Chapter 879 We Have No Shortage of Attendance!

The same scene, at the same time, appeared in the chairman's office of Oriental Media Group.

On the Huafei film and television side, Hu Fei turned off the TV halfway through watching, but on the side of Dongfang Media Group, Zhou Yanghua looked serious and patiently read the whole report.

Then he turned his head and looked behind him.

Zong Chengze, the president of Oriental Media, two vice presidents, and Xiong Chengchao, the general manager of Oriental Cinemas, a deputy general manager, were all there.

Xiong Chengchao was about to speak, but someone spoke before him.

It's Zong Chengze.

His expression was very calm, with a trace of self-blame in his calm, and he said: "This matter was my mistake! Yesterday afternoon, Cheng Chao and the others asked me for advice. I mainly considered the company's previously established strategy, so I failed to pay enough attention to their suggestions, and I failed to respond in a timely manner..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yanghua waved his hand.

His face was calm and breezy.

"It's okay! It's normal."

Xiong Chengchao opened his mouth, but finally closed it.

It's just that there was an indescribable discomfort in my heart, and I couldn't help turning my head to look at Zong Chengze——the matter was just exposed like this?

At this time, Zhou Yanghua sighed, and said: "It seems that I can't hold back!"

After a pause, he said, "What a pity! What a pity! For this matter, I even paid for several bottles of good wine! Sigh..."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked at Xiong Chengchao, with a calm and confident smile, an indescribable affinity, and a unique temperament mixed with the inexplicable majesty of a long-time superior.

"We don't need to take it hard to make money! If you don't make money, you're a fool! Cheng Chao, then you should contact Minghu Culture, sign the agreement, and make more copies! Don't they always Hope to increase the number of screenings, give them!"

Xiong Chengchao hesitated for a moment, but he could only say: "Before I came here, I had already called Xu Bing over there. Xu Bing said that we should pay attention to first come, first served, and they are dealing with them one by one."

After a pause, he explained: "After all, this film is going to be a big hit. Everyone has seen it. The major theaters must be eager to get more copies. However, we have already sent people to watch it. I sent Lao Liu, he has established lines with Minghu Culture several times, and he is the most familiar in terms of personnel."

Zhou Yanghua originally nodded, but after thinking about it, he said, "What is first come, first served? You call Lao Liu and ask him to explain directly, our Oriental Cinemas is one of the largest cinemas! And our A large number of theaters are located in bustling business districts, and they are the first choice for social elites and white-collar workers to watch movies! "Red Sorghum" is a literary film, and its main audience must be the social elites!"

After a pause, he waved his hand imposingly, "Let Lao Liu tell the other side that! We must get the copy as soon as possible. After you get it, you should arrange and adjust the film arrangement as soon as possible! Sigh..."

At the end, he still couldn't help sighing, obviously still disappointed that he failed to curb the rise of Minghu culture this time.

The chairman has said so, and what he said is not unreasonable. Many times in the past, Oriental Cinemas has relied on its unique and powerful cinema advantages to grab the limited copies of those popular movies. Therefore, the cinemas Several people in the company, including Xiong Chengchao, nodded and subconsciously turned to leave.

I have to admit that Zhou Yanghua has been in the domestic film industry for nearly 20 years. He is a giant Buddha in the entire Chinese film market. In the Oriental Media Group, there is no one who dares to disobey and question his orders. Guy and absolute core.

However, just as he was about to turn around, Xiong Chengchao's cell phone rang suddenly.

Xiong Chengchao originally planned to go out to answer the phone, but he took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. He couldn't help but stop, looked up at Zhou Yanghua, and said, "It's Lao Liu."

Zhou Yanghua nodded and said, "Go ahead!" Then he turned around and sat down in the sofa area.

Xiong Chengchao answered the phone, and his expression changed as soon as he heard the first sentence.

Then, he roughly interrupted the conversation over there, and asked loudly: "What? The copy is used up? What does it mean that the copy is used up?"

Next, Xiong Chengchao was dumbfounded as he didn't know what Lao Liu said on the other side of the phone.

