"There are a lot of people. ”

In a theater called Arena Cinema near the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Li Qian and his party are eating snacks and drinking Coke in the open, without having to hide it like in China.

"Mi Lijian's movie theater is not much different from China, but it feels like a store, selling more things, and the counter where they sell things is in the middle of the hall. ”

Deng Chao glanced around, grabbed the popcorn in his hand and threw it into his mouth, and couldn't help but look embarrassed, "The only bad thing is that the popcorn on their side is disgusting!"

Zhang Wei nodded in agreement, "Salty popcorn is really unaccustomed to eating, don't all rice grain people love sweet, no matter how salty popcorn is." ”

"It's okay, crunchy salty, with a different flavor, as if the rice grains are crunchy, most of them are salty, and sweets are generally soft and glutinous. Li Qian said with a smile.

"It's just kind of weird. Tong Liya can't get used to it.

"There are also a lot of sweets for sale, so there are also candy vending machines, and candy should always be sweet. ”

To be honest, there are quite a lot of food sold in this movie theater, and there is an "island" in the middle that sells food, which is not against the wall like in China.

However, in the corners of the four sides, there are still some stalls, all kinds of food, as well as freshly baked pizza, which are almost a restaurant.

There are also peripheral products that are sold, Iron Man, Minion figures, and Captain Mi Lijian's shield, you name it.

Like other ordinary viewers of Mi Lijian, Li Qian and the others were eating and chatting there.

Slowly, there are more people in the cinema, although the hottest Christmas schedule of the year has passed, and Mi Lijian is only the Spring Festival, and there are no blockbusters released, but it is the awards season, and the Mi Lijian Film Market is also very lively, which has driven the traffic of the cinema.

There are still three minutes left in the movie, and Li Qian and the others will also enter the scene.

When I went in, I found that there were already twenty or thirty spectators.

Li Qian looked at it, found a seat in the middle and back, and several people made a row.

As soon as she sat down, Tong Liya couldn't help but complain, "This Mi Lijian's movie theater is too outrageous, it doesn't even fix the seat, come first and sit first." ”

"Maybe we can develop an online seat selection ticketing platform in Mi Lijian, and the market is promising. Deng Chao suggested.

Li Qian shook his head, "It doesn't work, the consumption habits are different, and Mi Lijian doesn't have a ticketing website, but people here rarely buy tickets online, and buying tickets online is more expensive than offline, and their consumption habits have lasted for decades."

Moreover, now some movie theaters have also begun to fix seats, even if the seats are fixed, most audiences are still used to sitting casually, and the business of online seat selection is like a fictitious business. ”

"Is this also a kind of freedom?" Zhang Wei smiled curiously.

"It's mainly a habit, there may also be commercial considerations, if you want a good seat, you have to come in in advance, watch more than ten minutes of advertising, to ensure the advertising viewing time and people, the cinema can charge more advertising fees, if you don't want to watch ads, you can only sit in the corner. ”

Li Qian guessed that the reason for this was that for the sake of a good position, they all came in early and then watched the advertisement.

"Isn't there anyone taking a bag to occupy a seat?" Zhang Wei complained.

......

The movie started on time, and Li Qian and they came to see "Truman's World" to see the audience's reaction.

There weren't many people in the cinema, less than forty.

It was released on December 6, and now it's mid-February, and it's been on display for two whole months, even if it's the prime time in the evening, there are still forty audiences is very high.

Thanks to winning the Golden Globe Awards, although the gold content is not high and it is becoming less and less authoritative, it is highly entertaining, and the ratings are increasing year by year, which is still very popular with the audience.

won the Golden Globe Award for a month, and in this month, it also won $8 million at the box office one after another.

Mainly because the award rose in the first half month, recently because the Oscars have begun to be selected, public relations and publicity have also increased, and the audience has gradually increased.

Moreover, this movie theater is next to the Avenue of Stars, and the location is also quite good, and it is normal to have close to forty spectators at night.

However, in other parts of the United States, there are not many states where the film is released, mainly concentrated in a few states such as New York and California, and the screening is on a small scale.

If it can win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, it is very likely that the scale of screenings will continue to be expanded due to the entertainment of the film itself.

The movie began to be screened, different from domestic movie theaters, Mi Lijian said that when it was screened, the feature film would be shown on time.

The domestic screening time is calculated from the previous advertisement, everyone has to watch a few minutes of advertising, and Mi Lijian's time is the time to show the feature film.

The movie has been re-dubbed in North America, and most of Mi Lijian's movies have no subtitles, and subtitles will affect the viewing experience, and usually only people with hearing impairments will watch subtitles.

However, Li Qian also paid no attention to the movie, watching the movie while observing the audience's reaction.

After all, the audience evaluation on the Internet is not as intuitive as watching it on the spot.

At first there was nothing, and it was relatively quiet in the cinema.

However, when the truth of the movie is revealed halfway through the movie, the calm atmosphere of the scene is broken.

Words like "OMG" are true.

At the end, when Truman confronted the storm at sea, the audience's reaction was even greater.

Although there were only more than 30 people shouting and cursing one after another, the movement was almost louder than when the country was full.

Tong Liya couldn't help but lean over and whispered, "It seems that Mi Lijian is not so polite." ”

Li Qian smiled, "It seems that Mi Lijian is like this here, especially popular movies, he likes to shout, just like opening an artificial barrage." ”

In China, shouting in the cinema will definitely be said to be rude by some people, but in Mi Lijian, this is the norm.

