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Chapter 630 Showing off wealth (subscribe for the second update!)

The fierce battle at the end of the summer season in North America is in full swing, and several films are catching up on the end of the summer season to try to gain more box office.

And the domestic situation is not peaceful. Several blockbuster films are competing for each other. The newly released films such as "A Romantic Affair", "One Night Surprise", and "Made No. [-]" are fishing in troubled waters.

"Wolf Warrior" is still the most popular movie at present, taking over the banner of "Interstellar" and leading the second half of the summer schedule.

Last week, "Wolf Warrior" won a super-high box office of 2.56 million, surpassing "Pacific Rim"'s 2.06 million, and won the championship of the week. It won a total of 11 million in 4.25 days.

Mobilized the emotions of the audience, the box office is rising steadily, and it has also formed a big topic in the entertainment circle.

However, since the past two days, there have been reports on the Internet that the movie tickets they bought were handwritten, or they were tickets for other movies such as "Tomb Raiders Notes".

There is even a one-yuan movie ticket. The movie ticket clearly states that the ticket price is one yuan, but the audience spent tens of dollars to buy it on the spot.

This kind of situation happens all the time. After all, stealing the box office is not a matter of a day or two. It is a basic operation for movie theaters.

If you don't steal the box office, how can the movie theater continue to open?

No one paid attention to it, and even ""Wolf Warrior" was stolen from the box office" became a trending search, and the theaters at most just posted an announcement on Weibo.

After two or three days, netizens continued to post all kinds of handwritten tickets and one-yuan tickets, and Hantang Media posted a long Weibo to denounce this illegal behavior of stealing box office.

At the same time, Wu Jing, who is doing road shows across the country, also appeals to the audience to take a closer look at the tickets in their hands when buying tickets. Once they find handwritten tickets or tickets for other movies, they should go to the cinema to replace them.

There were some signs of trouble, and the Dadi Cinema had to send out a Weibo to call for grievances.

Dadi Cinemas claimed that after investigation, it was found that most of the handwritten tickets were because the audience bought the "Wolf Warrior" movie tickets and wanted to watch other movies, so the ticket sellers changed them manually for the audience without permission. The movies shown in the two halls have been temporarily changed, but the face value has not been changed.

As for the one-yuan ticket, Dadi Cinemas responded that it was a printer error, and also located and traced the seat numbers of the two movie tickets posted by netizens. The result was that the system failure was caused by the wrong printing template of the movie ticket in the VISTA ticketing system. , resulting in "2 yuan" appearing on the ticket paper, but the actual sales data of the VISTA ticketing system and the box office data reported to the National Optoelectronics Special Funding Platform are consistent at 1 yuan.

It even produced a lot of messy data and pictures, but netizens couldn't understand it at all.

In the past, things like this should be over. No matter how fierce the disturbance is, the theaters will respond.

Even before, because Nuomi Movies was able to update box office information every half hour, there were several times when the box office statistics in the second half hour were lower than the box office in the first half hour. error.

Anyway, no matter what they say, people have excuses.

The general manager of Dadi Cinemas, Fang Bing, checked the Internet as usual, and he could still see Hantang Media accusing the theaters of stealing the box office, and many people echoed it.

In the past, these matters were dealt with by the public relations department, which is not surprising.

It's just that nearly [-]% of the movie theaters that broke out this time are movie theaters under Dadi's banner, which made him pay attention every day because he smelled a sign of uneasiness.

It was another calm day, and Fang Bing was about to close Weibo, but he turned to another Weibo that had just been posted, which was a video.

The title is Dadi Cinema stealing the box office, and Fang Bing clicked in to check it out.

The video was obviously shot in a movie theater, and it looked like it was shot by a mobile phone. It was a little shaky, and the camera was aimed at the words Dadi Cinema on the wall, pausing for a second or two.

Fang Bing had a bad premonition in his heart and continued to look down.

A young man who stamped a code bought a ticket at the ticket office, and the conductor handed him a ticket for a show, but the young man said that he bought a ticket for "Wolf Warrior", why did he give a ticket for "Tomb Raiders Notes".

"This ticket is the same. They are all 3D and the price is the same." The conductor didn't even look at the ticket, nor did he show any surprise, and replied calmly.

When he wanted to change the ticket, the conductor said that the ticket had already been paid out and he could not change it, so he had to buy another one.

