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"It's not too few, it's mainly because there are too many movies during the Spring Festival." Gongger introduced the situation of this year's Spring Festival to Zhang Yang.

Ever since the success of "Detective Chinatown 2" and "Operation Red Sea" last year, everyone in the industry knows that the Spring Festival period is currently the hottest period for movies.

So everyone rushed to this period, and this year, 8 movies were released on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

There are also 6 that are worth mentioning.

In addition to their "The Wandering Earth", not to mention Haozi's "Crazy Alien", Hanhan's "Flying Life", and Zhou Xingxing's "The New King of Comedy" are all favored by everyone.

These three films have around 20% of the screening schedule.

There is also a Hong Kong film "Integrity", although the theaters are not optimistic about it, its producer is very powerful and it has obtained 8.2% of the screening schedule.

Big Brother Cheng also brought a movie called "Detective Pu Songling". Although he has now become a professional in bad movies, the cinema still gave him 7.8% of the screening time.

The remaining screenings were given to two cartoons, Boonie Bears and Peppa Pig. Don't underestimate cartoons.

They can’t produce a hit, but they can steadily collect box office revenue from children every Chinese New Year. The minimum ticket price for cartoons is two, and there are many who sell three.

In fact, because of the investment from Liu Yifei Studio, "The Wandering Earth" had 4% more screenings on the first day than the original time and space.

“How many screenings does Crazy Alien have?”

"20.4%, it has the most screenings of all movies."

After listening to Gongger's words, Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "You can preview the film in Beijing tomorrow. I will contact people to increase the screening schedule of The Wandering Earth to more than 20%."

Guo Fan was overjoyed when he heard Zhang Yang's words, but Haozi was not so happy.

"If The Wandering Earth ranks 20%, my Crazy Alien will fall below 20%." He complained on the spot. If the ranking is increased by 5% all of a sudden, it will affect their movie if they are not careful.

"Don't worry. If we are arranging two movies to compete with each other, we naturally need to have similar screening schedules," Zhang Yang assured Haozi.

"By the way, the premiere of The Wandering Earth is scheduled for January 1th. Is it convenient for you to hold it?"

Everyone in the industry knows that Zhang Yang's studio usually holds its annual meeting during the Northern New Year's Eve, and the time of their premiere coincides with it.

"Do you have any alternative plans?" Zhang Yang did not insist that the movies he invested in all have their premieres held in hotels.

"China Film International Cinemas Xiaoxitian Branch." China Film invested a lot in "The Wandering Earth", so it is not surprising that the premiere was held in its cinema.

"Then hold it there." His studio only gets together once a year, so there's no need to change the time.

"Okay, we'll hold the premiere at 15: in the afternoon so as not to delay your annual meeting." Guo Fan considered everything very carefully. Everyone laughed again after hearing this.

After finishing the business, the group chatted for a while. Zhang Yang treated them to dinner before they dispersed.

Instead of going home, he and Liu Yifei went to the studio.

When they arrived at the studio, Zhang Yang asked Secretary Li to give him detailed information about several movies.

When Secretary Li brought the information over, Zhang Yang frowned even more after reading it. "Speeding Life" was distributed by Bona Film Group, "The New King of Comedy" was produced by China Film Corporation, and "Crazy Alien" was produced by Fiber Optic.

The distribution of these companies is not weak. If the premiere wants to get more screenings, the best choice is to find Wanda, but they were not optimistic about "The Wandering Earth" and withdrew their investment.

"Look, what should we do? Do we really have to go find Wan Da?" After reading the information, Zhang Yang handed it to Liu Yifei beside him.

Liu Yifei took it and looked at it. Suddenly, she found a blind spot: "You can find Hua Yi."

What she said actually makes sense. The movie that Huayi prepared for the Spring Festival this year was "Cell Phone 2", but it turned out to be a flop. This year, this is the best strategy to watch.

But now, any decent person who contacts Huayi will stay away from his family.

"boss."

Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei looked at Secretary Li who spoke.

