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After some analysis, the industry became more convinced of this idea, and began to eagerly want to see the movie released, and then the word of mouth was poor, and it was time for the box office to hit the street.

While the industry and the industry were anxiously waiting, the 29th arrived as scheduled, and the Future Movies APP started pre-sale on time, and the ticket price was indeed 10 yuan lower than normal.

However, when people opened other software such as Glava, Meituan, and QQ Movies, they found that these platforms did not sell tickets for 囧囧 at all.

"what's the situation?"

Everyone was dumbfounded again.

Chapter 456 Exploding box office

"What is this Li Qian up to?"

Just after the meeting, Huang Zhonglei, who comforted Teng Huatao and opened the bottle of 92-year-old Yingxiao used to celebrate his success, was staring at the phone with a puzzled face.

"How come only his own future movie software is selling tickets, and none of the other platforms have a single ticket."

"I'll call Chen Wu from Penguin and ask." After speaking, Huang Zhongjun had already dialed the phone.

Penguin has invested in Huayang Media twice in the past two years. As other shareholders continue to reduce their holdings and cash out after listing, they are already the largest institutional investor in Huayang Media.

Although he was very dissatisfied with Penguin's investment in Li Qian's future film industry, Huang Zhongjun still didn't show it, and he called honestly.

After some conversations, Huang Zhongjun said with an inexplicable expression, "The online ticket purchase of "Lost in Thailand" is monopolized by Li Qian's futuristic movie A."

"Monopoly?" Huang Zhonglei didn't react for a while, and asked in confusion, "meaning, he only lets his own platform sell tickets?"

"That's right, that's it. Except for the official websites of some local movie theaters where you can buy tickets, you can't buy a ticket on any other platform." Huang Zhongjun said.

"why is that?"

Huang Zhonglei still didn't understand, "Isn't Li Qian crazy? He cut off the ticket sales channels by himself. Online ticket purchases now account for nearly 30% of the tickets. Isn't this self-defeating martial arts?"

First, a large-scale pre-sale was launched in advance, and a lot of discounts were given. This is clearly worried about the quality of the movie, and they want to rely on the pre-sale to stir up the movie, and at the same time make the box office on the first day look better, and fool the audience.

However, if this is the purpose, it would be puzzling to cut off the online ticket purchase channel.

You know, Grava accounted for 55% of online ticket purchases, and platforms such as Meituan, Ha Piao, Maozao, QQ Movies, Dibao Movies, and Wanda’s own developed a accounted for more than 40%. Li Qian’s future movie market The share is not even 5.

This is undoubtedly suicide!

After thinking for a long time, Huang Zhongjun could only come to one conclusion, "It should be to promote his own a through "Tai囧"!"

Huang Zhonglei pondered for a while and said, "Then the large-scale pre-sale in advance is not because of the quality, but to compete for the market for online ticket purchases?"

Obviously, Li Qian has enough confidence in "Lost in Thailand", otherwise, he would only do such a thing if he was stupid, and he might fail on both sides.

"No matter what he wants to do, there is no way to make a profit from selling tickets online. This kind of project has nothing to do with us. As for whether it is a mule or a horse, let's wait and see in a week."

Huang Zhongjun shook his head, he no longer cared about this, and instead asked Teng Huatao, "How is he doing recently?"

"The blow is quite big, and it is estimated that it will not be slowed down for a while."

Although there was a gap between the two sides before, Huang Zhonglei still sighed at Teng Huatao's wave of Waterloo because he was a drinking buddy and a golf buddy for many years.

"Beijing Satellite TV asked him to be a producer and chief director of a TV show. Judging by his intentions, he still hasn't refused."

"Director of a variety show?"

At this moment, Huang Zhongjun was stunned, and laughed angrily, "Just give up on yourself like this? He is useless!"

Huang Zhongjun said in a tone of hatred that iron can't be made into steel. A big director with a box office of [-] million, just because a movie failed, he even lowered himself and ran to become a variety show director!

