As the sun sets, the sky is dyed red.

The familiar tune of "Returning from Shooting" sounds, announcing the arrival of school time.

After a while, there was a noisy chatter coming from the direction of the school building, spreading in the direction of the school gate, and it could be heard even if you stayed in the office.

"It's time to get off work!"

The salary thief Zhang Xu Yao had already packed up, and at this time she also stood up suddenly, picked up her Xiao Kun bag and walked to the office door.

Clocking out on the attendance machine in the hall on the first floor, Mr. Zhang walked out of the office building quickly, and the target was naturally the nearest school gate.

Just a few steps away, the phone in the bag rang quickly, and the originally soft and pleasant singing voice was full of majesty in her ears, which made her subconsciously tremble.

When I picked up my phone, I saw that it was a video call from my mother.

Looking left and right, she walked to the side of the bench and sat down, and then she answered the call.

Permission in a women's suit appears on the screen, and the bookshelf behind her is familiar, indicating that she is still in the vice principal's office at Nampo Bee School. It had just finished school at this time, and the shouts of teenagers and girls could be vaguely heard from the speakerphone.

After more than 40 days of recuperation, her previous injuries have completely healed, and she can run and jump without barriers. However, Ms. Xu firmly believed in the old experience of "100 days of broken muscles and bones", and asked her to continue to be a fracture patient for two months to wait for the section to heal. In order to avoid someone from doing one thing in front of her and one on the back, she set the rules for random video spot checks.

Without waiting for the other side to speak, Zhang Xuyao turned on the back camera of the mobile phone, aimed at the airbag holder on his right leg, and took the initiative to report: "Mom, look at it, I wore this today!"

After looking at it carefully for a while, to confirm that she was not cheating, Vice Principal Xu on the other side nodded in satisfaction, "That's good, what arrangements do you have for today?"

"Wait and send money to Brother Jing's family. ”

"Huh?"

"I made an appointment with someone to go to the Star Cinema to watch a movie together, of course, to send money to their family!"

Principal Xu's eyebrows raised, and he immediately asked, "Men and women, where are they?"

"The woman is the nanny of Brother Jing's snack goods, and they are Anning. ”

Shen Xueni returned to her hometown after the event, and Zhang Xuyao had to find someone else to watch a movie with her.

She was so familiar with the four snacks that she naturally knew the nannies and nurses who took care of them. Except for a few senior retired aunts, the others are all young girls, and they get along very well with her, and they call several in one call.

"Oh," the other side replied casually, but his tone was complicated and tight, with both relief and disappointment.

"There's nothing wrong with that girl, you should be careful, just don't wave too late outside. ”

"Mmmmmmmmmm ”

"That's it, I still have something to do, hang up first. ”

"Goodbye, Mom!"

Seeing the prompt "the other party quit the video chat" popping up on the screen, Zhang Xuyao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Since becoming the leader of the colonel, my mother's working hours have been automatically extended, but it has also made it much easier for her to cope, and I really want to give praise to Bee Education who made this decision.

Calling Didi on his mobile phone, Teacher Zhang got up and walked outside the school. It's rush hour after school, and there are definitely not a few bicycles left at the door, so I can simply call a car.

A quarter of an hour later, the white sedan stopped in front of the Star Cinema Binhu store.

After checking out and getting out of the car, Zhang Xuyao looked up at the surrounding environment.

This movie theater has been there for a long time, but the scale is small and the equipment is aging, and it can still survive by relying on the tickets of the online ticket platform in 15 years. When the major platforms tightened subsidies last year, there was no longer the attraction of "9.9 yuan to watch blockbusters", and the performance plummeted, and then the original boss moved the idea of changing careers and sold the theater to Star Cinemas.

After the latter took over, it invested heavily in renovation and renovation, and changed its name to the Star Cinema Binhu Store to officially open its doors before the arrival of the National Day file.

It is adjacent to the Haicang Lake Park built by Ludao City, and you can see the wide Haicang Lake in the east, and if you are lucky, you can also see the seawater music fountain on the east bank of the South Lake.

It's a pity that Mr. Zhang seems to be unlucky, the seawater fountain, which has not been built long ago and is known as the first in Asia, continued the previous random spraying habit, ignoring the ardent expectations of the citizens on the shore, and did not arrange any weekend programs.

Shaking her head, she strode into the cinema with a depressed face.

