Don't call me Master, call me Director

This is especially true for the secretary who walks into the office of Managing Director Takayuki Ikeda to deliver coffee.

At this time, he didn't even dare to breathe, as if Hiroyasu Matsuoka in the room and Executive Director Ikeda Takayuki who came to discuss the matter were the terrifying Godzilla on the screen.

After the secretary delivered the coffee, he hurried out of the office, fearing that he would be dismissed by the furious two who just stepped into the office with their left foot.

However, the secretary had completely lost his mind. Ikeda Takayuki and Hiroshi Matsuoka, who were sitting on the two sofas, were not in the mood to care about him at all. Their attention was all focused on the statistical report in their respective hands.

Especially Guang'an Matsuoka, from just now to now, the corners of his eyes have been twitching twitching, never stopping at all.

That's not jumping with joy, but disappointment and panic!

The box office performance of "Godzilla" was even worse than he expected. Originally, he thought that with the help of Paramount in North America, the box office on the first day was the most conservative and should be around 1300 million US dollars, while Japan relied on Toho's The exclusive screening of "Super Eight" is sure to surpass it.

This standard is much lower than the previous ambition and pride, and there is a feeling that the standard has been lowered from 100 points to 60 points.

However, the reality is that he didn't even pass 60 points!

Not only failed, but significantly below the passing grade.

"Godzilla" had a box office of US$842 million on its first day in North America, while in Japan...

Anyway, Dongbao Cinemas has never had such a low daily sales in the past 10 years. This is only because the cinema only shows "Godzilla" and does not show "Super Eight".

"This gap...is over..."

Guangan Matsuoka's words revealed deep despair.

The production cost of "Godzilla" is as high as 8000 million U.S. dollars, and the cost of publicity and distribution is countless.

Under the pressure of high costs, how can such a box office on the first day make Guangan Matsuoka hand over to the board of directors? !

"Let's think about how to end it."

Compared with Guang'an Matsuoka, who is already close to death, Takayuki Ikeda is still mentally stable.

From the very beginning, he felt that this plan was unreliable, so the contamination was limited.

Just because of my close relationship with Guang'an Matsuoka, even if I didn't get involved in the "Godzilla" project, life in Toho would not be easy in the future.

"It is estimated that the board of directors will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow, and we only have one day to make ourselves decent."

Hearing what Ikeda Takayuki said, Guang'an Matsuoka just showed a wry smile.

He still hasn't figured out what's wrong with "Godzilla"? !

Yes, Guang'an Matsuoka admits that "Godzilla" is not as good as "Super Eight", but it's not that far behind, and the box office is so bad!

Although Tong Shener has made a lot of money in the film market in the past two years, he has not seen much less money in other films.

On the contrary, many movie fans have gradually developed the habit of going to the cinema to watch movies because of Matou Shinji's movies.

What makes Guangan Matsuoka hard to let go is the extremely poor audience reputation of "Godzilla".

Obviously, the word-of-mouth of the movie was not bad in the previous test screenings. Even if Godzilla fans didn't like it, the passers-by audience didn't dislike it too much.

As a result, "Godzilla" has only been officially released for one day, and the audience's praise rate has dropped to 63%!

And as the audience who sees the film increases, word of mouth will continue to decline.

This basically blocked the possibility of the movie's subsequent box office rising.

Those film critics who hate Shinji Matou are calling "Godzilla" crazily.

Among them, Hanoi Yiping praised the movie in his column.

[At the end of the movie, seeing Godzilla lying on the bridge crying and suffering, I had a strong feeling of wanting to cry. 〕

[This monster was created by humans only to reproduce its offspring, but was slaughtered by humans. 〕

[What did those little Godzillas do wrong? !They were just born, just to survive, but were brutally killed by humans!And all these actual evils originate from human beings themselves! 〕

[Godzilla and his children are the biggest victims of this movie! 〕

[Although this movie is a disaster movie that focuses on special effects, I am moved by the humanistic care revealed in it, which is also the essence of this movie! 〕

[Compared to some movies that don't even mention the dark side of human nature, but only talk about the bright side without any depth, "Godzilla" is a commercial movie in the true sense!While there are exciting scenes, it does not lose the depth of thinking. 〕

It's a pity that this article is useless. Guang'an Matsuoka heard from his assistant that on IMDB, the largest film and television website, the score of "Godzilla" is only 6.7 points!And it keeps falling!

For the old-fashioned Guang'an Matsuoka, he doesn't know what an online troll is. He only knows that young people don't like this movie at all.

This also means that "Godzilla", a work aimed at young people from the beginning, is a complete failure.

In fact, Guang'an Matsuoka didn't figure out one thing.

Don't look at the passers-by audience's evaluation during the test screening, but they are also the most popular group of people.

And those core fans who hate Godzilla's appearance, they are the most vocal group.

During test screenings, audience questionnaires were registered separately, and the opinions of those core fans did not spread.

But once a large-scale screening is carried out, the views of these people will continue to circulate in the ears of passersby and audiences.

"Since there are so many bad reviews, the "Godzilla" movie must be a bad movie."

This is the true thought in the hearts of most passerby viewers.

On the other hand, the online platform and Xingyue Shuijun further expanded the influence of those core fans' speeches, and finally formed a situation of condemnation by the whole people.

Such a simple and obvious truth was known by almost everyone in the world when Shen Er traveled through it.

But in the current parallel world of Xingyue, people who lack the concept of "water army" naturally cannot see through it, nor can they understand it.

They just know that "Godzilla" is hated by many people, so it is a bad movie that is not worth watching.

