Chapter 0338 Fame and fortune are three hundred and fifty six billion

Those big theaters don't give Regis Bot a chance to make a film at all, and only those small and medium-sized theaters have limited resources in their hands that they are willing to accept Gu Chao Entertainment's Journey to the West movie, and the conditions they give are very harsh, and the share given to Gu Chao Entertainment is significantly lower than that of other movies.

Regis Bot used a lot of connections, and Del Ford followed suit, but the effect was not obvious. Now, when Gu Yu was in the White House, he was with Stephen Borg, The conflict between Cameron's two big directors, although it can't be said to be a household name in country M, but everyone who should know must know it, plus the lawyer team hired by Gu Yu has sued Cameron's assistant in court, the difference in the relationship between the two sides can be imagined, at this time, if Gu Yu's movie is arranged, it will involve the problem of standing in line, and when the new films of the two big directors are released in the future, if the two big directors say that they are not allowed to be released in their theaters, then they are not at a loss?

Although the trailer of the Journey to the West movie is quite popular, it is unknown what the real quality of the film is and whether the audience will accept it, and it is even more unknown whether it can make enough money from this movie. Let them risk the unknown to offend the two great directors, it must be impossible.

On the eve of the film's release, Regis Bot told Gu Yu in frustration that after his unremitting efforts, he only won less than 300 screens for the Journey to the West, which is a very pitiful number. You must know that the North American market covers two countries, M and JND, and the total number of screens exceeds 43,000, which is negligible compared to 300.

Gu Yu is not an unreasonable person, Regis Bot has done his best, even if he is replaced, he may not be able to do better than Regis Both, he does not blame Regis Both? Bot, of course, he is still able to stay calm now, that's because in the domestic market, rough statistics, there are already more than 10,000 screens that will screen the movie Journey to the West, accounting for more than a quarter of the total number of screens in the country, on average, it is equivalent to each theater arranging one or two screens to screen the movie Journey to the West, this coverage rate is already quite good.

In addition, in other markets, the data is also mixed, those countries that are deeply influenced by Chinese culture have arranged more screens, and vice versa, but overall, it has exceeded the number of domestic films in these countries in the past, which is also a good start.

In the early hours of midnight and midnight in the imperial capital, the movie Journey to the West officially landed in domestic theaters, Gu Changsong, Liu Xuepeng and Xu Xiaoqing arranged for many people to go to the cinemas of major cities in China to watch movies, check the attendance rate, and the return was very gratifying, almost every theater The attendance rate reached seven or eight percent, and some could reach eight or nine percent.

After the movie was released at midnight, the film reviews of the Journey to the West movie instantly exploded in major forums in China, news websites, video websites, etc. are discussing the movie Journey to the West, almost every audience who has seen this movie has become the tap water of the Journey to the West, and those film critics who can be called picky have given a very high evaluation of the Journey to the West.

A number of websites that specialize in scoring films also give quite high scores, five-star or four-and-a-half stars abound, nine, eight or even ten, which are also common.

In the blink of an eye, when it was time for the morning show, the number of moviegoers was increasing, and before the time reached noon, a news media broke the news that the box office of the movie Journey to the West exceeded 100 million in less than ten hours after its release. And at 12 o'clock at noon, the box office soared, directly breaking 200 million.

For a time, it was a national sensation.

When the movie Journey to the West was being released in China and it was hard to find a ticket, it was also 12 o'clock at midnight in country M, and if the time difference is counted, the release time in country M is the same as in China, of course, it is not a time difference, and there is a difference of 12 hours between the two.

Gu Yu wanted to go to the scene in person to see how the audience in country M reacted to the movie Journey to the West, he asked Regis Bott to buy tickets, but Regis Bott told Gu Yu with some embarrassment that in LSJ City, which is the base camp of Hollywood, no movie theater will show the Journey to the West movie today, but this is the territory of Stephen Berg and Cameron, and no one will easily offend them.

When Gu Yu heard this, he didn't know what to say. He had to ask Regis Bot to buy a few movie tickets for the movie theater closest to LSJ, and then everyone went over to see it.

Regis Bot hurriedly bought a few tickets, and then several people took the car together and came to a movie theater located in a small county town, the population of this small county is much smaller than that of a small county town in China, and the streets are few and narrow, and there is only one movie theater when it is full, and it is also in time that there are no Hollywood blockbusters in the North American market during this time, so it is Gu Yu's turn to release this Journey to the West movie at midnight, otherwise, it is impossible for this movie theater with not many audiences to arrange a movie from China.

