After Terry was selected as the director, he entered the preparation stage for filming, and because of the cooperation with Paramount, many of the rental aspects were much easier.

And the casting is also through the unique actor agency in the Hollywood area, as long as you ask, the right actors can be sent a bunch of them immediately.

Although the cost will be a little higher, it is extremely efficient, and after a week, everyone including the leading actor is basically complete, and Kevin is starring a high-level child of Paramount, and the salary is not low.

Although there are still some special deals, this child is indeed very capable, born in a film family, and has received various trainings since he was a child, compared to some talented people from the outside world, in fact, this is more suitable for the filming of this movie, after all, there is not much time left.

After entering October, the filming of the movie officially began, Xu Zhi temporarily completed a major event, for a period of time in the future, he will often come to the crew to watch the progress of the filming, but he will not stay here all the time, leaving a few assistants as financial supervisors, Xu Zhi immediately rushed to Las Vegas.

Las vegas!

For a special group, its name is almost as loud as New York Washington, a city built entirely on gambling, standing tall in the desert and one of the four major gambling cities in the world, accounting for 38% of the world's gambling industry at its peak.

Unlike the He family, which monopolized Aomen, the casinos here are full of flowers, with a total of more than 200 casinos.

Located in the northwest corner of Las Vegas, Reading's 3 casinos are medium in size and have their own five-star hotel dedicated to casino guests.

Xu Zhi stood on the side of the corridor on the second floor, leaning on the railing, looking at the madness of countless gamblers downstairs, and couldn't help laughing: "The business of this casino is really good!"

"Well, the U.S. economy hasn't been doing much lately. Reading said next to him: "The worse the economy, the more people will come here to gamble, hoping to get rich overnight and retire!"

Casinos are actually the same as movies and games, the worse the economy, the better the business, because countless people want to escape from reality and indulge in fantasy.

However, the casinos here are relatively much better than a city in Asia, Nevada has a special gambling law, not only to restrict gamblers, but also to have certain regulations for casinos, although it cannot be said that there is no black game, but many people can still really make a profit.

Xu Zhidao: "Congratulations, this is a business!"

"It's not that simple, you can't see a lot of hidden costs, and when it comes to profits, I have to congratulate you, Eric. Reading continued: "Your company's creativity is really great, the new games are very popular, especially the tank battles, and now the orders have exceeded 50,000 units, although Pac-Man is a little less, but it is also very popular, and now some stores I know are not ready to buy Space Invaders anymore!"

The first batch of arcade machines of Tank Battle and Pac-Man has landed in the American market half a month ago, and the novel game method immediately caused a sensation, because the market is too large, and the share that can be allocated in each place is not much, so in various small shops and big city bars and other places, countless people are waiting in circles to wait or watch these two arcade machines, and although the space invaders on the side are not unattended, they are also very few.

Anyone who has played tank battles is not interested in playing this low-level shooting game again, and if it is at home, it may occasionally change its taste, but the arcade has to pay for every game played, 25 cents a time, who wants to toss money like this!

It is estimated that Taidong Company did not expect that its game would be popular in the United States for a year, but when it was about to end the year, it was hit like this!

It's not a dimension at all!

"Don't worry, the production capacity in Xiangjiang is enough, and we will ship it to the United States in the fastest way. Xu Zhi replied with a smile that the biggest beneficiary of the increase in arcade sales was naturally his boss.

Pac-Man still takes the same route as Xiangjiang Cube, and the terminal sales price is only more than $2,000, because they are all casual games, and the speed of swallowing coins is not fast, in order to occupy the market, low prices are a necessary policy. And the real big head of these games is the game cartridge of the future, the more famous you are, the more you will benefit in the future.

The tank battle is different, this is a combat game, the price of the space invader of Taidong is almost 3000 US dollars, and the tank battle is even more ruthless, the direct terminal price is 3500 US dollars, but the first batch is still nominally reduced by 500 US dollars, otherwise the price is too high, I am afraid it will scare off the end customer.

But as his fame grew, more and more orders came in, and He Guoyuan became tougher, not only did the price recover to $3,500, but even the payment method had to be paid in full first.

Of course, you can disagree, then sorry, let's line up!

The profit of one tank battle alone is as high as $1,500, and the total amount of orders is even more terrifying, plus orders for Pac-Man and Block Arcade, a total of $185 million.

This data has deducted the layers of costs of Reading, the general distributor in the United States, that is to say, after deducting the production cost of the arcade itself, the profit of these orders alone is more than 50 million US dollars.

Of course, this is actually the total profit in the next few months, and there is no way to get it all in your hands for the time being, but there will be new orders in a few months, and counting Japan, Europe and other countries, Xu Zhi has truly become a billionaire - dollar-level!

With hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, various plans can be carried out smoothly.

Xu Zhi said: "Reading, there is another thing on my side, you may be interested?"

"Oh, what's it, a new game? I'm only interested in making money right now!" Redding laughed.

Xu Zhidao: "It's not a game, it's a toy, but if it is planned and cooperated, it will be more profitable than the game!"

"Toys, your Rubik's Cube, can it be like a Barbie doll?" asked Redding, curious.

"Neither. Xu Zhi shook his head and said.

In addition to taking the route of major large supermarkets, the Rubik's Cube also began to distribute goods in various haberdashery stores, Reading began to look down on this small toy, and his distribution channels were not suitable for the Rubik's Cube, so Changxing Company chose a new distributor in the United States.

However, the performance of the market was unexpected by Reading, Xu Zhi contacted an old friend of ABC TV on the second day of his arrival in the United States, and spent millions of dollars to bombard himself with large-scale advertising in several prime times, especially the reward of 200,000 US dollars, which soon caused a sensation, and in just half a month, the Rubik's Cube shipped to the United States was sold out, and the new orders have been sent back to Xiangjiang, and the next batch has been prepared to be airlifted over.

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