Chapter 194 193. The king should sit on the throne, and the garbage should be swept into the garbage dump

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's Conan Show. I'm your host, Battiertus. Let's welcome your host, Conan O'Brien!"

Inside the studio, following a high-pitched baritone voice in the darkness, the lights suddenly came on, the band next to them began to play, and Conan O'Brien, with a little golden retriever, ran out from backstage.

After twisting left and right and making a few sexy moves, Conan jumped heavily to the beat of the drums and greeted the audience with his arms open.

"I know you're not here to see my new hairstyle, so let's introduce today's protagonist, the most terrifying, horrible, and long-winded Megatron!"

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

MGM even opened a Facebook account for him, and in just over a month, the number of followers has increased by over one million, which is higher than many celebrities.

In order to promote the movie this time, the "Transformers" crew specially came to participate in the "Conan Show" which has been very popular in recent years.

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

Moreover, as someone in the circle, Eric had also watched this program before traveling through time, and he first knew that this talk show started with Dapeng.

At that time, Dapeng had not yet become famous with "Diaosi Man", although "Diaosi Man" was also a plagiarism of "Diaosi Lady".

The show he hosted at the time was "Dapeng Daba Daba", and the show blatantly plagiarized the opening of "The Conan Show", which led to him being directly humiliated.

This incident caused a certain impact at the time, making Dapeng a minor celebrity, and also made Eric watch "The Conan Show" for a period of time.

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

"Luckily, someone donated his own Dandan to the other person, and that person is currently sitting in the audience."

As Conan was speaking, the scene changed to a man with eyes full of wisdom. Several women sitting next to him were secretly glancing at his crotch. Even though they knew it was a joke, they couldn't help but giggle when they saw his 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 great."

"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 and give it to him. It will grow back after a while anyway."

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

"Why. Why do you have such an idea?"

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

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

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

"Well, I thought you meant 'cock'. If you run out of chickens, you can buy new ones or raise new ones, but I didn't expect you meant 'dick'."

"You really should make it clear, or ask an ambulance to help. Maybe he can give you an electric one."

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

Hahahaha Amid the laughter of the audience, the man looked up at the ceiling with wise eyes, which made him look even funnier.

At this time, the camera turned to a female audience member, who was looking at Megatron's lower body with great interest.

"Oh my god! Don't tell me you're interested in the Cybertron Special Edition, ma'am."

"why not?"

Ha ha ha ha……

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

Eric, Gadot, and Chris Evans walked out from 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 me. If I become famous, I will be secretly photographed and pointed at when I go out, and I can't have fun with girls.

But in order to promote the movie, I had to go on stage. Think about it, Dong Wang and Ao Guanhai have been on stage before, so what am I compared to them?

"You know what? You are the most popular stars in America right now. Everyone is talking about you like crazy."

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

"Because all the Earth's technology comes from me, I can go as high as I want. Haven't you seen the movie?"

"I saw it, but I didn't notice this detail. My attention was focused on Gadot's legs."

Eric looked at him in surprise: "As the leading actor, you don't even watch your own movie seriously. It seems that the sequel should be starred by someone else."

"Whatever. Everyone says Ryan Reynolds is the leading actor."

Hahahaha In just a few words, Chris Evans complained about the points that many movie fans have been making fun of recently, which immediately caused a lot of laughter.

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

Conan looked at Eric and said, "Director, your taste doesn't seem to be very good. The male lead is a little bit unbehaved."

"It doesn't matter. He just wants more fighting scenes and wants to become stronger. It won't be long before the next movie satisfies him. Just don't cry out in pain then."

"Of course, the more the better."

Eric smiled and said, "Little guy, wait until next year when we start filming Captain America, and then you can just wait to go shirtless on stage."

"Gadot, your leading actresses are always shining. Haha. Have you really learned Chinese Kung Fu?"

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

Conan pouted and leaned back strategically: "It looks like it, your biceps are bigger than mine, it looks like one punch could put me down."

Hahahaha "I noticed that in the final battle in Las Vegas, you drove Bumblebee and performed difficult flying moves. Did you use a stuntman?"

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

"That must have hurt a lot. Drifting, spinning, and sudden braking, it's not easy."

"Yes, bruises, sprains, ankles, arms, backs, in short, injuries are normal. Every time I finish shooting such scenes, I have to relax well."

"Masasha?"

"And spas, but one weird thing happened to me when I went to a spa, a new spa that had just opened."

"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 go in for a bath.'"

"I was a little surprised and asked him if he needed to change into underwear?"

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

Conan said with interest: "Maybe he only said this to you. What a smart boy. He should come to work for me."

Hahahaha With the situation looking very good, "Transformers" has launched an intensive publicity campaign, and "The Conan Show", "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Chicken Little Show" have all appeared.

Forget about the Oprah talk show, Eric hated this fat black woman and her character was terrible. Even if the other party took the initiative to invite him, he would forbid the crew to go.

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

The box office of 188 million US dollars still dazzled everyone's eyes.

Excluding inflation, if we only look at the numbers, $188 million has already broken the North American weekly box office record.