The decoration style of Star Cinema has always preferred the futuristic style, and I like to use solid colors, lights, and displays to create a feeling similar to a future space station.

The Binhu store still continues this tradition, but it has changed its style, and what is presented in front of Zhang Xuyao is the blue sky like white clouds, the sea water is blue and wide and vast, and three or two sandbanks are dotted with emerald green plants. At first glance, it looks like a delicate island in the Maldives, but looking closely at the plants and buildings but not like it, reminds her of the Muse of the Pearl Man.

Of course, it is not possible to travel through time and space, the blue sky, blue sea, green trees and white sand are just an illusory illusion created by the display screen, and you can find the discord if you look closely.

However, the star cinema is still very powerful, with the help of seascape images to stretch the visual space, effectively reducing the cramped feeling caused by the small physical space.

Raising her feet forward, Zhang Xuyao was surprised to find that the floor actually had a perception function, with her footsteps, a circle of ripples rippled away, and there were even unnamed colorful swimming fish chasing and frolicking, which looked vibrant, and the feeling of an alien water world was suddenly there.

An Ning hadn't arrived yet, so she looked left and right and walked to the side of the leisure water bar.

As if to match the atmosphere of the ocean planet, the custom bar counter and tables and chairs in the shape of snail shells and coral are also used here, which looks very oceanic.

Sitting in a lazy sofa in the shape of a conch shell, holding a glass of pearl juice, the area feels like that.

After a while, An Ning in a fluttering white dress hurried over, "Ah, Sister Yaoyao, we're not late, are we?"

Beside her, several other girls were also dressed in skirts, but it was her colleagues Wen Xiaoqing and Yang Lu.

They usually wear easy-to-take care of their caregiver clothes when they go to work, but now they naturally have to change into beautiful dresses to show their youthful demeanor when they get off work.

"It's okay, I've just arrived," raised his hand to beckon them to sit first, Zhang Xuyao smiled and explained: "You taste this, it tastes very good." ”

"Hmm!" a few people sat down and ordered the same drink.

Bowing her head and taking a sip, An Ning frowned slightly, "The taste is a little strange, I can't taste any fruit, but it's really delicious." ”

Wen Xiaoqing knocked on the cup with a smile, "Alien juice, it's normal if you can't taste it." ”

"Speaking of aliens," An Ning turned her head to look around, "I thought I had made a mistake when I came in, and it felt like the pearl man's muse." ”

Yang Lu nodded in agreement, "Indeed, I also thought of Miao Xing, but there are no pearl people here." ”

"It's a bit like," Zhang Xuyao took over the topic and explained, "It should be just a coincidence, the Frenchman's 'interstellar agent' hadn't revealed the trailer when the store began to be renovated." Both are sunny ocean planets, both of which shine on the earth's tropical islands and sea creatures, and the painting style is similar to normal. ”

"That's right," picked up her phone to open the Star Cinema applet on the main screen, and her eyes swept over the page, she proposed: "Wait for a 'Thousand Stars City', or let's watch this?"

Yang Lu frowned, "I've seen it all, let's find a new film." ”

An Ning asked curiously, "Didn't this film say that the box office was not good, why hasn't it been released yet?"

With a claimed investment of more than $200 million, the imax3D special effects film is the most expensive French film of all time, but it has earned less than $200 million at the global box office. Considering the low proportion of account sharing in overseas markets, it can be called a blood loss.

Although the producer deliberately implanted Chinese characters and five-star red flags in the film, and chose to release it in late August, the tail of the domestic film protection month, to avoid the popular "The Wandering Earth" and "Wolf Warrior 2", and to miss Hollywood blockbusters backwards, hoping to rely on picture effects to punch a domestic product, but the film's emphasis on the story core of "generating electricity with love" failed to please the audience, and finally only received 300 million yuan at the box office in the mainland, making the mainland distributor with a minimum guarantee of 600 million lose his pants.

"The box office is not good, and other places seem to have been painted," Zhang Xuyao nodded, pointing around, "There is still here, it should be the credit of this decoration." ”

In view of the immaturity of the domestic second-round cinema line, the Star Cinema Line invested by Bee actually undertook the second-round screening task of its own films. After the first round of full-line screenings, Bee Shadow usually applies for a key extension, so that audiences in need can see their own films here. Of course, in order to avoid the theater where the attendance rate is too low, this part of the movie needs to be booked in a group purchase, and only when there is enough sales will the film schedule be really opened.

