"Isn't it?" Standing at the door of the ticket office, Kerry. Motland couldn't help but wail, "It's already January, why are the tickets still selling so well?" ――Are you sure there are no more vacancies in between? ”

"I'm sorry, kid, but if you're okay with the next morning's show, I've got a prime seat at number 20 in row 6." The white man sitting at the ticket booth shrugged his shoulders and said with some sympathy, "I can also give you a voucher for popcorn and Coke." ”

"But the day after tomorrow is Monday!" Kerry said excitedly, then changed to a polite thank you, "I mean, thank you, but that's our class time." ”

"I'm sorry," said the conductor, "-hey, let's grab the voucher and go talk to your girlfriend, if you can accept the marginal position, I have a few tickets here, but you'll have to decide quickly." ”

Grabbing the colorful coupons, Kerry walked up to his girlfriend in frustration, intending to tell her the bad news, while a couple of young men standing by and chatting - of course, judging by their dresses, they must have been members of society, curiously accosted him.

"Why don't you buy tickets online? Fandango is running an event, and the IMAX hall of this theater seems to be participating, and the ticket price can be cheaper - no popcorn or coke, of course, but I don't think it's too much of a problem. A friendly chubby geek asked, pointing to Kerry's Monroe T-shirt and smiling, "By the way, I have one of this too." ”

"Yes, we know, but the discount tickets for IMAX need to be grabbed, and when we get home from class, there will be no tickets, and my parents don't know how to use computers, so they can't help." Kerry hung his shoulders, "Can't let us take a lesson in this, right?" ――Maybe come back next week, and by then we should be able to buy a good spot. ”

"There must have been a lot of people who thought the same thing last week," a pretty girl next to Geek chimed in, "but Imax is still very popular right now - do you and your friends have iPhones?" If yes, I know an app, you can also directly inquire about the purchase of movie tickets, and you can also choose the seat of IMAX online, are you interested? ”

"Really?" Kerry said in surprise, unguarded, he quickly opened the conversation, "Tell me the name - oh my God, that's what we thought last week, wait until next week to come and buy tickets, but on Fandango IMAX can only buy vouchers, can't guarantee seats, and Molly and I just want to see it again in a good position, you know, we've seen the average 3D, we have to come to IMAX to see it once - but it's the fourth week, and the tickets are still so hard to buy, I want to give up, But Jack said that IMAX was so good, you know, he got the best tickets, and he wanted to invite Molly to come with him-"

After the gushing narration, Carey closed his mouth, feeling a little embarrassed, but the big boys and girls didn't seem to care too much, but looked at each other a few times and laughed tacitly.

"Then you should sign up for this app, go and make Molly proud, in high school, there are not many girls who won't betray you for a difficult ticket," the pretty girl laughed, took Kerry's phone and searched for his name in the appstore, "You won't regret it, this is the third time we've watched IMAX, the effect is really good enough to explode, the 3D feeling is so real, it's like you've really been to an alien once." ”

Although it was partly for his girlfriend, Kerry's eyes widened in anticipation when he heard such a guarantee, "Thank you, thank you - if you need this voucher-"

"I'll give you a suggestion and ask Molly if she's interested in Sherlock Holmes, you can come back to see Avatar next week, but don't waste a date so that the voucher will come in handy." The tall, thin boy who had been silent before said, "Good luck." ”

"Thank you, thank you." Kerry retrieved his phone and said in a loud voice, glancing at the phone screen, "Well, tikt - the name and icon are cool!" ”

Seeing Carry, who was buried in his phone, slowly walking back to Molly who was queuing up at the dessert station, Jon teased Charles with some excitement, "Do you hear that, he said the name is cool!" ――I really think you should hire someone to go to the theater to hand out flyers, especially now is a great opportunity to seize the selling point that IMAX can choose a seat, and your app will become popular in the blink of an eye, right? ”

Charles, who has been trying to make a comprehensive ticket-grabbing software, spread his hands helplessly, "You know, this is just an experiment on our whim, and now it has just been launched for testing, who would have thought that "Avatar" would become like this?" By the fifth week, IMAX was still a problem buying tickets. ”

"It's fair to say that tickets are now available, unlike in previous weeks, when the theaters were almost full on weekends, so the demand for tickets wasn't as strong as it was – but students were not only price-sensitive, they were also much more experience-sensitive than adults, and most adults had realised that buying tickets online meant more to IMAX before they got used to being seated. You know, it's like fandango, when you watch a general movie, it doesn't matter if you buy a ticket online or in the cinema, if you want a good seat, you can only come early and queue up to enter, you look like us, unless it's a midnight show, it's basically not booked, but IMAX is different, it must be seated, and Fandango will also provide some discounts - it just can't choose a seat yet, and it doesn't support mobile phone purchases for the time being, which is the core competitiveness of tikt, You should be doing it on campus, and the students are a perfect fit for your user base, which is much more appropriate than finding someone to hand out flyers in front of the theater. ”

"yes," Jon laughed, "if it's in the theater, you'll probably be asked away by the security guards - by the way, Charles, did the overseas box office come out yesterday?" How much has the world reached now? ”

"There are already 1.82 billion in the world, either today or tomorrow, it should be able to surpass "Titanic", Charles, who was still quietly planning, shifted his attention a little excitedly, "I hope to become the global champion before the Golden Globe - although we may not win the best film, but in that case, we are still the uncrowned kings." ”

"Avatar" successfully made him and Harry heavy fans of Jennifer again, but this time, they were not impressed by her performance, but by Jennifer's accurate prediction ability, and super investment vision, if before, Charles's liking for Jennifer was still a bit of a man's taste of women, then now, he has a kind of worship psychology for Jennifer, whether it is the magical special effects of "Avatar", or its magical box office, they are shocked and honored.

