My movie scared the global audience to tears

On the night of August 12th, countless people were talking about one topic in the chat group: Have you watched Jaws?

Everyone who has seen it is excitedly exchanging their impressions and talking about the terrifying giant beast in the sea.

People who have never seen it are curious and want to know what a great white shark is.

That night, on Qiandu.com’s hot search list, the topic of Great White Shark soared directly to the top ten, gradually exceeding five million.

This shows that five million people are curious and searching for what a great white shark is.

The country's largest marine life science popularization website collapsed due to the huge number of visits. The website that used to have only tens of thousands of visits a day could not withstand the bombardment of millions of visits. The website data staff thought it was attacked by hackers.

Later I found out it was because a movie about Jaws became popular.

The most nervous one was the theater manager of Yinguang Cinemas. Overnight, all the tickets for "Jaws" for the next seven days were sold out, and for other movies released in the same period, the total number of tickets added up was not "Jaws".

"Jaws" sold more tickets.

There was an explosion in the Yinguang Cinemas manager group. Managers from all major theaters were in the group @luogui, applying to adjust the film schedule of "Jaws."

Director Luo was having a dinner with his family when he was bombarded with messages from the group and had to leave and return to the company.

Looking at the information displayed by Miaoyan's data, he was stunned.

Although he expected that "Jaws" would be a hit, he did not expect that it would become a hit so quickly, which caught him off guard.

Looking at the seats that were sold on the Miaoyan ticket purchase software, he suddenly realized that a phenomenal movie was about to appear!

It was already after get off work hours, and he didn't have time to ask the company's statistics department to make calculations, but based on his experience, it was best to leave this situation to the theater manager below.

Among Yinguang's thousands of theaters, only more than 300 are invested by the company itself, and the remaining theaters are private theaters affiliated with theater chains.

Although they have to follow the arrangements of the theater's guidance, they also have certain decision-making rights under special circumstances.

Director Luo has also been on the front line and knows very well that film scheduling cannot be coordinated and arranged in a unified manner. Flexible arrangements must be made based on the actual attendance of each theater.

This is also why theaters hire professional theater managers with high salaries. A good theater manager can bring a considerable increase in the theater's turnover.

The current situation is a special one, and unified guidance from theater chains is meaningless.

No one will watch the money slip away. Even if the theater chain asks the theater not to increase the number of screenings of "Jaws", not many managers below will listen, and they will still increase the number.

Therefore, Director Luo sent a notice in the group, asking theater managers to flexibly arrange the film schedule and appropriately increase the number of "Jaws" screenings.

After this notice was sent out, all theater managers under Yinguang Cinema Line began to get busy.

Additional screenings of "Jaws" were scheduled one after another, but as soon as they were scheduled, the tickets were quickly sold out.

What to do if it’s sold out?

Keep adding!

Cinema managers are very motivated, and their income is also linked to turnover. The more tickets they sell, the higher their income.

The mid-year holiday season was originally the off-season and one of the months when they earned the least income. However, this year’s mid-year holiday season actually saw the release of “Jaws,” which sparked a wave of hot sales, which made them excited.

Keep going!

Sell ​​it to me!

Driven by the theater manager, the film schedule of "Jaws" quickly increased to 23%, an increase of 20%!

This hot sales situation naturally attracted the attention of other theaters. Early the next morning, Song Qi received a call from the director of the film purchasing department of Wancheng Cinema.

Wancheng Cinema Line is the largest theater chain in Daxia, with more than 4,000 theaters and more than 50,000 screens. It is the well-deserved leader among the cinema chains in Daxia.

All films produced by Xinyu are distributed by themselves, and the project department is responsible for them.

But based on the relationship between Song Qi and the guys in the project department, they naturally wouldn't help Song Qi run the theater chain with all his heart, so Song Qi didn't count on them from the beginning, and he did all the distribution by himself.

Yinguang Cinema was not Song Qi's first choice originally. He wanted to cooperate with Wancheng Cinema, but Wancheng Cinema didn't give him a chance to talk. He even met with the director of Wancheng Cinema's film purchasing department.

I didn't even see him, I just sat on the bench all day.

In desperation, he turned back to Yinguang Cinema.

Now, seeing that "Jaws" has become popular and tickets are selling like hotcakes, the director called again, and Song Qi was naturally very unhappy.

However, when it came to business, he would have to cooperate with Wancheng Cinemas in the future, so he just casually prevaricated a few words and said that the contract had been signed to fool him.

In fact, this is also the case. Before the release, the distributor must sign a contract with the theater chain. After the release, it does not matter whether you make more or less, life or death.

If you see a movie being released and making money, and everyone wants to get a piece of the pie, then it will be chaos. This is the rule.

The director from Wancheng didn't call because he wanted a piece of the pie, he just wanted to repair the relationship, and it was a close call.

Therefore, after hearing Song Qi's words, he didn't pay attention. He just smiled and said something like "there will be opportunities to cooperate in the future" and wanted to treat Song Qi to dinner.

But Song Qi didn't have time to have dinner with him. He became busy overnight.

The day after the release, when he came to the company, everyone looked at him differently.

The eyes of the guys in the project department were particularly complicated.

None of them expected that Song Qi, who had been sentenced to death by them, would turn around in such a short period of time.

After seeing Song Qi, their original plan to isolate Song Qi began to waver, and they each thought about how to repair their relationship with Song Qi.

However, Song Qicai was not in the mood to pay attention to them. After arriving at the company, he went directly to An Qin's office.

"Mr. An!"

After arriving at the office, An Qin was on the phone, so Song Qi pulled out his chair and sat down.

When he owed An Qin money, he was not polite to An Qin. Now that "Jaws" has become popular, his waist has also become harder, and he is even more unscrupulous.

An Qin was used to his lazy temperament and didn't say anything to him. She just put down the phone and looked at him with complicated eyes.

"What? It feels like you don't recognize me anymore?"

Song Qi smiled and raised his chin.

An Qin did feel a little strange, as if Song Qi in front of him was a different person.

She had just seen the statistics on Miaoyan Data. The cumulative box office of "Jaws" had exceeded 50 million, ranking first in the mid-year box office!

This cumulative box office does not mean the first day's box office, but the total of all tickets sold.

The box office of "Jaws" on the first day was only over 6 million, but all the tickets in the following days were pre-sold, and the total box office exceeded 50 million overnight.

According to this momentum, it is certain that "Jaws" will exceed 100 million at the box office.

In other words, the money Song Qi owed her has almost been repaid.

After losing his identity as a creditor, An Qin suddenly found that he could no longer control Song Qi.

Of course, even when she was a creditor, she couldn't control Song Qi.

But now facing Song Qi, she felt a little weak.

Without answering Song Qi's question, she changed the topic: "Get ready, there will be media coming to interview you later."