Chapter 56 Shanghai New Area (9)

After this adjustment, the cinema finally reopened, and just the day before, all the movie tickets for the first day of reopening were sold out, and the popularity continued. It turned out that in the two days of closure, many people were very anxious, people who watched the movie in the first three days still want to continue to watch the later episodes, and they want to make up for the missing ones in the middle, and a considerable number of people have heard the news from various channels and come to watch it, all saying that overseas Chinese movies are good, but where is it good.

So after the cinema restarted selling tickets, it immediately attracted a large number of people, and there were some people who couldn't buy tickets because they were a step late, but fortunately, the cinema will officially start to open its doors every day, but the cinema only sells tickets one day in advance, and does not make pre-sale reservations, and the ticket sales are real-name system, in case someone falls into the case, so they can only wait for the next day to buy.

After the reopening of the cinema, for several days, almost every day, every show was full, and soon formed a trend of watching movies in Shanghai, Dayou is not a complete Shanghainese without watching movies, and in the communication, entertainment are also to invite people to watch movies, or send movies to be proud, and trendy men and women are even more enthusiastic, because it is the seat on the corridor on the second floor, because of the large space, spacious location, often become the first choice of the rich.

And the movie not only attracts a large number of Chinese, even foreigners are crazy to watch movies, although the ticket price of foreign films is higher than that of Chinese films, but the degree of popularity is no worse than that of Chinese films. Because this era is indeed a lack of entertainment, and foreigners living in China due to cultural and customs reasons, it is even more difficult to pass the spare time, interested in Chinese culture, or can integrate into Chinese society is only a very small number of foreigners, and movies in this era are naturally very rare entertainment, not to mention European cultural background movies, or all-British dubbing.

The first batch of five foreign language films are all well-known and widely circulated stories in Europe, and no one thought that they would see movies with European culture as the background in this thousands of miles away, in a foreign country, so many people couldn't help but cry with excitement when they looked at the familiar pictures, villages, castles, and churches in the movies.

There are also foreigners who are interested in the technology of film, and compared with the film technology that is already available in Europe, the film of the time-traveler is undoubtedly the difference between Zenith and Anthropoid. And in this difference, many foreigners have found huge business opportunities from it, if such a film can be released in Europe, even if only one is screened, it is enough to get rich in a short period of time, and if you master this film technology of overseas Chinese, it is equivalent to finding a huge cash cow, just waiting for the money to roll in.

As a result, a large number of foreign businessmen came to Yang Yuxin every day, and some people discussed cooperation intentions with him, suggesting that Yang Yuxin go to Europe to open a cinema to screen movies, because the market there was larger, and even said that they could let the time-traveler take a large profit; while others wanted to buy the film technology of the time-traveler, and the bid even reached a sky-high price of 1.2 million pounds, which was enough to buy a mainstream battleship in this era.

And Yang Yuxin was also annoyed by these foreigners, and was forced to make a public statement in the newspaper that the traverser would not cooperate with anyone to open a movie theater elsewhere, nor would he sell film technology, and would refuse to discuss similar issues in the future, so as not to suppress the trend of cooperation among foreigners. It also makes many foreigners lament that an opportunity to make a fortune is in front of them, but they can't get it.

However, it is not easy to make foreigners die, since it is not possible to go through the official side, some foreigners began to make bad ideas, they have to find people working in the cinema, promising to lure them with heavy money, some are asking them to steal film equipment, or technology to Europe to research and develop film technology, and promise to provide them with sufficient research and development funds.

But these temptations have been rejected without exception, on the one hand, because it is basically impossible for the traverser to betray, after all, staying in the traversal group, even if it is a soy sauce in the future, it can get a good status, and once out of this group, the vast majority of traversers have little confidence in their own development alone in this era, after all, it has been a year and a half since they came to this era, relying on the joint efforts of more than 6,000 traversers, and a large number of modern equipment and technical support, there is the current situation, and the power of the individual is too small in the face of the big era, at least these more than 6,000 traversers think that they do not have the protagonist's Wang Baqi, can do a career alone in this era.

On the other hand, even if someone is confident and thinks that it will be better to do it alone, it will not meet the requirements of foreigners, and with the technical level of this era, it is impossible to develop film technology that reaches the level of a traverser, and it is not realistic to steal film equipment, because modern film equipment is a very complex set of system equipment, not one or two people can steal it. Even if the equipment is stolen, professional personnel are required to install, debug, and power supply. Therefore, it can only be refused.

