"Oh, Mike, you're the last of all my friends to call."

When Roland held the mobile phone weighing about 750 grams and complained to Mohami on the other end of the phone, the young man in Los Angeles was full of smiles, ignoring the dissatisfaction hidden in the words, Mohami defended his behavior: "But I should be the most appropriate time to dial in among all your friends, right?" ”

"I've watched your talk show the whole time, and I'm counting the time to call you."

"If I'm not mistaken, it's probably your most idle time, right?"

“No，No，No……”

Although the two sides did not face each other, Roland still shook his head again and again, but there was a smile on his face, he didn't recognize the other party's words at all, "Now is not my most idle time, but my rest time, you disturbed me to rest......"

"Really? Should I apologize to you? Now run to the door of the Los Angeles airport, crying bitterly and waiting for your forgiveness? The smile on Mohami's face became even bigger, and the tone of his voice was quite brisk.

"Of course, if you're interested, you should book me a table at the best restaurant in Orange County, you know, I haven't eaten properly for a week in order to run the notice, it's either a plane meal, or a work meal, and I'm about to vomit......"

"No problem, I can order ...... where you want to eat."

The sudden phone call relieved Roland, who had been tired for several days.

Not only because of the friendly relationship between Roland and Mohami, but also because Mohami knows a lot of things about Roland, and when he communicates with him, Roland doesn't have to hide it, and he doesn't have to worry about Mohami digging a hole for him like others.

After laughing at each other, Roland also knocked on a meal from the other party, and when the laughter gradually dissipated, Mohami also said congratulatory words, "Congratulations, the film is a big hit." ”

"Compared to Charlie Cosmo, who made 'The Supreme Scoundrel,' the speed of your ascent is amazing."

"I've made up for my knowledge related to Hollywood during this time, if you get a box office bonus of three million, will you be officially promoted to the B-list?"

B-list？

Roland felt that Mohami's imagination was being restricted.

The North American box office given by those forecasting agencies is 300 million, and you think that the global box office of the whole movie can only stop at 300 million?

Is this looking down on overseas markets?

You know, Hollywood studios can make money by relying on global distribution.

Once the global market is fully rolled out in December, with the current upward momentum, 500 million is easy.

500 million!

This is a box office figure that many actors and directors can't touch in their lifetime!

Many people's lifetime cumulative box office can't reach this number, not to mention, what kind of public opinion tsunami will be triggered after a single film exceeds 500 million, but unfortunately, in this era, without the blessing of the Internet, Roland can only use the box office figures to feel the audience's love for himself, and he can't feel the tsunami when fans pick up the plane like those big names in his previous life.

However, it is good that no one is to surround him, and he doesn't want to be a green Franklin, and people will chase him wherever he goes.

didn't dwell on the inexplicable issue of coffee position, Roland just smiled and accepted Mohami's congratulations, "However, I'm curious, aren't you going to play a game?" How do you have time to make up for what you have to do with Hollywood? ”

Hearing Roland's question, Mohami, who was still smiling, suddenly stretched his face, and said helplessly: "Hey, don't mention it, in the past six months, we haven't been doing games......"

"Alan and Frank and I originally wanted to develop a game based on Family Computer, but when we contacted them, they rejected our proposal, because Super Famicom (Super Nintendo) was released on the 21st of this month, and they felt that it was a bit unwise to develop a game on Family Computer in more than four months, so they gave us a list on Super Famicom, and we, ...... are being studied"

Get......

This is really not beautiful.

Mohami's words made Roland shake his head helplessly.

He thought that with his intervention, Mohami and the others would be able to make up Blizzard Entertainment some time in advance, but they didn't think that even if they had money and people, they would still die at the time of Nintendo's new machine release.

Before the release of the next generation of home game consoles, stopping the content development of the previous generation of game consoles is a wise decision that every manufacturer will make, just like the naughty dog in the future, the project of "The Last of Us 2" has been postponed for many years, but in the end, when the PS game store began to pre-sell the game, they still chose to skip the ticket, and looking at their appearance, there is a big idea of not escorting the PS5 heart to death.

As for "Ghost of Tsushima" -

Most likely, the same is the case.

But it can't be helped, who made their big boss Sony?

Since Roland had been through all this, he could certainly understand Mohami's frustration.

Because of the postponement of research and development, the move of skipping the ticket game, in most cases, will hit the enthusiasm of creators and players, and Mohami, who is now starting a business, is naturally the kind of creator who is full of enthusiasm.

However, understanding is understanding, as for comfort......

When Mohami asked him for money, he was using cold Franklin to comfort the wounded heart.

And this prescription should be able to work quickly and cure the disease, right?

"Well, then I wish you all success."

Roland responded dryly, but in order to make the other party think of himself when he was short of money, he also added at the end of his words, "If you need to, call me directly, of course, if it is after March, you can also drive directly to my house, after the filming of "Terminator 2", I may not leave Los Angeles for a long time." ”

"After all, "Captain Hook" is all an in-studio drama."

"Ok, no problem."

Mohami called today, firstly to say hello to Roland, and secondly, to ask Roland for a promise; Starting a business is difficult, and if there is a friend who is not bad at money and is willing to help in this situation, then they may be much more comfortable.

As for Roland's statement on the talk show that he would give all the box office bonuses of "Home Alone" to the Olsons?

Mohami, who has been with Roland for half a year, believes that Roland is a man who walks the talk, but—

He was even more convinced that even if the Olsons took the money, they would give it back when Roland needed it.