Gu Yu and the others entered the screening hall of the movie theater, and after sitting down in the audience, then Gu Yu silently observed, until the movie began to be screened, Gu Yu found that the attendance rate was not high, and there were only twenty or thirty spectators sitting on the seats of more than 200 spectators, and the attendance rate was only about 10%, which was obviously a very bad result.

Gu Yu pursed his lips and didn't speak. He didn't expect that even if Stephen Berg and Cameron didn't speak clearly, they could have such a big impact on the public opinion of country M, not only did they only show movies on more than 200 screens, but Regis Bot followed his instructions and wanted to find major media in country M to report on the movie Journey to the West extensively, but they were also widely refused. Even if the price given by Gu Yu is very high, these media don't buy it.

That is, now that the Journey to the West movie is a big hit in China, Gu Yu not only made money, but also his reputation value has risen, making him fame and fortune, and he is still in a good mood, otherwise, Gu Yu has to be furious, maybe he will use some means against Stephen Borg, Cameron and others.

Blocking people's money, such as killing his parents, for Gu Yu, blocked his opportunity to earn prestige, which was more serious than killing his parents and digging his ancestral grave.

Watching the movie with more than 20 audiences present, at first, Gu Yu was still a little worried, but after the movie began to be screened, the 20 or so audiences were completely conquered by this movie, and the words of praise kept coming out of their mouths, and after the movie was screened, some of them directly shouted to buy tickets for the next movie, and some began to make phone calls, leaving messages on the media or something, in short, none of the more than 20 audiences felt that the movie was bad, and they all began to consciously promote the movie Journey to the West.

Such a scene not only appeared in this small county, but in all other places where the movie Journey to the West was released, almost every audience member became a loyal fan, and they used various ways to spread their evaluation of the movie, attracting more and more audiences for the movie.

In the second movie, the attendance rate has changed a lot, reaching more than 30%, and by the time of the third movie, it is directly more than 80%, and there are even scenes in some movie theaters where the audience has lined up to buy movie tickets for the Journey to the West.

The owners of the cinema are not stupid, and when they saw the audience skyrocketing, they naturally increased the release of the Journey to the West, and they freed up more and more screens, so that more audiences could enter the cinema to watch this movie.

However, these bosses soon found that they could not increase the screen at a rate that could match the explosion of audiences, especially when White House Director Daniel Russell posted on the Internet that he watched the Journey to the West movie ticket stubs, Senator James? When McKinsey publicly called on all senators to watch the Journey to the West movie at a meeting of the Senate, the number of viewers suddenly skyrocketed, and there were long queues outside the movie theaters where the movie Journey to the West was released, and some were lined up a few blocks away.

The reporters were curious, and they also bought tickets with the flow of people to enter the venue, and when they came out of the theater, they were all shocked and intoxicated, the movie Journey to the West completely subverted their imagination, more advanced than the Hollywood blockbusters they had seen before, the technology was more advanced, and the story was quite mature, it can be said to be an extremely excellent movie, why didn't such a movie see a little bit of coverage in the media they served?

On the one hand, the reporters wrote a report praising the movie Journey to the West, and at the same time, they began to dig deep into the story behind the movie.

The bosses of these media didn't expect that the movie Journey to the West would be so popular with the audience, if they pretended to turn a blind eye at this time, then their audience, readers or something, would definitely not forgive them for making this mistake, and they would abandon them if they didn't do it, if a media didn't have the ability to attract audiences and readers, would he have any point of existence?

So, some media preemptively began to report on the movie Journey to the West, and they sent out the press releases of the reporters who had watched the movie word for word, but they did not expect to be recognized by other audiences who had watched the movie Journey to the West, which made these media have to start publishing more similar articles and making some similar reports, which was more recognized by the audience and attracted more audiences who had not seen the movie into the cinema.

After all, the number of screens in those small and medium-sized theaters is limited, even if they open all the screens to the movie Journey to the West, they still can't satisfy the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie. Outside every movie theater is a long queue that can't be seen at a glance, although it makes these movie theaters very stressful, but the movie theater whether it is the owner or the employees below are very happy, what a good opportunity to make money, it is best that those big theater chains have not let go, so that they can make more money.

