Harvey drank the champagne in one gulp and asked excitedly and slyly: "You don't seem to be surprised? To be honest, when I took a fancy to this film, I was also very optimistic about making money, so I agreed to 523 shares and won the distribution rights."

But now it seems that I am not as optimistic about this movie as you are. You don't even have the emotional turmoil of 'the stone in your heart has finally landed'! It's like being able to predict the future!"

"I believe in James, and I believe in Arnold and Tiffany, that's all. Gu Biao smiled incomprehensibly.

Subsequently, he roughly consulted the other party's foreign screening rights for the selling price and sharing algorithm.

Harvey is naturally responsive and serves customers well.

He said that with today's box office statistics technology, it is impossible to think of foreign countries playing the sharing system.

The top major productions with only single digits every year, with super distributors, it is possible to control the entire North American and European countries, the Middle East, and the box office of the book with a sharing system. As for the third world in Asia, Africa and Latin America, except for the book, they basically sell out the screening rights in a certain country with a hammer.

Even most Hollywood films, except for the United States, Canada and Mexico, only a few in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain have a box office sharing system, and the rest of the foreign cities are all sold out.

In general, it is how much the North American share can get, and a little more, it is equal to the foreign copyright fee. In general, the rest of the world will not have more than twice the total revenue in North America.

"Well, we'll talk about that later—Harvey, there's a more immediate problem, and I'd like to ask you to counsel him. You have it at hand, you should have a breakdown of the box office statistics of the Mars Cinema now, right? I don't want to be too detailed, as long as there is a total of how many tickets have been sold for each theater and each show. ”

Harvey was stunned: "Of course there is, the number of people and ticket price statistics, this is the most basic account." I have it in my car, do I want to get it for you?"

"Thanks, I'd like to take a look. ”

Harvey immediately got up and went to the car to get it.

In front of Harvey Weinstein, Gu Biao watched the box office accounts of Mars Cinemas in 11 theaters in the greater Los Angeles area.

Then, combined with the conclusions they got from last night's on-site shooting, they found that there were a little less.

Because the number of votes on the financial accounts of those sessions is less than the actual number of people counted on the spot.

This suggests that either someone didn't buy a ticket for nothing—and that possibility is largely non-existent.

Either the theater collected the money and didn't tear up the ticket, or it wasn't the ticket for "Terminator".

For example, in the 2010s, when the domestic film market was at its most chaotic, some producers who brushed the box office stuffed kickbacks into theaters and asked for good performance data in the capital market.

Then those small theaters in third- and fourth-tier cities dared to sell tickets for movie A, and actually tore the tickets for movie B to the audience, and when the ticket inspector checked them, they also let people enter the theater with the tickets of movie B.

It's just that I didn't expect that Americans were not only 30 years ahead of China, but even dared to do so in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital.

But after thinking about it again and comparing more data, Gu Biao found a problem: the two dinners and prime stalls last night were not faked.

It seems that the other party is just using the midnight file to be not obvious and not easy to find, so after a little construction, the scale is still very modest.

It's a pity that I was caught by Tiffany, a paranoid who is crazy about trying to prove her abilities.

Gu Biao had a plan in his heart, so he spoke in a big man's style: "Harvey, it is possible that the Mars Cinema has faked the midnight stalls." If I leave this matter to you, can you settle it, how much benefit do you need, or how much you will recover part of it, and make a price. ”

"Wait until I see for myself your so-called evidence. Harvey was cautious and didn't say yes right away.

After careful comparison, he was sure that what Gu Biao said was true, and said in embarrassment: "Gu, there are some things that everyone knows by heart." We don't have a lot of influence in Hollywood right now, and we're just getting started. If you offend too many theaters at once, their cooperation in film scheduling will be weakened in the future, and in the long run...... Of course, I'm not trying to stop you from defending your rights, I want you to think clearly and don't offend too many people at the same time. ”

Gu Biao had an indifferent face: "Then what if I only offend Mars Cinemas and give them a satisfactory step down the stage - I don't know if I told you that Tiffany is the princess of Monaco and the second daughter of Princess Kelly." If she hadn't been paranoid enough to personally verify the box office and audience response last night, I wouldn't have made such a big fuss.

I promised Princess Kelly that I wouldn't use Tiffany's identity gimmick to promote the movie, but that was only for the general audience. If you have the means, just spread it out at the top of Hollywood's practitioner circles. I believe that it will give both sides a step down, and it will not disgrace the Monaco royal family and Princess Kelly.

When the time comes, Hollywood high society will tacitly understand: This is not my Gu Biao or your Harvey thorn, we are just cleaning up the aftermath for a princess who exploded, and we are already trying to minimize the situation. Therefore, they should also show a little sincerity and try to minimize the situation. ”

Harvey's cheeks twitched, and he smiled awkwardly: "Oh, my devil, Gu, I really believe it now—you really learned how to engage in secret diplomacy from His Excellency Kissinger." You're simply beating people up and making people think you're the devil who persuades you!"

