The Return Of God Of War

The Return of God of War Chapter 451

Colin Shanks immediately doled out the punishment.

“What?”

Johnny Lerns and his gang grew infuriated.

We didn’t get a single cent, but we still need to be suspended without pay for three months?

Isn’t this a huge loss to us?

But this guy is someone powerful… so what can we do?

“Additionally, two movies from the Oriental Star Group have passed the audit. We’ll start showing them after three days!” Colin announced.

Meanwhile, the higher-ups from the audit department exclaimed, “We’ve never seen such a well-produced movie! This will be a huge hit!”

Zoey and her colleagues breathed a sigh of relief.

The person in charge of the National Radio and Television Administration grinned and said, “Ms. Lopez, are you happy with this result?”

However, Colin stared at Levi, who stood by the side.

“I’m pretty satisfied! Mr. Shanks really is amazing!” Zoey smiled and said.

“It’s alright!” Levi answered.

“Phew!” Colin breathed a sigh of relief.

It doesn’t matter if anyone else isn’t pleased with the results; only her opinion matters.

Shanks Entertainment received the news in no time.

Meanwhile, Johnny’s investigation came to a dead-end because he couldn’t delay the release of the Oriental Star Group’s films.

They needed to release their movies three days later.

“Useless! You can’t even do a simple task like this!” Zachary Suarez was irate.

Niall Xander grinned. “It’s fine, Mr. Suarez. We already achieved the effect we wanted. They will definitely lose to us when our movies are released concurrently!”

“That’s right. The movies’ contents are identical, so they will definitely watch ours instead. Besides that, I already bought a lot of spots on the recommendations list on streaming websites. On the other hand, the viewers can’t find their movies even if they wanted to. How can they possibly compete with us?” Zachary was confident.

Their promotions undoubtedly completely overshadowed Oriental Star Group’s efforts.

Besides that, the plagiarism accusations plaguing the Oriental Star Group doomed them.

That was what Zoey and the gang were the most worried about.

“We contacted most of the streaming websites just now. They said that there weren’t any spots left in the recommendations list on the main page and even the subpages, because they have all been bought by Shanks Entertainment. It will spell disaster for us if this continues. Our movie qualities are good, but the viewers can’t even find it.” Zoey sounded frustrated as she spoke.

Levi stroked her hair. “Honey, forget about the promotions for now. Things will get better as time passes. When they compare our movies with theirs, our movies’ reputations will soar. Besides that, we are still popular from the plagiarism accusations! Everyone is waiting to compare our movies to see if we copied them!”

“Hahaha! You’re right. Our haters are our fans as well. They’ll probably turn into real fans when they watch our movies!” Zoey chuckled.

Levi flashed an indecipherable smile. “Besides that, I still have some tricks up my sleeve I can use after the movies get released!”

The day everyone was waiting for finally arrived.

It was eight p.m.

Seven movies from Shanks Entertainment were released at the same time on four major streaming sites.

They hogged all the spots on the recommendations list on the main pages; the first thing one would see if they opened the streaming website was advertisements about their movies.

As their popularity soared, a few million people were waiting expectantly for their release. They all rushed to watch it when they came out.

The reviews quickly came pouring in.

Terrible!

All seven movies are terrible!

The acting, special effects, and plot are terrible. Everything’s terrible! There’s nothing redeemable about it!

Apart from a few good reviews by some fans, the rest of the viewers gave bad reviews.

The average score for all seven movies was only six point seven.

“Oh, right. Isn’t the Oriental Star Group’s movie plagiarized from somewhere? I think it got released today too. Let’s go watch it!”

Everyone started to search for the Oriental Star Group’s movies.

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In the Shanks Entertainment’s president’s office.

Niall, Zachary, and a few other people were present. They all looked displeased as they watched the real-time box office results.

Niall snorted. “It seems like the audience isn’t that gullible anymore!”

The manager, Winnie said, “That’s right. Viewers nowadays tend to care more about the content of the movie. Movies rarely cast young, handsome men now! Focusing on production quality is important!”

