With the ancient sailing ship of the Tang family raised high, Zhou Ming and Tang Lin set sail together to return to San Francisco.

In the castle on Quan'an Island, several elders of the Tang family were watching them leave, Tang Yu's father was also here, he looked at Zhou Ming's back as they left, and the more he thought about the previous meeting, the more he didn't feel good, so he turned his head and asked, "Brother Jingsheng, I think I need an explanation, why are you talking to that guy who is unknown?"

In response to Tang Yu's father's questioning, Tang Jingsheng sighed helplessly and said, "Unknown guy, I really can't imagine how ignorant you are to ask such a question." ”

Tang Jingsheng's words made everyone stunned, and they were all very surprised, and they didn't understand what he meant by saying this.

At this time, Tang Huiyin told everyone: "Cousin Zhisheng specially checked the details of that Zhou Ming, and even called Yanjing to inquire about Zhou Ming's situation. ”

Tang Huiyin's words only went on here, because no one here was a real idiot, and everyone knew very well what Tang Jingsheng's call back to Yanjing was.

As Chinese living abroad, no matter how rich they are, no matter whether they can integrate into the Western circle or not, they have never been able to change the fact that they are yellow-skinned, so they have always been very concerned about the situation in China, from the first Opium War to the later warlord melee and the Eight-Year War of Resistance, and even the liberation of the country, they have always maintained contact with the leaders of that land.

Of course, due to some political reasons between the East and the West, they have less contact with Red China, and there is only one special telephone line that can be directly connected to the central government, and they have the power to make an appointment with the top leader on the phone. Now from Tang Huiyin's words, it is obvious that Tang Jingsheng has already made this phone call, so he will have this attitude towards Zhou Ming and Tang Ran.

Although it is said that money can touch power through gradual penetration, a consortium is still too small in front of a country, so they reflect it, and everyone is shocked.

Tang Yu's father was stunned and asked, "Big brother, do you mean that Zhou Ming is a person sent by Yanjing, or is he a descendant of a red family?"

Tang Jingsheng heard him call the change from big brother Jingsheng to big brother, but he didn't say much, just shook his head with a helpless smile: "I can't say anything about this, but you must know that for Zhou Ming, it's better not to embarrass him too much." ”

Tang Yu's father nodded and said, "I understand, I will teach Tang Yu a lesson as soon as I go back!"

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At the same time, on the sailboat leaving the port, Tang Ran asked Zhou Ming: "Brother Ming, do you think Tang Yu will really not interfere with our release today? I always don't trust those guys." ”

Zhou Ming replied to him with a smile: "I don't think they will deceive us on this issue, and they will wait to see our box office tomorrow." ”

The next day, Zhou Ming Tang Ran and Tang Lin sat in the conference room of Jackco early, waiting for a call from Disney, but at 11 o'clock in the morning, Disney's distribution manager Iger belatedly called to tell them that yesterday's one-day box office result was $99,000, and the average attendance rate increased to 33%.

Hearing this answer, Tang Ran immediately cheered, and hugged Zhou Ming's neck and kissed him on the face, and Tang Lin on the other side also let out a sigh.

After all, this box office result is already very pleasing, imagine that one day is equivalent to 100,000 US dollars, then if you can maintain it for the remaining six days of this week, then it is 600,000 US dollars, and it is 2.4 million US dollars for four consecutive weeks, if you add some more screenings and scale, I believe that it is no problem to increase the box office to five or six million, Tang Lin thinks that he can finally recover his investment.

However, Zhou Ming said in the face of this box office: "It's only less than 100,000, and because the impact of Tang Yu's interference at the doors of various theaters yesterday has not been eliminated, there are still many people who want to see it but can't see it, I believe that if these people enter the movie theater, this box office will be further stretched upward." ”

When listening to Zhou Ming's words, whether it was Tang Lin or Disney's distribution manager Egger, they were all discounted, especially Egger, he also mocked Zhou Ming: "I said Mr. Zhou Ming, it's a good thing that you have confidence in your film, but it's not right to be blindly confident, I think it's already unexpected to get close to $100,000 at the box office now, and the attendance rate of 35 percentage points is already very high, so don't expect some unrealistic fantasies." ”

As Zhou Ming said to Tang Lin, the supporting characters in this book will definitely be slapped in the face, and Egger is naturally no exception.

On the third day of Toy Story's release, almost before Iger called, Zhou Ming and Tang Lin had already gotten the results they wanted from the TV news.

It was a Hollywood channel in Los Angeles, a channel dedicated to movies and movie-related information, and early in the morning, the morning news of this channel was broadcasting Toy Story box office with a high income of $170,000, maybe this box office alone is not surprising, but the key is that his broadcast scale is extremely small, only 25 theaters have been released.

That's why Toy Story averaged 61 percent attendance and set a miracle record of 100 percent attendance at 7 p.m.

Compared to Tang Ran and Tang Lin's stunned, Zhou Ming waved his fist high and shouted: "This is the real box office appeal of Toy Story, the previous ones are nothing!"

Tang Ran crossed his fingers and estimated that the box office this week would exceed 1 million, and if the scale of the screening was increased, then the box office could easily exceed 10 million this month, which is very remarkable!