After a while, under the gaze of everyone in the room, he resisted the shock and ordered: "I see, you stay there and don't come back, I will report to the chairman!"

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone and looked at Zhou Yanghua, speaking in a tone of disbelief, "Lao Liu's phone said that the publishing department of Minghu Culture had just informed him that they had prepared a film for "Red Sorghum" in advance. The copies are already used up? Say yes... say that you can't provide us with copies for the time being!"

Everyone in the room was stunned.

The deputy general manager of a theater company said subconsciously: "Didn't Xu Bing, the distribution manager of Minghu Culture, say in the interview just now that they were well prepared?"

Xiong Cheng looked back at him, but quickly turned his gaze back to Zhou Yanghua's face.

Zhou Yanghua was also a little stunned and surprised.

It's out of the question to be flustered. After so many years in the entertainment industry, he has long been used to wind and rain.

At this time, he was not in a hurry to speak, instead he leaned back on the sofa comfortably, took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly, and then said: "Either that Xu Bing is bragging to the reporter, or each The number of copies requested by the major theater companies has exceeded their preparations, and even exceeded their greatest expectations for this movie in advance. But no matter what kind..."

"He actually gave it to another family, not to our Oriental Theater?"

This thing is indeed rare.

Everyone knows that although the Oriental Cinemas may not be the absolute No. 1 in terms of absolute scale, but in terms of the ability to harvest box office, it is the absolute No. 1 in the Chinese film market!

As long as a movie wants a high box office, it will never refuse the Oriental Cinemas to add more movies to them! When there are too many, when a film suddenly becomes popular and there are not enough copies, then each distribution company would rather give fewer copies to other theaters, and they must give priority to ensuring that the copies of the Oriental Theaters are full and sufficient. .

To put it bluntly, no one will have trouble with money!

At this time, Xiong Chengchao's mind was still running rapidly, and Zong Chengze suddenly said: "Mr. Zhou, do you think it may be that Minghu Culture has already noticed that we have joined forces with other theaters to suppress their department?" Movies, so now that movies are hot, they want to turn it around...give us some color?"

Xiong Chengchao suddenly widened his eyes and looked at him.

Not only Xiong Chengchao, but everyone else also looked at Zong Chengze - this statement is a bit surprising!

Even...almost a joke!

I have never heard of a movie that was pressed by the theaters, so that the film director and the producer of the film company knelt down to toast. Screened!

Film companies produce movies as a product, and they rely on theaters to help them sell them. This is a natural upstream and downstream industry. How can the upstream dare to offend the downstream?

They don't want to make money anymore?

Think the box office is too high?

Nonsense!

However, when Zhou Yanghua heard the words, there was no look of surprise on his face.

Raising his hands and stroking his hair, he looked at Xiong Chengchao with a serious face, and asked, "Chengchao, Lao Liu didn't say anything, when does Minghu Culture plan to copy it?"

Xiong Chengchao quickly replied, "Lao Liu said that Manager Xu Bing said that Minghu Culture has already contacted urgently, and the original copy will be sent this morning, and we will strive to produce all the urgently needed copies within three to five days. come out."

Hearing this, Zhou Yanghua finally had the first expression change on his face.

The corners of the lips are slightly raised.

It was a sneer.

Raising his hand and stroking his hair again, he sighed and asked calmly, "Have you used all the spare copies you gave us earlier?"

Xiong Chengchao immediately replied, "It's all used! Our movie theaters in various places are already the theaters with the best flow of people and attendance. "Red Sorghum" is a hit, and of course everyone still gives priority to going to our movies. Therefore, movie theaters everywhere The pressure over there is not small. I ordered someone to call to notify me at 8:30, and I don’t need to keep the spare copies that were originally given by various places. I will use them all and arrange additional films.”

Zhou Yanghua nodded.

After a while, he was a little confused.

Zong Chengze seemed to have seen through Zhou Yanghua's mind, so he lowered his head at this moment and did not speak.

