From traffic to movie star

Chapter 192 The Time Film Industry in Desperation

On the night of 5.1, a piece of explosive news appeared on the newsletter.

A well-informed big V broke the news that there was a big problem with the movie "Once Upon a Time"!
@octopus hungry dad:

#前前的我们大量销票#According to feedback from theater employees, a large number of malicious refunds occurred in the movie "Once Upon a Time", and its investors took advantage of the newly introduced loopholes in ticket refunds to pay for the pre-sale box office to set up high-ranked films. , and then refunded a large number of tickets on the day of the premiere.

The big V broke the news, and posted screenshots of chat conversations of many theater employees.

Theaters all over the country in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Flower Market, Yunnan and Yunnan have all become victims.

Hundreds, thousands of movie tickets are withdrawn at one time, who can afford such a loss?
Some theaters have even stopped accepting refunds for the "Once Upon a Time" incident!
But only theaters can’t refund tickets. It can’t be blocked at all. The major movie ticket distributors, that is, the online ticketing software must also close the refund system!
As soon as this news came out, relevant celebrities in the movie industry, movie magazines, and self-media reposted it one after another.

The theaters are not easy to mess with. "Once Upon a Time" frantically ate and refunded tickets. It is clear that they want to screw people to death. I'm sorry, even if the theaters work together, they will ruin this movie!

With the efforts of many parties, an hour later, #前前的我们大重销票# was sent to the top of the newsletter hot search, and quickly detonated!
Ironically, there is still a marketing advertisement for #前世的我们泪气大电影# on the second newsletter!

The netizens who clicked in were stunned when they saw the showy operation of this movie.

And some of the audience who were cheated by this movie finally had something to complain about.

"Finally someone exposed it. I want to say that this movie is rubbish! The three views are not correct and the lines are hypocritical. It is worse than the MV of a saliva song."

"So how many of the 1.2 million pre-sales on the first day were sold out?"

"My friend recently started a small theater by himself, and it hasn't been long since it opened. Because of the hype of "Once Upon a Time", his capital chain has been broken, and the film schedule for at least a week in the future has been put in."

For large theaters like Guanchi, you can gradually cut off part of the "Once Upon a Time" film schedule and give it to other movies.

But for small theaters, in order to make money, they mainly only distribute this seemingly popular movie, and wait for the box office to explode to make a profit.

As a result, tickets for "Once Upon a Time" were crazily refunded, and the theaters that had been lined up before were all ruined, and there was no other movie to fill in!

Not only does the waste yard not make money, but it also has to put money into it!

The money can't be returned after being invested, so where is the money to distribute new movies in the summer?

How can a small theater withstand such a toss?

Not to mention small theaters, even Times Pictures couldn't stand it, and held a shareholder meeting overnight to urgently discuss countermeasures.

In the big meeting room of Times Pictures, Hu Zhengxin looked at the shareholders of the company present, and said with a pale face: "Another 10,000+ tickets have been withdrawn. Chen Ying, this woman, what kind of enmity does Times Pictures have with her? Let her Catch our family to pluck the wool!"

Facing the frenzy of ticket refunds for "Once Upon a Time", the theaters of Times Pictures are under pressure, but they are not helpless.

They have decided to gradually cut down the film schedule on the second and third days, and use the remaining films of the same period to share part of the pressure urgently.

As long as it lasts for a month, the June schedule will come, wait for the new movie to enter the theater, and completely kick "Once Upon a Time Us" out of the game.

But when it was close to zero, "Once Upon a Time" bought more than [-] movie tickets frantically in Times theaters through the ticket buying gang.

Times Cinemas immediately realized something was wrong.

However, the ticket refund function has not yet been turned off, and it is even more impossible to turn off the ticket buying system!
So Hu Zhengxin could only watch the other party buy the ticket.

What was even more embarrassing was that Dynasty Entertainment was in a mess and didn't care about the life of Times Pictures. Hu Zhengxin's request to talk to Ke Runheng was directly rejected.