The young man insisted on changing it, so the conductor impatiently drew two strokes on it with a pen, and wrote a few words carelessly

He went to the chair beside him and sat down. The person with the mobile phone next to him focused his camera on the movie ticket. The words "Tomb Raiders Notes" were clearly printed on it, but the time and the title of the film were crossed out, and it was written After downloading other screen time, there is also a word "war".

The video ends here.

Fang Bing frowned, it was rare to take such a blatant photo.

But if people hold this phone in their hand to look at it, no one will notice that they are taking pictures.

"This is a bit troublesome!"

Looking at a lot of comments and reposts on Weibo during that period of time, Fang Bing realized that things were not that simple.

Immediately dialed the phone number of the general manager of the theater management company in charge of the area where the theater was located.

"Find this theater immediately and come forward to clarify!" Fang Bing ordered with a serious face.

These days, everyone and shops have Weibo. Soon the cinema’s Weibo also posted a clarification. Replace movie tickets for the audience, and all losses will be borne by the movie theater.

However, within a few hours, Hantang Media issued an article again, calling on all audiences to supervise together, and posted a search warrant specifically for box office theft.

A large number of netizens began to post their own movie tickets, and there were all kinds of tickets. For a while, it seemed that everyone's tickets were fake.

In the general manager's office of Dadi Cinemas, Fang Bing immediately asked people to start public relations. Fortunately, he had expected something to happen before, and he had been paying attention to it. He also made the public relations department ready so that they would not be unprepared.

Just as he was relieved to order the characters down, a video that broke out again immediately made him unable to sit still.

In the video, a large stack of movie tickets is piled up together. Unlike ordinary movie tickets, this ticket is just a blank piece of paper, with a coded movie theater name written on it, and several rows and numbers.

It is not handwritten, it is printed and copied, and the date, row, and number are all empty, waiting to be handwritten.

There are several stacks of handwritten tickets that have been prepared, which are already obvious.

That's not to mention, the video interface is transferred to the theater ticket issuing machine, and the two systems above switch back and forth, which is clear to the insider.

The video is likely to be that someone bribed the conductor of the theater and secretly shot it with a pinhole camera on his body. Later, he added a voice explaining what dual systems are.

But I don't know which movie theater it is at all. Except for a machine interface, everything else is mosaic, and there is no other information. The other party is too cautious.

Fang Bing was already covered in cold sweat. Although he had no expression on his face, it was Dadi Cinemas, but more than [-]% of the box office theft incidents that broke out before were from Dadi Cinemas, and Dadi Cinemas must bear the blame.

After calming down for a while, Fang Bing immediately called the heads of various departments for a meeting, and the bosses of theater management companies in various regions also connected via video.

Although this matter will not cause any fatal blow to Dadi Cinema, it is still necessary to keep a low profile for now.

Those who work in this industry are very clear that the country cannot really make a move, and it is necessary to wait until the film market is close to saturation.

Really completely kill these cases of box office stealing, and the movie theaters in small cities will shrink rapidly, and not many people will invest in a project that can only be paid back in five or six years.

To support the market, you have to spend money. This money cannot be paid by the audience, nor by the country, nor by the theater chain, but by the producers.

Just like the popular ticketing platforms, food delivery, and taxi-hailing software, the platforms spend their own money to support the market.

This sudden incident not only made Dadi Cinemas a little passive, but the entire film industry was a little caught off guard.

Such a large-scale action is definitely not something that everyone can make a fuss about. After thinking about who is the biggest beneficiary, it is obvious.

But "Wolf Warrior", the hottest movie right now, is indeed the movie with the most stolen box office.

It was "Interstellar" before, and at least more than 1 million were stolen.

Stealing so much money from others, there is nothing to say about retaliation.

Moreover, Hantang Media did not make the matter so difficult that the two industries could not fight each other, and no other producers and theaters were involved, and it was still within an acceptable range.

However, this news is enough to make the relevant agencies take action. First, they issued a notice to severely crack down on box office fraud, reiterating the "Draft for Comments on the Film Industry Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China" in the past two years, and the e-commerce ticket sales work. "Notice" and "Standards for Movie Ticket Marketing and Sales" on various regulations on movie theaters concealing box office.

