These filmmakers didn't know that they had overestimated the integrity of Boss Jia and the Daqian. They had also forgotten what kind of person Boss Jia was.
He was the richest man in the world, and for the richest man in the world, he couldn't afford to lose face.
Not to mention, Boss Jia knew that he was facing a total war with the Morgan Financial Group this time, and the movie was the real beginning of the war. The Daqian had to win this war, and they had to win beautifully. Only then could the people who were following the Daqian for a living be confident and not be scared by Morgan and betray them.
Therefore, Boss Jia gave the order that the online box office of "Investiture of the Gods 1" must exceed 100 million yuan on the first day. In order to achieve this goal, Boss Jia also prepared tens of millions of zombie accounts. If the data was wrong, these zombie accounts would pay for the broadcast and forcefully push the box office of "Investiture of the Gods 1" up.
Well, using the zombie accounts to actually pay for the broadcast could perfectly fool the backstage supervision and censorship … However, this trick was limited to increasing the box office of the movie, not reducing the box office of the movie. Therefore, Guangying Video couldn't use this method to make money. What a pity!
However, unexpectedly, Boss Jia didn't even use the unconventional methods prepared by him. In the first hour after "Investiture of the Gods 1" was released, the number of people who watched the movie exceeded 20 million.
This made Boss Jia, who originally planned to falsify the accounts, have no choice but to help Guangying Video expand the server capacity to meet the demands of these crazy viewers.
In the end, almost all of the Daqian's spare traffic in a certain country, such as QQ, Taobao, and so on, were given to Guangying Video. This was also the advantage of having a big plate. There were so many products that could be given to Guangying Video. Otherwise, it would really explode.
The box office of 117 million yuan was not exaggerated at all. There were indeed nearly 60 million viewers who watched the movie.
This data sounded too terrifying and inconceivable, but it had its own logic.
First of all, after the hype of the first five movies, "Investiture of the Gods 1" had a huge traffic pool. He estimated that the box office of a certain country would be more than 600 million USD.
Then there was the convenience of watching movies. At this time, Guangying Video had a large number of TVs that came with their own set-top boxes. Users could directly connect their TVs to the Internet to watch movies from Guangying Video. This way, not only computer users, but also TV users could easily lie in bed and watch TV.
At the same time, it also allowed many users who were not willing to go to the cinema or could not stand the environment of the cinema to watch the movie. This way, the base number of people who were willing to go to the cinema would increase.
Secondly, the ticket price was 2 USD per show. It was 15% cheaper than the price of the movie theater. Although it was impossible for the traffic to be as exaggerated as 5 times, it was still possible for it to be 2 times cheaper. After all, it was cheaper. Therefore, the number of viewers increased again.
Finally, he had to thank the recent war of public opinion. Although "Investiture of the Gods 1" carried a lot of notoriety, it did let more people know about this movie. It also made many viewers curious about it. They all wanted to see what "Investiture of the Gods 1" was about.
Moreover, the dominant public opinion on the Internet was the Daqian. Internet users generally felt that the Daqian was too innocent. It was ridiculous to convict him based on a line. In addition, various media outlets on the Internet tried their best to guide and clear his name. Therefore, the Daqian's reputation on the Internet was quite good. Many people even felt that the Daqian was very pitiful and had been wronged. Therefore, they decided to watch the movie as soon as possible to give the Daqian a little comfort.
Also, the Internet was not like the cinema. The number of customers that the cinema could accommodate at the same time was limited. Many popular movies might not be able to buy tickets in the first few days. Therefore, many viewers would deliberately wait a few days or even a few weeks before going to watch the movie.
However, it was different on the Internet. Most of the audience would squeeze in to watch the movie on the first day of its release. This caused the movie's box office to be very concentrated. The box office on the first day was very high, and the box office in the next few days would be significantly lower.
Finally, there was another point. Among the nearly 60 million views, one-third of the views were not from a certain country but from other regions.
Because the cinemas in other regions did not ban "Investiture of the Gods 1", the local Guangying Video did not open the "Investiture of the Gods 1" on demand. This made many people envious because they wanted to lie at home and watch a super blockbuster movie comfortably for only two dollars.
Although Guangying Video used the technology of lock-in, as long as people were willing to search and learn on the Internet, they could easily find a way to climb over the wall and watch "Investiture of the Gods 1" in other countries. This caused one-third of the views to be from viewers from other countries.
In summary, it led to the explosion of the box office on the first day of "Investiture of the Gods 1". After that, "Investiture of the Gods 1" basically returned to normal, increasing by tens of millions of dollars every day.
A week later, the online box office of "Investiture of the Gods 1" exceeded 200 million dollars. The share of the Daqian movie reached 100 million dollars, and "Investiture of the Gods 1" miraculously broke even.
This referred to the box office of a certain country's market. If the Asian market was included, the movie had already made a lot of money. As for the European market, it was said that the cinemas there had already begun to consider lifting the ban.
The Daqian movie was laughing, but the faces of all the cinema owners in the United States were dark. The online box office of 200 million dollars, if it was placed in the cinemas, it would be a domestic box office of 1 billion dollars. These cinema owners could directly get a share of 500 million dollars in the box office.
Even if they excluded all kinds of miscellaneous expenses such as taxes, they would still have a share of 400 million dollars in the box office. This was almost equivalent to the income of all their movies for a few months.
Thinking of this, it was easy to imagine how painful the hearts of these cinema owners were.
If it was just one movie, it would be fine. They could grit their teeth and endure it, but the problem was that they didn't ban just one movie, but the entire Daqian movie company.
The Daqian movie company was a super movie giant that could produce a stable global box office of at least 2 billion dollars per year. It deserved to be called the world's number one movie company.
So, at least 2 billion dollars per year would be gone. All of it would slip away from the cinemas and onto the platform.
This wave … This wave was a triple win. The audience saved on the movie ticket price, the platform earned a share of the movie, and the company kept its own costs. So, the only thing that would lose was the cinemas.
This was not an ordinary loss, but a monstrous loss. It was a huge loss that was enough to reduce the income of the cinemas by more than 50% and cause them to close down on the spot.
Was this something that humans could bear?
The cinemas were also capitalists, and these capitalists rebelled on the spot!!
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