"How's the Hongjun Project going?" Boss Jia asked with a smile after all the children left.
"Everything is going well. I've completed the production of the lithography machine. The construction of the factory is almost done. The first two prototypes have also been debugged. We can start small-scale production at any time!" Leng Xuxin said softly.
"Is that so? Then my ten years of effort have not been in vain!" Boss Jia looked at the rather large cinema in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.
Ten years ago, Boss Jia had just arrived in this world. Other than the various ideas and ideas in his head, he had nothing else.
Even Boss Jia from ten years ago didn't expect that he would be able to help Hua Xia make such a huge change ten years later. Even the lithography machine that once strangled Hua Xia's people had completed the era of catch-up.
"As a transmigrator, I should be qualified …" Boss Jia sighed and chatted with Leng Xuxin for a long time. Then, Jia Changtian and the others came back.
At this time, Leng Qiu was wailing. Jia Zhangzhi was glaring at Leng Qiu while Jia Changtian had an expression that said it had nothing to do with him.
"Lil 'Zhi, did you bully Brother Leng Qiu?" Boss Jia frowned and asked immediately.
"No, I was just talking to him nicely. I didn't hit him or scold him!" Jia Zhangzhi immediately retorted.
"It's okay. It's just children playing around!" Leng Xuxin quickly said.
"This is not a small matter. I don't want my children to become bastards who only know how to bully others!" Boss Jia's expression was a little unfriendly. Zhu Qiushui's expression changed slightly. He moved slightly and stood beside Jia Zhangzhi, afraid that Boss Jia would be like Liu Bei.
"Leng Qiu, did your sister bully you?" Boss Jia squatted down and asked.
"Yes!" Leng Qiu nodded vigorously.
"He's talking nonsense. I didn't bully him!" Jia Zhangzhi immediately denied.
"Leng Qiu, what did your sister do to you? Tell uncle honestly. Uncle will make the decision for you!" Boss Jia comforted Leng Qiu and said gently.
"She said … she said …" Leng Qiu sobbed and said intermittently.
"Did he speak ill of you?"
"No, she said I'm pretty and cute … she wants to marry me … wah wah wah … I don't want to marry her … wah wah wah!!" As Leng Qiu spoke, she burst into tears. "I'm a boy. I can't be pretty or cute. I can't marry her. I should be the one marrying her!"
Her words made Boss Jia, who originally wanted to teach the child a lesson, have an interesting expression. Leng Xuxin's expression was even more interesting.
"Hahahaha!" Boss Jia finally couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Little Leng, I think it's better for the two of us to have an arranged marriage. If my daughter is still willing to marry … no, marry your son when she grows up, then your son will be my daughter-in-law … no, my son-in-law. How about that?"
"Hahaha, as long as the chairman doesn't mind, there's no problem!" Leng Xexin's smile was crooked. Since Leng Xexin was engaged to Boss Jia, his disappointing son wouldn't have to worry about anything in the future … although Leng Xexin was quite rich himself.
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At the end of the noisy day, the others went to bed early, while Boss Jia and Zhu Qiushui lay on the bed.
"Sigh!" Boss Jia suddenly sighed.
"What's wrong?" Zhu Qiushui asked curiously.
"I'm thinking about the teacher's movie. I'm afraid it's not optimistic!" Boss Jia said.
"But don't we all think it's very good and very good?" Zhu Qiushui asked, puzzled.
"We adults think so, but you've seen the children's expressions. Most children won't like the scenes and plot of Treasured Lotus Lantern. As for adults, they won't be interested in a cartoon! "Boss Jia said.
In this era, the movie industry of Hua Xia hadn't recovered yet. Basically, the audience adhered to the principle that what they could see in the cinema could also be seen on TV. They didn't like to go to the cinema.
Even if they went to the cinema, they would usually watch all kinds of blockbusters.
Although Treasured Lotus Lantern was a blockbuster with a huge investment, it was naturally despised by the adult audience of Hua Xia since it was crowned as a cartoon.
Only children would watch stupid cartoons!
This was the general view of all adults in the year 2000. The only reason adults watched cartoons was to accompany their children … There were even some adults who loved cartoons who didn't dare to go to the cinema to watch cartoons alone because they were afraid of being laughed at. They had to use all kinds of methods, such as getting a child to accompany them.
Therefore, if children didn't like Treasured Lotus Lantern, then Treasured Lotus Lantern's box office in Hua Xia was basically finished.
Of course, Boss Jia was basically certain of this when he saw Treasured Lotus Lantern for the first time.
As for the box office market overseas … Boss Jia didn't expect anything at all. After all, it was basically impossible to expect foreigners to be interested in a completely unfamiliar myth of Hua Xia.
The reality was basically as Boss Jia expected. Although the movie received a lot of good reviews, the box office was a complete failure. Even in the Hua Xia market, the movie's box office was less than 5 million yuan. In less than a week, all the cinemas in Hua Xia pulled the movie off the shelves.
Of course, considering that this movie was Daqian, the cinemas still had to give face to Boss Jia. Therefore, they didn't completely pull the movie off the shelves. They only arranged for one or two screenings a day, and it was either in the morning or in the wee hours of the morning. This was the last bit of face they gave to Boss Jia.
Soon, Treasured Lotus Lantern was released in other markets around the world. However, when the film companies in these countries saw the results of Treasured Lotus Lantern in Hua Xia, many of the film companies in these countries couldn't directly break the contract. They basically followed the instructions of Hua Xia's cinemas and arranged for the movie to be released at an unfavorable time. After a month or so, they would directly pull the movie off the shelves. This way, they would give face to the Daqian and wouldn't affect the normal operations of the cinemas.
In this regard, the Daqian also expressed its silence.
The Daqian could be domineering, but it had to be profitable.
The Daqian also couldn't force the cinemas to release a movie that couldn't make money. This would destroy the good relationship between the Daqian and the cinemas. Boss Jia just had to worry about how to prevent his teacher from being angered to death by these things.
Although Teacher Dai said that the box office didn't matter, as long as the movie could be released, it really gathered his life's work, and that was enough.
However, Boss Jia was not stupid. If Teacher Dai really knew that the movie he spent hundreds of millions of USD to produce didn't even earn back 10 million USD in the global box office, it would really be terrible.
Therefore, Boss Jia was very worried and didn't know how to comfort his teacher.
"Why don't we release the DVD in advance?" Zhu Qiushui gave Boss Jia an idea and said, "We can release the DVD in advance and then count the money earned from the DVD as the box office. This way, the data will be better!"
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