Pokémon's Lord of Fear

Chapter 35 Overthinking and Market Research

Fifty million Alliance coins, and then a box office of 1.3 million, the film company still has to share the profits. This is indeed a loss that has left them with nothing. It can even be said that such a loss is enough for a small company to completely fail and the boss to become a frequent flyer.

"The same is true for other movies. For other big-budget movies, the box office revenue is usually only two million at most." There was a hint of helplessness in Fawu's tone.

Ada stammered and moved his lips, but he still didn't say anything, because what Fawu said was the fact, an indisputable fact.

Someone had thought about making a movie about Pokémon a long time ago. After all, there are many types of Pokémon, and their number is huge. Every trainer has Pokémon. According to statistics, in Kanaz City alone, which has a permanent population of one million, there are as many as 800,000 registered Pokémon.

How huge is this market?

This is just the registered Pokémon. What about the unregistered Pokémon? With these Pokémon, you can imagine how huge the Pokémon market is. It is a market that attracts countless investors, but movies are an exception.

Teng Shu touched his chin and frankly said that he didn't really care about the box office or anything like that. After all, with the support of Dewen Company, Teng Shu really didn't care much about the box office. Otherwise, why would he make a horror movie? Wouldn't it be better to just copy the commercial masterpieces of his previous life?

But Teng Shu needs fear value.

The more fear points he has, the stronger Teng Shu will become, and the movies he shoots in the future will be more popular. Teng Shu is also very curious about what else these fear points can be exchanged for.

And if he makes a horror movie for Pokémon to watch, or lets them watch it for free, can he steal fear points from the Pokémon?
The biggest obstacle to watching Pokémon movies is, to put it bluntly, the problem of not having money.

Although the Alliance is promoting the normalization of Pokémon rights and working hard to safeguard the interests of the Pokémon community, in the final analysis, most Pokémon are captured by trainers to fight and become stronger. Whether their trainers are willing to pay to take their Pokémon to the movies is a question.

Moreover, Pokémon come in different sizes and weights, and there are no special theaters that can cater to all Pokémon, so there are a lot of complications involved.

Moreover, is it possible to scare Pokémon using the same scaring routine that works for humans? This is also a question.

"Ada, right? You go out first. I will consider your suggestion." Teng Shu waved his hand, and Ada left reluctantly. Suddenly, only Teng Shu and Fa Wu were left in the office.

Little Q jumped onto Teng Shu's desk, picked up the cup that Teng Shu bought for it, jumped off the desk, and walked to the water dispenser with the cup in his hand to get some water.

Fawu immediately planned to go over to help, but was stopped by Teng Shu.

Little Q doesn't like being treated specially.

"Fawu, why was Ada listed as a special employee?" Teng Shu looked at Fawu curiously, then picked up the boiled water on the table and took a sip.

Although Ada seemed to have some mental problems, judging from his logic and attitude, he was still a normal person.

"Ada. He has hyperactivity." Fawu gave a flattering smile. Although Teng Shu told him that he didn't need to do so, he still subconsciously tried to please Teng Shu, the new boss.

"Overthinking?" Teng Shu understood. He knew this disease. In the world of Pokémon, it was a mental illness. The specific manifestation was that the patient's brain would be active all the time, thinking about all kinds of strange things every minute, and ideas kept popping up in his mind. However, the patient himself would not be affected by this and would not be able to work or live normally. He would just be a little neurotic and act whatever he thought.

It may seem like nothing, but patients with this disease cannot sleep at night. Their brains are always active, making them unable to fall asleep in bed because of their constant thinking. Only by taking special medications or receiving the Pokémon hypnosis service from the Alliance can they fall asleep peacefully.

It is a very rare disease but extremely difficult to treat.

No wonder he is a special employee.

"What do you think of Ada's idea?" Teng Shu asked Fawu, then stretched out his right hand and skillfully supported Xiao Q to prevent Xiao Q from falling down.

"Ada? Boss, you want to..." Fawu blinked, seeming a little bit unbelievable. So many companies have fallen into it one after another, is it possible that his new boss with outstanding talent will also jump in?

For some unknown reason, Fawu recalled an incident from his student days.

The math teacher at that time pulled him and two other students who had skipped school to play games, and then said earnestly, "I told you that there was a cesspool ahead and told you not to jump in, but you jumped in anyway!"

At this moment, Fawu suddenly understood why his teacher said that, because when he looked at his boss now, he thought the same thing.

"Well, although we don't plan to start filming right away, maybe we can do an experiment first." Teng Shu thought for a while. If he started filming directly, it might be a waste of time. It would be better to do some market research first.

So Teng Shu assigned this task to Fawu, asking Fawu to contact market research companies in various alliance regions to conduct a movie survey on Pokémon to find out how willing Pokémon are to watch movies, and then give him the analysis report.

"Okay, boss." Although Fawu still wanted to say something to persuade his new boss, since the other party had said it, all he had to do was to execute it instead of questioning it.

Anyway, I have advised you before.

Moreover, Fawu also realized that the loss of 50 million Alliance coins might not even be a big deal to his boss, after all, he was the CEO of Dewen Company.
Fawu is full of energy and works hard. It is possible that his salary can be raised in the future so that he can give his children more resources to cultivate Pokémon.

"A movie!" Teng Shu stroked Xiao Q's head while surfing the Internet passionately with his mobile phone.

The Pokémon market is so huge that there are naturally many interveners. Injury medicine and abnormal recovery potions are all produced by large companies that are controlled and invested by the alliance. Small companies don’t even have the qualifications to get a share of the profits. There must be a lot of profit in this.

But just like Fawu said, in terms of entertainment, those specifically oriented towards Pokémon are basically dead.

"How about shooting some other short films first to test the market reaction?" Teng Shu seemed to be thinking about it.

(End of this chapter)