Tokyo Literary Godfather

"It's like this, President Fujiwara, recently a special author of our magazine reflected something in her article, I think I should tell you in advance." The other party said.

"She found that some theaters sell yin and yang tickets, that is to say, they sell "My Sassy Girl" box office on the surface, but actually print tickets for other movies, that is, "My Sassy Girl" The box office revenue was transferred to other movies..."

Fujiwara Kei frowned: "Which cinema is this?"

"Right in Tokyo, at a Shochiku Theater near Tsukishima Station in Chuo-ku."

"Songzhu? Or from the Central District?"

This theater chain is widely distributed throughout the Kanto and Kansai regions. It is a well-known theater. Moreover, this theater belongs to the theater under the name of Matsuri Films and is one of its main theater resources.

In fact, as soon as the other party said that a theater had transferred the box office of "My Sassy Girl" to other movies, Fujiwara Kei's inner alarm started to ring loudly. Because this does not seem to be an ordinary box office stealing incident.

Stealing box office tickets is actually not uncommon, but in most cases it is done by small theaters run by individuals, and the losses it can cause are limited.

But such a small theater will only steal the box office without going through the ticketing system, and secretly sell handwritten tickets, so that they can not share with the movie distributors, and they will not transfer the box office of a certain movie to another movie at all. Because in this case, wouldn’t all the hard work be in vain?

And this theater is not just stealing the box office, but transferring the box office. There is only one possibility for doing this, and that is that the movie was released by the theater itself.

And there are many companies that have theater resources and can independently release films, which means that once such theaters steal the box office, it is often not the only one to do so, and the losses are immeasurable.

"Stealing the box office is unforgivable in the industry. After reading the article, our magazine also sent people to some theaters in other areas of Shochiku to investigate on the spot, and found that it was true. Not only that, even more than one theater In doing so, as a well-known domestic company and one of the leaders in the film and television industry, I feel ashamed of what Matsuri Pictures has done.” Editor-in-Chief Kaga said, “So I plan to disclose this behavior in the magazine, but I still plan to I’ll let you know in advance.”

"Thank you very much, Editor-in-Chief Kaga." After thinking for a few seconds, Fujiwara Kei suddenly said calmly, "Thank you for your contribution to maintaining the integrity of the film industry... Matsuhi's move is indeed unforgivable, and I will also What should we do to resolutely maintain a good environment in the film industry... Editor-in-chief Kaga, I don’t know which issue of the magazine you plan to publish the expose article in?"

"Of course, the earlier the better, the film's release period is only about a month, and now half a month has passed. If it is later, it will not be able to stop the loss. Maybe Matsuri will destroy the evidence and refuse to admit it. , or just shirk the responsibility to the personal behavior of some theaters." Editor-in-chief Kaga said, while reminding, "As far as I know, this is not the personal behavior of some theaters, but most likely someone from Matsunichi Pictures. Only certain instructions issued by the top management can make its theater chains adopt such unified behavior... This is very bad."

"Japanese Filmmaker" magazine is a semi-weekly magazine and is published every three or four days. It often releases some real-time movie information, so unlike some monthly and semi-annual magazines, the content has been determined long ago. It is even possible to temporarily change the content on the printing day. The release date of the next issue of the magazine is The day after tomorrow, it’s totally too late.

"I understand." Fujiwara Kei said, his tone has become much colder, "Matsuhi's behavior is indeed unforgivable. There is indeed some small friction between Mizunami and Matsuhi... Mr. Kaga must have heard about it, but I didn’t expect the other party to have such disregard for business integrity.”

"I plan to expand the impact of this matter. In order to prevent Matsunichi Pictures from shirk its responsibility, I plan to collect sufficient evidence and release the news on multiple platforms. Therefore, I hope that Mr. Kaga will keep it secret for the time being and wait until the next issue of the magazine is released to release it uniformly. "

Editor-in-Chief Kaga agreed without much thought.

Although for a blockbuster news, it is definitely better to publish it on a single platform, because it is exclusive and will greatly increase the popularity of your own media. However, "Japanese Filmmaker" itself is not a news newspaper, but rather professional, so its dissemination is not that strong, but it needs other media to help it gain momentum.

After hanging up the phone, Kei Fujiwara thought for a moment and called directly the editor-in-chief of Miyabe of Sankei Shimbun, the producer of Oguri of NHK's "Lunchtime News" column, and the deputy director of Fanxing TV's famous news program "Evening News". And Kazuhiko Itagaki of Chunqiu Club, asked them to have dinner.

This is the advantage of not being a solitary person. Even if you are very confident in your film project, you are still willing to accept investment from other capitals and share risks and benefits with them.

Although these media people have close personal relationships with Kei Fujiwara himself, in many cases personal relationships alone are not enough. Just like this matter, after all, Matsuri Pictures is one of the five major film companies in the country, and most media platforms are unwilling to offend them for no reason. But once interests are involved, there are two different things.

All of these media invested in Kei Fujiwara's films. Although not all of them voted in "My Sassy Girl", those who did not voted in this film invested in other films, and they are all shareholders of Kei Fujiwara's five films. The raging box office performance of "My Sassy Girl" made them envious and full of confidence. On the one hand, they regretted why they didn't vote more, and on the other hand, they were glad that they did.

Hearing that someone stole Shuibo's box office, a group of people started to get jealous. If you dare to do this kind of thing once, you dare to do it a second time. If this matter goes away without any pain, others may follow suit in the future to divert the box office.

It's okay for you to steal the box office of other movies. If you dare to steal the box office of a movie I invested in, what's the point? !

So everyone was filled with jealousy, and at the dinner party, it was agreed that the matter should be kept secret for the time being, and then a big one would be given to Matsuri Pictures to give him some color.

This is what Kei Fujiwara wanted to do, and he didn't consider that he might offend Matsuhiko Pictures or anything. Most film producers are usually not confident about this kind of large theater chain, because it is the main ticket warehouse.

But since the ticket warehouses are all guarded and stolen, it doesn't matter whether there is a ticket warehouse or not.

What's more, during this period of time, Mizuba Production and Matsunichi Films have indeed had constant friction and conflicts. Kei Fujiwara has no idea where the conflict with this company started.

Did you offend the president's nepotism when you first started filming "Confession"? Or kick the woman who threw coffee in her producer's face off the set? Or maybe he is very close to President Nobi's internal competitor Eiji Shirai... Fujiwara Kei also doesn't know, and he doesn't bother to find out. Let’s just start the fight.

Because of the conflict with Matsunichi Films, Kei Fujiwara and his old club, Fukuyamadai, are now starting to have some quarrels. The conflicts have accumulated to the current level, and it is time to detonate.

On the second day, a group of experienced investigative reporters dressed as passers-by, pretending to be ordinary moviegoers, got into the major movie theaters under Matsuri Pictures, each with a hidden camera and a radio microphone pinned to their bodies.