So after zero o'clock, the nightmare of the times came.

Drop drop!
The notification sound of the ticket refund system in the cinema data group began to ring crazily.

Of the 18 movie tickets sold two hours ago, more than 15 were returned!

The key is that there are still [-] movie tickets left on average in Times theaters all over the country, among the golden screenings of all theaters in the next three days.

In other words, in at least three to four days in the future, the schedule of "Once Upon a Time Us" will be set up again.

The filming was locked for the second time, and it couldn't be cut at all!

The few films that Times Pictures used to save the scene were almost squeezed out of the schedule, and the prime time shows were all swallowed up by "Once Upon a Time".

Other theaters are cutting the lineup of "Once Upon a Time", but the times are good, and they have been adding more films!
This time, he was completely trapped!

So now not only Hu Zhengxin is anxious, but all the shareholders in the Times Pictures conference room, including Times President Jin ZB are also anxious.

Once it is not handled properly, Times Cinemas will be doomed.

"Last year, the return ratio of the films we shot was not high. In addition, the film with a large investment at the end of last year was affected by the delayed release of "Big Screen Crisis 2" and "Charlotte". The money on the side is used to make new movies, usually relying on theaters to subsidize points, and now the theaters are in such a situation again."

The president, Jin ZB, said in a distressed voice: "Calculating carefully, the several times of money earned in the past two years are all related to Wei Xun."

A "Forensic Chronicle", a "Wuwen Xidong", and the 2000 million buyout fee when I finally quit "Chinese Partner".

Aren't these three movies all related to Wei Xun?
The point is that "Chinese Partner" itself is the fat of the times, and it was thrown away by them again.

Whenever thinking about this matter, the shareholders of the times turn green with regret.

Hu Zhengxin has become a laughingstock in the circle because of his withdrawal from "Partners in China", so he is most sensitive to the word Wei Xun. Hearing what the president said, he suddenly had a bad feeling: "President Jin, What do you mean by that?"

"It means, you and I will go to Medal Media tomorrow. The ticket buying group dominates, and we have to connect to the new ticketing system to share the online market. If we don't act as soon as possible, do we have to wait until June? Another movie with crazy refunds from Ticket Buyer?"

Jin ZB said: "In a short period of time, we dare not cooperate with Dynasty Entertainment. Wei Xun's "Wolf Warrior" will be released in two months. Only such a big-budget movie can be qualified to reverse the losses of Times Theater. , but in the past year or so, the films of Medal Media have never been willing to enter the theaters of the times, and you should know the reason why."

Hu Zhengxin only felt his heart tremble.

He looked around and found that not only Jin ZB, but all the shareholders were staring at him indifferently.

But when the decision to withdraw from "Chinese Partner" was clearly made by the shareholders, why should Hu Zhengxin be responsible for everything in the end!

It wasn't enough for him to be ridiculed by everyone in the circle for more than a year, and now he has to be pushed out by the shareholders, bowing his head to Wei Xun and admitting his mistakes.

Hu Zhengxin really wanted to stand up and leave, saying that I would not go.

But after a shareholder meeting held all night, seeing that Times Pictures was showing faint signs of a complete collapse, if they don't ask for help now, is it possible to watch the company die?

So the next morning, the red-eyed Hu Zhengxin, followed by Jin ZB, who also hadn't slept all night, came to Order Media.

While on the road, some self-media pushed new news from the entertainment industry.

Ticket Buying Gang finally locked the ticket refund system.

The two presidents of Time Films finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then there was another difficulty.

Before being awarded the medal, Jin ZB said: "Old Hu, later... try your best to admit your mistake."

In Medal Media, Wei Xun spent the night in the rest area of ​​the president's office.

In the morning, Mao Bin knocked on the door to wake him up, and said with a smile, "Brother Xun, the fat sheep is here."

(End of this chapter)