Niall chuckled. “Yes. That is why we need to take this opportunity to scam the dumbass fans’ money!”

Yvonne Wren agreed with that statement. “That’s right! The fans are stupid and easy to scam. We need to hurry up and make more movies of this kind! Once the dumbasses realize what’s going on, they won’t be so easy to scam anymore!”

If their fans heard what they said, they would probably blow up in rage.

“Oh, aren’t the Oriental Star Group’s movies being released as well? How are they doing?” Zachary couldn’t help but ask.

Niall chuckled. “I tried searching them in the streaming websites just now, but I still can’t find them.”

“They’re destined to fail! Even though our movies are trash, we are hogging all the spots in the recommendations lists! They can’t possibly succeed!” Yvonne chuckled coldly.

“President Shorts said he found their movies. They only have two of them, not seven!” The assistant showed Niall the tablet.

“Haha! Are they afraid of cutting a loss? They only filmed two movies, and who the f*** are the main actors? I haven’t even heard of them! They should be prepared that their movies will become a box office bomb!” Zachary guffawed as he played the movie.

After about three years, the netizens finished watching the two Oriental Star Group’s movies.

“Can those who already watched the movies tell us if it’s good or not?” Some netizens were eager but afraid to watch the movies. They were scared the movies might turn out horrible.

“It’s amazing! It really is super good!”

“This is the most well-produced movie I’ve ever watched!”

“The plot is well-thought-out, the art is tasteful, the pacing is appropriate, the special effects are perfect, and the acting was superb! I give five stars out of five!”

“This movie is showing in the cinemas! It’s so amazing! I need to watch it again!”

Good reviews started to appear all over the internet.

The netizens regarded the Oriental Star Group’s two movies as masterpieces!

Furthermore, the ones who gave good reviews weren’t fans. They were the ones who had lambasted Oriental Star Group before for plagiarism. They had watched the movies just because of the scandal.

When the higher-ups in the Oriental Star Group saw the good reviews and the rising popularity of the two movies, they breathed a sigh of relief.

“Well done! Levi, you’re amazing!”

Zoey hugged Levi.

Cough cough… Levi coughed out of embarrassment.

Zoey’s face immediately flushed red because Gerry Wade and the others were in the office. She had been so excited she forgot that they weren’t alone.

Levi chuckled. “Let’s officially start our promotions! Try to generate as much public attention as possible, including doing what Niall did before. In short, do everything you can to promote the movies!”

“Alright!”

The higher-ups were excited. Judging by how things were progressing, the two movies might generate more revenue than they have ever imagined!

“I still have a trump card. I’ll use it tonight!” Levi chuckled.

“I’ll be looking forward to it!”

Levi grinned. “Besides that, the people in charge of those streaming websites will start knocking on our doors soon enough!”

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“What? I can’t believe their movies are this good! Even I was engrossed!” Zachary seemed genuinely entertained after they finished watching the movies.

Niall, Yvonne, and the rest were anxious.

“How are their movies so good? Look at how their popularity is booming! I can’t find a single bad review!”

“Even though they’re not on the recommendations list, they’re one of the top ten most popular movies right now! Their popularity is still rising too!”

“What now? Should we do something about it?”

The artists were as anxious and as nervous as cats.

The fact that the Oriental Star Group’s movies were spectacular was a huge embarrassment to them.

More importantly, the main actors were the rookies that they’ve seen before.

How are they so good at acting?

This made them feel indignant.

Their manager, Winnie sighed.

She was good at judging the current consumers’ needs.

People like Niall are more suited to join variety shows or just become a public figure.

Acting in movies requires actual acting skills, which they lack.

Oriental Star Group’s two movies’ popularity was rising in streaming websites.

“I get it now. The fact that Shanks Entertainment said that Oriental Star plagiarized their movies is a whole ruse to sabotage them! You have seven movies and they only have two, how dare you accuse them of plagiarism?”

