Chapter 561 Victory in the First Battle!

Because the time difference between Xiangjiang and the United States is 13 hours, June 13, Xiangjiang time is the day when "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is officially released in North America.

There is no such thing as a global simultaneous release. Even the 2011 masterpiece "Avatar" was released in batches. It is rare that there are a few movies that can be truly called global simultaneous release.

The reason is that theaters in different countries have different interests, and it is impossible to achieve a satisfactory result for everyone.

In the future, Wanda Group will be very hardworking. Not only has it established the largest theater chain in China, it has also bought the second largest theater chain in the United States, and then it has conquered cities in Europe, and Southeast Asia is their next plan... and so on for more than ten years It's not a big problem if you want to build a global theater chain.

But that doesn't mean it's safe.

Although theaters don’t have to do anything and just show movies to make money, it’s quite leisurely to divide the spoils, but if you encounter movies that are not suitable, good movies are not shown here, or financial crisis or something, it will immediately cause a huge amount of money. loss.

Aren’t the European and American cinema chains bought by Wanda forced to sell to Wanda for this reason?

Therefore, Wanda is not only actively buying and building theaters, but also actively intervening in the film industry, wanting to produce films by itself.

Wanda Film Company was established in this way, and then they also spent 3 billion US dollars to buy Legendary Film Company, a leading second-tier film company in the United States, and even actively contacted the seven giants of Hollywood, wanting to learn from Sony and acquire one of them One family, to create better film sources for their own theaters.

Yin Jun didn't know if their method was right or not, but after all, it was an attempt by Wang's richest man. In Yin Jun's view, there are many lessons to learn from.

Leave this matter aside.

Historically, movies released in the United States have always been based on North America, which actually includes Canada.

By 2020, Canada will have a population of less than 40 million. In 1980, it will be around 25 million, which is not even one-tenth of that of the United States.

But anyway, this is also a developed country. With a population base of 25 million, it can provide more than 5 million moviegoers, which is already good.

Once Lei Shidong has a goal, it is really amazing to work hard. The number of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" screens is 1,733 in total, including 218 in Canada.

With such a number, not to mention the second-tier theaters, even the seven giants of Hollywood can generally gather so many screens.

In fact, although "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was screened in 1,078 theaters in the previous life, the number of screens was just over 2,100, which is not much larger than the current scale, but the location of the theaters is much better than now.

Hearing the news, it is said that Fox was stunned at first, calling it impossible.

Paramount was even more ignorant, their president dropped the glass and cursed.

Of course, these have nothing to do with "Raiders of the Lost Ark" now. Their entire staff, including those movie theater owners who have joined Redstone's temporary theater chain, are waiting excitedly and anxiously for "Raiders of the Lost Ark". "'s opening is auspicious.

When Lucas and Yin Jun called, they both seemed a little restless.

In contrast, Spielberg is much calmer.

If it wasn't for the promotions that took place some time ago, Spielberg would have come to Xiangjiang to discuss the specific preparation and shooting of "E.T." with Yin Jun.

Staying in the United States in recent months, Spielberg has been thinking about "E.T." when he is free. He has drawn thousands of sketches alone, and he has also written several notebooks for various data collection and plot discussions.

As long as the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" can meet expectations, then Spielberg can get rid of these tedious social activities and come to Yin Jun to talk about business.

I don't know if it's because Yin Jun has always been very confident. Not only Lucas, but even Lei Shidong will call Yin Jun when he is nervous, hoping to get encouragement and encouragement.

Even Zou Wenhuai has called Yin Jun more frequently in the past two days. If he hadn't been busy with something, Zou Wenhuai would have wanted to go to the United States to guard.

Perhaps, only Yin Jun was not worried.

In the previous life, when the production funds were not enough, they could get a box office of 384 million US dollars. Now Yin Jun has added so much money to them, including Zou Wenhuai's 5 million US dollars, a total investment of 25 million US dollars. The filming effect is really too fine.

In addition, in terms of publicity expenses, because those movie theaters want to get 50% of the income, they do their own movie theater-related publicity, and other publicity, including TV, newspapers, etc., cost 3 million U.S. dollars. Yin Jun, Zou Wen Wye and Lucasfilm respectively. ——In terms of publicity expenses, Lucas cannot be allowed to steal and play tricks, and must strictly follow the allocated investment ratio.

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At 2 p.m., which is 1 a.m. U.S. time, Yin Jun was explaining the details of a shot to Wang Jing when the phone rang at home.

"Hello!" Yin Jun asked Wang Jing to write first, then got up and went to answer the phone.

