Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Under the bright early summer sunshine, a white Toyota Corolla slowed down and turned into the parking lot and soon stopped.

The car stopped, but Cliven-Bell, who was in the driver's seat, did not rush to turn off.

After staring at the rearview mirror and the rearview mirror for several seconds, he never found anything abnormal, so he breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and said to the girl next to him: "It should be fine, those should still be sleeping." ”

The girl had long brown and red hair, fair complexion and a lot of freckles and moles, and she was relieved when she heard the words, and couldn't help but complain about the local police: "Those guys in NADP are all a bunch of bitches, they only know how to kneel down and lick the ...... of those people on the mountain"

Seeing that a certain stolen word was about to pop out of his girlfriend's mouth, Kraven hurriedly raised his hand to stop: "Jenny!"

The latter gave him a blank look, pushed the door and got out of the car and walked towards the movie theater not far away.

Craven hurriedly turned off the engine and pulled out the key, unfastened the seat belt, slammed the door and locked the car, and chased after him.

When he came back from Las Vegas at the beginning of the year, he broke up with his temporary girlfriend Aretha, but now he has only recently found him. The two are in the stage of love, either staying at home and getting tired, or driving out to find a place with a good scenery to fight, and it is rare to come to the city to watch a movie like today, after all, Newark is really not safe.

In 1694, Puritans from Britain and Ireland came across the sea to establish the settlement of Newark, meaning "New Ark," in the basin near the bay.

Newark is only a dozen kilometers away from Manhattan Island, New York, with the largest port and airport in New Jersey, surrounded by dense forests and forestry. Transportation, industry, and forestry are all physically labor-intensive, and the consequence of this is the rising number of blacks. When the economic situation is bad, the capitalists close down the enterprises and pat their butts and leave, leaving only the unemployed blacks in the local area, and robbing them when they have no money, and the criminal crime rate will naturally not be low.

Newark has the ninth-highest crime rate in the country, and while it can't compete with the top three cities of Detroit, Oakland and Memphis, it can also handle more than 100 shootings a year, while the city has fewer than 300,000 people.

Those company executives and local celebrities who live in the villa area on the hill are not enough, perfect monitoring and abundant police force are enough to ensure the level of law and order in the rich area, and they can call people to provide door-to-door service if they need anything, and they are naturally fearless. Every time he drove to the city, he had to keep a few $20 bills in his pocket, so as not to be beaten up by the robbers because he had no money.

Fortunately, Xu is those black gangsters are still sleeping, he has not encountered robbery today, this is the norm, if he is robbed every day, the residents will either move out early, or remove the city police department, or join the gang to protect themselves, it is definitely not what it is now.

Although it was a daytime morning, because it was a Saturday, there were quite a few spectators in the movie theater, and it seemed quite lively.

Claven had already bought a ticket on Fandango, but he had saved the effort of queuing in the past.

After receiving the movie tickets and popcorn, sitting in the hall and waiting for the movie to start, Kraven couldn't help but complain: "I bought a total of four tickets for the 3D hall, and I also bought a bunch of Coke popcorn, Fandango actually only gave me a discount of 3 dollars, the quality of service is really terrible!"

The freckled girl Janis put down the popcorn in her hand and asked, "Haha, why are they giving you a discount?"

In her impression, it is a matter of course for ticket-buying websites to charge additional service fees, after all, people also need to come to operate the server, and most of the ticket-buying behaviors are offline, so naturally they can only collect money from a few users.

Shaking his head, Kraven had a feeling of hating dogs rather than cats, "I went to Asia last year, but the ticket purchase website in the rabbit country is not like this. The service fee is less than $1, and the ticket price is cheaper than offline, and most of the audience there are also used to buying tickets online. ”

"Wouldn't it? wouldn't that be a loss?" the girl remembered that it was a strange country that was poor and hard, and it was impossible to connect the two things.

"It's true that you will lose money, but it's the money of the Internet giants and film companies behind you. Film companies and online platforms each bear a portion of the price difference, thus attracting more people to the cinema. ”

"Why? Why did they do this? Is it because there is too much money and there is nowhere to spend it?"

