After the premiere, Michael Collins walked out of the theater and came to the book fans, and the book fans who participated in the boycott saw him coming, and they all came forward and surrounded him, scrambling to ask.

"Michael, tell me about the movie?"

"Isn't it badly changed?"

"Guys, I'm not resisting, I'm going to rush to buy a midnight ticket now, swipe it twice, and it's gone if it's late. ”

Michael Collins squeezed his way out of the crowd and headed for the theater, where a group of book lovers stared at his back.

This is the case?

The movie adaptation is very... Succeed?

A group of book lovers kept guessing in their hearts. If the adaptation doesn't work out, Michael Collins definitely won't.

But this is said to be the most difficult to adapt!

"Let's go, let's go check it out too!"

One of the book's lovers suggested that his suggestion was quickly answered.

"Yes, go take a look, seeing is believing, if the demon guide's adaptation is okay, we won't boycott, if the adaptation is not good, we will continue to boycott. ”

"Yes, let's go!"

"Let's go!"

A group of book lovers threw away the sign in their hands and headed for the theater.

......

With the end of the premiere, the midnight show also began, John has not released a new work for two years, and this time he returned to the summer vacation with what is known as the most difficult to adapt into a movie, which naturally attracted many people to the theater.

The theater chain also knows John's influence, and in addition to the fact that this is "The Lord of the Rings", the midnight theater line directly took out 1580 theaters and 3322 screens to play "The Lord of the Rings", but so many screens are still not enough, and all the tickets were sold out in just 1 hour after the movie tickets went on sale.

"What, there's no more tickets, isn't it just going on sale?"

In a Hollywood movie theater, a white man stared at the conductor viciously, he knew that "The Lord of the Rings" was going to be midnight today, so as soon as he finished dinner, he rushed to the movie theater to get a sneak peek, but before the money was taken out, the conductor told him that the tickets were sold out, which was equivalent to taking off his pants, and the big aunt came, what is this?

"Sir, there are really no tickets, let alone a midnight show, and even tomorrow's tickets are running out now!" the conductor looked at the white man in embarrassment.

"Boy, don't be confused with me, look at how many people are in this hall, how can such a small number of people sell out of tickets!"

The white man didn't trust the conductor.

"Sir, most movie fans now like to book tickets online, and very few people come to the theater to buy tickets, and you can choose the location when you buy tickets online, so everyone likes to buy them online now. The conductor explained.

"What buy tickets online?" the white man was a little confused.

"Do you usually shop online?" the conductor asked.

"Occasionally. ”

"Tesco has a "Le ticket", you can click to enter to select the theater, movie, show, seat, and then pay with PayPal, then it will give you a ticket code, and after arriving at the theater, you can go to the automatic ticket machine over there to enter the ticket code, you can get the ticket.

Or you can go directly to the website of the "Weekend Rent" company, they also have a booking system on their website, and you can also book tickets on it and come to the theater to pick up your tickets. ”

The online ticketing system has been developed by IBM, and this thing is not a big deal, just an online ticketing system plus a terminal ticketing system, which are all developed and manufactured by IBM. Moreover, the automatic ticket vending machine is also under development, and it will not be long before the cinema will no longer need to sell tickets manually, which will greatly save labor costs.

And after the IBM guys were inspired by the movie ticket network, they have now become out of control, and they have come up with hotels, air tickets, train tickets... Everything that needs tickets, they have developed an online booking system, as if they can be stunned, John doesn't care about them, anyway, after these systems are developed, they can sell well, which also leads to the sales of IBM Software Company rising.

"Okay, then get me a ticket to the movie tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. The white man was not an unreasonable person, and after listening to the conductor's words, he was not entangled, he took out money from his pocket to buy a movie ticket for tomorrow, and then walked out of the movie theater depressed with the movie ticket.

And the person who bought the ticket, after the movie opened, happily walked into the screening room, John established his reputation with one movie after another, so everyone is looking forward to seeing his movie.

"Michael, is the enchantress really so good?"

After a group of book lovers bought tickets, they followed Michael Collins into the screening room, they were very conflicted, they wanted to watch it but did not dare to watch it, they were itching in their hearts if they didn't read it, and after reading it, they were afraid that John would destroy their classics and cause them a shadow in their hearts.

"Trust me Jack, you won't regret walking into the cinema. Michael Collins patted Jack on the shoulder, he had just gone to the premiere and was full of worry like Jack, but John proved that his worries were completely unnecessary, and in his opinion the adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" was very successful.

"Well, I'll see!"

Jack nodded reluctantly.

After entering the screening room, a group of book lovers sat together, the movie was still a few minutes away, and now the commercial was playing on the giant screen, and several major theater chains were racking their brains like crazy to make a profit since they were bought by Weilan Stillman.

Nowadays, movie theaters not only sell popcorn, drinks and movie merchandise, but also provide rental services, and the weekend rental company has a rental shop in each theater, and these shops need to pay a rent to the cinema every year.

In addition, the cinema chain also cooperates with advertising companies, and now the cinema screening hall will play advertisements in their free time, and the theater chain must pay for the broadcast of these advertisements.

Of course, William Stillman was not only thinking about how to expand his profit points, but also how to save costs.

In the past, there was no number for the seat, and fans bought a movie ticket to stay in the screening hall for a whole day, and Weilan Stillman definitely wouldn't let this happen, so not only did he change all the theaters to more comfortable seats, but also added a number, and now if you want to watch a movie in the cinema for a day with a movie ticket, it's impossible, each movie ticket can only be watched once, and after watching it, there will be a staff member who will ask you to go out with an amiable attitude, and if you want to watch it again, you must continue to buy tickets.

And since the launch of the online ticketing system, Weilan Stillman has ruthlessly laid off more than 4,000 people, even if these people are only paid $2,000 a month.

This is normal, because the layoffs of these theaters will save $100 million in labor costs every year, plus buying medical insurance and social security for these people...... Miscellaneous expenses, the cinema chain can save nearly $200 million a year, so as long as a competent businessman will do it.

Anyway, Weilan Stillman did not let go of the place where he could scrape off the oil and water, and even if he couldn't scrape the oil and water, he had to scrape off the skin, which fully embodied the capitalist's style of squeezing every cent of interests.