Therefore, he is not worried about such a thing as not being able to finance money.

After chatting casually, Roland, who was sitting in the car, was a little discouraged by the shaky environment.

And just as he was about to say goodbye to Mohami, squint his eyes and take a nap, waiting for the car to arrive at the airport, Mohami's last words before saying goodbye made him interested and made him stop hanging up.

"Roland, do you know that with the release of "Home Alone", your popularity in the newsgroup is getting higher and higher."

"Of the more than 300 new posts, more than 170 are related to you."

"Don't you want to know where I got my knowledge about Hollywood?"

"It's not a printed movie guide, the kind that can only hold 20,000 rough movie information, it's actually an outline of the release period of a movie, and I inquired about the information from the movie network discussion group of leisure and entertainment."

What？

When a series of words that should have been incoherent such as the Internet, movies, and materials came out of Mohami's mouth, Roland, who was yawning, almost didn't bite his tongue.

"Mike?"

"What did you say?"

"On the Internet now, can you find detailed information related to movies?"

Although ARPA introduced the future TCP/IP architecture and protocol as early as '77-79, and they established the initial Internet around '80, these things were never open to the outside world until '88.

To put it mildly, compared with the popularity of billions of netizens in later generations, the current Internet is really just two or three kittens, at the time of the birth of the bud, as a senior netizen in later generations, Roland directly gave up the idea of looking for paper people after getting the computer that David bought for himself - the Internet is still blank, he can find a ghost!

Because of this, in addition to recording the treasures in his mind, Roland has not actually been exposed to the Internet in this era.

As a result, he doesn't know what is on the Internet in this era.

After hearing the puzzled voice on the other end of the phone, Mohami, who had already explained casually, was stunned for a moment, and then continued with a smile: "Yes, is there any problem? Isn't that computer at home also capable of Internet access? ”

"Oh, I see, you've been filming lately, or you're on the way to filming, and you may not have time to learn about these things."

"Let me tell you, since I met you, I've checked a lot of movie-related news."

"At that time, I found out that there were tens of thousands of movie entries and four movie lists in the movie network discussion group on the Internet."

"And, according to the founder of the newsgroup, there is a lot more to his material."

"Because I didn't have anything to do lately, I emailed him to make his access to the movie database public, and after receiving my email, the founder from the UK agreed to my proposal."

"Due to the lack of manpower, we didn't have a game development, so we helped them, using email protocols, writing programs, until the 17th of last month, that is, a month before the release of Home Alone, the database was officially released to the public."

"The database was named rec.arts.movies movie database by the British founder, Cole Niederham, and anyone who has it can share information."

"Since we have written programs for them, he directly gave us three admin accounts, so we can see your real data in the background...... How's that, isn't it amazing? ”

When the words of showing off appeared in Roland's ears, Roland directly used his hand and pinched his thigh fiercely.

Grass Girl!

Roland couldn't control his desire to curse.

Briton?

Cole Nedhan?

rec.arts.movies movie database?

Hold the grass, isn't this special code the predecessor of IMDb?

In his previous life, when Roland was making videos, he soaked in IMDb to buy news, which was a common thing, not only that, but in order to see high-end data, he also bought IMDb Pro's membership service.

The real number of views of each movie trailer, the real popularity of each filmmaker after dehydration, as well as the film's production details, box office details, company directories and other information, these can be queried.

Not only that, but there is also a resume subscription service on it, and Robert Pattinson, the actor of "Twilight", was discovered by the producer Summit Entertainment after submitting his resume on IMDb Pro.

In the aftermath of the economic crisis, there was a saying that spread throughout Hollywood – 'If you want to be a Hollywood filmmaker, you need two things: one is a mobile phone and the other is IMDb.' ’

The reason why Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, dared to enter Hollywood directly, became a large-scale independent producer in a short period of time, and won the Oscar and Best Screenplay two statuettes, and won the best picture, best director, best supporting actor and actress and many other key factors in the nomination, in addition to money, holding the world's largest Internet movie database is the key, and those high-level data in the background can tell them which things are the audience's favorite elements.

Compared with Google and Facebook's big data resources, the data on IMDb is more accurate.

To put it mildly, it's thanks to Netflix that it's not integrated with IMDb.

Otherwise, others won't be able to share much of the streaming cake.

It was precisely because he knew all this that when Roland heard Mohami's words, he closed his eyes directly.

In his memory, Mohami in his previous life had nothing to do with IMDb.

That is to say, although the tens of thousands of dollars he brought to the other party, although it did not accelerate the birth of Blizzard Entertainment, it was inserted in the database that monopolized the world's movie data in the future?

Holding grass, this butterfly wing, seems to be a little big......

But......

He loved it.

After a few seconds of silence, Roland, who had no clue when he was hit by the sudden news, took a deep breath.

Although he hadn't figured out how he was going to eat the melon, he was able to give him words of praise now.

And, a curious mindset –

"Amazing, listening to you say this, we will be able to query all kinds of movie materials on the Internet in the future?"

"It feels very convenient, and we finally don't have to flip through the books in the future."

"Oh yes, are you short of money?"

"You say I'm asking which of you is short of money?"

"Of course, it's your game company and movie database website!"

"Not short of money?"

"Hey, how can you not be short of money?"

"Well, I'm just talking about it, talking about it......"

"It's okay, if you need it, come directly to my house to find me."

"No trouble, no trouble, help friends, no trouble at all......"

"Yes, friends, all friends! If you need help, don't worry! ”