“Yeah! Can your seven terrible movies be compared to their two masterpieces? How shameless can they get?”

“Everyone listen to me. Don’t watch those terrible movies anymore. Go and watch the Oriental Star Group’s two movies instead! They really are good!”

An intense discussion sparked in the comments section of the seven movies starred by Niall and the rest.

While everyone was lambasting the seven movies, everyone went to watch Oriental Star Group’s two movies instead.

Furthermore, the Oriental Star Group’s publicity team reignited the discussion about the plagiarism accusations to hype the movie up even more.

They then brought up the incident where Niall and his gang had acted all high and mighty and quit their jobs.

There was even video proof about how Niall had splashed Horace Engler with water, and how he had beaten Maurice Lorraine up.

The netizens were enraged when they caught hold of the news, and they started to lambast artists like Niall and Yvonne.

Even their fans started to attack them.

“Niall Xander, you b**d! Give me back my fing money!”

“This bastard only knows how to scam people! He can’t even act! What a piece of trash!”

“Helena Engler is my idol from now on! Yvonne Wren can get lost!”

“Pigs like Niall Xander don’t deserve to be artists. I’m gonna be Maurice Lorraine’s fan from now on. He’s so handsome and so good at acting!”

After that incident, Shanks Entertainment not only suffered a major loss, Niall and the other actors’ and actresses’ reputations were tarnished as well.

Entertainment’s seven movies were

now were the ones who wanted to

two movies rose in

quickly took the first and second spot

Bang!

Crack!

so furious that he smashed the tablet on

colleagues had thunderous expressions

moment, Zachary received a phone

Shorts, I am a representative from Penguin Films. I’m here to inform you

to inform you that your company’s seven movies’ reviews were too bad, so we

I am a representative from U-Cool. Your movies are not gaining enough revenue, so we’re planning to

of God of War

when

would call him one after another to inform them that

the movies they produced were left on the recommendation

from the Oriental Star Group; those

fifty million to buy the spots on the recommendation lists, while the major streaming sites had offered the same thing to

of the two movies continued to

saw the real-time

two hundred million; they gained that much revenue is just six

box office records of all the major

would take about one week for the

the trump card!”

and

movies… they are absolutely awesome! I guarantee that with my

don’t like it, I can refund you your membership fees! I, Zak Copland,

the Oriental Star Group’s movies together, and its popularity boomed once

were about to

media companies started to give coverage to those

two movies were considered the pinnacle of

started to guess how much the movies would gain in revenue in a

piece of cake. Can

used to be reserved for movies traditionally shown in

some

Entertainment was one of those who were in a

from the public opinion about the movie itself was overwhelming. That caused a

started to terminate their contracts as

befell the company, something Zachary had not been

all, the Shank family’s venture into the entertainment industry was their most successful one. Yet now, everything was crumbling apart in just

father, uncle, and grandfather all called to

can’t even act! Why are you even acting? What were you f***ing doing?” Zachary vented his rage at Niall, Yvonne, and

Slap!

Slap!

they didn’t dare

lost! Get the hell away from here! Give me back your salaries. I’ll

furiously and chased all the

discussed

happen! We can’t stay in Shanks Entertainment

replied, “Yeah. Your reputations are heavily tarnished! We can’t keep doing this anymore! How about we go back

asked anxiously, “Can we

They will definitely be angry, but no matter what happens, we can still bring profits

most important artists there! They don’t even have anyone else except for us! And those rookies? They are not

God of

Our wealth and reputation would’ve increased

were popular only because the movie itself

The next morning.

Yvonne Wren’s managers want to meet

“Alright. Let them in!”

of people showed up in the office in

were foolish. We’ve made a mistake. Please forgive

smiled. “It’s alright. You all just wanted to go to a better

hope to rejoin your company now. After all, we were once a team, and we know each

mocked, “How shameless can you get? Didn’t you say we will regret our actions? What happened then?

keep their tempers in check. After all, they were the ones asking for a

“Ms. Lopez, can you tell us

Levi interrupted her. “Rejoining Oriental Star is a piece of cake. You just need to show us how sincere

six hours? It shouldn’t be

“You…”

was about to lose his temper

I hope you keep your

I promise!”

