Chapter 198 193 The King Should Sit on the Throne, and the Garbage Should Be Swept In

Chapter 194 The king should sit on the throne, and the garbage should be swept into the garbage dump

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Conan show tonight. I am the host Batiltus. Let us welcome the host Conan O'Brien together!"

In the studio, with a high-pitched baritone in the darkness, the lights instantly lit up, the band next to it began to play, and Conan O'Brien, with a little golden hair, ran out from the backstage.

After twisting left and right and making a few coquettish movements, Conan jumped heavily with the drums, and greeted the audience with his hands open.

"I know you are not here to see my new hairstyle, so let us invite today's protagonist, the most terrible, terrifying, and long-winded Megatron!"

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Amid applause and cheers, Megatron was invited to the stage. Due to the early publicity of "Transformers", "Buy a Bed" President Megatron had already accumulated a lot of popularity.

MGM even opened an account for him on Facebook. In more than a month, the number of fans has increased by more than one million, which is higher than many stars.

In order to promote the movie, the Transformers crew came to participate in the popular Conan Show in recent years.

Eric and Conan met at the Emmy Awards ceremony. The other party was one of the hosts, and he had a good impression of the latter.

And as a person in the circle, Eric had also watched this show before crossing over. He first knew that this talk show started from Dapeng.

At that time, Dapeng had not yet filmed "Diaosi Man" and became popular, although "Diaosi Man" was also plagiarized from "Diaosi Lady".

At that time, the show he hosted was "Dapeng Daba Daba", and the show plagiarized the opening of "Conan Show" openly, and was directly humiliated.

This incident caused a certain impact at the time, which made Dapeng a little bit black and red, and also made Eric watch "Conan Show" for a while.

"Before the show officially starts, please let me say one thing. I got the news that a soldier who participated in Afghanistan lost his penis in the war."

"Luckily, someone donated his penis to the other person, and this person is currently sitting in the audience."

Conan said, the screen showed a man with wise eyes. Several women sitting next to him secretly glanced at his crotch. Although they knew it was a joke, they couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh at the crotch wrapped in bandages.

"Sir, first of all, thank you for your sacrifice, but I really don't understand. After all, as a man, this sacrifice is a bit too much."

"I've heard of the old man with leftover eggs, but you really don't leave yourself any way out."

The wise man said proudly: "It's nothing. If he needs it, I'll cut it off for him. Anyway, it will grow back after a while."

"What!" Conan looked at the other party in surprise.

"Why why do you have this idea?"

"It told me." The wise man pointed to Megatron.

Conan looked at "Buy a Bed" in surprise again.

Megatron crossed his arms and shook his head slightly: "Sorry, I was a bit busy yesterday so I didn't hear clearly."

"Well, I thought you said 'cock' at the time. If you don't have a chicken, you can buy or raise another one, but I didn't expect you to say 'dick'."

"You really should express it clearly, or ask an ambulance to help, maybe he can install an electric one for you."

"You know it's a special edition for Cybertron."

Hahaha

Amid the laughter of the audience, the man looked at the ceiling with wise eyes, which looked even more funny.

At this time, the camera gave another female audience member, and she looked at Megatron's lower body with interest.

"Oh my god! Don't tell me you are interested in the special edition of Cybertron, ma'am."

"Why not?"

Hahaha...

Conan clapped his hands: "Okay, okay, the joke ends here, let's invite the crew of "Transformers" to the stage with warm applause."

Eric, Gadot, and Chris Evans walked out from the backstage and sat on the sofa.

This is Eric's first time on a variety show like a talk show.

Generally speaking, he prefers to stay behind the scenes and show his face as little as possible.

Fame is not important to him. If he becomes famous, he will be photographed and pointed at when he goes out, and he can't have fun with girls.

But in order to promote the movie, he has to go on stage. Think about it, Dong Wang and Ao Guanhai have been on stage, what is he compared to them?

"You know what? You are the most popular stars in the United States now. Everyone is going crazy talking about it."

Chris Evans shrugged: "Gadot is, but I am not. I don't have as many Facebook fans as Megatron."

"Because the earth's technology comes from me, I can be as tall as I want. Didn't you watch the movie?"

"I watched it, but I didn't pay attention to this detail. My attention was always focused on Gadot's legs."

Eric looked at him in surprise: "As the male lead, you didn't watch your own movie seriously. It seems that the sequel should be replaced."

