Made in Hollywood

"You haven't looked at IMDB for the past two days?"

In a cafe on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Erin Lauder slowly stirred the coffee and said to Duke, who was sitting opposite, "It's really lively."

"What happened?" Scarlett next to Duke was even more curious.

Duke took a sip from his coffee cup, and then guessed, "Is it because of the IMDB ranking?"

Although not specifically concerned, Tina Fey's report submitted this morning also mentioned that "Dark Knight" fans are at war with "Godfather" fans on IMDB.

"Your fans are giving The Godfather a low score, and the Godfather fans are giving you a low score for The Dark Knight."

She deliberately made a joke, "I also went to IMDB to give "The Godfather" a point."

Scarlett pinched her chin and recalled, "I remember that "The Dark Knight" was still number one, right?"

Erin Lauder nodded, "It's in the first place, but the score has been reduced to 9.7."

"What about The Godfather?" Duke asked.

This movie has also cultivated a large number of fans from the 1970s to the present.

"It's down to 9 points," Irene Lauder said after thinking about the situation she just watched this morning, "Your fans are mainly teenagers, they are highly motivated, emotional, and have an advantage in numbers. "The Godfather" is hard to guarantee a score above nine."

Scarlett suddenly looked at Duke and put forward an unreliable suggestion, "Why don't you let Pani lead the team to join it? I believe it will blow up "The Godfather"."

"You know too much." Duke glared at her, then shook his head and said, "This is just a dispute between fans, there is no need for a professional team to join it."

It's not just Duke who thinks like this, there are many people who pay attention to "The Dark Knight". David Ellison is naturally one of them.

This kind of dispute on the Internet must not be hidden from the eyes of the conscientious. At the beginning, David Ellison wanted to push it behind and take advantage of it, but after careful consideration, he chose to give up.

With the current momentum of "The Dark Knight". It's not just this little entanglement that drags on. Rather than dispersing one's own strength, it is better to gather all resources and do a good job in the promotion and distribution of "I Am Legend" at the most critical stage before its release.

"I Am Legend" is about to be released in North America, and the situation it faces is quite severe. Even on weekdays, "The Dark Knight" still maintains a daily box office quota of more than 20 million US dollars. Such a figure is a single-day box office that many big productions can only get on weekends.

The premiere of this film must have chosen New York, where the story takes place. David Ellison also specially contacted a theater in Washington Square as the premiere venue. He also watched "The Dark Knight". Now I regret that I didn't think of IMAX at the beginning. If IMAX is used to make it, I am a legend must have a strong response.

It's been a few years since he entered Hollywood, and David Ellison remains arrogant despite his arrogance. The idea was a lot more realistic, and he didn't ask much for "I Am Legend". As long as it can impact the next weekend box office of "The Dark Knight", it is enough to win the North American box office chart.

That way, "I Am Legend" needs to get at least $80 million in its first week.

Although no professional team and navy were involved, the IMDB battle for scoring points has intensified.

At a time when the scores of "The Godfather" and "The Dark Knight" are slipping. Their fanatical fans have deliberately cast a lot of low-scoring votes for their opponents in order to be at the top of the list. By Thursday, the 1-point vote for "The Godfather" rose to nearly 5%, and "The Dark Knight" was not much better. Go, the proportion of 1-point votes has reached 3%, but it is as high as hundreds of thousands of ten-point votes, ensuring that the film firmly occupies the first place in the TOP250 ranking with a score of 9.6.

The behavior of movie fans is often spontaneous and fanatical. Fans of the two films not only gave each other low scores, but also began to attack in their respective comment areas, and even rose to the level of abuse.

For example, fans of "The Godfather" angrily called fans of "The Dark Knight" "Dukeblow".

But the Internet is the world of young people after all. If you only talk about directors, Duke has an unparalleled position in the hearts of young movie fans. The fans of "The Godfather" are much older, although there are many fanatics, but after all It is impossible to compete with the younger generation online.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if they attack each other like this, "The Godfather" is a losing situation.

So fans of "The Godfather" chose to expand the war area, and some people pretended to be fans of Duke and "The Dark Knight" and began to attack other films in the top 10 of the TOP250, such as "Pulp Fiction", "The Good and the Bad" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" have become their targets.

In just half a day on Thursday, a large number of 1-point votes appeared in the ratings of these films.