.....

After watching the movie, Tong Liya and the others went to play, and this time they were purely here for tourism.

And Li Qian still has to show his face at various events.

Although no one knows him, but now that the voting for the winners has begun, the most important moment for public relations is to show his face often at some events where the Oscar judges appear.

Warner will also hold various activities, "Truman's World" DVD and the Internet, TV rights, after the Oscars will be sold to them, and if they win the award, they will also have more income, although the copyright fee for winning the award is definitely much higher than not winning the award.

Besides, "Pacific Rim" is about to be released in the summer, and they still need Li Qian's help to promote it.

However, at an event tonight, Li Qian met a little devil.

The previous competitor in the auction of bankruptcy in the digital field, Ichiro Takagi, vice president of Sony.

As soon as they met, Takagi sneered arrogantly.

"I've seen "Truman's World", and the academic judges have always disliked this kind of entertainment film, and the best foreign language film this time is "Love". ”

“？？？”

Li Qian was stunned, this little devil was really inexplicable.

But this short and fat little devil, with his head slightly raised and said disdainful words, why is it so funny.

Li Qian even wanted to laugh a little.

"What are you laughing at!" Takagi asked Li Qian with a cold face.

The digital field that he grabbed last time was robbed by Li Qian, and his plan to merge Sony graphics and create the world's largest special effects company was also shattered.

In addition, Li Qian is a Chinese, and he is a right-wing through and through, it goes without saying.

This time the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Sony also participated in the competition, and the Odilli movie "Love" was distributed by Sony, and it is also the biggest hit of the Oscar foreign language film.

It happened that Li Qian's film was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, so he ran over and ridiculed it.

"Nothing, I remember happy things. Li Qian shook his head.

"What's the happy thing?" Takagi felt Li Qian laugh at him.

"It's nothing, it's just..."

Li Qian waved his hand and said with a smile, "Your company will not be able to get a quota for Huaguo's account-sharing films in the next three years, including the obvious release of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2". ”

"You!"

Takagi's eyes froze before he reacted, his face was extremely ugly.

However, before he could say anything, Li Qian had already turned around and left, no longer paying attention to him.

......

"Lee, are you telling the truth?" asked Thomas, curiously beside him.

Li Qian smiled, "It's only been three years, I can still do this, and this is also a good thing for other companies, right?"

"Of course. Thomas also smiled, there are 20 places for ordinary account sharing films every year, and they have to be divided by other countries, although the share is only 25%, but the major companies still have to fight for it.

One less competitor means more and more places for other companies.

As for whether Li Qian can do it, Thomas has no doubts.

Although I don't know much about Li Qian's status in China, I can see that Li Qian is not stupid, and people who are not stupid will not say such things when they can't do it.

This also strengthened the determination of Thomas and Li Qian to work together, just waiting for the release of "Bad Pacific", if it is as expected, then Warner will become the only company to enter the domestic film market in China in a big way.

"Still. Thomas is still a little worried, "Now Sony's release of "Love" is indeed the biggest hit, although "Truman's World" is also highly rated, but that group of serious academics are more willing to award it to "Love", not only nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, but also nominated for Best Director, which is a very important signal. ”

"I understand. Li Qian nodded.

It's not that he hasn't studied it, the movie "Love" is about the thinking of love and illness in old age, full of moral and conscience torture.

The director is a German, and the film also shows the rigorous, realistic, serious, serious, and neat characteristics of the Germans.

The director is more serious, and every frame of the movie reveals the truth, which is exactly what the Hollywood academy tastes.

Therefore, Li Qian did not have much confidence.

However, his advantage is that the public relations are stronger than the other party, and the public relations efforts of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film are generally not particularly large, and Li Qian has spent a total of three million US dollars.

The rest, it's up to the sky.

However, at this moment, someone in the banquet hall suddenly exclaimed.

"Look, someone is climbing the Statue of Liberty!"

"What a fuss, I had made an appointment last month to take my daughter up to play. ”

"It's now, at night, someone sneaked up the Statue of Liberty!"

"Walter, what's wrong?"

"OMG, what the hell is going on?"

"Turn on the TV!"

......

Soon, the big screen in the banquet hall lit up, and a burst of sirens sounded.

On the screen, in a square, more than a dozen police cars with flashing police lights, as well as news vehicles, the police have separated the square, and a huge statue stands in front of it.

Even if Li Qian hadn't seen it, he could see that it was the Statue of Liberty.

A female host was excitedly broadcasting to the camera, and it turned out to be a suspected psychopath who had secretly climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty on a big night.

Li Qian was stunned, and glanced at Thomas, and Thomas was also stunned.

The Statue of Liberty is one of the symbols of Mirijian, the Mirijian National Monument.

It seems that there were once people who just climbed on the pedestal to demonstrate, or during the day, and were arrested and imprisoned for five years.

This big night climbed to the top, and for Mi Lijian, it was undoubtedly a major social event.

didn't expect to see such a grand show, Li Qian became interested, and wanted to see what caused the man to climb up at night.

Before the person was caught, he was called a mentally ill person, and this policeman was witty and promising.

On the TV, the reporter was still reporting excitedly.

"It is understood that he climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty because he watched a movie "Truman's World" and became suspicious of the world, thinking that it was an exit from the false world......"

it!

Li Qian was stunned again, what the hell is going on?

......

PS: It is said that there is such a thing, I don't know if it's true or not, but the pen is in my hand anyway.