"Whatever, everyone says Ryan Reynolds is the male lead anyway."

Hahahaha

In just a few words, Chris Evans complained about the points that many movie fans have been teasing recently, which immediately caused a laugh.

He continued: "I'm not even as good as Gadot. She can fight more than I can."

Conan looked at Eric: "Director, your vision doesn't seem to be very good. The male lead is a little bit not well-behaved."

"It doesn't matter. He just wants more fighting scenes and wants to become stronger. It won't be long before the next movie will satisfy him. Just don't complain about pain then."

"Of course, the more the merrier."

Eric smiled and said, "When the filming of "Captain America" ​​starts next year, you can go shirtless.

"Gadot, your heroine is really brilliant. Hahahaha, have you really learned Chinese Kung Fu?"

Gadot waved her hand: "Not at all. I just follow Eric's request and exercise my physical strength every day to make myself look both beautiful and powerful."

Conan pouted and leaned back tactically: "It looks like it is. Your biceps are bigger than mine. It seems like you can make me lie down with just one punch."

Ha ha ha ha

"I noticed that in the final casino battle, you drove Bumblebee to perform a difficult speeding maneuver. Did you use a stuntman?"

"No, I did it myself. If you don't believe me, just ask them."

"You must have suffered a lot of injuries. Drifting, drifting, and sudden braking. This is not easy."

"Yes, bruises, sprains, ankle bones, arms, backs, all injuries are normal. Every time I finish such a scene, I have to relax."

"Masasha?"

"There are also spas, but a strange thing happened. I went to a spa, a new spa."

"The waiter took me in and said, this is the public bath and this is the changing room. You can take off your clothes and take a bath."

"I was a little surprised and asked him, do I need to change into underwear?"

"Then he told me no, I thought he was going to say you can wear a bathrobe or something, but he said you have to be naked and I just stared at him."

Conan said with great interest: "Maybe he only said this to you. He is such a smart young man. He should come to work here."

Ha ha ha ha

With the situation looking great, "Transformers" launched an intensive publicity campaign, including "Conan Show", "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Show".

Forget about Oprah's talk show, Eric hated this fat black woman and her character was even more scumbag. Even if she actively invited her, he would not allow the crew to go.

On November 23, the weekly box office of "Transformers" was released. Countless people and countless pairs of eyes were staring at it until the moment the data was released.

The box office of 8.8 billion US dollars still blinded everyone's eyes.

Not counting inflation, just looking at numbers, $8.8 billion has broken the North American box office record for a week.

The original number one was still "Spider-Man", and Peter Parker was kicked off the throne again.

The second place "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" can only be moved down the list.

The third place "The Matrix 2 Reloaded" has only been sitting on the screen for half a year, so it has to give up its seat obediently and return the crown of third place.

This number has truly exceeded Eric's expectations. He originally predicted that the box office would reach 700 million in a week and he would be satisfied.

Analysts from BOX and other institutions gave a box office forecast of 5.5 billion in the first week, which is even more conservative than Eric.

What I didn't expect was that the Autobots and Decepticons were too powerful. Plus, it was a three-day weekend, so students and office workers had plenty of time to relax.

With the accumulation of word-of-mouth, these people immediately rushed into the cinema.

Among them, Friday's box office was the strangest, with more than 2 million US dollars more than Thursday's. The downward trend of Saturday and Sunday's box office also slowed down significantly, and was maintained at about 15% per day.

The special situation also caused the box office curve of "Transformers" to strangely hit another hill on Friday.

According to the survey, the movie-watching group is also significantly different from that of ordinary blockbusters.

Students and teenagers are naturally still the main force, but the movie-watching group over 35 years old actually accounts for nearly 40% of the total number of people, far exceeding the 30% of general blockbusters.

Having discovered a new business opportunity, the MGM team immediately expanded its promotional methods.

Hire gunmen and trolls to build momentum on the Internet and in the media.

The focus of the promotion is to watch Transformers and recall the wonderful childhood, vowing to attract another group of middle-aged people into the cinema.

As for the opponents of "Transformers", they are naturally in a state of mourning, and the major film and television companies are in mourning.

The first to bear the brunt was Miramax's "Expedition," which was released three days earlier than "Transformers" and took all the time but only took in $25 million at the box office.

The fourth day ushered in the Autobot Attack, and the results were even more disastrous, with only more than 2 million box office receipts in one day.