After the Binhu store joined the Star Cinema system, they conducted a pilot here to expand this group purchase on-demand model to all films. As long as the film is still in theaters, they will contact the distributor to obtain the film and key, and then automatically schedule the film according to the audience's reservation.

said that the right to schedule films was handed over to the audience, but in fact, it was all kinds of blockbusters or very famous characteristic small films that could really be released. After all, there are only a few viewers who are keen on gold panning in the sea of films, and most people's criteria for choosing films are just "casual".

With the exception of a few films such as "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Harry Potter", and "Fast and Furious", movies that can achieve box office success often have short, powerful, catchy, easy-to-read and easy-to-remember names.

Looking at the lineup at first glance, many films can be eliminated according to the names of actors and directors, although it is inevitable that there will be missing pearls, but no one cares, and it is really impossible to watch DVDs in the future.

"Interstellar Agent: The name of the City of a Thousand Planets is too long, and the starring role is not too famous, but it is a special effects film directed by Luc Besson, a great French director, and now it is blessed with a familiar seascape environment. ”

Several little nannies came here for the first time, and after listening to Teacher Zhang's explanation, they nodded in unison to show their understanding, "So that's the case." ”

Wen Xiaoqing suddenly remembered something, "If this is the case, if the theater gives up the right to schedule films, how can it put an end to buying box office and locking fans?"

"It's simple," Zhang Xuyao snapped her fingers and tapped on her mobile phone screen, "The theater has specially prepared an empty list and a refund list for them." ”

The vast majority of those so-called "public welfare charters" are not too lazy to give tickets to the audience, and the attendance rate is naturally pitiful, and some are even released at midnight for ghosts. It's similar to fan lockouts, and many people will choose to refund their tickets at the last minute, hoping to do big things with little money.

Star Cinema Line is backed by bees and holds high the banner of technical movie-watching, and counting the real number of moviegoers and refund data is just a convenient thing for them. And with these two rankings as a deterrent, those people's behavior should be a little more restrained.

Hearing this, An Ning was very interested, "The refund list seems to be good, and it should be promoted to other movie theaters, so that many bad movies should be eliminated." ”

"This is not necessarily," Wen Xiaoqing put down the juice in his hand, picked up his mobile phone and said while watching, "Most other movie theaters do not support ticket refunds, especially online tickets with ticket supplements, which are even more difficult to refund, and they can't be promoted at all." And even if it is a small number of theaters that support ticket refunds, what if they make a refund list, and others come to brush the list?"

Everyone is an online shopping expert, and naturally I have seen too many cases of deliberately swiping the list and swiping reviews, swiping a bad review for an opponent, and a five-point bad review for oneself have also seen a lot, and I don't doubt that the situation she said cannot appear.

"Ahh

"Huh?" the other three girls had more surprise on their faces than she did.

The previous appearance of this movie can be described as bad, the theme song is ugly, the promotional poster is ugly, it is a pure newcomer team, and the name is long, and it can still take the first place after this, Wen Xiaoqing couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong with this world?"

An Ning and the others took out their mobile phones together, and asked curiously, "It won't be the first on the refund list, right?"

"Congratulations on the right answer," Yang Lu smiled and nodded, "It's a pity that there is no award!"

Zhang Xuyao pulled the page to the end, and sure enough, she saw that "Pure Heart: Dream Showbiz" ranked first on the refund list. Click on the details, all the ticket refunds occurred after the screening, most of them were concentrated in the first half hour of the opening, and the remaining audiences also left one after another within the next 45 minutes, and there were very few viewers who persevered to the end.

This data is really scary, she couldn't help but take a breath, "It seems that this film was only released today, right?

"Whatever, let's go and see!" An Ning shook her phone and proposed, "The last one isn't over yet, let's go and take a look!"

"That's it," Sister Zhang concluded, she was also curious.

Although Star Cinema Line supports ticket refunds, the discount price is very low. The later the refund, the less money you will get back, and you will only get one-third of the refund within 45 minutes after the start of the show. To make up for it, they have prepared a second-hand ticket trading system to allow movie tickets to circulate among audiences who need them.

Because there were too many people who refunded the tickets, the tickets for "Dream Showbiz" were very easy to buy, and the four girls quickly found the tickets in the prime viewing position and walked into the screening hall where few people lived.

However, after only watching a few shots, they couldn't help but take out their mobile phones and open the bean break, and it was really difficult to calm down if they didn't give 1 star!

(End of chapter)