Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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In fact, not only the mainstream theaters in the United States, but many mainstream theaters in other countries have refused to release this movie in their theaters.

"Refused to release? What's going on? Is there any misunderstanding in the sharing agreement?"

Zhu Youxing couldn't understand.

It shouldn't be a big problem for a movie to be released in theaters.

It was Tukarev who told Zhu Youxing about this. It would be night in the United States. He sat in his office in a bad mood and finally couldn't help calling Zhu Youxing.

During this time his men have been trying to get theatrical distribution.

In the past, this was actually quite smooth, even if I was targeted last time, it didn't affect my showing movies in theaters.

But this time, he encountered quite a few obstacles.

He asked his subordinates to go to several theater chains to negotiate in person, but the final results were not very good.

Tukarev explained while scolding Russia: "It's not a matter of sharing the agreement. They didn't talk to us about the sharing at all and refused directly. Obviously, this was instigated by someone behind the scenes."

After speaking, Tukarev uttered a few more classic Russian curses.

"Is someone instigating behind it? Instigated the entire film industry alliance, this influence is a bit big." Zhu Youxing said tut-tsk.

"This should at least be something that the top ten film industry groups can do. They all have their own influence in the movie theater guild, and I think there may be more than one film industry group exerting influence. Mr. Zhuyou, I'm afraid someone It was aimed at me, and it may also be aimed at you. I am very sorry to affect the release of your movie."

Tukarev's previous release of his own Xinghai movie in the United States really angered some of his colleagues.

Many of them are influential figures in the industry.

Although the final result was that his film was a great success and became one of the models of low-cost and high-return, many people still dismissed him.

"No, you don't have to say that, we can be regarded as friends, and we must advance and retreat together."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxing was quite calm.

It's quite normal to be targeted, but if a movie targets themselves like this, these people really make a fuss over a molehill.

"Is there no way to let go?"

Tukarev shook his head and said: "I'm afraid not, Mr. Takeyou, these people are very persistent this time, and they don't allow this movie to be released at all. Their persistence really surprised me. They didn't do this in the past. It's not easy to talk about."

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youxing said: "Wait and see, I feel that this matter may not be over yet, did you contact me after talking to several movie theaters?"

"Yes, I just called you immediately after my talks with the last relatively large theater chain collapsed."

"Then wait, anyway, the movie is not in a hurry, there is still half a year to go."

Tukarev nodded: "Okay, then I'll go to sleep, Suka..."

Tukarev hung up the phone depressed.

I have been in the film industry for so many years and I really haven't had a smooth life, which is really annoying.

On Zhu Youxing's side, he was still supervising the film production of Final Fantasy 7 just now.

The main thing is the rendering of special effects, which needs to be refined as much as possible. The picture quality of Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children produced by myself has been improved more than that of the original work.

The original was released in 2005 and used technology from around 2003.

In this world, the overall technology has been advanced for ten years, which is almost equivalent to the level of technology in 2013, so special effects and other things can be done better.

I didn't expect to get such a not-so-happy news while working as a supervisor.

As Tukarev said, it should basically be a few well-known film groups exerting influence.

These big film groups may not be able to easily shake their counterparts at the same level.

But a small film distributor like Tukarev can still deal with it easily.

One of the easiest ways to force a movie out of theaters is through their hands.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youxing felt that there was no need to continue wasting time on this, and waited to see if there was any movement from the US side.

Then he devoted himself to the development of movies and Monster Hunter again, ignoring the affairs of the United States.

In fact, it was similar to Zhu Youxing's guess, and the matter did not end so simply.

I don't know what's going on, but a group of old guys from Hollywood in the United States took the initiative to stand up this time, and took the initiative to say that Youxing Electronic Entertainment is not professional on some promotional platforms.

"First of all, I must admit that Youxing Electronic Entertainment has an unshakable position in its own industry. This is really powerful. A company can occupy such a dominant position. Other companies that compete with Youxing Electronic Entertainment should be quite desperate. But I want to say that it is a good thing for such a company to enter the film and television industry, and it can explore new industries, but what he did really touched my red line."

In a film premiere, a very experienced filmmaker directly began to belittle Youxing Electronic Entertainment in front of the media.

His expression was disgusted, as if he had a deep hatred for Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

The reporters almost put the interview microphone directly into the mouth of the filmmaker, wanting to find out more interesting news from the filmmaker: "Then what is your red line?"

"My red line is the dignity of the director."

"The dignity of the director?"

"That's right." The filmmaker nodded and said, "This person named Zhu Youxing is an excellent game developer. Many people recognize this identity very much, and many people even give him the title of God of Games." , This is very powerful, but I want to say that this is not the reason for him to surpass the director and become a higher commander. The director's command power should be respected. His behavior is trampling on the dignity of the director. It will absolutely boycott all the films of this Yuxing Electronic Entertainment."

"I see, so besides you, are there many other filmmakers who have the same idea?"

"That's for sure. Now we have teamed up with a number of movie theaters to boycott this kind of behavior. We must give the director the highest respect. Unless Youxing Electronic Entertainment changes its mind and lets the director regain the dominant position, otherwise we will not let go."

This is more or less breaking news. It is very rare for a film to be boycotted by many well-known filmmakers.

Of course, things are definitely not so simple and pure.

"Isn't this too obvious? Is there any more shameless behavior than this? When did the United States return to the director's absolute responsibility system? Why haven't I heard of it?" Tukarev saw this interview video He couldn't help cursing again.

American movies have gone through many stages of development, and this is also an industry with a history of nearly a century.

A long time ago, movies were just very simple little pictures, and then they gradually evolved into the medium of movies.

In this process, the director is gradually born, and then becomes the general director of a film.

This situation changed until a certain big production that almost affected the entire industry hit the street. Since then, the United States is no longer a simple director-general responsibility system. It is time to prevent the director from wasting too much money.

This kind of thing happened a long time ago, but in the mouths of these filmmakers, it seems that it never happened.

However, Zhu Youxing's leading behavior is actually a bit special.

Because Zhu Yuxing not only controlled the budget, but also imposed his will on this movie.

Zhu Youxing provides the main creative content to the director, and the director is almost equal to the general dispatcher, without any freedom of freedom.

But the director himself doesn't mind this kind of thing, and it's really a dog and a mouse for outsiders to criticize.

If there is no inside story, it is really a fool.