He Xiaochen was stunned.
[Lock field? ah! You didn't say that I haven't paid much attention yet, aren't they deliberately locking the field like this! ?]
As long as one ticket is sold for each pre-sale session, the theater cannot change the movie at will.
The word-of-mouth of "Phantom God" is irretrievable, and the celebrities of bad movies are well known. Most people will choose to avoid lightning and watch other movies instead.
But according to He Xiaochen, "Phantom of the Gods" still occupies a lot of scenes.
Shen Li clicked on the relevant app, casually checked the film schedules of several nearby theaters in the next few days, and found something was wrong.
In many sessions of "Phantom God", only one or two seats were sold, some were in the first row, some were in the corners, and this was even the case for the sessions four or five days later.
This is obviously problematic.
Because the industry was very optimistic about "Phantom of the Gods" before, they arranged a lot of film schedules for them in advance. Now that the theaters see the situation is not right, they want to replace these with "Chasing the Light", but because these shows have been locked. do it.
[The film crew of "Phantom God" is too shameless, right? My own film is so bad that no one watches it, so I insist on occupying these film scheduling resources, and even if I can't sell tickets, I won't make room for other films? Many people want to watch "Follow the Light" but there are no shows!]
He Xiaochen became even angrier when he thought that he had searched for a long time and failed to grab a single ticket.
Shen Li's eyelashes drooped slightly.
You don't need to think about it to know that this is the method used by Yu's media.
They will do this for a very simple reason: they want to ensure their schedule to the greatest extent possible, and avoid going offline early because the box office is too bleak.
In addition, if the movie is locked, they will have room to manipulate and can make money at the box office.
As long as they make the illusion that the movie tickets are sold out, even if no one watches this movie, they can still count this part into their box office results.
This kind of behavior is actually very shameful, especially for "Phantom of the Gods" and Yu's Media, it is simply too cheap.
But they probably can't help it now.
The total box office of the previous two days added up to just over 30 million. If you think about it, you know that their follow-up box office trend will only get worse and worse.
So now I can only rely on this method to barely maintain the last bit of face.
Shen Li clicked on Weibo again, and searched for "Phantom of the Imaginary" in real time.
The page was refreshed, almost full of complaints about how ugly this movie was, Shen Li swiped down, and soon found that someone was complaining about the number of episodes of "Phantom God".
Especially in some small and medium-sized cities, there are fewer theaters and fewer choices for audiences.
"Phantom God" occupies a considerable part of the film schedule due to its lock-in. Many people went to the theater, and there were no other movies to watch at that time, so they could only be forced to choose "Phantom God".
Those who wanted to watch "Chasing the Light" had no choice but to give up.
Shen Li watched it for a while, and soon had another unexpected harvest.
Someone posted a Weibo.
[Finally bought a ticket for "Chasing the Light", but the theater opened tickets for "Phantom God"? ? ? What kind of deceptive behavior is this?]
Attached are two pictures below, one is a photo of "Chasing the Light" taken in the theater, and the other is two movie tickets with "Phantom God" printed on it impressively.
Looking at those two photos, Shen Li raised her eyebrows slowly.
Yu's media is really crazy, they can even steal the box office
The corners of her lips were slightly curved, but there was no smile at the corners of her eyes and brows, only a cold sarcasm.
It's only the third day, and Yu Yu can't take it anymore
She quit Weibo and sent a message to He Xiaochen.
[The filming of "Follow the Light" should come up later, I'll watch it then.]
He Xiaochen sighed.
[I hope.]
Afterwards, Shen Li called Zhao Xuan again.
…
In the afternoon, an entertainment account with a million followers posted a Weibo.
[Sister Eight Color Entertainment: Shocked! It is suspected that "Phantom of the Gods" deliberately locked the scene to rush for the film, and stole the box office of "Chasing the Light"!]
The following is the Jiugong grid, including many screenshots of "Phantom God" that only sold one ticket, as well as the complaints and photos of many people who clearly watched "Chasing Light" but got tickets for "Phantom God" .
This is really an intuitive thing, and this blogger organizes it very clearly, at a glance, everyone quickly understands what happened.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves!
Comments quickly proliferated.
[? ? ? lock field? Steal the box office? Is there a serious illness in "Phantom God Chronicle"! ?]
[I just said that "Phantom of the Gods" is so bad, how can there be such a high ranking of the film, it turns out that this kind of trick is used! ?]
[Let's not talk about the lock-up, stealing the box office is too much, right?]
[I! me me me! I watched "Chasing the Light" at noon, and the theater gave me tickets for "Phantom God"! I also specifically asked the theater staff, and they said it didn't affect them, they all watched it the same way. It turned out to be stealing the box office of "Chasing the Light"! ? Pooh! How shameless!]
[I'm really about to vomit! This is a big movie with an investment of several hundred million? This is Yu's Media, which stands at the top of the domestic film investment circle! ? This behavior is too disgusting! In the future, I will never watch the movies produced by Yu's Media again!]
[Heh, Yu Cheng's company, it's not surprising that it has this kind of virtue~]
…
As soon as this Weibo was posted, the number of reposts increased rapidly, and it quickly caused a storm of public opinion.
# "Phantom God Ji" lock field#
#"Phantom God Ji" steals the box office of "Chasing Light"#
It didn't take long for related entries to be on the hot search list.
Because it involves the two most discussed movies so far, this matter has attracted the attention of many people.
If the behavior of locking the market is still understandable, then stealing the box office is really touching the bottom line of the industry.
When Yu Yu knew about this, she was having a meeting in the conference room of Yu's Media Headquarters Building.
She hasn't slept well in the past few days. Seeing that "Phantom God" only won 30 million box office in two days of its release, she was so stressed that she almost collapsed.
"Think about it carefully, in the current situation, we-"
Yu Yu was talking when she was suddenly interrupted by Liu Bo who was sitting on the right.
"Yu, Mr. Yu..."
Her face instantly darkened:
"what happened again?"
Liu Bo swallowed, and said with difficulty:
"... Someone reported us to the film bureau, saying that we were suspected of illegal operations! The film bureau is already preparing to investigate us!"
Yu Yu's heart sank suddenly!
"What!?"
good night~
(end of this chapter)