"Show me today's showtimes and yesterday's midnight showtimes!" In a movie theater in the United States, the boss, Zuckerby, who came to work in the morning, said to his employees. Soon, the relevant data was sent to the boss' hands.
"This Pokemon's midnight results are actually so bad!" Seeing the midnight showtimes of Pokemon, the boss suddenly frowned. He remembered that because this was a movie released by 21st Century Fox, and the early publicity was quite hot, claiming to have 100 million USD of investment, the boss added a lot of showtimes for this movie.
The boss glanced at the showtimes and found that there were a total of 36 movies in his theater today, and 22 of them were Pokemon.
"Go and adjust it. Lower the showtimes of Pokemon to about 10 showtimes tomorrow!" Zuckerby ordered, and then sighed in his heart. The tickets for today's movie theater were already sold out, so it was impossible to change the showtimes today. He could only start tomorrow to stop the losses.
Thinking of this, Zuckerby felt a pang of heartache, and even his work for the whole day became boring.
On the other side, the discussion between Megill and 21st Century Fox's executives continued.
"I think this is a rare opportunity. This is our last chance to recover our investment!" Megill said eagerly to the executives, "Since the Daqian is willing to buy our investment, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We can avoid tens of millions of USD of losses!"
Faced with Megill's persuasion, the president of 21st Century Fox, Spicer, was a little hesitant. Was it really appropriate to recover the investment at this time?
"Are you sure this movie will lose money? Pokemon is a very powerful IP. The game alone has sold 50 million copies. If we can get 10 million viewers to watch the movie, then the box office will be 100 million USD! "Spicer said.
"It's definitely a flop. It's not like you haven't seen the data of the midnight showtimes. It's almost the same as the box office of those independent movies!" Megill said.
"But it's not like there hasn't been a comeback in history … Moreover, its audience should be teenagers …"
"President, there are movies that can make a comeback, but is this Pokemon the silent lamb or the Shawshank's salvation? This is just a flashy movie made for children. How can a movie like this have as much depth as the other two movies? How can they rely on word of mouth to make a comeback? "Megill said.
"It's true that the target audience is teenagers, but teenagers won't watch movies without the company of their parents. Since ancient times, the United States has never had a children's movie with a box office of more than 100 million USD. If it can't attract parents, everything is just empty talk. If this movie can't earn more than 200 million USD at the box office, then we will lose money."
"What if …" Spike still couldn't make up his mind. "Titanic", which was a collaboration with the Daqian, would be released next year. After Boss Jia's shipwreck live broadcast, "Titanic" would definitely not have the miserable start that it had in his previous life. According to 21st Century Fox's calculations, "Titanic" could even have a dream opening weekend box office of 60 million USD. In the future, it would at least have a high box office of 500 million USD.
If the collaboration with the Daqian was affected because of the Pokemon incident, then he might be fired.
Just when Spicer was hesitating, his secretary walked in and handed him a new report. Because all the theaters had to decide the schedule for the next day before noon, Spicer could already see the schedule for the next day in all the theaters in the United States.
"What, the schedule for Pokemon on the second day dropped by more than 60%?!" Seeing such a shocking decrease in the schedule, it meant that the upper limit of Pokemon's box office had basically collapsed.
"Alright!" Spike didn't have any more hesitation. He was convinced and said to Megill, "If that's the case, hurry up and sign the contract with the Daqian Group!"
"Yes!" Megill smiled. This time, he had made a contribution in time and helped the company stop its losses.
"Also, be careful. Don't anger the Daqian Group. We still have to work together in the future!" Spike added.
Megill was very fast. In less than half an hour, he returned to Boss Jia's room. Boss Jia seemed to have foreseen Megill's return and prepared a buyback contract.
Megill read the contract a few times and confirmed that there were no mistakes. After Boss Jia signed it, he brought the contract back to the company and stamped it with 21st Century Fox's official seal.
As a result, the 40% shares and profits that Fox originally invested in Pokemon were all bought back by Boss Jia. Boss Jia paid Fox a fee of 30 million USD.
Of course, as the distributor of this movie, Fox still had to collect a lot of distribution fees from Boss Jia.
Holding the contract, Megill left with satisfaction. At this time, it was already four o 'clock in the afternoon. Although the adults had already gone to work, the children had already finished a week of school and began to leave the school. They all went back to their own homes and find their mothers.
No, there seemed to be something wrong with today's script. Many children, especially middle and high school students, didn't go home after school or participate in group activities with their friends. Instead, they gradually gathered on the streets of the city and finally headed towards a point.
"Attention, there are guests!" At the entrance of a movie theater, an employee who was dozing off at the ticket counter was woken up by his colleague.
"This is weird. It's only four o 'clock in the afternoon. Who would come to watch a movie at this time?" The employee who was woken up muttered. For the movie industry, four o 'clock in the afternoon was a bit awkward.
It was neither close to noon nor close to afternoon. Therefore, there were usually very few people watching movies. It was considered good if there were more than ten people in a day.
"Hey, it's a group of children!" In the end, the ticket seller found out that it was a group of children who came to watch the movie. There were about a dozen of them and they were chatting with each other. They were all friends.
"Sir, is there Pokemon today?" The tallest child among them leaned on the counter and asked.
"Yes!" The ticket seller quickly glanced at the schedule and said, "The nearest one is at 4: 20. The ticket price is 12 dollars per ticket. Do you want to buy tickets?"
"12 dollars, so expensive!" The tallest child exclaimed. The price was obviously out of his expectations.
"Yeah, I heard that this is a fully 3D animation. The production cost is 100 million dollars!" The ticket seller explained.
"Okay …" The tall boy turned around and discussed with his friends. It seemed that because the ticket price was too high, it caused their budget to exceed. In the end, the children took out all the money in their trouser pockets and finally collected 144 dollars. They bought 12 movie tickets and entered the movie theater happily.
"This is really strange. Didn't they say that this movie was a flop and that they only had 10 slots left? It's four o 'clock in the afternoon and there are people watching it! "The colleague beside him said with some surprise.
"This is a children's movie after all! It's not strange that there are a lot of children watching it. This time is just the time when they are out of school. However, I don't think there will be too many … "Before the ticket seller finished his words, his eyelids twitched because more than ten children appeared in his line of sight and ran towards the movie theater.
"Sir, I want to buy tickets!"
…
It only took 15 minutes for the 4: 20 movie tickets in total were sold out. When the children who bought the tickets happily went to the movie theater to watch the movie, the children who arrived late could only buy tickets for the 4: 50 movie and then wait in the movie theater for 30 minutes.
How could the lively and active children bear this? It was simply too painful.
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