Rebirth Of The Godly Prodigal

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Chapter 281: Hong Dali Who Never Humiliates Himself

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"This is impossible! Impossible!" James stared at the data on his laptop screen and furiously pounded the table. "How are their box office earnings so high! How is this possible! Heavenly State is definitely falsifying it! It's falsified! I object! I object!"

The atmosphere at the round table conference now was completely different from that gleeful and elated atmosphere previously. Everyone present lowered their heads and kept quiet.

This time, they only felt that their faces were literally smacked until they were swollen.

For the sake of screening the movies at the same time, they took the initiative to spend 10 million USD to carry out public relations. Back then, they thought that it was a great idea. After all, it was too easy to invest this 10 million USD. Alas, they did not expect that the other party had totally set a huge trap for them to fall into, and they even jumped into it without hesitation while criticizing the other party for being a fool.

In the end, they realized that they were the fools...

"So what if we object?" Just then, someone seated at the north seat helplessly said, "James, did you see the scene in their ticket sales hall? The audiences queued from the ticket sales booth all the way to the entrance, making a turn, and back to the ticket sales booth, and another turn towards the entrance again... This definitely cannot be falsified. Moreover, quite a number of our citizens went in to watch. The results were..."

"What were the results?! What were they?!" James roared. "Are our movies worse than theirs? They've removed the screenings of our movies, removed them!"

"It can't be helped." That person slowly said, "After the citizens of our nation had watched it, the results obtained was that, compared to 'Pugilistic World,' the only thing worth commending about our movies is just that moment of explosion..." Upon finishing what he had said, he helplessly added, "And this was because of the different themes of the movies..."

"How is this possible! How is this possible!" James exclaimed loudly as if he'd gone insane. "How can Heavenly State's movie industry improve to such a standard overnight? They had previously been learning technology from us! Learning how to film movies! And now you're telling me that the only thing that's worth commending from our movies is the explosion?! Comparing an explosion with a Wuxia film?! What difference is that from comparing hairstyles with a beggar?!"

"Dear James." Just then, another person shook his head and said, "We're not plutocrats, and the Heavenly State film industry is not a beggar too. I think you need to calm down. You're too angry, to the point you can't really think straight now."

"Calm down? How can I calm down?!" James turned the computer screen to face the other seven people. "Look, what things look outside now?! What has it become?! Our Hollywood has already been surrounded by the citizens! They're protesting! They're having a demonstration! Demonstration, you understand?!"

"Have those people gone crazy?!"

A few leaders came forward, and the scene within the laptop made them all stunned.

In the scene, countless Merikan citizens raised their placards high in the air as they carried out protests and demonstrations on the streets! On those placards wrote "DOWN WITH MOVIE MONOPOLY""WE WANT TO WATCH 'PUGILISTIC WORLD'""OBJECT AGAINST HOLLYWOOD BECOMING AN AREA WHERE ONE PERSON'S WORDS GOES" and other similar slogans. What they meant was very obvious—you people are not magnanimous, you're scared of the movie fighting for the box office earnings with you, so you intentionally stopped us from watching good movies! You're cowards!