New York Post" made a gesture of "willing to admit defeat", not only formally apologized, but also portrayed itself as an upright and fulfilling person. The image of a committed gentleman.

I have to say that Colin is really good. The front page is just a sentence "I'm sorry" to attract everyone's attention, and then the article has created a perfect image of himself, and belied "life and death". "Speed" and Hugo, this is completely a martyr's attitude of righteousness and awe-inspiring death.

If you don't know why, I will wipe tears after reading this article, and I am deeply moved by the "New York Post"'s behavior of taking the whole situation into consideration and making compromises.

It can be seen that even if Colin lost, he lost very decently. The New York Post will be in the spotlight for a long time to come, and they can salvage a lot of reputation. Therefore, this "strong man's broken wrist" is absolutely cost-effective.

But Colin overlooked one point: the so-called focus of attention cannot be achieved by unilateral planning, but requires the cooperation of the media. This is why the relationship between journalists and entertainers has always been ambiguous, because they need each other and restrict each other. This time, Colin's abacus was clearly in vain.

The "New York Post" apologized in red on the front page. Such a big news should cause a sensation in the United States. After all, they are the top ten newspapers in the United States by sales, and many media colleagues must be very happy to get down on the ground and black out "New York" The Post" came out in the limelight. Colin just waited for this moment, so that the "New York Post" image of hatred and humiliation was completely established.

Surprisingly, however, the day after the New York Post apologized, none of the media reported it: Note, no one! Not even the small newspapers in the New York area did it! As if the New York Post never apologized, as if the earth-shattering news yesterday never happened.

In an instant, Colin's expression changed. What does this mean? First, it means that the apology of the "New York Post" has no way to create more far-reaching influence; second, if the media does not cooperate, it will become "The New York Post" singing a one-man show, and there is no way to continue the bitter drama of bitterness and hatred. Sing on, third, and this is the most important, the collective disregard of the media is the exclusion of the "New York Post", which seems to mean that they have joined forces to sanction the "New York Post".

The New York Post has put itself in the position of the underdog, waiting for others to criticize it, but now that no one is cooperating in this scene, their lonely figure of the underdog has become ridiculous and absurd.

Colin panicked immediately: what the hell is going on here?

If you look closely, you will find the truth.

Seeing the apology letter from the "New York Post", the media naturally flocked to Hugo to ask his opinion, but Hugo refused to respond. What he said, the victory or defeat is what he said, this is all his one-man show, and I have never participated in it."

The media immediately reacted, and Hugo was mocking that this incident was completely self-hyped by the "New York Post", and he did not intend to cooperate with the performance.

Subsequently, Rick Rosen, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and 20th Century Fox opened fire, contacted all news media, and begged everyone not to report the "New York Post" apology incident. Let this matter be completely submerged in a huge wave of news.

Of course, the media know that this is the self-hype of the "New York Post", and they are willing to cooperate, that is, for the sake of breaking news and sales. But now, even if they don't report on the "New York Post", they have a lot of explosive points, especially when they "jointly blocked" and were not hated by the big guys before, they are very willing to sell these big guys a face— - It can also be regarded as atonement for his previous ban.

So, the New York Post was alone, their apologies were like scarecrows shivering in the autumn rain, out of place and ignored, which made them look like clowns, and then countless news trends flooded in, Let the "New York Post" disappear completely in the tsunami.

Shame, this is a great shame! Colin hated Hugo to the core! However, the "New York Post" could not resist the huge tide of all the news media at all, and could only be submerged.

In this gamble, the "New York Post" lost not even panties, not even dignity, not even pride. What's even more terrifying is that the gambling thing is like the sewage of the sewer, it disappears in an instant, and then there is no trace of it.

At the same time, the media are more concerned about the final box office of "Speed ​​of Life and Death". The 100 million box office is obviously no longer a problem, so what about 200 million?

The data of "Terminator 2" in the same period is 115 million US dollars. The gap between the two has not only not been widened, but has gradually narrowed. At this time, people finally have to face the fact that "speed of life and death" has been Has the ability to break the box office myth of "Terminator 2", the only North American $200 million action movie.

If you compare last year's summer season, it's even more interesting. "Sleepless in Seattle" broke the box office record for romance movies at the time, while "Schindler's List" at the end of last year broke the box office record for black and white movies, then this Will a "Life and Death" also take the box office record of an action movie in the bag?

The future progress of "Life and Death" obviously depends on the performance in the next few weeks, not paper tigers like "Little Devil", but real powerhouses like "The Lion King" and "Forrest Gump"!

In the fourth week of June, "The Lion King" is coming!

Originally, all the media's eyes were locked on "The Lion King", but because the box office performance of "Life and Death" in the third week was too amazing, the media discussion could not help but heated up, and everyone was discussing: "Life and Death" What kind of decline will "Speed" hand over this week, you know, this time its opponent is "The Lion King"!

"The Lion King" was built by Disney at a cost of 45 million US dollars, and it caused countless discussions long before its release. Disney's last work, "Aladdin", achieved an excellent result of 217 million yuan, making people Looking forward to "The Lion King".

In fact, "The Lion King" had already held a screening last week. Disney made a huge breakthrough attempt this time. They put the "Lion King" screening in Disneyland. Due to the special nature of Disneyland, the number of tourists that can be accommodated is much higher than that of ordinary theaters, and the cinema Only this one work is played 24 hours a day, so the box office of a single museum is obviously not something that can be measured by common sense.

As a result, the excellent "Lion King" has created a peak that no work can surpass in the next 20 years with a single-house box office of 790,000 US dollars. After that, Disney has also continued this point screening method. It completely occupied the historical rankings of the box office records of a single hall, so that when people counted the box office of a single hall, they had to add different prefixes such as "live-action movie" and "animation movie" to distinguish them.

With an incredible achievement of $790,000 in a single hall, "The Lion King" officially landed on the North American film market in the fourth week of June!