The original number one spot 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 move down in the ranking.

The third place, "The Matrix Reloaded", had only been in the third place for half a year, but it had to give up its seat and return the third place crown.

This number has clearly exceeded Eric's expectations. He had originally predicted that he would be satisfied with a weekly box office of 170 million.

Analysts from BOX and other institutions predicted that the box office would reach 155 million in the first week, which is even more conservative than Eric's.

What was unexpected was that the Autobots and Decepticons were too powerful, and coupled with the three-day weekend, students and office workers had plenty of time to relax.

As word of mouth spread, these people immediately rushed into the cinema.

Friday's box office was the strangest, with more than $2 million more than Thursday's. The downward trend of Saturday and Sunday's box office also slowed down significantly, maintaining within 15% per day.

The special circumstances also caused the box office curve of "Transformers" to strangely reach a small hill on Friday.

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According to the survey, the audience group is also significantly different from those who watch general blockbusters.

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

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

Hire gunmen and hired internet trolls to create hype on the Internet and in the media.

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

As for the opponents of "Transformers", there were naturally screams of the devil and the major film and television companies were in mourning.

The first to be affected was Miramax's "Polar Expedition", which was released three days earlier than "Transformers" and took in only $25 million at the box office despite having the best timing.

On the fourth day, the Autobots hit the movie, and the results were even more dismal, with only over 2 million in box office revenue in one day.

It has been released for 10 days now, and the box office has barely reached 32 million US dollars, and even dropped by one million on Sunday alone.

Russell Crowe, Peter Weir, and the Oscars for Best Director and Best Actor, none of them work.

Compared with the cost of up to 150 million US dollars, it is foreseeable that the pants will be in a loss.

The media interviewed Harvey Weinstein, but he didn't say a word and just walked away with a sullen face.

It is said that all the originally planned publicity has been cancelled. How can they have the nerve to promote this level of quality and advertise how bad it is? Now Miramax can only hope for the overseas market. The sea battle theme 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, and the other films fared just as badly.

"The Matrix 3" was also squeezed in its third week at the box office, earning only $14 million. Its current North American box office is $111 million.

Compared to "The Matrix 2" in the summer, it is really inferior.

As many media and movie fans have commented, watching two "Matrix" movies in one year has caused people to feel aesthetic fatigue.

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

There are indeed some die-hard movie fans who are clamoring to watch all three films at once.

But we also need to consider the tolerance of ordinary audiences. When several equally exciting blockbusters are presented to them, will they choose a somewhat homogeneous movie or a more novel one? The answer is hard to say.

Eric thinks that "Harry Potter" did a great job in this regard. Until "Deathly Hallows", it maintained the pace of one film every year or two years.

Not too fast or too slow, not too anxious or too slow, the audience's appetite is whetted again, and the company can make big money.

Even though "The Matrix 3" performed badly, it still ranked second in the box office for the week.

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

People seemed to be ignited by "Transformers" and suddenly lost interest in this kind of warm and gentle subject matter.

The box office of Disney's blockbuster "Haunted Mansion" is less than 5 million US dollars, and it is not certain whether it can reach 3 million US dollars next week.

As for the remaining small fish and shrimp, it’s better not to mention them.

Is the market bad?

Of course it’s miserable, except for “Transformers”, other movies are almost tearful, and many crews can only humbly ask for help.

But if the audience doesn't like it, no matter how much you beg for help and play the victim, it's useless.

But is the market good?

Also very good.

Because compared with the same period last year, the total box office results increased by 11%, with a clear upward trend, which is a very good signal, but most of the benefits went to MGM.

In addition to MGM, a portion naturally fell into the hands of theaters.

So the cinemas that arranged the Transformers screening were also very happy. They were able to make a lot more money than last year and they couldn't wait to call Eric to thank him.

The theater owners who ignored Transformers can only beat their chests and stamp their feet, knowing that it is too late to change them.

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

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

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

This is because all major film and television companies have investigators who will pretend to be audience members and randomly go to cinemas for inspections.

Once any violation is discovered, the film and television company has the right to sue, and the cinema can just expect to pay compensation.

Miramax would surely be pleased if that happened.

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

But even if you have missed the first month, it’s okay to have some soup.

I can't even drink the soup, but I can just wash the dishes.

There is no bowl left, at least let me smell it.

Therefore, many theater owners who missed out on "Transformers" are still rushing to ask for film sources. They want to make as much money as possible, and they also need to make up for the losses caused by "Polar Expedition".

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

After another four days of screening, "Transformers" once again took in nearly 60 million U.S. dollars at the box office. In eleven days, the box office was close to 250 million U.S. dollars, still crushing a number of other movies.

And just today, Miramax's second blockbuster in November, "Kill Bill", which has been the focus of its publicity, was released.

The media predicts that "Kill Bill" will take over from "Arctic Expedition" and start a real battle between "Transformers" and chop off the heads of the Autobots, which are already in their second week, with samurai swords.

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

But will it really be as they expect? (End of this chapter)