"Of course not, these are just delicious bait, and online giants can take the opportunity to promote their PayPal-like services, and studios can take the opportunity to make the box office higher and attract more people to watch, just like store price reductions." ”

"That's not right, right?" Janice was not a big-chested fool, and quickly understood, "But if they all buy tickets through the Internet, won't the price reduction become the real price, and how can the film company make money?"

"Movies are virtual commodities like games, and if enough people watch them, even if they give them a penny at a time, the production company can make money. Decades ago, filmmakers on the other side of the strait did just that. ”

Films such as "The Legend of the White Snake" and "Shaolin Temple" have indeed relied on ultra-low ticket prices of 5 points and 1 cent to create dazzling results for hundreds of millions of moviegoers, but the cinemas that created these achievements were still state-owned units that ate finance at that time, and there was no rent and labor costs in the ticket price, and the ticket price was actually seriously underestimated.

He also knew that this answer was unreliable, and quickly turned the topic to the movie he was waiting to see. He bought the Save the Earth package on the Egg Dog today, and he bought "Transformers V" and "The Wandering Earth" at the same time, and he could get a $1.5 discount, he bought four tickets, saved $3, and saved the gas money for going back and forth into the city.

With the official release of "Variable Five" in the United States, the "Wandering", which had been prepared for a long time, also began to expand the scale of screening, and actively or passively played with bundled marketing. Many movie theaters have launched similar double-film packaging activities, and the box office is quite impressive.

As a loyal Bee fan, Kraven had known about the film for a long time, but at that time it was only screened in a few movie theaters, and the boy was disgusted that it was too far away to pass, and it was only today that he found a chance to see the real thing.

"These two are both sci-fi blockbusters, and they look better when compared together. ”

Hearing that the movies to be watched today were these two, Janice was suddenly a little unhappy, pointed to Gal Gadot on the wall and said: "Why don't you watch this? Don't you think it's strange to take girls to watch this kind of pure science fiction movie? And that vagrantearth is still a Chinese movie, is there a science fiction movie on the other side of the Pacific?"

Looking sideways at his girlfriend, Kraven smiled and stretched out his finger: "First, vagrantearth has official English dubbing, and you don't need to read subtitles; second, there are also science fiction movies on the other side, this one; third, there are benefits to watching this movie, you should thank me." ”

The white girl turned her head to look at him, and a question came out of her nostrils: "Huh?"

Kraven pointed to the "Wandering" poster on the wall, then took out his Bee 8 mobile phone and shook it, "Girl, do you understand?"

Janice shook her head decisively, "I don't understand. ”

"Our mobile phones," Atletico Madrid in the center of the poster of the finger, Craven's eyes were full of little stars, "It's made by that man's company." Wait and scan your ticket with your phone, and you'll get a special gift that you won't get anywhere else. ”

"Oh?" the girl took out her phone and took out her phone, "not now?"

"No, unless you rip it off now. ”

"That's anyway," the girl gave up the idea, picked up her phone and opened Snapchat, and was quickly amused by today's recommended short video.

Kraven also picked up his phone, but opened Amazon's website.

Summer vacation is approaching, major game companies have launched their new products, Microsoft Games released $499 XboxOnex and $249 Xboxones; Sony electronic games also brought PS4 Pro version with double display performance; plus half a year ahead of schedule, just announced the summer promotion of Bee Game PT2, there are already three console platforms on the market to join the 4K war, and there are more and more games that support 4K output.

Seeing that the time is ripe, he wants to buy a decent 4K TV, and is looking for a target recently.

It's a pity that Amazon doesn't have a mid-year promotion similar to Goudong 618, and he can't save much money from overseas shopping across the Pacific, so he can only look for suitable products on Amazon.

"Huh?" his eyebrows furrowed, his gaze resting on the introductory text of a TV, staring at the string of "beetv+pt2" a little stunned.

Click in to take a look,He found that this bee TV is actually a low-end large-screen TV commissioned by Bee Game to be produced by Sharp OEM in the United States,Because it is bundled with its own pt2 host,The discount is quite good。

Looking at the advertising slogan on the screen "Enter the 4K era at the lowest cost", Kraven was itchy and placed an order. The PT performance in the store is enough, but it's a pity that the lack of AI units can't support the latest Megabot system, and it's a little cool to play after all, so I simply bought a new one.

His 3D printing shop is growing quite smoothly, earning thousands of dollars a month, and it's not a big deal to spend some of it on game consoles.

