Under Zhu Qiushui's suggestion, the HD DVD of "Treasured Lotus Lamp" was released worldwide 15 days after it was released. It was definitely the fastest DVD release in history.
The DVD was already on sale even before it was taken down in theaters.
Logically speaking, this was against the rules. According to the agreement between the film company and the theaters, the DVD release could only be done after the movie was released in theaters. Otherwise, the DVD would compete with the theaters for market share.
However, the theaters didn't care about the Treasured Lotus Lamp. After all, this movie didn't make much money. Even if they emptied a theater, they would lose money.
Therefore, it was a good thing for the Treasured Lotus Lamp to release the DVD in advance. This way, they could openly remove the Treasured Lotus Lamp from theaters.
Of course, some people might find it strange. If the movie couldn't sell at the box office in theaters, would the DVD release have good box office sales?
Of course not. In history, there were movies that failed in theaters and relied on the DVD to make a comeback. For example, "The Shawshank Redemption" only earned 15 million at the box office after it was released. Then, it relied on the video to make a comeback and earned 50 million USD at the box office.
However, the genre of "Treasured Lotus Lamp" was too special. It was almost impossible to compare it to "The Shawshank Redemption".
Therefore, Boss Jia never imagined that the Treasured Lotus Lamp could make a comeback with the DVD.
In fact, Boss Jia's idea was very simple. He wanted to spend money to buy the DVD sales.
After all, it was very difficult to fake the box office sales. It required a lot of ghost movie box office sales. Also, there were a lot of people who paid attention to it. If it was leaked, it would inevitably damage the Daqian's reputation.
However, it was different to fake the DVD sales. As long as he had the money, Boss Jia could buy tens of millions of copies. No one would be able to find out … Well, to be precise, no one would care about the box office sales of a movie.
Although Boss Jia immediately ordered the release of the DVD, due to various countries' policies, the first country to release the DVD was Fusang. The other countries had to wait for more than a week.
Boss Jia didn't want to wait any longer. After the DVDs of the Treasured Lotus Lantern were sold in Guangying Supermarket in Fusang, Boss Jia directly sent people to buy 1 million DVDs. This way, he could tell Teacher Dai that the Treasured Lotus Lantern was watched by more than 1 million people all over the world. This was a huge success.
In fact, Boss Jia didn't even want to buy it. After all, it was his own business. He could just give a false number. However, our Boss Jia decided to spend money to buy 1 million copies.
Well, if it was just a game with changing numbers, then Boss Jia would feel even more uneasy. So, he might as well buy it directly. Anyway, 1 million DVDs were only 9 million USD. It was really nothing, but it would make Boss Jia feel more at ease.
However, in this world, there were always some strange changes.
Keiichi Tanaka was a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun. At the same time, he was also a veteran anime fan. Other than his work, his biggest hobby was watching anime.
However, Keiichi Tanaka didn't have time to go to the cinema to watch movies. Therefore, DVDs became his best choice. In order to watch movies with higher quality, Keiichi Tanaka recently changed to a Daqian DVD for himself.
After the introduction of DVDs, DVDs with higher quality immediately replaced VCDs. Daqian was also very supportive. They directly launched a free DVD exchange program.
As long as a Daqian VCD user was willing to increase their membership from 20 years to 30 years, then they could exchange their old Daqian VCD for DVDs for free.
After that, the entire Fusang almost collectively changed from the VCD era to the DVD era.
Therefore, after work, Keiichi Tanaka ran to the nearest Guangying Supermarket, intending to find the latest movie to watch.
In the end, he saw a person dragging a large suitcase away.
It was the first time Keiichi Tanaka saw someone dragging a suitcase to Guangying Supermarket. At this time, all the staff were talking about the man.
After a few words with the staff, Keiichi Tanaka understood that the man just bought 300 DVDs in one go.
This was actually not rare. These staff had even seen rich people buy thousands of DVDs in one go. However, buying 300 DVDs in one go, and at the same time, it was an animated movie. That was unprecedented.
"There's something wrong here!" Keiichi Tanaka's reporter's soul immediately burned. He was keenly aware that there might be a huge problem, so he immediately asked, "What movie did that person just buy? I want to buy one too! "
"It's this … Treasured Lotus Lantern!" The staff handed a DVD to Keiichi Tanaka. Keiichi Tanaka took a look and couldn't help but exclaim, because it was actually an animated movie.
As an anime and manga enthusiast, Tanaka Keiichi was naturally attracted by the names on the DVD: Dai Tielang Supervisor, Dynasty Animation Production. These two names were practically god-like names in the anime and manga world!
At this time, in the animation industry all over the world, the name Dynasty Animation meant the world's best TV animation and animated movies. Even the Fusangpeople, who regarded animation as the quintessence of their country, had to admit that Dynasty Animation was the best in the world. There was no animation company in Fusang that could be compared to Dynasty Animation. Their animation production standards were almost an era ahead.
However, Dai Tielang was not as famous. Although he was the big boss and CEO of Dynasty Animation, the position of CEO was commercialized. Therefore, many Fusangpeople never thought that Dai Tielang would be a powerful animation director.
However, Keiichi Tanaka was different from others. As a reporter and a veteran animation enthusiast, Keiichi Tanaka deliberately collected information about Dai Tielang and found this great animation god.
In Keiichi Tanaka's heart, Dai Tielang was even comparable to Hayao Miyazaki as the animation god.
Although Keiichi Tanaka was not at the level of kowtowing to Dai Tielang, when he saw the Treasured Lotus Lantern animated movie directed by Dai Tielang, it was as if he had discovered a treasure. He immediately ran home to watch the movie.
Then, there was no "then".
The next day, Keiichi Tanaka returned to the company with ten DVDs of "Treasured Lotus Lamp" in his hands. His eyes were black, but his face was red.
Whenever Keiichi Tanaka met someone, he said, "XX-san, I have a masterpiece from the 21st century here. If you don't watch it, you will regret it for ten lifetimes. Do you want to take it back and watch it? I guarantee that you will experience the feeling of your soul roaming!"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
