Chapter 1124 Stabbed an Ant's Nest
Li Mu and Senior Brother Liu are methodically planning an encirclement and suppression war around Shunfeng, with the aim of trapping all of Shunfeng's living forces in Guangdong and Hong Kong, and annihilating them all.
At the same time, the Muying ticketing system has begun a snowball-like development model in mainland theaters.
With the continuous delivery of a large number of Muying self-service ticket machines, cinemas in first-tier and second-tier cities in China have basically all connected to the Muying ticketing system, and there are still a large number of third- and fourth-tier city theaters waiting in line. The ticketing system has been hungry to the extreme.
For those theaters that have already connected to the Muying ticketing system, the biggest advantage after connecting to this system is that the overall attendance rate is much higher than before.
In the past, users were resistant to going to the cinema to watch movies, not only the ticket price, but also various behavioral costs, but now, watching movies has entered the Internet age, users are much more convenient to watch movies than before, and the total box office is also natural. In the continuous rise, in addition to the major film and television companies, the ones who will ultimately benefit are the theater owners.
Therefore, the owner of the theater chain highly respects the Muying ticketing system, but the film and television company does not think so.
There are lessons learned from "Heroes". Although the Muying ticketing system has increased the total domestic box office, they are still full of hostility to the Muying ticketing system.
The most fundamental reason why film and television companies are hostile to the Muying ticketing system is that the Muying ticketing system is completely uncontrollable for them.
In the past, when everyone rushed to arrange films, they discussed cooperation with the bosses of major theater chains. Everyone has been working together for a long time, and they all follow a set of unspoken rules. Existing, except for Makino Imaging, no film and television company can be related to the Muying ticketing system. In this way, the sense of security of the film and television company will naturally be greatly reduced.
Just when the Muying ticketing system swallowed up the first- and second-tier cities and was about to expand into the third- and fourth-tier cities, a sensational rumor suddenly appeared in the Yanjing film and television circle.
It is rumored that the ultimate goal of Muye Imaging is to cover the Muying ticketing system in every city in the country, and then control the film arrangement rights of all the theaters in its own hands with an absolute monopoly.
Rumors even warned that if the major theater chains do not fight together, once the Makino ticketing system spreads across the country and requires the theater chains to hand over the film rights, the major theater chains will completely lose their ability to resist.
Because at that time, a large part of everyone's box office revenue comes from the Muying ticketing system. If any theater chain dares to be disobedient, the Muying ticketing system directly stops the online ticket entrance of the theater line, then the theater chain will definitely lose a lot!
Some people even warned major film and television companies that once that time comes, any film and television company will become the target of Makino Imaging, and no one can guarantee that a large-scale production film with an investment of over 100 million will collide with Makino Imaging's film. At that time, once Muye Imaging used the Muying ticketing system to suppress it, and a movie with an investment of more than 100 million yuan could not even earn tens of millions at the box office, wouldn't it be inevitable?
After these rumors came out, several derivative versions appeared immediately, and the more they spread, the more evil they became. Finally, it was passed down to the point where Muye Imaging attempted to use the Muying ticketing system to crush all competitors and monopolize the domestic film and television industry.
Although there are a lot of mindless speculations here, I have to say that they have grasped some key points. If the Muying ticketing system achieves a monopolistic layout across the country, then if Li Mu likes it, he can really control the national box office. Arranging movies, if the theater owner is obedient, everyone will make a fortune together; but if they are not obedient, they directly cut off the other party's online ticket entrance, and then guide these users to other theaters, the other party will inevitably lose a lot, and it will take a long time to compromise.
It is precisely because the person who released the rumor made such an inference that the rumor seemed to be a lot more credible, and for a while, the entire film and television industry, especially the film and television company bosses, felt the turmoil.
When Li Muren was in Hong Kong, the bosses of several film and television companies in Yanjing had already started to get together, and they had a few in-depth discussions on the threat of Muye Imaging and the Muying ticketing system.
When everyone has a sense of crisis, when everyone sits together, the sense of crisis will be infinitely magnified. Under the leadership of people who care, the bosses of this group of film and television companies have discussed back and forth, and they have almost been dealt with by Muye Imaging and Muying Ticketing. The system is awake at night.
After several discussions, the bosses of many film and television companies indignantly reached a consensus that they must form a group and take the initiative to curb the Muying ticketing system and prevent him from getting bigger and bigger.
Immediately afterwards, a joint letter written by the top executives of dozens of film and television companies was sent to the leaders of the radio and television industry, in which the Muying ticketing system was called a cancer that endangered the healthy development of the film and television industry, and one that could destroy business at any time. Movie time bomb.
In this joint letter, it also used a pleading tone to hope that the radio and television can ban the Muying ticketing system and protect the domestic commercial film market that has finally developed, and finally released a threatening signal: if the Muying ticketing system continues to develop, major Film and television companies will consider suspending filming in theaters to avoid falling prey to monopoly.
