"These little bastards!" After being unable to see the road clearly and colliding with a young man on an eco-friendly motorcycle, James cursed, but finally walked to the door of the Tai Yuewan Cinema in Chinatown.

"So no one will be able to recognize me!" Although Columbia City is not too hot in July, if a middle-aged man in a trench coat, sunglasses and cap passes by on the road, it will still arouse infinite curiosity.

Sure enough, next to the Dayuewan Cinema, there are two houses that have been fenced by scaffolding, and the noise made by various decorations inside, and there is a sign of "Dayuewan Cinema Expansion Project" erected on the periphery of the scaffolding, which says that the person responsible for this project is Hu.

Seeing this, James was really jealous.

However, this also made James look forward to his task even more, and after learning about Hu's sudden wealth, James can be sure that all the box office losses must have fallen into Hu's hands.

So James simply came to Weifu for a private interview, and he must find out the secret that this terrible dilapidated old movie theater can be full.

As soon as he entered the movie theater, James was startled, because in this somewhat small movie theater waiting hall, it was actually densely packed with people, and there were many people standing in the hall, waiting for the movie to start.

With such a huge popularity, James's Metropolitan Cinema has only seen it in the days when big movies like Pokemon or Titanic premiered.

But there haven't been any big-name movies released recently, and God knows why so many people come to this cinema.

"Hello, I'm William, my phone number is xxxxx, I have a reservation for a movie!" James whispered to the counter, and then got the movie ticket he had reserved.

In fact, James has already seen this movie, because this is a movie that was released a week ago.

At this time, in James's cinema, the number of viewers who chose to watch it was too small, and the attendance rate was less than 10%.

According to the official box office, the film, which was made at a full $30 million, is likely to only end up with a global box office of about $12,000, which is a completely rubbish movie based on this data alone.

But when James is in this hall, he finds that almost everyone around him is discussing the film, and obviously, these people are here to see it.

This makes James even more incomprehensible, it stands to reason that a movie that has been in theaters for a week, people who want to see him have finished watching it, people who don't want to see it won't watch it, and people who don't know whether to watch it or not, after seeing the popularity and box office of the theater chat, will also instinctively reject this movie.

Why is there such a big popularity in this Chinatown movie theater!

Just when James was puzzled, the bell rang, and then it was prompted that those who watched the 13:25 scene could enter.

The dense crowd in the hall suddenly poured into the passage, and the three staff members in charge of checking the tickets at the passage were all busy sweating profusely before letting these people in.

James, who was almost pushed by the surging crowd, finally arrived at his seat smoothly, and when he sat down, he found that the entire screening room was really full, and there was not even a single empty seat.

This instantly made James's whole person who was jealous about to go crazy.

"Great, it's finally time to vote!" Just as James was going crazy, he heard a person next to him say excitedly, and at the same time pulled something out of the seat in front of him.

James was curious, and sure enough, behind the seat in front of him, he turned out a card.

"Voting Card"

"Imperial Capital International Film Festival?"

Looking at the text on this, James was a little dazed, he didn't know what this thing was, why there was such a thing in the movie theater.

Well, forgive our boss James, after all, more than three months have passed since the last time Daqian's staff arrived, and Boss James has long forgotten about the vote.

So when he saw this voting card, he had a completely blank expression.

"Excuse me......" Just as James was about to ask the person next to him, an angry roar suddenly sounded in the screening room, "Who is it, who stole my voting card, you get out of here!" ”

The anger of this voice stunned everyone in the movie theater.

"Another unlucky guy who got his voting card stolen!" The person next to him said with some sympathy and some schadenfreude.

"What's going on?" James looked at the angry, angry, furious yelling, completely unaware of what was happening, and asked the people around him in confusion.

"Hey, there are always some bad people in this world, who refuse to spend money to vote honestly, and are only willing to steal other people's voting cards, I have long suggested that the boss simply send everyone a voting card when they let people in, and the province will be stolen by others!" The person next to him explained, but James didn't understand very well.

Soon, the staff showed up, they first gave the rampaging audience a new voting card to calm him, and then the staff member said loudly, "Whoever stole the voting card, please quietly return it to the staff after the movie is over." Cameras are installed at the ballot box so that no one can cast two votes. ”

"If you don't want to be found by us and then twisted to the police station, please quietly return this voting card to us, and disturb everyone watching the movie, I'm very sorry!"

After this episode, the staff stepped down and the movie was officially played.

Because he had already watched the movie once, James was not interested in the movie, but looked at the audience around him curiously, and then he found that the person next to him did not seem to focus on the movie, but thought about some of his own things from time to time, and sometimes even scratched his hair with some annoyance.

"What the hell is going on, sir? What's going on with this voting card? James couldn't help but be curious, and asked secretly in a very small voice.

"You don't know?" The next-door neighbor looked at James in surprise, "You didn't come here to vote?" ”

"No, I just live next to it and want to see it, so I came here!"

"Then you're so lucky to be able to reserve a ticket!" The man sighed, and then found that there were already a few people around looking at the two people who were whispering with dissatisfied eyes, so he said, "Let's go, let's go to the bathroom." ”

"Good!" James nodded, and prepared to leave.

"Wait, bring your cassette on, or it'll be gone!" The man hurriedly took out the voting card that James had inserted back into the back of the seat, handed it to James, and then the two of them ran to the bathroom of the theater and started talking.