"Is the Golden Globe just tomorrow night? That must be broken through today in order to make the news before the awards ceremony starts tomorrow. Harry also frowned and calculated, for the cattle people he admired, men have a kind of mentality, that is, they hope that the more legendary they are, the better, and it is best to be so majestic that the whole audience will worship them. Oh, it's time to come in—let's go. ”

"I've heard that they now have to have people watch at the door of the theater during the day, especially the theater where Avatar is shown - there are even a lot of homeless people who walk in, buy the cheapest ticket, and then want to sneak into the theater to watch it."

"How do you look without 3D glasses?"

"Yes, so it's just a rumor, but the truth is, everyone I know is asking if I can buy tickets for IMAX, and I have to say, if I had known about it, I would have bought IMAX stock early - it's been going up for a month."

"Haha, the guy who bought the stock after midnight is here-" Jon said happily, "Imax, Fox, all bought as soon as the market opened on Friday, and I've made a car now-"

She touched Charles, "What's wrong?" Did you see someone you knew? ”

"Oh," Charles, who had turned around and was looking for in the crowd at the end of the IMAX room, turned around and shrugged, "It's nothing, I seem to have seen a familiar face just now, I seem to have seen it somewhere, but I didn't remember- hey, I'm talking about you-"

"Hey, man." A somewhat hunchbacked man walked up behind them, and he raised his hand to say hello to Charles, "They're all J.J fans, aren't they?" I seem to have seen you at a meet-and-greet before. ”

"Ah...... Yeah! At a screening -- I wanted to sit with you, we were the only two boys in the room, didn't we? Charles said enthusiastically, glancing at him curiously, "So, you just came out of the show, and—"

Raising the ticket in his hand, the 'hunchback' smiled a little shyly, "I bought four shows in a row, but they wouldn't let me stay in the hall, so I had to come out once for each one, and return my glasses - a little silly, isn't it?" ”

Buy four in a row!

…… Jon and Charles, who have always prided themselves as core fans, are a little ashamed, looking at the hunchback, this is obviously not the first time they have come to see it, maybe once every weekend, and this is only the third time they have come to see it.

"Looks like you really like J.J." Charles smiled and said, "Oh, the ticket is here—"

After entering, they naturally separated from the hunchback, and each took their own seats—Jon looked at the hunchback sitting in the rows in front of them and stuck out his tongue, "Four! He must have loved J.J. ”

"Strangely, I remember the last time we met, he didn't seem to have a hunchback...... " Charles said with some confusion, but he quickly dropped the subject, "Who do you think tomorrow's best movie will be?" ――I think it's hard to say. ”

"In fact, the odds of "Avatar" are not high, after all, so far, they have not won the Outpost Award for Best Film, of course, the Technical Award has won a lot."

"That's because the movie was only released in December, and the association awards began to be awarded in December, right? Generally speaking, the force is still in the second half, but if the Golden Globe can't win the best movie, the Oscars will definitely be out of play. ”

"Didn't Catherine's "Bomb Disposal Unit" win the Best Film from the Broadcast Film Critics Association the other day?"

"'Millionaire' probably has some chance of winning as well, and they've just won a couple of awards from the New York Film Critics Association."

"I wonder if J.J will go, she won the Golden Ball last year, it shouldn't be possible not to come, right?"

"It's hard to say, didn't she just come back to New Zealand?"

"She's supposed to come, it's a Golden Globe after all, but I don't know if Cesare will come, have you seen TMZ? He went to New York again, and I don't know if it has anything to do with Disney's acquisition of Marvel. ”

"Is Marvel in New York?"

"Marvel is headquartered in New York, and TMZ said that he did seem to be there because of Disney - J.J seems to be a shareholder of Marvel, and he has to deal with the relevant paperwork, I don't know."

"Oh? Are you sure? So J.J is now going to become a shareholder of Disney? ”

"Shhhh

For the people in the world who know the Jennifers best (Harry and Charles are now even more enthusiastic than Jon), the long commercials before the film start are flying away in small talk, and soon the IMAX logo appears on the film, and the noisy auditorium is silent - but there is still a whisper of humming, chewing and smoking coke.

Five minutes later, the huge IMAX hall was already silent, whether it was chatting or eating and drinking, it seemed that the audience had forgotten about it, and only the low shouts of the children who did not know how to suppress their excitement were left in the hall.

"Wow-cool-this is just awesome-"

As Jon hoped, on January 17, the box office of "Avatar" reached 1.86 billion (not including the untimely statistics of the region), breaking through the 1.845 billion of "Titanic" and becoming the global box office champion of all time, this news was issued at noon on January 18, instantly captured the headlines of major websites, and it can be regarded as an excellent gimmick for the Golden Globe Awards ceremony held tonight: Although few people are confident that "Avatar" will really win the award, everyone knows it, At tonight's Golden Globe Awards, it must be the crew of "Avatar" who will play the ratings, and the core characters of the audience, except for James. Cameron and Jennifer. Outside of Jefferson, of course, he doesn't think about being a third person!

The author has something to say: Note: Fandango is a ticket-buying website in the United States, but TikTok is what I made up.

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After that, there will be a change at 8:30, I hope this punctual update action can last a little longer......