Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there are artificial factors in this, because "Kung Fu" and "Slaying the Wolf", which were produced in the same year as "Late Autumn", did not appear in the database for some reason at first.
It was not until later that these two works started to appear as popular channels on the Musise (Music Response) website that these two movies quietly appeared in the database on imdb.
And this was only a month ago. It would be hard to say that they had not been interfered with by humans, but Liu Qingshan has never paid much attention to it. It is just a film review platform with too popular tastes and too market-oriented preferences.
However, the user rating system of this website is complex and authoritative. It has now been compared with comprehensive media reviews, Rotten Tomatoes index and theater ratings, and has become an important criterion for measuring the reputation and quality of a movie.
The one-sidedness of the selection of film sources in the database is in sharp contrast to the strictness of the film review rating system. Therefore, this website has a very high level of professional review, but the actual number of people participating in film reviews is far lower than that of the other three rating agencies. This is also an indisputable fact. .
Just because there are vague rumors in the industry that imdb has an inside job in selecting films, and there are often rumors of human manipulation, which is the main reason for the lack of traffic.
Any speculation proves that there is a cause, and due to the nature of the website, similar speculation basically eliminates the factor of commercial competition. However, due to the lack of evidence, this website has always been peaceful.
It’s just that for some unknown reason, there is no source information for “Let the Bullets Fly” on imdb, but it first experienced a sudden explosion in film reviews. This abnormal situation caused other authoritative film review organizations to raise questions.
Just because there are more movie review posts, it means that the traffic of the other three organizations is deeply affected, so rumors about Liu Qingshan and the crew of "Let the Bullets Fly" buy traffic are rampant.
Of course, most of these rumors only happen in Western countries. Eastern countries don’t even know what imdb is.
But as long as something happens on the Internet, Xiaoxing will promptly provide information feedback, and immediately report it to Liu Qingshan, who is already fast asleep.
After figuring out what was going on, Liu Qingshan smiled helplessly: "Since we didn't do anything ourselves, the problem is most likely to occur within this imdb. Ignore him for the time being and find a few posts to write off this website. Just clear up the relationship!"
"Master, I also think they are causing trouble on their own. They want to take this opportunity to establish some kind of connection with us, or simply gain traffic!"
"Let some overseas Qingshan posts take action. There is no need to even come forward to refute the rumors. As long as the public opinion in the post bars about not going to imdb to help collect traffic becomes mainstream, my fans will bypass that website!"
"Well, imdb's rating qualifications are certainly influential, and they may blame us for this, but in front of the huge box office, those ratings are just data and will not affect the ticket sales during the release period!"
"Let's see, maybe if this website detects that our fans are addressing them intentionally or unintentionally, they will speak out on their own, and they may even recognize the current hype!"
The emergence of this website is just a small episode. As Xiaoxing said, in front of the box office in various places that have repeatedly broken movie viewing records, any third party is just a cloud and has no impact on the rush to buy in the market.
Moreover, on the first day of its release, "Let the Bullets Fly" was highly praised by movie fans for its excellent production, passionate fighting scenes, and brain-burning battle of wits. The global box office on the first day exceeded US$29.6 million, and the Rotten Tomatoes Index exceeded 98. %, and the freshness is also as high as 92%.
You must know that this is the first day of 2006. There is still a big gap between the first-day box office box office of later generations, which easily exceeds 100 million. However, the figure of 29.6 million US dollars is only less than the first-day box office that ranks first in history. 250000.
Moreover, the box office in mainland China exceeded 80 million, while the box office of its original version on the first day of release was just over 30 million, and that happened in 2010.
It can be seen that the box office of the mainland market accounts for almost one-third of the global box office. The re-emergence of this emerging overseas market has made many overseas media and entertainment industries jealous.
What's even more frightening is that while the global next-day box office exceeded US$35 million, the mainland box office also reached US$100 million. Such an obvious increase shocked almost everyone's jaws.
However, the overall box office saw its first big explosion on the third day, Sunday, with sales exceeding 50 million globally and 150 million in the mainland.
As a result, it earned more than 110 million US dollars in three days, and it has actually entered the top ten sales of European and American movies in the same period. However, it should be noted that this is the only non-English film.
The mainland box office record has directly exceeded 300 million. If the entire cross-strait and three places are included, this number will be at least 50 million more.