The joint name of dozens of film and television companies has indeed given a great shock to the leaders of the radio and television. In addition, some people secretly contributed to the flames. Soon, the radio and television sent a notice of interview to Makino Imaging.
As the general manager of Muye Imaging, Ning Hao immediately got in touch with Li Mu when he received the notice of the interview, and reported the notice of the interview he had received to Li Mu.
As soon as Li Mu heard about the interview with his superiors, his heart skipped a beat, and he blurted out to ask him, "Is there any special movement in the film and television industry recently?"
Ning Hao thought about it for a long time and said, "No, I haven't heard anything different."
After speaking, Ning Hao asked Li Mu, "Boss, what do you mean by special movement?"
Ning Hao is just a rookie director. The first theatrical film has not yet been released, so he can't reach the high-end group in the film and television industry. Although dozens of film and television companies have discussed the fight against Muying, they are all involved. Ning Hao has never released news in the industry, and Ning Hao knows nothing about it, let alone heard anything.
Seeing that Ning Hao asked such a question, Li Mu knew that with his status, connections, and strength in the industry, he might not be able to touch the real core information, so he had to ask, "When is the interview?"
Ning Hao said, "Ten o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow."
Li Mu then said: "In this way, I'll ask someone to inquire about the situation first, and then it's alright to ask you to go there. When you go, if your superiors have any requirements, you should write it down and report back to me first, and don't make any verbal promises. "
Listening to Li Mu's voice, Ning Hao couldn't help but ask, "Boss, is the leadership interview a problem?"
"I don't know." Li Mu said solemnly, "But for us, it must not be a good thing."
Ning Hao asked him, "Why do you say that?"
Li Mu didn't answer his question, but instead asked him: "What is the most afraid of the runners who run at the front of the field?"
Ning Hao thought about it and said, "Are you most afraid of mistakes?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "I'm most afraid the referee will suddenly jump out!"
After finishing speaking, Li Mu added: "I originally ran at the front and had an absolute lead. As long as there was no external intervention, I would definitely be able to win the game. At this time, when the referee comes out, even if there is no bad thing, there will never be anything good. On the contrary, falling behind The gap between the top players is getting bigger and bigger, and the leading players have not made any mistakes, their only hope can only be pinned on the referee."
Li Mu didn't explain what he said. In fact, the same is true of doing business. For companies that focus on new things and develop smoothly, the most fearful thing is to have an interview with their superiors, because at this time, it is often the beginning of the management and control of new things by superior leaders. To control a new field, the biggest impact must be the leader.
Li Mu's intuition at this time was not very optimistic. He always felt that there would be nothing beneficial to him in this interview. On the contrary, it might even have a certain impact on him.
So Li Mu hung up Ning Hao's phone and called Chen Ze immediately. He is a son of an official family, so he must be much better informed than the average person, not to mention that it has something to do with the state ministries and commissions. Ze is the most likely candidate to dig out the secret.
Chen Ze has been busy with Wanying Real Estate recently, as well as the racing track he invested with Li Mu and the csc club. He was very busy, so he didn't pay attention to many news. During the interview, he also said that he was confused and had not heard anything beforehand, but he attached great importance to this matter, and immediately sought out his relationship to help Li Mu find out the news.
Less than an hour later, Chen Ze called Li Mu back. As soon as the call was connected, Chen Ze said to Li Mu, "Brother, you have stabbed a hornet's nest this time!"
Li Mu frowned: "What? Did you offend a lot of people?"
Chen Ze said: "The bosses of dozens of film and television companies jointly reported to their superiors that your Muying ticketing system is suspected of monopoly, unfair competition, and disrupting the balance of the industry, and even said that if the Muying ticketing system is not abolished, the national film and television system will be affected. The industry will be destroyed by it.”
"Damn it!" Li Mu suddenly became stunned: "This is fucking bullshit! The Muying ticketing system has more than tripled the total national box office compared with the same period last year. I was helping them add vegetables to the pot, and they didn't even think about it. Do you know what to do, and jointly slander me?"
Chen Ze said: "I guess this matter is not as simple as it looks on the surface. It should be someone planning and pushing it behind the scenes. I have already asked someone for help and I will tell you as soon as there is news."
Li Mu snorted and asked again, "Have you heard that the leader specifically wanted to do this interview with Muye Yingxiang?"
Chen Ze said: "The biggest possibility is to open up the data of your Muying ticketing system and accept the management of the superior, or forcibly split it up. I heard that someone proposed to limit the entire Muying ticketing system to an online ticketing tool. The specific control rights are taken away from you and delegated to the major theater chains themselves. At that time, you will only provide services and collect box office shares, and the rest will be entirely up to the theater chains themselves..."