In the American film market, each year is divided into five schedules: winter, spring, summer, autumn and Christmas holidays. Among these five schedules, the summer, autumn and festival schedules (mainly referring to Christmas and New Year) are the most important, with summer and autumn schedules each lasting about three and a half months, and the festival schedule is only about two weeks; The former played an almost decisive role in the box office throughout the year, while the latter played a pivotal role in whether the film would be nominated for the Oscars.

The number of films released in these three periods accounts for almost 70% of the total of the year, and the box office revenue also accounts for almost 70% of the total revenue of the year. As for the winter and spring schedule, due to heavyweight sports (football, NBA All-Star Game) and a large number of awards events (Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes, Directors Guild Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, etc.) to fill almost all weekends, the Oscars in particular have stolen a lot of the aura of this period and occupied the audience's attention. In addition, the students, who are the mainstream audience, are also busy with their studies, so this period is the least favored time of the year. Therefore, most of the films released in this schedule are low-cost production zuò, or independent production zuò distributed on behalf of others.

The first two weeks of the fall schedule coincided with the start of the school year, and most of the ordinary spectators had just returned from the holidays and were in the recuperation stage, so this schedule was also a dumping ground for small enterprises. But the situation is different in October, and after October it enters the gladiatorial period of the Oscars. The so-called big-scale zuò, or the films with high hopes for awards, are basically crowded into the three schedules of summer, autumn and Christmas holidays.

This year's light and shadow company was a little unlucky, originally "Independence Day" was intended to be released in the summer file, but it was moved to the Christmas file because of suspected infringement; and "Apollo 13", which was originally scheduled to be released at Christmas, was advanced to the autumn file, which made the Hangzhou branch unable to cope with it, implicating Tim and them working overtime day and night.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that the infringement incident could end dramatically, and the light and shadow company finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly put "Independence Day" in the autumn file, so that the special effects company could also take a breather. Those special effects are done in Hollywood, compared with the Hangzhou branch, and the cost difference is too big.

It's just that the release time of the two films is only two months apart, and Sun Ziming is very busy, as soon as he comes back from Hong Kong, he doesn't have two days off, and he goes to all parts of the United States to promote it. He ran around like this, and even the third brother and Yang Guozhong, who came from the other side of the ocean for a meeting, had to follow him around.

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"Old Five, how sure are you? Guangzi did what they did, but human life is a matter of heaven! ”

As soon as the third brother said this, Yang Guozhong also put down his wine glass. It's just a trivial matter to fund them with a billion dollars, but if you put your own brother in it, it's not worth it!

Sun Ziming is really not sure about this, don't look at him can pass through Sun Lei's mouth, and scold Guangzai for not reading, but that is just an arrow on the bow and has to be sent. If Guangzi doesn't have confidence, what will happen to the people below?

The 'Xingtian Society' that Guang Zai started will seek independence and freedom for Chinese Americans, and has already brainwashed people like Wang Zhongsheng, not to mention those natural warriors of Guang Zai?

Now tens of thousands of gangs have entered Surabaya and Jakarta in the name of construction workers, factory technical backbones, small businessmen, etc., ready to fight for the Indonesian Chinese, those people have been brainwashed by Guangzai!

Now, who can stop them?

If you are not careful, the backlash of tens of thousands of core gangs will make the people who stop it die without a place to bury!

However, the role of the leader is to give everyone confidence, and Sun Ziming is used to taking on this role.

"Sixty percent! All the plans were carefully refined and deduced by them, and if they couldn't win in this way, they would have recruited so many combat staff officers in vain! ”

The third brother has been on the battlefield, but the peaceful life and wealth have washed away his blood, but he is a little indecisive. Guangzai is his comrade-in-arms, a brother like a brother, and he can't help but be upset.

"What if we lose?"

yes, what happens if it fails? Sun Ziming stopped himself from thinking about the consequences, and said in a deep voice: "The road was chosen by himself, and no one else is to blame for success or failure!" People live for a lifetime, plants and trees for a while, and they have to leave something for this world. ”

The third brother sighed, stopped talking, lowered his head and smoked.

"Knock knock", there was a knock on the door, and the three of them hurriedly changed their smiles and "come in".

Douglas came in with supper and beer, didn't notice anything unusual, and whispered excitedly: "Boss, the company called just now and said that the theater viewing party is over, and we will arrange 3,225 theaters and 4,825 big screens." ”

“Ok!”

Sun Ziming also waved his fist excitedly, nearly 5,000 big screens, and there are no decent opponents, maybe "Independence Day" will set a new box office record in the first week!

"Yes!boss, Peng estimates that we will break 100 million in the first week, becoming the first film to break 100 million in the first week, and we will become historical figures!"

The third brother next to him hadn't reacted yet, but Yang Guozhong was shocked. Ziming's state is not pretending, he is really excited. I was worried about Guangzai just now, but in the blink of an eye, I was excited about a mere movie, if he was either crazy, or he had achieved a real weightlift.

Lose your marbles? Is it possible? How can a person who can negotiate with Steve Jobs, the new president of Apple, to invest an additional $500 million while promoting the film?

Then there is only one explanation, Ziming is really lightweight, like those legendary politicians! 政zhì家? Those who succeed are called politicians, and those who fail are called heroes!

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In the next two days, Yang Guozhong confirmed his judgment. Sun Ziming discussed with them how to help Guangzi and them, and how to fish them out of the island as a last resort; On the one hand, he also accepted interviews with a calm expression, appeared on talk shows, interacted with fans, and even took the crew members to the orphanage to deliver movie tickets, encouraging those orphans to be brave!

Yang Guozhong is really not mistaken, Sun Ziming really doesn't worry about Guangzi in his heart, anyway, the bet has been thrown on the table, and the winner or loser is determined by God!

"What? What do you think? ”

Facing the third brother's questioning, Sun Ziming suddenly felt that his cousin was a little strange, is this still the third brother who pulled the trigger face-to-face with the Vietnamese?

"Third brother, what do you want to say? People have to live worthily in the world! ”

"Shit! It's better to die than to live! ”

Yang Guozhong hurriedly separated the two of them and persuaded: "If you have something to say, Guangzai is also a brother of Ziming, how can you not care?" ”

Sun Ziming pulled Yang Guozhong away, glared at the third brother and said, "Third brother, you are used to living a prosperous life, and you have lost your sharpness. What if Guangzi loses? It's nothing more than death, but he can become a flag for the Chinese, which is what he wants!

Do you just think about failure, and what success means? A thousand years later, the Chinese will still regard Guo Guangming as a national hero! ”

"You", the third brother was so choked by his grandson that he couldn't speak, but his fifth brother turned around and left, only throwing down a sentence that made him angry.

"I have a premiere in the evening, if you figure it out, you can come with Guozhong. If you can't figure it out, you will be less involved in Guangzai's affairs in the future, don't hurt him! ”