But Xiong Chengchao couldn't help but said: "Chairman, you should call Mr. Qi Jieqi over there personally! Regardless of the reason, you will always give you face if you call over there. Said, at least two or three hundred copies can be given to us first, as an emergency, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, before Zhou Yanghua could respond, Zong Chengze raised his head and waited for Xiong Chengchao with an expression of displeasure, "Nonsense! Old Xiong, you are confused! Deliberately retaliating against us, it is not worth the chairman calling them for such a trivial matter! They are not worthy of heaven for giving them face like this!"

Xiong Chengchao immediately became excited when he heard the words, his face turned red, and he couldn't help yelling at him, "Small things? The current situation of "Red Sorghum" is that as long as you have a show, you can guarantee that it will be absolutely full! What is this? Do you know the concept? One copy can show seven shows a day, and there are an average of more than 100 tickets for one show, and the discount for one ticket is more than 20 yuan. Some of our screening halls even sell tickets for 28 yuan! One screening It’s three to four thousand yuan, seven screenings is twenty-five-six thousand, and one hundred copies are screened for one day, that’s two and a half million yuan!”

After a pause, he kept annoyed, "Forget it today, with a discount, it's a hassle just to send copies out of town, but we're only in a few large and medium cities around Shuntianfu and Jinmenfu, plus There are twenty-one movie theaters, one hundred and thirty-three screens! In addition, I will definitely find a way to send it to movie theaters in various places tomorrow. As long as Zhou can always call for a hundred copies, it means that this weekend Our box office can increase by three or four million! If there are two hundred, it will be seven to eight million!"

Speaking of this, he glared at Zong Chengze, and asked with a sneer: "Mr. Zong, is this a trivial matter?"

"you……"

Zong Chengze was speechless.

One phone call can be exchanged for seven to eight million operating income, no matter how rich and powerful Oriental Media is, they dare not take this seriously!

And...don't care how busy the domestic movie box office market is at first glance, and don't care how excited those movie companies are, but as the actual manager of the Oriental Media Group's specific affairs, Zong Zehua is very clear in his heart, unless it is like last year "Huang Feihong", "The Gate of Life and Death", or like the current "Red Sorghum", during their release period, especially at the beginning of the release, the tickets were sold as if they were robbed! Otherwise, most of the time, the movie theater is actually empty!

In the off-season, and it is not a blockbuster movie, most of the movies released can have an attendance rate of more than 30%, even if they are blockbusters! It is already possible to get a huge tilt in film arrangement in theaters.

However, tickets for "Once Upon a Time", "The Gate of Life and Death" and "Red Sorghum" are hard to find, so as long as you show it, you can basically guarantee that the attendance rate will not be lower than 60%. Up a few!

Seeing Zong Chengze's speechless look, Xiong Chengchao felt that he was choking the other party, and couldn't help but want to continue talking, but this time, before he could speak, Zhou Yanghua waved his hand and said, "Okay Stop arguing!" After speaking, he let out a long breath, and said, "What Cheng Chao said makes sense! Make money! It doesn't matter if you bow your head or not, I will make this call!"

Zong Chengze looked like he couldn't bear the hero's suffering, "Mr. Zhou, you are..."

Zhou Yanghua waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to talk, then took out his mobile phone and began to look up the number.

Zong Chengze sighed with a humiliated expression.

The phone connects.

Zhou Yanghua said calmly: "I'm Zhou Yanghua from Dongfang Media, and I'm looking for you, Mr. Qi Jieqi."

There was a nice female voice on the other end of the phone, "Hi, Chairman Zhou, I'm Qi Jie."

A smile appeared on Zhou Yanghua's face, "Mr. Qi is well!"

Qi Jie on the other end of the phone said: "Chairman Zhou called, is there something to do?"

Zhou Yanghua chuckled and said, "That's it. I heard the report below. It is said that brother Li Qian's "Red Sorghum" has a very high attendance rate! It's rare for a literary film to sell tickets so well! Surprise! Ah! Congratulations, and please help me with a sentence, congratulations brother Li Qian!"