Those big theater chains are not stupid, they may not want to offend Stephen Berg and Cameron at first, but when they saw that the movie Journey to the West was so popular, and more and more audiences couldn't see the movie Journey to the West from them, and turned their heads away without hesitation, they realized what a good money-making opportunity they missed. So, a theater owner gritted his teeth and sent people to contact Regis Bot to seek the release of the Journey to the West.

At this time, Regis Bot was not the unlucky person who begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother at the beginning. He trembled all of a sudden, not only did the representatives of these big cinemas have to line up and make appointments to see him, but even the conditions for the release have become very harsh, everything is according to the proportion of the best movies made in Hollywood, and the filming requirements.

For the sake of money, although the representatives of these large cinema chains were a little unhappy, they could only accept the harsh conditions put forward by Regis Both. Almost overnight, all major theaters in the North American market opened their doors to the movie Journey to the West, and the number of screens screens showing the movie Journey to the West soon exceeded 10,000, and finally reached a little more than 20,000 yuan, which is even crazier than in China.

The box office in the North American market has risen rapidly, and the prestige value is rolling in.

The Journey to the West movie uses high-quality production, absolutely indisputable quality, not only in China and M, but also in the world.

Finally, by the time the Journey to the West movie ended, its global total box office had exceeded $3.5 billion, and Gu Yu's reputation value exceeded $3.6 billion, which can be said to be a real fame and fortune.

When Gu Yu found out that the situation was developing in a favorable direction for the movie Journey to the West, he planned to leave country M, he had been in country M long enough, and it would be meaningless to continue to stay, he planned to go to country BX again as soon as possible, and then it was time to return to China. He was a little tired and wanted to go home and have a good rest.

Before leaving, Gu Yu planned to hold a banquet to entertain his friends in country M, which could be regarded as a summary of his trip to country M. After all, when he will be able to come to country M again next time, even he doesn't have a bottom.

Just when Gu Yu was preparing the invitation and was about to send it out, he received a phone call, which was called by Senator James McKinsey, who invited him to go around a place, saying that there would be an organization to watch the movie Journey to the West.

James McKinsey said it very seriously, very seriously, and Gu Yu almost subconsciously thought that James McKinsey might have invited him on behalf of the Congress of Country M, otherwise he would not have said it so seriously.

Gu Yu did not hesitate at all, the influence of the Congress in country M is not weaker than that of the White House, and if he can give a speech there, it will still be very beneficial to influence the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

James McKinsey acted quickly, and soon after Gu Yu agreed, he sent a car to pick up Gu Yu.

After Gu Yu got into the car, he found that something was wrong, the car he got into was a car with good sealing, as soon as he got into the car, the door was locked, the window automatically closed the curtains, and an iron plate was raised between him and the driver's seat, completely separating him from the driver.

Gu Yu's face changed greatly, he immediately turned on the wrist-type harmful substance detector he wore on his wrist, and began to continuously collect samples of the surrounding air for analysis to prevent someone from releasing anesthetic gas or poisonous gas to him at this time, but he collected several samples in a row, but no harmful gases were found.

Gu Yu's heart was half relieved, but he couldn't completely put it down, he adjusted the external interface of the lottery system, once he found danger, he would not hesitate to take out his weapon and forcefully destroy the car that trapped him, he didn't want to be imprisoned for no reason.

At this moment, something slipped on the iron plate that had just been raised, and then, a small monitor was revealed, and a person appeared on it, it was Senator James McKinsey who invited Gu Yu out.

Mr. Senator told Gu Yu with an apologetic face that it was not Congress that invited Gu Yu out this time, and it had nothing to do with the House of Representatives and senators, and it was the Marine Corps Headquarters of Country M that really invited Gu Yu.

When Gu Yu was in China, he had a close relationship with the Marine Corps, and he assisted the Marine Corps in gymnastics training, which is not a secret, and Country M has already had relevant information.

James McKinsey told Gu Yu not to worry, this invitation was friendly, without the slightest malice, the reason why Gu Yu was invited to such a car was to protect Gu Yu's safety, after all, Gu Yu is now the richest man in the world, no matter how strict the security is, it is understandable.

Gu Yu rolled his eyes, James McKinsey's words were to deceive a three-year-old child, if the matter was as simple as James McKinsey said, wouldn't the Marine Corps Command of Country M send an invitation to Gu Yu through regular channels?

Although it is said that Huaxia can generally visit the Marine Corps Headquarters of Country M are high-ranking generals, Gu Yu's identity and status are not at all inferior to those high-ranking generals, and he can justifiably go to the Marine Corps Headquarters of Country M to visit.