"Hey, now I can only hope that Godzilla's peripheral sales will look better..."

While Guang'an Matsuoka was comforting himself, someone knocked on the office door.

Mystery walked in with the file.

"Mr. Guang'an, this is the rough sales statistics I just got."

Guangan Matsuoka immediately stood up: "Hurry up and give it to me!"

After receiving the file, Guangan Matsuoka looked directly at the line of data,

Guangan Matsuoka is also looking there, and he is also eager to know the specific data of peripheral sales.

Ikeda Takayuki looked up at his boss, and then he saw a face-changing trick comparable to Sichuan opera.

Guang'an Matsuoka's face suddenly turned pale first, then red again, and then pale again...

"Ikeda..."

Guang'an Matsuoka handed over the document directly, "You can read it yourself."

Takaichi Ikeda saw the above data at a glance - yesterday, the sales of peripheral products of "Godzilla" in North America were 50 US dollars, while in Japan it was only 2000 million yen.

Although it is only a rough calculation, many image peripheral licenses are not included in it, but Takayuki Ikeda believes that even if these are included, "Godzilla" is still dead.

Takayuki Ikeda suddenly thought of something. Yesterday, Bandai announced the sales data of the UR version of Ultraman Ace Transformation Ring Collector’s Edition that they just launched. In Japan alone, 3000 sets were sold.

Calculated according to the price of a set of 1 yen, the Ace ring alone drove the sales of "Godzilla" in Japan.

What is a murderous heart?

That's called murder!

Before Ikeda Takayuki could say anything to Guang'an Matsuoka, the secretary suddenly hung up the phone in horror.

"Director Ikeda, Director Guangan. People from the Special Search Department of the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office are here. They want to talk to you about your salary."

"...Fuck! (Japanese)"

Guang'an Matsuoka only had time to curse, and fell straight on the office carpet.

Chapter 256 On the off-screen use of the sky garden

Fuyuki City, Fate/Apocrypha (Apocrypha) set.

Several studio staff gathered together, flipping through the newspaper while discussing what happened in Dongbao recently.

If you want to say who is the happiest when "Godzilla" is unlucky, these people may not be called "the happiest", but they are definitely the very happy group.

"Hey, have you heard? After the first weekend data of "Godzilla" came out, several executive offices of Dongbao were redecorated."

A crew member with Erlang's legs crossed revealed to his companions.

Another staff member grinned: "Cut, what year is this Martian news? I heard that several executives on Dongbao's board of directors suffered a heart attack and were hospitalized."

"Hehe, that's all pretending to be sick." The third employee looked around for a while, and then said in a low voice, "I heard that those executives were found out because they embezzled the funds of the "Godzilla" crew. Heart disease to muddle through."

"It's not embezzlement of the crew's funds, it's the underreporting of wages."

A calm voice suddenly broke into their conversation.

Several employees looked back and found the director Shinji Matou standing behind him.

"director--!!"

"We're going to work right away!"

"Go, go."

Seeing the leader appearing, these employees hurriedly got up and walked towards the set, regardless of the rest time.

"Hehe~"

Seeing the backs of everyone leaving, Shen Er sneered twice.

"Hey, Shinji."

Cloris, who was following Shinji, asked curiously, "What are you talking about underreporting your salary?"

Shinji shrugged his shoulders: "It's nothing, it's just capitalism with Japanese characteristics."

There are many strange things in the Japanese workplace, among which the "invisible salary limit" of executives is one of them.

I don't know if it is due to the social psychology of hatred of the rich. Although there is no legislation or other clear regulations, the salary of Japanese corporate executives is limited, usually not exceeding 1 million yen.

If you cross this line, you will be condemned by Japanese society as a kind of "waste".

Except for individual companies or individuals, once most corporate executives are denounced by the society for this incident, they basically have no choice but to take the blame and resign.

Therefore, in the Japanese workplace, there will be a saying that the salary is capped at 9990 million.

Of course, do you think that the society restricts people's salaries, and Japanese capitalists will not make money?

I can't!

Most corporate executives will get a lot of benefits through equity dividends, financial dividends... and other methods that are not nominally salary.

There are also some executives who cannot get equity, they will conceal part of their salary to the outside world, so that their salary is only 9990 million yen on paper.

The latter is obviously a crime, because concealing wages means paying less taxes, and once reported, you will be arrested directly.

Many people died in this way, but most of them were foreign professional managers.

No way, they can't get shares in the company as outsiders, but they certainly won't be satisfied with an annual salary of 9990 million yen.

So... underreporting wages is basically their only option.

But this time Dongbao's matter is quite weird, because it was Dongbao's internal employees who sued its executives, and the defendants were all Japanese.

"Generally speaking, Japanese people don't know how miserable it is to die if they conceal their salary." While explaining to Cloris, Shinji pinched his chin and guessed, "I think it's probably an internal struggle in the office. "

"Oh oh~"

Cloris rolled her eyes, and the corner of her mouth completed the shape of ω.

"Xiaoerer, it seems that your future salary will never reach 1 million yen~ Do you want to join my sister, who will support you by filming movies~"

Snapped.

Shinji flicked Cloris on the forehead.

"Miss Lissey, my salary has never been much, and I live on dividends."

Cloris crossed her arms and said to Shinji angrily, "A man who can't even save a single yen, what is there to be proud of?"

"I don't know your general knowledge."

Shinji responded with an indecent gesture from Cloris, and then grabbed Joan who was passing by.

"Miss Saint, the filming will resume today. You have rested for such a long time, so there will be no problem, right? Don't let your acting skills drop significantly."