As for Tang Lin, he called Egger at Zhou Ming's request to increase the scale of the screening next month.

Egger's side was reluctant to increase the scale of the screening at first, but thinking that Zhou Ming could give more buyout fees, and the contract was there, he could only agree in the end.

What no one expected was that just as Zhou Ming Tanglin went to Los Angeles to sign a contract with Iger, on the fourth day, Toy Story rose to a new height: the box office of $210,000 a day, the average attendance rate reached almost 100%.

Under this data, even a stray dog in Hollywood can understand how this is a blockbuster film.

It was precisely because he understood this that Egger, who signed the contract, chased Zhou Ming all the way from Los Angeles to San Francisco, he asked Zhou Ming to have dinner at the Sunflower Restaurant, and said to Zhou Ming very embarrassedly: "Mr. Zhou Ming, that's the case, our Disney Company has received screening requests from more than 70 cities throughout North America, so according to the market potential of the Toy Story film, we are ready to adjust the screening scale to 1,000 theaters next week." ”

This sentence made Tang Ran gasp, you must know that they only have a pitiful 25 theaters now, and they have a box office of 210,000 US dollars a day, if this is increased to 1,000 theaters, this is a direct increase of 40 times the scale of screening, then can't there be a box office of 8 million a day? Of course, Tang Ran also understands that the box office is not a simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but it will bring more box office, which is absolute.

However, Zhou Ming was unmoved, he looked at Egg with a smile and asked, "You came with a mission, right? If I guessed correctly, Disney will definitely punish you." ”

The expression on Egg's face became embarrassed, because Zhou Ming's words were going up to his heart.

In fact, after the 170,000 box office and 61% attendance rate came out the day, this animated film released by Disney has attracted the attention of all Disney executives, for no other reason, as filmmakers, they are very clear about what this 61% attendance rate represents, but more importantly, all the company's senior executives do not have this film in their impressions at all.

So Disney executives asked Egger, and Iger honestly explained that he had signed a buyout and distribution contract for the film.

Disney executives were furious on the spot, reprimanding Iger for being a pig without vision, and demanding that he find a way to negotiate a change in the contract. And when the next day's $210,000 box office and almost 100% attendance came out, the president of Disney directly gave Iger an ultimatum: bring back a new contract from San Francisco, and a resignation letter from the company.

Iger had no choice but to come to San Francisco, in fact, he was looking for Jobs first, after all, the copyright of the movie was still with Jobs, he must have looked for Jobs first, but Jobs told him that he had to get Zhou Ming's consent, so he had to go back to Zhou Ming again.

Seeing the expression on Egger's face, Zhou Ming knew that he had guessed correctly, and then he said: "I'm glad that Disney can increase the scale of screening to 1,000 theaters for me, but I'm afraid this is not a free service, right?

That's right, the company's idea is to re-sign a distribution contract with Zhou Ming, from a buyout distribution to a box office sharing distribution contract. Iger said.

At this time, Tang Ran was curious: "Manager Iger, didn't you say that you wanted to sign a buyout? and said that this can ensure the interests of your Disney company, why do you want to divide the box office now?"

Egg felt embarrassed, and he wanted to smack himself a few big mouths, scolding himself in his heart for why he said that in the first place.

However, Iger also understood that since this was the he chose, he had to eat him with tears in his eyes, so Iger nodded and said: "That's right, I looked away at the time, I didn't expect this film to have such a big market potential, after all, this was not promoted at the beginning." ”

"It's not that there is no publicity, but you Disney are unwilling to publicize it!" Zhou Ming reminded him.

Iger immediately changed his tune and said, "That's right, it's all my stupidity, and I don't want to increase the publicity budget for Toy Story." ”

"I have to say, Manager Egger, you are indeed very stupid!" Zhou Ming said, "I would like to ask you, if it were you, you had a movie in your hand that I was sure that I could conquer the market, but the distribution company had to forcibly lower the price, and even had to buy out the distribution without spending money on it." Later, when your film proves its box office potential, and the distribution company comes and asks for a new contract change, will you agree?"

Faced with Zhou Ming's question, Egger lowered his head, because he had an answer, if it was him, he would not agree to it anyway, why should he let it out of his own interests?

But what he didn't expect, Zhou Ming then smiled and said: "But I can agree, but in terms of the proportion of sharing, I need to account for sixty-five percent." ”

Egger rekindled his hope, and he nodded busily and said, "No problem, I'll communicate with the company immediately!"

Saying that, Egger took out the phone and called excitedly, Tang Ran asked Zhou Ming curiously at this time: "Why did you promise him? They are obviously cheating." ”

"Of course I know they're cheating, but it doesn't matter, or it doesn't conflict with what we're trying to profit for. Zhou Ming saw that Tang Ran was still a little confused, so he continued, "A very simple truth, that is, if there is no interest, you will not do things, if we really hold on to the current buyout contract and do not let go, then Disney is likely to stumble us in increasing the scale of screenings, and I don't have time to play this game with them." ”

"So Brother Ming, you might as well promise them, and then ask for more in the proportion of shares. Tang Ran took Zhou Ming's words and said.

Zhou Ming rubbed her little head dotingly and smiled: "That's right, that's it." ”