Six days later, Dongfang Yuqin came to report and moved into the villa. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Li Zetian signed a confidentiality agreement and contract with her, temporarily hired her as a secretary, and then casually threw her a lot of information to familiarize her with the business content first. Li Zetian plans to train her for a period of time, and then depending on the situation, to see if she has the ability to become the CEO of Times Technology.

……

Li Zetian is now reading a lot of books on artificial intelligence, which is the main direction of development in the future, including robotics, language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, and expert systems, involving philosophy and cognitive science, mathematics, neurophysiology, psychology, computer science, information theory, cybernetics, and indefinite theory......

Li Zetian said that "the pressure is great", it seems that a person is poor, and he is afraid that it will be difficult to complete.

On the afternoon of the end of August, on a sunny day, Li Zetian was swimming in the pool, and George Lucas suddenly called to say that the post-production of "Star Wars" had been completed and was ready to be released.

"George, bring me the film, I have a small home cinema here. ”

"Okay, Chronos, I'll send it over in person right away and talk to you about something by the way. ”

"Hmm. ”

Beverly Hills was so close to Hollywood that in less than an hour, George Lucas came to Li Zetian's house.

After a brief greeting, everyone went directly to the home cinema.

Li Zetian called Yu Jingqiu and Dongfang Yuqin over to watch the movie together.

The first "Star Wars" was filmed very excitingly, similar to the work in Li Zetian's impression, but with a few more things, such as Apple's Apple-ll and Walkman, and special effects lenses were added, but it made the movie more brilliant and technological.

Yu Jingqiu and Dongfang Yuqin were surprised from time to time during the movie, which shows that this movie should be a success!

Later, when everyone answered the living room, Li Zetian poured a glass of water for George Lucas and said, "George, the shooting is good, I like it very much! By the way, didn't you say that there is something to talk to me about? What is it?"

George Lucas shook his head and sighed, "Twentieth Century Fox is not optimistic about Star Wars, our movie has just been made, and it hasn't even been promoted yet, and they are ready to arrange the release. ”

"No publicity?" Li Zetian frowned unconsciously when he heard this.

"It's not like there's no publicity at all – it's just that some Star Wars movie posters are posted in front of the cinema. Yet, to the bone's worst, Twentieth Century Fox has only allocated us a dozen movie theaters......" George Lucas said, almost despairingly.

In my day, in my previous life, there were more than 30 movie theaters, but in this life, because Apple invested, the number of movie theaters was even less.

Li Zetian cursed in his heart, but on the surface, he forced himself to calm down, patted George Lucas on the shoulder, and comforted: "It's okay, I believe that "Star Wars" is a very good movie, and under word of mouth, more and more people will definitely go to the cinema to watch our movie! When the time comes, Twentieth Century Fox will naturally increase the number of screens for "Star Wars." ”

"I hope so. ”

George Lucas finished and took a sip of water.

Li Zetian asked, "George, do you plan to shoot the second part of "Star Wars"?"

"If the movie is popular, of course I will!"

"Hehe, that's it, I'm looking forward to our cooperation again!!"

Li Zetian stretched out his hand and shook his hand.

The copyright of "Star Wars" belongs to Star Wars Films, and Li Zetian decides who will be the director of the second film or not, but he prefers to let George Lucas shoot it, because George Lucas's understanding of "Star Wars" is incomparable to others. Moreover, the success of George Lucas has been proven in his previous life!

It wasn't long before George Lucas left.

"There is no market for science fiction movies in the United States, and it is only natural that Twentieth Century Fox does not value Star Wars. There are only a dozen theaters in the United States, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to get back to basics......," Yu Jingqiu said.

"Bet me? I think Star Wars is going to be a global hit, grossing over $100 million. Li Zetian laughed, he said a very conservative figure, the global box office of the film in the previous life reached a staggering 775 million US dollars, close to 800 million US dollars, including a national box office of 460 million US dollars.

Yu Jingqiu obviously didn't believe it, "Bet, bet, what are you going to bet?" she said with her head held high.

Li Zetian smiled hesitantly and whispered in her ear.

Yu Jingqiu's face blushed for a moment, and she glared at Li Zetian with disgust.

"Do you dare?"

"What don't you dare? However, you haven't said yet, how will you be punished if you lose!"

"If I lose, listen to me!"

"Then I'll have to think about what kind of tricks can punish you!

Li Zetian laughed triumphantly at this time, and when he thought of the bet that Yu Jingqiu had promised him, every pore in his body became excited.

……

On September 10, "Star Wars" was officially released.

Due to the lack of vigorous publicity and the number of screens only a dozen, the box office of "Star Wars" on the first day was miserable, and at the end of the day, it was less than $20,000.

The next day, however, was unexpectedly filled with people at the entrance of almost all Star Wars movie theaters.

"I want a ticket to Star Wars!"

"I want two Star Wars movie tickets!"

"I also want two Star Wars movie tickets!"

“……”

In less than an hour, the tickets for the day's "Star Wars" movie were sold out!