It has been in theaters for 10 days now, and its gross has reached 32 million U.S. dollars. It even exceeded one million in a single day on Sunday.

Russell Crowe, Peter Weir, Oscar-winning director and best actor, all of them don't work.

Compared with the cost of up to 500 million US dollars, it is foreseeable that the loss will be a loss.

When the media interviewed Harvey Weinstein, he didn't say a word and walked away with a sullen face.

It is said that various planned promotions have also been cancelled. Do you have the nerve to promote yourself at this level? Do you want to promote how bad you are?

Now Miramax can only place its hope on overseas markets. The theme of sea battles may be popular in regions such as Spain, the United Kingdom, and Southeast Asia.

If it still fails, "Windtalkers" will be its fate.

"Polar Expedition" was swept into the trash heap, and other movies were equally unhappy.

The box office of "The Matrix 3" was also squeezed in its third week, taking in only 14 million U.S. dollars. The current North American box office is 1.1 billion U.S. dollars.

Compared with the summer's "The Matrix 2", it is really inferior.

As many media and fans have commented, watching two "Matrix" movies a year makes people feel a little tired.

Warner is too anxious to make money. At least it should be like "Lord of the Rings", one movie a year is the limit, giving the market some time to recover.

Some die-hard fans are indeed hungry and can't wait to watch three movies at a time.

But we also have to consider the tolerance of ordinary audiences. When several equally exciting blockbusters are in front of them, will they choose some homogeneous movies or more fresh ones? The answer is hard to say.

Eric thinks that "Harry Potter" did a good job in this regard. Until "Deathly Hallows", it maintained a speed of one movie a year or two years.

Not fast or slow, not hurried or slow, the audience's appetite is whetted again, and the company can make a lot of money.

Although "Matrix 3" is already miserable, it still sits in the second place of the weekly box office.

The third "Elf" is no longer cut in half. Compared with the box office of 33 million US dollars last week, it only has 13 million US dollars this week.

People seem to be ignited by Transformers, and suddenly lost interest in this kind of theme that focuses on warmth and tenderness.

The box office of Disney's masterpiece Haunted Mansion is less than 5 million US dollars, and it is uncertain whether it can reach 3 million US dollars next week.

As for the remaining small fish and shrimp, it is better not to mention it.

Is the market miserable?

Of course it is miserable. Except for Transformers, other movies are almost crying, and many crews can only humbly ask for help.

But the audience doesn't like it, and it's useless to ask for help and sell misery.

But if you want to ask if the market is good?

It's also very good.

Because compared with the same period last year, the total box office performance has increased by 11%, and the upward trend is obvious. It is a very good signal, but most of the benefits have fallen into the mouth of MGM.

In addition to MGM, a part of it naturally fell into the hands of the theater chain.

So the theaters that arranged Transformers are also very happy. They can make a lot more money than last year, and they can't wait to call Eric to thank them.

The theater owners who ignored Transformers can only beat their chests and stamp their feet. They want to change it but it's too late.

The contracts are signed in advance. You can only show these movies for at least one month.

Even if there is only one audience for each show of "The Far Side of the World", the cinema must show it.

Even if there is no audience, you cannot show other movies.

Because major film and television companies have investigators who will pretend to be audiences and randomly check in cinemas.

Once violations are found, the film and television companies have the right to sue, and the cinemas can just wait to pay compensation.

If this happens, Miramax will definitely be very happy.

Because the compensation can always make up for part of the box office losses.

However, even if the first month has been missed, it is okay to drink some soup.

If you can't drink the soup, you can wash the bowl.

There are no bowls left, at least let me smell it.

So there are still many theater owners who missed "Transformers" and are in a hurry to ask for film sources. Any profit is a little bit, and they also need to make up for the losses caused by "The Far Side of the World".

Under the powerful publicity offensive, the time came to November 27th.

After four days of screening, Transformers once again earned nearly $60 million at the box office, and the box office in eleven days was close to $500 million, still crushing many movies.

And today, Miramax's second blockbuster Kill Bill, which has always been the focus of publicity, was released.

The media predicts that Kill Bill will take over from Polar Expedition and start a real battle with Transformers, and use samurai swords to chop off the heads of the Autobots, which have been in the second week.

Movie fans and major companies are paying attention, and theater owners also hope to make the market more exciting.

But will it really be as they expect?