What’s even more frightening is that after the fourth day, which is the non-weekend period on Monday, the box office in Europe, the United States, and China and Taiwan has dropped significantly, but miraculously ushered in a major boom in other Asian markets. break out. Global sales rose instead of falling, quickly reaching the figure of US$58.3 million.
And the overall box office in Asia has been soaring, which has led to a collective detonation of the entire market. In the following week, it continuously exceeded 60 million, 70 million, and 80 million, and in the second weekend, the latest figure was 88.36 million.
Therefore, the Asian market, other than the Greater China region, which has never been a protagonist in the international market, has suddenly emerged at the box office and has immediately become the subject of serious attention in the European and American markets.
Although this is the total box office of several countries, even if there is a big gap with the mainland Chinese market, the formation of a huge ticket warehouse is an indisputable fact.
You must know that these Asian countries include many box offices in the Middle East, which have long lost the qualifications for statistical statistics due to years of war. The implications of this sudden appearance are worth exploring.
Based on market surveys conducted by several well-known statistical organizations in Europe and the United States, the reasons for the rise of box office outside of traditional Asian ticket warehouses all point to Liu Qingshan's vast private influence.
Because the mainstream media comments there are rushing to report on Liu Qingshan's first directorial ability and his unparalleled personal advantages.
What personal strengths? Naturally, it comes from the terrifying display of strength of Liu Qingshan and his team.
Just that scene of falling from the sky on a rainy night without any wire protection has already broken through people's inherent understanding of Chinese Kung Fu.
If the movie stars that best represented Chinese kung fu before were Bruce Lee and Chen Long, with the appearance of this movie, the role representatives of kung fu stars have undergone a complete change.
Especially in the filming of the last gunfight scene in "Let the Bullets Fly", Liu Qingshan's movements of darting around in the mountains and forests all showed his agility and agility to the point of perfection.
Moreover, these actions were also not edited by special effects. Although the entire description lasted only a little over a minute, it clearly showed that his kung fu had reached its peak.
This obvious display of ability, which even ordinary people can distinguish, and the ability to perform movements that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve, actually explains everything.
Liu Qingshan originally wanted to perform the action design through the complete gun battle scene of the original version, but was opposed by almost everyone.
Because they believe that his own expertise should be reflected as much as possible. As long as the difficulty of individual actions is higher than that of any movie, this alone can rank among the ranks of classic films.
Of course, their more considerations came from interests. Considering that this was his first directorial work, Liu Qingshan finally adopted everyone's opinions.
Even so, he only showed agility in his movements and amazing jumping ability.
But this is enough. Every frame of the action shot is slowed down to show that there is no help, which actually explains everything.
That is to say, on another Monday, Liu Qingshan received a call from imdb.
Originally, his personal mobile phone would not answer unfamiliar numbers, but the female department manager named Bella borrowed the number of George Berlin, the largest executive director of Fox Broadcasting Company in New York, to call.
People who can get his private mobile phone number are people who have a certain degree of friendship. Although they do not have a deep personal friendship with George Breen, they at least trust each other in cooperation.
Through this phone call, Liu Qingshan roughly understood the reasons for a series of imdb's previous operations and got a person's name.
This person's name is George Bryan. His real identity is not only a member of the board of directors of imdb, but also the founder of a famous market research company in the United States.
It was this person who, for unknown reasons, prevented the imdb database from including Liu Qingshan's related works.
But with the popularity of the previous trailer of "Let the Bullets Fly", this website began to pay attention to this matter. It was then that Liu Qingshan's other two works were included.
Moreover, through the website's internal self-examination, we found out the abnormal behavior that George Bryan had repeatedly blocked secretly. However, the investigation results given by the relevant parties of the website only had a personal reason for likes and dislikes.
Although the investigation results did not indicate the real reason, it is true that this person was kicked out of the board of directors. After all, online research institutions related to film reviews strictly prohibit the spread of one-sided influence by individuals, otherwise it will only seriously affect the credibility of the website.
Therefore, after eliminating the influence of this person, imdb immediately started preparing to make friends with Liu Qingshan. The traffic of previous film reviews suddenly increased, which was the result of centralized operations, including the rumor that Liu Qingshan spent money to buy traffic that was hyped by them. spread.
Unexpectedly, Liu Qingshan discovered the anomaly in time and made this vicious hype incident go bankrupt with just one online call, causing traffic problems on the entire website.
In desperation, Bella, as the specific executor, found George Bullin and tried to win Liu Qingshan's understanding through this relationship.