With TVs and game consoles, accessories and games are indispensable. He soon moved on to the Bee Play Store in search of his favorite game.

Xu is a chaser to please the relationship between users,Bee games have always been considerate to old players,Purchased games upgrade4kNo additional cost,When the time comes, you only need to log in to the account on the new machine to sync the game,It will automatically download the 4K version of the client。 In addition to the ontology, the official mod can also be upgraded for free, and the third-party mod depends on the author's wishes, otherwise you can only do it yourself or pay a reward to hire someone to do it.

Seeing so many games that support free upgrades, the last stone in Kraven's heart fell to the ground, and then he went to see the new games that were about to hit the market.

Bee Games should focus on three games this year, the large sandbox RPG "Silkroad", the doomsday shooter "Gene Storm", and the most mysterious of all, "Godfatherulin", the latter is also his focus.

Legend has it that the game can perceive the mysterious "qi" energy with the help of special equipment, and Kraven is very interested in it. It's a pity that there are very few introductions to the latter on the Internet, some say that it is a brainwave headband similar to mindhoop, and some say that it is a smart clothes similar to icefire ear, which makes him confused. Fortunately, he was smart and ran to the official Chinese forum of "Wulin Supreme", and finally found a pinned post recruiting trial players, but it was Yitian Studio that planned to recruit 20 players for closed training for live demonstrations during Chinajoy.

"This should be the best chance," Kraven said through gritted teeth, looking at the four-figure number of applicants. If you don't win, if you don't win, you'll definitely have to fly over to see it when the time comes.

Seeing the prompt information of successful registration on the webpage, he secretly shouted "yes!" Only then did he look down at the prompt information, his Chinese was actually average, but fortunately, the content was not complicated: "Member bluge from overseas, congratulations on successful registration." Please keep an eye on the mailbox in the station, we will notify you before 0:00 on July 1 East 8th District time, good luck!"

was watching, but the phone in his hand trembled, and a blue-skinned fat man came out, holding a time card to greet him, but it was his personal elf Bluge who jumped out to remind him that the movie was about to start.

Last summer, he went to Tokyo to participate in C92, and Craven came back with an elf egg, and then hatched such a blue fat man. When he bought the Bee 8 that supports the VPC virtual personal companion function, he transferred it to his mobile phone, and the original "eggshell" was put into a box by him for storage.

After packing up their things, the two of them walked towards the ticket inspector, and the first thing to start was "Transformers V".

Seeing Disney making a lot of money with the help of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Paramount, who has long been in the last place of the Big Six, sat up in death and announced that it would start filming 14 "Transformers" movies and form the "Transformers Cinematic Universe".

In this case, this year's "Transformers V" obviously carries the meaning of carrying forward the past and forging ahead into the future: on the one hand, the team needs to sort out and reset the main story line so that passers-by and audiences can connect with the story, and on the other hand, they need to use the box office results of Transformers V to give investors and advertisers confidence, so that they can have enough funds to continue filming.

But obviously, Michael Bay is not very good, the special effects are still wonderful, but unfortunately the story is too protracted, the movie is told from the time of King Arthur to modern times, and it is also interspersed with the development history of Transformers, and the span of time and space is too huge, making it difficult to keep up.

finally waited until the narrative slowed down a little, and the sentence "hello, kugou!" made people play all kinds of dramas. It was nothing that Janice hadn't used this software, but Kraven was so shocked that he couldn't help but laugh at the time.

However, he soon found that he was laughing early, and the movie implanted quite a lot of foreign products, such as Autobot dating sites, real sweeping robots, real smoke sucking robots, etc., although the advertising content has been compressed and streamlined, the frequent appearance of Chinese characters still makes the audience baffled.

Kraven is also laughing, but he can't help but think of the "wandering" in the back, this movie allows humans to form a joint government in the future, but everywhere hints at the division of the two giants, which can be seen from the ubiquitous Chinese and English, he is worried about whether the average audience can accept this.

Fortunately, it turned out that he thought too much, because there was no product placement involved, and the Chinese in "Wandering" was like a Chinatown billboard, blending in with the environment and not at all obtrusive. Of course, what is even smoother is its plot, with disasters and disasters, human beings struggling to survive, and finally running away with the earth, which is not difficult to understand at all!