Then, more fans joined in. While the fans of "The Dark Knight" attacked "The Godfather", they also went to other film areas to pretend to be low scorers. Fans of other films did not subdivide, and they all praised "The Godfather". Get a low score with The Dark Knight.

Although IMDB was often haunted by naval forces, the order was still good. The fans’ behavior this time has undoubtedly seriously damaged the order of IMDB. Especially on the Internet, people’s self-control is even worse, and it is common for people to leave messages and attack each other.

These battles even spread to many film and television forums and social networking sites, and even Duke's instant sharing account was not spared, and a large number of offensive remarks appeared in his message column.

When things got to this point, it naturally attracted the attention of the media.

"In previous MDB rankings, The Godfather was No. 1, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was No. 2, and The Godfather 2 was No. 3."

"Until one day, "The Dark Knight" debuted, like a bright meteor streaking across the sky, breaking the originally quiet night sky, and countless sleeping fans opened their eyes and turned their eyes to the sky, the gear of fate, That's where it starts to work."

"Duke Rosenberg was originally a god, and "The Dark Knight" is like a new god created by him, attracting many believers, absorbing a lot of beliefs, fanatical believers, vowing to make their gods to the top of the world."

"In order to defeat the mighty "Godfather", they swiped their IDs day and night to give "The Dark Knight" 10 points and "The Godfather" 1 point, and the fans of "The Godfather" are doing the same..."

Yahoo Entertainment's report has undoubtedly elevated the online battle to the level of the media.

Some tabloids even feared that the world would not be chaotic, and began to use this incident to hype the sharp contradiction between Duke and Francis Coppola...

"Those guys, always like to exaggerate."

On Friday morning, Sofia Coppola drank morning tea with Duke and said, "The paparazzi went to Dad's house yesterday to ask him about it."

"The media needs news points." Duke looked out through the glass window, and gestured with his eyes, "A lot of paparazzi are following, believe it, Sophia? Tomorrow there will be tabloids saying that there is a relationship between me and you. Unspeakable relationship."

"They've been talking about it for more than ten years." Sophia shrugged, "Let them say whatever they want."

She then changed the subject, put down the teacup, and asked with interest, "Yesterday's "I Am Legend" premiered, and David Ellison said in an interview that his film will definitely win the box office this weekend. Champion, the statistics should be almost out now, have you got it?"

"Not yet." Duke pointed his finger at it, "Tina is waiting, it won't take long."

The response of David Ellison's new film was quite good after its release, and for publicity, Will Smith almost fought it out. Not only did the pre-screening propaganda lead to a divorce crisis, but in an interview at the premiere last night, he also claimed to be preparing Run for the presidency and win the White House within the next ten years.

These eye-catching practices have also made many media hype them.

"Where's Scarlett?" Sophia changed the subject, "Why didn't you see her?"

"I left New York yesterday." Duke put down his teacup, looked away from the glass window, and said, "Captain America has started post-production, and there are a lot of scenes about her that need dubbing."

Unlike "The Hulk", which was in the final stages of post-production, which was released this winter, "Captain America" ​​has to wait until next year's summer.

Although this superhero is strictly outdated, the orthodox American spirit he represents can naturally arouse the audience's favor.

However, the overseas market response of this film will be a bit problematic, after all, he is too Americanized.

"Tina is here." Sophia looked towards the entrance of the restaurant.

Duke also turned his head and glanced, Tina Fei stepped on high heels, walked over unhurriedly, waved hello to the two, and sat in the seat next to Duke.

After ordering her own morning tea, Tina Fei said directly, "I Am Legend has not been shown in advance. The box office statistics for the midnight show have just been received, and it is 8.82 million US dollars, which is basically in line with the expectations of the outside world."

Sofia Coppola sighed, "Will Smith's appeal is still very strong."

"David Ellison made a wise choice."

As he said in the past, superstars are a rare resource in the whole of Hollywood, and their status cannot be measured by ordinary actors at all. "If there is no collapse later, "I Am Legend" will probably meet Disney's expectations."

Tina Fey answered, "This will have a certain effect on us."

Duke thought for a while and asked, "Have you confirmed what I asked you to confirm?"

"It's been confirmed." Tina Fey pointed to the faint dark circles under her eyes, "I went to the midnight show of "I Am Legend" specifically."

Without thinking, Duke said, "Send the news to the animal rights groups and those dog lovers' associations." (To be continued ~^~)