Thud!

Thud!

and the rest kneeled on

all, Niall and his gang had bullied them for

kneeled for six whole hours, and

Phew!

smiled coldly. “Alright, we’ve kneeled for six hours already.

“What promise?” Zoey asked.

we kneeled down for six hours you would

and look for

us that. Why are you eating your words right now?” Niall tried his

an employee from our company. Did you really just

Everyone else laughed

his team soon

are not responsible for that. You haven’t seen that guy before,

his team because they knew she made

never seen

kill you!” Niall finally

“Security, chase them out!”

kicked Niall and his team out of

to ask about what was happening

some news on the dark web

methodical! That was how

he slowly opened his eyes and said coldly, “Alright. Let

most prominent character in Quebec was about to make

of God of War

there!” Fernand Yates volunteered

fact that they can handle

Black and White Guards, so the fact that Scott dispatched three of

for a

intent on killing! It took a lot of effort over the past few decades trying to tame him, so we can’t

Generals under Scott all had

where he had to face a few hundred opponents at once, he pulled someone’s ribs out and used it as a

was exceptionally skilled in wrestling

because his body was as tough as steel. Normal weapons

the strongest of

been raised by an assassin’s organization ever

few years of training. Only

killed all of his comrades and made it

least seven

was triggered, he

during a war in Quebec’s underground scene, and

he was quite literally the harbinger

Scott wouldn’t request his service unless it was necessary because Typhoon would cause a

handle the Morris Group! I can’t take responsibility for the consequences

why do you have something you can’t responsibility for? How

North Hampton right now?”

said in horror, “Are you referring

Hampton, but if

afraid of the

stepdad, you really are prudent. I never thought of that! I’ll go to

and take care of that issue quickly. Keep a low profile. If things spiral out of control, I won’t be able to help

took his leave, a casually dressed, average-looking

the Harbinger of

team called the Five Great Wars Regiment, and they are all exceptional. I want to

strong we are, we are still mortals, and they are gods! They can kill us with just

plans,

here! I thought Mr. Yates would only send

was excited when he saw that Bones and the other two mighty generals were

required to solve the problem; he had never expected

piece of cake. Morris

just you wait for the South City’s

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they arrived

news of

Yates, Sebastian, we are being oppressed by them ever since we came from South City! The people in North Hampton kept bullying us because we didn’t have

during their stay in North Hampton, and that infuriated Sebastian

the surface, Fernand seemed poised and methodical, just like

lot of crimes and was cocky

never showed that side of himself because Scott

he came to North Hampton and no one was here

They’re digging their

what should we do next?”

the Morris Group? We’ll go to

menacing glint flashed in

in the

family was

boomed lately; their assets had already exceeded

taking care of the money on behalf of Levi, they were still

Bang!

could suddenly be heard as the dining

large horde of men barged inside with menacing expressions on their

few of them. Sebastian and Simon among the

the main

as a

yet the three people standing behind

meters tall; he towered over everyone and

to the point where his bones

shiny, and he

had an oppressing aura, and the

knew Sebastian would never forgive him. That prospect seemed even more

let me introduce them to you. This is the stepson of Scott Yates from the South City, Fernand Yates!”

Yates?” Glenn

that the person rumored to oppress the entire

Scott Yates!

powerful figure in

Sebastian need to show that man

you say he’s retired for

Group, my stepfather

his retirement?” Glenn

the Morris

approached the dining table, sat down and smiled, “It

was being

are? How dare you come

been doing very well lately, and they were a powerful presence in

down on everyone, especially people who

was about to warn him, but it was

know who Scott Yates

didn’t speak. Instead, he just glared at

you

Bang!

suddenly swung

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Poof!

landed on the floor, blood flowed

He was undoubtedly, dead!

was enough to

was as silent as