"Do you have any good ideas?"

"Douyin has contacted more than 2600 cinemas and has settled in the APP to sell movie tickets."

Secretary Li's reminder made Zhang Yang's eyes light up. There are only more than 10000 cinemas in the country.
Douyin has more than 2600 contacts, which is quite a lot. It only needs to allocate some resources on the APP and increase the screening time of "The Wandering Earth" to 20%, which is a piece of cake.

Zhang Yang was just happy, but Liu Yifei looked at Secretary Li in confusion: "How do you know so much about Douyin's development?"

"Nothing big has happened recently, and I haven't found any other good investment targets, so I'll pay more attention to the companies that the boss has already invested in." Secretary Li answered in a flat voice, which seemed to make sense.

Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei nodded.

He then contacted Guo Fan and asked him to connect with ByteDance and let it fully participate in the release of "The Wandering Earth".

This will be Douyin's first battle to directly distribute movies without mentioning Maojing, and I believe they will definitely put in a lot of effort.

The next day, a lot of coverage about the movie "The Wandering Earth" appeared on the Internet media.

First, it was Liu Cixin. After attending the preview yesterday, he went back and published a long article on Weibo, praising the movie "The Wandering Earth".

In addition to the special effects, he also praised the film for showing the Chinese people's love for their homeland in a science fiction film, and said that the film would be a success even if it only made ten yuan at the box office.

His writer friends also raved about the movie.

If the Weibo posts by these people can at most make them famous in the technology circle, then the Weibo posts by Huang Xiaoming, Tang Yan and others will make the movie famous in the whole society.

Liu seems to be quite famous, but he only has a few hundred thousand followers on Weibo.

Tang Yan, Huang Xiaoming and others have tens of millions of fans on Weibo, and even more people can see what they say.

Huang Xiaoming: The Wandering Earth is a landmark work of Chinese hard science fiction, which greatly exceeded my expectations and made me cry. I declare that Chinese science fiction films have officially set sail.

Tang Yan said: "The Wandering Earth" focuses on greater causes rather than petty sentiments, which is the most touching part.

Haozi also said: "The Wandering Earth" shows the wonders of science fiction films, with a tense pace and immersive appeal.

The praise from a large group of celebrities brought huge popularity to "The Wandering Earth", making the film directly a hot search on Weibo's entertainment section.

The concept of the first year of Chinese science fiction movies has been widely mentioned again. Of course, there are praises, but there are also doubts. Many people still don't believe that Guo Fan can make a good science fiction film.

Even though it was invested by Zhang Yang, because Zhang Yang is so rich, the money he invested in "The Wandering Earth" is nothing to him, and he doesn't care even if it fails. There are indeed many sarcastic voices.

"Lao Liu said: This movie is only worth 10 yuan."

"A tear-jerking sci-fi movie? Goodbye!"

"Even if the box office is only 10 yuan? This doesn't sound like a compliment. Da Liu, were you forced to post this on Weibo?"

……

Zhang Yang read the news in his villa in Shunyi.

On the morning of the 21st, their family officially moved from the courtyard house to the villa here.

As soon as Zhang Hongyi arrived, he disappeared and only appeared by himself at mealtime.

But now it's winter vacation, so let him do whatever he wants.

In the afternoon, the assistant came to the villa and reported to him about various matters in the studio, and mentioned the negative news about "The Wandering Earth".

"People like Liu Cixin don't know how to do marketing. They mean well but end up with bad intentions. People have seen enough romance films. Who wants to see a touching story? They should talk about how cool the movie is." Zhang Yang shook his head helplessly.

"Then should we go and remind Guo Fan?"

"That's not necessary. This will just lower the audience's expectations to the lowest level so that they can rebound in the end." Zhang Yang shook his head. Content is still king in a movie.

The assistant nodded and asked what to do about this year's annual meeting?
Zhang Yang stroked his chin and thought for a while: "Let's be more equal this year. Everyone should receive gifts and red envelopes. What's popular now?"