People who didn't get tickets sighed or complained.

", it's sold out, I want to see how this movie goes! My friend said Star Wars is super good, he bought three tickets and it doesn't seem like three times is enough!"

"My classmate also said that "Star Wars" is super good-looking, the movie has unprecedented space scenes and complicated galaxial battles, as well as super cool laser swords, I highly recommend me to watch it! Alas, I can't even buy tickets!"

"Brother, let's go to other movie theaters together, are there any tickets!"

"Okay!"

“……”

A lot of people ran to other movie theaters, but alas, these movie theaters didn't show Star Wars at all.

Everyone couldn't help complaining, why is such a good-looking movie only released in a dozen theaters, and the film distribution company is funny?

A day passed, early the next morning, the movie theater had not yet opened, and there were more people queuing up, and the long queue of tens of meters was shocking!

Passers-by were surprised: "What is the situation, what movie is so good, the movie has not opened yet, there are so many people queuing!"

Insiders told these passers-by: "The best-looking and coolest sci-fi movie "Star Wars" in history, it is said that a scalper ticket is fried for $50 a piece!"

Passers-by's eyes widened in disbelief.

"I really didn't lie to you! You don't know, so far, there are only a dozen theaters in the United States showing this movie, and the value is in short supply! In the morning, the tickets for the whole day are sold out! Look over there, the grand queue has attracted reporters!"

On the fourth day of the movie's release, under word of mouth, "Star Wars" became even more popular, and hundreds of meters of queues at the entrances of various movie theaters blocked traffic.

That evening, Star Wars was featured on local television, and Star Wars was also featured in media newspapers.

Twentieth Century Fox soon convened a conference.

A middle-aged man looked at the CEO of the film company, Alain Ryder Jr., and said excitedly: "Mr. Alan Ryder Jr., the dark horse has appeared, the movie dark horse has appeared!! the science fiction movie "Star Wars" shot by George Lucas is almost full, and there are hundreds of people queuing up at the entrance of the movie theater in the morning, occupying several streets, which is simply too exaggerated, this is a situation I have never seen in my industry for decades!"

In the conference room, many people looked very surprised and discussed.

Alain Ryder Jr. thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Make 500 copies of the movie and distribute them to 500 movie theaters immediately!"

"Yes!!"

A week later, "Star Wars" grossed $550,000 on just a dozen screens.

In the second week of the release of the "Star Wars" movie, the number of screens in "Star Wars" finally increased to as many as 500, although the number of screens is still relatively small compared to other movies, but George Lucas is happy and satisfied. This means that if Star Wars succeeds, it will not only pay for itself, but may even make a fortune.

However, Star Wars clearly achieved more than George Lucas and everyone else could have imagined.

As before, there are long queues at the entrance of many movie theaters, and more than 500 movie theaters are almost full.

In a week, "Star Wars" achieved a box office of $15.8 million, directly winning the box office champion of the week!

"Damn, Star Wars is so fierce!!"

The owners of Twentieth Century Fox were shocked.

Alain Ryder Jr. waved his hand, "Add 2,000 more copies!!!"

"Yes!!"

As a result, in the third week of the release of "Star Wars", the number of screens became more than 2,500. With over 90% occupancy, there's no doubt that Star Wars is once again the top box office of the week with $70.2 million!

At this moment, Twentieth Century Fox was speechless, immersed in great grief. I thought to myself, if I was willing to make additional investment, the copyright of "Star Wars" would belong to me!!

The resentment is deep!

Regret it!

However, it is not the nature of the company to have money but not to make money.

Cinema companies came to the door and asked Twentieth Century Fox to give them copies of the movie.

Alain Ryder Jr. waved his hand again, "Add another 2,500 copies!"

In the fourth week, Star Wars reached a staggering 5,000-plus screens. A lot of people were waiting for the Star Wars box office, and Star Wars didn't disappoint them, with a whopping $114 million at the box office this week.

Within a month of the release of "Star Wars", the cumulative box office in the United States exceeded 200 million US dollars!

Twentieth Century Fox's share price doubled!

Because of the many close-ups of Apple-ll and Walkman in the movie, the sales of these two products have increased dramatically during this time, which has greatly improved Apple's brand awareness, and Wall Street has estimated Apple's market value at $7 billion, an increase of $1 billion from the last financing!

Thomas Rockefeller, like Twentieth Century Fox, was blue in the bowels of remorse. Twentieth Century Fox's reluctance to make additional investments is understandably risky after all. And Thomas Rockefeller took the initiative to give up Star Wars Films, which he regretted to death.

"Star Wars was a box office hit and took the United States by storm, and it's time for Chronos to be triolatory......" Thomas Rockefeller said with a wry laugh.

In fact, Li Zetian is indeed very proud now. What he is proud of is not how much money "Star Wars" made for him, but that Yu Jingqiu lost the bet and had to fulfill the bet.

"You, you go take a shower first, I'll brush my teeth......"