"Zombie-Master" was confirmed to have grossed US$18.5 million at the box office on its first day just 15 hours after it started filming. It immediately made the headlines in North American entertainment news, and this news was also passed to China at an extremely fast speed.
18.5 million US dollars, not only broke the single-day box office record of all Chinese-language films in North America, but also broke the single-day box office record of all foreign-language films in North America! This is definitely the strongest box office performance of a Chinese-language film in overseas markets!
When the news reached China, it was still early in the morning. After receiving this shocking news, major TV stations and newspapers immediately began to work overtime to prepare news reports for the next day. The TV media began to prepare materials for the morning news. Compared with Now the newspaper office is very embarrassed. The newspaper has completed the news layout for the day and is now starting printing at the printing factory. In an hour or two, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of newspapers will be sent from the printing factory to various places. So Now it is basically impossible to add this news to the newspaper of the day.
Editors of news programs at major radio stations have also begun to sort out news and write press releases overnight, so that they can be broadcast first on traffic radio early tomorrow morning and seize the opportunity.
At the same time, Li Mu received the latest news from Lucas excitedly. All major theater chains in North America have increased the schedule of "Zombie-Master" for tomorrow. The total box office of the scheduled movies has increased from the original 20 million US dollars to 33 million US dollars. US dollars, that is to say, if the attendance rate can reach 90% tomorrow, we can basically get a single-day box office of US$30 million!
According to the current operation process of Muying’s ticketing system in North America, theaters must upload the next day’s film schedule to the official server before 5:30 pm that day. For example, my cinema has 8 screening rooms, and each screening room There are 5-6 screenings scheduled. I decide what films will be shown in the eight screening halls for a total of more than 40 screenings. Then I upload this information to the Muying Ticketing System, and then the Muying Ticketing System releases these screening arrangements to the audience. You can then make a purchase.
After the theater uploads the film schedule for the next day, the official has a 30-minute window period for confirmation and modification. During this period, the theater can still make adjustments to the arrangement. However, by 6 p.m. that day, the Muying ticketing system will be closed. The modification permission will be locked, and then tomorrow's theater schedule will be online, and seat purchases will be opened at the same time. In this case, the theater will no longer be able to make any changes to the next day's film schedule. Once the theater changes the film schedule without authorization, users will If you cannot watch the tickets after purchasing them, Muying’s ticketing system will punish the theater, ranging from deducting compensation from the ticket payment to settlement to directly terminating the cooperation with the theater chain.
In later generations of China, when the Internet was developing rapidly, theaters could buy movie tickets at least two days in advance, and some could even buy tickets three days or more in advance. However, the Muying ticketing system has just started, and at the same time, it is on the market. There are no competing products, so Li Mu does not set too high requirements on the advance purchase period. After these theaters are thoroughly familiar with the operation process of online ticket sales, he will ask them to extend the pre-sale period.
In order to further enhance the box office appeal, Li Mu called Zhao Kang late at night and assigned him a new Navy mission.
Under his unremitting efforts and training, Zhao Kang's navy has become a super navy team with extremely strong combat effectiveness. This team is not only a low-end network navy, but more importantly, Zhao Kang has been under Li Mu's team. Under the instruction, a real high-end think tank has been built. There are more than 20 top students who are well versed in marketing, publicity and user psychology. They are helping Zhao Kang make plans and implement them. With the help of these high-quality talents, Zhao Kang’s navy can now It is easy to conduct troll propaganda on the Internet in any country and in any language. They do not need to understand other languages, they only need to follow the step-by-step tutorials.
This time, Li Mu is going to let Zhao Kang's navy tell a story like this on the Internet. The core of the story is: a self-righteous, arrogant fool, who lost a huge amount of wealth because he looked down on "Zombie-Master" and was severely slapped in the face. .
Such jokes are popular among the public. For example, some movies were heavily promoted during the release stage: a certain star missed the opportunity to play a certain role in a certain movie due to a temporary increase in price. Now the movie is a hit Fire, a certain star must be regretting it to death, right
What’s interesting is that when the navy promotes such news, they never explain who a certain celebrity is, so people start to use their imaginations. Some people think it’s A, some think it’s B, some think it’s C, and then some people think it’s A. There are a lot of trolls who specialize in setting the pace on the Internet, so a large group of people who want to take advantage of others ridicule A, B, and C on the Internet, saying that they are short-sighted and ignored others at first, but now others make them unable to reach high...
No matter which country they are from, the melon-eating public particularly likes such face-slapping scenes. This is true for Chinese netizens, and North American netizens are no exception.
Therefore, Li Mu was going to challenge the famous Harvey Weinstein this time. He told Zhao Kang to let his navy to fabricate such a story on the Internet:
At first, Li Mu took "Zombie-Master" to the famous Hollywood film and television tycoon Harvey Weinstein, hoping that he could help distribute it in North America. As a result, Harvey Weinstein did not like the movie at all. Before he watched the film, he told Li Mu, "Based on my understanding of the North American market, I can tell you without watching this movie that this movie is a piece of shit, and it is a piece of shit with more than a dozen movies." It’s old shit that’s been around for years, and North American audiences will definitely not pay for shit like this!”
