Let's rewind time for a while.
After the first week of Pokemon's box office came out, Boss Jia knew that the outcome was set. Pokemon would be able to earn at least 200 million USD at the box office. That was enough. After all, the box office of Pokemon: The Counterattack of Transcendent in his previous life was only 90 million USD. Now, it had doubled.
This was also the highest box office record for a Fusang animated film in the other world in the United States.
Speaking of which, the production cost of Pokemon: The Counterattack of Transcendent in the other world was only 3 million USD. In the end, it earned 90 million USD at the box office in North America. In terms of profit, Pokemon in the other world completely crushed Boss Jia.
After all, even if they earned 200 million USD at the box office, based on the 50/50 split, the Daqian would earn about 100 million USD at the box office. That would barely cover the cost of the movie system.
However, if they included the tens of millions of USD that had to be paid to 20th Century Fox for distribution, they might even lose a little.
Of course, this was impossible because the North American release was only the beginning. Pokemon: The Counterattack of Transcendent would be released worldwide. The fastest was Fusang. According to the plan, Pokemon would be released in Fusang on June 12th. Then, it would be released in Ying State, France, Hua Xia, Europe, and Asia. Then, it would be released in South America, Australia, and finally Africa.
Anyway, they were going to make money globally. Otherwise, Boss Jia's 100 million USD would really be wasted.
In his previous life, Pokemon earned 90 million USD at the box office in North America and 160 million USD at the box office worldwide. Based on the 50/50 split, the production company would be able to earn 80 million USD at the box office. If the distribution company's share was deducted, the actual box office share would be about 60 million USD.
Compared to the production cost of 3 million USD, this was a profit of 20 times!
Since ancient times, the most popular animated films in Fusang came from Hayao Miyazaki's films. However, when it came to box office legends, Pokemon was the most popular.
It was no wonder that ever since "The Counterattack of Overdream" achieved amazing results, all the national masterpieces in Japan were basically produced at the rate of one movie per year.
In addition to the Pokemon series, there was also the Detective Conan series, Crayon Shin-chan series, Doraemon series, and so on. Anyway, there was a new animated film version every year.
However, the Pokemon series gradually died out, and the most awesome one was the Detective Conan series...
However, based on the development of Fusang's animated films in the future, other than the Pokemon series that could achieve impressive box office worldwide at the beginning, the other animated films' paths became narrower and narrower. In the end, they could only make money in Fusang, and it was very difficult for them to make money in the global box office.
This was also why Boss Jia had to invest hundreds of millions of USD to create the first Pokemon movie with the effect of a blockbuster. It was to create the blockbuster property of the Pokemon movies, because in the future, the global box office market would only recognize blockbusters, and nothing else would be recognized.
The facts proved that the Pokemon IP was very recognized in the global box office market. Otherwise, the trashy 1B detective Pikachu would not be able to achieve 500 million USD at the global box office. Their success was because they used the special effects of Hollywood blockbusters!
Alright, back to the main topic. Yamauchi had been strongly inviting Boss Jia to visit Fusang to discuss cooperation. Hence, Boss Jia wanted to take advantage of the Pokemon release in Fusang to make a trip to Fusang.
But the night before Boss Jia was about to board the plane, something unexpected happened. Boss Jia did not expect it.
That night, Boss Jia was using his laptop to surf the Internet. He used email to communicate with his secretaries in China.
As a result, when he was halfway through using the laptop, the Microsoft offic software suddenly could not be opened. A prompt of error 432 appeared. Boss Jia instinctively opened the browser and wanted to enter Google to search how to solve the error 432. Boss Jia's fingers twitched. He then smiled bitterly and said, "I almost forgot that there is no search engine in this era!"
Boss Jia had no choice but to enter the default homepage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. He wanted to see if Microsoft provided any solutions to the error on their official website. He realized that Microsoft's official website was very simple and did not provide any help. Luckily, Microsoft has an official BBS. Boss Jia entered the BBS to see if there were any useful posts. Suddenly, he saw a post that said, "Search for sex on 51. You will find something new!"
"What new discovery? Is it a porn website? "Boss Jia complained, and his body froze.
"Search for sex on 51! What does this mean? Is there a search engine in this era?! " Boss Jia immediately clicked on the post. Although the post's first post did not list the URL of the May 1st search, some curious people were curious. However, there were some curious noobs who asked about it and posted the URL of 51! "
It's easy to remember. Only 5 1's!
Boss Jia immediately entered the URL and entered 51. When he saw the URL, Boss Jia felt a chill down his spine. A big search box appeared at the top of the page, followed by a search button. Although the layout of the website is different from the mainstream search websites in Back of the City, this iconic design tells Boss Jia that this is a search engine website.
Boss Jia started to experiment on this website. First, he entered sex according to the post's instructions. Then, he entered a series of xx websites.
Although there weren't many xx websites in this era, and they couldn't provide videos. At most, they could provide some low-quality pictures. However, to the netizens of this era, this was exciting enough!
Then, Boss Jia entered error 432. Sure enough, many web pages related to error 432 appeared. Although there were many wrong options, Boss Jia quickly found a web page that could solve the problem.
Next, Boss Jia didn't care about his original work anymore. He searched and experienced crazily in 51. Finally, he came to a conclusion. Although there was still a huge gap in technology and page design when compared with Google, Baidu, and other professional search engines in the future, there was no doubt that this was a search engine with basically perfect functions.
One must know that search engines are the most important tool on the Internet.
Otherwise, everyone can give it a try and see if you can happily browse through various web pages without using any search engines.
If the Internet is a sharp sword, then search engines are the hilt of this sword. Without the hilt, no matter how sharp the sword was, no one would be able to use it.
This was because the most complete search engine in history was Google, which only appeared in 1998. Boss Jia was already prepared to buy Google in the early days of Google's existence. Therefore, he didn't think about search engines.
However, he didn't expect that a 51/1 search would suddenly appear. This was something that had never happened in Boss Jia's memory.
"Could it be that there really was such a May 1st search in history? Was it only killed by Google? " Boss Jia muttered. He remembered that he had watched several documentaries about search engines. According to this May 1st search function, there should be some traces of it.
After all, the current May 1st search function wasn't much worse than Google's three years later. There was no reason that he hadn't heard of this website!
Of course, 51 forum was an exception.
"Or is this a website that appeared out of nowhere because of my butterfly wings?" Boss Jia finally came up with a guess, but he couldn't be sure.
"Hello, I'm Jia Yapeng. Go and tell Fusang that I won't be going back tomorrow … What, I don't know when I'll go to Fusang. Maybe I won't go at all. Tell them not to wait for me. Just finish their work as usual!" Boss Jia called his secretary as fast as he could.
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