On the other end of the phone, Qi Jie seemed to chuckle, but her voice was as indifferent as ever, "Thank you, Chairman Zhou! There is joy, but there is no need to be surprised. Our company believed that "Red Sorghum" must be a big hit from the very beginning. selling!"

Zhou Yanghua was choked upon hearing the words, and the smile on his face froze immediately.

However, she quickly adjusted and said with a smile: "That's right! That's right! Brother Li Qian's film is really hard to sell if you don't think about it! Haha!"

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone before Qi Jie said, "I've said it politely, Chairman Zhou has something to say, please!"

Zhou Yanghua's face froze again.

This woman, Minghu Culture, seems to have never had a good look at herself since she met her!

But at this time, I didn't care about it for the time being. Since the other party asked, Zhou Yanghua said: "That's right, the person we sent to contact your distribution department reported that you have used up all the films you prepared in advance. ? They were all snatched away by other cinemas?"

There was hardly any emotional ups and downs in Qi Jie's voice, and he said in a calm and stylized way: "Yes! But we have already contacted the printing company urgently, and new copies will be produced soon. It is estimated that three to five Oh my god, it can be queued to your Oriental Cinemas. I'm really sorry about this."

Zhou Yanghua frowned upon hearing this.

"Can't we coordinate and even give us some copies of the Oriental Cinemas? Even two or three hundred are fine! Mr. Qi, you know that most of our movie theaters are built in the places with the largest flow of people and the most attractive to social elites. class, so it should be said that our screen is..."

“We have no shortage of attendance!”

Before Zhou Yanghua could finish speaking, Qi Jie had already thrown this sentence coldly, suppressing all Zhou Yanghua's follow-up words at once.

We have no shortage of attendance!

Not to mention the long-lost displeasure of being interrupted, just such a sentence is enough to make Zhou Yanghua stand there in a daze!

In this world, is there any movie that does not lack attendance?

Zhou Yanghua opened his mouth slightly in astonishment, and couldn't recover for several seconds.

What you said...wasn't it awesome?

After a pause, Zhou Yanghua managed to come back to his senses, his eyes froze, his voice turned cold, "What does Boss Qi mean by this? Did you mean..."

"I did not mean anything else!"

His words were interrupted again.

At this moment, Zhou Yanghua only felt that he was hot all over, and the anger that could be suppressed just now in the bottom of his heart rushed up all of a sudden!

Okay, I want to suppress you, you understand, when you find out that the movie is popular, you want to suppress me in turn, it doesn't matter, I've come all the way, I haven't encountered any dire situation!

Isn't it just to lower your figure, although I won't be able to use it for many years, but I am very familiar with it, so I don't feel ashamed!

But...you keep interrupting Lao Tzu when you step on the horse, do you understand?

"That you……"

"Chairman Zhou!"

Interrupted again!

This time I just said three words!

Paralyzed, how many years have no one dared to interrupt me!

"To tell you the truth, we prepared 3,300 copies of the movie "Red Sorghum" in advance, but last night, many theaters contacted us, asking for additional screening agreements and additional copies. The copies they wanted There are many, we are afraid that the copy will be idle in their place, and it is not enough for us, so we try to press down as much as possible, but every theater chain promises us that the attendance rate for two days on weekends will never be lower than 90%! Under the circumstances, of course we can't hold back the copy!"

"So, in fact, before nine o'clock this morning, all of our 3,300 copies have been signed out! And the time when your people came to our company was nine thirty!"

Zhou Yanghua was speechless.

…………

Thirty seconds later, the other side took the initiative to hang up the phone!

Hearing the busy tone from the microphone, Zhou Yanghua moved the phone away from his ear in a daze.

"Director..."

Just as Xiong Chengchao said three words, Zhou Yanghua suddenly got up!

With a bang, the phone flew out!

Snapped!

Crash!

Parts shattered all over the place!

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As soon as the fifteenth seat was seated, before the butt was warmed up, it was kicked off!

Looking at you pitifully--give me some monthly tickets?