"Stop him. First-line movie directors are going to be variety show directors. If word spreads, he'll be the biggest laughing stock in the circle. He's shameless. I can't afford to lose him!"

Huang Zhonglei explained uncharacteristically, "Brother, I actually think that variety shows are nothing. This show "Brave Heart" is jointly produced by the top team of Nanbang and the team of "I Am a Singer". "Singer" has just been completed. After the investment promotion of the second episode, the naming fee alone is more than 2 million yuan, and now that variety shows are making money, it would be good for Teng Huatao to test the waters."

"No!" Huang Zhongjun waved his hand and rejected Huang Zhonglei's proposal, "Don't be so short-sighted, it's impossible for a variety show TV station to give you the big profits, and you can't let him engage in variety shows. Hurry up and persuade him to come back and make a movie. !"

So what if a program earns [-] million yuan, Ma Xiaogang, a director, supports Huayang Media, which has a market value of [-] billion yuan.

Taking a step back, "33 Days of Broken Relationship" earned [-] million at the box office alone.

Huang Zhonglei was right when he thought about it, the TV station must have taken the head of the variety show.

"Then I'll try to persuade him again. By the way, Ma Xiaogang seems a little unhappy."

"What the hell is he doing?" Huang Zhongjun frowned.

"It's not that bottle of wine, it was opened for Teng Huatao in the morning, and Ma Xiaogang's face is a bit unsightly." Huang Zhonglei shrugged, "It's also my fault that I forgot, this bottle of wine was originally for him, if I knew the party, I wouldn't call him. "

Huang Zhongjun was speechless for a while. After "[-]" failed, he had already lost money, and his younger brother was reluctant to part with the wine he had bought so hard to shoot. As a result, Teng Huatao's new film failed, so he fired it. Even clay figurines have three Divide the anger, let alone Ma Xiaogang.

"Let's open it, and then go take a bottle and come back."

"Brother, that means the high price of more than 300 million yuan can only be sold at a charity auction. Where can I find another bottle of similar wine to give to Ma Xiaogang." Huang Zhonglei smiled wryly. God knows how much the price at the charity auction is inflated. .

The Huang brothers were in trouble for a bottle of wine to celebrate Ma Xiaogang's success, and several major companies also analyzed the intentions of Future Films in about the same time.

The main reason is to promote its ticket purchase a, which has nothing to do with them, and I'm not too interested, just waiting to see how the pre-sale and box office will be.

However, this move made other ticket buying platforms very dissatisfied. This kind of naked monopoly undoubtedly hit their name.

If there are no tickets to sell, what is the platform for?

Now, we can only look forward to the unsatisfactory pre-sales of "囧囧 in Thailand", and after its release, it will hit the box office just like "Waiting for the Wind".

Especially Liu Yong, the founder and CEO of Glava, the industry leader, and Li Qian, who disagreed with him at the beginning of the year, withdrew his capital and sold all his shares. Liu Yong was still very happy. After all, Li Qian held 20 shares of Glava, such a concept Disagreeing shareholders are a great threat to him.

However, I didn't expect that Li Qian not only bought tickets by himself, but also monopolized ticketing.

However, it is still as helpless as other platforms, and can only stabilize users in the next week as much as possible, so as not to let users lose.

In this way, under the gaze of all the eyes of the two industries, the first day of pre-sale of "Lost in Thailand" has passed.

The pre-sale box office is 200 million.

That is 6 movie tickets.

This number is not low, after all, the screening will start a week later.

On the second day of the 30th, the pre-sale box office reached 370 million, a significant increase.

The main reason is that there are not so many open sessions, and many viewers who are still watching during the limited sessions found that the best seats during the evening prime time were almost given by others, so they joined in, not to mention the discounts.

The shows are not released all at once. If there are a lot of vacant seats, you can buy them at any time, and the audience will have no urgency.

On the third and fourth day, three days before the movie was released, "Lost in Thailand" opened two consecutive large-scale screenings.