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Text Chapter 326: The belated star!

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    Because of the influence of Rocky 1, Rocky 2 ushered in a hot scene with an attendance rate of 70% as soon as it was released. In addition, in the past four or five years, with the support of Wang Wei¡¯s huge funds, Yanhuang Video has been opened all over the country  in major cities in North America, so Rocky 2 occupied dozens of movie theaters as soon as it was released. Like a hurricane, it was shown on major screens in the United States overnight.

    The efficiency of the release of Rocky 2 is a strong proof that in the past few years since Wang Wei and Barry Diller have been in charge of MGM, MGM is rising with unrivaled strength.

    With the full operation of Yanhuang Pictures and MGM, Rocky 2 took over 20 million in box office in North America in just three weeks, becoming the first film in North America to exceed 10 million in box office this year, setting the record for MGM  Got a good start.

    The popularity of Rocky 2 has made Hollywood film companies such as Paramount and Universal Pictures jealous, and they have also moved movies originally scheduled to be released on Thanksgiving to the screen one week in advance.

    For a time, excellent films such as "Star Trek" and "Dumb" entered the box office battle for the first time.  With the addition of films such as "Star Trek" and "Dumb", Rocky II's attendance rate, which originally had an attendance rate of 60%, was instantly squeezed to less than 40%.  Rocky 2, which was originally scheduled to be screened for five weeks, ended up staying in theaters for only four weeks before being forced to withdraw early.  But even though it was released a week earlier than expected, Rocky 2 still ranked first on the North American box office list with a box office of 36 million.  Let MGM make a fortune.  After all, the filming cost of Rocky 2 was only over $3 million.

    With Rocky 2 being completely offline, MGM finally invited its trump card this year - "The Terminator". As early as more than a week before Rocky was offline, the news about the premiere of "The Terminator"  It was spread by major newspapers.

    As Wang Wei's second science fiction film, The Terminator has been affecting Wang Wei's fans who were obsessed with Star Wars during the filming. Therefore, when the news of the premiere of The Terminator came out,  Immediately, there was a rush among American movie fans to buy limited-edition tickets for the premiere.  Suddenly, the limited viewing tickets for "Terminator" turned into Luoyang paper and have not yet been released.  It was copied for hundreds of dollars.

    The premiere of The Terminator was held at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.  In fact, Wang Wei was planning to hold the premiere of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Chinese Theater a few years ago. However, Wang Wei was not famous enough at that time, and the former head of MGM, Kerkorian, and the owner of the Chinese Theater, Fox  The relationship between the West Side Theater and the West Side Theater was a bit tense, which made the Fox West Side Theater resent the move to MGM. As a result, Wang Wei was unable to fulfill Wang Wei's wish to hold the premiere of his movie at the Chinese Theater.

    Wang Wei was very worried about this, so after the negotiation failed.  Wang Wei asked Peter Lynch to find a way to acquire the Chinese Theater.

    Although he doesn¡¯t know much about theater, Peter Lynch is very good at acquiring companies. Finally, under the control of Peter Lynch, in March last year, Wang Wei finally fully purchased China Theater.  Became the sole owner of the Chinese Theater.

    So this time, Wang Wei can finally fulfill his wish to premiere his movie in a Chinese theater.

    Unlike in the past, Wang Wei did not invite film critics and newspaper reporters to the premiere of "Terminator" this time. In addition to inviting his friends in the industry, Wang Wei left all the movie tickets to the audience.  .

    Wang Wei¡¯s move immediately caused an uproar in the industry, and reporters and film critics were not invited to the premiere.  This is simply digging your own grave.  Some film critics who had promised in meetings with family and friends that they would definitely get movie tickets for the premiere jumped out immediately and accused Wang Wei of being arrogant.  To say that Wang Wei is suicidal is self-destruction.

    The media also booed Wang Wei's move.  Some media even publicly accused Wang Wei of making such a decision because of a guilty conscience and exhaustion of talents, fearing criticism from film critics.

    In response to these criticisms, Wang Wei just said softly: "The quality of my movies is judged by the fans, not the critics", which made all the media and film critics shut up.

    Although the criticism of Wang Wei by film critics and the media has stopped, it does not mean that Wang Wei's words have convinced these film critics. On the contrary.  The silence of film critics at this time is just to prepare for more violent criticism in the future.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????In the expectations of film critics who have been waiting hard for the premiere of "Terminator" to end dismally.  The premiere of "Terminator" was finally held at the Chinese Theater as scheduled.

    At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Wei, dressed in a gray and white Tang suit, appeared at the door of the China Grand Theater on time. Originally, Wang Wei was planning to come at eight o'clock in the evening, but three days ago, Wang Wei suddenly received a call??The honorary mayor of Los Angeles, John Turgleni, called and said that Wang Wei would be awarded the Avenue of Stars Medal on the day of the premiere, which meant that Wang Wei would be named on the Avenue of Stars!

    In fact, it was already after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became a hit and won the five most important Oscars.  Wang Wei was nominated as a candidate for the Avenue of Stars Medal, and was unanimously recognized by the Walk of Fame Committee for his contribution to the Hollywood film industry and received a star that year.  However, because Wang Wei suddenly decided to take a break from the screen, the star was never awarded. This time, Wang Wei's movie happened to premiere in a Chinese theater.

    Only then did I get the notice from John Tegrani.

    As soon as Wang Weigang appeared.  He was immediately surrounded by a large group of reporters. You must know that those who can have a name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are those who have made great contributions to movies, television, records, radio, and live theater.  Therefore, it is a great honor for a person to have his name on the Avenue of Stars.

    Therefore, the awards ceremony on the Avenue of Stars also attracts a lot of media attention.  In addition, Wang Wei will hold a movie premiere in the theater tonight, and Wang Wei made a move that angered all film critics a few days ago, so there were an especially large number of reporters attending the Avenue of Stars Awards Ceremony today.

    As soon as Wang Wei got out of the car, he was blocked by reporters who had already been guarding the Avenue of Stars.  Fortunately, this place was already tightly guarded by the Prince's Guards, so the reporters could only shout at Wang Wei from a distance.

    John Tegrani smiled and greeted Wang Wei, and then he and Wang Wei went on stage together. After John Tegrani briefly announced the list of winners, he then led Wang Wei to a blocked area.  Next to the star, after Wang Wei and John Teglani came over, the staff pulled off the iron chain, and then opened the cover on the star that had already been made. A star embroidered with Wang Wei's name instantly leaked out.

    As the stars leaked out, John Tegrani took from the hands of the staff a medal engraved with Wang Wei's name, which was the same size as the copper star heart engraved in the middle of the stars on the Avenue of Stars!
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