It's such a blessing to be able to be a collaborator with such an old yin beep.

Harvey Weinstein spent all his years in Hollywood, and for the first time he felt a chill down his spine.

"Leave this matter to me, I'll go and fight with them, Gu, you sit down for a while. Harvey took two fingers, smacked a cigar on the table, and then went out to make a car call.

Gu Biao poured himself two glasses of champagne.

When he was almost drunk, Harvey returned.

Harvey: "I've spread several well-known cinemas, especially those that don't deal with Mars cinemas. They have already stated that they will not share the same hatred as Mars. If we expose some news of Martian box office fraud, they will also sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. also said that this time the film will strictly check the discrepancies in the accounts. ”

Gu Biao pushed a glass of champagne in front of the other party: "Good wrist." With such a little good news and persuasion, I can win so much. Harvey, hopefully we can continue to work together. I can also give you a chance to meet Princess Kelly and make her realize that you helped her back up after 'her daughter made a big deal about unnecessary things herself'. She'll think you're a good person. ”

"Okay, that's it. Harvey rubbed his hands together excitedly and smiled darkly.

Although Grace Kelly has retired from the world to become a princess, and she is 50 years old.

But after all, she was the Oscar-winning actress 25 years ago, and she still has a little influence in the rivers and lakes. belongs to the kind of "aunt is no longer in the rivers and lakes, but the legend of the aunt is still circulating in the rivers and lakes".

When Lin Zhiling was almost 50 years old in later generations, wasn't there still a bunch of aunt licking demons chasing after him on the rivers and lakes, a truth. If Lin Zhiling is still the princess of a small country, it will be even more appealing.

……

Under Harvey's operation, Gu Biao quickly saw the gap.

First of all, on May 24, that is, on Sunday, some media broke the news that some theaters of the Mars Cinema Line had the problem of midnight box office drifting.

Although there is not much evidence for sampling, only a dozen samples, and only four of them are falsified.

But in the eyes of the people who are not afraid of big things when they watch the excitement, it is still quite worthy of attention.

To the surprise of the low-level practitioners in the same industry, this time "Terminator" was not cool, nor was it jointly opened by the rabbits and foxes of various theaters that protected the short-term - in previous years, this kind of stabbing exposed the unspoken rules of the industry, and the people who exposed the unspoken rules of the industry must have been scolded and anti-black.

It seems that most of the large cinema chains are silent, and only one or two of them have always been particularly bad with the Mars cinema chain, and they even showed up to analyze how the Mars cinema chain might be fake.

Within two days, the manager of Alfred, the theater that had a direct conflict with Gu Biao and Tiffany that night, and even several responsible persons, got out of the industry and left the industry.

After Mars Cinemas found out that the situation was wrong and no one supported them, they chose to stop the loss and keep a low profile.

Triple the amount found out, and increase the share according to the proportion of water found out to other shows that were not faked to appease the producer.

Gu Biao's public opinion here hyped up a lot of heat, and the money was also collected, so he accepted it when he saw it.

He's not an international attention warrior, and it's none of his business how dark the American entertainment industry is. As long as he can get his money back and his reputation can be paid smoothly, he can do it.

Being a man and leaving a line is the essence of diplomatic mediation.

At the same time, the box office performance of other major theater chains on Saturday and Sunday is also a little steeper than the original growth curve. The sales performance of some garbage periods seems to have also improved - Gu Biao fully knows that they are seeking stability, and would rather make less money in this film and have a more stable style.

In the end, Friday's revised box office went from $940,000 to $1.02 million.

1.57 million on Saturday and 1.66 million on Sunday. The total number of people in the three days of release was 4.25 million.

In the next four days, because it was a weekday and there were discount days, it was only about one-third of the weekend, and the box office in the first week totaled 6.1 million.

The second weekend caught up with Children's Day, and even the upcoming summer vacation, coupled with the increase in the number of films scheduled by the theaters, so the second week did not fall but rose compared with the first week, reporting a huge $9 million.

Half a month after its release, the total box office of "Terminator" exceeded $15 million. Major theaters and media have raised their expectations for the film's potential, and this data has far exceeded the same period of "Terminator" in history.

Perhaps Li Lianjie's Asian face has slightly dampened the acceptance of the plot. However, the fancy kung fu elements make up for most of the lack of substitution, plus Li Lianjie and the heroine have no emotional scenes, only kung fu scenes, and the bad elements of Asians are kept to a minimum.

And Gu Biao knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger to moderately crack down on the box office drift, and chose the right release hype elements and distributors, each of which brought at least 10% more box office BUFF to the movie.

Now it seems that "The Terminator", which won $80 million at the global box office in history, is now a sure thing to break 100 million.