Riding the wind of rebirth

The roadshow crew was also very pressed for time, so the two screenwriters decided to skip asking Zhou Zhi again. They pulled him to hold the script, showed his signature, and took a group photo together. The host then asked him to leave his room number, and the photo would be sent to his room later.

From here on, we entered the exciting lottery phase.

Some of the raffle items were signed photos of Will Smith and several other leading actors, some were model props, and the most important gift was the Air Force jacket that Bill Pullman wore in the show.

The lottery was drawn with each person's movie ticket. When the host read out "Fourth row, number three", Karam jumped up suddenly: "Oh my! I won, I won!", then rushed to the stage and gave a big hug to Bill Pullman, the two screenwriters, and the beautiful host.

"Did I act too calm just now?" Zhou Zhi looked at Karam's reaction, who was so excited that he was incoherent. "So much so that I missed the chance to hug the host?"

Then Mai Xiaomiao reached out and grabbed him.

After the roadshow, everyone entered the venue and waited for the film to start.

This cinema should be quite special. Although it is jointly operated with a large cinema outside, everything from the aisles to the ticketing office belongs independently to the hotel. It has luxurious facilities and the seats are all leather sofas.

Zhouzhi and his friends are basically in the best spot, and apart from the fact that the screen is a little small, there's really nothing to complain about.

The film started soon. The opening credits did not have the familiar dragon logo that Zhou Zhi would be familiar with in later generations, which made it a little strange to get used to at first. However, when the shadow of the alien space mothership swept across the moon, the atmosphere immediately became lively.

The actors used in this movie are not particularly popular at the moment, and the main expenses were spent on production, resulting in a phenomenal film.

The structure of the story is also very compact, with a main line, namely the alien invasion, and four families, represented by the presidential family, the pilot family, and the scientist family, leading mankind to resist the alien invasion and ultimately win, connecting the structure of the story.

Of course, this film has many shortcomings. It is a standard popcorn movie with a mediocre plot, extremely cheap, and countless loopholes, but the audience can constantly switch between light-hearted humor and tense heaviness, while enjoying the grand technological scenes.

Moreover, this is the first movie about a grand and comprehensive battle between aliens and the whole world, which can be considered an innovation. At the same time, because of the large number of characters, the plot is compact. It is also a standard patriotic propaganda film with the main theme of the country, which pleases people in several aspects.

Zhou Zhi quietly watched the reactions of the audience around him and felt that this movie should create a super miracle of a high-grossing "bad movie" like the previous life. At least the huge amount of publicity and promotion funds was not wasted.

I just don’t know whether Digital Alliance has obtained the digital product distribution rights for this movie.

Having said that, it is not a scientific attitude to use logic when watching science fiction films. For example, the anti-gravity and air resistance characteristics of the alien spacecraft in "Independence Day" are outrageous.

On the contrary, the designs of some spacecraft in other films made Zhou Zhi see the shadow of the sixth-generation aircraft in the future, but they were designed to resist air resistance in airless space, which was equally outrageous.

Of course, these little thoughts did not affect everyone's good mood for watching the movie. Karam wore a jacket signed by Bill Pullman throughout the whole movie. Zhou Zhi focused on the mediocre acting of Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, but Karam focused on Bill Pullman throughout the whole movie. After leaving the theater, he also declared that he was his fan from today. Zhou Zhi also felt quite encouraged after watching the movie. Tomorrow, he and the Digital Alliance will really challenge a powerful giant.

"Malmut, are you ready for the negotiations with the Digital Alliance tomorrow?" In an office converted from a warehouse near Long Island Airport, a fat black man was asking a well-proportioned and well-dressed young black man.

"Mr. Truney," said the young black man, who is the attorney for the Music Industry Association: "The attorney for the Digital Alliance expressed difficulty understanding the way we proposed the conditions, and believed that our terms were too rough and simplified."

"Wouldn't it be more convenient for them to simplify things?" Truni scratched his head in annoyance. "Malmut, you said before that we were sure that the Digital Alliance would give us 10% of its profits? Why did you make things so complicated?"

“Well…” Malmut was a little afraid of Truney, and tried to find excuses for himself: “Mr. Truney, please listen to my explanation. The style of Digital Alliance is different from those record companies we have negotiated with before. They… are a group of Asians.”

"Asian monkeys?" Truney reached for his cigar. "Do they understand music, too?"

“They don’t understand music, but they understand digital,” Malmut said. “And they say they’re not afraid of trouble, which is different from record companies.”

"Aren't you afraid of trouble?" Truni sneered, "They don't know what trouble is, right? Malmut, didn't you tell them?"

Malmut frowned: "Of course I told them about some of the cases we had negotiated before, and told them that if they don't follow our advice in this country, it will easily lead to a strike, which will certainly cause them losses of more than 10% of their profits, and will also damage the social impact and reputation of the industry, and make job seekers afraid to go there."

"Yes!" Truney shook the ash of his Havana cigar. Nowadays, he usually uses such things to decorate himself, far away from the things that the teenagers in his neighborhood used to be addicted to. He felt that he was not showing off, but that this thing represented the dignity he had fought for. "You should tell them about the example of Louis and Swan Records."

"I told you." Truney said with a bitter face, "But the people from the Digital Alliance said that their people are all engaged in information technology and computers. The Digital Alliance is also a spontaneous online forum. They just set up the framework of this online game. The content is uploaded and shared voluntarily by everyone. The income is also voluntarily signed with an agreement. It is a reflection of the autonomous will of the content providers. There is no coercion or fraud."

"They said that the Music Practitioners Association's obligation is of course to manage these music practitioners, but..."

"but what?"

"But they cannot control the Digital Union Music Forum, which provides a sharing interface and promotion channels for practitioners." Malmut said: "Asians are old-fashioned and stubborn. They think that the Digital Union Music Forum is like COSTCO. Although COSTCO also sells seafood, it does not have to obey the jurisdiction of the North American Fisheries Union."

COSTCO is the largest supermarket in the United States. Although it sells fish, it is not under the control of the Fisheries Union.

"SHIT!" (End of this chapter)