"Sent it! Sent it! Jun, do you know how much our box office was on the first day?" Lucas's violent voice came from the other side of the phone, "Oh my god! We actually have a box office of 1.7 million! And both critics and audiences have praised "Raiders of the Lost Ark"! This time we succeeded!!"

Yin Jun was also overjoyed.

The total box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the previous life was about 8 million in the first weekend in North America, but according to the situation in the United States today, it is Thursday, the box office of tomorrow Friday, the day after tomorrow Saturday, and the day after tomorrow Sunday must be more at the box office on Thursday.

It's 1.7 million today, and the word of mouth is very good. It's not difficult to exceed 10 million at the box office in those four days, right?

Don't underestimate the 10 million box office results, this is 1980, not 2020!

In the summer of 2020, the box office of the first weekend of 10 million box office will not be ranked in the top five. If you are not lucky, you will not be in the top ten.

But the box office of 10 million U.S. dollars in the first weekend of 1980 is really a comparison, and it is safe to be the first! And it's the number one of the year!

Lucas was so happy because he thought of this.

"Oh, it's because we're not strong enough, otherwise if we get more good screens in the city center, the box office results will be even better..."

Lucas rambled for a while, then hung up the phone excitedly, judging by his appearance, he would not be able to sleep tonight.

It's no wonder, this is the first blockbuster produced by Lucasfilm itself, and it almost fell out with Paramount. If this is not successful, then the movies he makes will be suppressed by the seven giants in the future. Take a bite hard.

But now it seems that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has a high chance of success.

So from now on, Lucasfilm has one more path, and when facing major theaters, it will have a lot more confidence.

After Lucas, Redstone also called immediately.

Excited, he was even happier than Lucas.

This is the first time he has done such a large-scale joint screening. Once he fails, those theater giants and the seven major film giants will definitely tear him to pieces, and those movie theater owners who have failed will also leave him. and go.

However, now it is clearly the posture of success!

What Lei Shidong is happy about is definitely not just the little profit from "Raiders of the Lost Ark". What he cares about is that he has led a huge theater chain, which is bigger than Emperor Entertainment, the largest theater chain in the United States.

With successful experience and good movies in the future, he can pull up theaters of the same scale or even more at any time. In this way, he can become a guest of Hollywood film companies and make more money Not to mention, the power has definitely increased greatly!

"Summer." Before hanging up the phone, Yin Jun reminded: "Don't offend the rest of the theaters. At this moment of victory, we should think about expanding the results rather than resting on our laurels, right?"

"Don't worry." Of course Lei Shidong is not an idiot, he said with a smile, "I have discussed with Lucas just now, as long as they want to get in the car, they can come. The more successful "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is, The more we can get more."

Putting down the phone, Yin Jun couldn't help but smile.

Of course, there is no need for Yin Jun to remind Lei Shidong of such things.

He will be one of the best entertainment giants in North America in the future. If he is not smart enough, how can he develop to this point?

It is conceivable that after this success, Lei Shidong's dream of theaters will definitely accelerate, and he may be able to complete the accumulation many years earlier than in his previous life, so as to acquire the Paramount and TV stations he dreamed of, step by step. to the pinnacle of his career.

It's just that Yin Jun also knows that Lei Shidong can share adversity, but he can't share happiness.

You can see the character of this person just by thinking that he first went to court with his wife, and then went to court with his daughter.

Although there are many such people in the United States, for example, Murdoch is one of them, but there are probably only two or three people like Redstone who have done so well.

After Lei Shidong passed, within a few minutes, Zou Wenhuai called again.

"Ajun! We succeeded!! Thank you! Thank you! Golden Harvest is going to make a big international debut this time!!" The chairman of Golden Harvest was even more excited than the previous two.

But Yin Jun knew the difference between him and the previous two.

Lucas's first sentence was "sent", while Zou Wenhuai said "successful", which means that the two of them have different attitudes towards movies.

One regards movies as a means of making money, while the other regards movies as his ideal.

In the future history, the two will do the same.

Lucas sold Lucasfilm when its value was at its peak, but Zou Wenhuai reluctantly sold it until Golden Harvest could no longer sustain it.

This is not to say that Zou Wenhuai is so bad, but that he was in the wrong place and at the wrong time.

If he can be in the United States, let alone Lucas, even Redstone may not be able to beat him.

It is precisely because Zou Wenhuai really loves the film industry, so this time "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Yin Jun did not drive him out.

Otherwise, according to Yin Jun's shareholding ratio, if he forces Lucas to choose between the two, Lucas must choose him.

And Zou Wenhuai did not have the courage to invest more than 20 million U.S. dollars into "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Increase Golden Harvest's strength, maybe in the future, Golden Harvest will have stronger power to impact the film market of the whole world!

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