After a few days of investigation, the Film Distribution and Projection Association will impose fines ranging from 30 to 100 million yuan on the illegal theaters, and suspend the film for 4-6 months. The National Film Special Fund Management Committee will also cancel the violations. , Various funding and award eligibility.

In private, Dadi Cinemas was also severely warned and asked to strengthen the management of its affiliated theaters with mixed quality.

For a week, with Dadi Cinemas being called in for a warning, everything was calm again, as if nothing had happened.

In North America, Tang An, who has been watching domestic news, immediately asked the theater chain to prepare for the second financing, and stepped up to expand its market share while Dadi Cinema Chain itself was in trouble.

After the second week of screenings in North America, "Interstellar" has a total box office of 6630 million US dollars.

In terms of single-week box office, it ranked second with US$3960 million, but North America is only counted as the weekend box office list. This weekend, "Crazy Richest Man in Asia" won this weekend's box office champion with US$2650 million.

And "Interstellar" received 5500 million domestically, with a total box office of 19.5 billion.

Southeast Asia and Europe received a total of 5300 million US dollars, and last weekend's 4430 million US dollars, the box office of these two places alone reached 9730 million US dollars.

And this week, the global box office of "Interstellar" is 1.011 million, achieving the consecutive championship of the global weekly box office!
It is impossible for Tang An to stay longer in North America. The current box office and word of mouth are very good, and they are stable. Stay for a few more days, talk about other copyrights, and see if there are any projects that can be invested, and it is time to return to China.

However, when he was about to return to China in a few days, he was dissed.

As two recent popular movies, "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Interstellar" are not of the same type, but both have an all-Asian cast, so it is inevitable that they will be compared.

Moreover, the director of this film is still of Chinese descent, and he has filmed "Special Forces 2".

Of course, he didn't have DISS Tang An, the two directors were strangers to each other, whether there was any competition in the schedule, and he was not stupid, he would offend others when he was full.

This "Crazy Rich Asians" tells the story that the male protagonist Nick Yang is from Singapore and is a history teacher at New York University in the United States, and the female protagonist Zhou Ruiqiu is a Chinese-American economist at the same school.The origin of the story is that Nick is going back to Singapore to attend his best friend's wedding, and decides to take his girlfriend Rachel home to meet his parents.

In addition to the standard scenes of Mary Sue and the wicked mother-in-law, the wedding of a Singaporean rich man who spent 4000 million U.S. dollars in the movie also shocked the Americans.

Singaporean tycoons showed their faces. Several Singaporean tycoons in the United States were interviewed by the media many times. An investment tycoon named Li Fulong began to show off his wealth in a low-key way. When asked by the host whether Singapore is the richest country in Asia, he also intends to Inadvertently belittled some neighboring countries.

I don't know how the host talked about it. First, it involved two movies, and then suddenly it involved Tang An.

Tang An looked at the host on TV with a speechless face, telling how Tang An had participated in and invested in several movies in the United States, many of which were A-level big productions.

On the contrary, Tang An invested in two major A-level productions, but they were all incidental. He used the fame of these major productions to promote his own movie, and only invested a few million dollars in total, just a fraction.

As a result, quite a few people came to seek investment, and they became the favorites of Hollywood for a while, and dared to take a bunch of unknown projects.

That big boss was quite loud, with a look of disdain. What he said was that the movie was just a small investment. The $4000 million wedding in the movie was a trivial matter. The rich people in Singapore are the real rich people. How many of the 50 richest families in Asia are from Singapore.

In particular, the host also specifically emphasized that Tang An was only 33 years old, and the boss didn't care much, as if he was giving advice.

Except for someone from Biguiyuan, rich people at this age are really not taken seriously by this tycoon with a net worth of more than one billion US dollars.

Tang An turned off the TV, and was a little speechless. If you want to show off your wealth, you can show off your wealth. Why did you drag me in.

"I remember that the rich in Singapore are quite low-key. The last time I saw Mr. Wu, he started from nothing. His net worth must be 80 billion U.S. dollars. He is not so arrogant."

Yang Mi smiled and said, "Brother An, why don't you fight with him who has more money?"

Tang An shook his head, "I've eaten too much, this guy probably wants to find a sense of presence with Papa Miguo."

PS: Damn, I wrote a piece like I was constipated. I saw that the time was 03:30, and the more I stayed up late, the less I was feeling.
(End of this chapter)