The good times didn't last long, and on the fourth day, the box office dropped sharply to 3.8 million!

Lu Chong was taken aback, how could it come down so quickly!

Could it be that piracy came out?

He hurriedly sent someone to investigate, and as he expected, the pirated copies came out, and there were pirated discs of "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" sold everywhere in the streets.

Lu Chong asked people to buy it back and take a look, it was actually a high-definition pirated version!

Think about it, only this kind of piracy through copy transcription, with a clear picture and no difference from what you see in the cinema, can have such a big impact on the box office, but the kind of piracy that is secretly filmed in the cinema, the picture is blurry, the effect is very poor, and the impact on the box office is minimal.

What went wrong?

Is there a problem on the side of the North Shadow? Was one of their staff members bribed by a pirate to sell the copy?

Or is it a problem with the theater? Did the theater collude with the pirate and sell the copy?

Lu Chong hurriedly sent Yan Qing to investigate, starting with Beiping, where the intelligence network was built most strictly.

Yan Qing really didn't lose his background in special operations special forces, and he did a very good job of reconnaissance, and gave Lu Chong an answer on the third day: "There is a staff member over there in Beiying who was bribed by a pirate and sold the copy, and at the same time, there are two theater staff who colluded with the pirate and sold the copy!" ”

There are at least three in Beiping, and there are definitely other cities, and even the staff of each theater may collude with pirates, and even some theaters simply falsely report the box office.

Lu Chong was angry, Lao Tzu worked hard to invest, screenplay, and perform the works, Lao Tzu has made great efforts for this movie, you bastards, you bastards didn't pay any labor, just drank blood from Lao Tzu in vain, is there such a beautiful thing in the world!

Something that made him even angrier came up again.

Zhao Yichen of Dabai Publishing House called him and said helplessly: ""Back to the Ming Dynasty as a Prince" can't be sold, piracy is too rampant, only a month, all kinds of piracy have appeared, the price is one-third of the genuine version, and the genuine version can't be sold at all!" ”

Song Ke, general manager of Huaxing Music, called him: "Your album "Stubborn" can sell at least one million copies according to reason, but it only sold 200,000 sets, and it can't be sold, and the streets and alleys are full of pirated copies!" ”

Lao Tzu's hard-working works, you didn't spend any hard work, but you actually drank Lao Tzu's blood and ate Lao Tzu's flesh in a grand manner, how can this be reasonable!

But in the face of huge pirates, ordinary people are helpless, even the famous director Zhang Yimou and the famous writer Chen Zhongshi are helpless, although they know that the actual sales of movies and novels are dozens or hundreds of times that of their earnings, they are helpless, and they are not even willing to think more, because thinking too much will only increase their troubles.

Lu Chong came up with a way, a way to kill pirates with one stone without harming the interests of ordinary viewers and readers, but it will take time to implement this method.

In a short period of time, the profits of "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle", "Back to the Ming Dynasty as a Prince", and "Stubborn" were irretrievable, and Lu Chong could only watch his blood being sucked away by those pirate vampires.

During this time, there have been no new blockbusters to seize the schedule, and "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" has been screened for three months in a row.

Because of the existence and proliferation of pirated discs, the final box office was only 49 million, which was a little bit less than 50 million, which is a pity.

According to the box office accounting convention of Huaxia films, for a box office of 100 yuan, 5 yuan is the film fund to be handed over, 3.3 yuan is taxed, and the remaining 91.7 yuan is taken by theaters, 47 yuan is taken by theaters, 13 yuan is taken by theaters, and the producer and distributor are given the remaining 31.7 yuan.

Lu Chong is relatively strong personally, and the result of negotiations with major theaters is that theaters and theaters will take 50%, producers and distributors will take 42%, Beiying will participate in part of the production, and will be the distributor, taking 12%, and Huaxing Entertainment will get 30%.

Counting up, Huaxing Entertainment spent 2 million before and after and earned 13 million, which is a 650% return rate, which is the movie with the highest return rate in recent years.

There is a return on funds, a return on prestige, and more importantly, the main creators of the movie are basically popular.

With his handsome and melancholy appearance, Liu Ye has won the love of many girls and even young women.

Chen Kun also won the love of some rebellious girls with his bad and cool appearance.

Gao Yuanyuan, with her pure and beautiful temperament, has been liked by the majority of young men and even middle-aged men, and has appeared on the covers of a large number of magazines, becoming a young man killer in the new era.

Zhou Xun, Zeng Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Zhao Wei did not appear much in it, but they also gained a lot of fans.

The one who benefited more was Lu Chong, whose handsome and uninhibited appearance, cool driving skills, and man-to-extreme boyfriend power attracted the popularity of countless girls and young women, and also became the public rival of hundreds of millions of young men!

After the premiere, Lu Chong didn't care much about "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle", he didn't even pay much attention to the box office every day, and his focus was on the upcoming filming of "Flower Season and Rainy Season".

"Flower Season and Rainy Season" is about to use eight students from Nortel's 96-level acting class and four students from the 96-level acting class of Chinese opera.

Especially in Chinese opera, there has always been a strict rule that you are not allowed to go out to film during your freshman and sophomore years, and this perverted rule has led to a series of problems in that life.

In 1997, Mei Ting dropped out of school in order to participate in the TV series "Northern Story".

In 2003, when Zhang Guoli's son Zhang Mo's girlfriend nursery rhyme was a freshman, in order to go out to shoot "Lin Hai Xueyuan", he bribed the then head of the department Huang Dingyu with his body.

Thinking of the events of that life, Lu Chong couldn't help but sigh, Zhang Mo is really incompetent, this matter has to be settled, it has to be counted on the head of the yellow beast, and if you want to fight it, you have to fight the yellow beast, it is really incompetent to sprinkle the anger on the woman's head, no wonder you sucked that later, it has been a waste wood since 03!

When Lu Chong was sighing, he received a call from Zhang Ziyi.

"Brother Chong, the head of our department didn't agree with me going out to film, saying that there was a rule that I was not allowed to go out to film during my freshman and sophomore years, and he also said......" Speaking of this, she choked up.

Lu Chongjian raised his eyebrows: "What did he say?" ”

Zhang Ziyi cried: "He said that if I was with him, he would let me go out to film, I gave him a slap and ran out, and he said he was going to fire me!" ”

"A woman who dares to covet Lao Tzu!" Lu Chong drove all the way and rushed into the Chinese opera campus.

Zhang Ziyi stood in front of the office building, pear blossoms with rain, pitiful.

Lu Chong walked up to Zhang Ziyi, stretched out his hand to take her in his arms, and comforted: "Don't be afraid, there is me!" ”