Here, we want to highlight the arrogance of Harvey Weinstein. He didn't even watch the movie, but he self-righteously concluded that the movie was bad and was bullshit. Such pretentious criminals are the most annoying no matter in which country they are.
Then, before the story ended, Li Mu put aside his wealth and asked Harvey Weinstein to watch the movie before making a decision, but Harvey Weinstein still refused. He said to Li Mu: "I am not as good as making the Internet." You, but when it comes to making movies, you are far worse than me. If I say this movie doesn’t work, it definitely won’t work. It’s because God is blind that its box office in North America can exceed 10 million US dollars!”
Therefore, Li Mu could only use the ¥ to cooperate with Lucas, and Lucas would be responsible for the North American distribution. And now, look at how popular this movie is! Less than 24 hours after its release, it had already grossed 18.5 million US dollars at the box office, completely slapping Harvey Weinstein in the face. Harvey Weinstein must be very depressed now, right? Deserve it! At first you were indifferent to this movie, but now this movie makes you unable to reach it!
After Zhao Kang listened to Li Mu's idea, he was shocked for a long time before saying: "I understand, I will arrange for someone to prepare it."
After speaking, Zhao Kang asked cautiously: "But Xiao Mu, I would like to ask by the way, how did this man named Harvey Weinstein offend you?"
Li Mu laughed: "He didn't offend me."
Zhao Kang exclaimed: "I didn't offend you, why did you punish him like this... If this is done, his reputation will be ruined, right?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "Kangzi, believe me, this guy is not a good person."
"Really?" Zhao Kang asked curiously, "What has this guy done?"
Li Mu said: "This person tricked Chinese directors and film companies by offering millions of dollars to buy overseas distribution rights for Chinese films. After other competitors withdrew, he immediately turned his back and wanted to use ten percent of the money. He bought it at a price of one, and because there was no competition, the copyright owner of the film had no choice but to accept his bad luck and sell the copyright to him at a low price."
"What a fool! Such a bastard!"
Li Mu smiled and said: "This is still a minor matter. Let me tell you this. I have a rumor that this guy has violated a lot of Hollywood actresses, but because he has great influence and power in Hollywood, he didn't People dare to stand up and speak..."
"Beast..."
Li Mu said: "So I decided to take a stab at him. Who makes him so influential in Hollywood? If I want to seize some say in Hollywood in the future, all oligarchs with such influence will be my targets! Because No other oligarchs are allowed in the fields I am involved in!"
Most of the time, Li Mu focuses on development and rarely shows his fangs to the outside world, but this does not mean that Li Mu is just a newbie who only knows how to work hard and does not know how to scheming.
He has no grudge against Harvey. To be honest, he shouldn't hurt others secretly for his own benefit. However, Harvey has no grudge against Huaxia Film. To be honest, he shouldn't do it for his benefit either. Chinese filmmakers are being harmed one after another. The key to the problem is that capital confrontation is never unreasonable.
In the years when Baojie and Lianhe Lihua entered China, they almost acquired all the state-owned daily chemical brands. There were countless unethical competition methods behind this. Price war alone killed many local daily chemical brands. They used At that time, the preferential policies for foreign investment were given to foreign investors to squeeze out the living space of local brands. They even lowered the retail price below the cost price of similar products of local brands. After dragging local brands into the quagmire, they then took the opportunity to acquire them. That's it. They defeated local brands one after another, and finally formed their own absolute monopoly. In front of them, every local brand that refused to accept acquisitions continued to suffer from them.
There are many more unethical things behind this. For example, the acquisition of the local washing powder brand "Panda" promised to vigorously promote this local brand after the acquisition, but the brand was immediately hidden after the acquisition was completed. The local brand, which was originally very famous in the country, The brand died instantly, and the market space it originally occupied was immediately divided up by their own products.
Although this kind of thing is immoral, it is a true portrayal of capital confrontation. In the final analysis, the root of capital confrontation is four words: kill the opponent. If you want to add a scope to these four words, it is: kill everything. opponent.
If Li Mu wants to increase his influence in Hollywood and even become a Hollywood oligarch, the first thing he needs to do is to kill all the oligarchs in Hollywood at this stage. If he can't even figure this out, how can he become an oligarch
Li Mu is not a punisher for heaven, nor is he a simple and kind-hearted little boy. He just feels that after jumping out of the country, he does not need to be so upright. On the contrary, he must have enough oligarchic thinking.
Therefore, in the future, on the road of overseas capital expansion, when you encounter the pitfalls, you will pit them, and when you encounter the pitfalls, you will kill them. Sometimes if you need to demolish other people's houses to build a bridge for yourself, don't be soft-hearted. Those who are soft-hearted Everyone tried to swim over on their own, but without exception they all drowned!
(End of chapter)