"Dad shoes." This is a new style that just emerged last year and is very popular.

"This is too cheap. I'd better buy some mobile phones this year and buy the mate 10 released in October last year." Zhang Yang didn't want to play any tricks. He would definitely not go wrong by buying electronic products.

“There is only this one kind. Isn’t it too monotonous? We can’t give the same thing to everyone.” The assistant felt that the boss was being lazy.

“I remember Xiaomi also released the Mi MIX 3. The prices of these two phones seem to be similar, so we split the purchase in half.

Everyone attending the annual meeting today will be given a nameplate, odd numbers will be given a mate20, even numbers will be given a mix3, plus a cash red envelope of yuan, so that it won’t be monotonous.”

He was fair in his approach. After all, he was now a shareholder of Rice.

The assistant nodded and stood up to say goodbye. This year's annual meeting was the least expensive one since it was held.

The basic models of these two mobile phones are both priced at 3299, and the annual party gifts given by Zhang Yangfa are generally high-end configurations, which are around 5000 yuan.

His studio and Liu Yifei's studio have a total of more than 300 people, and the total cost of gifts and red envelopes was just over 450 million.

The next night, Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei were lying on the bed in the bedroom discussing gossip.

Gossip about Wu Xiubo: He recently sent his lover to shell beans.

"Do you want to have a relationship? The kind that will send you to jail?" has become a popular phrase recently.

This incident happened several days ago, but Zhang Yang and Liu Yifei only found out about it today.

"Wu Xiubo is such a scoundrel." Liu Yifei showed the news to Zhang Yang on a tablet.

Zhang Yang is reading A Global History. The author of this book adopts a completely new historical perspective and method.

He found it particularly interesting to view the entire world as an indivisible organic entity and to examine the emergence and development of human civilization in various regions of the world from a global perspective rather than a regional perspective.

He glanced casually at the news Liu Yifei brought over and said, "A scumbag man and a scumbag woman are not good people."

"Wu Xiubo is so disgusting, look at what the girl's mother said, he deliberately set a trap for that woman.

This woman is also a loser, she is obsessed with money." Liu Yifei felt that both of them were disgusting, but Wu Xiubo was more disgusting.

Wu Xiubo is also a talent. He and his agent deceived Jin Sijun and only came out to clarify and gave her financial compensation.

After a while, she was allowed to return home.

As a result, she was taken away as soon as she got off the airport because she was accused of extortion by Wu Xiubo.

"Is this disgusting? There are even more disgusting things, you just don't know about them." Zhang Yang flipped a page of the book and said casually.

"Tell me about it quickly." Driven by curiosity, Liu Yifei hugged Zhang Yang's arm with a face full of curiosity.

Zhang Yang closed the book and glanced at Liu Yifei: "Professor Wolf knows, right?"

"Dig out the guy who made money during the 98 financial crisis?" This incident caused quite a stir at the time, but not many people remember it now. Liu Yifei naturally remembers him.

"Yes. He also looked for a lover back then, and then..." Zhang Yang told Liu Yifei everything in a babble.

Liu Yifei felt that her three views were somewhat shattered. Professor Wolf was truly a ruthless man and he lived up to his name.

Not only did the woman waste three years of her youth, but she was also left with a debt of 900 million.

"Professor Wolf and Wu Xiubo can be said to be the dragon and the chick among the scumbags. I hope those beautiful women can learn a lesson from these two incidents and stop being mistresses." Zhang Yang concluded.

In fact, he didn't know that there was a follow-up to this incident. Professor Lang's lover took him to court, and in the end the 900 million was not compensated. Legal loopholes are not so easy to exploit.

Liu Yifei nodded, and suddenly she looked at Zhang Yang strangely: "Why are you so concerned about Professor Lang?" She wondered if Zhang Yang was secretly holding a grudge against her.

"Maybe I saw it accidentally."

"How come I don't know?" Liu Yifei didn't believe what Zhang Yang said.

Zhang Yang was thinking about how to answer her question when his cell phone rang.

(End of this chapter)