However, after Yang Yuxin heard this rumor, he didn't dare to be careless, and asked the travelers who worked in the cinema to protect the equipment of the film, for fear that foreigners would steal the equipment, although these equipment would not be used by foreigners if they stole it, but the problem is that the traveler's own movie equipment is not much, there is a cinema on the three passenger ro-ro ships, plus the spare equipment is six sets, and the bad one is one less set, and there is no place to repair it, let alone be stolen.

Of course, this is just a small episode, during this time Yang Yuxin lived in the Shanghai office, not to covet the more comfortable living conditions here, but the cinema has just opened, and he needs to take care of it here, after all, the cinema is now the most important and most profitable project in Shanghai New Area, and it is also an important opportunity for Yang Yuxin to brush up on his political achievements. On the other hand, Yang Yuxin also wants to take this opportunity to have comprehensive exchanges with officials, industrial and commercial tycoons, and well-known squires in Shanghai, and seek various opportunities for business cooperation for the future development of Shanghai New Area.

There is a movie theater as a platform, which also provides an opportunity for Yang Yuxin, Shanghai officials, industrial and commercial tycoons, well-known squires, and celebrities want to watch movies, but they can't buy tickets, so they can only ask someone to find a relationship to beg Yang Yuxin to get some movie tickets, so Yang Yuxin quickly became a hot figure in Shanghai.

In fact, Yang Yuxin also had to anticipate this situation, and initially designed a VIP hall and two small audio-visual rooms when planning, which were prepared for officials, industrial and commercial tycoons, well-known squires, and celebrities, as well as for the plane and reliance of his own communication with the powerful and famous people in Shanghai.

On the seventh day of the official opening of the cinema, the installation and commissioning of the equipment of the VIP hall and two small audio-visual rooms were finally completed and could be opened to the public. The VIP room is about 160 square meters, the audio-visual room is between 40 and 50 square meters, all the furniture is shipped from Qingdao, and two small generators are also shipped. Not only can you watch movies and TV dramas, but you can also hold small gatherings and banquets. It is a very suitable place for entertaining, communicating, and even negotiation and consultation.

However, the VIP hall and small audio-visual room are not ticket-sold, but the implementation of the VIP membership system, customers can be free to charter, on-demand the movies they want to watch, TV, or hold banquets, etc., and the cinema launches new movies and TV, which are also first screened in the VIP hall and small audio-visual room, and can be booked 15 days in advance. Of course, there is also a corresponding fee, and it is much higher than in the cinema. The VIP membership price of the small audio-visual room is 200 taels of silver a year, the VIP membership price of the VIP room is 300 taels of silver, and 500 taels of silver a year can be packed with the VIP hall and two small audio-visual rooms, which is only the cost of obtaining VIP membership, and the cost of chartering the use is paid separately.

However, as soon as the VIP system was introduced, it caused a widespread upsurge, and on the first day, more than 100 people subscribed to become VIP members, and more than half of them were packaged, including more than 20 foreigners. Because there are indeed a lot of rich people in Shanghai, but they respect their own identity, of course, they are not willing to squeeze the cinema with ordinary people, even if it is not appropriate to watch a movie on the second floor, it is really nothing to spend a few hundred taels of silver, so it is just right for them to spend a VIP hall and a small audio-visual room.

On the first day of the opening of the VIP hall, Yang Yuxin specially invited all the members who packaged and subscribed to VIP members to gather together for free, showing two new movies, a Chinese movie [Shaolin Temple], and an English movie [Lord of the Rings] The first part of the trilogy. [Shaolin Temple] is a classic kung fu movie in the old time and space, which caused the effect of thousands of empty alleys back then, and the background of the story is set in the era of communication in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and there are no taboos. And [The Lord of the Rings] is a fantasy film, which has nothing to do with reality and will not cause any controversy.

Although these are two different types of movies, whether it is the fight kung fu scenes or the special effects scenes, they are indeed too exciting, so after the movie is over, everyone is still immersed in the wonderful plot of the movie for a long time. And Yang Yuxin also lost no time in launching several classic martial arts, kung fu, and fantasy movies in the old time and space, both in Chinese and English, all of which were movies that had not been shown in cinemas, and also made people secretly marvel at how many movies there were among overseas Chinese.

However, some people immediately began to book VIP lounges and small audio-visual rooms, and soon all the 15-day booking time was full, and the income reached more than 30,000 taels of silver.